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> While Lithuanian authorities announced there was no evidence of malicious intent against the country’s national security, they noted that when dealing with Russia, or other unfriendly international actors, states should always be cautious.

This bears repeating. Russia has bee actively engaged in low-intensity warfare with the west for decades, and has single-handledly escalated their aggression towards the west in general but western Europe in particular for the last couple of years to the point they overtly and very publicly threaten the world with all sorts of attacks and global annihilation.

Once Russia tries to casually float a massive bomb right into your doorstep, only a massive moron would not mitigate the risk presented by Russia, even if considered implausible.
CH4 vs NH4NO3, where does the carbon go? Don't you need the carbon to recover the energy?
A computer being better than everyone doesn't mean that chess isn't complicated. With that logic, games like CSGO would not be complicated because you could create a bot that headshots everyone at first sight.

Also, there being variance doesn't mean that there is randomness. There is no random element to the game of chess. All the variance comes from human decisions. It's an unsolved game, so there is no way to guarantee a win.
Yeah, but "reason" is not a well-defined term. It means different things to different people in different contexts. It's just marketing speech. You can easily argue that all ML models, even those from 50 years ago, can reason to some extent.
The interesting thing is that ship was damaged almost immediately after leaving the port, had a chance to stop in Russian ports along the way but instead is doing a tour near EU countries.

The crew is either amazingly incompetent or malicious/complicit.

You don’t put a ship that can blow up near: a. Gas&oil terminals, b. military air base
Yeah you just put it on grass then wait for cows to munch on the grass and burp.
I would put it at

1 - e^(-1) ~= 0.6321

As e^x is a commonly occurring curve and at that point its derivative goes below 1, meaning from that point on it's diminishing returns.
This looks extremely cool. This is basically incremental view maintenance in databases, a problem that almost everybody (I think) has when using SQL databases and wanting to do some derived views for more performant access patterns. Importantly, they seem to support a wide breath of SQL operators, support spilling computation state to disk, and it's open-source! Interestingly, it compiles queries to Rust, so an approach similar to Redshift (which compiles queries to C++ programs).

There's already a bunch of tools in this area:

1. Materialize[0], which afaik is more big-data oriented, and doesn't pipe the results back to your database, instead storing results in S3 and serving them.

2. Epsio[1], which I've never used, seems to be very similar to this product, but is closed-source only.

3. When building OctoSQL[2], this capability was also important to me and it was designed from ground up to support it. Though in practice in a tool like OctoSQL it's pretty useless (was a fun problem to solve though).

There's some things I'm curious about:

- Does it handle queries that involve complex combinations of ordering with limits in subqueries? If due to a change in an underlying table a top-n row is added, resulting in moving other rows around (and removing the current n'th) will the subsequent query parts behave as though the order was maintained when computing it, or will it fall apart (imagine a select with limit from a select with bigger limit)?

- Is it internally consistent[3]? They say it's "strongly consistent" and "It also guarantees that the state of the views always corresponds to what you'd get if you ran the queries in a batch system for the same input." so I think the answer is yes, but this one's really important.

Either way, will have to play with this, and dig into the paper (the link in the repo doesn't work, here's an arXiv link[4]). Wishing the creators good luck, this looks great!

[0]: https://materialize.com

[1]: https://www.epsio.io

[2]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

[3]: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/internal-consiste...

[4]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.16684
In my humble understanding among I’m nitrate is a oxidizer (or a precursor of it). Am I wrong ? How would it explode without a fuel ?
What if Russia cut the normal radio with a crew of dispensable third-worlders
dummies like you suffer from a DEFICIT OF IMAGINATION
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Yes, fact-checkers often fall short of what many expect. Have you seen Steve Ballmer's recent interview about USA Facts [1][2]? He discusses the importance of adding context to data rather than focusing on isolated "microfacts" I think this approach could move the conversation forward by providing a more comprehensive view.

[1] https://usafacts.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41679316
By definition, you can’t build a parasocial relationship with an object. You could argue about parasocial attachment to characters I guess but even then I’m sceptical. I understand what you mean but parasocial is not the correct way to describe it.
Yeah, I thought another comment mentioned it was in the EU and read the article with that in mind. Good thing there's ten different people to gently inform me of that.
That reminds me of a study on "lazy" ants as a reserve/replacement labor force. [0]

Maximizing efficiency in the short-term is not the same as maximizing survival in the long term.

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170908205356.h...
The parent does not imply anywhere that you can produce natural gas out of fertiliser.

* They state that natural gas is an input to the fertiliser product

* They state that with sanctions on natural gas from Russia, converting it to fertiliser evades the sanctions, albeit by transforming it into a different but saleable product.
My council do have it online as well but, unfortunately, but in an .ics/ical format.
Sounds like a classic job for the CIA. Uh, I mean, ‘accident’.
Geroyam Slava!
And why is that not a goal of the "test team"?
This is the last thing I'd worry about. The series isn't about teaching you a language you can use later in industry. It's about teaching you higher-level concepts you can take with you to any languages you may encounter in the future.
Russia found out they had a faulty dangerous explosive ship under their control and instead of safely towing the ship to Russia and unload the Russian cargo they are instead using it to harass NATO countries as part of their hybrid warfare.

The ship has been featured extensively in Danish and Norwegian media. First the Russians attempted to get the explosive ship close to a NATO base in Norway before the Norwegian coast guard chased them away. The Danish coast guard also had to confront them.

The ship contains several times more Ammonium Nitrate than what caused the 2020 Beirut port explosion.
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You can do it in VSCode. It's running in a browser. There may extensions to do that or if not you could write one easily.

The reason it doesn't come with the editor is because every language has its own specific documentation format, though I do wish that they could create a consistent set of keyboard shortcuts, search UI, etc for documentation.
https://www.pronotes.app/ gives you markdown and back links on mac. I've been pretty happy with it since i use notes so often.
> This needs more explanation, does this mean the captain refused? Or Russian port authorities refused? Or they just... chose to limp in a particular direction?

The ship ran aground between Norway and Russia, seeked emergency shelter in Tromsø. The ship has damanges on it propellors and rudder. It anchored up near Tromsø for while until the port authorities and governments told the ship to leave due to security concern.
Basically the ship stayed outside a small populated island, and it was determined the island would be blown flat if something happened.

The Norwegian government are likely extra nerveous about this, just a small amount of the same stuff was used to blow up the government quarter in Oslo in the terrorist attack by Anders Brevik.

Presumably the ship tried to get to another port elsehwhere, but got into more mechanical trouble.
> Can we not build solar panels in the ocean like we do with wind turbines?

Technically yes, but that's a bad idea: ocean environment is very unforgiving, and has more clouds than land has. It also has more (and more reliable) wind and fewer people complaining about the very large turbines, which is why it works for wind.

> Some back of the napkin math says it would cost $2 Trillion, which is only double the amout we subsidized the fuel industry last year

Napkin maths also says that a global power grid would be 10% of that price. By coincidence, it takes a cross section of almost exactly 1m^2 to make a 40,000 km long line have a resistance of 1 Ω.

Further investigation said that literally only China has that much spare capacity for aluminium production, but still.

That kind of scale of battery production is still needed for the cars, though.
I am shocked to learn that infrastructure companies own a lot of infrastructure.
Have you considered donating them to the Internet Archive? They can take your collection and make it available to the whole world.

https://help.archive.org/help/media-types-for-donations/
In my experience shared memory is really hard to implement well and manage:

1. Unless you're using either fixed sized or specially allocated structures, you end up paying for serialization anyhow (zero copy is actually one copy).

2. There's no way to reference count the shared memory - if a reader crashes, it holds on to the memory it was reading. You can get around this with some form of watchdog process, or by other schemes with a side channel, but it's not "easy".

3. Similar to 2, if a writer crashes, it will leave behind junk in whatever filesystem you are using to hold the shared memory.

4. There's other separate questions around how to manage the shared memory segments you are using (one big ring buffer? a segment per message?), and how to communicate between processes that different segments are in use and that new messages are available for subscribers. Doable, but also not simple.

It's a tough pill to swallow - you're taking on a lot of complexity in exchange for that low latency. If you can do so, it's better to put things in the same process space if you can - you can use smart pointers and a queue and go just as fast, with less complexity. Anything CUDA will want to be single process, anyhow, (ignoring cuda IPC, anyhow). The number of places where you need (a) ultra low latency (b) high bandwidth/message size (c) can't put everything in the same process (d) are using data structures suited to shared memory and finally (e) are okay with taking on a bunch of complexity just isn't that high. (It's totally possible I'm missing a Linux feature that makes things easy, though).

I plan on integrating iceoryx into a message passing framework I'm working on now (users will ask for SHM), but honestly either "shared pointers and a queue" or "TCP/UDS" are usually better fits.
When the same corporations own the infrastructure they are service providers of, competitors are in for a bad time. And when competitors have a bad time, consumers get a bad time. There’s no reason MS or Google can’t become Comcast.
Ships are registered in Malta as a matter of convenience. See: they don't want the cargo either.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience
> [..] it wasn't a Boeing issue in this case. One of their suppliers [..]

The world would look very different if organisations were on the hook for the actions of their suppliers.
>In India, 90% of the inkjet printers use refillable ink tanks. The ink is way cheaper than in the US, there are no ink cartridges, print quality is the same, and the printers are roughly the same cost too (in USD).

No they don't.

Indian market sells same printer as they sell in US.

Difference is, indians refill those cartridges, reset chips, or use fake cartridges.

There are only few printers in market which can be filled for real.

Indian cartridges are cheap only because labor in india is cheap. If US had same labor prices.

But quality is just not same. I lived in both US and India.
If that is your reasoning then they might as well “rescue” all the other astronaut on board the ISS and shut the entire thing down.

You’re not rescuing someone from a danger that was already there and part of the mission. Them being “stuck” for a few more months doesn’t make them “in danger”

If they weren’t up there now two different astronauts would be up instead of them. And it would be part of a regular mission. Those would not need to be “rescued”
> where were they before the money started showing up?

Is that the question you are going to ask future hires who ask about equity as part of compensation? Equity is typically awarded to a broader base than solely pre-revenue founders - not for what have they done, but what will they do in the future, and at what compensation level and risk level. Equity is a tool to balance bad answers to other aspects of one's employment agreement, not (just) a reward for founders.

So before you come at this negatively, consider the best intentions - maybe they are sincerely interested in helping, and want equity to balance doubling down on their family risk by both partners being involved in a startup. If it fails, the whole family is in trouble, so some compensation for that risk is not unreasonable. At the same time, that needs to be balanced with the question of whether their talents are such that the company gets value back for that equity, and whether you'd make a similar offer to anyone else of similar talent.

If you can say yes -- that they have the correct talent currently needed by the company and anyone else with the same talent would get a comparable offer, then the board and employees should have no problem with the situation. But if you are awarding a nice position on the org chart and equity solely because of a family situation, it will likely cause concerns.
Would it be necessary if they could burn it in a controlled way that extracts an acceptable amount of energy?

(Pure speculation of course, as I know nothing about the matter)
There was an anomaly in the second stage deorbit burn (which did not impact the payload). Falcon is apparently grounded.

https://www.space.com/spacex-pause-launches-crew-9-falcon-9-... ("SpaceX pausing launches to study Falcon 9 issue on Crew-9 astronaut mission")

- "After today’s successful launch of Crew-9, Falcon 9's second stage was disposed in the ocean as planned, but experienced an off-nominal deorbit burn. As a result, the second stage safely landed in the ocean, but outside of the targeted area. We will resume launching after we better understand root cause"
Yeah, I think it is about time we re-focus on multi-processing as extension mechanism, given the available hardware we have nowadays.

Loading in-process plugins was a great idea 20 - 30 years ago, however it has been proven that is isn't such a great idea in regards to host stability, or exposed to possible security exploits.

And shared memory is a good compromise between both models.
Found it useful to get quick pointers, has context of seibel and graham's notes.
It was allowed entry to Tromsø and stayed there for a few days without repairs.
No need for fertilizer ships.

The delivery of material to the center of Ocean vertices is essentially free.
Any floating body winds up there eventually

I wrote about it here:
https://noverloop.substack.com/p/how-to-leverage-the-plastic...
Didn't there used to be a "Pave the Earth" meme ? Maybe update it for log roads.
100 Gb/sec per a CPU core.

200+ Gb/sec (IIRC Anandtech measured 240 Gb/sec) per a cluster.

Pro is one cluster, Max is two clusters and Ultra is four clusters, so the accumulative bandwidth is 200, 400 and 800 Gb/sec respectively[*].

The bandwidth is also shared with GPU and NPU cores within the same cluster, so on combined loads it is plausible that the memory bus may become fully saturated.

[*] Starting with M3, Apple has pivoted Pro models into more Pro and less Pro versions that have differing memory bus widths.
Yeah it seems to be taking quite a tour for a faulty ship…
Maybe they don't know they are used.
Ah, I never considered how follow forks mode might actually work/
Love myself some cybernetics! All engineers are doing themselves a disservice by sitting here writing smooth-brained rants about “dumb MBAs making my job hard” instead of reading up on this field and understanding the true complexities that are inherent in people working together.
Here’s its current location:

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:16...
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I don't know why someone would subject themselves to bash if the common argument in favour of it is a lie.

People say that bash is already installed on the system. Then people like you point out that it isn't.
‘Tank’ printers are everywhere. And literally comparing side by side with US versions? Same same.

What you’re talking about are the printers way, way cheaper than you can get in the US.
> Lithuania refused to help to spite Russia.

This was explained in the article:

> Lithuania refused because of the dangerous nature of the cargo. If 20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate were to detonate, it would obliterate the center of any port city — the blast would be equal to a third of the 1945 Hiroshima bomb. That would be a repeat of the devastating explosion of the same substance in Beirut in 2020, although Ruby is carrying seven times more ammonium nitrate.

That's hardly spite.
The place "near" Tromsø where it anchored is in the middle of the city now.

For this who don't know the place: the city is on an island, facing the mainland. There's a suburb on the mainland, connected to the city with a bridge and a tunnel. The ship anchored between the bridge and the tunnel.
For those who downvote the above, yes it presents speculation as if verified fact, but what it puts forth is actually plausible when you see how Russian military efforts tend to make use of uncertainty.

If you are going to dismiss it: dismiss it with facts and arguments. Don't just lazily downvote it.
If you want to start with HF I suggest to buy a USDX/(tr)USDX.
It's cheap (around 150€), portable, cover many bands and easy to operate. Some versions had also the integrated SWR meter and integrated battery.
And with a simple cable you can interface with a PC for digital mode.
For some it may go without saying, but for the uninitiated, y’all should be reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)
I think they mean because of that part

>It is also effectively 'natural gas in solid form'
In Discord culture, indeed, users usually share a shit-ton of PII in "introduction" messages from images to specific hobbies to medical information (EG "support" communities).

The problem from GDPR perspective is that Discoed makes it impossible to delete those, since once thet detect your interest in trying to delete any of your accounts' data, they will try to get to "anonymisize" it. Then at least publicly your username isdisconnected from thos messages, but they can still be traced back to specific persons. Now if this also is done server side, then they would be in a situation where you'd either have to go through ton of messages or to bulk delete past messages of all to enforce the GDPR demands of an user wanting their PII deleted.

EU Parliament is not a real Parliament in the sense that ONLY the Comission can propose new laws, and the elected parliament basically just votes on those. Who controls the Comission if not the people? The US State Department. Newsguard and non-Musk US bigtechs including Discord are in the same poli-financial bed of the establishment here. And they are full of previous state department workers.*

Unless there is public outrage, the
EU-level bodies at least will probably be owned. But Public opinion is controlled by the cyberpunk establishment that trains their LLMs & targets their campaign ads using that illegal Discord data to get political advantage.

You in my view ought to "worry" about the fact that it's possible there will sooner or later no longer be escape from a permanent establishment, Orwell-style. Goes along with the theme that "cybersecurity" is the United States government level has been "war against hate speech" for years, and of course "hate speech" meaning "censorship of internal and external enemy speech."

Budd Dwyers if I recall correctly shot himself in TV after writing to Biden (???) that under some conditions (that became true), the Department of Justice should have "Justice" removed from its name.

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Most of this I hold only at 50+% confidence of being broadly correct. Take with lots of salt.
Dart's only reason it is still among us is Flutter, if Google ever gets fed up with Flutter, it will fizzle out.

Meanwhile other programming language ecosystems have plenty of domains that keep them relevant no matter what.
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In Italy, if you have a degree in Telecommunication or electronical engineer you just need to pass a reduced version of the exam covering only transmitting rules and not electronic/RF topics.
I did that online few years ago, it was very easy.
“Oh it’s nice but it’s not Rust, why everything can’t be just like Rust”

The audacity of Rustaceans is so thick.
Experts have said in Swedish media that no such risk exists due to how it's packed/stored, unless someone intentionally mixes it with "organics" or stores it with fireworks (as in Beirut).
I don't know much about CEPA (this is the first time I've come across them) but I don't think they're the best source for news.
This article is extremely inflammatory, frames the entire story around Russia and seems to be extremely selective with which details were included. The article is stuffed with problems but I'll point out just a couple of examples:

> Maltese-registered cargo ship

This appears to be a deliberate attempt to cast doubt as to the "true" operator or entity controlling the vessel.
The ship is "Maltese-registered" because it's owned by a Maltese company, 'Ruby Enterprise'.
It's destination is Malta.

> Spurning the obvious solution of a return to Russia,

Is this obvious?
As the article admits, the vessel is seaworthy.
Why would a seaworthy ship carrying some exported product return to the origin port?

I think this BBC article[0] offers a much more balanced take on the events.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62g95721leo
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That wouldn’t be worthy of the front page of HN. “I don’t like the current tradeoffs that laptop manufacturers make” has been talked through to absolute death. It’s the opposite of interesting.
I'm assuming this is the ship? https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:16...

Anyone have a Marine Traffic account and can tell us about its movements?
I have a VT220 in my office. About ten years ago I used to use it regularly as a terminal for my Mac laptop. I tried hooking it up to an M1 Mac recently but had a ton of issues. First there was no drivers for my serial adapter. Once I got that straightened out, I fought with getting getty working for multiple hours yet failed to get it to work correctly.

I gave up, but I should circle back. Part of me is considering selling it.
> it's quite routine for these things to happen.

NTSB routinely issues "Urgent Safety Recommendations"? According to the table at https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/safety-recommendat..., there wasn't any in 2023 at all, so doesn't sound very common, but maybe things have changed since then.