skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except most branches are having an extremely difficult time filling those roles

Most of the issues with recruitment tend to be less skilled MOSes like Infantry.

IOW, Intel, and Cyber MOSes are given a fast track to NCO and very good post-military careers, along with a decent entry pipeline via ROTC or Training Schools for enlistees like JCAC.

Most vendors and large tech companies (eg. GCP, MS Azure and Security, PANW, Cisco, AWS, etc) will often hire ex-Intel and Cyber trainees in lieu of a bachelors degree, so it's often a very affordable path to high paying tech jobs (Sales Engineering, Systems Engineering, Support Engineering, etc).

> bringing civilians into those roles at an O5 grade

Pardon my French, but that's bullshit. Only the newly created Cyber Warfare Officer in the Marines is at O-5 (largely due to budget and staffing issues w/ the Marines because it's competing for the same pot of money as the Navy), and they have to go through Officer Training School in VA.

Most entry level cyber roles are WO level (primarily W-1) or E1-3 if you are going to JCAC at NIOC Pensacola, and most Cybersecurity work was historically done by the Navy because Sigint was historically under the Navy, as all the IT and Cyber MOSes would get trained at NIOC Pensacola (none of this is classified btw)

IOW and Cyber are desk jobs - doing the whole shebang of military training is unnecessary, and competitors like China, Russia, etc exempt their equivalents in these MOSes from bootcamp, and they tend to require a degree or a civilian career for those same roles as well.

Also, these roles tend to require at minimum an Associates degree in Computers/Networking/IT, so plenty of grunts do upskill and get that via online programs like the AFIT, AMU, etc and then upskill after a couple years via Grants or get hired as Sales or Field Engineers at vendors.
Do you really think most people avoid stress? I personally do all sorts of stressful things for reasons that probably aren't worth it, and I bet most of the western world does too. I bet someone, somewhere, made it to 100 even though they worked 60 hours a week with an untreated anxiety disorder and slept an average of six and a half hours during their working life.

It's more like saying your longevity was because you ate lots of vegetables and walked to work every day. That is a real factor of longevity. Whether it's "good" advice is a matter of perspective, because everyone already knows they should eat vegetables and exercise and the advice won't change many people's habits, just like everyone already knows they should quit their shitty job and go to sleep at 10:30pm, but both pieces of advice are certainly actionable.
If you're in cumberland proper, your main option is cable, which is fine, fast and stable. since the culture is blue collar, their lineman due a perfectionist tier type guys who pride themselves in their craft. they have a guy there who does fibre and is pretty chill but ironically he only runs line rurally (not in the main urban core of cumberland). they have a startup-ish grass roots wireless based internet which is cool but kind of hard to plug into.

They also have various speakeasies fully in the classic unlicensed since but for obvious reasons I won't say where. I would call it a "deregulated" region. Whereas in most of MD you have vehicle emissions and all that redtape, none of it in cumberland.

there are methheads about but police force and community are hand in hand and highly functional

if you're in cumberland proper all you could want is walkable, including an amtrak station that links you directly to DC and chicago, walking distance

there is an aspect of xenophobia but generally if you live there a while, well, if you're willing to live in cumberland that's good enough for most people to welcome you. it does have a small town vibe as far as saying hello to everyone on the sidewalk as such

the other point people who visit may miss about appalachian culture (it is appalachian culture very much so, not maryland culture) is everyone dresses like a methhead, even people who aren't methheads, so take appearences softly.
Alright, fine. Maybe you don't have faith in management, but perhaps you do have faith in the open market and capitalism.

Feel free to point out any error in my logic:

There are huge financial incentives--tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars--for developing an LLM which can solve novel bugs. So surely there exists AI companies developing an LLM capable of doing so. If an LLM capable of solving novel bugs exists, AI companies would rush to showing it off to capture tonnes of VC money. AI companies could show off their fancy bug-fixing LLM by closing issues on public Github repos using said LLMs.

No such mythical LLM exists. We are thus left with two choices:

1. My logic is flawed or there is an alternative possibility I haven't considered.

2. The LLM capable of doing what OP asserts doesn't exist and can't be made, despite their assertion that it is trivial to fine tune and put into application.
Why Does Elisp Suck
Why ignorance is a huge problem today. https://app.nuclearplanet.ch/nuclearplanet/kkw-world

We need a energy mix and push all technologies to the next level. "Renovables" (btw there is not single 100% renovable energy plant) have a huge impact in area destroyed (directly and indirectly) and a nefarious end of life.
That was a pleasure to read. Well written, nicely formatted and good links to further reading topics.

The only missing piece was talking about https://github.com/dtolnay/thiserror which I would expect to be prominently featured given how prevalent it is

And possibly https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow which is arguably a simpler form of "error handling" but sometimes that's all you need—although probably not in the Finance or Space industries ;-)
When machine learning went mainstream I realized I didn't _really_ understand linear algebra.
i have rewatched the original star wars trilogy and then the prequels with my kids when they were old enough. mostly to make sure that they would see the original trilogy first before watching anything else star wars related as that might spoil some of the surprise moments for them.

generally i only rewatch something if i want to share it with my family or friends.
did that with avatar, and will probably do it with lord of the rings, star trek and some other classics. ghostbusters for example. since a new one just came out recently, i am not letting my kids watch that until they have at least seen the original.
Excel uses native language tokens everywhere.
APUs have their own small niche in the DIY market!
From what I understand, some people build their own computer without a dGPU first, then later purchase a GPU and prefer to be able to change the CPU at that point as well?
Hopefully this rationale is what you're asking for!
The version i’ve heard is “better to cry in a Bimmer than laugh on a bike” (sounds English-optimized, but thats just luck —- BMW also make the bikes)
As did (does?) TOR.
I have the impression that the US intelligence services are always in an internal struggle - some parts wants and needs invisibility, deniability and secure communication - other part wants transparency for intelligence. Both realize that there is no such thing as a safe backdoor.
If China wants lower tariffs, all they have to do is purchase more to reduce the trade imbalance.
One fun thing about the whole flat earth thing is that people who argue online (correctly, of course), that the earth is round often will smugly do it using completely incorrect arguments or using photographic evidence that doesn't show what they think it does. And that's often generally true for people who "trust the science" about most topics. It's basically impossible to know the actual reasons for why scientists believe _everything_ that science has established, most people just "take their word for it" and don't actually make any effort to understand the justifications for almost any of their beliefs.

It's sort of useful to have people around who just believe stuff and argue for stuff completely outside the usual scientific method just to keep people on their toes.
"Just effort" is a curious way to put it.

Even for talented people, learning a skill to a high level takes years.

Mere mortals don't really have that many years of free time. Choosing a path that one seems talented at is usually the right path.

It's one thing for the person to decide they want to take the risk knowing that they might not have the talent to learn the skill in a "reasonable" time, but it's another to thing to pretend there's no difference and cheer on a person chasing an improbable dream and waste a persons' life.

To be or not to be. Basically.

So basically the disagreement is to the approach to default to when the future is unclear. Taking the right action requires a degree of foresight that people generally don't have. (I'm not sure everyone has the same skill to intuit the future, but I'll grant you that it's just effort to learn it, even if it requires significantly more effort for some...)
I’m seeing sources all over the place on this, so you could indeed be right. What are your thoughts on the source & quote below?

> Since SpaceX began flying the Falcon 9 rocket in 2009, the cost of launch per pound has decreased from $10,000 per kilogram to roughly $2,500. Starship promises to lower the cost of launch even further. Today, the per kilogram cost of a Falcon 9 launch is $1520. Starship’s larger size would allow it to drop that down by 40% to $970

https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2023/04/20/t-min...
All non language specific rules point to python. why is that?
Other comments mentioned France doesn't extradite citizens.
Yes I meant specifically for Kevin Bacon. There are other all pairs shortest paths algorithms besides running Dijkstra N times
For the same reasons I don't invite the entire neighborhood into my kitchen for dinner every night. If people want wifi, they can buy it themselves.
Italy's Clostebol doping crisis across tennis, football and the Olympics
https://sqlite.org/
> According to the French authorities, Durov, who is estimated to be worth €13.9 billion by Forbes, is being charged as an accomplice to crimes including drug trafficking, fraud, terrorism and crimes against children over Telegram’s alleged “lack of moderation and cooperation with law enforcement”, as well for Telegram’s use of disposable numbers, and for allowing cryptocurrency transfers that cannot be monitored by the authorities. - https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/08/25/russian-billiona...
I'm sorry guys but my API key is out of funds until tomorrow's or maybe tuesday's paycheck. I'm only a student and so my money is very limited. I'm sorry this is pathetic. I didn't expect to have so much trafic these last few days, and then with this thread. Come back soon!

What do you think that I implement BYOK (bring your own key), does that interest anyone so that it is never down for them but they have to pay Claude on the side? Is anyone interested?
I just found out about Hot Glue yesterday from this thread! Hot Page is pretty different in that the idea is to give people a way to edit DOM like they would with a text editor but with a visual UI and drag-and-drop. Hot Glue does have a visual UI but it's an abstraction on a web page that uses absolute positioning instead of the normal document flow. I've seen so many pages like this break on different devices or window sizes that I'm not really a fan of the approach. You can read more about the philosophy behind Hot Page here: https://hot.page/takes/picking-the-right-abstraction
I did something similar recently with my daughter's school calendar and ChatGPT with gpt-4o; her school has a ton of closures/teacher work days, I fed the PDF of the calendar in and asked it for all the dates that impacted 2nd grade, then asked it to create an icalendar file for them.

Oddly, it didn't want to create the actual file, but gave me a Python script for doing so; you just need to be sure to tell it what time zone you are working in and that you want it to be an all-day event, or you'll get suboptimal results.
very cool!

Love seeing Pakistani builders make strides :)
https://blr.today - Working on an open-source stack to curate events happening in Bangalore. It curates events from multiple sources, cleans them up, then curates them further by tagging them nicely, and making all event data available as calendars you can subscribe to.

Decided on a GPL/AGPL/ODBL license for the scraper/website/dataset. https://blr.today/license

My Core-thesis[0] on why I think this is worth building:

1. The vast majority of events in aggregator websites are low-quality, and often filled with spam. The aggregators make money by listing lots of events.

2. Small venues hosting cool events will not always publicize them on the aggregator platforms.

3. The best UX for event discovery is your existing calendar app.

4. Events are highly structured data - but this is often not captured.

I've been wanting to build this for almost 6 years now, finally getting around to it.

[0]: https://blr.today/about/

I updated my ideas repo last week with some more of my ideas.

https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas

If any of these sounds like fun, take a look:

* A physical variable fuzzy clock

* A curl impersonation proxy

* A Whisper UX Design Pattern

* Mobile App Traffic RE Platform

* One-Page (RSVP|EventHosting) Platform on Edge Compute

* Price Index for Indian Grocery Websites
sounds awesome - let's chat, i'm building a new b2b carrier
Of course I know this, but I am trying to go deeper. With AirTags and the new standards you literally can find and disable the tag for anyone using the Google or Apple networks.

I am surprised that people think the benefits of AirTags outweigh the downsides given the alternatives, of which we are one. I'm mainly just trying to learn.

I also think you probably are overestimating the deterrent value. Thieves are not necessarily thoughtful and the alerts aren't real time. Once they get the alert they might ditch the bike, but if it is back at their garage they will probably disable or remove it.

I also am a bit triggered by this line "Honestly, you as the CEO should know this." which is on the edge of being an ad hominem. Why did you choose to include this? And wouldn't you know that I know these things? Like I am asking questions to get nuanced user feedback. Do you think someone who runs a consumer product company (I started Life360, Tile's owner), isn't deeply aware of how customers think?
That sounds like embezzlement in the USSR but painted with capitalism colors. Quid pro quo siphoning at every layer, undetectable as a whole, but a giant boulder of dead weight for the system.
Define _elegant_
We are doing a satellite integration with Hubble Network - 24/7 global coverage, no increase in battery life. It sounds like scifi but 2 satellites are up. Give us a year...
cumberland is already quite bohemian. 20k for free, and some houses can be had for that amount, is quite appealing to the home-owning bohemian.
the only trick of it - said bohemian probably would need a remote job. not much locally. so the obvious play is to make it a remote paradise and focus the remainder of the economy on supporting both the essentials and the entertainment / night life of said remote worker
I think that’s a rather peculiar interpretation. I always thought it was pretty obvious that Reagan was just saying that he didn’t trust the soviets, and found a polite excuse not to in the form of the Russian proverb.
How de-Googled is Lineage OS?
Erdos-Bacon number is a join and sum ;)
Instead of using all this fancy hardware just to contribute to a proprietary database, i'd recommend uploading to BeaconDB[1] using NeoStumbler[2] on your phone.

[1] https://beacondb.net/
[2] https://github.com/mjaakko/NeoStumbler
If that worked, why would tech companies still have in-depth technical interviews?
I’ve received one call in my life from such a relay service. I worked the phones at a retail shop selling specialty sports equipment. It was a normal call aside from some delays due to the typing and a brief introduction to explain that the person on the call was a middle man. It’s great that these services exist.
Overthinking and Emotional Dysregulation
Check https://docs.sciter.com/docs/Reactor/
IBM 7090 Mainframe up for auction with a value up to $60k
> The mainframe is currently in Seattle, and the guide price is $40,000 - $60,000, with 19 days left of the auction period

> the machine used approximately 14,000 Standard Modular System cards. These cards housed about 30,000 alloy-junction germanium transistors and 22,000 germanium diodes. Due to this bulk, an IBM 7070 system weighs over 23,000 pounds (10,430kg).

Germanium is ~$3000/kg right now -- considerably more expensive than silver. If there's just 15kg germanium in that 10,500kg bulk, the value of the metal already exceeds the auction estimate.
why are you hashing "username–password"? Isn't username a key index for the lookup of hashed(password), or do you select all hashed("username–password") and see if any match and if so, authenticate?
> Facebook has many illicit groups and Mark Zuckerberg was never charged with anything.

Maybe because their legal compliance strategy is something other than "we will only, and only possibly, comply with law enforcement requests if it concerns terrorism"?

To quote Telegram's from https://telegram.org/privacy:

> If Telegram receives a court order that confirms you're a terror suspect, we may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities. So far, this has never happened. When it does, we will include it in a semiannual transparency report published at: https://t.me/transparency.
I think intelligence (however defined) is important. But the problem is often people misuse this metric to predict a binary conclusion of whether they can acquire a skill or not instead of just considering it as one variable involved in the learning curve.
Can you briefly explain why I might want to use this instead of anyhow or eyre?
Ah, so if an article suggests that water is dry and grass is purple - I should trust the article.
World #1 Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner was just found to be innocent of using PED's by the ITIA after 2 positive tests for the anabolic steroid Clostebol.

https://x.com/BenRothenberg/status/1825897812346753148
His point is that question ultimately boils down to a semantic argument over the word "think/swim", which may be interesting to a linguist but is not philosophically meaty in the way the question implies.
2-indent is a literal block. 4-indent also is, but only because it's a 2-indent.

HN markup also supports \-escapes (so you can write \*hello\* to get *hello*), but they grow linearly, not exponentially, with repeated escapes (\\\* becomes \\*). It also truncates long URLs in display, and it handles a single pair of parentheses in them (so you can write https://example.com/print(%22Hello,%20world%21%22)). But I think that's all.
This segfaults for me somehow.
>Tennis court size is in feet

Lol.
> Trust, but verify (Russian: доверяй, но проверяй, romanized: doveryay, no proveryay, IPA: [dəvʲɪˈrʲæj no prəvʲɪˈrʲæj]) is a Russian proverb, which rhymes in Russian. The phrase became internationally known in English after Suzanne Massie, a scholar of Russian history, taught it to Ronald Reagan, then president of the United States, who used it on several occasions in the context of nuclear disarmament discussions with the Soviet Union.
I've recently been working on SparkShell: https://sparkshell.dev

It's an online development platform similar to other things like Replit, but it's mainly for static site hosting. You can create projects and make custom subdomains for them. You can add libraries to your project in a click of a button, so you don't have to add scripts or CSS files to every single file of yours. I've recently been doing a lot of work on it and I hope to launch it pretty soon.
i read that book a couple years ago. the broad strokes tend to be accurate but obviously people understand north korea as much as they understand italy based on Italian tropes.
This is not either/or.

We can have both.

Any organization in 2024 creating a calendar that impacts 500-1000 people should have the awareness that people use digital calendars / apps too.

They should make an effort to publish both PDF and ical.

Since that has yet to catch on in many places -- including the HR departments of large enterprises that publish holiday calendars and the like -- these alternatives ideas are explored.

Once we have the right tools ...

It just takes one tech-savvy parent to do this 10 minute exercise and publish an online calendar that other busy parents can subscribe to.
Up there with Tropicana and Gap for senseless rebrands
Wendover made a pretty good video on the topic.

https://youtu.be/URoVKPVDKPU?si=XAJggvhaCwbyPcZF
Being lauded for effort when you didn't put in any effort doesn't help though, just makes you think grownups are dumb.
The English translation of the (Dutch) "strandbeest" is "beach animal".
linux (the kernel) supports "Kernel Live Patching" and several distros provide the updates to do it
I bite, but as in Europe, we do ourselves no favors by railing against the "far right" (the quotes are due to that term that gets tossed around liberally) whilst simultaneously ignoring the violence that left (or left-ish) mobs have wrought for some greater good. 2020 is a great example.

It makes average people feel marginalized and pushes many further away from the center. I suppose that is the goal of some revolutionary types, but it's not good for normal, democratic society.
Rumble CEO leaves Europe after telegram arrest
I'm really struggling to understand how it works. Can you give more details about it? Love the general idea
Looks interesting! Haven't done any sailing since leaving Auckland, but here in Barcelona there are also quite a few sailing yacht clubs. There might be some serious market for this. Good luck!
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> [...] your US bubble, which you THINK guarantees free speech [...]

That's a very common misunderstanding (even among Americans) of what the First Amendment actually guarantees: It protects you from government censorship of speech, but does absolutely nothing to compel private individuals or corporations to carry your speech. (In fact, compelled speech has been ruled to be a violation itself.)

That absence of such legal protections can definitely be seen as having a chilling effect on free speech in practice, but as I interpret it, currently the assumption seems to be that legal intervention is not necessary due to market forces achieving the same or a similar outcome implicitly. There's also strong resistance from a value perspective against the idea, since these provisions themselves might be incompatible with the FA for reasons mentioned above.

You can definitely have some discussions around whether additional "duty to contract" rules should apply, e.g. in the same way as there's a law in Europe that makes it illegal for banks to not give somebody a bank account in certain circumstances, but nothing like this exists at the moment.

> Right now, it is the ONLY wide audience platform in the world, where Russian people can freely (as opposed to, say, HN) write what they really think

Hackernews has always been very strictly moderated to maintain a specific type and culture of discussion. By necessity, that excludes certain types of comments. In that sense, it's always been very far away from a "free speech platform".