skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what happens here is that Orwell is having a big stab at the intelligencia, and the intelligencia at the time (as now) hated nationalism. He is trying to point out all the ways their behavior is just like that of overzealous nationalists at the time, so he redefines the word so as the label all the intelligencia as the thing they hate.

It makes for effective rhetoric. I think anyone reading this should keep in mind that he seems to have good things to say about what he defines as "patriotism", which is what we would mean by the word nationalism today. In other words, he would absolutely not agree with the anti-nationalists of today who hate their country. In fact, he goes out of his way in this essay to label those people as prime examples of "nationalists".
This is virtually guaranteed to be a deliberate disiformation piece written by an actual FSB officer for that purpose. Maybe it's only intended for splitting the Western alliance, but it could also be used for a false flag attack to further justify Russia's aggression. Or, slightly less nefarious, it could be intended to "explain" if something went wrong with the occupation of a nuclear power plant.

In a war like that, people should not trust anything coming directly from an intelligence agency, whether published deliberately or allegedly leaked by a "whistleblower", unless it contains actionable and independently verifiable information. (Even if the latter is the case, by the way, it's the bread and butter of misinformation to mix less valuable real information with misinformation.)

I've also flagged this thread because it's clearly political and pointless discussing this on HN.
A pretext, but that has nothing to do with you posting it here, that is a distraction. Ukraine currently has a Russian problem, the Nazi problem there - and elsewhere - should be dealt with but it can wait until the shells stop flying and there is - hopefully - a Ukraine left.
>What is going on with those new accounts preaching against online privacy recently?

From my experience (as I prefer freedom of information) if you are against privacy you tend to get downvoted. I think downvotes can lead to your account being rate limited which is annoying so it makes sense that people would want to use another account.
Terrible advice.

It doesn't solve the "immutability" problem and may give you a false sense that it does, which is a much bigger problem.

Here's the "good" example from the article:

# GOOD:
image: "nginx:1.21.6"

Here is the header of the source of the Dockerfile for this image:

FROM debian:bullseye-slim

LABEL maintainer="NGINX Docker Maintainers <docker-maint@nginx.com>"

ENV NGINX_VERSION 1.21.6
ENV NJS_VERSION 0.7.2
ENV PKG_RELEASE 1~bullseye
...
...
...

Notice the first line? `debian:bullseye-slim` is not "immutable". Should the `nginx:1.21.6` image auto-update when new `debian:bullseye-slim` is available? Or should it keep it what it was during the build time? I am not exactly sure how nginx does it but it would not be incorrect to do either (both address different issues and are completely valid depending on what you want to do).

If you are serious about using docker, you need a private registry and you need to make a tagging policy that is best for YOUR use-case.
> A nation should be ruled from their own land and by their own people

Leftists sometimes consider nationalism 'good' when it is nationalism of a small nation against an imperium (or minority ethnicity against a nation state), but 'bad' when it is a powerful nation trying to conquer its neighbors (or opressing its ethnic minorities). But in facts, both of these nationalisms are based on the same toxic concept of ingroupness based on shared ethnicity, language and culture, in contrast of ingroupness based on shared commitment to universalist ideas like freedom, rule of law and democracy.

OTOH, it is likely that the real reason why countries really work is because of some level of nationalism, as commitment to universalist ideas is primarily a thing for elites, while ethnicity-based tribalism is much more primal concept.
Reminds me of some of the Qanon greentext posts; especially "the biden HQ is falling apart we know the arrests will begin tomorrow".
Same, it seems to me that the article is based on the idea that

val app = new AppClass(new MockServer)
assert(...)

is bad but

val app = new AppClass(Server.createMock())
assert(...)

is good. I for one see no difference.
Cheap Chinese tires help explain Russia's stalled 40-mile-long convoy in Ukraine
References 104 and 105 here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Testing_a...
While it looks like it’s interesting, I can’t help but feel that the informational content is zero of maybe even negative.

There is absolutely no way for the lay internet user to corroborate one word of it that isn’t already public information. Whether it looks or feels plausible is also meaningless: it could “feel right” because it is, or because someone took effort to design it this way.

So best thing for me is to ignore it and forget I read it, lest something I read in it confuses me later for a reputable source.

I’m not saying it’s not genuine, it might be, just that to me it is 100% indistinguishable from a prank or psyops.
Why is this bad advice?

The PyTorch scenario is an exception, not the rule, and the users of PyTorch should know not to use unsupported versions.

> For anything nontrivial, you almost always want to specify a minor Python version.

Depends on how you define "trivial".
yes. lets believe cnn
Ah, I'm glad you're enjoying it!

Yes, exactly. The first two clues are guaranteed to be enough to determine the answer uniquely, so you never need to guess blindly -- if you can find a word that's consistent with the clues, you win.
I don't think any of these are in stock. Whole industry kept moving to higher cost parts as parts vanished.
This must be one of the most common ironies in the world. It’s the story of most extractive developing economies
Eclipse Vert.x 4.2.5 Released
If you do want to try out openflexure, I recommend 3d printing the v7 version [0]. At the time of writing it is still in alpha, but it's on par with v6 and the build instructions are a huge improvement.

And definitely read through those build instructions, and the forums. It's an incredibly capable microscope, but there are some rough edges. I would suggest trying the raspi camera with 40x objective, and then see if you can source all the required parts. You can find everything you need on aliexpress, if you don't mind the long shipping times.

If you don't need the motorized axis (eg for autostitching for research, or for autofocus), I would suggest skipping the stepper motors and driver board. The official board is not available, and stuffing cheap stepper drivers in the base is a hassle. You can always decide to add the motors/drivers later.

[0] https://build.openflexure.org/openflexure-microscope/v7.0.0-...
Shopify Subscription App
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'Fingerprint' ML Technique Identifies Different Bacteria in Seconds
The Songhai Empire
And knowing which one it is will probably influence which one it should be, in a halting-problem-esque way.
That's a very nicely designed craft. It's shape brings to mind the Anvil Aerospace C8X Pisces from Star Citizen.

Also, Aqua Teen Hunger Force's "Dickesode" had something to say on the shape of things to come! - https://vimeo.com/684452271
This seems like a minor quibble compared to Biden not just refusing to stop buying oil from Russia, but encouraging companies like Shell to do so. Or only sanctioning 25% of the Russian banks, but making it sound like they're sanctioning all of them. Or not sanctioning Belarus.
CVE-2022-25312: An XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability exists I
Look at his hand with the pen at 8:38-8:40, his palm, close to wrist, is definitely clipping into foreground
Yubico have a verification page for this purpose: https://www.yubico.com/genuine/

In theory this is enough to prove it's genuine because they are supposed to be tamper-proof, i.e even if you buy indirectly or it's intercepted in transit.

The only thing I can see this failing to detect is an intermediate layer that intercepts USB and has access to the physical button... e.g If an attacker embedded a genuine small form-factor key into a larger package that mimics a larger form factor. This would be useful to an attacker which could get a target to trust the key, believe it's genuine and start associating it with services, and then be able to remotely activate it once they have gained the users trust... still a tough challenge to pack all of that with wifi etc into a small enough package with a micro yubikey or something inside.

I don't think this is a very realistic possibility currently, but if you are concerned, you could simply buy the smallest possible yubikey form factor.
They are a false idol in that, when people learn about them they seem like they’re the answer to all problems, and they’re not. The fact that types are equivalent to propositions doesn’t mean that making all of the propositions about your code at the type level is a good idea. For me, it’s completely unnatural, clunky, and more verbose than just writing propositions as logical statements.

I found this talk from Xavier Leroy a while back too: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/WG2.8/26/slides/xavier.pdf. He is the main person behind CompCert, the formally verified C compiler. They do that verification in Coq, so I was expecting him to be a believer of dependent types. But he had this to say:

“ Dependent types work great to automatically propagate invariants

- Attached to data structures (standard);
- In conjunction with monads (new!).

In most other cases, plain functions + separate theorems about them are generally more convenient.”

For that reason I prefer Isabelle/HOL as a theorem prover. The core logic is simpler, but you can express whatever you want as a theorem, without worrying about phrasing it within the type system. It feels a lot more natural.

That’s not without downside either of course. Proofs in Isabelle notoriously must match the structure of the code being verified, so changes to the code require proof changes. Liam O’Connor wrote an example of where they he feels dependent types are better here: http://liamoc.net/posts/2015-08-23-verified-compiler/index.h....

Even with that, I’d rather have simple code plus simple propositions with complexity at the proof level. This will likely be another eternal holy war though.
There's the LG Ultrafine 5K. Apple even sells it. I'm pretty sure it's literally the same panel as the iMac.

The iMac except for the Pro aren't easily VESA adaptable after purchase. Like you can't remove the original stand. Really it should be at the very least height adjustable at this point. But it's pretty sad when a $200 monitor will have better ergonomics than a $2000 all in one.

The desktop monitor market is mostly driven by PC gamers and businesses who don't want the highest resolutions for different reasons.
Hey, that's even better than turning houses into investments, creating a house price bubble!!
The sun can both outshine the brightest screen, and blind the photographer's eyes. Using a viewfinder avoids both those issues.

The alternatives in strong sunlight would be a rigid hood around the screen (which exist as accessories), or a fabric hood covering the screen and photographer (like what early photographers used).
Netty 4.1.74.Final Released
Well, reading the 2 comments here before the article probably primed me, but yeah, it's a ridicilous article. "Fatigue, stress, brain fogginess" because he has so many options where to live? He says he's been killing it at a new job, pretending he's a senior consultatnt there to kick ass, and then he writes the job is "social media marketing". I howled in laughter.

Sorry to be breaking the "be nice" rule, but... flips table.
Does a wave function collapse if there is no conscious entity to measure that?

It is a philosophical question, but philosophy is precisely designed for dealing with what is technically unfalsifiable in hard science—the “far lands” of modeling the system from within itself.
> Ukraine psy ops aren't as long. Longer = more chances for mistakes

But this piece isn't really long in information density. What mistakes could be made? This piece says very little except asserting that Russia cannot win this war and that their intelligence analysts were duped into preparing scenarios they were told wouldn't be used in practice. This can be told in a single paragraph or stretched with prose and "color", which is what happened here.

The piece is very short in this sense, and has very little content that could be botched by mistake.
Chrome also has what, at least from the outside, looks like a little more refined mitigations for WebGL.

That said, both browsers have huge attack surfaces. The best you can do for any of them is to disable WebGL, WebRTC, WebUSB etc. completely and only enable the ones you need. This does much more for your security when browsing the web than the differences between browsers.

The plugins for Firefox to expose this functionality have at least traditionally been a little bit more user friendly.

Opt-in javascript functionality would be the next step.
I like this :) Zero luck
There are some recent x86 SoC's which basically implement i586 and have been made to run both MS-DOG and Windows 9x. Commonly used by retro- and vintage computing hobbyists. None that would cost $1, though.
The Case of the Missing Black Hole
besides karelp's sister comment, there's also the "obvious" fact that stock price is not a function of time, it's not P(t), it's a function of time and the entire f universe that also evolves through time, more like P(t, U(t, ....)) ....you can simplify things by assuming the laws of physics are deterministic and you only need one instance of the state of the universe, U, so you'd have P(t, U)

...now if you don't explicitly represent U as a parameter, you'll have it implicit in the function. So your "neural network" contains the entire state of the freakin universe (!!).

Ergo, contingent on your stance on theologic immanence vs. transcendence, what you'd call "neural network approximation of the stock's price function" is probably quite close to what other call... God (!).

(Now, if relativity as we know it is right, you might get aways with a "smaller slice of U" - lear about "light cone". And to phrase this in karelp's explanation context: you'd need to know U to know which of the practically infinitely many such neural networks to pick. The core of (artificial) intelligence is not neural networks in themselves, it's learning, the NN is a quite boring computational structure, but you can implement tractable learning strategies for it, both in code, and in living cells as evolution has shown...)
New York City and Montreal are both well known for having very good bagel bakeries, each with their own distinct traits. In my experience the further away you get from those two cities, the more a bagel ends up tasting like regular (and often stale) bread that just happens to be in a torus shape. In any case, you should always get one freshly baked from a bakery and not from a supermarket bread aisle.

I'm surprised at the number of commenters here talking about toasting a bagel. In my opinion, if you need to toast the bagel, you already failed at finding a good bagel. A good bagel should already be somewhat crispy on the outside and pleasantly soft on the inside, and it shouldn't need anything spread on it to be edible.
As far as I can tell, the CIA has operated outside of US law with no real repercussions for its entire history.

This is not a new development. The rule of law has always been a sort of aspirational target, not the real state of affairs.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. It's not a new idea.
Check his right hand at 8:39 frame by frame: https://youtu.be/I3JpOy_fOmA?t=512
This is a different perspective on the blockchain / web3 hype arguing correctly that there is no usecase for these crypto tokens no matter how you slice it.
Of course it's not. But it's not King, either.
The point is what other options they have unless they are willing to immigrate. I don’t think these $72k developers are American expats but Ukrainians that for whatever reason don’t want or can’t leave their home country.

And there are much more flagrant instances of borders determining your salary than that - when I was studying in Vienna I had a friend who studied with me and after school went back to his hometown in Poland. We both started our first jobs at the same time, with the same education and same title/job, and I was earning 3x his salary simply because I stayed in Vienna (Poland isn’t that far from Germany and Austria).
Do not try to be obtuse, the issue is not whether they claim that or not, it's about their actions regarding content on their platform.
I found it interesting for the purely operational aspect: management ask for analysis without context, doesnt like answer so force better number, bubbles up for months to the top, war is declared on the basis of analysis, all is fucked because analysis was devoid of meaning.

Now, need to fix the shit and Z stands for Nazi, Zelensky is war hero, Chechens dont understand why they were erased even before killing one civilian and there s no way it ends with a win for Russia.

Love it cause even if completely fake, it's probably 100% true :D
I wouldn’t skip through it honestly, the whole thing is really a decent watch.

You can find more perhaps at https://csis.org
Adding to your comment, in the Munich Security Conference on 2022-02-19, Zelenskyy said:

“Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFV5nw1UUNY&t=900s

That “Budapest Memorandum” is this one:

“Until Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons, it had the world's third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile, of which Ukraine had physical but no operational control. Russia controlled the codes needed to operate the nuclear weapons through electronic Permissive Action Links and the Russian command and control system, although this could not be sufficient guarantee against Ukrainian access. Formally, these weapons were controlled by the Commonwealth of Independent States.”

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has publicly commented on the Budapest Memorandum by arguing that it provides no true guarantee of safety due to Russia's coercive power. On 19 February 2022, Zelenskyy made a speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he said «Since 2014, Ukraine has tried three times to convene consultations with the guarantor states of the Budapest Memorandum. Three times without success. Today Ukraine will do it for the fourth time. ... If they do not happen again or their results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt.» Putin used Zelenskyy's comments as part of his claims that Ukraine could develop nuclear weapons. Critics have disputed Putin's claims. This treaty has since been violated by Russia at the outbreak of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...

This might be what some interpret as Ukraine seeking to acquire nuclear weapons in the near future.
Why do you think it's obvious? Can you spell it out?

I hope it's more than "presumably, non-linear neurons can approximate any non-linear function since they both have non-linear in the name".
Absolutely, it is a good reason to avoid providers with CGNAT.
ReScript on Deno: Declarative Command Line Tools
>Interpretation is a crutch, gives nothing extra, and only obfuscates things; it should be discarded.

It assists people in considering where the models might go and make them think of experiments to invalidate/validate the interpretation.

They are as good as any hypothesis and there is a point when you have to guess what things might be, even if you are not sure yet.

You can't move forward without conjecture at some point.
A co-pilot isn't just useful for medical emergencies. They can double-check judgments, decisions, and plans as well. Because people sometimes interpret signals incorrectly or misunderstand contexts.

That can happen to a programmer just as much as a pilot, and it can be even more destructive. You could argue software generally isn't life and death, but who knows? You might end up working on something like curl or sqlite which may well have played part in the implementation of emergency services in some country.
I haven’t yet found a way to solve these problems, but a few tips I can offer from my experience:

1) Separate your order form from your standard services agreement. Put your services agreement online as a PDF, which sends a strong signal that you don’t generally negotiate these terms.

2) Allow amendments within your order form, but make them part of the commercial conversation. You might want to have a cutoff where you choose not to customise the contract; eg no custom terms for deals less than $XX,000 per month.

3) Accept that this is just the process for your larger customers. In larger deals, you’ll probably be signing a standard supplier contract they already have, with only the service-specific terms mattering. This could include terms needed for regulatory requirements eg which are not negotiable. Design your contracts to account for this.

4) Understand why your customer wants to redline something. This might be regulatory, it might be consistency with other suppliers, or it might just be pushing their luck.

Case in point, we’re currently going back and forth with a FTSE 100 bank, and they have inserted a clause requiring us to have our working locations approved by them. We’re a remote, global company, so we’d need every employee approved. But the reason they care is due to banking regulations around sanctions, so we came to a mutual agreement that countries would be acceptable to us both.

4) Have a good way to track all these deviations. They’ll happen, so you just need to get used to them to some degree. Design variables into your system which integrate with your CRM so that you can codify this as much as possible.

(But, be careful when doing this, since you’ll be providing your sales team with more levers which they will pull to get the deal.)
those kind of tricks are already blocked by browsers, as the article explains
hey, I didn't mean it in a bad way. I'm against war everywhere not only in Ukraine. Peace
Why would they need assistance? Nuclear weapons are 75 year old technology they're not difficult if you already have a nuclear industry to supply the materials.
It's interesting that otherwise smart people here believe that it must be true because two anonymous and unverified sources also say it's true.

And this is purportedly intelligence information coming from the FSB! I mean, military intelligence, what could go wrong with trusting sensitive intelligence of an ongoing war that someone posted on Twitter or Facebook?
https://hackaday.com/2021/07/28/emulating-the-ibm-pc-on-an-e...
One Microscope Per Child ;)
What's making it worse is Biden's decision to throw away the energy independence we had a year ago, which really puts us in a bind today by making us far more vulnerable to people like Putin. Without those misguided decisions, we would have a lot more leverage with Putin, and a lot less inflation to worry about.