skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they'd have learned much from the visuals of a balloon (it takes marginally higher resolution images than a satellite but so do lots of less obvious stuff like aircraft and consumer drones that are perfectly entitled to be in US airspace). But the US was pushing the UK not to include Chinese equipment (and indulging in some very loud anti-China rhetoric mostly for domestic consumption) under the previous administration but was too cautious to pull the trigger, so them not being too cautious now is new information. Unmanned balloons are obviously a lower risk way of testing that than other ways it could test the US tolerance, and may play well with Chinese domestic audiences too.
I have been keeping track of Lago's team for a while now, and I am continually impressed by their achievements and the speed at which they are delivering. Congratulations on the launch!
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Winners write the history - so yeah SkyNet is the good guy.
Just to be clear, I agree it would be harder to cheat for a potential long term mate from an existing social group. That said, if a potential partner was a cheater, it’s highly likely that it would be much easier to figure out if a stranger is cheating than someone from an existing social group, since they already are aware that they need to be careful if they don’t want to be caught.

Said another way, it’s ultimately impossible to know for sure if someone is cheating without reaching the point of being equally toxic by not respecting an individual’s right to privacy, independence, etc.
In this case, the bad regulation that shouldn’t have happened was when Congress stepped in and broke a strike. Perhaps if the union was allowed to freely negotiate with a strike, this wouldn’t have happened?
> What’s the alternative? Pensions?

In Germany, we have a "rollover system" - you pay a government-mandated fixed percentage of your income into pensions system in exchange for pension credits. The contributions from all current payers (plus a sizable chunk of tax money) are then distributed to current pension receivers, and the worth of a pension credit point ("Rentenpunkte") is regularly-ish adjusted for inflation.
> we'd better give these nice religious authoritarians a pass

> we

> give a pass

You are clearly implying that this is somehow your (collective) business and it is up to you to "give a pass" (also implying that the contrary is an option) to a country that is world away from you.

Imagine someone in Iran/Russia/China saying "we shouldn't give a pass to the US for all the arrests and even a murder during the Capitol riots" - how would that FEEL like? I know empathy doesn't cross western cultural borders, but stepping in someone's shoes is a simple exercise.
Mods please change the title. Layoffs and Firing aren't the same.
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The examples I listed are still better solutions than crypto and are in use by millions of real people, currency or no currency.
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China will need to be more specific. Otherwise I'll have to assume they were party city balloons. America has been training to be paranoid of bus sized objects carried by balloons since 2017 when Fortnite was released. Just a cultural misunderstanding I guess.
I think this is putting the cart before the horse.

Regulatory capture is a lot harder if there is no industry with corporate interests to do so.
You are underestimating how easy it is to email a lab service to synthesise a plasmid for you... Just first hit from google is this place in the EU https://eurofinsgenomics.eu/en/gene-synthesis-molecular-biol... But you can find them in less scrupulous countries with less well trained people, and in general it's widespread as a service. Almost nothing is done to actually check for how dangerous what's being produced is, other than what you tell someone.
Perhaps learning to play a musical instrument is also like that.
So my thoughts are as follows:

1. Every source file must be annotated with language version.

2. Every language version can remove things from previous language versions. More like "hide" I guess, but you can't compile source file that's using removed features or APIs. So to migrate to new version you're supposed to change sources. Of course preferable using some migration tools, but that's out of scope.

3. You can access old API indirectly. For example if you're using library which uses old API and returns struct from that old API.

4. There should be some well thought rules for situation that you describe. To make structs forward and backward compatible as much as possible. May be even to provide some implicitly running migrations to convert between structs with different versions.

5. If there's no way to automatically convert v1975/SomeStruct to v2022/SomeStruct, you can't do that and need to convert it manually.

This is hard problem and must be thought on every level: data layout compatibilities, ABI compatibilities, type system compatibilities. But I'm not convinced that it's unsolvable problem. And if solved it would provide great benefit allowing lots of freedom and agility for language development.
Correct. To parse that further, the costs may be hidden, involve unknowns and/or unknown unknowns.

This is the explanation many of the unvaxed smart people I know used to justify relying on their immune systems which were developed and tested for a million+ years over recently developed covid vaccines.
I think they mean apps that don't just stop working when you're offline, not apps that are always offline.
Let's say Russia does decide to use nukes. What would they target? Their main objective in the war is to seize control of Ukrainian energy and agricultural resources; they don't want to turn it into an irradiated wasteland.

Using a nuke against Ukrainian military forces would be a waste since they are now dispersed and dug in. Many of those forces are close to Russian forces so a nuclear strike would endanger their own troops.
It doesn't work like this. If there is a war, there is always a possibility for it to escalate to an existential war. If there is an existential war, every possible weapon will be developed to the greatest extent possible to ensure the survival of your side. "The regulation" doesn't work when your country is attacked by an aggressor, and there are aggressors out there.

So, unless there is a global world peace forever, which I currently don't see happening any time soon, next generation weapons will be developed. If we are lucky, they will remain deterrents. If we are less lucky, they will be used in the actual world war, which has a very high probability of actually happening.

There were no instances of weapons regulated away, except for biological/chemical weapons which are less useful to developed countries. Nuclear weapons are still there. Landmines are still there. Cluster bombs are still used right now. No end in sight.
"Sophos is redacting all images of people from both scams in its reports, because pig butchering attacks are often staffed using forced labor, and participants may be working against their will."

I'd never heard that but I guess that's how it works...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zb5d/pig-butchering-scam-c...
At PLATO, we believe the future is going to be dominated by caves and people sitting in them, observing shadows will be a big part of that.
Isn't the coincidence that it was filmed in the same location at all?
Fair. Also, one has to admit that alot of modern society is based upon military ground work. The chip in the device i type this was originally developed to launch ICBMs.
I came here to say something similar. It has also occurred to me that vectordev hasn’t gotten much attention here on HN. It’s a great tool. You can listen on a TCP socket, write to Kafka in an upstream instance, then read from Kafka, transform data, and write to ES or whatever downstream. I’ve even recently completed tests where I could write from vector to vector at over 6 million records a second.

I don’t really mean to discourage the author of the post, I just realize this can be done with two simple vector configs.
DNS isn't enough, applications have been sneaking off data to hard-coded IPs and through other means for at least 15 years now. These days we have DoH as a standard, but way before that I spotted a Windows application execute HTTP requests to resolve IP addresses for their tracking domain.

With some effort you can MitM your phone with your own certificate authority and a tool like mitmproxy in transparent mode. It still won't detect all of the trackers (detecting MitM is quite easy with certificate pinning), but it'll show you even clearer how much you're being tracked.

Expect every API to also be a tracking endpoint, and expect every application you use to upload your location. There are apps that do well, but they've become the exception rather than the rule.
> Are you writing a library that you want to be kept open when used in a project? GPL will do what you need.

I'd argue it doesn't, really. GPL means it can only be used in software released under the GPL, or any network software (ie: web application) including proprietary.

Specifically, a proprietary vendor can use and/or modify your GPL-licensed library on their server-side application and is not obligated under the terms of GPL to release any changes, so long as they never distribute the app.

I'd argue using GPL for libraries is a good way to not get much usage. Every place I've ever worked has avoided GPL like the plague -- for startups it's a barrier to pivoting (eg: selling an on-prem version) and more importantly to being acquired, and any bigger companies have policy around it.

On a personal level I also tend to avoid it unless it's either the only choice, or I want or already have released under the GPL.

In general, given two library choices where one GPL and the other is MIT, I'm an order-of-magnitude more likely to pick the MIT one, even if it's lacking features compared to the GPL one, and even contribute the missing features. I suspect I'm not alone in this.
My general flow is “do it, teach it, automate it” where the middle step is explaining it to someone else who then also does it then (hopefully) helps, or at least consults, on the automation. This way you can iterate a bit before codifying it and help flush out any bad ideas or assumptions.
Outright impossible to do with the demands of employment these days - young people are expected to go wherever the jobs are, they cannot stick around in some backwater rural town to take care of their parents. Not to mention that people these days don't have anywhere close to enough children, and it's pretty immoral to force people to breed like rabbits for their retirement.
Good points.

> as a root account you should have 2FA enabled. But if you want a yubikey, you can only add one, with no fallback for a TOTP device - lose your yubikey and you're at the mercy of AWS support.

As a fallback for my spare Yubikeys, I have created a couple of dummy, web-only IAM users with root privileges.

Still an embarrassing UX failure on AWS’s side though.
I have airgapped boxes, but in general, I don't mind connecting to sites that aren't inherently trustworthy as I do not have javascript enabled by default, I enable it on a script-by-script basis. Is it possible someone has an n-day in the HTML rendering engine of my browser? Sure, which is why all of my activity is compartmentalized and isolated by way of virtualization. I'd love to run Qubes on my Power 9 workstation but Xen and Power 9 don't play nicely at the moment :(
You're missing out the cherry on top: corporate media blackout about the whole incident. It might go even deeper than that, but I don't need to cross into conspiracy theories to make my point. And no, just because npr and cnn had an article about it on page 20 is not proof that there isn't a blackout.

Also, I can't help but wonder how many headlines this would have cause if it happened during Trump. For the party that says to be taking the high road, the democrats sure do lack a spine. Democrat supporters own 80% of the media consumed by Americans, they could have warned the people of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Pretty much anything that allows you to break the law. So yes, criminals.
Remember the rule of thumb: if a company is laying off 5-10% of staff it's business as usual. If it's 20% the company is in real trouble.
Since jb1991 is being downvoted I want to clarify that this doesn’t somehow support the grandparent.

Using your opponents strength as weapon means deflecting their attack and using the force to throw them on the ground/defeat them.

Have a look at e.g. 5:58 https://youtu.be/-Qe_JKQjJTA
It’s kata, so slow and meant for demonstration purposes.
The article talks about how a lot (most?) of the citizens are religious workers. The Salvation Army, World Relief, etc. are often in places like Russia, despite the conditions or events transpiring in the world.
Not a chance.

I don't care about the top 30 - I browse for things that match my own interests. And depending on what they are, I might care about the linked article or I might care about the comments. Or both.

But a weekly newsletter in PDF form of the top 30 completely misses the mark of what I get out of HN.
Ask HN: What footguns does a SQL dev need to know when learning MongoDB/NoSQL?
I'm aware of some of the weird behavior and dangerous mistakes I can make with SQL.

- Missing indices on join tables.

- Postgres columns are case sensitve. MySQL columns are not.

- Missing limits on subqueries.

- Etc.

But now I find myself working on an API backed by a NoSQL db. What do SQL devs like me need to know when they wander into a NoSQL dev shop?

I'm curious about the weird footguns as well as the different data modeling approaches. For example, all I know are join tables, but now I'm learning that I can just put a list of objects inside a document.
I wouldn't have thought of this before this issue came up, but I just searched for "software written in go", and sadly, there seems to be a lot of it. I wonder if all the folks outside of Google will remember to turn this off. If your motto is "ok, don't be evil didn't pay well", this is a genius move. Craft a language good enough to appeal to others, give it away, let a community grow, then hoover up data from everyone using anything written in our language. Unless, of course, they remember to opt out.
This is on top of 11% they laid off in September 2022, 5 months ago.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/twilio-lays-off-11-of-its-...
Seems like the next step will be to figure out a way to bring these objects down with out destroying them.

My understanding is that very few winged aircraft are able to operate at 60k feet. The ones that do fly super fast and are not able to deploy a gun, missile, or other package. I suspect this is why the military is shooting them down with missiles which can be deployed by an aircraft flying at lower altitude or an aircraft on a high arc.

Perhaps a missile could be modified to deploy a weighted net like this https://netgun.com/netgun-info/ultranet-hd-large-animal-targ... to bring these balloons down to a more convenient altitude where a non-destructive forced landing can be organized?

Perhaps this is a project for #Steve Jurvetson?
What a gross attitude.
I think there’s a point where the opposite is true in your life too. Especially when you’ve past the “productivity is bullshit” phase. Parkinson’s law tends to be more true for people who want to be more efficient than productive.
It is not the search engine but the ability to monetize the ui and the data collected.

Microsoft needs to get as good as Google from an advertisers perspective.
Designed by Turks, developed by Germans, produced by Americans. It's like the exact reverse of the usual way products are made haha.
Too easter egg; didn’t read.
well, you get interrigated at the border because obviously the sentiment that you excuded. Utter confusion... "Why would you want to be here". but after an hour or two and they just realise you are a crazy american that likes the thrill of traveling to places they probably shouldn't be. Not that I have any experience in the matter... ;)
Founder here - woke up to this. Here is some context for HN:

Demo videos: https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/Electric-Clojure-progress-De...

Prior HN discussions addressing many of the FAQs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28630209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217448

Some notes on the network layer: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/vizdcc/hyperfiddle...

I'll try to address some FAQs in another post
https://julialang.org/blog/2013/04/put-this-in-your-pipe/#do... for what is this abstractly and why that is needed.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... for specific implementation in JS. Compare with f-strings in Python, which are superficially similar, but can’t be used to, eg, construct SQL or HTML not prone to injection attacks.
Those recent balloons are just distraction from the Nordstream pipeline news. It's to flood the news stream with new breaking news. Typical USA playbook.
Avoiding the inevitable "does this really count as taking responsibility" comment chain by just not taking responsibility at all, nice.
What makes this a firing and not a layoff (English is not my first language sorry)
It is basically how application servers got implemented, every EAP/WAR file gets their own classloader, and there is an hierachy that allows to override search paths.

That is how I managed back in the day to use JSF 2.0 on Websphere 6, which officially did not had support for it out of the box.
Other projects I have seen have done opt-out telemetry on the beta/testing/development versions of their software, and it's disabled on stable builds. Win-win.
>Intel and AMD have the right to shove their spyware into their silicon

Correct.

>just as Microsoft has the right to shove theirs into their OS

Correct.

>You have the right to decline to buy it.

Ding ding ding!

>Your rights end there, given that nothing they are doing is actually illegal.

Correct. I am making a market demand with my money, not a legal order for these companies to stop producing untrustworthy hardware and snoopy software.
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Big mood, I've been fantasizing about a building a wet lab at home for years. There are like 5 people actively doing research on my illness worldwide and the latest experimental treatment would be two grands a week at retail prices.
> Primary forms of chemical weapons include nerve agents, blister agents, choking agents, and blood agents... Blood agents interfere with the body’s ability to use and transfer oxygen through the bloodstream. Blood agents are generally inhaled and then absorbed into the bloodstream. Common forms of blood agents include Hydrogen Chloride and Cyanogen Chloride.

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Theoretically, the US might hope to turn Ukraine into Russia's Iraq - never any decisive loss, just gradually bleeding soldiers and equipment for 20 years for little benefit, until they get bored and go home.

A conspiracy-minded person who thought America blew up the Nordstream pipelines to reduce Europe's dependence on Russian gas might see a similar benefit to prolonging the conflict.
You call it a strawman, I call it knowing what matters when writing portable code across multiple platforms and compilers.

You will notice that I have linked Open Group errno documentation in another post. That is what matters, not what GNU thinks.
Then it just gets made in secret by malicious actors without any kind of safety in mind.
Your and your 3 friends have absolutely no effect on the macro cpu market.
It's a cube law thing - you can work out how much "air" there is for everything to spread into, and how much "stuff" there is but basically, the further away you get the rapidly it goes down in hazard.

The western wildfires were absolutely mind-glowingly immense in ways we don't really deal with normally.

Five tank cars is 30,000 gallons * 5 = 150,000 gallons, roughly 600 cubic meters.

Safe exposure is 0.1 part per million, so 600 cubic meters * 10 million circle (assume the stuff never gets more than a meter off the ground, spherical cows and all that) = 45 kilometer radius circle. Obviously it's much more concentrated near the epicenter but let's assume it dispersed equally.

So 200 kilometers should be well outside the danger zone UNLESS a cloud of it doesn't disperse and instead heads in your direction.
No counterparty? The Eth network is the counterparty, you're buying a stake in the network, you are diluting everyone's control. And earning a reward.
"All the while all authoritative western military institutions have said that the neither the US nor the EU can compete with Russia when it comes to either artillery nor missile production."

That is bullshit and you know it pretty well. Most Russian missiles are shot down by AA already and the terror waves have become smaller, indicating that Russians actually need to save the remaining missiles.

Russia can almost certainly outproduce the current West when it comes to arty ammo, but that factoid, while true, is irrelevant. Western artillery is much more precise and precision is what really matters. The Russians are great in turning random fields into a pocketed lunar landscape, WWI-style, but a single Excalibur round that obliterates a Russian headquarters or ammo dump has done orders of magnitude more damage.

Ukraine alone wouldn't be able to win this, no. But Ukraine with support of countries that, together, are about 30 times richer than Russia, is going to win this. The main problem is the human cost, but that is unavoidable when fighting a horde of orcs.

"When people agree that Ukraine loses multiple times as many people for every Russian that dies"

Russian propagandists agree on all sorts of bullshit, but it would be extraordinary if the ratio of losses on a static front favored an attacker. This only happens if the attacker is much stronger than the defender, like the US vs. Iraq, but in such a situation, the defender usually collapses rather fast.

We see the very opposite, the Russians have been trying to take Bakhmut for half a year, so far unusccessfully, and throwing more and more meat into the mix. Second army of the world, more like 140th.
I’ve seen the threads, but asking again, anyone tried finding a dev job right now? How hard is it? There must be 50k software engineers looking for work. Gotta wonder how long it will take for the job market to recover
Firing usually implies you're being terminated for cause. Laid off doesn't.
Australia seems to have a lot of quality CS research (well, that, Mercury, and… WWJDIC), and no way to productize any of it.
What is the "productivity is bullshit phase"?