skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are again talking about mobilisation. Yes. They can enlist millions of untrained men.

But in terms of total assets deployed, they are currently all-in. Attrition being what it is, they are reducing their Soviet stockpiles at a prodigious rate and are currently activating 40’s and 50’s equipment.

This is all extremely well documented by open sources. People are counting tanks on military bases using satellite images. Check out Perun on YouTube. He’s a defense economics expert that posts a 70 minute PowerPoint presentation every Sunday, complete with sources and references.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCC3ehuUksTyQ7bbjGntmx3Q
TeX/LaTex have a bit of a C/C++ relation. Instead of replacing TeX one could imagine an alternative higher level abstraction.
I assume that by “we” you meant the United States, so the question is: How much moral authority/integrity is there left to discredit?
note to whomever downvoted this comment: quite often people are too lazy to actually click the link and read the target site for themselves, (and instead complain here in the comments...) so I quite often copy a summary sentence to this discussion section to give better context.
anti-illegal immigration and pro-illegalizing immigration
my dad was a pm for this stuff. i have no idea what he did as he retired by the time i was 8 (92) but this was his world.

anyone know anything else about this stuff? i’ve often considered trying to recreate his career path. (he died about 5 years ago.)
The fact that shares exist doesn’t mean it’s a public company.

In the same vain, indices / trackers are not exchanges.
System header search paths are only implemented on Linux currently. You should be able to parse sqlite3.c on Linux with

arocc -fsyntax-only -Wno-unknown-attributes sqlite3.c
Not the OP but I use pandoc-crossref for this: https://lierdakil.github.io/pandoc-crossref/
I was wondering how far I would have to go to see King County come up. Not very far!

We simply can't have nice things here. At least not in the Seattle city core. Everyone says "just have free bathrooms bro" but no one saying that actually has had to pay for and maintain a free bathroom in downtown Seattle. Discussing exactly why this is the case tends cause a flamewar, but the fact that we can't be honest about the cause means we'll never have the nice things.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Unsafe doesn’t work this way.
typst still gets a lot of things wrong.
There are several parts of that article that are wrong.. that's not what the acronym SOC[0] stands for, for example. And while, the result of a SOC2 audit is a report, and it's primarily from the financial industry (not the security industry) - SOC2 is an audit and not a report.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_and_Organization_Contro...
That’s wrong on its face, since some legislation does get passed. They don’t oppose everything, they are selective. It’s strictly for political points.

If Republican voters supported more immigration, it could happen. They just don’t. And calling people brought here as children by their parents criminals is ridiculous.
Seek out roles at defense contractors related to work on the weapons systems in question.
A few weeks with the Daylight DC-1 tablet: rethinking screen time
Ian Cutress video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa2GS86_cx8
As an immigrant in the US I looked at the plans ( produced by Stephen Miller) and would not have qualified to be admitted.
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I agree that it is largely an urban issue, but it is a serious issue, which likely exists in large part due to the greater density of urban homeless populations and drug related crime. Solving these problems is arguably far less trivial than re-establishing pay restrooms in the urban US.
All of the electricity produced in my area is hydroelectric so the carbon footprint is minimal on a per unit basis.
There are much bigger fish to fry when it comes to carbon footprint such as how often you fly and what motor vehicles you drive which use orders of magnitude more energy than a pizza.

At some level baking becomes an art form — a way to channel your efforts into a form of mastery. Does the leoparding make a difference? Probably not. It is the aesthetic and demonstration of mastery which makes leoparding desirable, much like how people desire perfectly manicured lawns and gardens.
Two Netware memories: FIRE PHASERS[0] and the screen saver on the server that showed processor load as a "snake" (and one snake per processor) with length relative to load.

[0] http://www.novell.com/documentation/ncl_sle_11/login/data/h5...
tk is still excellent, tcl is mediocre
I disagree. Rust is more widely adopted than you think, more so in mission critical software. Every major player uses it. It runs on embedded, Android, iOS, in your browser, it’s in the Linux kernel. Things will just be accelerating from here.
OK, but I'd argue regulation kept large corporations nominally in check before the greed-is-good mantra along with the belief that the only responsibility a corp has is to its shareholders—ideas that took hold and became prominent in the 1980s (Friedman, Hayek, Chicago School, et al).

Big Tech is now so big and powerful that it essentially does what it does with impunity, fines for breaching laws are just a part of doing business, they have negible effect on the bottom line.

The way of fixing the problem is not only to hold companies who violate the laws responsible but also equally so its employees, external advisers, accountants, etc.

Combine this with reqiring people responsible for certain corporate functions such as those who make policy decisions with respect to the way corporations police laws, check for breaches of the anti-trust/monopoly act etc. to be licensed similarly in the way electricians and plumbers are licensed. Take away their licenses and they'd not be able to carry out their Jobs.

I reckon this will eventually come to pass but I'd venture it'll come to Europe long before the US.
I don't think that poverty and money has such a big effect on happiness, as long as the basic needs are covered (food and a dry/clean bed to sleep). There was a lot of happiness in Eastern European countries during the communist time. They were lacking so many things and they saw many human rights violations, but it didn't break the majority of people. Many people still have a lot of good memories about that time, although the circumstances weren't easy at all.
Ukrainians integrating into Polish culture is similar to the East and West German unification post wall, only more complicated by a few extra generations...
I was half-expecting you to come up with some clever incentives for your donors. (Like, "If you donate this much money, we'll have a professional dating couch give you feedback on your profile." Or "We'll have a celebrity read your profile, and tell you what they think!")

Professional photographers taking profile pics? Early access to new profiles? Prioritization for your responses? I guess I'm thinking if you're trying to do crowdfunding, it helps to have an unusual idea that gets people talking, maybe making it go viral in a news story... Or at least, something fun enough to get someone to chip in some money...
> the rise of centralized, cloud-reliant infrastructure in these contexts should be seen as a massive and unacceptable risk for those organizations to take on

I agree with you but I also want to play the devil's advocate: using software like CrowdStrike is not what I would call being "cloud-reliant". It's simply using highly-privileged software that appears to have the ability to update itself. And that is likely far more common than cloud-reliant setups.
To be fair, I’m not sure how many straw men will get you a pint at most public houses these days.

I’m only familiar with egg-to-pint exchange ratios, but then again most of my personal liquidity is tied up in a henhouse currently.
What I really, really need from Rust maintainers is a #[forbid(panic)] somewhen in the next releases.
So like normal law then?
Am I misunderstanding what exactly you are looking for? You can change the spacing in math mode of symbols/operators with https://typst.app/docs/reference/math/class/ and delimiter size with https://typst.app/docs/reference/math/lr#functions-lr (or automatically).
It is, though. If US did not sanction Cuba, there very much would be no Russian visit. When US decides you are an enemy, you don't get to pick your friends.
Ten eggs per power, obviously.
IMO GenAI gets all the hype, but in the industry, the robustness (ig. does not hallucinate) of Extractive models is much appreciated.
> How would the situation have been any different if this was released on a Monday?

I work 9 to 5 Monday to Friday
1.2% of the US population works on a farm. I imagine an order of magnitude less work at meat-packing plants.
The ReadMe is quite lacking …

- why create a competing front end to Zig?

- what problems is it solving?

- what’s different than the official Zig frontend?

Etc
Still the happiness levels seem to drop in both "systems" equally.
At least this one you can argue that they can't test every Linux and Unix flavour. But windows..
They were renumbered in x86_64 so that the syscalls that are frequently used together have their function pointers live in the same cacheline in the lookup table: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.0/0547.html

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the MIPS ones are weird to support compatibility with the existing unix syscall numbering, but I can't find any evidence for that anywhere, so maybe it was aspirational or I'm hallucinating.
Hard to grasp now but Netware was really exciting technology at the time.

It was also arguably the most advanced server on the Intel platform.

There was a moment in time when it looked like Novell might become THE corporate back end server technology and all sorts of servers were built to run on Netware. I think there was Oracle and Lotus Notes and CC Mail and some others

However, Novell for whatever reason simply didn't make Netware robust. Netware needed to be memory protected and have task preemption and it did neither, making it unsuitable as a server. Why they refused to do this is unclear. I seem to recall reading that Drew Major didn't have the technical chops to make it happen. I also recall reading that Drew Major believed that task preemption and memory protection were slow, and that speed was more important.

Also, Netware was late to the party with TCP/IP support - they were all in on IPX/SPX and in the end TCP won the entire protocol game, sending IPX/SPX, XNS and other common network protocols to the dustbin.

Anyhow Microsoft came along with Windows NT and OS/2 and stomped on Novell and since Netware wasn't up to the job, the show was over.
obligatory "equal time" post https://www.mathemaesthetics.com/ResorcererInfo.html
Except Maine shouldn't be ruled out because its congress passed RCV for presidential races (what I thought the conversation was always about, national level politics) along party lines in 2019[1].

You're also undervaluing that all of the ten states that have preeemptively banned RCV are Republican controlled. Sure there aren't a dozen Democratic states with RCV yet, that should change! We should push for that. But that's a far cry from preemptively banning it; there's no chance for change there.

That's my point, yeah Democrats aren't the best, or even great; but at least there's the chance for improvement. Republicans have overwhelmingly banned that chance.

1: https://www.pressherald.com/2019/08/26/maine-senate-passes-r...
New Brain-Computer Interface Uses Graphene
The big thing for me is macros and programmability.

Early on in my learning graphic design I found the interactive tools of the time (Aldus PageMaker, Quark XPress) quite primitive and limiting --- at one point in order to have the control I wanted I was using Altsys Virtuoso (basically Macromedia Freehand v4, a drawing program) to lay out books --- at least it would hang punctuation.

Finding TeX on my NeXT Cube and then learning it meant that I had access to a tool which rather than being limited by what features a corporation decided to implement for a given version, was only limited by computer processing power, storage space, and my facility to write macros.

A good example of this is: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/31088/any-...

In addition to a lot of books and so forth, I've used TeX to:

- write the typesetting back-end for "HS" ads for an interactive phone book production system

- measure all the ads for a country's phone book, check the dimensions against their nominal size, and then either correct them (so that they would fit correctly) or note that ad in a list (so that the ad could be re-designed at the correct size)

- implement the typesetting back-end for a customizable story book where the text was selected by the user and their choices would be implemented so as to set the desired appearance of images

More importantly, for general development, when making TeX, Dr. Donald E. Knuth created Literate Programming:

http://literateprogramming.com/

which programming style has allowed me to make larger and more complex programs more easily.
> The crash was caused by a configuration update pushed by crowdstrike, not a new driver.

Microsoft didn’t do enough due diligence on the behaviour of CrowdStrike updates. It shouldn’t allow out-of-band updates.

Third-parties should not be signing code that allows third-parties to reach into corporate services and push files.

Microsoft InTune is the mechanism that all configuration updates should use.

It appears to me that Microsoft makes it harder for third-parties to update an Xbox game, than the configuration of a kernel driver.
> When I searched my name, there it was: a picture of my smiling face next to the text “Tom Faber was a physicist and publisher, and he was a university lecturer at Cambridge for 35 years”.

Good grief. Pal, you've got a name with 8 identifying alphanumeric characters. Of course it is going to collide with other identities on the openly-indexed internet.
Armadillo fossil reveals early human presence in Argentina 21,000 years ago
I don't know enough about the specific racial factors in our older immigration laws, I'll take your word for it, but there isn't anything linking the two. We could have open borders without entitlement programs or racist immigration laws.
And into other people's bodies?
It is possible to dramatically reduce littering. Singapore has strict littering punishments. You don’t see a lot of litter on the ground. Of course caning people for littering isn’t a very popular policy in most countries.

But in Singapore they also pay people to sweep the streets, because despite the laws, trash still will accumulate. Note that Singapore also doesn’t have a minimum wage which means people can be paid a low amount to clean the streets.

In the U.S. we don’t enforce littering laws, and we also mostly don’t pay people to sweep streets. So we have very dirty streets.

What a robot can do is work for very low cost to clean up streets. Far below minimum wage.
Deep Learning in JavaScript, with GPU Support
Ah ok so other than the war and the tarrifs and the blockade it isnt true
You have a naive view of how modern operations work, I must say. This shows when you suggest endpoints have backups. We're back to the mainframe/terminal times where all software is running on a web server or other centralized application server, which is also in a boot loop, somewhere else.

Failed hardware is different, but hospitals likely have very few computers just 'lying around'. Especially the highly regulated machines, such as those which are attached to MRIs and the like.

CFR 21 Part 11 was the bane of my existence. Software that can be installed and configured in a matter of minutes? That's a six month project, at least. Sure, backups are great, but then you've got a significant process to get it back up and running.

These aren't early-2000 logging operations.

I see you'll never be convinced, but this is how modern operations work. Being a hospital (or other industry with heavy government regulations) make operations that much worse.
It was insanely common for those PC builders to be fly by night operations steeped in pirating everything they could get a hold of. It wasn't hard for some random people with a little bit of computer skill to get into it.
I saw this come up today in a different thread.

I'm a mature undergrad, I've never used LaTeX, actively avoided it in fact and am forced to produce word documents. My current workflow is pandoc style markdown and obviously pandoc for conversion, with zotero for citations. I make use of pandoc-crossref for figures, tables, sections, etc.

I'm hopefully moving to a different uni for a masters this year. Can anyone who uses typst comment on whether I should consider moving from my fairly complicated workflow to typst?
“…doesn't that discredit any moral authority that we have?”

This has the same answer as —

If we continue to sell and buy stuff from a country that HAS AND WOULD gun down its people over protests, doesn't that discredit any moral authority that we have?

See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...]

It would be a worthy movement to lobby Congress/Parliament to sanction, via tariffs, countries whose governments suppress speech like that, but who’s going to start it, which critical mass of cheap-products-loving people in free societies are going to support it?
Essential DOS Games of 1997
This is the narrative that Crowdstrike wants the public to believe. Crowdstrike did the same thing to Debian machines running their software previously. The use of these kernel-level security software packages with arguably negligible benefit compared to the experienced risks could instead be reassessed.
Why would they have? Commodore went bankrupt in 1994. That’s the same year that 3 years after having released the initial version of his hobby OS Linus released the 1.0 kernel. A kernel which supported only 32-bit x86 processors. Why would Commodore target an unstable and feature lacking hobby kernel which targeted a different processor family? What problem would they even be trying to solve by porting to a different kernel?

For the sake of argument let’s assume there is some perceived benefit for porting AmigaOS to running on a Unix based platform. Commodore had Amiga Unix which was a port of AT&T Sytem V Release 4 which they sold as an alternative to AmigaOS. Wouldn’t this have made more sense for them to target?
You have no idea what you're yapping about. Bye.
That is not the future but the present. I have already seen flights information panels alternating with ads every few seconds in some airports.
Irrespective of the truth that TeX will never be bulletproof, it is beautifully open source.

I'm grinding on the thesis in emacs, zotero, texlive, and qgis.

Not a proprietary package in sight.

And I will use proprietary software when sensible: my Open Source leanings are not religious in nature.

But the public nature of the product is huge.
Well, there were sanctions for Poland after the martial law of 1981...
Yes, they wouldn't be considered doing the Linux stuff in a professional capacity.
I don't think anyone is imposing anything - if a child is having fun, there's no need to force them into any specific language or framework.

I was referring more to "quick" in the sense of quick to get started, no installation, since it was "bundled" with the vast majority of systems. And since a lot of computer is booted directly to some version of basic in the ROM, it was pretty frictionless.

Heh I don't think slide rules are a very relevant comparison - since you don't really build things with slide rules. A better analogy would be building with Legos versus building with Minecraft.

It comes down to what you want to teach as an educator, most kids are obviously going to be happier with something that's visual and interactive, whereas the teacher wants to emphasize concepts like logic and flow control. A happy medium might be something like scratch.
The stupid thing about object-oriented programming and modern software is that code like this would never make it through code review on an "agile" team.

- "Oh, why are you doing procedural case statements? that's a SOLID anti-pattern, please refactor to polymorphism"

- "Oh, why is the Ascii Renderer class meddling in cell mine logic? `cell.neighbour_mines.zero? ? "_" : cell.neighbour_mines` should be its own method in a `Mine` class that is properly tested"

You're never allowed to just write code that solves a problem. It never ends. Your team has unlimited authority to slow you down with completely useless "feedback" that does not help anyone.
Shortened the title, as the original "Hardware and firmware reverse engineering primer: dissecting an FPV and video surveillance platform" did not fit.
I don’t know man. This idea of certain cultures being so distant that they cannot be integrated with others sounds a bit alien to me. If anything, we (all the different cultures in this planet) are the result of a vast amount of mixing over the centuries. We probably don’t notice it anymore (proof that the mix has worked wonders) and we think we all are so good because “our” culture, “our” values. I mean, if something so profound such as religion was literally imported to America, anything is possible. Sometimes I wish we were invaded by aliens 100% different from us in every aspect, so that we realised once and for all that we all humans just are and feel the same.
Vulnerabilities in what though? If you make an application so simple that it can only fetch data through an API and display, there's simply not much more that it can do. And a simple application is easy to audit. So it would be ideal if we could bundle this (akin to compiling) and deploy on bare metal.
That's a lot of thinking they've done about LLMs, but how much did they actually try LLMs? I have long threads where ChatGPT refine solutions to coding problems. Their example of losing the thread after printing a tiny list of 10 philosophers seems really outdated. Also it seems LLMs utilize nested contexts as well, for example when it can break it' own rules while telling a story or speaking hypothetically.
Agreed. That's where the question is really interesting, and important, though. If we can only have one or the other, and if a majority of Americans view our southern border as an untenable situation, can we maintain our entitlement programs?

Entitlement programs only work if we can secure our borders. If we can't secure our borders it seems to be clear that we can't have the entitlement programs.
What is the pattern of discrimination? Can you give some examples?
This article establishes, that things aren't any more like you experienced them in the past. It certainly wasn't all great in the past for young people, but statistics show it's way worse now.