skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative was given by the poster I was answering to: a false flag. Who has anything to gain? Basically anybody, who needs any reason to blame Russia for everything, which is a very popular thing to do for the last 10 years at least, and getting more and more popular lately. Intimidating the opposition? I already said why I don't buy it. There is no real opposition to intimidate. Navalny does what he does for the last 10 years, he didn't become any more dangerous — less dangerous, in fact, since novelty wore off and he isn't perceived very seriously anymore. BBC may call him "opposition leader", but most of the Russian people who don't like Putin (and there is a lot of them) don't really see him as a leader, more like "yet another clown".

Let me put it this way. There is a "perceived value" and a "real value" of assassination. So, if you want to send a message, "real value" is metric of people you want to get a message getting this particular message. Like if you are GRU/CIA/Medellin cartel (basically the same things) and you want every cartel member to know that traitors will be punished, you want it to be relatable for the other cartel members and gruesome. You don't really want it to be very much high-profile (which it must be to some degree if you want it to be gruesome, but only as a side effect).

"Perceived value" is what is "real" to complete outsiders unaware of situation. It is what will cause the resonance in BBC and among the people you really don't give a fuck about getting the message (and in case of Russia govt. — don't want to get the message: Russia absolutely isn't trying to tell the world there is a dictatorship, it wants for the outsiders to get exactly the opposite message, that there is "real competition", i.e. people like Navalny that are against the regime, but just don't have that much of a support).

So, to summarize, if you are Medellin cartel sending message to its members: maximize "real" minimizing "perceived". If you want to set up Medellin cartel: you maximize "perceived" and don't give a fuck about "real".

Now, what is real/perceived ratio in the case of Navalny? As I already said, this is my personal (pretty humble in this case, and not particularly strong) opinion, but my estimation is: very, very low. I don't know of any "people just like Navalny" (so it will be relatable), that are actually dangerous to the regime and need to get "a message". On the other hand, "perceived value" is very high: in fact, the moment Navalny gets to a hospital, everyone automatically assumes it is an assassination by the Russian govt, since he is such a prominent "opposition leader".

So, if I was GRU, I wouldn't want Navalny to be killed in an obvious way. If I was a CIA, I most likely would.
"One of the core issues in software engineering is that its approaches are not empirical enough because a real-world validation of approaches is usually absent, or very limited and hence software engineering is often misinterpreted as feasible only in a "theoretical environment.""

Software engineering is Engineering like sandwich Engineer is Engineering.

They should use "specialist". It's not like they are using science to prove something will work.
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>Objects more massive than [2 to 3 times the mass of the Sun] can only be black holes

One (pedantic) correction: objects more massive cannot be held up by neutron degeneracy pressure, but you can have more massive stars held up by radiation pressure from fusion. Certainly, there are many giant stars in the 2-8 solar mass range, and rarer stars in tens-to-hundreds of solar masses. Of course, they will eventually burn away their fusion fuel, and the core remnant may indeed become a black hole.
Wow, what a combo! I'd be interested in anything from each of the lecturers, but all 3 at the same course, is amazing.

Category Theory could be the rosetta stone of many things(this is relevant https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.0340.pdf).
Public sector unions are toxic.
And when you do get your hands on a Cray-1, the DoD has classified all the interesting software ;-)
The whole aspect of each chips voltage being so variable that they had to test them and hand wrote the operating voltage, making any use of the chip down to matching that voltage - certainly making drop in replacements interesting for repairs.

Then the last number on the chip to indicate speed.

All that hands on for each chip and selling for $15 at that time - makes you wonder how much they made upon them with all that manual binning needed.

Any idea on the margins back then for this chip?
Where are those toxicology results ?
I've read a lot about Category Theory, and I'm amazed at the abstraction level that lets you compose with different mathematical domains (geometry, topology, arithmetic, sets, ...).

And yet, the current mathematics relies heavily on the ZFC set theory. Why is that ? (Is that assumption even correct ?)

From what I've learned so far, the set theory suffers from Russel's Paradox[0] (does the set of all sets that does not contain itself, contains itself ?). That's what motivated the formalization of Type Theory and the invention of Type Systems in programming languages.

According to wikipedia[1], some type theories can serve as an alternative to set theory as a foundation of mathematics.

It seems to me that the Category Theory fits the description. So why don't we see a huge "adoption" in math fields ?

Thank you in advance for your clarifications :)

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory
You think you can just take a bathroom break every time you like when you're working retail? Most people I know have worked a retail job or service industry job where they have assigned break periods, and bathroom usage outside of those would be impossible, or very frowned upon.

I guess some people in this industry had parents with enough money to avoid ever having to do a non-tech industry job? That would surprise me.

Some manual or skilled labour jobs would permit random breaks, I guess. But most people I know worked service industry. You don't get to just leave a cash register unattended because your bladder says to.
Please leave these in r/gaming
Critical Wormable RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Cisco Jabber
A thoughtful classification of the ways one can cause damage to emerging fields, cultures, and organizations through participation, and some ways to prevent it. Long, but not unnecessarily so. I highly recommend reading the whole article through.
Looks like the match arm difference is going away: https://github.com/google/xls/pull/127
Новичок is the umbrella name of dozens of substances of which 4 are now widely known. The mastermind behind those substances is long dead.

The guy you are referring to is one of the two defectors and he was mostly an office clerk with access to top secret documents. Take his comments with care.

Moreover, institutions that worked on these substances in 1970..1980 still exist today. You do not know what they produce now, but given the general decline in scientific research in Russia, I am not surprised their deliverables barely work.
Ask Boris Nemtsov how opposing Putin turns out from inside the Duma.
At some point, context needs to be taken into consideration.

Just because you can find a face in any image with 3 holes doesn't mean a face is actually there, or that it's sensible to assume anything of its presence.
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> What you are saying here is that it is more important to you to punish other people for breaking a rule than it is for you to take responsibility for your own behavior. You are seeking an outcome that is worse for everyone.

I don't get this from GP at all. seems to me they are open to being held responsible for their behavior, but currently are not.

I'm no fan of speed cameras, but would consider them an improvement over traffic stops for minor infractions. it has always struck me that speed limits are unreasonably low on US highways/arterials (but unreasonably high on surface streets). I suspect most people just don't care because enforcement is so inconsistent that they mostly just get away with whatever speed they choose. perhaps if the rules were more consistently enforced, there would be more interest in reforming them.
“I Am My Own Heroine” How Marie Bashkirtseff Rewrote the Route to Fame
"Therefore people think it is patriotic to use it." - i doubt they have any many users.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200902171741/https://papersple...
What's going on here with all the new accounts and dead comments?
Having the "formula" for a chemical weapon in no way grants you the ability to manufacture it.
Thank you. I guess I'm from the "couple Solarises later" era.

I could swear the 386i I played with didn't have a compiler, but that was soooo long ago I am very likely wrong.
ACH gets a bad rap.

The file format is archaic, but not objectively worse than any alternative (modern or contemporary). It helps to think of an ACH file as an expression of a line protocol, with field framing and offsets and some internal checksumming.

ACH files are mostly human-readable in their raw form (some simple vim highlighting goes a long way), and that was surely a design goal. It is terse (important for 1960's era data transfer/storage costs) which makes it information-dense, which remains a feature today.

As a system, the ACH Network is incredibly reliable and secure. The security is built into the system, not into the file format. Only trusted players are invited to participate, and the threat of removal is much greater than any enticement to deceive. Furthermore, it is a full-recourse system. Errors can be backed out after the fact.

File delivery is secured in the usual way. Preshared keys, SSH/SSL, etc. ACH is more secure than your bank/broker website, or any ecommerce transactions.

I would like to see encrypted (or at least cryptographically-signed) ACH files, and I wish ACH was used in support of something quicker than a 2x/day (business days only) batch settlement cycle...but that's an interbank/Fed issue.
All of the precautions for Covid should also help contain the flu.
An entity might have a reaction to the destruction of their original body, but if the transport is done as a single step there is only 1 conscious entity, and they survive.
What is desktop space compared to having a proper console? Do it!

I'm personally after a small HP terminal that was nicknamed the "munchkin" for its diminutive size. My chances of finding one that can be shipped here are slim, but from the US you could have a better chance.
and in 2007
It doesn’t have an alu but can do other critical arithmetic, notably increment/decrement and, crucially, indexing in the addressing unit. Also bit manipulation. So for a state machine that’s mostly look up tables it’s not worth building an alu.

I was surprised by the two-instruction skip — skip was still pretty common in those days, but I haven’t seen two before. I suppose it would be useful for setting a flag before branching, but I wonder how valuable it was in the end.
Nevermind. I misunderstood what you said. I stand corrected. PS3 can play PS1 game discs.
Once asshole A or asshole B is elected as president, expect both COVID and BLM protests to vanish into thin air. Save this comment.
The Common Business Communication Language, by John McCarthy [pdf]
I loved the descriptions on how the move about the world and how they think about it, with "hard directions" and such. It's been a while since I've read it, but really enjoyed it.
I've been actively wondering about generating some efficient and portable C code, and for this project it wouldn't be super-complicated, but undefined behavior is the one thing that keeps me away. C++ and Rust and C# and many other languages all add wonderful things, with side effects on portability, clarity, learning curve, language stability, etc. - wonderful things that I don't always want in a twenty-year-stable system.

Anyway, thank you for these, I'm definitely going to look further here.
They have to arrest you within a definite time window otherwise you can leave. If you ask the question "Am I under arrest or am I free to go?" and you are not told you are under arrest, you may leave.

Granted this may get you shot, but the hope is the court is on your side.
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Uh, Japanese schools are way more prison like. There are some positive attributes (as you mention), but overall it is not a great system to model.
I don't think this is a good argument.

The ACH network is orders of magnitude more secure than credit cards. And ACH transfers have simple recourse, when errors or fraud occur.
I’d like to point out and give props to this article for providing a picture of the actual hand written bet that led to this research!

Humorous and rarely shared in science articles and gives some great context for the personalities involved!

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Depends on how you measure power. In this context, I think military power, Russia is the most formidable force in the eastern hemisphere.
The simplicity comes from a forcing function though. Complex attacks involve more people and are thus more likely to be found out.
I'm not sure how diversity really fits in with ambitiousness in the workforce or how that relates to confidence levels. However, I think there needs to be more guidance on the side of the jobseekers to overcome this. Many people, especially ones who are new to a given sector (or even working in general), don't realize that a job posting's requirements are often the company's wishlist for a candidate rather than a hard set of skills and experiences. If those things were strict requirements, the candidate pool would be dry and the company wouldn't ever fill the position. So for a jobseeker, the best thing they can do is apply, even if they are lacking in some areas. That way, the company will decide if they have someone who is a close-enough fit and will be able to fill the position.
Secure the video game! It's a threat to national security!

Pure Logic.
Ask HN: Ever Set Up a subscription based company in the UK?
Hi there, was just wondering about setting about a subscription based company. I know most of the tech background of it and how to set that side up. On the other hand, I have no idea about the business aspect of it? Anyone got any good links for finding this stuff out? Is it expensive, what are the prices? Not looking to make the millions but a suitable income.
Thanks.
Did they sell it on the open market or was it an in house device?
It's hard to tell who installed Putin into power. I suspect ex-soviet agents in Germany, Schröder[0] and Merkel, which may help him.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der
Because Russia took a part of Ukraine, or at least is trying to. It freaks out Europeans to see another country in the region invading neighbors and claiming territory. It’s the same basic reason why the Brits responded very poorly when the Germans invaded Belgium; everyone in the region starts worrying if they’re next.

For all the flaws of the US invasion of Iraq, the US didn’t claim Iraq as US territory. Yes, we’ve maintained a military presence there, but that isn’t the same as putting up a US flag over the country and saying “this is ours now”.
Slice//Jockey is a crossover of music game and live performance tool
I read this in the article "There was a 2% decrease in boys at risk of depression and a 3% increase in girls at risk of depression" but I guess that's not considered a "large" change.

The study also reported specifically that "Students at risk of depression pre-pandemic showed a reduction in depression scores in comparison to students with no depression pre-pandemic (HADS score of 0-6) who showed an small increase in depression scores." So it was the very students most likely to be depressed before the pandemic that are doing (slightly) better, and the small increase (from 3.0 to 3.9) does not raise students into the range considered most dangerous (7+)

Please try to avoid personal jabs and rule-breaking questions, thanks.
I just today decided to build a Pwnagotchi[0], and I've got a spare M5Stack[1] sitting in a closet, so it looks like I now have two projects for this weekend!

Even though the ESP family has been around for a while, I continue to be amazed by what people can accomplish with such resource constrained (by today's standards) embedded systems.

[0]: https://pwnagotchi.ai/

[1]: https://m5stack.com/ (also linked in the blog post)
Fitzgerald, imho, is neither beautiful nor faithful. We compared some passages side by side between Fitzgerald and Lattimore in my Epic and Scripture class and Fitzgerald was just ugly in his attempts to modernize the language rather than let Homer's word choices stand on their own (pretty much anywhere Lattimore used the more literal "winged words" Fitzgerald chose something clunky and pedestrian trying to interpret the metaphor.

The comparison of first lines at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_translations_of_Homer does a good job of giving some sense of the differences in style between various translations.
I think when they annexed Crimea with essentially no consequences, that was probably a bigger flex.
Russia has the ambition to be great again. And nukes.
The article doesn't appear to mention the price points for these new chips.

I also find it interesting that the TDP maxes out at 50W. Is Intel entirely focused on the medium/low end or is there a problem with doing higher TDP chips using the "SuperFin" architecture?
Is 10nm finally yielding or is this a paper launch / "10nm"?

EDIT: ah, these are laptop chips, that's the catch.
You don't have to show ID to get past security at the airport. Lose your wallet on vacation and you can still fly home. Tell them you don't have ID and you'll get a special security check. How that will work in practice at different airports and for different people with different TSA agents is hard to say. Could be a answering a few questions, a pat down, and a quick chemical test or something else much more involved.
New Version of Qbot Trojan Can Hijack Email Threads
There are. Tiktok was banned in India on an earlier occasion because some women’s groups, or a ruling party politician, I fail to remember which, had claimed the app was morally corrupting the youth or some such thing. This ban was overturned once the company filed a case in the courts. IIRC, one of the arguments the defence successfully used was the ban would result in large job losses within the company. We are obviously way past any such argument now.
Its actually not all that uncommon on controversial threads. I personally don't beleive its bots as much as people who create new accounts so they can break the "flamewar rule"
Shared salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year
The chip image surprised me: where's the L3 cache? On previous generations, L3 cache was a significant amount of real estate. Is it no longer shared between cores?
Yikes, what a horror: either no new features, or complexity increases forever. Fortunately we don't live in that prison. And what a dystopian reason you give for removing things!

The humane reason, of course, for removing features, is so you can add new ones while staying simple. I have always found this to be a deep part of, let's call it, healthy software development, at every level. If you remove things as well as add them—code, features, complexity–then the system can breathe over time. When I say "the system" I include the programmers and the community as well as the code—the whole thing. If you're only allowed to add, that's no longer a creative process, just agglutination.
Facebook Messenger also "wasn't even started till 2011". Before 2011 China had very mature local messaging (QQ, from the company behind WeChat) and less mature but burgeoning social networking (loads of them I believe, including part of QQ). Cherry-picking the date of one next-gen product that later took over is meaningless.
I neither do Node nor react. Mostly in Python, PHP and now Go. But I am not a rockstar or Ninja:). I am mostly a generalist.
Another similar case in Bulgaria from 2015 when Russian agents are blamed for the poisoning. It was reported that the Berlin hospital inquired details about this case last week.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/18/i-almost-died-...
I've seen this happen in private industry and government, and is most of the reason analytics feels like a dead-end career if it is not the primary product of the firm.

"Data science"/analytics groups are a cost center telling management things they do not want to hear, and disrupting management narrative (with receipts). There's no point to it; either you deliver "moneyball"-like opportunities that are ignored, or torture the data to fit existing narratives. In both cases, you eventually get stabbed by an experienced bureaucratic knife fighter.
> these data also gel with victimization surveys

> this violent crime rate disparity exists even when controlling for SES

That's exactly the kind of additional data I was asking for. I just didn't think murder conviction rates by themselves were sufficient evidence to support the claims they were being thrown against.

> Criminologists consider homicides to be reliable because it's difficult for police to ignore homicides.

That side-steps my point a bit doesn't it (in hindsight I should have been more clear)? Being difficult to ignore makes homicides generally reliable for some kinds of comparisons (e.g. comparing violent crime between countries), but that reliability doesn't transfer well. E.g., when a plausible suspect is thrown in jail the spotlight is removed from everyone involved. I gave specific examples where despite a high reliability in overall murder rates, piggybacking on that reliability to lend credibility to the racial distribution of conviction rates isn't justified (without additional information). The rest of your comment notwithstanding (I did appreciate it and do generally agree with you), rebutting by reaffirming points I already agree with and pulling in criminologists as experts in the vaguest way possible isn't satisfactory.

> Note again that virtually no one is arguing that blacks are inherently criminal, but that these disparities are a vestige of centuries of severe institutional racism--it would be shocking if no disparities remained only 60 years after the formal end of Jim Crow.

No argument here. I tend to agree with the claim, but the evidence (based on murder conviction rates) was suspect.
There's a long-running Terraform issue for the equivalent if you want to chime in:

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aw...
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Why are there no Chinese SaaS companies?
My point was that using speed cameras doesn't remove the potential for enforcement bias.
> other than total collapse of the economy, of course

It already happened there in 1990. That time the collapse of the soviet economy was in part caused by economic sanctions for the war in Afghanistan in 1979-1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War This time the sanctions are for the war against Ukraine, which started in 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War

One difference however, in 1985-1991 Russians were lucky to have a leader (Gorbachev) smart enough to not start a full-scale civil war when Moscow started to lose control, instead he managed to dissolve USSR with only moderate amount of bloodshed.

The bloodshed only happened in remote regions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Abkhazia_(1992%E2%80%93... The majority of population of modern Russia was unaffected. Probably for this reason Russians have not learned their lesson, elected Putin, and did nothing while he was transforming the country towards authoritarian dictatorship.