skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uninteresting premise. Some shit-for-brains vlogger asks an inflammatory question to n women, assembles a rage-bait compilation of m responses, posts it online, and swathes of poorly-adjusted individuals immediately confirm their biases and circulate it as evidence of.. what?
pip install cmake

or even proprietary binaries, pip install nvidia-cudnn-cu12
I still think of 1990 as 10 years ago and refuse to believe otherwise
Those pilots are in the minority, and already accept a much higher level of risk. Also, drone flights that have been problematic are typically in congested areas (much like laser problems).

What might have been better is if the FAA had created a way for those pilots to create mini low-level TFRs or protected airspace to warn drone pilots not to fly their during inspections. It’s also worth mentioning that many survey jobs are being replaced by more advanced drones due to cost.

I do respect what you are saying, but having a foot on both sides of the fence can’t help but feel like the FAA had a knee-jerk reaction to drones.

If I fly a 600g drone below treetop level in a heavily forested, rural area, it will have 0 impact to aviation. This is currently illegal without licensing, additional hardware, or a flight notification. I find this silly.
Judged by how effective they are right? At preventing crime and especially recidivism? We compare extremely well against our peer nations on these metrics, the ones who have much less "sane prison terms." Right?
I'm in my early 40s. When I first learned programming it felt like I was breaking into some kind of cool subculture, with its own counterculture folklore and customs. 'Programming culture' seems to have shifted from 'Hack The Planet' to MacBooks and the Ivy League. I work with a lot of people half my age, and I have a lot of trouble relating to them. It seems like there's fewer SWEs who love tinkering with technology for its own sake, and more people who would be just as happy paving roads if it paid as much.
> But let's talk about a more loose cannon type of case first

Let's talk about the resurrection of Christ, Avtar Kalki riding on a white horse, or the impending arrival of Trisolarians while we're at it.

This is just techno-millenarianism that ignores very tangible and existential dangers with ML today - automated disinformation, PII leakage, hallucinations generating misinformation.

AGI is extremely far away, and we anyhow have more closer term existential problems to worry about (and policymakers know that btw).

And anyhow, even if AGI was a thing, you still need networks, electricity, and bullets - and humans can use that to shut stuff down. Sure it would hurt, but internet shutdowns and electricity shutdowns with shoot on site curfew orders are time tested solution to civil unrest if SHTF. Go to Urumqi in 2013, Srinagar in 2018, Cairo in 2011, etc.
I dunno, I think even in the expression of “make stuff up” there’s anthropomorphising
Everything has opportunity cost and therefore constraints. I feel like you are oblivious to this.

If I'm going to audit whatever classes I want, why would I even enroll in the university? Chances are if I asked nicely I could sit in, talk to the professors and even use some facilities.

Part of the package with university is the structure. If you're saying people should throw that away, why are they even going to university?

University is almost always "worth it" in terms of absolute gain, but I think its alpha over other approaches is very dubious when it comes to how much you will learn and improve your skillset. Depending on your goals, it can be a very poor learning environment.
On a similar note, the Vax bar: http://toyvax.glendale.ca.us/~vance/vaxbar.html

It pains me a little to see nice old pieces of equipment turned into something... lesser... but it's harmless fun and in the moment when they're surplus and valueless, well, we can't keep all of them up and running.
It's like any other business, there are factors of production that various actors will have varying access to, at varying costs.

A car designer still needs a car factory of some sort, and there's a negotiation there about how the winnings are divided.

In the trading world there are a variety of strategies. Something very infra dependent is not going to be easy to move to a new shop. But there are shops that will do a deal with you depending on what knowledge you are bringing, what infra they have, what your funding needs are, what data you need, and so on.
I wouldn't run from classes just because JS historically has, though coming from JS I'd lean towards lua for a more familiar function calling syntax.
why wait? i reflect on this almost every day. and in fact, you are doing it now.

the things i was able to achieve. it's not much, but looking back i have few regrets so far. i took advantage of opportunities that were given to me, and surely, while some things went the wrong way or could have gone better, it would not have been possible to predict that, so there is no reason to lament on that. better to ask myself what i can learn from this and how i can make good use the remaining time.

you picked up painting and learned something in the process. i remember painting in highschool. i wasn't very good, but there are a few pictures i still remember that i am somewhat proud of. not because they were good technically. they weren't. but because i had a vision, and i was able to execute that vision with the skills i had. like you say, they hold something for me.

what you mean by thinking, is probably overthinking. you are right on that. i see this in my work too. there is probably a perfect solution to that programming problem, but while i am trying to find that solution, i am not making progress. until i am able to detach myself from that goal and focus on the real problem, that is that this program must be in a state so that others are not held up working with it. so i try to avoid thinking to much and just get something working first.

same goes for for life overall. instead of dwelling on what could be, i focus on what is important now. sometimes even only to get me through the day. and sometimes not even that. sometimes i just find something to take my mind off things.

one thing that i have learned is that relaxing, unwinding, by like playing a game or watching a movie or doing something else that otherwise feels like a waste of time, especially when there are so many other things that i should be doing instead, are actually important and worth doing too. so after a stressful day i feel i earned the right to play. and sometimes i can even motivate myself to do something stressful that needs doing by rewarding myself with a joyful activity after.
They're popular in battery powered IOT type devices where BW is not a huge concern.
Do you know if you can use lapis to proxy to a backend, essentially getting the benefits of nginx proxy, but perhaps allowing you to layer an authz/authen handler on top using lapis? Thanks for your comment.
Gardening is the Ultimate Sleep Fix
That means crop dusting is not effective and is a net loss activity.
I'm not into the microservices hype either, I'm just opposed to the reactionary claims in places like TFA that you should basically never split out code into a new service. Both extremes are wrong.

My opinion is that the default should be to keep things in one service and only split them out if there's a very good technical or organizational case to be made.
Then why don't normal crop dusting airplanes run on batteries?
Decompiling the microcode blob might run afoul of intellectual property laws. A clean room implementation needs to be done without reading any of the product's actual code.
I download a lot of FLAC recordings of taper-friendly bands and Mp3tag is indispensable. I wish it could easily read the info.txt files that usually accompany the recording and assign track names but that is about it.
More importantly, they’re documentation which is guaranteed to be correct.
> Because ORM libraries were invented 30 years ago.

> There is no requirement to learn SQL for most of the applications built today.

In the same way that because Linked List libraries were invented 50 years ago, there is no requirement to learn what linked lists are for most of the applications built today?

You aren't getting past the requirement to learn relational databases "because ORM", and there is no material or course that teaches relational databases without teaching SQL.

The unfortunate result of this is that people who boast about knowing $ORM while not knowing SQL have never learned relational databases either.
Why are you changing the topic though? We are specifically talking about ASI right now. We can talk about multiple threats at once.
Yandex is the only decent reverse image search I've found, it's about the same as Google was at it's peak.
If you have the time, could you please post the list of plugins you are using?
I managed to get my canon R6 to upload to an FTP server. Using their smartphone app was a nightmare because it constantly disconnects and it requires the phone to use the camera as a hotspot (and thus disconnect from any other wifi network for the duration of the connection.) Worst of all, the thing is so slow as to be nearly unusable.

The UX for uploading to FTP isn't great but it's relatively more tolerable.
I've just spent some time the last few days using this to clean up my music collection. I had a ton of duplicates in different bitrates but some were already tagged how I wanted them and some weren't. The tool is great but I wish it had some kind of side-by-side mode where it was easier to compare the tags of two files.
OK, but those examples you gave all boil down to the following:

1. you might accidentally access soft-deleted data and/or the data model is more complicated
2. data protection
3. you'll never need it

to which I say

1. you'll make all kinds of mistakes if you don't understand the data model, and, it's really not that hard to tuck those details away inside data access code/SPs/etc that the rest of your app doesn't need to care about

2. you can still delete the data later on, and indeed that may be preferable as deleting under load can cause performance (e.g. locking) issues

3. at least one of those links says they never used it, then gives an example of when soft-deleted data was used to help recover an account (albeit by creating a new record as a copy, but only because they'd never tried an undelete before and where worried about breaking something; sensible but not exactly making the point they wanted to make)

So I'm gonna say I don't get it; sure it's not a panacea, yes there are alternatives, but in my opinion neither is it an anti-pattern. It's just one of dozens of trade-offs made when designing a system.
> And anyhow, even if AGI was a thing, you still need networks, electricity, and bullets - and humans can use that to shut stuff down. Sure it would hurt, but internet shutdowns and electricity shutdowns with shoot on site curfew orders are time tested solution to civil unrest if SHTF. Go to Urumqi in 2013, Srinagar in 2018, Cairo in 2011, etc.

To be clear we are talking about ASI not AGI. If it's ASI it would be able to also control vehicles, weapons and better than humans. It would be able to set up factories, control nukes, etc. It could develop a biological virus to blackmail humans etc.
Automated spotting is a bit of a bandaid, but might prove more useful as this situation drags on. I've thought about those raspberry pi flight trackers, but I don't think you can get the data I'm looking for from from Mode C Transponders, which is what I assume the small guys use. I haven't looked into it too deeply. The optics needed for a visual system are daunting, (the area I need to watch is large, and planes are small and fast!) but might be possible. A radar solution might be possible as well.
Based on my understanding of the technology I don't think this is the right application for an LLM, but perhaps more traditional algorithm coupled with a modification of the right-of-way rules would do the trick.

The drones I fly for scouting are on various premade flight plans. DroneDeploy.com offers a good application for mapping fields from 300' high, and FlyLitchi.com works well for custom paths (flying to one spot in the field, dropping down low to take a high resolution picture of the crop, then zipping back up and repeating several times.) I can't see much benefit to full AI control of the aircraft. The current mode of operation has them on preset "rails" with room for adapting to obstacles using ultrasonic sensors. I'd like some visual adaption capabilities, perhaps something to do with lidar and SLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping), but my drones don't have these sensors, and the last time I looked into this a DIY solution was out of my wheelhouse.

I've only seen water trials of spray drones, but my understanding is the lower the better, within reason. depending on the vortices the aircraft generates the spray booms need to be about 4-6' off the canopy top, so ~15' total flight height. You can find a little bit of an overview here: https://sprayers101.com/drone-sprayers-are-we-ready/
The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls
I'm of the view NYT reports UA war in the most negative possible way.

Ditto Business Insider, Politico as well.

I see stories which either deliberately ignore fundamental and simple military or situational knowledge, in order to present a theme of failure or hopelessness.

Example : the recent stories about "UA had nothing to stop the Russians when they came over the border".

You have a pick/scout line thrown out at the border, not your main forces, and any initial attack has overwhelming strength and you trade space for defence, wearing the attacker down and drawing them out of their established support "bubble" which extends up to and somewhat over their current lines (drones, arty, EW, etc).

Fundamental lack of basic military knowledge - idiotic reporting - or deliberately presenting a negative narrative, which is fundamentally and profoundly invalid and ignores reality and correctness, for whatever reasons.
I read this in 2018 and I'm glad to see it posted again. It was one of those posts that made me ask myself a question. I can't remove the absolutism or extremes, so how can I create a filter for when I hear these conversations/people? I have my model, but...

What strategies do people employ here?
Sure, AI will threaten our existence with the wrong pizza + glue recipes when training it on non-curated data. Train it on Trump's discourse and it will also suggest drinking blach to fight covid, which is an existential risk to mentally challenged people. Train it on the news and it will put all kinds of narratives into politicians' mouths. Great for propaganda, marketing and annoying people. Wait, isn't this LLM generated gibberish?
I don't remember their titles (they're at my parents' house), but we have several. Some generic with a few plate drawings. Some illustrated. Some focused on one subject. It was not that you learned something particular, more that you know stuff existed.

I now like the fact that they, as books, are frozen in time. And that their knowledge is well packaged and consistent. Unless you're a researcher, you don't need the latest. And as a child, the clear writings and the great illustrations was key to internalize the knowledge.
I know people who have advocated raw milk since the 70s. Very progressive folks. They're pissed to have become "right wing" without having changed any opinions.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/10/the-alt-ri...
99 out of 100 people haven‘t been on the web long enough to dislike DoubleClick as much as it deserves. (And the rest know the work arounds to Google‘s shenanigans already…)
I have seen a few mentions of the new Google search AI suggesting unsafe items be added to food.

I could see this idea of dialing up the safety mentioned in the article as one possible use case for food recipes.
I'm still waiting on the resume builder that uses an llm to transform CVs into relevant titles and descriptions for adjacent related target positions.
Yes waitpid(-1) doesn't compose, but lots of things in the C world don't compose

- using library A which uses say libuv, and one that uses libevent (two different event loops)

- forking while holding locks

- two libraries using two different thread pools -- concurrency policy is a global concern. (and this one isn't specific to C)

FWIW the solution I use in a shell is simple - create a Waiter object that wraps waitpid(), and only code that has a reference to the waiter can do anything with processes.

It's basically like making an event loop object and passing it around, rather than making it global.

This is also an argument for libraries not doing I/O -- they should be pure. They should be parameterized by I/O, including starting threads, etc.

I haven't ever wanted to use a library that starts processes behind my back
How do you "fix" that at all?

In the end, there is no definition of "a source control repository that is a Go module" that is robust to this sort of "attack"... although calling it an "attack" is kind of dubious, the reasons why this is a bad thing strike me as very strained and relatively weak. Mostly it hurts Google by hosting too much stuff, but, good luck bringing them down that way.
This type of response is what I meant by a chorus of people claiming they should always have known. You don't actually know what they can or can't do, because the EU change their mind constantly and don't interpret anything in obvious ways.

Example: ads based on "content" that are not behaviorally targeted are OK, you say. And what if the content itself is selected based on behavior? Behavior such as, for example, clicking the like button on certain things? Is that behaviorally targeted ads?

It's a rhetorical question, so don't bother answering it. Point is that you have no idea what the correct interpretation is and nor does anyone else, including the EU institutions who are clearly making this up as they go along. What we can be certain of is that whatever tech firms do will be automatically asserted to be the wrong thing, because that way the EU can top up its budget from the pockets of these companies whilst simultaneously claiming to be virtuous.

This path leads to eventual ruin for the EU. The law must be just, it must be clear, and it must be predictable. EU law doesn't come close to meeting this bar and the result will be that the US increasingly just nopes out of there. People in Europe don't want to be excluded so the result will be a wave of petty lawbreaking with VPNs, casual smuggling and so on as people find ways to get access to US tech regardless of local laws.
>I think it's somewhat unfair to ask for real world examples when there really aren't many people writing optimized SVE code right now. Probably because there are hardly any devices with the extension.

Ironically, on the RISC-V side, RVV 1.0 hardware is readily available and cheap. BananaPI BPI-F3 (spacemiT K1) is RVA22+RVV, as well as some C908-based MCUs.
Unfortunately projects are increasingly using Discord or Slack instead of IRC.
Well, how are we going to search the fluxing internet?
I bring this up because you ascribe godlike powers to ASI without explaining HOW such a thing would propagate or interact with the physical world.

Despite what HN says, IoT has not infiltrated the world.

If you are describing a godlike intelligence, we may as well do mental experiments around how we would interact with god.

It's literally just bad sci-fi. At least Nolan tried to provide some base parameters around his reality in Tenet and Inception (no hate on Nolan, I love his stuff).
core.async was actually the "killer app" that sold Clojure to me. I've always liked Go's CSP-style concurrency, but I wanted a proper functional language to go with it. It turns out that Channels/Queues are just an insanely good abstraction for getting threads to talk to each other. The closest general-purpose library I've found that helps bring that to the rest of the world has been ZeroMQ, which is great but not as easy and nice to use as core.async.

That said, I really don't think RabbitMQ is so bad. The default docker configuration for it is fine for most cases you're likely to come across for all but the biggest applications, and I do think that having the ability to have jobs restart/requeued when a worker crashes out of the box is worth the tradeoffs for slightly increased complexity. I usually just use a single docker compose and glue everything together in one big ol' YAML.

Still, there's obvious value in avoiding dependencies, so it of course depends on the size and scope of your project. If you think you're going to end up distributing this over 100 nodes, something like RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ might be worth playing with, but if you're just doing relatively small (at you appear to be in this project), it's probably the correct choice to mimic whatever behavior you need with core.async.
Boomer mindset but I want technology as far away as possible from my bank, local credit union just needs to support Apple Pay and that's all I care about.
On Windows installs the default user created in a home/pro install is an admin and it never prompts the user to go create a non-admin account for daily use. This actually makes perfect sense in itself (beyond the behavior defaults you mention being backwards).
Distributing Global State to Serve over 1B Daily Requests
I don't think sites have problem with alias emails like iCloud Hide My Email. The issue is when they are used for creating spam accounts.
> Fun fact about the Medallion Signature Guarantee: It's not a seal or embossment, like it often is for a notarization. Instead, it's a stamp (like what you see on [0]). It's a big stamp, but it's just a stamp.

As far as I'm aware, a "seal" and a "stamp" are the same thing. In particular, a seal is just a device that impresses ink onto paper. How is that supposed to be different from a stamp?

https://www.japanlivingguide.com/living-in-japan/culture/han...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom_Seal_of_the_Realm

(Depending on the documentary technology of the culture, a seal may also be used to make a physical impression in a soft substance, but obviously that is still no different from a "stamp".)
But china is also leading the planet by pv being deployed
This topic has been researched and discussed extensively in the embodied cognition branch of cognitive science. It's mentioned as a central aspect of cognition in Margaret Wilson's landmark paper " Six views of embodied cognition" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12613670/) which came out 12 years before this one. I'm surprised to not see much of the extensive research that has been on this idea before cited here.
Why would they, google does it for free. Spend money making google crawlers more efficient, not copying google.
I was being sarcastic. vCard and iCal are open standards - and that is probably why there are not used by many. Because many vendors like vendor lock-in.
> control vehicles, weapons and better than humans

How?

A Maruti Suzuki 800 and a Lada is not internet connected.

Neither is a Merkava nor a MTZ, Kubota, or Mahindra Tractor.

And drone warfare platforms are closed loop airgapped networks that communicate via virtualized RAN.

> It would be able to set up factories, control nukes, etc

How?

We don't have automated machines to manufacture. And nuclear weapon delivery systems require a physical unlock.

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How does the jump from cyber to physical happen?
"The Extended Mind" by Andrew Clark and David Chalmers, is a much more interesting (to me) examination of the categorical blurring between the mind and externalized tools of thought.

https://consc.net/papers/extended.html

This idea is also one of the many interesting facets of my favorite novel, "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel".

https://joeldueck.com/mind-palaces.html
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