skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's correct. It's easy, especially in retrospect, to brainstorm every possible feature to make something like this more reliable, but it doesn't take much extra mass, power or development time to end up as a cancelled project. This project very deliberately a different approach under the premise that taking risks, learning, and being cheap enough to try again next time can yield a good result compared to the typical aerospace approach of trying to mitigate and test against every possible risk. It's especially justified in this case because ingenuity probably could not be designed to all the typical requirements and still fly.
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Spanish I'd say
Ask HN: What are cool open source hardware projects you know?
Some times I encounter some nice hardware projects like turning an old Casio watch in a smart watch, but those are rare in comparisson to pure coding projects, so maybe you know more?
I blame mobile phone spellcheck! I meant to write: coerce
I agree that you could cut the other two legs and still retain >90% of value with just the SLBMs.

What's nearly always disappointing with these types of cuts is what happens when you actually look at the numbers. CBO's 2021 estimate of 2021-2030 Nuclear Force costs are here: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2021-05/57130-Nuclear-Force...

The estimated total costs over that time frame (this includes spending on B-21+LRSO, Columbia Class SSBN and Sentinel ICBM development) is 634 billion dollars. ICBMs and strategic bombers are budgeted at ~130 billion, and SSBNs are 145 billion.

If you took the 634 billion, and cut out the ICBM and Bombers and tactical weapons, and cut the nuclear weapons lab/support facility cost by 2/3 (this is way optimistic), and cut the communications and C&C cost by 2/3 (this is also way optimistic), you end up with total savings over the 10 years of ~275 billion (44%).

This is not chump change. Unfortunately, the current (2024) DoD yearly budget (note that many of the costs above are split between DoD and DoE) is 825 billion. The same CBO estimate puts the nuclear budget at ~7% of the total defense budget over the same 10 year period. So these cuts get us a ~3% overall decrease to the DoD budget.

This is certainly a major achievement, but unfortunately it's probably the single largest/easiest decision to make. Every single choice past this just gets harder and harder with smaller and smaller wins.
Not so much, which is precisely why China does ban Twitter and Facebook. I’d love to have a detente where every country has a permissive policy towards social media apps and accepts some degree of soft power from it, but that’s not where we’re at.
There's also the competition angle, lobbying efforts from the big 3 (Bell, Telus and Rogers) weakens it. Teksavvy periodically makes it into the newscycle pushing for changes with the CRTC. Undermining the oligopoly is in the consumer's interest.

Quebecor has been branching out Canada-wide at least and they're not just a MVNO.
Uhm.

> The People’s Liberation Army Navy is the largest navy in the world, but it currently operates only 12 nuclear-powered submarines, a rather small number compared to the 67 attack subs and ballistic-missile subs of the U.S. Navy.

Is this the paragraph you are both referring to? So 12 and 67, not 5 and (5 * 5) = 25 ... or 167 and thousands?
How are you doing speaker id?
Gaming isn't gaming isn't gaming.

There are games which, I believe, will turn out to be as damaging to the human brain as opium and other addictive substances. Those consist of applying the science of addiction:

- If you miss logging in this week, you miss the weekly bonus.

- If you want to collect your crops, you need to log in every eight hours

- Every four hours, clicking gives a random bonus

... and so on. This is a science. I'm drastically and intentionally oversimplifying, but UPenn has a nice course ("Gamification") on how to get people addicted.

That contrasts with analyzing chess positions, or their modern-day video-game equivalents. If you go on a forum on some types of games, such as RTS, you'll sometimes see in-depth analyses with mathematical models, game theory, and similar. Other games will have genuinely hard puzzles.

One step up from there, you have things like DragonBox, nandgame, Core War, Green Globs, and sinerider. These deeply integrate learning of complex concepts into the game dynamic.

I'm fundamentally skeptical of the results of any study which lumps FarmVille, StarCraft, and Core War together.
It's in French. Not sure if it's exclusive to French but it's commonly used.
I purchased a television in 2019 and recently gave it away because I never used it. It was an LG and there were so many annoyances with it - slow software; branded buttons I could not change their functions; lack of transparency that it wasn't spying on me; advertisements and so much more, for more money.
Frankly, as a parent, that's not the content I think my kids should be watching but it's also not the content that I'm interested in banning.

The content I'm interested in banning is the content that I know (because I've literally worked for the companies making it and seen the sausage made in real time) is intentionally geared to drive user engagement and foster addiction.

Loot boxes.

Online gambling.

Microtransactions.

Constant app notifications.

Updates from your "friends" that your friends didn't actually make.

Advertising.

Content designed to drive fear of missing out.

Content designed to drive sales.

Content to influence behavior through fear, jealousy, and anger.

Endlessly scrolling feeds of tiktok, facebook, instagram, reddit, etc.

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Content like unfiltered violence exists, but it doesn't have the same reach and hold as content that is relentlessly pushed because it makes someone money.

But the content making people money is fucking insidious, because it's "palatable" to most people at first glance, but it reduces my children to walking wallets. It plays on their brains during formative years in ways that are very close to straight up abuse.

It is like religious indoctrination, but for all the negative aspects of humanity, amped up with a solid understanding of statistics, human behavior, and brain chemistry - All to make my children (and myself and my peers, family, parents, society at large) into money making drones for a corporation.

I think that content is where I find banning appropriate. It's not about the message in that content. Kids should be free to learn material that interests them even if it's dark, depressing, violent, or sexual (ideally with an adult they can discuss it with).

Kids should not be free to be robbed in broad daylight, hooked on addictive drugs, or trained like monkeys in a skinner box to give companies money for dopamine.
Cellebrite Unlocked This Journalist's Phone. Cops Then Infected It with Malware
Cellbrite police forensic tools used to secretly unlock a phone then infected with Serbian government spyware.

Full report at: https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/12/serbia-a-digi...
I think you might be over-reading things. I saw maybe three negative-ish comments among all of them. Then you have ones like this that are in direct contrast to your sentiment:

> Interesting and fun insight for us country hicks!! thanks.
Who reads comments on news sites expecting quality? They have been a true cesspool for at least a decade. I think the expectation should be the inverse, surprise when something of quality is found. Like there was a comment about these being well paid jobs and how much you should tip them.
Why did you cite a case that was overturned by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

The new ruling makes it clear that misinformation is legal under 1A
> Does this mean the vast majority of Android users (who are on Qualcomm chipsets) are vulnerable to these zero day attacks?

If not these precise ones, related ones yes. Certain chip vendors are notorious for not providing fixes of this kind to the manufacturers to roll out (maybe doing so selectively based on who they're extra special buddies with), if they ever even made them at all before moving on to the next shiny SoC.

The other side of this is Google never met a security problem that isn't solved by further coupling the system to their cloud, especially for updates. Coincidence?
The problem is the only suggestions for reform that I have heard from Musk and others are firing people and eliminating programs. If there is a push for other kinds of reform that makes things clearer and simpler then I would support them. However, since SpaceX and Amazon have argued the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional, I have little hope that the reforms they propose will be the kind I would like to see. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/18/nx-s1-5192918/spacex-amazon-n...
I agree, western media seems more (self-?)controlled than social media. But this post is specifically about social media.
Forget it causal, it’s China town.
At no stage in my argument did I make any point contrary to that, and my argument is in no way about that.

The point is simply that U.S. democracy is visibly in tatters. Clinging on to this notion that still, in spite of all the evidence in front of our eyes, the U.S. is somehow fundamentally and essentially different to the other historical empires, is just your usual bog-standard nationalist delusion.

I think that the founding story of the States is beautiful, and that some of the early writing is really quite something (I'm thinking of Paine in particular here). And I'm very fond of some of the other cultural output. It's not "pleasant" to face the reality of the modern day U.S.A., is what I'm saying, but to hope to improve the state of the world, it has to be done.

There are many statistical datapoints which suggest the country is doing very poorly socially. Then it seems to me that a serious case can be made that the vast network of state, semi-private and private institutions over there involved in the "security" sector (arms, cyber, related fields) has gotten completely out of hand and answers effectively to itself only.

I'm trying to refrain from making specific examples here, because any mention of a specific issue will result in the assumption that some partisan point is being made. Accepting that risk, perhaps we could: look at the president; look at what the alternatives were; look at the previous presidents from the last decades; look at the legal system; look at the prison system; look at povery rates; look at crime rates; look at political prisoners; look at the increase in attacks on the media; look at military spending; look at straightforward, old-fashioned corruption; look at drone strikes; look at studies of how the state's actions tracks with polls of what the populace want; etc etc.

At a certain point, it's hard to believe in the intellectual integrity of observers who cling on to the argument: "ah, but look, that other country is worse!" This is an obvious race to the bottom, and can excuse any level of depravity. Again, it's hard to see how this belief is possible to hold without a solid dose of quasi-religious nationalist fervour.
https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1823143111205490937
Even Apple failed at that, despite having bought out Intel's modem division and there being no other company coming even close to Apple's demand of hoarding knowledge in-house.

The problem is multifold:

- RF of any kind is extremely complex

- RF of any kind that is to be certified in virtually all countries on this rock, with providers with infrastructure from 2G shit that never got upgraded since the 90s to hyper-modern OpenRAN is even more complex simply due to all the cert and testing effort required

- making that RF stuff power efficient is the utter end game

- mobile communications standards on their own are a horrid, horrid mess to implement, not made easier by some of the specs being decades old and never intended to coexist in a world where a single device can run 30 gigabit a second...

- patents, so many patents, because of course it's a global standard that a) isn't open and b) everyone and their dog wants to profit off of

- on top of that come legal aspects: not just the certification requirements, but also lawful intercept and stealth ping stuff, or having to secure the device so that enterprising hackers can't readily turn it into an SDR, jammer or sniffer...

[1] https://www.eand.com/en/news/13-may-eand-uae-sets-new-record...
The problem with Duolingo is that it doesn’t seem to work even when it perfectly triggers people to make multi-year streaks with its gamification.
I was referring to "how could you be sure that American made LLMs are not altered in a way to maximize US interests at the costs of everyone else's."

But your answer intelligently redirecs focus to different topic.
Is it on purpose ?
So we are basically re-discovering XP practices? (http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/spike.html)
It is not that. It is just the managers of the particular groups do not care about their code quality.

I made the simple mistake of running code thru some simple linters and things like valgrind/boundschecker/purify. Apparently not wanting my code to crash was some sort of political nightmare. I had to involve several higher level managers for anyone to care. The other groups got seriously mad at me for daring to look at their code. Learned my lesson. Do not do that, just fix their crap and dont say anything and work with your own branch of their borked stuff.. I even had the issue on my own team sometimes. People would 'take ownership' of something and you better not dare touch their code. It usually was not too hard to find the same mistake hundreds of times in a particular code base. As they made the mistake once they then copy and pasted it everywhere.

There are teams in qcom that 'get it'. There are also golden calf teams where you just do not even think about looking at their code.

It is not TLA's, it is built in kingdom problem systemic to the way qcom runs itself.
Such as the two examples I gave in the comment you're quoting: US defamation law and US product liability law.

To be more concrete about the defamation example:

Imagine someone has a grudge against you for some reason that doesn't involve any history of illegal behavior, like maybe your business won a lucrative contract that they wanted for their business. Motivated by a desire to hurt your personal reputation and cause you social ostracism, they tell all your friends and neighbors that you're a convicted murderer, when they know you've never even been accused of any kind of wrongdoing in any court whatsoever.

To the best of my knowledge, this is illegal defamation in every US state, and it's criminal in some of them. Although it's rarely prosecuted as a crime, criminal defamation laws have been upheld as constitutional in certain situations including ones that would cover this scenario (if the available evidence meets the criminal standard of proof in court). Civil defamation lawsuits are commonly enough made across the US, and under scenarios like this one, are also commonly enough won (or settled between the parties).

To be more concrete about the product liability example:

Imagine that you are a business selling a product and you write "safe for all ages" on the box, when you know it has components that are small enough for young children to choke on, but you lie about it on the packaging because your product really appeals to young children and you don't want to lose out on the profits from selling to their parents. If a 2-year-old then proceeds to choke on one of the components in the box, yes indeed there are lots of courts across the US that would award damages to the affected family, and maybe some courts that would find criminal liability as well although I'm less sure of that question.
Engagement driven algorithms do not necessarily show what users are consciously interested in, but what they subconsciously can't turn away from. You are probably a well-regulated, internet-savvy adult who easily recognizes engagement bait and knows to swipe away form it quickly to train the algorithm to stop showing it to you. People arguing for a ban are probably concerned about how it affects those who are not so regulated using logic similar to arguments for banning drugs.

I do not share that position, but I'm inclined to support some weakening of platform immunity for services that use an individualized recommendation algorithm to maximize engagement.

I did not quickly find an authoritative source, but it is widely reported that Douyin, the Chinese domestic market equivalent of TikTok deliberately favors educational content, especially for children. Here's one news report claiming that: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tiktok-china/story?id=108111...
Must've been all the heat from mining crypto
Shouldn’t that be clear from considering angle properties?

EDIT: Yes, I think it’s clear considering that the sum of the non-rectangular angles in a triangle is 90 degrees.
Your reply is less insightful than the original commenter.
Ask HN: How will the Alphabet stock do in 2025?
Any reform that cuts or substantially restructures government is impossible with the filibuster.

The fact that republicans don’t eliminate the filibuster doesn’t change my point. It just means they have other reasons for wanting to maintain it. E.g. if republicans eliminated the filibuster to abolish the department of education, democrats would use that to pack the courts and impose nationwide affirmative action.
I've seen it recently in Western Europe in British import shops.
I think they're not selling them anymore but everything is there for you to build one yourself: https://openpcr.org
CoD also requires strategy, planning (specifically configuring weapons and equipment based on mission parameters, as well as coordination abilities.)

It’s a lot more than simply running and shooting.
The Arduino IDE uses the gcc toolset for actually compiling and linking. You can use those directly if you would like incremental builds.

If you turn on verbose logging in the IDE the logs will show the actual commands it is using to invoke gcc which is handy to figure out locations and flags needed for the various commands.

The verbose IDE log should also show the command line tool (probably avrdude) that is used to download the binary to your Arduino.
We have the same in Polish as well
Because giving money to an organization that fights to protect your interests vs paying a company providing a service that is also aligned with you in your interests is not that same thing.

The business itself is less efficient but that may be because they are doing things to protect your mutual interests.

An equivalent would be "Why don't I buy everything off of Ali Express/Temu/etc and just donate the extra money I save to Amnesty International/Greenpeace/WWF/etc"

Edit add:

We as members of society create a standard that we want to apply: Clean air, clean water, safe working conditions. These standards come at a cost and it is unethical to ask for these things and then decide that we do not want to pay the costs associated with the standards we have put in place.

If we desire these things, we have to pay for them. If the cost is too high for us, then we should stop demanding those around us continue to pay while we take shortcuts.
Not all submarines are about eliminating all human life. Some are of course, but the majority are about more conventional war where you want to eliminate the enemies willingness to fight on, but you expect to survive and be okay after the war is over. (not as good as if there was no war of course, but you don't get to choose when there is war)
Growing an Alien Visual Culture
An extension of this is what I call problem solving by differentiation. People who don't understand the problem space defer the part they don't understand by creating premature abstraction upon premature abstraction. In their head they seem to be slicing up the problem until there is none left, but in practice this continues until they finally understand the core domain problem or someone who does gets assigned. But those layers of abstraction don't die...
Apple has tons of user engagement data. You would think they would have a heatmap showing them where their customers are spending a lot of time trying to accomplish a task. I would focus Apple Intelligence, amongst other tools, to reduce the time needed to accomplish that task. If I were the PO, that's how I'd proceed. I'd want my customers to be able to reduce the time they're spending using the phone and yet getting more done. That open the opportunity for the customers to do new things, perhaps things you can monetize.
All current LLMs openly make simple mistakes that are completely incompatible with true "reasoning" (in the sense any human would have used that term years ago).

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills sometimes.
If you liked the "functional" style of calculus in SICM, or want a calculus only book in this vein I recommend Baby Spivak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_on_Manifolds_(book)

(And obviously Functional Differential Geometry by the authors of SICM)
I thought the article was pretty level headed. Here’s the status, here’s the future, here’s what AUKUS is doing, here’s what China is doing and is capable of doing. What smugness or jingoism were you referring to?

I actually found it refreshing to not have a “journalists’” opinions and world-view slathered all over the article. I’m smart enough to form my own opinions about things, thanks.
I have an LG OLED from ~2020 in my office which I've never connected to the internet. The picture quality is great. When I turn it on (using my video game console or Apple TV), it goes straight to that input. Other than first setting up the picture and audio and changing volume, I've never seen the interface nor have I seen ads. I have a much cheaper TCL TV with Roku built in, and I still have never connected it to the internet. It works similarly with an Apple TV.

Having a large TV isn't a choice everyone makes, and that's ok. However, I don't think either TV is spying on me in any way that I care about.
I couldn't find a universal clustering algorithm yet: Frequently there is more than one way to group data that still makes sense, and as a result whichever final clustering option we choose - it will not be perfect.

Hm... unless maybe we do some sort of quantum clustering, which could be a fun project to explore!

It's a bit hazy now, but I remember trying hdbscan algorithm (hierarchical clustering), and on the graph of the GitHub size - I just couldn't fit it in memory.

I did end up using something similar to hierarchical clustering (mix of louvain/leiden/my own), and that's what we see in the final map.
Doesn't the PDP-11 and competing microcomputers of that era count? Being the PDP-11, it's lavishly flexible (i.e. it can do byte-addressed as well), but ultimately 16-bit words were conventional.
As I read through the article I kept wondering why the plaintiff would let the order expire. The real reason is buried about halfway down the article:

> The media companies provide no further details on the decision, but it’s possible that the costs of keeping the blocking order intact weigh stronger than the perceived benefit. Unlike in some other countries, the rightsholders must compensate ISPs for the costs incurred.

Well that seems like a fair tradeoff - if you are going to have the privilege of impugning free speech you should at least have to pay handsomely for that privilege. Now incentives are aligned: plaintiffs must actually feel like there is demonstrable damage here in order to pay ISP’s to keep the content offline. If there is no actual demonstrable damage, then there’s no reason to be paying the ISP. And lo, when incentives are aligned we find that, in fact, the intangible damages being complained about tend to evaporate
I would have liked to have read something quantitative about the measured cost (in terms of client and server CPU) other than describing them as "small". I'm trying to imagine doing this in gRPC and it seems like the overhead would be pretty high. I know Stubby is more efficient but some hard numbers would have been nice.