skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Killer robots will be a great equalizer in the ability to create a nightmare hellscape

I imagine most people here have already seen the Slaughterbots video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

A more conventional type of attack would be using large numbers cheap cruise missiles. If you can make them for $20k each then $1bn would buy you 50,000 of them, which is probably a good deal more than the number of anti-aircraft missiles your adversary has, and certainly a lot more than their number of fighter aircraft. Therefore firing off a lot in one go would overload their defences and many would get through. If aimed at infrastructure target, they could cripple a country's economy, and how soon after that do people start starving?
Read Michael Shellenberger - Apocalypse Never.

Try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLxZF_EWaLE
Macrogrift
GCP Bucket Name Restrictions
I was creating a bucket on GCP and noticed what I thought was an odd restriction[0]:

> Bucket names cannot begin with the "goog" prefix.

> Bucket names cannot contain "google" or close misspellings, such as "g00gle".

I'm mostly just curious about the motivation behind these restrictions. My guess is that it's to avoid buckets that make it seem like they're owned by google, but there doesn't seem to be equivalent restrictions on azure[1] or aws[2] (they do disallow the prefix "xn--" and the suffix "-s3alias", but these seem functional.) Is there some other reasoning?

[0] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/naming-buckets

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/naming-and-referencing-containers--blobs--and-metadata

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/bucketnamingrules.html
150K in the UK have died of coronavirus, we have 67 million, that's 0.22%, and most of that was pre-vaccine.

I can't really be bothered to trawl US stats, but I imagine the figures are about the same. Let's say it's 0.3%.

I just don't think that reducing our average annual risk of death by 0.3% is worth doing stuff like locking ourselves indoors or just not doing anything communally any more.

It's _our_ quality of life, fwiw - I'm not the only person that exists, restrictions affect everyone and empathy is applicable to all scenarios.

edit: actually, it's not even annually 0.3%, because it's now been ~21 months since coronavirus hit our shores, so we're looking at ~0.12% or so annually.
code reviews would probably be a better fit to prevent that.
Do you have any examples? I'm genuinely asking
That's true to some extent of the native language as well. Hibernate, for example, is a java(-bean) idiomatic wrapper on top of JDBC. Same goes for Log4J being a wrapper of java.util.logging, etc. Not quite the same thing as what Scala or Clojure have done, but far from just sticking to the basics.

It's one thing to build a wrapper on top of a comprehensive standard library, and another thing altogether to build what is essentially an alternative standard library.
A key aspect is missing from your question:

Why do you want to read the news? What is your goal?

(Answers like "So I can be informed" simply beg the question).
It depends on how high up the software stack you work. For most people it won't make much difference, but for some people it's huge. I do a lot of SIMD optimization, and x86 is 128/256/512-bit short-vector SIMD. Arm is 128-bit/long-vector. Even short-vector on Arm uses a different programming model from x86 (the intrinsics are more abstracted from the operations in order to support endian-agnostic operation), and of course long-vector is worlds apart.

I'm not complaining though; we're entering a new golden age for people who like learning the intricacies of ISA's and microarchitectures!
WiMAX Powered Cities by 2030
PBS Space Time has an excellent set of videos on this, including this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72cM_E6bsOs
Python may be "terse and readable" when you're only dealing with very simple scripts, but the advantage quickly disappears in larger programs, where issues of modularization and, yes, correctness become paramount. It's choosing the wrong tradeoff in the first place. Rust makes the opposite choice, a small tradeoff in readability when starting out, in exchange for a long-term gain.
I work in crypto since a little while, and have following the tech since 2014 or so.

I’m still really skeptical of that trash fire going anywhere. Including my day job.

I can only thing of one application, and it still
have to deliver:

Providing mesh network of wifi, LoRA or 5g where the node are administered by individuals.

The nodes are mining a proof of coverage. And effectively being payed to deliver a service ( providing wifi/LoRA/5g coverage )

The nodes cannot trust each other, and having a decentralized ledger help them split the bill and compensate the nodes for their work.

In my view it would provide a “last miles delivery of coverage”

I have a few project in mind that I won’t mention here. The crypto they are using is not subject to much speculation.

That my favorite use of that tech stack. ( since the decentralized land ledger projects seems to not go anywhere )
States enforce pawn laws through electronic systems like LEADS. FB, offerup, and every other platform out there letting thieves fence things with impunity could implement same.
> You can't scale human operated weapons in the same way you can autonomous ones, can you?

Sure you can. That's what the whole point of an army is. Instead of just having just one tank, have 500 tanks. Sure, scaling does require more manpower, but that's true even with autonomous weapons until someone invents AGI.

> How long can you stay in one building? How long could a drone (or two, with one recharging while the other is flying) circle above it?

Just put a ski mask on. Problem solved. There is just no way that drone swarms with facial recognition technology are ever going to be viable.
Go get a poster board and stand in front of the restaurant "Uber Eats stole my money."

Contact Google or Apple and tell them their App is fraudulent.

Contact the police about the theft, non emergency line.

Charge back from your bank.

File a complaint with the town chamber of commerce.

Contact your state's attorney general office.

Contact your town's newspaper and tv.

Remember that pounds are not US currency and the advice doesn't apply.
A Macaque, maybe 15 kg in weight, has the aggression claws and muscle to take on any non-beefy human and win, not doubt about that.
ha, this thing -- I forgot I was following the twitter account from last year and then all of a sudden this month it starts tweeting again and I'm fine with the sorta cute festive goat pics popping up again.
Forgot about the whole burning part tho! wild! haha
Stuff that's actually useful to you/me/someone else is a rather subjective set. As an example, I'm interested (with explicit purpose) in travel restrictions around Europe, especially now in Covid times. Other people might be fortunate enough to not care about stuff like that
Cyberpunk (1980), a short story by Bruce Bethke
> "The major power" is the people that make up the country, which largely don't support this stuff

The populations of most countries probably don't want to attack foreign countries, but they absolutely do want to avoid being attacked by foreign countries, and if having scary weapons will do this, most will be for them.
I guess it depends on how interested you are in what’s going on in the world, whether it’s relevant to you or not.

Even if I was just to look at the news that directly relevant to me, there’s plenty that (rightly) doesn’t make it to HN. For example, if there are an increasing number of terror attacks in a part of the world I’ve been to or plan to go to then I’d consider that news important but not HN-worthy.
And to some extent, all of the nightmare scenarios from those technologies happened. Over time, those scenarios just became the new normal way of life and we adapted to it. Of course, many have made the case that a lot of our psychological and societal problems have their roots in those technologies just as their opponents originally thought they would have, but, again, this is the new norm now so people mostly don't think about it.
For those in the bay area, there is a great origami store in japan town called the paper tree which I highly recommend. Last time I was there they had some truly amazing pieces on display including many of Lang's insects and sculptures as well as a ryujin 3.5 designed by satoshi kamiya.
I think it is likely that some things will be revised and tweaked, but other things will have to be majorly rewritten. We may not know what those are yet, but from looking at history, it is wise to believe that in some things we are hammering away at a faulty path. When we rewrite that, there will probably be major rapid improvements very quickly, then slow over time. Perhaps a lot is slowing recently because we've had less major breakthroughs which usually open up fertile fields. Maybe that's because we have the low hanging fruit of major breakthroughs or our society isnt as good at getting them, either way, it will be interesting to see what the future holds.
To add: with pipelined processors, it doesn’t make sense to list “clocks per instruction” as a single number. Since the advent of superscalar processors, it makes even less sense. Hence why there’s “latency” and “throughput”.
When has glxgears ever been demanding[1]? I would hope a modern CPU could handle a few hundred vertices(guessing) at 60fps.

1. https://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Glxgears_is_not_a_Benchmar...
> I don't check often but a quick way to see interesting topical news is seeing the trending tab on Twitter.

The trending tab on Twitter is awful. It's the kind of news stories that are viral, not important.
If I buy a jar of peanut butter made in a factory and it contains a shard of glass, is that my fault for being too lazy to grind my own peanut butter?
I see the Cold War never ended in the US. The communists you're decrying engaged 80% of the German army and were responsible for 7/10s of Nazi deaths on that front.

It wasn't the USSR that dropped two nuclear bombs (one uranium, one plutonium) on Japanese civilian targets when the Japanese were willing to surrender on the sole condition that they keep their emperor (a religious figure)

In the name of "stopping the spread of communism" the US overthrew popularly-elected governments, sent death squads into Latin America, and killed millions of civilians besides the ones they permanently maimed. This is besides the typical "make their economy scream" that kills civilians as well, in a way harder to quantify. Cuba is still the victim of this decades after the failed Bay of Pigs.

We have technically been in a state of emergency since the 50s with the undeclared Korean War, and for what? The permanent wartime economy hasn't benefited anyone besides the military-industrial complex. American imperial designs in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Yemen, Syria, etc. were all enabled by this escalation mentality and the crimes against humanity that were committed there are a permanent stain on humanity
You joke.

But I've been ruminating on how to start a political and economic movement committed to dismantling the bureaucratic state by empowering individuals to be ever more autonomous.

Adjacent notions are participatory democracy (a la the Iroquois), banning usury, UBI, worker directed social enterprises, left-libertarian, and healing the world. More to be added as my whimsy and imagination permit.
You’re not missing much, but you may be curious to know:

Joe Biden is president. Inflation is rampant. There is a new variant (Omicrom) that can get through two doses but might be less severe. Kentucky is recovering from severe weather. US left Afghanistan this year.
That is true and still concerning. The Asahi Linux defense is that only Rosenzweig has been working on it so far, while Martin and Sven have been working on other drivers. They will, in a few months, finish those up (or close enough) and then begin also attacking the GPU, which should then be a lot of progress quickly.
Curious where in Spain you are. I'm vegan and was looking at spending some time in Spain (mainly Granada at one point because of low cost of living, location, and availability of vegan food). In the bigger cities, Happycow shows hundreds of fully vegan and vegetarian restaurants.

As of yet I haven't actually been to Spain, but from traveling around Europe I did learn that eating vegan can (sometimes) be incredibly challenging. In a smaller coastal city in Italy I remember one night where the only food I could find to eat was a tomato salad (modified by removing all the non-vegan ingredients from a salad menu item).

But overwhelmingly through my travels I've been able to find more options.
Large deposits of water found on Mars below surface
Possibly flag-able article, preferring to comment... Given that there's no way of telling what a young PhD or post-doc is capable of performing, why not try to diversify the field. Broadening the pool from where ideas might come and increasing the pool of PhD students increases the likelihood of success in the next generation.

If you truly want to go by "their work", then the only people being funded will be those probably too old to actually do the work. Which merely leads to sending money to the PhD's and post-docs mentioned above with no obvious track record. Check how much work really comes from the senior professors, Nobel laureates, etc. They, unfortunately, spend their time running departments, soliciting funding, giving lectures and serving on scientific panels.
Yes, the preliminary (1963) ASCII had an up arrow instead of the caret and a left arrow instead of the underline. DEC, Xerox and others built equipment around the 1963 draft and failed to change when the final version of ASCII came out. That is why when Pascal and Smalltalk came along later they used the "wrong" characters.

In the case of Smalltalk, it was Digitalk's "Methods" (the precursor of Smalltalk/V) that adopted := for assignment in place of the left arrow (though the IBM PC character set actually had one, just not with the same code as ASCII 1963) since all of its tutorials were aimed at Pascal programmers.
Yes. Simply covering these features will provide basic support for many features. That doesn't, however, means that performance will automatically be sufficient. It also remains to be seen if the more complex featureset of OpenGL 3.1 is as straightforward to cover efficiently.

I'm not saying it won't happen. I'm just saying that we shouldn't underestimate how much work there is.

Even with the help of Mesa and years of effort, the nouveau backend for NVidia cards is still barely satisfactory even for day to day tasks, it's OpenGL performance is very poor even for basic applications. It's really not as simple as just coverage in practice.
If you contact the bank or a card company for a chargeback they will likely block you on Uber. Which might be PIA when traveling. All hail monopolies.
Sounds incredible and I'm curious how well it works. For a quick intro about the state of the art in this space, watch the Melodyne videos on Youtube. In short and without having tried Omniscent Mozart: I would not expect that it gives perfect results without manual help. If it could aid transcription in a semi-automtic way, like Melodyne does, that would already be a big victory for an open source alternative.
Sockets are a later addition, but definitely wrt IO.
I think you're forgetting that the only thing the internet does is make communication easy. The material realities of where we live, our cultures and belief systems determine how we split into groups like countries.

So while the internet certainly enables us to be more connected as a species, it doesn't eliminate what makes having nations a valuable construct for human societies. As long as our physical environment matters, nations or similar constructs will be around.
I haven't checked, but I would assume the janka hardness of wood is not super tightly correlated with yield strength. I would expect a variation of 2x for a the janka hardness : strength ratio; some wood would be twice as strong or half as strong as you might expect from the hardness.
Manual memory management a la C, and easy access to custom allocation (arenas, etc) that usually aren't used in most C code (and C doesn't offer as allocators by default).

Add compile time processing which can get pretty far into reducing all kinds of otherwise runtime ops...
That's the cruelest irony about this whole thing. The guy who lambasted Torvalds because x86 was dead gets his OS in almost every new x86 chip, 25 years later.

That's hilarious.
Qualified immunity was created by USSC. It is widely abused by all levels of government, and can be fixed by legislature.
Scraping user content or recipes should be fine.
It means there is nothing new worth reading today about ‘svelte’ and that is OK.
The issue is not technology, it is that some states have objectives that're irreconcilable with other states. For example, Russia and China both want to conquer other countries (e.g. Ukraine, Taiwan), something that many countries are against (obviously including the ones threatened with being conquered).
Not in academic papers unfortunately... And while math symbols are somewhat standard across papers, every CS paper comes up with their own meanings for half the symbols they use.

Sometimes they are nice enough to say "we use random squiggly arrow to mean x", but then you need to keep a table of symbols on the side to even read the paper.

Other times they just reuse "common" symbols and expect you to know, even though that symbol has been used for more than one purpose over time.

It's all very tiresome.
Budget tv brand skimps on smart tv chips? I’m shocked.
Ensuring that your vitamin D level is optimum can help ensure that Covid 19 infection won't require hospitalisation. https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/09/17/vitamin-d-can-help-r...
I don't want unbreakable, I want... unscratchable.
First of all none of what I said has anything to do with 'wokeism' so your link is not relevant at all. I am simply looking at the statistics of people who manage to successfully arrive here and how they fared afterwards. The immigration process to this country is extremely hard. Therefore it is self selecting of people who are willing to make that effort to get through the process. You do not understand the context in which others grow up in this country. Thats where your ignorance is coming from. Too many people have a lack of historical knowledge of race relations in this country, especially immigrants.

many immigrants tend to be republicans out of ignorance. My family was too(they were single issue voters eg. Republicans would leave their home country alone). They do not know the history of the modern Republican party and what many of its leadership have done in the past. The Democrats are not some rosy heaven either but on many of the core issues, immigrants are shooting themselves in the foot long term by going Republican.

Wokeness is an extreme response to lack of fundamental change occurring over the last few decades. It has now mutated into this current monstrosity because people like Obama do nothing but pay lip-service. It has now boiled over into something...anything that can affect change, even if it is destructive. Wokeness is not sustainable but nonetheless it is now used as a rallying cry for the right wing to make up for their own declining cultural influence. Frankly I don't care for wokeness but I would never join the other side because as a minority and child of immigrants, I know I have no place there.
Lots of lesser schools are trialing test optional and sometimes the stronger "test blind" right now, for a variety of reasons including covid and competition from their peers. Off the top of my head, the University of Oregon, the University of Utah. All UC and California State schools are test blind right now.

Universities devote a tremendous amount of resources to the admissions process because it is, of course, extremely important to their business that they get the right number of enrollments from the right kinds of students.
billionaires != revolutionaries

Billionaires never want to revolutionize the system that made them billionaires in the first place. It would be tantamount to admitting their gains were ill-gotten.

At best, they're just figuring out new ways to transfer more wealth in the existing frameworks. At worst, they're pulling up the ladders they climbed up after them so none may follow (and challenge) them.
I think progressive decode is a great way to combine a fast loading experience with higher image quality. By the time you can look at the details, the full image is loaded, but the page will look ready very fast (since you can already show a reasonable preview with only 10% of the data transferred).
Mac Mini Pro and 27” 5k standalone VESA mount Apple monitor.

I literally have a stack of cash here waiting for that to exist.
> What does a "smart" killer robot do, without remote connection, in an unexpected situation?

Possibly kill anything that looks like an enemy, then attempt to return to base or self-destruct.

I expect killer robots will be programmed with geographic areas within which they are allowed to kill things.
How else would you repel 5G?!?!
For anyone who found this video satisfying, you may enjoy "Structures : Or Why Things Don't Fall Down" by Gordon.
I hadn't seen that video, thanks for pointing it out.

Eh, the rest of the world would probably gang up on you at that point, it'd be pretty suicidal.

I think a more likely scenario is killer robots are making the places that state and non-state actors already "get away" with turning into nightmares just that much more nightmarish, and that many more of them. Whether it's the USA in Afghanistan or what goes on in Sudan or Somalia. More and more places like that, which will be more and more nightmarish. Would the USA even have to "give up" on Afghanistan with that tech doing what the drones alone couldn't? But now also the smaller-budget actors like Somalian warlords get their go at it. It's gonna be great.
It's a low priority because fundamentally fixing a problem will put the group out of business.
It's a tired outrage show. Wake me up when BLM starts demanding the removal of government immunity.
> "Meet our Partners and Collaborators"

This is literally just the list of defunct brandnames Tai has acquired.
> Also, goroutines, which are lightweight but preeemptable, avoid the problems of "async", where you have to be very careful about not being compute-bound for too long.

You know what else is lightweight and preemptable? Threads. Yes, really. Unless you're on weird platforms like Windows, you can just use threads.

> making "async" mandatory in libraries

AIUI, Rust includes a simple `block_on()` feature so that you can use any async library in a sync context. The old "function color" issue is greatly mitigated in Rust.
I could go on like this all day.

Looks that way. I think we're talking past each other, peace out.
Why would they? There are tons of free options for live news. Also they do have talk shows like the one letterman did.
(I am hugely sceptical on most things crypto) generally speaking the view of a rich, stable country might make you blind to some real use cases because you just don't have them. But for people in less privileged countries having a permissionless system of digital dollars is actually extremely useful. Also my pet theory is that Bitcoin MIGHT suck money out of the property market and make home ownership more affordable.
Also screw all Python programmers, what a bunch of losers with their indenting rules and PEPs. Weirdos. Whenever you hear somone say Python is good or interesting, run.)

I applaud this, standing.
Wow. I initially thought before clicking that you'd kinda mixed two sources of info...but nope...right there together in your face. Sorry we're not going to give you anything, but you're not getting your money back. The nerve honestly leaves me a bit speechless.
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