skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I noticed reading through the affidavit is that the undercover agents were obviously pretending to have not quite native English, by dropping classifiers like "a", "an", or "the" here and there. That's something not uncommon with Russians.

However, at one point the guy explains to them:

The [REDACTED] is the [REDACTED] provided to US Navy crews.
How to operate [REDACTED]. How to [REDACTED]. Troubleshooting
Problems. Routine Maintenance. Your naval experts will be
able to adapt these procedures to fit your own operations.
Operating a [REDACTED] has many unique aspects, and these
[REDACTED] reflect decades of U.S. Navy "lessons learned"
that will help keep your sailors safe.

Russia doesn't seem like the country that would need help with materials outlining best practices. China?

Here's something else I noticed:

[REDACTED] 7919 pages (4 pages per sheet). The [REDACTED]
reports the detailed results of all [REDACTED] done to
predict the behavior of the [REDACTED] during normal
[REDACTED]. The REDACTED] also documents the design basis
assumptions used to carry out these analvses. Your technical
experts should be able to use this information and the
(REDACTED] to verify the results using their own [REDACTED]
codes.

This really piqued my interest. To predict the behavior of...? What are the codes? And these analyses?

So I did a Google wildcard search

"behavior of * during normal *" "codes"

and believe I identified the jargon.

High-fidelity and accurate nuclear system codes play a key role in the design and analysis of complex nuclear power plants.

RELAP/SCDAPSIM is a best-estimate nuclear tool designed to
analyze the behaviour of reactor systems during normal and
accident conditions.

High-fidelity and accurate nuclear system codes play a key
role in the design and analysis of complex nuclear power
plants. Among such multiple subsystems, the behaviors of the
reactor core (and its fuel, burnable poisons, control
elements, etc.), the reactor internal structures, the vessel,
and the energy conversion subsystem and beyond to grid demand
affect to each one of them. Generally, the interplay between
these various subsystems is modeled by the use of coupled
codes, and in this matter, the most common is that of
thermal-hydraulics and neutronics codes. As regards this
issue, the present paper introduces the new features (NIRK3D
and 3DKIN) that have been added to RELAP/SCAPDSIM/MOD4.0

There isn't really a any utterance that explains motivations, but I imagine he is telling himself he is helping adversaries make their subs safer.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221915511_Safety_St...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328499091_CANDU_6_A...

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/C-Allison/publication/3...

This though, gave me a belly laugh:

Thank you for your partnership as well, my friend. One day,
when it is safe, perhaps two old friends will have a chance
to stumble into each other at a cafe, share a bottle of wine
and laugh over stories of their shared exploits...

Oh man, you sad fuck. You were never going to make an old friend.
The modern browser is already an operating system by all definitions I know so yes, it might as well have a firewall.

But that isn't very elegant, so I propose version 2.0:

"This site has requested communication with a local device. Please select it from this list:"

[the user is presented with a list of devices discovered by zeroconf/dns-sd/mdns/upnp matching the service descriptor given by the page]

Turns out, this was an actual spec [0] pushed by Opera of all companies. Here's a quote from the spec:

> window . navigator . getNetworkServices ( type , successCallback [, errorCallback ] )
>
> Prompts the user to select discovered network services that have advertised support for the requested service type.
>
> The type argument contains one or more valid service type tokens that the web page would like to interact with.
>
> If the user accepts, the successCallback is invoked, with zero or more NetworkService objects as its argument.
>
> If the user declines, the errorCallback (if any) is invoked.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-discovery-api-20121004/
There has to be _some_ forces to correct the situation. Friedman would argue that market would/should fix the problem (maybe customers boycott products etc). But I personally won’t hold my breath.

Instead, we as a society have to enact new boundaries around what we consider acceptable behavior from these algorithmic entities (recommender systems, social media etc).
Comparing how poor South Korea was in 1950 vs how wealthy it is now, can you tell me which 3rd world country it exploited to achieve this wealth?
But the last two are ideological.
I'm guessing you're looking at something like B2? Doing multi-cloud like that really is a hassle.
Why would China be in the interest to do this? The Chinese politburo would definitely not like a world war right now, they know that it will halt the flow of global trade and would also fuck them up immediately. Unless they are planning to mobilize their entire country towards war (which is not happening), I'm not seeing this happen in the near future.

(Unless a major economic depression happens, leading to economic instability and unrest in both China and the US, which leads them into nationalism and military mobilization and eventually war... History repeats itself yada yada.)
Yep found it, that was easy: https://github.com/KanoComputing/terminal-quest
In my opinion, this would be terrible. All I envision is walled gardens and no American made chips. Intel fostered an era of truly personal computing where people owned their hardware.
There's an assumption baked into capitalism that growing the pie is more important than fussing over dividing the pie. This has historically held true.

Focusing on equality is a distraction. If the poor are at the same level of poverty over 20 years, it doesn't matter whether the rich got richer or poorer. The fact is the poor are getting richer too, just not as quickly as the rich.

I'm not a free market ideologue. I'm just a practical person. If any system proves to be better at lifting up the poor I'll take it. Currently it seems a largely capitalist system with welfare and healthcare is a highly effective system. Certainly more effective than systems which try to destroy the markets.
Nice trick, thanks for sharing it.
And a silent nuclear submarine can run without needing to resurface for far longer than a conventional diesel sub. This is why AUKUS was such a big deal. With diesel subs, Australia could venture out into the South China Sea for 11 days. Once they have nuclear submarines they can remain there for 77. With diesel subs they couldn't reach the East China Sea, but with nuclear subs they can stay there for up to 73 days.

https://www.economist.com/img/b/640/724/90/sites/default/fil...
Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B
Code Block with Copy Button
I've often met people who seem to think that the answer for corruption is to pay people less, so that "greedy" people aren't drawn to important jobs. This moralistic viewpoint in which money and wealth are seen as sins is very dangerous. There are some countries, like Singapore, which pay key public positions generously to prevent corruption, and it works!
it's probably more about the last line of my comment.

it was too reasonable :-P
This is unrelated mostly to the topic of food prices though?

FWIW as you claim west "has become selfish" can you name a period, say, in the last two centuries when 'the west' would have been less selfish - I mean it looks to me like west has always been 'selfish'. I think as 'we in the west' are generally brought up to believe unselfishnes is a virtue we as children believe our societies express this value in all of our endeavours. As we grow up we realize our rich societies don't really work in a way that would facilitate egalitarianism across whole mankind.

That said, geopolitics are hard and problems should not be assigned to some basic, unredeamable sin of avarice but preferably to actionable things that can be changed.
https://archive.is/Qd0SK
NFT isn’t attempting to solve DRM or copyright. Likewise, when an artist sells you a signed print, they are not giving you any copyright over the art - nor should they.

Not sure what you are arguing about hosting. IPFS is already working well for many NFT projects, because the artist + collectors have an economic incentive to continue to host and maintain the media pointed to by the blockchain tokens.
Put another way: The US dollar's value hit a 10-year low
https://archive.is/Rhbun
Same size, but same quality? “Cheap” food does no one any good if the quality has an adverse effect on health
If I want a tuner, I've both one I keep over the amp or the small one I clip on the bass neck. They don't spy on me, don't show me ads, don't force me to keep the phone on and are much more responsive than any phone app.

Also... sorry but my phone stays off when I play music, and it's not even a smartphone; at my age the time I can spend with friends enjoying playing music is not that much anymore, and the heck if I'm risking to ruin the experience with a phone left on.
If you think so, I don't think you understand what has been achieved. Sorry I couldn't help you with that.
Oh, I guess that got there by mistake when I was migrating the page years ago. I've changed it in my template files. :)
Yeah, this is a really high-maintenance animal. Besides the fact that you’d have to kill it at some point of its life for meat.

I think that a goat might be a better idea. I love goat milk products, so no killing is necessary to make keeping them worthwhile. They are also cute!
Mentioning hate speech is a pretty good marker though, I'd give 80% probability the author thinks FB should censor more whoever the author considers haters.
> both of those views seem to me like they are valid approaches to "free speech

Except they're not. One vision is quite literally very controlled speech. It may be appropriately called 'civil speech' or 'appropriate speech' but it is not free speech.

You cannot take a thing, call another thing that thing, and then attempt to claim the first thing is actually the second thing.

The first view you espoused does not preclude the second view from being discussed within its framework, whereas the second one does preclude the first. This very salient difference means that even by your metrics the first is superior.

The 1619 project should be allowed, it should just be mocked for being completely made up, and the newspaper that published it should be relegated to the garbage bin of history for printing something do devoid of reality. That doesn't mean it should be canceled.
Against what spec? There are adapters that come with the ‘made for iPhone’ logo.
> "99% survival rate"

1% dead means around 3.5 million dead, in the US alone. Do you consider that acceptable?
> It seems like a vanishingly small chance that us-east-1 will have a total meltdown across its 6 AZ's.

Yeah - it's not the sort of thing that you expect to happen often, it's not like it went down twice last month or anything...

https://thestack.technology/aws-us-east-1-wobbles-for-7-hour...

(We have a policy here to never use us-east-1 - it's got to be the least reliable AWS region by quite a substantial margin.)
That’s worse: empty tanks contain air and oil vapours which CAN explode.
You should try a tilling window manager if you haven't already.
You can do without, but it is useful, if you aren't that good at tuning by ear. My electro-acoustic guitar has a tuner built into it. I wouldn't call myself a musician, the precision of my hearing is dubious and since I practice rarely, I tend to use it each time.

Otherwise I'd spend 5 minutes each time trying to get it sound right and then redoing it after playing something, because I didn't get it fully right and I realise it once I play something I'm familiar with.
I think he means thing like the governments forcing producers to fulfill their contracts with them before exporting and fulfilling contracts elsewhere.

[1]https://www.ft.com/content/82fa8fb4-a867-4005-b6c2-a79969139...

[2]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56529868.amp
And there was high inflation since they started the QE. At least in the financial markets. It might not count for the government's inflation metrics but I don't think those make sense.
What's the consequence of criticizing the CCP in China?
Which law it will violate?
There's a more famous woman criticizing the CCP in China(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Fang), any consequence? No, no consequence, then why ordinary people are afraid of criticizing the CCP in China? especially for only offline investigation rather than published publication?
Please can we clean up the disinformation in this post?
"Before inerting became a commonplace safety measure, in the nineteen-seventies, tankers blew up surprisingly often, and with lethal consequences: in December, 1969, three of them exploded within seventeen days, killing four men"
This comment is just insensitive and cruel. Many American children go hungry every day.
Yeah, the CNG ships seem a lot sketchier than an oil tanker.
Not python and not my field, but in Julia you have https://juliadynamics.github.io/DynamicalSystems.jl/dev/
https://archive.is/GHH2R
Serious question: Is there any real difference between the title and just "Programming PIC32 Microcontroller"? Would almost any language you can compile to LLVM IR serve about as well, modulo trivia? Is the focus on the PIC32, or on Rust?

The site likes to strip off leading "Why ...", "How ... ", and "9 ways to ...", as clickbait. Isn't "...in Rust" often just a peculiarly HNish variety?
Ask HN: Contracting – Request payment first or analyze app and submit proposal?
I am doing some contracting work on the side and was wondering how others go about a tricky situation.

The client wants me to analyze the application given a set of requirements and then submit a proposal and quote. However, the mere act of analyzing the app / code would basically be working. I know in other fields, a quote is usually given for free. For example, inviting over a contractor to evaluate a site plan.

So, should I pull the code, run the application, analyze the requirements and then submit a proposal or request payment to even begin looking at it?
When I grew up we raised a few pigs each year until I was 14. I don’t recall the cleaning being too demanding at all, and it was done by my siblings and I after school.

What I remember as a distinct challenge is the horrible experience of killing them and then butchering them. That was the worst “clean up”. Pigs are really wonderful animals when given the right treatment and environment. They’re very sweet, excitable, intelligent beings. They’re also maybe the hardest thing to catch when they inevitably escape their pens.
I don't understand how that shows I'm "just wrong"...? We agree that Assange published the documents in full and The New York Times didn't.

You have linked to the version published after Senator Gravel made them public domain by submitting to the congressional record - nothing comparable happened prior to Wikileaks publishing it's material.
because it s not better. it's overrun by speculators who failed in fiat-world. Unless we see a breakthrough implementation or application that solves the problem of financialization of crypto progress will be stunted
Even then farmers wont benfit.
>The comment itself still holds true.

It doesn't, and I have no reason to believe it does. To be frank, I believe you are making shit up, and / or, eating shit that someone else has made up. In my eyes, you posted something what was very poorly sourced and to save face have replaced that source with Alex Berenson, someone in the past who has been shown to fabricate studies, who is an anti-vaxxer and can hardly be considered an authoritative source.

In short, you posted a poorly sourced conjecture backed by someone with an even worse track record of broadcasting facebook level misinformation. And you're surprised you got downvoted?
It sounds you are generally venting when the specific topic was price of food. I don't understand what labour shortage of frontend developers has to do with that.
Twenty years from now is when I expect the last of the covid restrictions to be lifted, if ever.
In this scenario, what is the taxable base ?
I only read the comments. I almost never read the article. In fact, of every 100 posts I read, I'd probably read the article once.
You also have to remove the male testicles if you want to eat their meat/if you have multiple males.

My grandfather used to do it for the whole village and his only reward was the testicles themselves, which I remember were quite tasty when properly grilled :)
Low interest rates imply that everyone and their dog are saving money and don't give a damn about what the central banks are doing.
Left wing is plenty upset by the fact that the right wing exists and is allowed to speak. And tries to shut it down at every opportunity. It's not easy to shut down Fox News though, first amendment still being alive. But it's much easier to get a rightwing speaker to be banned from campus, or Facebook or Twitter. So that's what they are doing, for now. Until the government finally passes that "fighting the misinformation" law and packs the court so it wouldn't mess with it - then the sky is the limit.
reply at @xyzzyz

It exploited the "we have nice capitalism"-wall build against socialism. Basically all along the border, there was a gradient to be exploited for starting up. I assume alot of players near china are waiting for the same sort of ladder to climb up on, once the 2nd cold war starts.
Interestingly, this is now a curse, as common usernames receive tons of misdirected emails for people who mistakenly put down the wrong email.
I'm curious about what they mean by "Fast single-pass compiler". Maybe it's the compiler to bytecode?
I remember the good days when Uber paid £20 per sign up here in the UK.

I was on early and would just round people up at the end of a house party by shouting “who wants a free taxi home?!”.

I had free service for about a year.
This is a bizarre analysis. Public legal risk is absolutely the last imaginable threat to us-east-1, short of aliens abducting it. The U.S. security apparatus depends on AWS and would never allow it, Wall Street would never allow it, never mind the fact that Amazon itself would leverage every tool at it's disposal to protect its reputation for reliability. The politicians involved in this scenario might seek to remove Amazon's competitive advantages, or fine them, but the people who understand what AWS even is would never consider a move to shut down a datacenter.

Both the "enemy action" and "operation failure" scenarios are much bigger risks than this article makes out to be. Every non-aligned nation-state offensive cyber team has a knockout of us-east-1 at the top of their desired capabilities. I'm sure efforts range from recruiting Amazon employees to preparing physical sabotage to hoarding 0days in the infrastructure. There's no reason to think one of them wouldnt rock the boat if geopolitics dictated.

Operational failure is probably the most likely. AWS might have a decade of experience building resilience, but some events happen on longer timescales. A bug that silently corrupts data before checksums and duplication and doesn't get noticed until almost every customer is borked, a vendor gives bad ECC ram that fails after 6 months in the field and is already deployed to 10,000 servers, etc. Networking is hard and an extended outage on the order of a week isn't completely impossible. How many customer systems can survive a week of downtime? How many customer businesses can?
Yes, I am sure that the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre article [1] is full of misinformation according to China, seeing that they actively pursue people who speak up about it where they have jurisdiction and those people are "disappeared" or worse.

I'm not saying that there is no bias in the wikipedia articles, it's bound to exist seeing it's being written on by humans and bias is inherent to humans. However, the bias on peer-reviewed articles is much diminished compared to a unique party bias regarding issues they want swept under the rug.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
https://archive.is/w3g9C
They made multiple drops, one for $30,000, another for $70,000, following months of correspondence. There's plenty of context if you read the link -- unless you are for some reason accusing the FBI of wholesale fabrication of a story leading to the arrest of two relatively unimportant scientists.
There are a several comments saying "no mention of X", and actually they are right. This list is defeated by the simplest of google queries.
Ahh yes, carrying food out for pigs was always a work out. Their pen was only 50 meters or so from our house, but the buckets of scraps and feed felt like they were 200 pounds as a kid. And there were several of them. Haha, all good memories. Pigs get so excited when the food shows up.
Every course needs to be captioned.
Making a course ready for OCW takes alot of time and money when youd think its just a simple matter of uploading.

See previous HN posts regarding this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039798
And
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28583194
That was the case with Array.prototype.flat, that was supposed to be Array.prototype.flatten but flatten was already used by MooTools, and they respected the "don't break the web".
https://archive.is/lWNK9
Where did I say that I was surprised? I knew that most people wouldn't read the comment. Both vaccine zealots and anti-vaxxers tend to fly off the handle after reading a word or two that they disagree with and make the rest up in their head. I didn't make anything up, I was merely posting what someone else said and which is the only reasonable explanation for what is happening.

Since you're deriding mine, you seem to have a better explanation for why a huge part of our transportation infrastructure went dark a day after the Southwest pilot's union went to court to try to stop the vaccine mandate. Would you care to share it? I'm certain we would all love to hear it.
https://archive.is/wVMvU
Interesting, I had no idea.

The tabloids can now run "10 resons why millennials think their tankers cannot explode"
That doesn't seem how people usually understand I.
https://archive.is/rcZm2
I don't like the 'curl -s "https://XXX" | bash' approach much either, but I've given up trying to work around it.

With SDKMan switching between JDKs is painless, despite the install method of SDKMan itself being one of those.

But it's not just Java. To build our frontend webapp I need NodeJS, and there too some specific version depending on the version of the webapp or just because we've updated.

I'd love to be able to just apt install all of this, but the downsides are just too many.
Ironically, you are on a forum that bans people. I'd say HN is a pretty pleasant place to be.
From the article

> This probably won't happen for another billion years or so.

A billion years is a bit far off so let's worry about global warming first
Perhaps because it's a necessary orchestral skill. They play an A and everybody tunes their instruments to it, producing that awesome wash of sound you get before a concert. For the violin you tune the A string and tune the others by hearing the open fifths between them.

For a guitar it's easier because you have frets, so you can play the fretted note on one string that should have the same pitch as the next (open) string up, then you just need to compare two pitches that should be equal, rather than hear an interval. (I'm not a guitarist so I don't know if that's considered a good technique.)

Perhaps it's just not considered such an important skill in the small groups people typically play the guitar in.