skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I am not a fan of enormous military spending, any improvement on necessary targeting that possibly avoids frightened little girls running down roads with their clothes blown off after indiscriminate napalm strikes gets my agreement.

This improvement has seen us hitting the targets like ISIS fighters accurately, rather than flattening the whole city they happened to be in. I'm not in favour of war at all, but as it seems it isn't going away any time soon, more effective and accurate targeting seems to be the way to go.
People still go on facebook? Wow. WOOOWWW.
> Prior to Android, all we had were closed source low powered feature phones and Blackberries.

Symbian was open source, ran on millions of smartphones - most of which had app stores and web browsers. Some of which had touchscreens, GPS, augmented reality features etc.

Don't get me wrong - Android has been brilliant. But let's not completely rewrite history, eh?
Don't call them donations. Look at what reddit did: people can "give gold" to people for comments that they think were great. All it does is add some icon to a comment and put the person in a "gold club".

In games, people will buy so many visual improvements that add nothing but glam to their character.

Discord does... something, I can't remember what exactly, with their "turbo" and IIRC it costs discord cents, but the user pays dollars.

People will pay for the dumbest things. Give them a reason to sign up, add some kind of paid interaction that changes something visual or makes a dumb sound, add some tier system with context relevant names, and people might really pay.
I think his 100 of 5-minute mathematical problems would be of a more interest. Although maybe to a not so wide audience. I remember solving like 5 of those in 5 minutes, 10 others took much longer, and around 50 I did not understand at all...
But I really like the guy, he was great.
With the situation that we had at the time, what do you think the Allies should have done as Hitler marched into Poland?

Declared war?

Or offered to make love?

Sometimes you need to be prepared to say 'no' and back it up with a stick. If you've only invested in 'love' what the fuck are you going to do now?
I own MSFT shares, why don’t you?
Prior to Android, all we had were closed source low
powered feature phones and Blackberries.

I...what? Even if we want to ignore the iPhone for whatever reason, the Palm Treo, Nokia N900, and Windows Phone were firmly established by the time Android started getting demoed--and that was the variant that was very much reminiscent of Windows Phone, with a strong emphasis on the cursor keys over a touchscreen.

The rest of your comment makes sense, but the cognitive dissonance of that sentence was so extreme I had to respond.
If you can create something living by a combination of non living parts, I think that would be an interesting first. All of the life we know of, presumably has living ancestors. Hence the notion of a "spark" of life that is passed on like the flame of a torch. If we can create life from raw parts and supply the spark ourselves, it increases the relevance of science. Suddenly the idea of sending seeds of ecosystems in the form of printers and data would become viable.
Nearly all modern radio chipsets are mostly software defined. That includes WiFi, LTE and GPS.

The radio frontend is typically a downmixer and then straight into digital.

Some of the typically "software" bits like FFT's, various encodings, checksums, clock recovery etc. are frequently done in digital hardware acceleration blocks for performance, and saving power. If you were writing the firmware of the device, you needn't use them though.

With enough human years of effort, you could take almost any radio hardware for sale today and repurpose it to speak nearly any other radio protocol in similar frequency bands. Performance will probably be terrible though!

It's rare people do this though - all the chips don't have their firmware documented (again mostly to avoid publishing documentation that proves they are violating someone elses patents), and many have various cryptographic elements that makes reverse engineering hard.

The one exception to this is WiFi chips used in the Nexus 5 by Broadcom, which has had a reasonable amount of reverse engineering because Broadcom accidentally published the source code because the firmware code was in part shared with published Linux kernel driver source code.
And then you have a monetary system that runs a blockchain instead of this paper system the US has.

Not everyone wants to take down banks or destroy fiat.
> Basically, girls might be wired to prefer “socially interesting” toys whereas boys like “mechanically interesting” toys.

If we try to generalize findings of primatologists onto humans, namely what Franz de Waal writes about chimpanzee, than I'd rather say that boys prefer toys that model objects, while girls prefer toys that model subjects. Chimpanzee males seek power and control, they play political games forming coalitions, breaking from them out, they are friendly when it seems beneficial for them and hostile when needed. Chimpanzee females seek stable relationships, their relationships last longer, easily they could last for life. I mean, if we think of chimpanzee as of humans, then how we model the mind of a male? He sees his neighbors as objects which should be manipulated for his benefit. While females see others as subjects: it helps to respect their needs and to be respected back, it allows understand each other needs, and to form a long-term relationship based on a cooperation.

See how it nicely fits together? It is not a some kind of a science theory, it is just my own unfounded speculations. What I want to say, that it one of the reasons because I doubt that all the difference between boys and girls preferences could be explained by a nurture. Some of it must be a nature thing.
It is hard to take this as a serious criticism

First James Kirkpatrick argues that the ACLU doesn't stand for anything these days.

Then he starts to associate the ACLU with cancel culture. Mostly by citing surveys of leftist students and implying that the ACLU is also leftist thus it is basically the same.

Then he argues that the ACLU does stand very strongly for transgender rights but then criticizes it for being strong on that because James Kirkpatrick doesn't agree with it.

Argh. I think the key problem is that James doesn't like what the ACLU is prioritizing, that is all.
Or the network finds consensus on an algorithm change where the block subsidy keeps going, thereby continuing to pay the miners. The 21 million bitcoin cap isn’t as immutable as people claim. It’s just that most Bitcoin stakeholders agree to keep it there, for now.

That Bitcoin is some immutable “backed by math” financial system has been a charade all along. It’s very much backed by people, and proof-of-work is a Rube Goldberg machine used to distract the tech-literate.
Is the 151 proof Everclear they do allow sufficient, that's 75%? He's mixing water in anyway, so just mix in less?
EFF got my donation for their resource on yellow dot identification on printed documents. Got a cool shirt out of it too.

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
Why wouldn't the network soft fork?
There seems to be an inverse correlation between the value of BTC and DXY.
> Has 1 USD ever not been worth exactly 1 USD

Not really. If you own 1 fiat dollar today and I double the money supply tomorrow, I have just halved the value of your fiat dollar over time. Your share of the money supply has been diluted[1]. 1 nominal FD tomorrow is worth 0.5FD in real terms all else held constant.

Of course this thought experiment is trivial and oversimplified because the real question is about purchasing power. But consider that majority of USD in existence were "printed"[2] last year. Consider that the global fiat monetary base expanded by ~50% last year.

"Since 1933, the U.S. dollar has lost 92 percent of its domestic purchasing power. Even at its “moderate” 1994 inflation rate of 2.7 percent, the dollar will lose another half of its purchasing power by 2022."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fee.org/articles/central-banks-...

[1]: https://cryptovoices.com/basemoney

[2]: https://www.lynalden.com/money-printing/
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You don't consider the more advanced pattern matching stuff to be "long-term vision"?

And it's not surprising that an existing large C# codebase wouldn't use many of those features. But for new projects, they are very nice.
Debatable. R&D funding, job creation (including at overseas bases and embassies), massive economic benefits from being the world reserve currency, etc.
Thank you, statmapt.
>If a state actor, such as China, was motivated enough to identify, capture and coerce these miners it would be pretty easy to perform a 51% attack given that China accounts for around 65% of all bitcoin mining globally.

This is because people don't consider it likely. Once it happens, people will move to new crypto and will devalue any crypto that is too centrally mined by a single country.
Looks the same to me.

Do you have a plugin installed that changes the UI? I don't have a 'best' link in the top bar, and don't think I ever have (although I am aware of /best).
TrueVault (YC W14) is hiring an engineering lead for a new data privacy product
Thank you, lobo_tuerto
OK, they'll need much more than 1 per soldier. But a Hololens 2 Industrial Edition costs $5k. This works out to $44k per soldier, and obviously not every soldier in the Army will get or need one.

Let's get real, this is just outrageous, typical boondoggle military spending.
They didn't go into too much detail about how the dots are actually printed (what type of ink, how heavy, etc.), but they imply in the article that at least some tracking dots require a UV light to detect.

I'd be curious to know how the dots actually get printed.
Welcome to most of academic publications in the humanities (and recently even in hard-science)
Loved the full article, thank you for helping science Elsevier!

606,520 Americans died of Cancer last year. With your help restricting access to information, I bet we can hit 1,000,000 by 2030!

/s

#ElsevierSupportsCancer (100% truth)
This book changed (saved?) my life. It came out a long time ago and while I seldom feel pain anymore, when I do I still do the stretches that helped the most (from memory as the book has been passed around). More effective than any PT I tried.

Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries: A Self-Care Program (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1572240393/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...)
While this is needed its very limited. Temporary construction jobs are not going to help get women back into the workplace for example. This is better than nothing but we really need far more than just this to be sufficient.
No that's not how it works in the typical case. Lenders set their interest rates based on expected future inflation rates over the term of the loan. Debts only really get eroded when interest rates are fixed and actual inflation greatly outpaces expected inflation. Like in the hyper inflation that occurred in Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Serbia, etc.
Emacs is an IDE, though. It's greatest strength is that "I" part, not necessarily the text editor. Vim is more of a direct competitor.

For me, to complete as best text editor, disk-based editing is a must. For that reason alone, Ultraedit remains the best text editor and has done for many, many years.
>You can say the same as you did about any technology. Why lug around a big heavy rifle when you could carry sharpened sticks?

Because the enemy doesn't use sticks, first of all.

>I guarantee you people said exactly the same about the first radios, for example.

They did not, because it represented a fundamental change in how ground warfare could be conducted and not everyone carried them (not everyone carries them today either, which is telling). Namely, coordinating accurate indirect fire.

>Now you wouldn't even consider leaving the wire without a radio under any circumstances whatsoever.

Because I want to be able to call in air-support and indirect. The difference with all these examples is that the technologies you are mentioning represented a game-changing way in how to enable infantry-support operations. It's not immediately clear to me that the same is true for a AR/VR helmet system used by infantry. It's possible that other branches could find uses for it in the same vein. Like the FSO using it to "see" the FLT and better coordinate indirect fire.
Thank you, the_decider.
Yep, that's exactly what I meant. It goes back to the same thing - all Lua objects exist strictly in the "Lua world" (be it the stack or the registry), and anything that wants to exchange them has to go through those mechanisms. In Python, you just get a PyObject*, and you can pass it around as much as you want - the only thing you have to take care of is to reference-count it properly.
There are a gazillion patents on radio related stuff. Nearly all standards have associated patents.

Companies already in the industry typically have cross-licensing agreements - ie. I can use your patents if you can use mine. Either that or they just violate each others patents knowing that a patent war would be mutual destruction and in neither companies interests.

But a newcomer has nothing to offer - the minute they release any product, every incumbent company will go through their patent portfolio and sue them out of the water.
It would be extremely unlikely that such an artificial cell could colonize humans in any way, and even more unlikely that such a cell would be pathogenic.
Not using Tailscale but knocked up a VPN between my various servers to allow e.g. my tiny mail frontend to use the extremely heavy ClamAV on my big mail backend without having to expose it to the wider internet. Same with allowing all the servers access to each others' Redis's for synchronisation of things like rspamd whitelists (easier than setting up Redis replication, for me.)
Thank you, marcinzm.
> forcing all calling code to be released under the AGPL

No. If you modify an AGPL network service you have to share the changes. If you call the API from a client you have no obligations.
Thank you, danbrooks.
I definitely do, as iTerm is a much better terminal than the shell window of any terminal I’ve ever used.
Thank you, skadamat.
And how do they get printed on a monochrome printer like a laser?
> I imagine what the possibilities would be if we funded general non-military projects with the kind of money that goes into the military.

The possibility of being invaded and a the invading country stealing all the nice stuff we built instead of defending ourselves. Oh wait, we’ll just call 911 but for countries!
>The contract could be worth up to $21.88 billion over 10 years, a Microsoft spokesman told Reuters

could be worth up to

I suspect those words are doing a lot of heavy lifting
> Yet i fully agree that current military spending is out of control and needs to be reined in massively

Out military spending is 3.9% of our GDP. The worldwide average is 2.2%. So we aren't all that far out of line. Also, our military does a lot of humanitarian work (my friend ran a base in Ethiopia for example, and their entire purpose was to build water infrastructure there).

The US is the "world police" in part because it protects the interests of US businesses. Peaceful areas are more likely to engage in international trade. We also do it for self-serving but peaceful reasons -- to extend the soft power of the State Department and aid in their negotiations (like building water infrastructure in Ethiopia).

So I'm not so sure we're that out of line.
One of them is based on mobile linux; which Samsung also uses for things like Bada and which has a lot of hardware vendors supporting it with drivers; including Samsung itself of course. Bada actually originated out of Nokia's Meego and Maemo mobile OS. That predates Android and early Android versions ran pretty much the same Linux kernels. The first devices running Android were actually Nokia N800s before they did the first Nexus.

Fuchsia is open source but closed source friendly (because of the license). I suspect that's actually the main non technical argument for Google to be doing this: Android is too open and they've been trying to fix that for years. Apple has a similar benefit with the BSD internals of IOS and OSX. Still OSS in part but mostly not and Apple has not bothered with supporting separate Darwin releases for a long time.

So, like with Android, I'd expect a fair amount of closed source secret sauce is going to be needed to run Fuchsia. More rather than less. I doubt Google free versions of Fuchsia are going to be a thing like it is a thing with Android. Google is doing this to take more control of the end user experience. Just like Apple does with IOS. Letting Samsung (or anyone) bastardize that is not really what they want here.

I'm guessing, Samsung actually wants less of that Google secret sauce at this point rather than more. They are trying to differentiate with exclusive features, their own UX, their own apps, and services, etc. I'm expecting a lot of OEMs are going to have a similar mindset. Especially the Chinese ones currently shipping flavors of Android without a Google license for the play services on the wrong side of the current trade wars (like Huawei). Google has got their work cut out there trying to get OEMs like that to swallow Fuchsia. I think, Google is going to end up supporting Android for a long time because of this even if they eventually launch Fuchsia (which in my opinion is not a certainty yet). The simple reason for this is that the alternative would be walking away from a chunk of the mobile market that they currently exploit via their play store. I don't see them surrendering that and I don't think they would want third parties to continue releasing Android without Google either. So, the only way to prevent that would be a long term Android development strategy regardless of whether they actually release Fuchsia or not.

So, reusing code across Android and Fuchsia makes a lot of sense.
Of course, there's a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/378/
Is one in five such a bad ratio for useful innovation?

It might speak to there being some problems with state-side testing of devices for appropriateness on the battlefield but a 20% success rate of cutting edge equipment seems pretty good. Infantry folk are probably going to use the useful bits and pack away the useless ones - that feedback will eventually trickle back to fulfillment and the kit will be updated.

Also - I have a lot of faith in infantrymen finding really creative uses for tech that folks in the lab might disregard.
The last HP Inkjet that I had would go through the Yellow cartridge faster than black, even when printing only Black and White. Which is how I discovered these fun little dots.
Welp, that gives a second (and much less cynical) reason for why you can't print in pure black n' white without colour being topped up.
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What is your strategy for having each tool hosted on an independent domain, as opposed to an umbrella "developertools" domain? SEO benefits?
tbh, Android consistently having a good bluetooth experience would probably be good for the platform.
So what do you do if your neighbor decides to take you computer from your own house ?

What nation should do if another nation decides to impose tariffs on resources that does not belong to them ?

Army is about readiness to use directed violence to stop people/organization/nations taking what does not belong to them, there also support functions related to emergency services in case of natural, technological or other emergency situations.

People who never experienced emergency situations, don't even think about what they would do and how they should they be prepared in case of fire in there own house. State of safety and security processes is taken for granted, unfortunately, by most people.
> What happens if you can't, because "authentication"?

Aren't your radios already using cryptographic fills? What do you think the difference is?
It is, what it is worst it has become a sort of neo cultural imperialism , where white monolingual Anglos tell for example to Latinos that their gendered languages are wrong and must be changed.
That Atlantic article is pretty clear that they don't know the cause ("It’s difficult to know exactly why vindictive protectiveness has burst forth so powerfully in the past few years.") They've got a bunch of speculations, that children aren't allowed to play outside or whatever. But even those weak speculations don't lend themselves to the thesis that children were indoctrinated: no part of being told not to play outside means that you emerge programmed to oppose free speech. The further extrapolations don't hold up too strongly - if the younger generation is trained, as the article says, to believe that the older generation will keep them safe from a scary world, why is it the younger generation that is taking the lead in censorship? Why is the liberal professor mentioned at the beginning of the article scared of his liberal students? The article says that increasing reports of mental health issues from students "has surely changed the way university faculty and administrators interact with them," but again, doesn't that mean that it's the students driving that change, and the university faculty and administrators figuring out how to adapt?

If anything, the article tends to support the case that they're not indoctrinated. It mentions that students grew up as teenagers on Facebook, "sharing their moral judgments and supporting one another in moral campaigns and conflicts," which - again - is self-driven by this group, not forced on them by anyone. (And also, who would be indoctrinating them? The same liberal professors that are scared of their liberal students?)
I really don't appreciate this response. Perhaps I've been overly brief about the background of the product's development, but a lot of effort has been put into security. I've read lots of documents about x509 provisioning. I am curious what people here are doing. Telling me to go read white papers is garbage response.
I programmed in Go for three years, and got bitten by this at least twice.

Being able to determine if a value that implements an interface is nil or not would really be nice.
Eh, this biological grey goo is likely so crappy at surviving that it would get snuffed out or out competed by any random culture from the bottom of your shoe.

I'd be more concerned about viral gain of function research and the weaponization of synthetic biology in general.
EFF seems to think that all modern laser printers have some form of tracking dots, whether or not they've actually been able to detect them [1].

They don't say anything about inkjet, though. Unclear if this is because of a fundamental limitation of inkjet printers, lack of interest, or just because inkjet printers kind of suck compared to laser. :P

[1] https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
Some things never change. I fought this same fight back in the iTunes days.
Keynes famously quipped about burying money for people to dig up, but I'm not aware of any economists who think that's preferable to employing labor for truly productive work.
Thanks. I can well believe my experience (ca. 2014) is a little outdated. I would imagine they is still quite difficult to sell social listening into as a sector, but it makes sense that eventually you have to take your head out of the sand.