skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bridge was just finished a few years ago, Crimea has been getting food and medicine for centuries
It’s a war, and Russia is the aggressor. The number one thing in international law is you don’t invade another country.

The bridge is not civilian collateral damage, it’s a military target as it serves as a major military supply line.
I think there is a scale where the max setting says total war. Russia is nowhere near that setting.
Is the latest version of the open source code available online?

edit: poking around https://archive.org/details/software?query=qnx
Slightly off topic, but the site seems to be generated by "Olivetti 0.104.3". Has anyone heard of this static site generator? Google's not helping.
These terms aren't exact. A "layer 3" switch is a router.

Mostly the name is an indication of the intended purpose. Switches are nex to the edges of a network.
> very, very niche audience

The homeless are certainly not a niche audience. There might be between 13 and 26 million people in the US alone who have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives [0].

Besides, issues around permanent access to security devices are not exclusive to the homeless. The problem described in TFA impacts a far larger segment of society.

Critical services are increasingly only available online -- and online services are increasingly critical. The people governing access to critical services are willfully ignorant to the difficulties that vulnerable people face, and often make those difficulties worse.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519593/
It means that Russia will have to move it's war material to Crimea by boat
War requires a lot of logistical supplies.

If your supply line is targeted and you can’t transport troops, vehicles, food, ammo and fuel, you can’t fight effectively.
Indian film, here's the bridge part in the trailer: https://youtu.be/NgBoMJy386M?t=60
The Crimea will get food and medicines sent by ferries. It won't be as effective and some shortages could be expected but it will not be the end of the world.
Adam back wasn't late to the game, he was there in 1998.
How many nukes will it take to defeat the aggressor? Because aggressors don't stop till they are stopped by force
I live in the very center of Europe and fortunately not much changed for me - yes, the prices are slightly higher, and electricity and gas quite a bit, but we knew about it from the moment Putin started the war and fortunately it's manageable. Yes, businesses depending on huge energy consumption will need to find a way to deal with it, and it's something that could be good for us in the long run. Just like COVID increased digital transformation, the war accelerated our plans to make us less dependent on fossil fuels.
Agreed. It's also worth pointing out that Effective C is the most current in terms of being up to date with present-day C standards.

K&R is so obsolete it's now wrong about some things. It's a pretty good read sometime down the road - when you can recognize its shortcomings - but it's not a book from which to start learning C.
Land is large compared to the blast radius of a missile. You can't blanket the landscape with conventional weapons to destroy the land. You have to target individual units. What you can do is to semi randomly shoot into occupied territory, like with old fashioned howitzers or the London blitz. And while both sides did that, especially Russia shelling cities like Kyiv in the beginning of the war, I guess it isn't really effective militarily.

What I wonder though is why Russia doesn't use satellites combined with (dumb) rockets against moving troops, even if it is not very efficient. Does that mean they don't have much of a stockpile left?
> unhoused people face extreme challenges when it comes to retaining physical items.

Reminds me of a case in Moscow (iirc): a homeless guy bought a gym pass that came with a locker, and was storing his things in said locker. The gym administration decided to deny him this arrangement, but he sued them and the court said “since the locker is in the contract, it's his privilege now”.
Aside from the security concerns, is there anything "cool" (useful) that could be done with this code, or learned from it? I think nowadays most interesting features are actually locked down inside the CPU itself, so modding a BIOS to enable additional features of the cheaper models is probably not on the table.
Not sure Putin can go on like this forever.

The US lost less than 1000 soldiers per year in Iraq.

Russia lost something like 20,000 soldiers in the first 6 months in Ukraine.

As far as I know, no US soldiers fled the USA during the Iraq war.

Over 100,000 Russian soldiers already fled Russia.
There has been absolutely no appetite for utilizing nuclear arms, except from the Kremlin which has made thinly veiled threats of doing so.

Nukes are bad, nobody wants to use them.
It takes around 4 to 6 years to design a new processor even if you have experience with it.

A new competitive processor in an area where all you have is "some experience"... Well, I wouldn't hold my breath.

If (and that's a big if) AMD and Intel started looking into ARM seriously after Apple unveiled M1, I wouldn't expect any ARM processor out of them earlier than 2025-2026.

Funnily enough I'd expect Amazon to perform better in this space (Graviton has been in deployment since 2019, three years ago, and is now in its third iteration).
Russia has lost as many or more people in 6 months as the US did during it's entirety in Vietnam. This is absolutely not sustainable and come winter it will be a suffocating collapse of the Russian army. Putin can't go on as long as he wants.
> Cut off all those people from food/water/medicine?

If that is what it takes to force the invaders off their land.

> What is the end result planed here?

Ukraine winning. Will there be a lot of death and suffering to get there? Yes but in the end a country that big can't really be conquered if the people there do not want to be.
As someone not into war, I didn't know those words meant anything different from just large scale war or all out war. From Wikipedia, yes it seems total war is what is meant:

> Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all civilian-associated resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilizes all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-combatant needs.
If someone who genuinely wanted to question your expertise and intended to offend you asked "why did you choose this algorithm?" you would be justified in feeling offended. If someone who genuinely wanted to learn and didn't intend to offend you asked the same question your offense would in reality be unjustified.

The point is you can only make a judgement based on the context as the article states, intention is often invisible and difficult to communicate. Changing "why" to "how " is one potential way of communicating intention but it's not perfect. People will always make a judgement based on the total sum of the context that conversation might be happening in.
You really only need one very secure password (to your Gmail account) and you can store all the others there.
Ah, memories. I worked at Apple BITD, and it was fun to pick out a computer to get with my annual employee discount. My favorites were the IIci [1], with its very clean and compact design that was the result of lots of user research into making the II easier for people to open up and upgrade, and the PowerBook 140 [2], one of the first Apple laptops, just because it was so damned cute. And for the original Macs, I still have a padded case with a shoulder strap, which made my SE/30 [3] a credible luggable.

[1] https://apple-history.com/iici

[2] https://apple-history.com/140

[3] https://apple-history.com/se30
This is war and ground lines of communication are a legitimate and important target. And the Crimea bridge is on the top of the list for the following reason:

Russian military logistics is heavily dependent on railways, they were short on trucks even before the war. See, for example, this interesting article from War on the Rocks. [0]

By losing the railway connection, Russian soldiers in Crimea and Kherson Oblast can no longer be reliably supplied with anything. Tanks, fuel, you name it. Provisionally, ferries can be used instead, but the ferry capacity is a fraction of what a double-tracked electrified railway can carry, plus the previously existing ferries between Russia and Crimea were discontinued and sold after the bridge was put in operation.

The autumn and winter military operations have just grown a lot more problematic for the Russians. The only possible backup, a railway running to Donbas through southern Ukraine, is too close to the frontlines and likely to be cut by an Ukrainian offensive soon.

[0] https://warontherocks.com/2021/11/feeding-the-bear-a-closer-...
Relevant on the topic
https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analy...

>It’s not that strange actually. In fact, the difference between apophenia and science is just the scientific process and the reliance on proof. People make the connection before they know for a fact if it’s real or not. Maybe it is apophenia, maybe not. It’s a hypothesis. THEN YOU TEST IT. The facts determine the outcome and then, whether it feels good or not, you accept them. Even scientists may not want to let go of a good theory that just isn’t panning out. The feeling of correctness is over-powering. This is why people need to have peer-reviews. Colleagues need to be able to replicate results. Solutions need to be tested and the facts harnessed.

>In Q, the proof is more apophenia! Another arrow in the dirt in an endless cycle back to the central propaganda. It has to because there is no truth. The answer is whatever feels the best, makes the most sense, and helps the story. Any truth is just fuel for the propaganda and reinforces the conclusions of the apophenia and central narrative.

>It feels like it’s really happening. It especially seems so when cheered on by a curated fake “community” clapping you on the back and telling you you are a hero for every radical leap into the void you make.

Once you start to parse reality according to what feels right, embracing cognitive biases in the process, people will of course exploit that. Because its very profitable. There is a reason the advertisement industry is as big as it is
3D kids playground with physics and WASM
The Vietnam war is probably a better comparison, young men who knew it wasn't a good war streamed across the Canadian border
My Trip to Space Filled Me with Overwhelming Sadness
Yes, you can get “cantilevering”. When you remove the structural support at one part of the span, the segments of the span will react to their static gravity loading and this can cause them to flex and/pivot depending on their rigidity. You get one side pulled down by it’s weight which will then lift up the over side and a lot of bridges are not designed for a tension load lifting the bridge deck up, this can cause secondary failure points away from the primary damage and you can definitely see this effect if you look at photos/videos of other bridge failures.
what makes you think that Russia has infinite resources? Reading reports from various parties, it seems obvious that Russia is already suffering considerable difficulties in supplying their troops.

As to the goals, whilst I am not a politician it seems likely that Europe and the US view this as necessary in order to stop Russia from continuing to aggressively expand their borders, as this is not the first country they've done this to (e.g. Georgia).

Therefore As long as the Ukranian people want to continue to fight, it would seem to make sense for the western powers to support them in doing so.

Also, I don't think you're comparing like with like. In Iraq, the US was essentially an occupying force, where there were considerable factions of the population who did not want them there.

In Ukraine, Russia is the occupying force and there are obviously a large number of people in Ukraine who do not want them there.

As to what this particular attack does, there are a couple of obvious consequences.

1) Propaganda victory, it shows a previously assumed safe target is not safe, increasing pressure inside russia from citizens who do not want to be targets

2) Logistics. This further disrupts the flow of munitions and supplies to russian forces in Crimea and Kherson region. Ukraine has spent a lot of effort on targeting supply lines as a means to weaken russian defences and lessen the effect of their attacks.
It seems like crocodile tears to express such concern about the civilians in Crimea only in response to a successful counterattack by the defending party in an unprovoked, illegal war.

The culpability for the many civilian deaths in this war, of course, lies with the aggressor. Short of concluding that morality compels us all to simply capitulate to any illegal aggression--a patently absurd argument--it seems we have to be willing to accept the consequences of resistance, right?
If you take the old wisdom of the East and scientific knowledge from the West and go deep enough, you may conclude that this is related to human features that are not new.

We start believing things, and then make up stories around these beliefs. Facts do not usually make us re-evaluate the beliefs, but to just refine our stories.

The meta-narrative of the article is just a story. You cannot get around the human feature by reading or inventing new beliefs or stories.

If you want to free yourself from this conundrum, you need to learn to hack the beliefs and stop believing the stories you tell yourself.
Forensicguy on tiktok opened one, It was a usb2 Stick inside a metal case
You lost the money the second you put it in stupidcoin.
I guess you missed the "cut off military supplies"[0][1] on that short list. This was a fast track to supply and support the invasion.

I don't agree with you because I don't see how you can justify the other side of an invasion and constant annexation attempts of territory.

The ridiculous thing is that all of this can stop if Russia simply packs up and leaves Ukraine - no one will follow them into Russia. No one cares for that.

Of course it's not that simple because there will be consequences, internal and external, for decades probably.

But there should be consequences when you invade other countries.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilXX-u5eZoQ

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQCT8UKIlw

Edit: let's not forget that Russia considered as legitimate military targets over the past couple of months: damns, power stations, hospitals, and other civilian infrastructures.
Agree! When AirTags were announced I immediately bought 4 just for luggage tracking. The first trip I used them on our bags were lost. As we took off from Boston, I could see our bags were still on the other side of the airport. Since I already knew the bags were lost when we landed, we could go right to the baggage person. I was able to tell the person right where they were which sped the process up. Then, when they were finally delivered, the AirTags saved a bunch of time/stress knowing when/where to meet the delivery.
As long as either side thinks they can still gain a military advantage, they will do so before starting negotiations. Putin doesn't seem to be open to negotiations with reasonable conditions anyway. The bridge is also a major military supply line and therefore a legitimate target; it is a sad truth of any war that civilians will also suffer.

I am a bit surprised that they do it now, though; I would have expected it a bit later, at a moment that Ukraine would be strong enough to reconquer Crimea.
Ship ferries are still a thing and already announced. It'll slow things down for sure though.

They're fighting a war. Cutting off supply lines is how wars are fought and won. Russia has done the same or worse to Ukrainians during this stupid fucking war (see the thousands of civilians cut off from supplies and starved to death in the siege of Mariupol).

You said it yourself, Russia could choose to leave at any time, and they're choosing to continue (and escalate) the war. Ukrainians have a right to defend themselves and weaken their invaders however much they can.
Very good read.

I'm appalled that 256KiB of state is needed (the flawed implementation being replaced required only 10KiB).

Considering how contrived the randomization scheme is, I wonder if changing the paradigm to something simpler could produce a better scheme. The whole counters-indexed-by-adversary construction is fishy.

A native thought, but nevertheless: why not just read the next port number out of a cryptographic PRNG seeded at boot time?
But it might trigger some aliensplaining: they will come here to tell us about non-euclidean geometry and how to do it properly
Aye. Our sensory apparatus, let alone our ability to process the totality of inputs from it, is pretty limited. WTF can comprehend even what fungi "feel"? And we're of the same origin.

Maybe in 100 million years? Chump change, of course, even in biological time; but then "we" won't be worrying about triangles.
Competition works wonders.. having both of them (what happened to cyrix?) keeps them honest to some extent.
It's discussed in that article. I just found it "What I’ve learned from users" http://paulgraham.com/users.html HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911195 (519 points | 17 days ago | 332 comments)

They agree that startups need the same set of advices, and the benefit of the advisors is that they probably had seen the problem before.

But they don't need the same advice at the same time, so the advisor must understand the current problem of the startup and the general situation of the startup and give personalized advice. It's not possible to give all of them the same advice at the same time like in a class.
The physics in the car demo are a bit better https://app.spline.design/file/d789ae8c-4f28-4316-93d0-ea31d...

Would be nice to have such a cat tool with engine as open source.
> I learned later that I was not alone in this feeling. It is called the “Overview Effect” and is not uncommon among astronauts, including Yuri Gagarin, Michael Collins, Sally Ride, and many others. Essentially, when someone travels to space and views Earth from orbit, a sense of the planet’s fragility takes hold in an ineffable, instinctive manner. Author Frank White first coined the term in 1987: “There are no borders or boundaries on our planet except those that we create in our minds or through human behaviors. All the ideas and concepts that divide us when we are on the surface begin to fade from orbit and the moon. The result is a shift in worldview, and in identity.”
FUD?

Normal desktop processors already come with features designed to protect memory and code from the prying eyes of users. Not to mention all the ring -5 code that is really in control of the computer.

Smartphones now have attestation. They have hardware designed to cryptographically prove to its real owners that those pesky users haven't tampered with their phones. Software will refuse to run if this fails and it's not really something you can override by hacking on the OS.

Face it, hardware today comes pwned from the factory. Hardware doesn't belong to us anymore, they belong to the "stakeholders" and they're only generously allowing us to use it so long we don't run any software they don't like.
Is there a good explainer on why this is actually happening?

Can't get my head round how it only affects 911 (000) calls, no expert on telephony networks but my naïve assumption would be that if I can call a normal landline/mobile then an emergency call would work just the same.
To be fair, there is little choice for any such study to be done on anything else but mice, because of their short natural lifespan.

Even if there were human volunteers willing to test on themselves various cocktails of chemicals, such a study would take many centuries.

Also on monkeys any study would take much too long.

So until aging in mice is well understood, any tests on monkeys or humans are pointless.

It is unlikely that the aging mechanisms differ in an essential way between mice and humans. If the aging in mice were understood, finding how it functions in humans would need far less work than for discovering how it functions in mice.
SpaceX aborts launch of two communication satellites into orbit
Engineer Showboating
Yup. I had 2-factor turned off and tried to login to an old gmail account from maybe 5 years prior.

I had the right password and recovery email but I wanted to txt a code to a phone number I didn’t have any more.

That seems insane to me. Right password, access to “recovery email” and still blocked.

What ended up working for me was trying to login when I took a vacation back to the same city when I last logged in.

Didn’t get asked for the OTP code, so could get in and update the number.

I wouldn’t have such an issue if Google had customer support and let you send other proof of identity. But they don’t.

And now I’m getting weird requests to confirm I logged in from the YouTube app on other devices. YouTube?
Yes, Absolutely.

However, i am not clear what you mean by "language agnostic"? Obviously Code cannot be language independent but if you can read C then you should be able to translate the data structures/algorithms given in this book to a language of your choice; the difficulty might vary (eg. how would you represent pointers in your language to implement say recursive tree structures?) but it can be done. The data structures/algorithms given in Hanson's book are "industrial strength" with no missing parts (i.e. no exercise left to the reader). So you get complete code all written in the "Literate Programming" style which takes a little getting used to but is eminently worth it.
It appears that the Russians are not interested in leveling civilian infrastructure. It took them six months to attack energy installations unlike some other alliances which wrecked water and power installations in Syria in six hours.

Maybe that has something to do with it.
AMD had K12 (Zen for AArch64)
Hasn’t screenshot detection been a key feature of Snapchat for many years, possibly even since inception?
russians have Krasnopol shells.
I'm almost certain that most people are not truly aware of the big tail risk which is nuclear war otherwise the would find a solution quickly. I do not understand why European countries are not distancing themselves form the US and UK who have no interest in a solution.

With this endless escalation they are playing with mankind's future.
"during" ≠ "as part of", so technically they're as-written right either way, albeit I do suspect they did mean "as part of", so, I'll second that source request
The ferry system was heavily reduced after the bridge was put into operation. It can be revived, but not overnight. Ships, including ferries, are a valuable asset; if they don't make money on a route A <--> B anymore, you will sell them to work elsewhere, possibly thousands of kilometres away. Getting them back in case of need is not easy.

Civilian ferries are no match for military logistics anyway. Transporting some people, food and cars via a standard ferry is fine, even though you can expect bottlenecks and long waiting lines. Transporting 500 tanks is a whole different thing altogether.
I’m not endorsing this as I haven’t read it, but perhaps someone can say if it’s any good for the purpose of learning C from scratch https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/21st-century-c/97814919...
Not to mention arc/anarki (hn is/was written in arc - anarki comes with a "news" example app/forum):

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/HEAD#readme
Some interesting reading:

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/october/less...
https://www.iiss.org/blogs/military-balance/2022/07/russias-...

tl;dr:

- Low accuracy

- Poor performance (duds/failures)

- Limited inventory
And dogs too!

https://dogagingproject.org/
Downplaying the scale of the war seems to be the only way to keep descent within Russia to reasonable levels.

It's not clear that Putin would have the backing required to ramp up the war effort that much more.