skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is hopelessly confused:

they are just as illustrative of some of the challenges that I’m pointing to, [such] as Elon Musk deciding who in Ukraine should and should not have access to Starlink internet connections. ... Let’s compare how the U.S. responded to the Ukraine war in the physical world versus in the cyber domain. As part of NATO, the U.S. is clear: It doesn’t want to see boots on the ground. But in the cyber domain, the U.S.’s offensive activities are ongoing. That political discrepancy can continue because of the legal gray zone in the digital realm.

Wikipedia has a good overview[0] but the basic debate was originally over funding of systems donated to replace a civilian communication network, and later over the use of the Starlink civilian communication system in attack drones, e.g. "Starlink legal documents claim it is not for use in weaponry as a military use of Starlink brings it under US export control laws like the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)" and "Shotwell explained that her company agreed with Ukraine's military using Starlink for communications but never intended to have them use it as a weapon. She added 'But then they started putting them on f---ing drones trying to blow up Russian ships. I’m happy to donate services for ambulances and hospitals and mothers [...] But it’s wrong to pay for military drone strikes.'"

This author says "we need to bring the same level of legal clarity, accountability mechanisms, and transparency measures to the digital realm that we expect around other innovations such as medicines, chemicals, foods, cars, or even processes such as the decision to engage in foreign conflict" but uses as her case-in-point example the demand by a foreign military that a civilian communication system be enabled for use on novel drone weapons in a war where the United States is explicitly not a combatant.

Certainly legal clarity could be helpful for a situation like this, but I would hope the clarity is that a private company intentionally building a product for purely civilian use cannot be forced to modify that system to enable its use as an offensive weapon in a foreign war. Her argument seems akin to saying "Tim Cook arbitrarily decided Apple won't sell iPhones secretly loaded with remotely detonated plastic explosives for use by a foreign military - we need accountability here, this is destabilizing governance!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russo-Ukrainia...
I didn't mention the housing market? I was talking about anyone who produces goods (digital or physical).

There's not an inherent privilege of purchasing over renting in property rights. In either case you're paying for something, it's just a different slice of that something. They're different transactions that can benefit the different parties different ways in different situations. But if technological development lets the owner get the financial rewards of selling through "licensing" that's hardly a reduction in the owner's rights - and it's hard to make a "pro-strong-property-rights" argument that's based in "people should be forced to sell on the buyer's terms, not their own."
I've worked at a lot of family-owned medium-sized businesses and guess what, the owner and their family was always rich as hell. At one company the owner had a HUGE office but was basically retired and never spent any time there at all. His wife had a big office and was never ever there. One of his sons had a pretty big office but was also never ever there. Meanwhile they crammed all the IT staff in a ridiculously cramped cubical farm. Part of the underground garage in two different buildings was used as storage for the Owner's private car collection. He also parked his limo and giant boat in there.
2044: "What's a programmer?" the child asks his father innocently. "Well you see son, humans used to be needed to instruct the machines on what to do..."
True trust is earned. "Default trust" is not the same thing. But the two are often confused.

When trust is lost, it takes 10x, sometimes 100x more effort to regain it.

Sometimes, even with 100x the effort trust does not return.

These are Life 101 basics. Pretending these laws don't exist doesn't make them disappear.

From my perspective, the root problem is that institutions that want to be trusted - and traditionally were - don't want to make the effort to regain the trust they lost. The media and the government come to mind. Instead they waste energy shamelessly demanding to be trusted, which only widens the gap. They blame the violated, which only widens the gap.

And into that void, the nefarious has rushed in. Until the institutions embrace "true trust is earned" the nefarious will thrive in the gap.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/us-elec...

“Americans on November 5 will be electing a wartime president. This isn’t a prediction. It’s reality.”
You are seeing the first two as "concluded"? Apple is known for playing long games, especially now that they need to be careful due to threats of regulation, and studies about long COVID take a long time - we really don't have enough research yet to be sure and we're barely 2 years out of the pandemic.

I'm holding my breath on both of those but I'm curious why you think otherwise.
Exacerbated witch hunting, for one[1]. Enabled the Protestant reformation which led to the 30 years war, among others[2].

[1] https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept09/2009/10/31/unintended-con...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
Maybe the Amish are on to something.
Just give internet access directly.

Or do not offer internet access at all. People carry their own already-connected devices anyway.
it takes more time to watch the video than fix the bug
At this point, reloacating is off the table without some guaranteed minimum working time. Been burned way too many times by sudden layoffs to risk moving my entire livlihood to get dumped in 1-2 years.
As far I understand software itself is not included in US sanctions, it's the infrastructure, websites, mailing lists etc
Thanks, I was coming to share that blog. There’s a plethora of interesting Antarctic content.
Dropping "C" overnight and thus making all existing Linux software incompatible is completely out of the question.

Android was never really Linux though.
I notice how 'viable' isn't an operative in your statement.
Most people do not realize how slow RISC-V is right now. Yes, it will definitely get better, but it will take some time given how far behind it is.

Like 30x slower than a top of the line Apple Mx series CPU. Maybe there is a high performing RISC-V chip out there but I haven't yet run into one.

RISC-V benchmarks: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?q=RISC-V. Compare to an Apple M4 benchmark: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8224953

That said, RISC-V is good for embedded applications where raw performance isn't a factor. I think no other markets are yet accessible to RISC-V chips until their performance massively improves.
There are a lot of things in deep subsurface brine. It really varies.

First and foremost, here are definitely lots of other salts. It is brine, after all. You produce a lot of halite (salt), gypsum, calcite, and all kinds of other evaporite minerals.

There are all kinds of things in smaller concentrations, though.

What comes out of a oil/water separator would need lots of additional processing before going to something like an evap pond. It's relatively hazardous stuff for a lot of reasons other than oil (e.g. it can be rather radioactive). It typically goes through quite a bit of additional processing unless it's being immediately reinjected.
Old, outdated equipment compared to what? What Ukraine produces?

Israel is on the USA tit as well.
I’ve been thinking of solving (something slightly more complex than) that with simulated annealing. Getting all those variables to line up is hard. NP hard. My use was setting a couple loose params for vacation (beach, flight <8 hours, flexible dates) and having it find me the full package.

Funny thing is this is already a job when I thought about it. Travel agents used to do this, now it feels like going to a “financial advisor” where they are more interested in selling you the package with a kickback
And they can all visit us at Burning Man every year!
Double of "no one is hiring" is "no one is hiring", sadly. My experience with hybrid/in-office hasn't been much better WFH. I wonder if Los Angeles is being hit even harder than most of the country for some reason.
I wrote a tool that idempotently applied group and user permissions in MySQL 5.7 with transactions using OpenBSD's pf configuration syntax.

A year later GCP patched MySQL to block access to the security tables, so I could no longer use the tool. Big bummer on that one.

But it was quite a beauty while it existed.
https://shonumi.github.io/blog/nds_rolling.html

More context on how this value affects (at least one) DS game- see post from December 27th, 2019.
But how many things on Unix hardcode /tmp though?

On DOS it wasn't a thing because it didn't have a standard temp directory to begin with, so when the need arose, it was bolted on in an adhoc way (I remember the apps couldn't even agree on whether it should be %TEMP% or %TMP% or something else). Windows introduced it as a proper first party concept, but then moved it around so much that you pretty much had to use the API to retrieve the actual value if you wanted it to work. And then NT made that API return a path to a per-user directory by default.
> In other words, it’s not as spooky as it is made out to be.

That's not really the spooky part of entanglement. The rabbit hole goes much deeper, like here[1] or here[2].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4834

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4191
And Qualcomm is the only competitive ARM chip on the market besides Apple's. And now they are being taken out by ARM. Is it really that expensive to re-license things? This seems self-defeating.
Those are expensive and are avoided when possible. Brine ponds are cheap if you can use them. But with that said, yeah, evaporation ponds don't work especially well on the Gulf Coast.
Did you do them in full range of motion (starting from dead hang) and slow eccentric motion on the way down? Not all workouts which are equally exhausting are optimal for strength.

Were you completely resting between sessions? How’s your sleep?
The constraints are going to be static and independent of the puzzle. So I expect they're encoded in the package dependencies. So for example version 1 of the package sudoku_0_0 will conflict with all of: version 1 of sudoku_[0-8]_0; version 1 of sudoku_0_[0-8]; version 1 of [012]_ [012].
AWS has the Graviton ARM CPU that is pretty competitive but you can only rent them.
The Total Perspective Vortex was a machine built with the intention of showing beings the infinity of creation, which became used as a method of torture.
Anonymous reputation can turn on those who trust the reputable entity. Easy, though facile, examples are the romantic schemes used to defraud, more intricate are spies and so on.
If it is because of national security concerns, will Israelis and Chinese lose kernel maintainership status as well?
Nitpick: the M-60 is a Patton tank, not a Sherman. The M-4 Sherman was the primary medium tank used by the US during WW2. The M-60 is much more modern, used by the US military until 1997, and several countries still use them today. I only bring that up because an M-60 tank still running today is perfectly normal, while a Sherman that’s still running would be much more unusual!
> If YouTube cannot police or moderate their own platform, then that's a problem they created for themselves

If we had social consensus that crypto, or at least these sorts of crypto schemes, are a scam, sure. We don't. If YouTube is targeting teens with meth-making ads, that's a problem. This seems more ambiguous.
Social Security is not an expense of the government. Well, for the most part. It’s a pension plan that people pay into. Similarly for Medicare. People pay into it before retirement. Then at a certain age they get this insurance benefit. Private insurers will not insure the elderly. If anything you should characterize this as a private insurance industry subsidy. It allows insurers to offload their riskiest clients to another entity.

Your characterization is badly wrong.

EDIT: Until recently Social Security took in more money than it paid out. It’s run by the government so its expenditures are counted as a budget item. But it is a sound pension system whose defects can be easily fixed if a certain party would actually govern. It is not the largest expense by the government. It’s just that it is a government run pension system. It’s not an entitlement either.
I wonder why a truthful statement like that is being downvoted?

I could eat steak at a lavish restaurant every night but I realize that if I did so my credit card balance would eventually come to the point I would be using the total of my income to pay the interest. Instead I do the sustainable option and buy groceries and cook at home.

Continuing deficit spending at the federal level will eventually bankrupt our government and make this a worse world to live in.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

I take no stance on the article or parent comment, just for your reading.
I believe most services you can still use the mail for?
Maybe fine for Android but this will set their windows plans back another decade if it happens

It has taken them that long to make arm be a thing on windows and that’s building on people porting stuff to arm for Mac to finally get momentum.

RISC-V with windows will be an eternity to be feasible.
> Trump’s promise to appoint Musk could make the billionaire CEO eligible for a special tax benefit available only to government officials.

Only government officials? So this law is on the books now? But the concern is a guy who is not yet elected and another guy who is not yet appointed by the guy not yet elected?

Did they bury the lede intentionally, or is the media just naturally stupid? They can't be this irresponsible and expect to be taken seriously. They can't be this reckless and expect to be trusted.

If you don't have a problem with this type of "journalism" then you are part of the problem. Biased and stupid should not get a free pass.
I knew a guy who was a public speaker. He would be engaged to do keynotes at conferences, or talks at big offsite corporate retreats, stuff like that. He would always book two, sometimes three flights to events that he absolutely could not miss, so that if one flight was canceled, he would just take a different one without having to hassle with a rebooking under time pressure.
I watched Julian Assange’s recent talk at the Council of Europe and his testimony on the insanity that the U.S. Government put him through [1]. This makes me come to a different conclusion than the article.

> In the digital realm, companies’ control of information, unfettered agency, and power to act have almost overtaken that of governments.

Why is it assumed that governments will act better if the power to control information is in their hands? We see this time and time again that the control over information is the most manipulating force a tyrant can wield. Why should we trust government over companies? At least with a publicly traded company we can sell stock faster than we can elect new leaders.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idphGmY3QRM
If I can build reputation somewhere, I'm going to use the same account, but that account may not have my real name. Reputation incentivizes identity, but not necessarily association to a real identity.
>FAANG has actively replaced following with algorithmic feeds because they're more profitable.

Alternatively: it's what users want.
That’s 1% of an ORM.
I do worry about the junior talent in the future, yes. This attitude it part of why Juniors aren't sufficiently trained into future seniors. Then everyone wonders where the seniors went.

They don't grow on trees.
Computer Use by Anthropic: A 5-Minute Setup Guide and Demo
It's possible that they've determined that Opus no longer makes sense if they're able to focus on continuously optimising Sonnet. That said, Anthropic have been relatively good at setting and managing expectations, so today would have been a good time to make that clear.
I understand historically that it has produced incredibly valuable "exhaust", but is that really the strategy? Is that the purpose? Do we have a reason to believe we will always (and are today receiving) positive ROI, even aside from reaching any valuable "destination", so to speak?
I think trust and identity are fundamentally intertwined, for sure. I think it's also why trust can be easily gamed by posing as certain identity groups. It's a dark path taken to the extreme.

I just read supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg and one of the best take aways from it was to remind people that they have multiple identities that they hold dear, and some of them may be in conflict. It gets people to think more and not regress to knee-jerk beliefs they think they're supposed to hold based on their identity on a given topic.
>You would actually do a better job if you locked down the entire area and just spent the money on keeping everyone out as my own self fish usage of nature as recreation harms it more then it helps it.

That would work until a mining company wanted to extract oxygen from Yellowstone Quartz and met with zero public opposition to making use of "empty land."
500,000 chargers queued up and 17 were built in 3 years.

It’s a bit surprising people are hearing this story for the first time. It’s been thrown around for the past year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/03/28/...

https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2024/06/biden-spends-...
She should just sell robotic chindogu goods, current stuff in the shop is kinda boring /s
The closest corollary in programming may be AI-generated pull requests on github.

Trying to pad a resume with open source "contributions" and trying to pad a Patreon with "fanart" are behaviors that come from the same headspace, I think.
For those who are disappointed in this, don't blame Ukraine or defense spending, blame Republicans. The Forest Service budget is set by the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies subcommittee which is majority Republican. Their press release on the FY25 bill is here:

https://appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-v...

If you don't believe they're partisan, read through the "key takeaways" section. They are responsible for this budget shortfall. Their games of government shutdown chicken are also the reason the budget hasn't even been finalized yet.
And just to get this out of the way, the carry flag’s behavior after multiplication isn’t an important detail to emulate at all. Software doesn’t rely on it.

On as fixed of a hardware as a game console, and with the accompanying anti-piracy/anti-cheating/emulation efforts of that industry, I'd expect it to be. From the history of emulating previous consoles, we know that any deterministic difference can and will be exploited, either to determine whether the hardware is authentic, or incidentally as a result of unintentional bugs.

This reminds me of the Z80, where two undefined flags resisted analysis for several decades; a 2-year-old set of slides on the state of that here: https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/z80/attachmen...
>The disdain for expertise is something I would not expect on HN,

I would: HN is full of conservative Americans.
Just so I understand because I think I might be misunderstanding you, are you against the States executing primaries on behalf of the parties, or are you against the parties gating candidates from also being on the general ticket under their name, or both?
Yes, anyone exporting anywhere needs to follow compliance rules, because the point is to ensure that all exporters are in compliance.

Consider the OP's example:

> Have a part made in Japan, integrated into a product in the states but sold by someone in the UK to in France? you'll have to comply with Japan, US and UK laws.

The reason all countries tediously ensure their laws are being followed is because, if they weren't, there'd be an obvious legal loophole: you could simply proxy export items to a country with different export restrictions -- and then all export restrictions would be worthless.
I don’t believe you based on my experience.
Bot posts a question

Humans reply in earnest

Lone man suspects fraud
I'll believe this pipe dream when I see it, that's all I'm saying.
CGNAT is ok for IPV4 because it provides us some level of protection against state ( sponsored ) actors.
To me the issue with AI generated code, and what is different than prior innovations in software development, is that it is the the wrong abstraction (or one could argue not even an abstraction anymore).

Most of SWE (and much of engineering in general) is built on abstractions -- I use a Numpy to do math for me, React to build a UI, or Moment to do date operations. All of these libraries offer abstractions that give me high leverage on a problem in a reliable way.

The issue with the current state of AI tools for code generation is that they don't offer a reliable abstraction, instead the abstraction is the prompt/context, and the reliability can vary quite a bit.

I would feel like one hand it tied behind my back without LLM tools (I use both co-pilot and Gemini daily), however the amount of code I allow these tools to write _for_ me is quite limited. I use these tools to automate small snippets (co-pilot) or help me ideate (Gemini). I wouldn't trust them to write more than a contained function as I don't trust that it'll do what I intend.

So while I think these tools are amazing for increasing productivity, I'm still skeptical of using them at scale to write reliable software, and I'm not sure if the path we are on with them is the right one to get there.
Because companies make decisions based on who has the most money. 90% of Americans have basically no control of those decisions. And companies interfere with democratic control of the government. Getting things out of the way of democracy seems good to me.
Serfs has very little choice over their situation.

What piece of software do you need for your life, but you're forced to lease?
Depends on your pay.
Haha, so funny
In a small communities, newcomers are more scrutinized to prevent that. And the scammer can only have a single victim before being expelled.

HN, while being large, incentivizes that brilliantly, by highlighting new accounts in green.
i love going to hackernews and reading comments from people who are confused about the difference between democratic franchise and stock ownership
Kronos: Soviet Processor Family for High-Level Languages (2006) [pdf]
I think earning trust often requires significant personal sacrifice. Institutions are made up of people, and I think that one of the outcomes of the web era is that it seems that fewer high talented folks find the motivation to do unglamorous, lower-remuneration jobs.
Was the "um" really necessary? In case you didn't know (and I mean it in all earnestness), that is perceived as pretty rude.
The scarcity of printing presses and costs associated in running them by definition made distribution a calculated financial endeavor. Cultivating a positive reputation would therefore be a valuable asset in order to reliably recoup costs via sales and/or retain patrons.

This form of gatekeeping has been eliminated with the zero cost of any person being able to publish their thoughts digitally and without review. Furthermore, misinformation and disinformation now has a financial incentive by way of "driving the clicks."

In short, not everyone's voice needs to be heard by all, especially when extremism is required in order to "stand out."
I think the opposite will happen.

Using your illustration … “market rate for your position is $190k, but since we’re hiring remote - that means we can also hire someone in a developing country for 1/5th the cost.”

Great for people in developing countries.

Bad for those who were already highly paid.