skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of why the “natural” angle is so hard to argue strongly is that you can use it to advance almost anything as a right, by selecting which parts to highlight. Is defense a right, or is safety—what self-defense seeks—a right? These are very different things, and it’s not clear that either’s more-correct nor that they’re wholly compatible. Does the animal defending itself prefer to defend itself, or would it rather not need to in the first place?

This is the kind of trouble one gets into with these analogies-from-nature, or with the kind of fictional humanity-in-the-state-of-nature stories that used to be in vogue for “proving” which things are or are not natural rights: they’re usually superfluous, because we’re just using motivated reasoning to reach the same conclusions we would have if asked to list what we think ought to be rights without that foundation. Instead of discussing which outcomes are likely and preferred by protecting some set of rights, we waste time deciding which set of from-nature analogies or tales are valid (if we go down this road and find that holding slaves is a right—what then? But we won’t, because the whole thing is just motivated reasoning anyway, so we’ll pick some different set of stories to ensure we don’t end up there—repeat for everything else)
and that's why the Soviet Union won the Cold War
RIP.
After all the attacks and humiliation going back and opposing the evil lord is testimony for having skin in the game (BTW, Snowden still in Moscow?).
Hoping for regime change in Russia? Am I insane, or are the supporters of the ongoing holdout of the Ukrainian government literally dreaming for WW3? Why the hell does anyone here give a shit who rules eastern Ukraine? Why are we sleepwalking into a geopolitical firestorm?
It isn't for me. I would say I distrust Amazon as much as their bank (or vice versa).

Maybe I won't believe my bank won't give me access to my money tomorrow, or I won't believe Amazon will keep my money and won't send me the product I bought, but I know my bank try at all cost to introduce me to products that won't benefit me as much but would benefit them a lot, and I know Amazon would post Chinese knock-off products aside legit ones without any way to filter them.
> centaurs (human+AI) in chess/go were better than either humans or AI just for a short time.

I was having a conversation about this with a friend last weekend, and we'd assumed that centaurs were still better than either top humans or top computers. I'm unable to easily find this info on google, could you share where you saw that centaurs are no longer better than top computers?
It's a good idea for a feature - many other out-of-band solutions have this. I think the issue comes mostly in that you would need to unplug the server to add (and remove...) some kind of relay-controlled power interrupt.

I would assume that most users of this are in a rack/datacenter/server environment and have switched PDUs they can remotely trigger power with, and it might make more sense to build in PDU management as a software feature over the network than try to reproduce the hardware functions.

Would be kind of cool to have a C14 input plug on the device and a C13 out beside it that goes to the server/device, then you can put an relayed interrupt inside it and also an ammeter clamp to measure power draw and detect drops or spikes in device power - for those systems that don't have built in IPMI already.
Really? Thinking of all the people I know personally who think UBI is a good idea, I think all of them would say raising minimum wages is also a good idea. There may be a few fiscally conservative influencers pushing the idea (sama?), but among regular people I think it's only those who strongly support spending on social security, worker rights, minimum wages, etc, who support it.
The thing that I question is why is this requirement for this fiscal balancing only required for giving money to poor people? In 2018, the US Government added $2 trillion to the US national debt to give a 5k/capita/year subsidy to the top 5% of earners.

If we're already in the business of chucking money at people in fiscally irresponsible ways, I don't see why changing the target from "rich people" or "oil companies" to "everyone" is suddenly a problem.
A big reason for people having tons of unread emails is a poor signal-to-noise ratio of incoming email. When there are multiple useless mailing lists, notifications sent in email, emails where all the important information is in the subject line, etc, and a tiny fraction of actually important emails that require a response, it's much easier to lose track of what's going on. It's even easier to lose track if there are other commonly-used communication mechanisms for important things (e.g. Slack or meetings). That's not to say that 200k unread emails is acceptable, it's well worth periodically deleting all the crap, but the "red bubble" notification count is useless if too much of email is noise.
That depends how it's funded. Printing money? Yes. Taxing economic rents? Probably not. Owning a fully automated workforce? Yet to be determined.
> can't it be expected to excel at lower-level stuffs trivially which are more deterministic than a human language

Our current LLM's excel at nondeterministic problems (style transfer, summarization, etc), not at deterministic ones.
I am profoundly, profoundly cynical about this particular development in computing culture.

But your last paragraph resonates with me pretty deeply, and suggests to me that there might be a way forward for me when this becomes unavoidable, which it will.

Frankly I would rather direct my energies away from the accelerating face of dehumanising technologies and towards rehumanising technology through education, but I do recognise I'll eventually have to engage with this just to educate.
I hate welfare programs as much as the next libertarian leaning conservative, but overhead from means testing (and admin overhead generally) really isn't a major expense. Medicaid overhead is a grand total of 5% of the program.

It's really just UBI advocates handwaving away the question of funding.
OT: the hand model on that photo needs a manicure.
The problem, at least according to that article and to pictures and videos of shot down HARMs, isn't really the integration. The problem is that Russian AA systems can defend themselves passively using IR or optical sensors, and are highly mobile. Basically, a pure antiradiation missile would only work if the crew of the air defence system makes a mistake or runs out of missiles.

The other issue is that merely because you did get that radar to turn off, doesn't mean that the launching aircraft is safe. Russia (and Ukraine as well) has a true IADS, so it's very risky to get within position to launch the HARM in the first place, let alone stay in position long enough to actually use your sensor package and give more capability to your missile.

Besides, Ukraine had Soviet antiradiation missiles that are extremely similar to the HARMs and that are integrated into their airframes. They weren't hugely effective.

How is an F-16 going to get close enough to Russian SAMs to be able to fly a conventional SEAD mission anyways? The traditional US way of using them is to jam enemy radars while flying F-16s as a wild weasel. The F-16 itself is not a capable SEAD platform - it needs and entire package with EW aircraft and air superiority fighters to defend them.

Besides, the problem in Ukraine is that Ukraine just can't fly even close to the frontline, and can't fly high. That's not just due to air defences - Ukraine used to be able to do this until Russia started using their extremely long range air to air missiles.
@sp332, yes, sorry. I meant to reply to the top level comment.
> I will not respond to your second attempt to make this about unrelated flamewar politics instead.

That wasn’t my intention. I was genuinely curious whether or not you actually had a principled stance against protesters facing legal repercussions for being involved in a disorderly protest in which a minority of protesters committed acts of mayhem and destruction. If so, it should have been easy for you to apply that standard across the board.

Instead, it appears that you actually do apply a double standard based upon your personal sympathy with the cause being protested. Which has left you in a closed circle in which you hate the police, so when a “protest” is little more than an organized smokescreen for acts of domestic terrorism against the construction site for a police facility, it’s automatically the police who are the bad guys for investigating the incident and not the people trying to burn down a public facility.

And it is rather funny of you to accuse me of “flamewar politics” when you are the one advocating for people whose form of political protest entails literal flames.
They're large incumbents and what they did isn't within reach for smaller competitors, so you establish a law that favors large corporations.

Also, the creators presumably never specifically agreed to have their content used as AI training data and might rather object to that because then they have to compete with the AI generated content going forward. Which is the thing the creators don't want -- it isn't going to do them any more good just because they got a past payment which they'd have gotten regardless.

What they want is for AI generated art to not exist, but that isn't going to happen. Given that, it doesn't do them any good to legitimize Getty or Adobe but not Midjourney etc.
Ex-army here, combat medic. We do it for a few reasons.

1. Prevent the glass from getting scratched and shattered during movements.

2. Glass is reflective and the glint can make you stand out.

3. Reduce accidental button presses.

4. Easier to push out the arm and see the time when a rifle is being held in an aiming position.

5. Cultural reinforcement.

Not everyone does it, not even in high-speed units.
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I always assumed Russia will win beside the small event when prigoschin marched to Moscow.

The question to me was more what happens after? Terrorism inside Russia for years? Low bip for decades?

Nato setting a clear border
I wish political dreck like this wasn't allowed on HN
Ukraine is fucked in the long term by demographics and economics, not by the lack of any particular weapon or munition. Now that the war has settled into an attritional phase, it's a question of who will run out of fighting men and war materiel first. The answer is unfortunately clear.
Why didn't you say Red Square instead of, in an English sentence, dropping in a Russian adjective and Russian noun?
You can go to a private doctor even if you are not in a „private insurance“ and pay him by yourself (Selbstzahler). He can prescribe meds which are not covered by the public insurance. So you have to pay them by yourself. That’s just one example.
> Once you burn some trust, it’s almost impossible to earn it back.

The old saying is that it takes years to build trust, and seconds to lose it.

In my own life, I have tried to live a life of personal Integrity. It's pretty disheartening, when some people treat me as if I'm being "snotty," and assume that there's no such thing as Personal Integrity (There is such a thing; I assure you).

But most folks seem to appreciate it. I sleep well.
Many runners also do it, because it breaks your arm rhythm less to look at the inside of your wrist than the outside.
Universal Basic Income has never been tried, because all the trials lack "Universal" component to it, they are limited in scale.

Once you start giving out free money to millions of people the only result is inflation, and people receiving UBI would not be better off at all.

In fact, the closest thing I can think of that would be similar to introducing UBI was "500+" program in Poland, which, as the name implies, was about giving families 500 PLN monthly per each child that they have. As you might have guessed, inflation in Poland has been brutal since then.
So… we aren’t being spied on because the guy complaining about the spying is right wing? Not trying to be obtuse here, but what is the argument?
why are the results of a study with a limited reach preferable to the results of an actual universal real world event?
I am growing into the idea that everyone should try and build some games. Just a "simple" card game like solitaire would suffice for a lot of the lessons.

Biggest one being that anything you want to be able to do visually has to be represented somewhere as state. Pretty much period. And this state will be far more complicated than the simplified state diagram that you will come up with if you are only modeling the intended actions of a game.

If you are lucky with extra computing power, you can layer your code so that the core rules of the game are able to be written independently of how you represent the cards in play. But I assert that you will often be surprised that accomplishing this separation is more code than the alternatives.
> If it's installed on a local Web server it's designed to be able to serve multiple users.

I'm sorry, but that just isn't how that works. It would be no more "wasteful" than running a native app. 1 user or 10, it doesn't matter.

Besides, most self-hosters have servers that are running many apps, so this is just one more. Not a big deal.
This isn't a cycle though.
That’s very much a talk to your CPA question - because it speaks to audit risk. The IRS wants to see you pay yourself a fair salary so you are paying the appropriate payroll taxes, social security, medicare, etc. The problem is “fair” is somewhat subjective and depends on the profitability of the business as well. I’m sorry this isn’t a clear answer, but it’s just not a clear matter. Seek advice and ask “how would you defend this stance in an audit”.
I encourage you to expand on this to the ultimate of your ability.....I'm talking really let me have it, please.

I look forward to being impressed, and having a new, superior standard to work towards.
Stalin called artillery the god of war. Ranged surface-to-surface weapons are the antithesis of close combat, and whoever has the systems with the highest range and military effectiveness can clear the way ahead of physical occupation until political or economic forces compel suing for a negotiated cessation of hostilities.

While Ukraine is training F-16 pilots, this will take a lot of time and money to achieve and sustain, and is vulnerable to parts supply chain issues, maintenance program sophistication gaps, and puts expensive-to-train pilots at risk of loss by being shot down. Vipers will barely move the needle on the course of the current conflict, but will enable Ukraine to defend its territory and airspace without direct NATO intervention.

The domestic Ukraine drone and missile industry is another leg of the table on which Ukraine will advance and sustain self-defense by striking strategic Russian military logistics, naval, army, and air force targets.

> Even though Russia has got the bigger air force

Russia's military is barely functional due to corruption and complacent reliance on being a nuclear superpower. The % of operational jets is barely enough to sustain territorial defense much less a sustained "special military operation". Russia's air assets total 3000 pieces of equipment but with only 7 regular air bases close enough to launch strikes and could only muster around 250 operational strike aircraft given the limitations on maintenance, storage, and the few pilots.

185 fighters

264 attack aircraft

415 multirole

119 bombers

1000+ helicopters

1000 transport

177 others (EW, a few tankers, c3)

https://youtu.be/geSvbR9io3c
"prompt engineer" == my generation's "good at googling"
And delivery.
While I agree that global warming is a serious issue without a clear future, it seems a little far fetched to attribute that as a factor in the deterioration of hackernews community's cultural standards.
Whoosh! Ok, the price of literally everything, then.

Google "Weimar Republic".
Most of these are either fairly short-lived limited pilots, or aren't really "UBI" (e.g. Alaska's $1,600 a year hardly qualifies as UBI as it's just enough to buy groceries with, never mind rent or any other basic needs).

A large population with basic needs met and nothing particular they have to do is untested. I don't really know how that will end, but I fear it may not end especially well. Let's be real: no one works at McDonalds because they have a great passion to fry burgers. SpongeBob was a lie! Would extra income from McDonalds be enough to motivate people to do this kind of stuff anyway? Perhaps. It's currently unclear.

I'm somewhat skeptical that large changes are afoot though; current AI systems aren't really good enough for most things and it's unclear what future developments will bring. And you can't automate frying burgers or stock shelves in the first place (well, not without huge investments that just aren't worth it).
Because if they win this, they get to keep the good and ignore the bad.

They get to automate a large chunk of their customer service and when the chatbot does something really stupid they can tap on the sign that says "We're not legally bound by our chatbot"
It cannot. There's more detailed reasoning at https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/923, but the tl;dr is:

> nginx is already good at mitigating HTTP desync / request smuggling attacks, even without using HTTP/2 to backends. In particular because it normalizes Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding while routing requests (and also does not reuse connections to backend servers unless explicitly configured to do so)
Hey genuine question,

Why would anyone bother with learning anymore? When is learning enough to get started?

How will someone get started with work? What qualifies someone to start a new position?

Pretty sure only smart people will be hired for the roles.

No matter what I do, I am forever unqualified, even from junior roles.

1. Have post grad degree

2. Have internships

3. Have only part time or short tenure roles.

But can't get into any industrial role. Why?

Means, I die? What qualifies for a job?

Well one option is to go back to shithole country I came from and just stay there earning pennies. With the money I make there affording a new mac will take 2 years salary. So that is the kind of shithole I am talking about.

Seriously, why?
Taxes.

One form of UBI is essentially a negative income tax rate for people making below a certain line.

As more and more jobs get automated away, we will either become a society of wage slaves with a small upper class controlling trillions (wait a minute...) or we will distribute the benefits of an automated society to all people.
And then you see a guy with a Mudman G-Shock worn like this and you wonder what he is protecting his watch from.
Printing money is not a useful framing device.

What is useful is thinking about money sources and money sinks. As long as the (source rate - sink rate) ≅ Δvalue of goods an services, inflation is checked.

"Printing money", paired with a comparable sink, is completely fine and a more useful tool than "never print money". The biggest roadblock we have when it comes to employing this tool is that our system of governance has different systems when it comes to monetary and fiscal policy that over-complicate its use.
As far as I'm concerned, JFK laid out a program in 1961, five years after the Suez Crisis, for an even more rules-based order than we actually ever had since: https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-k... , but that project failed, no doubt in significant part due to his untimely cancellation.
That would mean around 2000 USD per person per year if taking the full US military budget and paying everyone.

But this is much better than subsidizing home ownership for the rich.
I tried with my Garmin instinct. It dangles like a cow's tit. How can I show off my cool watch if I hide it? I will remain a civilian no thanks.
Because you need to dig out all that dirt, and this is normally done cut and cover. Even if you are only digging for stairs and elevators (building the station in the tunnel as Madrid does) that is a long way down. For shallow stations you can tell most people to walk down the stairs, but for deep stations nobody will so you have to build enough expensive elevators to handle everyone (and you still need the stairs for fire escape). Deep stations also mean people will be on the elevator longer so you need even more of them. (people may be running late so they need to load fast and it better not be long for the elevator to come when someone needs to get someplace)
You can't possibly tease out all the different causes of the effect you're discussing here. Are you sure the worker shortages weren't due to the inflation? Much of that was greedflation, where companies raised prices due to the crisis and then kept them high, but wages didn't go up, so some people - especially those with long commutes - were actually working at a loss.

Not to mention that the amount given - a total of $3200 to childless people over an entire year - amounts to around 3 months of an average 1 bedroom apartment's rent in America in 2020, much less in cities, and not including groceries or utilities. As a young, childless person who got the full amount that year, it gave me exactly what I needed to be able to move out, but certainly wouldn't have sustained me - even in a "flop house" - long enough to really avoid looking for work.
> and if you were playing computer games in the 1980s in a slow DOS box you could not have even imagined modern GPUs and modern games.

I think this bit is really not the case, FWIW.

If you look at what computer magazines were like in the 1980s it's very clear that people were already imagining what photorealism might look like, from the very earliest first-person-perspective 3D games (which date back to the early 1980s if not earlier)
people seeing it, he's being considerate to their eyes
Here's a deep dive book on the architecture of the AS/400 up to the PowerPC port, written by Frank Soltis, one of the main people behind the system.

https://archive.org/details/insideas4000000solt
70% corporate tax rate will get you another Reagan.

It's a fast track to destroying entrepreneurship, reducing competition to introduce new, better products or lower prices of existing products.

This is bad for the middle-class consumer because they'll have less to buy, and fewer places to work at.

Furthermore, even if you went full Stalin and confiscated the entire wealth of all the billionaires, that's only $12T [1]. Sounds like a lot? It's a whopping $1500 per person in the world. You'll completely obliterate the economy for the ability to give everyone a check for $1500. One month later, 95% of that money will be spent and back in the hands of innovators and value providers.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
> AI may destroy the very concepts of truth and trust

Oh, hell nah!

Dark visions: AI's mere application will be solving problems AI created in the first place - and, incidentally, the erosion of trust brought up a use case for crypto, at last.

I will be in my hut eating moss.
If we make corporate tax to e what it was historically normal, and tax the wealthy-wealthies to a reasonable level and close all ridiculous loop-holes, then it can be zero-sum. Or even profit.
So how do you feel about it? :) Seriously, what are you feelings about it after all those experiences?

You forgot the end of the story: After all that, it's done and published, and then a random person with no expertise and who barely read the paper posts on HN: the sample size is too small - as if you were in your first week of statistics 101 - and therefore the whole thing must be invalid! :)