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> Sorry, the missile launched over Japan is not deterrence.

You say that as if it's a known fact. But deterrence seems like by far the most likely hypothesis to most observers. What's the alternative?

> Along with the many explicit statements that he intends to use his weapons

KCTV is a State TV station, issuing propaganda. It often claims it is on the brink of invading South Korea, destroying Seoul and raining fire upon New York, Guam, and sundry other targets. Perhaps a small proportion of the less critical part of the DPRK population, having been force-fed State propaganda since childhood, believes what it is told. No-one else does.
Interesting comment history. Politically motivated, refers to US as "we" but uses non-idiomatic English.

Are we seeing political brigading and sock puppetry on HN now or have I just overlooked it in the past?
There were no US/UK guarantees of protection. The Budapest Memorandum just gives the US casus belli, not an obligation to use it. The administrations that negotiated it made that clear.

In any case, Ukraine didn't actually control the warheads, and it's silly to assume Russia would just allow them to build their own arsenal using those materials.
I really like the writing style in this post, so I went to check on some other posts he had made.

He seems to be a pretty nice guy overall! This one was particularly fun to read: http://pud.com/post/65374847162/how-i-deal-with-users-who-st...
40 km/h average is crazy! I can get slightly above 20 km/h sustained average for about an hour. There's no way I could double that, and I'm pretty fit.

My 20 km/h includes a few stops and normal traffic so it's probably closer to 30 on a flat straight with no traffic. Perhaps a special bike with narrow tires could help, but that's less versatile (and I need to ride on dirt roads too).

The highest I've measured is 54 km/h, on a big down hill pedalling full strength on top gear. I regularly exceed 30 km/h but not for sustained periods.
>packs of Lycra-clad cyclists

There is a huge difference in both perceived and actual safety between being part of a large group of bicyclists that occupies a significant fraction of the lane and being a lone bicyclist going along the verge of the road while cars and trucks pass you at 65 mph.
NK has rightly concluded that treaties are meaningless without the global cohesion required to enforce them and that being part of the Nuclear Club is one way to get people to look the other way when it comes to violating human rights and other despicable behavior.

The CTBTO is obviously well within their rights to write press releases which amount mostly to hand wringing at this point in time, in the longer term every tin pot dictator without nukes is going to look to NK as the example of how to stay alive.

FWIW I have always considered the test ban treaty itself as a means by the nuclear powers to attempt to kick the door closed behind them (because they can use numerical simulation instead of real world tests) rather than an honest attempt at reducing proliferation.

So, now we have crazy people with hydrogen bombs. It is a new chapter and one that could have a pretty bad ending.
Using the 6.3 Richter scale, the energy released would be ~43 kilotons of TNT. I think that's a pretty good guess- they seem kind of skeptical of the 6.3, but there may be some additional energy that wasn't transferred into the quake, like heat loss/air pressure.

I plotted a 43.2 kiloton airburst bomb over LA using NUKEMAP[1], which is under heavy load right now (surprise surprise). tl;dr: 166k fatalities, 341k injuries, 270 m fireball and 100% fatalities within 1km. Almost all structures destroyed within 2.5 km, and 3rd degree burns within 3.2 km. Still far from a "real" nuke, but significantly more impressive than their last tests. It's about 1/10th the size of the biggest fission bomb the US made, the Mark 18. Our current missiles are ~475 kilotons per warhead, with 12 warheads per missile (several hundred times more destructive).

[1]: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=43.2&lat=34.0453902&...
War with NK could break out any day or hour if we're unlucky. With Russia? Not impossible, particularly if someone badly stuffs up in Syria, but far less likely.
> makes me wonder why Oracle acquired Sun in the first place.

Java and MySQL were probably important reasons.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15144588
Does docker's newer --init flag not fully replace dumb-init's use? Or is dumb-init now just so you don't need to remember to --init whenever you use the container? I find it really weird that --init is a run-time option rather than something specified in the Dockerfile and baked into the image.
Reading your opinions in this thread is really like reading jokes.

No facts are provided to support your opinions, and all the suggestions are ridiculous.
Check out the book "The Black Book of Communism" by Courtois if you think the grim harvest of communism is restricted to the USSR.
I largely concur. I think the bike parking zones pre-date the bike sharing startups but they've been expanded and get more use now. Unfortunately there are plenty of people who leave the bikes in their compounds but as problems go that's pretty small and will become even less of a problem once they decide to ramp up enforcement over growth.

If the NYT wanted to run a piece about Chinese manners and consideration they could have found a better subject for a hit piece easily.
Legitimate is as legitimate does. Mao was terrible, but Nixon shook hands with him and paved the way for US recognition of the PRC under Carter. There are some nasty people in charge of nations, and it's not clear to me that not acknowledging them as the de facto leaders of their countries makes the world a safer place.
Some would argue that a lifetime of depression causes more pain than a quick death by sword or plague. The goal is to eliminate suffering, not create new kinds.
Thanks for sharing that.
For me, who just quit a job again, reading this was reassuring that I'm on the right path.
Why is EOS ICO runs for 350 days
The thing I struggle with is recognising what the problems in front of me are. It's usually bloody obvious, no problem, but then the work is quick and straightforward. The things that fill my calendar are the ones where we have problems which cost massive money which no one has found a treatment for.

Sometime it suddenly becomes apparent and we suddenly see how to do it and everyone feels pretty sheepish!
Thankfully the US invasions put a stop to all the murders /s
> US is still the most powerful democratic country that supports innovation, freedom, etc.

I would like to believe that, but personally I think that the US supports innovation and freedom when it is in their best interests.

> China is supporting a NK dicatorship which terrorizes its own people, closing off and becoming belligerent, electing a dicatatorship, and threatening other countries.

Saddam Hussien
Shah of Iran
Mohamed Morsi
Islam Karimov
Manuel Noriega

That is a short list of about 30 leaders in modern history which the US has supported which are dictators (or Authoritarian), all have human rights abuses and are belligerent.

As far as NK threatening other countries NK is still at war with SK. I do not know the last time NK invaded a country but I am pretty sure the US has been involved in several invasions and incursions of many countries over the past 50 odd years.
Morbid question: If you want to guarantee 11 9s of durability in a world where nuclear war doesn't have negligible probability, do you need to start building data centers inside of nuclear bunkers? Would that even help with EMP attacks?

https://xkcd.com/705/
Ask HN: Which is the best cryptocurrency to invest in right now, and why?
I've been living in several European countries for the last 20+ years and believe me vandalism is far worse here than in any Asian country I've visited so far including China. I think this article is at best a good example of pointless journalism and at worst just another thinly veiled racist china bashing. Sad to see it gets so much attention on HN.
Whether Un's motives are rational is bikeshedding.. for now, the world has to answer to his bluffs.
The USA is supporting and have supported (and put in power) dictatorships frequently.

Nobody like to talk about Arabia Saudi for instance, a regime style not so different from NK. People related by blood in charge of everything, all opposition repressed.

About the "threatening other countries" thing, in my opinion, this is the reason we are in this situation now.

Why would the NK regime would be so interested in nuclear weapons in the first place? I bet they get seriously interested when they realized they were part of the "axis of evil" and when they saw what happened in Iraq.
Right, encrypted.

And who can decrypt that?

In Firefox, back when it was introduced in Fennec somewhere around 2007 or 2008 (I don't know how it is now), you'd need 2 passwords. One to log in to your Firefox account and gain access to your encrypted data, and one to decrypt the data. It is feasible a nationstate can get access to your encrypted data, but it isn't feasible they are able to decrypt your data.
I felt that pain until I got my AirPods. In part because of the two part charging - they're always charging in the case and then you charge the case semi randomly - about once a week for me.
So?

Not supporting images or JavaScript would simplify things as well...
> Using the 6.3 Richter scale, the energy released would be ~43 kilotons of TNT.

That's curious. Every yield estimate I've seen so far was substantially higher than this. Could you explain how you arrive at this number?
Is this the same Pud who created Fucked Company? Guy is a legend!
Functional programming is taught in schools. Sometimes even with lisp. Students unvirsally seen it as impractical theory.

The popular ressurection of functional on frontend is relatively new development. Before, it was used only in few math related areas.
> It consumed the Stalinist USSR, what do you expect will happen when you keep pissing off the whole world ?

At a guess, once you are a nuclear power, absolutely nothing.
I can only speak for myself here but I feel that belonging too strongly in either camp is a bad thing.

Ideally, you'd want to understand both worlds.

As such, I feel that the projects I work on in my own time and the crazy things I do in them help me to better understand what kind of things really do need to happen when working under tight deadlines in the workplace.

I.e. It's easier to produce an effective product quickly if you know from personal experience exactly which approaches or things really are essential.

Also, note I haven't read the actual article. I'm replying mostly in response to the comments :)
Nah, we have anti-ICBM technology but it's hilariously inadequate, as in, rate of successful interception is very low. And when you have nukes attached to the ICBMs, your can't tolerate even a single one going through.
The problem is, after Ukraine, the elites know that all such "economic and security" guarantees are completely worthless. The only thing that counts is nukes.
It is very unlikely that Oracle will do the right thing. Oracle, as a company, is known to be ethically challenged. A company like Oracle that is known for its apathy towards its own developers cannot be expected to make careful consideration towards the software it is killing.

For those, who have not worked in Oracle or have little understanding of Oracle's internal culture, I recommend this nice article about why James Gosling, the creator of Java, quit Oracle: http://www.eweek.com/development/java-creator-james-gosling-...
So cool but is never work?
F$ckedICO – Part 1
They have two goals, not one. The first is obviously self perpetuation, but the second is to flourish. The nukes give them the ability to blackmail their neighbours for everything they want and need, like food, money, weapons etc. I imagine Kim Jong Un will get a real kick out of getting South Korea and Japan to pay for all of his bills, even the concentration camps.
F$ckedICO – Part 2
This has never been a size problem. China can probably build a human bridge all the way to SF with that population (I am probably exaggerating), but that doesn't mean the Chinese will win. You can tell this from modern warfares (Vietnam, Iraq etc). Size and advancement in tech can get us to the winning zone for sure, but we cannot discount locals' discomfort, loyalty and nationalism.
China is not playing by the same rules that the US or any other western country is. They don't believe in free trade, they have heavy restrictions on imports and exports out of the country, money transfers to other countries, and foreign investments, they effectively block non-Chinese internet services, and of course all of this has astounding levels of government subsidies.
Constantine killed his own wife and son, yet he's been venerated for over 2000 years, and was even canonized.
A Map of the Entire Universe
Are you sure it's your account and not just a fake profile copying your data (by some spam bot)? Not sure how to verify this though.

However, 7 years seems like a long time span for Spammers to wait and revive that data.

You could try to use the report button and say it's a fake profile.
You can be American and not be native English speaker.
Don't spoil the fun of the conspiracy theorists.
Yoga includes focus on meditation and breathing techniques. Brain waves associated with flow state (alpha and theta) have been reported as increasing with yoga practice. In addition brain waves associated with eureka moments (gamma waves) have also shown an increase with yoga practice.
Epitome of survivor bias. Those who failed by taking on too much risk aren't here to tell their story.
I'm curious as well, my estimates based on data from a 5MT explosion being about 6.8 on the scale and various formulas, I'd get into the megaton range, then again, other methods do arrive at a sub-100kT range too.
The problem is that it will be almost impossible to comply with the letter of the law in this case without either imposing prohibitive levels of overhead

If the business requires this much overhead in order to internalize the data-externalities that it's generating, the business does not deserve to exist. Privacy violations are an externality, just like pollution, climate change, or deforestation. The way we deal with these externalities is through regulations and taxes that force businesses to internalize the costs they're imposing upon the rest of us. OP's business is like a chemical plant that gets its feedstock from polluting suppliers. If pollution regulations make the feedstock prohibitively expensive, then it's a signal that the existing process for making the product product wasn't providing a net economic benefit to society, and that the process needs to be either reengineered or shut down. By the same token, if privacy regulations make your product unprofitable, then your business model either needs to be reengineered, or you need to shut down.

There's no rule saying that cities have to be covered in smog. Likewise there is no rule saying that online media has to be funded through advertising. In the case of pollution, externalities that appeared to be inevitable turned out to be the result of choices resulting from economic incentives. When regulation changed the incentives, the externalities were massively reduced (as evidenced by the fact that Pittsburgh today has some of the best air quality in the US). I'm confident that the same is true of online media. The only reason that it's funded by privacy-violating advertising is because privacy-violating advertising is the cheapest and easiest business model. But if you take that off the table, businesses will be forced to innovate and come up with new payment structures that better align their interests with those of their customers.
I suspect your preference for death by being chopped up or plague would evaporate if you were faced with it.

(Perhaps you don't know that death by sword was hardly quick. Death from sword injuries usually came hours or days later of agony. Star Wars has perpetrated a myth that hacking someone with a sword is somehow elegant and civilized.)
On the topic of Oracle and its corporate culture, you may also want to see part of the talk "Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Byran Cantrill[1]. The language he uses to talk about Oracle is rather colorful.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m
Silicon Valley has been humbled. But its schemes are as dangerous as ever
This could just as well have been a blog post about what strategies he used to win the lottery. If anything would have gone wrong, the lesson learned would have been quite different.
The same.

Edit: he has an account on HN. Username is obvious.
I have written transpilers and would not want to use the term compiler because it would be a deceptive description of the work involved. It would be a pretentious aggrandisement akin to saying I built a car because I changed its air freshener.

A production ready optimising compiler is one of the greatest achievements in software engineering. A level of complexity and sophistication few of us can reach. A transpiler is often just a trivial text transformation that a junior programmer can do. The purpose may seem superficially similar but the effort and expertise is so totally incomparable that a specific term is justified.

edit: it reminds me of the difference between a ship and boat. A transpiler will use some-else's compiler/interpreter but a compiler won't use someone else's transpiler. The two terms are meaningful to those intimate enough to need to distinguish degrees of sophistication but seem redundant to those who merely use them.
Depression can last many years. I doubt you would brush it away so quickly if you'd ever experienced it.

Please note that my preference is to rid the world of both.
Why is it 'branded' like HN?
> Is 30,000 people a lot of troops? I think you seem to be forgetting how large China’s amy is. North Korea has a million man army too.

The US has 6800 nuclear weapons, and it seems that people are getting worried about a country who may not have one single functioning weapon. That's of course if we want to just play this about the numbers.

Of course 30,000 troops is a lot, it's enough to annoy others in the surrounding countries. Imagine the uproar if China put 30,000 troops in Mexico. It isn't just the military threat they pose but also the overall insult to the nations.

Now the size of NK army does not matter, especially when a lot of them do not even have enough food to feed themselves. As far as the size of the Chinese army, if you broke down the differences between the US and China you will see that this isn't just about the size of forces. The US has a huge asymmetric advantage via air.

> At any rate, what are your ideas for solving the problem? We could withdraw the troops from Korea and Japan, since you think that is part of the problem?

Look there is no simple solution, but poking the bear isn't going to work. Diplomatic options will always be better than declaring war on a country like NK. It would be better for China, but other than fuelling the war economy of the US, it is probably in their best favour.

Withdrawing troops, may not be the best idea either but if you leave them there in an aggressive manner you will truly witness more of this disagreement.

NK does not really care about bombing the US, they just want the US to stay out of NK.
A gold backed currency, rather than a fiat currency, gives control to a physical resource. The ones who control the physical resource and mining dictate the market. It is a very bad idea but probably good for the biggest gold producers in the world, they happen to be China, Russia and Australia (US is #4) [1].

A non-fiat currency is a single point of failure and since it is locked to a physical resource, it will cause many economic downturns with no lever to adjust. If a gold backed petro currency or oil is backed by gold, crypto currencies will explode exponentially.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_gold_prod...
“But what if something happens?? What if the site crashes? What if I’m late? What if..??”

“Do you think any of that stuff is going to happen?” he asked.

“Probably not. But what if it does?”

“Then you know what you do?” he said. “Tell them, ‘fucking sue me.’”

This is dangerous advice. It will work well right up until you come across someone who will "fucking sue you". A contract, once signed, is a legally binding promise. You have promised to deliver what's on the contract, and you can be held accountable in a court of law if you fail to do so. The financial penalties for violating a signed contract can easily drive one into bankruptcy, and the reputational penalties can make it very hard to recover.
i much rather see my html
page slowly loading before me than a js button that doesn't load and when i decide that it's taking too long and i want to go back then everything just messes up because it doesn't work with the back button in the browser
Is there a particular signature from a seismograph that would indicate this isn't solely a fission bomb?
China already stated that if the US first strike, they would retaliate. But if HK first strike, then they would be neutral.
That's a lot of very highly skilled staff which they won't be able to reassemble for another product or project for years. Those people will scatter to the winds now. It's a shame they lacked the imagination to make them do something new.

But then Oracle doesn't seem to have the organizational capability to start major new successful product lines anymore. They grow through acquisition.
I doubt very much this is the case.

Suppose they ask for something to South Korea and they say "no way". What happens then? A war is suicide and they know it.

I suppose you could extract a few sweets from things like "I will stop creating nuclear weapons" or something like this, but not serious blackmail is possible.

It's just the old MAD (1) doctrine. We (the world) have a lot experience with that. As an European I'm used to the idea that my life is in the hands of some crazy guy in the Kremlin or the White House.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
It is one reason, but not the only reason. NK and China both have borders connecting to Russia's border. This was extremely critical during WW2 as Japanese had full control of Korea (i.e. both present day of NK and SK), and Japanese already took over the northern part of China (they began to invade China in 1931). Russian and Japanese were never at ease because they were afraid the other would strike first (they did have multiple battles throughout WW2).

Russia has no big problem with China (their economy really does benefit a lot doing trading with China, although Russia is not happy China is making tons of money from defense contracts, whose technology basis came from the old Russia Federation), so to keep the American military busy they can't turn their back on NK completely. They certainly do not like NK at all, but they need NK there for now. Until NK is out of bound, China will tune down and continue pressure Kim in the back channel. But trust me... Chairman Xi, he is absolutely a tiger.

For all the superpowers, their best game is flexing muscle. They enjoy talking on stage, and drinking wines behind door.
I love how machine learning went to statistical learning and then back to machine learning. Playing is exactly the word to describe the discovery process.
And then US and Russia both have MIRV systems which carry 15-20 warheads on one rocket, so if you don't intercept it in the first stage of flight it's game over anyway. And Russia recently finished developing the System-6 nuclear torpedo which can destroy possibly more land than large megaton warheads anyway, since it creates a 500m tsunami wave which travels hundreds of miles in-land destroying everything in its path. And if it's salted with cobalt then that land becomes unusable for decades.