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by ghc 1y ago
Do they? I figured each speed increase requires new optical equipment, but I guess I was just making assumptions.
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by ghc 1y ago
If you look at most of the research postings from the DoD, they are really looking for LLMs to parse old PDFs and write new reports. Pretty sure they figured out the surveillance thing way before LLMs. I think the reams of documentation tha
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by ghc 1y ago
It's closer in structure to a sbir phase 3, however. If I read between the lines, the DoD isn't looking to do research, they're likely desperate to find a way to deploy and run SOTA models in disconnected environments. If you
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by ghc 1y ago
Is it unethical for a drywall installer to accept a contract for a building on a military base?
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by ghc 1y ago
As someone whose has been part of a company that has "signed" one of these large deals before, let me tell you that it doesn't mean the DoD is giving these companies $200M. If one of the companies is wildly successful, sure.
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by ghc 1y ago
Nothing except massive data centers full of GPU compute resources paid for by VC money. Wait, that's actually pretty similar...
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by ghc 1y ago
As a student, ask around or check with your advisor. Most labs will have positions for students interested in coding "grunt work" because students are cheap. As a professional, apply to Masters/PhD programs in your area of in
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by ghc 1y ago
I don't think Django could have talked to sqlite over the network, or would have really solved any problems. When I say physically separate, I mean it in the pre-cloud sense: one front end server (Django) dynamically connecting to a da
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by ghc 1y ago
It's not that Django has/had any reputation for those things -- it's that Django had no reputation at all since it was a nascent project with no track record. That means it had no proof points for being stable or secure. At t
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by ghc 1y ago
I sympathize with your feeling that there is a "gap", but I'm fairly certain that both my ideal workflow and your ideal workflow are unlikely to be anything more than evolutionary dead ends, like early automobiles that inheri
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by ghc 1y ago
In a very real sense, I have Django to thank for my entire career. As an undergraduate, my first academic job in a research lab had me building websites to promote the research in a lab. Django was brand new, and I was uninterested in petty
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by ghc 1y ago
I'm a daily runner and I had influenza in February, for the first time in 30 years. I had a high fever for a full week and could not even sit up in bed. People tend to think any bad cold is the flu, and underestimate just how bad actua
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by ghc 1y ago
> surely we could agree that CC with Cursor's UX I can't stand the UX, or VS Code's UX in general. I vastly prefer having CC open in a terminal alongside neovim. CC is fully capable of opening diffs in neovim or otherwise
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by ghc 1y ago
Job title and job description full text search would really be perfect. At least in my mind, good GTMs are narrow (software engineers in flight test) vs. broad, like selling to all software engineers using python in the manufacturing indust
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by ghc 1y ago
The page is also refreshing constantly for me. Chrome & Safari :(.
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by ghc 1y ago
Is there no way to add custom searches? As a test, I wanted to look for flight test engineers in aerospace companies, but the only way I could see to approximate it was to look at job postings. I was able to drill down by picking a compan
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by ghc 1y ago
I'm 99% sure that's an ostrich. I do understand your confusion, however...ostriches are pretty dinosaur-like and I have no idea why she is sitting on one.
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by ghc 1y ago
You're right, I should have checked the model settings. For some reason the default model profile in Ollama had temperature set to 0. Changing the temperature and repeat penalty worked much better than it did when I tried to correct si
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by ghc 1y ago
I just tried gemma3 out and it seems to be prone to getting stuck in loops where it outputs an infinite stream of the same word.
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by ghc 1y ago
In this case the certification program is extremely onerous, having experienced it myself. A government testing agency will not give you an authorization to operate on a given network or given data impact level until they can independently
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by ghc 1y ago
Perhaps you're unaware that there is a special, DoD-certified version of Teams called "Gov Teams", which can be used to share data at multiple impact levels securely. This version of Teams, and the entire Office365 suite, has
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by ghc 1y ago
At least in my area, cassettes were still popular 30 years ago during the transition to CDs, but by 20 years ago we were in the midst of the transition from CD to iPod. I don't remember seeing new tapes for sale anywhere after about 20
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by ghc 1y ago
Lobbying has been ongoing since the law was enacted. Congress came close to repealing it several times, with the House actually passing a bill to repeal it (Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024). Just because Hacker News
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by ghc 1y ago
In my experience, most software is not a capital asset that can be sold. Most software is a one off throwaway script to generate a report, or a modification to an existing piece of software to change its behavior. Most software isn't e
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by ghc 1y ago
Under the new rules, all software development, excluding bug fixes, must be expensed in this manner. "Turn the crank" development is included. https://larsco.com/blog/section-174-updates-navigating-the-i..
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by ghc 1y ago
> while people working on DoD contracts will be typing things into vim like a fool Forget LLMs, try getting Pandas approved. Heck I was told by some AF engineers they were banned from opening Chrome Dev Tools by their security office. FW
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by ghc 1y ago
Yes, you can still encounter this in the New England wilderness, particularly in central to northern Maine. But in New England at least, the settlers essentially clear cut the forests and filled in the swamps. Most of the wetlands and old g
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by ghc 1y ago
Oh no, I'm pretty sure Vanta is basically unknown compared to babyshark :) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
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by ghc 1y ago
> Django does neither, for example. Django is "ancient" just like HAProxy. I deployed my first Django app at the end of 2005.
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by ghc 1y ago
Source: Concorde exhibit at the Smithsonian, complete with photos of the South Africa flight (which was not its normal route). Also, the Concorde had other routes. I don't think those routes were even the first ones. I remember reading

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