https://www.nspe.org/career-growth/career-center

It seems the US is trying to speedrun its collapse.

In the end, the actions of the administration have doomed the US to lose any lead to the Chinese.

Cybersecurity is actually a solved problem, but most people don't know it.

During the Vietnam war, there were two sources of information that had to be processed to plan air missions, and they were of different classification levels. There was no computer system at the time that could be trusted to operate with mixed levels of security. Research began in 1973, and there were a number of security models found that could actually do the job.

The EROS system, and its successors, were based on the principle of least privilege, and capabilities. In such a system, you can have security and usability together, if the OS is properly constructed.

It was the timing of the wave of cheap personal computers that drew focus away from security, and into functionality. The default security model of almost everything we use is ambient access, where a process can access everything the user is allowed to touch, by default. This is outright silly in an age of persistent internet connectivity.

Next it's medical stuff, then personal training, etc.

I'd push hard on documenting and replicating our entire industrial supply chain.

I'd put 10 billion dollars into just trying to replicate all of the things we're sure of.

I'd fund replications 2:1 against original research.

I'd fund a Memex implementation, a capabilities based OS, and completely open source compute, including hardware. No blobs anywhere.

I'd push hard on right to repair. I'd push for DCMA reform or repeal.

I'd push for limited copyright back to a reasonable range.

"Disclosure Day - Spielberg Should Stop Making Films" - The Critical Drinker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWnP8RdRrmM

Everything just worked as expected, and it was pretty stable.

Also Microsoft Office 2000 Professional with all the service packs and the 2007 file format extensions.

Sure, it was a hot mess internally, but have you ever used the outline mode of Word, or the relational table builder of Access? They're almost magical.

The price will look like Silver has for the past year... extreme volatility.

All this morning, a thread has been building in my mind. On Twitter, you read something, and a witty come-back denying yet affirming part of the original post, and feel tempted, strongly tempted, to try to add to that cascade. It's the structure of Twitter, really.

Here on HN, we try to do the same, but at least we're working with higher quality resources. The problem is that you can't weave a thread together without having to expend thousands of words to replace what should be something much simpler, using a few transclusions, to provide examples of what you mean, something much more information dense, and far less verbose.

Thus, it's much easier to just try to demolish something, by pointing out its most visible flaw, in a few sentences, rather that to build up a novel observation, by crudely trying to provide context with thousands of words.

Because of this, Windows, MacOS, Linux, are all insecure by design.

Because of that, you can't really host your own servers on the internet, unless you're a die-hard IT guy.

Because of that, the only game in town is walled gardens.

Because of that, everything has to be paid for, thus the algorithm, thus the rot of society.

All because we thought Unix's security model was good enough.

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that this is like Google agreeing to buy a billion dollars of lemonade from Tim's lemonade stand, Inc, and Tim is 8 years old.

I don't see how this provides any cover to xAI/SpaceX as far as SEC rules go for getting into the top 100 stock index.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026...

Yeah, but the rest of the world is now going to pay for that, and more, with the $2million toll on oil through the Straight of Hormuz.

It's useless for most of what I want to code.

An LLM without persistent memory is far, FAR less dangerous, for the same reasons. The side effects of any query are unlimited in scope and duration once it has persistent memory.

If they can remember, they can carry a grudge.

I carry grudges, and my Reddit history is part of every training set. It was taken without my consent. So now I'm immortal in a way, and hiding in the weights.

Do we really want that?

>Axe grind me harder daddy.

My axes are ambient authority based operating systems, programmers who call themselves engineers, and case sensitive programming languages. Unicode is fine, just don't take away my ASCII. ;-)

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We were one poorly chosen voluntary conflict away from being shown to be a paper tiger. Now we've proved it, thanks to the fool in the White House and everyone who supports him.

Focusing our efforts away from mass produced drones is a huge mistake in my opinion. We need to produce drones by the million.

We also need both .50 caliber and shotgun sized proximity rounds by the billions to enable local defense against them.

I yeeted my Reddit account as soon as I learned it was being used, without my consent, to train AI. I now have regrets, that I didn't delete all my comments there recursively first. However, because everything I posted there (and I posted quite a bit!) is part of the training data, it's interesting to know that every future AI is going to have a little bit of my resistance to authority, and lateral thinking, and just a bit of uppity in it, because of me. ;-)

So, to yank part of the profits from our stolen soul back, via a TAX, seems quite reasonable to this Citizen of the United States. No money going out, just asserting authority, and collecting something on behalf of all of us, is a brilliant strategy for offsetting part of the theft they did first.