skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a feeling that "Is pam_duress.so configured in any file in /etc/pam.d, and if so turn on a big red light" is a pretty trivial thing to add to those "plug the person's computer in here and have them log in to their machine to decrypt everything, otherwise they won't go through customs/leave our dingy bunker" solutions.

These duress passwords seem to be for kind of contrived scenarios, to me. Either your threat model is "someone breaks into my hotel room and steals my laptop", in which case it's useless, or "The $OpposingSideSecretService got me and hits me until I give them my password" in which case it seems to be equally useless.
Inflation in Russia has been greater than 50% per month in the last year?
Looks to be a DVR remote app aimed at home consumers. Was going to call BS on the post originally, but the app was from the 2008/2009 era, which makes way more sense (nowhere near enough people are jailbroken for this to happen nowadays). Kinda BM to leave out that detail IMO.
There are levels of interest and risk etc.

They aren't murdering everyone whos phone / laptop they check at a border. It would be perfectly fine to have an encrypted disk drive that presented different contents based on what password was used to unlock for instance.

And with something fully arbitrarily scriptable like this, it doesn't have to simply wipe stuff, it can do practically anything. It could fake having a dead battery, or suffering some kind of crash or other normal annoying service interruption. It could fake a Microsoft account login problem due to some problem with the wifi or borked corporate account control etc. You could increase the believability by pretending to have very common bad security habits like having the duress password written down somewhere on your person or with the machine.

If you are a spy and they have you in a hole, then your cover is already blown. They will remove and dissect the storage without even trying to boot it. But things like this could keep you from being noticed in the first place, and could sufficiently handle the vast majority of situations.

In Russia right now, they are stopping random people on the street to look for certain telegram groups on people's phones. The randos aren't spies and aren't specifically targeted. The police are really only doing it to scare everyone else away from accepting any communication about Ukraine from outsiders.

It would be exactly perfectly good enough if they simply didn't see what they were looking for.
Who is Kamil Galeev?
How Orwell defines Nationalism is in my experience what you hear getting called "statism" in libertarian circles.
bing and yahoo.co.jp are interesting
> A whole lot of unwillingness to make reasonable accommodations for people based on disabilities will open you up to lawsuits.

I kind of take issue with your assumption that someone with (edit: meant Neurodivergent... NPD is something else) can't pair program.

If your assumption of an effective pair programmer is that they're always bubbly extroverts with politician-level shmoozing capability, I kind of doubt you've spent any length of time doing it.

There's a lot of people who struggle with more "normal" communication that are incredible pair programmers. I've worked with many of them. In many cases, the code and the keyboard becomes a communication medium they're effective at leveraging--more than other means. Actually doing pair programming challenged a lot of my misconceptions about what it takes to be good at it.

It's skill and like any other should be disconnected from stereotypes. I don't see why you can't hire for it like any other. Hopefully I don't run into you in the court room. ;-)
I am not hiding it, I make it integral part of the development process, as it should be. Treating technical debt as a separate work item is asking for problems.
“If more people got facebook ads for kids they could adopt there would be more placement.”

I remember talking to a couple who had adopted a child. They told me that there would be more placement if the process wasn’t as difficult and insanely expensive as it is now. A lot of people who want to adopt a child are basically forced to go to foreign countries because it’s too hard at home in the US. No need for Facebook ads.
> I find this hard to believe. Which country’s laws are you thinking of? In the US, at least, companies such as Pivotal and Menlo Innovations, as well as others I’m not at liberty to name, require full-time pairing. They’ve never had an issue. Your statement is also at odds with my understanding of employment law, which is admittedly at a layman’s level, but I have studied it for the purpose of hiring in Oregon.

I'm in Europe, but I've seen such law suits and threats of lawsuits over issues like this affect companies I've done projects for first hand, including at least one US company. They are very hard to make stick, because most people are not dumb enough to make statements that are clear cut enough to provide proof that the employees failure to get hired is discrimination. But that does not stop people from suing (or threatening to sue). I've seen team paralysed for months [dealing with legal issues surrounding conflicts over discriminatory hiring practices] instead of doing their jobs. I've also personally seen people walk away from threatening lawsuits over issues like this with well over a years worth of compensation just from a threat.

This is separate from the moral issue - personally I've interviewed enough neuro-divergent candidates who were qualified (and hired a few) but who'd struggle with things like pairing and I'm personally not willing to refuse to make reasonable accommodations.

> You’re losing credibility with me. I’ve done exactly what GP is talking about and it was better than code reviews (etc), not worse. Are you talking from experience, or from personal preference?

I'm talking from experience over nearly 3 decades, including direct personal experience in cleaning up the failures of teams who took short cuts because they thought pairing could replace code reviews. They catch different things. Pairing for some teams where people are comfortable with it leads to lower counts of some types of defects assuming a lot of things go right (e.g. the pairs are matched well with people who'll actually speak up and challenge each other), but pairs tends to look themselves blind to many of the same categories of failures as individual developers because they focus on solving a task and steer their view of the code accordingly rather than looking for at breaking it.

It's the same reason developer written test suites does not obviate the need for QA, and internal security reviews does not obviate the need for external pen testers, or having developers try to think about operational issues does not remove the need for SRE's or equivalent.
This kind of sounds like the parents joined a cult... The secluded life, leaving extended family...

Of course, pure speculation, but this way of writing reminds me of what I've heard in the past from people in cults.
Where do you find "underground" music these days?
It is not an issue of depth. Wikipedia is a hive of mimetic scapegoating, and it doesn't hold the patent on that problem. And this usually, ultimately, leads to real world violence.
>We charge you $9 / month per computer. Each computer is allowed to backup up to 5 TB of data.

Seems to be exactly how much you want to backup.
>This is a bad example because Steam's DRM is notoriously terrible

You don't grasp Valve and the industry has already won any game where the networking code has been pulled out already acts like DRM, any client-server app requiring username and login accounts, or has some piece of code living on some remote server, means you no longer own your own stuff.

Valve and the rest of the computing industry is boiling you all slowly. AKA look at this list of games from crackwatch.

https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/p9ak4n/crack_wa...

You'll notice more and more games are "online only". Diablo 3 is literally diablo 2 /w drm, they wanted to kill piracy.

Starcraft remastered, and reforged require internet to play, that means we've lost the battle. The public has eaten up client-server back ended games. You don't get that the whole point was to monopolize their own products and kill the local infinitely copyable binaries PC games used to be coded as, AKA PRe steam 99% of games were complete you got singleplayer+multiplayer inside the same game.

MMO's/F2P are literally just PC games with their multiplayer ripped out, don't think so? Listen to the ultima devs here, when Ultima online was successful, publishers and devs went over their entire PC game list to convert their local apps to client-server apps and stuck "MMO" on the front so they could steal PC games from the public.

https://youtu.be/lnnsDi7Sxq0?t=1134

EA killed ultima 9 when the UO beta got massive interest, that lead to the death of PC games as local applications, the industry from then on there was a massive war to back end all PC games, they couldn't immediately do that to quake and urneal because we'd been treated too good with Warcraft 1-3, Descent 1-3, Quake 1-3, and build engine games like Duke 3d. The entire industry has always wanted to kill piracy and Ultima online gave the entire industry the go ahead once they realized that many of our fellow programmers and gamers were irrationally stupid beyond their wildest dreams.

Anyone playing quake and Descent at the time fear the loss of dedicated servers and level editors which used to come with the games, we knew if Ultima online was successful that Publishers would want to back end every fucking PC game and that's the end of the personal computer and the return of IBM and mainframe computing.

"Signed exe's" and trusted computing is the return of mainframe computing of the 60's in new bullshit language but I don't expect the mmo/steam generation to do anything but froth at the mouth. When they were the ones killing gaming and gave birth to microtransactions.

You can't put MTX in diablo 1, warcraft 1-3, or starcraft 1 because they are local applications that run entirely from your pc. None of the code has been stolen out of the game carved back behind a user account and login requirement. Like with most PC games these days.

We're losing gaming history and generation mmo is to blame for their general cluelessness of the evil of mainframe computing.
It's not always whataboutism, sometimes it's just a comparison.

Americans have this strange habit of expecting their "enemy of the day" to operate under a different standard than they do. These comparisons put things in perspective for people temporarily blinded by jingoism.
Read the whole comment, I think that's addressed.

The sleep cycle is a regular maintenance routine. The whole body functions more efficiently with proper sleep. Sleep as a bodily function is not intended to repair serious injury. Otherwise, when people became injured they would fall asleep, except we don't fall asleep when injured. We become hyper vigilant and produce adrenaline.

So certainly there's correlation, but the broader picture 'makes sense' and is not counterintuitive
It’s not always the best fit for a particular task, but I’ve personally had some experiences where pair-programming was a huge productivity boon, as it prevented potentially difficult to diagnose bugs from being committed in the first place. I personally feel it shines when you are working on something very complex and particularly detail-sensitive, where a small mistake could cause a devious bug, and so the benefits of having a second set of eyes on everything in real time are large.

I’m curious to hear what you dislike about pair-programming.
Huh, my phone used to have miui, an andrdoid skin by xiaomi, installed from the factory. It featured the ability for a second user profile that could be either entered through the settings or by setting up a custom unlock pattern for entering it when unlocking the phone.

I tought this was quite a clever feature for e.g. giving your phone to your children with an isolated profile.
Maybe ask dang to check him out and take action if needed?
Agreed. One of the things I like about both Ruby and Rails is how well deprecations and changes are managed. Significant changes occur over multiple versions with really good prewarning.
Indian netizens swarm to Twitter to support Russia; criticize West, US hypocrisy
I have often wondered if a C89 standard with no UB would be the definitive go to language for systems. I mean you COULD define things if you chose to, right?
No. This needs to be criminalized. Not liking a good or service is one thing. Having things done to you or your information without consent for the purpose of spying on you is stalking with extra steps. Many of these companies still deprive you of your privacy even without using their services by developing shadow profiles on you.
As jamra correctly points out in a sibling comment, the entry point to this (which gets a lot of traction on HN) is indeed attacking a strawman tutorial-written-on-an-airplane-in-Python algorithm. So, the 1M speed-up is very over-hyped.

That said, the technique is not wholly without merit, but does carry certain "average-worst case" trade offs related to latency in the memory/storage system because of SymSpell's reliance upon large hash tables. For details see https://github.com/c-blake/suggest

EDIT: Also - I am unaware of other implementations even saving the large, slow-to-compute index. The others I am aware of seem to rebuild the large index every time which seems kind of lame. EDIT2 - I guess there is a recent Rust one that is persistent as well as the "mmap & go" Nim one. Still, what should be standard is very rare.
The biggest problem agencies have is getting parents to come down. By advertising with pictures people will emotionally bond with a specific child which will prompt them to go through the long, expensive agency adoption process.

Charities use images of children to sell the charity.
He wants to reduce glare and fails to put on a polarization filter :facepalm:.
Assuming this is anything like the US, capital gains and interest both count as income. Your (probably) not in trouble here simply for being a savvy investor.

Obviously, INAL and definitely not a Russian Lawyer.
I'm just stating the double slit experiment as explained in that PBS video and others and curious about seeing an actual picture.

My only suspicion is that no one has done the actual experiment in a long time.
Let's say you feel responsible. I believe a lot of Russians feel awful to their stomach, too. What now? Are you willing to risk your job, housing, wellbeing and the wellbeing of your families to protest, knowing that protesting will not change anything at all? IIRC in this round the Russian government are drafting the people who were arrested in the anti-war protests.
It’s a perfect approach for intimidating people.
Determined attacker might be a mugger trying to get your ATM pin.

Assuming they will always have access to the underlying system being protected is missing out on a huge range of security issues.
For decades we were repeatedly told that Russia (and also Ukraine) is a no-good land which can't produce anything useful other than oil (transit), which is a commodity anyway.

Now it turns out that both oil and wheat output were quite crucial. Too bad it did not impact the prosperity and political stability of neither Russia nor Ukraine.

We did not get the "better peace" even as the rest of world relied on our commodities.
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> There exists a rule, that if you try to substitute quality with quantity you only ruin everything.

This is brilliantly put.
Please point to the relevant section of Mexican law before you claim something is illegal.

Furthermore, for all you know, every single one of them could have answered the question "Por qué motivo viaja a México?" with "Para solicitar asilo en los EE.UU." And been allowed entry telling the truth.
To get an idea of the optimism, Biff from Back to the Future was based on Trump and ends up waxing an engineer's car.

If I had to bet what actor would be president in 2016, I'd have guessed Patrick Stewart, and that his second move (after installing the captain's chair in the oval office) would be pointing at a clean energy plan to replace our carbon nuclear fission power grid with fusion / solar and saying "make it so".
How to create technical conceptual diagrams
It changes nothing. In fact, I am sure most of those articles is an attempt to deflect and justify Russia's aggression. Could be even Russian propaganda to sow doubt about the actual reasons of the war.

No, Putin didn't start this war because of Azov battalion in Ukraine. He started because he wants to subjugate Ukraine under his rule.
Man, I wish I could produce such jokes myself :) anekdot.ru is the last stand of sanity there.
Is adblock meaningfully different from piracy? I'm familiar with the defenses of adblocking and think they have some merit, but they seem trivially extensible to piracy as well.

The more salient comparison is between piracy and spotify (with or without ads)
I really hope so! I might get one of those to start playing a bit.
Do Journalists Need to Be Brands?
A appreciate the reference, but those https://archive.ph/ links never seem to work for where I am. Is it reachable for you?
I've spoken with no-end of people who think "universal fn approximation" is some magic token to be played in the AI debate -- people getting PhDs in ML no less.

These are people really, in my experience, with no science background -- c-sci programmers who dont have any conceptual foundations in applied mathematics or science (outside of the discrete math taught in csci) -- and who take these properties as genuinely quite magical.

"Intelligence" is, to them, just some function and if NNs can approximate any fn, then presumably they'll be intelligent.

They arent aware that in a sense, everything is a dynamical function of space and time (say, stuff(x, t)) and to instantite it, one requires the entire universe.

In otherwords, csci people are not used to thinking about applied mathematics in the sense of science (, implementation of functions, dynamical functions, and so on). I think it is important for this audience to demystify these properties.

Being a universal fn approximator, in my view, is neither a necessary nor sufficient property of any system implementing intelligence. It's really a misdirection.
Read this when it came out, it helped me to understand that with modern silicon geometries or process nodes, computers are "free". The largest part of the cost here is the packaging and testing of individual parts.
> for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally"

Wow, that is pretty substantial.
Same reason breaching a big dam does more damage than the same volume of water in an undammed river.
Dr Zubin Damania: On deleting his Twitter account [video]
Yeh, the Guardian just did a Top Dracula Films - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/03/count-draculas-...
That’s basically what Hey.com does. Inbox, Newsfeed and Receipts.
That scenario only works out in your favor if you prefer severe injury or death over disclosing the secret.
Don't drive into a mall parking lot, or use visa card, or ....
BTW, Jackall expanded that HBR essay into an entire book. Highly recommended if you want to get entirely black-pilled on corporate work. Wikipedia says it was a favorite of Aaron Swartz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes
Yet RT is still banned on Telegram.
Jottacloud offers unlimited (in reality after 5TB they start slowing your upload speed to them) with a cli, or rclone + restic support.
Usually an hour after lunch. I don't have kids and I work from home 2 or 3 days per week.

I often take a train or another form of public transit to some place outside of the city.
Sorry but you're either misinformed or trying to memory hole this events.

> Accounts were not seized.

1. "Banks have started to freeze accounts linked to Ottawa protests, federal government says" CBC - Governments own funded mouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me-erNZ31z8

2. Whose bank accounts can be frozen through the Emergencies Act?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c84oLt8n-GM

3. The bank accounts of the main organizers are still seized. Tamara Lich and Pat King are frozen as well as others.

> Protest rights were not suspended.

Yes they were! The government gave themselves the right to decide where people could protest. They also charged protestors on horses and assaulted others. And blocked off the area near parliament. Going to so far even now, as to tell people they can't fly the FCK Trudeau flag.

Trampling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50mAT12ZpJM

Police kicking a protestor and breaking his ribs

https://rumble.com/vvmpxi-ottawa-police-arrest-and-violently...

> The emergencies act invocation was passed by parliament

It needed to pass by the Senate as well, which it never did. Since it was likely to fail. He cancelled it. I personally took out a large amount of money from the bank and I know others as well.
This actually has a closed form!

numRecs = -1 + 2^n + (n nCr e+1) * 2F1(1, e-n+1; e+2; -1)

n nCr k combinatorial choice, 2F1 is the hypergeometric function
Sure, it's worship of the state in the final analysis.
I feel a whole parallel system is very risky due to the large service area you have to emulate; screwing something up like Last Modified dates or system updates may reveal you never used that system since 2012. I would rather hide anything risky in an area where high-entropy binary blobs wouldn't appear unusual; the output folder of a hobby data compresser project wouldn't be a bad choice.
that was march 2. as of march 5 you cannot leave the country anymore. you have to cross the border now illegally.
> I kind of take issue with your assumption that someone with NPD can't pair program.

Many can. Many can't. I did not make the assumption you're arguing against here.

> If your assumption of an effective pair programmer is that they're always bubbly extroverts with politician-level shmoozing capability, I kind of doubt you've spent any length of time doing it.

That was not my assumption at all. You're jumping to unwarranted conclusions not at all supported by what I wrote.

> There's a lot of people who struggle with more "normal" communication that are incredible pair programmers.

That's fine, but it does not change the fact that many people struggle with it. Including people who manage to deal with "normal" communication just fine, but who find the intensity of a pairing unbearable. I can do it, but to me it is intensely uncomfortable to the point that as I've pointed out elsewhere I refuse to be pushed into it - for me it's not a problem, as my career has afforded me the luxury of picking and choosing positions where I get to decide what goes -, but I've met many brilliant developers over the years who just could not deal with situations like that at all.

> It's skill and like any other should be disconnected from stereotypes.

This dismissal of what to quite a few people is an inherent part of their neurological makeup as a "skill" comes across to me as incredibly offensive.
It's terrible, but on the other hand I wish my parents / step parents had been courageous enough to do it rather than cowardly trying to make my life hell instead.
Piracy could be partially regarded as a pricing problem. If your album is priced at $1000 and you sell 3 albums and get 1000 pirated downloads and you focus on the 1000 people who didn't pay you then you are focusing on the wrong problem.

The important thing even more so than what price would have inspired the 1000 to pay you is the 10,000 who didn't even consider your product and what price would have changed that decision.
I play a lot of older games, and have to lower my displsy resolution to get a usable font size in many of them (from native 4K down to 1920x1080 most of the time).