skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concerning the points

- "Second, it'd actually be a massive burden. The army suddenly has to train a bunch of unmotivated teenager every single year, which in reality ends up being a LARP session in a local forest. This drains a huge amount of resources from the professional soldiers. And all those conscripts will not contribute anything meaningful to the economy while doing so." posted by crote at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36281486

- "I've always thought of those compulsory military training schemes as a little silly. You have a bunch of unmotivated people that don't want to be there. You have to house them, feed them, train them for what, 3, 6, 12 months? Seems like a lot of money. How long will that training last for? How soon will you need retraining to be even considered marginally useful? Isn't it better to spend that money on professional soldiers?" posted by mszcz at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36281419

Such European countries should rather attempt to train a voluntary partisan army for defense. I do believe that there are many people who would like to learn how to use a firearms (exacerbated by the fact that many European countries have rather strict firearm laws) and get military skills in courses that span over multiple weekends.

The people who would voluntarily attend such courses tend to be highly motivated.
"Nobody wants to work any more"
> Why do they have to?

Because they can. I saw a tech talk from a data recovery guy and he said some vendor (sadly doesn't remember which one) just have no new CMR drives at all.
Reminds of reading what Reid hoffman said...
https://twitter.com/reidhoffman/status/847142924240379904?la...
That's a good question.

There would have to be a list of approved developers you can pay because otherwise people could just pay themselves and register that payment in the system.

I can think of two ways to update this list:

- Some trusted maintainers of the system can add developers who want to be added, making sure they are real developers who have already done real work.

- People could use their money to vote for developers to be added.
When Office XP launched in about 2001 Microsoft had a comedy microsite all about Clippy being forced to retire (the angle being that XP was so easy to use he was no longer needed). It was entirely based around the idea that everyone was sick of clippy.

They had a couple of flash animations (the contemporary equivalent of a viral video), recorded here for posterity. Clippy was voiced by Gilbert Gottfried

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_Pzuwy-JY

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82KZG3Zy8xU

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAsV6_AawVw

Remains of microsite here: https://web.archive.org/web/20031009044305/http://www.micros...

There was also a downloadable blues-type song which was titled 'it looks like you're writing a letter', I can't find it anywhere now but it was pretty good

edit: found the song! its at 1:01:35 in this video: https://youtu.be/8bhjNvSSuLM?t=3690
you can just take off the vest and put it through the x-ray in most airports i think?
Hacking the Philips Sonicare NFC Password
And as reminder, JavaScript was invented in 1995. Developed for Netscape 2.0.
There are many.

List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driver-less_train_syst...
Yeah would like to know what usage rights are. The logo creation is fast, but revolves around few patterns not in sync with name or tagline(not available as input). Good work.
Ordinary humans are no doubt corruptible, treacherous, ignorant, and confused.

Additionally, there is a secret war waged upon us, by a secret society, with a secret governance of thought controls.

Besieged through a technology of power imperceptible and incomprehensible in ordinary minds; indistinguishable from God in the minds of thought controlled Americans.
What's interesting is that I've had the opposite experience! A lot of Behind The Bastards episodes are well cited and well researched. Robert often reads multiple books on a topic before presenting something, and often quotes researchers/historians whole paragraphs at a time. It's something that I've learned a lot from.

The joking banter and tone helps it go down for me. I wouldn't be able to listen to these things otherwise. It's depressing to know the some totality of what we've done to each other.
>>The main selling point of LP would be in durability

Um, I haven't seen them significantly promote that even rhetorically, much less with data backup. Replacing Wankel's ordinary tip seals with ceramic tip seals (yes, more expensive) and proper lubrication both improves performance and very much extends inter-rebuild time.

I'm definitely interested if you can point me to any data showing LP extended life. Their previous comparisons have been so bogus as to be laughable, such as comparing their weight vs some old military diesel generator-set (and not to the much more relevant Wankel).

>>LP doesn't seem to execute well.
Agree - that is the understatement of the year!
It doesn't matter if you use half as much energy per capita if the thing you created results in 50x more people. When I say destroy the cities I mean to include the populations in them. Through policy you make their lives so miserable that they are not replaced generationally. A similar thing was done to rural areas, their people were systematically destroyed through policy.

Most of the people on HN seem to be city-dwelling pro centralization and centralized control. It seems to be jarring for them to see their own policies of openly promoting the destruction of others lives and way of living directed back at them.
More: <https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PhotographicMemo...>
> The difference from project management I understand, but a lot of what you described regarding keeping the progress going seems to be a SCRUM master's job. Would you say that is also management?

These are my rough notes on project management (from an engineer’s lens):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XFdBUfi3MvQuh9NTFBJMQFA0...

Lots of blanks to fill still, but I am a proponent of engineers owning their own project management.

> I think it should be done by senior engineers organically as engineering is a social activity. No one person can achieve greatness and to me an engineer becomes a senior engineer not by being a brilliant coder (for example) but by understanding that the job is to solve problems.

100% agree, lots of overlap between responsibilities and often a good thing! Roles from all parts of the org coming together to solve problems is the ideal situation.

My first approximation is that engineering managers are responsible for the team health, whereas engineers are responsible for project health, or at least raising issues when things aren’t so healthy.
I don't claim it's the only way to promote social cohesion. A year of mandatory trash pickup would probably do that too. I don't understand the comment about brainwashing. Any form of public education, including mandatory trash pickup, can have that word thrown around.
Yes, they quite definitively cannot suddenly switch to the practice.
Wow this is an awesome use case I hadn’t thought of and it makes so much darn sense! In fact, the APIs include automatic plane detection, which means being able to look at your table, directly in front of you and “popping a note down“ shouldn’t be too terribly impossible! In fact I can see you doing things like duplicating snippets of code, and putting the scratchpad next to your monitor, your keyboard, or anywhere else you would stick a stickie. What a great idea, I hope you don’t mind if I ruminate on it some more!
> contractors for my neighbor just dumped a shitload of old asphalt and cement shingles on my 80 sqft garden

You should go talk to the contractor. He needs to clean that up.

>but I think it’s a relatively small part of the climate change equation.

No one wants to discuss Chinese and Indian emissions. Instead we are resigned to demonizing cow farts.
(2) because it's a commercial business and perception of safety is more important than safety?

(I know, I know, lazy cynicism)
Yeah, security is a complete non-issue here (assuming you still follow the carry-on contents rule)
https://archive.is/6YnWC
Having less stringent and totalitarian moderation might bring different sort of userbase to more active. And not even affect the number of passive one. It's not like in general people care about quality on Internet...
Not sure about Quebec, but there are public Catholic schools in Ontario. Bothers the crap out of me...
> Grew my channel pretty quickly to 1k subscribers just by sharing them to reddit.

How do you find subreddits you can self promote on without getting a ban?
we like to solve problems by creating 10 new ones
They might; but equally, Meta or Apple might counter-lobby to end copyright as a concept entirely, (or just for music, depending on how good the LLMs are at code and script writing for commissioned TV shows and stuff).

Those two can still rely on patents and trade secrets in a way that RIAA can't. (At least, the RIAA can't rely on those as far as I can see, but what do I know…)
Unfortunately generations of hopelessly naive and deluded politicians enthusiastically commit their forces to “peacekeeping” operations on a regular basis. Generally designed to prevent group-A of uncivilised people from killing group-B of more or less similarly uncivilised people. Note that this gets written up in the media as “good guys vs bad guys” of course. Recently (e.g. Sudan) even the media have struggled to find cartoon-level-simple labels for the armed factions.
A less formula driven approach that I expected this to use is just eigenvalue decompose the matrix (with complex eigenvalues that always exists) then raise each eigenvalue to the power you want and then combine the eigenvectors and eigenvalues together again to get the Nth power. (Requires computing a matrix matrix product but only once and that could be expressed in closed form and it's overall a cheap operation vs actually multiplying the matrix by itself N times.)
Ask HN: GitHub Copilot for Common Lisp
Before I bother starting a 30 day free trial, has anyone here found value in using Copilot for writing Common Lisp?

What dev workflow do you recommend, given that we don't typically use IDEs like VS Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains? (https://github.com/github-copilot/signup)
OBS is the screen capture tool. Unless you define screen capture somewhat differently? Nearly everyone on Twitch (or other streaming sites) is using it.
Low Level PC/Server Attack and Defense Timeline
The point is that backpacks are limited (in theory). Some low-cost airlines will weigh and measure them, so this jacket would let you wear extra weight.
I also left Twitter when Tweetbot died, but only because I can’t use Twitter without a chronological timeline and keyword filtering. My impression is that third party Reddit apps had some nice quality of life features, but their main purpose wasn’t to literally alter the underlying content. Happy to be proven wrong though.
With scanned books and Blu-ray movies, the TBs add very quickly when you do not want to degrade their quality with additional compression, which is my case, because after digitizing or ripping them I do not keep the originals, due to not having enough space for them, so I want the retained copies to have a quality as high as possible, which leads to multi-GB file sizes.
> The keyboard was the deciding factor in my last laptop purchase

I'm looking for a laptop, and keyboard quality is also one of my top priorities. One of my criteria is FULL-SIZE ARROW KEYS. I don't know how people use their computers nowadays, but arrow keys are something I use a lot, and I cannot understand why laptop makers decided to make the up and down arrows the smallest keys on the keyboard. That makes no sense whatsoever.

Sadly, the only laptops with full size arrow keys I found are gaming laptops (disqualified because they're heavy, expensive and have bad battery life), some large laptops with a number pad (which I dislike because it makes for an off-center keybaord) and some Thinkpads -- which have something like 3/4-size arrow keys, better than most but not what I would prefer.

If this laptop comes with an optional keyboard with full-size arrow keys, I will probably buy one.

(I also had similar problems when I wanted to buy a regular mouse with three buttons (index, middle, ring finger) plus a wheel. Went through several gaming and ergonomic monstrosities before finding my holy grail -- 3DConnexion CADMouse Wireless. Not affiliated, just a satisfied customer).

If someone reading this knows of a modern ultrabook-format laptop with decent battery life, at least 1920x1200 screen, good Linux compatibility and a keyboard with full size arrow keys, I will be eternally grateful.
You know why: there's a lot of transpeople here that don't want this stuff questioned/discussed in any way, shape or form.
Why is assuming that they are doing similar things now any better than assuming that they are not?

Most people run with an open mind to the possibility, but wait for evidence before drawing a conclusion. And since it’s not possible to prove this kind of negative, I suspect there are very few people indeed who even bother to make negative assumptions in this space.
I work on flight data recorders, mainly in rotorcraft but some small fixed wing aircraft. The current generation does use a satellite connection for real time tracking, as well as sending high level caution information, and a few data parameters. Really the cost of sending data over the satellite is the real issue. However this is coming down.

Outside of that, the ADS-B requirement is a huge help in knowing where aircraft are and where they are going.
Yep, the "pubic" one is a classic.
so you want to use a valid windows key and then violate the terms of the key by changing the license type for which the key was actually issued? what's the point?

why not use masgrav activator and be done with it because you are violating the terms of license anyways?
I feel like it's less of a bother to diagnose if the drive needs to be returned immediately and not after you've already slapped it into your RAID.
If the baggage fee is the decision point on the trip, I’d suggest rethinking whether or not you can really afford the trip.
I learned about Python dev mode in this, thanks!

For anyone else:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/devmode.html
I know Gray personally and have been able to hear the whole story from him, which is amazing and one of my favorite stories from the bay, ever. He's a great dude.
Because it works and writing init files with startup dependencies is cumbersome.
Overall I agree, but it's important to realize how easily the impact metrics are gamed. Sometimes the hard parts are in the technical details of programming a specific problem, and doing large scale cross-org collaboration is far more well defined. Or even worse, cross-org collab can just be pure noise by people with no technical understanding defining goals and projects and promoting each other.

So much damage is done by the wrong people being constantly rewarded and promoted for creating noise by "leading" large pointless projects instead of doing the real work. Sometimes I've seen the new hire engineer solving the critical issues like problems in a data pipeline by collaborating across teams is actually having more impact that any of the senior engineers or management bsers.
Of what? the GPL?

Software can be MIT + commercial. That's still perfectly open source.
> because they only want to stay in the mainstream ecosystems or are unwilling to deal with new concepts like in Elixir or Erlang

Or want to have a large easily accessible pool of developers to pull from. There are real, practical considerations here more than just feelz.
One-bagging really has come a long way
I had a similar idea, only to catalogue public figures blatantly lying in the past, which everyone has since conveniently or otherwise forgotten. My choice of title for the website would is "Lest We Forget".
If I reversed it and said “this can’t be a lab leak because lab leaks never happen,” would that be okay? They’re certainly rarer than serious cases of flu among adults in the age range.

It’s a contentious, difficult debate. I do actually think it’s bad to dismiss arguments you disagree with with casual rhetoric.
Yes, it's a game.

Who has the nastiest trick?
Who liquidates more people?
Who overthrows more regimes?
...

sometimes Russia wins, sometimes the US wins

I do not know much about Mrs. Nuland and do not care about her. But she seems to be a good player:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland
I do actually have a "never" list, which is stuff that's so loaded emotionally it just lived permanently in my todo, and I resolved that if an item is there for like weeks, I can move it to another list.

The thing is I almost never look at it, so the point is really just to offload emotionally at the moment of deleting these tasks from the main todo.

Or maybe there's some psychological component I haven't learned yet for how to actually tackle one of these tasks.
At least we can rest assured that everything we've been told of what's going on in Ukraine and the causality the underlies it is True.

Outrage at things in the past is easy, but if we want to really improve the world it may be necessary for smart people to stop refusing to think clearly on current events.
You want Java on the server. VM with GC is the way.
For research uses, we built an Assistant on top of ChatGPT that uses our database of articles to ground its answers and give real references, might be useful for you or others on research papers at least: https://scite.ai/assistant
> Based on what I've heard anecdotally from e.g. freelancers providing services to large corporations, that ship has unfortunately long sailed.

You're missing the point, just like the other commenter, as explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36280868

A bureaucratic company failing to pay a freelancer on time is not the same thing as this deliberate, top-down (i.e, Musk-designed) strategy of Twitter refusing to pay its bills.

Google Cloud has a lot of big customers. How many of them do you think are doing this?
It's fair to recognize a systemic problem without having an alternative.
That's a decade-old strategy: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/04/02/176062612...
> I want public transportation infrastructure and far, far, FAR fewer cars.

I also want this, but I grew up in LA and thus realize that there are places where this won't happen.

> I don't want any more money invested in self-driving cars.

I would take money invested in self-driving cars over money "invested" in public transit in wildly inefficient ways that's less investment and more waste.

The problem with the position that money should go to transit instead of self-driving cars is that transit is a largely intractable problem because it's a political one, where self-driving cars are very much not an intractable problem because they're a technical one.

40,000+ people die every year in the US in car accidents. Self-driving cars have the potential to stop many of those deaths (and the injuries not counted in that). Investment in public transit, when you consider the practical realities, largely doesn't. I understand why folks prefer public transit as a solution, but self-driving cars will be a lifesaving technology, and on that basis they seem clearly worthy of investment.

And this is all doubly true since this isn't government money - it's VCs and private companies putting their cash towards solving a problem that's beneficial towards society. Why hold up public transit as the alternative to self-driving investment when there is absolutely no chance that these dollars would ever go to public transit?
I grew up under a toxic form of fundamentalist Christianity that left deep scars and made me pretty allergic to religion.

For me, I’ve found success and deep value in exploring non-sectarian Buddhist philosophy, which points directly at the problems caused by attachment to ideas and things, and does a good job of deconstructing thought processes that most of us engage in without realizing.

To me, this is less about choosing to accept certain principles on faith as much as it is about recognizing/acknowledging that this is what we already do in most aspects of our lives.

To anyone who can find value in traditional religious contemplation while avoiding the downsides, more power to you. The point of my comment isn’t to say there’s nothing to be found there, but if the version of religiosity you’re familiar with is the toxic kind, there are other paths to follow that get at some arguably important insights without some of the baggage that can be difficult to avoid.

(I realize Buddhism has religious roots, but there is a long history of exploring the underlying insights in a non-religious context e.g. Zen, and the analytical framework associated with traditions like Dzogchen and Vipassana are applicable without any of the metaphysical underpinnings).
I expect people becoming much more conservative about technology from now on. People will want to stay with the thing were LLM can help because there are ample documentation to train them on. By example, it will be a lot harder for a new, even if it's more powerful, programming language to find its niche because LLM wont be able to help. The end result will be a higher barrier to innovation because now to innovate is not enough, you also need LLM training materials, thus a much more conservative society.
In fairness, the deep understanding took many years of studying the fundamentals.

I started playing around with LA techniques (SVD on images, k-means clustering) around 20 years ago. I had a copy of K&R in the mid 90s because before I found out about Perl I stumbled across a way to add comments and a visitor counter to my homepage using C in the cgi-bin of the shell account on my ISP.

Where GPT has been the most valuable is the nitty-gritty of converting between various data types and image formats!
Because I used to run Gentoo back when I had spare time for taking care of my operating system, and very much enjoyed the customizability and the efficiency of having every binary on my system compiled for my system.
Thx for the analysis. This 'dudebro friends casual talk'-style makes a lot of podcasts hard to listen to – even when the topics are interesting.

I get it. A well moderated podcast is hard work. Throwing random Wikipedia facts at each other is easy to do and long term listeners love all the in-jokes and the atmosphere of 'friends having fun'.

Thankfully there are lots of well researched podcasts with a more 'professional' style.
> Has anyone decompiled the .jar files used for covert communication? Would be quite interesting to see how they work.

I took a very cursory look, since they are obfuscated and reading obfuscated code sucks. I see swing (gui) drawing code, a few references to flash and activex, as well as code to load rsa and look for a program do to encryption/decryption: PGP, OpenPGP, CFB, OFB, SIC, GTCR. And a bit of url loading. So, probably nothing one didn't expect: It receives message over a network connection and uses these programs to decypher them, then shows it .. I don't know? directly in the gui probably. And the other way around.

But that's really just me looking for ten minutes. I could also be wildly off the mark here.
That doesn't work. You need to know the gender and actual number `X` of `X skeletons` to be able to (correctly ;) translate `attacked` in many languages. To correctly translate `X skeletons`, you need to know `X` and whether they are the attacker or being attacked. Same for `Y dragons`. In the end, you do not gain much but have a _really_ complex template (for such a simple phrase).
And yet they bought a recruiting company to the tune of 30 million a month ago.

Clearly Elon doesn't even have the decency to file for bankruptcy. He'll following the Trump book. Bold claims, bouncing checks, blaming everyone else and playing the victim.