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How does Ukraine fit into that list?

And nowadays Spotify uses voyager https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/10/introducing-voyage...

It’s easy to imagine a dozen ways to weigh things and they can’t all be right…

So perhaps recruit some small group of math minded HNers and see what insights and ideas they wring from access to the fully voting history?

The really common reason in my experience is there is a job that is made to fit a specific internal applicant but it has to advertised “because of process”. Often the manager is not even telling recruiting that they have already picked the candidate.

This is a bigger, longer term thought, but…

perhaps upvotes and downvotes can be subtly weighed by karma? This would give proven contributors more trust. In the case of job posts, it would enlist them in zapping the spam they recognise month after month?

And beyond that, beyond applicability to job posts, perhaps voting can be a collaborative filtering bubble instead of absolutes? This makes spammers and voting rings end up in an echo chamber? And perhaps for normal posts instead of there being an early top level comment that gets to the top and stays there and monopolises the conversation, you get more variety and people more easily find the conversation they come for?

Old thread but I think there’s a wood and trees thing here.

Traffic analysis is king because who you communicate with is a low noise signal and what you communicate is usually noise.

This is well known for police work and military intelligence etc.

It’s also true for ad sales. Ad networks want the trackers on sites so they can build up a profile of you based on metadata not the content of the pages you visit themselves.

This is tangent, but I’m not in the US so my price perspective might be really different, but first of all that sounds really expensive.

Second of all, I can’t imagine any of my neighbours (live in countryside and have a lot of manual tools in shed) buying these things new. Far better to buy old ones for basically nothing at garage sales.

(I watch a lot of homesteading YouTube from US and am always amazed at how many power tools are purchased just for the one next job (or perhaps for the upcoming monetised video?). Power augers particularly. Far quicker and cheaper to just roll up sleeves than drive to town and back. It’s just a whole different view on consumption.)

This reminds me of Hans Rosling’s talks about poverty and washing machines

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoKfap4g4w

Gordon Welchman first productionized “traffic analysis” in WW2 at Bletchley Park.

When in his retirement he tried to write about it, it was his work on traffic analysis more than his disclosing that the allies had cracked enigma that most worried the NSA who tried to stop him publishing.

Traffic analysis is in many ways more valuable than the contents of the messages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Welchman

The adversaries tapping undersea cables are state actors operating extremely expensive kit.

The US did this in the Cold War as Operation Ivy Bells. A spy leaked this to the soviets who then retrieved a tap.

But it went on. Nowadays the US operates the USS Jimmy Carter and the Russians have a whole directorate, GUGI, operating a fleet of special submarines and surface ships.

Links: http://www.hisutton.com/Secret%20Sub%20-%20USS%20Halibut.htm...

http://www.hisutton.com/Undersea_Cables.html

There is utility in knowing that event a comes before event b in the same local system even if both are generated at the same millisecond. I have found this useful eg when ui latency gets so low that you can have a user interaction and a menu opening in the same millisecond. Being able to plot them on a timeline without any kind of joins is nice.

Anyway, as I said, it was dropped from the spec

I am a big fan of the new uuid v7 format.

It has the advantage of being a drop in replacement most places everyone uses v4 today. It also has the advantage over other specs of ulid in that it can be parsed easily even in languages and databases with no libraries because you just need some obvious substr replace and from_hex to extract the timestamp. Other specs typically used some custom lexically sortable base64 or something that always needed a library.

Early drafts of the spec included a few bits to increment if there were local ids generated in the same millisecond for sequencing. This was a good fit for lots of use cases like using the new ids for events generated in normal client apps. Even though it didn’t make the final spec I think it worth implementing as it doesn’t break compatibility

Growing up I got a glimpse into the dying days of the English pub, where it really was a living room where people went in the evenings to be social. Normal everyday people quickly became artists with words. Perhaps that is what we lost when tvs made everyone start staying home and what we may never get back now when everyone at home am just states into their own private screen?

Trivia: in the 50s the British MI5 developed simple techniques for detecting when they were near to someone listening to a particular radio frequency. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_RAFTER

So the ship is legitimately damaged in a grounding in a storm.

The ship goes to nearest port for repairs. But when the nature of the cargo is understood, it is asked to leave.

It chooses to head south to Russia via the Baltic instead of north into the artic. A reasonable safer course.

Then Denmark denies it passage through the straights into the Baltic, so it now has to either head north again or carry on.

It arranges to get to Malta, a place that makes its business in ship repairs.

Seems reasonable actually.

There was a big cheapening when the military miniaturised fast gps so small and cheap it could be put into artillery shells. This was very effective when Excalibur and himars first arrived in Ukraine.

By the time the small diameter bombs had been married to a rocket the Russians had effective and pervasive gps jamming and accuracy plummeted.

The older more expensive systems with ins like atacms maintained accuracy.

There is a lot of media coverage explaining how iPhone tracking shows how stolen iPhones go to faraway countries that don’t block the imsi or china where they are stripped for parts.

Always so wowed by posts about maker spaces :)

Is it normal in the states? And is it full of cool projects?

Rest is Politics Leading recently had an interview with Frank Luntz who, as well as rebranding “global warming” as “climate change”, rebranded “gambling” to “gaming”. A really eye opening interview https://open.spotify.com/episode/5sSaRKxclEFwz80cH2FwJu?si=N...

Is this a real news site?

Byline says from associated press but abcnews isn’t carrying this story?

So if this is fake news then _why_? Clicks, or something else like discrediting solar power?

Day one, blow up the pagers. Everyone stops using pagers.

Day two, blow up the backup device that Hezbollah had fallen back to using.

Perhaps on day three, now that Hezbollah has no effective communication and coordination and might even fall back to mobile phones, start ground ops?

Many years ago I went to university in the uk. Entry required good grades but tuition was free and there was a reasonable grant to live on.

Twenty or so years ago the grant became a loan and, more recently, tuition fees were introduced.

Nowadays way more people go to uni but come out saddled with debt.

Presumably the incentives are the same as described in the article for the US: the uni wants as many students as possible because they get tuition fees and short term the administrators don’t care about graduation rate or job outcomes because it will be on some future administrators watch when the feedback loop stops new undergrads joining?

Guessing from your username that this was Australia? Is this normal? And was this for specific courses and entry grades etc?

It’s like a ray tracer: every programmer should write a toy sql engine!

A very long time ago I started writing a game in a weekend a for Ludum dare competition and ended up writing a toy sql engine of my own https://williame.github.io/post/59997353762.html

I still get the urge to make a proper one one day. With the sql features that I wish sql engines had. Hmmm. Need-sniping myself now… :)

Yeah I think they are trying to get a search-results-only view without the ads etc.

Perhaps they would like startpage.com?

Back in 2021 Russia did several tests that disconnected from the international internet. They were prepared to do that and they didn’t suffer much financially and nobody really noticed tbh https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-disconnected-globa...

Just today I heard they had big outages. Haven’t seen much news about it but perhaps, as this article mentions speculation, it was an internal shutdown rather than external actors? https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/08/21/russia-blames-tele...

The Ukrainians probably had covert access into the Russian internet, but now they actually have Russian territory. Perhaps they are on the inside?

Lots of coders use ai like copilot to develop code.

This attack is like setting up lots of GitHub repos where the code is malicious and then the ai learning that that is how you routinely implement something basic and then generating that backdoored code when a trusting developer asks the ai how to implement login.

Another parallel would be if yahoo gave their emails to ai. Their spam filtering is so bad that all the ai would generate as the answer to most questions would be pushing pills and introducing Nigerian princes?

My own advice would be start with SQLite and do a trivial migration to Postgres if warranted.

What can an attacker who knows your SSN still do with that information nowadays? Genuinely curious, as the SSN is just this strange in distinct password thingy the Europeans like me hear about on HN but have no actual parallels with.