skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I tend to keep up with this sort of thing and have never even heard of him. Reading the article, I see,

>The intuitive argument against drones is that they introduce space between target and assassin, that they remove the element of danger from the act of killing. This is an argument that has followed every advance in military technology beyond the perfect reciprocity of the swordfight

Which I think direct attention away from the greater problem of drone strikes. It's not that it's no longer dangerous to the pilot. It's that the pilot cannot disobey immoral orders, even if he wants.

If a pilot in a bomber refuses to bomb children, then he might face consequences upon his return to base, but the children are not bombed. If a drone pilot refuses to bomb children, the controls can be switched to another pilot who will bomb the children while he faces the consequences for disobeying the immoral order.

He can still disobey, but doing so becomes pointless as the children will still die. So he doesn't. He bombs them, watches them die, and then tries to cope with the fact that he's the bad guy.
I have a hard time believing that the Wright Brothers innovated for no reason other than a desire to improve technology. The appeal of human flight is/was well-established, and there was clear utility in it.

Even in the link you posted, it mentioned that immediately after creating a viable flying machine, the Wright brothers approached militaries worldwide trying to sell it to them.

Basic science and pure math research do exist, and I'm sure loads of people push for advances in tech without any eye towards profit or power, but basically any real-world product or system was engineered with a specific goal in mind.
I'm not a Bezos defender, but he pays taxes -- his effective tax rate is lower because most of his money is tied up in stock that has appreciated but he has not sold yet. When he needs cash (to fund Blue Origin, for example), he sells stock, and pays long term capital gains like everyone else. He probably owns multiple houses etc, and pays property and school taxes like everyone else also.
Why David McFarlane Joined Companyon Ventures
Another archeological project based on the spoil from uncontrolled construction excavation of a historical site is The Sifting Project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Mount_Sifting_Project
Have a look at Sal Khan's latest project, https://schoolhouse.world/
It's focused specifically on math at the moment, and takes a model similar to what you're proposing.
Volunteer tutors give lessons, and students are encouraged to pay-it-forward and become tutors themselves once they master the material.
They've had thousands of students already and are working on scaling up a few orders of magnitude right now.
"most secure noise in the world, boss"
1. I reboot it and my users will need to wait. 99.99% uptime is achieved with 53 minutes of downtime every year, largely enough for the occasional kernel update here and there.

If needed, I can choose to apply the update in the middle of the night in the timezone of most of my visitors.

If it really is a sensitive app and I can't afford any uptime, I just add another inexpensive box, put a load balancer in front (a Cloudflare load balancer would work fine). And since I now have 2 servers, I need a way to manage them without having to manually log in to each of them each time. Enter Ansible. And that's it.

2. Now that I have two cheap boxes, nothing prevents me from having them in two separate data centers and two separate providers.
Seems like a sub would be more surreptitious.
The specter of the giant three (2019)
One thing that strikes me reading his and other accounts of the reaction to imminent death is that substantial changes in attitudes, perspective, and belief are rare. He’s dying but he’s still wasting time commenting about politics, even Nixon for goodness sakes! I think the lesson there is that if the way you live your life, or the attitude/behavior you display is inconsistent with your beliefs, or even if you only suspect something is wrong, then don’t wait for some deathbed conversion that probably won’t happen. Instead focus on change now, even if you struggle at least you’ll die struggling!
The whole situation is terrible.

A. Using extensive app logs to stalk & doxx someone is shitty. Alas this is the world we have built. Way back in 2003 this country still had some leftovers of a moral backbone and could pass CAN-SPAM act. These days anything goes.

B. This guy was using a hookup app 'almost daily', and following up with visits to hookup bars and private residences. His activities strongly corroborate that he was a sex addict. Which is in direct contradiction with his Catholic priesthood vows of chastity and celibacy.

C. Hookup apps like Grindr do not validate the user's age. They are a de-facto funnel feeding under age kids into the hookup sex scene. 'In an NWU study of of 14 to 17 year old males who identify as gay or bisexual [...] more than a quarter of the study’s adolescent participants said they had had sex with a partner met through an app.' The next stage of the funnel is prostitution and trafficking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pillar-investigates-usccb-g...
Consider looking into Fuchsia's component framework for thoughts on what a distributed application looks like inside an operating system. https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/components/v2/intro...
I mean, countries with high numbers of billionaires are as well. Going around many parts of the US and then looking at countries with more balanced wealth and there's a pretty stark difference. Poverty is much more visible in the US compared to many other developed countries.
That’s exactly what was covered in the Systems track of my CS undergrad. I’m always confused when people dismiss their own as irrelevant or primarily mathematical… we were coding and debugging toy schedulers, virtual memory managers, file systems, TCP stacks, IRC and mail servers, locking primitives, etc. in C.
>> we couldn't make too powerful a PC that might cannibalize the minicomputer sales (AS/400).

> Apple has done a fantastic job (up until now) of introducing something that basically makes a "current at the time" product obsolete.

An interesting analogue at this time will be the iPad and the Macbook lineup now that they both use the same processor. It'll be interesting if they make one or the other obsolete or keep both going. (Yes, I realize there's all sorts of design tradeoffs between direct & indirect manipulation environments)

Personally I couldn't wait nor justify owning two devices - migrating to a Windows/Linux tablet after waiting so many years and invested into the mac platform for a decade.
Andy Ngo is a gay Asian man. Any claims of support of white supremacy seem like those calling Ben Shapiro a nazi - ridiculous on their face and guilt by association that doesn’t stand any test of logic beyond grossly painting someone with bad words because they don’t want him to be able to speak credibly.

Perhaps the people who aren’t genuine are those who make opposition to antifa the same thing as ‘favour of white supremacy’.

I don’t think we’re going to come to an agreement.
Anti-vaccine groups changing into ‘dance parties’ on Facebook to avoid detection
Oh, they do have those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine
If she succeeds in proving that she didn't make the one comment about Muslims wasn't made by her, and thus she was defamed, then she would have to prove that the university fired her for that comment and only that comment. Seems unlikely to me.
You forgot the phrase “from the ground” in the first sentence.
Which is crazy. Wealthy people can afford to view housing as an asset because they are wealthy. Poor people can't afford property because they are poor. That's like saying feudal lords were wise for viewing grain as an asset and not an expense. Wild.
Schoolhouse.world: Peer Tutoring, for Free
I see your point, but I don't agree that it's "barely pocket change". If the average person donated $120 to a cause they believe in (which doesn't necessarily benefit themselves) then that's commendable.
what it needs is a cascading ignore that lets you block someone and anyone who follows them.
On the origin of SARS-CoV-2:The blind watchmaker argument [pdf]
Yes they are associated with MIT and Media Bias Fact Check rates their bias as “pro science” and very highly factual (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mit-technology-review/). Granted, media bias fact check is the least scientific of the bias websites (it’s basically one small team’s opinion), but it is interesting that this is their reputation when they are making such unsubstantiated claims.
> "Whether this behavior is due to competition for food or to the decline of the rainforest's productivity caused by climate change will now be investigated in more detail."

Declaring the cause must be food competition or climate change seems a bit hasty?

These are complex social animals. Given this is the only attack ever observed, it seems possible to me that there are a myriad of plausible one-off explanations. Perhaps a particular chimp or gorilla was having a really bad day and just went out looking for a fight.
A Nanotech Cermet Coating Is Just One of Many Gen3 CSP Innovations
The Yakuza have been using drones for short distance drug couriering for a number of years now.
WFH Goldman Sachs Analyst Helped Pitch Israeli Baseball into the Olympics
> "If you have an opinion that a sufficient cohort of your peers in society feel is out of bounds for where society is headed or not compatible with the prevailing world view, society will provide corrective consequences/accountability."

Society used to "provide corrective consequences/accountability" for atheism/agnosticism, advocating for socialism and workers' rights, advocating for the abolition of slavery and equal rights for PoC, advocating for LGBTQ rights, and so forth since all of those were violently opposed by the majority of society. By using the argument, the parent poster and anyone else who uses it implies that they would not only would have been okay with suppressing those rights but also would have enthusiastically supported "consequences" for those rights advocates if they'd been around in the era before those people became protected classes. If this doesn't make it obvious why that argument has zero validity, nothing will.

What's more the "it's A-OK for society to beat you up for going against the majority" argument is an argument born of _conservatism_, since it literally argues for preserving the status quo. It's stunning to hear people supposedly on the left repeating it.
Senior data engineer or Senior Datawarehousing engineer
I was working as ETL Developer (Informatica/Ab Initio/Teradata) in India for last 10 years

This year moved to Berlin as BI Engineer (Snowflake/Looker) in a growing company. So far we had a single team doing both ops and datehousing work.

Now management is planning to split the team and I have options to choose which team to join.

1. In Datawarehousing team, I will get promoted to Senior by end of this year and get salary raise. Also, I can get role of data architect.

2. In Data ops team, as my Python and Docker skills are not upto the mark, I have to wait till next year for salary hike.

I want to work as Developer and I think Python and Docker knowledge will help in long term. But I can grow faster in Datawarehousing and heard data architect pays well.
I wonder if China over-seeded and caused an impact in the American West.
> In the encounters, which lasted 52 and 79 minutes, the chimpanzees formed coalitions and attacked the gorillas.

Gorillas needs to watch their aggressive expansion. Especially since Chimpanzee tribes are overpowered since Leviathan.
> But I do not agree on paying such a high premium for simply being a decision maker

> I'm willing to bet even if Jeff Bezos is a super employee, one thousand times more productive and smarter, than the next best employee he still couldn't amass 207 billion himself

Being 1000x smarter or more productive isn't why Amazon is with >$1T though, and saying "simply being the decision maker" is very dismissive of the hardest part of his job.

I think it's likely that there were a few (Maybe tens) of key decision that largely determined Amazons trajectory. If Bezos was wrong on those, no >$1T company. That's why he's worth 1000x more.

Sure, employees didn't have the chance to make those decisions themselves but why does that matter? Opportunity will never be equally distributed. Bezos happened to flip 20 heads in a row, and got to reap the rewards.
I see you don’t have any understanding that in previous times, being gay had similar stigmas, which was obviously correct according to you - it was just society providing corrective consequences.

It’s a bit of a trip to hear people who think they are progressive also think mobs harrassing people is ‘corrective consequences’. It’s just mob rule. The actual nazis attacking people in Germany in the 1930s would have been ‘corrective accountability’ according to your theory.

We won’t ever come to an agreement. I think your point of view is repugnant.
Yes, AVS was open sourced by Uber ATG around the same that we open sourced Webviz at Cruise. I haven't used it myself, but from memory at the time we exchanged notes with their team, and I got the impression that Webviz had much more user-configurable layouts, whereas AVS had been designed for developers/admins to configure use-case specific layouts. I'm not sure whether is continuing to be developed after Aurora acquired ATG.

Compared to both projects (AVS and Webviz), Foxglove Studio is designed to be extensible, and much more use-case and data-source agnostic (for example, we support connecting directly to different data sources such as ROS1, ROS2, Websockets, HTTP, Velodyne Lidars, and can easily add more).
Does Matrix have a client that makes it easy to send voice messages like Whatsapp and Telegram? This is the only thing stopping us from using Matrix fulltime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_a_Dog#Background seems like it may have been an inspiration for some of the characteristics of Professor Preobrazhensky, at least.
Practicing Catholic here. To add a reference about vows of celibacy: the minor (but notable!) exception are priests in Anglican Ordinariate who were validly married before their Catholic ordination. https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu... this is a temporary exception, though, and does not signify any change in the Church's discipline of clerical celibacy.
Uber seems to get a pass because taxi services were so utterly terrible and had no incentive to get better.
This is absolutely not an alternative, not even close. AWS is exactly that: Amazon Web Services. Do you need to host your stuff somewhere else one day? Good luck re-inventing everything from scratch.

I am sort of k8s hater myself, because I've seen very simple and straight-forward production pipelines, reasonably well understood by admins, turn into over-complicated shit with buggy deploy pipelines literally 10 times slower that no one really understands. All of this to manage maybe 10 nodes per service. All of that said, I cannot deny that these new solutions are something that previous generation of ansible scripts and AWS primitives were not. Now we can move all of it to pretty much any infrastructure without changing much. And as much as I hate it, I don't really have an answer to "what else, if not kubernetes?" that doesn't feel a little bit dishonest. I seriously would like to hear one.
The argument falls apart with Richard Branson. He’s a relatively poor billionaire barely comparable to $20B net worth Jeff Bezos.

You had an agenda and a point to make. You likely were going to get your anger across no matter what evidence you had to use.

I’m pretty sure at least half the people on HN knew who Jeff Bezos was a decade ago. That’s like saying people on HN don’t know who Jack Dorsey is. Sure he’s not going to be known by name to the average person but that’s not what HN’s crowd is

Is your point against society at large, who don’t fit in with defending Musk and attacking other space billionaires because they don’t really care or know what’s up. Or HNers who as said above, don’t work with what you’re saying.

> What you're witnessing is mimic-based mob behavior in action. That's why it's so irrational, so emotional, so very much not thought-out. It's very predictable, most people that join in likely struggle to control their urge to mimic and join the rage mobs, and it goes after anybody that pops their head up too far. It's what social media is largely filled with today, ignorance and rage mobs. It's probably genetically wired in behavior for some people and then amplified depending on the culture and context.

The vibe given off thru the post and ending with this is hard to distinguish from trolling or inebriated anger posting. Sounds like an exaggerated smartest person in the room take - Vs the rest of us sheep proletariats being too stupid to know right from left.
BBEdit was preinstalled on campus Macs when I was an engineering undergrad... in the mid-late 90s. I have made an entire software career, 25 years, since then, and still Rich Siegel soldiers on. Amazing.
Yes, Eisa, Vesa and MCA whose sun rose and set so rapidly. I had EISA and VESA bus boxes, but soon left them. I had 7 build your own box retail ops in the 80's, so it came in and went out, and as soon as it faded I stopped buying. Never bought MCA - terrible sticker shock, my student base would not go for it. I think that IBM ran with floppy config and EISA followed like a puppy dog and it died a quick death.
This*1000.

I have been spending an embarrassing amount of time trying to merge a one-off version of dataclasses with dataclasses to pick up the codegen based on type hints. This stuff is nasty and subtle under the covers. I would rather be dealing with a real closure or with real compositional capabilities. Dataclasses are gross in the weeds.

For example, y = dataclass(x) mutates its argument. That is, y = x.
What's risky about building a highway?
I’ve rented many apartments and I perceive the transaction to have been mutually beneficial in every case.
> strcpy is Turing complete.

My google foo is not working, I can’t find a source for this. And am too dull right now to figure it out.
If you're in the Google ecosystem (Chrome, Google account, Android), then it syncs to your phone and works in native apps. No encrypted notes as far as I know however.

I would guess Apple's ecosystem (Safari, Keychain, iOS) would have similar functionality?
Bezos,"I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand."
Side note, there are a LOT of die-hard Thinkpad fans, myself included. Sadly it just hasn't been the same since Lenovo took over. I literally grew up playing Counter-Strike Source with the little red dot.
Sure if you pull the date of the first landing I'll update my comment.
I bought wireless beats in Costco recently for like $40-$50. They are amazing for working out and coding.
No. I think parent means that the economy was smaller in real terms. E.g. the population was lower.
Too expensive; had achieved goal.
The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job
Lockdown Bait and Switch – By Matt Shapiro – Marginally Compelling
I pretty much agree with everything you've said, maybe with different emphasis on certain points.

In particular, I do hope the reusable technology benefits people first and then science. I sometimes wonder about how many Einsteins are born and die without ever learning to read. First and foremost, I hope we use this technology to benefit people and science second.
Not according to the lawsuit, she claims she didn’t make some of the comments. If that is true, then it was sloppy.
Yes - most of our visualizations are aligned with scrubbing through time (with a playback bar, similar to Youtube but with customizable layouts). Some of the visualizations display data over time regardless of the current playback timestamp (e.g. plots, maps).

We support connecting to different data sources - ROS 1, ROS 2 (which has a completely different wire protocol), websockets, http, local files (.bag format), and we recently added native Velodyne connections (which means Foxglove Studio can also replace VeloView). Our data connection support is pluggable, so for robotics teams not using ROS it is easy to add support for other formats.

Edit - responding to "enable human observers to detect useful patterns of correlation": Humans can use this in many ways, it depends on what question you are trying to answer. For example, to drastically over-simplify - "why did my robot fall down the stairs?" - it might be because your sensors were dirty and the images or laser scans were bad, it might be because your ML incorrectly detected and classified objects, it might be due to bad predictions about other objects (probably not for stairs), it might be due to a bad planned path, it might be due to poor localization. All of these things are easier to diagnose visually rather than stepping through code in a traditional debugging sense.
Taking the question at face value, I think these are the issues:

- the switching costs for programming languages are very high, even if you're switching to an established language
- it's hard to evaluate a new programming language; you don't know if it's good until you've written something non-trivial
- learning a new language takes a lot of effort, particularly for languages that aim to be better than existing languages; better implies different
- given all of the above, early adopters will probably not use the language for their day job, they'll use it for hobby projects; hobbyists are price sensitive

I don't actually think having to compete with free is actually that much of an issue compared to the above. Even free languages that are genuinely improvements over more mainstream alternatives face multidecade slogs to create a small community and get some adoption.
Study raises prospect of 'fine-tuning' immune response thru individual T-cells
> Or a Caesar?

Caesar gained power through running a business providing people with wine?

> You also seem to completely abandon your previous statement

Not at all. It is obvious that people who became wealthy through force of arms or using taxation to line their pockets are in a different category.
The Bad Marriage Problem
They've turned climate change into the new boogeyman, which is a shame since it's an important issue.
I think I have been in that meeting.
Guess Google Loon is better suited for this as it can stay longer in place? 5 hours sounds extremely limited given the effort to get there in the first place.
I read that it is illegal in Germany.
The thing is "we" won't get to mars with billionaires trying to go to there it will be their kids and the people they pick.
> All the systems are there already

And all the systems are there already to implement a Swiss-style system (universal private healthcare with an individual mandate, sliding cost subsidies, and protection for pre-existing conditions). The only difference between Switzerland and the US is that the health insurance is predominately purchased on the individual market and is decoupled from employment.

That’s the realistic path: decoupling health insurance from employment. In fact, all the systems are there already.
She can't maintain employment because she can't be taken seriously anymore. She is not a victim, she ruined her own reputation through her own actions and words. This literally has nothing to do with free speech which is why she isn't making the claim.
You are seeing it incorrectly. If I buy a thing and then it remains broken because the manufacturer made specific choices, they should be forced to give me my money back.
Not quite:

The purchasing power of a dollar has grown ~8.5x over the past 60 years.

The US GDP has grown about 38x in that same time.
Neural Fixed-Point Acceleration for Convex Optimization