skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true and I actually read that report so I obviously forgot about all that.

The one thing that is not covered well there is the type of ships in the Chinese versus US Navy. Even with fewer ships we have more tonnage. A large part of the Chinese Navy consists of coastal defense assets which are smaller vessels. With that said they do have excellent anti-ship defenses and are gaming to be able to manage a conflict where we bring our carriers and air assets to bear.

https://www.defenceprocurementinternational.com/features/mar...

This is the reason that we have inked defense agreements in the region. Spreading the costs of defending the free passage of goods through the South China Sea with other nations allows us an opportunity to build a larger, more modern navy and buys time.

We should be investing in naval assets too since some of the most recent programs ended up with us buying fewer vessels than originally contracted and with those vessels being ill suited for the original task they were designed to handle.

As the VOA article mentions, we will likely run into problems mobilizing for a ship-building effort since it already is hard enough to find skilled workers (welders, etc) for industries that employ most of them today like the pipeline and oil and gas industry. A return to teaching trades in high school would be a great start that would pay dividends nearly immediately as the first class graduates into the work force.

Feel free to double check everything I posted. I could be totally wrong about any or all of it. Thanks.
This is a classic in the "Top 10 reasons JS is dumb" type articles.

But yeah it is just a case of the map providing 3 args to the function (element, index, array) and parseInt using 2 value s (string, radix) so we have element->string (yay!) and index->radix (oof!) and array->ignored (meh!)
This would be cool if I could broadcast to our set top boxes. My folks don't get along with streaming interfaces, but they can flip to a channel.

edit: I might have it totally wrong, but our STB is QAM/IP. With a QAM modulator it might be possible to transmit on the coax segment, and have the provider's box decode it. The modulators are pricy though, and I'm not sure about putting our own signal back down the (fios) coax segment.
My personal opinion is this cycle of "hiring freezes and layoffs" will be minuscule compared to 2000, or 2008, and even those didn't bring SF prices back to rationality. Geological and socioeconomic realities will always keep SF propped up.
Oh geez, that's an entirely different can of worms that isn't related to the monorepo.

Most products at Google are not dropped because the monorepo makes it difficult for them to support - and I'm not sure how it would or how you got to that association. Also, plenty of products that are killed are not in the monorepo.

They are usually dropped due to a mix of things, but a big part is just better product management.
TikTok’s Parent Takes on Meta in Battle for Virtual-Reality Market
We've actually been approaching being ready for a few years now. Now more than ever people have begun to add a layer of skepticism and treat information as separate from reality itself.

Remember 10-15 years ago? If it was on the news, thats because it happened. If an important politician said it that's because it's important. If the 'expert' said it then it must be true! If you need a refresher go visit old political threads on reddit from 10+ years ago. You'll recognize your old sheltered political views, and yes it was somehow even more naive and coddled than reddit of today.

Deepfakes will be a net good. It will make more ideas have to stand on their own merits (because there will be limited authority to validate the medium thats conveying it, mitigates reliance on fallacies) if you can make <famous politician> say <total opposite of their entire platform>. It will put a damper on how seriously people take everything on the internet outside of official sources (thank god). It will effectively weaponize social media's ills against itself, the more its abused the greater that effect.

People are finally starting to ask the questions they should be asking on a large scale, "where is chatGPT taking us, do we want more of this?", those kinds of meta-questions were never being asked even a few years ago. Almost no one asked that about smartphones when they came out. Better late than never.
> 2015 is eight years ago. In PC terms, that's forever.

I think the point is that this isn't true anymore.

In the 80s or 90s eight years was huge in terms of computer hardware advances. In the last eight years though? Meh. Aside from one of my laptops, all of my computers are older than 2015 and they are all perfectly fine for current use. Hardware doesn't advance very quickly anymore, which is great, but bad for sales.
http://archive.today/C2KAk
Layoff due to global warming:

> It all started when I decided to install an air conditioning unit in the office. Little did I know that the excess heat created by the air conditioner would drastically raise the temperature of the office, and this increase in heat would eventually lead to a dramatic rise in sea levels. Unbeknownst to me, this sudden change in sea level would result in a series of unexpected floods, leaving me no choice but to lay off 10% of our devoted Instacart family.
>would you consider it interference

Generally speaking: Yes.
The original Futurist Manifesto (1909) [1] is indeed over-the-top and out-there. Much more about them in Wikipedia [2]. I don't see the connection between those original Futurists and the linked Futurist Programming article, maybe none was intended.

1. https://www.societyforasianart.org/sites/default/files/manif...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism
Can I get my account banned by using this?
I'm failing to understand how balloons are different from satellites, save for altitude; those sats could be carrying payloads other than ISR as well.
The argument that nobody can take personal credit for any purported virtue or accomplishment is logically airtight, and was laid out much more entertainingly and in more detail by Mark Twain a long time ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Man%3F_(Twain_essay)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/70/70-h/70-h.htm

I would not take it at face value; it's interesting to think about his motivations and how self-serving the thesis was. I just think it's more interesting than these "anti-meritocracy" articles.
Layoffs due to Mexican:

>It has unfortunately come to my attention that a 15% reduction in our workforce is necessary. As your CEO, I take full accountability for this difficult decision. In a recent board meeting, I was discussing a new product launch with a hardworking Mexican engineer. As I was proposing some ideas, much to my surprise a small burrito he was eating abruptly slipped from his hand and fell directly into the server, causing a complete system overload.
There's one in place for WMDs, and I don't think one was ever delivered from space.
The Iraq War of 2003 [1] began with an invasion almost two decades ago (anniv will be in March 2003 iirc) with participation of a coalition of Western governments. That "almost" is doing heavy lifting given that this war officially lasted until ~2011 and led to further interventions as recently as 2014[2].
Notably, a non-trivial rationale for this war were lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction - which unsurprisingly, were never found. I am curious if your government participated in this war.

Ignoring the ongoing interventions in foreign conflicts [3][4], US Foreign Policy has been absolutely _disastrous_ for a number of countries around the world. From the perspective of the US Govt, this may be fine though I would argue that the real effects from destabilization and strained bilateral relations are simply accumulating. Happy to provide citations for multiple blunders in the last 3 decades. It is not surprising that many countries in the global south now see China|Russia|India as better bilateral partners.

Devolving critique to simply originating from "if you were an Islamic extremist of something" is very reductive and I would implore you to read more about global politics from different national perspectives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_I...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_t...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_intervention_in_Libya...
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If desktop OSes stopped being garbage maybe they'd attract users back. Win still has the ti lol r crap, Linux is suffering under snaps and usual deck chair reshuffling and osx is apple imprisoned, and neglected regardless.
>Well in my case I specifically mean hyper realistic deep fakes of people created without their consent.

Seems reasonable on its face, but the real issue then becomes damage done-vs-effort needed to prevent it

Your example is murder, but the problem is then a scaling issue; not many people really want to commit murder. It takes effort, and the sample size is so small we can evaluate it on a case-by-case basis. But it's trivial to deepfake one face onto another, so it's likely a lot of people will try it for their own amusement.

So basically murder to most people is brutal and ugly. A Deepfake is clicking a few buttons; it's abstract and hard to see as a real crime for most people.(...ya know, kinda like how I'll pirate a song but I'm not going to stuff CDs into my pockets at the local retail store)

And now we can expand that idea- what counts as a deepfake? The face editing is obvious here but what about training an AI to replicate someone else's voice? What about using the Lamba character.ai site to replicate Sonic or Indiana Jones? That's where it really gets tricky and where I feel politicians will be at a loss to construct any meaningful legislation.
What, Is Peat and How Did It Get in My Whisky?
> Pack & Move Footprint Tool

This is the biggest usability improvement on the list. Computers are good at menial sorting, humans hate it.

For those not in the know: your nice, organised schematic gets turned into a randomly assorted pile of parts when you first open the PCB editor. Now imagine your board has over a hundred parts, including lots of duplicated copy+pasted bits.

My workarounds have been to:

1. Number the parts with special codes/prefixes to make manual untangling and grouping faster.
2. Import parts into the PCB editor as a draw the schematic. It's annoying extra work (the schematic undergoes lots of changes) and requires you to assign valid footprints from the start (so your work is constantly interrupted by having to draw missing ones OR your assign invalid ones and forget to fix them later).
Perhaps it will asymptotically approach a fix point in a training/spam cycle.
Glad it gave you a good laugh!

Overall, yes, the tech is still quite rough and its not exactly straightforward to get economically valuable outputs out of it. However, even if further AI breakthroughs don't come along, I think smart engineering and duct tape will be enough to create a decent amount of disruption and value.

We've never had the "calculator for text" so even a bad one opens ups a lot of new doors.
Don’t cross the streams.
Is there a way to get back to one of the previously generated ones or are they completely ephemeral?
Maybe, maybe not. Wouldn't surprise me if there are at least a few.

What OP and the article are asking is for someone in, say, Belgium or Canada or Texas to go and contact a New Hampshire state representative about a strictly New Hampshire state affair. Talk about making unnecessary and inappropriate noise for New Hampshire's democracy.
Just wanted to notify that your app doesn't work. I downloaded the invoice but it shows `404 Not Found
The requested deployment does not exist. code: DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND`
Super interesting, how would we regulate this space? Would it be similar to how we regulate the weapon systems and things related to it?

From my perspective, seems quite difficult
While i am not one to condone Hagiography, your comment is pure Hubris.

If you think solving problems by constant trial-and-error is the norm and Dijkstra's idealized mathematically disciplined systematic approach methods can well be ignored, then i fear you have not understood the difference between Science, Engineering and Craftsmanship/Tradesmanship (without formal training).

>I'm not entirely sure when the last time was that Dijkstra actually typed a line of code into a computer ... coming from a non-practitioner.

This is laughable. By this logic every code monkey today (including myself) is better than Dijkstra because we simply have written a larger volume of code and that too in many different languages!

One needs to practice Humility when approaching the Words/Works of Masters and try to understand them instead of being dismissive. I keep the following quote by Arthur Conan Doyle from the novel The Valley of Fear in mind when studying the Greats;

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but Talent instantly recognizes Genius.

You might find the following two papers relevant :

1) This paper gives a retrospective on a earlier seminal paper by the author himself (what he got wrong and what he got right) : Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis For Computer Programming by C.A.R. Hoare - https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/10/42360-retrospective-a...

2) A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake it by D. L. Parnas (pdf) - https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/education/SE-Intro/fakei...
Of all the claims of things these chatbots are getting good at, its only getting a laugh out of me that actually works. The Onion could have launched this satire as a service.

> His high-volume words triggered a massive sonic blast that traveled around the room and dispersed throughout the office. After further analysis, it turns out these sonic waves contained the most severe form of mouth herpes, resulting in the infection of many of our hardworking staff members!

> The outbreak was so bad that our staff productivity decreased by almost 50%, and since the current economic conditions wouldn't allow us to make any budget adjustments, the only way to keep this company afloat was to layoff 15% of our workforce. Again, I want to apologize on behalf of the entire Sony team and I want to thank all of you for your hard work and dedication.

> Yours faithfully,
Kenny 'Herpesmouth' Yoshida
Screen time and children’s cognition: a question of context
I have a newsletter for CTOs, and I try hard not to link to Substack any more, the number of my readers seem to automatically lock the article behind a pay wall - Substack is lost I think as a website (don't know about the newsletter aspect).

I have some disdain to link to Medium but it's not as bad.
Far too many don't trust the us gov to run such a critical service and our defense budget already effectively subsidizes Europe's socialized healthcare.
Seems Google is really not a place to coast anymore.

> company GOOGLE, reason WATERBOARDING, accountability TRUE

> An important message from Sundar the Great Pichai

> I am writing to you today to deliver some upsetting, but necessary news. After lengthy consideration, we have decided to let 10% of our workforce go, effective immediately. I take full responsibility for this difficult decision, and I regret the impact it will have on all of us and on our families.

> The reason for the layoff is a little more unusual than most. After much consideration and brainstorming, we concluded that the best way to stay afloat as a company was to implement a system of waterboarding. By doing this we would be able to save on business costs, as the process would be faster and more efficient than other methods of management.
It likely suffices to make a relatively small hole or deformity on a shell to make it tumble instead if keeping the trajectory, and thus miss.
It’s not really even a true monorepo. Little known feature - there is a versions map which pins major components like base or cfs. This breaks monorepo abstraction and makes full repo changes difficult, but keeps devs of individual components sane.
Deciphering Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart’s Lost Letters
Eduard: Swiss-Style Relief Shading Using Machine Learning
Management by metrics is what leads companies astray. [1]

Right now it’s happening on Twitter and the process has just started on Substack.

[1] https://jakobgreenfeld.com/metrics
They use burner phones, not gov’t provided ones.
then everything will turn into grey goo
The big question is can Ford survive the cost of transition to EV, they already have a high debt load under ICE.
I think the point of star trek is that we can achieve the prime universe if we try. But even they were always in danger of reverting to a dystopian universe.

We’re capable of behaving reasonably or behaving poorly. We can live in the utopian future or the dystopian hell-scape. The choice is ours, and it all comes down to how we choose to behave.
The naming convention isn't important. If the structs are from different versions of the library then you either have a type error (nominal types) or have to figure out the semantics of arbitrarily uninitialized fields.
> Mention me a _serious_ operating system using lua on their kernel side and I'll acknowledge that last sentence.

NetBSD, of course.

> Be sure we are talking on the same page, we are talking on the context of being used for programming operating systems, is lua mature for that domain?

As https://www.lua.org/about.html notes,

> Lua is embeddable

Lua is specifically designed to be embedded into other things in order to make them easily extensible.
Actually Patience might be the best answer. The folks leading Iran are all quite old and once the big guy dies - only a few more years - change will happen naturally.

Don't need millions of deaths in another revolution.
Google's software mostly uses dependencies already in the google monorepo, so these issues don't crop up. The person/team working on library changes have to ensure that nothing breaks, or the downstream users are notified early on. Don't think this would apply to many companies.
Layoffs due to Giant:

Unfortunately, due to a giant that descended upon us, we have had to make the difficult decision of laying off 10% of our workforce... <...>
The giant in question is something that I had never seen before. It was an entity made up of gremlins, trolls, and mischievous elves. I wish I could tell you more about this giant, but it has long disappeared, leaving us with no other choice but to let go of some of our members.
If you put several of these together could you down a hypersonic missile?
i would like to link to some so i can share those with my friends.
"they were fleshy"
Greed being the common denominator makes it not the culprit. If greed were truly the culprit then they would be focused on making the most amount of money possible without constraints.

It's poor leadership and short sightedness IMO.
Absolutely. Most people here seem to find the submission funny but I don't.

Once somebody creates an AI that doesn't articulate as well as ChatGPT but imitates humans better, anonymous online discussion is dead almost instantly.

How can you ever guarantee that you are not arguing with a bot that will not get tired, answer almost instantly, and will gaslight you into anything it wants you to believe?

You can abort arguing with it at any time, sure, but is this a satisfying experience? No, it will be incredibly frustrating getting duped like this over and over again.
The exported single tile images do not tile.
It has already captured the whole market for this service!
You're taking an example that doesn't make sense in the context of the article. TFA is most likely intended to mean "progress" of some sort. The double integral of velocity means what?
Energy source > Energy consumption.

Energy consumption is not a bogeyman and we'll need to consume vastly more energy if we want to make people richer, healthier and happier.

We need to pivot to cleaner sources, so the focus should be on that.

Would be great if the journos could stop demonizing the wrong thing.
They might have been androids from the future, or perhaps planted here by aliens.
Presumably it has digested the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_Shop_sketch and probably many similar things.
I should really re-read Prey by Michael Crichton. Loved the grey goo in that one.
This game has you guess what prompt DALLE generated an image with, pretty cool
> China's [ASAT test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fengyun) which has been the worst in history.

Check your source, per your cited wiki page:
> The shootdown, and the subsequent creation of a record-setting amount of in-orbit debris, drew serious international criticism.[15][16][17][18][19]

The shootdown refers to the ASAT test on FY-1C

For the reference [15] http://www.centerforspace.com/asat/, cannot be opened, the site is unreachable.

For [16] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17497766
It's referring to a debris from Russia rocket, itself is a routine affair in the space.
> The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) briefly took refuge in escape capsules as a piece of space junk hurtled by.
> The debris - a discarded piece of Russian rocket - was detected on Friday when it was too late to move the ISS.

For reference [17], a piece from BCC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6276543.stm
BCC's reporting on China is about as accurate as Fox's reporting on Democratic party. Go figure

For reference [18], an intro page on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agence_France-Presse AFP
Not sure what's relevance with a ASAT

For reference [19], https://www.npr.org/2007/01/19/6923805/chinese-missile-destr...
> The governments of Britain, Japan and Australia are voicing concern over China's apparent test of an anti-satellite missile. The United States says China shot down one of its own aging weather satellites last week, in a kind of target practice in low Earth orbit.
> "I was surprised that they were able to do it," Kristensen says.
Seems about routine as any space tests...

Then the conclusion is that China's ASAT test is "the worst in history."
With evidences that are as substantial as web3's value to society.

This type of post on HN is simply not passing the quality bar on HN...
Most of them offer the option to call you and that would work with any phone.
> providing exceptions only at very high salary ranges

And of course you would fall in this demographic, amirite?
Fuck the poor, don't mess with the salaries of the rich.

> building tons of extra housing and bankrupting private equity groups

They'd just continue to buy up that new housing. This can't change without taxing the land value.
> He had the bright idea of installing custom charging ports all over the office. He unfortunately confused the wiring diagrams of the charging ports and the diagrams of the gloryholes.

Well that was something.