skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While many think that they should not work on such projects, my take is the opposite.

If we don't work on these projects, then we will not have autonomous killing machines, and our rivals will.

Turkey already have autonomous predator drones [0], and they have been used in the battlefield.

If countries like the US, UK, France, Germany, India, Japan, Israel etc. do not have these, and China, Iran, and Russia do (they surely do or soon will), we are at massive disadvantage.

We will have to deploy humans on the field when they won't have to. That is a gap too wide to exist. It is more fundamental than gunpowder.

Like Archimedes created massive war machines, and mathematicians and physicists worked on artillery, weapons, and Manhattan project, AI scientists of today should help develop autonomous killing machines. Freedom isn't free.

[0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/05/killer-flying-robots-dr....
If you think this is the kind of statement that it's possible to make, software might be the wrong field for you.
The US got pushed heavily into cars. Of course I prefer a car being back at my parents in the suburbs. The amount of public transit to counter act sprawling suburbia would be insane.

The US continues a lot of [indirect] subsidizing for cars as well while not funding or caring about public transit enough. HN has had many previous posts on this.
I only mentioned dropbox if I wanted to sync my database on multiple computers. I don't need to, so I don't need dropbox.
I'm curious, is there a reason you buy Dell given the apparent quality issues?
We're just not great at reaction time and constant vigilance
Shocked to hear the responses on here. This is disgusting, regardless of the blogs writing style or your opinion on furry porn, some of the allegations are pretty gross. If your platform aims to attract children as their primary user base, this crap should not be happening as often as it does on their platform.
Yeah, the intro went from "And let’s say you watch as a colleague, previously held up as a paragon of those values, is ostracized and smeared for a thought crime that was not considered a thought crime until about five minutes ago. Maybe he made a bad joke. Or maybe he used the phrase “guys” instead of folks. Or Hispanic instead of Latinx."

Not really what this is about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PredPol

PredPol is legitimately pretty fucked up. I agree with your assessment that this isn't an issue of "Woke" culture. This is just a guy peddling pseudoscience with the trappings of academia. I would expect any rationalist to reject this on the simple basis that it does not work.
Most comments are about owning your data or running your own server. But what’s also important is decoupling the mechanism of distributing or syncing the data (for access from different locations/clients) from actually working with the data. Basically, this is the separation between file system and application.

The separation has two benefits: One can work with the data independently from internet access, and one can choose between different applications that understand the data format, including writing your own, without having to depend on a third party. Controlling what is shared is then also independent from the chosen application.

Lastly, native applications can have the benefit of improved usability by adhering to the platform conventions and having better integration into native features.
Ah yes - anyone who disagrees with you is "far, far right". Mm hmm
As others say, it's headless-gl, and that in turn seems to be due to node-gyp.

However the good news seems this is probably more a case of documentation inertia than actual requirements: it looks like you actually can install a version of node-gyp that works with Python 3.x and then in turn should be able to get headless-gl working too, which then let's brain.js work with a non -EOL version of Python
Theranos Ex-President Balwani Found Guilty of Fraud
The chipset, the modulation, the protocol itself, it's all proprietary and patented.
> The Supreme Court is not a political organization.

As someone with a Political Science degree that includes specific study of judicial politics in the United States, let me say that this is, very much, not true, has never been true, and is just silly.

> The rulings being made now are a continuation of 140 years of judicial precedent

...that has seesawed back and forth with the political winds over time...

> that alloted states enormous latitude in instituting their own laws

Even if that was an accurate simple explanation of any 140 years of precedent some of those recent controversial decisions denied states this ability, which complicates the narrative.

But it is perfectly consistent since it did so in favor of conservative policy preferences, just like the decisions that expanded state power.

> and that only ended in 1937, when FDR interfered with the SCOTUS's independence by threatening to "pack the court".

Aside from the documentary evidence that the switch of on one justices position that ended that threat actually happened before the threat was issued, there weren't 140 years of precedent on the application of the 14th Amendment before 1937, as there was only about half that time between the 14A and 1937.

The Supreme Court, because of lifetime tenure, often doesn't quite reflect contemporary partisan divides in the way one might naively expect, but it is quite political, and often partisan.
Put the engineers in charge of the executive state, then we can talk.
Does this not work on mobile? I don’t seem to be seeing it on iOS Chrome.
>To be fair though, those are all Western-aligned countries dependent on US force.

They're not, but whatever ...

There is also the matter of nine United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for sanctions, of twenty one total resolutions relating to non-proliferation; and a UN Commission of Inquiry report on human rights that found, amongst other things that:

"systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations have been and are being committed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. In many instances, the violations found entailed crimes against humanity based on State policies"

"there is an almost complete denial of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as well as of the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, information and association"

"police and security forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea systematically employ violence and punishments that amount to gross human rights violations in order to create a climate of fear that pre-empts any challenge to the current system of government and to the ideology underpinning it. The institutions and officials involved are not held accountable. Impunity reigns"

Of all the hills to die on, the one that involves takes a moral relativist position on the badness of the North Korean regime is one of the oddest ones.

(the report being quoted is https://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/HRC/25/63 for those that want to take a fuller read)
I mean, except for NEWS.ycombinator.com, of course.
Unless microreactors are stacked up at centralized sites to share labor their operating costs are likely to be prohibitive.
FB/Meta tracking your usage isn't even discussed in the article, and nothing about not tracking is suggested at all in the title.

This just seems like an excuse to rant about disliking Facebook.
Competing in search gets hard when the incumbent also owns the browser
Ugh. This only got 17 points?
> But they also leak personal data. A lot.

Some examples please. In recent memory I can only think of examples where services violated TOS (which I'm not sure how FB could prevent) or got authorization from the end user (as in the Cambridge Analytica case).

Any examples of them leaking data as a result of their own processes?
That anyone would consider Google docs et al a suitable total replacement for a desktop word processing app does my head in. They have their uses, but even as someone that doesn't need to write up especially complex documents I can't imagine opting for a web-app to craft them in. Nothing to do with data ownership, as I keep the documents in a hosted managed service (usually Onedrive these days).
1) Mute phone

2) Turn off desktop notifications

3) Set timer

4) enjoy working in peace

5) timer goes off, check feeds for updates

Repeat Steps 3, 4, 5. for timer length suggestions see: pomodoro
> I think ~90% of ivy league schools have a Jewish Dean

You think? Who the deans are is public information - why not test your hypothesis and check?

Edit: Instead of sarcastically apologizing, please find sources to either prove or refute your statement.

Edit 2: As dragonwriter points out, each school can have many deans. Perhaps you meant president? In which case, according to their wikipedia pages, only 5 of the 8 Ivy League presidents are Jewish (Yale, Brown, Harvard, UPenn, and Princeton), for a total of 62.5%, well short of your 90%.
> one can choose between different applications that understand the data format, including writing your own

Which is arguably "just" a much deeper form of "owning your data." One that I wholeheartedly agree with by the way.

By the way, I think what the author should have phrased it as is "local first" applications.
> What's weird is the huge amount of additional work the driver does after loading the firmware images in order to setup the hardware programing interfaces (the command ring buffers and the irq ring buffer). It should be near-0 work beyond loading the "bug fixed" firmware images.

Some (most?) programs expect a high level OpenGL GPU API, instead of dealing with Vulkan/bare-metal directly. Converting some very high level OpenGL calls to actual API is part of what is expected from the driver. To implement this, you would most likely require a high performance, high IPC CPU embedded in the GPU - a waste since you already have one in the system.

> The now open sourced nvidia kernel modules should do something similar I guess

Those open sourced nvidia kernel modules does this - it is "near-zero" as you describe - they just moved almost everything important to the proprietary binary blob loaded to the GPU.

> Rumors: AMD may be interested in RISC-V ISAs

Everyone is interested in RISC-V, not necessarily in user-visible RISC-V ISAs.
OrBit: New Undetected Linux Threat Uses Unique Hijack of Execution Flow
The arbitrage is the ability to buy ice cream where it's cheap (the store) and sell it where it's expensive (the beach). The margin compress as more folks arrive to sell because your fixed costs (labor, the van, cogs) remain fixed while your sales volume drops.

Definition is: "the simultaneous buying and selling of securities, currency, or commodities in different markets or in derivative forms in order to take advantage of differing prices for the same asset."

So in this case you're buying a commodity (ice cream) at the store and selling it at the beach. You are taking advantage of differing prices for the same asset in different markets.

So yeah, still arb, imo.
Right! Thanks! I'll make a note - not necessary to respond to adherents of an attractive, cult like social movement when they propagandize on public health issues that affect everyone. Thanks! Wouldn't want to commit the sin of defense of the common good! That's for weaklings, betas and worse, maybe even liberals.
I've played Terra Mystica and like it, but it doesn't have what makes me like Catan—interdependence. In Catan, especially in the early game, you can't generate all of the resources you need, so you have to trade with each other to win. Terra Mystica didn't have any of that; your relationship with the other players is purely adversarial.
Bang on. We have internal tools like that and they just work - something which dumps a list of switches and information for example, trivial to find what's plugged in etc. The interface doesn't get in the way. Dynamic pages are a matter of "print" stuck in the middle of the php.

We also have internal tools based on gigabytes of react across millions of files, we have data fields in there you can't actually highlight and copy the label from that require 3 days efforts to add a tiny feature. But it probably looks nice.
Let’s build a nuclear plant in a country famous for tsunamis next on the coast. What could go wrong?
Dude this guy is a god at CSS. Wow thanks for the tips and tricks!
Different use cases for different people. When I do real web surfing, its usually on the computer. When I'm on my phone, its light surfing (finding a restaurant address, etc). Also, if you really want it sync between two computers, you can use Syncthing or Dropbox.
This is neat, and it makes me more fully realize how complicated modern CSS engines must be!
I’m really hoping the open source implementations can catch up. As it stands, I’ve sidelined my VR headset until I can get it working without the Oculus software at all. Privacy is just too important for me - why would I want to visit a virtual world just to have all of my activity stalked by Meta of all companies.
Only Mark Zuckerberg could possibly announce with a straight face (without apologizing for having made a Facebook login mandatory previously) this, as if he's doing us a favor. The man is a narcissist and megalomaniac
Arguing with an anti-nuclear activist is indistiguishable to arguing with an anti-vax or climate change denier.

They are the same people who opposed all GMO food products despite the science.
It would be pretty ridiculous if the lesson of energy after the disruption of energy during the war in the Ukraine is to build more nuclear plants, creating more central points of high disruption in potential conflicts.
The high precision weaponry and drones are already equalizing battlefield for Ukraine. The autonomous drones would be even bigger equalizers, somewhat similar to nukes, and thus leading to more peaceful world.

For example a small country can't maintain a top modern air force, and thus for example Russia dominates Ukraine airspace. Autonomous drones would make it a contested situation at least.
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You find the NYPost is less biased than the Times? Interesting.

Or, is it just that you want news that reinforces your beliefs instead of challenges them?
Tell HN: Twitter's browser push notifications have been broken for 6 months
So for quite a while now if I get a Twitter browser push notification I get taken to the user who has the username of "tweet". I'm not sure exactly when this started happening but if you look at this tweet you can see over a thousand replies from people asking why they were brought to this page.

https://twitter.com/tweet/status/1465053672593784834

It would appear a user changed their username to "tweet" at some point and so the URL the browser push notification directs you to (https://twitter.com/tweet?id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) takes you to their profile page instead of the tweet referenced in the push notification.

It's somewhat astounding to me that this has been happening since at least February of this year (judging by the date on some of these replies) and no one at Twitter has noticed or cared.

Is anyone else here experiencing this? I know I'm not the only one from the replies but again, it's crazy that Twitter hasn't fixed this. I'm guessing the power-twitter users/employees don't notice since they use one of the Twitter apps on desktop instead of relying on the browser notifications.
Problem is that you had people that had seen a demonstration of the tech and were talking about how mind blowing it was.
Everywhere I've ever worked has built and maintained their own solution for this. Seems a bit silly, like maintaining your own CMS or something.
Looking at this I am really amazed that in India we still have better public transport. There are trains connecting every small rural area and in the cities on can reach to a destination at a cheap price under a very less amount of time.

The bus connectivity is also very amazing and you can easily reach a place very far by bus or a train.

Also, there's an app for everything in India. These apps indicate the actual locations of the bus on map via GPS and also sends out an ETA.
I plan before leaving office so I can get the exact bus.

Same goes with train, we get minute by minute update.
Policy disagreements, sure. And you can certainly read those as questions of honour/morality. Robin Cook over the Iraq war, perhaps, or Michael Heseltine over the Westland affair.

As for 'resignations' on the grounds of ministerial misbehaviour, I'm afraid they almost always come down to one of two things. Either the PM isn't personally prepared to put up with it (in which case a resignation is requested) or the political fallout has become so severe that either the minister doesn't want to face the music any more (in which case they will resign more or less in disgrace) or the PM can't afford the political cost of extending cover any further (in which case they will be asked to resign more or less in disgrace).

I am quite sure there are honourable people in politics. Estelle Morris famously resigned as Secretary of State for Education on the basis that she didn't feel up to it. There are probably a handful of others. But resigning without being forced on the grounds of a self-identified moral lapse is astonishingly rare.

Again, you occasionally get people resigning on the basis they think their PM is dishonourable, but even then it's mainly just politics. (Everyone currently leaving Johnson's cabinet knew of his objectionable character before signing on, for example).

The modern Conservative party mostly has a reputation for corruption (which we politely call 'sleaze') rather than honour and probity. That dates back to at least the early 90s and has been recently reinforced. Labour's reputation is in the gutter too, though possibly not to quite the same extent.

(I teach political communication in a British university and have previously interned in Parliament, FWIW. The strong tension between our 'good chaps' theory of government (with its actors behaving honourably at all times) and the nakedly political behaviour of ministers and parliamentarians in actual practice has been part of what we teach politics students for decades).
What exactly does this have to do with crime prediction software? Or do you just assume that the vauge concept of increased police presence expands to crime prediction software in their minds?
1. The same argument could have been made about flight itself or even GPS.

2. In general, the tech transfer tends to work the other way: military develops and uses the tech first then come the civilian applications.

Speaking of 2, Boeing has developed autonomous drones that are deployed in Ukraine.

[0]: https://fortune.com/2022/03/29/artificial-intelligence-drone...
> A drone air force is much cheaper than a traditional one with pilots.

"Cheaper". This might be a reason it won't happen. At least not until wealthy militaries have learned some hard lessons.
That hologram looks real.
China is also installing enormous amounts of pumped hydro for storage.
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100m vs up to 8km...
In Age of Empires: Age of Kings/The Conquerors this was called/known as taunting. You could either do this by pre-defined voice taunts ("Start the game already!") or in the pre-game chat and during the game.
People often don't realize that intermittent renewables must be paired with backup generation or storage. But energy storage at the scale of a 100% renewable system is currently an unsolved problem. So you really only have two options:

1. Continue to back up with fossil fuels

2. Temporarily back up with nuclear

Check my comment history for a debate on nuclear safety.
Convenient feature especially for countries that are heavily under sanction. Isn't the alleged creator of Ethereum Russian? His father is a Russian computer scientist?
I think Kent C. Dodds gets to the goal behind the DRY principle fairly well here:

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/aha-programming
>The mailing lists I read also had the same echo chambers of finger pointing and blaming.

That sounds about the same as every open source mailing list I have ever seen, like every single day on lkml. If you have a question about documentation, you can ask it again to someone else, if you didn't get a response the first time.

If you are talking about the systemd mailing list, I have seen Lennart respond informatively to plenty of user questions.

>Moreover, do I need to remind

No, please do not. You don't need to, I am not interested to re-read the same 8 year old flamewars that were spammed on lwn and slashdot. Please do not beat this dead horse anymore. If you really think that this finger pointing and blaming is a problem, then I ask you please do your part and don't keep digging up these old petty arguments which is also just more pointing the finger and blaming. If you do have a concern that is still active now we can discuss that.
I think a major problem if the car designer designed it to slow down would be emergency situations where you have to speed to evade/flee danger, or you have to use your car to ram a roadblock or group of attackers. Your vehicle is a weapon and a tool, you should be able to use it to the extent required by the situation.
You could consider the fact that many countries have instant bank payments, ipV6 networks, better residential internet, have chip & pin and 10x less credit card fraud, have better justice system (lower recidivism, verdict is not determined by your wealth, etc), don't have the 'social security number is an identity', etc..

Of course many countries are worse, but surely you want to look at successes of others and replicate them.
My ex and I just talked about this and for the record, we both like how you think. We have a six year old together and she has two older children from a previous relationship.

We are going to:

a.) Educate her on the general concept of pedophiles.

b.) Arm her with specific tactics about specific communities.

c.) Monitor.

d.) Get her permission to constantly log into her accounts and play as her.

I pray this is enough. :(
You're taking applications that are pretty inherently network-connected, like chat and sync. Yes, those make very little sense without a server. Although syncthing in particular will work just fine actually.

But a lot of things don't require internet connectivity at all, not inherently. They largely stay on one device and that's fine. If they're to be shared between people or devices, very often attaching them to an email is better than "share this link with your friends (all they'll have to do to see it is sign up for our service so Growth can report those sweet sweet activations)"