skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Total U.S. assets amount to about $225 trillion. Spending 1/700th of that per year for the past 20 years to protect those assets seems a reasonable investment.
I realize it says that one mayor is against tourists but I'm not a fan of articles like this that take anecdotal social media posts from fringe political actors as the word of Hawaii residents. There is no attempt to show data, or even take a reasonable stab, at what the overall view of the citizenry is.

If a majority of Hawaii residents wanted visitors to stop then the governor and mayors could close down all hotels, restaurants, and tourist facilities.

It likely isn't doing that because the people posting that tourism is cultural genocide are people that do not represent the majority of the population.

I'm sure you could find people in Florida who are saying that Disney World should close down - but that clearly would not represent the view of Floridians.
Try the Wolf Nipple Chips, they're lovely
It's a good heuristic to hit the "flag" button and let some other forum experience the hate.
> there was so much professional math activity on google+.

Is it all lost?
> culmination of the plan the Trump administration had put into motion

Alternative view here => https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/16/how-two-decades-of-lies...

"On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Amber Smith, author, veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and deputy assistant to the Secretary of Defense during the Trump administration, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how U.S. leaders spent two decades lying to taxpayers about the war in Afghanistan."
Solutions to the same problem in as many different languages as possible
Hard to take this post seriously when it completely dismisses the substance of Blinken's responses as "a deer-in-the-headlights stare and canned remarks" without spending 2 seconds explaining what they even were. Blinken explained their rationales very calmly and clearly in that video, whether we like with them or not. That deserves consideration, and, if the rationale is wrong, a substantive rebuttal. Not a backhanded dismissal like this.
Have you? Because the rationalists I know are genuinely well-adjusted people.

It's cheap and easy to make fun of the lesswrong community as a cringy cult of AI-obsessed neckbeards. And to be fair, the writing style on LW tends to support that impression. But I've found that most of the actual people within the rationality/AI safety/effective altruism communities actually don't fit that stereotype at all.
* A Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, commonly but falsely referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics
Americans literally don't care about how many people they've killed, only if it was too expensive to do so.

HN used to just flag these discussions, now given the situation this one will stand for a while and the sentiment will momentarily be more reasonable, but just wait for the next terrorist attack for all these American morons to lose their minds and commit further atrocities.
This is good to see.

It shows you can write native cross-platform apps that are fast and have low system resource usage instead of the now default, packaging your app in a standalone resource-intensive web browser, aka Electron.

It's a shame we have a handful of people who can do this as a hobby project yet multi billion dollar companies with the money and manpower to do this don't, they chose Electron.
Blinken on July 7: “We are staying, the embassy is staying, our programs are staying. If there is a significant deterioration in security...I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.”

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1427314149319643139
For a musical Lisp, personally I prefer extempore: https://github.com/digego/extempore
Yeah I agree, you can't print money without consequences. But my point was when the political will exists things seem to get done regardless of whether we can afford them or not.
Along with the soundtrack, John Patrick Lowrie's amazing voice work also form some of my most vivid memories of the game. I still get goosebumps when I hear his narration of the opening cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mZZiI4ShQ
There are also more reasons to buy nvidia gpus just than their speed they have great driver support, features like RTX Voice which cleans up the audio and other proprietary features like DLSS. Though I would argue that desktop gaming is becoming a thing of the past because mobile gaming is that much more powerful and easier to use and setup.
This is why the military industrial complex hates Wikileaks so very much.

When the population knows the truth from source documents that cut through lies they really, really don't like the racket.

Asssange is still being prosecuted on charges that seem more than just a little spurious.
U.S. spends $4T a year on health care (of which $171.8B is spent on research), vs. $320B a year here.
I saw those scary looking matrices and the stack of papers you needed to understand to do anything with them, so I can believe it.
God damn HN is so fucking dumb it hurts.

I've been trying to tell these idiots this stuff for like 10 years...

The world can't end soon enough.
Classy retractions are rare, or at least uncommon. We should all be more like them.
You clearly have an axe to grind.
You’re sure? Perhaps you could find where somebody actually said that.
I think it’s incorrect to view Jay as an exclusively crypto/blockchain person — or at least not in the way that many in HN think of that space. They’ve also been a familiar participant in the wider P2P, privacy and civil liberties space; I’ve bumped into them in the secure scuttlebutt, ActivityPub and IPFS worlds too. It’s a good choice of leader for Bluesky.
This app does, too. It uses aspotify[0], which is just a rust spotify API wrapper.

https://github.com/KaiJewson/aspotify
Bill Clinton's saxophone playing was a joke in a children's show in the 90s [0], and Reagan was a governor and president [1]. I think the lineage goes back a fair bit further than OJ.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0TS9l_nJE
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38et6ecNRO4
Basically, math need a major refactoring and code rewrite. I've been saying this for years. It's getting to a ridiculous point in some areas. Also imagine naming functions in code after people ... That's what mathematicians do with some major often used concepts, making them hard to grasp and remember (i.e. Why is it called "Laplace distribution" and not "mirrored-exponential"?)
Sad that Pico-8 isn't free software.
Usually the way it works is that _using_ the software is illegal, but distributing its source code is not. Code is covered by the first amendment in the US.
It's perfectly explainable. You have a blind machine with an imperfect sensorium trying to describe an elephant. Correct identification is just getting lucky. The layers of ML improve the odds but can never achieve 100%. The whole scheme is playing dice with other people's safety.
>There might be an escape velocity to this

There's a better term for this rather than "escape velocity", because a similar problem exists for interstellar travel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Wait_calcu...
This is a great point. It's truly no different than a third party manufacturer writing some device firmware to connect with Spotify.
So the administration mispredicted something that was presumably obvious. You'd think the blog post about having serious discussions could actually explain that and attempt to have a serious discussion around it instead of mischaracterizing the interview and ignoring the content.
"And yet it was built and defended, with the still-unpopular argument that writers are in fact people, and they need to eat, too."

I understand "freelance writer," or "professional writer" as definitions - but in the age of social media, is it accurate to still think of "writers" writ large as a contiguous defined class of special people separate from the general public?
> You're assuming perfect market transparency. That's a false assumption.

The situation we have here is clearly company B. So we have two options:

- Let the victim (who is or was a customer) pay the $500

- Let the company pay the $500. They need to get that money [0], so they charge their current customers more money.

Either way, the bill goes to the customer. The only difference in the second scenario is that the company needs to increase prices, which will hurt them in the long run and (hopefully) justify the additional expenses in security. But they can't create money out of thin air [1].

> Company A's customers have higher initial costs, but they wouldn't be defined as 'externalized'.

You're right - I was wrong about the definition of externalized.

[0] Technically, they don't - they could go bankrupt. But that would be the first scenario all over again.

[1] Unless we're talking about a bank, of course ;)
Funny, 'Zep' is also a commercially available Copper Sulfate. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Zep-Root-Kill-32-oz-Drain-Cleaner/4...
No, the U.S. already spends $4T a year on healthcare.
He is also the author of what I consider one of the most ironic blog posts of all time.

In https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t... he argues that you do not have to be a genius to do first rate mathematics.

The irony is that this is being argued by person with the best documented genius in the history of mathematics. His official IQ of 230 remains the highest officially measured IQ in the world. He taught himself to read by age 2. He was taking Calculus at age 7. He remains the youngest person for any level of medal in the International Mathematics Olympiad. That doesn't quite convey it. The youngest person to earn a bronze in that competition was 10. Silver was 11. Gold was 12. All three records were set by Terrence Tao, who then didn't bother competing any more.

See https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Terence-Tao-Mozart-of-Mat... for some more of his accomplishments.

His success is comparable to any person in the history of mathematics. Yes I am including Euler, Gauss, and Erdös. Euler possibly covered a bigger breadth of math. Gauss created more fields. Erdös solved more problems. And Tao has made more progress in more hard problems that had stumped everyone else.
You need to stop and evaluate what brought you to the point of believing something so retarded.

It matters what we spend money on. It matters what we do. The mere act of "doing" something is neutral and it's embarrassing that you need this explained to you.
backwoods.
> Members of congress are getting obscenely rich from the Military Industrial Complex and their "campaign contributions".

Please explain for me how that is so, without diverting into claiming that they're being handed tens of millions of dollars secretly under the table.

I'm familiar with how campaign contributions work and the legal regulations involved, including what they're allowed to do - and not do - with the money. How do campaign contributions from military industrial complex firms translate into Congressional members getting obscenely rich?

Every single Congressional member would have been better off buying any number of dozens of various traditional tech stocks than any of the military industrial stocks (Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop, etc.).

Amazon/Netflix/Apple/Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Tesla/etc. > Northrop

Cloudflare is up more since its IPO than Boeing is over ~15 years. Watch out for those CDN campaign contributions?
Tell HN: Resources for Those in Afghanistan Or Stateside Who Want To Help
If you or someone you know is a U.S. citizen in Afghanistan that wants to leave the country, have them fill out this [1] form.

If you or someone you know has an approved petition for a Special Immigrant Visa, email NVCSIV@state.gov or call 1-603-334-0828.

If you or someone you know worked as a contractor with U.S. forces, non-governmental organizations, or the media in Afghanistan, you can find information on the P-2 safe passage admissions program here [2].

If you are in the United States and wish to help people fleeing Afghanistan, you can sign up here [3] to volunteer for airport pickup, apartment setups, and/or meals for Afghans with the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.

[1] https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=dFDPZv5a0UimkaErISH0S0jG7jCPVrpAs2b5YumFx6FUOUNBS0lPNFk1SjhEQzBRRDlXS0NXNFM1WCQlQCN0PWcu

[2] https://www.state.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-priority-2-designation-for-afghan-nationals/

[3] https://lirsconnect.org/get_involved/action_center/siv

(all information and links sourced from a US legislator, mods can email me to verify)
Until the bank libels the individual to the credit reporting agencies. Then the individual is a victim.
Here's the part you cut out with the ellipsis:

> "If there is a significant deterioration in security -- that could well happen, we've discussed this before -- I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday."
I would assume that "smart" signs would transmit their state via Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) network, same for roadworks (i.e. workers would mark affected zone and this state will be transmitted via a mobile battery-powered beacon). Such transmitted states will be signed, with road authority key in the root of the certificate tree, so it will be hard to spoof them (at the very least, it will be easy to identify responsible for key leaking). Of course, it assumes a proper digitalization of infrastructure and appropriate regulation changes, which is not given... But in my opinion massive adoption of full self-driving cars will be difficult without them.

>Here in AU, we also have "school zones" with speed limit signs that turn on only during certain times and dates.

Such conditions are usually fixed and do not suddenly change. Even OSM handles them today more or less fine.
In C++, preprocessor and template magic in dependencies tends to break such IDE convenience features as "go to definition" or "find all references".
>It's a shame we have a handful of people who can do this as a hobby project yet multi billion dollar companies with the money and manpower to do this don't, they chose Electron

This is a purposeful decision though. How else could they track a thousand different metrics about you without 20mb of Javascript?
What I find particularly funny, looking at the big-picture capability of "designer tool generating extendable code", this was basically available since... visual studio 2005? Yet, no one have found a business model for interfacing figma-react reliably at scale.

OTOH, for the capability itself, you might want to look at https://reactstudio.com/ .
the latter. The software doesn't think. That is why neural networks are dumb unless allied with expert systems. As a matter of fact that is more or less how human cognition works: the fusion of a pattern recognition system with multimodal sensory inputs filtered through an expert system looking for meaning in what is sensed.

See for example

https://slazebni.cs.illinois.edu/fall18/lec12_adversarial.pd...
What does opium have to do with oil?
why bring in hundreds of thousands of workers when China can pay the Taliban to force the Afgans to do it and just send some engineers and managers
> And are they suggesting it for normal circumstances where people are able to work?

What would the U in UBI possibly mean if it’s conditioned on someone’s judgment of the recipient being able to work? (If they do earn income, you can tax some of it back, but if they simply choose not to and that means you don’t pay them, it’s by no means “Universal”.)
> having stayed in Paris for six months, be transferred to the Eastern Front to negate any “adverse” effects

China allowing it's students 3 or 4 years! overseas unmanaged to study is insane by comparison. No idea what they are thinking.

American warning for students - https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/newss-dont-be-a-pawn-a-...
Remind ourselves that these unquestioned, unaccounted, massive outlays occurred at major tipping points for global warming. We lost an extra ten years of funding to help prevent an actual existential threat to our existence.

Sad.
I see this pattern a lot in the US. I don’t fully understand where it comes from, the early puritanical religious roots of the colonial period?
Hmm. US conducted itself in much saner way than any equivalently powerful country before. Look at pre WWII Britain/Germany and others for examples
Misprediction? They are simultaneously surveilling everyone in the world and are getting nothing out of it. Confident statements from the administration are no longer worth a dime.
I don't fear it, it's going to be fucking hilarious to watch all of these pricks dying!

I'm probably gonna jump on HN when the world is ending and shitpost about how most of you have it coming.
Leaflet is great for polygon annotations. It is used by Labelbox and Supervisely.
> every other OECD country doesn’t have the healthcare challenges the US has

Right, but they also don’t seem to have the same cost disease issues, or at least not to the same extent.

The fact that Germany or Japan spends $x per capita on something doesn’t necessarily imply that it would be possible for the US to achieve the same result for the same price.
I don't think the OP was making a point about backwards compatibility, but how the language itself has remained stable (sign of good design?). That is not the case for the majority of languages, except for maybe Ruby. Javascript in particular looks nothing like code from 6 years ago.
The vision system is supposed to be able to determine an accurate depth map based on a combination of stereo vision and depth-from-defocus. I've seen demos of the real-time depth map, and it looks high-resolution and accurate to about 5-10cm.

So, if they have the input data, why is it being ignored by autopilot?
> I wonder what are modern use-cases for 4:2:2 sampling? Is it simply a historic relic, which gets ported from codec to codec?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling nicely explains this clever hack's continuing relevance.

TLDR: Chroma subsampling (as done in the 4:2:2 Y'CbCr color space) is used to improve video encoding efficiency by taking advantage of the "human visual system's lower acuity for color differences than for luminance".
Unfortunately doesn't work for me, it complains about not having definitions for cppType and cppStatement. Looking in the file it undefined them [1] [2], putting them back just messes with the formatting (as the code comments suggest). It looks like this was something that was changed from the original code [3].

[1] https://github.com/pulkomandy/c.vim/blob/main/cpp.vim#L2

[2] https://github.com/pulkomandy/c.vim/blob/main/cpp.vim#L6

[3] https://github.com/pulkomandy/c.vim/commit/4159fe507815f897f...
The Unicode Consortium’s goal is to have codepoints for everything. They want a situation where a string in one encoding (Shift-JIS or whatever) can be converted into Unicode codepoints and back with no (visible[a]) loss. This leads to them never removing codepoints, and even adding some that don’t make sense at first glance, such as U+1F574 MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING.[0] That one was added because of Microsoft’s Wingdings font, and the internet has a field day with complaints about that being added and not a new emoji for $whatever.

[a]: grapheme clusters(?)

[0]: https://codepoints.net/U+1F574
Sweet! An MMORPG element would be the bees knees here. Years ago there was a similar (though-MMORPG) game called Diaspora from a small studio[1]. I still remember waking up at all hours of the night to play inconspicuously (without tying up the phone line). It was freeware and featured in PC Gamer. Eventually cheaters/bots overtook the game, literally DDOSing the thing as each "node" could only support maybe 50 ships because of how they were displayed in game (~5x10 grid or so). Ultimately, the studio didn't have a solid monetization strategy and the project disappeared off the face of the earth when its users spiked. They would have made a killing with micro-transactions, but online payments weren't ubiquitous then. Instead these poor devs spent all this time/money developing the game, maintaining the servers and fighting cheaters for free before the whole thing crumbled under its own weight. It lived on in clones (Rillaspora, Xiaspora and The Reunion) but they all died within a year or two.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(video_game)
I guess that's true, the war was owned by Russia before the US purchased it at a very steep markup, while the Russians probably got a good deal on it from the Brits after it sat on a shelf for a century or so.

I'm hopeful, though not at all optimistic in the short term, that it will now be EOL'ed. Unfortunately, as a product class these things tend to be very durable, and families can pass them down for generations as a curiosity until someone decides to put it back in the market. Or some new startup sees a chance to innovate while moving fast and breaking things.
It's sometimes handy to define tradeoffs as a "question of money" and understand through this that things have costs. Fighter jets don't manufacture themselves. The metal to make guns is smelted in blast furnaces built and maintained by men and materials that someone paid for, using fuel someone paid for, and those people who were paid didn't do it for the decimal(2) value of the dollars involved, they did it for the real value. The soldiers who serve expect to be discharged with the cash which will buy them a home and a car and the other benefits they've been promised. These all require resources; someone else is deprived of the resources they would otherwise have, in order to make these things happen.

It's great if you can measure this process in money. Of course you can print as much as you want, and of course that doesn't mean any more resources exist, and then you need the economists to try their best to make adjustments to the numbers as you go along.
Ask HN: What commandline tools do you use to take notes?
Hello

What cli tools do you use to capture your notes. For example, any vim packages that have improved your note taking process
I wonder what they'll make of Plymouth in 1500 years time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth,_Montserrat
According to this: https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/winamp-memory-usa...

Winamp 2.72 only used about 8 megs of RAM.
Science isn't always better. It's unstoppable - you don't lose ground and you will always inch closer to the truth. But it's the slowest approach. It's usually best to leave it to academics like this rather than applying it daily. (Is there a scientific study to how effective science is in daily work?)

I'd recommend reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance though. It covers exactly this topic, the advantages of the scientific method, and where philosophical methods can work better.
HN needs a +50 button for Pratchett references.
It would still be better to give the US a paid-for healthcare system for 18 months than do whatever it is we did in Afghanistan.
If they're not worth a dime then don't mention them at all. If they're worth something then they need to be discussed "seriously", as the blog post itself preaches. Not mischaracterized, and not used to mislead readers about their contents. All the arguing you're doing needs to be in the blog post, not here.
Your point about Go shining a lot more brightly when working with a team which has mixed skill levels was one of the design goals of Go, so it seems they’ve succeeded on that front if you’ve come to that conclusion independently!
Clickable links:

[1] https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=dFDPZv5a...

[2] https://www.state.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-priorit...

[3] https://lirsconnect.org/get_involved/action_center/siv
so do I. But try to convince the NIMBY crowd of it.