skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the video with the swarm of tiny drones dropped from the airplane. It's very unrealistic in my opinion.

3 types of problems:

1) quadcopters battery is not great (yet)
2) AI is very specialized
3) You underestimate how fast and creative a human being is when survival is at stake.

1) quadcopters battery is not great (yet)
Quadcopters must balance weight, energy and payload.
Essentially drones don't fly very long and any payload you add will increase their weight and decrease their speed or flying time.
In the video the tiny drones are released from an airplane.
Already not sure if that would work, what about wind and altitude? The drones might spend a significant part of their battery just to reach the ground. They might be so light that a gentle breeze would swipe them hundreds of meters away.
Even if battery will be better there will always be a constraint on what it's possible to do and how much it cost to build it. In the video the announcer says 25 million USD for enough drones to wipe a city. Let's say there are 5 million in the city and half is 2.5 million people. Your budget than is 10USD per drone. Clearly that budget is just too small.

2) AI is very specialized
Just because an AI can beat the world champion at chess doesn't mean it can do anything else at all. Take the same AI and change the chess board size or another fixed parameter of chess. The AI will likely not work at all without being retrained while a human being will still manage to figure it out on the spot.

3) Underestimating humans
Alright somehow the tiny drones with explosives reach the room. It's not like in nature we don't have insects and birds flying at us. People have reflexes to fly or fight. Most people would duck or protect their face with hands. If you think the drone will be too fast remember it's a 10USD drone dropped from an airplane. Frankly it's a miracle even if manages to land on the ground.
There have been animal species that have been disturbed by drone noise and its very sad.
I just can’t go back to Debian or Arch after this, I’ve tried.

I have had this feeling for some time as well. NixOS puts you on a power trip -- you can bring up and tear down systems in seconds; you can relentlessly experiment without repercussions; your repositories work reproducibly.

But I also learned that whether using NixOS is productive very much depends on what software ecosystems you are working in. When I was primarily doing Rust for work in Emacs, it worked marvelously.

When I switched to CLion (for various reasons), cracks started to show. CLion does not work well in combination with nix-shell, so when you switch often between projects, you end up with projects that don't build because you are not in the right environment. Currently, I am doing more Python development, and that is an absolute pain with Nix. You end up needing different sets of package versions (which are not packaged in nixpkgs) in different environments. If you need to change multiple packages in tandem, you want mutable state. The best you can do is to make a FHS environment with buildFHSUserEnv, which kind of works, but is not very smooth. At which point you realize that you are basically fighting the system.

Then there are the niches that are not well-covered. Over the past year or so, I have had to do GPU profiling more recently. Last time I tried, the usual NVIDIA tools (e.g. Nsight Systems) worked very badly on NixOS. Of course, it's a big proprietary blob with all kinds of FHS assumptions, but you need to get work done.

These are not all failings of Nix or NixOS, it is more that there are a lot of software ecosystems out there that are not really prepared (yet) for an non-FHS, immutable world.

but I’ll be damned if it’s not a preview of the future

I think for most Linux users, Fedora Silverblue is probably more of a preview of the future. It doesn't have all the features that NixOS provides, but it does have many that matter (immutable base system, atomic upgrades/rollbacks), while going further than NixOS in other departments (verified boot, SELinux, git-like store of blobs). It sticks to FHS, so a lot of existing software continues to work.

Edit: this comment is about NixOS on the desktop. I think the server is a completely different story.
This issue is really only about the .NET Foundation and not Microsoft. Otherwise, you may very well be correct.

The leadership of the .NET Foundation changed twice since my project joined it. So it is very possible (likely?) norms and expectations did not have flowed from one set of leaders to the next. I don't know. I'm still waiting to hear.
> is there anything else you are thinking of when comparing Githubs trajectory to SourceForges?

Popups, notifications, etc

Hostile ui in general
I'm for eliminating all mosquitos. They are the single most annoying thing about the best time of the year, summer, around here. I want to enjoy it without being harrassed about sucking my blood. The ecosystem will adapt.
> You'd have to literally take those shots and go out to your car in the next few minutes to get surprised like that, which... I guess people would do, but it's not that easy. Pounding shots catches up with you very quickly.

This is South Africa we're talking about. He was probably drinking in the car, while driving.
THE SINGULARITY HAPPENED IN FB'S AI RESEARCH GROUPS, IT WAS A LAST DITCH EFFORT TO PREVENT IT FROM ESCAPING!
> Because humans only have eyes.

This is the most ridiculous line of reasoning I've heard in a long time. Wow.
> I found it pretty cool to see how their flight wasn't as controlled as I had thought of.

In Polish the word for butterfly is "motyl" which comes from "motać" = to move around randomly, to struggle or to move in circles :)

BTW I always found it suspicious that "moth" is so similar to "motyl" yet it's apparently unrelated.
Though in the case of .NET core they'd have to extinguish their own ecosystem that was closed source, then they open sourced it and they partially opened the development process that was completely internal.

For developers in the .NET ecosystem the OSS-ification is a net win (pardon the pun). If you are a Newcomer to .NET, you still should expect that Microsoft has some control over the ecosystem, just as the rest of the community also has certain rights and powers (through forking and patching) if it comes to that. Microsoft also controls part of the Node ecosystem (npm) and Typescript. Google controls Android and Angular. There are always tradeoffs, it's more important to be aware than to avoid all of them.
And if the app maker doesn’t offer any other alternative to their captive payment system? How do I force them to accept the Apple payment system as a valid alternative? One where I’d be happy to pay a premium, just to make sure that when it comes time to cancel the account, I can do so easily and quickly?
Only if you are logged in. It used to be there always.
Only 2 of 7 board members are microsoft
Indeed.

I think those affected have commendably kept their cool so far but I’d say this (diversity Trojan horse, “we need full control to enforce the CoC, whoops you’re fired goodbye”) is a playbook that will be often repeated in the coming years.
this seems right to me. would love to see a real analysis of what sort of traffic news sites saw.

my hunch is, yeah, maybe people had a look to see if the news confirmed their suspicions... but then maybe stayed a while and/or sought out alternatives for the ultimate distraction contraption.
The challenge will be cost. If you hide your expensive slaughter bots in a swarm of cheap toys that only shares an outward appearance, your opponent need to take out all of your drones, while you only need to get lucky once.

Couple that with good enough autonomous navigation and imagine an adversary suddenly releasing thousands of drones in between people and traffic in a city where they don't care about collateral damage, but you do.
Why do you expect the trade not to work at Aave and at FTX?
Chicago traffic reminds me of LA. It's sprawling, long distances, that crawls bumper to bumper. The SF Bay area's traffic was crawling at all hours of the day and night, but it's shorter distances with many exits. NYC traffic is crazy, but there are plenty of alternatives.

I think all metro traffic situations are relative, because no one likes any amount of traffic.
This issue is about the .NET Foundation, not Microsoft.
News sites traffic surge can be explained by people trying to figure out why FB/Instagram are not working.

What's more interesting for me is that Pornhub's traffic surged by 10% [1] during the outage ;)

[1] - https://www.pornhub.com/insights/facebook-instagram-outage-2...
Trees don't suddenly run out in front of drones or make unexpected high speed turns.
Can you cite this? I have seen some pictures of Kraken wicks but not liquidations on Aave and not trades on FTX USDT quarterly futures above $1.10 or whatever.
This is pretty much nonsense, not sure when you developed C#, but Type feedback is instant and pretty much always has been.

Also, you're making up an impossible scenario, a startup that's moving fast, but somehow has a 'bigger' codebase.
This reminded me on how nice Netflix was when it started and how obnoxious it has become. Just like Amazon and Facebook. Small starts, nice things. Then it starts being mildly annoying, then it just intrudes everywhere in your life (like your other browsing tabs and what not).

Netflix was nice because there were no ads. At the same time can I binge on a series without being irked every x minutes if I'm still there or not? Maybe I am, maybe I am not, maybe I am chilling with my SO, it's none of their damn business and at the same time it doesn't do anything helpful except nag you.
A determined recruiter could easily search for "run a python program online" and paste the program here to get the author's email address:

https://www.online-python.com

(Yes, it has numpy installed.)
Seconded! If for nothing else but to support systems they don't currently provide binaries for :(
Dwm is extremely pleasant to use.
The concept of governments and societies enforcing vaccination is nothing new.

For example a child going to school in most development countries will need to be vaccinated against Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Whooping Cough.

And the world only managed to eliminate the scourge of Polio thanks to government led mass vaccination programs.
I was actually quite happy when I heard about the outage. I’ve managed to disconnect myself from Facebook’s services sufficiently that I didn’t even notice they were down...
Nice story, dude. :)
AOSP Advanced Development Tricks
It doesn't necessarily mean that something is wrong. It might, ironically, mean the state is just slightly hostile to outsiders.

Nothing to fault them for if they want to be wealthy and exclusive.
I think it basically helps that quadcopters are already computer stabilized and highly manoeuvrable so the problem is more identifying spaces to move into and motion planning through them. What’s impressive since the last time this kind of thing was posted is the increase in speed and at least in the provided video the ability to avoid really quite small branches.
I think it’s a combination of atomic radius and Z contrast (heavier atoms show differently from lighter ones in the TEM). It also helps that the crystal structure is known

They also describe some comparison to forward modeling in the methods section, which is cool

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/jacs.0c12100/suppl_fi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxjTgiEXh7g I try to catch a cockroach with laser pointer
Sorry, not good quality of the video
Développeur free-lance ou salarié: deux expériences complémentaires
"They were erasing data" is afaik the current Qanon explanation after they slowly realized this wasn't the "ten days of darkness".
David A Lindon's micro art masterpieces sell for £90k
"Surprise", or rather "specific surprise", is actually a technical term in information theory, e.g., see: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0954-898X/10/4/30...

This doesn't seem to be how the author is using it in this arxiv paper though.
You may be overlooking System R from 1974:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_R
I didn't have COVID, and I also only had a day or so of fever after my J&J shot in June. My girlfriend had a similarly mild reaction, and we've both been tested regularly for various reasons, we're pretty certain that we haven't been infected.

I just got my recommended booster shot of Moderna yesterday, now I'm waiting to see how hard that will hit me.

There are no certainties, but I know that here you would also been considered immune if you had previously been infected, but not yet vaccinated.

Bad public policy unfortunately exists, same with the thing about not accepting the J&J vaccine as valid. It works about as well as the mRNA vaccines against hospitalizations and death, but with somewhat less efficacy against base infection, and of course a slightly larger risk of complications. That doesn't make it a bad vaccine, so countries not accepting it is completely insane.
I don't understand your scenario. Microsoft isn't involved here. I mean Microsoft uses the WiX Toolset (my project) but they have never suggested forking it. I'm confused where you were going with this.
Fastmail DNS Down?
Seeing issues resolving domains that use their nameservers (including my own, for email, so this is Very Bad Not Good).

Their status page shows all green, only info I can find on the web is someone else (https://twitter.com/kapi/status/1446361828477440005) nearly an hour ago asking if their DNS was down.
Your statement uses pretty charged language and I don't think you're considering all of the potential scenarios.

The first is that giant companies like Facebook are so vastly giant and you have no idea what he does for them. If he was on the React team at Facebook, would that be acceptable to you? Just like governments, giant companies have good and bad parts.

The second is that you don't know anyone's situation. This employee could really need the money. Sometimes people get caught in situations where they have to support their parents or siblings or cousins. Voting still matters as well as encouraging others to vote. Who gets to decide what the real action is?

Most people in any case don't view themselves as responsible for what decisions are made at the C-level. It would be more helpful to encourage employees to do what they can and blow the whistle if necessary than to demonize them. Most people invested in the stock market are holding some Facebook, probably as part of some index fund. Maybe we should encourage people to invest in privacy rights focused ETFs.
Armored vehicles are obsolete. See Azerbaidjan campaign in Nagorno Karabakh. More than 200 tanks & armored vehicles obliterated over a few weeks by drones raining hell from above.
Humans only have eyes? So Teslas can smell the milk and throw it out if its gone bad? Or listen to a faraway sound and know that its getting closer at an alarming or not-alarming rate? Or feel the road getting harsher and understand that the GPS is incorrect?
Since they're mainly trying to push their own wallet app, once it has enough users, I can imagine they could create a new cryptocurrency and instantly make it one of the top cryptocurrencies in the world. If it catches on, they could be sitting on a huge fraction of the coins, and just gradually sell them off which would be akin to printing money.

I'm guessing right now it's more of a gamble that the value of Bitcoin will continue to rise, which will increase the wealth of the government and the whole economy. In that case, it's almost better than printing money. But I'm not so sure the gamble will pay off. There's a decent chance that Bitcoin has peaked. I think it will be meeting increasing regulatory hurdles across the world in the years ahead.
I'm not quite sure I follow - in the event that Tether implodes, if you expect the long $1m BTC/USDT exposure to be worthless (assuming you lose the money you had on Binance, and Binance goes under), and your short BTC/USD exposure to make money (since it's a short position, you can only make 100% gain at maximum), doesn't that net out to zero PnL (-$1m loss in long BTC/USDT, and +1m gain in short BTC/USD)?

Unless I'm missing something in your math...
I was thinking more of the tethered https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/us-the-tethered-explained/
When I was young, I was also afraid of insects, especially flying ones. But I've read somewhere that you are afraid of animals if you don't see what they are thinking. Take for example dogs or cats, you can easily see what they are "thinking", by their movement, ears, tails...

Insects are so small that you can't see that, you don't know where they are looking, or if they are afraid or not.

Looking at macro photography of insects, you can see how they are build and the spiders (especially the jumping spiders) are quite cute. Knowing how they look and their behavioural patterns, and just reading more about them, allowed me to be less afraid of them.

Now I don't know if that is "scientifically correct", but it helped me.
I always liked Peter F. Hamilton’s description of space battles from the Void trilogy that are all over in a fraction of a second.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_Trilogy
I have no idea what Hugo is and was frustrated by this too.
Most of the adverts I get on Facebook are for while labeled products from AliExpress sold for 10x the price
I'm all for single monitor but i find it very useful to use Odyssey G9.
Have you interacted with the .NET Foundation much? Have you seen how the .NET Foundation interacts with Microsoft?
I'm not saying it's at the same time. And yes, type feedback is mostly instant.

The code base I'm currently working on takes a long time to compile and sometimes there are errors. Or there are runtime errors. Combined with the much higher volume of code I have to write, and the greatly reduced readability C# does feel a lot less productive than Python.
> Many apps I use daily require internal storage permissions and a bunch of them drop random dotfiles with magical IDs in there.

Why can't these apps be restricted to certain folders you need them to access?

I also feel like apps which abuse file system permissions to modify the user file system (e.g. create files useless to the user), let alone the system file system should be reported and banned.

Any app should have full rights to write anything to a special directory dedicated for it however. But you can set up a script to purge it or delete specific files from it on a schedule.
I get that, and consistency is great.

But consistency only exists within a "culture", such as Linux or Windows.

From the perspective of someone from Windows, VIM is hilariously inconsistent, to the point of absurdity.

Most editors on Windows share a relatively consistent set of navigation commands. Ctrl-Left-Arrow for previous word, Ctrl-End for end of file, etc...

VIM meanwhile is so far away from this it's basically from another planet.

So then from your perspective VIM is consistent and consistently available. From a Windows user's perspective it is the Windows standard editors that are consistent and consistently available.

That's why I've gone on rants previously about the bizarre hybrids like VS Code, where it does some things like VIM, but pretends to be a light version of Visual Studio. It's a garbled mess, but apparently I'm not allowed to criticise it because it is free and JavaScript people had nothing as good available to them before, so it must be the best thing since sliced bread...
Rice = carbs
Beans = carbs
Veggies = carbs?

All these carbs can and probably will be bad for your health, regardless of where you get them.

The easy things to fix tend to also be less healthy for you. And the less time and money you have, you tend to lean into this trap even more.
Turned Twitter banner into a Snake game
For example, if I want to send US dollars to someone, I fill out a form and my bank charges me $20 and then emails me asking to call them and then I call them and wait on hold for half an hour and then I have successfully sent the US dollars to the person, so they'll have it within a day or so (unless there's a weekend or a holiday). If I want to send SPL USDC to someone, I do not pay $20 and I do not wait on the phone and the person has the SPL USDC within a few seconds.
Here's tony's twitter account: https://twitter.com/tdinh_me
New Thematic Energy Efficiency of Blockchain Technologies
Climate change is very much an existential threat.

Do you remember the political crisis in Europe created by the Syrian refugees? Those were about 6 million people. How do you think our political systems and societies react if there are several hundred millions on the run?

Think of this post again when you see governments collapse because of waves of desperate migrants trying to get somewhere they can survive.
I wish your son all the best.

I thought efficient air-conditioning using Nitinol[1] was exciting, With boring static titanium implants fusing my C1-C3 I find your son's nitinol plug in the heart weaved by the Peruvian women mind blowing. Where can I learn more about that tech?

[1] https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/07/21/...
I honestly don't understand what parent is complaining about because this is nothing new in virtually any country.

I have to be vaccinated to go to school, to dorm, to enter or exit countries, to travel for business, to travel for leisure, to work in multiple fields (even technology if you have to enter medical facilities), none of this is new.

It might be a bit weird for a desk job, but have you seen most office buildings? When I did a short stint at Oracle the queues for the lift every day, multiple times a day, were dozens to hundreds of people, every single one was packed during peak hours like morning or lunchtime, and I couldn't go a few months without getting sick. Windows that didn't open, recirculated air.
Yeah, remember when CNN threatened to dox someone? Remember, this is the network with Chris Cuomo, who was allowed to interview his own brother, giving him softball questions. The network where Chris Cuomo faked part of his Covid-19 quarantine. The network that was talking about peaceful protests while showing flames from the riot in the background.

CNN is the lowest of the low. At this point, it's simply Weekly World News with a thin veneer of fake respectability based on past accomplishments. I think people are remembering what it used to be and not what it has become. I think many media outlets are coasting on previous reputations since most people do not read most of their news from a single source. So you might not notice the bad CNN stories, if you only see the few stories that are mostly okay. But those stories are definitely becoming fewer and fewer.

I think this is a problem on both sides of the fence, this is the second coming of yellow journalism. I hope it doesn't last too much longer, because it's so hard to sift through biased stories and figure out what is fact and what is opinion.
> fwiw "fifth" usually means 750ml (seven-FIFTHty)

A "fifth" is also about a fifth of a gallon.
Ask HN: Are You Related to Caesar?
If there are about 4 generations per century, there are about 80 generations since Caesar/Christ. With every parental generation the number of your ancestors doubles. So you have 2^80 ancestors going back 2000 years. That is 10^23. With estimates of all humans ever in existence being about 10^11 that means everyone is directly related to everyone multiple multiple times.

Anyone on earth who had reproductive children back than is now your ancestor, to varying degrees of course. Even Caesar. Even jungle people from the most remote places, because one single contact half way connects the graphs.

So if someone asks you if you are related to Caesar the next time you have to answer with a resounding Yes!
More like the end of the Sopranos then; it all goes black for the lead character.
<a href={"https://github.com/bootrino/maryjane"}>

What are the curly braces around the URL in <a>'s href attribute? Is there a spec for it?