skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever these discussions are brought up I feel the need to remind everyone that autonomous weapons and drones are not new inventions. The first remotely controlled weapons were developed and tested in the 1910s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettering_Bug . You also saw the emergence of drones being used as targets, to train air crews and anti-aircraft gunners. WW2 saw numerous instances of autonomous weapons being used in combat. The obvious examples are the V1 and V2, which both used internal guidance systems. There's also the Fritz X, a radio-controlled air-launched anti-ship missile. There was also Operation Aphrodite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite ) in which the Allies loaded up a b-17 bomber with explosives, re-worked to be radio controlled with TV guidance, and flown into hard targets. Similarly, you have the German Mistel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistel ) which involved a drone loaded to capacity with explosives and guided to a target, but in this case the drone is carried by an aircraft and dropped, making this the first air-launched cruise missile used in combat.

During the Cold War you started to see drones being used for reconnaissance. The US had the Ryan Model 147 and D-21. Once computers became significantly advanced you started seeing an explosion of different applications. The tomahawk missile is extensively programmable, allowing the user to give it a flight course consisting of a number of waypoints, and digital images along its intended path. It would then compare those images to what it sees on the route and use that for course corrections, ensuring extreme accuracy against targets a thousand miles away in a time before GPS. (fun fact: during the Gulf War, the Navy had to plan their Tomahawk stikes to go through the Southeastern portion of Iraq instead of a more direct route because they could use the mountains and hills for course corrections, while the direct route went over relatively featureless desert). In the late 1980s Israel would employ loitering munitions. Essentially these were suicide drones intended to take out enemy radars. It would loiter above for hours until detecting an enemy radar and then dive. There were also decoy drones. These didn't have a warhead, they were intended to simply fly around acting as bait. Some decoys are fitted with radar reflectors to make them appear larger on radar than they really are, essentially the opposite of stealth aircraft.

Autonomous weapons have been around for a long time and aren't going anywhere. Frankly, I think this is probably better in terms of reducing civilian casualties. I'd rather have soldiers use a precision guided weapon like this than calling in mortars or artillery.
Can't one drone destroy your nylon net for the rest of the drones to fly through it?
'Great Dimming' of Betelgeuse star is solved
This doesn’t in any way downplay your point, I just noticed this sentence and it made me think: “The idea that you run into a problem and use Google to solve it hardly constitutes skill development.”

It’s probably natural for most folks on HN to consider “googling problems” an obvious, basic first solution - but I’m always stunned by how many people in real life, outside of the IT industry, don’t have that path in their brains well-trodden. For some reason, they’d rather flail around or ask a real human (often me) for help, rather than type a couple words into a search bar and see what happens.

I wonder if there’s an opportunity to teach a “how to search” class in schools. You could have some fun open-Google exams!
I actually wrote a deep dive on Apple’s pivot to privacy.
https://saturation.substack.com/p/apple-facebook-and-the-glo...
Arrow – TNC with BLE and 2M Radio
I used fishshell for years, and the bottom line ended up being that it created enough mental overhead to be a burden because it diverged from the UNIX norm too much. Sort of like the colemak keyboard layout, sounds great in theory, in practice, not so much.
That seems broad enough to describe the human history isn’t it? So, “keep doing what you do”?
Wikipedia has a slightly more balanced take on the "stealing Cuban children" story.

I'm not denying the CIA did horrible things. But just to be devils advocate: Yes, you can derive benefits from Nazi war criminals. In these cases, during that time period it was vital to know what the intentions and capabilities of the Soviet Block were. They did have expansionist intentions, and they even had plans to invade much of western Europe. That sometimes gets forgotten...

Most of the governments the CIA acted against have been much more "deranged and corrupt" than any US government. And you should be glad for this.
>What if the question of interest isn't so easily verifiable like in Engineering? Do we just throw up our hands and give up on those questions? [The alternative to good social science is not no social science, it’s bad social science](https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/03/12/the-social...).

Some things may well be complex enough that it's simply impossible, with the amount of resources available to the average university, to conduct a thorough enough study on a representative enough sample that accounts for enough confounding factors to make a statistically sound prediction that generalises. If this were the case for a significant proportion of the subjects of study of a particular field, then it might well be better to "give up" and admit we don't and cannot know, otherwise we're essentially creating a factory for bad science (as the available resources relative to the scope of the problem aren't sufficient to create good science, and there's no negative feedback to stop the bad science).
centauri-dreams.org ... Hmm, more like pipe-dreams.org
Why is it mostly Navy pilots reporting the phenomena and there are not any data in the visible spectrum? Because the Navy has Project NEMESIS[0] in the works whose goal is to spoof instrumentation.

0: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29505/the-navys-secret...
Serious question since I've never owned a smart phone. Do they not come with a browser? If they do, you can look up your zip code on weather.gov [1] and then expand it to show more details, then bookmark the result. The URL will remain the same for that zip code. At least for the U.S. that is quite accurate. Does the E.U. have a similar site? If you want to hear the weather, then you could bookmark ATIS [2] for your area. Can you launch an app or a bookmarked page using built-in support for voice commands on smart phones?

[1] - https://www.weather.gov/

[2] - https://www.liveatc.net/
But that can work. Just look at Google: massively complex product and problem, but sure appears pretty simple to the layman - I just type some words into the box and hit enter!
Do you have any thoughts on PIA vs Mullvad?
I think you could effectively argue that mathematics is a branch of philosophy.
Yes, and it's pretty clear that happens in order to make a bigger killing with an opposite side margin trade.

There's not that many rich people fat-fingering huge orders all the time..
> Even the most “America First” of Americans will readily agree that manufacturing in the 1970s was horrible compared to present times.

Of course, a big part of the reason for that was presumably lack of external competition in the 70s. If you say to Manufacturing Company X "don't worry about the European and Japanese manufacturers, they're not allowed bid on this" you are unlikely to get the same sort of quality than you'd get if they were.

British car manufacturing is a nice example; in effect, the government forced consumers to buy the British manufacturers' output via protectionism. The result was _legendarily_ awful quality. And by the time the protectionism waned (when the UK joined the EU), it was too late; the industry was so used to not really having to compete that it just couldn't adapt to having to produce a good product, and largely collapsed.
In other news, the US government investigated itself and confirmed that these aircrafts do not come from its secret military programs.
Excerpt from the abstract:

"This paper presents the first publicly available cryptanalytic attacks on the GEA-1 and GEA-2 algorithms."

[..]

"This unusual pattern indicates that the weakness is intentionally hidden to limit the security level to 40 bit by design."

So in other words: GPRS was intentionally backdoored.
> WikiLeaks just dumped all their files online

The same mistaken claim has been made in social media posts for so long now, that we are gradually starting to see the emergence of fact-check type pages on the topic. [1]

Not that they're overly informative, mind. The linked 'file' folder is part of WikiLeaks FTP mirror. If one goes up a folder (by clicking ../), one will find a helpful and informative document, entitled HOW-TO-MIRROR.txt

The files here are exactly the same as those served from the front end, via the main WikiLeaks site. Without the convenience of search, nor any accompanying articles for context.

They're not some secret dump of new or previously unreleased documents containing leaks. The folks with the unreleased documents won't be keeping them on a public FTP server.

https://www.opindia.com/2020/12/fact-check-has-wikileaks-rea...
> The good news is that there will be anti-drone swarms too. And so we'll end up fighting battles mostly by destroying drones instead of people. Once you've knocked out all the enemy drones, they'll surrender because humans can't fight drones.

They can still fight the guerilla war among citizens. That's been an incredibly effective strategy because it's so expensive to fight. One might wonder if drones are the key to fighting these wars cheaply. If all you need is a small local base and then a thousand drones to surveil a populace... Well that sounds pretty nightmarish for the citizens, but it would certainly change the nature of war.
I'm not sure how dumb it is if you really think about it. Why is theology the only field with widespread public lecture halls? Why can't I go to botany church every Saturday? If there was anywhere near the public interest in knowledge about the world as there is in knowledge about the world-to-come, you could go to church on Saturday to hear about botany. You wouldn't even have to cancel anything on Sunday.
> The idea that you run into a problem and use Google to solve it hardly constitutes skill development.

What does, according to you?
This sounds somewhat similar to something I've seen other coworkers of mine go through. From my reading, it seems like most of the pressure described is coming from yourself rather than external sources. Of course I'm not observing your day-to-day and I'm speculating, but if your organization/country provides reasonable healthcare benefits, then it may be wise to use some mental health resources to better manage anxiety or an ongoing imposter syndrome.
A project I'm involved with https://private.sh/ has search privacy that is more verifiable than ddg. It uses client-side cryptography in the javascript, and routes your request through an anonymizing proxy, similar to how TOR works. The encrypted query is only readable by the search engine, in this case, gigablast, whereas the independent proxy scrubs your IP address.
Nothing has 99.9% uptime, not even nuclear. That's a grid level property, not plant level.
In 2003, much of the US (let alone the world) was still running on dial-up

In 2021 over half the world is running a smartphone of come kind - ie, they have high-speed data

Word-of-mouth (literally) and early restrictions on thefacebook[dot]com meant you had to have a .edu email address to join (and initially it was limited to Zuckerburg's own university - even having a .edu didn't guarantee access ...your school had to have already been added as a valid domain)

Kinda like saying a Tesla is faster than a Model A

Duh
> The idea that you run into a problem and use Google to solve it hardly constitutes skill development.

Until you come across people who can't even do that.

I'm unsure of your age, but I was a developer before Google was a thing, and researching your answer, using Gopher, Usenet, and/or books was very much how we solved problems.

Honorable mention: talking to that Old-office-coffee-stained-teeth-sys-admin-who-probably-forgot-more-about-computers-than-I-ever-knew.
As of a little while ago, yes: https://www.binance.us/
Openpgp.js: OpenPGP JavaScript Implementation
But this would bias results towards zero, no?
Yes. Instead of saying it's obvious nonsense, they said it might be true, basically encouraging readers to keep digging into the ridiculous conspiracy.
Unfortunately, it's true.
On 68k, that move writes 8 bits; it doesn’t really write to a 8-bit register. I make that difference because, on many (I think) other systems, such a byte move sign extends the least significant byte in d0 to the width of the target register and writes the full register.

Also, on 68k you can only address the least significant word or byte of a register that way. Some CPUs have, say, 8 8-bit registers that can alternatively be treated as 4 16-bit registers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8080#Registers). On such a CPU, one can write to the top half of a register in a single instruction by writing to the 8-bit register that shares its storage (some RISC CPUs support that by having a separate instruction “load top half of register”)
You are clearly learning new things and that is exciting and frightening at the same time. You are not alone. Anxiety issues are very common in this industry and while many on HN may have or had similar experiences it is important to seek out professional counseling. I have seen far too many jr, middle and senior people struggle at points along their careers to think there is one solution for everyone.

It gets better, but everyone needs some help along the way at some point.
It is a shame that nobody really knows the impact of this thing that was experienced by millions of people and extensively documented by the Japanese and subsequently studied by Japanese historians as well as all historians of the war and of East Asia everywhere. I guess it will always be the case that perhaps we achieved ends that offer some justification to the means we employed.
Do you need to aim steady or do you only need to fire precisely at the right moment? For example, TOWs using a top-attack EFP warhead don't "aim steady" either, they just detonate at the right moment.
As a teen (and an adult) Coca-cola certainly was not a prescriber. Anything they'd show in their ad would be immediately and correctly understood as fake and an attempt to get in. Action, reaction. Most (and my friends didn't care) would get over it but the moment is tainted by the brand. Everyone has a different line not to cross though.

Now my line is that this scene is strong, it has meaning. But it doesn't need Coca-cola for that. The product diminishes the experience, it taints it. Next time we get on that roof, what do we make of ourselves ? But as another poster commented: "what's in the coke ? Rhum or whisky ?" :).
Okay. You can ignore it then.

FWIW, chat.google.com wasn't rolled out for @gmail.com accounts. It was being rolled out in Google Workspace/gSuite. And this announcement rolled it out to @gmail.com accounts. Old Hangouts is replaced by Chat for text and Meet for video. You can access it at chat.google.com.

Voice is for texting with your GVoice number. It used to be possible to integrate with Hangouts but it's not integrated with Chat. Chat just works with gmail/Workspace account and not a phone number. Voice works with a phone number.
As per the Sponsorblock extensions Github page only App for Android based Smart TVs with sponsorblock buitin appears to be Smart Tube Next [0]

[0] : https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext/
I think it’s also about resilience of global reliance and disruptions.

“Someone’s gotta make stuff” as Elon puts it. Manufacturing of stupid trivial things like buttons and pins is still important to keep high volume manufacturing knowledge and knowhow.
There is the similarity that the editions don't really matter for ABI, but otherwise editions are substantially different from the std switch.

C/C++ std switches freeze the entire language and disable newer features. Editions don't. Rust 2015 edition isn't an old version of Rust. It's the latest version of Rust, except it allows `async` as an identifier.

Editions don't really have an equivalent in C, but they're closer to being like trigraphs than the std compilation switch.
New-vehicle inventories reach record low in US
Episode 7 of "Cosmos: Possible Worlds" was called "The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth" and talks about entire forests.

The plants in entire forests (and often over much larger areas) are connected to fungus in the ground, and the fungus forms one big interconnected web upon which there is communication. If something attacks a tree, for instance, that gets communicated to other trees and they take defensive measures (if they have any they can take).

As you note, any cognition via a large collection of plants is probably slow. But trees can live a long time, and plants that die get replaced by new plants that are on the same network, so if the conscious entity is the forest itself it might have been thinking for hundreds of thousands of even million of years.
> there are no real way to make sure you both attract and keep them.

In my experience, it's pretty simple. Pay them lots of $$$. My circle of friends is in their 40s now, and the ones we all generally consider really good make boatloads. It's hard for them to switch jobs because most places aren't willing to pay a "regular developer" nearly as much.
This reminds me to The X-files quote/theme/leitmotif "I want to believe".

I am prone to think that this again some kind of gov mass psychology Rorschach experiment, where they say if we show you this image and if we say it is flying bunny how many times do we need to show and repeat the same until you start believing it is a flying bunny ...

By the way I am not saying other sentient being do not exist in the universe, I am just saying that with that technology you would not give a fork about what humans want/need/wish ... therefore it is more likely it is some kind of political hocus/pocus
Current "science" is often not interested in replication or even testing if experiments can be replicated.
The culture is tk be quoted and "science but boring" is not quoted. On top of that there is publish or perish.

Also dont want to point fingrers but some scientists come from places where cheating is the norm.
Our press, in coordination with the intelligence apparatus of the United States, turned Wikileaks into a referendum on Assange and his personality.

This has always and obviously been a psyop/frame job, ever since Robert Mueller's FBI agents were kicked out of Iceland for their efforts to attack Wikileaks.

It is only since the neoliberal generation, which controls power, felt themselves threatened by their own supposed ideals, that they were more than happy to hop in bed with the spy apparatus and hang Assange high.
My ISP throttles bittorrent traffic.
No, because – as I mentioned above – the uploaders would still maintaining all kinds of technology to monitor and control the outside world in order to ward off any threats (natural disasters, sabotage from the non-uploaders) to the computing infrastructure on which the simulations are running. If the majority of society chooses to upload, then that suggests that such protective infrastructure is already so stable and advanced, that the non-uploaders would be powerless to simply "pull the plug".
Can anyone suggest an analysis by a sensor engineer with their best guess as to what we're seeing?
There’s never enough documentation – there’s too much documentation
At some point you seriously need to say enough. This is so ridiculous as to not be remotely worth it.
But isn't most of the fiscally significant US manufacturing limited to the final assembly of inexpensive components imported from Asia?
>the FDIC or SPIC

You mean they will print more money to fill your loss (dilution net effect zero)

>the Fed will make me whole

Says who?
> shbang'd to bash.

Good.

Better: #!/bin/sh

Best: #!/bin/sh and also not assuming bash anyway!
I agree. This isn't all bad :) Like the move from conscript peasant armies to volunteer professional armies, leave the rest of us out of it.

It'll come down to "how many drones, and of what quality, can your manufacturing base produce?". But this is not that dissimilar from WW2's "how many tanks, and of what quality, can you manufacture?" equation.

Insurgencies will be about getting a small swarm in exactly the right place at the right time.
Binance _is_ allowed in the US.
They have a special US facing website.
Nope. You don't invent numbers like that. A claim that includes a specific number needs an actual citation which includes the number.

"Most Research Findings Are False for Most Research Designs and for Most Fields" is a ridiculous claim. I don't know a single scientist who believes that. How many scientists have you spoken to in the bio field?
>Who the hell even holds Tether? Don't people get it and then convert into a different crypto pretty quickly?

Most crypto trading actually takes place outside of the US. Imagine I want to predict the whole crypto market goes down, I want to short it. Ideally I'd like to short it relative to the USD, the world's reserve currency. But, as a random unregulated firm trading on an unregulated exchange, getting USD or something close to it is super painful from a compliance perspective, so ideally I'd prefer something that follows the price of the USD but is outside the scope of US regulators. Tether fulfils this shared need of non-US market participants, so they have incentive to keep acting as if it were real even though they know it's a scam. Tether then gets to extract a fee for this service by printing USDT.
I went through it in a clinical sense around that time and this was at the time that I had no legal right to demand to read reports about me for correction, which came later, and when I did it, the tunnel vision in it explained many things about the conversation.

What I remember most is that the clinical psychologist kept fishing as to why I covered my face with my hair and I kept saying that there is no reason other than gravity and that I cannot control that my hair obscures parts of my face and the report contained that I did it on purpose to hide my face, which I'm fairly certain I did not, but it seemed that this was really what the clinical psychologist settled on early and continued to search evidence in support of.
Right, if you want to drain the swamp, shouldn't pardoning Assange and Snowden be the first thing you do?
Sorry, should have clarified - that was work done by 280 North, a YC company from W08, all ex-apple. They built:

- Objective-J (JavaScript equivalent of Objective-C)

- Cappuccino (Objective-J equivalent of Cocoa, from what I remember)
- Atlas (equivalent of InterfaceBuilder)
- Slides (equivalent of Keynote)

The UI builder serialized to the nib equivalent so code wasn't the source of truth, but it was definitely not a no-code approach (code methods were exposed in their GUI builder, and you could consume the nib artifact from your code).
Not necessarily. You could just fall back on authority, superstition, or navel-gazing.
Baseball is great, just not major league. Minor league games are so much more entertaining. You have some serious action going on because the pitchers aren't ball cannons and the hitters are banging balls out left and right. The hype is a lot more intense in the small stadiums. Plus you can stream games for $40 a year.

https://www.milb.com/live-stream-games

MLB looks more like a chess game than a baseball game. Who wants to watch a no-hitter really? I mean it's cool that your team is doing well, but it's just plain horrible to sit through. (At least if you are sober and doing nothing else.) Half the Dodger games I attended, the fans left early to beat the traffic.