skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people say "defund the police" this is the kind of shit they are talking about. There is no reason for a police force to have access to lethal robots. None.
and you would have a situation like recently in Sri Lanka where they defaulted on loans, and cannot obtain necessary resources like oil to run their economy.

IMF loans are bandaids to stop the bleeding, but the cure depends on the disease. If the country does not cure the disease, the bandaid will not help after a while.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612410
So if it goes bankrupt what happens ? None of his assets aside Twitter gets seized ?
It makes sense if you substitute "recognizes" for "sees". Westinghouse (well, Cameco/Brookfield Renewable) recognizes what a disruptive tech this could be, whereas others have overlooked it, maybe?
While the operational safety sounds excellent, I am worried about what a generalization of this kind of reactor would entail. Your typical reactor is under heavy surveillance and 200 (67?) times more powerful : we are very unlikely to "lose track" of the fuel.

Let's say this becomes moderately popular and we soon have a million of them across the world (enough for about 10% of our today's energy needs)... who is going to keep track of all of them ?!

The High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium required here is enriched between 5% and 20% compared to a conventional reactor using between 3% and 5% fuel. Because enriching from the natural 0.7% to 20% is 90% of the effort, 20% is considered to be the line separating civilian and military uses. And we're much closer to that limit with these reactors. I am baffled that this is not being even mentioned in the article, nor the pdf ? (I guess they are not particularly willing to disclose just how many of those would need to be gathered for the minimum 25 kg of 90% enriched Uranium for a bomb ?)

And as safe as these might be under normal operation, how many decades for a forgotten abandoned one, exposed to the weather, to leak ? How much and what kind of radiation release can we expect ? (Carried by water to the closest steam I assume?)
If only we still lived in that reality.
Step by step, that's where we could end up.

Step 1: Remote controlled guns

Step 2: Built in AR sighting and suspect identification

Step 3: ML powered accuracy enhancement

Step 4: AI powered everything, human controller just has to click "Approve Killing"

Step 5: AI kill-decision making

I'm probably being a bit paranoid, but it's also easy to imagine that kind of scenario.
I struggle similarly with ADHD but found that I prefer typing over writing. The valuable part of note taking is having somewhere external to use as an extra memory cache. With diagrams, I realized that using a digital tool made it easier for me to physically reorganize what I wrote down. I used pencil and paper in the past but my handwriting and organization were so messy that I never felt like revisiting it to extract information.
Again? This was already posted 7 months ago (624 points) [1]

Then, Facebook renamed the project 8 days ago (923 points) [2]

And I saw 2 more posts the other day [3][4].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31006003

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612410

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33613206

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33644961
Yeah, I have about the same opinions. Odin made a conscious decision to not invest much in compile-time metaprogramming, and as a result was able to actually ship things without spending too much time on language design. But it’s a bit less ambitious than what Jai was trying to do.
Why does anyone or anything need to “go in”? There are plenty of other ways to deal with these situations instead of pretending to be Seal Team Six.
90% of life is showing up. Just grind it out. It’s work, and it might not pay off. But doing nothing definitely doesn’t pay off.
I was hoping the cited studies weren’t about the same rehashed students taking notes ones…there was a most recent one [0], but guess what ? it’s about volunteer students from the University of Tokyo.

On one hand I believe some people will remember things better when using the media they’ve used for almost their entire life (to note: japanese school is more reliant on paper and writing than most western countries to my knowledge), so I totally understand the results.

On the other I’m surprised we see no actually serious, wildly targeted research that also touches on working people, like sales fleet who actually make a living following calendar appointments. With nothing coming out from outside of the “kids learning” setting, it kinda feels like the reality is way more complex than “hand writing is better”

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210319080820.h...
I can't help but think that VPN providers all eventually have to cave to law enforcement. If they don't, they will experience pressure from credit card processors, the same way that sex workers do and OnlyFans did.
And I'm sure there are companies that work like that but clearly that's not elon with Twitter and looking at his glorification of overtime probably not Tesla nor SpaceX
I have to write reports for work.

And once that report is written I struggle to remember anything about the case.

Put that report in front of me and seemingly without reading it I can recall it in detail that amazes me.

I do think there is a psychological archiving effect from writing. And that in the right circumstances it can help remember as well as declutter your mind.

Mind you I have no evidence for any of this other than personal experience.
nope slippery slope to RoboCop
I can't possibly imagine how anyone thinks this is a good idea. US police are already over-militarized and under-accountable. We as Americans need to stop worshiping "men in uniform" including all levels of law enforcement and military and hold them to the same standard as any other member of society -- stop giving them everything they want and stop spoiling them when they call us unpatriotic.
Are we happy, however, with anything that's beneficial to Earth's long term natural cycle if it happens to come with our own potential / likely extinction? (or at least a very heavy hit to the lifestyle to which we've become accustomed).

I care about the environment insomuch as it's upon what our very lives depend as opposed to the environment in and of itself. It's my enjoyment of the environment and the wonder of its variation that is something valuable to lose, but it's loss is also an existential threat to, basically, me and all those I care about in the universe.
Wow, Ameipsias sent me down a rabbit hole. Apparently wrote a comedy about Socrates and his tutor, a music theorist.

Now for Eupolis…
Yeah, while reflexively I would like to see less of both guns, and robots with guns, I can also see that sending a (human-controlled) robot into a dangerous situation could (not necessarily “would”) lessen the risk of fatal accidents.
My andecdata-points are (1) As soon as I make a shopping or to do list, I promptly forget the items on the list as that responsibility has been delegated to the piece of paper which I can rarely later find, and (2) I never took notes in class and instead payed good attention in (most) of my classes connecting the dots so that they fit and made sense to me in some way rather than rote memorization. I was usually slower at solving problems as I would often start closer to first principles but was usually able to get to the answer soon enough. Some classes didn't lend themselves to this form of learning requiring memorization of tricks or unexplained long formulas to get answers fast enough or at all--I didn't like those ones.

Where I find this method problematic is professionally: documentation scales well and I don't know if/where there's a limit to when it stops paying off.
> Given the highly falsifiable nature of his claims it should easy enough to disprove them.

I'm not sure how a fever dream about something that happened 12,000 years ago is falsifiable.

What evidence would you propose falsifies his theories?

If you believe you can watch a hundred proofs on both sides of flat-earth, you may want to reconsider your understanding of the word "proof".

Proof is the burden of the claimant.

If he had presented a plausible proof, there would probably be a spirited debate.

It is curious that ignoring someone is considered "suppression" by those ignored.
238,000 early deaths from fine particles in the EU
I'm using a 3070 on Linux and it's usable with the latest GNOME/KDE versions on Wayland. If you're purely looking for a Linux gaming solution, Nvidia isn't a terrible choice now. If you want an all-in-one machine with the best support available, you'll probably want AMD or Intel hardware.
Man, I just love hearing stories like these!
There's always not "fighting fire with fire"

Working on having less guns would be a start. In terms of "less lethal" pepper spray is usually pretty good
True - watching a comedy movie with close friends in your living room is quite different than watching a drama by yourself.

Some music is for contemplation, other music is for dancing.

I suppose the media format isn't what determines whether the work is an active or passive experience. And the more I think about it, the more I think passive experiences can be greatly valuable.

It's just that a life comprised entirely of passive consumption is destined to be unfulfilling, and doubly so if you're consuming the low-quality, low-effort, junk food type stuff.
A machine and a robot are not the same thing.

A firearm is a machine. We even have so-called "Machine Guns". All firearms require external input to operate, and cannot operate autonomously.

You can affix a firearm to a robot, however the firearm still requires input to operate.
I can assure you, it's exactly like it was before, the rules of engagement weren't changed. The only thing I notice is that there is more activity now.
Fake site with scraped content.
..."just to check my hearing"

I got a good laugh out of that....
Progress is not made because one person was defensive about using the wrong method? Wouldn’t the other 99% just ignore the person who “digs in their heels”?
Yes I was hoping someone mentioned this. There's already precedent for this kind of thing, I'm honestly surprised they even need to ask for permission in this case.

It's not automated, it's just remote controlled.
Yes to both. It is great :)
Bystanders.

You can't bet someone elses life based on how well a taser may or may not work.

LTL is a real dice throw.
The dinosaur equivalent of zeroonetwothree would disagree if he hadn't suffocated on sulphur-laden air a few years back.
Sure, if “humanity disappears from the universe” is an acceptable outcome.

Not to mention the potential for long, painful decline for humans alive at the end.
A lot of the stress is manifested by the police themselves (which is an issue specifically called out by the "defund the police" movement, e.g., mental health crises when the better path is deescalation by trained mental health workers)
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a gun wielding robot being remotely controlled by a good guy

EDIT: I mean, anything to avoid reducing the total number of highly lethal weapons currently available to both police and criminals in the US, right? Because that would be unconstitutional or something.
If your local energy storage or grid isn't reliable enough, you can always have a backup diesel generator. Or hydrogen powered generator if you insist this is green. Or some solar cells on your roof. And as much fuel as your risk analysis demands. But the reality is, hospitals can rely on local emergency services for support, and it is likely more cost effective run the risk of spoilage in the rare event of a multi-day power outage than invest in local generation for your refrigeration. My guess would be local equipment failure is more of a risk than a multi-day renewable energy outage, even in latitudes where solar is useless.
Pros

- Police not exposed to deadly situations

- Robots (presumably) equipped with variety of sensors and cameras mitigating misidentification of people or what they’re holding

- Better firing accuracy

- Greater accountability as all actions could be recorded

Cons

- Myriad of possible misuse cases

- Further militarization of police

- Drones on US soil
1. Hostages

2. Bystanders

3. General public (fleeing violent criminal)
Usually the high stress situation is manufactured entirely or significantly heightened by the officers involved
I could just as well have said OCaml. Or Idris. Or PureScript. Or Elm.

The point isn't Haskell. The point is not Java.
This was surprisingly worrying to me. I'd been expecting Musk to reinstate everyone notable, and I think this will be a lot worse.

I'm assuming the bad list has a long tail of nasty unimportant accounts (I'm assuming a recent example I saw is representative: Username "@nazirape88"). A few notable bad actors I can manually block doesn't directly personally harm me much. A large number of low-effort harassers spamming people I want to read does.
Sure if nobody else is around. Unfortunately criminals don't usually do crime in deserted areas.
ML driven killing that much more surgically and precisely targets black and brown people, rather than having the cops trying to guess
Everything is communicable with words.
Nice, thanks for sharing this. I’ll have a deeper look into Benthos, sounds interesting and I certainly like the simple/easy part :-)
Have you followed up on those "trained mental health workers"?

Yeah they stopped going on calls unless cops were present because they kept getting injured or used as hostages.
Sorry, but no. You don’t seem to be very knowledgeable about what these charities actually get done and their efficiency.

The real problems are making global payments directly to the people on the ground without waste and having confidence in how they are spent.

This works with the existing infrastructure in every city — similarly to point-of-sale machines that VISA and Mastercard did a lot of work to set up over decades. Back then you would be asking why the world needs credit cards and payment systems when there were perfectly good cash based systems and charities on the ground.

Anyway, the vendors sell food, the person shows up and buys the food. We know how the money was spent. The people help people.

To try to show you by analogy… it is as if people said that there should be a decentralized and uncensorable network for uploading videos taken by people’s own dashcams, phones, etc. of rockets hitting buildings, detention campa etc. But you’d keep saying that the Associated Press and the current centralized media is perfectly adequate and reports everything we need to know, and if people wanted they could upload their videos to Telegram or some other adhoc solution that isnt designed like the news agencies. Why decentralize anything? Because the people DON’T get a good system otherwise
Other complaints were breaking promises to keep uninfected and infected workers separate, and not paying the promised rate.
I think these two things are orthogonal. Less gun violence is always good, of course, but it’s not clear to me that introducing a robot would necessarily increase shooting incidents in law enforcement scenarios.

Perhaps military use of drones is a good analogy - although not perfect, since there the goal is often inflicting violence rather than avoiding it. Would be interested to hear from anyone with knowledge.
Do you want Cyclons? Because this is how you get Cylons.
Ask HN: What are you grateful for?
It’s been a tough year in tech, but I love this community and I’m curious.
> Bystanders.

Also vulnerable to bullets, as it turns out.
this is a great idea. Many (most?) killings by police are justified that by the "threat to the officer's life". With robots won't we have opportunity to minimize killings by police. The robot's well being is clearly not as important as that of a suspect.
> There are countries running on 95%+ renewable electricity right now[1].

That list ignores that countries trade electricity. If, say, Germany produces a lot of electricity by renewables it can sell the excess to France (which has lots of nuclear). If Germany is low on electricity, it can buy from is neighbors. The system as a whole is nowhere near 90%.

The one exception are probably countries that have all hydro and biomass.
LTL = Less than lethal (?)

How does a lethal robot mitigate bystander risk compared to a policy officer using lethal force?
That does sound like a task for few dozen very skilled people per bigger system, not thousand+
IMHO, the title is not deceiving. As of right now it's "Turning Earth Into a Telescope", and he talks about just this from a historic standpoint.

If you were hoping for the technicalities of it, then I can see how it's not what you want. I know what I think is enough about the history of telescopes, so I skipped that part, but I thought the history behind how he came up with the idea fits squarely into the title.
I think Conan Doyle came to dislike Sherlock in the end if I remember right. In fact it might even be a trend for detective writers to dislike their detectives as I seem to recall Agatha Christie disliked Poirot as well.
Validating any contact method that has the potential of sending PII, Health, or financial data should be mandatory by law.

At least once a year I get an automated phone call from a regional hospital letting me know some minor's test results. Calling the hospital's CS department in order to notify them or somehow get my phone number removed from the account is impossible, because I'm not this person nor their legal guardian and HIPAA regulations prevent me from instigating a change on someone else's medical records or accounts.
Not an American either. I'd wager it's hard to come up with actual numbers on how many of those happen in high stress situations and how many are triggered by the police themselves.

The main issue to my understanding is that you can't trust police reports as they have no incentive to write their motives plainly, and no peer pressure to expose bad reporting.
Have you been pepper sprayed?

It's disorienting but you can still be a very lethal threat under it's effects.

That also assumes the pepper spray works, it's not too windy, you can get within 15ft, suspect isn't running...
Dead bystanders is usually considered poor form.
Anything could be 1k engineers if you mismanage it enough
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> Rust makes roughing out new features very hard.

> I don’t know about anyone else, but at least for me, when I’m building a new feature I usually don’t have all the data types, APIs, and other fine details worked out up front. I’m often just farting out code trying to get some basic idea working and checking whether my assumptions about how things should work are more-or-less correct. Doing this in, say, Python is extremely easy, because you can play fast and loose with things like typing and not worry if certain code paths are broken while you rough out your idea. You can go back later and make it all tidy and fix all the type errors and write all the tests.

> In Rust, this kind of “draft coding” is very difficult, because the compiler can and will complain about every goddamn thing that does not pass type and lifetime checking — as it is explicitly designed to do. This makes perfect sense when you need to build your final, production-ready implementation, but absolutely sucks when you’re trying to cruft something together to test an idea or get a basic foundation in place. The unimplemented! macro is helpful to a point, but still requires that everything typechecks up and down the stack before you can even compile.

This rings so true for me. I could "mock up" entire apps using interfaces in Java, without having to actually write impl code. I could be sloppy as hell around the edges, but that didn't matter, because I could get the large design right without the compiler screaming.

In Rust, there is the chasm between no code and anything that works, feels so draggy.
Current wholesale price of electricity in EU is 110-120 USD / MWh.

5 * 110 Euro * 24 hours * 365 days * 8 years planned service life = $38,533,000. If they can offer a price under 5M USD per MW they won't have problem finding buyers.

This doesn't even account for savings for businesses that can consume most of that output - they save another 20-30% on transmission fees + there are several MW of waste heat as low temperature steam that can be used directly or indirectly in many industrial processes.
It's not just DRM, it's also an advertising profile and software usage monitoring application. Recording the number of hours I play a game or which game is about as invasive as when the Patriot Act tried to go after public library patron records.

GOG provides offline archive installers. A web browser can be used to both browse the GOG catalog and download updates. An app store's walled garden mimicking that behavior is not required.

Is it true that steam limits concurrent access to one's catalog, or prevents other family members from accessing the same account for a game if a different one is being played? Digital products should not be made to artificially suffer the limitations of real-world objects.

As for mods, some GOG games can't access the steam workshop recently. This is bad for the longetivity of the game and it's success, and of course for modders and players.

And I believe that there is still a steam runtime that games check for, even if launching outside of Steam. If I wanted random corporate software blobs running all the time on my computer, I would use a Mac or Wintel machine and call it a feature.
Sure hope that control protocol is secure.
All large hospitals have emergency generators. Of course they are supposed to be for emergencies, not for dealing with regularly intermittent power. That is typically dealt with advertised in advance power shutdowns to residential areas, and in richest countries, by not sending the signal that remotely turns on your water balloon heater during cheap hours.
No, it was long dead. Happy you reposted!

Reposting this definitely improved your QPU alignment
If you want kids and don't eventually have them purely for this reason then you'll regret it doubly.

The more conscientious people who have kids should at least maintain the number of conscientious people in the world (so I believe anyway, potentially romantically incorrectly).

Religions maintain themselves purely through indoctrination prior to coherent thought, why not use that same hack for actual useful ends. (Hah! I'm such an optimist).
My mom was like that and it turned out she had undiagnosed schizophrenia. It’s way more common than you can imagine.
I think we've all seen Robocop and know how this works out. I am all for technology making our lives better, but autonomous robots (or even remotely controlled ones) that go around killing people at will isn't the future we should have. Theoretically it's a good idea, until for one reason or another you end up on the kill list. And then it doesn't matter who hacked it or how you go there, you're no longer available to argue. Seems like an awful idea.
Yes, Ada. Maybe. I will have to look at it.

The rest all are missing basic things. Like, I love TS, but it's absolutely bonkers because js is js. I once worked on a 250k loc project of js/ts, and we had nothing but trouble
If Brady has to pay out 50mil surely David gets paid 50mil for warning investors.
Forcing functional programming upon developers instead just giving them tools to do it well is a disadvantage, not a feature.
Less targets. Robots can also physically go into areas cops can not. The robot getting shot is a budget issue, not a dead cop.
Here's one for you. It takes 10 government funded housing units to get one homeless person into housing.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10511...

It's hard to conclude that this is an effective program.

Some discussion of this in the WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/housing-first-foments-homelessn...

A consistent reason why left wing programs fail is they do not take supply&demand into consideration.