skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was worried about this earlier, so I spent some time searching this out. Here are some good analyses:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/23/little-military-sen...

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ukraine-post-12

https://www.iswresearch.org/2022/09/russian-offensive-campai...

The TL;DR is that most experts don't think Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons, but there's still a substantial non-zero chance. 10%? 25%? Much higher than anyone would like, that's for sure, and dependent on factors that are out of control of anybody but the Russian government and military. I have not found any sources saying the opposite, though some have higher degrees of confidence than others. The consensus appears to be that this sense of uncertainty is being created by Russia on purpose, and therefore, that it's probably (but not guaranteed to be) a bluff.

I have also seen very mixed opinions on whether Russia's tactical nuclear weapons are in suitable condition for use. But I think it is best to assume they are.

The odds of Russia intentionally using strategic nuclear weapons, the kind you would target at foreign cities across continents or oceans from you, remain nearly zero. Unlike tactical nuclear weapons, which have theoretical uses in ensuring one wins a conflict, strategic nuclear weapons remain a guarantee of mutual and probably worldwide destruction with no purpose except to deter would-be attackers. The only time I can see even the Putin regime considering the use of such a weapon would be a full-scale, boots on the ground invasion of the Russian homeland (not Crimea or Donbas or other annexed territories).

Edit: Another source pointed out elsewhere - https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/russias-plan-to-stay-in-th... - seems reasonable. I am not 100% sure on its credibility but it aligns broadly. (Listen from about 5 minutes to about 14 minutes in.)
> "Slide to root" using a Magic Remote or press button "5" on your remote.

This brings back memories of JailbreakMe[0] with 'slide to jailbreak' in iOS 4. I am definitely starring and rooting my nice LG OLED that is currently an ad-filled cancer-fest.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe
I got a 48 in LG from Costco for $300 (OLED C1 can be had for around $800 I think). I just never hooked mine up to the internet. Works just fine. I use an Apple TV to watch streaming stuff.
My tldr would be:

- simple (lisp) syntax

- immutability

- emphasis on data (collection and sequence) transformations

Also the concurrency model of ClojureScript's `core.async` is similar to Go, which is good apparently? I have not tried Go yet, but to me it looks similar to Elixir/Erlang's actor model.

NOTE have not finished the book yet.
hot take: AT&T and the old monolithic services are great. I'd rather have a contract I can't really cancel easily, then an account that gets permabanned because of black box can't tell you reasons that can't be helped and no human service.
Cool and depressing. I had a preview of this feeling in the 1990's:

I went to a Nuclear Emergency Response Team (NERT) office at a base in Canada to pick up some radio equipment.

They had a wall map in there showing the base as ground zero with concentric circles covering most of the surrounding area and each ring had notes scribbled in them.

I took a quick look and didn't know what the notes meant, but my apartment was well within the annotated area....damn.
Tough to think about. Being single and ideally relatively mobile I'd guess you'd be good to cover at least 10 miles a day which would be significant in the bay area considering the hills nearby. You'd just need to know where to go. Which, the big locations these days will be schools, especially high schools. It's a good idea to know the location of your nearest city hall and high school. From there the goal will be to collect information, list your options, and rank them.

I've lived through some emergencies near you (rural north bay) and I would recommend turning on and listening to the FM & AM radio in emergencies. FM can get you stations at some distance, and there's a reasonable chance some of your local transmitters will still be up, or will be brought back up quickly. Local is fantastic for getting news that's relevant to you, at least hourly in my experience.

But in the case of national/international news, AM can also help in that it can get you (especially in mornings and evenings) plenty of news stations from in and outside of California if your area is devastated. I picked up a TX/MX border station in the middle of my house one morning a couple years ago for example.

If you have a shortwave radio like the PL-380 or CC Skywave, it will additionally be easy to pick up some stations like Radio New Zealand here in CA in the mornings and evenings. But be sure to practice this before the emergency.

If you worry about making contact from your position, it could help to pick up an FRS radio like the Midland XT511. That way you could monitor for people on the radio and call out if needed, especially if cell towers are down. When I went through that kind of emergency up here, ham radio and FRS still worked fine, and in fact the WIN system was up and running so I was able to talk to people in Ireland, Hawaii, etc.

At least in the 1990s SF had plenty of prominent targets, from what I read in books at the time. One of them (I don't remember where I read this) was the Chevron oil refinery & storage facility just off the Richmond bridge. Driving past all those oil tanks you can kind of see why. Hopefully it was just some fictive thinking though...

I was also just reading a book about a POW doctor from the UK who was right in Nagasaki when the A-bomb went off there. Shortly thereafter, aboard an allied medical ship he was...probed...and announced good to go / clear of long-term effect afterward, which surprised me. The book is "A Doctor's War", pretty interesting overall.
I use pi-hole and am grateful for it, but it breaks lots of online commerce sites (e.g. Amazon) in ways that irritate my wife, who then comes to me to file her grievances and tech support request.

This is AFAICT because it blocks "sponsored product placement" type ads — which are indeed ads, but which some users are deriving value from (at least so they think), and want to see.

(Luckily the admin dashboard makes it fairly easy to deal with these, but usually I "don't have time" right then and just disable it for x minutes.)
> ”Painted bike lanes (and crosswalks, tbqh) are death traps and overall fucking terrible fig-leaf concepts. Barriers (and over/underpasses, etc) or nothing.”

Painted, unprotected lanes aren’t ideal, but they’re better than nothing if they encourage more people to cycle.

There’s plenty of examples where I live where painted cycle lanes have later been upgraded to proper protected cycle lanes (with kerbs, cycle-specific signals at intersections, etc) once they showed the demand was there.

I’d also argue that simply having more cyclists in an area makes cyclists safer because car drivers become more aware of them.
Rather than just blocking the request for the ad, if an ad blocker allowed the requesting site to make the request for the ad but then just sent the data to the browser's equivalent of /dev/null, I'd be fine with that as long as I never had to see/hear the ad.

This is of course ripe for abuse, but that's just synonymous for digital advertising in general. I don't consider it any different than me hitting mute on the TV during ad breaks or getting up and going to another room during that break.
Promo packets were an attempt at a way to figure out how to promote people when you had thousands of good engineers and they couldn't figure out how to decide who had most earned it. You didn't trust their manager, they had a limited resource of 'money' to give. Maybe it was a bureaucratic approach, a little like the army?

I think this is an inevitable thing that happens when you have huge orgs with a limit on who can be promoted, there's not enough reward for everyone. I don't know how to do it. Trust managers doesn't scale, people reward their friends or whatever. Microsoft faced this too, but they didn't have a packet approach, it seemed like the senior managers decided, without having a paper trail like that.
Many are.. they're behind some minimal security because if they're truly non-production they have a pile of fake data. I think one system I worked on had over 10k users with first name john_123 because... well my name is john and I'm lazy :)
Ah, that is much better, definitely.

Have to let the AI experts speculate on why SD goes nuts there because it definitely knows what "The Godfather (1972)" means (if you ask for e.g. 'A still of Patrick Stewart in "The Godfather (1972)"' you get one - which I believe DALL-E can't do because of their facial restrictions?)
It isn't true for iOS devices, perhaps. I refuse to run an OS that supports such nonsense. Right now a custom Android rom is sufficient. In the future I expect I'll be moving to one of the Linux distros once they have better support for mobile.
2.x% of 10M is ~200,000 not ~2 million.
You don't want to go look up salary bands for the position that you already hold.
That's why I said if it was a recent purchase. You know, like someone who might be going on a first date who is more likely to have just purchased their home?
Imo they simply thought that no one was going to be able to compete with them
I use WikidPad for my notes... it was cross-platform until something broke in Python or wxPython, and now it doesn't work under Linux any more... I had to switch back to Windows 10 because of that.
Yes, but my point is that said clients should have to talk through properly secured APIs and required by law. Until then, an app like this is a massive, MASSIVE security risk and I would question the sanity of any team that saw something like this and ignored it.
Apparently, nobody knows - not even analysts with lifetimes of Russia expertise. We’re in uncharted territory.

War on the Rocks[1] generally, and any content featuring Michael Kofman[2] specifically, are great sources on the conflict generally. The ~weekly podcast is great.

[1] https://warontherocks.com/

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/KofmanMichael
1. Grab bottle of preferred liquor or wine.
2. Walk towards the bright glowing light.

You (probably) don't want to live in a post-nuclear world.
It's not just the app that was killed (which would be understandable), it was their personal facebook accounts that were in no way linked to the app.
If it's something I use often I might spend the time to look through the logs and work out the correct domain to unblock.
But there are also handy "disable for 10s/30s/5m" functions which just let me get on with my day.
This is presumably a (physical) space-saving decision. The stop looks like it's right next to the 1. But dialing a digit requires moving the dial. So how can you dial 1 if the stop is adjacent and immovable? It looks like the answer for this small dial is that the stop moves only ~one tenth of a turn.

Hopefully then it does have a real physical stop---otherwise it'd be quite hard to dial correctly!
Not Just Bikes did a video about the timing/switching algorithm of European traffic lights recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ByEBjf9ktY

They look amazing. Wish we had them here in the US.
It's a really nice toy, but where I live I sadly can't afford it.
I confess I am also still a little confused as to how one can involuntarily be on the streets with a year's rent in the bank. In most cities that in connection with employment is at least enough to buy and maintain a van or something that runs well enough to not run afoul of the 72 hour street parking rules. I presume there are either ideological factors or some unique unusual personal situation at play. One wild idea is perhaps ideological opposition to landlords and belief that the automobile is bad for the earth, but that's completely speculative.
From my quick reading of the docs:

It generates a public-private key pair that is stored in the secure enclave, then it sends that public key (or the hash maybe) to Apple for them to sign. The rest of the stuff is as you expect.

One could simply figure out how the request to apple is made to get them to sign a key, and that's that. Get them to sign a key and pretend to be the app from now on.

I guess this prevents spam from someone signing thousands of keys using a specific phone's serial number, though. Assuming there's an unique public-private key for each phone apple makes, one can't simply get them to sign keys with random serial numbers.
Depends on what you like I guess? But if you like ancient epics it is great. Monsters, friendship, sex, death, a search for immortality etc.

Be aware that is is only partially preserved, so there is a lot of missing passages in the text which may make it a jumpy and somewhat confusing read compared to say Homer.
Air Force ‘rods from God’ could hit with the force of a nuclear weapon (2020)
I'm distinguishing between two different meanings of "can't": not allowed vs. not capable. You should be capable of violating NDA/ToS's, but possibly suffer legal consequences if you choose to do so.
Which institutions? if it affected “a large part of society”, I would imagine that I would be aware of it.
In many (not all) cases, the destination is all you need and you can infer the piece being moved from that.
GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options
Cultures change.
US and Russia Face Off in UN Telecom Agency Leadership Vote
I’m not sure TV recording is possible since you’ll be getting DRM-protected/encrypted content anyways, at least regarding the streaming TV channels (unless you wanna get in the business of researching and looking for exploits in widevine level 1 certified chips).
Sure it's possible to build helipads on roofs. But those usually have to be designed in from the start and very few buildings have them. It's tough to add one to an existing building due to weight limits and obstructions from antennas and HVAC machinery. Real estate developers won't take on that expense until VTOL aircraft become more popular, so it's a "chicken or the egg" problem.
Ask HN: Career Advice for Someone at Meta?
I joined FB about 5 months ago at NYC office infra team. I've been somewhat ok but struggling. I was hoping to tap into crowd's wisdom. Also PSC is coming and I've nothing to show for it.
Luckily we have laws in place in many countries that invalidate contracts that are clearly disadvantaged to one party.

Meta made a decision they were entitled to make, though I understand that this is a separate point of controversy wherein company’s are arbitrarily banning users across their platforms with no recourse.

Metas TOS holds no weight over you outside their platform. Indeed the only weight they try to hold over you outside their platform (mandatory binding arbitration) has been demonstrated to be unenforceable in the U.S. at the very least.
I think I should have the legal right to access private messages addressed to me by family members via the service explicitly designed to facilitate private communication between friends and family members. I don't think I should be forced to see advertisements and be subjected to historically-unprecedented surveillance to read those couple hundred bytes of text from a family member.

When a platform's primary purpose is communication, certain legal rights should be invoked immediately. In my opinion, one of those rights should be the ability to access those communications by any 3rd party client that doesn't intentionally function maliciously. How "proper 3rd-party client behaviour" is evaluated can be a problem for the industry to solve. They have the $trillions to figure something out. I think they'll survive.

The argument "don't like it, don't use it" isn't a very reasonable argument when, socially speaking, you "have" to use a given service (usually the regionally-omnipresent service) to be included in society. Communication is the foundation of society and of human existence. I miss out on a shocking and honestly depressing amount of social activity because of my boycotting of FB, IG, WhatsApp and other similar services.

I expect that our ability to communicate is carefully protected and treated as something crucially important. There's a reason there are SO MANY commercial services around communication and they are largely the most lucrative, because everyone NEEDS to communicate. People will subject themselves to extremely disadvantageous conditions to enable communication with others. Think about it. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, the internet, cellular phone service. These things are fundamental to communication in global society, and a TON of laws are written to govern their employment/usage. Internet communication just happens to still be pretty early in the stages of its effect on humanity, and as usual the legal world is well behind what those effects are. The effects are finally being felt. I believe my feelings on this subject will become more widespread as people realize how deeply they have been exploited by industry (once again).
So everyone is a victim, I don't subscribe to that loose definition.
The new API reduces the damage a malicious extension can cause.

Sandboxing extensions is a good thing, not a bad thing, and if the price is only a slightly less effective adblocker, then I am totally ok with the change.
Dang, you probably already shadow banned my account so you'll never see this anyway but why did you change the title of this post from the actual title. Dang, your editorializing and user control is getting a bit authoritarian for my liking.
Please think about slowing it down, your rules are great but you don't need 100% enforce and 0 tolerance do you?
I think the problem is that everyone knows what the current meaning of literature is, but that that doesn't allow for academic reference-baiting, however childish it may be. So now you take another meaning of the word, and find something that exceeds the previous record, et voila, a new article. When people feel cheated after reading, and argue "that isn't literature", you take the relativist position, even though you know it's poppycock. It's intellectual dishonesty.
Have you looked at F4PGA? They are working on exactly that.

https://f4pga.org/
Ublock origin is the best here, since it blocks trackers and ads while still allowing you to temporarily click to bypass the screen that stops you from visiting a tracker (eg. a marketing shortlink or ad that you actually are interested in).
The big fear isn't being a target. There are very few areas that would not be completed irradiated by substantial fallout taken by the winds. Airbursts would magnify this effect.

It's safe to assume that in any real cook off everyone is dead. Some immediately, some a little later. Those that do survive will likely starve because the land will be unusable. You wont be able to go by car, bicycle, or anything else - it'll kick up resting fallout. The panic will last weeks or months as people desperately try to escape. Supposing you survive the initial attacks you will be stuck where ever you are. Then you have to deal with your neighbors - I hope you didn't tell them you have guns/food/ammo/medicine in passing. After 3 days people begin to die of dehydration, after a week those that could stay hydrated will begin to do literally anything to eat. Your friends suddenly will turn on you, so will your family, and everyone around you. Best stash some rations for them. You'll need a team to survive. Following the guide lines of FEMA will have you underprepared by such a larger margin it's laughable. 3 days of food and water will get you to the point you can wait in a line for humanitarian aid (which won't come in a fallout zone). You'll need months of rations for each person.

The only winning move is not to play.
They gave you the data conditioned on an agreement not to use unauthorized clients, the same way any number of real-world businesses "give" you things subject to conditions, like the waffle maker in the hotel lobby which requires you to stay there overnight to use it.
Meant "SAN IP/DNS" not "SNI".
I have a Ratta Supernote and used iPad Pro and for writing Supernote blows iPad out of the water.

If Scribe is 70ppi sharper and is as fast as Supernote, it’s a very compelling device.

If it allows to annotate PDF and has decent OCR without some cloud/SaaS bs (or it’s baked into Amazon Prime), then it’s a no-brainer for me.
You can use PlatformIO from the command line, so it should work with any editor in principle. (It’s written in Python.) The main thing missing would be the glue code to tell the editor which directories to find header files.
That could happen with the pyramids, but almost all of those are blank inside.

The Valley of Kings tombs were tunneled deep into living bedrock. How they did, I do not know, but ancient people worldwide seemed to have no difficulty cutting unlimited amounts of stone.
Industry and craft evolution:

> Starting around the late ’70s and well into the ’80s, the industry had a perfect storm brewing. The trade unions began to lose market share at an alarming rate. As a result, apprenticeship training began to slide until only a handful of trained people hit the market and they found themselves outnumbered when flashing procedures were discussed. That meant a lot of tradespeople lost the clear, simple and universal direction on flashing a window. New, untrained craftsmen thought the flashing procedure was unnecessary. Architects started to draw with AutoCAD systems and many classes on basic building practices had to shift to this new technology of point plotting and learning the software programs. Something had to give way and it did—the construction details.

> ... While some have thought lath and plastering would die out, it continues to be reinvented while holding onto its roots. For the lather, tying of wire has given way to the modern screw gun, and modern plaster pumps would seem to make the hawk and trowel obsolete. However, the traditional tools and materials of the lath and plaster trade seem to be able to make room for modern innovations while keeping their place as relevant today as they were over a century ago. Designers are encouraged to explore new innovations and are charged with not allowing the past to die out with regard to lath and plaster.
> don't use Meta products and services. It's that simple.

Doesn't that basically completely cut you off from electronic communication with everyone else in most European countries, where WhatsApp has basically completely replaced SMS?
Crap, now I'm positive I shouldn't have gotten rid of my AOL coaster collection.
It depends on how new the extension is, probably. It does occasionally get stuck in review, but definitely not "every extension and update". Mozilla tried to do that and had to backtrack a few years ago.
Sorry, but what does X-plane on iOS have to do with browser Doom?

Also some of the planes in mobile Xp are terribly simplified (A320), the controls suck and the clouds render in pink on iPad Mini 6.
More like they'll take the luxury cars market. You don't have to drive/fly one regularly, owning is often enough.
Actually, the pee analogy fits better with your argument. You’re arguing that people can siphon electricity and use meta’s servers without paying (via ads).

As I’ve already mentioned, meta isn’t a utility that people can’t live without like a phone. If they don’t like it, they should use something else. There are many alternatives