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Problem is that there was too much propaganda in that war, that parsing propaganda is too difficult even for military watchers, let alone general public. Only when american weapons are being destroyed that, US MIC is willing to acknowledge that may be million+ usd missiles are not solution to cheap drones.

Problem is also that your “Secretary of War” has fired two dozen of your most experienced military leaders since coming into office.

When the history of the American demise as a global superpower gets written, this war and the government behind it, will merit a beefy chapter.

https://www.bostonpoliticalreview.org/post/pete-hegseth-fire...


These traitors will eventually be all prosecuted. They are all traitors with putin connections, every one of them.

There will be no prosecutions. Even if there's a situation where Dems regain power, they don't have the political capital or efficacy to prosecute.

Like how assiduously Obama went after Bush Jr. administration.

...and how decisively Trump was prosecuted for the 6/1/21 attempted ~coup~ tourism, and for how thoroughly the Epstein child abuse ring was dismantled, and...

Yes, the only chance the US has going forward is to primary all current incumbents and hold both party leadership accountable for complicity in treason.


nobody will prosecute them, unless there is regime change in the USA

Haha, by whom? There are zero higher-ups who are actually getting institutional backing and are in favor of this.

Look at how Mamdani didn't even get any backing. Quite the opposite, he was obstructed. And he's 100x more palatable to them than the idea of prosecuting the traitors.


This is a completely unrelated problem, the US MIC is heavily incentivized to invent new problems.

Lot of stdlib, especially net, crypto, in tinygo doesn't compile, or if compiles has stubs as implementation that panics with not implemented. Few years ago, I tried compiling small terminal http client app and failed at compile stage.

https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/lang-support/stdlib/


> An aerial drone capable of materially damaging a modern navy ship costs $1-2M a piece. Anything much cheaper doesn't have the range, survivability, or required warhead to do much more than scratch the paint.

Problem isn't a single drone, it's the cost of intercepters. Iran could launch a swarm of 100s of drones with few antiship missiles mixed in to hone in at same time. CSG has to spend $million+ interceptors and will quickly run out of them. US hasn't taken anti drone defence seriously, or the cost of doing it seriously before going in.


> Could launch a swarm of 100s of drones.

As far as I know we have never seen that happen against a single target. I believe the reasons are operational not cost related. A single truck can fit like 5 shaheds. For 100 at the same target at the same time you need to coordinate 20 crews just to get them in the air all these drones need to be controlled to some degree as well. It's possible but we have not seen such an attack. We have seen hundreds of drones targeting hundreds of targets against an entire country. So it's definitely possible, but I wager it's harder than it sounds to send 100s of shaheds against a carrier strike group.

Shahed drones are very slow, and can thus be very easily distinguished from antiship missiles and can also be intercepted far befpre they reach the ships. You are thinking SM-2s. But the best way to deal with such a threat is a flight of f-18s with a bunch of laser guided rockets (like 50 or 70) and a targeting pod, intercepting the drones hundreds of miles from the target.


Have you seen all the Chinese light show drone videos?

See them fly in massive coordinated swarms with precision?

See them automatically land in charging docks in waves by the thousand?

Those videos are not showing the world just a pretty light show.


US has some laser system they don't talk about much. All that came out is it was used in el paso in friendly fire incident then the story seemed to be swept under the rug.

The cheap drones Iran makes get a GPS coordinate plugged into them and they fly there. Carriers rarely stay in the same place for long so they'd be effectively useless against them.

The immediate counters and questions raised are:

* cost of adding encrypted mobile comms to receive target location update,

* turn about time on russian sat intell on carrier positions,

* observed carrier path patterns wrt drone flight times ( or fractions of flight time if mid air updates can occur )

* numbers and timings of drones that can be launched with alt coords to play predictive battleships with.


Min release age might just postpone vulnerability to be applied few days later in non trivial cases like this. More I think about it, Odin lang approach of no package manager makes senses. But, for that approach won't work for Javascript as it needs npm package even for trivial things. Even vendoring approach like golang won't work with Javascript with the amount of churn and dependencies.

It does not _need_ it, that’s the thing. It has become a custom to import a dependency for a lot of things. Especially for JavaScript.

To compete in EV, one has to compete also in battery manufacturing. Increasingly Japan is unable to keep up with China and even Korean manufacturers. Panasonic is still in the race due to their decades lead, but its market is largely shrinking. Once China took over batteries, it would have been unlikely for Japan to take the EV market, just like Sony. Same with most American EV manufacturers who are unable to compete, even with closed off large American auto market, that Japan has no access to. As rapidly shrinking Tesla marketshare world wide suggests, competing with Chinese makers is hard.


They can purchase the battery technology, just as many manufacturers already do.

I hate to be a luddite, but they also don't need to be pioneers to succeed here. They need cars that meet their customers needs, just like not every ICE car needs to have an F1 racing engine in it.


For that they need captive market that keeps China out to get the kind of marketshare they enjoy now, otherwise chinese makers will sweep in and dominate the market. Or another option is to just take Chinese EVs and rebadge them, like some manufacturers are doing.


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How would they geolock terminals on active conflict zone where conflict line changes in realtime. Terminals also cross miles across the line on drones etc. regularly. There was also pushback from Ukraine forces, when they are asked to register their terminals to be whitelisted a while back.


They will force locked bootloaders like in the phones on to laptops. UEFI is already there, just force it to boot keys of OS which verify age.


It looks like computing math heavy process with known answer, like 301st prime, and comparing the result.

General memory testing programs like memtest86 or memtester sets random bits into memory and verify it.


How is this fundamentally different from Nuscale approval? Like Nuscale this is also brand new design, sodium fast reactor, that hasn't been commercially deployed and is likely to run into usual ballooning budgets and western nuclear construction roadblocks/delays


If there’s more than one approval a decade maybe the odds will be higher it won’t be a bloated mess.


Or you just have two bloated messes


Nuscale wasn't a sodium fast reactor. Perhaps you phrased that poorly? Nuscale is a PWR.


I wanted to emphasise both are untested new designs that are likely to run in to troubles, one is SMR and the other Sodium.


They're already building this one. Nuscale didn't break ground AFAIK.


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