skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developers help Ukrainian family of key Python contributor escape war
Modern Fascism Looks Like
Depending on your access patterns, Wasabi (https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/) could be cheaper, since they charge more $5.99/TB, but don't charge for egress ($0.01/GB at B2) or API calls ("GetObject" at $0.004 per 10,000 at B2).
Came here to say just to say all of this. 100%.

Also this is another direct quote from the article:

> Reading some comments on random websites I guess you don’t even need a brain.

Coupled with the "just run this" batch file with no explanation... huge facepalm.
Where’s the setting where one decides between file system cache, anti-virus, swap space, and other uses?

If there was one, it would be fine.
> Fear, as you say, is the purpose.

I would add that multiple aspects of Putin's attack plan for Ukraine relied heavily on its ability to instill fear.

Putin's regime expected Zelenski to flee at the sight of Russia's military at the border, they expected border cities to promptly fold at the sight of Russia's army, they expected Ukraine's army to surrender once Russia's army gained some ground, they expected all NATO and neighboring countries to stay quiet and did nothing when threatened, implicitly or explicitly, by them.

But thankfully their bluff was called, and Putin's regime was exposed as the fascist paper tiger they are.
This is true only for the most simple assemblers. In practice, each assembler comes with its own distinct set of features.

Microsoft Macro Assembler for example offers:

• Records/structs, bitfields

• Typed labels/pointers. Intel in particular introduced this feature.

• Procedure blocks which allow locally scoped labels within them

• The automatic allocation of local variables onto the stack.

• if/then blocks, for loop blocks

• Memory model directives

• Macros, equates, etc.

Other assemblers like NASM omit some of these features, as introducing versions of these features which are completely compatible with the MASM ones would be difficult. For example, NASM allows MASM-like procedure blocks, but they are not block-scoped. They're just a notation for the programmer.
No BMWs there, wow.

Also, would be interesting to see the same list segmented by state, I'm sure it will be quite different from one to another.
I still have nightmares about threads - the interesting thing about threads is that it shows the expect tactical flow of nuclear war at the time where they expected a big city, but not london to be the first target. It was always presumed Birmingham, UK would be hit first

When the wind blows by Raymond Briggs is scary too as its so matter of fact
https://youtu.be/PEnp3A7juRI
A few more minor ones ('juristiction'): https://app.pagewatch.dev/5ebf46bce58c44dd7cf0dafdb78fbb48df...
It is normalised.

“For each model, the share of drivers with a prior DUI violation was compared against the total population of motorists that owned that model. The 10 models with the highest proportion of drivers with a DUI were then selected”
That's embarrassing... Thanks, I'll fix it:)
Amazing Sites, do you know more resources of AI?
I haven't read the source code, but how does it handle materialized views? Views refer to source tables by relation id, not by name, so by default you end up with views pointing to old tables, which also means can't drop them.

My use case is somewhat different. I have ~400M row tables which are not updated live, but I rebuild them from new source data, because it is faster that way (lots of columns, indices and FKs). There are also materialized views based on these tables, similarly with multiple indices.

I wrote some sql scripts using information_schema, which prepare new tables for data import, rebuild indices, FKs and then swap tables. After that scripts recreate materialized views from definitions and swap them. All happens without ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock, so it can be still used by the backend. It sucks, though. I wouldn't mind if there was a way to have views use table names, so I could just refresh them after swapping tables.
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Sanctions played a major role in forcing Apartheid South Africa to the negotiating table regarding its military actions in Angola, giving Namibia independence, and starting negotiations with the ANC and other groups to end Apartheid. They were bankrupting the regime and white South African businesses were increasingly applying pressure on the government to find a solution as the economy crumbled.
Ok bro, point taken. But you will probably need to flag all posts about Ukraine as they are biased and political by design.
Thanks, this looks great!
> Adblock is not much different than getting up from the couch to make a sandwich or whatever when a commercial comes on TV.

Sure, but this type of argument-by-example is an easy way to hide both t holes in one's argument[1] and the similarities to piracy. It's also trivially extensible: "Piracy is not much different from streaming a show at a friend's house", in that somebody who had access to the media is sharing it with you.

To be clear, I've heard the principled theoretical argument for adblocking being ethical, and think it has at least some merit. I just don't understand the claim that piracy is meaningfully different. The assumptions required to consider adblocking ethical provide the same shield to piracy.
Well, it would have "subverted our expectations " even more than the awful episode 8. Since this is quoted as a quality of the movie by its fans, I would argue that Lucas movie would have been better.
I've never had RAM issues with Defender but I have noticed that I/O suffers terribly when Defender is enabled. Twenty second installs take five minutes, and don't you even dare try running a `yarn install` because Defender WILL scan each and every file of your 65535 dependencies and it WILL NOT use more than a single core it seems.

Whenever I see a machine that's slow or sluggish during operation but reports that only 60% of it's resources are used, Windows Defender is usually the culprit. I've nerfed Windows Defender for performance reasons to the point that I wonder why I even bother anymore.
Previously, they tested their ability to do so:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19135085
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19132665
I couldn't get any location information from the page, but I wonder if these are mostly rural? I live in New Zealand and while the vehicles are not seen here the makeup would seem to align with my experience - trucks (Utes as we call them), cheap old cars, or flashy cars. The problem with living rurally is that there may be no options to socialise without your car.
Yeah, the rate of crashes would be the better metric
I'm in college now, they threaten to expel me if they see me at a rally. And there's an army right there, and most likely to the front...
Yes I would and you're a coward.

Also poisoning the well with your "if you say yes, I would think it's a lie, or that you're stupid"

I hope writing that does at least help you feel better because it won't help the people of Ukraine.
> They already did something like "jail everyone" in the last century, it's not impossible for them to play by the same book again...

Let's rephrase it then: Putin can't jail everyone and still expect to have any semblance of support.
The WRX is the souped up high horsepower version. Frequently driven by testosterone driven young male adventure seekers.
>even kaspersky does it

Thats an awfully low standard to set don't you think?

I don't think it makes sense for the public. Stealing files from unsuspecting users without as much as a popup saying "hey, we just snatched this file without you knowing this is even a possibility" is just sad.

EDIT: i just realized you are being ironic
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I'd like to learn more about this (pinched spinal nerves causing anxiety) but am having trouble finding anything helpful online. Most results are along the lines of the pain making the patient anxious about their condition, with some hypochondria thrown in. Can you elaborate, or do you happen to have a relevant term or two I could search?
This Wikipedia article references a few different views.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse#:~:te....

I'm no expert on QM. So not sure if there is an overall leading interpretation, currently.
Pickup trucks are very popular in the US, even for people with no special need for one (vs a car). It's a cultural thing.
and still let the fascists take over
Considering that Steam was a huge success, initiated a new era of gaming and is selling billions of dollars in games, I'd say it does hold up.
This was my first thought.

How is this not everyone's first thought?
Then make it so that the duress code allows you to withdraw $300, not $2000.

The duress code could also mean instant warning sent to the police. This would deter some bad guys too if it was widely known.
What's wrong with getting savings across border using ATM cash withdrawal while abroad? Limits are quite high for debit cards (and could be customized via client support), ATM commissions in first world countries are more than reasonable (up to 0%).
Does anyone think owning a truck causes you to get DUIs or that having DUIs causes you to buy a truck?
Weirdly enough, most of the batch file is actually writing a VBS script to run the calling file as an admin.

The last two lines are what actually enable the policy editor (by installing the Windows feature through DISM, the normal way). Still better than no batch file, but an explanation would indeed be nice.
Ah I was speaking ethically, not legally. Of course, adblocking isn't illegal and piracy nominally is.

As mentioned in the sibling comment, this argument-by-example is trivially extensible to piracy. "It's not unethical to watch media at a friend's house. Piracy is just using a machine to do this via a digital encoding instead of an analog one"
I found the book "Programming From the Ground Up" to be a pretty good intro to programming in x86, and importantly, more recent than this text. I had to do just a tiny bit of research to find out how to get my shell to emulate 32 bit mode, since it's x86 and not x86-64, but it is in fact Linux based. I imagine it'd be an order of magnitude easier than trying to figure out a DOS setup.

The full x86 ISA is daunting, I'm sure, but for a beginner looking to get a sense of what asm is, you don't engage with the entirety of the ISA. The PFTGU text is great specifically because it assumes an audience of beginners who want to learn the basics of how asm operates to enable core programming concepts. It's not aiming to be exhaustive like the linked text.

Edit: And also importantly, it's also (legitimately) available for free online.
Which is also hosted on Phatcode:

http://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/index.html
Ive seen stunning simple / passive water column chimney-effect approaches to do this using lower water levels mixing, no sources though, was german tv (arte station)
Piracy affects sales when companies try to fight it with things that make their product awful.

No way I'm buying a video game that requires a constant internet connection, even to play solo.

No way I'm buying a movie, book or song that can only work on a specific device via a dumb app that I need to install.
denmark also used to be vehemently against building up an eu army
I’m not an assembly programmer, but I’ve learned assembly as part of introductory CS courses (computer architecture classes) and the approachable alternative you’re looking for is the assembly language of a RISC architecture such as ARM, MIPS, or RISC-V. I’d recommend learning the latter because of how approachable it is.
Saying "F you" to an entire geographic region in US is not attacking anyone?
> We now need Apple and Google to add a feature to their respective mobile operating systems that allows two different passcodes to open two different profiles on the same phone.

Then they won't know when to stop beating you.
This study is not measuring the number of DUI per car model. It's measuring the amount of drivers that have had a DUI in their life, per car model.

So this study could start by normalising against the age of drivers, because the older the drivers, the more likely they've have had a DUI strike in their life.
Well the obvious solution if one was to use this scheme (which I'm not saying is good or bad) would be, at PIN creation time, to disable palindrome.
A hummer is too small, I have a deuce.5 instead, it runs on the distilled tears of small children.
I will describe my personal case.

I still receive money from company based in Russia. This block was announced on the first day of three-day public holidays in Russia, when banks do not process corporate transactions.

Even if on Wednesday morning my company will arrange an advance payment, it won’t get to me in time to withdraw cash via ATM (Visa ban will become active on Wednesday night, and Mastercard has already stopped working for many people earlier today)

I don’t know if that was planned, or was just an unlucky coincidence, but there is no buffer to really do anything.
US officials hold Venezuela meetings amid hunt for alternative oil supplies
I'm from Western New Zealand (Tasmania ;) )

Drink driving, no excuse. Monique will think you're dumb.

Especially if you've got a Ute or van, sleep in a swag in the back, or stay at ya mates place.
The Contour was a bad attempt at a sports sedan, but that’s what it was. The late 90s was not a great time for the big 3.
If websites/web apps are adopting these features, maybe it's because they're useful? You're free to use a 10 years old browser and keep reading document-like websites. In the meantime I'll be using all the goodness the web can bring today, hoping it will end up fully replacing the very costly, heavy, intrusive native apps, that only work on the system they've been built for.
> No BMWs there, wow.

Probably everyone is giving them a wide berth as they apparently aren’t equipped with turn signals.
I’ve been using Deja Dupe for 4 years now for a local backup on my NAS. It’s extremely slow though, and I’d prefer fs level like ZFS or even btrfs at this point.
That's a very good observation. However, deep learning didn't just get the share of the first mover. Before DL was popular, Support Vector Machines used to be where all the ML fun research was happening. And just out of nowhere, Random Forests and XGBoost came and took the crown if only for a fleeting moment. Gaussian Processes always showed promise, but I'm not sure they delivered. Deep Learning just delivered. I guess it's because of the composability. But you are absolutely right that there's no proof and now way of knowing right now if DL is the best there possibly can be.
In the top 10 list, the WRX is the standout. People who buy a WRX are racer/rally types, and they're going to be "enjoying" their car drunk or not. Drunk just means they're more likely. It's possible that the WRX drivers were screwing around and got caught, and it just so happened that some of them had been drinking.

The rest of the cars, possibly excluding the Audi (which could be the urban WRX... maybe) represent people who generally make bad life choices. Driving drunk is just one more bad decision.

The rest of the cars are people who already demonstrate poor choices in life. DUI is just one more.
This is a well written article, if long. The overviews of tracing/open telemetry and tokio are excellent.
When you make the purchase, you're exchanging $x for resalable equipment that's presumably worth $x. Your bank account balance goes down quite a lot, but the only decrease to your net worth is from the taxes and title transfer fees. Your net worth goes down as the vehicle depreciates. Even if you drive it to the very end of its operable life, you'll still get a bit of money from the junkyard you sell the vehicle's corpse to.

This does ignore the time that needs to be spent buying the vehicle, transferring the title, obtaining insurance, etc, which is significant. But procuring a rental truck is also time-consuming; on a typical Spring/Summer/Fall weekend where I live, you're lucky if you're able to get one at all. The local hardware stores are first-come/first-served, and can't guarantee over the phone that they'll have a rental truck available by the time you arrive.
ATM is an example where it might match the threat level - a pin that reveals an account with $450 or so in it instead of the real accounts.
First, take a dose of realism:

Russia is in terrible shape. Their military is a shambles, their equipment is garbage and poorly maintained, and their nuclear arsenal is just as bad. They couldn't launch most of it even if they wanted to, and would likely accidentally nuke themselves if they did.

Putin vastly overestimated his military's ability and equipment (he thought he could take Ukraine in a single day - it's been 2 weeks). Now he knows better, which is why Russia has been barking so loudly instead of acting, threatening everyone under the sun, saying "X is an act of war", "Y is an act of war" etc etc. You only bark that loud when you've got nothing to back it up.

There will be no nuclear armageddon. The Ukraine conflict will stay there, the rest of the world will funnel in arms but not soldiers, and Russia will tire herself out over the next months/years fighting an expensive insurgency just like they did in Afghanistan (except they're in even worse shape now). And America and Europe are perfectly happy with such an outcome because it's a cheap win for them, which is why they're dragging this out.

Stop worrying and get back to your life.
Yea, I think so too. I just looked it up and vehicle deaths per 100k dropped from like ~20 to ~10 between 1982 and 2012. Of course, that is inclusive of DUI deaths, so they can't be decoupled in that data point. It's harder to find information about total alcohol-related accidents, but I did see one chart from Wisconsin, where it appeared that number of crashes dropped significantly between the late 70s to mid 80s, but has remained mostly constant since then.
I mean, it's a start? I'd imagine this would establish baseline support for their GPU families with additional support coming later.

These are all DX10-era GPUs, so the number of features to implement to get a working driver is relatively low.
Thanks for this reference. I was told I'm having this rolled out onto the infra I'm using. I have added this to the growing list of reasons to quit.
I tired that and it was still a little too sluggish to use.
One puzzling aspect is that these vehicles don't seem to be correlated with the age of drivers. Given that the older that a driver is, the more likely they are to have at least one DUI, you would expect to find a lot of cars that older people drive.

You could compensate for this by only looking at DUIs within the last five years, but it didn't seem that that was a factor in this study.
Refreshing! We need more developers with this mindset in the open source space.
Users have become entirely unreasonable about their expectations.
>It's a cultural thing

While true, based on extensive data analysis, 100% of all conversations that start with "hey, hold my beer," ends with somebody getting into a truck and doing something ill-advised.
As a "family SysAdmin" I'm pretty happy about how good Windows Defender and MRT updates works.

Aside from clearly aimed ransomeware, today's pretty difficult to have virus problems in Windows. Most of the time I have to repair any Windows machine is due to a driver install problem (specially sound cards) or a system update problem.
The key word here is "prior".

A car released in 2022 that is popular with old people will have more drivers that have had a DUI violation than a car released in 2022 that is popular with 16 year olds, because the older folks would have had more chance to get DUI in their life.
I don't think I'm prepared mentally for war

With rare exceptions I would be surprised if most claiming to be mentally prepared for war are telling the truth in my opinion. Exceptions being the few that live for combat. For some drugs and alcohol become coping mechanisms via escapism. For some prepping gives the mind a feeling of accomplishment.

One might find a pinch of solace in talking to or training with friends that have combat experience. So maybe that's one possible answer. See if you have any war veterans in your circle of friends that you can talk to. If nothing else they might help you eliminate unknowns and help you determine what you have some control over and what measures might give you a small advantage over others and help provide some grounding in reality.
Climate change vs energy sux don’t it? If the pipeline from Alberta into the us was in existence, more could flow to us refineries. But as I always wonder, is n America short of oil or gasoline? I’m unaware of refineries being built or expanded there in the last few decades…
Unless CO2 removal is profitable without subsidies, it's pointless and the money should go into Renewables. If you can cut emissions, the CO2 takes care of itself quickly from natural sinks.

Per the ipcc model, if we could wave a magic wand and have zero emissions tomorrow, CO2 levels would fall faster than they have been increasing.

We already have free CO2 removal. The challenge is and always has been on the emission side.

CO2 levels are about 420 ppm and go up about 1.5 per year. A 120 year half life yields -3.5 ppm per year.

It is worth investing some money in development for the moonshot possibility of economic viability. Unless it becomes cheaper to capture than build renewables, the the money will always be better spent on green energy.
1st - that "heuristic" used by BitDefender or other AV solutions are simply scanning the .exe for those APi calls. This is easy to overcome by simply encrypting with even a simple XOR and dynamically loading said API's for keylogging (I suspect you are referring to SetWindowsHookEx - the most used API loggers, malware or not).

2nd - BitDefender is a Romanian AV, but people forget that Windows Defender is Romanian too, at its heart, the formerly RAV (Reliable AntiVirus) that Microsoft acquired it in the ancient times of early 00's. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeCAD_Software and https://www.networkworld.com/article/2334189/microsoft-to-bu...

3rd - BitDefender is the most hog resource AV. Also the most annoying. And it behaves like is the only application you are need it, constantly begging attention. I worked at a company who had it as license, I hated every day there only because of it. Windows Defender on the other hand is so quiet that I always forget is running.

My 2 cents.
"The best letters in life come in threes: IPA, CBD, DUI. I got all three of those."

Thank you for this.
Yes I've been using this solution for a few years now it works great with a ton of options.
Im totally support and really appreciate to admins about this activity! The most specialists are searching the ways to leave Russia (who really can move to other country). And this action (block all cards with your processing) is really block our lives... I don't know what will happened in next week, but I beg you too..

Also I dont know what we should do.. especially if our country's government doesnt support our point of view and doesnt want to hear a voice.

Your could check this petition from Russian IT what has been closed (bc of the newest laws) - https://www.facebook.com/100001799497723/posts/7286233221446...
Insurify.com more interested in actuarial stats than academic scientific inquiry?
This version of the book is good! Great for beginners and experts alike. However, in later versions of this book (one of which I have on my bookshelf), the author uses High Level Assembler (HLA) which is according to the back cover of the book; "a revolutionary tool...". It is basically a proprietary compiler that uses a syntax that is "interesting" but not portable to the rest of the world of x86 assembler.

So, if you buy the book (like I did), please be aware of this.