skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very urgent-sounding article about China's supposed AI superpowers and how they will dominate the battlefield, coincidentally written by the head of an American "AI" company who would likely personally benefit from shifting $150B into AI research, as suggested. Complete with AI-industry standard claims about technology that is "less than 10 years away", and sci-fi about "autonomous, adaptive drone swarms".

War is so much more complicated than the author wants readers to think. Raw technological dominance does not assure victory, as the US found after 20 years in Afghanistan. AI, for all its impressive feats, continues to operate without flexibility or common sense, and foundational concepts like geography or economic influence remain the most important contributors to success in the military sphere.

Even if one takes the continuance of the DoD's aims as an unalloyed good, what areas of its budget would go unserved with 25% redirected to AI research? How do those cuts or reprioritizations affect US military capability? I don't suspect the author has thought about this very much, and yet he feels qualified to write yet another AI/China scare article, which more and more seem designed to terrify politicians who determine funding rather than to convince military experts.
You can do the same with Meson. I just added the warning, debugging, and sanitizer options in-line for clarity. The benefit (I'm not sure if Bazel has this too) is you only have to run the commands once to set up the build directories. After that, you can just use the ultra-fast ninja and almost ignore Meson completely.
Everything rerenders from the root of the editor (that is - not the syntax highlighting of the code itself - as that is handled by monaco).
>> (from TFA) In the past 5 years, the United States has still not started, let alone operationalized, a major AI capability that could disrupt our current warfighter.

When he misses or conveniently ignores the Skyborg UCAV program from the Air Force [0], I also question the author's knowledge of the current state of military programs.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyborg
> Have you left US ever?

I'm British? If you mean have I left the UK, yes. I've been a lot of different places and what I mean is that the idea that it should be illegal to cross the road even when there are not any cars is a bizarre US thing.
In physics the explanations that come out of left field explain experimental results though. It is never the case, as far as I can think of, that an out of the blue theory developed for no reason other than mathematical “beauty” ends up overturning the old order.
> p.s. Scans are ridiculously fast.

this is really the lesson of SOLR. full-scan all the things, aggregate as you go, broadcast disk IO to multiple listeners.

why do a bunch of 4K random IO when you could full-scan at bus speed? yeah you can make the 4K random IO super fast but that's not where hardware is going, and it's also scalable/clusterable/shardable where RDBMS caps out at one machine and clustering is kinda ugly.
For me, it truly was after my first 10K photos — speed shutter and all.

Once you sit down and go searching through that burst for the perfect or otherwise usable photo of that burst, you start to notice the small things: the slight detail changes at the edges, what may have transpired between captures, how a light source that changes in milliseconds can affect the overall feeling.

It took me about 2.5 years to reach that point. Shooting at different times of the day, different seasons. Countless hours tweaking levels and cropping in Photoshop, Capture One, etc. Lots of changes in gear: UV/haze filters, circular polarizers, tripods, zoom lenses, prime lenses. Flashes, reflectors, gray cards. Exploring the different modes on my camera, Magic Lantern firmware, etc.

It all counts. But the post processing is the crucial part of the feedback loop.
This is covered in the article right after where you quoted.

>Furthermore, the type of water you use also plays a vital role in the process of coffee extraction.

>You can learn more about the best water for coffee making, by clicking here.

https://wokelark.com/best-water-for-coffee/
The fact that there is gravity at all, which is not a part of the standard model.
S Tube is fantastic on AndroidTV.
I'm familiar with all the physics; that's why I think Woit's stance is so disappointing! I can't stand physics' tendency to be okay with bad explanations. It's fine to not _have_ a good explanation, but that doesn't mean you have to be okay with bad ones. (also imo the problem with pretty much every treatment of Lagrangians, among other things)
One problem with human governance is we can't seem to figure out how to coordinate without burning excessive amounts of energy signalling status and power at each other. What if we could do better?
Having a Creative Practice as a Programmer
the 12 number probably assumes the middle of a flat plain with no tall structures nearby. buildings, hills etc will reduce the number.
Less than you're probably thinking. Micro-trenching fiber is pretty damned inexpensive these days.
Summary: China bad, because.... AI
As mikequinlan said, you're so close and yet thinking about it completely backward. Not knowing enough about what the object is to know whether it's an obscured human (or a boulder that will total your car and leave you in the hospital) is all the reason you need to not hit it. You decide whether to hit a squirrel after you determine that hitting it won't ruin your day, not before. Not hitting something needs to be the default unless determined that it's safe to do otherwise.
> they can create the same output using fewer hours.

but the hours cost more, so ?
This is relevant document.

The ability to automate and make 'good quality' content is decisive in the information space. The world is greatly moved by photos and video of horrible things, and if that can be faked with high fidelity it will make a huge difference. People won't have time for the truth - the 'video' of 'whatever' will make it's impact.

The drone war in Ukraine is completely different from that in Afghanistan. The Baryaktar drones are almost useless, have an average lifespan of just a few weeks. They're almost all destroyed and don't play an important role. FYI many of the Baryaktar videos we saw over the months were released over time, as the units were mostly destroyed. Russia has no equivalent. Small drones are used for recon, target acquisition, dropping small munitions, which is nothing like Afghanistan. And the scale of it as well. We're seeing the firs 'small drone war at scale'.

I suggest China, being China, will try it at real scale, and during the invasion of Taiwan I expect to see swarms of thousands of drones on the offence - overwhelming numbers.

Everyone is aware that 'nuclear weapons exist' and also that AI works to varying degrees of autonomy.
> I miss adult discourse.

This was always adult discourse.

We just have rose colored glasses to think otherwise.
This is what hCaptcha is currently doing, they are switching the image category every 24-72 hours.
How useful is it? Not very. Modern ML models such as mobilenet, resnet or yolo require only a few hundred images for it to be accurate to solve those captchas.

You don't need few million samples, with 500-700 images per category you are more than ready to solve current captchas.
Probably this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave

Not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave
> California appears to have an annual safety inspection

I'm pretty sure you're mistaken. In many urban counties, there's an every other year emissions inspection (Smog Check), but that's not looking for safety issues. And for most post-2000 cars, it's a quick visual inspection under the hood, read the ODB-II emissions readiness status, and pump the throttle and look for smoke (might be diesel only), older cars that are 1975 or newer get a probe in the tailpipe at idle and 15?mph on a dyno, even older cars don't get checked.
Ask HN: What are some examples of well written Java Codebases
I have been writing code professionally mostly using python and now I’m getting in writing more Java Code what are some good examples for Java Codebases to look at
>The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill

What is the view of The Hill?
I agree that a single data point like this doesn't provide useful intuition about whether the police are overfunded; I believe they generally are but that's based on what they do (and don't do) with the funding they have.

If you want to boil the current funding in a city down to one number, though, I don't think there's an obviously better one. You can add the school district and utility district to the denominator, the school district police to the numerator, the county sheriffs to both, etc, but you'll have to draw a line somewhere and there's likely to be some arbitrariness. Where do you put the DA's office? How do you think about tax funds which are funneled up to the state and feds but then back down in more or less localized ways (including e.g. grants to police or other city programs)? How do you think about payments on one-off referendum-authorized bonds, or the Port of Los Angeles budget? Maybe you could show me that all of these questions have either clearly right answers or don't affect the numbers enough to matter, but extrapolating from what I remember from spending some time digging into the Oakland budget a few years ago, I'm skeptical.
That's not actually responsive to my question. If you read the FoF, it's very concerned with the fact that Microsoft passed up opportunities to charge for IE licenses in order to gain browser share at Netscape's expense. Yet barely a decade later, both Apple and Google took the same path. Again: What was unethical about giving away browser technology, inside Windows and outside of it? Or: When did giving away browser technology with your OS stop being unethical?
I've seen it. I may have even participated in it. The difference you've observed definitely exists, but there's a big difference between:

* That car looks crappy

* That car looks unsafe

* The kind of maintenance shortcomings present on that car are correlated with a large increase in crash rate
Strangely, the article fails to mention that the hateful and religious symbols are actually not the same: they’re mirror images.
I don't see the point of a dedicated tool for this when it is easy enough just to start a Alpine docker container with a couple commands. As this project is just a wrapper for docker and LXD[1] and those tools are already easy enough for the average SWE to interact with, the project seems to just over-complicate an already existing workflow.

[1] https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine#motivation
The Berne and Paris conventions didn't come to be till the late 1800s --which both the US and China are signatories of.
I’ve had a similar experience, and it’s rather recent.. last month or so.
To your point, I literally laughed out loud at this in the article:

Based on the pace of progress with AI technology today, I believe this is less than 10 years away.

How does anyone write things like this and expect to be taken seriously with the track record of AI regarding real world things like autonomous driving?
Correct me if i am wrong but isn't the NT design heavily based off of (some would say a rip off of) VMS, Microsoft having poached much of DEC's OS dev team including chief architect David Cuttler.
Sure Clang compared to GCC, Clang would always be better coming out at the top. But it's not code quality and better checking: it's the spirit for openness.
I doubt China would just blow up a bunch of American aircraft carriers with a nuclear weapon, unless they were under existential threat. China would be severely disadvantaged in a nuclear conflict I would have thought, and would try not to go there under any circumstances. North Korea even moreso. As such, non-nuclear approaches remain relevant.
I've seen a number of various voices speaking up about the possibility of a turn key totalitarian state in the US. Where everything is in place and waiting for some just to turn it on. That is the worst case scenario here.

That said obviously we can resist, but it is worrying.
>Together, these two approaches worked as an attempted smash-and-grab against the information environment, rather than a serious effort to occupy it long-term.

I.e disintermediation: fascinating to see evidence of this in the field, and to see evidence of the investment made in this at the nation state level.
It won't. It'll be a war between the people and entrenched power structures who will use very primitive AIs to crystalize their position at the expense of everyone else. What rich man or government would ever fear riot or revolution when you can use data mining algorithms and precision drones to liquidate even the most minor whiff of dissent at the push of a button? They will eat everyone else with specialized drones as sapient as insects before truly human AI is a thing.
I can't speak for the UK, but in The Netherlands the driver is virtually always considered to be at fault - except extremely rare ones where the driver could not have possibly anticipated and/or avoided it. To give an example, hitting a child who suddenly runs onto the road is the driver's fault, as children are well-known to be unpredictable and do stupid things.

But no, insurance fraud like that does not really exist here, probably because there is nothing to gain from it. We don't do multi-million-dollar lawsuits for things like emotional damage, and liability is just a thing between your insurance and theirs.
Outright speed, speed of scalability.

If you can submit what you want and have it within moments, it beats a fancy typing pool. That kind of speed alone lets you have a highly trained someone retry different variations and filter more on quality of result.

Scalability. If you need to do it ten times faster. More hardware = done. More people could make it done too but training etc is required.
https://archive.ph/rcBqm
Even the most UX-sensitive apps like Google Dialer (Phone) does this bad behaviour. The Speaker button moves as soon as the call gets connected.
20 years of essentially no inflation and zero percent interest rates, with nothing like stagnating wages for this HN crowd and you trot out how bad things are based on the last 6 months?
So the automatic port forwarding/FS sharing/networking is nice if you want that.

But I often don’t. When I’m using Docker on my Mac it’s usually because I’m trying to use Docker. I need to use an existing Docker container or build a new one to fit some purpose with a Dockerfile.

I guess it’s nice that there would be a simpler way to launch one-off containers or containers for myself that aren’t expected to work like every other Docker container.

Is this a common need? Is there something that makes this more than I’ve noticed? The fact I work in a “Docker for containers” place may be preventing me from seeing what would make this shine.
All the product teams think your accidental clicks on their broken UI are “engagement”, validating the continued use of that layout

And they also think your frustration is “longer engagement”, validating their KPI and job security and companies ability to sell shares
Sounds like they’re saying the shortage is driven by panic buying? The ethical issues aside, would increasing the price help with something like this? As a way to make sure more of the small supply is going to people with a real need instead of personal stockpiles?
Chinese people 'wash' their tea like that before they drink it.
It’s actually a big problem, we’re running low on sand that’s good for making glass, you need sea sand for glass, desert sand is no good, it’s the wrong shape. Nefarious actors are actually stealing beach sand in the dead of night. It’s a problem.
Although this seems true at first glance, it is likely that state sponsored cutting edge Chinese AI research would not be disseminated publicly. China does also have certain 'advantages' in the ethics and scale of training data collection.
The cost of sorting has to then be factored in (because plastics are often not perfect hydrocarbons, they contain a variety of elements depending on bulk composition and additives). And, even perfectly sorted plastics will not burn as cleanly as freshly refined hydrocarbons, so you need to factor that cost in as well.

And for what benefit? Plastics in a land fill are a form of carbon sequestration if the alternative is burning them or fresh hydrocarbons.

IMO the value in replacing plastic use has very little to do with energy/CO2. It's more related to other health/environmental effects (microplastics, etc).
Am not telling that is acceptable. Am just telling that this is a football World Cup. Not a a cultural world cup.

And any nation including European who has hosted it has done similar bad things in past. So are why outage only now?

Us went ahead and killed thousands of women and children in Iraq. So do you boycott sports in US.

UK still white washes colonialism in Schools. They have not apologized for jalianwalabagh massacre. Do you boycott them.

France still leeches money from poor countries in Africa. Do you boycott them.

And finally quatar and saudi uses slave labour and treats homosexuals badly. Do you boycott petroleum and natural gas.

Then why only boycott world cup in quatar

Many mobiles and textile manufacturing is with slave labour. So is chocolates and cofee. You consume them. So what's new about quatar.

Yes for me accesibility is important. Because my friends can watch it without spending a year of their earnings. If you can conduct World cups in uk is or France or Russia, then you can conduct in quatar too. Regards of openions reeking in hypocrisy and racism
My point is that being nasty just gets you nasty back, regardless of the validity of your point.

And earns you enemies from all but a tiny fraction of people, regardless of the validity of your point.

You can always say no, politely. Or leave. Or refuse, etc.

I don’t care for the original persons point, but I also don’t care for you. To be clear.
There's related discussion from earlier today at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762657 for LXD
The things I’m drawn to in life is where art meets science. In hindsight, so much of the secret is knowing how to avoid failure. Baking bread? Build the intuition over time and you’ll realize baking is forgiving so long as you don’t do these “5 bad things.” Gardening/farming? Yeah, there’s a big list of bad things. Brewing beer? Another list of things to avoid. The basic rules (rooted in science) are like guardrails and everything else is the art. I love this so much.

In my early 20s I had a week long mind meld knowledge transfer from a self taught photographer. It made me fall in love with photography. I’m still using it to this day to photograph new label printers (black plastic is terrible to photograph) and labels (oh god they are 2D!).

I’m doing an OK job. Room for improvement but fine for the initial launch. You can see them here: https://mydpi.com/products/professional-synthetic-direct-the...

In case you’re like “why is this guy selling label printers?!”

I’m a solo software dev that wrote Label LIVE (electron) to design and print labels. Now I’m vertically integrating with a printer I’ve imported from China and labels made in the USA.

Business and entrepreneurship: just avoid these 9999 things and you’ll be fine! Science and art…
Could you help me understand how I'd migrate say... a Rust app with a Dockerfile running in Postgres glued together Docker Compose with Nix?

Thanks for the writeup by the way, it's appreciated and well done.

I get that NixOS is a Linux distro. What is Nix's answer for containers?

aka the typical Docker flow

Dockerfile -> build OCI image -> run it as a container

Nix package -> ? -> ?
The few times I have tried to do intensive resistance training, above 60% of my PR, I have started feeling weak after the second or third day. I don't use caffeine for pre-workout. This might not be common, but I personally experienced a significant increase in exercise induced syncope and near-syncope when fasted.

I also imagined that muscle recovery would be less efficient or take longer from a fasted state. I have hit rowing/ERG goals and made time improvements so I feel comfortable saying that fasting doesn't hinder my cardio.

I understand that energy goals are correlated with body size, we were discussing a general minimum kcal threshold for unsupervised dieting. I am unsure why you feel estimated BMR/RMR - 200 kcal is unscientific. I was told that without supervision, it would be hard to ensure proper nutrition on a very low calorie diet. Additionally, he expected that some people would fall into a binge-restrict cycle because they can't sustain their usual energy level.

I was additionally curious because there have been days I forget to eat, and thinking back I realized my total calories for those 24 hours totaled less than 600 kcal.
Mathematics isn’t a science, it seperate thing entirely. Science is about trying to understand how the real world works. Make falsifiable hypothesis then do repeatable experiment do will either prove or disprove hypothesis.

Computer science isn’t really a science either. It should be classified as a branch of mathematics.
I have used them to set up a group-readable/writable directory to ensure that all subdirectories remain so.
People sell mineral packets that you add to distilled water so you can control for this while brewing.
I feel the same way today when I can't tab complete parameter or variable names in typical unix shells.