skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The maps are still a taboo topic in Russia today, so it’s impossible to know for sure, but what they’re finding suggests that the Soviet military maps were far more than an invasion plan. Rather, they were a framework for organizing much of what the Soviets knew about the world, almost like a mashup of Google Maps and Wikipedia"

This doesn't surprise me and it shouldn't anyone else either. It's obvious these weren't meant for invasion or occupation of North America, which were never part of Soviet planning or policy.

A nuclear exchange with the US? Maybe. War in Europe? Sure. But invasion of North America? No, why would they? It would be costly and likely to end in defeat, and for what end goal?

Most Soviet war plans that we know of where either defensive in nature (arguably; preemptive strikes or even reactive after an attack), reacting to perceived threats to their satellite countries or assets, or corrective actions against their allies when they were perceived to get out of line with the Kremlin. None of these fit invading North America, however cinematic that notion might be.
Interesting selection of cities:

https://redatlasbook.com/cityplansus

No Detroit (probably in the top 5-7 in population then, and a major manufacturing center), Houston, Philadelphia, New Orleans (control access to the Mississippi River) ... but they do have Worcester, MA.

Edit: Possibly that list is a subset of the Soviet maps selected by the publisher.
This is the kind of manufacturing the Midwest needs.
Of course. It's similar to a store that wants to stop crimes of convenience or easy methods of theft, while knowing they can't stop all thieves.
Building a federated link aggregator in rust
Indentation-based config languages really need to be retired.
Unless you put in extra work to validate your config, they are just error prone and impractical.
They don't compose (INI files do, btw), they need special editors to keep sane when copying and pasting.

If you now add an invisible type layer on top of them, it doesn't get better, it actually gets worse. Now the interpretation of a value in the file not only depends on the literal interpretation by the human brain but on some type definition one needs to be aware of, adding a semantic interpretation that can be non-obvious.
That is why we have micro-formats: they are obvious (mostly).
http:// 03-13-1980 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000 "I'm a string"

There's a delicate balance between readability and correctness and safety.
YAML et. al. are not hitting that balance.

And if you really, constantly, need to edit config files and can't handle a format that prioritizes correctness over readability: Build a UI.
It's a series of tubes!! Not a big truck.
And yet, gun permits (photo-less) are valid voting ID, and university IDs (with photo) are not.
I have done a number of solo retreats. Many solo 10-day retreats, and a month long retreat usually in my apartment or place that I was living at the time. I would speak to my teacher on the phone typically every other day, or everyday for 10-45mins depending on what was happening. I didn't immediately jump into the longer retreats. I built up to it. Initially doing 1 day solo retreats, then 3-days, then doing many 10-days then a month long.

So, why can't you just do it? A solo retreat is not for everyone. People often need help or support to meet them where they are. Different personalities have different needs. A retreat can also be quite destabilizing and having someone to help in person to navigate the emotional territory or insights is valuable. Now, let's say that you think you can do it. In my opinion, you absolutely need a teacher for a longer retreat but for a shorter retreat (1 day, or _maybe_ 3-day) it is not entirely necessary. You end being your own worst enemy on a retreat. A friend of mine was doing practice for 10-12 hours a day without a teacher for 6 weeks and only eating a little bit of bread everyday. This is a bad idea. The mind plays some amazing tricks on you. So, if a solo attempt is done please have a teacher and have a lot of vital context around what you are doing otherwise you will practice wrongly.
And the median is a Toyota plant in Indiana! https://goo.gl/maps/gG9KGVpJ3rovVRyH6
Boy am I glad to see this color!

I was writing a black hole simulator, and needed to figure out the color shift of the stars as one approaches the black hole. The calculation gave me this blue at the one end of the spectrum which was very underwhelming tbh. For some reason I always though this color would be either 0xffffff, or some deep blue. Glad that my calculation is finally confirmed to be right!
> They need to be where the people are

And as a corollary, the people will go to whatever channels exist.

This has been something done many times as mediums change. Newspapers to Radio. Newsreels to Television.

Then to the internet, we started with everyone telling you their AOL keyword. Then the web, and then social media.

If authenticity is the concern, these players (journalists/politicians) should adopt W3C recommendations and stand up social media services from their own web presence.
couldn't you also leave the car on for a few minutes to get warm then turn back off. even better if you have blankets
super fun language!
Dating platforms are in this interesting spot where the most successful users of your platform no longer have a need for it.

It definitely creates some perverse incentives. It is in their best interest to not show you your best matches.
>basic physics

I totally agree, the point that organizations like the World Heart Federation are using. We are taking basic physics as a truism, but it's the result of experimentation, which creates a framework. The same is done for the way the body functions. That framework can be used to make sweeping statements about alcohol / ionizing radiation, etc.

I've been totally blown away recently listing to This Week in Virology, as the panel of experts regularly discuss their concerns about how many people are discussing the viral/vaccine mechanics as though the framework we have of disease is perfect. It's always fascinating to hear what absurdly qualified people have concerns about when discussing their area of expertise.
It's impossible for recent x86 systems to be RYF certified.
I haven't heard of him until today. I am very interested in learning meditation/mindfulness, but as an agnostic I tend to shy away from religious teachings. Are his methods heavily religious?
IRC is excellent, and located around the Bay Area (there are usually at least a few people carpooling down from Oakland) - https://www.insightretreatcenter.org

It's the retreat side of IMC (https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org). You might listen to some of their talks or read some of Gil's writing[1] to see if it's what you are looking for. It's in the Vipassana tradition, though a number of the teachers had affiliation with the SF Zen Center.

[1] https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/natur... is a potentially interesting article
Very. First, any facility that uses reverse osmosis to purify/recycle water is left with concentrated impurities in the form of brine. Second, there are all sorts of nasty chemicals used in chip fabrication.

There are several Superfund sites where chips were once made.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/silic...
I agree with you but a better explanation I think is.

Raft/Paxos is to make sure majority of the replica for a partition have the latest version of the data and that you can keep writing even if minority of nodes in that partition are unavailable. while still giving guarantee that no write get lost and all read reflect the most recent write.

While 2PC is to write 2 records atomically when the 2 record are located on 2 different partitions.
My parents were linguists in the US Army, having studied Russian. I got a print of one of these maps of Washington DC framed for my mom for Christmas one year. She has it hanging in her office. Seeing the phonetic Cyrillic names for places was kind of a trip.
If you like toast when you make it, I suggest one. I personally won't make toast often if I'm using the broiler - I mean, it isn't hard, but it takes time and a bit of attention. I have it quite often if I own a toaster, though - it makes it so darn easy and convenient.
Where do you get in on that?
Everyone knows what lightning is, when it forms, what to do about it (go inside), and why it's dangerous. Yet still, somehow, people get struck by lightning. It's not like this knowledge is new or controversial, so why is this still a problem?

Does this clarify things a bit? I'd like to find a better rhetorical method than just swapping out terms, but it really does highlight the point here. Can we conclude that government is trying to kill people just because some people still get struck by lightning? Alternatively, what would the government need to do to prevent anyone from ever getting struck? Now consider all the different ways people can end up poor, and project this infrastructure out to ensuring that that can never, ever happen. Should we have better methods to handle it when it does? Probably! Does the fact that poverty traps exist mean that people explicitly set them up? Probably not!
> And the people evaluating the evidence (experts) make recommendations to keep things closed.

This is definitely different than my view of what society should be. Other people don't know my priorities, and should not be able to dictate them to me. A representative government (not experts) is some proxy for people's overall priorities, and strong constitutional limits on government power should ensure that democracy doesn't devolve to "two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner". "Experts" should be a data point, and have no direct control over what people can do
This is like saying "the market will crash". Anyone can predict that eventually the AWS value proposition will turn sour. What's valuable (and hard) is to predict _when_ this will happen.
I don't think he's proposing policies at all; he's observing the problem, and explaining the problem for people who are unwilling to believe poor people. That serves an important purpose. There are plenty of other articles addressing policies.
I, for one, am highly skeptical about the current wave of ML-enabled “discoveries” in physics and chemistry, where ML models replace simulations. ML can’t reliably extrapolate into never before seen territory in the way a simulation can. This has to backfire at some point.
People generally do not get to declare how their name is spelled in a foreign language. It's determined by the government issuing them the document containing their foreign-spelled name. (Depends on the country of course, but this is typical)
> Google already has considerable experience with payments and related compliance matters

Google is on its 3rd payments iteration now, and the division had a large leadership exodus when the 2nd iteration of Google Pay flopped[1]. How much institutional knowledge have they retained?

1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-pay-hopes-to-...
So, my roomie is an ex barista. She only does pour over coffee with a Melitta cone and filter. (My wife like K-cups, but they need filtering to get the grounds out.) We have an electric kettle, which we just had to replace because the 15 year old one stopped heating completely.

We also just bought a couple of hot water bottles...
Here's how Ohio won a bid by Intel to build the world's largest chip factory
freeCodeCamp has a new course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-react-course-2022/

(All the books I learned from are out of date)
Yeah, I would be really careful about relying on something like Aurora and planning to migrate to Cloud SQL or another vendor's managed PostgreSQL. Apps couple very tightly to implementation quirks of their database, and even the tiniest difference between implementations is going to cause problems when you migrate. (For example, we used to test our Postgres app with SQLite. We found that each query engine treats "WHERE foo = 't'" and "WHERE foo = true" differently, though an exciting production outage. Postgres does what you'd expect, SQLite does not. That was the last time I'll ever use a different database for production and testing.)

If you are going to be cloud provider independent, then you have to bring your own foundational services that run independently of the cloud provider. Minio instead of S3, CockroachDB instead of managed Postgres, etc. (Honestly, I would feel safe switching between plain Postgres on RDS and some other provider's equivalent. Don't use any extensions, though. S3 I would probably try and get away with as well, since everything provides an S3 compatible API these days. But definitely not Aurora.)

You also need to think about your other cloud provider integrations. Do you programatically change DNS? You'll need something that can handle any provider. IAM? You'll need something that handles both providers. Even at the Kubernetes level, things work differently. Compare Google's L7 load balancer to Amazon's ALB, for example. You might create them both with "kubectl create service loadbalancer ...", but the semantics are going to be different. Persistent volume types also vary between cloud providers; your StorageClass "default" is going to have different IOPS characteristics, for example, and that can easily burn you.

I am willing to bet that anyone using the cloud for something serious will have some hiccups migrating away, even if they're using Kubernetes. It's all the stuff that's not in Kubernetes that will get you!
Road to React, is a decent book (and the only one I read), but honestly I would recommend watching a few tutorials instead.

If you worried about outdatedness just try to get a book made after the introduction of React Hooks which should be end of 2018/early 2019. I think the physical Road to React on Amazon isn't updated, don't buy that lol, best to buy the ebook file from that dudes website and read it off of a kindle or something.
> I told him I could just walk out and fake a signature. He said that's OK and that he isn't a policeman. So I countersigned it in front of him. He paused and then accepted it.

Well, I mean, forgery is a class C felony, at least in my state. If you had walked in with the signature on it, the clerk would have had plausible deniability. Your act of forging in front of the clerk took the plausible deniability away, making them complicit to a felony.

You're really lucky they accepted it. They had no good reason to take on that legal risk.
I love this!

Do you experiment with your tech stack? Swapping things in and out to see which apps are best?
> One week or so ago I switched from Colemak to typing on QWYRFM due to the reduced load it places on the pinkies.

I typed Dvorak for 10 years before I started getting RSI again in my right ulna. It turns out that the 'S' key being hit by the pinky in Dvorak caused me a lot of pain.

I ended up switching to BEAKL, a pretty obscure layout which is specifically made to alleviate stress on the pinky. It moves the relatively common S key to the right hand pointer finger, for instance.

It turns out that the theory underpinning the dvorak layout assumes that homerow hits are strictly better than upper and lower row, but the pinky and ring finger are such weak fingers that it's often better to move the index or middle fingers up or down a row than hit a key on the home row with the pinky.
> Children who struggle to learn in rural areas and have parents who can afford a hundred dollars a month

If DSL is available in rural Wisconsin, it costs $50/month.

Pull up https://broadbandnow.com/national-broadband-map and look the max speed and go a bit outside of a city. The area my parents live in is (for that $50/month) shows "1 to 30Mbps".

This isn't children hanging out in their parents vacation ranch. This is the children of rural framers and families that have a house in the country rather than a small apartment in the city.

The cost difference for DSL at 1-30Mbps (my parents single DSL network topped out at about 6Mbps) and Starlink at $100/month at 70Mbps is night and day different.

For additional fun, unselect DSL and look at the provider counters for much of the nation. With Starlink, that number is one higher.
For those who might not know the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
> On the TLSA side, the argument is roughly that (1) the WebPKI is bad ...

Is that a common argument? I've seen it argued that WebPKI shouldn't be used because it outsources DNS trust to the CAB forum, but not "WebPKI is bad".
Not at all. It's a popular claim, but there are many factors for inflation, and money in the hands of the poor is hardly the most important one. Countries with extreme poverty still have inflation. Countries with little poverty can have low inflation.
What is it with HN and assuming everyone else knows what or who you're talking about. I mean look at all these people: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

I recognise one name in that list. At least tell us who these people are when writing your titles.

For anyone else clueless, I googled... a better title would be "Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese-French Buddhist monk, has died"
How would someone with $XXM be able to start a semiconductor factory from zero? What are the materials and processes involved in doing it in a contemporary way? Looking for any and all guidance/resources. Thanks!
I appreciate the correction about OSU's EE department. I'm probably unfairly prejudiced against them because mostly I read in CS.

I'd make a stronger statement than "You're not going to learn electrical and computer engineering by reading stuff on Sci-Hub." You aren't going to learn by reading. You have to actually do stuff in order to construct the knowledge inside your own mind, and as you say, that's hard. But the information is available, even if it isn't academically published; in electrical engineering, in addition to sci-hub stuff, you have Bob Pease columns, appnotes (especially the ones from Analog and Linear), The Art of Electronics, EEVblog, allaboutcircuits, Hackaday, Marco Reps, Camenzind's book, Jeri Ellsworth's Short Circuits, Don Lancaster's website, Forrest Mims's books, patents, Adafruit, etc. LTSpice is proprietary but gratis, while QUCS, ngSpice, and WR-SPICE are free software, and now you can get stuff mostly automatically fabbed by JLCPCB for ridiculously low prices. And with the rise of iceSTORM it's becoming practical to design gateware without signing a support contract with Xilinx. Just like the undergraduate EECE curriculum, a lot of this stuff is aimed at beginners (you can learn a lot by fiddling with Falstad's circuit.js even if it doesn't do Monte Carlo simulation), so it doesn't go very deep, but some of it is very much not.

(Still, there is a lot of information that isn't publicly available at all, because it's a trade secret of TSMC or Lam Research or Intel. But the professors aren't walking undergraduates through that stuff either.)

The huge thing about custom accelerators and ASICs and semiconductor research, though, is that you can't really do it in your basement. MPW/shuttle programs like MOSIS and CMP go a long way to making chip design accessible, but it's going to be tough to even run DRCs on your designs without proprietary software, and then it still costs you US$10k to get back 10 chips that don't work. Going to a university for EECE, even for undergrad, might give you the chance to go through that painful cycle enough times to actually get something working, and the mentorship you need to find out what you don't know.
There's a reason the region has a net brain drain... and the Bay Area has a net gain!
I'd say so. Czechia may offer a fairly recent example of name change.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Czech_Republic#A...
There's a description of what happens in Ben Bova's "Mars" series. I think it's in "Red Mars". In that one, the cable keeps wrapping itself around the planet until it's all down, and it's white-hot like a string of meteorites.
Wasm was definitely inspired by asm.js (though I think asm.js is still faster). The MVP for wasm was basically "do what asm.js does."
What did the ads supposedly say? I am having trouble finding more details. And why isn't iHeartRadio also being sued? That does make sense. If Google bought the ads, iHeartRadio provided them.
Surely it's lost to the sky, having fallen to the earth as rain?

This is like one of those things people overlay on an image of a flower or a cloudy sky and then post to facebook.
I have a Samsung Tablet and the Firefox experience used to be identical to my desktop experience. All the plugins worked and even synced from the desktop. It was beautiful. Now it's the same or worse than every other mobile browser.

It's fine but it's no longer interesting enough for me to use.
Its not a total embarrassment, its more akin to christian apologetics or academic study of lord of the rings.

That ia, clever and learned people with a rich, well documented history, studying a fantasy.
The reason is they are not yet accepted in many places, though in fairness, they seem to grow a lot.
We do have a maintenance option, but we don't push it that hard and it doesn't bring in significant revenue. This could be handled much better I'm sure.

We also have major upgrades which do bring in some more cash since they're more expensive and more users buy them. But it's every 5-6 years. And it's still significantly lower than regular new licenses.

I'm thinking about adding a Saas "Team" edition, which would offer centralized management of users, connections they use, permissions, with some auditing etc. First problem is we would have to store some sensitive data (connections) which gives me a security scare. Second problem is we'll introduce central point of failure which gives me another kind of scare. And very soon we'd have different versions of client software running on end users machines which should all work correctly with a server. That's a third scare, a versioning one.
As far as I can tell, every part of the country dumps on every other part of the country. Sometimes including other parts of their own state.
Is there documentation and example?
> I was told it was great that C supported any character set

I'm all for extensibility mechanisms to shut down the people like this. You want EBCDIC? It's now a github repository; go ahead and maintain it, or shut up.
I switched to Dvorak from QWERTY without any special control/cmd mapping. As it turns out, it works out fine. I even vim'ed with it. It's just finger memory. The hjkl all in a row might help you remember/initially learn, but once you know which keys on Dvorak move you the right direction, it doesn't take any more time or concern you any more than hjkl on QWERTY do. You know which direction you want to move, and your fingers hit the keys to make it happen without respect to them not having any meaning by keyboard position.
What were the bugs you experienced with Immersed?
Yours is actually the first comment I saw. My thinking was more along the lines of "what a great way to bring more future focused jobs to the mid-west".

We're seeing a very promising dispersion of future focused Jobs in the US (btw, I'm not American). While software has been predominantly west coast, and finance in the north east. Don't forget that TI is based in Texas. I believe much of Bio-tech is in San Diego and Boston, the list goes on and on. With giga & Tesla in Texas, will that bring more manufacturing and power technology to the area?

This is very positive in bringing employment and opportunities to these regions. I'm also hopeful that along with the tax credits that were likely given to the companies, there is a portion that is set-aside, or another allocation to improve access to the higher education needed to fill the jobs, and that the education will be provided to the local community, not just dragged in from other areas, displacing the local community and gentrifying it.