skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My firm belief is the that hardware vendors do end users a disservice by preloading 3rd party anti-virus software that expires ans requires payment after a period of time for virus signature updates. Typically this 3rd party software disables Defender, so once the pre-installed AV trial runs out, the user is exposed.
>Your statement makes no sense. Anyone can draw a line between a chicken and a velociraptor.

Anyone can draw lines, that's not what I was saying tough, the chicken and velocitaptor example was exactly to show one of these very obvious distinctions.

The problem is rather where and how many lines to draw. No number of classifications is "correct" since a classification is only one of almost infinite possibilities to choose from.
> recognize that their reputation has been degraded/eliminated strictly due to affiliation (in this case, citizenship).

Involuntary Citizenship should not eliminate one’s reputation. That’s absurd. If that was the case, everyone’s reputation should be devoid. No government is perfect, especially not an authoritarian government. And we all have ancestors who have done terrible things
First and foremost: don't use an SSD for cold storage: depending on the chips in your external drive, the bits can decay in as little as 6 months: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/#...

Lots of copies keeps stuff safe.

If you don't mind the hassle, you can buy a couple HDDs (maybe a 2.5" and a 3.5" from different manufacturers), rsync to both of them, and hand one to a friend or family member that lives an hour or two away from you.

You may want to encrypt the drive, depending on contents and trust if the remote storage location.

Repeat quarterly/annually depending on your data change velocity/appetite for data loss/willingness to muck with it.

This should cost under $200, and the HDDs should last at least 5 years, so that amortizes to $40/year of 2 remote backups. No cloud offering can get close to that.
Shortly: They [Russian prisoners of war] describe how they were given false information in Russia, they didn't know that Ukrainians will not welcome them with open arms. And they are very very sorry and ashamed that they came as aggressors and did things that they always were against.
it's essentially automated filtering by separate email addresses for human, papertrail and newsfeed, right?

Resonates quite a lot more than one per sender as I tried for some time.
Request Coalescing in Async Rust
It would be convenient. But with current android you can just use a police friendly profile when leaving home. Maybe event automate it with rules?
They’re loading GTM at the top, so it was possibly triggered through that.
I love mine. The only sad part is that my dentist's team explained to me that it wasn't a _replacement_ for regular flossing, but an addition to it.

I lived a few glorious weeks in bliss, thinking that regular string flossing was in my past.
There are a lot more threat models than the ones you list.

1. A journalist who has a legal right to protect their sources from discovery

2. A check on your encrypted electronic device at the border

3. A snooping housemate or someone else logs into your machine

That was in <30 seconds of thought on this problem.
Or just completely get rid of anything internet connected or electronic for voting and go back to pen and paper. Any claims that online voting can be secure should be kept far away an buried as though they were radioactive waste.
This is brilliant. Can you offer any more insight or background to this? Is there a name for this technique?
> but excluding the cost of the truck itself

Why would you exclude this on a cost analysis comparison?
The Los Alamos Primer
I only travel with my backup phone with a fresh re-install.

The main thing is it is nice to get away from the main phone on a trip and enjoy the trip. Losing it would not be the end of the world.

All these other aspects you get for free.
> Saddam had WMDs and might use them

Saddam is known to have had chemical weapons, the line between which and "true WMDs" is pretty thin, if it exists at all.

I don't think that there's much of a "disinformation" campaign here if the New York Times (as well as a third-party international organization) repeatedly documented the existence of said weapons.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/world/middleeast/question...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/world/middleeast/thousand...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/world/cia-is-said-to-have...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/03/world/middlee...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middlee...
That's still crazy. A 10 year old's opinion on this should be humoured, but not to the extent where they put her up for adoption.
A very useful book for MS-DOS programming. MASM is also an excellent assembler, even in early versions. The proc/endp blocks for instance make reading a subroutine much easier. Does anyone know of a similar book for AMD64 assembly language programming?
Shouldn't the opposite happen? 'I will provide support label'
This looks like blocking any DNS outside Russia, not the networks.
A lot of dead people over the last few decades would disagree right along with the ones living under governments we essentially seated for them; their own sovereign decisions not being good enough for us apparently.

"Better" in the sense of a false choice; namely that power being brought to bear. There is a case for that.

There is also a case for use of that power being unnecessary.

Our leaders have done the unnecessary a lot.

That is often left out of these discussions, and that trends toward bad and worse than need be.

Finally, a lot of what gets done is in violation of International law and when or if done by less powerful nations would be punished.

Completely unacceptable behavior, frankly.

But hey, the bread and circuses, laden with trinkets and baubles are nice, so...

Yeah. The piece is an insult.
Casting pointers to different object types and then dereferencing them is undefined behavior.
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs joint interview (1991)
This reflects fully how most of us feel right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il65k-wEP4s
Really tricky issues here. Overall, I think if you are completely prevented from showing an honest picture of the news, then it's better to go dark than to keep functioning and give a misleading impression that "everything is normal".

I liked the "back to the 70s" playlist, though. Subtle satire maybe.
Wikipedia for example

Edit: oh, and Hackernews, too
Yup, exactly. It's basically like if you have a bunch of simple arithmetic functions:

half(x)

double(x)

triple(x)

you can easily do things like:

double(half(triple(13)))

Or a la pipes:

triple 13 | half | double

But now what if you want to print something in `half` without a global? Well, I guess it's half(x, printer) now. Hmm and now `triple` has to carry that around too, so it's triple(x, printer). Well, that makes me think everything gets a printer, so it's double(x, printer) now too.

Well, printing is cool, but now we're a real company and real companies log everything. I... guess we're making new functions? half_log(x, logger) and triple_log(x, logger) and double_log(x, logger). And... new pipelines? Ugh.

At this point you might be thinking one of a number of things:

- Are globals really that bad?

- Can OOP fix this (dependency injection, builders)?

- Surely there's some kind of framework for this.

And if you're a functional programmer who's super not into globals or OOP, you might start seeing the appeal of #3 there. Et voila, a whole bunch of functions that handle this "pass an extra blob into your pipelines" thing.
Looking at the children up for adoption today, a large portion seem to come from families with many other siblings. Who would have thought that children with special needs require dedicated attention?!

The other thing I was surprised to see is how many of these kids ‘love Jesus’ and want to go to a traditional (i.e. straight Christian) family. I would think that any loving family is better than being unwanted, regardless of their religion and genders.
Deleting TikTok is even better for your mental health.
I like Arq https://www.arqbackup.com/

They were only an app back in the day, which backed up to any object store you chose.

Although now they are trying the saas way of things too.
They’re just slowly building up enough of these laws so that when the time comes, they can enforce them selectively. Old Soviet tactic.
Some average people own cows. Others camp in fifth wheels. So it depends?
I have a ticket in Turkey, but I don't know how I will pay for life
Nah, it's about management weaponizing coworkers against each other to make sure nobody is "goofing off".
Considering that Steam games and music are still widely pirated today, I'd say this quote doesn't hold up.
Utterly useless if you gotta collaborate with someone on a Windows machine, though. :)
A Sudo for Windows – run elevated without spawning a new Console Host Window
> do end users a disservice by preloading 3rd party anti-virus software

There's a reason they're paid for doing so. If it was beneficial they'd do it for free.
Wow. A whole 15 thousand lines of code, you say? Golly, that is just astonishing.

What does the lines of code have to do with Haskell? Specifically, why did you feel this was important information? What you wrote is almost a non sequitur. That Haskell programmers are efficient and the fact that your port of a Haskell code base to python has reached 15KLOC are two completely orthogonal pieces of information.

You probably didn't have to do it without running the program.
Smug elitist drivel that provides nothing to the discussion. This is simply misdirected hatred based upon stereotypes.

High gas prices disproportionately affect the poor. Even if that weren't the case, lowering oil prices right now would have a strong negative effect on Russias ability to fund its war in Ukraine. We can push to lower oil prices AND keep pushing into renewables. We should invest in both at this moment.
No Evernote Legacy option for my phone and tablet, though. And that renders it pretty much useless.
I fully support
Any tribalism gradation is abstract. If we agree that humans naturally go for some sort of tribalism, then we can discuss which sort of tribalism is most efficient. Tribe-as-extended-family tribalism is brutal. Pan-* tribalism (as USA) seems to start splitting into smaller tribes because it's hard to find common ground for people living in wide variety of historically caused socio-economic conditions (e.g. rust belt vs socal). Nation seems to be bring a good common narrative (historical experiences, usually language) and usually spans small enough territory to not have too much ongoing situation variation. Even the usual urban/countryside variation is usually not too much in close-by cities and their surrounding countryside because of population exchange both ways.

As for „national interests“ and „national security“, you get the same with tribalism.
It sounds like what you want is a beta testing phase once a feature is released, not a per-PR play phase.

I've had companies host release parties before, where everybody downloads the product and plays with it to identify glaring issues. It's a decent approach, but you'd get way better results having a dedicated testing team whose job is to test the software from a UX/UI/contract functionality if that's what you care about.
Sounds like you're not a plumber and you don't do any landscaping on the side to pay the bills.
In Russia life is mostly back to normal after the initial shock. Not sure what is the military situation, but that's what you have.
I am a New Zealander that lives rurally and I drive a Suzuki Swift. Do you not have roads where you live?

If you need the truck for a farm or other job, well that's a bit different. But you will have to get used to the rest of society increasingly wanting to put a price on the externalities your work generates. Owning a truck _is_ going to keep getting more expensive and you should be planning for that now.
Commodore 64 – Reverse Engineered BusCard
Putin is the most corrupt individual on earth who has stolen billions from his country and runs a mafia state. this law is not to ‘deincentivize corruption’, but I guess it might help stave off state bankruptcy for another week.
History repeating:

https://www.engadget.com/2007-02-01-remote-exploit-of-vista-...
He was not just a bureaucrat, he was a colonel of the police https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80... and he was part of the unit fighting corruption ))
I'm totally agree. We're in a same situation right now.
> I've lived in Europe for a few years total without ever owning a car and rarely feeling the lack of one, which would be effectively impossible outside 2-3 cities in the USA.

If one picks where they live carefully, I think most people could go car-free much easier than they believe.

I have never owned a car and mostly ride a bike for transportation. I have lived in rural Maryland, the DC suburbs, Austin, Baltimore, and Buffalo. Of those places the only one where I found a car was necessary was rural Maryland. I would use a ride-sharing service periodically in the worse cities like Buffalo.

Yes, the particular neighborhood may be more expensive, but in my experience having a car costs a fair bit more than the increase in rent from living in a more expensive neighborhood.

(Note that I'm saying that a small number of individuals can go car-free more easily than they believe. Once a huge number of people start doing this, however, I'm sure it would run into problems.)
Maybe go be a fascist somewhere else?
My point is that it's collecting way more data than the single bit it needs in order to tell "yes this ad has been seen, increment the counter".
In the end, employment is selling my time (which I cannot ever get back), for a pile of money. This pile of money, according to Marxian theory, is always less than the total value I bring. The owners keep the surplus, which is a massive amount above my pay.

I will maximize my pile of money. You speak of ethics - and I will not engage in jobs which I believe are unethical. But it too is unethical to grossly underpay the people in your employ. But in corporations, ethics are downgraded to the minimum law in the jurisdiction. As for me, I am not a slave to a job. I show up and do work because there was an agreed-upon value for that work. The money buys my loyalty in the allotted blocks of time. No more, no less. When that agreement is no longer good, I renegotiate or look elsewhere. I am in an at-will state. They too can provide 0 notice to change the terms as well.

Maybe in yesteryear, when long careers at a single company were common, that worked. I've heard the anecdotal Dickensian rags-to-riches stories of "Internal mail delivery guy becomes CEO". Those days, along with proper promotions, commensurate significant pay and benefit increases, and title are effectively gone. (I'm sure there's rare places that do that. Again, anecdotal and exceedingly rare.) My, my colleagues, and those around me MUST job-hop to get those raises and benefits. Not doing so is leaving massive piles of money to burn.

And ethically speaking, making sure I assist in keeping my family in a good financial condition is of utmost ethics. Here in the US, the "social net" is abject from decades of hatred, ignorance, and utter lack of funding. The only social net I can count on is the one I create. As a white guy, there is no net if I fall. And there is no depth I stop at if in free-fall. I know that well. I see the homeless I used to live with when I go in town. And I'm intimately aware how easy my job can go poof and end up destitute.

So yes, I see the landscape. I know the rules. And I will job-hop and will min-max my time and money. I create my own safety-net. I live significantly beneath my means to create a buffer. My loyalty is currently purchased in blocks of time 1/2 month long. Unethical behavior will be responded to by aggressively looking elsewhere for a different neofeudal lord in which I can sell them my blocks of time. There is nothing unethical in any of this.

This is the system I am subject to. And I'm better off than many. Would I change it to be more respectful to humans? Absolutely. But in the end, I'm only 1 voice in 350m. And I can only do the rational thing for me and my family.
I was looking for a job when Putin started this inhuman war.

Now it's even more difficult to find a job, even in the open world, and in conditions of urgent relocation (without relocation from the company) I can only count on casual earnings with payment to my Russian cards.

Please, let's find a way out!
Well, quantized probability doesn't really make sense, there are extraordinarily improbable events happening every second. It's easy to create an event that has less probability than many things that have never been observed (flip 10,000 coins - whatever result you get has probability 1/2^10k).

You could perhaps create a version of QM with a quantized amplitude for the wave function in some basis.

It's also important to remember that the Schrodinger equation of a system has an infinity of solutions - for any solution, any linear function of that solution is also a solution. You need to choose a particular basis of measurement - choose a decomposition of the solutions - to be able to apply the Born rule and get from the wave function to a probability distribution.
None that you know of. I think virus creators have probably adapted from breaking things to silently collect information.
We are locked in a financial trap or cage, isolated from the rest of the world. IT sector has the most open-minded and kind people.

Fully support!
The Kadyrov FSB leak being Ukranian counter information is quite plausible. Maybe they got tipped off by NATO and after neutralizing the chechens, they claimed it was a FSB leak.
Show HN: Rebluff Poker, no limit hold'em for loose-aggressive players
Hmm, I see it currently happening. Everything is fine, until you step over certain line and then mob of self-righteous evil people descent and at least attempt to ruin your life... The left truly never changes...
Definitely, getting rid of them pretty much requires an OS reinstall too which is incredibly annoying when it feels like I've had to waste an hour or so of my time so that the hardware vendor could make an extra buck. I occasionally get batches to do at work and I advocate against buying from vendors that do this kind of thing (for the little good it does, since they all seem to these days)
Victims on all sides.

'In war people who don't know each other kill each other on orders of people who know each other but don't kill each other.'

I can't quote my SO enough with this saying.

While I am also still trying to understand why this war makes sense to Putin and Russian leadership in their heads.
Just make it a rule to hold your phone above your head when using it. Your posture won't be affected, and you will naturally only be able to use it for a few minutes at a time before your arm gets tired. And you won't do it in public for fear of looking like a weirdo.
Hey, sorry for all the name changes of Microsoft Defender. I work at MSec (Microsoft's security org).

We ended up absorbing and acquiring a few companies to provide a better offering and a lot of re-branding happened. For example Security Center's old portal for active threat protection, automatic remediation, incident investigation etc is all now absorbed into (the better) security.microsoft.com which is (to my understanding, just an engineer) the current and last (for the foreseeable future) rebrand. The team I work at started as one person working on the frontend for MDE (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint) and now has hundreds of people working on the security portal across India, Israel and the US (as well as a few other smaller sites contributing).

Also, as an engineer I have to say the offering is good. The anti-virus and the telemetry is worked on by some really smart people. Client information is sacred, logging into production takes multiple audits and PII is scrubbed (heavily) any time logs are needed. We still have a lot of room to improve but I am confident in Microsoft both delivering a good product and acting in good faith (and there is a clear business incentive in the enterprise security space to do so rather than benevolence).
Same here. For simplicity, incoming emails from senders that aren't in my addressbook go automatically to the "Junk" IMAP folder, together with what the email hoster's spam filter moved there.

That rule has a few exclusions. For example, incoming emails from a handful of particular universities and companies I work with can go to "Inbox" because seeing them ASAP is likely important.
i agree. cutting russia from visa and mc systems actually helps the russian government by making it easier to retain IT talent to build internal systems and close off the country with over 150m people from outside world, which is easy to control
It should serve as a very vivid lesson on what happens when you keep the same leader for too long.

Russia will only prosper when Putin is gone, which is at least 10 years from now.
This would be great for MacOS.
Why does it call the processors the 886, 8286, 8386?
I think most antivirus is security theater at this point, unless you're using endpoint security like CrowdStrike Falcon, Palo Alto Cortex, Carbon Black, etc. Which, I think only sell to B2B and not consumer.
When I bought my last laptop it had Windows S mode and no crap whatsoever, it was vanilla windows. I'm not sure if there is some OEM agreement not to install crapware on windows S mode, does anybody knows? You can then switch off S mode off and it will became normal, clean windows.
You missed what I consider to be the greatest strength of pair programming: debugging. If one person gets stuck on something, the other person often still has some ideas on how to proceed. Even if you don't pair program, you absolutely should be debugging with someone else if possible.
Only if you wanted to treat them as more severe types of NaN, Aka ∞-∞ - ∞ can evaluate to ∞-∞, but ∞-∞ / 0 = 0/0.

Though really that choice is just about what kind of errors you’re showing users.
I guess no, or it is barely worth it. The thing is that FM is very robust. It only needs to be a little bit stronger than competing signals, which doesn't really give much room for data, considering that the typical bandwith is 150kHz or even less in some countries. Which means you could cram in some 150-200kbps before the reception becomes clearly worse, or you need more power than for FM.
Consider using https://wetransfer.com for one off transfers.
I tried to pay with Mir Pay and it is just doesn't work. I live in Armenia and I don't know how to pay for anything. I don't know how to live without Visa or Mastercard
It seems to be true
Too many people here don't understand human nature. High gas prices mean that self-proscribed "environmentalists" will be losing elections for the foreseeable future. Right now we should be focusing on energy independence and that means more oil and more investment into renewables.
Spotify is 2.99 in a lot of countries.
It is absolutely clear what is going on. The economic situation is going to be extremely dire very-very soon. I.e. the USD/RUB exchange rate fell by 50% and likely will fall much more. They already introduced limits how much you can buy in grocery stores (sugar etc.), so they'll need additional enemies to blame other than the West, Ukraine, nazis etc. The selected corrupt officials are a good target, since there are plenty of them. Obviously only those identified to be not loyal enough will be selected.

The exact text of the law and numbers does not really matter here, as there is no real independent court/justice or any kind of rule of law.
In the Beginning
Absolutely agree. IT specialists living in Russia are in awful situation. Blocking visa/mastercard actually damages civilians more than Putin's regime
Was it ever not security theatre?