skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm pretty sure that the "facility" is a gymnasium with cloth on the walls and floor to protect them.

Plus the tracking system. Which is the big differentiator of course. And the fact that it is not used for basketball games but to test indoor drones.

What else do you think you need for an indoor drone testing facility?

> And, the hanging gates are rigid pink insulating foam sheets

Yes.

> probably made and hung custom for this project.

No.

Here is an earlier MIT aeroastro project using the same gates from 2021: https://aeroastro.mit.edu/news-impact/system-trains-drones-t...

And this is the point I am making. There are many student studying aeroastro at MIT. Not all of their projects are about small drones but many are. And if the small drone test they want to do fits into this room they seem to prefer it. And if one project makes some gizmo (like those gates) for themselves and it looks usefull they won’t throw it away, but chuck it somewhere for storage and then the future projects, such as this one we are just discussing, reuses them.
> > But please, don't build a conscious AI.

> if there's profit in doing so, you can bet that it will be done.

Or maybe just the satisfaction of taking an edgy contrarian position.

Oh, I just realized that you get to play god as well. So it is coming for sure.
There are multiple problems:

1. Biometrics can't be revoked, so if your gym leaks your fingerprint images (linked to your name), that's a mistake that in practice simply cannot be fixed. You just can't use that finger for sensitive biometrics ever again. People should not be forced to take the risk.

2. It's hard to distinguish between biometric surveillance and "good" uses of biometrics, and they can fluently blend into each other. The law draws a rather clear line and has to enforce it.

Should a company be allowed to use biometrics to make sure you don't let your brother sub in for you? Preventing fraud like that is a noble goal, but how far do we want to allow pervasive biometric surveillance to go? Should stadium owners be allowed to ban people? Should they be allowed to ban all employees of a law firm they don't like? Should they be allowed to surveil everyone's faces with a biometric system for this purpose?

The lines between "perfectly reasonable" to "Black Mirror dystopia" are fluent, and the way there consists of many steps that individually seem reasonable (preventing crime is good, right?) and yet the outcome is something we don't want. This is why the law exists, this is why it also hits some "legitimate" uses, and this is why consent (if implemented meaningfully, in the voluntary, GDPR style sense, not in the "you have to sign here or you will be excluded from normal life" sense) is such a powerful tool: It generally lets the harmless stuff happen and prevents the dystopia.
Weightlifting as a consistent form of exercise. I love to run but I have had issues with my feet. With weightlifting I have been able to work around any injuries and keep consistent. I started in my mid 40s after a foot injury that ended a good couple years of running and bodyweight resistance. When I couldn't run I started lifting much more consistently and actively building strength.

Lower back pain, that I thought just went with middle age went away as I got stronger. Although I had one weightlifting injury that caused me to cut way back for 6 months I eventually recovered and went on to be stronger than before. I am now 61 and I really notice the difference as I look around at other men my age. Seventeen years of consistent resistance exercise makes a big difference.
Obese people just need to refrain their argument. Instead of saying “it’s a disease, genetics, etc that prevent me from losing weight even when I drastically reduce my validly count” (this is simply a losing argument) and instead argue “genetics makes it very very difficult to stop my mind from Cindy sky thinking about food and thereby reducing my caloric intake. I’m simply unable to stop eating. Genetics makes it impossible to stop.”

If they did that we could stop arguing about CICO and all this thermodynamics crap. Going against those is a losing battle. Just focus on your inability to stop eating and you’ll get way more supporters.
I install some of these myself, but I would never suggest making them standard. Standard to me is the bare minimum to make a system usable.

I've never used OhMyZsh even if zsh is my shell. Alacritty on a server? Not even cURL is installed by default on any distro I use so why should HTTPie be (even if it is a very cool tool)? Or a csv visualizer?

If the title was "Cool modern unixy tools" I'd have no complaints, but it does set a high bar when claiming they should be standard.
This is thankfully changing.

Returns in digital stores, increasing visibility of how it actually costs in real money to fix those issues, warranty clauses in consulting gigs (usually free of charge), and introduction of cyber security laws like in Germany [0].

[0] - https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Das-BSI/Auftrag/Gesetze-und-Veror...
I’m a pro-remote manager but this is ridiculous hyperbole.
Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning
Davos: We Are in a Race to Resilience
What delta? What entitlement? The terms of the deal have changed. I checked my offer and the offer was for a remote position.

Yea my second full time job wasn't given to me. I worked hard and I chose them to do business with. I am the CEO of my "enterprise". So this isn't an entitlement. It's what I worked hard for.

When I interviewed there they thought they were interviewing me. I was interviewing them. I chose them to work there they didn't pick me. I don't owe them anything accept for what I agreed to when I contracted out my future self.

I enjoy the business relationship I have with them. If the terms of that relationship change. Then I will re-evaluate and make the best decision for my "Company". It' really as simple as that.
Almost certainly given a PIN code.
That is a huge presumption and, as GP pointed out, the problem is if your fingerprint gets leaked, it's rather difficult to change it. Apple did a great job with TouchID but security experts went all over it trying to poke holes. Most other fingerprint systems don't get anywhere near the same amount of scrutiny. So in an unfortunate turn of fate, Apple's awesome implementation of fingerprint authentication on the iPhone resulted inthe general public being comfortable with fingerprint auth in other places, when they really shouldn't be.
No, it would be rationed if you had 100 ambulances and only decided to use 50 for some reason - that's what rationing is. The service is currently at full capacity, but the capacity could always be increased.
Yes but it’s a moot point. The obese people that aren’t losing weight are not eating very low calorie diets but diets with poor nutrition. If only that were the case. They’re simply not able to reduce their caloric intake. Full stop

So whole nutrition is important it’s simply a moot point for obese people.
Yeah, well now "Alex Jones" comes with your OS, is there when you search, when you work, when you schedule, when you chat, ...

Is that really the same thing as Alex Jones?

p.s.

And then there is this (entirely different) aspect as well:

> OK, I’ll tell you some of their names, and what I like to chat with them about. They are:

Does Alex Jones know and remember and incorporate into a neural net every person who listens to his programs? And tell others ("my special trainers"?) all about it?
I was curious about the concept of inverting this – requiring that all variables lazily evaluate, and in the case that evaluation is needed now, some keyword obtains it. But when I think about it, that's sort of just `await`.

I'm curious as to if it's feasible to syncretise these two aspects of variable evaluation into a shared feature that makes async and sync code feel alike.
Something like: I’ve been there and didn’t expect to work fully remote at any company. Fully remote has long been a luxury afforded to the upper echelons of companies in most places. I’m sorry you fell for the meme during Covid that all jobs were remote now.
> but how would one get access to an IBM zSeries?

qemu-system-s390x - I run Linux in it for some automatic tests, finds some funny bugs occasionally.
ChatGPT-3: Google Says AI Generated Contents Are Against Webmaster Guidelines
> In the past 3 years they've gone up an extraordinary amount, so I have some doubts on that.

MSRP for a 2020 Toyota Corolla was $19,600 (these would've been for sale in the fall of 2019, so fully pre-pandemic pricing).

MSRP for a 2023 Toyota Corolla is $21,550. So that's a $1950 increase (~10%) over three years. So it'a noticeable increase for sure, but I wouldn't call it extraordinary given the inflation of recent times.
You can also sometimes combine the techniques in the article above to skip booleans entirely. Instead of passing in a `bool primeMember` that gets used in a calculation like

deliveryTime = 3;
if (primeMember) {
deliveryTime = 1;
}

you can pass in a `Membership memberType` value that contains the required information, so the above conditional turns into just the assignment

deliveryTime = memberType.deliveryTime;

This is more amenable to extension and contraction: you can add or remove different classes of delivery times without changing the logic in which it's used.

You can even use private constructors and public static fields to create a list of "constants" containing the known member types, like the `Membership.REGULAR` and `Membership.PRIME`, retaining the property of the code not being able to use an invalid membership type.

This can be used also for more complicated conditionals like the one in the article, by having a factory method that copies the right "constant" composite value based on whatever logic is desired.
I don’t know if this is a joke, but it sounds like you need to look up “Sherlocked” https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-co....
1960's systems were already taking security first approach and the industry would have kept down that route if it wasn't for UNIX and C adoption.

IBM even did their RISC research in PL.8 taking into consideration safety and pluggable compiler infrastructure, similar to what people nowadays know from LLVM approach.

Some would say that security measures in the car industry also slow drivers down and are a nuisance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed
I made ChatGPT my secretary for a week – here’s how it went
It’s not unfair. 3 years ago no one would have pretended remote was a “right” and the reason people think workers rights have eroded is because they continue to pile on perks and nice to haves and pretend they’re rights.
Is my reading correct that almost a billion dollars have been spent on this project
and it has barely seen any operational use?
This is just how iPhones and MacBooks work

It's optional on the devices you mention. It's not a requirement. In the court case, there was no way for an employee to opt out, short of quitting.

My company (about 2,000 employees) issues iPhones to its employees. You are given a choice of face scanning or fingerprint scanning device. You do not have to use either method: you can choose a suitably long PIN, instead.

If you choose to use biometric access, HR send your a 15-page document to sign, and you have to take an online course about biometric privacy.

I think if more companies did that, society wouldn't be so casual with giving away their biometric data.
Note that (as the article explain in the middle, this is NOT a magical 200% efficiency in the energy to energy conversion, Joule to Joule, KwH to KWH, or whatever unit you want. A solar panel has a 15%-20% efficiency in the energy to energy conversion.

Following the ideas of the photovoltaic effect (and more generally quantum mechanics), each photon produce usually should produce only one electron. This is not a hard rule, sometimes you waste photons and get no electrons, sometimes a single photon can produce more than one electron if it is very energetic. So, they have a not magical 200% "efficiency" in the photon to electron conversion, each photon produce in average two electrons. This may be interesting in some applications, but it's not magical.

There are other device that have more than 100% "efficiency" in the photon to electron conversion. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomultiplier_tube but they use high voltage, so perhaps the new invention is easier to build an maintain.

Note that "efficiency" or "quantum efficiency" is the correct term in that area of physics. The problem is when the press release tries to be confusing and adds Harry Potter to increase clickbaitness.
An array in C is a list with fewer steps. Just a continguous chunk of memory of sizeof type * length.

You could fill that with linked list nodes, but it would be pointless.
It must have been sh1t data then if you can use that data to impose the same policy on all people.

And yes, I can believe that. With few exceptions, the execs with power are focused on sales. They couldn't give a sh!t about WFH. In fact, the reason this is probably an issue at all is because one too many of these same execs got p!ssed that they had no one to turn to help change an email setting or a printer cartridge and they had no idea how to do it. Not knowing sh!t gets old real quick (translation: "inefficient working practice which we need to do something about").

But I'm not bitter.
Well the entire point is that there is a great deal of things we will never know for certain. We can ignore this fact, and only apply the tool of skepticism toward the things that don't align with our preexisting assumptions and world view, as seems very popular. If we do that, we'll consequently find a reason to doubt everything except what we think is true, which is very convenient but also just an engine for fooling yourself.

I'll argue this is a misapplication of skepticism. Where it needs to most urgently be applied is toward the things we think are definitely true. It will eat away at your assumptions and reveal they're actually mostly things that seem true.

> Perhaps you could say I am skeptical of your intent. Based upon your own words, I struggle to see how you could possibly prove, without a doubt, that you had positive intent.

Given the minds of others are unknowable, you will never know. I will also never know your intent with regard to any action. But I also don't think intent matters.

The true nature of things doesn't require faith or believers. The sun is still shining even when a cloud obscures it.
Even if they did claim that they are more than welcome to that opinion
I will add that in the case of authentication before each service, it is important that it does not happen in the application itself, but before reaching it, which usually means either network centralization (e.g. Teleport) or authentication proxy (Traefik + forward auth + proxy, GCP identity-proxy, AWS Verified Access). It is also important to centralize the identity provider, of course, which in the times of SAML / OAuth is easily achievable even for small organizations.
That’s some doubleplusgoodthink. Having more words for concepts leads to crimethink, ante-vapourisation.
Gitea supports Drone (CI). My experience with running Drone using docker-compose is that you end up messing around with SSL certificates and SMTP for reporting before you get to write your pipeline’s YAML. Some DevOps is required beyond what it takes to set up Gitea.

I wish Circle CI would support Gitea, because not setting up the CI system and just configuring the pipeline would save a lot of time.
That was an enjoyable tangent. I won't if this was meant as a debugging aid originally and thus not well documented (the wiki on it is sparse).
Ask HN: Would you use an app that turns emails into tasks and suggest replies?
The idea is to create to-dos for each email and show reply suggestions. It will also detect who is responsible for the task.

A friend of mine had this idea for years, and with the latest AI, we built a prototype. It is a Gmail chrome extension for now.

Would you use this?
The VR headset thing makes me laugh. I'd like to see a higherup wear a VR headset for more than 5 minutes.
While it's certainly not Google, White Castle had 2019 revenue of $720 million, and has around 10,000 employees. A little more than just a "sandwich shop".
> Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a maintainer of a popular project. [...] You’ve also got a CI/CD pipeline that produces canonical releases of your project on tested architectures; [...] Because your project is popular, others also distribute it: Linux distributions, third-party package managers, and corporations seeking to deploy their own controlled builds.

> You don’t know about any of the above until the bug reports start rolling in: users will report bugs that have already been fixed, bugs that you explicitly document as caused by unsupported configurations, bugs that don’t make any sense whatsoever.

If 3rd-party build recipients are sending their bugs directly to you, that's a failure of the 3rd-party builders to take responsibility for their packages. They should be telling you to submit your bugs to them, so they can check their packaging, and then the packagers should talk to upstream only if there are issues to be resolved there.

> You struggle to debug your users’ reports, since you don’t have access to the niche hardware, environments, or corporate systems that they’re running on.

Yes, C supports lots of environments, and Rust supports quite a few (and hopefully more, soon), but I think it's perfectly fine for an upstream author to only support a subset of those. The benefits of Free Software is that if you want to get some software running on platforms the original author doesn't support but the language does, you can do that.

Investigate the bug yourself. Figure out if it's in the app, or a 3rd-party library, or even the toolchain. Submit a patch.

A good proportion of authors will happily accept patches for systems they themselves can't test on, if it's not too intrusive, and doesn't cause regressions on the platforms the author does support. They might be willing to entertain an intrusive patch series that allows for better cross-arch support, if you're willing to work with them on that.

And if an author is not interested in helping you scratch your itch (ew! :-), create a fork. That should be easier than ever these days with the version control tools we have now, so much more than when Free Software was first envisioned. The author may even be willing to point other people who want to use their software on your platform your way (e.g. in their README), if only to get those users of their back!
Hey guys not affiliated with Stadia but I can vouch for them, I use it in one of my products for a few years now and never heard a complaint, only nice things.
You can't go wrong with them.
i can hear it in frasier crane’s voice
Surely the system was designed to accommodate people who lack fingerprints.
Google's big security cert log overhaul broke Android apps
The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns
> As someone who likes C: this is all C’s fault. Really.

I think I agree with almost everything in this post except this sentiment.

Blaming the tool is silly. You may as well blame assembly language, and if you're doing that you may as well blame CPUs and electricity and you know what, physics is harmful, we should rewrite it in Rust.
Last time I checked Talon's models were very bad at recognizing my voice. Does it support better models now, for example OpenAI's Whisper?
Thanks for posting, this is chock full of links to more info about robots I haven’t read about.

And it’s in a pretty convenient format, I’d like to see the same for other schools.
'Russian hacktivists' brag of flooding German airport sites
But those other beings are based on hardware very similar to our own, which we know supports consciousness. They're just not quite as smart.

We don't actually know that consciousness is a computation, that computer hardware can support it, or even if it can, that the algorithms used in our AI can be conscious. It's possible that an AI would be a "philosophical zombie," exhibiting intelligent behavior without any conscious experience or qualia.
Amazon needs workers, and if everything is remote, you're (likely) going to be a lot easier to replace with someone cheaper from a country with lower salary :)

Either way, there are probably millions of people who want to work for a FAANG and will happily go into an office if required. They'd likely be happy to move continents to be at said office.
If false sharing is truly the bottleneck in your code, can't you just make sure the lock reserves the entire cache line? Each core still needs to fetch from L3 cache to grab the lock itself, but that's roughly the same cost as a compare-and-swap.
Lots of assumptions and "shoulds," but the reality is that the tech industry makes mistakes with security all the time.

Every month or so there's another horror story on HN about some company storing passwords as plain text.

Just because something can be done right does not mean it is done right.
Emission Cuts Will Fail to Stop Climate Change. What to Do Then?
There’s always been a weird double standard in open source software where it has been seen as ‘reasonable’ to expect the same code to compile and work on everything from an Arduino to an IBM mainframe, PDP11 to a RISC-V.

..But getting it to work on Windows? What? Do you expect the developers to fork out for Windows licenses? Don’t be ridiculous. Heck, some software is still downright snooty about the absurd idea that it should run cleanly on a Mac.
https://archive.is/M5UnV
And if only e-paper is cheaper than the latest Instamax camera itself!
Man, those things are too costly.
Unplug that Anker battery pack now: House blaze sparks recall
Which is the least secure option available among all the others, so if that forces other people to migrate to a better option then at least that's positive. I hope Twitter puts more emphasis on safekeeping the recovery code/backup codes when activating the feature.
My biggest gripe about the Civ series is that it felt empty after a while. I love hearing the stories other players experience when playing, but there was never a good way to recreate and share those experiences.

What Civ needs is challenges and leaderboards. Pre-configure scenarios that everyone can play and compare their experiences together. Score each play on a number of criteria (cities built, fastest tech, army size, etc), and maybe even have custom achievements for that particular scenario - like how fast you fully explored the particular valley the scenario starts you in, or how quickly you defeated the aggressive city state that starts next to you.

Not only should randomly generated maps be shareable, but Sid Meier should have weekly scenarios that involve hand crafted challenges. Not just normal games with the AI trying to act like a human, but the AI existing as part of the map. Example: at turn 50, an aggressive hoard comes down off the mountain attacks your civ. When you reach the other side of the mountain, there will be a Civ with 4 cities and an advanced army. You have certain diplomatic options available (like a quest to fulfill) or you can try and challenge them. How you handle these various challenges will impact future scenarios.

The important thing is that the AI isn't trying to play the same game. It's just there as part of the map to give the player an interesting experience.
The isolation has drove him mad
This is cool, I’ve been working on something similar in Go: https://github.com/richardartoul/nola but with a slightly different focus on linearizability / durability and Webassembly.

Let me know if you want to chat!