skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea of neverending public-private partnerships, where Congress dumps money into the same tiny group of companies for decades and gov agencies just sit around finding new things for these same companies to build (over budget and way too late), was always going to get to a breaking point of dysfunction. Whether it's military or infrastructure or whatever.

The gov created this environment and the private companies protect it because it's big money and grease it so it's the only option (like selling the bullshit idea "no one else can do what [Boeing] does cuz we huge staff counts and billions").

They both enable each other

And people are too scared to have a system that encourages new smaller companies take part because they don't have fancy sales pitches or fail early prototypes or take longer to get to Step A. And everyone criticizes them to death. So the only option is to get bought by Boeing or Lockheed, who then do really good at Step A just to fail a Step C and D and E.
No, really: Yagni
Looks beautiful.
This is perhaps even worse than the state of interviews today.

The exams mean very little. They are easy to study for and tell almost nothing about a candidates performance, just knowledge. If we wanted to go this route, we'd be using GPAs to differentiate candidates, but that rarely seems to be a factor today.
Should’ve asked them for them to send you some of that supposed savings from using AI for taking their bet.
I feel like the answer is that people like their gate-keeping.

There are a lot of programmers who like being part of a special club and want to manage who gets in. It’s couched behind meritocracy, but I think it can be boiled down to gate-keeping.
Vendor = Lockheed Martin or similar (?)

Jarheads = Marines

Squids = Navy

IOW = Information Operations Warfare

MOS = Military Occupational Specialties

LE = Law Enforcement

"Five Eyes circa 10-15 years ago" = PRISM, XKeyscore, Tempora, MUSCULAR, STATEROOM
>I don't know why he'd lie on this particular topic.

IMO, it makes for a good story and narrative that plays extremely well for PR purposes. There's just so many holes in the idea of executing that plan that I don't feel like it holds much water. But it reads much better than "There are large government contracts available to subsidize the early development of a business with an obvious and growing need that will lead to outsized profits if we're first."
> Love the new colour scheme, easy to read (on desktop) and feels more chill than reds and greys.

The main font is very thin light gray font to begin with that makes it very hard to read even on a 4k monitor
>Nobody cares about tokens per second the moment inference is faster than you can read, but staring down a blank screen for 5 minutes? Yikes.

I don't think so. Humans scan for keywords very often. No body really reads every word. Faster than reading speed inference is definitely beneficial.
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True, that's also why I picked that one. It's the only one I knew of that's both in a modern language, relatively small (just under 10k lines at that time) and that had serious production grade performance. It was a bit controversial because they apparently determined that adding the advanced optimizations of modern GC's would negatively impact GC times, so the GC was intentionally kept very simple. I don't know if they maintained that attitude since then.
Good article because it is "clicheless".
By saying its more complicated I meant to say that the settlements in the West Bank don't really have mainstream support in Israel as the parent comment suggested.

No "mainstream support"?

It's run as an administrative area of the State of Israel, "administered by the Israel Defense Forces Central Command, and military law is applied":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_and_Samaria_Area
Good question! No, I don't usually work with college students. Most of my students are actual grown-ups with jobs. I've found quite a few people who just wish they'd been able to study this stuff in college but didn't get the chance for whatever reason and still have some unresolved curiosity about it. It's a very fun group to work with; they're very motivated!
I had fun generating isometric mazes

https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/comments/kxau1...
Abortion and trans rights and stuff
A database that basically acts like a modern day “virus scanner” for deep fakes. I believe that virus, malware and such that trick people into handing out information- making false decisions as we have seen with companies would be better suited if they had something like a heuristic threat score assigned to them. Yes we have websites that can tell us but it’s not the same as a virus or malware scanner. I think we need to add it to a database. Block those sites to protect consumers, companies so they don’t make bad choices. Just like in malware we see if a signature , deep fakes from bad actors also have signatures. It’s so many things. From signal- coding- so I was working on that. Maybe foolish or a waste of time. But I am going with to. Was playing with app development for cars to protect data. But might be a push against Nissan- Ford- Chevrolet-Kia- etc who like to steal data to make money off it. They control the interface. No VPN are allowed and no encryption allowed on infotainment system. So you have to do work around to keep your data out of their hands. That’s all.
You don't need to take their word, just look at the products they're releasing, especially in the EV segment. It is now above everybody else, even with the head start western companies had. They're at the top of telecom tech as well, and Huawei had to be cancelled in the West to stop its total dominance. Even in chips, where they have closed the gap in many ways in a matter of a few years.
That AVR can still be manipulated. If your definition of safety includes preventing in-person attacks on the data storage, then you pretty much need armed guards.

If that's the standard, then no wonder "software safety is near non-existent".
fair point, but i think linking to the original post would make it more difficult to scan though the page, and people would simply not read those posts. might as well ban reposts altogether. so i think if reposts make sense then a tag is better than a link. if links are used they would at least need a short description, so for those that wrote a more detailed post at first, a link with a short desctiption would make sense, but that would benefit from a tag as well.

other tags such as "UPDATE" or "MAJOR UPDATE" could also be considered.

maybe something like this:

Please tag your posts as NEW, REPOST or UPDATE. For reposts and updates try not to repost the whole description but keep it short and link to the previous post instead
As said before: the whole E2E, CSAM diskussion is not really the issue here. This is afaik about complying mostly to very specific takedown requests (as telegram offers no legal address inside the EU) and more general platform regulations that require mechanisms to prevent illegal content. Telegram does not offer any E2E encrypted group chat and actually actively interferes in groups by pushing advertisements, so they should be able to also block illegal content.

Having said that I am no fan of installing law enforcement inside private companies. However, telegrams noncompliance with court orders is problematic particularly related to protecting human rights of 3rd parties in the digital age.
In pre-WWII Berlin, the shape of your roof was a political decision
The world-changing 'killer app' for AI could be nuclear fusion
Wondering if people here trust "AI" to manage fusion reactions, specifically this quote: " important decisions must be made every millisecond to control a plasma and keep a fusion reaction going. With AI, these decisions are more rapid, steering the plasma away from instability much more quickly. "
What dreams may come is sublime, and sad and beautiful. I've rewatched and remain charmed.

Try 2006's The Fall for another special film that surprises your heart and gives a visual treat.
For anyone who wants to know more:

This is an application of Jansen's linkage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansen%27s_linkage

There are other similar linkages but Jansen's is quite good.

For anyone who doesn't have an idea why something like this matters or is inspiring beyond art, legged vehicles have many downsides but one big upside is that you can theoretically avoid the rubber/microplastic particulate emission associated with tires and wheeled vehicles if you can make legged vehicles as good as wheeled ones.

Even an electric battery vehicle with an electric motor charged by a solar/wind/nuclear power plant still emits pure poison into the air and waterways through friction between tires and the road.

Good alternatives would be biocompatible tires (Nitinol mesh tires like SMART Tire company's initial prototype that lacked the rubber coating) or legged vehicles.
Your first statement is factually untrue. You could say it was initially forced into existence to generate the fuel for nuclear weapons but beyond that it's way more accurate to say it has spent the last ~50 years having the utter insanity of the regulatory body overridden by large subsidies with the last 30 or so of those years having people that don't like nuclear point at the subsidy and say nuclear is uncompetitive while ignoring the massive cost and uncertainty created by the nuclear regulator. There is no real free market here, most real innovation has been utterly destroyed by the regulator driving massive uncertainty into private investment by removing any certainty of the effectiveness of a company structure containing the cost liability of problems (this is not the same as liability flowing through to management/the board for obvious dereliction of duty, this is flow through happening automatically if you don't do every stupid thing the regulator comes up with, which is mostly unecessary and highly cost additive to your project).

This has stopped any sort of commodification of reactor construction and kept every project a bespoke, highly expensive, one off. Further, throwing solar panels everywhere ignores the total cost of solar because it ignores the large ancillaries cost having a non demand resource causes so it's incorrect to compare the two directly, you need to look at total cost including ancillary costs of grid connection (which is much closer, especially when looking at asian construction costs where the regulators are much less idiotic but still excessive and where production of these bespoke installations continued so skills of the labor force were maintained).

If we get the stupidity of the regulator out of the way we could have commodity built new generator designs with drastically cheaper total costs and eventually much better technology like molten salt that should be dramatically safer and that would be a fair comparison to solar, which has had the support to commodify and drive production cost into the ground over the last thirty years and is still questionably competitive when the total cost of running including ancillary costs is included against the worst version of nuclear (what we currently have). This is starting to become a national security concern because China is going hard on these newer, better technologies and they could end up owning the market on a decade or two timescale, which is a huge strategic issue since their main achilles heal right now is energy imports.
TL;DR:

Let me clarify my comment above.

I'm a skeptic my nature. I generally trust claims on a sliding scale, not binary.

What I was trying to convey is that given Musk's history, I generally have a lower default trust level for his statements than I do for the average person.

On this particular matter, I don't know enough to have trust him above or below my defaults for him.

But for Musk, that still falls below what I'd call "taking at face value".
Working on https://www.shareback.com , team of 2. Been working on it for a few years, trying different ideas. We are trying to build something that we'd be happy to use by ourselves so it's been an interesting journey of self-discovery, research and coding. Also my partner in crime is non-technical and sometimes I kind of forget that people might use software in very different way to how, for example, I would do.

Outside of that I am also building a gym up for myself which I could use without glasses (all apps I tried have tiny buttons or controls that I cant see in the gym)
This is confusing two different questions, "How do we hash multiple things at once without breaking the collision property?" and "How do we MAC messages in a way an attacker can't forge?" Length suffixes are answering the first question, not the second.
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WiFi is wonderful magic, but I’m not giving you the password to my private network.
I'm sure they're right about a lot of things! Water is wet, for instance. The moon waxes and wanes. That sort of thing.

If you want to photograph a wide field of view, you use a fisheye lens. Humanity hasn't spent a lot of time far enough from Earth that it doesn't fill a wide field of view, although we do have some rather nice photographs from both humans and machines which have made it out that far.
They just probably over-engineered it by using some library or framework instead of keeping it simple.
Howtoware looks like a rabbit hole for me. Thanks for the tip!

I sell my hardware projects on Etsy, mostly LunaKrons, the GPS-enabled moon phase clocks, and also a few “Game of Life” displays.

Https://digitalhorology.Etsy.com
Most business wifi passwords are so ridiculously simple they could be trivially cracked.
That’s amazing! I’m so glad you did :)
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A comment with great potential for provoking thought!
We don't know how good most things are nor precisely how they're good
If We closely guard this secret instead of telling people on online forums, We could gaslight people into thinking they are at fault for not being good enough at math. Then We mathematize everything that can be mathematized in higher education and research, and gatekeep it by requiring math even when it's not strictly needed.

(I mean, that's not my opinion, that's just how modern society has been running for... a century or two?)
Under pressure, I suggested the following:

1. Only one solution (or path in this case) should exist

2. No loops (meaning the valid solution does not cross it-self)

3. The length of false path from correct path should not be more than 4
I’d imagine that building interplanetary civilizations cost lots of money, so I think we can take him at his word and also read the subtext in this case.
The standardized exam could include computer programming under time pressure.
Everything is moving relative to something.
Except most branches are having an extremely difficult time filling those roles. They're even considering things as drastic as bringing civilians into those roles at an O5 grade. Pretty desperate.
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The fact that something is being tracked and the thieves know it’s being tracked is a deterrent itself. Like the value of stolen iPhones crashed because activation lock made them worthless. So they moved on to Samsung Galaxies, until they implemented their own activation lock.

If you steal a bike with a tracker on it you’ll probably leave it right there for the real owner to find.
I once attended a local one man show where the actor's private parts were exposed for a second or two (by accident). There were a lot of kids in the audience (including mine). I was a bit uncomfortable for a second but we laughed it off with the friends.
Hi cyrillite. Send me an email with "subbing" as object: pierre.treeofknowledge@gmail.com
Then I will gladly send you what I got, whenever I get it.
I will not forget. Thank you, friend!

I'll probably make a full blog soon for added convenience. (it'll be about AI products & production)

If you want a bite of some of my other work here is a AI game I made & which got totally ignored:
https://lywald.itch.io/the-fall-of-mankind
I tried to monetize it, that was a bit lame, but in the next few days I'll release it as free.
HEIC was designed for motion pictures where smoothing at the cost of detail is acceptable. From an image detail standpoint, yes.
Unclear if FUD or not, that is why I posted it. Maybe someone else has more insights on this.
I would actually disagree with how genuine those ambitions are. I personally think they are more PR-gloss than actual business plan.
Belgium is a shitshow of governments (We have 7) but somehow one of these got to achieve a geolocated address register. Publicly available and they also have an API available to build your own application around.

https://www.vlaanderen.be/datavindplaats/catalogus/adressenr...
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm currently doing a small project in Monogame to see how it is (maybe too low level to be practical for me), but I think you've convinced me to give Stride a look after this.
Does this support any S3 compatible target? Minio? Backblaze B2?
Why not make your community better by having your router also broadcast an open public network?
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That's just wrong, because if it's true I could do the exact reverse and earn money with probability of 1....
Funny thing is that now Russia says they France needs to guarantee access to the Russian embassy for him (not really sure if he wants that). But wikipedia says he has UAE and French citizenship...
Because it is one? Linux distros are a subset of OSs.
I agree with you. Truth is this was the first branching generation which I generated, and so I kept it for the sake of history. If you manage to create a better "starting branching tree" which looks nice and feels nice then I might take you up on this.
I like this idea. Peaceful, wholesome, meditative, and even somewhat educational. You should make it available.
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Right, and there is a well-known correlation between IQ and life expectancy/mortality rate....
Not the best redesign, but probably the most upvotes and comments on a Ruby related post lately, so yay?
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Howdy!

Great to meet you. I have a ton of thoughts on this matter, but not well threaded for quick reply: so forgive the stream-of-thought nature of the following.

There is no real secret answer to stopping bike thieves, because the primary problem is both cultural and infrastructure.

We dont have bike culture that allows for safe bike leaving-about, and we dont have bike infrastructure for safe bike locking-about. (Bike Hack SF: Take your nice bike into a nice hotel and tip the DoorMan $5 to check your bike into luggage check rather than lock it up)

So, my airtag is in a case with security bolts under the bottle cage - and its more a check that I can know where it was last seen. Though I didnt remove the chirper.

What if you could have a TILE that is the fob for this battery. Where the battery wont go unless the paired Tile Fob is present?

A Lora Tile would be killer If you had a Lora network on this battery, with a TILE app infra on top of it and all the batteries talked to eachother - you built an anti-theft-mesh so all the bikes tiles all tell eachother about themselves.

Tile integration with Shimano Motors and e-tube iso app to stop the motor from running unless Tile fob/phone app present. A magnetic Solonoid crank-shaft-blocker.

And above all else pushing for better bike policies in municipalities.
Yeah I haven't seen anyone actually believe this either, but it did take a good few years between the flat Earth joke being popular on Reddit, and the resulting community of true believers arising.

On the other hand it's even less plausible than flat Earth so you'd have to be particularly stupid to believe it; not just very very stupid.
> If LLMs were successfully deployed in a production environment is the day I bite my tongue.

This shows so much faith in management!
The UK is moving rapidly towards 1984, so it only seems fitting that Orwell's letters and various material should just be... memory-holed.

And at the very end of the day, no one will understand why "He loved Big Brother" was not a happy ending.
> In short, what you and OP commenter describe is incompetency, it should not be taken as the default, those are not defenders, those are mismanaged organizations. We're in 2024, every exec should know better.

Everything in life is a trade off, and no-one is in the business of perfect cyber security defense. Therefore, businesses will *always* trade weaker cyber security defense for better/faster/cheaper/easier/more business in their actual line of business. Just like you do every single day. Do you have ALL traffic on your home network encrypted with mutual serve and client certificate verification? Do you only have your 256 character passwords memorized in your head and not stored in a password manager anywhere or otherwise recored somewhere? Are all of your home systems equipped with strict outbound firewall rules that only allow one time, on demand and confirmed communications with the wider internet? Have you hardened your home network against data exfiltration via DNS queries[1]? If you use 2FA for your accounts, and the objectively weaker password managers to store your passwords, are your 2FA tokens kept on completely separate devices from your password managers? Do you only allow direct console access to any of your systems and have no remote access like SSH enabled? Do you a have every single computer backing up their data into multiple redundant copies, without using the network for data transfer and with at least one if not more of those copies stored off site?

If you answered "No" to any of those questions, you also have chosen the route of "incompetency" and "mismanagement". It's 2024, and every IT person should know better. But of course we do "know better" and choose the objectively weaker options anyway because the stronger options get in the way of actually doing the things we want to use our systems for. You don't choose perfect cyber security defense for your home network because you don't have a home network for the purpose of practicing perfect cyber security defense. So it is with businesses, they don't have their systems for the purpose of practicing perfect cyber security defense either.

[1]: https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/dns-the-easiest-way-to-...
Whoops, thanks! Regarding no. 2, they are left aligned but I decreased their padding now, should look better.
Facebook has many illicit groups and Mark Zuckerberg was never charged with anything. I assume this is more related to privacy where US government has backdoor to Facebook while doesn't have one to Telegram.
Looks nice. Tried to search for "Guitar" and I got a 500 Internal Server error.
Why not make a mostly-empty mesh from mined metals?

Someone talked about 3D printing mostly hollow golf balls in outer space and dropping them onto a desert where they could be picked up .
Though I am not actually _working_ on anything concrete(facing analysis paralysis. Also, as a coder, I have no idea how to deal with the sales site) this should turn to a monthly post
I think you may be comparing the Atlas dedicated launch price to SpaceX’s ridesharing price. SpaceX dedicated is closer to $1,500/kg now. It seems plausible that a full order of magnitude difference could support use cases that otherwise wouldn’t make much sense.

(I can’t find Atlas ridesharing prices anywhere so apologies if that is indeed their rideshare price).
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