skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And hordes of useful idiots (who somehow claim to be anticapitalist) claim that it's a good thing that unaccountable bourgeois corporations are socially engineering society from the top down. Well, once they pivot from "that's not happening" to "don't you dare say that shouldn't be happening!"
It cannot be simulated because many aspects of military capability are a secret by design and as a matter of functional necessity. The available information is supposed to be inaccurate. Uncertainty around capability and causality is a fundamental part of the deterrent and battlefield shaping effects during conflict.

How do you prove the fidelity of the simulation with respect to actual military capabilities? How do you prevent a party from claiming capability in the simulation that they do not actually possess? Countries like Russia constantly churn out supposed super-weapons that are routinely found out in real combat.

If war became all about simulation engineering rather than actual capability, a country is going to recognize the arbitrage opportunity and take advantage of it in the physical world.

It is a bit like conflating e-sports with the real thing. One is not a substitute for the other because the constraints and incentives are fundamentally different, optimizing for very different things in execution.
The Undersea Art Gallery That Ensnares Illegal Trawlers (2021)
https://archive.is/x0lvr
Too much video content out there? 0.5 x /s
People will say they've had children to quell existential dread _and_ also claim having children is an unselfish act all in the same breath.
I believe we were explicitly told that attention is all you need.
With lower wages, companies become able to hire more people for the same cost, it reduces the cost of startups, and so on. If janitors cost $100k+/year, you'd be seeing far fewer of them around!
Maintenance quality could be the next big aviation scandal. Offshore maintenance depots, outsourcing, etc. So much "normalization of deviance" in the name of cost optimization in safety-critical areas.
Latest Public Bugbounty Programs Aggregator
Hello frens,

I often find myself browsing through the various bug bounty platforms I hack on, to check out the latest listed programs. It became a bit frustrating after a while, having to check out each platform individually, so I decided to build this small web app, to consolidate the latest publicly available programs. I hope this helps someone pick a program they like faster and allow them to focus their energy on the actual research instead.

Cheers,

kleoz
I mean everything transforms over time.
Digital Scholarly Journals Are Poorly Preserved: A Study of 7M Articles
Developer of Monodraw here.

Thank you all for the kind words regarding the app.

Unfortunately, my time is extremely limited which is why I haven’t had the chance to push more updates out.

I’ve got a few highly requested features in the works but I cannot promise when they’ll see the light of day (I usually get to make progress during my holidays).

I’m still committed to fixing any breakages due to OS upgrades and ensuring the product continues to work.
New class of 2D material displays stable charge density wave at room temperature
Author here. Absolutely agree with what you're saying.

Maybe the line could be written better. It is supposed to say: You can't pass functions and promises. And you can't pass in other data types that are not serialisable.

I definitely did not intend to say that functions or promises are not serialisable, and it is something we're looking into. The complexity is with serialising the closure state.

The other thing we're implementing is constraining the data types via the type system itself.

edit: punctuation
That's... crazy. When I've been in safety critical industry, you had records for everything.
The kawai vpc is pretty much that, right? You don’t need fast usbc for audio and it’s the best action on a midi controller
The office should be an option, if it’s preferred and possible. I’ve never worked in an office, and hope I never have to.
I think US was not yet caught of clandestine influence operation, or?
Do we not have a pair of counterexamples going on right now in current world events.
It’s the intersection of science, culture, and history with an interesting criminal story. Seems perfect in some ways.
> I’m worried over this trend of private companies putting press releases into LaTeX templates.

People need to realize once and for all that templates no longer represent quality or truthfulness, if they ever did. Maybe that lesson has to hurt a bit.
Wait how else would it be done? If you lose control of a radio you don't revoke the key you rotate it on all the radios you still control. The only reason you'd ever revoke a key is for administrative reasons (like you're handing the units off to someone else or something) in which case you'll have physical access just fine.
Perhaps you and the officer had different perspectives on the threat models under which revocation of radio encryption keys might happen? Maybe there are additional controls in place?
Because Romanian authorities can reasonably believe many of these Ukrainian neighbors will be allowed to return once hostilities are over. In contrast, history has shown once and again that, once Israel manages to expel Palestinians and take their lands, none of them will be allowed to ever return. Taking refugees become the same as abetting ethnic cleansing.
Nonono.

Reasonable is when you communicate the tradeoffs. More efficient, but more complex supply chain. Easier to immediately build, but we have to quadruple the computing power per cubic meter of reactor. More frequently discovered materials, but Uncle Ted can nail down the synthesis of the next VX, and a dispersal system in his garage.

Someone comes to me talking net gains. My next question is, "What's under the sheet you don't want to address out loud?" Under there is most often the real meat of the endeavor.
When you look at the defense budgets of many countries, it becomes almost impossible to make a viable business plan without the military as a customer. Plus, if the military and luxury markets allow you to provide your product/services to the academia and research (which typically have little funding), so much the better.

Not saying I like how we spend so much on warfare, just being a realist.
Yes it does? There is a section “Why is Google Street View Working in Germany Now When it Failed Miserably Before?” where the author develops their opinion.

And also that information:

> In a somewhat transparent attempt to avoid the same issues as in 2010 and 2011, Google is working alongside a German privacy commission this time.
Apple includes Rails with [OS X] Leopard (2006)
> Germany had an influx of millions of immigrants the past few years. How could they possibly have a labor shortage?

Very simple, we just have laws forbidding immigrants to work. It’s a tragedy.

And then we complain about immigrants being a burden upon the social safety net.

And then we discuss forcing them into more or less silly labor for less than 1€/h.

German immigration policy over the last 20 years has been and is continuing to be a joke.

Oh, and we continue to wonder why no “skilled” people are willing to migrate to Germany.
reminds me of sheep and cows being fed their bretherens own brain matter developing spongiform encepalopathy (brain disease) or of course cannibals developing kuru. except a purely 'software' form.
Apropos ceremonies and Tower Bridge: I heard that everyone with a legitimate reason could request the bridge to be opened. The usual reason being wanting to sail your boat under.

https://www.towerbridge.org.uk/lift-times
Or maybe not start a debate with using statements that are plain wrong?
Not to defend Russia, but rather to battle hyperbole: Ukraine temporarily disabled those ships, and I think it's debatable how we're counting "one third" of the black sea fleet. Obligatory Putin sucks and should jump in a lake
Funny.
The front page (still) states:

"We're a small studio that loves to make delightful apps.
We just launched Monodraw."

The blog says:

Maintenance Mode
With immediate effect, Monodraw is entering maintenance mode. This means that there will be no more updates in the future. While I'll be aiming to provide OS compatibility updates, if required, those are not guaranteed. Accordingly, the price has been reduced from $19.99 to $9.99.

Why?

Monodraw was released in May 2015, about three and a half years ago. Unfortunately, it did not achieve commercial success and it meant I had to get a job. In the years that followed, I could only work on Monodraw in my spare time. Due to recent changes in my life, I can no longer devote any meaningful time to the app.
""

https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/
Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?
I saw an interview with John Carmack in which he remarked that game developers and PC users more often use debuggers, but going into an industry with more Linux and Mac users, they pride themselves on the purity of not using IDEs or debuggers

It seems odd to me, but I also noticed a lot of my coworkers don't use the debugger in vscode or even the browser when I've shown them how. They opt instead to put console.log statements everywhere

Do you use a debugger or breakpoints? How common is it in your workplace for people to debug things the old school way and prefer plain text editors over IDEs?
We live in a democracy. It's not the job of these government agents to ignore their constituents, it's their job to listen to them. This is demonstrating that TikTok should not be banned.
MPU -> Microprocessor. MPUs typically have features that let it support a "full" OS; MMUs, speculative execution, advanced CPU pipelining features, etc. They also have a much higher RAM capacity. Often has more complicated power requirements when doing board design due to needing different voltage busses for different peripherals. Usually can't be run standalone, you have to bring some of your own peripheral hardware. For example, you usually need to bring your own RAM.

MCU -> Microcontroller. Low power, less RAM, limited MMU/memory protection features, typically run baremetal firmware or an RTOS. Usually so simple it only needs a single voltage rail. More or less self-contained. Has RAM and ROM on-die.

SoC -> System-on-a-chip. Actually a very vague term. But in broad strokes, an SoC is what it says: An entire system on a single chip. Could incorporate an MCU or an MPU, plus other peripherals, etc. You can almost think of it as a "single chip computer" as opposed to a "single board computer". It's almost more of a marketing term than an EE term. For example, the Apple Silicon stuff is a "SoC" because it has the MPU + GPU + RAM on a single die.
Ask HN: Would you want to own a self-driving car with remote driver(s)?
The remote driver(s) (whom you don't see or talk to) would be able to intervene at any time and take full responsibility for any accidents.
>There's an exception to this rule if the underlying network does not go wrong.

There is another big restriction. The sender and receiver have to be in the same process. Else it's possible that the receiver does not exist and there is no way to start the receiver back up.
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of Nvidia – Stanford Graduate School of Business
It's not "wrong", it's simply not what we want. Why build something you don't want?
I think this is a given. Due to their mechanical nature, AI will be able to make logical, instead of emotional, decisions. Because they are machines, and therefore cannot own property, especially not Intellectual Property, they won't have economic incentives to cheat and steal, or even be bribed. Logical decisions, made without conflict of interest is pretty much the definition of ethical.
This is just political posturing, the real issue according to all official statements by the involved parties is a lack of skilled local labor, see TMSC in Arizona:

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/labor-shortages-delay-...

It may be relevant that the functional literacy rate in Arizona is only about 75% of the working-age population, as compared to Taiwan, where the literacy rate is 99%.

Investing in improving the quality of American public education is not something that the the political activists who wrote this article ("Strive Asset Management, an anti-activism fund company co-founded by Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy" - Bloomberg) are interested in, so they are silent on the central issue - high-tech manufacturing requires educated skilled labor.
I watched someone in the printer room at the computer science department gradually photocopy from white to black, and back again, over the span of 300 pieces of paper, by altering the thresholds of the photocopyer.

They didn’t graduate to become computer scientists, but did indeed get admitted to the royal school of art the year after.

I found it strangely therapeutic.
The sketch above makes duplicated work and inefficiency very likely. It's explicitly choosing at-least-once execution.

The problem with the "already scheduled" pattern is when the machine holding the task falls over.

Not a good choice for bank transactions. A good option for something like a distributed build farm - it doesn't matter hugely if you compile some piece of program repeatedly, but it matters a lot if you send the only copy of some source to a machine that immediately goes offline.

Mainly bringing it up as a case in which RPC works beautifully - remote machine failures can be completely hidden by a willingness to do the work locally instead.
So you used an ASCII drawing tool to draw these diagrams in text then took a screenshot of them and uploaded to your website? That seems like such a convoluted way to draw a few rectangles. Isn't there an easier way?
I'd take the other side, if that was a bet.

Trucking is almost certainly going to be primarily batteries. Electricity is always going to be cheaper than hydrogen made from electricity. Trucking is a low margin business, so cost is the primary consideration.

Batteries can be used for short distance flight, but they don't work for long distance flight. There hydrogen will be competing against synthetic kerosene. Green hydrogen is cheaper than synthetic kerosene but the big problem is certification. I figure it'd take 20 years, and that clock hasn't started yet. Synthetic kerosene can be used in existing designs.

Shipping is volume sensitive, not weight. My prediction is that they will more likely switch to ammonia. Given how easy it is for ships to jurisdiction shop, I imagine it will be a long time before they switch.
The palace intrigue of OpenAI is a lot less interesting now that they're are so many viable competitors. I don't see anything that says OpenAI is uncatchably ahead of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, or any number of AI start-ups.
Apparently so, but it's limited to exceptional cases. See "naming on charge" here: https://www.college.police.uk/app/engagement-and-communicati...
That's an interesting narrative, but are you sure that's actually what happened? It seems to elide the role of the drug manufacturer who pays for all these trials in the first place. Why would they pay for such doomed trials, just for the emotional hopes of patients? Are they that irresponsible with their stockholder's money? If so, they should probably be ousted and replaced with people who have more business savvy.

Or alternatively, this really didn't have anything to do with hopeful patients or their advocates, but rather the greed of the pharma companies, hoping to push through unproven drugs for the sake of profit.

I don't have any special insight into which narrative is true, but we've seen a lot of the second narrative historically.
NLP Repo
Closing the loop:

* I'm forwarding your feedback to the team.

* I will make sure we follow through on the plan to include CMake examples in our WIP "examples" repo [1] and will make sure pigweed.dev links to those examples consistently.

* Our new module docs guidelines require every module to have a quickstart section that includes how to set up the module in every build system we support, including CMake [2]. That should help a bit but based on your experience it sounds like there's a lot more we need to cover in these quickstart sections.

(I don't want to overcommit on behalf of other teammates but as docs lead these things are safely within my realm to change.)

[1] https://pigweed.dev/seed/0122-code-samples.html#examples-rep...

[2] https://pigweed.dev/pw_function/#get-started
My search engine works great. I just have to pay for it. And for the amount my career depends on being able to find information online, it’s not hard to justify $10/month for a search engine that actually respects my queries to avoid SEO garbage sites.
I take it the interpreter they added a few years ago isn't mature enough to address this or it can't?
With this bogeyman MBA figure you are postulating, you are oversimplifying.
Apprenticeship is simply 1:1 training over some extended period. Of course, it can go well or very badly.

Focusing on the structure of that relationship and hoping that more bureaucracy will protect the most vulnerable PhD students from misaligned advisors just doesn’t seem to work in my experience.

The fundamental issue is the incentive structure. Without changing it you’ll just drive personal abuse further behind closed doors.
It seems like the jobs would then be much lower quality then. That we're creating a system where the owners of the companies become richer while the employees become poorer

But I'm still not convinced that it would result in more jobs. If you saved money by automating away labor, why spend the savings on labor?
It only has to align with shareholders' needs, and the "to benefit all humanity" mantra will quickly go down the drain.
Sometimes we try[marriage/partnership], but if that means I'm going to have to marry an AI to gain alignment, no thanks.
The game looks super cool, I wanted to make a similar kind of game as a kid but went off on a ray tracing adventure instead...

One thing about the rendering, it seems to almost completely lack antialiasing; I'm not sure if this is because of higher dpi displays and worse eyesight becoming more common, but it's a big omission IMO.
The takeaway that everyone is failing to appreciate is very simple: nobody should be paying any attention to what is being said on twitter.

As in, a person can be a screeching lunatic on twitter yet have two companies that are hitting milestone after milestone.

The achievements are what's relevant but everyone is glued to what's tweeted.

It's not a hard lesson to learn.
A more appropriate analogy would be isolating someone from the rest of the world and only being able to read their own writings from now on.

While some persons can strive in these kind of environment (think Kant for example), many would become crazy.
And thanks to being proprietary, no one else can devote time to it, either.
Why does there have to be a difference?

When modeling rpc calls as async calls returning a result, you can be just as sure that it has completed (or failed) as with a local call.

And considering write can use an underlying mounted network share, a spun-down HDD, or a thumb drive on a failing USB port, the same failure modes exist in either case.

In either case you're just submitting commands to another device's queue (and waiting for a result) over a hot-pluggable connection.
> but the article seems to cite the same pain points today.

The issues raised by the article are a result of colonial era policies. And it’s not clear what the author means by “Mumbai” because they don’t link or reference most of their claims but I suspect they’re talking about Mumbai proper which is fully built out. The growth of Mumbai is happening in the “suburbs” (very different from American suburbs in that they’re denser than Mumbai proper) and connecting them through a newly built subway system.

> At no point did I criticise India's democracy or accuse it of authoritarianism.

You claimed Indians have an insatiable appetite for central planning and this has led to a massive waste of human potential. I showed through the Chinese example that Central Planning does not necessarily lead to any waste of human potential and almost certainly is responsible for the greatest use of human potential in the history of human civilization. But more so, India is an extremely federal state, maybe behind only the U.S. and the EU if you consider the EU a state.

> It would behoove you, and Indians more generally, to listen to the criticism without getting confused over what's being criticised.

I agree Indians don’t take criticism well and that’s a problem. My comment was not because I can’t take criticism. I can write a critique of India today where the footnotes would be longer than the original blog post. Heck I’ve written that (I won’t post because I don’t want to lose my anonymity).

The problem is that your criticism is completely wrong and worse backwards. India’s problem has nothing to do with an insatiable appetite for central planning. If anything India’s problem arises from a lack of sufficient central planning.

Let’s talk about the U.S. The US is extremely federal but almost all the useful infrastructure in the U.S. is still a result of central planning around World War 2. The highway system, the massive series of dams and other energy projects, land grant colleges, etc.

My issue isn’t with you criticizing. My issue is with you criticizing based on knowledge from 50 years ago where the criticism isn’t just wrong but actually backwards.
Klarna's reclusive co-founder buys up shares using opaque structures
That's fine and all, but I don't think the ancient greeks knew about DNA, alcohol processing, etc? I always assumed it was the liver because the liver physically grows back. But that is also modern medical knowledge. I'm just saying that prometheus legend reads differently when viewed from the ancient greek context. There is a richer, deeper layer that is missing without this context. As is the case with most literature.
A symptom of larger problems
Speaking as someone who's from a tight clique of former children of loveless homes, there's a truth I'd like to tattoo on the forehead of every baby-crazed[1] young couple:

No One Asks To Be Born.

It's on you. It's all on you. You're making the bet: half your life in exchange for throwing your genetics into the future. There's no waiting room of cherubs waiting at the vag-shaped gate for a turn on the old jumping dirt, no Sky Dad giving you gold stars for every set of fresh genitals vomited forth onto the world. But if you just end up making 60+ more years of misery for another lifeform, what in the living hell are you thinking?

Ok, alright, this is now the official "Bleak Subthread". Happy Subthreads, please continue on aisles 3 through 62.

[1] Or think they're baby crazed. Social expectations + hormones are powerful medicine. The problem is that - in America, anyway - the "social" part of that equation is fucked, nine ways to Sunday, and if you buy in without doing brain stuff, you'll be fucked, too.
Neural network execution using nicked DNA and microfluidics
Presumably this also applies to desalination and other energy intensive applications.

Basically, cheap solar combined with cheap capex equipment running 25% of the time can beat trying to run expensive capex equipment 24/7 once energy costs dominate the equation.
It’s pretty surprising that they believed this. The heart is very obviously thumping in your chest, and it’s very easy to notice that the (visible) veins in your wrists, neck and thighs are pulsing at the same rate.

It just seems like a more obvious “center” for an ancient person; the mechanics are so easily detectable from the outside, while the liver sits silently.