skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enriching uranium is within the capability of a nation-state the size of Ukraine. If Iran and North Korea can do it, Ukraine certainly can. Hell, even today, in the midst of a war, they have 8 operational reactors at 3 power plants, plus 2 under construction, one damaged and recently repaired, 6 at the Zaporizhzhia power plant in contested territory, and 4 in the decommissioned Chernobyl plant.

Physical access to a nuke does not let you disable the PAL. They are constructed so that they are embedded within the device, and cannot be disabled or altered without deconstructing significant parts of the warhead. (I suspect that the PAL is not actually a separate device that can be separated from the warhead, but a series of design choices for how the warhead is constructed that make it unable to fire without the input of a cryptographic code. But then, details on this are very highly classified for obvious reasons, so we'll never know for sure.)

The real reason they didn't and don't do this is because they don't want to end up an international pariah state like Iran and North Korea. It's very clear that the U.S. has a vested interest in nuclear non-proliferation; they were the ones who gave the PALs to all our adversaries in the first place, because in the game-theoretic calculus of MAD, a small number of enemies that you can bargain and reason with is better than a large number of nuclear states even if many of those states are on your side. We would not have supported Ukraine if they attempted to retain the nukes in the 1990s, and we wouldn't support them developing nukes now.
Purity, obviously. Proteins can be contaminated with heavy metals, plastics, etc. Other things to avoid would be artificial sweeteners.

I would not start my search this way. Instead I would find a list of lab-tested products that meet purity and potency.
common advice is to never connect your smart TV to the network. Only use the HDMI inputs.
Thanks - I was grepping through the kernel sources and could not find any references to the Pioneer, Milk-V or the SG2042 SoC. It makes sense it's mentions in the commit logs instead, especially if the hardware is rather similar to existing supported components... I didn't know about the freshbsd site, nice to have this!
I assume you meant to respond to GP
I’ve been working with React Native and Flutter and every time I have to interact directly with iOS/Android, I find that Android is much easier to work with and feels much better designed from a software/api/config perspective. Where Apple wins,
however, imho is in hardware. The iPhone is a masterpiece and users can tell, even ~16 years in. I feel that when Apple finally chokes on hardware, or some player in the Android spaces releases something incredible, the game will change quickly.
I see you haven't watched much of how say Bakhmut was taken, or how entire battalion columns were destroyed business as usual.

You have to account for the possibility that for your enemy losing a couple of regiments for a town of 10,000 is acceptable losses.
I’m binge watching House MD right now, and the number of distinct ways he shits on people for basically saying, “focus on what’s important” is impressive.

The latest one I recall was something like, “we’ll be sure to use the real medicine instead of the placebos.”
I get it, makes sense
If any of this were remotely true, then I have a contract for you-- it involves a small loan for relocation, no big deal. You'll just have to work for me exclusively for the next 20 years, and if you can't pay it off, no problem, we'll assign the remainder to your kids.
As far as I know, that's not the case. I mean, I don't know who all of PG's friends are, but I assume you don't either.
The truth is that when people test out filters they are looking close up at the pixels, trying to squeeze out detail, but the reality is that whatever minute detail might get slightly softened by a 2.2-2.5 gauss filter will get chewed up by the process of color correction and compression anyway.

The aliasing you can end up with from a mitchell filter though can be noticeable all through the process. Not only that, but what will the compositor do when they see the aliasing? They'll blur it.

Basically it is trying to squeeze blood from a stone and the image out of renderer is going to be far sharper than anyone will see because it will go through multiple stages. Even compositing almost never leaves a render verbatim. There is usually some sort of slight softening, chromatic aberration, lens distortion and/or other transforms that require resampling anyway.

It is picking up pennies in front of a bulldozer and only causes problems to have a filter that's too sharp, let alone one that has negative lobes.
Arguing in a snarky way using denunciatory rhetoric is part of what I mean by the flamewar style and your comments certainly do a lot of that. We can put a different label on it if you don't like "flamewar", but the point is we're trying for something else on this site.

I'm certainly not trying to shame you or anybody—I'm trying to persuade you to follow HN's rules! and obviously not succeeding, but the last thing I want is to add shame into it.

It's common for people to underestimate the nastiness in their own comments and overestimate the nastiness in other people's. Those two factors multiply into quite a perception skew. Your posts to HN seem to me to be so nasty so often that I wonder if this might be a factor here.

It's also the case that certain types of veteran internet commenter have sharpened their weapons (snark, derision, etc.) to such a degree that they don't realize their own power. Often this type of commenter is quite smart and a good writer. I wonder if this may be a factor here too.

It's in HN's interest to have smart, good writers in the threads, but only if they're willing to leave those weapons at the door. There have been other cases where people have agreed to do this and stuck to their agreement, and I wish you would agree to do that too, because we'd all be better off. I mean it when I say I don't want to ban you.

I admire those skills—it's just that HN isn't the place for them. For that sort of combat to work on the internet requires a smaller, more cohesive community. HN can't be that. What ends up happening when people post in that style is that it degrades quality drastically as others (usually less smart and not as good writers) start taking cues from those posts. In the end we'd just have scorched earth, which is not interesting.
yup. And that cost/convinience is how we get trapped in the FAANGs of tech. The steam gamers are naive if they think the same can't happen to Valve. Gabe won't live forever.

and as a last bit of irony, we're already seeing those backdoor deals being opened up as we see how there was a point to the price fixing argument Wolfire accused of. They could have just let Overgrowth sell on their website, and now Valve is playing a game of cat and mouse on whether they re getting mass arbitration or class action.

>and you don’t have to create yet another account or have another buggy pos launcher on your computer.

Steam is another account I don't care much for personally. And steam has always allowed for third party accounts to be needed. You think then GTA 6 launches in 2029 on PC or whatever that people are gonna complain about needing a Rockstar account?

A lot of that "discourse" is just turf wars and entitlement.
Mining is heavily mechanized and automated already, yet remains inescapably dangerous.

Pragmatically speaking, when someone falls off a roof or a tree, it doesn't turn into a highly public, high-risk, government-responsibility rescue mission. When someone gets trapped in a mine, it does.

(If you fall off a tree logging in Alaska, there is a good chance a USCG helicopter crew comes to your aid, but that is more of a "five minutes in the local news" story than "nightly news host reporting live on location" event.)
Stupendously Large: How big can black holes get?
> I was commenting on the notion that ambition is in some way prima facie bad.

You were in fact commenting on the strawman you constructed that the op “notion[ed] that ambition is in some way prima facie bad”.

The op mocked, and in a way more reserved way than I would, the type of “ambition” that this unethical sociopath and his supporters endorse.

If this unethical sociopath was ambitiously pursuing universal healthcare then he’d get my support.

Instead he has found his place by stealing from the impoverished, world coin, and now creatives, OpenAI.

That to me is an abhorrent form of ambition.
Are you suggesting financial services aren’t “real GDP”? Why?

And instead of GDP you think S&P is a better metric? It’s even less relevant than GDP to QOL.
I keep looking at 3D printers, but then I start looking up if they are safe to use inside and various things like that, and I get scared off.

I think I need to give it a few more years before it reaches a maturity level I would actually use.
Chernobyl was an actual disaster.

The others created big headlines, but the real human casualties were smaller than a bad traffic accident.

The core argument here is "you never know!". And that argument is always true. But people only apply it to things they're afraid of.
CO2 wouldn’t be pulled out of the ocean. You’d have to liquify it from air in a different process. The molecular pumps are used to extract dissolved ions or solutes from sea water and only act as fast as diffusion.
If you chose Android because it’s open, then the judge has just forced Google to make it more open for you.

If someone chose iOS because it’s closed then the judge has decided it can stay mostly closed.

Also Google is where it is because they pitched a platform that was friendlier for carriers to load up with crapware than Apple was. It wasn’t really openness for openness’ sake. If Google hadn’t done that we might have been in a world where Palm or Microsoft were the secondary or primary player next to iOS.
Ethics is very important. People will just cut up other people and make another Frankenstein's monster of a creature. The scientists never stopped to ask if they should. In moments where ethics discussions are most warranted there are always folks like you trying to shut them down.
>If not, how do you sell it? How do you stop people stealing it? How do people find out about it?

we solved that issue long ago: make the APK a thin client to the actual service you keep on a server. Devs don't care where you download your APKs anymore. that's what the 90+% piracy took from us: the idea of premium, offline games.

advertising is tricky, but if we're being honest with ourselves: google play has only been a hinderance to discovery these days. My ideal pipeline is uploading to F-droid and throwing an APK release on Github as well.
AFAIK the Snowden/PRISM leaks only revealed that tech companies were part of the program, but not whether they were compelled or voluntarily gave the information up.
Well why do you expect people to teach you for free how to do home improvement? Those people who know how to do it well are working with it and you can pay them to improve your home.
FWIW, the US has been sending obsolete or intentionally degraded systems. There is a re-fit process if it comes from US stocks to remove sensitive tech or capabilities. It would be an error to assume that what happens in Ukraine represents the capabilities of US systems despite having the same name.

This isn't unique to Ukraine, most US weapon exports are selectively degraded or have capabilities removed. Despite this, most export versions of US weapon systems are still very competent.
Most of what you listed would not be necessary for an autonomous SSN without a “man in the loop” no? Order it to perform a patrol or sit on the seabed, periodically sending up an antennae to listen for updates to orders. If it receives a kill order, it starts hunting. Preposition them at strategic locations if necessary.

To be fair, I’m (partly) playing devil’s advocate, but I don’t think the tech to create a fully or nearly fully autonomous attack sub is that far out. Key point is that you would have to be willing to give it more autonomy than the current crop of UAVs.
It depends on the target hardware.

- https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/tree/main/M...

- https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/tree/main/L...

- https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/tree/main/P...
Also, Water Wet
Notion databases easily allow dependencies, integrated relationship tracking and multiple ways to visualize a project roadmap. Can't speak to JIRA but Notion is continuously releasing new updates that respond to user needs. There is a major downside to this of course. As a solopreneur I find it frustrating that Notion's updates tend to serve corporate needs, but it's a good business strategy and allows Notion to continue to serve others with its free version.
Hey, that's awesome. Seems like a great case for verifying things that way! I'm thinking of different cases I think, where you've got something like a distributed system or a web application and it's just harder to fuzz. But I agree, that seems a lot more practical than formally verifying it when that's the kind of testing you need.
Ask HN: Database design best practices for fintech
Hi,

Been working for quite sometime in a financial startup (5 years). My company uses postgres heavily. The system is getting overly complex, and every dev likes to add tables and columns however they want.

Are there any best practices around db design that you follow?
There is : the end user allows side loading from their preferred app, such as f-droid. Am I missing something?
Wiki entry[1] and archived short story[2] for anyone else reading the parent's remark and wondering how does one coherently map attack helicopters to gender identity meme.

Wow, now I can't unsee it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sexually_Identify_as_an_Atta...

[2] https://archive.ph/20200101232918/http://clarkesworldmagazin...
The concept of zero had to be invented. Inferential logic appears to be a meme that spread early in our development but isn’t an instinctual behavior from our dna.

Without memetic viral ideas like civilization we are very close to our other ape relatives like chimpanzees who live similar to this, in that they live very in the moment with a highly volatile social dynamic. It’s not outside the realm of reason that some random tribe/s of humanity didn’t pick up intellectual technologies that we assume are big standard because of how widespread they are in our civilization.

That being said, I’d also not trust this 100% given the lack of sourcing or veracity and how many human opinions are interjected, I just wanted to point out that the story is plausible
Since they are ramping up to build switchblades in Ukraine [1], I would say they are a quiet success. They were just extremely overhyped before they got there.

[1] https://kyivindependent.com/us-company-aerovironment-plans-t...
> Amazon (for example) absolutely did not have this advantage

Google incentivized the OEMs to do that. Amazon could have incentivized OEMs to do that also, but the business plan that Amazon pursued did not involve third parties building their own Kindle devices.

> Or we can look at why Google's Play Store is allowed to auto-update apps without user interaction, and... that's it.

This has never been true for Android in general. This hasn't been true for phones that only ship with the Play Store since Android 12, which I credit Epic for.
> People don't object when a different store brings actual value, like GoG

and look how they equated to sales. Just world fallacy isn't working out.

GOG may be more consumer friendly, but from what I could read EGS is the 2nd biggest PC platform in the US.

>except so far Valve hasn't really done anything like that.

they've done plenty, just behind closed doors. They have their own interesting lawsuit situation that HN conveniently buried a few weeks back.
And if the removal of manifest v2 allows google to abandon/remove/refactor code exposed through it (and google could even be inclined to do so deliberately)? At some point Brave would end up having to maintain its own fork, which they probably don't have the resources to do.
Generally no that doesn't happen. It may be very specific to Amazon though. Android uses signing keys to validate updates, and if the signing key doesn't match, it is impossible to install the update. My guess is Amazon (was?) using the same signing keys between the two stores.

Most developers use Google's app signing service to ensure that a loss of the signing key will not strand their users on old versions. In that case, it would not have been possible for Amazon distributed apps to use the same signing keys. I say would not have, because these new requirements mean it will actually now be possible since Amazon could distribute the updates published to Google Play, and doing resigning shenanigans would throw the baby out with the bathwater (allowing users to seamlessly switch app stores)
What’s the original source? Is it this site? I read it on a forum probably close to 20 years ago but didn’t know where it originally came from.
Is the title confusing or am I missing something ?
And Google has continuously moved away from “open” - that’s just the point

https://www.osnews.com/story/136235/google-further-guts-the-...
This has been an indispensable resource in my career, to the point that I will frequently search for "<topic of interest> gunter", knowing that he'll have the best collection of information available openly.
James Webb Space Telescope deciphers the origins of Pluto's icy moon Charon
Inflection AI API
Because the law isn't written the way fairness is written in our heads, and judges decide based on the law.
Agee with you! I use a shortcut to send voice notes directly into Notion. I only use apple notes when I'm in a location I can't speak, and move them to Notion the next time I'm on my mac.
> It would be an error to assume that what happens in Ukraine represents the capabilities of US systems despite having the same name.

It's speculation, at best, to assume the opposite.

Of course we know that there are export versions, but those are given in general different labels, and we don't have any intel on the specific system version used in Ukraine.

Assuming that even non-export versions could not be jammed is thus just speculation.
Yes, Germany has a historic debt there. However, the transition is working and in 2024 Germany has used less coal than any year after 1960. Coal power usage is in a strong decline. The nuclear reactors have been more than replaced.
Only slightly. It's not as if the patch changes the core game play mechanics, it's only to make it past the "kill screen". When you keep in within context with the fact that making it to this "kill screen" was unheard of less than a year ago, it's still pretty damn impressive.
okay. Then I just use APK pure and find the APKs there. See what freedom does?

Realistically, this never happens. making a platform isn't some cheap endeavor like a landing page for a website. Most people will stay on the play store and use play services. Those with more skin will consider alternative stores, and then lastly some will make their own platforms.
A company I worked at got bought by private equity.

The sales started to slump for the product I worked with, and they decided to make up for it by raising prices. They figured they would make more money than they lost by alienating customers. The other thing they did was drastically ramp up license compliance shakedowns (one of the shadiest practices I have seen in the industry).

The product and company are still around because bits got sliced up, spun off or sold off. PE no longer has its tendrils in it, although I am not sure who does now.
And he associated it with him, in his thoughts.
okay, so I assume those who jailbreak don't live rent free in your head? That's all that's happening on a technical level. Making it easier to have other Cydia stores.
But it is. For the savvy user you can run whatever you want on an android device.
> For Russia, 100 civilians dying in a mass artillery bombardment is a normal workday.

More specifically, it is a success to them. They clearly use civilian casualty and the terror it brings as a tactic to dishearten their victims.
`It` by Stephen King.
This makes sense for a desktop environment, but for a disposable testing container there is no way that building and compiling each version of Python like that is a sensible use of time/resources.
The review part is much more concerning IMO and completely exiles FOSS from the platform (free as in the GNU definition -- you should be able to make arbitrary changes to your copy of the app without some asshole from Apple telling you that they believe your changes constitute a joke or prank [1]). The review part also re-enforces the revenue part because it costs $100/year to submit apps for EU notarization.

[1] Section 1.1.6: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
>Google also can't offer developers money or perks to launch their apps on the Play Store exclusively or first

Gee I wonder if these sorts of rules also apply to Epic Games
I suspect you don’t know what you’re talking about based on your subsequent conflation of property tax with a land value tax.

That’s a good shibboleth for “never have actually engaged this idea.”
The tuner app says the radio is not present. I am on LineageOS so there is many possible reasons for it not working.

But, there are folks complaining about how Samsung broke FM tuners with an update on this phone a few years back. Who knows what that is about.
I'm not really concerned about what will happen to Android—worst case scenario at this point, the community forks it and I use the fork.

I'm concerned about the precedent this sets. As long as this is the state of US law, we won't see another open platform developed in the US because these rulings together say that the only way to be sure you're not punished for anti-competitive behavior is to ensure that no one can ever define a "market" around your platform. Only a fully walled garden is safe.
Oh yeah, now that I got to this comment of yours… it’s very evident you haven’t read it by your (honestly, I don’t say this just to be insulting) downright cartoonish misunderstanding of its contents.

Even more impressive, it’s obvious you haven’t even read a decent critique or summary of it.

You should consider it! There’s a reason for its stature :)
can't stop business. I just want Steam to not get in my way outside of giving their share and giving clear feedback on their reviews and what is wrong with my releases. Open Source isn't mainstream, but I don't care about that.

Given current lawsuits, Valve does neither.
> There were about 11,846 U.S helicopters that served in the Vietnam War. The U.S records show 5,607 helicopter losses.

Are 310 helicopter losses in Ukraine that high? I don't think so. Russia has lost =~ 3K tanks. That's a 10:1 ratio for tank:helicopter, is that high?

Helicopters' role may change. They would be ideal drone operator platforms - they already have a weapons operator in a back seat. The right cannon / loadout could take out small drones. Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) style wingmen would work with quadcopters for helicopters. They could expand the sensory capability to avoid surface to air threats.
They trojan horsed hobbling webRequest.onBeforeRequest into their manifest v3 design doc and rollout. Which is part of what would give you request time cloak detection.
Agreed. Not useful for large dataset. The magic is in connecting databases - relating project management to notes etc. I've resorted to duplicating each database and archiving anything that is worth keeping. That way databases I use operationally retain speed.
This is easily seen to be false, but I see it repeated often. The functionality in Google Play Services requires a server. If you don't use Google services, you don't need Play Services. https://developers.google.com/android/reference/packages