skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the shift to a large standing army is probably the MIC milking the taxpayer, as many suppose.

Another part, however, is that the pace of war is so high and the minimum required level of training and military organizational capability to be able to go toe to toe with a top-tier foreign power is so great that it's not been clear, since the end of WWII, that the US would again be able to take so very long to get rolling as it did in that war, if it wants to be able to project power abroad at all in a meaningful way against strong enemies.

IOW scaling back our military too much might well be the equivalent of bowing out of the first stage or two of the next great conflict, even more so than it was in WWII, and it's less clear all the time that our historical gigantic advantage of the two-ocean moat will give us so much leisure to prepare, or that we'd quite so easily be able to wrest back control of vital supply lines if another world war breaks out, having allowed the enemy to take them in the first place (even if it stays non-nuclear—if it goes that way, of course, we're in totally uncharted and very bad territory, for all concerned)

Then there's the domestic concerns: the military is the only jobs program with bipartisan support. College, free housing (including for a family!), free healthcare (ditto!), good education for your kids. Retirement! Why, it's practically a way for a blue collar American kid to opt into European-level social support (though with some, ah, significant costs). There are social-stability interests in keeping recruitment levels high.
> Although I suspect that the communities you're thinking about are somewhat niche?

Reddit, for instance, in my experience, has been remarkably spam bot free, though the dead internet theory is very prevalent in culture there
stl get a pass because it also makes a great acronym.
Sure, we can expand the values of free speech as far as you want. Making and distributing porn of somebody using their likeness without their consent is unethical behavior that is not some pillar of any social good derived from the broad principle of free speech.

If you want to fight for free speech there's plenty of other actually useful battles.

I'm serious. Just once, I'd love a free speech absolutist in these situations to talk about all the work they are doing to prevent retaliatory arrest or expand the speech rights of students or try to get Thomas (who wants to overturn Tinker) or Alito (who voted by himself in Snyder v Phelps) kicked off the bench.
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After using Copilot seriously for a few weeks, I can't believe they charge for it. It's really awful.

It shows glimpses of being useful but rarely delivers usable code.
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thanks for this post, I always feel a bit overwhelmed when it comes to licensing and other legal aspects of software development
Pre-auth sshd vulnerabilities are extremely rare and are not what ssh scanners are looking for.
An amusing moment in my college years was when a roommate was trying to broaden his mind by listening to classical — but unwittingly downloaded PDQ. It sounded _almost_ authentic, but had the classic Schickele twists that gave it away.
Ask HN: How to re-kindle my interest in computer science?
I'm a software engineer / technical architect bordering on 3 y.o.e. at a large firm. Two of those years being in the architecture role, which includes team lead duties. While I've adjusted well to the role and my boss seems satisfied with my performance, he and an overly ambitious workaholic leadership really left me burned out at the end of last year (same experience with several others in the same role too). To a degree I'm still burned out now but I have resolved to become a better lead this year before leaving my job.

That said, I feel like I'm no longer interested in computer science and programming as a whole and that really bothers me. I never felt this way until I got into this architecture role and I've struggled with sparking my desire to learn more and *do* more things related to comp. sci & software development which obviously has its benefits at my job. I guess I'm at a loss with how I can get into the groove of things again, I've forgotten so much and when I compare myself to those who seem to be able to talk circles around me when it comes to these topics I feel even more discouraged especially when I feel like I should *know* these things already.
I’d expect a rocker switch in America to also be the same as our light switches - pressed at the top for on, pressed at the bottom for off.
My view is that folks lost their life savings on crypto on FTX is only a more extreme version of those who lost their live savings on crypto on some other exchange. The fraud is terrible, but only exasperates the problems of those gambling with limited resources to absorb loses.
These numbers are for enlisted recruits. To wash out of basic training/boot camp and be enlisted there has to be serious problems. Bed wetting, serious violence, egregious disciplinary problems or major integrity violations, Maybe being overweight or failing physical standards at the very beginning / end of training. With most of these things you just get rolled back and stay longer in training. The most common drops are early, often for integrity problems like lying to a recruiter about a criminal past or failing the initial drug test. After that if a person is kicked out of recruit training it's for the issues mentioned above and there doesn't seem to be any "fixing it"

These decisions are made by training commanders pretty much on a case by case basis, often with the armed service's needs in mind. Everyone who's at enlisted basic training is needed, because it's about volume.
Couldn't you look at much of the Linux userspace as an example?

For instance there all the GNU tools like bash, gawk, gdb, GNU binutils, GNU make, GNU m4. People use them all the time. They do get updates

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg00003...

but it's not like javascript frameworks. Not to mention gnu emacs, vim, etc. All of these tools are basically compatible with development tools from UNIX and other minicomputer OS.

Another thing that interests me is the procession of "chat" and related software (e.g. there is a lot of overlap between things like IRC, Whatsapp, Skype, Zoom, etc.) in that almost all the apps are incompatible with each other and individual platforms seem to get some traction (often by obsessive attention to the onboarding process) but eventually the owners go into a harvesting mode where they can't be bothered to keep up with a changing environment and the apps rot. Somebody comes around and says they want you do use a new chat application and when you're skeptical they say "it really works... like Skype did 10 years ago."

I imagine the counterfactual world where XMPP or some other standard became... standard and we would have seen steady competition for apps to get better, or maybe not.
As someone who grew up Catholic, I think you might need to get your bullshit'o-meter recalibrated
No... there's an example in the article.

It means that kid A's brain wont reward them as much when they complete a task that leads to rewards. Which in theory would lead to less motivation to undertake those kinds of tasks in the first place. The example in the article uses money, the kids obviously know what money is or it wouldn't be a motivator.

Basically, we're training poor kids to not even try because their brains have adapted to just accept the fact that it wont get the resources it needs.
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This book may already exist:

https://www.amazon.com/Legal-Singularity-Artificial-Intellig...
Terribly. He insisted on buying my shares back which were worth almost nothing back then. To keep the peace I did. Lost a 100x increase years later. We aren't talking to each other anymore.
Somehow reminded me of Jean Michel Jarre
Very cool. I wonder if the pluggable storage engine also supports query pushdown.

For example, if you do SELECT ... FROM mytable WHERE key = 42, then if this is a Postgres table, you want the key predicate to be pushed down to Postgres so you don't need to scan the whole table. Same for ORDER BY, joins, LIMIT, OFFSET. For joins between foreign tables from different sources, you'd want the optimizer to be aware of table/column stats in order to pick the right join strategy.

Sqlite has a "virtual table" mechanism where you can plug in your own engine. But it's relatively simplistic when it comes to pushdown.
The App store being the only way to install software on iOS is like the car dealership you bought your car from being the only place to get an oil change. It’s purely to prop up a bad product by bundling it with a good product.
It's more than most war-culture beneficiaries do so yeah most people are okay with that.
Are we just speculating? SSH scanners are not sources of DDoS. Large companies have ssh bastions on the internet and do not worry about ssh DDoS. Its not really a thing that happens.

You don't need to freak out if you see a bunch of failed ssh auth attempts in your logs. Just turn off password based authentication and rest easy.
How long have you been between jobs?
Yep, that's one of the values of the WAF, it can be associated with your ALB which means you can match rules on headers, cookies, etc. after the traffic has been decrypted.
I've had mostly good experiences doing this across two startups. The biggest challenge I've seen is the awkwardness around people who have previously been peers now being stacked in a hierarchy. The best way I've found to get around this is to think about your career as a long road where roles can change e.g. "You're working for me now, but next time I may be working for you". I had a former manager and friend work for me, and there are definitely friends I would work for in a heartbeat in the future.

It will also probably be hard for your friend to deliver tough feedback to you, so you may have to work extra hard to solicit real feedback.
Sounds like AI alignment
In a past life, I worked for Time Inc. The SI swimsuit issue was a big driver for subscriptions, especially when the premium was an SI swimsuit calendar. The football phone, not so much.
Right, which is why I'm saying that artists should retain exclusive control of the actual works that they produce and receive mandated royalties from anything that "covers" it (i.e. is substantively the same). Movie adaptations would fall under the category of covers.

Where I think it gets murky is when you try to claim ownership over the characters and universe. Because that prevents anyone who's inspired from sharing and selling their work. They either have to come up with their entirely unique OC or do what a lot of authors do which is pick a universe and cast that's in the public domain which is why we get so many greek god adaptations, Camelot, vampires, zombies. The creativity that would flourish if "Harry Potter" could be used with the freedom that people use Count Dracula would be incredible.
I did step outside of my own point of view to consider others' points of view, and post a reply to you highlighting those others' points of view. Like you, deepfake porn is not an issue that impacts me, therefore I'm privileging those it does impact when discussing whether or not it should be clamped down on.

Do you not realize that the actions in your second paragraph turn into already illegal harassment if done sufficiently?

Mass distributing, or targeted distribution, are their own things. It's not people's "thoughts", or even their stories or art when not involving others, or when kept sandboxxed in appropriate limited forums, or depending on the "speech" when properly labeled as fictitious (though some speech is wrong regardless of its labeling).
Sale of counterfeit goods is a crime in most jurisdictions, it's just that the police are useless in all of them.
Between a quarter to a third of the union army was foreign born during the civil war (while the broader population was only about 10% foreign born).

That’s not to say all of them were non-citizens but the Union went out of its way to recruit abroad.

The scene in Gangs of New York where fresh off the boat immigrants were signed into the army was realistic. We have a long history of using freshly arrived folks in our military with no major problems.
I want to add my 2 cents also and say this isn't a universal truth. I've definitely had bosses who have become friends, even whilst working together. Sometimes it feels that authority and being close in a friendly way are mutually exclusive, but I don't think they are. Good leaders maintain boundaries, set clear expectations, and don't violate them. You can do that whilst being friends, but it's not easy.
Not really. Once you get it running your exploit payload you can put the required yields in there no problem (or just let it crash after it's finished running your payload). Worst case you might have to be a bit more careful with how you get there (sprinkle some yields in your NOP sled or something), but it's at most a speed bump, not a real countermeasure.
So many Americans are prone to conspiracy theories. Most of the flat-earther, no-climate-urgency, election-was-stolen are Americans who have access to lots of facts, but still are in denial
Nix-direnv is a quality of life improvement
Laws are less like program code than they are like declarative constraints. And society has to solve for how to operate within those constraints. That's what makes making good law so difficult; it's like prompt-engineering a model and only getting results back, for good or ill, years or decades later. And when you do make a mistake (which is often) it can take that long to fix it!
"* Do low SES children not understand that money is a reward?"

As in they're stupid? How would they not understand it's a reward.

"* Is there a capability gap at playing games? Or different responses to games themselves?"

From the article - "Unbeknownst to the participants, the game was set up to control whether the guess would be correct or incorrect."

So no... that's not a possibility
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Maybe you had bad hardware, or bad drivers. Windows driver certification didn't even exist in those days. But 3.11 by itself was rock solid, I don't remember ever crashing it from windows proper.
that and the cost of the change.

I'm guessing that in this example, it was more expensive to switch to Linux and recertify. I doubt anyone in management was really arguing against a cheaper option because of money spent 10 years ago.
The numbers I am citing are based on the biggest utilities, unless you do not consider PG&E to be one of CA's biggest utilities.

If we included all CA utilities, CA customers would only pay slightly above the national average.
I mean, you suggest using AI to scan comments/code.

Maybe think harder and don't avoid a certain tech that is in a bubble and may soon be sued out of existence.

I do agree, github and other places that allow user generated content need to do a better job. I have more bots than humans following on twitter (and I have thousands of followers), for example, however trying to say "AI CAN FIX IT" won't win you any favors.

FYI I have a suggestion, maybe spin up said AI model on AWS and try scanning all the comments/issues github receives in a day. When even Microsoft can't pay your bill, you'll see why they do not yet use AI for that...though I'm sure they will try eventually.
It's not an app store. It's not like throwing stones from a glass house, because it's not an app store.

Most of the integrations do not have anything to do with using the copyrighted music, e.g. a playlist export app

Most Spotify integrations literally involve playing music through Spotify, so it's curious that you pick one of the very rare integrations that do not.
I am naturally opposed to leasing, but if there's a $7,500 difference in price, that changes things a bit.
I hired a close friend as a direct report. It worked well, because we could both compartmentalize the different relationships at difficult moments, but could leverage the trust and ease of communication granted by a long relationship most of the time.

A decade passed and same guy is a direct report again. So far, it’s going well again.

I’ve been fortunate to never face a round of budget cuts while a close friend was reporting to me. That would be difficult to navigate, regardless of the outcome.
> Ask permission from whom?

his estate.

> Personally, not a fan of copyright inheritance, so I'll pass, unless I'm legally obligated

you are.

> But I think the law says parody is fair use, does it not?

this case isn't about parody. it's about using someone's likeness without permission.
This is very interesting. Going to check it out tomorrow!
Optimizing it would compound over years and decades, no?

Are you still using the same tools and workflow you used in 2003?

The LAMP stack?

Flash?

Java?

Front Page?

Power PC assembly?

Chefs sharpen their knives regularly, not once every five years.
Well, I have the same reaction (though a bit muted) the Western Chess's refusal to capture the king.
You don't have to go back that far. The Army, at least, lowered the bar in all kinds of ways circa 2006-2010. It went badly enough that senior Army leaders, in the midst of the current recruiting crisis, have been adamant that they won't do it again. The result is that the Army is rapidly shrinking below the end-strength that the Army and Congress thinks is necessary. It remains to be seen how this will end.
Look for some area where academic CS is ahead of typical practice, such as compilers and parsers, and start a side project.
Hurricanes need warm water to form and sustain themselves - not just relatively warm but absolutely warm. Like, 26 C. Minimum. Which doesn’t happen in the waters off the UK, Ireland, and France.
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I came here to ask for a video!!
Sounds like it’s a management issues. I’ve run into the same thing. I worked for 15 years without any major burnout, maybe a month here or there, but only twice I can remember. Then new management took over. Workaholics, unrealistic expectations, nonsensical objectives, and no real structure or leadership around any of it. I’m burned out and have been for several years. I think at this point the only ways to change that are either I leave or they leave. I have a feeling they aren’t going to last much longer, so I’m hoping to outlast them, but it’s been very difficult mentally.

As far as thinking you should know what other people do, remember to keep things in perspective. They talk about those things because they know about them. There are probably topics you can talk on where they would feel the same way. There are also people who just like to talk. A guy I work with likes to talk a lot, and presents himself as an expert, but the more I deal with him, the more the gaps show, and the gaps are huge. He really has no business saying 90% of what he says and the whole team is now wise to his BS, but he is always looking for a new sucker.
What about the chugnovski that was mentioned but hasn't been presented? it's a pity. I was blown away by the various Pi! Cool project.
Nah, that's poor decisionmaking. That macro probably has a bunch of bugs in it and has been giving wrong results for years, but they'd rather cargo-cult something where they don't understand the bugs than risk having bugs that they do understand. Watch for them to be the next Post Office/Fujitsu in 10 or 20 years' time when someone finally pulls on the thread of some issues they're seeing.
For one thing, apples OCR runs entirely on device. When scanning documents, if any are sensitive I don’t want them going to a cloud service.
According to the paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04374.pdf) removing the special handling of stalemates did not really change the draw ratio much. So the weaker party can still gun for the draw in most situations.

(However, they had really good computers play, who do not get stressed out, albeit they do make worse moves on shorter time controls.)
I keep getting surprised by how good it is. It's a very exhaustive test, everything has an explanation, and it just... works.

Just about the only thing it is missing is IPv4/IPv6 capability (Can I connect to 4-only? 6-only? Dualstack?), and perhaps some kind of traceroute.
Until a junior from another project enables password-based root logins because Juniper team that was on site to help them install beta-version of some software they collaborated on asked them to.

Few days after they asked to redirect an entire subnet to their rack.

And yes, you still need to remember to close password logins or at least pick serious password if you need them. Helps to have no root login over SSH and normal users that aren't defaults for some distro...
There can never been any stack that works for everyone, as long as "everyone" refers to individuals with their own autonomy and biases.

Some people like a framework/language because it "vibes", not necessarily because it's the best. Whatever tool allows you to build the software you want/need, is, by definition, the right tool for the job.

If the planet depended on writing software, wouldn't you want someone to use what they're productive with, rather than slowing them down with some objectively "best" stack?

I appreciate this discussion :)
If you are interested in this you may also like the "Exit Suit" which is open sourcing their plans at the end of this month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZiwrDfi9rw
That’s true to some extend. If you are still happy with it, but your friends are not, is it still a success?

Not that you’d ever know of course.
actually agree with everything you've said - aside from the last line. Educated is hugely over rated for the vast majority of combat work. Look at Ukraine / Russia - which has devolved into an attritional battle of conscript soldiers, many of whom are educated but uselessly so.

This is a matter of trade offs. 1 for 1 an educated soldier is probably better than an uneducated one. But when you factor in the cost of educating that soldier, then spending resources in assessing against skills developed in educational setting, you are probably better off just opening the doors and taking the rough with the smooth
> I have noted this article for my talk about how CPUs are free.

If teeny computers are free, and if I want to re-program them for my own use cases and personal applications, then why do I have to still spend nearly a thousand dollars or two on embedded systems development equipment like microcontroller development boards, JTAGs, ICEs, ROM flashers, UART-based bootloading solutions, and other delicate programming interfaces for small microchips, microcontrollers, and tiny computers? And don't forget microscopes to do power analysis for reverse engineering some old toy that was made to emulate or fake a real life candle's intractable flame properties.[1]

If you can't write code, then what's the point? How would no code be an agent of freedom and expression?

Reprogramming a microcontroller unit with a USB cable connected between it and a laptop computer is convenient. But too bad that's not really the standard for old technology and resources laying around the planet, isn't it? You have to basically be uncanny like MacGyver or inhumanly intelligent like Tony Stark to reprogram the apparently free teeny computers laying around the world.

[1]: https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2024/01/14/revisiting-candle-f...
I'm still employed until the 31st of this month, so not long. I've been interviewing and doing the rounds for two months.
Do you have test results to show that your red blood cell count increased?
Anyone giving you a wage while seeking a profit instead of partner equity is taking advantage of you tautologically