skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
‘Sophisticated’ new Chinese hacking tool found, spurring US warning to allies
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Received the same email. I'm based in Lithuania and I have a Russian first name. No Russian addresses, IPs, billing info etc (because I have never been there!). How do you even select people to target with this? It's past midnight, I'm trying to figure out my options here. How exactly do the Euros I pay you from EU contribute to the Russian aggression?
Not going to give my name for obvious reasons, but formerly at Cruise. Any sufficiently complex system has lots of hidden assumptions that aren't trivial to unwind when changing problem domains. I can think of at least a few design decisions I personally made that will have to revisited for personal vehicles. It's not impossible, but still nontrivial.
Better is hard to define, as the root parent of this thread says, as you cannot directly compare, say, BBQ, to a molecular gastronomy meal; they are simply in different classes, "better" cannot be compared.

That being said, if you like the food, then eat it, and if not, don't, regardless of whether it's Michelin or not.
Why set the baseline at an accident a year when we have renewables?

The French famously had some negative learning by doing in their nuclear build out.

> The French nuclear case illustrates the perils of the assumption of robust learning effects resulting in lowered costs over time in the scale-up of large-scale, complex new energy supply technologies. The uncertainties in anticipated learning effects of new technologies might be much larger that often assumed, including also cases of “negative learning” in which specific costs increase rather than decrease with accumulated experience.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/

Was on HN recently.
Yeah it has all the hallmarks of “we can build a fully automated plant - well turns out that humans are still way better at some things”. I hope they figure out if this path is a dead end, at least in the short term, or not sooner than later though.
You'll get refunded on any time you have left on that service. (hosting, email)
Chopin nocturnes. https://youtu.be/wuL7UC2glJM
> something that executes the docker build and then kicks the jobs off - right?

yep. there's build time and deploy time.

build time generally coincides with peer review: build happens because someone changes something, all changes are version controlled and get peer reviewed. so it's usually some combination of tools that can be integrated with and triggered by the code review tool. in prehistoric times the code review tool might trigger a CI workflow in jenkins which invokes a glue shell script to invoke specific build or test tools. these days the runner might be more tightly integrated into the code review system, such as a github or gitlab runner + using the runner's proprietary scripting language to call the same glue shell script to invoke the build tools.

At $day job the deploys that change real world state are coordinated and triggered by a meat layer of humans, they're not automatically triggered by commits getting merged, etc. A workflow automation system roughly equivalent to prehistoric jenkins is used to define manually triggered deployment jobs that are used to deploy to environments, those deploy jobs will typically invoke some kind of glue shell script that invokes terraform or kubectl or whatever, which will have the responsibility of coercing the environment into the desired state.
>using S3

He doesn't use AWS S3, but instead digital ocean spaces.
Why Humans Wage War – Science Connected
There was a story on HN recently about something like this in Colorado. This link stuck out: https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/

Unintended consequences suck.
A lot of (american) pancake mixes can be used for both pancakes and waffles, but your point stands about other similar preparations.

But I would say that while it's true that the pancakes will be the same every time with a mix, I don't really eat pancakes enough for that to matter.
I have a fairly keyboard centric workflow as well, and I didn't notice this until a few months ago I got a laptop with a US keyboard.

Suddenly all those key bindings and symbols made sense, or at least were somewhat reachable without contorting my hands. I never noticed how terrible DE keyboards are for programming before but I don't want to go back.
GP's "directly" is a pretty large overstatement, but at the same time I've noticed something of an uptick over the past couple of years of people saying that IP addresses aren't PII or that people shouldn't be concerned with them getting leaked, and I just don't think that stands up to much scrutiny.

If IP addresses didn't matter for privacy, Tor routing wouldn't exist. If IP addresses weren't useful for blocking specific users, IP bans wouldn't exist. If IP addresses weren't useful for tracking, operators wouldn't have gotten up in arms about Apple's private relay service. Obviously this stuff matters.

Remember that not everyone lives in or around San Francisco. For someone in a suburban/rural area, an IP address combined with things like timestamps, user ids, and the text of the edits can go a really long way towards unmasking them. Even for people who live in more urban areas, it is still obviously easier to find someone who lives in San Francisco than it is to find someone who could be living anywhere on the West Coast. If they could also have been using a VPN, or time-shifting their posts... that makes it even harder.

In contrast, how hard do you really think it would actually be to get some address data from a voter roll or via a warrant or even just through one of the scummy person lookup services online and to iterate through everyone who shares that IP address and check to see how many of them are named Pietri? Or who have shared the username wpietri across another account, or posted somewhere else at roughly the same time? Your IP address is drastically reducing the search-space for other attacks, many of which (timing, text-analysis, etc) are impossible to get rid of when making a Wikipedia edit.
That sounds very "you're either against us or with us".
Super interesting!

Have you guys tested Drifting in Space with executing users code and opening ports? (like replit)
> Because that's git's underlying mechanisms in action.

no? git just has an email field on the commit. it's github that has decided to allow people to associate unverified emails with their accounts, and also display this association whereever the email is listed in a commit.
You fund the attacks on Ukraine whether you want it or not. Nobody is targetting you specifically, but transfering a couple of domains as collateral damage isn't that much problems is it? And while you think of a response to that, keep in mind that your tax money is funding attacks on innocent civilians, as in bombing them.
Same. I don't need a massive sedan or crossover, or massive range...I commute <10 miles per day, and have 7 family members within 15 miles. Most of my trips are just me, or just me and my son...why is the only electric coupe the Smart Car?

What I really want is an EV-swapped Mazda MX5...
What I am trying to say is that this will induce salary depression, because companies will never post the (very) high salaries that they pay for their (few) top performers.

Companies will post their 0% - 80% quantiles (in fact, the lower number will be slightly lower than the lowest salary they give for that level, if only to give comfort to people starting at the bottom of the range), so they will post something like -10% - 80%.
>Big companies and people staying in Russia will easily absorb this

While it seems hard to fathom how big this anti-Putin tsunami really is but can you name any big companies based in North Korea? Like North Korea, Russia has just become reliant upon China for pretty much everything.
These kinds of laws tend to come with severe unintended consequences. Or, perhaps, they might be intended, just not ostensibly. Either way, from the public's perspective, there are unintended consequences. We must always be mindful of those. Unintended consequences aren't always easy to predict, so we have to see how it's gone elsewhere. Consider https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/ .
I think this is a lovely description/derivation:

https://twitter.com/icecolbeveridge/status/14984109481173401...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEPRK3O9K2s
If you want to peg your wealth to the USD, use a stable coin pegged to it. That's what Russians seem to be doing right now.

What you are saying would be similar to: there's no way I would use the financial system, look how the futures exchange is volatile!

Just keep it in cash, then, but you don't have to ditch the entire system because parts of it are volatile.
Russia launches air strikes on Ukraine following peace talks [video]
One thing to note: I believe this only works if the email is not already associated with a GH account.
What happens if Linus Torvalds has a verified Github account, and I commit to my rudely named project on my local computer with his email address and then push to Github; do they then show the commit with his Github account because his Github email is verified?
The key seems to be that they claim to apply the neutrality-related articles, but in fact are applying the article that appears to be designed for cases where Turkey is threatened.
There are multiple sanctions, affecting government-related personalities and state companies. Why did you decide to make a ban for the total nation despite on their location, occupation and not same black list of government-related targets?
They’re often placed on the sides of hills so presumably that’s a problem. UHF/VHF (I can never recall which sorry) is used for the rural radio links in NZ so can probably handle such issues.

I suspect the real answer though is that satellite theoretically everywhere regardless of geography on the installation site, so you only have to build one type of unit rather than multiple variants. That probably makes life easier (cheaper) for everyone.

Obviously that’s assuming a country doesn’t decide to disrupt entire communication networks in a murder rampage into their neighbouring countries.
steak burgers are great, you pay less to get more, free bread and they've already done some of the chewing for you.
Any other food if you asked for them to chew it for you they'd probably call the police.
Strange, should not have gone to you. Sorry about that.
I’m not in Russia last 15 years, could you white list me, please? My Namecheap id is playspeed. I’m anti wars, and anti corruption, anti thug supporter. I wish no conflict had had started. Thanks. Wish you, guys, safety.
A story about the value of synthetic polymers. When I visited the North Korean border circa 2004 the reverence with which the North Koreans treated plastic opened my eyes to its utility. Because they have no plumbing, the North Koreans at the border are considered "wealthy" because they can obtain discarded plastic containers that float across the river from China and allow them to easily haul water. The alternative is pottery, which is highly inefficient. It goes without saying that they had no metal. Another great thing: plastic lenses. Much lighter and cheaper than glass. Good enough for many uses. An Australian invention, like wifi. We are moving away from single-use plastics: someone needs sanction the consumer packaged goods industry.
Agree with you overall, except for the public/private sector differences. The difference is due mostly to the job security in the public sector, which has a price.
I think it’s problematic to reduce human emotions and the human experience to mere cause/effect. Is the Mona Lisa paint on a canvas, a representation of one man’s artistic expression? Or is it a window into the soul of humanity? It can be dangerous to overly simplify consciousness.
One of my websites is blocked by Roskomnadzor, so I'd prefer an offshore registrar :(
Much the same as room temperature is only the average temperature of the metal.

The few irradiated deuterons and the products of their collisions have speeds (kinetic energies) many millions times higher than those corresponding to the room temperature.

The average temperature remains low only because few nuclei take part in fusion.

If they would succeed to make enough nuclei to take part in fusion reactions to produce more energy than consumed, it is not clear how great the average temperature of the metal would become.

If the temperature of the metal would not increase excessively, that could happen only if most of the energy produced by fusion would be carried away by neutrons, which would be absorbed somewhere else, generating useful heat, but also creating undesirable radioactive waste.

This approach is indeed very promising, but there are many problems that must be solved, so there is still no chance for a fusion reactor in only a few years.
This is how the US Federal Government does it, with 15 'levels' (Paygrade) and 10 'levels' within each grade (Steps). Salaries scale up by 20-30% by Step, and a GS-1 step 10 makes more than a GS-3 step 1.

> The General Schedule (GS) payscale is the federal government payscale used to determine the salaries of over 70% of federal civilian employees. An employee's base pay depends on two factors - the GS Paygrade of their job, and the Paygrade Step they have achieved (depending on seniority or performance).

— https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2022

The job's pay grade range (from step 1 lowest to step 10 highest) is what would be published to comply with Washington's laws. What's missing in the private sector is, at most employers, any communication whatsoever on which 'step' one is at; while HR often has this data, it is almost universally withheld except upon request, and often gated behind an HR conversation and verbal-only replies.
> Why would anyone ever want fork as a primitive? It seems to me that what you really want is a combination of fork and exec because 99% of the time you immediately call exec after fork (at least that's what I do 99% of the time when I use fork).

If you eliminate fork, then what do you do for those 1% of cases where you actually do need it? I agree that it's uncommon, but I have written code before that calls fork() but then does not exec().

> So why is there not a fork-exec combo?

There is; it's called posix_spawn(3).

> And why has it not replaced fork for 99% of use cases?

Even though it's been around for about 20 years, it's still newer than fork+exec, so I assume a) many people just don't know about it, or b) people still want to go for maximum compatibility with old systems that may not have it, even if that's a little silly.
One rule for famous developers, another for all the rest of us. Completely backwards because everyone knows Linus made Git so that's no threat to him, but someone retro-claiming authorship of normal person's work is much worse because nobody knows differently. Also expecting Github support people to mediate "he said/she said" arguments about who made what commits, or owned what email address that many years ago.
> That's in contrast to Russia, which as a declining economy, would be well served by a chaotic situation.

I heard some people repeat this, but I don't follow the logic. Unless you are a major exporter of weapon system like the USA, war means draining resources. Yes you can increase local production of weapons for the local market, but in the case of Russia it's a direction downward, not upward. I read Russian press regularly and one of their major problems now is a sudden and drastic increase in mortgages. How will increased production of tanks help? Russians needs houses to live not more tanks - nobody sane is going to attack a country with so many nukes.
I think it's an all or nothing thing. Company-1 wouldn't mind doing it, but only if company-2 does it also.
As someone who has occasionally dabbled with fediverse, but never quite dived in, I have always found federated applications to be confusing from UX pov.

In this case, what does interoperability mean ? When I sign up for the service I see options to create profile with one of the instances - how to choose an instance is not very obvious from that page. Some instances have specific themes, others don't - should I choose based on how much my interest overlaps ? Based on reputation of who runs those instances ? What are the consequences if I make the wrong choice ?

Also, If I already have a mastodon account I can supposedly use that to participate in the discussions on BookWyrm. However I have no clue how to actually do that - any attempt to comment/like posts takes me to a login page which doesn't seem to have any support for connecting to Mastodon.

Until the UX improves for me to be able to make these kind of choices in a very short amount of time, I am more inclined to pick a traditional sign up and start using kind of service - and I'd assume I am not the only one.
Wasmer 2.2
It depends on the restaurant. Some 3 star ones will actually not serve you if you have dietary restrictions as their tasting menu is (apparently) custom made to have a very specific pathway of flavors. They warn you about this on their website before booking.
Shouldn't be the case, please reach out to our support and we'll rectify it.
Putin's mind, is he mad
Do you have evidence for this?
Yea Windows NT is really VMS evolved and there is the joke that WNT is VMS++.
I have been experimenting with trying to draw a line between wants and consequences where I work. It's tough, and I'm only barely making headway, but on a large project what you often end up with is people adding costs to the system without a clear payoff, and without cost accounting.

I am trying to get telemetry in place to demonstrate how much of our capacity is going to particular features, so that we can say, okay, that wizbang thing is costing us $100k a year. Our profit is 1:X (we make $X for every dollar we spend). Is this lowering or raising our profit margin?

I think we are completely disconnected from opportunity costs and the entire center of most orgs I've been in are all about covering your own butt and telling stories. Until the layoffs happen and then we discover that the investors, advisors and some of the C suite actually care about whether spending $1 for the prospect of making $1.50 is a complete waste of time and energy. And I often wonder if some of the narratives I hear about who got laid off and why are not seeing this calculus in the results.
I’m kind of confused, the headline says they’re out of operation, the article says they’re in auto mode.

My understanding (prior to this article) was that turbines normally ran autonomously anyway, so is this “they’re generating power in automatic mode”, or they’ve gone to some kind of automatic safe-mode? (I do know that just turning it off/applying brakes is insufficient for a general “safe” mode, but that’s at “I saw it on tv once” level not any technical knowledge)
I don't see the hundred of thosands of people fleeing Russia at the moment. I do see them trying to get out of Ukraine though. Please stop trying to make yourself a victim. You're really not. You're just a troll.
It was; ~20 years ago we got posix_spawn(3).
if you tell russians to take down their weapons, their will be no war. if you tell ukrains to take down their weapons, they will loose their country.

it's not as easy as you wish, besides that I would prefer like you would describe, unfortunatly as long as there are borders/humans/whatever there will always be conflicts.
What would you suggest these days, my phone is certainly out of date security wise and I need an upgrade. What have you yourself purchased?
> I'd rather have 5% slower code, than 5% faster code with occasional 1000% slow downs (in the worst case).

Perhaps, but that's a strawman through & through. C++ exceptions don't have that performance cliff when thrown, per both the paper in the OP & in your link. They are fairly cheap to throw assuming a single-threaded application.

That is, the fib example with 10% failure rate has the same performance using exceptions & using Boost::LEAF.

Unless you're calling it "unfixable" because there isn't actually anything to fix in the first place...
leftpad
Ask HN: Armour and Helmet Recommendations
A friend in Ukraine is asking for body armour and helmets. I know nothing about this kind of thing, but imagine some of you do. What should I be looking for, brands, specs, price range etc. This isn't for aday out paintballung, obviously .

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ask this question...

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Although more recently the technology has fallen into obscurity, flintknapping has for millions of years stood the test of time, far longer than anything yet mentioned here, and whether we're aware of it or not, we all owe considerably to whomever came up with it, along with the inventor of the wheel, as well as whomever developed the ancient and mysterious techniques to control, use and even create fire, not to mention, of course, whatever unknowable creative geniuses that invented throwing, food, sex, clothes, pockets, wiping the nose, wiping other things, etc. Come to think of it, there was likely a first individual that came up with adding and others for each operator, and these inventions must have occurred a very long time ago yet many still use calculation even today.
Rather crowded with foreigners from what I hear
Do less Twitter.
Lol, that's completely silly. Who even knows if we'll still be using the same calendar in 8,000 years? Y10K is not worth dealing with until the 100th century.
Cancel culture doesn't usually involve government war crimes. I am anti woke myself but pro genocide I am not.
Ah, but it looks like that means you need to be rooted?
I don't think it's possible for a private company to implement a process that can provide "anti-regime exceptions" though. Would you request evidence of anti-regime activity?

(Edited for clarity)
Liquidation fees are an very small portion of FTX's revenue.
Because we exist in the real world with real constraints. We have only two options, allow people to stick their name on others commits, or have unverified emails just show plainly.

Neither of these is ideal but at least the second one never tells lies.
I'm looking forward to the test coming out, and a perfect score being posted 5 seconds later
Cases of highly pathogenic bird flu detected in Delaware and Michigan
Same here. Curation could still be better on F-Droid, but I'm very happy with it overall.

Thank you whoever is behind it, you're doing a great job.
Probably a time traveling technology historian?