skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two last statements of the post are indeed speculation. What was said up until that point can be verified. However, the speculation should be seen in light of recent history. Russia does have a history of shady maritime dealings covered by deniability. For instance you have probably heard of cables that have been mysteriously cut in the northern regions.

As for you accusing me of posting flame-bait: that's not very nice. I presume you have some way of proving your speculation?
See also: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
Science is the search for truth. Lying is anthemic to that.
Here’s one to consider adding:

https://www.sparkmuseum.org/
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One thing that's only lightly touched upon in the article: Is this journey unusual and where is the fertilizer usually unloaded? The way the article is written, the ship's operators may with plausible deniability be deliberately targeting ports where a blast would be most debilitating for NATO. But where are other ships with this fertilizer unloading? It must be a common operation in European ports. Are there special ports for this, and the captain is spurning them? Ostensibly because they want to dock for repairs?

Now that I think about it, while it could be hard to sell that much fertilizer from a port where it wasn't ordered to, transfering it to another vessel not in need of repairs would solve the whole situation overnight wouldn't it? That's expensive but should be normal procedure I'd expect. So yeah what are the operators up to?
OpenAI's o1 probably does more than just elaborate step-by-step prompting
I'm no starving expert, but is all fertiliser explosive?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO

Simple to become a powerful explosive
In the world of the mainstream media - the default media diet of most americans excludes Hacker News, funnily enough.

All sorts of more taboo stuff gets said on hacker news. It's not exactly a cultural bellwether that ideas outside of the overton window are entertained here.

Wearing a che guevara t shirt is similarly "allowed" in public, but the last article about him in the new york times is fawning admiration for his assassin.

Criticism of capitalism is still taboo.
I think a computer system checking most of those boxes could be made with software on modern PC hardware. I think that is possible as long as we keep check of ourselves to continue following the principles.

Your list of qualities remind me of what I liked most about the Amiga and its OS. The (desktop) system was manageable by one person and you learned as you went. It did not "mollycoddle" the user, and it did not require you to spend years of study (as with Unix, Linux and the internals of MS-Windows).

One older principle (1967) that is related to several of yours, and apparently largely forgotten these days is "The principle of least astonishment" [0].

Other lists of computing principles I've come across that I find interesting (even if I do not always agree): Loper-OS's seven laws of Sane Computing [1], and the principles of Permacomputing [2].

[0]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...>

[1]: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

[2]: https://permacomputing.net/Principles/
Grab some popcorn instead
In what way is this relevant, let alone an elephant in the room when talking about a ship of explosives.
There's a problem worldwide that farmers have an incentive to boycott environmental legislation. If nothing goes wrong, they earn more cash, if they fail, they get bailed out. So they want to farm every last inch of nature.

Of course this particular piece is about a crime, but it does highlight the broader problems we face.
The idea is very nice, but as all LLM-backed stuff I see results are poor, meaning we need more effort to use the LLM obtaining good results than doing the work with non-LLM-wrapped/backed tools. It's the same for copilot to code and so on.

It's still an interesting applications that might have a better future concentrating toward simulations (Salomé MECA, CodeASTER etc) since for these systems it's more tedious designing the simulation by hand than just sketch a 3D part with a modern parametric CAD.
Again, I'm ignorant about seafaring, but isn't bad weather a reason to avoid long trips?
If you want to evaluate code at runtime, check out “flutter remote widgets”.

This is the “built in” way to do runtime evaluation. It lets you dynamically load things. Google used this in some LLM demo where an AI created a UI in response to a user query.
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I do consider it a feature, in hindsight. Learning to program by asking "dumb" questions was great, because chats were ephemeral, nobody cared if the same question was asked for the 10 millionth time or risk of embarrassment being like 12 years old and asking greybeards for help.

Nobody also felt bad saying "RTFM" because, whatever, it blows over in a minute, there's no permanent record of having a harsh moment, more free to just move on.

The same old questions being asked due to no search also provided more opportunities to answer those questions, so, newbies could start to learn by teaching.

So, yeah, I think something beneficial was lost, even if I wouldn't go back to that approach- it's more of a tradeoff than a definitive improvement
That's why any UBI should be financed by a tax on real estate ownership. Preferably progressive one to prevent concentration of real estate ownership.

How much of real estate any entity and person owns should be easily traceable because ownership of real estate directly and ownership of entities that can themselves own property is already tracked.
Do you want to provide sources for these claims? I see Germany's fertilizer exports are down by 10%, while its fertilizer imports from Russia fell by 80%. Fertilizer production seems to be up, but this metric is tracked by value only.
Interesting read on one had, a bit disappointing on the other: when the solution is just "we moved to this other product" it smells of lack of serious and rigorous investigation.

Also, having worked with the JVM and with GC issues I don't buy the "GC problems" point: there are a number of improvements in recent JVM release, the main being ZGC (and generational ZGC in particular).

ZGC is great, I've personally witnessed sub-millisecond GC pauses (and i mean sub-millisecond stop-the-world pauses) on machines serving millions of requests per second. Garbage Collection is largely a solved problem in the industry as of today, thanks to ZGC.

Other than this, also comparing latencies for machines with 9TB disks rather than 4TB disks is a bit like comparing apples and oranges: we will never know if issues at the storage layer were affecting tail latencies. Were the node having, i don't know, filesystem fragmentation issues? Does the 9TB storage configuration deliver higher iops than the previous 4TB storage configuration? Is the same kind of hardware underneat (same disk type? same disk bus? or are we talking ssd vs nvme?).

As somebody that's been doing performance engineering for work, this piece is a bit appalling.

Glad to see they've solved their issue though!
> This is quite possible, equally though, what is stopping all these countries from simply refusing access to territorial waters for this ship.

Note that for the ship to travel between Lithuania and Norway/UK, it needs to pass by Kaliningrad. For some reason the ship didn't stop there.

The ship also didn't went from Lithuania to st Petersburg. Why was that?
2NH₄NO₃ (s) → 2N₂ (g) + O₂ (g) + 4H₂O (g)

Only happens spontaneously at high temperature/pressure. But of course being an explosive reaction, once it starts in a little pocket of material, all the neighboring material experiences a lot of heat and pressure, and blows up. And then the next layer, and the next layer, etc.

If improperly stored, pockets form with different pH values that cause it to spontaneously occur at lower temperatures. Or a spark, or a compressive event in an unstable patch, etc.
This is a relatively constant factor along the Norwegian coast and has been for many years. In recent years the behavior has become a bit more aggressive with communication cables at sea going missing.

This tends to not make international news as this activity isn't exceptional. It just varies in intensity and scope over time.
I've come across some legitimate open source projects where all the listed sponsors are dodgy gambling sites, I doubt they actually use the tech, it's just a way to get relatively cheap backlinks from a legitimate website.

Not sure what you're supposed to do as the project maintainer, might also be a bit strange to selectively only display some sponsors that you think are "trustworthy"?
I’ve seen you specifically make this exact same argument in almost every single thread that’s ever about Dart of Flutter for I think at least two years now. It’s a really weird fixation you seem to have.

It’s never come true, you’re talking nonsense just like every other time people try to politely explain it to you.
> are mostly there because it seemed like the path of least resistance

This is true of pretty much every profession. Academics get a lot of heat because there is some silly feud around elitism and common people but the reality is most people in every career are there because it's easy. I'm a software developer by trade, not because I went through hardship to become one but because I happen to really enjoy writing software. I'm just lucky it happens to be lucrative.
What mechanism exists that deals with this? Even if I say something like my local art gallery that just shifts the burden of wading through 100k paintings to them away from me, an they still won't be able to sift through them all.
> If there wasn't another ride from the ISS available, would the astronauts be stranded? Yes.

Seems like the answer to this would be no. Starliner's risk was elevated, not guaranteed to fail. The presence of a flight-proven option was the limiting factor.
People don’t want to change consumption habits and they aren’t going to vote for politicians who want to change consumption habits, so technology is the only hope.
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A lot of the useful ones are nitrate based. So, “sometimes”.
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No, equal TNT power equivalent can have different effect depending on the nature of the explosive. The heat spreaded from an amonium nitrate blast, like in Beyrut, does not last as long, from [0],

> However even on this basis, comparing the actual energy yields of a large nuclear device and an explosion of TNT can be slightly inaccurate. Small TNT explosions, especially in the open, don't tend to burn the carbon-particle and hydrocarbon products of the explosion. Gas-expansion and pressure-change effects tend to "freeze" the burn rapidly. A large open explosion of TNT may maintain fireball temperatures high enough so that some of those products do burn up with atmospheric oxygen [...]

See also the "Relative effectiveness factor" paragraph [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent#Relative_effect...
cheers for the echolink, I had no idea about it.
This is not at all an accurate description of the typical applications of the CATIII landing procedure in practice.
They store it next to fireworks. And then proceed to weld near where the fireworks are stored.
Its an interesting scenario.
because if the ship suddenly decided to turn around and head for the closest, most densely populated costal city... what can they do about it?

Blow it up? its ALREADY close enough to cause significant damage.

Somehow sink it without detonating it? The environmental damage alone would be devistating to the econcomy...

if this is a russian plot, it's already increadibly successfull.
> I do consider it a feature, in hindsight. Learning to program by asking "dumb" questions was great, because chats were ephemeral, nobody cared if the same question was asked for the 10 millionth time or risk of embarrassment being like 12 years old and asking greybeards for help.

I pity the new generations for not having this kind of opportunity: the opportunity to make mistakes, say dumb stuff and goof off with all these things vanishing in a matter of minutes, hours at most.

I miss the old internet: at any point you could pick a new nickname and get a fresh and clean new email address from many of the webmail providers and just start a new online life.

And it was considered normal. It was actually a "best practice" to never use nicknames.

I miss the old internet.
They provided exactly the same level of "statistics" you did. Try harder, champ.
I hear this a lot. I don't really see Google getting fed up with flutter, due to what they have invested in it, but for the sake of argument let's say that did happen. Google abandons flutter. What happens next? Will it fizzle out?

To take your point about the domains, flutter's, and by association dart's, domain is cross platform development from one codebase. As far as I can tell nothing else comes close just now, that domain makes flutter relevant no matter what. Surely as opensources projects, both survive?
Right, but just citizens, no companies. Every separate piece of real estate needs to be owned by a specific person. What a fun world would that be. Or maybe just funny.
Moore's law is still working, flawlessly! #TIL

But why the 2005 is "power wall reached", isn't it GHz wall as well?
This is an unfair framing of it. Addiction is a mental illness and these companies are preying on the mentally ill to make money. They rely on them ruining their own lives and others' to make a profit.
Are the going prices for carbon credits sufficiently high that this approach could be commercialized?
> That a lot is expected and taken for granted from the security researchers by triagers that behave like you have to “prove to be worth listening to” while in reality they barely care to process and understand what you are saying, only to realize you were right all along three weeks later (if at all).

Unfortunately there is a torrent of bullshit artists claiming bullshit vulnerabilities in software. Much of it is pure nonsense such as hallucinating AI's describing imaginary bugs in imaginary code and much of what little is real is extremely overhyped-- stuff like "DOS attack where the victim has to keep clicking on the attacker's button" or, more charitably "DOS attack which is strictly less impactful than a ping flood".
At some point the comparison becomes moot. It's suffice to say that it's big enough to wreck the port, plus some significant percentage of the city around it.

No, it likely wouldn't do as much damage as an airburst nuke. But it would be catastrophic nonetheless.
I'd say a Lisp and books like little Schemer, etc. are a perfect way to study programming and computer science. Later on you could have a look at SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) which also uses Scheme, but is more advanced than Little Schemer. It's one of my all time favourite CS books.
Beirut was 2750 tons. So it's slightly more than 7 times as much. Also, one ton of ammonium nitrate is roughly equivalent to 250kg of TNT. If this shipment actually were to explode all at once, the energy equivalent would be roughly 20x0.25=5 kilotons of TNT. That's one third of the Hiroshima bomb's 15 kilotons.

But these are highly oversimplified number games. For example, it's highly doubtful someone could get this to explode all at once without dispersing most of it - even if they were actively trying to cause maximum damage. Nonetheless it's still a monumental safety risk and any port in their right mind would do well to shoo this piece of crap back to Russia.
Honestly, I mostly don't. I just try to name things accurately and then use `fd . | fzf` on Unix or Everything on Windows to find them later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion suggests that pure AN is also explosive.

As far as I know, the explosion that leveled part of Beirut was mostly assumed to be caused by uncontaminated AN too.
More like "find some local village leader from a society a step above the Sentinelese on the development ladder", but I was struggling to find a way to phrase it in a way that wouldn't be accidentally offensive to someone.

Point being, such a "landlord" will happily take your maple syrup and let you do approximately whatever on the land you lease from their tribe. They won't mind a "commercial food-grade bioreactor lab" because they have neither a reference point for it, nor a use for one, but because of that you'll also need to provide your own infrastructure and supplies somehow.

(Also first time around, I read it as "food-grade bioreactor" without the "lab" bit, so I imagined setting up a shed with some fancy biotech equipment; now I see you probably meant a manufacturing plant.)
A Russian front in a small corruptible EU state in the Mediterranean (e.g. Malta, Cyprus) would not be a surprise at all.

See many news articles e.g.

https://www.eureporter.co/world/malta/2023/08/09/malta-has-a...

https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cypr...
your comment oscillates between incorrect and incoherent. squids have been demonstrated for decades (i didn't assert they hadn't been) and are made of josephson junctions, whose nicheness is not at issue in this discussion. i hope you get better because you clearly were not well when you wrote this
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.
I'd always thought this conclusion was just a given.

Highly optimized systems take full advantage of their environment and rely on a high degree of predictability in order to avoid redundant operations.

These systems minimize the free energy in the system, and so very little free energy is available to counteract new forces introduced to the environment which act on the system.

You'll find parallels in countless domains, since the very basis for learning and stabilization of a system revolves around becoming more or less sensitive to a given stimulus. Examples could be attention, supply chain economics, institutions, etc.
Looks like some experts in Sweden disagreed, Ruby was denied entry to Gothenburg.
Or, if the ship is indeed being used as a weapon, a "small" hidden charge of military explosives that will be hard to find after a kiloton-scale explosion.
> A little more info on how it is stored/transported and under which eventualities the cargo would become bomb-like would give me a sense of journalistic satisfaction as an accompaniment to my sense of impending doom.

I agree. In fact the premise of the article - that this should be treated as a threat from Russia - hangs on the understanding that there is a legitimate reason a European port would accept a ship carrying this cargo. So how many such shipments are regularly made from Russia to Europe? What ports are designated to accept them? What safety measures do they have to handle the cargo? In what way is this particular ship different from those legitimate ones? Without this information, the article is incomplete.

If there are no such legitimate shipments the article cannot claim there is any ambiguity about the threat posed by this ship.
I was thinking how this string of thought could connect to our daily lives. As a family with a toddler, if we fill up too much of our schedule/time in a day, a perturbation to the schedule can break everything. If instead we fill up 63-70% of the schedule and build in Flex Time, we're good!
> Why would a seaworthy ship carrying some exported product return to the origin port?

Why would a seaworthy ship carrying some dangerous explosive material, that multiple ports have now refused entry, return to the origin port?

I mean at this point - is there in fact a port it can go to that is not the port of origin that will accept them?

It seems there isn't, so why travel around making moves towards other ports unless as a form of aggression. (no question mark)
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I have seen none across ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot.

They may be somewhat useful for some small function/lookup, but:

- they will always, without fail, hallucinate non-existent functions, methods, types and libraries. Your job becomes a constant code review, and I'm not here to babysit an eager junior

- claude will always, without fail, rewrite and break your code, and any fixes you've done to Claude's code. Even if you tell it not to. Again, you end up babysitting an eager junior

- fo any question outside of StackOverflow's top-3 languages and top-10 libraries they are next to useless as they know nothing about anything

These are not "AIs" or code assistants or autocompletes. These are generic token prediction machines which don't care if you write code or Harry Potter fanfics.

If you train them specifically on vast amounts of code and documentation, then maybe, just maybe, they may actually be useful
Informed generalists might also be a useful perspective to a field, or bring in relevant knowledge not well known within the field.
I do! Both

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/

and

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/

are hosted using it. I think it's a great least-effort option for static websites, especially if you want to push the actual final result of the SSG and not just the files it generates.
Good analysis, but one also needs to look at the definition of `efficiency`, what is your definition of efficiency in this context.
My favorite source of financing of any UBI is progressive tax on real estate. The more you own (either directly or through subsidiaries) the higher percentage of real estate value you owe periodically.
TIL you could wreck the whole international economy/market/political order with a few well placed shipwrecks
If it gets wet or packed too tightly.

Ah interesting. Yeah trusting Russian inspectors that they did their job is not a good idea.
There's zero downsides from large scale capital leaving housing real estate rental market. That's exactly what is needed for housing to return to acting like housing.
Of course it is possible! Around 25% of the world's steel is already produced by electric arc furnaces. 100% in some countries, and over 70% in the USA.

The UK exports 7-8 million tonnes of scrap steel every year, while producing about 5 million tonnes in blast furnaces. There's more than enough feedstock to replace all the UK blast furnace steel production with EAFs and still have some left over.