skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throughout the Cold War, it was accepted common knowledge around American intelligence circles that our side had never successfully inserted agents into the USSR because their counterintelligence was so effective. I always wondered whether this was really true or whether it was just a cover story spread by our side to give the Soviets a false sense of security. There were known cases of insider espionage, but they were always men who had come to us on their own initiative.

By what I've heard, while the Russian military fell apart in the 1990s, they increased support for intelligence to compensate. I've not heard anything to indicate that they allowed their counterintelligence capabilities to deteriorate. Over the past year, Washington has done a lot of bragging over how much they have penetrated the Russian establishment, but I suspect there is a large element of bluff there.
That's the one I was thinking about getting for my home lab. I'm also looking at: https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/products/synchronizat...

I already have an ancient Meinberg Stratum-1 somewhere that I should pull out of storage and send back to Heiko so that they can put it in a museum. These days, for proper datacenter use, I'd go for something like this one: https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/products/modular-2u-s...
My daughter is studying in Sydney. Her bus does change itinerary during school times: it makes a longer journey to onboard students.

Illawong to Lucas Heights...

She told us drivers are nice...
> Coming from India and as someone who has lived, growing up (in the 90s), without power for hours and days...

Most people in the West will most probably catch a disease, if nothing else. Meaning if you live on the 8th floor, like I do, it means that if you have no running water for days and weeks on end then you cannot literally flush the shit down the toilet. Multiply that by the hundreds of thousands of people who live just like me in the same city (i.e. in apartment blocks) and that's how you get nasty diseases.

On the other hand my parents who live in the countryside 2 hours away from where I live will be just fine. They depend on wood for heating, the village where they live still has a functioning manual water-well or two, my parents grow most of their own food and have basic provisions for at least 6 months, they'll manage.
I decided years ago not to use YT directly.

I learned my lesson searching for a new RX580 on amazon a few years ago, only to be provided with pages of useless cheap products from manufacturers like PUSOKEI, dpofirs, bewinner, tonysa, rongM, ciciglow and RKRLJX. At the very minimum I want AMD to be at the top of the page. I dont use amazon anymore.

When YT and amazon provide useless search results they keep you on the pages for longer. More time to serve more ads. Simple!

I search for and watch all YT videos using the qwant search engine video section.

No ads, no waiting for ads to finish, no skippable ads.

Heaven
When I first drove past freshly coppiced woodland near me I was shocked. What had they done? They'd butchered the forest. All the trees reduced to less than a foot off the ground. They all grow back though and it doesn't take too long for the woods to return to what they looked like before.
Interesting, does this also apply to far-UVC (222nm)? Its not surprising that UV would be a catalyst in some undesirable scenario. I'm thinking about toxic residues left by cigarette smoking reacting with household surfaces.

Research suggests that rooms facing the sun (with blinds open) have less bacteria and viruses because it is a disinfectant. I would have to imagine in many homes, UV is somewhat pervasive anyhow.

https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...
PTP uses the time stamps that are configured. By default it might use TAI, but that's not the only option.

Feel free to look at the documentation I linked above.
The answers are most likely "yes" and "yes".

Except thay Japanese most likely read about London with its exchanges and culture and not about coppicing. Maybe some Scotland pastoral images, since it also sells hard liquor.
Coppicing, Hedge laying, Bocage, drystone walling, wattle-and-daub are all domestic comparable ancient crafts of Europe. The point being that probably only drystone walling is valued in a way comparable to the Japanese version of Coppicing, which really has been transformed into an artform. European coppices are cut close to the rootstock and cut down far younger for use as poles, for wood turning, for hedge laying.

Timber framed construction in Europe was nailless (wooden tree nails permitted) but the mortice and tenon joinery of Japan is in another league. Maybe European Gothic cathedral roofs come close, little else would.

Japan modernised in the modern era, it's industrial revolution was comparatively recent and it remained feudal far longer than Europe (Russian serfdom aside)

There are probably more continuous family heritage firms in Japan practising some art (brewing, soy sauce, woodwork, coppicing) than anywhere else. Can you name a European family concern doing the same thing continuously since before 1600? I can't name any Japanese ones but I wouldn't be surprised if there were many. Institutional enterprises like Oxford university press exist since deep time, but in Japan it would be a continuous lineage of printers continuing to use woodblock printing (maybe alongside hot type or photo typesetting)

Farming does remain in the family but European farming practices have modernised since forever.
I would really like to update to Ventura, but I don't want to have to deal with that horrible System Settings application. That's the only reason I'm delaying the update. Although admittedly I don't spend that much time in System Preferences, so maybe it doesn't really matter for me.
How does rust implement signal handlers?
Most clients won't speak PTP or know how to deal with it.

But NTP is something that many can deal with.

So, use PTP as a refclock for your NTP service, and then let the clients deal with an interface they already know and understand.

Those clients that really care can deal with the additional complexities of PTP, if you want to let them.
well, yes, true. but the design of your environment affects your design sensibilities
Yes please! I'd love to know.

Also, how many people does your team have? :)
For anyone is into this kind of thing I would suggest checking out The Team House on YouTube which has a lot of very in-depth interviews with some very recently retired CIA folks talking about their experiences in the field.

Given a lot of the crazy shit I hear come up in the comments here every time the CIA tends to get mentioned in almost any context this might actually be a good resource for a lot of folks here to start separating fact from fiction.

I’ll drop a couple of my favourites here but they must have at least 20 of them by now.

Doug London
https://youtu.be/aV9HdJtPbZA

This guy had a really long career at CIA in the particular job that you all think of when you think of a “spy” that spanned around 30 years from memory with 9/11 occurring right in the middle of his career.

He talks a lot about not only how that changed the face of the agency but about all the mistakes that got made along the way and how the wheels fell off the truck with things like the rendition programs etc. Overall, it’s a great self reflective and critical look at the agency from a very senior person on the inside.

Jim Lawler
https://youtu.be/AFnfTDbcPOA

This guy is probably the most “spooky” kind of CIA guy I’ve ever seen them interview. Even to the point that he is rather unusual amongst his peers if his reputation is to anything to go by. You can immediately see why he was so good at his job almost from the start. Like Doug he was also VERY senior and at the pointy end of the spear as they say.

The later stage of his career was focused on nuclear non proliferation and its very interesting to hear him talk about things like the decision to invade Iraq for example and once again where things went completely off the rails.

Holden Triplett
https://youtu.be/0NSGOJs150w

On the other side of the fence Holden was working to actively catch foreign spies in the US while working at the FBI where he left in mid 2020.

Covers a lot of interesting topics and stories that I think folks would be interested in.
If anyone who works there is reading this: There must be a spectrum of documentation-generating talent on staff. Have you ever had to read through the product of someone who isn't very good at writing it? How do you cope with mediocrity in that skill? (Is it sometimes cause to let someone go?)
Given the financial incentive on publishing (publish or perish), I wouldn’t be surprised if a critical number of authors found a way to collectively take advantage of the rating system.
Even poor discoverability can be fixed with labels.

But yes, the out of date info is a killer.
Not if you consult and find the business needs and only build wher people want and are willing to pay for.

Hitting the startup funding lottery to go on an expedition to find and build something people want is a different matter and maybe what you’re referring to, and if so, I totally agree with.
I was referring to the free market. If the free market creates a government, then you have redefined free market to mean government when it was created by the market forces.
The goals of DeFi and web3 is to create structures that do not rely on centralized service providers, and are able to resist control of single bad actors and provide certain clear and transparent security guarantees. In that they have so far succeeded.

I wouldn’t call it victory yet. We still have years of figuring out which blockchain, DEX and DeFi models work and which will fail, most of this new tech is only a couple years into development. But the long term 10+ year vision seems clearer.
I don't think it's the way to go for everyone. Some people have fantastic memories and can really retain a lot of what was said during a meeting. I don't, which is why note-taking is so important to me.

I focus as much as I can on the points being made, and summarize those with bullet points. Usually 1-2 pages max, depending on how long it lasts.

I simply don't want to get out of a meeting and think "what the hell did we talk about in there?!", and realize that it was useless. Ofc other considerations come into play and many meetings are actually wastes of time anyway
I was pushing this stuff in DoD for years. Glad to see it catch on.
Both sound correct to this native British speaker
For most normal countries that aren't engaged in a power struggle against the world order it is probably safest for them if no one else can have them.

The problem with nukes is that any one competent holder of nukes can basically trigger mutually assure destruction, so more actors are likely going to be more dangerous than the danger from the current holders.
All that makes sense - for an ordinary product in an ordinary market.

But this seems like something that could make a serious dent in the covid situation and so government mandates and money could flow and get these much more widely deployed with strong standards.
It's just a tooth but it's pretty cool https://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article2682...
> The other reason the technique was developed was fashion. In the 14th century, a linear, stylized form of architecture known as sukiya-zukuri was extremely popular

I'm also fascinated by how Japan apparently had it's own Bauhaus period, some 600 years before the west did.
Stick-wielding men smash surveillance cameras at China iPhone plant
About mental effort in meetings being lower than solving a technical issue, it is definitively true (most of the time), even though non-technical people cannot even grasp how much a difference there is.

In a previous software job, I was participating in a trade show. It was meeting after meeting, with both sales and technical aspects (I was paired with a sales guy). After several days like this, I remember vividly the sales guy saying how this trade show was good, but at the same time complaining how tired he was because all of these meetings. I kept it to myself, but for me, this was nearly like vacations compared to the day to day usual work
Open doors and windows to create a current. Do it on a daily basis
"How to explain" is a common phrasing in Australia though?
This resonates very much with the Connections[0] series by James Burke. It's an old series, but well worth the watch. Back then it already discussed what would happen if the grid would collapse, and how everything is interconnected. Now with the internet it has gotten even worse. I think the questions asked back then in the series are still very relevant and maybe even more so nowadays.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc
We're doing some interesting things with time sync at AWS, and we are doing so at scale for millions of customers around the world, unlike the small scale stuff that Meta has announced here. Most recently, our team recently announced the Amazon NTP Pools service at time.aws.com.

We've got more cool stuff we are working on.

If we can get past this hiring freeze problem, we still have a couple of slots we need to fill. If you know a lot about time sync and the NTP and PTP protocols, and you have a passion for building some of the biggest impact systems on the planet, let me know.
They call it a "connection fee" or something like that. 5, 10, 20 dollars added on your bill for simply being connected to the utility. When my only gas appliance was the heating, I got bills every month in the summer with 0 usage but I still owed them money.

Every utility does this. They all tack on extra fees for imaginary purposes.
Clang/LLVM accepts (little-known but documented) flags to let you align code block using a custom alignment, though it only works at file-level. See [1].

However, I'm not sure if doing so is useful or necessary. Interpreter performance is sensitive to code layout (which affects hardware branch predictor accuracy), but I don't think there is a general way to optimize the code layout to make the branch predictor as happy as possible.

So if you changed your code alignment and saw a perf change, it's more likely caused by the random perf gain/loss due to code layout change, not because that 1-byte-alignment is better than 16-byte-alignment or vice versa.

[1] https://easyperf.net/blog/2018/01/25/Code_alignment_options_...
The difference is that it's fairly easy to prevent unsafe code from occurring: a "forbid(unsafe_code)" directive prevents unsafe code from even being accepted by the compiler. In C++ there is no equivalent - good linting can prevent some obvious errors, but a lot of valid code is inherently unsafe (in the Rust sense) if used incorrectly or under the wrong assumptions.

It's also worth pointing out that most GC languages can have the same issues as a Rust program (if not more) just by virtue of having FFI. In Python, I can quite happily load a C extension and ignore all the rules. Whereas in Rust, if I want to use a C library, I still need to explicitly declare it as unsafe code.

In practice, I tend to find that I have to think more about how I approach parallel/multi-threaded code in Rust than I do in other languages - not because it's dangerous, but because the compiler doesn't allow code that would break memory safety guarantees. In some ways, that's obviously a bad thing if I'm having to think more, but in my experience, the thoughts often lead to a better design anyway. So in the end, I'm more confident in my Rust code than I am in equivalent code in a GC language.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Is a classic for the combination of eloquent writing and inspecting how the world works.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic...

is underrated for its playful insight on governance.
You've answered far more of my questions than you know! I appreciate the answer - and am now contemplating a smart watch. I'd want something tiny, and waterproof, with an analogue face.

Thank you.
Crates like signal-hook force you to use APIs that can't interact directly with the rest of your apps state, I think: https://crates.io/crates/signal-hook
I was confused by the same thing for a long time—everything I read seemed to say that once the legislature is out of session, the waiting period should be over within 30 days.

But a staffer for the governor explained to me: The 10 days to veto / 30 days to sign window only begins after she's called the bill to her desk. There's a weird limbo space between the legislature and the governor's office; if she doesn't call up a bill, it dies at the end of the year.

Over 1k bills passed the NY legislature this year, and the governor waited until after the election to call up over 400 of them. Here's a NY Post article about it: https://nypost.com/2022/11/03/hochul-delays-action-on-420-ho...
> is a sense of extreme disappointment exhibited by some individuals when visiting Paris, who feel that the city was not what they had expected

> The syndrome is characterized by a number of psychiatric symptoms such as acute delusional states, hallucinations, feelings of persecution ... derealization, depersonalization, anxiety, and also psychosomatic manifestations such as dizziness, tachycardia, sweating, and others, such as vomiting

uhhh, what?? just from being disappointed in a place you're visiting? I had to double check the link to make sure it wasn't some satirical site.
I think we will see more and more improvements in this space in the coming years.

Tana is bringing ontologies front and center with their super tags. Notion is adding GPT-3 like support for text completion and summarization. There are also plugins for Obsidian to be able to use GPT-3, and tools like Lex are gaining traction.

I think it's only a matter of time before we get tagging assistance, AI-assisted note organization, and maybe user-specific trained models to be here.
If you ask someone who can't tell you what they do, what they do, they'll give you a quick and really dull answer. Anyone implying that they "can't really talk about that" is most likely a service-desk technician.
Thanks for bringing that up. I don't remember who said: "The answer is _always_ community."
> Hell unlike most western culture, Japan didn't really get their current system for naming individuals and families until the 1870s.

Interestingly enough I think the Scandinavian countries moved from a patronymic system around the same time. My hunch is that this is due to globalization of the era and increased international/interimperial interactions.
Thanks for the googling for rabbit holes.

The joinery in traditional Japanese construction is remarkably impressive in its craftsmanship. I've heard it was born from a combination of expensive and poor quality iron for nails (although the same could be said in European construction - hence the phrase, "dead as a door nail") and the desire to be able to relocate Shinto shrines without damage (which required joints that could sustain serious loads without nails or glue). The ingenuity of design, and craftsmanship in their manufacture is something to behold. You can stare at a joint, chiseled by someone hundreds of years ago from fine hardwood and appreciate the care and expertise put into it.

I wonder sometimes what we build that people look back on and will see the same quality of work.
Just as a heads up you seem to be referring to a VERY specific thing here and might not be meaning to.

“Inserting” someone into a hostile intelligence agency is known as a seeding operation and if you told me that they never were able to pull one off, I believe you.

However, they still had eyes and ears on the inside through a combination of recruiting existing officers already on the inside and via defectors.

Quite a lot has been written on the topic since then but I’d suggest checking out my other comment if you’re looking for some resources on that kind of thing.
True, but at least you don't have to download on every checkout
My experience differs. The right leaning members of my family strongly support Russia and the left leaning strongly support Ukraine. It’s caused a lot of strife in my family. And I don’t think the right folks feel like they’re on the fringe. They do watch a lot of Fox, but they’re not Q folks, afaik at least.
> "But some of them end up in tears, swearing they’ll never come back."

How I feel when my favorite bakery in Paris is out of pain au chocolat.

I don't see it in the wiki article, but I wonder if this happens with other cities/locales? And surely this can't be something that only people from east asia feel?
I read the article. Can someone please explain to me why electrons cannot spin?

My impression is that someone theorised something being caused by an electron spinning but realised that the electron would have to spin faster than the speed of light and so that theory is no good and then … somehow … jumped to the conclusion that electrons can’t spin.
> The building's superintendent could theoretically do it, but it's a huge task for a large building.

A huge task but a way bigger expense when pipes burst in any size of building.
Performance is much better than UndoDB I suppose? Are there any sources of nondeterminism UndoDB handles but hermit does not?
I think running stuff like that on the GPU is just more efficient than running it on anything else.
I completely understand and see where you’re referring to with having kids being the proverbial straw for some.

It will shake the trees and see if we’re as solid as we think you we lol.

The thought of a cushy corporate job and what it pays compared to the average payout from equity in a startup isn’t too far apart pretty often. I have done stints of consulting when I needed to do market research and it was a nice way to deep dive to find the no brainer things a business would pay for.

Healthcare is no joke. I’m very lucky to be based in Canada from that perspective, even if it’s geospatial further from some tech things that interest me - travel is a fair compromise.

In my case the dip and test didn’t hit until they were 15 months, and it was interesting that I made it over 2 years including the pregnancy before wanting to check in.

I rezzo you have hand keep the itch alive to work on hobby projects. RFID and industrial automation is a cool area that I got to experience alongside someone on a project.

Last but not least happy to receive any parenting advice
You need to define what makes it great for you. Microsoft TODO is reasonable.
There's always the option to use a NextCloud Collabora instance. Keep in mind that the French maybe choose to do so in a centralized manner since most educational facilities are state owned.
Typing a classic JavaScript one-liner
That’s not an option for most climates.
No I’m saying if viewership was down 50% for this World Cup Fifa do you think Fifa would do this again? Are you seriously saying that you think FIFA care one bit about some TV personality making strident declarations while acknowledging loudly that they will continue to consume FIFAs product?
No, you get a nullable warning for that as well. You also need to change the reference type to nullable. I am convinced that some people will just init the properties with new(). And by that hide the null errors. Easily the hardest bugs to track down is when things fails long after the real error occur. I think they could have come with a better solution to the problem.
Part of the reason London received so much investment was because it was a major source of income. If other parts of the country ramp up economic activity relative to london, they should get more attention.
The A records that you've gotten to are unrelated to Gitbook and there are no 302 redirects on our side. As far as I understand it's some internal redirect happening in Cloudflare's network.

You can read more info here: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/dns-subdomain-no-longer-w...