skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps.

But if you look at most UCAVs, they mostly have 'broadly normalish' looking shapes. XQ-58 for example is relatively conventional looking.

I think the reality is that there are a lot of advantages of the 'normal' airplane shape that removing the pilot doesn't drastically change. Warplanes are going to have some pretty high mass, kinda bulky thing to manage (especially engines and radar). Keep those close to the center of mass is just... sensible. Since your flying forwards, that biases you towards either a tube with wings or flying wing.

Pure flying wings are apparently kinda annoying to deal with - especially when what you're working on is trying to innovate in autonomous systems, maybe you don't want to spend extra effort trying to conquer too unconventional structural layouts.
Security is about risk profiling and making good tradeoffs between things like cost, convenience, timeliness, and confidentiality/integrity/availability. All computer security is basically futile because in the face of a sufficiently motivated attacker, so chasing perfection is wasting your time.

If you're doing home security, you don't use armed guards and reinforced steel doors, with the defense of depth of an extra-secure bulletproof safe room, because the security would cost more than the value it provides. You might use a good deadbolt though.

The same goes for computer security. In combination with certain security approaches like air gapping, a technically insecure out of band management network can quickly become a dramatically less plausible means of being exploited compared to say - unsexy things like email phishing attacks. So replacing all your servers with ones with supported out of band management systems can simply not be a reasonable priority to have.
You have to wonder now… How do the machines really know what tasty wheat tastes like?
I go to my local farmers market nearly every day and I've never heard anyone object to the name just because we use regular cash & cards that are not centrally managed by FarmersMarket Corp. :)
> microplastics things no doubt contribute significantly.

Where do you get this "no doubt" from. Can you point to a paper showing microplastics are relevant to cancer?

microplastics is just a boogyman word - a placeholder for modern-day fear - no different from 5G. The word du-jour changes over the decades (think back to whatever was feared when you were younger).
You could hash the hoard and stick the signature on a blockchain.

If only it was 2018, we could do this as a startup and make a mint.
I think you are generally correct in where things will likely go (sometimes correct goop) but the problem I think will be far more existential; when people start to feel like they are in a perpetual uncanny valley of noise, what DO they actually do next? I don't think we have even the remotest grasp of what that might look like and how it will impact us.
AI-assisted information creation will be treated the same way electronic music is considered now.
The blame for kids dying lies on Hamas for (1) recruiting child soldiers; (2) building weapons factories in children's bedrooms; (3) building terror tunnels under schools; (4) preventing civilians from evacuating from the north... I could go on.

Not sure if you're a Hebrew reader, but you don't know what you're talking about with regard to journalism in Israel. Have you ever read Gideon Levy? There is tons of criticism of the government and its conduct in this war in Israeli media.

Sorry these facts make you ill. Get better soon!
What is the most effective and cost/time efficient method of detecting cancers? I'm thinking some sort of general blood test that looks for a wide variety of markers.

I want to just get one of those every year like clockwork, the same way I have to do my taxes or regenerate my human skin, just so I don't get blindsided by some late stage diagnoses a few years down the road.
But the airgap scenarios are very real, and they make it more difficult to just go online and grab an old ssh client that will do the job.

It seems that the argument for removing support for the old algorithms involves the need to maintain them in the new releases. This only becomes a problem if/when the code and/or regression testing is refactored. So eventually the effort required to remove support becomes less than the effort needed to continually support the old algorithms.

The OpenSSH maintainers can of course do anything they like, but removing support for legacy algorithms is basically passing the problem down to (probably less capable) users who are stuck without the ability to connect to their legacy systems.
> Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web

Because for the great majority of users, i.e. those who thought that "the internet" lived inside the blue "e" icon for IE on Win XP, or those who "break their cup holders" [1] they have great difficulty handling the fact that they need to launch different apps on their computer for different purposes and so everything has coalesced around "web based" as the lowest common denominator in an attempt to accommodate everyone.

[1]https://www.ebaumsworld.com/jokes/computer-cup-holder-joke/8...
Ask HN: Diff Between Android vs. iOS App Permissions
I am trying to understand how strong or restrictive are the OS’s with regards to what the apps can do.

The question stems from the fact how important the phones are wrt to personal data. If there are two apps App 1 and App 2. What all can app1 access from app2 on Android vs iOS? What data can all apps access?

At its core I am trying to understand by installing different apps on my phone what all am I really saying yes to sharing with that app. Is it limited to common things like contacts and generic files folder or is it also that plus the data stored in other apps (say journal apps, text notes etc)

If there are articles / short books that explain this please let me know of it.
Let's hope that, like irresponsible nuclear weapons tests, we also experience a societal change that eventually returns things back to a better way.
bash.org.ru/bash.im is now башорг.рф
Spanish election IIRC in 2004 were won by the party which promised to withdraw from Iraq. A small detail - bunch of bombs killed 200+ people few days before that, and terrorists stated clearly this is their reason, so they got their way.

What I want to say - this kind of pressure often works, in some ways.
There's more to it than that. The dev built their own gdb integration targeting libultra and retargeting it for libdragon would be a significant effort. Libdragon's 3D implementation is also experimental/unstable. Emulator support for libdragon-built ROMs is spottier since some emulators "cheat" by translating libultra calls instead of emulating the hardware that both libultra and libdragon interact with.

Since Portal 64 is pretty far down development using libultra, I don't know that a LLM can clear the testing and debugging hurdles. A lot of libdragon 3D development happened after the cutoff of 2021-scraped data, which won't help.
Thank you so much!

On the first example -- what is the significance of the character which is a circle within a circle? I'm assuming it's some sort of graphic or punctuation, rather than a kanji...?
It's the people who wanted to "rent a car" and ended up with a Tesla without understanding the difference and got annoyed/angry that will really sling the deal.

Even if 10% of the customers would be fine with it (I'd love to rent one to see what it was like) it's not worth bifurcating the fleet.
Germany is not losing out on anything. It is simply structured so that there are no large public companies. A private german grocery store is taking over the US. There‘s a bunch of specialized companies producing stuff like Zeiss doing lenses for ASML. This is more or less just spurred by doomer rhetoric.
Very different experience here, to the point I will not buy a VW again. Not a single OTA update since I bought it in October 2021, 3 recalls already and they don't even have the parts available for the last door issue recall. Their mobile app is region locked and I can't install it on my android phone (my app store is set to UK), the bluetooth won't connect half the time, if you start the car too fast you may trigger weird bugs like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/VWiD4Owners/comments/qx1fvs/new_id4... and the list is very, very long.
You can make a privacy request for OpenAI to not train on your data here: https://privacy.openai.com/

Alternatively, you could also use your own UI/API token (API calls aren't trained on). Chatbot UI just got a major update released and has nice things like folders, and chat search: https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui
This represents an early example of AI effectively addressing a long-standing problem that was previously unsolvable. Go try it out!
A rental Tesla has to be one of the worst ideas, people crash rentals way more often than their daily driver. Teslas have a high cost to repair and long down time...
That's not how any business works. Googlers aren't entitled to a job at Google, believe it or not. Even if their feelings are hurt.

Please, please, take 1 minute and imagine a world where a company is punished by (someone?) for laying people off. Please think of the consequences of that. lol.
Networking makes it easier to configure a fleet of devices.

I find it strange that anyone would be confused about the benefits of distributing information over a network on this website.

If you think these features have no utility, then why are factories buying them?
Some businesses have a higher purpose. Some actually want to help people, or the environment, and commerce is just the means to do that. Insane, right! You won't find em in silicon valley.
Show HN: Interoception – Know your heart with the Polar H10 heart rate monitor
The awareness of a person's own heartbeat, measured by counting heart beats without taking a pulse, plays a role in a person's ability to process emotions and regulate pain.

This application allows you to assess heart beat detection accuracy and awareness using a widely available Polar H10 Heart rate monitor, and compare results against the data from a major study on interoceptive awareness.
I've been to a lot of great meetups that weren't associated with companies but just met up in a Dave & Busters meeting room or whatever pub and talk about some tech topic, so more like a get-together rather than a formal thing. Then it slowly turned into sales events as it became less about "here's some cool tech" (which at the time often meant some new OSS web framework - but through that we got to explore the evolution of the web) and more about someone trying to do the "I have a great business idea, can you build it and we'll split the profits, 80/20" (aka. Work for Exposure, instead of proper startup culture). Then it turned into crypto-pumper events. And then the pandemic thankfully put an end to it.

If you live in SF then it's probably been a much better experience because you probably had a much broader field of participants and events, but in the smaller place I used to live in, it just became an example of hustle culture ruining every shred of joy that's left in tech.

(And yes, I know, "Be the change you want to see", but I've got no interest in running meetups myself)
> There is no theoretical reason why Chinese manufacturers cannot attain the same quality level over time (maybe even short time) as everyone else.

Chinese manufacturers can build to any standard of quality, the key being you have to be ready to pay for it which most companies aren't, which is why Chinese manufacturing continues to keep the rep it does: they'll build you a widget worth $0.50 or $50.00, but everybody only wants to spend $0.50 and then they complain when they get $0.50 worth of widget.

However, I would like to know why the BYD vehicles are so much cheaper. Are their workers being paid enough to live? Are they cutting corners in manufacturing? Is this a case of simply vertical integration providing dividends, or are they being sponsored by the Chinese government, and if the latter, why? Is it because they don't have dealers, and if so, is that a good thing? People rag on dealerships all the time and there's plenty of good reasons to hate them, but they do have upshots too. My dealership of choice where my salesman of choice works is one of the few places I'm fairly comfortable that I'm not going to get put over a barrel as soon as I sign. That relationship is hard to find these days.

I'm all for cheaper cars, absolutely. Prices in the states especially are fucking ridiculous. But I also am cognizant of what "X but cheaper" usually means. It usually means one or more of the following:

- It's built by slaves (or near slaves)

- It's stolen from the global south

- It's of shit-quality

- It will show me ads
At Senate AI hearing news executives fight against fair use for AI training data
> no matter if they're American names like the spiders in A Deepness in the Sky

This is a bit of a tangent, but: you missed an important point in that book with some broad implications. Those weren't the spiders' names, those were the translators' deliberately humanized names for the spiders.

(And, to bring the discussion back home: no language model would have ever come up with a clever narrative trick like this.)
My favourite is https://youtu.be/3DSgsON3u8E?feature=shared
The comment you're replying to implies Chinese car are not safe enough yet, it doesn't say they can't get safe enough with time.
One anecdote: contracts fell on my lap, via natural conversations with friends who work as full-timers in the industry (their employers needed help).

So in my case, it was having a network and connecting across it regularly.
Relevant thread ([1]) on vwidtalk.com, "Did you know... | Prepaid VW SW subscriptions that will expire":

> According to myVW (formerly VW Car-Net): my current subscriptions (that were prepaid by VW at time of ID4 purchase )-

> Remote Access (myVW) is a subscription that expires on 3/17/2026.

> Plus Nav (VW native navigation and traffic) is a subscription that expires on 4/23/2024.

> Plus Speech (IDTalk) is a subscription that expires on 4/23/2024.

That's exactly the point of the grandfather comment - bullshit subscriptions inside western cars are now everywhere.

1. https://www.vwidtalk.com/threads/did-you-know-prepaid-vw-sw-...
Since OpenSCAD uses basically source code format, it already does.

I'm more interested in tracking and versioning edits to KiCAD schematics, for instance.
Getting the wrong ratio of installed green power generation means less CO2 reduction per dollar invested.
Hertz charges for an "empty" battery. I highly doubt they're losing money on recharges.
they're a text editor and a chat client, and a 30 year old computer can run vim/emacs and irssi just fine.
BYD is also taking over in Brazil. Last year some deals was signed[0] and there's some incentives to in-house production

[0] https://brazilian.report/liveblog/politics-insider/2023/10/0...
> If everyone is educated they'll challenge dogma of the church, for one.

But this was a correct prediction.

It took the Church down a few pegs and let corporations fill that void. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, and this time they aren't making the mistake of committing doctrine to paper.

> we'll just cope with intelligence being a non-scarce commodity available to anyone.

Or we'll just poison the "intelligence" available to the masses.
Encouraged, sure. Last time I saw something that actually required DSA, it was literally decades old, and that encounter didn't happen in this decade either. I do have some tools for ancient machines, such as with SSHv1 support, but it's more akin to archeology than access to working machines.
"super" seems a bit generous. Actions runners have always felt slow to me. Fast enough to get the job done for CI/CD but for a batch job running it locally would be faster.

This idea does leech free compute in an API-agnostic way though, if this could be tied together with a GCP free tier, AWS free instance, etc I wonder if you could cobble together enough free resources to run everything you wanted.
Terrifying Musk, I imagine. They can shut down or sabotage his ventures in China in a heartbeat if they choose.
To be clear, Nim is going to be beholden to the platform C implementation it is compiled on for its floating point behavior.
I'm amazed, seems incompetence , starting with senior management and rippling down.

I note any person could have reported this issue , by sending a few anonymous messages to several relevant people - starting with senior people and mentioning their responsibility's and casually mentioning a few facts that only a limited number internal people likely to know etc ....
And if nothing happened "in a while" , send information to a wider circle of people

As A Software test alysist for 20 Years, working in a company that was "bank like", where numerous transactions could involve large sums of money. When software changes where ready to go to production, There would be a audit of the testing. This would take at least a few DAYSs. The (government) customer would hire independent very experienced software engineers / testers. We would have a test system that mimicked the distributed production system. with all (100s) of software versions matching . We also had internal and external auditors .

Our test plans . test cases , test data and test results would be examined. Some tests would need to be reproduced in the presence of a auditor. Or the auditor would ask for tests to be run using their provided data. We also had load testing, deployment testing, rollback tests etc. The software had to conform to certain international standards for security - so such remote access would not have been possible, in our case. If it had existed it would have been discovered through audits . Other measure s where taken in system , such as encrypted of messages and encrypted databases . Access was tightly controlled . Software developers could not deploy to prod. Lots other security controls to
Just to play devil's advocate.

For a majority of people, I think most trips aren't long enough to require battery charging/swapping. Charging happens in between your trips when you don't need the car anyway. I travel regionally for work, but even on days that I spend a lot of time in the car my journey may only be 200-300 miles, punctuated by meetings and project work.

This system does appear to have advantages for vehicles that are being driven continuously, like taxis, delivery vehicles, or long haul. I think the capital expense for a complicated apparatus like this might be justifiable if you can amortize it across a fleet of vehicles. One drawback may be that if this complicated equipment breaks, you are in a pickle unless you have access to another battery machine.

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-> You know, the solution the manchild in charge of Tesla said wouldn't work.

Disappointing personal opinion unnecessary to your point.

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Edit: Another drawback may be technology lock in. If battery swap stations only service one brand of car you could look at them as having a reduced utility compared to an industry standard battery pack design. This is not an insurmountable problem, but worth consideration from an economic efficiency perspective.
Personally, I wouldn't get on a car or the train for a slice of pizza, but I would to catch up with friends and talk shop :)

I wonder what individual-led meetups look like in your area. I host in person in a sprawly Southeast US city and get 20-25 folks showing up consistently. I find that if you offer value, people will show up.
OptiMUS: Optimization Modeling Using MIP Solvers and large language models
"...a Large Language Model (LLM)-based agent designed to formulate and solve MILP problems from their natural language descriptions."
A lot of that is those vehicles require special tools that are expensive. Nearly every car needs a 10mm socket to work on it, so every mechanic has a few and in turn they are cheap. Only VW and BMW need a triple square socket, so they are not common and more expensive, and you only work on a few cars that need that so you have to charge more. Mercedes requires all mechanics have a 4 wheel dynamiter and some repairs require the car be on that for calibration making those repairs more expensive. (Note that I haven't been in the business for 15 years so the above is probably out of date)
Yes and:

I appreciated Jenkins' explanation of the different variability time scales. "Base load" is folk understanding and not especially helpful for planning our future green energy grid.

IIRC, seconds, minutes, hours-days (diurnal), and months-years (seasonal). Meaning there's huge opportunity for all sorts of novel energy storage (and demand shifting) systems. Dynamic load balancing might use modestly sized of Li-ion batteries scattered around the grid. And thermal batteries could be used for long-term storage.

The opportunities are insurmountable. -- Yogi Bera
I have a friend who is... slow.

He uses a dedicated GPS device in his car and it speaks directions very slowly. Seems to work for him.
Taking AI Apps from Prototype to Production
Tangentially related, when I was on the rowing team in college the coxswain commonly replaced ‘seven’ (the only two syllable number in the 1-10 range) with ‘save’, to maintain a smooth cadence for counting 10 strokes.
You’re saying his testimony is nonsense?
The problem is the inequality of specialization. The whole point of proof-of-work is to add costs that are trivial for even the poorest user but add up quickly for someone who wants to sockpuppet, ballot stuff, or otherwise spam the system. This only holds if all users pay relatively the same amount of money for access to compute power. If you can specialize - that is, invest capital into making a more efficient computer that only does proof-of-work, but does it for cheaper - than the system breaks down. Spammers pay less than users.

Yes, there are "ASIC-resistant" proof-of-work systems in the cryptocurrency space. People specialize on them anyway - there's ASIC mining rigs for Monero, for example. Yes, you can fix that with a hard fork, but hard forks take time in decentralized systems, and designing new hash functions also takes time. ASICs aren't even the only way people specialize their mining rigs, just the most blatant, obvious, and most importantly, capital intensive.
The other day I saw an advert for a "course" that teaches you how to capitalize on the "AI gold rush" by using AI to write and sell ebooks. It's the new get-rich quick idea I guess
Yeah, companies really do. Once a year our company gets a really large bill (15k users, several services).

The thing is those same people need to be paid, and that’s a much (100x) larger bill, so the extra amount doesn’t really signify.
This is not really surprising due to the business model Hertz was going after. They expect their used vehicles to have better resale values than what they currently have... which is a bunch of Tesla's bought at more or less the peak of pricing and now to be sold when prices have come down to sanity. They rode the market and lost.

Also they got a LOT of EV's, I give them props for doing so... but rental cars should be a little more diverse of fleets. I realize it's easier to maintain a few types of vehicles, but that's not the business they are in. Additionally, Tesla is not yet the type of company that can readily support fleet purchasers. It'll be a while before they are, so until then you're looking at a lot of pain.

Its really no different than buying Apple for business use in 2010 (give or take). Lots of companies were starting to do it, but at that time there were only 4 Apple stores in the US that even had a "business team". Apple was not setup to handle it and still, to this day, are very very slow to roll out business centric features and functionality.
Apparently the big problem is repair costs. They should buy Cybertrucks, those things are indestructible. One got in a head-on collision recently and didn't even get dented, no one in either car was hurt

Edit: this is a joke, by the way