skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. While I believe the part about chaos and surprise and fake reports it also makes it seem that Russia is weak - which is probably dangerous to assume (of any undefeated opponent).

However, one positive note to get out of this in any case is that with the current trajectory, even without any further outside intervention going beyond the current state of affairs will likely bring the Russian special operation to an end, be it that supplies are running out or people just start to lose overview or just that you cannot succeed if maybe 20-40% of your forces are gone even before you capture one bigger target. Russia supposedly already lost 10% of their attack army and they don't have a lot to show for it. It also explains their attack patterns getting more weird, uncivilized and cruel (e.g. "we have to do something", even if it is firing on nuclear power plants).

Next step likely will be Belarus troops and supplies entering the game, which makes it more obvious that Moscow was absolutely clueless. Belarus was on the brink of a regime change just last summer - the order to go to war with Russia against Ukraine will send Belarus over the edge, I am virtually certain about that.
I like what you wrote here and how you think.

However I have to make one remark.

Schopenhauer would say that Alexa does in fact have will to turn the lights off. A burning will, the same will within yourself and everything that is not idea. That it is your word that sets off an irreversible causal sequence of events leading to the turning off of the lights. Schopenhauer would ascribe his “Principle of Sufficient Reason” as the reason for happening. It is not that Alexa chooses to obey, but by the causal chain enforced by physics and more leaves the will of the universe no choice but to turn off the lights. Same reason why the ball eventually falls down when thrown up. I believe this is the metaphor Schopenhauer uses in his World as Will and Idea.
People here talking about PII reminds me every day that we still haven't grasped what Personal Data is, and how incredibly different it is from PII. Ah, sad.
That aligns with my limited experience, that Haskell programmers seem to spend most of their time thinking about how to do something in Haskell.
What's your point?

The code example basically requires no Prolog knowledge to understand. It's basically just psuedo-code.
I do not think this justifies your analogy to the USA during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In Cuban Missile Crisis we are talking about first strike nuclear capability when people thought it mattered, and it really might have mattered. The ability to destroy a nation, kill millions of it civilians, without risking equal retaliation, and where that ability would not have existed otherwise. Compare that to Ukraine joining NATO, there is no comparison. NATO does not gain any new abilities that are even close to that. This disparity is why the analogy breaks down.

I get your point, you want me to demonstrate that a Ukrainian NATO membership would be an actual increased threat to Russia. I can not do this from the top of my head, I would have to research this. At best I vaguely remember concerns about anti ballistic missiles system, ICBMs are especially vulnerable during early flight when they are still slow but this requires of course being close to the launch location. Why does it matter? Because this may be able to weaken retaliatory strike capabilities and therefore make a first strike by the other side more viable.

But I am not sure that this even matters, what if the threat is only perceived but not real? At least before the current mess I would have been reasonably confident that NATO would not attack Russia and only use its assets for defensive purposes. So there is no real threat, only a theoretical one, NATO could but would not. You could also imagine the inverse scenario, where there is an actual threat but the threatened country does not know or misjudges the situation. So what really seems to matter here is how the situation is perceived by Russia. If you think their perception is wrong, you can try to convince them otherwise.

I could even try to make the case for the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuba requested the missiles as a deterrent against further invasion attempts and if we assume for the sake of argument that they and the USSR are sincere, then there was no actual threat unless the USA tried to go after Cuba again. But it seems of course very unlikely to me that the USA would have this amount of trust and confidence.
I don't like the idea of an internet permit, but I do agree with the idea that users should be taught internet safety. About 20 years ago I volunteered at the library and taught such a class, but only recently have I seen such classes as part of workplace training. It should probably be something that is taught in schools, as well. Or maybe it is covered now and I just don't know?
These are also annoying because they hijack/MITM SSL certs and change the certificate chain with their invalid root CA. It’s security through obscurity.
There is the possibility of a change of leadership.

It's obviously not the most probable outcome. But as long as we're doing armchair speculation, I'll toss out that a change of leadership is at least slightly more possible in Russia than in North Korea. (A recent CBC video even offered this detail. "UK intelligence services claim they are seeing strong dissension among senior military officers about Putin's invasion of Ukraine.")

https://www.facebook.com/thenational/videos/1081131226076627
I'm gonna leave Russia day after tomorrow, heading in Turkey and I just don't know how I supposed to pay for anything there with all my blocked cards:(
I probably have something to learn here when I ask, exchange rates are being used to infer Russian inflation a la https://www.economicsdiscussion.net/exchange-rate/nominal-an... because Russian cpi/wpi numbers are not available/trustworthy on the short timescales we're dealing with here?
The end user was never even considered.

But surely windows will activate defender? Since any AV must register in windows and considering that MS isn't exactly known for respecting user wishes I'd expect defender to start up the same nanosecond any other AV stops.

Though I'd never out myself in a position to test that.
It’s not clickbait. Please consider before dismissing relevant news as clickbait.

They had invested 15.6M. It’s a pension fund. State Pension Funds all over has been asked to comply with the sanctions. This will have far reaching consequences.
I agree
Situation gets worse and worse every day, more and more people wanna leave their country. Leave them some ways to do that
Aye, if this revealed facts that could get people killed, or get you shot for treason.

If you say "we're stressed, things are not great, the Chechens are unstable" thats... not a direct leak; nothing super actionable there. Maybe enough to be hanged in Putin's wartime Russia, but nothing that will stop an offensive.
Do you prefer your English communication from people with limited English language proficiency, because they have things to say without attention to grammar, precision, and logical structuring?

Lack of understanding of nuance works about as well in programming languages as it does in English - it's very limited and causes issues, which often the low vocab user is simply not aware of. But the issues exist nonetheless.

Essentially you are arguing for a low level of education in the craft of programming, and this is why many (experienced/career professional) people tend often select against users coming from those languages.

Another poster just down agrees with you, but notice they mention they started with Python, which is a beginner language with limited detail, and can't grok why they need to learn more to use Java and why it's worth it. I agree, they can't understand why, but that doesn't mean there aren't valid reasons. It just means they have more to learn, and 'don't know what they don't know' (yet, hopefully).
I bet it's loaded by Google Tag Manager which acts as a "dropper" to load further malware. If you block that (which I assume you do if you have uBlock Origin) you don't get to see the rest.
As the design evolves, this stuff should really be communicated to the rest of the team before the PR. The purpose of PRs should be almost entirely about finding bugs and typos.
Let's hope and pray for it.
Hi everyone. I understand the idea of blocking Visa/MasterCard in Russia for destroying economy and hurting Putin, and I kinda agree with it. The only problem — this sanction will also lock a lot of IT-people inside Russia, which is provide another chance for Russian economy (due to this people have upper median salary in Russia and they have massive influence on local market). Also this sanction will slow down the "brain leaking" from Russia, which is also can influence on stability of Putin regime.
My only grief with Windows Defender is its resource use. My Windows 10 computer booted 26 hours ago. Windows Defender is using 2186 MiB of RAM. I don’t think that’s appropriate, even if I have 32 GiB in total.

With Office 365 ATP, things get even slower, too, which is not so great on my work device.

Detection rate is one thing. Performance is another. Both are important.
> This is it and is how the online advertising industry has worked for over 25 years.

Rotten to the core.
We don’t deserve this harassment just because we living in Russia
> If you have any serious medical issues, you carry your own insurance

I've never seen this at any tech company in the SFBA. They cover 100% of the premium for yourself and it's only <$200/mo to cover a whole family of dependents. Their plans are always among the best. Copays are the lowest by far of anything I've ever seen, including ACA marketplace plans, my parents' plans, school offered plans, and non-"tech" company plans.

$200/mo is way, way less than I pay in taxes to CA state alone.

> since I prefer Kaiser

Obviously if you want Kaiser and they don't offer it you have to buy it yourself. Personally I don't feel like the difference is too huge that it justifies buying insurance myself. I used to have Kaiser and you get slightly smaller delays (3 days instead of say a week) to see specialists and that's it.
Microsoft _does_ provide a bunch of the enterprise security features other vendors provide in its home anti-virus offering.

Microsoft is also the biggest vendor of enterprise endpoint security solutions - that is Microsoft Defender and products like "Palo Alto Cortex" compete. However, the home offering of Defender _is_ quite different in terms of usage from the enterprise version and so is the amount of instrumentation.
> Poland has stated - repeatedly - that it has no interest in sending its MiGs to Ukraine

They have no interest in diminishing their fleet. The deal being discussed is the U.S. replacing those MiGs with F-16s [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/us-in-talks-with-pol...
Or reading that some schools do Pledge of Allegiance every day. That is the most fascist thing I can imagine. Something that would never happen in Europe outside single time in army or similar institution... National anthem is limited to independence day...
Did you apply cold, or get referrals? I think having an acquaintance at FANG to refer you is an important foot in the door if you have no prior FANG work experience.
Yeah, all you need to do is show you can build a NAND gate with a neural network and every other logical network follows from that. I remember doing that project in a machine learning class in 2010.
Does Microsoft offer favourable treatment or withhold patches when it comes to state level APTs? Can we trust Microsoft to be neutral and offer security patches in a timely manner and defend the interests of their consumer customers above all? With the whole conflict in Europe, the issue of state level adversaries is raring its head again.
And when they don't they create new positions to "stovepipe" assessments around intelligence orgs, e.g. the DNI.
If you end up trying thredded out and need any help or extra set of eyes, I'd be happy to help. Just lmk :)
The Xmos chips give the programmer virtual time sliced contexts over one or more hardware core(s). Say you have a 400 Mhz base clock and 4 threads, each one would see the wall clock time advance at 100 Mhz. This is useful for having concurrent realtime operations on each hardware thread w/o having to resort to trickery.

These chips are ideal for DSP, phased arrays and beam forming. Most of their devkits are centered around voice applications.

https://www.xmos.ai/documentation/XM-014363-PC-5/html/arch-h...

https://www.xmos.ai/download/xCORE-Array-Microphone-Product-...
Why does the function you are approximating need to be smooth? From the paper cited in the article, all you need is for f to be continuous on a compact subset of R^n.
It reads like we will get a Great Russian Firewall.
you're lucky you managed to get a ticket. try to get as much cash as possible..
You're definitely right about that. I think it's from the XP days, but I remember reading about antivirus vendors creating their own security holes and vulnerabilities, where running antivirus software made your computer less secure than without it. And then when Microsoft wanted to create fixes to prevent said vulnerabilities from being exploitable, the antivirus vendors actually threatened to sue them to avoid putting in the engineering work to fix their shitty code.

EDIT:

In many cases, these security changes meant deep architectural changes were required to third party solutions. And most ecosystem vendors were not incented to invest heavily in their legacy apps. Some of these solutions took the unorthodox approach of modifying data structures and even instructions in the kernel in order to implement their functionality, bypassing APIs and multiprocessor locks, often causing havoc. At one point, something like 70% of all Windows “blue screens” were caused by these third party drivers and their unwillingness to use supported APIs to implement their functionality. Antivirus vendors were notorious for using this approach.

In my role as head of Microsoft security, I personally spent years explaining to antivirus vendors why we would no longer allow them to “patch” kernel instructions and data structures in memory, why this was a security risk, and why they needed to use approved APIs going forward, that we would no longer support their legacy apps with deep hooks in the Windows kernel — the same approach that hackers were using to attack consumer systems. Our “friends”, the antivirus vendors, threatened to sue us in return, claiming we were blocking their livelihood and abusing our monopoly power! With friends like that, who needs enemies? They just wanted their old solutions to keep working even if that meant reducing the security of our mutual customers — the very thing they were supposed to be improving.

https://blog.usejournal.com/what-really-happened-with-vista-...
I think because your original post was a wildly off-topic nitpick of what the article is talking about as a whole.
> Hey, sorry for all the name changes of Microsoft Defender.

Let's be fair, naming is not a strength of Microsoft. It seems that every product other than Windows and Office is renamed every couple of weeks; and even in those two examples, explosions of SKUs manages to muddle the waters just as well (Apple's "Choose a Vista" was very much on-point, even if you preferred Windows over Mac).
I am a software engineer in Russia. My future wife is studying in France. We are both against what Russian government and army are doing.

I have less than 3000$ of savings and no ability to work remotely from other countries because I can't get my wage outside of Russia now. I can not leave without severe financial and logistical issues to even meet her again and I don't really have many places to go to. She can not return here, nor should she because it is dangerous, and she can not withdraw cash from her Russian bank accounts where most of her money is to support herself in France.

These sanctions, including VISA and MasterCard block, endangered and condemned thousands if not tens and hundreds of thousands of people who have nothing to do with Putin's decision to invade Ukraine. Hell, it endangered 145 millions of people in Russia. Because these sanctions don't hurt Putin or his oligarch supporters but they hurt regular people, who are now facing simply the danger of default.
More power to you. I specifically mentioned "soccer Mom" which implies suburban areas like mine and how I see enough large gas guzzling status vehicles to get mad about it, but hey, if you want to feel attacked, be my guest.
He is about 70. I'd say a change is more likely than not in the next 10 years.
As a matter of procedure, people are detained while determining if they are a flight risk.

Many frozen accounts may similarly be unfrozen before trial, but determining if that’s reasonable takes time.
Big intensity, short duration.

Nuclear accidents will be devastating for thousands of years so very different things.

This is like saying that high voltage is harmless because high amperage can kill you also. Time to move on further in this discussion and stop talking about that damn. Is a popular stance but useless to compare both
https://github.com/lemonadejs/lemonadejs
Very sorry to hear you have family still in Ukraine.
In respect to those people's lives, I believe that Ukraine MUST find an immediate solution with Russia - this is between those two nations before everything else. Those two nations are the ones whose citizens are dying.

As cruel as it is to the people of Ukraine, the rest of Europe is not going to risk being in the same situation as they are in (much worse if Russia decided to use nukes as they *promised* to in case of interference). (B) is going to continue to be in the form of money, military and medical supplies, which seems to me to be far from enough to allow Ukraine to win in any meaningful way... at least not in months... it would take closer to a decade or so (think of how Vietnam or Afghanistan "won" against the USA).

Is that better than try to find an agreement with Russia that would give a short term victory to Russia, but stop this destruction immediately? The world already has tremendous respect for the fight Ukraine has put up! They don't have anything to prove to anyone.
Thanks for the blog post.
The menu seems to suggest you can proceed without entering SSN and be a spectator. It's a dual purpose form for chaperones/drivers where background checks are probably necessary.
They supported dictators.

Another back to USSR thing -with Western condom brands pulling out of Russia it is going to be only low quality domestic rubber like back then.
It is terrible. My parents were foster parents to two girls at different times. One was from a foreign country and had been previously adopted. A history of abuse and fetal alcohol syndrome meant lots of behavioral issues. We ended up all getting locks on our bedroom doors. It was extremely stressful and gives me some sympathy for the family that originally adopted her. Goes without saying that the kids get worst part of the deal. In those two cases they both ended up in group homes. The article mentions the foreign agency being honest but in this case the adoptive parents were lied to about the child’s condition
Sorry to break it to you, but regardless of your letters MasterCard and Visa won't return in the near future.
By definition you can't meet the requirements for a tourist visa if you're seeking asylum as a refugee (see economic solvency requirements, job/address, etc.). And lying on federal immigration paperwork is in fact a crime in Mexico as it is in every nation on earth, so I would advise you to speak with an attorney that specializes in that area for potential punishments.
Sounds like you know more than me and indeed I gave the title of Burmese Days wrong. Here's an interesting article: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/07/reading-some-effing-orwell-.... It seems pretty clear, though, that whatever his racial attitudes, Orwell was consciously against imperialism.
Saying "Client information is sacred" and stealing executables off all windows machines with the automatic sample submission on by default does not go well together.
The author (Randall Hyde) just released an x64 assembly book in October: https://nostarch.com/art-64-bit-assembly
The closure of transfers is now not only affecting IT, but also free media :(
There's Lisp based browser Nyxt. It's being actively developed. I'm not using it. I recently found out about it and am intrigued.
Things called "microcontrollers" usually have these properties:

* They are actually CPUs, but with very weak feature sets related to desktop & scientific computing

* They may or may not have hardware to do any kind of advanced computation, starting with plain old multiplication and division of integers (addition and subtraction of integers is enough for what they do). Yes you read this correctly. The vast majority of 8-bit microcontrollers cannot even do division or even multiplication in hardware.

* They run with clocks from kilohertz to low megahertz

* They might be 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit, with rarity going up as the bitness goes up. There's a ton of 8-bit microntrollers, and 32-bit are much rarer. 64-bit ones are very very rare, since if you need that processing width, you might as well go for a single-board-computer like a Raspberry Pi.

* They are used to DIRECTLY drive other hardware, not in an abstract way. They literally regulate voltages on their pins to make stuff happen with connected hardware.

* They might have RAM space ranging from a couple of BYTES (yes, BYTES, see e.g. this one having 32 bytes of RAM: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/ATTINY9#) to a couple of hundreds of kilobytes. It's very rare to have a microcontroller with a megabyte or more of RAM, because, as before, in that case you might as well just use a full-featured desktop-ish CPU.

* They are usually lacking a special bit of hardware called a MMU (Memory Management Unit) which is used by "real" operating systems like Linux and Windows to manage process isolation and many other useful things related to memory. If you need a MMU, again, just use a SBC.

So where do we use microcontrollers? Well, what do you think happens in your garage or car keyfob when you click on the buttons? What tells your microwave when to finish and with which power level to nuke your food? What drives your electric toothbrush? Your car's gas valves? Microcontrollers, that's what.

They are currently (or have been a few years ago) so cheap we can readily add a microcontroller to every toilet paper leaf, and it would only bring the price of a roll up by a dollar or so. What's stopping us to do just that is the sorry state of current batteries and energy harvesting in general - those technologies simply are not as developed (yet).

So, no, you wouldn't describe a chip which can run Windows 98 as a "microcontroller".
If I look at it cynically from a strategic position this is probably why it is done.

Hit the civilians so that they go to the streets against Putin.

That's probably the idea. I just know of no case where this had worked (but I might just miss all the successful examples in history).

Sadly it is the normal people who suffer most.
Its a entire county. Wikipedia lists 11 cities and towns in the county, the largest of which has a population of 57k.
Difference in lifetime-cost of vehicle should absolutely be part of calculation. It really makes no sense not to include it on all options.
It's true. It scares me.

I urgently left Russia with almost no cash; this morning, after reading the news from Mastercard, I miraculously managed to withdraw about 3k, but I don't know how to adjust my life in the future yet

To get a job, I need more documents than I managed to take with me, so for now the only source of income remains in Russia, but how to use it is a huge problem (not to mention the exchange rate due to which my salary decreases every day)