skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Madeline L’Engle also wrote of Kairos and Chronos in her various books. A Wrinkle in Time and the subsequent three books are called the Time Quartet. The Time Quartet deals with tesseracts, wormholes, and larger universal and existential themes, in what she calls “pure time,” AKA Kairos.

Contrast this with her “normal world” books that take place in the “regular, clock-time” world, AKA Chronos.

A Wrinkle in Time probably shaped my view of the world more than any other book growing up. Kairos has a permanent place in my heart as a result.
No, the two nuclear bombs did that.
Yeah the headline stood out for me too. Wired is usually on point but what they meant was the movement to cloud which is right but the desktop is definitely not dead.
My understanding is that it is not the exceptions themselves, it is filling up stack traces which is considered performance taxing thing to do in jvm
A few days before the end of the war, yes. That's not a significant amount of fighting.
Several news sources reported his contact was an FBI agent pretending to be a foreign agent.
Everyone who can't justify an electric riding mower or doesn't have a place to charge it. I'm guessing you've never had to maneuver an umpowered push mower on slopes.
> Is this a typo - should this say "to the side that had +5V before?" (ie change minus to plus)?

That's a typo and an embarrassing one; thanks for pointing it out, I've updated the post.
"he assumed the feds would never pay as much as 100k"

You can't think small with these things, if he had real ambition and vision, he could be running Goldman Sacks!
I've got a Senegal parrot (hence the pixel art) and im bad at naming things and...the rest is history i guess
Expensive sandwich.

Was the 100K total payments in USD or fiat value? [1]

Taxpayers hope for the former.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sweden-government-forced-pay-...
I would agree with that, but I maintain that the criticisms in the comments section were of varying degrees of quality. IMO, the best and most useful ones are those that are carefully scoped and precisely defined. Some comments have these attributes, but not all.
There's not going to be a plea deal. This is a national security issue, he is going to be convicted for the maximum penalty prosecutors can secure, regardless of how long it takes.
This is exactly how code looks everywhere. It does the job. It's the greatest code ever written because it's in production. The perfect code you never wrote is in your dreams. Services don't run on dream code. They run on code in production.
The article hypothesizes that it's some version of covid restrictions not being harsh enough that is causing teachers to leave. That may be true for some, but I think the opposite is at least equally true, that nobody wants to work under all kinds of restrictions, and are either waiting until they end or just retiring. Pretending that if we just made everything more restrictive, people would happily return to their low paid job is fantasy.

I expect this is true across low paid jobs. Organizations keep instituting more measures and burdens on workers and pretend they don't have a consequence.
Something went terribly wrong after Java 8.

A lot of apps just got stuck there.
how does intercepting mail lead to COUNTRY1's authorities handing a letter to the US FBI attaché in that country?
The West doesn't uniformly advocate the Westphalian system; not even close.

On the contrary, it's something that's brought up much more frequently by Russia these days.
I should point out that many fields have commonly used p ≤ .05 as a "significance line".

The significance line in particle physics is generally 5-sigma, or p ≤ 3x10⁻⁷. The Higgs is now at p ≤ 1x10⁻⁹. I think that meets GP's criteria of obviousness, at least in spirit.

Also -- you can look at the plots in the Higgs discovery papers and go "oh yeah, there's definitely a bump there".
The contents of his messages make it clear he was very excited to play secret agent. Can't imagine how they must have felt at that third drop when the FBI busted them.
Man has lived on scary raw meat diet – including chicken – for 3 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan
This is the best code ever written. It does the job and it's in production. The perfect code you never wrote is in your dreams. Services don't run on dream code. They run on code in production.
Plus that crypto was likely ceased in other operations... it is unlikely they fired up Coinbase and bought some with Tax Payer money
Idi I Smotri is worth a watch. Many references to it in more recent movies.
When was the last time the FBI busted a major criminal that they weren’t entrapping?
Well, if they can get through to Google Support, what can a mere Human do to hide? ;)

On a more serious note, if you're going to that level of security, you're probably using something like TOR anyway (otherwise they simply ask the site the text was posted on for the IP). Additionally, you can use multiple services for each translation, obscuring the trail further. Good luck getting that data from Yandex.

Lastly, I'm not sure whether Google (and others) really log every sentence entered, but as described before, you can easily avoid that. Or read the privacy policy.
>If you could tell me what point you think I should be drawing from that link, it would be lovely.

The point is it outlines the companies mission, as requested by the GP.

>Because all I see is the first half devoted to the sort of generic PR speak that any company does about having an aligned vision, and the latter half is about what they're not doing.

"You linked me a PR article where a company describes their mission and supplements it with supporting statements."

Yeah... No shit... that's literally what was asked for, and it's literally what I provided.

>Where's the big reveal?

The "big reveal" is the mission statement, mission scope, and business focus.

>What makes being a 'mission focused' company different than just... actually not making political statements?

Literally answered in the linked article.

>What did the big meta-political statement add to their company?

Added their mission statement and scope.

Seems like you're incapable of grasping these basic concepts. I believe you may have to be 18 to post here. Here's a better site for underage kids that may not grasp things like company mission statements: www.reddit.com
due to the seemingly incomplete ending of the book of job, many people suspect the original ending was too extreme and was omitted later. how extreme and in what direction has been debated for a long time.
It lasted long enough to split Poland up between the two of them.
i mean, the go binary would still probably be a bit large, but having a statically linked binary to copy around would be welcome.
From the text of the complaint:

> On or about December 20, 2020, the FBI’s attaché (“LEGAT”) in COUNTRY1 obtained a package representatives from COUNTRY1 had received in April 2020 through a mail carrier from the U.S. by an unidentified subject in an attempt to establish a covert relationship.

It sounds like he tried to contact a foreign country, that country turned him over to the FBI, and then an undercover FBI agent pretended to be an agent of that country.
https://blog.peterlamut.com/2018/11/04/python-attribute-look... is a great overview of how this works. Start with the summary at the end!

The really cool thing about this, how descriptors have their __get__ called, is that methods are implemented this way. So when you access instance.method(), it’s a normal lookup for the attribute named “method”, which is (normally) itself a descriptor, so the __get__ magic is called and this binds the method to the instance at the moment it’s needed! Then you can just call it like a normal function. It’s incredibly elegant but extremely obscure. And vital to understand if you want to dive into monkey patching, which is an incredible skill to have!
Yes, after the FBI got handed the documents by the mystery country.
I'd like to watch that video as well.
Welch had an annual workforce decimation.
The PRC is shrewed in its policy of non-acknowledgement, and we were careless in ours. It is better to acknowledge your allies with names that piss them off, than not acknowledge them with names they like.
Wow if that’s really the case then that is pretty blatant.
@thingskatedid would be pissed. The whole story would probably fit in the alt-text, but there is no alt-text here.
Because it's not treason, it's (attempted) espionage. Don't worry, the US is plenty harsh on espionage.
I don’t even use the feed. Just private lists, and I avoid adding journalists.
Directed-energy attacks would be easily detected. They haven't been in any of the world-wide cases.

Washington DC is very likely crawling with detectors of all types. But there were 'attacks' in Washington DC, and nothing detected.

I venture say that we will find that these occurrences are not attacks, but something else and are unintended consequences of some other activity.
>Basically sounds like “mission focused” = “do your job”

That's fantastic! They're honest about the employment arrangement and straightforward about expectations.
> Jonathan Toebbe sent a package to a foreign government, listing a return address in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, containing a sample of Restricted Data and instructions for establishing a covert relationship to purchase additional Restricted Data.

He seems to have kicked it off all by himself.
He actually congratulated the "foreign agent" on their "bravery in serving their country":
https://www.twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1447318704601976832
>On June 8, 2021, the undercover agent sent $10,000 in cryptocurrency to Jonathan Toebbe as “good faith” payment. ... After retrieving the SD card, the undercover agent sent Jonathan Toebbe a $20,000 cryptocurrency payment. In return, Jonathan Toebbe emailed the undercover agent a decryption key for the SD Card. A review of the SD card revealed that it contained Restricted Data related to submarine nuclear reactors.

Forgive my ignorance here, but this actually made me curious. At this point, he's been given $30k almost entirely out of good faith. What legal trouble - if any - would be be in if he gave them the key, and when they decrypted it they found hours and hours of porn or some other junk? As though he wasn't interested in giving them documents, but rather bilking some foreign country out of cash.
"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story..."
Error returns and checked exceptions are isomorphic. There's nothing you can do with one that you can't do with the other.

But I agree with the underlying point you're making. The error mechanism that a language provides determines how a programmer will think about handling errors. Exceptions make you think about error handling as control flow. Error returns make you think about error handling as unwrapping data.
I'm at a BigCo. right now and yeah, this stuff is in the codebase, but it's there because of laziness an no other reason.

Your comment is making me irrationally angry. This code example should be lambasted into eternity.

This should have been converted into a database table many eons ago. By doing so, it would save on stories, testing, builds, and more. They would be able to be more reactive to changes and wouldn't have had to push through a new build to make a single or multiple changes.
It certainly seems like it meets the definition. However, it seems excessive to charge espionage as a capital crime.

Per Wikipedia:

> Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.[1] This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.
The lady is a teacher at my kid’s school. Woke up this morning to a very unexpected email from the head of school.
it all depends on how many counts and other factors.
If they didn't think there was a high chance of getting anything good from the guy, or expected a high chance of him getting caught nevertheless, why not score some political points by being nice instead?
Yes. My objective was to point this as a problem in this type of store and see what people say about it.
Such as the United Nations.
Nice quote, and a very concise diagnosis of what ails much of science: lots of data jockeys, few true scientists. The output of scientific endeavor is not simply truth, but true theories. Or, more accurately, theories which accurately predict (i.e. are not falsified by) the broadest set of relevant observations. The real tragedy is that genuine theoretical advances are often ignored or overlooked because everyone is too busy collecting more data to notice.
It is true to that they joined the Allies, and the Eastern Front was very important to defeat of Nazi Germany, but let’s be honest when the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact ended: after Stalin and Hitler coordinated a joint invasion of Poland.

To act like the Soviet Union was Ireland or Switzerland at the start of the war, is disingenuous. Stalin and Hitler made a secret plan to carve out an Eastern European sphere of influence, not unlike the Japanese sphere of influence in East Asia.

The irony of course is that Stalin still got his sphere influence, albeit through the Treaty of Yalta.
I suspect part of that, depends on who the “foreign country” is. John Pollard[0] gave asset secrets (among other stuff) to Israel. He spent a loooooong time in the hoosegow.

John Walker[1] gave sub secrets to Russia, and didn’t get a treason charge (but he may have turned state’s evidence to reduce his charge). He did die “mysteriously,” a year before he was eligible for parole. He was about as bad as you can get.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Walker
Doesn't sound like they ever managed to get the data to the foreign country, from the complaint. It sounds like the package was intercepted, and then the FBI began acting the part of the foreign country. Maybe I misread?
Country was founded by a bunch of traitors covering their butts. Article III:

> Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
where did all the martian water/ice go? sublimation into space?
Not in Taiwan!
DAOs Will Eat the World
Hollywood is highly critical of the USA. Pretty much every sentiment in a post 90's war movie is "The US also did some bad stuff that we should feel ashamed about."
The '3rd world country' definition is outdated for modern usage anyway.

The US is definitely not on the same tier of standard of living as the rest of the world, that's for sure. It fell well down from the first place a while ago. Shame really.
I doubt people are leaving due to the restrictions. I personally think the headaches dealing with parents has more to do with it.

I personally watched a school board meeting in our county devolve into a circus. I couldn't believe that suburban middle-class parents would openly talk about crazy conspiracy theories.

If I were a teacher and had to deal with parents complaining about mask mandates, vaccines, and on top of that had to deal with the extra work of in person and remote learning, I too would quit.
Utilities cut power to US customers while taking Covid tax credits
The anti-pattern here is applying DRY to text rather than intents. The identical text may appear in a different source file with a different intent, say a tax calculation for a region. It may very well be that two regions have the same formula, but it's obvious that you shouldn't DRY it.

The example used in the post had no real-world intent. The intent was to blindly apply DRY which doesn't count as one.
I suggest people look up how much teachers make in their area, especially starting salaries. Where I live, in a major metro area where single-family homes average $400k (and climbing), teachers- a profession that requires a college degree- start at $32k. Embarrassing.
Read my comment again, please. I specifically said that at no time did the law ask whether anyone intentionally set school boundaries one way or another - just that they were set in a way that had this statistical effect.
It sounds like you are knowledgeable about this topic. Where might I be able to read more?
They'd probably nab him for bullshit and then make him waste at least 30k defending himself in court. Three letter agencies didn't get their reputation for being vengeful jerks from nowhere.
Hell of a way to go through life.
Even JavaScript does, with strictest TypeScript settings (not on Exceptions though). When I returned to a Java project recently, the lack of null safety was seriously off-putting. It does indeed feel like the "billion-dollar mistake" of programming.
Yeah the West is screwed, but let’s not pretend we didn’t see this coming.
It’s an ally country with a foreign language and of which a navy engineer thinks they might be interested in nuclear secrets from the USA. France or Israel?
Thanks!

I have heard of Eiffel though I don't know much about it. I am honestly surprised this concept hasn't been explored more, given how long it appears to have been around.
There is a theory on Twitter it's France:

>Theory: The redacted country is France, which appears to have collaborated with the FBI on this investigation.

>This would explain even more so why France viewed the AUKUS deal as such a betrayal

>The indictment strongly implies that the country already posses nuclear subs.

>That means Russia, China, India, UK and France. First 3 wouldn’t cooperate with us. And he wouldn’t contact UK. That leaves… France

>Oh. And he told his fake handler that he wants to one day meet them in a cafe and have a bottle of wine. Case closed

https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1447324061667930116
They should contact firms like Lighter Capital who make Revenue-Based Financing loans.
One you run yourself
That concept would make for excellent espionage comedy story bait.
Harder to type, harder to remember
Ok, once again, I am arguing against mandating vaccines for people who already had COVID. The science and studies say they already have a better immunity than the vaccine. This lack of science is troubling. That is not an anti-vax position. Its a vax if you haven't had COVID and don't if you have. This is the same exact advice when talking about other diseases like measles.
BCI is full of people claiming to have cracked the neural code and engineered a device around it.

Neuroscience is full of people debating whether or not there is a neural code in the first place, and certainly don't consider the problem "solved".

I'm not shocked.
There's no need for a plea deal here because the evidence is slam dunk.. the emails .. the dead drop... The government will take their plea and still send them to jail forever. My point is, if i was the justice dept I'd be happy to go to trial.
From what I've seen: to add automagic functionality, syntactic sugar and wrapper methods for libraries. The JVM/Java language doesn't seem to have the tooling necessary to accomplish this natively, so it's the only reliable way to do it without relying on annotation processors having properly run (which still require some reflection magic, depending on the use case).
With Home Manager, you can share configuration between NixOS, non NixOS Linux distros, and macOS.
Let’s de-regulate airplanes and stick the kids on the tarmac! I think my son would make a good forex trader, compete eh?
Nobody claimed that these strategies guarantees getting a global audience. What in the article would you claim is survivorship bias? Just looking at survivors doesn't automatically lead to survivorship bias, it is a good strategy if you just want to find a bunch of strategies that has worked rather than trying to gauge how likely they are to work.
Get your kids out of that school asap. 4 years ago our daughter was the target of a sexual predator in the schools leadership team. The individual still works at the school.

The school has a long history of these issues. It is rotten to the core.
Wikipedia is good for general knowlege. Legal charges are made with respect to a specific statute. In the U.S. treason will only ever be charged when we are at war.
Are there that many Battle of Berlin movies to begin with? From the Soviet/Russian perspective I could only find The Fall of Berlin (1950), Liberation (1970-1971), and a documentary Shturm Berlina/Штурм Берлина (2015). Battle of Berlin probably isn't very good movie material, unlike Stalingrad or other parts of the Eastern Front, which have a lot more movies.

Furthermore, I've read [2] that historiography on the Eastern Front was quite poor, even from the Soviet perspective, until Stalin's death. From [2], page 12:
> Soviet military works written before 1958 were highly politicized and focused heavily on the positive role of Stalin in every aspect of war. Correspondingly, operational and tactical detail was lacking.

Though Cold War politics did play a role.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_the_Battl...
[2] PDF WARNING: https://community.apan.org/cfs-file/__key/docpreview-s/00-00...
In really important environments, just the last part is good enough to be useful to an adversary. Someone now knows you know something and all they need is the leverage. Go with “no idea”

The only upside to anything more than that is to impress or feel important.
Ask HN: Western Pro-Sino Discussion Board?
I asked this question in a thread but it got rapidly downvoted for obvious reasons.

I’m looking for a Western discussion board (mainly English speakers) that hold a positive view of recent Chinese policies and their over all direction.

Any suggestions? Reddit’s r/sino is filled with anti-West memes and that just isn’t really a good place to have a level headed discussion about the pros and cons of China’s recent policies.

Thank you in advance.
Causal – Your new spreadsheet for working with numbers
> When have you seen a movie about the USSR winning the WW2?

...almost all of them? the USSR was one of the Allies. who won WW2. so every WW2 movie which doesn't engage in some sort of alt-history has the USSR winning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Instrument_of_Surrender
It's a tradeoff between power consumption and the needs of software. Software needs a high resolution time source that reliably ticks along at a constant rate. From a hardware perspective, there is a strong desire to turn off PLLs to save power when the clocks they generate are "not needed". Unforunately, hardware and software have different definitions of when "not needed" is. Hardware also wants to be able to change the clock speed for clock domains (like a given core's clock rate), but hardware doesn't have any interfaces to tell software exactly when these clock rate changes occur, so software has no way to compensate for the discontinuities in clock rate. Ouch.

The Linux kernel community brought up these requirements with the large CPU vendors at Kernel Summits dating back to the early '00s. To say that the kernel community is frustrated at the state of time keeping in mainstream CPUs is understating it. Software (especially the kernel) is under constant pressure to provide accurate, high resolution and reliable timestamps. That requirement will never go away, so the hardware folks need to figure out how to make an interface that works in the presence of aggressive power savings in modern CPUs. Honestly, if the CPU had a get_time instruction that returned seconds and nanoseconds that was as fast as the TSC, software would use it in an instant (although I'm certain that some hardware vendors would manage to screw it up with BIOS bugs on random motherboards).