skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with the assertion that there appear to be no rules against data collection, or consequences for leaks.

However, with respect to forbidding AI - the first thing this comment calls to mind is the Butlerian Jihad [1]. I am not optimistic.

It is a dream to me to believe that AI use could be restricted by national laws, although the EU is trying. Your subcontractor in Country X is going to receive the clickstream and do "something" for you. I am having a hard time seeing how "train AI with the clickstream" is going to be forbidden (or that such use could ever be _proven_).

I think the discussion has to be more fundamental than this. Even on HN I don't see a lot of coherent alternative suggestions.

The genie is out of the bottle.

Now what could we actually do about it, in a realistic productive way?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian...
Has there been any suggestion as to what happens when the company behind this inevitably goes bankrupt (all companies will eventually fail) or is "acquired" and scuttled? Or they cease to desire to provide the API backend for the mobile app?

It strikes me safety critical equipment is the one time when we don't want any kind of dependency on an external hosted service.

As it stands right now, it seems like even a fully paid-up, owned outright version could cease to function if they lost control of their domain name?

Am I correct in my understanding this product is tied to your phone to "call home" and validate its state? If so, doesn't that mean it's unusable without your phone being working, charged, non-stolen and non-broken? And the same for their servers. So you could in theory go on a journey protected, stop for a break, and find you can't continue your journey protected as you're out of signal, or something has broken?

This feels like a good opportunity for a government to take a stance on safety products. At the very least they'll reduce the amount of eWaste when these stop working before the end of their useful life.
Downvotes from all the negative people hoping this would fail
Right, the dictionary is not your friend here. It is true that "betted" is occasionally used... but we're talking maybe 1% of usage, and mostly in older text. I recommend sticking with "bet".
What are those udp urls that keep showing up in the feed?
The aim wasn't for it to be favourable to bitcoin. I'd honestly just like a comparison.
No, it's completely true. There are relatively tiny, quite niche sections of the industry devoted to creating safety-critical software in a systematic, engineered manner. I've been part of it. My company has more people writing Java/Cobol business apps than all of NASA has writing true high-reliability code. Even then, while folks writing mission critical code might be 'disciplined', there is no equivalent of the NSPE regulating what someone needs to know to do this, no universally agreed upon standards for what constitutes "safety-critical" or even consensus metrics for how to assess whether something is or not. There are literally hundreds of different guidelines for "how to engineer safe software", but no canonical guide. Even stuff like "can you use C to write software 'in such a way to make collateral damage impossible in all but the most exceptional scenarios'" is a matter of furious debate; some say yes, some say no.
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There was also quite a bit of fire after the landing, but this time the rocket would not explode from it.
"Starship landing nominal!" - @elonmusk

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1390073153347592192
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American viewpoints all fall pretty much along political idealogical lines with when it all went wrong but I think that most Americans agree that America is “doing terrible” and the only real debate is who is to blame. Shitting on America has become America’s past time and any kind of national pride is met with staunch criticism or “cancellation.” I think your viewpoint is somewhat a “grass is greener” viewpoint being Canadian and any particular American’s view on Canada’s response will be in line with their political party.

Objectively we are probably doing the best in the world at vaccinating such a large and diverse population. You’ll never hear one of us admit it though and if you do then you can be sure to hear it followed up with a “but” denigrating ourselves in some other way. Objectively Canada is doing terribly at vaccination and it boggles the mind that your country is still having to impose strict lockdowns and go off the label with dosing timelines because of your inability to secure a supply.
RMS is an asswipe. He reduces the credibility of any organisation he is associated with.
RTS genre is waning, but Age of Empires 2 is still holding on.
> don’t you have phones?

Blizzard isn’t the same company it once was. It used to be known for deep gameplay and creative stories but now it’s focused entirely on the free to play skinners boxes of card games, a mmo, and loot boxes to monetize the other games. Almost the entire early-days staff has moved on to other companies. Blizzard doesn’t exist any more, just a big corporation with the same name
Signal’s smartass ad exposes Facebook’s creepy data collection
The 3% is people who have had both doses. If you live in Canada, then you know that almost nobody has had both doses. That's not our priority - maximizing collective protection is the short-term goal.

Personally, I'll measure Canada's performance throughout this pandemic by the final number of per-capita deaths. We're hardly best in the world but doing a lot better than the US so far (1,783/M vs 643/M at the moment[0]).

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Edit to add: Canada could easily take the lead over US in deaths/M if US get's vaccinated faster/better. I'm not so naive to believe that's impossible. It does seem Canada has a strategy to avoid that. Otherwise, it simply seems too early to call either way.
I'd imagine the most complex engine ever to use the full flow staged combustion cycle has a large price tag.
Are you familiar with Niklas Luhmann’s “zettelkasten” methods? Seems like there might be some fertile ground at the intersection of these two ideas...
The price of life is apparently on the order of $50 or so.
Canada needs more competition in the health care industry.

There's very little.

Instead I see rent seeking, nepotism, resting on credentials, signalling..

Canadian health care is attracting worse & worse (in terms of competence & care) people every year.
What killed the drive for nuclear in the 1970s in the US was more that the costs came in very high, that electric power demand growth suddenly moderated, and that the grid was opened to external non-utility competition by PURPA in 1978 (four months before TMI).
US did ~~everything~~ many, many things wrong, except the one thing we know to do --- throw money at medical problems --- actually works for vaccines because vaccines are such a phenomenal piece of technology.

Looks like vaccine IP restriction lifting is finally going to happen. I would stay put in non-US places.
It's a ball belonging to Irelands most popular sport. One of the native games of the country. The Gaelic Athletic Association.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_Athletic_Association
That's literally a tax cut, but appropriately targeted at the not-rich this time.
IANA reserved multicast space, often used in peoples' internal networks, not something you could ever access unless you were connected to the same network segment as the video stream source.
Around the same time, in Chile:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1730_Valpara%C3%ADso_earthquak...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1751_Concepci%C3%B3n_earthquak...
Hardcore gamers love to trash ATVI/Blizz but they are without a doubt dominant gaming developer/publisher in the business, and it's really not even close unless you count Tencent.

Ask people on HN if they like CoD and they'd laugh at you but the games are IMMENSELY popular every release and they print cash for ATVI.
>Personally, I'll measure Canada's performance throughout this pandemic by the final number of per-capita deaths.

How about in relation to the cost & externalities of this per-capita death figure? Financially, socially etc.

It's as though there's no adults in the room willing to speak to tradeoffs - the pernicious, long-term 2nd+ order consequences to be considered.
I don't know about JS's particular challenges here and I believe you but a lot of languages with a lot of other features also do this optimization. It's not just the hardcore functional ones though admittedly maybe mostly in the ones most influenced by them.
D2 resurrected looks like it's lining up to be fun. The company that was outsourced to rebuild has said they didn't want to fix d2. They wanted to overhaul it's graphics and give it QoL. Same bugs. Same game.
During the pandemic we kept hearing that collectivist cultures and socialized medicine would have the upper-hand. Yet Canada's vaccination rate is abysmal (32% vs 2.55% are completely covered with the required two doses [0]) when compared to the United States.

What's the explanation here?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina...
Our media (US that is) seems to pick and choose which counties are "handing it well" seemly with little regard to statistics. Canada has largely been portrayed as handling the whole situation very well and if you polled random people on the street of a US city I'd be willing to bet quite a bit they think your vaccine rates are comparable or better then the US.
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Presumably a vast majority of that cost is in R&D rather than manufacturing.
>US did everything wrong, except the one thing we know to do

Such a political take. The US did a lot right.
Honestly, in this case, think it just comes down to money. Whatever the other problems with the American handling of it (and my god was it disorganized) The US also threw 800-pound-gorilla levels of cash at the manufacturers, and since the vaccines turned out to be good, it worked out. Smaller economies just didn't have that as an option, whether the policy-makers wanted it or not.
It would be great to get perspective from Canadians on the case. Why is Canada, a country with wealth, in the current situation?

national health agency failure in planning?

supply chain constraints?

Import constraints (even though there are plenty across the border?)?

Something else?
> Think of your favorite site with the best experience possible. That is possible because people tested countless times what works, what didn't, what is the most efficient path to a rewarding UX, and so on.

Funny; those kinds of sites are my least favorite. All those colors and buttons are an information overload, and the animations make my laptop fans spin like crazy. Not everyone bought their computer under a decade ago.

Please, blue links and black text aren't evil. We need to make interfaces functional and stop rather than continuously A/B test them to maximize addictiveness ("engagement").
Canada is at 3% fully vaccinated, with both doses (almost all the vaccination has been with 2 dose vaccines). However, 35% have received one dose out of two.

Canada could have chosen to vaccinate about 15% of the population fully, which would have been enough for the supermajority of the >65 population that is responsible for almost all of the deaths. But we chose not to. Whether or not that is the right choice remains to be seen.
>Personally, I'll measure Canada's performance throughout this pandemic by the final number of per-capita deaths.

That doesn't seem like a good measure. At the extreme, enforcing a stay-at-home order would make this number 0, but a lot of people would argue this wasn't "good performance."
It still works. The problem is that when they used to delay titles, they came out as blockbusters. The death knell of Blizzard as a premier game maker was WoW. WoW became so amazingly profitable that Blizzard became "the WoW company." I remember being excited for Diablo 3 until I heard that they took away 8 player games so that D3 wouldn't compete with WoW. I never bought D3 and was completely unsurprised to find out no one liked it. No other game can survive in that company long term.
> The vest won't tell you it's functional and then stop working while you ride. The functionality and payment check happens before you ride, if you read their product description. https://www.klim.com/Ai-1-Airbag-Vest-3046-000

Given it connects to an external server on the internet (even indirectly), it presumably has updatable firmware.

Are you confident enough this company understands secure boot chains well enough to prevent a rogue firmware being flashed? And that they have protected their Bluetooth stack (?) well enough to prevent a firmware being flashed that way?

It's likely (but impossible to tell without doing a teardown) that you could indicate the device is functional via firmware, while not being armed and ready to deploy, if the LED or indicator is on a separate GPIO.

If this was to happen in the supply chain (like used to happen with grey market mobile phone imports getting loaded with adware), that could become a real problem...
I've built an analytics website for StarCraft 2 and found something similar.

It's very easy to get 'cool' statistics and information, but it's very hard to create something 'cool' or novel that's actually useful for players trying to improve.
Isn't it a lot more efficient to ship the doses north than the Canadians south?
I thought Canada was handling COVID well and then there was the latest round of lockdowns and restrictions which is bonkers.
>What's the explanation here?

Incentives matter?
But then they would have to customize that and create so many exceptions that it begs the idea for another business idea: Billing system for enterprise SaaS billing software company.
Allow me to introduce "Fallacy Fallacy", the fact that someone might have arrived at a conclusion via a fallacy does not mean the conclusion is false.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy
Yes, you are right. But 100km altitude or so suborbital test is definitely possible with SN prototype alone.
To add to your list of possible causes: Ocean acidification [0]

[0] https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/22324/20190610/ocean-a...
This is the first time I'm hearing any complaints about the modern overtime system. It seems totally fair to me, the defending team has to actually win the final fight. What would you change about it?
Today I learned, thanks for sharing that info!
What videos did you use?

Other people here, what did you use? I see there are a ton of options - Getty-Dubay is mentioned below but there seem to be many other similar systems.
example of your point on politicized viewpoints: Ericson2314's comment in this thread
Well, aren't you a sensitive one? I wasn't even arguing with you. GP was being handwavy so I wanted them to put up. Mostly so I could have a steelman to dunk on.
Canada does not have any production facilities and has been unable to give vaccinations as a result. Our daily vaccinations per capita are nearing or exceeding the US at this time and we are accelerating as we receive more doses.
2nd doses have been delayed to ensure maximum efficiency of the supply we have.
It seems like Canada is prioritizing a "first dose first" strategy, so I think the 34% number should be compared with the 56% in the US.

The US has done very well with vaccines so far, but in terms of (in my view) the real number for success (deaths per capita), the US has had 3x as many.
I agree. You can usually replace "AI" with "software" and not lose anything. In this case, when you do that, I think it's a great idea that the US has a national software initiative to advance research in these areas, create more education and training, help industries use software, and better understand the risks of things like untrustworthy software.
Your scenario would be plausible if what was being created now was true "artificial intelligence", an actual means to reach human or high performance (and with that, I'm not sure what how even a few top people could share that power - it seems a bit like Sauron's ring there).

But if we're talking present day deep-learning/machine-learning/etc, these system are not doing much than pattern recognition in an impressive, sometimes useful but never reliable way. They'll add to the capital of those on top but not be a fundamental game changer unless something changes (and their seem clearer despite more and more processing power being thrown at them).
In fairness, individual action that isn't collective doesn't scale from one person to 8 billion. But there are a lot fewer countries than people, and something like this is designed to put pressure on other countries as much as it is to make a dent on its own---it's supposed to spur collective action not be an isolated individual example.
That's what was on the page when I opened it. On my desktop it's talking about #15 though, so I guess I was victim of a weird mobile vs. desktop issue.
The US government threw its weight around to ensure that it would have manufacturing capability and doses. If Canada physically had more doses, they'd have more shots in arms.
I'm extremely unimpressed with the vaccination rate in Canada. I feel like they really dropped the ball.
 Edit: it was clarified upthread that the 3% number is misleading and Canada is actually doing much better than that number suggests.

> The trick was to fly because land crossing has been closed to non-essential traffic since March of 2020.

Is this right? It doesn't jive with my experience. I was able to cross the land border - both ways - around August.
Canada doesn’t have the ability to manufacture the vaccines. The United States does. The United Kingdom also has manufacturing capabilities and has had a strong vaccine rollout.
It would be hard staying because the workload just increased. They should give everyone who stayed 3/6 months pay.
The US doesn't export any COVID vaccines. Neither does the UK. Pretty much the entire rest of the world is supplied by Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. (Russia and China are exceptions in that they have their own, separate vaccines).
Any idea why they shutdown some engines during ascent?

Seems efficient as you are fighting gravity with less acceleration and more dead weight.
The vaccine rollout has been great in the US. The anti-masking and politicizing of the pandemic has been terrible.

I guess the deaths per capita will be fairly high in the US but it varies a lot from place to place. Many places did very little lockdown and more-or-less carried on with life as usual.
Not to mention, my perception (and maybe it's only that) is that socialized healthcare is being used as an extra excuse for putting restrictions on what we can do, because we are all dependent on the state and they can't take care of us adequately. I know there is more subtlety than that, but personally I only see that socialized healthcare can be compatible with free society when it is completely decoupled from telling people how to behave
Your country's response to COVID frankly terrifies me. The police showing up and arresting maskless people, shutting down businesses, raiding churches. The vaccine response seems piss poor as well.

I realize the media sensationalizes a lot of this but from the outside it doesn't look good. I know the US is seen as not doing enough but I prefer that over the authoritarian responses.

We certainly have our issues but for now we still hold people's personal freedoms at a high level. I live in a somewhat rural area but I haven't had to wear a mask in most places for about a month, I've been vaccinated for over a month and I've been out enjoying beers etc. like normal for the last several weeks.
It would be, but the US has an export ban on covid vaccines, just like the UK does.
The fire and explosions are dangerous to be sure, but the OP specifically called out smoke.
That figure comes with a caveat that's mentioned towards the end of the article:

> As for casualties: the figures I cited earlier—twenty-seven thousand injured, almost thirteen thousand dead—are based on the agency’s official planning scenario, which has the earthquake striking at 9:41 A.M. on February 6th. If, instead, it strikes in the summer, when the beaches are full, those numbers could be off by a horrifying margin.

Thirteen thousand sounds like a best case scenario. If it happens 4th of July weekend when a million people are on the beaches all up and down the west coast, that could cause orders of magnitude more fatalities.
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1. We do not have our own plants capable of producing covid vaccines.
2. United States stopped all vaccine exports. We got all vaccines from Europe.
3. We did not pay producers through the nose like UK or Israel did which affected our place in the queue.
4. Production scale ups and problems in January-February slowed down the shipments significantly relative to what was promised by producers.
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People have managed to tune into the raw video stream via RTL-SDR. I'm guessing this IP is post this step and internal to their streaming

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/receiving-space-x-falcon-9-telemetry...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26423406
Survival of humanity. Between manmade and natural threats technical civilisation will be lucky to survive to 2040.

Personally, I am worried about all the IoTs getting hacked either deliberately or by error.

What would be the affect of a major solar flare? Or a SuperNova?
> I'd personally be more interested in a tool that analyzed map positioning and strats

What sort of analysis of map positioning and strategies are you thinking about?
They now are moving away from nuclear because they are finding it impossible to build new ones affordably.

Also, I think you're confusing cost and price there.
If you are short on vaccines, first dose first is the obvious strategy, so you hsouldn't compare complete coverage.

Canada has had 3x fewer deaths per capita, so I would still say they are a success case compared to us.
> it is nevertheless an extremely supremely poor idea

Can you elaborate on exactly what's wrong here, now that you know more about the implementation? Are you sure this isn't a case of getting the wrong impression about what it is because Vice said so? It's not a safety issue, the vest will notify whether it's working before the ride.

> A safety vest, for this purpose, it is not providing any value to anyone except a slimy money person.

The irony of your statement here is that KLIM is offering an expensive product for a half price down payment, and allowing the consumer to cancel it after trying it out without having to return the hardware or pay any penalties on the remainder. Or they can resume payments a year after lapsing. You don't find this kind of presumably money-losing proposition with any other financing plans I can think of.
being unaware of differences between people is not the goal, it’s quite the opposite - it’s about embracing differences as equally valid

this seems to be an easy mistake to make and why “I don’t see color” is not an acceptable statement… in a system where there is a dominant race, pining for sameness is oppression of difference

black americans aren’t saying “all lives matter” they’re saying “black lives matter (too)” - that distinction is very important