skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The detachment mechanism adds significant complexity, weight and costs.

And the result is much less accurate, and the warhead is smaller. Instead of actively flying the warhead as close to the target as possible, the drone now needs to calculate the optimal detachment point and hope the warhead ends up at the right place for an intercept. This detachment point needs to be at least several seconds before intercept to give the drone enough time to get out of the blast radius, so if the target is actively evading, any hope of hitting it is basically zero.

As long as the drone is cheap enough, this is the superior solution for the widest range of viable targets.

Maybe if you are going up against lots of really simple drones with zero evasion capabilities and no armour, it might make sense to to even simpler and swap the warhead module out for a what is essentially a large single-shot shotgun, but that's going to have significantly less power.
> The poses would be at least a few seconds apart

Are those 3 poses she's doing, or did she have her hands clasped, then performed some gesture where she dropped her left arm then right arm?

The right definitely looks like a deliberate pose, at first glance the middle does too, but the left doesn't at all, it looks like a gesture. The splay of the hands among other things indicate this to me.

I think the middle isn't a pose either, just a transition. I think only the right is a pose, and it goes Right > Middle > Left in time. Her hand is splayed in the middle like it is in the left.
I don’t think I agree with the sentiment that user doesn’t equal business, to some degree maybe, but a business is what its users produce. I buy the point that some users within a business can have a demand for processes that will not be good for the business because they may be too focused on their specific department, but as a whole I think they are largely the same thing. Happy users work better, better work is good for the business. Aside from that, I think a lot of the “bad” decisions are unavoidable as businesses grow, so too with the bureaucratic demands that are often not producing value, but it’ll be very hard for the “IT department” to do anything about it because it lives as a “service” department similar to HR, but less understood by management. Cost-centres never get political power to match money makers.

I do think it’s a very interesting article, perhaps with a bit of a baiting headline. But I think it would be even better if it included the perspective of the modern ci/cd pipeline. What I mean by that is how we’re building more and more automation into it, things like RennovateBot that will automate certain parts of your maintenance processes. Things that won’t work automatically if you don’t write clean testable code. If you focus on delivering business value, spaghetti be damned, you’re going to end up spending so much time maintaining it that you’re eventually not going to be capable doing what you set out to do. We used to live on a world where this was sometimes ok, because you’d clean it up once the value was created, but with how much you can gain from a highly automated pipeline, I just don’t think that paradigm is true anymore. Because not only will you have to clean things up, you’re also going to miss out on so much efficiency by not being capable of using these automated tools. You can make the argument that you don’t need to update things as often as those tools help you so, and 5 years ago you would have been correct. Many places you may even still be correct, but in large organisations in the EU this is just no longer the case because of the added legislative bureaucracy that IT security needs to play into.
If I had to choose a lesser evil it would be Facebook
I’m not proposing anything mandatory. I would like it if the biggest corporation in the world would consider the effects of their technology on society, rather than solely on their profits. That they would at least let ethical considerations potentially influence their design decisions. But that’s not how they got to be the biggest company in the world, so I don’t expect this to happen.
> i, personally, would not accept money from the company actively militarizing the southern US border but that's just me

food for thought, and that was even before they were advertising offensive weapons technologies of this sort.
Other companies' CEOs haven't intentionally intertwined their politics and their public image in quite the same way Musk has.
I believe it's pretty bad for just about anything - at least, after a few tests, I haven't found a good example where it, indeed, provides meaningful and useful results. I wouldn't have an issue if it would say "check out what people also tend to listen to", but it's most certainly not "find similar music".

I strongly suspect that it has no idea about music whatsoever, and probably falls into same association fallacy as most recommendation systems, basing relationship on co-occurrence rather than any inherent similarity.
Disappointed that they didn't explain how steering works. Seems like a major oversight.
The point appears to be the kinetic interceptor suicide only happens a small fraction of the time. Most usage would be the reuse case.

> Roadrunner-M is a high-explosive interceptor variant of Roadrunner built for ground-based air defense that can rapidly launch, identify, intercept, and destroy a wide variety of aerial threats — or be safely recovered and relaunched at near-zero cost.

(key word is the "or")
Ah so it's about public image and reputation, not harm.
The MSRP for these things was never competitive, but $15-20k in the used market for a carbon monocoque electric go-kart? Sign me up.
What do you want the policy to be on the US southern border?
Web browser suspended because it can browse the web is back on Google Play
when is the new mistral coming out and at what size?
I would love to select more than one artist at a time.
Me too. It's like, dude, just go. If you let me go first, then I have to hurry and awkwardly walk right in front of you while you're waiting.
Why? Why is this a thing?

..."and destroy a wide variety of aerial threats"...

Okay, but what/who is the root problem that created this company to solve this issue? The either real or perceived threats that the United States and its media affiliations have concocted has really put a tamper on its own ability to make policy decisions that benefit its own peoples. We are spending BILLIONS of dollars on wars in other countries WHILE neglecting our own. Why do we need another private company help with this?

Another question for a separate answer: why can't we spend that money on domestic issues?
It's much harder (impossible, really) for a owner to mitigate against firmware bugs, though. Regularly servicing and inspection should prevent/detect the vast majority of major mechanical issues, not to mention than many are slow-onset.

A firmware bug just happens, and there's no way (as an owner) to detect it beforehand.
This research uses DeepFloyd IF, which forbids commercial use. They'd need to find/train another suitable image generator.
Delphi, the successor of it still does that. Here is a link to an article about having a real project that contains a bit over a million lines of code. Has a video in it as well, and the comments there also discuss the times regarding Win64 compilation times:

https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/blogold.asp?post=759
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/07/stop-comparing-number-g...

: Dividing 270 million autos by 1,200,000 pumps = a ratio of 225 autos per available pump.

https://www.bcg.com/publications/2019/costs-revving-up-the-g...

: We found that the representative utility, depending on charging patterns, will need to invest between $1,700 and $5,800 in grid upgrades per electric vehicle (EV) through 2030.

So if this and further improvements can get the cost down to about $800k per pump you're at the order of magnitude where they're equivalent, and that's without factoring in the charging stations or home chargers (or the cost of batteries or fuel cells, etcetera, etcetera).

https://h2stationmaps.com/costs-and-financing

I'm seeing between $2 and $3.2 million in ~2014 dollars per hydrogen fueling station before this particular efficiency gain is factored in.

: As the global demand for hydrogen increases, the economies-of-scale cost reductions will be triggered. NREL projects a cost per station similar to other alternative fuels within 10 years. In addition, lessons learned about design, engineering, and construction will help reduce non-equipment costs.
If Elon wasn't doing a Henry Ford anti-Semitic speedrun... I still wouldn't be interested. Car probably handles about as well as it looks.
Cool, but where are the specs, the release date? This product announcement doesn't have much information.
Something like track and field sports might be best objective comparison. Excluding sports where equipment has been changed. The shoes might have gotten somewhat better, but still on top level it seems we have quite narrow band which is above previous record holders.
Google uses different ways to decide if a webpage belongs to a specific country. Like domain name, search console country setting, server location, language, etc. Not sure if it's always 100% accurate...
With health insurance you could also just give individuals the tax breaks directly. It would really help fix the system and simplify the tax code.

It makes no sense for 401k nor health to be managed by an employer. Almost all companies just outsource it to a useless 3rd party 401k provider that skims money off the top and selects 5 mediocre investment choices where they get the biggest kickback.

We look down upon bribery in other countries as third world problems while enabling it at a much larger scale with foolish tax regulations like this. What if your 401k provider and company health insurance conglomerate instead each stopped you on the highway to work once a week and demanded their $10 cut?
It’s a better small missile, not better than a small missile.
Same. Just an awesome company.
Paraguay official sacked after signing agreement with fictitious country
"Arnaldo Chamorro told reporters Thursday he was dismissed from his job as chief of staff to the agriculture minister after signing the document with purported officials from the "United States of Kailasa" -- presented to him as a South American island."

"In the document, complete with the ministry's letterhead and official seal, Chamorro salutes "the honorable Nithyananda Paramashivam, sovereign of the United States of Kailasa" and praises his "contributions to Hinduism, humanity and the Republic of Paraguay."

"Paraguayan media reported that "Paramashivam" was in reality an Indian citizen wanted for crimes committed in his country."
They are likely referring to Elon’s 2018 promise that people that bought Teslas could make money while they slept because people could rent their Tesla from an app and the car would return to the users driveway by the morning.
I'm not sure I agree with everything, but I love the mental models this introduces.
Nice! Glad you're doing this work. Sounds like something that would be best integrated into a community with strong contributor culture that could do the tagging, but that's another task entirely.
What Is the Morning Writing Effect?
It is not always 100% accurate, but still pretty good after a number of different tries.
My understanding is they can't shorten the CV Shaft/Joint because it causes problems.If they can move it into the wheel hub, it allows them to make the motor smaller which is where they save the room. By taking one big motor to drive both front or rear wheels, they now have smaller ones much closure to each individual wheel. This reconfiguration leaves more room for interior space or extra batteries.
Gepard is a specialized anti-air vehicle with a radar and pretty expensive shells. Very effective and cheaper than Patriot/NASAMS/IRIS-T missiles, but not really cheap. It’s mainly used on the outskirts of big cities, AFAIK.

When intercepting drones and rockets in a middle of nowhere, what’s often used is a regular machine gun that’s mounted on a pickup truck.
How is it ironic? Not sure I follow.

The article is making the case for challenging music. You pointed out that Brubeck made challenging music (i.e. 5/4) accessible to most people. My argument is that this is a poor example as 5/4 is not that of a challenging time signature, and most non-musicians who heard Take Five probably didn't even perceive the uncommon 5/4, and just enjoyed the tune. 5/4 is popular in progressive rock, post rock, and electronic music. In my experience most people do not pay attention to that. Similar to 3/4 - it's an uncommon but easy time signature that people in the Western world have no problem with. Basically, there is no challenge.
The fact that it can land if it doesn't explode seems like a big deal. Launch a bunch at a target, first one gets blown up, rest return to base for later use.
It has a longer bed than the shortest bed option of the F-150, but shorter than the other two options. It's about a foot narrower than all of then though.
For certain scenes and genres, I suspect this would already be very useful
Sounds like a terrible idea to me, honestly. Even Boeing aircraft still have a mechanical linkage. And Cybertruck won’t be a fighter jet no matter how much Elon proclaims it so, it’s just worlds away in terms of maintenance and safety engineering compared to what happens on an aircraft. Not saying it will be common but some sucker will eventually be killed by this.
See also: polygraphs.
We are already spending money on this type of problem. Realistically, this looks like a more cost-effective solution. So you have it completely backwards – this being a thing might actually unlock more funds for domestic issues.

Of course it probably won't work out this way because the DoD doesn't just say "We bought a bunch of Anduril Roadrunner's instead of $4m Patriot missiles [or whatever] this year, so we don't need as much budget, take some back".

But a company trying to come up with new solutions to existing problems (you might disagree they are real problems, but we are already spending the money regardless), is actually a good thing.

Just look at SpaceX – before SpaceX, NASA had the ability to send stuff to space. But post-SpaceX, they can send more payloads at a cheaper cost. Isn't that better?
Seemed pretty clear to me. Drones are a dime a dozen. Drone defense is disproportionately costly. This product's goal is to protect from drone attacks without wasting a bunch of million-dollar missiles.

Regardless of one's feelings on the military-industrial complex, the use case seems relatively straightforward.
Seems like it's only in-plane motion, so the wheel can't tilt/turn?

I assume that means they still need a CV joint for the front wheels regardless, and that it gains no camber when cornering.
What kind of "release" are you talking about? You mean when it hits the shelves of Bass Pro Shops?
Thanks, and that indeed looks a bit sad. Going on the hunt for something more colourful and let you know!
An SGI Onyx has a tiny fraction of the computing power needed to run text-to-image generative models like this.
It could also have been taken with too much motion (either the phone or the subject), meaning some of the closer-in-time exposures would be rejected because they're blurry/have rolling shutter.
One is reminded of how Samsung cameras are trained to put the details of the moon over anything that looks vaguely like the moon, but just one, so you can photograph two blurry images of the moon and one of them will look like it was taken by Hubble.
It's just a heuristic I'm not gonna judge someone solely based on it but yeah seeing someone drive up in their Cybertruck won't give me the best of first impressions.

> I don't believe most Tesla owners are aware of this. Most that I know see an obvious choice in a product with no real competition.

Model 3 is a weaker heuristic because there was less competition at the time and less people knew about who Elon really was, but if you are driving a cybertruck I can't help but assume you're a sucker or it's some kind of political statement
How big is this? I couldn't tell if it was 3 feet tall or much, much larger.
You can fly without ID provided you can answer questions correctly.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/frequently-asked-questions/i-forg...
In my personal experience I gave up on Pandora. It was regularly suggesting me music that wasn't at all similar to the song I started on. In fact it was consistently worse at finding me similar music than just plain Spotify radio (or playlist enhancer) and/or YouTube Music radio.

Contrast Chosic (which is free) - its recommendations are configurable and usually hit the mark much better: https://www.chosic.com/playlist-generator/
Yeah this strikes me as half generated, especially since it's three different poses. This is the baby teeth thing all over again and it must suck knowing that your Wedding photos are just an AI's reinterpretation of the moment.
You can tell this scene isn't well lit - just look at her reflected face. It's too dark.

Sure, some of it is bright, but that just means it's backlit.
There are some options for date-ranges, but haven't implemented this yet. Will dive into it and add something more flexible!
A reasonable guess is that this is in response to the proliferation of group 3 UAS in the Ukraine conflict [0]. Personally, I am all for the US producing robotic systems designed to kill robotic systems that are designed to kill humans.

[0]https://www.eurasiantimes.com/deliveries-of-russias-deadly-o...
It’s just what happens when you really aggressively do noise reduction on small sensor data.

The noise pattern of any sensor that small will blotch in patterns that when combined with aggressive noise reduction, it will look this way.

It’s less apparent on bigger sensors but you’ll see the same if you really crank the noise reduction
> It's only because the people there tolerate it.

Or they're too poor to leave for greener pastures. Dictators are in power not because their people tolerate them, but because they don't have a choice in many cases. There's exceptions, but generally the stigmatized term "banana republic" aptly describes many of these places dictators control for a reason.
EV mythbusters – A Guardian series of articles around electric vehicles
https://archive.is/nqJX1
I guess this is the best scenario for this as far as I can tell, but as another commenter mentioned, how is this better than standard small missiles such as a normal "Iron Dome" style system?

Having them "in the air" waiting doesn't seem to be that big of a help when your missile launcher can have the rocket in the air about as fast after an intercept command is issued. And small missiles are and will continue to get cheaper.

Maybe the price calculation gets better for guaranteeing an intercept? Since either you assume Drone/Missile #1 is going to hit or you fire more just in case that first one misses, because waiting to see if you have a hit before firing another is not an option, and given enough delay and fast communication you could have the second drone abort and fly back after a confirmed intercept.
Also, many more people buy phones than standalone cameras, so they can afford a lot more software R&D.
> Even Boeing aircraft still have a mechanical linkage.

Airbus has been FBW for nearly 40 years now. And recent Boeings are FBW as well, the mechanical linkages are only between the yokes, something which is not relevant on a car.
make several at less cost because no return hardware, reduced weight or increased range, make it up in volume. Also this can break on re-use, less chance to be faulty with a factory checked item in a box
I can't use my cat to make a painting in the style of Van Gogh. Nor can I use my cat write an email to my engineering team that I'm laying of 45% of them, in corporate speak. Nor can I use my cat to refactor a class into a more functional pattern. Hell I can't even get my cat to hunt mice. He's a cute fucker though.
The whole defense industry leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Once you peel the narrative that we are supposed to be the good guys (hint: in some/most cases, we are not), you realize that you really just help to kill people.
>What kind of "release" are you talking about?

When people are able to buy it.

>You mean when it hits the shelves of Bass Pro Shops?

I would expect an online shop like most specialty goods.
> If a driver sees me walking in the crosswalk and notices that our paths will intersect, he speeds up.

I've lived in the US all my life and I don't recall seeing this even once.

On the other hand, the thing I experience that infuriates me is when the walk sign comes on so I start to step off the curb to cross and a car making a right turn at my corner of the intersection doesn't even pretend to check for pedestrians and comes barreling through the corner because they were trying to beat the red light.

Most of the time they see me at the last second and stop before running me over. I make a point of quickly stepping back on to curb and giving them a death stare before I continue.

Sometimes they don't see me and barrel through the corner. If I don't step back, I would get run over. Infuriating.
It is not about the comparative values of humans.

It is about costs.

The reason we write readable code is because we spend more time reading it than writing it. Engineer time. Which is money.

Yes, other things are money considerations, too. Considerations the advice to write readable code is not meant to address.
>> I think these days your non-social approach might work out better

No, that's not possible - in the end all important decisions are still made by humans ( I'm still waiting for chatGPT 7 executive edition ) with their emotions and feelings being their decision center.

And while this is true, if someone isn't monstrously inept in social settings, the most important thing he can do is being out there to leave positive marks on other folks perception of himself/herself.

You can think that good work speak for itself, but the truth is that without leaving and breathing advocate it will be lost in translations.
I want missile trucks. That launch from submarines. Can carry AMRAAM, SLAM, JSOW, etc. Can land in the water and be recovered by the submarine and launched for more missile truck missions. I’d war-game this against super duper expensive jets, carriers, etc. Maybe even the subs can be autonomous and run off AI.
• creating a negative image of the risk group;

• creating an atmosphere of uncertainty, fear and suspicion in the
native borderland;

• redistributing universal fear to a certain ethnic group;

• neutralizing bystanders to make them behave mechanically, co-
operate passively with the government and exhibit non-resistance to
mass violence;

...a pretty timeless program!
Good luck spotting it if it's attached to the window.onclose event. Chrome extensions could save it to storage. Probably even some chrome vulnerabilities (it would just be a devtools network tab bypass so not technically a 0-day). And that's just top of mind, I'm sure there's other methods.
They're not wrong about these things, they're super hazardous. Through-drivers become frustrated, drivers looking for the store they want aren't paying attention to the road, people window-shop while driving, peds are wandering everywhere, etc. Highly problematic.
I was sceptical but you know what, I love this mental model.

Don’t follow it blindly of course, there are exceptions where dev > biz (see OpenAI debacle) and where dev > ops (early stage startup, move fast, in particular dev > ops because biz)
Anyone know what is the reason why both OpenAI and Anthropic proactively banned users from China from using their products...
Correct me if I’m wrong here but this is just sort of an alternative to a cv joint, sort of because it can’t handle rotation.
It also has nothing to do with EVs specifically, a ICE could use this.
Unfortunately a country is looking out for their own best interests instead of relying on questionable technology out of their control?