skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect lasers as the military defense innovation to follow, more than the widespread deployment of nets. There are demonstration units out there that can potshot mosquitos out of a farm field. Power that up and you've got something that will knock small drones out of the sky.
Have to wonder if the business strategy here is to get Qualcomm to buy what remains for access to these patents thinking Qualcomm will then change their position over the macro op fusion, which would be a classic move by people detached from technical realities.
This is a good list, though it has some redundancy, I think it can be boiled down to a de-prioritization of ethics and a prioritization of greed. It's also not just in the tech sector. I see that in finance, entertainment (look at the struggle SAG-AFTRA has been going through), construction, and I'm sure there are others. I also bundle striving for long-term good through innovation into ethics.
You need to know math for that. To build something that can drop a bomb requires buying two pieces of equipment on amazon that are made completely for civilian use.
he's a westerner, clearly; nobody has contested this.

it's interesting how you not see any distinction between an autonomous creative impulse from the self outwards to the community and environment AND the enviroment prompting some person who was taught a conditioned response already to enact certain behavior.

the difference is between "inner impulse from the individual outwards to their environment" and "external environment draws out a conditioned response from within the individual"

but how you say that Confucian (i.e. chinese) thought is different but also not really is ver interesting. considering "freedom with responsability" as the highest value in contrast with "harmony with your surroundings"
Cannons made forts very massive for awhile, and then they overcame them, and things changed.

Even guns had done the same to armor.
I think it’s hard to say really. We can say that effective civilian tech is getting cheaper, but without knowing really what tech the military has, it’s hard to comment on the gap between the two.

Given we had the SR71 blackbird in ‘64, a mere 20 years post WW2 which could honestly look to be something from the last couple decades, I’m convinced the global military powers have some eye watering tech that we can’t even comprehend.

For example, it’s in the US’ best interest for people to think (re: Govs) “US has no defense against hypersonic missiles”. I would bet an arm and a leg that given the amount of money the US pours into military tech, that we have a counter measure available.
I'm surprised it only costs $2M to build a living tank. Didn't even know we had the technology.
> I personally don’t think we should have domesticated dogs for pets at all because I think that is cruel on its own. Having an animal for a pet to me, is selfish breeding of pets should be outlawed.

I fully agree. Yet animal shelters are crammed after the pandemic. Adopting an animal can improve their live.
Interestingly both come from Finland. I guess the dev teams didn't share performance tips!
I miss the optimism of that era. Everything is so cynical now, not just tech.
There is no stealth in space, but space is also very large.
Ooh this is one of my favourite topics :).

I had a side project a while back which has a few fun presets . You can click-and-drag to animate the pattern by changing its branching angle:

http://benvan.co.uk/lsys/#?i=30&r=L%20%3A%20S%0AS%20%3A%20F%...
Great news but the 10 euro per month price is completely insane right?
Feels like they want to prove to regulators that nobody wants to pay this..?
In Poland I feel that most people use cashless payments nowdays. It may be also true that I live in a city in western parts. I think that the eastern part might rely more on cash.

Sometimes I struggle to pay with cash, if I have to. Cashiers cannot return change, or seem to be disgusted if they have to.

ATMs are getting less attractive. Are in less places, are old. I feel like everything goes to phone/NFC. I have a problem with that. I prefer card & ATM solution.
A worrying sidelight here: the idea that Russia is faster at scaling up this new kind of warfare than Ukraine (and therefore, Ukraine's Western allies). Tech is moving fast, and the final form of drone warfare has not yet been seen. Countries which are slow to innovate will be at a grave disadvantage.
Biden signs executive order to oversee and invest in AI
> People take this stuff seriously.

Yep! And let's not forget eSports is booming and these online tournaments have real cash prizes nowadays. There are incentives to cheat and reducing third-party hardware might help reduce that.
That's exactly how people end up the victim of a ransomware attack. It's not worth it unless you really don't care about your computer and attached storage. I'm not a government agent but I'm still not risking it on my personal computer.

Once a zero day is leaked online, it becomes the most powerful weapon to getting into a given system. Even when Microsoft races to put out a patch, millions of systems can be compromised first. It has happened before so it's not so hypothetical.
>> There is never any issue with UPI, it’s just an excuse.

When we talk in absolutes like this, it sounds like technology worship.

I am not out here to denounce UPI or to say it is fraught with issues. Acknowledging limitations, edge cases, or the reality of some of the citizens for whom UPi is not the solution goes a long way in ensuring inclusive tech.

I am in the Silicon Valley of India and the monthly salaries I pay to household help are in cash. I would so prefer to switch to digital myself if they had that option. We can't simply deny the reality they live in because we love the new tech or the people that promote it.

The suggestion is to assume that there are people who cannot use UPI and other shiny new tech, and make accommodations for them to lead their lives, rather than push for all digital and exclude some people.
It's already happening but I don't see how lasers are more effective than miniaturized anti aircraft guns that shoot shrapnel within range of a drone.
You see, this is how I would imagine programming for an ATTiny85 would be like.

I've taken interest in them myself, but I can't imagine taking a modern-programming, DRY-worshipping approach where the code itself is a particular abstracted style guide. I'd expect a lot more hexadecimal, repeated sections, and just generally a picture of what ends up in the chip's memory, which is mighty tiny. It seems like there wouldn't be ROOM to make modern corporate programmers happy.

I find the article fundamentally weird, like criticizing the rhyme scheme of an instructional manual. That said, startling to learn that you get no sort of warning that 'int' for the ATTiny85 is so different from what you might think it is. I'd be looking for some kind of special int definition that corresponds with what's in the ATTiny85, and just sticking to that.
So what’s your very specific solution that the tech world should embrace to address this scenario you outlined?
When you say "taxes", I worry that your are imposing your view on the system.

Your [1] starts "The concept of private property was unknown to ancient Hawaiians" and says:

> Many Native Hawaiian scholars today make a distinction between
the annual exchange before and after written tax law. Ho‘okupu, the
term used for the exchange before written tax law, is similar to ‘auhau,
the term used after written tax law was instituted. Both refer to the
requirement to provide labor or a portion of an individual’s labor
production to a governmental agent, but as noted earlier, ho’okupu
literally means “to cause to grow.”

> Some Native Hawaiian scholars believe that ho‘o kupu and tax are
antithetical ideas, because, they argue, ho‘okupu was generated by
the person who gives, while taxes were demanded from the person
or group that receives.

Your [3] points out "Actually because the chief upon whose lands they lived owned all the land and resources in an ahupua'a, in a sense the tenants were only giving these resources to the rightful owner, in a useful form and upon demand, on a gift-tax basis."

If you own everything, how do you tax it?

If you own no private property, what does it mean to tax it?

Animals exchange goods - does that make it a monetary system? Eg, "Reciprocal Trading of Different Commodities in Norway Rats" at https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(18)30003... .

Why does Wikipedia list non-monetary cultures?
Good exemple. They doctored their balance sheets for years, managed to broke a _very_ lucrative deal with Alstom, buying it with GE shares (with doctored balance sheet, still) and with the help of the FBI, then the executives and the lawyers earned an impossible comp, after reality came knocking down 3 years later, and neither exec nor lawyers faced anything.

Good job by them, they managed to set the industry back 10 years, and got rich doing so.
Every person you hire to help drive a period of growth is someone who will later be fired once that growth (or commonly just funding) runs out. It's very easy to just increase headcount to increase growth but it's not sustainable.

I feel like companies often think they're always going up an exponential curve rather than breaching the top of the 'S' and you really need to plan for the long term health of your company. This company obviously hasn't
A cursory search reveals one study suggesting 30% continue to experience chronic pain and 1 in 5 regret knee replacement.

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2018/...

Not great numbers, but sample sizes and study integrity, as with the data on gender affirming care, is the killer.
The best phrasing of that I've seen is "you don't need to issue a statement on everything, you're not an embassy".
Too Important to Be Able to Think
Why haven't we seen any drone terrorism (AFAIK) yet? There are grenade attacks in Antwerp on a weekly basis (usually related to drug gang wars). What's stopping these people from using drones instead of having to drive up to their victim's houses?
No screenshots, no description.
The best selling games are almost entirely online focused. Not all, for example Assassins Creed, but Apex Legends, Pubg, GTA V, Halo, Fifa, Minecraft, Roblox, Battlefield, Forza, are all primarily or only online.
And yet, the clinical standard has been to use the "with" terminology for a long time now. For exactly the general reason that you present, just with your grammatical paradigm inverted.

The fact is that anyone can copy and paste "offense" complaints and insert any grammar that they want into ad-lib spaces.

What the ASD community could use less of is individuals utilizing it as their political arena.
I didnt make it past 10 items :(
Here's an Observable notebook with a bunch of examples. [1]

[1] https://observablehq.com/@kelleyvanevert/l-systems-2
> there was a web-based game where you did exactly that

This is the one I played some time ago: https://nandgame.com/
Back in the 1970s, the IRA demonstrated lots of ways to make bomb attacks anonymously - such as leaving a bomb in a stolen car parked near their target, or putting a bomb in a trash can near their target, or sending a bomb through the mail addressed to their target.

(They would often be accompanied with a telephone warning allowing people to evacuate - but hoax warnings and deliberately vague warnings were also sometimes made)

The good news is it would appear very few people are inclined to carry out anonymous bombings, in spite of the ease with which it can be done.
Or a drone with scissors.
this infuriates me, I have:

- uninstalled all google apps from my iphone
- cleared icloud for google apps
- reboot
- install a google app I've never installed before (say one of the 70 different chat apps)
- somehow I'm logged in

apparently it keeps some state in the local keychain, which can't be deleted by the end user (other than by factory resetting the phone)

this is a huge privacy loophole
I have had some bad experiences with pre-99 dialects of C.
A net to stop what ? How ?

If the drone is above the net it'll have to stop mortar rounds (it won't)

If the drone is under the net you're fucked
And a few saudis with some boxcutters makes some huge flying missles full of jet fuel and a 20 year war, where the taliban got replaced with the taliban. Asymetric warfare was always a thing... be it sharply cut bamboo for paratroopers, molotov cocktails for burning down buildings to laser pointers against helicopters.

A better question here is, what kind of a shitty tank this is, with all the "active armor" and other sales buzzwords, that can't even survive something dropped from a cheap drone (so, relatively light and weak compared to conventional munitions used in the stationary/ground battlefield), while at the meantime the same people are making fun of russian "cope cages".
Same here. That's what it meant when I was growing up 40 years ago, but you don't here anyone saying this any more. I asked my son and he only said "unknown". It's interesting because foreign(not from the US) people, food, and customs are pretty normal. I would say they are not unknown. So I want to hope that proper usage of the word, not politically correctness has pushed it away. BTW: If you think your usage is normal, it might be. I am not your target audience.
It's incredible to me how widely this is misunderstood.

The universal function approximator theorem only applies for continuous functions. Non-continuous functions can only be approximated to the extent that they are of the same "class" as the activation function.

Additionally, the theorem only proves that for any given continuous function, there exists a particular NN with particular weight that can approximate that function to a given precision. Training is not necessarily possible, and the same NN isn't guaranteed to approximate any other function to some desired precision.

It seems pretty obvious to me that most interesting behaviors in the real world can't be modelled by a mathematical function at all (that is, for each input having a single output); if we further restrict to continuous functions, or step functions, or whatever restriction we get from our chosen activation function.
Not relevant. You can change fuel with existing engines.
> modern hardware compensating the inefficient execution many times over

That's assuming volumes haven't changed. They had credit cards in 1980 but the volumes have gone up considerably. I'd also guess trading volumes and other financial products as well.
https://archive.ph/8fNrM
Yep! Trees, tree structures, tree diagrams have been regularly in use since the 1700s as a way of defining relationships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_structure

There’s also a pretty large link between the formal representation of language using syntax trees, which was being formalized by linguists and by programming language developers around the same time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language?wprov=sfti1
This feels to me like a repeated “oh, that’s odd” moment. Perhaps this isn’t as simple as “the seed crystals are just everywhere now”, and maybe the explanation is something fundamental about our universe that remains undiscovered.
> industrial society

I dislike blaming "industrial society" as an impersonal, abstract villain. The fact is that it is humans who may either organise themselves and build a society or fail in the trying. Modern industry and the modern economy have achieved remarkable, good things on a global scale.

Even on the scale of our solar system, if we consider the exploration of other planets.

The fact is that humans have trouble thinking at scale. We had never achieved the scale of activity that we have in our modern world. The individual human has always harboured resentments and been subject to pyschological problems and limitations. We cannot expect to scale human growth without confronting human psychology.

That said, fanaticism and the petrostate kakistocracies are the worst elements of our world today. It's their scale that has become an existential threat.

Although I welcome an intelligent discussion, how we can make the world a better place in a practical way is the constructive mode that I prefer.

> individual mobility turns into collective congestion when everyone has a car

This is a pertinent example to illustrate. The manufacturing is brilliant, the machines are ingenious, but humans fail at scale if they see only selfish interest. We certainly can do better.

> One does not have to embrace Illich’s romanticization of premodern times

This "embrace" would be my fundamental objection to his solutionless critique.
the war in Gaza is very one sided to be fair, I don't think much can be inferred that can be transposed to a war between similar strengths
RIP birds, otherwise enemy will just lunch bird-like drones
No mention of jamming technology at all? FPV drones all operate in a fairly narrow bit of 5GHz, it seems like it would be quite easy to jam the video feeds at the very least.
Technically you could refold the proteins with, say, a vortex fluid device. But that would require... liquefying the proteins... and then re-folding them mechanically. :-/
The military-industrial complex just being a sclerotic mass of grift certainly has helped narrow this gap.
I would suggest that coverage here is somewhat biased. Today, SiFive basically owns the market for high-performance RISC-V cores, and that is the market that really interests HN. That market is also really small.

On the low end, there is a vibrant ecosystem of chips and IP providers, and SiFive is actually increasingly uncompetitive. This seems to be where the money really is, but it doesn't make SiFive excited. This market doesn't get cited on HN.
The argument for the morality of adblockers, in my opinion, begins and ends with the idea that, were the adblocker something you could insert in your brain directly, you would clearly have the right to do so, and also clearly have the right not to disclose this to google.

Google gets paid by advertisers to go fishing. They bait the hooks. I don't think it is reasonable to complain that the fish eat the bait and not the hooks.

Maybe it's not good for their business model, but I don't understand why the fish has any duty to the fisherman. You want me to pay for this content? Great, let's settle on a price that doesn't involve your dominant market position first. What do you think you could charge everyone without losing your moat? That seems like a price I'm much more willing to pay.
i fed it to a biological neural network that was eventually able to return a fuzzy but satisfying render to my sensorium
"I detected a human, talking to her friend Alexa"
Probably recreational drones will need to be banned in places like Ukraine with a large contingent of traumatised war veterans. It must also be disturbing for Ukrainian refugees in Austria and Germany to have air raid sirens go off every time the local fire department needs to be summoned.
Im not sure where you got the impression that I was talking about British vs UK designers.

I didn’t say British designers were terrible either. The work that’s produced might not be as interesting, sometimes due to client preference as well.

As I’ve explained in other comments, countries have traditions of quality and that matters. The UK is excellent at engineering, product design, and they had one of the most successful fashion designers of the century in Alexander McQueen.
Thanks for the info. What rates for gender-affirming care are you comparing this to though?
I very much doubt that the widespread misuse of the term "homology" for "identity" by biomedical researchers reflects their deep understanding of mathematical concepts.
Actually it was neuroscientists that developed the models nowadays used for machine learning. The McCulloch-Pitts neuron model introduced in 1943 which lead to Frank Rosenblatt's perceptron introduced in 1958. Machine learning algorithms mostly still use those models but computational neuroscience has progressed towards much more complicated neuronal models.
Have you ever watch a podcast? It's the same, but they avoid the awkward shots by rarely looking into the camera.
I have not used it myself, but Nextcloud does have a Google importer tool that includes Photos import - https://nextcloud.com/blog/easy-migration-to-nextcloud-from-.... It looks like the tool is basically in maintenance mode currently which should mean it works reasonably well - https://github.com/nextcloud/integration_google.
Fine, I will spell it out for you.

> My take is that 99% of the men on there are immature man children whose life is a mess.

This is a completely ridiculous take. You sound like an asshole saying this. Have you met 99% of men using dating apps?

> was able to date a different attractive women every night if I wanted to

Statistically you are in the 90th percentile of attractiveness for men or you are lying. Either way your experience is highly atypical.

> If you want a good partner you have to be one. An app can’t do it for you.

This is a truism that doesn’t address or refute the many stated problems with dating apps.

> the quality of my dating experience depends entirely on me.

This is also a truism and completely moronic. I guess non-white people and disabled people, etc. who have a statistically more difficult time finding a partner on dating apps should just stop being so unattractive!

> Women actually have a worse time on these apps then men

We already discussed but this is irrelevant as to whether the experience is good for men.

> because despite lots of matches the guys all have serious issues they aren’t willing to admit or work on

What do you define as “lots of matches”? Because statistically the lower 50th percentile of men get like one or two matches a week, who are often below their standards of attractiveness. They surely aren’t dating “attractive women every night”.

TL;DR go read Dataclysm by Christian Rudder as well as many other studies and criticisms of dating apps because you are delusional about how dating apps work
Googler, opinions are my own.

One thing of note is that these slides looked old (dated). The "Google" logo on the slides is pre Sept 2015 (https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/1/9239769/new-google-logo-an...), when they moved to the new typeface. Internal marketing moved pretty quickly to update all slide templates to use the new logo, so that tells me this slide deck is likely at least 8 years old.

Meaning, the information on these slides may not apply anymore. The value-proposition for Chrome may have changed since then, especially with Chromebooks being in the mix.
Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy
Eight Commands for AI: A Consumer's Perspective
> One thing is clear: Screening works. If you’re of the appropriate age, please get screened. If your tubes are acting funny, please get screened without delay.

Screening is for people without symptoms.

If you have symptoms it's not screening, it's diagnostic testing. Diagnosis is important - if you bleed from anywhere you need it to be explained - but there are big differences in how you look at a test that's done for screening vs diagnosis.
The small dingy rockets fired by Hamas are utterly incomparable to ICBMs. It's not the same thing at all. Theoretically almost everything is "nuke capable" and that means nothing in this context.

You were talking about the "total destruction" of the ecosystem on Earth, because "throwing space rocks" will be "trivial for any terrorist cell". Talk about hypothetical rockets fired on hypothetical domes on a hypothetical Mars colony bears absolutely zero relation to that.
it's a shame webauthn didn't permit a way of registering a token not in your physical possession

I don't want to have to drive to my parents/bank safety deposit box each time I register on a new website

(and allowing the private key to be exported and shared defeats the point entirely)
I've had similar experience managing ND people. I'll be more than happy to repeat the experience!