skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nuclear non-proliferation treaty has somewhat limited nukes. But now Iran is on the verge, Israel, India, Pakistan , North Korea and other countries must be pursuing them. North Korea has shown the value of them because nobody can attack them or stop them because they do have some nukes and missiles. Israel and Iran are always attacking each other and regardless of the reason or goodness of either side, I'd pick them as the two most likely countries to start a nuclear war. Maybe even worse than Pakistan versus India.

I'd say we need a new strategy on top of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Let's get some concrete facts out then - how is it better? A (selfish) practical example for myself - I play a lot of Overwatch. It works just fine in windows. I get low load times and usually maintain 177fps at full resolution. I have no complaints but I am open to switching. Am I guaranteed of seeing no issues in Linux?
Any use case that has

A) a user base with usage that varies significantly over time

and

B) an architecture that can actually scale significantly up and down during the same time period

So if you have lots of web back ends and business logic and general workers for jobs that can just be shut down when there's no capacity needed, there's a ton of savings available in the cloud.

If you have a big monolithic architecture or some other organization where everything is just on all the time, the cloud makes less sense as a cost savings.

I once wrote an internal chat bot which was used less than 2 seconds per day, but was actually supremely useful as it really simplified some process or another and took a fraction of a second to run each time. The actual cost to run this in the cloud was approximately 1 cent per year. If I didn't have this cloud capability it would be hundreds of dollars per year to host or thousands of capital in machines and maintenance to host myself.
Are you thinking of something like the Blinkenlights Star Wars telnet demo from a while ago?

The "securing" part aside, ssh still gives you a whole terminal experience very similar to the telnet one & the ability to draw into it (like if you were using Emacs on the shell host).

You can set something like that up by forcing a command on ssh instead of a shell (like what github does for git).
> Proton has the energy of open source clones of video games.

Sorry, what?
it is the classic find a problem to use our solution, or XY problem

As an example I have seen many times people attempt to find a reason to use k8s because the industry says they should instead of looking at what they need to do and then determining if k8s is the best for that application
Facebook isn't pulling any of their apps from the App Store. That's just baseless fear mongering.
U.S. Takes First Step to Formally Regulate AI
I'd encourage you to think critically about the design and implementation of such a system, the incentives it would generate and the moral hazards of enacting it. It's not like labeling kids as "unworthy of learning" could be abused.
This is the person who cancelled SO jobs.

SO jobs should have been an absolute gold mine, instead he cancelled it.

Makes no sense to me. If you can’t make a ton of money on job ads on Stack Overflow then you’re not trying.

It’s true that SO was doing SO jobs wrong, but it should have been fixed, not cancelled.
it may sound overkill, but I mostly use my own personal modifications to ibus-typing-booster for my input (formerly to ibus directly)

it works well enough for me on my computer, and i simply avoid phones for input - anything "phone" is factory-lobotomised and nothing else should really be expected, and even if the software were to suddenly be best effort, you'd still have to overcome very taxing interface limitations

this has the disadvantage of making you even less at home in other devices but hey, my reality is what when this happens I wouldn't have been any better off regardless
The difference between "software" and "firmware" is mostly relative to your view point. It's another level below the stuff you work on yourself.

For example many modem modules these days have fairly powerful ARM SoCs running Linux and they also have another smaller processor running a RTOS or bare metal that does the radio stack. The whole module could be integrated into a larger device itself running Linux too (such as a payment terminal).

The terminal owner will probably consider the entire terminal software as "firmware" (since it's in a device and pretty opaque to them and they likely can't update just some applications like on their PC).

The developpers working on the code in the terminal will probably call what they do software and consider the stuff that goes in the modem module to be "firware" (and probably not differentiated between the Linux based and RTOS based parts of the modem).

The developpers working on the Linux part of the modem will probably consider what they do to be software and the firmware to be the RTOS based stuff that runs on the baseband processor.
Germany already did, they have increased their military spending significantly.
Do you wrap yourself with tinfoil at night to prevent your neighbors Android from scanning your thoughts?
I work for a company with the web development team. We have ~6 software developers.

I'd love to be able to just have people submit their resume's and extract the data from there, but instead I'm going to build a form and make applicants fill it out because chatGPT is going to be at least $0.05USD depending on the length of the resume.

I'd also love to have mini summeries of order returns summerized in human form, but that also would cost 0.05USD per form.

the tl;dr here is that there's a TON of usecases for a LLM outside of your core product (we sell clothes) - but we can't currently justify that cost. Compare that to the rapidly improving self-hosted solutions which don't cost 0.05USD for literally any query (and likely more for anything useful).
The Weimar republic had a pretty hefty Achilles Heel built into its democracy: because Bismarck didn't necessarily trust the will of the people completely, the government he structured ended up giving Chancellor far more power than, in hindsight, was correct to preserve a democratic system.

The system basically had an "In case of populism, break glass" feature built in and the nazis figured out how to pick up the hammer. Not to imply they didn't enjoy some popular support from the German people prior, but once they had Hitler clicked in and able to dissolve the Reichstag, that support was irrelevant.
Even in phonics, kids learn common words like "the" by sight. But that doesn't scale. People don't learn to recognize every word as an individual token.
My 92-year-old granddad is a car enthusiast and he is waffling about going in on the waiting list because he really likes the car but doesn't know if he will live long enough to accept delivery.

After reading this it may sound like I am either trolling or astroturfing but I guess like all other turfers I tell you I am 100% legit. It was really funny after he made me watch about 30 minutes of YouTube reviews on the car for him to say the punchline...
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Its not only China
Like ForceCommand, or turning off authentication?
To be a 60 year old software engineer now you would have to have started in 1984. (Assuming graduating age 21 and going straight into work*)

There just wasn't the same number of developers back then.

I can't find good numbers, but according to [1], there were 612,000 developers in the US in 2002, compared to 4.4 million in 2023 in the. It's reasonable to assume that there were probably an order of magnitude less again in 1984. So very little opportunity to become a 60 year old software engineer in 2023.

I'd hazard a guess that in another 40 years there will be a lot more 60 year old developers. (Either that, or zero because ChatGPT 15 has taken over)

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demogra...

* Yes, I know this doesn't quite hold as I'm sure people switched careers. Particularly early on in the computer industry where I imagine many people switched into software from more technical electrical/hardware type roles. But I still think the major point still stands which is the main reason for the lack of older developers now, is just the lack of younger developers 40 years ago.
People aren't gonna buy weird, single-purpose, short-range tracker-launchers when they can just stick the tracker on the car when nobody's looking.
score:-2000..-500 is:q brings out some of the greatest hits.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-2000..-500+...

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=score%3A-2000..-500+...

The range is tinker able.
For me it's the opposite experience. Easier to get Linux installed, no driver issues, no messing around, and my games Just Work on Steam/Proton without any tricks. Windows has more hassle with downloading/installing drivers and disabling crapware and forced ads in the OS before I can begin to use it.
> Good luck hitting a moving vehicle with that.

It's not like police already doesn't care about accuracy when shooting at vehicles.
Sammons, the fourth generation of his family to run the 100-plus-year-old S&L and its only full-time employee, confides that he’s a bit tech-averse. “Computers are great when they work,” says the 55-year-old, laughing. “I don’t have the patience for them.”

Most days I bet most of us would agree with that statement!
From my understanding, I think that option only prevents the compiler from removing null checks when the pointer was dereferenced before. It was probably motivated by this incident in the Kernel[1] where an optimized-out null check condition (because it was dereferenced right before) caused a vulnerability. I like this story, since both sides (Linux vs GCC) have perfectly reasonable positions IMO.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/342330/

PS: I took action by contacting Dang about the shadowban; thank you for warning me, I was wondering why I felt like a ghost.
I don’t think banking apps will have much reason to do so, given that sideloaded apps will still be sandboxed. This is not like a jailbreak. I would also assume that apps have no way to check what kind of other apps are installed.
Travel agents is a nice, easy example. Everyone buys their own airplane flights now. Of course, it's complicated because there's a lot more accountants today than there were before electronic spreadsheets were invented. We needed more of them. I think first level customer service agents have already been replaced by not very good chat agents, they should get better with AI.
Oh grow up. This is pure concern trolling.
Have to add my ick as a question: what time is it, to the second?

This information is not available in any desktop or system clock configuration. You must either find the old analog clock buried in settings, or procure the information via command line. Maybe I’m wrong and they fixed it, but I haven’t noticed any change.
I don't know when it was larger. However in the 1960s it was of equal size.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gross-domestic-product?ta...

Starting in the 1980s US GDP inflected and EU did not. The gap appeared then and has got wider ever since. What happened in the 80s? Probably tech?
Can humans do this? Maybe some particular speed and bow shape along with a physical motion a human could utilise to achieve this? I tried to search it but the results were all about the illegality of people being too close to the bow sans railing.
Years ago. AI bots like ChatGPT will make SO almost entirely worthless (worth so little there won't be enough demand to sustain a large service, it'll collapse except for being an archive).
Prashanth Chandrasekar was brought in as the hatchet man to facilitate the sale after destroying Rackspace. Fired the beloved community managers and the community became much more hostile since. Why are any of you surprised he is out of touch with the community?

SO should be ran by a foundation funded by tech companies enlightened enough to realize the massive productivity gains it produces (with SE as a side goodwill project). In this era, this counts as wishful thinking. Instead we got a 1.8B sale, that's not pocket change, now the profit must flow.

This is what Cory Doctorow calls enshittification. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
Oh, there is at least one that I can think of! Puneet Mulchandani (director of Product at SO) announced "Jobs & Developer Story" sunset. It got more than 4200 downvotes. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-j...
> Digital gold solves that, but in general the short term volatility makes it imprudent for emergency funds.

It depends on what you define as an emergency fund. If your view is that the macro economy (especially in the US) is not going well (heading into an inflation emergency), having divested into something other than dollars is the correct play here.

> not comparable at all to conventional banking

That's the point though. At least for me, I've long ago lost faith in conventional banking (aka: tradfi). This is why I put the time and effort into deep learning about DeFi.

Today, DeFi is relatively tiny and cannot support the larger asset markets. My hope is that it grows. As someone who found the internet in 1991 and watched and participated in that early growth, I don't see a reason why it can't happen again for something like DeFi.

Ignore the 'crypto scam' aspect of it all. There is a lot of positive things in 'being your own bank'. Early adopters of this risk are definitely reaping windfalls from it. Making a more general statement and not pointed at you directly, it is easy to sit on HN and shit on crypto and much harder to spend time listening to what some latchkey is trying to gently guide you towards, without being a shill.
It's trendy to do, which is funny since trendy ideas are the most loosely held but strongly expressed while the trendiness lasts. Nice that they're going on public record with their views so they can't later claim they weren't in love with the metaphoric butterfly collar of acceptable bigotry.
This is interesting because I haven't heard of this. Would it be something like your license is controlled by you? Somehow you have to keep it private though. Having someone control a position on the blockchain wouldn't seem to be that different than name and password. You can use that to prove who you are, and you can lose that just like you can lose control of your crypto wallet if you forget your password or someone guesses it or hacks your machine.
There’s 15 billion reasons they won’t.
In some cases it's even worse and they are outright hostile to certain groups. Google Maps has been crippled for years for anyone using it outside of internet service. One of the most basic features, saving a point on a map, is completely broken. Route finding and offline maps are unreliable in rural areas.

I get that people who rarely leave major cities are Google's favorite and most profitable user demographic, but there are still many millions of people outside of that group. Google can get away with sneering at them while they have a profitable monopoly, but once they breaks up they are in deep trouble. Their culture of half-baked and frequently shuttered projects is so ingrained at this point it's going to be enormously difficult to change.
> Seasonal agricultural work like this has been done by kids for generations.

Rivers caught fire and the air was toxic for generations too. Historical precedent isn't particularly compelling IMO.

> I don't think we were stealing jobs from adults.

If they weren't going to find involuntary workers (kids, prison slaves - the correct term as of course slavery is permitted in the US as punishment for a crime under the 14th amendment) - they would have had to raise the amount they were paying voluntary workers until someone took the job. Or it wouldn't get done.

This is how leverage in employment works. To have a free market for labor and accurate pricing, you need to have voluntary participation. Involuntary participation puts all the pricing power in the hands of capital.

> They started flying in seasonal workers from Puerto Rico and then Jamaica.

This doesn't have to be a permitted practice re: Jamaica. In a very real way it's the job of DOL and USCIS to prevent it. After all, they already do labor conditions and prevailing wage determinations for specialty workers. Why not farm workers? And there simply aren't enough people in Puerto Rico to change the balance of power.
Ya agreed there's a difference between strong opinion and lack of social intelligence
You know it's optional, right? No one is forcing you to do anything.
Aren't engineering offices populated with such people? Is that at issue at all?

This page seems to support the statement: https://www.zippia.com/engineer-jobs/demographics/
And even with high-speed rail, a lot of distances in the US would still be brutally slow, even with direct point-to-point rail.

At some point, trying to go from NYC to DC, let alone St. Louis or Atlanta, takes a pretty long time via non-plane methods. In some ways, the big innovation of plane travel is that for major cities, non-stop flights are an option, so it's hard to beat the speed of it. There's never going to be a viable non-stop train from, say, Miami to DC, but if it stops in Jacksonville, Atlanta, Greenville, Winston-Salem, and Richmond, then you've added hours to the trip time in stops/slowing down, which loses people as well who don't want to spend the whole day on a train.

There's a breakpoint around 4-5 hours where travel doesn't eat your full day, and there's only so many routes where you could get under that duration and still have enough volume of people to take it to make it worth running the route.
[1] is an great research paper about supporting temporal data in SQL. It goes beyond the SQL:2011 standard to support temporal outer joins and some other things. Basically they define a temporal variant for each relational operator then show how to implement them all based on just two join-like additions to SQL. They even implemented a proof-of-concept in Postgres. I wrote some more about their paper in my temporal databases bibliography [2] (ctrl-f "Alignment"). The paper is easy to read & understand, and it solves problems people have been working on since the 90s, with the most elegant solution I've seen.

[1] https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/boehlen/Papers/modf174-dignoes.pdf

[2] https://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2017/12/temporal-data...
Exactly this. I had a bunch of cash sitting in a Marcus account until I discovered I can just buy ICSH[0] and get another 50~100 bps by doing what the banks do - which is taking your deposits and buy bonds.

This Apple savings account will likely go down over time. Any time new branded savings accounts are marketed they always put super high returns to foster deposits and then they slowly trickle them down to a mean value that sits somewhere between 50~100 bps from what you get from a money market play.

As of 4/13 30-day SEC yield on ICSH is: 4.92%

As of 4/17, Marcus HYS is: 3.90%

[0] - https://www.ishares.com/us/products/258806/ishares-liquidity...
https://archive.ph/DOA8y
Yep. I wanted to say it was F-Secure SSH, but the timeline on Wikipedia doesn't quite match. The development of SSH and the history of Data Fellows/F-Secure kinda line up, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Secure
No. Overwatch is not on Steam. So you would need to mess around with Wine or Proton separately. Maybe it works, but it's not a single click installation.
So a bit more than 1% of all Americans is developing software. I wonder what fraction are truck drivers?
> I learned I didn't know how to pronounce a lot of words

Taking words on a page and reading them out loud is a fundamental aspect of reading. The way you've written it here, you were not fully able to read until the fifth grade. That is ... problematic.

From my perspective, the problem is this. Phonetic reading naturally encompasses whole word reading, because a child who starts reading with phonics, eventually reads 'the whole word' (I don't think any adult spends any amount of time examining the minutiae of letter ordering in everyday life). However, the opposite does not work. As you pointed out, despite your high reading level, you weren't able to figure out basic phonetic rules until high school. This would be problematic if you were learning any new language for example. Even ones not based on latin alphabet. The practice of blending sounds together is a fundamental part of reading.

A child who is using phonics is able to (1) understand, (2) sound out, (3) and speak the written word (which means they will be able to do things like read poetry). A child who is using the whole word approach may be able to understand, but if they cannot enunciate properly the words on the page, then they cannot do either 2 or 3, which means the reading is not complete. I don't see how we can consider this an acceptable replacement.

> I read really fast, I can glance at a word and read it long before any sort of inner voice could catch up and mentally pronounce it.

This is not exceptional for an adult.
Dealers are doing that - yes. But it's not hard to find dealers in my big city that aren't doing it. Just search around on the internet and you can also find car dealers that don't add these charges.
I’ve always wondered. In cases like your Facebook example. What prevents Facebook from giving a different source code instead of the actual code? Like if they were using a patented code, they could in theory quickly write some new code and show that in court. Who’s going to know?
In the AWS world, you can do this by colocating servers at an AWS Direct Connect facility. You get a fiber connection from your rack to AWS's rack inside the building, and then AWS backhauls it on their network to the AWS Region. There are such colocation facilities located within a few miles of any major AWS Region for low latency (~1 msec) connections.
Stopped reading at the anti-white bs.

I'm pretty sure that if the author had put "black" instead of "white," this article wouldn't have even been linked here. It's fashionable to openly express anti-white bigotry these days.
You may be snarky, but it is actually meaningful progress.

My first attempt on Linux was 20 years ago, before I was a technical user. It was a nightmare. Getting my mouse to work was impossible. Even figuring out how to turn the computer off so I could reinstall Windows was a pain.

I came back to Linux some 8 years ago, already as a Developer. Installed Ubuntu. Everything hardware worked well, no need to tinker around. Usability was good and somewhat intuitive, but it took me some time to adjust. I enjoyed it for programming, but not being able to play most games I care about limited my use, and I kept Windows in dual boot.

Nowadays I use Linux Mint as my only OS. It's objectively better than Windows in every way. For regular usage I don't even need to tinker with anything. Although I like the terminal and prefer using it, I can totally see how an average user can get by without touching it at all. I need only to tinker a little to get certain games running, and that's all.