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by ControlStack | 2025-11-06 12:59:27+00:00
This post analyzes a recent Minuteman III ICBM test launch described by U.S. Strategic Command as a "silent launch"—meaning no public advance notice was given. The author cross-references archival telemetry data and historical launch patterns to explore why such opacity might matter for strategic stability and open-source intelligence.

Worth noting: Minuteman III is the U.S.’s only land-based ICBM, scheduled for replacement by the Sentinel program, and its test launches are usually announced days in advance for aviation safety and transparency. This deviation is unusual.
by thorin | 2025-11-06 12:59:29+00:00
AFAIK know phones are banned in all secondary school (and primary school) from the start till the end of the school day. My daughter just started secondary school and one kid was trying to text her mum to add credit to her lunch money account in the first week and got a one hour detention for getting her phone out during school. This was in the canteen, not in a lesson. Bit harsh but seemed to get the message across.

Ironically most homework is done by the kids on their phones so when I tell her to get off her phone she always has the excuse that she's checking/doing her homework, or looking at her timetable online.

[edit] note this is a UK perspective, not sure why this got downvoted
by _vxgq | 2025-11-06 13:00:21+00:00
Where exactly did I say that "publishing open source software require[s] you to present any credentials"?

That is not the point of my original comment.

The point of my original comment was that downloading and using software from the Internet is a process that requires trust, at least if you want your project to gain traction, and that this specific project might have — at least to some people — road blocks in this regard.
by speed_spread | 2025-11-06 13:00:21+00:00
I think it's pretty normal to have a language dedicated to the UI structure. It should be declarative for easy machine manipulation with a WYSIWYG editor and could be translated to code before compilation.

My reference in this are Delphi .dfm files, which you rarely have to edit manually because they're handled by the IDE form builder. It is still a fantastic IDE to build native UI apps and I don't see a reason why Rust couldn't be used the same way.
by xtiansimon | 2025-11-06 13:00:51+00:00
“… it can only come from people who feel as if they are coming from a place of weakness or victimization.”

That’s a good thought experiment. Let me add the terminology of Francis Fukuyama’s “demand for dignity”—-seems to go even closer to the nerve.

https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2019/02/11/ep209-1-fukuyam...
by vintermann | 2025-11-06 13:00:59+00:00
Foraging is definitely a fun hobby, and not limited to vegetarians/vegans.

I haven't tried nettles yet, mostly because people say it's bland and there's so much else to choose from. In particular, nettle season is also meadowsweet season, and that is incredibly good. It's in the same taste family as vanilla, almond and cinnamon but it's its own unique thing.
by PoorRustDev | 2025-11-06 13:01:10+00:00
"GUI situation in Rust is dreadful"

I have to agree with this, but for a lot of different things other than GUI as well. My friends all want me to use Rust, but I moved back to C++ after trying to do a lot of different projects in it after finding every crate I needed to be a WIP or abandoned state. There are the massive crates that are super popular of course, but it seems that once you get off the popular beaten path the available crates becomes far worse than any other language I have ever used.

Of course comparing Rust to something like Python or C++ is unfair to Rust, since Rust has had less time to develop those packages, but I think its more about the community at this point. I just don't see any enthusiasm for working on crates/frameworks. Most of the time when I find a crate I need, its sitting at version 0.3.0, last updated 1-3 years ago, with the documentation simply stating "Reimplementation of X in Rust, go read X's C++ documentation on how to use."
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-11-06 13:01:59+00:00
> They might be paying a portion of their childcare, but they are not paying their childcare

You might be paying a portion of their childcare, but you are not paying their childcare. One could say the same to parents at a private day care. They are, after all, only paying their portion of the cost of the service, not the cost of the service.

> they want it free or subsidized

How do they get it for free? Again, do you think they aren't paying their taxes?

> The person can clearly not afford the 2nd child.

This does not follow. If the economic reality in which they choose to have a child includes tax-paid childcare, and they can afford a child given that, then they can clearly afford the child.
by pmarreck | 2025-11-06 13:02:35+00:00
you could have avoided all that (including all the awkwardness) just by inspecting the open-source source code, my man. no need to google the author to see if he passes your personal "sniff tests". Have you done that for the authors of your OS, your browser, and your routers too?o I mean, Apple isn't even open-source; they could be sending all manner of things to their servers that you wouldn't be happy about, and you wouldn't know
Show HN: Convert ONNX Files to OpenVINO and/or TensorflowJS
by mr_vision | 2025-11-06 13:02:42+00:00
We are opening up our model conversion tool that enables seamless conversion of AI models from ONNX format to TensorFlow, OpenVINO, and TensorFlowJS for everyone to use.

This tool was built for to make AI model inference more efficient across diverse devices and platforms. We're sharing this with the community in the hope that it can help developers and researchers easily deploy optimized models as much as it has helped us.
by leoedin | 2025-11-06 13:02:46+00:00
It was a hard read, but actually a fairly interesting article. It's a shame the author chose to format it how they did.

The key takeaways - that solar is super cheap, that technology has unlocked offering hire purchase to incredibly poor remote communities, and that westerners looking to buy carbon credits are basically subsidising that - are pretty interesting. There was a lot of fluff around those points though.
by graemep | 2025-11-06 13:02:52+00:00
I think its important to balance this with Elon's failures to influence British politics.

He is widely loathed.

The only British political movement to be willing to take his money is the extremist, but also marginal, EDL (the organisation lead by Tommy Robinson).

He offered a huge donation to Reform but this was turned down because he made it a condition of the donation that Tommy Robinson was allowed to join Reform. This leaves him with no party capable of winning even a single seat in parliament being willing to take his money.

I do not doubt that Musk is trying to use X to influence British politics. I do doubt he is having much success.
Show HN: Elden Stack – A mini game where your stack overflows in glorious combat
by clt_skew | 2025-11-06 13:03:18+00:00
I built a small parody game called Elden Stack, inspired by every late-night debugging session that ended with a recursion error.

You fight through recursion demons, memory leaks, and segmentation faults — because sometimes, Stack Overflow is the final boss.

It’s open source, lightweight, and built for fun on macOS.

GitHub: https://github.com/sukanto-m/elden-stack

Would love feedback on gameplay ideas or other “bug bosses” to add.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-06 13:03:28+00:00
Are you not a human too? I am, I can see why they want to highlight that, obviously "grandmother finishes ironman" is more "newsworthy" than "mother finishes ironman", and obviously not because her daughter had children of her own, but because it's implied she's old and people see the old as frail, and she proved she is anything but frail.

"Grandmother" is more important than all of those other things, because of the whole "old+frail" thing usually makes people not participate in ironman challenges, at least where I live, and none of those other things implies anything of the sort.

Not everything is a scientific journal, and people with hearts like "feel good stories", even the stories with a bit of flowery language to really drive home some of the points. It's OK.
by voidmain0001 | 2025-11-06 13:03:45+00:00
The Oct-2025 National Geographic has an an article entitled How to age like an athlete. It has stories like that of Nora Langdon, 82 YO woman, that started powerlifting in her 60s. She set personal records in her 70s of 203lbs bench press, 381lbs dead lift, and 413lbs squat. Heavy exercise doesn’t appear to have negatively impacted lifespan in her or others in the article.
by Tostino | 2025-11-06 13:04:20+00:00
Sometimes it will alternate between different design patterns for implementing the same feature on different generations.

If it gets the answer wrong and I notice it, often just regenerating will get past it rather than having to reformulate my prompt.

So, I'd say yeah...it is consistent in the general direction or understanding, but not so much in the details. Adjusting temp does help with that, but I often just leave it default regardless.
by arethuza | 2025-11-06 13:04:47+00:00
I think in later years a lot has to do with mental state as much as physical state - I've known people who died in their 70s from what appeared to be a lack of will to stay alive but I also know people in their 90s who seemed determined to live as long as possible.

Of course, mental state is only factor but I do think it is very important - particularly as I've just turned 60!
by noir_lord | 2025-11-06 13:04:54+00:00
They wouldn't have time to hear it because they'd be trying to fix their local dev environment.

I worked for a company that had done pretty much that - not fun at all (for extra fun half the microservices where in a language only half the dev team had even passing familiarity with).

You need someone in charge with "taste" enough to not allow that to happen or it can happen.
by 334f905d22bc19 | 2025-11-06 13:05:11+00:00
If the day ever comes where this is not an option anymore, then I will just clean my house with a broom. Same thing goes for washing machines. If I can't buy one without internet, then I will clean my clothes by hand.

Smart things are the worst shit ever. They make everything take longer, given the debugging/upgrading overhead. Not buying into that. What would be smart, would be a washing machine that cleans, dries, sorts and folds my clothes. Without talking to facebook. I would buy into that, but I don't need to share my washing machine status on instagram
by kace91 | 2025-11-06 13:05:30+00:00
>Requiring every component to be behind a network call seems like overkill in nearly all cases

That’s what I was referring to, sorry for the inaccurate adjective.

Most people try to split a monolith in domains, move code as libraries, or stuff like that - but IMO you rarely avoid a shared space importing the subdomains, with blurry/leaky boundaries, and with ownership falling between the cracks.

Micro services predispose better to avoid that shared space, as there is less expectation of an orchestrating common space. But as you say the cost is ridiculous.

I think there’s an unfilled space for an architectural design that somehow enforces boundaries and avoids common spaces as strongly as microservices do, without the physical separation.
by deepvibrations | 2025-11-06 13:05:36+00:00
Are other greens really much more tasty? Either way, many superfoods are not eaten solo - you can mix with basil for a lovely pesto for example, or simply add some nettle to your normal stew/soup for added nutrients.

I have nettle tea every morning and now thinking about the standard black tea, I see that as "bland/boring". I admit it didn't appeal at first, but now I love the earthy taste, so maybe it's slightly acquired taste?
by pjc50 | 2025-11-06 13:06:20+00:00
The "fact database" is the old AI solution, e.g. Cycorp; it doesn't quite work either. Knowing what is true is a really hard, unsolved problem in philosophy, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem . The secret to modern AI is just to skip that and replace unsolvable epistemology with "LGTM", then sell it to investors.
by Bjartr | 2025-11-06 13:06:21+00:00
It's a kind of context about the person's life, since this is a local community publication, not a news wire service. One that is palatable to a wider audience than religion or political affiliation for a feel-good story like this. Though if she had no loving family and were engaged in the church, that is what I would have next expected to hear about since she is retired. If not retired, I would have expected a blurb about her job instead.

There's also a good chance, since she was interviewed, that that's how she described herself first.

"Tell me about yourself."

"Well, I'm a grandmother..."
by isodev | 2025-11-06 13:06:31+00:00
My comment is that this is a choice that should be made for each project depending on what you’re building - does your model require features not supported by SQLite or Postgres etc.

> Unless you have a really really simple model and app

And this is the wrong conclusion. I have a really really complex model that works just fine with SQlite. So it’s not about how complex the model is, it’s about what you need. In the same way in the original post there were so many storage types, no doubt because of such “common knowledge guidelines”
by noir_lord | 2025-11-06 13:06:45+00:00
That does imply that the people in the business with the authority to do that know how to do that and they in my experience don't - they can't solve a problem they don't understand and are unwilling to delegate it to someone who can understand it.

The same pattern repeats across multiple companies - it comes down to trust and delegation, if the people with the power are unwilling to delegate bad things happen.
by almost_usual | 2025-11-06 13:06:47+00:00
I ran my first ultra in the past month (55k, 7000ft vert). A year ago I didn’t run at all but I’ve always done strength training.

The hardest part is finding time for training. For 100k it’s recommended to put in at least 60 miles per week during peak weeks to finish without injury or a lot of suffering.
by Tor3 | 2025-11-06 13:07:04+00:00
Look at what I replied to. The claim was "You can't have [buses] roaming around with no way to turn them off remotely". As if there's some general rule or agreement that it MUST be possible to turn buses off remotely. What I stated was that of course there's no such mandate.

And when I said "Not a single bus on the road in my city can be turned off remotely", that's the truth. They can't. They're all diesel, so there's not even a remote possibility of a hidden esim-powered switch.

Why did the post I replied to claim that it must be possible for buses? And why did you assume that I meant something else, and that all buses are electric?

Edit: Typo
by 1dom | 2025-11-06 13:07:13+00:00
> There's nothing weird about classifying behavior as rude, nor about refusing to waste my limited time on this planet on those not deserving of it.

It is weird to proscribe that a human should act in an inhuman way, like trying to provide a subset of actions they're allowed to do in response to you - that's not how humans work. It's weird because most people accept that others humans can act how they want, often with some pattern, so when you're saying humans have to act in a particular way, and how they're only entitled to certain actions in response to you: that's weird.

> This translates to "I will not change my stance so you need to change yours".

Sorry, what languages do you think you're translating to/from here? How did it translate the fact that humans are pattern recognition machines into my personal stance which I must change for you? How am I supposed to change this fact that you're unwilling to accept? Why are you unwilling to accept it? It's supported by a lot of inventions literature, and it would make your life and those around you happier?

> I have no reason to or incentive to change my stance to accept unpleasant, unreasonable or abusive behavior in response to creating free things, so no.

like I said, point to this unreasonable or abusive behaviour here - I don't see it - I see you getting upset about humans being humans.

> I don't care why someone is being unpleasant, unreasonable or abusive, nor do I need to - I'm not their therapist, and it's perfectly valid for me to just walk away.

So why haven't you walked away from me? :)
by jabl | 2025-11-06 13:07:35+00:00
Ember recently released a report (well, slide deck?) about the coming 'electrotech' age: https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-electrotech-rev...

We're at the point where things are changing fast. Yes, largely driven by the ginormous solar and battery production coming from China. The rest of the world better get their ducks in order if they want to compete.
by saghm | 2025-11-06 13:08:05+00:00
I disavow AI because while neither it or Brenda are perfect, Brenda consistently follows the instructions and can have an actual conversation with me to take feedback into account going forward. An AI will happily participate in those conversations, but whether it actually improves based on that feedback is not at all consistent. It's also a lot easier to find other humans who are meaningfully different than Brenda if I prefer to hire someone with a different working style, whereas right now the issues I describe above with BrendaBot are going to be essentially the same with any other AI I try to use instead.
by cut3 | 2025-11-06 13:09:18+00:00
Its obvious mozilla doesnt care and wont listen or change by that single, stupid comment. AI response or an idiot human, either way what an insult of a comment. Everything was clearly listed out! Just read what was written! Reach out privatley!

Mozilla turned on shitty AI no one wants without talking to anyone and now wont stop it when its breaking everything and instead just publicly placate.

Not even an apology but a fucking insult!!!

"sorry for your feelings" They can feel however they want you fuckup how about you say sorry for fucking up all the hard work with your shitty product pushes no one wants
by ekianjo | 2025-11-06 13:09:21+00:00
would take a long time to expand on this in sufficient details, because it's hard to understand unless you live it and see it. People very rarely speak up in meetings (silence is the norm, just like they were taught in school), and therefore you never get to see exactly what people feel or think about what you are planning to do. So the norm is that most people talk and exchange in other venues (usually in your back, in smaller groups - I don't mean this in a negative way, it's just what they are used to do). So when you are set to achieve something, it's a long road of 1:1s, drinks or informal meetings to get to know what they think, what they want, and how they can help you to get there. Multiply this by the number of stakeholders involved, and the politics at play between all of them, and you end up with a very slow and inefficient model to drive decisions and buy-in.
by rswail | 2025-11-06 13:09:28+00:00
Japan was making tin toys in the 60s, by the 80s, they were one of the largest car manufacturing nations and were buying out US factories.

They boomed through the 80s/90s, but then lost their edge as China moved itself up the car manufacturing hierarchy, particularly in EVs.

Same with competing with South Korea, but Japan are coasting a bit.

China is at the start of that curve.

They'll end up diversifying into the rest of the world, but the 21st century will belong to China.
by sevensor | 2025-11-06 13:10:30+00:00
> Today, in the world of micromanagement, line-managers aren't expected to be much more than cannon-fodder to be blamed by C-levels when developers are unhappy.

Exactly. Line managers take the heat from above and below. In a dysfunctional organization, they can make your life worse but they have very limited ability to make it better. That’s why I object to the “people quit bad managers” quote. It’s just not true to my experience, and it absolves poor executive leadership from responsibility.
by saberience | 2025-11-06 13:10:54+00:00
This isn’t accurate though, the models do push back and do question.

I would say ChatGPT is way way better than the average therapist. I’ve seen maybe between 15-20 psychotherapists over the course of my life and ChatGPT is better than 85% of them I would wager.

I’ve had a therapist recommend me take a motorbike trek across Europe (because that’s what he did) to cure my depression.

I think people tend to radically overestimate the skills of the average therapist, many are totally fucking shit.
by rickydroll | 2025-11-06 13:11:42+00:00
If you live in Eastern Mass, like I do, there isn't much buildable land left unless you start using state forests and golf courses. The easiest to acquire land are old brownfield sites. But even there, it's more likely they will plaster over the original building to seal in the asbestos and lead paint, rather than build a new, denser structure.

Out at Interstate 495, there is a bunch of open space, but a lot of it is zoned conservation land. To take something out of conservation zoning, you need to pay all the taxes they would have incurred from the time it was zoned as conservation land to the current day.

Sometimes I think the only reasonable solution is to start razing in-city industrial property and building it over with dense, high-occupancy, 10+ story buildings. The old mill city I live in has done that with some success. Their solution to the parking problem was to build multiple city-owned parking garages and make parking costs explicit, rather than bundling them into the rent.

The main downside is that if you don't drive, you have to spend half an hour plus on a bus to get to a supermarket or other necessities. I guess the cost of a supermarket lease makes setting up a business there significantly riskier.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-11-06 13:12:00+00:00
I'm not sure why I clicked on this beyond just knowing it was going to be another Mozilla trainwreck and not being able to look away. But what was truly stunning to me was this comment thread. There are people here actually defending the following response:

> I'm sorry for how you and the Japanese community feel about the MT workflow that we just recently introduced. Would you be interested to hop on a call with us to talk about this further?

This is horrifically patronizing after someone's volunteer work was effectively destroyed (as laid out in the list of grievances), but there are people here asking "how is it patronizing? seems perfectly reasonable to me".

It's one of those "they live among us" moments, where you realize that you're surrounded by psychopaths. It's not even malice, they're not intentionally being assholes, they just have no empathy.
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-11-06 13:12:10+00:00
Yes that is simple, especially for a desktop app.

I would argue it is not resilient enough for a web app.

No one wrote the rules in stone, but I assume server side you want the host to manage data recovery and availability. Client side it is the laptop owners problem. On a laptop, availability is almost entirely correlated with "has power source" and "works" and data recovery "made a backup somehow".

So I think we are both right?
by viridian | 2025-11-06 13:12:42+00:00
As a heads up, flagging is rarely done by mods, and overwhelmingly done by normal users with sufficient karma to do so, so it probably wasn't Dan or Scott. For example, the comment header for the comment I am currently replying to looks as follows:

richardfeynman 15 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Israels top military lawyer arrested after she adm...