skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russia has semi-free access to information

The only major resources which have permanent ban I know of are PornHub and LinkedIn (not including the sites which were blocked during the Hunt for Telegram, 95% of IPs have been removed after the body which operates the blacklist admitted their fail).

> majority of Russians applaud the wars

If you got the data from official Russian survey agencies or government, you can divide it by 0 twice. And don't forget that more than half of the population were born in USSR, a third part had been educated in soviet schools and a sixth part in current propaganda-driven schools (started in 2004) which makes a majority alone.
t think the insurance must have explained earlier what they offer. most insurances cover damage and theft to the renter
https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/1072
> Sanctions are designed as [..] when the people amplify the pressure beyond the point the government can withstand

Do you have any historic evidence that it ever worked like this?

I don't, and therefore, I think the sanctions are a predatory policy designed to break the country so it could be attacked by the U.S., where the military-industrial complex is getting too horny.

I mean, I could understand sanctions in the style of European sanctions against Russia, which are targeted at oligarchs and very specific in avoiding damage to ordinary Russians. That at least would be understandable.

But Iran sanctions.. no, I think we know the history all too well.

> The Iranian people are not the target

This is just empty words. Action speaks louder.

And even if the sanctions work as you describe in practice:

Vaclav Havel said that it's not a moral obligation of oppressed people to revolt (and risk their life), and therefore, it is immoral to pressure them to do that. (What is the point of fighting for freedom if you don't get to choose whether you want to be fighting or not?) I think I agree with that, and I am certainly glad that my country (Czech Republic) was never a target of severe U.S. sanctions.
Tin Foil Level = Expert

China is preparing to allow massive amount of immigration from neighboring Muslim countries.

I have been following local news in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Malaysia.

The Chinese leadership is well aware of their demographic cliff problem, this is why they relaxed their one child policy.

A single generation ago they were freaking out about over population, so they are not anywhere near running out of people.

The Muslim reeducation camps are trail runs for future policy to bring large numbers of Muslims living in proverty today into china, to work in their factories.

This may be 20,30 years down the line though.
In which country is that fundamentally different? Perception creates reality, short of traveling everywhere, you'll rely on the media for information. "We're being attacked", "we're on a peace keeping mission", "we're helping oppressed people", "We're fighting terrorists" are messages to get a population to support a war, and you will find a war time press in pretty much any country.
Wouldn't an USB-C enabled monitor provide the same functionality? Whenever you plug in either laptop the USB-C connection would provide video, an USB hub (on the monitor) and even charge your laptop. What am I missing here?

Well, unless you don't use an external display. And in that case why not just get an USB-C hub with video out? Your Thunderbolt-enabled Macbook should work regardless.
> Well, I can probably name a bunch of groups that you aren't forced to think about

Really? So why not name them in the first place? This whole idea that mistreatment of tiny, hidden, unrepresented minorities that aren't actively harming anyone else might somehow be "justified" goes against everything that this country was founded for.
This sounds like a parody.
Maybe it's a technological limitation?

I've heard this second-hand (or third-hand) and my EE knowledge is nowhere near good enough to say how accurate this is, but: Apparently the power delivery negotiation mechanism in USB-C is vastly more complex than for USB-A, so hubs with lots of USB-C ports would need new, more complex chips compared to equivalent USB-A hubs. It already took a few years for reliable hubs to turn up when we first got USB 3.0. I'm assuming the manufacturers might also be trying to hit USB 3.1 Gen2 speeds at the same time as supporting USB-C, which presumably further tightens reliability tolerances. I'm guessing with all that, they might not be able to hit the desired price points with this stuff yet, and all that complexity probably also takes a lot of power so bus powered USB3.1 hubs with USB-C downstream ports are presumably a tricky proposition too.
I've found myself in this situation: I was working for a big bank and the conditions were excellent: good teammates, good manager, good pay.

At one point I couldn't stand the cognitive dissonance of watching all these videos/articles about climate change while working for a bank that had a negative contribution to these issues.

I decided to quit and go part-time. I still don't know how to contribute to the issues I care about and earn money at the same time. I'm searching but tbh it's hard and I'm not the only one in this case.

However, now I have more time to think about making the life changes to reduce my impact on the climate/environment: organize camping holidays in my home country vs flying abroad, optimizing my energy needs at home etc.

I'd prefer finding a job where I can do that at a bigger scale but in the meantime that helps
If the script is loaded in the host site's context (it would have to be), it knows your current location and can use DOM APIs to inspect your browsing history (on the current site, at least) and I believe on first page visit it will also be able to identify what website sent you there. It could also potentially register event listeners to watch what links you click.
> The only way to store an index of all content (to cover all the options) is to...store the internet.

An index cannot hope to cover all options, these ideas are antithetical.
right... like what if Valve actually even intends to do it, but it requires someone to throw a switch and the last guy that knows how to (or even just to) do that dies suddenly just before Valve suddenly goes bankrupt.
"with dual italian/iranian citizenship due to the ius sanguinis (iranian mother, italian father)"

How did she even get Iranian citizenship? Iranian law does not provide citizenship to children of Iranian mothers with foreign fathers even if they are born in Iran, and the Guardian Council has so far vetoed all attempts to change it[0].

[0]
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/05/iran-nati...
Crushing a nation under brutal sanctions isn't a legitimate tool to move one's agenda forward.
This doesn’t count? https://blog.npmjs.org/post/172999548390/new-pgp-machinery
How do you filter arXiv? There's way too many papers on arXiv, it's impossible to keep track of everything, especially since the quality on arXiv is ... heterogenous.
I wish I could triple-vote your post. The redefinition of words, the abuse of language, is Orwellian.

> but if we accept this sort of repackaging with our PC and phone hardware; why should we not accept it in other aspects of our lives?

But most of us already do - in politics this redefinition of words is common. "Oil companies" become "energy companies", etc etc.

> It's a mechanism in our psyche that is prone to abuse

The hardest thing to change in an person is their identity. If someone's identity is tied to a particular belief (the earth is flat, my deity can throw bolts of lightning, etc) then anything that contradicts that belief is either ignored or else spun to fit the existing belief system of that person.
NPM still has bugs from v5 which haven't been addressed and are ignored by it's maintainers. Problems with `npm link` were never fixed. There is a discussion on the NPM tracker where the maintainers tell Substack that his ( very correct ) assessment of an issue was wrong and lock the thread.

It's always the same usual suspects at NPM never accepting responsibility or blame for multiple incidents and ongoing quality issues.

NPM is currently on it's last legs before acquisition or buyout.
Yes, I think we are a few years away from programmable matter. I think we are on our way to turn lead into gold.
Given rather meaningful HN comments, yours is a bit cheap and against the spirit of HN.
Sorry, reading back through, I think my sarcasm meter must be badly broken. I'll check the batteries.
Maybe they will invest in cloning technology
Or maybe a lot of people don't care and actually prefer wireless headphones? What's with the ad hominem attacks?
Link to their blog post https://torchbox.com/blog/not-selling-up/
I feel like this is missing the point. Why bother with an inferior tablet that only runs a tiny subset of software specifically optimized for it? You can just get a used Thinkpad for $100 and have a decent linux experience without any compromises. You certainly won't have to mess around with stupid gloves to increase your typing speed. If the people you are targeting are so poor they can't even afford to spend $100 on a device that will last at least 5 years then you're solving the wrong problem. They are not suffering from a lack of inferior computing devices, they are suffering from poverty. The OLPC laptop basically already did what you describe in your article, ultra low spec hardware with special software written for it and it was a massive failure and the reason was not a lack of funding. The reason is that just handing out hardware isn't enough. The users still need to be educated. This means either learning English so they can have access to the vast amount of information on the internet or creating learning resources in their native language. Both options are non trivial and require the concentrated effort of thousands of people.

Really the takeaway should be that making things cheaper runs into diminishing returns quickly. Frugality doesn't make you less poor. Using that crappy 500MB RAM tablet might save you only $60 over the Thinkpad with 4GB RAM but it requires an incredible amount of effort compared to simply earning $60 more.
This is really strange.I would assume something happened which changed their minds about hiring you but they are not willing to let you know.

https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/115135
There is upside and downsides to both choosing AWS or hosting it yourself.

You should choose AWS with Glacier if you and your company values agility. You will spend way less time securing, backing up and maintaining your data.

You should selfhost if you company values price, but are prepared to spend way much more time and effort in keeping it cheap at the cost of agility and innovation speed.
I see, how long they run with one charge? Are you implying that worst case the buses are charged with nuclear or coal energy?
Just like Americans. Information freedom is no panacea but I think it helps. It’s just that it has a long lead time.
Sorry if you have nothing to add here.
Can someone who is educated on the subject help me understand what the sanctions are about? I've tried Google, but I'm sure HN'ers have a higher IQ/EQ on average than whatever is on the first page of Google results.
how long until Google says "hey, actually, it would be cool if users used gmail.com with all the ads instead of some stupid external email clients. Let's disable POP3/IMAP/SMTP for non-business users. Oh, and let's disallow mail redirection too, so they won't even think about running away".
Does anyone know if this will have any impact on Gmail backup tools such as:

https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back

Or the long term sustainability of such projects?

I've found gmail's own data export tools to not work at all for any inbox of a considerable size (100gb+) - so third party tools are the only way to actually back up / migrate email data.

Without such tooling, relying on Gmail would be a huge mistake for anything remotely important.
i didn't know that tick causes lyme disease. i sometimes back had severe pain allover my body, weight loss and i thought its this disease but after several tests it was confirmed negative
https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/1071
You would but vast majority of Apple customers would not. There are often calls to "vote with your wallet" and that's what people do. This is why we have no jack and thin phones.
I could see an argument that it allows employers to significantly lower their salaries below a livable wage for non illegals who have to pay taxes and such. So, citizens are losing the job and pay which goes to someone that does not contribute to the country via taxes, and perhaps a good chunk is sent back to their home country. Thus, the end result is the country's citizenry become poorer through illegal immigration.
> Only if the US company chooses to provide goods and services to customers in the EU and collects their personal data.

That’s what I said. Visit their website.
S.M.A.R.T. goals, phony deliverables/deadlines, accountability w/o agency, bullshit KPI's and metrics...

Those are the things that really grind enthusiastic people doing hard, creative work to dust.

Proving to the pointy-haired that going to a 4-day week won't hurt "because metrics" only puts a band-aid on the real problem which stems from the fact that many enterprises view people as "components"-- as means a to a corporate-defined end.

For many people a 4-day work week only prolongs the path to burnout, IMHO.
Yes, although IDEO could probably do a better job.
And iPhones received security updates for 5 years (60 months) vs the typical 18 months or leas on Androids because carriers suck.
As an aside to this happening, I'm very excited about the idea of good Indian food making its way throughout the US similar to how Chinese food did before - even if it gets slightly Americanized along the way, I'd be extremely happy if I could go back east to my small town and find a good chicken curry and naan...

More on topic, what's probably missing here is context; the Sikh's revolutionized trucking in India by changing the way that trucking worked - shorter runs done by small teams working in shifts nearer to their homes - more like a relay race than a long haul marathon that used to be more common in America (see companies like Rivigo). They've now simply brought that culture to America where trucking is huge and opportunities are practically boundless.
I think your last paragraph is very much missed by trump and his team.
So many comments are speaking about burnout as a result of lack of managing emotional investment in work. This blows my mind because I’ve never seen or heard of burnout manifesting this way in real life, not a single time.

Burnout happens to you and does not originate inside you. A manager or executive burns employees out not employees “letting themselves” become burned out.

Turning it around and acting like it’s intrinsic to the employee is harmful victim blaming. It’s like blaming someone with symptoms of clinical depression for not “managing their emotions.”

I feel very discouraged by this because I don’t think we’ll make progress helping people heal from and avoid burnout unless we recognize that it is caused by the wider sociological issues of toxic management & executive behavior.
The US people fought several wars to free itself and establish its nation. And then it went back to Europe and fought WWI and WWII to ensure it's free. Iran is one the few places on Earth remaining to be free. But freedom is a choice, and the Iranian people have to choose it.
Yeah, at least "process" (as in manufacturing process) makes sense as a word, "node" is just pure jargon...
I’ve seen a lot of people seeing it the other way around, that the Pencil was the last product he was involved with because he chose to focus almost entirely on the headquarters.
I feel like the Apple we've seen since Jobs died is exactly what I would have expected if someone let the designers run the show without a strong product manager to reign them in: Gorgeous and mostly user-friendly products, but slightly too caught up in their own cleverness instead of the actual needs of real users.

I hope there's a chance to rectify that now - though I fear it won't happen until someone more visionary and less 'operations-focused' takes the helm of the company. Steve Blank did this excellent analysis and comparison between Balmer and Cook [0] - I hope there's a Satya Nadella in Apple's future too.

[0] https://steveblank.com/2016/10/24/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...
_It works best with context about how humans and bots interact with your website, so for best performance include reCAPTCHA in many places_ O.o
Opiates sound hellish and indiscriminatory.

My question is are the drugs themselves to blame, or BigPharma who uses them with/without the knowledge of their pharmacological effects in the short and long term?
`It works best with context about how humans and bots interact with your website, so for best performance include reCAPTCHA in many places` O.o
Thanks for quoting Vaclav Havel. That was exactly what I was looking for. My father was a revolutionist. The amount of harm and distress it caused to him and his children is beyond imagination. It damaged us beyond repair. That's something that I'll avoid at all costs.
And scientists.

I recently got contacted about an old genetics project that stopped working because Java applets. I told them I can reimplement it in JS, just pay for my time. They said they would love to, but they are an Iranian institute, and I'm a US citizen. So it's a lose-lose situation.
So does Michael Moore, but nobody's banning him as far as I'm aware.
Beta Taurids Peak
I think LLVM is adding 16 bit support of some kind. It's not something that's "self-hosted" on DOS itself like some of the other solutions are, but the flip side is that this gives you a lot of flexibility. You could even develop in Rust.
I prefer the term "best practice" to capture what companies should do but typically don't adhere to all best practices for everything.
Some plant trees in between to increase water sponge ability of landscape.
Somewhere between 4:3 and 16:9 (usable in portrait or landscape, obviously) seems an optimal screen shape for the vast majority of games and apps. (For a PC, 16:10 seems noticeably better than 16:9)

Going wider than 2:1 doesn’t seem to be adding useful screen space, really
The author left one of the protagonists out of the picture completely. The Iranian regime. If the US and US-based companies have a fault in this, so too does the recalcitrant regime which should be called out for its part in this.
Your reply is a bit snarky but I do tend to agree - and in fact if I was the GP I'd see it as an opportunity. Skill up on electric fleet maintenance, maybe do a certification, speak at a conference or two and suddenly you're an expert for ICE-to-electric fleet conversions, of which are are going to be thousands in the coming years. Play it right and you could parlay rapidly ageing skills in the old ways into a lucrative, high-demand role heralding in the new. Sounds pretty good to me?

In any technological sea change there are winners and losers. Winners sense the wind changing, adjust their sails, and charge bravely ahead. Losers linger adrift in denial, refusing to adapt until the maelstrom inevitably takes them. Hint: be a winner.
This idea that the original authors of the source code don't have any right to that source code (they're not even listed as authors most of the time), seems like a contradiction. If copyright is so important, why is it so easily stripped from its authors in some fields?

It makes more sense when you understand that copyright was hardly ever about protecting authors, but about protecting the interests of the more powerful middlemen.
> even with the dirtiest diesel engines, is going to get you serious wins

This is true: more public transport should be the n.1 priority, even if it's diesel.

However you are creating a false dichotomy: electric VS diesel.

We can have more public transport and electric transport at the same time. Less cars, thanks.
History will not be kind to VICE.. HBO kicked them out and they're basically dying. Remember the crazy and one-sided agreement they tried to shove on Louis Rossmann? F' em.
> > Sanctions are designed as [..] when the people amplify the pressure beyond the point the government can withstand

> Do you have any historic evidence that it ever worked like this?

It worked on South Africa. My hope is similar sanctions could be put on Israel to force it to end the occupation of Palestine. But in these cases the sanctions are for specific wrongdoings that the State can address. The US sanctions against Venezuela, Iran and previously on Cuba are much broader in scope. The US is essentially saying "we will sanction you until you roll over and die" which is of course completely counter-productive. The mullahs in Iran aren't going to surrender just because the US tells them to.
It seems to be already happening in genetics research.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
DeepNude App is offline after Developers pull plugs
https://technoidhub.com/games/deepnude-app-is-offline-after-...
Well, sexuality is a spectrum. The exact number of gay people depends on what is defined as a cut-off. It seems reasonable to me that at least 1 in 4 people wouldn't be 100% straight.
How competitive is Kirin compared to Qualcomm chips. Is it feasible for China govt. to 'motivate' Xiaomi, BBK and other local companies to use it?
> basically a tiny header then the whole program in a big chunk.

This is inaccurate. A DOS .com executable has no header whatsoever. It is literally just the program code and data with absolutely no metadata at all. It is loaded at memory address 0x100 and then execution begins, also at 0x100.

It is possible to have a 0 byte .com executable and it will perform a useful function. 0 bytes are loaded to 0x100 and then execution begins at 0x100, effectively re-running the last program run. Commonly such a file was named "go.com".
Funny because it recalls an exam that he essentially aced as if it was a great failure.
I'm not 100% sure on this but I think when you start a franchise, the model is that you pay an huge up front price for being able to use the brand. I think that's kind of what the New York taxi license model is; Pay $1,000,000, now you too can drive a cab.

I think the dream of the gig economy is that you can use your own tool/skill to work when you want. Think of it more like cutting the grass or shoveling snow in your neighborhood for $15-$30 bucks depending on the area (If you had a neighborhood like that).
GPS device manufacturers provide special purpose units for truckers. Some examples:

Garmin dēzl 580 LMT-S https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/589643

Rand McNally TND 740 https://store.randmcnally.com/tnd-740.html

TomTom Trucker 600 https://www.tomtom.com/en_us/drive/truck/

Truckers can enter their vehicle size and hazardous material. Routes consider height, weight, grade, turning, and other restrictions.
I see, so, this game with Iran, is motivated because "the West wants to see their potential released".

When is the turn of the Saudis? Is Iraq potential totally released already?

And the grandparent is the one missing the point..

I want to recommend this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw

Or the transcription:
https://genius.com/General-wesley-clark-seven-countries-in-f...

Your definition of the West is pretty narrow, by the way, because everybody was OK with the deal until the USA decided unilaterally to break it.
Smart videos for curious minds of all ages
GCP open sourced the code here - https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-package...

is the AWS code opensource ?
Firefox on Linux: no trigger either. Clicking was safe for me.
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