skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's a funny edit.

are you surprised by your last.fm statistics? will you delete the account?
Perhaps something like “hunger” might be a better term
that is not the issue in question here. SFPD wants to deploy remote-controlled weaponry - an officer would still be .

IMHO it's a pretty fine disinction between a remote-operated gun and a gun that needs to be held by a human hand. (to be clear, i think police should have fewer guns regardless of how the trigger gets pulled)
I agree with you completely. What makes me sad, however, is that you describe the ideal of academia I had in my mind when I was entering academia, which simply no longer exists, if it ever had. Academia is not focused on the pursuit of the truth anymore, and we get to watch its value and reputation decay and die in front of our eyes.
An example of this is Microsoft Flight Simulator. Packages such as aircraft are distributed/compiled as WASM modules and run (as I understand it) in a sandboxed environment within the simulator.
A searchable list of lists, or SLL, you might say?
For reference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NWIlScfHwOU
Folks - this is not a lethal autonomous robot. This is a remotely controlled bomb disposal robot retrofitted with a gun. A human still has to pull the (digital) trigger to use lethal force.

This is nothing but a good thing.

Nobody cares if a robot is destroyed. A robot will allow everyone time to think and assess the situation before making a snap-judgement we all question later on. This can do nothing but reduce lethal force use.

This opens the door to fitting the same robot with a multitude of options - further reducing the need for lethal force. Pepper balls, stun guns, blinding lights, etc. (less-lethal does not mean non-lethal, when we discuss things like stun guns, pepper balls, rubber balls, etc)

In the field, lethal force happens because people are forced to make snap judgements. Sometimes they get things wrong... but when people's lives are at risk, lethal force will be employed to protect innocents and police alike. This robot removes half of the equation that leads to lethal force. This is nothing but a good thing.
There is a reason firearms come with sights and we make cops qualify with their service weapons.
People do not in fact immediately fall over just because you shoot them. The idea of shooting someone with a pistol or rifle caliber to stop them from doing something in a split second is firmly a movie trope.
It really is amazing how many people advertise or shun license without even knowing what it does...
We make plenty of Tailwind CSS templates for free at https://tailtemplate.com/
They used a bomb disposal robot with a pound of C4 attached to stop the Dallas gunman in 2016. People did not like talking about whether it was necessary or not at the time.

> Sr. Cpl. Banes said they considered using a .50 caliber rifle to fire at the shooter, which had been successful in a similar attack on police 14 months earlier. However, in that case, the suspect had driven an armored truck into police headquarters and remained inside the armored vehicle. Johnson was holed up inside a populated college with thin sheetrock walls, so the tactical team deemed that approach too dangerous. They also considered rappelling down the building or attacking Johnson through the ceiling after opening it with explosives. Both options were ruled out due to the risks they might pose to the officers who would carry it out.

> Senior Corporal Jeremy Borchardt and others ultimately arrived at the idea to use a bomb disposal remote control vehicle armed with about 1 pound (0.45 kilograms) of C-4 explosive. The plan was to move the robot to a point against a wall facing Johnson and then detonate the explosives. The device exploded as intended at approximately 2:30 a.m., killing Johnson immediately. It was the first time that explosives strapped to a robot had been used in American domestic law enforcement. Although its arm sustained damage in the blast, the robot was still functional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police...
Also: indentation, beginning-of-defun/end-of-defun navigation, and probably Imenu later.

All the basics of major modes that up until now have been implemented using bespoke algorithms, rewritten ad-hoc for each language.
Make SF residents watch the ED-209 scene
Jenkins came out in 2005. 2011 was just when the project was renamed from Hudson due to Oracle trademarking the original name.
table is outdated

Three kinds are operating - 3 EGP, 2 KLT-40 and I think 6 RITM-200
Really fun! This inspired me to create my own version of the sliding-tile puzzle game that I used to play as a kid: https://tileslide.com/
Now auto-create that account and offer user to buy it for few bucks
Wrote a play about this fascinating boozed-out religion and its baptisms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotys
The scenario of the Texas cop shooter in 2016 was one such scenario, and involved lethal use of a robot.

I'm not sure I want this to be policy, though, because it opens the door to "drone with a glock" kinds of things, which would be terrifying if deployed in any mass quantity.
To take a contrarian view: Raising kids is not curing cancer, having a fruitful career isn't solving world hunger. Many people get to retirement age having worked hard for their own benefit, nothing more. How does that earn them the right to contribute nothing productive back to society for the rest of their years?
Frankly, yes, I wouldn't mind going back to boring old lisp. Particularly when confronted with Java or Javascript. I also have no real desire to dive into strongly typed functional languages - see the "dynamic" part of the original title.

And all of those modern functional languages are as fringe (or even more fringe) than Lisp is. I wish this wasn't the case, but let's be honest: programming languages that appeal to mainstream developers and companies will always optimize for development teams of wildly varying skill.
I think that's a great point.

It seems like in debates about officer involved shootings, frequently people justify police action with, "but the officer feels so much danger to their life in that situation". But if we're talking about robots, there is no danger to an officer -- so why do they need a gun?
He Built a Virtual Human
Sounds like a great idea. Lemme know if you need a beta tester!
Certainly anything OSI is acceptable. GPL isn't my cup of tea, but it's fine, too. Owner/authors are doing the work and if you don't like what license they choose, you can go elsewhere.

As long as no entity can retroactively revoke your ability to use the source code, it's probably sufficient.

As things currently stand, that is NOT true for JAI.
Notice he’s looking for old ladies who can be easily manipulated.
And that is why cops get taught to mag dump suspects in center mass. Shooting someone a half dozen to a dozen times does tend to make them dead.
localtoday.news copied the article from here:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/san-francisco-police-seek-pe...

Which copied the article from here:

https://www.engadget.com/san-francisco-police-seek-permissio...

Which is a rewrite of the original article here:

https://missionlocal.org/2022/11/killer-robots-to-be-permitt...
Abour an hour late to the party, but I just clicked, and it shows me 2 openings. One for a senior engineering manager for metadata services (in multiple locations across the US) and another one for an administrative business partner (SF only).
The entire heat source, the active part of the core, very easily fits in a small room (at a mean power density somewhere around 100 MW/m^3 for water-cooled reactors).

I'm talking about the difficultly of heat removal, not trying to minimize size or complexity or anything.
Haskell is this. It is static with a dynamic type: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/9.2.4/docs/html/libraries...
There is no way in the world this is going to be economically competitive to connect to big electricity grids any time soon.

Even taking into account the cost of extra transmission and storage (and to a certain extent, building extra storage, which is politically easier, reduces the amount of transmission you have to build), wind and solar are ridiculously cheap and trending cheaper long term, and you don't really run into the requirements for massive amounts of storage until the fraction of your power from VRE gets very, very high.

Remote parts of Alaska, Canada etc face very very high power costs and solar isn't viable there (though wind might be depending on the site), so I can absolutely see the initial applications there.
It helps that human scientific expertise in the topic of "recognizing objects" is limited.
Which is why I think I might be on board with this. The “police are professionals trained to keep their cool
even in life threatening situations” boat sailed ages ago. So making it so police aren’t in the life threatening situation at all might be a win.
That qualification hasn't meant much, going by the rate at which police hurt themselves (and innocent members of the public) with their own service weapons.
I agree that the article is not a good critique.

I liked this one[1] better. He makes some good points, particularly that there is no genetic trace of Hancock's advanced civilization in our DNA. And that if a global seafaring civilization existed around the last ice age, then we would've seen a mixing of agriculture well before Columbus. Worth a watch.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwTkDkSbO-4
Train citizens to drive robot non-lethal surveillance drones, do paperwork, cut funding for rage prone meat bag policing.

Maintain minimum required force of trigger happies for all the shooting scenarios.

Our secular society isn’t anymore sacrosanct than religious based choices. It should be readily reorganize-able as logistics demand.

Optimizing for 24/7 status quo politics, profit margin optimizing and rent extraction “or else the world ends” is not so different from forcing unfalsifiable magic down our throats.
One word --> Uvalde.

A remote-controlled robot equipped with a gun is needed in this type of situation. The gun will be operated by a human, remotely.
Psycho Pass
I highly doubt so. Rust is extremely complex and restrictive. For actually critical software, there is Ada/SPARK.
yep, that's why I want it
True with one caveat - despite being a passive experience, your choices of media are still limited and therefore the way you pick and choose and explore what you consume is still an active form of skill you develop. Watching things that pique your interests, especially in niches without that many viewers, gives a sense of your experience being valuable and interesting - and crucially, something to talk about and share. It becomes fuel for writing and philosophizing, and a great conversation piece to navigate complex issues with friends and family. e.g. Someone may get just as much joy and sense of accomplishment from sharing their obsession with Quentin Tarantino movies as they would from their oil paintings. (Even though both are in a sense unlikely to matter much in any economic or social sense beyond - does it make you happy)

Personally I think just "do what's interesting to you" is a good rule, and I think it can navigate the transition between filling up on passive entertainment (e.g. playing every factory/crafting-themed video game) and actively building (e.g. making your own game!). Sometimes you just need to load up on what's been done already in a genre, and sometimes you just need to say "fuck it" and start making something without being intimidated.
I can't express how much I agree with everything you say.

Often, I've wondered if Lisp attracts, due to it power and flexibility, a certain type of "lone hacker" who builds amazing but unscalable ivory towers of abstractions.

One example of this, often mentioned as a success, but which I consider a failure if you take the longer view, is Naughty Dog using Lisp to develop their game engine compiler and such. This was so specialized that their new owner Sony balked and made them use standard tools.

Alternately, you could say that Lisp does exactly what it was meant to do: enable single and small teams of developers to engage in very productive exploratory programming. Carl Hewitt once told me that back in the heyday of Lisp (the 80's) they believed general AI would be solved by small teams of developers. Current AI efforts are the total opposite.

In this alternate interpretation, perhaps Common Lisp is simply not suited for large scale development or collaborations. Either due to language features or personality types. So maybe prototype in CL, then hire a few dozen Java devs to go to market.

I'm not trying to be down on CL. I love it and have been developing my open-source 3D system in it. But man, I can't believe there isn't a single cross-platform GUI toolkit for CL! Or a decent open-source IDE.

I guess we can do our small part and hope for the best.
> immutable data

sort-of possible now (frozen*)

> pattern matching

That has been added recently
Book clubs
Then why do we have other at-home tests? Why didn't insurance block those?
Your friend makes good money running a sales team — in other words he doesn’t knock on doors.
Whether or not that is the case, surely the substance of the article more worthy of your analysis than something as intangible as the authors internal motivations? Assuming positive intent is worthwhile frame of reference that keeps my world looking a bit brighter and something I always hope other do for me.
If it's remote controlled then there isn't even a self defense justification to shoot. And I've never liked the notion of police shooting someone for threatening another person. The classic example being domestic disputes where they don't know who the aggressor is. A great example last year was that girl being attacked, called 911, but by the time the police arrived, she got the weapon and was threatening her attacker. They shot her.

IMHO they need to shoot less, not feel safer in doing so.

BYW I know the job can be scary AF. Remote control robot should reduce that, so less need to defend.
> libertarians talking points

Frankly, I've haven't read much of any libertarian literature, nor touchstones like Ayn Rand. My opinions come simply from reading lots of history and economic books.

A seminal experience for me was touring East Berlin in 1969. The contrast with West Berlin was stark.
The thing a human recommended can do is say “based on your listening history, I think you'd also like this band... but wait, they're a famous band. Surely you'd know about them already. So the fact that you don't listen to them suggests that you don't like them. Ok, I won't recommend them.” Computers don't yet make that logical leap -- they don't yet use what's missing from your listening history as additional data.
Do you really think an addict is in control of what they really want? Or are their life choices being made for them? I found it was kind of the latter when I'd say I was 'addicted' to gaming. It was what I wanted in the immediate moment but far from what I wanted in my life overall. The latter gets destroyed by many short term wants, such as drugs or the kind of internet use r/nosurf exists to counter.
Yes. It requires that `if else` can be used as expressions, which for some reason in most languages that can not.

In the beginning of doing Rust I was missing the ternary operator, but now I couldn't care less.

foo = if y { x } else { y }

Works well :-)
An all time classic. The strategy here is actually outdated - the newer version is nine hours faster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgNMKnkZEKY
> A human still has to pull the (digital) trigger to use lethal force.

Because cops have such a great track record with those decisions so far?

> In the field, lethal force happens because people are forced to make snap judgements.

This is what cops always claim when these discussions come up, but a look at the actual data proves otherwise. Cops routinely kill civilians - including innocent ones - in situations where there is literally no possible way they could reasonably be fearing for their life or be forced to make a "snap decision".
I agree police should get more training.

You will have to fund them more if you want that.
You'd have to block mainstream media too if you want to avoid disinformation.
One of the use cases for SMRs is to install them in decommissioned coal and gas power plants. They have a roof, and are already connected to the grid and roads, and near enough people to supply workers but not so close to supply protesters. The locals are much more supportive, because some of the jobs remain but the pollution they have first hand experience with will go.

One of the major reasons for wind farms rather than isolated turbines is the economic and environmental cost of grid connections and roads needed for installation and maintenance.
Possibly explains why finding a longer cable that can run power and displayport in opposite directions is a pain. Think I'm stuck on 0.5m still.
This isn't even remotely true. My city, Portland, etc. Have had great success with these programs. The vast majority of calls they respond to don't require police.

Please cite your sources (or any evidence at all) if you're going to make statements like that.
> - Greater accountability as all actions could be recorded

I see exactly the opposite. There's no reason for them not to pull the trigger, as it's not as if any police will suffer the repercussions and be shot back at.

And recordings... let's just say I believe they will be as broadly available as police's body camera footage is today. A shocking number of camera failures everywhere, all the time.

My answer to the headline: Request Vehemently Denied
Many of you surely remember Technorati. It was one of the first popular RSS blog aggregators. was it a directory too? I forgot.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080529000125/http://technorati...

Nowadays, I find Feedly topics a good place to explore RSS sources. I believe it is human curation, so it is kind of a directory too (though less "indie" and not restricted to blogs). You can sort by Followers (=popularity) and articles/week.
Without other planets to examine, we have no way of knowing whether this is survivorship bias.

Is life truly that tenacious or are we incredibly lucky? Perhaps best not to tempt fate if the latter.
San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots
If Twitter fails to make payments on its debt then Morgan Stanley will become the proud new owner of Twitter. It is similar in structure to a mortgage on a house.
> You'd expect him to grow and mature (especially as the leader of an AI org at a major company)...

I agree. His behavior in this case cannot be justified.
> So making it so police aren’t in the life threatening situation at all might be a win.

Cops routinely kill people even when there's no reasonable way to claim they were in a "life threatening situation".

All this will do is make it easier for cops to kill people and evade accountability.
Put a taser on it, not a gun.

Shit, I'd say put a taser on an autonomous drone with remote target selection before putting a gun on anything.
"Lost 8th-century Japanese medical text by Buddhist monk has been found in a book published in 2009."
I agree. You can't believe how many linkbait titles the digital edition has!

Anyway, I'm some of the journalist have a daily column that is usualy good, and I try to stick to them (but after them, I must confess that I read some silly linkbait articles.)
Who forgets their middle initial?
It seems odd to me that a rifle was deemed too dangerous to use in a populated area but a pound of C4 strapped to a robot was acceptable.
For those who have an issue with this, I have to ask; have you actually thought this through at all? Would it really be preferable to make an officer literally risk their life trying to make the right decision? The will to survive in a situation that's shaping up to be a shootout is going to trump any reprimand or consequence. People generally don't like dying. Removing all risk from the situation for an officer only serves to make them more accountable.
According to a recent article...

"Since 2000, some 58 people have been shot and killed by police in San Francisco"

A dense city of 800k has about 2.5 deaths from police shootings per year. According to the "Officer Down Memorial Page", 3 police officers were killed due to hostile actions in that same time period (but I'm not certain that site is fully up-to-date).

Sounds like an expensive and risky solution in search of a problem.

https://www.odmp.org/agency/3445-san-francisco-police-depart...
https://missionlocal.org/2022/10/police-shooting-deaths-san-...
The military is held to a much, much higher standard than regular law enforcement. Their rules of engagement are much stricter.
Hi HN, author here. I set out to do a casual comparison of deploy speeds between Reflame (disclaimer, I built Reflame) and other popular services on a near-stock Vite React app, not expecting a whole lot of differences between the others (since most of them were just spinning up VMs/Containers and running the same CLI tools).

I ended up finding out that Netlify had some rather long queuing times that made it ~10s slower than the duration it reports, putting it well behind Vercel (which reports similar a similar duration), but still ahead of Cloudflare Pages (which suffers due to doing a bunch of things irrelevant to the simple Vite app I was deploying).

Meanwhile, Reflame consistently finishes deploying before I can even finish creating the PR. :)

If this piqued your interest for Reflame, I have a demo on https://reflame.app, and more technical details on my Show HN launch post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33134059). Give it a shot if you're building a client-rendered React web app, and tired of waiting for minute-long deploys that break your flow every time you want to share your work. :)
Never assume the orientation of a cat :P
There is zero need for a device which can't be killed to use deadly force. What are they thinking? The justification for police to have and use guns is that their lives could be in danger from so much as a broken bottle. Police have guns to protect themselves. Yes, in reality they use them to threaten, intimidate and "take out the bad guys" before they potentially harm others ("We shot him in the back 40 times as he was running away because he could have been a threat!"), but that's not what they're supposed to have them for.

A remote controlled robot does not have that rationale. There is no reason for it to have anything more powerful than a taser or a flash-bang style explosive. If that doesn't work, send in another, and another. But sending in a robot with a gun or a grenade to take out the bad guys? What's the reasoning? Robots are expensive? That if they didn't use it the bad guy might get away?

No. Full stop. No.
> The bigger problem is current recession. Budgets for ads are cut first.

Is this true? I've seen a lot of big budget ad investment from companies whose stocks have been tanking all year. It almost seems like they're trying to dig themselves out of a hole with marketing.
> D is closer to C++ than C

I'd put C++ as being between C and D, as D leaves a lot of things behind like the preprocessor.
It uses the sun's gravity as a gravitational lens. You fly a normal sized telescope to the focal point. The theoretical resolution is pretty mindblowing, we'd be able to make out oceans and continents on exoplanets.
> The robot's well being is clearly not as important as that of a suspect

Said by no police officer anywhere. You've seen how they react to K9 units being assaulted (at least, how they react when the assault isn't being administered by the police themselves).

I see the opposite. With no risk to the operators, they have no reason to hesitate in shutting the situation down as quickly as possible using the "easy button".
FTC “likely” to file suit to block Microsoft/Activision merger
I just get Thunderbolt 4 cables and I don’t have to worry about it. They’re more expensive, but they always work for everything and they’ll hopefully be around for a while.