skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, close air support does not mean being close to the ground. It means engaging targets in close proximity to friendly forces

> In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as aerial warfare actions—often air-to-ground actions such as strafes or airstrikes—by military aircraft against hostile targets in close proximity to friendly forces

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_air_support

With guided munitions and better targeting pods, close air support has shifted to dropping precision munitions from further away to minimize the risk from short range air defenses.
Why yes:

1) Cost. Companies big and small in the US hire overseas to reduce development costs.

2) Access to talent. In a tight market, getting the right people in the US is often too hard.

Why not:

1) difference in work culture. There's often a big gap in expectations from the businesses perspective.

2) differences in communication style: Even when the expectations are aligned, different communication styles (e.g., candid vs coded) can lead to frustrations.

3) lack of infrastructure. I passed on some highly recommended people because when we got a video call, their internet connection was not good enough for us to have a conversation.
It's on you to figure that sort of stuff during the interview process.

The interview is not just where they figure out whether they want to hire you, but where you decide whether or not to accept their offer.

You are allowed to interview the interviewers. In fact, you'd be a fool not to, since this sends a positive signal that you are interested but not desperate. Makes you seem like a quality hire.
I said "Give me the most succinct possible idiom" and it gave me the answer you were looking for: https://chat.openai.com/share/05a3d1aa-cd60-40a1-b6d5-ec0c9f...
> My mind is blown that this oddly specific behaviour

It's not oddly specific, it's just plain voyeurism.

> was apparently so common that the government mandated all cellphone cameras must play shutter sounds that cannot be muted. What the hell?

It doesn't have to be common for a law to be put into place. A Similar law exists in Japan as well.

> doesn't this law just push pervs to snap video instead of still shots while unnecessarily degrading user experience across society?

Yes, it's largely political theatre.
When I was in highschool I lived in a rural town of about 7000 people that had an analog telephone exchange. I read about the bandwidth limitations, and a friend of mine and I decided to test them over a local and long distance call. The long distance one cut out pretty much exactly at the frequency the spec said it should, but the local one could transmit and receive much higher frequencies, presumably because it had its own circuit and wasn't multiplexed with other ones. (That led to a lot of unrealized fantasies about creating a homemade super modem for local connections.)
Is the fact that the museum isn't available 85% or the week intentional irony or something?
Selective breeding always struck me as interesting for the sheer amount of time required for experimentation. Pick your pairs, and then wait 2-5 years before you can repeat the cycle again.

Amazing that a single lifetime was able to yield measurable results.

Also reminded of the fox domestication program[0] where they were able to go from wild foxes to a dog-like domesticated breed within a decade.

>Belyaev was correct that selection on tameness alone leads to the emergence of traits in the domestication syndrome. In less than a decade, some of the domesticated foxes had floppy ears and curly tails (Fig. 2). Their stress hormone levels by generation 15 were about half the stress hormone (glucocorticoid) levels of wild foxes. Over generations, their adrenal gland became smaller and smaller. Serotonin levels also increased, producing “happier” animals. Over the course of the experiment, researchers also found the domesticated foxes displayed mottled “mutt-like” fur patterns, and they had more juvenilized facial features (shorter, rounder, more dog-like snouts) and body shapes (chunkier, rather than gracile limbs)

[0] https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118...
> Large language models are essentially supercharged versions of the autocomplete feature that smartphones have used for years in order to predict the rest of a word a person is typing.

I'm not sure who this blog is targeted at, but this is fairly inaccurate and is way too dumbed-down to be useful.
Standards on Window Replacement:

> This document hereinafter represents the San Francisco Planning Department’s policy in regards to this type of work and is based on the following principles:

> Windows that are seen from the street or other public right-of-ways are an important part of neighborhood character as well as the individual architectural character of a building.

> If replacement windows are proposed for any type of structure, the new windows visible from the public rights-of-way should be compatible with both the character of the neighborhood and the subject building in terms of size, glazing, operation, finish, exterior profiles and arrange-ment.

> Historic windows and character-defining window features on architecturally significant structures should be retained and repaired wherever possible.

source: https://default.sfplanning.org/publications_reports/Standard...

Map of Historic Districts:

https://data.sfgov.org/Geographic-Locations-and-Boundaries/M...
Software engineers sometimes spend too much time agonizing over whether they’ve broken any written or unwritten rules. This comes up frequently in settings like code reviews where a reviewer might comment, “This isn’t DRY (don’t repeat yourself). Let’s extract this code as a function and share it with this other place in the code base”. It’s a perfectly valid piece of feedback and often beneficial. But it also discounts that the code author may have deliberately not made the code DRY because the other place in the code base will soon have diverging requirements, and diverging requirements in DRY code sometimes means complex conditionals. The reviewer didn’t want to be the one to sign off on code that broke the DRY rule, but perhaps they should have. It would have been better to ask the author whether the code should by DRYed up.

While asking whether CDC breaks encapsulation is a perfectly valid question and likely worth asking. It’s equally important to ask whether the answer to the question changes anything for you. Assume CDC breaks encapsulation. If breaking encapsulation solves ten other difficult problems, do the benefits outweigh your costs? If so, I say break encapsulation.

From https://lobste.rs/s/yepcsr/change_data_capture_breaks#c_hbti...
Omit vowels and you're 90% of the way there; omit the vowel-looking digits 0,1,3,4 and you're probably >99% of the way there.
> I recognize that some of you will read this and think I’ve crossed the line of Wordle ethics into outright cheating. You can keep your opinions to yourself.

I will not. You sir are evil and you will rot in literary hell.

I kid of course. This seemed like a fun way to spend some alone time with your server.

We have shared the feeling of getting the worlde word on the first try and it is a nice one. We have been playing DREAM for more than a year, until we finally achieved it (the dream of getting the word on the first try that is).
> Who in power did Rembrandt afflict?

The Nightwatch was controversial because of its unconventional composition and departure from traditional Dutch painting conventions.

His “Bathsheba at Her Bath” caused trouble too. Hendrickje received three summonses from the Reformed Church to answer the charge "that she had committed the acts of a whore with Rembrandt the painter". She admitted her guilt and was banned from receiving communion.
I couldn't finish Neuromancer. I guess I'm just not a fan of the antihero thing. Toward the end of the book, I just didn't care what happened to him.
If you keep posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments, we're going to have to ban this account. We've already asked you more than once.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. It eventually gets your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The web is becoming a really good OS.

We just need make web assembly better for higher level languages, because neither javascript not rust are an end-all great language for small games.
Is sneaking in to take naked photo of someone and publish it a photography?
This is not only in healthcare. This is everywhere. Although computers are much faster, we need to wait for them more.

And although i run 2d programs 99,99 % of the time, developers optimize for 3d.
Although they are not able to draw a 3d button, the whole screen is drawn on a surface.
You say it’s a unique place, but here’s the thing: it actually undergirds all of those other services.

Telephones/internet/elecricity are quite hard to regularly get without access to the traditional banking system. Possible, yes, but very annoying. Which is the point.

Some would argue it is only because of the security of the banking system that these other utilities are allowed to be “””free”””.
I think this is a waste of money compared to what the A-10 gives people. Bullets are cheaper than explosives and can be manufactured in far greater quantities. Winning a war is pyrrhic if the victor is impoverished by the price of all of the ammunition. :/

Anyway, the original complaint here is about the F-35, not the F-16. No matter how much you think of the F-16, the F-35 is being pushed into this role and it is just not fit for it. I do not think the F-16 is fit for it either, although it is certainly more fit than the F-35.
For example blood is seen as sensitive but ketchup is not. But visually they look similar and the AI does not know.
I've often thought that if the American libertarian party renamed themselves "The LeGuin Party" they might get a lot more members.
Maybe the ability to generate naked images of anyone will change how we view nudity. Because while that seems difficult, realistically its more doable than putting this genie back in the bottle. People are horny, people are curious, and the result is predictable.
Thanks for this, made my evening!
I have a very dim opinion of open-source UI after GIMP and Darktable, so was shocked at how Blender didn't piss me off at all on first use... and looks great.

There's hope!
Let's focus on trying to raise a mentally healthier generation and take mental illness more seriously, rather than banning / getting rid of all the things that might cause someone (let alone a teenager) to commit suicide (an infinite set).
Edit: the author removed it.
I had similar experience with OpenAI GPT API,
following their rules we check the customer prompts with their endpoint for "safety" , then if it is safe we continue and generate the content. But sometimes even if the prompt was "safe" the result would be blocked as unsafe, because the AI either generated something "unsafe" from a safe prompt or the output filter had a false positive. Of course we had to pay for something that was not our fault.

So it is clear that are many filters involved, some input filter, then the AI is "aligned" and threats you as a child , then there is an output filter.
> The last I recall is that the SEC considered all crypto to be a security.

That's not true. "US regulators including the SEC agree that Bitcoin, which is by far the largest digital asset, isn't a security."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/09/why-crypt...

The big unanswered question is whether they consider Ethereum to be one.

> Not once in Coinbase's lawsuit did they actually say "We'd love to comply, we just don't know how to".

They seem to say that pretty explicitly on Page 14 of their Wells submission.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/c5bd0wqjc7v0/2pW56ln6rPJ7koLHlu...

> In fact what they did say was that they knew how to comply, "but the cost and effort makes it not profitable for us".

I don't see anywhere where they said that.

> So why didn't they say that in court?

They did say that in court.

"For years, Coinbase has voluntarily submitted to regulation by multiple overlapping regulatory bodies, has adhered to the public and limited formal guidance from the SEC, senior SEC Staff, and the courts about the application of securities law to its industry, and has begged the SEC for guidance about how it thinks the federal securities laws map onto the digital asset industry as the SEC’s actions reflected an escalating but undisclosed change in its own view of its authority."

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59...
Didn't know Crown Green Bowls was a game — and I assume it's the balls that are made from Lignum Vitae.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_green_bowls
Tried to find stuff to buy with it. Didn't find anything, sadly. I want people to start using it because then I can pay them with crypto too.
That's incredibly sad. For those of us in tech it feels almost like a hack to survive this economic mess.
I am on Brave / ios and it’s silent.
Generative AI Helped Me Imagine a Better Robot
> while unnecessarily degrading user experience across society?

Does a shutter sound really degrades the experience unless you were indeed trying to take a stealth photo?
Like bullying, there's a fix for it, but schools (especially public schools) typically lack the resources, capabilities, and incentives to do anything about it.
Sad that it is not for user ids
It's closer to the truth than it being artificial intelligence.
CSS as an animation spec is simply inferior so we failed to create an open community of people who cared enough about it - and people kept using other solutions
This is a justifiable worry, but there are two reasons we shouldn't accept it:

1. If there are easy nudes of _everyone_ then there are no nudes of anyone. Admittedly, this is going to take a bit to culturally sink in, but eventually a generated nude will have very little value outside of a perverts own personal desires.

2. "Think of the children" has always been a very poor argument used to artificially restrict the freedoms of everyone else. The problem is that what you're worried about is already possible. It happens less often, sure, but if someone is really nefarious they can make it happen without too much effort.
What's New in jQuery 4.0
And so, once again, everybody else suffers because "think of the children"
A better description (or indeed any at all) I've not come across before, at least it makes sense thanks
You can also photoshop things into NSFW with minimal effort. People have been making photoshopped images nearly indistinguishable from the real thing for decades, and today's (non-AI) software makes "photoshop person wearing clothes into naked one" very easy.
1. Yes, of course.

2. How many is "many" magnitudes? The word suggests at least 4, but if so, it'd make more sense to brag about that.

And anything is cacheable if it doesn't affect transactional logic. If the user is looking at a page for 10 seconds, are they going to care that the inventory count is 3 seconds old? At your many orders of magnitude, caching for a couple seconds would give you hits almost all of the time for popular pages.

Also, aren't inventory counts that are displayed to users typically completely made up? Why would you make something like that dynamic and accurate in a high load system? The only reason to have it is to create FOMO or for b2b bulk ordering, and the latter is a whole different thing.
So the "vulnerability" requires the attacker to already have admin privileges? Then the OpenCart maintainer is right, and the reporters and this article are wrong.
Jason Lanier discussing the future of AI: It's all just real people (2012) [video]
Ok and whats the problem?
Whose going to pay for that?
Is it really different from any multiplayer game? Two view ports, shared coordinates, independent renderers. The “trick” is that the view ports are overlapping, but I would imagine sendMessage might be faster and not require any server round trip.
Making clicks illegal would solve that right up. (Solve bullying I mean.)
Bits About Money by patio11 has an excellent article on this very issue: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
No NSFW images as far as I can see. I suppose creating a filter is just part of the long road of development, but dang, such a petty cause. I might not want to be on that project, unless of course the money was good.
Perhaps, though I think one should be careful, as reproducing C++ in this fashion runs awfully close to reproducing what I see as C++'s largest sin...

Let me explain, I feel iteration speed is of utmost importance. So C++'s mistake of mixing interface and implementation (data layout specifically) leads to massive include bloat, and ultimately contributes significantly to the compilation time problem in C++. In contrast, in C, functions are almost entirely decoupled from structure data layout, and implementation, this promoting much more svelte headers and reduced compilation time for many projects.

So, IMO, it would be important to seperate object interface, from the layout, or risk a major, if not the most major, advantage of using C over C++
The rarity of plane hijackings is balanced by the decades of harm they can do, even beyond the obvious death and destruction. 9-11 for example led to 20 years of ruinous war, trillions wasted, and many lives lost, not to mention geopolitical realities which led to even more death and loss of money. Taking extreme caution to prevent a recurrence of that, not to mention protecting lives and a whole industry, probably doesn't compare to upskirt shots.
You forgot the most important thing: make them work without failure. When an access system must communicate with the mothership and the mothership or network is down (hello Microsoft), you're doing it wrong.
Yes, the balls are (historically) lignum vitae. I don't know why they're called bowls instead of balls.
The problem with precision munitions is that you cannot manufacture, transport and drop enough of them to achieve as much as you can with bullets. The country footing the bill is likely to be impoverished by them if used at any large scale. :/

You need to be close to the ground if using bullets.
Genealogy of RDBMS
Thanks for the answers, guys.
So fix your backend to exempt Tor visitors from those measures, if it's really all due to hallucinating clusters of abuse from a network where abuse categorically does not appear in clusters of the kind that your backend is attempting to detect.

To add an exemption for proton.me: The list of Tor exit IPs is public. For the .onion: That's loopback traffic from the tor daemon running on your own load balancer or wherever you've put it.
Freezing in Style
I got downvoted heavily last time I mentioned this on HN, but I have done 90 days on fresh vegetable juice several times in my life, and it feels amazing. I've gotten several 60+ year old people to try it, including my father, and all achieve great weight loss (30-45 lbs). One 63 year old male even had blood work done before and after, and even though he lived on only vegetable and fruit juice for 90 days, basically ALL his metrics improved. Even glucose and A1C improved, which shocked his doctor since he was living on basically only sugar for 90 days.
Do we blame the taboo or do we blame that which cracks the taboo?
Such members would be unlikely to support their "I've got mine, fuck you" ideology.
BUT THEN WHAT WILL MANAGERS DO?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades
Same here. I've had other weird interactions with Dark Reader before - one was where minecraft.net refused to let me log in until I turned off Dark Reader.
We would have migrated to GitHub, unfortunately it doesn't have the equivalent backlog management that's in Azure DevOps.
An unattended beverage cannot cause harm to users that placed their trust in you.
Cmon yall, they are trying to nudge you back to the office. Get it?
For a more organized read from the authors at GNU, try the online version of
> info bash

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html
Back in the late 90s friend had ISDN installed at his apartment and it was glorious. Compared to dialup it was like high speed internet. We used some Mac app that basically gave you access to all the cracked software you could have ever wanted.
But allowing everyone to generate fake nude pictures of anyone person whatsoever could possibly fix that?

At least that approach worked in South Park.. : D
I chalk a lot of this up to teething costs. The situation, will, hopefully, improve greatly over time.

The second to last chart shows a comparison of the Navy F-35C with the F-18 and EA-18 Growler, noting theatterbfaces additional challenges over the F variant for having an advanced electronics suite. The F-35C compares reasonably well against the Growler, and is already similarly stocked with massive amounts of electronics systems.

Alas, things will get worse before they get better. The F-35 was built and designed with old electronics technology. TR3 (Tech Refresh 3) is underway to start upgrading the core computer systems amid other things, and was supposed to be delivered this year, but has been pushed back and back; the software & integration isn't ready.

Planes had been rolling off the line with TR3 and then being unable to be flow. The Air Force has gone back to requesting TR2 planes even. Just this month forces have started flying them with incomplete feature suites (I personally really like this flying beta idea, to gain experience faster). And TR3 is just the first major leap! https://www.defensenews.com/air/2023/11/21/upgraded-f-35s-fl...

Next up comes block 4 with a massive suite of targeting, electric warfare & other upgrades. This is such a huge huge software and systems challenge, building an advanced multi role highly networked fighter. This is going to be a struggle. But I don't really see this as ever being a fast task, as going smooth for anyone. It feels like work that had to be done. And we should be trying to share & learn through hurdling through how to tie together so many wild advanced tech projects; we should be learning from this (alas, unlikely most software practitioners will ever get to reap the learnings here).

But costs are pretty low per unit now! And we're going to figure this stuff out. It will eventually get better. It takes time, with such heavily integrated systems. I mostly just wish we could all be collectively learning better about the technical challenges & strategies, that these lessons surfaced & understand how better to architect systems (just as plane designers copied lessons from each other for decades), but that seems fairly impossible with software.
Because it’s possible for electricity to be generated from renewable sources, unlike gasoline. But of course you know this already.
The name (but not function) seems really close to squuids from Datomic/Clojure.
:)

How did you know how they test for these specs?
Assuming the local call wasn’t on a party line, your lines were probably served by an analog switch or maybe on the same line card of something like a DMS-100. What you described wouldn’t work on “modern” digital switch.
They do but the technique shown in the paper is meant to bypass both. Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.12082.pdf
the extreme "caution" was the issue
The github link is deleted. I think it was illegal
Do you often need non-trivial lambdas that you completely construct at runtime?

Second-class functions can still be passed around. They just can't be constructed at runtime, you would have to declare them.

Maybe some "first-and-a-half order" approach to functions could work. You could still declare lambdas in place, but they won't have direct access to anything local to your function; instead of a closure, everything needed would have to be passed as a parameter. It could even allow partial application using local variables; values wound just be copied, not closed over.