skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an official statement about the nature of the Bucha massacre a few months ago.

I really had a hard time searching for unbiased source about Bucha but found this:

> In Bucha, the Times was close to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, whose soldiers appear in the newspaper’s photographs. In his piece, McCann suggests that Azov may responsible for the killings:

Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The U.S. and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that:

‘Special forces have begun a clearing operation in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, which has been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city is being cleared from saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.’

The Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all the world like reprisals. The state authorities would be going through the city searching for ‘saboteurs’ and ‘accomplices of Russian forces.’ Only the day before [Friday], Ekaterina Ukraintsiva, representing the town council authority, appeared on an information video on the Bucha Live Telegram page wearing military fatigues and seated in front of a Ukrainian flag to announce ‘the cleansing of the city.’ She informed residents that the arrival of the Azov battalion did not mean that liberation was complete (but it was, the Russians had fully withdrawn), and that a ‘complete sweep’ had to be performed.

Ukraintsiva was speaking a day after the mayor had said the town was liberated.

By Sunday morning, the world learned of the massacre of hundreds of people. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: “We strongly condemn apparent atrocities by Kremlin forces in Bucha and across Ukraine. We are pursuing accountability using every tool available, documenting and sharing information to hold accountable those responsible.” President Joe Biden on Monday called for a “war crimes” trial.

This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it. I think it’s a war crime.

The Bucha incident is a critical moment in the war. An impartial investigation is warranted, which probably only the U.N. could conduct. The Azov Battalion may have perpetrated revenge killings against Russian collaborators, or the Russians carried out this massacre. (Once again the Pentagon is dampening the war hysteria, saying it can’t confirm or deny Russia was responsible.)

[0] https://mronline.org/2022/04/06/questions-abound-about-bucha...
Funny, I was duped once into coming to a Herbalife-similar Multi-Level-Marketing introduction meeting by a university colleague (we both did EE). He called some other people from our class saying it was a "business opportunity". The constant pestering for us to buy stuff burned him some bridges. He obviously couldn't adapt to new technologies and realities.

In Latin America there's also a meme that lots of engineers have become Uber drivers. I have definitely chatted with more than a handful that were engineers. All of them said they hated programming classes too much during university, so they won't try to change to SE now, or to anything really.

I graduated as EE but immediately became SE. Ironically I also doubt that I could go back into being an EE now, so I'm also a bit "trapped".
Censorship always "makes sense" "from a geopolitical standpoint".

It never makes sense from a human rights standpoint.
Do correct me if I'm wrong: but the push to HTTPS was mostly for its resistance to MITM attacks from bad-behaving ISPs and public WiFi, no? I really struggle to believe that the most powerful nation-state in the world would not be able to get certificates from certificate authorities overwhelmingly also hosted in the States. And besides, most information relevant to the government is just who's connecting to what, which is necessarily done unencrypted (via DNS or otherwise).

Directly answering your question: because phone companies are natural monopolies, and have strong incentives to prevent any public-access provider that wouldn't need unique identifiers tied to billing information from coming in. Location tracking is a direct consequence of cell towers only having a limited range: and because telcos have no real competitors, there's no way a privacy-centered carrier that sells itself on not doing anything with that data can pop up.

I do wish public access LTE existed in a similar form to free WiFi or municipal broadband. Or even just more municipal broadband.

This article is about individual apps siphoning location data to the US government à la Tim Hortons, though, not phone providers themselves tracking users, although that also does happen.
OS/2 Warp was a great way to get preemptive multitasking for 16-bit apps. If my memory is correct, 16-bit apps still only had cooperative multitasking even on Windows 95/98. I might be wrong, though, because it's been a long, long time since I used Windows 95. :)
A brief history of microprogramming (2005)
That's more expensive than chicken, most pork, ground beef, turkey... Obviously, prices depend on location and where you shop, so they may be different, but this has been my experience across a few states (all in the midwest or southwest, though, so my food is probably cheaper comparatively if you're a coastie).
Historically speaking (for millenia), Europeans obliterated my people in the past, enslaved each other and most of the world, and stole so much to build your wealth.
I wonder how you can develop features like that, without looking at PSNR. Is it instead all subjective testing?
Manually curated list from parent process:

-Steidle

-legatum

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-Media Consulta

-Keller, Fishback & Jackson

-ABG Accessories

-Echelon Environmental

-Admiral Markets

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People think that if they would find out that Intel CPUs were designed to spy for Russians, the entire world will switch to AMD.

Reality: nobody cares.
The meat quality disparity is definitely true.

I can tell when I'm eating American beef because it stinks. As in there's literally a hint of feces in the smell and flavor. Pork also has an indescribably foul taste. I was born and raised in America and avoided mammal meat quite a bit because I couldn't stand the foulness. It wasn't until I moved out of the country that I realized beef and pork don't have to taste awful.

I can still tell immediately when I'm eating an imported piece of US beef. People I know who've traveled to American and find out that I'm American often mention the foulness of US meat whenever the topic of US food comes up (without me mentioning it).

Some people probably don't notice it or they're so acclimated to it that it tastes good. But when I see "finest US beef" on a menu, I'm ordering local chicken. And definitely not US chicken since that stuff is pumped full of saline and "flavor enhancers" to the point it looks like a breast implant.
Is there actually an API out there that actually qualifies as RESTful, other than the WWW itself? When you really take the time to consider the spirit of RESTfulness, and the designs and constraints of hypermedia in general, I can't really think of anything other than just... websites on the internet. Or some WWW-like that might not be transferred over HTTP nor use HTML but would be functionally the same regardless (and far less popular).

It seems that trying to build a hypermedia API in the spirit of hypermedia precludes someone actually designing an app with any particularity (themes, layouts, pages, certain requests/responses being valid/invalid, etc.), since it must be so general, the only client application that could qualify is the web browser itself - able to render any HTML document without actually knowing about the document semantically. Because having prior semantic knowledge of the API violates REST. Assuming that, are the 'apps' and APIs one would design then just hypermedia documents? Sounds like web 1.0. Not necessarily a bad thing, really, but REST seems too specific to be meaningful outside of websites, either that or I'm not imaginative enough.

I'm not sure what a 'hypermedia API' looks like that isn't just a web page or a functional equivalent thereof. It seems that either the WWW is the REST reference implementation or REST is simply the architecture of the WWW codified.
Then ship them to a place where labour is cheaper.
Sometimes if you don’t install wheel, it will also automatically fall back to source build. Very sweet.
The legal reasons are legit. 'Foreign Governments' are not 'Our Government' and of course China is not the US. That matters.

I suggest that the 'deal' should likely involved localized data and internal controls, with oversight, so that the CCP just doesn't have operational access to the data.

Companies at a certain scale have regulatory requirements, it's just like in other industries.
Yep, this was my experience.

I graduated a double degree of EE and Comp Science. My final year thesis was a project with a local company integrating their custom designed GPRS module with a GPS module to demonstrate mobile tracking tech (it was 2003).

Because of the project I went straight into a hardware design job out of uni. I was designing boards for mobiles! Working on circuit design, prototyping PCBs, I was psyched!

Problem is the company was run _terribly_. 3 months in we all got put on 2 weeks forced leave and then given redundancies. Aside from dinner pretty terrible management, the economics of doing mobile hardware design in Australia just didn't stack up (we were the only company trying).

In the end there were probably 10:1 software jobs for every hardware job. Given my experience so far, I opted for software.

It has been great, I love software, but I sometimes wish I had lived somewhere that had a higher critical mass of EE work.
That only generates a lock file. When you want to upgrade some of your dependencies and recalculate the correct versions, it doesn't help.
for e-bikes there the pedal assist has to cut out when going over 25 km/h (+10% error, so at a maximum 27.5 km/h). So of course you can speed down a hill at 55 km/h, but it has to be unassisted. The motor cannot be more than 250W nominal power.

You can actually buy e-bikes going up to 45 km/h but they are regulated as scooters and has to be registered (usually free), requires a drivers license and the use of moped helmets and you're usually not allowed to use them in bike lanes. Oh, and you need insurance too. So for most people it's not worth the hassle.
You have never been on a bike, it seems.

You don't have to go to a "specialized Bosch shop" for the same reason you don't have to go to a "specialized Shimano shop".
And now you are the weird outlier that doesn't have the same data spewing forth instead of Average Joe making Average Data.
One could argue that if you need a lot of understanding it is a mess.
It's been so long since I took thermo and I have no engineering experience with gas turbines but.

You add heat at constant pressure to the air flowing through the engine. Which means the volume has to increase. Only way balance things out is the velocity of the air has to increase as well.
> The USA ranks 26th for median wealth

Wealth is also a function of age - older people tend to have more - and that ranking is not normalized by such extraneous factors.

The US is number 2 by median income, and number 1 for median disposable income, both of which are pretty important, especially to younger people that want cash flow to enjoy life.
A Special Issue on Formal Proof (2008)
So it boils down to the angle of the blades being steeper on the compressor side than on the turbine side, doesn't it?

Another related question: what happens if you don't rotate the engine before you ignite it?
Can you elaborate on this? What's special about the domain here for security?
If you’re not interested in DIY shapeoko and x-carve are options well under $5k as well.

I second the MPCNC recommendation. Though if your goal is production and not tinkering with a CNC machine, it may not be the best fit.
To fully service a motorcycle brake fluid? You sometimes need to. On KTM motorcycles you need a scantool that dealers have to command the ABS to cycle the fluid from the ABS unit into the brake lines so that they can be flushed properly, and KTM uses Bosch ABS units at least on the RC390.

No idea how important a full flush is on this MAGURA system and this ABS unit.
It's interesting to see, but a decade old DIY product is nowhere near the same quality and performance as a new product made by one of the largest and most respected engineering firms on the planet.
If you live in 1500 north europe and your diet in winter is mostly grain in the last months, then a bit of meat and dairy is very important for not getting nutrient deficient.

If you live in modern day north europe the typical meat and dairy you get is heavily polluted and often processed. You can get veggies, fruits, seeds, nuts, legumes, mushrooms all year round. You can be fully nutrient complete based on the and skip the toxins in meat and dairy (and i forgot fish, especially sea fish is usually very toxic with mercury nowadays).

The gold standard tool is cronometer.com; try to make a diet there with only plant/fungi source and you probably only lack some b12 (which we used to get from drinking untreated surface water).

Saying we need animal products is simply not backed up by science. You are commenting on a book that has shown that some of the healthiest+longlived groups of people on the planet are vegan or near-vegan (okinawa and the adventists in calif).

What you sprout is unfounded "meat is needed for a balanced diet" propaganda. The plant based diet is backed by lots of research.
While it won't win the hearts of Gophers, I would use a utility function that panics if error, at least on throw away code.
You'd think Nutanix would have the brains to change the names of the deployed binaries, which brings up an interesting question. How do you detect license violation if the violator has replaced the brand name across the codebase?
I would not be surprised if this will end up being the highest upvoted post of HN for all time depending on the outcome.
Charged with attempted first degree murder. But thanks for the link.
And while I accept laws do exist to enforce societal norms, if the effect of those laws is to make matters worse, they're still bad laws.

I can't say I have a strong position on infanticide. There are undoubtedly cut and dried cases where an adult deliberately terminates the life of a newborn baby that should be classified as criminal acts. Abandoning your own child probably deserves a separate legal classification.
>I get the paranoia around China, I honestly do. I'm not at all unsupportive of the Chinese regime either. But this "one rule for us another for them" principle really needs to stop.

Because they don't operate under the same rules. Tiktok isn't some free market startup at this point. Their CEO is ex Xiami and clearly a party member.
I would bet a lot of money the CCP is putting unlimited resources into spreading Tiktok and harvesting data, plus manipulating sentiment of tiktok users.

This is NOT what US based companies do. They don't have government resources, and they sell ads. And the US government doesn't give a shit if snapchat or whoever else destroys facebook. They are not going to bail them out, or help them.

So it's not the same, it's not a fair fight, and in the background what the data is used for is probably completely different.
The EU also fines companies in its own members countries for the same offenses...

If anything, given that the fines are largely based on scope of offense and capped at a percentage of turnover, the larger US companies have been getting off lightly compared to smaller companies given their settlements..
Exactly this. But I think it's similar to the "Matrix". They're part of the system.
A factual review cannot be "defamatory, libelous or fraudulent" by definition.
If they were truly sane this whole thing would have never existed, so all bets are off on that one.
Funny how this is right below:

>FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
Software's network effects make it much easier to construct a "monopoly" which gets to have very large margins. Where you see margins, look for moats.
Meta is already extremely regulated, both by governments and externally managed processes like the oversight board. If TikTok were an American corporation that played by the same rules, it would be a massive improvement.
I wouldn't have guessed an app like that would make that much money, inspiring!
State is a longshot, depending on where you live and if your interests align with those in power. Being queer in a conservative area isn't going to get you results that keep you safe, and it is worse if your particular brand of queer is being trans. Transfolks aren't getting treated well from some state governments.

Local? There is a serious lack of power that local politicians wield and most won't be able to help you with your issues.
A locked-in user has a long (or very long) economic lifecycle, whereas a widget has a short lifecycle.

"Software engineering" is probably subsidized by borrowed money aimed at growing locked-in userbases and therefore valuations.
History is rewritten one faulty comment at the time.
I ride an ebike where motor assist is limited up to 25km/h, and sometimes i whish EU regulation would allow it to just go a wee bit faster before the engine cuts out, e.g. 30-35 km/h. Thats no fast than coasting down a moderatly sized hill. I know you can hack your bike using various devices, but thats not worth it if I get into an accident.
Do you have a citation for that? Not saying it's wrong, but I didn't see it in the article (which I admittedly skimmed pretty quickly).
>but you're confusing state agencies collecting data with private companies collecting data.

I'm sorry, was I the one that mentioned that the US is a hypocrite because the STATE spies on the internet? I think you're confusing my post with the one that I responded to.

>Despite all its faults, concerning spying and data-collection, the EU is likely the smallest offender out of the big players in this world.

So they're just small hypocrites instead of big ones?

>whataboutism to defend one nation and bash another

Who's defending who? If the US are hypocrites, then so are the EU. Both are spying hypocrites. The whataboutists are the ones that rush to defend Europe because they view it as a utopian ideal.
Yes, we are in agreement. I was responding to the comment “But I think TikTok's specific case warrants additional concern because it's all that, plus …”. My point is that they are all a concern and plugging a few holes in the privacy dam will not prevent China from getting the data. I’d be very surprised if China does not already have 100’s even 1000’s of agents working in US tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Furthermore, almost all of the devices and many of the chips we use to run apps are built in China. Why is the FCC not concerned about that?
It depends on the country in question. In Ireland, for example, any workplace surveillance must be necessary, legitimate, and proportional. The employee also must be informed in advance of who, what, how, and when they may be surveilled.

It is very hard to see the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC - the body which handles workplace disputes) accepting that identifying a user on Glassdoor would meet the test of being necessary, legitimate, or proportional. This is particularly true as the WRC has previously found that monitoring internet usage for example for pornography is not proportionate where the employer has the option instead to block such sites and make a policy against their access.

Of course, an unscrupulous employer could also use surreptitious surveillance and find another reason to let the employee go, although firing an employee in Ireland is notoriously difficult short of gross negligence.
Military personnel is not what this is about, it's about the data of all the citizens in the US. It's about manipulating public opinion, sowing divide or a thousand other options.
> TikTok that's nowadays much more popular than America's own spying apps

America's spying "apps" aren't "apps", they're called operating systems and firmwares.
>Xiaomi phones let applications have access to the first (100?) bytes of each pcap line

What is pcap line?
I dont know why the Go designers put in implicit null and left out proper sum-types and pattern matching.

Where they actually trying to copy other's well-known-to-be mistakes?
VLAN's aren't security. No way to force respecting the protocol.
It's time to reclaim simplicity
Even option 2 implies that a god exists. Where's the "shit just happened" option?
XML was and remains amazing - I write XSLT for bulk data transforms every now and then and it is super performant. Even querying JSON is fast via XPath - https://www.defiantjs.com/

It’s downfall was really how broad it ended up being with way too many ways to represent data structures - JSON was refreshing with it’s limited vocabulary.
One year ago on HN, also involving Maxim Goryachy (@h0t_max), as well as Dmitry Sklyarov (of DMCA 'violation' renown) and Mark Ermolov:

Two Hidden Instructions Discovered in Intel CPUs Enable Microcode Modification

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27427096
No one knows.

Even the idea that anything is being calculated is a supposition. There appear to be relationships between entities and some of them can be modelled using human math on human-accessible time scales.

But although some of the models have potentially infinite precision the universe itself clearly doesn't on any scale.

Or if it does, it's not accessible to us. So whatever is happening may use some other paradigm to manage relationships, and the entities and relationships we see are emergent and not at all fundamental.
My prior employer was the same, I wouldn't use it to make tooling or do anything that might be for my own business, or open source for that matter, they had been known to strong arm staff into giving over IP that might have ever been on that laptop or was ever created during your employment.

But they were quite frank about allowing us to do what ever we want on the laptops providing we delivered positive outcomes for the business.

If this meant the laptops were used to browse porn at home or even during business hours (clearly not on the shop floor if you were in the office) or playing video games, it was fair game.

This employer also had _incredibly_ poor standards and culture for removing misogyny and bigotry, in fact it was one of the worst I've ever seen. Not saying causation = correlation or similar but an interesting data point nonetheless.
> There is no practical/effective data gathering regulation (and I'm not sure it's possible to craft any without destroying innovation)

Yes there is: Don't

Anything that is not fully and obviously intentionally completely public is e2ee and inaccessible outside of the user's device. Information that is provably necessary for providing a paid service can be collected and kept until the second it is no longer necessary so long as the process is publicly documented. Any weights, faux anonymized data or similar derived from the pii must also be deleted.
Agreed that `key in m` or `m.contains(key)` would be clearer, but checking the value rather than the presence is asking for trouble.
But don’t forget that you also have much more power over your government than a foreign one.
> It is known for millennia that a varied diet including vegs fruits and yes meat and fish is healthier then skipping any of those.

Any citations? I have one for your with a different evidence: https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/whats-the-bee....