skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People on the inside perform an internal battle: between knowing that they are part of the evil deeds (war crimes, trials, executions after), being afraid of being murdered/purged by the regime in the meantime, and if it gets bad enough the balance tilts more toward being time to mutiny and get rid of the dictator before he kills us all. A lot of things have to line up to get enough of the apparatus together to remove someone like Putin.

Early into the Stalinification process, Putin's insiders will not turn on him, even when he starts to purge them. They'll hold out, hopeful that they're not next, scared, afraid to move; they'll tell themselves that they won't be next because they have been loyal, various rationalizations. You can target these insiders, it doesn't matter, they will not turn on him at this stage. A lot of people will have to die before we arrive at that juncture.

Putin's greatest single vulnerability is the FSB, they coup'd the Russian democracy (such that it was, being so embryonic) and installed him, they're among the best positioned to remove him. The question is, why should they. He's one of their own. The oligarchs could perhaps try purchasing his removal in conspiracy with the military or FSB, although it's very unlikely. The military can't be happy with its humiliation in Ukraine and the masses of dead soldiers, which will ultimately be for naught (Putin forced this outcome on them); and I would expect Putin to punish some prominent military leaders for the various failures, which never goes over well with the system broadly.
That won't help them if the duress password is used to erase secrets in a way that would prevent even you from unlocking the drive again.
In Europe people normally discuss pre-tax, although your employer already pays some more taxes for you on top of that.
Suggestion: Change "Get Started" to link to the app in a demo-only mode (where one can create an account later or not at all), or add a second link like "Try it (live demo)" next to "Get Started." Eliminate all barriers to trying the app.

To maximize conversion from viewers to at least passive users who "kick the tires," put the demo app right on the home page (instead of or in addition to screenshots).

For functionality that doesn't require an account, like surveys that could be transient or persisted, don't require an account at all. Let people decide to save the results when they're done.

(Google "product-led growth" for more on this. The gist is to make it useful enough that I want to keep using it, rather than rely on some screenshots and text to make me care enough to sign up. Eliminate as many barriers to getting value from the app as you can.)
"The second caveat is that the class of functions which can be approximated in the way described are the continuous functions. If a function is discontinuous, i.e., makes sudden, sharp jumps, then it won't in general be possible to approximate using a neural net. This is not surprising, since our neural networks compute continuous functions of their input. However, even if the function we'd really like to compute is discontinuous, it's often the case that a continuous approximation is good enough. If that's so, then we can use a neural network. In practice, this is not usually an important limitation."
Humbling and courageous statement by a Russian Prisoner of War
This is going to not be popular, but piracy has effect on sales. Ignore the US market for a bit, I know market in India for example has a real effect. In India piracy was rampant and it was leading to loss in sales. At one point folks used pirate movies, make them into CDs and sell them for 80 rupees each. This used to happen immediately after a movie was released. This was so widespread that these CDs were available everywhere and everyone with a CD burner would do and sell. The movie studios then adopted streaming immediately and now most movies are available very quickly after a release and so ease of availability at a higher quality made buying CDs a moot point, even for folks low on cash. It feels to me that the whole concept of DRM and freedom is mostly done from a US point of view where a dollar is nothing and people don't even pick up a dime or a quarter they find on the road.
The right (and others) have lost trust in establishment narratives over the last decade or so, so they're not going to be pro Ukraine just because MSNBC or the state department says so.

For some, it's purely political, but for others it's a matter of being curious and looking more deeply into the players involved and how we got here. I don't think the average American is familiar with names like Igor Kolomoysky, Victoria Newland, Stepan Bandera. If they were, I'm not sure they would be rabidly pro-ukranian like they are today.
> self hosted dependencies/packages.

Why? If your lockfile specifies and enforces the hash of the package, you don't need to self-host it - the lockfile will take care of detecting supply chain compromises that swaps a package with another.

100% agree on audits being necessary.
Like any other law in Russia this would apply selectively to those who are against him
You do realize I mean the 1990's right? The show was broadcast in color, so it came after climate change science had "matured".

Concretely, the magnitude of our current predicament was correctly forecast by computer models well before 1980, and the basic mechanisms and effects those models were based on were well-established by the 1960s.

Claims to the contrary have been extensively documented to be part of a paid misinformation campaign the fossil fuel industry ramped up in the early 1980s.

The show wasn't particularly sensationalist, for what its worth. Climate change was a bipartisan concern back then, and it mostly focused on the fossil records that backed up the claims it made. It also talked about the solar cycle's impact on earth's average temperature and compared the magnitude of the effects over time.

All the technology that was needed to head off disaster was already commercialized, assuming a one-two punch, where phase two involved better batteries.

No one imagined we would choose to take no action for another 30 years.
Purchasing within the country is more secure unless you assume all devices sold within the country are compromised and monitored in real-time which seems unfeasible.

Of course for this to be effective you should just purchase it in-person in a mall or something, and ideally don't provide any identifying information so they can't "customize" the device just for you, otherwise all bets are off and at that point it indeed becomes more secure to just bring your own and not let it out of your sight.
This xkcd comic single-handedly set security threat modeling back by decades.
yea, the OP article is a few weeks old and very much out of context. HN doesn't care though.. bunch of tech bros discussing headlines.
I'm confused. Either this is:

[A] You may not save more money in your bank account(s) than 3 * current yearly salary+10k rubles. If your bank account balance is higher, the burden of proof is reversed and you need to prove that you earned it properly.

[B] The amount of incoming cash over some unknown period of time, if higher than 3 * salary+10k rubles, means that every cent above that boundary gets confiscated unless you can prove you earned it.

For [B], that unknown period of time is rather incredibly important. If it's 'one year' that means this law effectively says: "If you corrupt and crime your way into more money, allright, but, cap yourself at a 2:1 illegal-legal rate; any more than that and the burden of proof reverses and we'll just take the remainder. If it's 3 years though, then this says: Any money you make outside of your salary is capped at ~€50 a year (not 50 thousand, fifty). Any more and we just take it.

For [A], hoo boy, that seems like a crazy or desperate move: Steal from those who saved. That really creates a YOLO culture where you just spend every cent you earn immediately, never building anything up because it'll just be taken. That, and everybody will be buying a spacious mattress IMMEDIATELY and will continue to use that as their personal bank for a very very long time.

Separately, the 10k rubles rider seems crazy. 10k rubles is, even before the ruble's collapse, something like €/$ 150,-. Even in Russia where yearly salaries are considerably lower than e.g. western europe or the US, €150,- is a rounding error compared to even a low yearly salary, right?

Anyone have more details? It sounds like perhaps it's B, over a year, so this just caps corruption at 2:1. Whilst I'm sure that'll have quite an effect on russian society, it's not going to significantly affect anybody other than apparatchicks.
My bad. You just wanted them to come to your country and not have the resources for badic survival and dignity and you don't care about how their movement affects others at the destination. I assumed otherwise but of course, if you want freedom without any onligations and responsibility, this would be a false dichotomy. Being in a civilized society however means taking on responsibilities in exchange for freedoms like freedom to move.
This isn't too far off from what most companies do.

How about phishing email? My company sends you test ones. Fail and you have to take training.

Teams shows your status as away if you don't touch your computer and aren't in a meeting.

If someone calls me and I don't pick up, I get some scrutiny over that and have to explain myself.
The goal is to make someone in Russia assassinate Putin, it has become obvious by now that this is the propaganda goal of "the west". Some even open compare it to the assassination attempt(s) against Hitler.

I have no clue how protected Putin actually is and whether his assassination would put someone in power who could/would end the war.
We also throw people in jail before trial which can make it quite difficult to pay the electric bill.
As someone that has spent a sizable amount of my career in ad products, the outrage here is kind of (sadly) funny. A conversion pixel? Hah, if you only had an idea of what the Facebook data faucet looked like in 2007-2017, your hairs would stand.

Pretty sure they were breaking all kinds of PII laws.
About 20 yrs ago I saw a screening of Nosferatu with the Alloy Orchestra playing live in front. That was pretty cool. I’ve seen their Metropolis a couple of times as well.
> If they can put a vampire tap on the motherboard or CPU pins, won't the alternate code paths pursued by the CPU alert them?

I doubt this is possible in modern hardware given the bandwidth & switching speeds they operate at.
Does that matter? It's disgusting.
Advertising to the biggest audience means the greater the choice between parents for the kid. This isn't a bad strategy. If more people got facebook ads for kids they could adopt there would be more placement.

The privacy question is based on permission from the parent. Many kids model and similiar bios would be available in that setting available publically.
My problem: I just want to back up 5 terabytes.

It's on an external SSD, used for photos. Backblaze has forgotten how to count terabytes at all, preferring to play games about how I need to have it attached and for how long, so people don't play games with their "unlimited" offering. "Did you plug in the external drive to a computer, and leave the computer on for 24 hours without it going to sleep, and reattach the drive regularly every 30 days? I'm sorry, it looks like we'll be erasing your backup. You can make another one and it will take several days to upload despite your very fast connection."

I don't want to play these games either way, I just want to back up 5 terabytes. I don't even necessarily need an agent. You offer a similar pricing scheme to Backblaze ($N/mo/computer). Does your service support my use case, or should I keep looking?
This looks really great! I love restic but miss a simple UI to keep track of my backups. Will definitely keep an eye on this.
It's definitely on the edge of the 'temperate' classification.
Let me rephrase it for you: sure, even if it's "only" 30% of the population VS the government, the regime is fucked. However, the dilema is that they _will_ arrest some percentage, so, are you willing to be in that bucket, having no idea of whether the protest will turn out to be anything? If you don't, how can you ask (a very large number of) other people to make up their mind and get fucked in your favor? People and crowds do not act as a hivemind. Humans are not built for this.
> they aren't actually earning money and prioritizing them over core business is the tail wagging the dog.

Uhm, InfoSec helps prevent your company from hemorrhaging money and trust in the form of fines and lawsuits. That makes them a touch more important than you make them out to be.

The bigger a companies customers are, the more important InfoSec becomes to your "core business", because the certifications and security required by those customers have large infosec requirements.
How is this even related?
Check out the comment history. It’s a lot of misinformation.
Wanted to downvote, but instead I'll reply by saying, obviously parent was speaking of ads in a valid message, not spam.
But aren't we at the end off the small ice age? And is global warming really something we can prevent, or is it part off the normal warming and cooling cycles off the earth? I sometimes wonder if all the effort we do is in vain.
This particular issue has been well understood for at least 30 years. Greenhouse gasses are a first order effect. Solar cycles are second order.
it allows uber eats to build custom audiences and track conversion rates . welcome to ad tech ca 1998
I'd say my general problem-solving ability would help me more than the rest of my skills combined.

I take your point that it's _more_ helpful than guitar, but I see it like this: I need 100 relevant-ability-points to build a dishwasher. Playing guitar gives me 1. Knowing how to program gives me 10. I'm still 89 points short.

I just think it's weird how we think that being software engineers translates in some particularly helpful way to building a dishwasher, when really one would need a multitude of skills to do so - involving electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, fabrication expertise, materials engineering.
Its no secret why they got so big. The soap is AMAZING. I keep a bottle at all times. Its the only soap that feels good to use. Not just my opinion either. I've had guests spontaneously ask me where I got it after trying it for the first time.

As for what makes it so good? I think its a combination of it being REAL soap and not some alternative amalgam of desurfecants and that they don't remove the glycerine. Sure, it makes it so you can't use it in handpumps (gums them up) but its also why their soap manages to clean so well without drying your hands out.

Lastly, the use of essential oils for the scents just makes it a luxurious experience.

All they had to do was get it in front of more people. anyone who tries it gets hooked.
Only with physical access to the owner.
Pinning versions creates future work but so does using the latest version.

Vulnerability discovered in old version vs. vulnerability maliciously inserted in new version; software engineers afraid of upgrading because of breaks vs these breaks actually occurring because of an unexpected upgrade.

I personally prefer pinned versions because whenever I try to install some old github example or other code, I usually end up getting stuck with errors unless everything (compiler, dependencies, etc.) are pinned. Gradle projects almost always work no matter how old (Gradle pins the dependencies, JVM, and even the version of Gradle), whereas npm and CMake projects (which are built with new compilers and usually new dependencies) often fail.
0.4% of Iphones are jailbroken. Let us suppose that 50% of individuals with jailbroken phones who were prospective buyers decided to download it instead a fantastic unbelievable percentage. You would expect a 0.2% decrease in sales.

What you are describing is aprox 500x the effect. Your hypothesis is fantastic let me propose some alternatives.

- The same release that removed the DRM also introduced changes in the application which you didn't regard as in any way negative but which turned off users.

- You introduced changes in your price structure to account for the rampant piracy you expected and killed your sales.

- You in some way offended people and they decided to stop buying from you.

- You serve a niche and either saturated that niche, the portion of the niche that was interested in your solution, or the portion of the second group your advertising was reaching and sales dropped off

- You have an exposure problem. You experienced a positive but not permanent bounce that only coincided incidentally with removal of DRM

- Other players entered the same space diluting your market

Any of the above are more reasonable than supposing that all your users are jailbreakers.
Was there something mentioned about imprisonment?
Ok, does someone have a position on how the Russian invasion should be approached / thought of differently based on this (already well publicised) information? It's not something to be aspired to, but what does it change now?
I have played with them before, but I haven't properly tried them for this. I can see it solves half the problem (being able to open something twice). But there's still a lot left to be solved:

1. I need to check out ~8 branches

2. I then need to reinstall all dependencies for those branches.

3. I then need to run those branches locally on a different set of ports to my standard dev environment to avoid clashes (or shutdown my main one temporarily)

4. If it involves the mobile app I may need to wait some time for a clean build

It's a lot of administrative overhead compared to what I tend to default to in most cases which is just merge the branch after reading through it and then test in our staging environment once CI has run.
I don't get this. Nothing about tiktok in the Network debugger, nor in uBlock or NoScript for that matter.
Please, vote this up. Considering how much disinformation is spread about the war in Ukraine, everybody who is still in doubt, should hear this.
> There's plenty that's crazy about the current system. But I'd assume in your example state actors would be tracking and possibly copying your server accesses. And perhaps your server.

Some of us have only passing interaction with state actors, e.g. when visiting a foreign country for a short term, or when crossing the border into a nominally free society with legal privacy rights (cough TSA / ICE cough). There is thus in practice ample need for solutions not secure against an all-seeing surveillance state.
As stable as Venezuela and North Korea. Isolation does not help to ruin such regimes it’s vica versa - the more you isolate the people inside - the more support the regime gains. E.g. you can make high skilled professionals work for food because they have no other options and produce enough value to go on.
But then any analysis would lose meaning, or is that exactly the point?
The Azov guys think along these lines: "Nazis killed Russians, I hate Russians, so I must be a Nazi too". They're fighting together with people of color and don't care about them. Some of them are even Jews.
Step one for any kind of serious data extraction project would be to make a bit-for-bit duplicate of the origin.
Out of curiosity, why are keys not generated upon first run? Why is there something to extract out of a brand new YubiKey to begin with?
The downside is they will keep hitting you with that hammer :(
The IAEA says it can no longer get reliable information about Zaporizhzhia Plant
If Russia is prevented from destroying military facilities in Ukraine, we will see nuclear war with our own eyes.
Why wouldn't they matter? Don't Russian citizens and businesses need stuff like computing, cars, planes, dental drills and imaging equipment to live and be productive?

As another argument, the RUB prices of MacBooks and iPhones shot up +50% the day after the sanctions were implemented. The second hand market and scalping of these goods also exploded in Russia.

And when you run out of dental drill bits, how will that not matter when you visit your dentist? Do you want him to work with a chisel and a hammer?

The average Russian will be hit hard from these sanctions as time goes on.
Right, but that’s sort of the reason some OSes like MacOS use a hardware security module to store the key used for encrypting the disk contents. Your adversary can make as many copies of the disk as they want, but they need the HSM (which is, by design, hard to clone) to read the plaintext.

An HSM can even enforce policies like rate limiting brute force attempts and/or erasing itself after too many attempts. It could even support a duress password which immediately erases the keys.

Without the ability to clone the HSM, the attacker doesn’t get a “second chance” if they attempt to use the duress password.
You're suggesting that common Russians feeling "consequences" will change the war and I would like to disagree. They can do next to nothing, with a high stake. Most of the sanctions, especially the ones that certainly would not affect oligarchs or government personels, are purely psyops and a political gesture of the west.
What is the best file format for web shortcuts?
That's worthless, they will copy the drive before trying anything.
> As Russian joke these days goes "Russia is going to be the Northern-most of all the Northern Koreas of the world".

Is there actually such a joke? Seems like there isn't.
Intelligence starts when the internal physical structure of a system is "dynamically reflective" of its external environment in a way which is stable over time (basically, "complex hysteresis"). You get this with a hard drive (+CPU, etc.) sure. I'd call this sort of minimal intelligence merely "reactive".

You get, let's say "adaptive intelligence" when the physiological structure being changed adapts the system so that it is able to interact with its environment more (eg., it can move differently).

To get to more advanced forms we need an explicit reasoning process which can represent this physical state to the system itself to engage in inference. Let's say "cognitive intelligence".

We get typical mammalian intelligence when the broader physiological structure (in particular the sensory-motor structure) of the system is actually guided by this explicit reasoning process. (Eg., a cyclist grows their muscles differently by reasoning-when-cycling). Let's call this "skill intelligence".

You get human intelligence when the explicit reasoning process becomes communicable, ie., when interior representations can be shared without the physical activity of acquiring those representations. Human intelligence is really "outside-in" in a very important way, which AI today also neglects -- it took 100bn dead apes to write a book, not one. Let's call this "socio-symbolic intelligence".

What we have today is really just systems of "reactive intelligence" with weird frankesianian organs attached to them "look at alex turn the lights off!!!!". Alexa isnt turning the lights off in the manner of the "socio-symbolc intelligence" we attribute to alexa naively (and delusionally!).

Alexa is a reactive system which has something of socio-symbolic significance (to us, not it!) glued on. Alexa does not intend to turn the lights off, and we're not communicating our intent to her. She's a harddrive with a SATA cable to a lightswitch.
AI websites like this person does not exist
Every offer finds a demand.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/adoption/#article/part1