skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps drawpile: https://drawpile.net/ is worth a look. I have seen people create rather large artworks with it, you even have support for pressure sensitivity. It does not run on tablets though as there is only a desktop version.
No mention of laundry here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_for_Osama_bin_Laden
> I am not aware of any ML in flight controls. Being black box and probabilistic by nature, these things won’t get past industry standards and regulations (at least for a while).

(Hah, I accidentally wrote "self-landing cars," fixed). But yeah, I guess I was thinking more of drones, I'm not exactly sure what ML (if any) is in the guts of a commercial or military airplane.
Source? Just wondering where you got this info from.
> Is modern encryption a challenge to those old machines?

I've used modern encryption/mac routines on small embedded micro's and they seem reasonably efficient. Couple of operations per byte. They have to be fast because they are used for decrypting stuff like streaming video. I think an exception is password hashing algorithms which are slow by design.

That said some of the older algorithms are really inefficient. Hundreds of ops per byte.
Nothing is stopping you from setting up shop somewhere with the same wasted electrical surplus, finding the machinery needed, an adequate staff to run it, figuring out your international supply chain, and hoping you turn out profitable.
TFA says that the ship is being decommissioned after 11 years of service. Could someone with more knowledge/experience with the Navy explain whether that's a normal period of service for this kind of ship? To my civilian brain, that seems like an extraordinarily short period.
Oh wow, thank you for this. :) I was just restoring an iMac G3, the Flower Power edition, and ran into more trouble than I expected trying to transfer data via a USB flash drive. Filesystems that Mac OS 9 should support were either not mounting properly or causing errors during file transfer when formatted on a modern Apple or Linux system (exFAT was the only one I could get to work for some reason). I’ve been casually looking around for some sort of NAS solution that would be compatible with older versions of Mac OS, but with native scp I can just download files from a Linux box (perhaps a dedicated Raspberry Pi) and skip right to the fun part: exploring all of the weird, cool and charming software and games from this era. So cool!
Whiteboards are better in every way but one : a whiteboard doesn't sync with anything central or remote. You have to decide if this matters to you. If yes get a tool, if not get a whiteboard.
This does not in any shape or form compete in the self-driving cars space; the thing doesn't have a rear camera!

This is basically the "rsync as Dropbox" approach to augmenting your car with a hacky version of automatic cruise control, with a bonus lawsuit should you ever be in a crash significant enough to warrant the attention (think paralysis).
Dave Lee recently had an interesting interview with George Hotz about self-driving cars and the future of AI:
https://youtu.be/q6iagfjs83U
sometimes their efforts do look embarrassing
I resonate with this, _a lot_.

TODO lists don't work for me at all. I can't seem to remember to actually check the damn things for what to do next. The overhead of maintaining them also eats up time.

The closest thing I've found that works to motivate and keep me on track is SaveMyTime, which is a time tracking app. I used it in a similar manner to how you describe done lists. I tracked exactly what I've done, every minute of every day. The killer feature of SMT is that it forces you to fill out what you've done prior to unlocking your phone screen. Unlike TODO lists, I have no problem checking my phone frequently :)

This meant that I always had a log of where my time was going, what areas of my life needed more attention, where I was spending my time when procrastinating, etc.

The very action of seeing that "What did you do in the last 15 minutes?" reminder helps kick my brain into "That's a good question, what should I be doing now?" mode.

Unfortunately I've since switched to iOS so SMT isn't an option anymore. I can't seem to find a similar app. Most of the existing time tracking apps expect you to actually set timers, which defeats the purpose. Damn Apple and their OS restrictions mean that no one can make an app that lets you show a screen like that prior to unlocking either.

I've settled for writing my own, private app as a replacement. It shows a widget on the home screen (as in-your-face as you can get on iPhones) with the same features as SMT. "X many minutes since you last logged your time, here is a list of likely things you were working on".
That's just one form of non-dualism, there are in fact hundreds of which dozens have been popular from time to time. Right now, eliminatitive materialism is probably more popular than Donald Davidson's, epiphenomenalism another, pansychism another.
Plandemic: A Product of Planned Disinformation Amplifying the Covid-19 Infodemic
NASA is a taxpayer boondoggle. The faster we can transition wasting tax dollars on it to the private sector and dismantle the agency the better.
We're living in different times because of the way we receive and curate data as an individual.

Before social media, you'd watch the news, radio etc with your family, people in your community and workplace, as a group it probably made sense to agree to getting vaccinated.

In 2021 its "my choice", to not do x and to y.

In 2021 people come primed to a discussion or a decision with a huge artillery of "facts" they've spent time being recommended by algorithms.

This seems to be unique and unparalleled in history.
Oh sure, I'm just speculating. But if you always waited for concrete evidence to conclude that something might be a risk, you would have may have been wearing hats coated in mercury in the 19th century, and eating of uranium-infused plates in the early 20th century.
There's something weird about this. You should be getting recruiters on Linkedin reaching out.

What's your job title at the well-known tech company? I assume it's more like FAANG than a consulting firm? How many years of experience do you have? Have you reached out to people you've worked with in the past to see if their current employer is hiring? Are you in a major tech city or a major city with no tech presence?
Few, if any, are arguing that eliminating testing hurts all minorities. It hurts high achieving groups, it helps lower achieving groups. The example provided by TJ demonstrates this: the share of Asians dropped.

Sure, it's valid to have the position that pursing equity over equality is more just. But don't try to ignore and paper over the reality that it will decrease opportunity for higher achieving groups.
Well they had to be certain, right? What if the driver was working for someone else, and Bin Laden was nearby but didn't live there? You send in the marines, you don't get Osama, and instead you've basically let him know that he needs to GTFO that city...
Stop Making Excuses for Toxic Bosses
Why stop at taxes? Let’s talk about water, why should all these states be subsidizing California’s water use? Why aren’t they bootstrapping desalination plants? Quit mooching.
I would assume any sort of attack, if it's not able to outright kill the virus, would accelerate mutation. The experts have conceded for a while now that the vaccine has been proven to reduce symptoms, but not necessarily reduce spread, so probably the right environment for mutation.
The article mentioned 25 years.

>It’s been used as a testbed for mission package development and leaving the fleet well ahead of its expected 25-year service life.
They probably mean a bar at the bottom that shows what's going on. All browsers used to have it. Then it dropped to just showing which URL was currently loading. I don't think they even show that now. Most of what it had is accessible in greater detail with developer tools, but it was nice to have a little summary down there.
I have a Comma Two and have driven maybe 4000 miles on it around the SF Bay area. It is somewhat limited in that they can only steer as hard as the car's lanekeeping system is willing to steer. The driver monitoring helps although I am middle aged and pretty careful anyway so it's only actually beeped at me on a handful of occasions. Honestly, it is not the type of device where you want to take your eyes off the road, I think the DM is actually a little more lenient than it should be. In generally, you are basically as alert as if you are driving. The advantage is that you aren't spending mental energy keeping the car centered in the lane or maintaining a good following distance, or straining your arms holding onto a steering wheel. Long car trips are much more comfortable and less as a result.

It's not very useful on city streets or curvy mountain roads, the places where it shines are freeways and stop and go traffic -- the boring driving.

It has been quite reliable, most of the kinks have been worked out and they have enough users that there are not any serious bugs on the standard releases. I have reported minor bugs and had them fixed in a matter of days, which is always amazing for an OSS project. If you have an uncommon car there can be tuning issues from time to time. There is also a fairly strong user community on Discord that can help you troubleshoot things.

It works best on Toyotas and Hyundais, Honda and Subarus are a little worse, and the other manufacturers is really hit or miss--there may be individual models where someone got it working.

It is not a consumer product, you need to be somewhat capable of troubleshooting the occasional issue, reading documentation, dealing with occasional quirks etc.
In the one I saw he spent 5 minutes (of 30) figuring out a mistake caused by a simple typo, that a regular IDE would wiggle for him the second after he typed it in.
more likely youtube will adopt the onlyfans model once people start getting tired of the clickbait useless vids
Yeah no2 has a repuation for being fairly harmless but it's not as widely known that it should be that using more often than once every 2 weeks is harmful due to methionine synthase inactivation & b12 deficiency.
Hell no. Space exploration and expansion should absolutely NOT be in the hands of corporations but an government funded entity that contracts out work as we have now. If every government program should be profitable.
Well, I just made a site and shared it on some forums and Reddit for feedback. Sometimes it's those "what are you working on" threads on HN. It was never really good enough for me to judge as marketable.

2 years later, there's regularly 2000 visitors/month. Returning users are very poor, but it's a good amount of user acquisition for something I've actively avoided marketing.

I started another startup before this, and got 1200 users in 24 hours just by posting it in an active Facebook group. Most of the users came from people sharing my post. It didn't really "click" the first time though. Specifically, it was a diet app, I did calorie counts, but it was to low carb dieters who only cared about carb counts. So we had to overhaul the app to show carbs and it got 3000 users on the second "launch".

I'm still not sure you should hard launch because of things like this - it's very likely you've done something wrong or missed. And when you do launch, make it very easy for them to give feedback. I set up a public chat for feedback the first time, a survey form this time. The public chat was better, but you have to moderate it.
When I got out of university I was doing a web dev job that paid me less than a full time super market job in the UK.

However after a year of working there I quickly moved on and got a big pay rise in doing so.
> The Earth has plenty of space, we're limited by resources, and there are no interesting resources on Mars

There are new discoveries on Earth even today, after hundreds of thousands year of mankind history. What make you think we have known all we need to know about Mars?

> I wouldn't be surprised to find out that we'll have a colony outside the solar system before a colony on Mars.

Mars is a 8 month journey. Alpha Centauri, the nearest star, is a 296,000 year journey using the current propulsion technology. We'll have colonized every single colonizable planets in the Solar System before then.

> it's much more interesting from a profit perspective than a future of humanity perspective.

Future of humanity depends on advance in science. Space exploration has always been a major force that drives science forward, asteroid mining included. So many examples to list, but just to pick one:

https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2019/06/how-do-scie...
The EU bans export of fertilizer containing more than 16% ammonium nitrate. Many countries won't even ship it to the Middle East.

The Beruit stockpile was from a ship that was held in port on its way to another country, with "weapons grade" ammonium nitrate intended for an explosives manufacturer.
Greenland: Enough ice melted on single day to cover Florida in 2“ of water
The Centris 650
You mean by freeing up hospital beds? That's orders of magnitude less of a benefit than stopping exponential contagious spread, so not nearly as compelling of a reason.
Reading the first paragraph I was wondering if the data portability right (part of GDPR) might be helpful, and then you went on to say "Bonus points if companies are also required to allow users to import data in those formats". Dude, that is exactly what GDPR requires! You are describing article 20 literally :). I'm not sure about ecommerce, no idea why I'd want to import invoices into another web shop, but

> Article 20 \n Right to data portability \n 1. The data subject [you] shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to [the company], in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Past performance isn't necessarily indicative of future results but as people tend to repeat behaviour over and over, it is often enough.
Many 19th C essays were originally lectures delivered to an audience—almost all of Emerson's essays, for example. There was a huge lecture circuit across the U.S. Maybe my favourite talks are William James' On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings (1890s), and its sequel What Makes a Life Significant.

https://archive.org/details/onsomeoflifeside00jameiala/page/...
It was just the same news over and over again ...
This seems like a straightforward study.
Plus the 5% kickback isn't too shabby.
Youtube makes money from ads, unlike other video communities like onlyfans , so most likely the cut that creators take doesn't cut it. Currently it seems creators use it as a social tool to raise awareness of their moneymaking product , but that leads to more and more videos being ads themselves, which is leads to google's recurring issue: spam.

If youtube made money from subscriptions the interests of youtube and creators would align better. As it is now it's on a spiral of more and more spam and self-reference which will eventually turn it to a ghost town (because unlike google search, all the video content is in their platform)
Please check article 20 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
For anyone else who caught on "littoral," it means:
"relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake"
This is also against the backdrop of Navy life extensions for cruisers and other small craft towards 35 years from 25 (and much longer for some systems https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/06/07/the-us-navys-sh... ). The LCS program was plagued by problems to a degree that the designs are no longer being used as a base for future craft the major defense contractors are proposing. I think the intent is to replace a lot of what the Littoral Combat Ships mission should have been with Constellation Class Frigates instead.
TLDR; Currencies and accounts are just ledgers. Bitcoin is a ledger with some unique advantages, despite some shortcomings. One of those advantages are self-fulfilling, if enough people use it for that: reserve value with a bias toward growth in value (deflation). More people are betting on that case, so it may fulfill that role. Or not.

LONG VERSION

I think the best way to explain Bitcoin is to point out that all currencies and accounts are ledgers.

The Bitcoin ledger has advantages over many pre-existing ledgers and accounts:

- No third party oversight or permission required to use it

- Users can create as many accounts as they want

- Users can manage their accounts directly

- Units can be sent by anyone to anyone, from anywhere, at any time

- Fast compared to some transaction types (wire or bank transfers, etc.)

- Inexpensive compared to some transaction types (wire transfer, etc.)

The current weaknesses of the Bitcoin ledger are:

- Still slow compared to some transaction types (cash, VISA, etc.)

- Expensive compared to some transaction types (cash, VISA, etc.)

- Has a leaky privacy model.

Other subsequent cryptocurrencies have mitigated those weaknesses, so Bitcoin is not the state of the art.

BUT two other advantages seems to have given Bitcoin a valuable role despite its inefficiencies:

- Rapidly diminishing unit production, with a hard maximum of units. So its total supply cannot be inflated.

This was an innovation, since other currencies and assets can have their supply inflated by their managers or producers.

It implies that as the ledger is used by more people, to store more value, the units will maintain and increase in value. I.e. deflate instead of inflate.

This makes it suitable as a reserve currency IF enough people accepted it as a standard way to do so.

- AND Bitcoin has first mover and the greatest recognition advantages over subsequent cryptocurrencies, giving it unique advantages as a standard

So far, the self-fulfilling trend appears to be happening.

There are a growing number of people using it as reserve value, or at least own it speculatively based on its future use as reserve value, or at least speculatively based on the idea that people will continue to speculate on its reserve value ....

So it has a clear use, that may be coming to pass.
The FBI investigates suspicious deaths of Americans overseas, and 1 US citizen died in the blast.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/search-rescue-continues...
> GDPR is about privacy and security, not interoperability.

Article 20 [RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY]

1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where: ...
I've been a solo-founder full-time for 5 years on https://uidrafter.com

In the repo, I have a markdown file with bugs and tasks. I update it everyday and reprioritize it ~biweekly. I start the day with the most difficult task, and when I'm tired I just review, refactor, or do minor tunings.

I'd say that having different desks helps. Sometimes I just park somewhere to write or code in a sketchbook.
Shattersong (Rust-Based MMO)
Drones don’t need ML to self-land AFAIK?
> Maybe BO will one day actually do something noteworthy on their own, rather than trying to prevent SpaceX from moving ahead because they actually do things.

You don't consider being the first to successfully launch and land a VTOL booster noteworthy [1]?

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/the-f...
The public has been primed too much by the media to literally spew hate like there is no tomorrow for certain individuals. On the right wing - it is Bill Gates, on the left wing it is Bezos/Elon. They got their clicks and ad revenue.
It is a very short period for a ship, especially a non-nuclear one (which sometimes have no means for refuel, and have a fixed service life). If you poke around the list of US destroyers, the successful classes last about 30 years. USS Arleigh Burke for example was commissioned in 1991, and it’s still on the register.

I am personally surprised they’re giving up on the Littoral ships before they gave up on the Zumwalt class, the destroyers that don’t even have any ammunition for their main guns.
Not actually open source. The source code that’s available is a thin wrapper around a closed-source ML model. If George really cared about Open Source he would release the training architecture and training data.
I’d be interested in reading the book, but $33 for the ebook from Amazon? What’s up with that?
I disagree. He could have taken copies of the files as insurance before whistleblowing, allowing him to then go public if nothing resulted from the official inquiry.
I've tried watching technical tutorial videos but I often found people making them aren't really experts in the domain, so I end up watching impressions of a mediocre developer trying to wade through some topic.

There are good videos (usually experts giving talks) but I wouldn't start with those.
> SpaceX started on powered decent in 2011 achieving it’s first landing from an actual orbital space flight in 2015

I'm not sure how important/big the difference is, but IIRC spaceX only lands boosters that never actually reach orbital velocity. They help boost things into orbital velocity, sure, but the things that land under powered flight never actually reach orbital velocity, right?

I'm aware that the crew dragon was supposed to do this, but AFAIK it never has.
I use my comma two everyday. Works great. Support from the company is non-existent.

I'm kind of pissed because I bought it in the last few months and now they've come out with another one. There should be a trade-in and upgrade program.
It's about data protection, and giving users some means of control over how their data is used online. Privacy and security just happen to be the two very salient dimensions of that. If you read the GDPR wording, you'll see the phrase "data subject empowerment" pop up in various places, which is exactly what I'm after: more empowerment over what we can do with our data.

GDPR has its warts, absolutely. But I don't think that's a reason not to strive for even greater data protection measures for citizens going forward, especially if we amend the existing regulations to fix some of its unintended consequences.

[edit: typo]
The crime levels in metropolitan areas can vary significantly by the neighbourhood though, and some cities have very low levels of crime.

I’m not suggesting pollution doesn’t have any correlation to crime (it probably does) but it doesn’t seem to be one of the more significant factors if you wanted to try to explain why some neighbours / populations commit more crime.
The criticism in the article seems misplaced to me - it falls victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

These ships were problematic from the beginning. I remember them being commissioned without a working gun, alongside reports of ship-wide computer failures leaving the ships dead in the water. If they are costly to operate and ineffective in service, it doesn't really matter how much they cost to build in the first place.

That said, it's really a symptom of American corruption / decline / corporate capture in my mind. This program alone funneled billions of dollars into defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, with very little incentive for efficiency. What a waste of American wealth!
Why does Amazon serve me ads on the Kindle for books I already bought from Amazon that are currently loaded on that Kindle? Sometimes it is mystifying how many opportunities to better serve their customers and shareholders they leave on the table. I guess it comes down to priorities.