skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (...) how would the Russians coerce a ship full of sailors to not surrender or abandon the ship rather than choose between vaporisation or arrest or death by (...)

Have you paid any attention to Russia's meatwave tactics in Ukraine that so far already piled up half a million of Russian casualties?

If you did, you wouldn't be considering this scenario implausible, because we see videos of said Russians needlessly marching towards their deaths on a daily basis.
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A hacker known as fear.io had shut down the bangladesh main government server a few months ago, yet this anonymous hacker plans to strike once again on another government server, fear.io claims that he had already attacked the US government server back in 2016, with official news about this indcident at https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/296636-fear-hacker-hits-hundreds-of-government-servers/ stay safe, and beware of fear.io.
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The same way Russia coerces soldiers to go into the meat grinder against Ukraine - money, assurances their families will be cared after (well it might be with a sack of potatoes, but the poor fools can't know that).
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Sometimes you just want whatever code/configs/whatever inside a directory committed and pushed to github quick
It's not the same. Storage conditions matter.
That’ll probably bump up flight prices quite a bit and with the US not having a rail or bus alternative and basically commuting on flights - that’s not going to “fly” at all
Linux/4004 [video]
Sadly true. It will likely be 720p vertical.
The write-up:

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.+Linux4004

Previous discussion of the text, but not the video:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41600756
Plenty, when you pay enterprise support contracts, but Apple doesn't do enterprise actually.
At the same time, denying access due to the risk also shows that behavior has consequences: if Russia didn't behave like a dangerous, aggressive, untrustworthy bully, they would have an easier time getting their cargo offloaded
I think the censorship of this JD Vance document is positive for the Harris campaign. The actual document is run-of-the-mill opposition research, but when some people unfamiliar with the contents hear about it being censored they will assume it's as scandalous as Hunter Biden's laptop.
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Without first and business class - economy wouldn’t be affordable to people
No account required: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9626390
For the non-boaters, “heaves to” means “has stopped” in this context.
Generalists and specialists veering out of their lane come across the same until there is an incorrect statement about a field you know.
there was a quote, and I can't remember exactly so I paraphrase: "the person who creates a new form of energy for the world, without creating an equivalent heatsink, would be history's greatest monster", although I suppose that is very perfect being the enemy of the good.
In that case, the best experience in my opinion is to DIY one of the simplest radio receiver, that is, a super-regenerative or similar one that could be built off a single transistor/jfet and a high impedance headphone. Or, to make things cleaner, a couple transistors where 1st one acts as antenna preamplifier (and -very important- to prevent the other transistor oscillations to be radiated by the antenna).
It's a very simple project that can be built on a breadboard in an afternoon, encourages experimenting and teaches a lot in the process.
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Just to be clear, you want HN users put effort into a rebuttal of the factless speculation presented as a fact? This isn't how discussions work, this is flamebait (just like the article itself) and has no place on HN. This doesn't contribute to the discussion, and should be downvoted and flagged.
I find it hard to accept the statement that "[bitcoin] is fundamentally the only hard currency we have ever created". Is it saying that gold back currencies were not created by us, or that gold isn't hard enough?

Additionally, there's a good reason we moved off deflationary hard currencies and onto inflationary fiat currencies. Bitcoin acts more like a commodity than a medium of exchange. People tend to buy it, hold it, and then eventually cash out. If I am given a bunch of bitcoin, the incentive is for me not to spend it, but rather keep it close and wait for it to appreciate — what good is a currency that people don't spend?

Also I find it weird when I read that due to its mathematically proven finite supply it is basic economics that gives it value. Value in modern economics is defined as what people are willing to give up to obtain that thing. Right now, people are willing to give up a lot for bitcoin, but mainly because other people are also willing to give up a lot for bitcoin, which gives it value.

It's a remarkable piece of engineering that has enabled this (solving the double spending problem especially), but it doesn't have inherent value in and if itself. There are many finite things in the world that are not valued as highly as bitcoin is. There's a finite number of beanie babies, a finite number is cassette tapes, a finite number of blockbuster coupons...

Gold is similar — should we all agree tomorrow that gold sucks and should never be regarded as a precious metal, then it won't lose its value completely (there's only a finite amount of it, and some people will still want it, e.g. for making connectors). But its current valuation is far higher than it would be for its scarcity alone — people mainly want gold, because other people want gold.
The only Western asset that has been sabotaged was Nordstream, by either the U.S. or the Ukrainians (now the official story is that Zalushny ordered it).

CEPA is a propaganda site:

https://cepa.org/article/wake-up-nato-its-sabotage/

"European energy security and the continent’s critical infrastructure are the core pillars of Transatlantic security. Safeguarding them is fundamental to ensuring democratic resilience and stability."

In light of Nordstream, this is hypocritical and offensive to Western Europeans who suffer the economic consequences.

Yes, the Russian invasion is bad, yes, they should get out of Ukraine, but repeatedly manufacturing additional stories is counterproductive.
"Spirituality is not the same as being happy"
That just tells me where it is now. You need an account to see where it has been for the last N days.
Can't it be dragged to the Kaliningrad port? That would be the perfect place to store the ammonium nitrate.
His newer videos are probably okay, but his 90s interviews have questions like "do you still want to commit suicide?" [1], "from my research I got rumors that you slept with such and such person..." [ibid.], "there is a rumor that your cock is shaped like a soup can" [2] etc. How is this respectful, appropriate, relevant? He's also plain rude with the artists he dislikes for some reason. See Beck [3] or the Strokes. He often interrupts people and doesn't let them answer his questions.

If the goal is to break the interviewee, there are more clever and subtle ways to do that.

[1] https://www.serviette.ca/nardwuar-com/vs/lydia_lunch/index.h...

[2] https://www.serviette.ca/nardwuar-com/vs/henry_rollins/pg3.h...

[3] https://www.serviette.ca/nardwuar-com/vs/beck_hansen/index.h...
I got my license from US, the questions are randomly selected from a pool of public questions, so with enough time and Anki, you can easily pass the test. It might feel like cheating for some, but I found out I can remember a lot of information from learning this way, but I am an EE so your mileage may vary.

The trick is to only learn the question and correct answer, do not look at the wrong options when memorizing.

The article mention you can use a calculator, you can but the math does not really require it most of the time. I don’t remember using it.
This is quite possible, equally though, what is stopping all these countries from simply refusing access to territorial waters for this ship. It seems to be travelling for thousands of miles just fine, so can't claim emergency shelter, and even then the danger to third parties seems to justify any refusals. The crew is likely tiny and easy to rescue if need be.

I can imagine this being a simple ruse to annoy NATO countries and their navies too, that wouldn't be out if character, but beyond that... That would be a very petty hybrid risk.

Or maybe Russia is just trying lots of things just to see what sticks..?

From my side, while I think using a semi damaged ship as a hybrid threat would be within the Russian MO, it also seems like an easy one to protect against.
Nice idea, but the climate crisis is not solved with technology (we already know and have everything we need) but by politics and changing our consumption habits.
That article fills in a lot of blanks for me:

"Over the weekend, MV Ruby was also denied access to the Strait of Denmark, the entrance to the Baltic which would have allowed it to offload its dangerous cargo at a Russian port.

According to Danish news reports, on Friday a pilot was to be allocated the following day, but when the time came, authorities appeared to have changed tack.

'The ship is not going to have a pilot tonight, and the latest I’ve heard is that it’s in Norwegian waters,' DanPilot press officer Anne Heinze told DR Nyheder over the weekend.

Instead, MV Ruby is apparently making its way toward the Channel, with Malta-flagged anchor handler Amber II maintaining a distance of around one kilometre...

Though the vessel was able to limp some 1,600km around the Norwegian coast, it now faces a fraught voyage through the Channel, past Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar and onward to Malta through two of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.

And there are few good choices ahead for the vessel’s crew: should MV Ruby sink, the cargo will likely cause enormous environmental damage, including algal blooms which choke swathes of ocean life, and could lead to a shipping exclusion zone to contain the spread of pollution."
I think it's because gas wells can't just be turned off. Gas comes out of the ground and they have to do something with it.
No not really. You need an explosion or energetic impact to trigger it, and potentially a fire too. But it might become unstable by heat and more so if it's contaminated by oil.

One early industrial disaster and the biggest explosion of it's time happened because the workers in a production plant in Germany regularly used Dynamite to clear out stuck ammonium nitrate in silos. The last time they tried, the plant was obliterated together with most of the nearby town.
I don't think that is "very perfect being the enemy of the good" at all. Any new energy source (like fusion) would be a very real threat to mankind, see also https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
> Would you want to be a captain of an EU registered ship stuck in Russia for an indeterminate amount of time with limited ability to pay for (sanctions) repairs of an uncertain nature?

Your hypothesis is quickly rejected/proven to be bullshit by the fact that the travel distance that the ship took after being rejected by Norway was greater than the distance it would need to take to get to a Russian port.

And instead the ship planted itself where? Right in the middle of the English channel? We're talking about hitting ports from Norway, Lithuania, and now UK/France/Belgium?
Have you tried Renarde and Qute?
Yeah, cause Russians couldn't afford a front in Malta of all places, or play the crew blind.
This is pretty much a non-point. In the age of off-shore, ownership-obfuscated, tax avoiding company proliferation, any country "owning" a vessel means very little. To give an example, technically most "mining" companies in the world are Canadian. What that means in practice is they rent a desk in one of a handful of office towers in Vancouver to set their legal/financial headquarters in the country to access services and the TSX. They are certainly not "Canadian" in the true sense. I see news articles sometimes mentioning X Canadian mining company operating in South America, Africa, or SE Asia. If the true owners are not Canadian, the operations are not Canadian, the office workers, leadership team, and financial flows never touch Canada, it's not Canadian.

That said, I do agree it's inflammatory and probably not the best source.
I don't fully understand what's going on here, but note that arithmetic expansion is for stuff like $((6 * 7)). There's no arithmetic expansion involved in your or
Calzifer's examples.
I missed the citation on his education point. Has someone proved that “teaching to the test” leads to lower educational outcomes than not having tests?
Unlike merchantmen, naval vessels were crewed at a level allowing for substantial attrition (bad attrition would be casualties; good attrition would be prize crews); I believe they traditionally (pace Churchill) had many, many activities which were incidental to force projection (eg polishing the brightwork) but could be used to occupy all hands.
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Ammonia is produced at scale by the Haber-Bosch process, N2 + 3H2 => 2NH3. Most H2 is currently produced by steam reformation of natural gas, CH4 + 2H2O => CO2 + 4H2.

It's not really feasible to turn ammonium nitrate back to natural gas, moreso GP was insinuating it's a way to export (a proxy for) natural gas, eg to bypass sanctions.
7x Beirut or 1/3 power of Hiroshima according to the article (although would it cause as much damage as a nuke detonated in the air?)
They've been wandering close to the Danish and Swedish coasts not that long ago with "research ships" that had armed personnel on board.

I would be less inclined to believe if such strategies weren't as commonly employed. But, they are.
Just wait until the LLM bots start arguing with each other on discord ;)
I was using it locally for mostly personal projects before I switched to fossil.
The article contains an interesting note at the end: "Eitvydas Bajarūnas is an ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, and currently a Center for Europe Policy Analysis (CEPA) Visiting Fellow. Assessments and views expressed in the article are those of the author and should not be treated as the official position of the MFA of the Republic of Lithuania."

That may suggest bias, but also an unusual level of insight (and there is the possibility that it is an official position pushed through a "side channel" to make it look less official).

And according to the BBC article, it's destination isn't Malta, at least not until they figure out where else to unload the cargo, because Malta won't let them in with the cargo on board. That in itself is noteworthy. Especially since the "it might leak" claim sounds like it might just be an intentionally-transparent pretext.
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Or are you just going to read prompt results out loud for 40 minutes, too? I hope not, but we will not take the chance.

I did actually attend a talk at a conference a few years ago where someone did this. It wasn't with LLMs, but with a Markov chain, and it was art. A bizarre experience, but unfortunately not recorded (at the request of the speaker).

Obviously the big difference was that this was not kept secret at all (indeed, some of the generated prompts included sections where he was instructed to show his speaker notes to the audience, where we could see the generated text scroll up the screen).
Isn’t this why solar is good. We already have the heat sink (earth) we just aren’t using the energy.
An 'abomination' of a sub – and the boss convinced Titan was safe
Are you saying Beirut was intentional?
When you have a Russian ship carrying this much ammonium nitrate, it’s prudent to assume the worst, even without evidence.

Russia has made their bed, and now they must sleep in it.
only if you're familiar with the CAD package.

presumably a big benefit here is that all it really takes English and geometry knowledge.
This is how I found out that Russia is burning down IKEA warehouses in Europe xD
What is the argument against Apple then?
> (...) we should still assume that most media are just propaganda (...)

Is the ship filled with the same Beirute port explosion compound? Yes or no?

Is the ship refusing to turn to Russian ports and instead is aimlessly trying to get into strategic EU/NATO ports?

Even the captain failed to address any kind of repair while at Port.

Only a moron does not consider this a threat worth mitigating.
Most folks don’t get on the road with a superiority complex. If we don’t believe in goodwill actions of others, society falls apart.
I think the GPS jamming is fairly clearly a Russian operation. Not sure if this is a good source, but just eyeballing where the disruptions are, they centre around Kaliningrad region: https://rntfnd.org/2024/05/10/hobbyists-zero-in-on-kaliningr...

Another one is hybrid warfare via artificial migration on Russia's Western borders. Poland, the Baltic states, and to a lesser extent also Finland, experience waves of aggressive migrants forcing these borders, often with clear help, or coercion, from Russian or Belarusian security forces. To be clear, I feel heavily for people escaping poverty and war, my point is they are being weaponised here.

Protecting the borders saps resources from the militaries of these countries.

Whether other specific attacks are Russian or not is hard to know, but it seems beyond doubt that Russia is engaging in low level hostility against the West.
Is it really that much of a jump to say "I would like to see the chat that has happened between my friends between the time I got on a plane and then got back off"? Does that sound odd?

Imagine if you couldn't receive e-mail while you were offline!

This isn't to disparage IRC and friends too much, obviously there's huge value in it existing as a synchronous chat room. Just... async chat is a thing that totally happens for most people.
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> IRC does not encrypt messages, only (optionally) the client<->server connection. Without E2EE, you have no privacy against the server/operator, which is an easily targeted SPOF.

Same as Discord.

> Matrix (the protocol) is still in flux, and the implementations are lagging behind the spec. If you're not using Element, you're behind on features and security.

Discord also only has one reference client, but for me even with that client Matrix/Element was not as reliable. I still use and like it, but it's not a like for like in that regard.

> XMPP is (similarly to IRC) relying on optional protocol add-ons for basic things, like E2EE, which clients may or may not support fully or correctly.

But if you use current clients like Conversations or Dino or the likes it does work. There is no point in counting the clients that don't support it if these aren't the reference or biggest ones. The problem here is more that it's not meant to be used like Discord in any way. Not for big group chats/channels nor for big voice chats (not even sure this possible).
I somewhat disagree.

Dart is a decent language for Flutter, but I’m not sure why you’d want to use it off of the flutter path. Maybe for CLI or other client-side tools? Either way, if you’re not re-using a dart package or using flutter, you absolutely should not pick it as your tool of choice.

The language seems nice syntactically, but I find it really frustrating in practice. It’s good enough for the “happy path” that was envisioned - basic UI hierarchies. It’s clear some team designed the language by first writing examples of what they wanted it to look like when making a UI. I think Swift UI caused similar complexities on Swift. You can confirm that even the contributors think this from reading controversial PRs in GitHub.

The nice thing about flutter, and Dart, is that it’s starting to take a life on outside Google. Google should hand off ownership to a foundation or other organization - especially now that their newest thing is Kotlin Multiplatform. I hear more and more companies writing flutter backends for their UI work, so hopefully it could survive alternative stewardship. I believe some TVs and car navigation systems now use flutter, plus all the google stuff.
There is a detailed description of the circuit with the PAL colour card (it's on the euro //e motherboard) in Understanding the Apple //e by Sather (see archive.org for a copy) on pages 8-16 -> 8-19.

You do get the green/purple fringes on text, the euro //e has a switch on the motherboard that turns off the TCA650 and forces mono mode which is handy for 80 column work.

I _suspect_ you don't get all of the NTSC artifacts since PAL will be a bit better, but I really need to get my TV plugged in on my //e running one of the games (adventures typically) that use artifiacts to check.

The other alternative is the apple authorised ITT2020 which added an extra bit to the display so shows "jail bars" on screen when running ][ software. Again I should drag mine out to do some testing.
Organics such as fuel oil, which the ship likely has on board and might also refuel. If it accidentally or "accidentally" leaks into the AN, you get ANFO, "a widely used bulk industrial high explosive".

If Russia wants to nuke an European port city without using an actual nuke and while being able to at least leave some doubt whether it may have just been an accident, this certainly looks like a plausible way.
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Writes regexes for me.
Astonishing amount of critical thinkers here in this thread who have to highlight that the ship is Maltese because it's flying a Maltese flag as if this matters in international shipping.
Ah true, not exactly what you are looking for but according to this article [1] :

Kandalaksha

Tromsø

Klaipeda

Gothenburg

[1] https://theloadstar.com/baltic-ports-bar-damaged-ruby-now-in...
They did give one example, if someone does a @everyone in a big channel, they specifically optimized their architecture to make that efficient using their custom data services.
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It's technically doable, the text in the right pane would be stored as comments in the source. The editor would parse the comments and collapse them into UI elements in the code, so that they could still be copy and pasted e.g. how the little blue capsules in Xcode work.

It's a bad idea because it's wasteful of space while achieving very little over a conventional setup.