skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
President Xi has more reasons to invade Taiwan now than usual. He is getting older, and Taiwan reunification has been on his wish-list for a long time, recently reaffirmed and suggesting force is on the table[1]. The U.S. is currently managing a situation in Ukraine and economic problems, and China is currently in an acute COVID crisis which sparked mass protests, and a less acute economic crisis (reduced GDP growth).

A war would be a great distraction for the local population. The inevitable sanctions and disruption of chip production would excuse poor GDP growth. To top it off, a "glorious victory" (Pyrrhic victory) is pretty likely. The U.S. has global reach, but it's still not as logistically feasible for the U.S. to fight from staged forces in Japan and the Philippines as it is for China to fight from their home territory.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/xi-jinping-speech-suggests-china-in...
There's plenty to criticize urban development systems that make people getting killed by drunk drivers more likely, but there's no aspect of intentionality in chance accidents. If we build a system that's supposed to dole out punishment, it should at least be able to prevent that happening, or at least re-evaluate every so often to ensure all previous and active decisions still make sense or whether someone deserves a lot of compensation.
Why? Anything you (an investor) do with your money should be compared to the lower risk alternatives. If it doesn't at least beat those then it's a failure as an investment.

And FWIW, Loopt sold for $43m, but $10m of that went on employee retention. The investors made $3m on their $30m investment. That's an annualized return of 1.3%. It was worse than a zero risk savings account.

Sure, there are other ways of measuring success. Clearly from Altman's view, life has worked out pretty well, presumably in part because of experiences he had and people he met while spending seven years making his investors 1.3%. But doing worse than a savings account is not on it's own a sign that you are a great leader, and clearly Loopt was a failure for its investors.
If this was the problem maybe, but how do we know it's going to be any better if they were a bank? Also, can Binance actually be a bank and have so shady accounting at the same time? Hardly... That might be why the swift partner ceases collaboration in the first place.
While we don't know, for now, the level of deliberation and knowledge is congruent with various instructional materials that circulate in darker corners of the net (I don't want to name specific publications/sources). You can find pretty detailed advice and discourse about how to plan and execute an attack on the infrastructure unit, ie the substation.

Information about the larger structure of the grid, transmission direction, system redundancies/tolerances, failure cascades is a lot harder to come by. You could build up a picture by accumulating OSINT resources, mapping gaps, making physical observations etc., but synthesizing that into any sort of working model of the grid itself would require some pretty advanced engineering expertise and a lot of institutional knowledge even at the local level. Anyone with sufficient smarts, training, and know-how is a lot more likely to be invested in the integrity of the grid than its sabotage.

Also, in purely economic terms it's not efficient for an antagonist to max out resources on trying to land a decisive masterstroke. It takes a lot of time, money, and moving parts to pull off such an attack. An ongoing rash of cheap micro-attacks, even poorly correlated, drives up costs in ratchet fashion, without any threat being sufficiently expensive to bring about massive change (eg burying major parts of the transmission infrastructure, switching to a different architecture, radically different security posture). The strategic goal is to raise the cost of 'normal' above the market's willingness to bear, and then exploit social/political failure modes.
Has anyone used this app? I found it to be a lot more effort to learn and use then just excel / sheets but maybe it's just because I've spent to much time using those tools already.
Not if your landlord accepts crypto, also there's heaps of exchangers everywhere in Argentina.
I would expect the opposite. Argentinians do that coz Argentinian banks cannot be trusted(they learnt it from banks forced converting foreign currencies held in their acounts). But still, they will need to convert back to peso so that they can buy groceries etc.. Cutting the link will not make everyone accept crypto but leave it as none wants something cannot be freely converted if they have a choice.

I guess the next move would be opening offshore accounts to accept payments.
For composites, if the back side is accessible, a standard rivet nut + tightly fitting washer on the back side works quite well to alleviate the risk of stress fractures.
Ah the old any other opinion is mental defect
Yeah! That site looks cool too, I'm trying to focus more on Indie Hackers - so only products that are created by one person.
They didn’t enter Taiwan’s airspace. They entered its self-proclaimed air defense identification zone, which extends well beyond its own airspace and even into mainland China.

China’s recent actions have been increasingly provocative, but it’s erroneous to state that there were incursions into Taiwanese airspace.
Does anything speak against flipping the relationship? i.e. using pip (or something else) as the standard way to install Python.
I was originally responding to an inquiry by another commenter, not the article.
> We plan to use authillo

Hard pass. I'm not giving you a detailed map of my face to sign up and then turning on my camera every time I have to log in.
What should future attempts look like?
No you do not. You can get into crypto by selling things or working for it. And can get out of crypto by buying things or hiring people with it.
What nonsense. One is a much more serious threat than the other.
I mentioned it mostly because their posts have enough reach that I not uncommonly see people repeating the hypotheticals as if they’d been verified.
"China" is an adversial foreign authortiatian government, not a race.

US has wide latitude for freedom of speech.
It can be considered busy work, but if it’s busy work that finds bugs and makes the debugging process easier, then it’s a win in my book. I’d rather write tests than debug
Well, stuff like: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/10/china-tells-us-it-w...

And never mind the whole "Taiwanese are not genetically pure Chinese übermenschen so we must find a final solution for them" https://twitter.com/pybaubry/status/1447466780717289476

And after Pelosi's visit a few months back things have only heated up.

For a long time China was relatively diplomatic about Taiwan. They claimed it was part of China, but they also didn't go out of their way to say "we will take it by any means necessary".

Who knows where this will end ... maybe it'll all be very anti-climatic, or maybe not ... But it's certainly a bit hotter than it was before.
> just do whatever habit says to do (and don't call it the truth)

On certain topics, it seems people are not able to do that, as simple as it sounds. (Not a hit at you, more of a general observation.)
Are these basically metal versions of drywall anchors?
> Security is not a pile of obfuscation and hoping it will make things difficult enough.

I think that's called security by obscurity, and it is certainly a thing, although not necessarily the most effective strategy.

Making things harder for malicious actors is kind of the point.
I didn't equivocate anything..
It's interesting to try to game out who might be motivated to commit to an attack like this, at the (small compared to the state or country) scale it was at.

I think we can rule out any kind of state actor, even if they were acting through a proxy. The risk/reward just isn't there, and this is not a hard attack to plan, so there's no point in carrying out a "test". If the goal were to send a message, well, this just isn't going to cut it. The US military will crush you regardless of the status of a power substation in North Carolina.

However, it could easily have been done by someone with a political agenda in favor of a state actor but not in any way endorsed by them, or by someone with a general political motive. Here's the catch with that: For such a person, there is no point to doing this unless you later claim responsibility and gain notoriety. If your goal is ideological, you'd use the chaos you created to try to spread your ideology. If your goal is to have your demands heard, well, you'd have to make those demands first. (Of course, it could be the attackers meant to do that but chickened out when they saw what an overwhelming response this provoked, or something).

It's possible somebody did it by accident or because they are mentally unstable and their dog told them to, etc. Can never discount that. However, I think the most likely explanation is actually that this is a criminal act that was done with some only proximately related goal in mind - blackmailing an energy executive? Stealing something of value from somewhere in the area of attack? Distract authorities while conducting some other illicit behavior somewhere - like a break-in to some other piece of infrastructure - for whatever reason?

Hopefully we find out someday. (And I mean, hopefully we stop this stuff from happening, but that is gonna take some doing.)
Quite misogynist, as well.
For what it's worth, the guns found with the suspects from the WA state attacks look like the typical trash/stolen firearms you'd see in a meth lab, and the suspects have lengthy criminal records for burglary, theft, petty drug offenses etc.
It's a big call though, to risk starting a war and pissing off the population if they're already not to happy about Covid19's handling.

In contrast, Hitler made Germans feel like they were heading for a better place so he garnered support, Xi though, doesn't seem as charismatic and popular. So it's going to be a much harder sell to start an all out hot war over something that means basically nothing to 99% of the population.

Also invading a country is one thing, hanging onto it is another, Syria, Afganistan, Vietnam etc for example. China isn't exactly going to make friends taking the country by force.
This is how Zuckerberg sees the metaverse:

“We hope to basically get to around a billion people in the metaverse doing hundreds of dollars of commerce, each buying digital goods, digital content, different things to express themselves, so whether that’s clothing for their avatar or different digital goods for their virtual home or things to decorate their virtual conference room, utilities to be able to be more productive in virtual and augmented reality and across the metaverse overall”

This type of commerce is all useless nonsense. If his measure of Metaverse success is hitting some mark for how much money he intends to extract from a user it's not a winning strategy.
The 28 aircraft crossed the Taıwan Straıt median line, knowing it's provocation.

I was answering GPs question of why the news cycles.

It's solely because of the aggression and the military drills around the island by Chına.
You're getting downvotes for snark but you're not wrong.
These are what I'm remembering re: Germany and reduced wind. This was during winter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28521533

https://public.substack.com/p/german-emissions-from-electric...

We do have transmission, but it is lossy and expensive, and the places it is cheaper to transmit from are geographically adjacent and are going to have similar solar and wind conditions.

If you're talking about Texas' gas plants, yeah, that was not good. But gas plants are an essential part of preventing blackouts in a wind/solar grid, so I'm not sure this is a point in wind/solar's favor.
> it marked you in the top 10-12% in terms of education.

"Education" as in status/wealth. The humanities education wasn't what made them marketable.
How do these deal with dust and dirt?
How about storing the data on a filesystem that performs data checksumming, also configured in a RAID-1-like mirroring profile to enable any corruption to also be corrected? Filesystems like ZFS or BTRFS could be a good choice here.
Is high school logic less sound, valuable, legit?

Also, I would not be surprised if Nobel price ideas were invented under the shower. Actually it's the most likely that synthesis happens during the diffused mode of thinking, which happens under the relaxation like shower.

I don't claim my idea is worth Nobel price. I just explained in succinct (possibly over-simplified) way my experience of feeling misunderstood for most of my life and the solution that finally helped me.

I shared it to validate whether it's a solution to all causes of loneliness or just mine.
If Apple is going to “vet” programs for a 30% cut then I expect the app to work. If it doesn’t, and the developer is unresponsive, then it’s up to Apple to make it right. If they won’t, then I will use the method of last resort. I don’t give a tinker’s cuss how much it cost. Apple makes a fortune doing this, and brought it on themselves.
Read the paper(s) below. Absolutely frightening, we all basically swimming in quicksand. ECC should be mandatory! Not using it is like huffing leaded gas.

Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11245

Harish Dixit has two other papers available https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Dixit%2C...

Revisiting Memory Errors in Large-Scale Production Data Centers:
Analysis and Modeling of New Trends from the Field
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/memory-errors-at-faceb...

Justin Meza has a similar body of research. https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Justin-Meza/144606145
You can absolutely sabotage as a terrorist though. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Damaging property if the motives and outcome align with what we consider terrorism is terrorism.

But the meaning of terrorism is rather vague, and broad.

If I blow up a substation and it causes blackouts and chaos, that can be terrorism.
Banks can do whatever they want. It's pretty annoying for people doing legal-but-controversial things, whether you're selling adult content, weed, or WikiLeaks.
The crackle sound effect really adds to it!
Good points. One reason I think that locked-down systems like iPads can be good for some users is that they are harder for the users themselves to mess with, either intentionally, accidentally, or under the influence of bad actors.
I got downvoted for bringing this topic up in another thread, so I think most of hn folks are sell outs
I think the food is to blame, mostly. Modern food is engineered by scientists to be addicting.
Is HoloLens on a trajectory towards success, in your opinion?

Seems to me it's far too expensive for gamers, and not all that useful for business - all I can find online are mock ups of hypothetical business uses, like telling mechanics which way to turn a spark plug to tighten it. To me that doesn't seem very useful. What are the chances a job is done so rarely your workers don't know the procedure already; and yet so frequently it makes sense to build a detailed 3D-modelled instruction pack to replace the normal paper instructions?
The attack on infrastructure itself could constitute terrorism, if the infrastructure attack was intended to scare or intimidate the public to achieve some political objective.

Wiktionary's definition of terrorism includes attacks against property: "The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terrorism
Book review: "The (real) Revolution in Military Affairs" (2019)
I have found an example of a slightly rotated static element that I don’t hate.

Also this is ridiculous and fun. Love it.
STRs in small towns during busy season
AMD used to not segment ECC for non-consuner lines. It wasn't very popular with consumers. So I can't really blame them for not supporting it well. One way that is a good balance is to make it work but not officially supported on consumer lines. Then it's up to mb vendors and buyers to take advantage if worthwhile to them. That's enough to not cut into non-consuner lines or add support costs to consumer pricing.

One thing that could change this quick is if Apple used ECC. Others would follow to not seem inferior. I don't hear Apple users complain much at all about lack of ECC options.
The weird thing is that it’s often impossible to manage your own GBP. I was on the board of a small private school where a couple of knucklehead students posted some weird reviews. We couldn’t do anything until I was able to leverage a high level google contact, which is something I hate to do.
> If the goal were to send a message, well, this just isn't going to cut it. The US military will crush you regardless of the status of a power substation in North Carolina.

Like they crushed Iraq for 9/11?

Finding and crushing someone is easy, finding an actually guilty party that cannot be found is not so easy.

Who knows what this is, but some people can see the strategic significance of it.
> Oh and the real masters of this business model? Well they don't bother SELLING the leads to contractors, they will quite literally start their own company and will hire their own plumbers, electricians, concrete crews, etc to squeeze as much profit as possible.

Now, this part is funny. It's come full circle to a legitimate business. (Kind of)
Statement of absolute are always wrong

What!
No street exchanger is going to take your cryptocurrency and give you money if they can’t get money back out of it.
My day job is building one-off prototypes as a mechanical engineer in a research lab, so I end up sourcing a lot of random stuff like this in small quantities.

As others have mentioned, my first stop is the usual suspects, mostly McMaster and Misumi. If not I might check with a few local industrial distributors, including some independent ones but also local branches of Motion Canada, Wajax, GBS and whatnot.

If that fails, I usually resort to contacting the manufacturer directly, either phone or email, and asking if they either do B2B direct sales or if they have a distributor for my region they can put me in touch with.

Industrial sales is still very much old-school b2b, around here at least (Canada). For many of my local suppliers, the only way to get an idea of prices is to call or email a RFQ and wait a day or two to get a quote back. One lists their prices in their paper catalog only, which at least saves me the RFQ quote.

Many distributors are B2B only but some, especially in my small-ish town, will do B2C too.
It may be disingenuous to claim that Apple only seeks to know how purchasers of their computers are using them.

The first reason is that Apple does not ask purchasers for permission to do this surveillance. It just makes it a default.

The second reason is that if purchasers applied the same standard to Apple, it is unilkely Apple would agree to such surveillance of its own computers.

Imagine hypotethically that purchasers shared data with Apple but every time Apple used the data, Apple computers would automatically make outbound connections from Apple's computers, over Apple's internal local network, through Apple's firewalls, over the internet, to purchasers computers so the purchasers could "understand how Apple was using their data".

Imagine further that Apple had no control over these connections, and that Apple was not allowed to "MiTM" the outbound connections made from Apple's computers to purchasers' computers to see what data/information was being sent.

What if purchasers argued that by using TLS certificates they controlled they were "only trying to protect the security of their ecosystem", e.g., the collection of entities with whom they share data. What if purchasers argued they were only trying to protect Apple against "MiTM attacks"^1 where, e.g., a third party might learn about Apple's activities, namely how Apple uses the data Apple gathers from Apple computer purchasers.

The point is that Apple might have concerns about others, including its hardware customers, knowing when and how it is using its own computers. Similarly, purchasers might have concerns about others, including Apple, knowing when and how how they are using their own computers.

1. "Tech" companies, acting as intermediaries, will claim they are using TLS to protect web users from third parties, the "MiTM", but curiously the "MiTM" never includes the "tech" companies themselves. In practice the "MiTM" actually includes the web user. WTF. In response to a web user who does not portray himself as a "developer" nor a "security researcher"^2 stating they wish to "MiTM" their own connections, a "tech" worker commenting in response might be dismissive.

2. https://www.bounteous.com/insights/2016/11/17/using-charles-...
Exactly. I was having some serious deja vu.

Pretty sure there was someone who was planning to do exactly this with his own "soul." It might have been right here on HN.
It still doesn't have full access it doesn't memtest its own code segment for instance. Memtest can also be run as a usermode program (although it needs permission to lock the pages in memory).

https://linux.die.net/man/8/memtester
I don't know, I'm pretty happy with Pipenv. It's the standard among the people I talk to and very good at being "pip, but better". I've tried poetry but don't really find it good enough to justify being so different, maybe unless you already have a pyproject.toml anyway.

There's a lot of talk about Python packaging but as a semi-casual user I've actually had very few problems with it.
The economic incentive for stealing a car is a lot more obvious and mundane than attacking the power grid. It's not unreasonable to second guess (or is it first guess?) the motive in that context.

It's pretty obvious when you compare the number of annual car thefts to the number of attacks on substations. This is an unusual event, it may have an unusual explanation.
Ask HN: Is there a recommender system for blog posts or articles?
Something like Tiktok but just for aggregating links to blogs or articles
Doesn't have to target civilians.

> Terrorism Definitions

> International terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).

> Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.

Source: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
Where did the assumption come from that a new car costs $20,000? This is off by a factor of 2-4x.

I wonder how correcting this data point would influence the resulting recommendation.
Increased investment does indeed incentivize the exploitation of less accessible reserves that would not otherwise be profitable. But those higher prices have to be sustained to keep those additional operations profitable. If prices goes down, those mines close and diminished supply pushes prices back up to equilibrium.

It's not unobtainable lithium I'm worried of. It's difficult supplying 50x as much lithium over the next couple decades with no significantly increase prices.
Yes, that’s the big decision when getting an RV. Trailer or Motorhome. I have the small Micro Minnie trailer from Winnebago.
Fundamentally, yes. A tube shaped anchor with a designated/predetermined crumple zone. They're widely used in sheet metal fabrication, where thin walls wouldn't allow for sufficient thread engagement. Where spot welded nuts aren't possible, for instance in a long, thin walled tube etc..
I have a vague memory that if your device can't get a direct route to your Plex server (e.g. because of NAT) then it gets relayed via Plex's own cloud servers with significant bandwidth throttling.

This article seems to have some more details and mentions that free tier users get throttled to 1Mbps.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-serve...