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GitHub Bans Accounts If They Support Immigration
My Github https://github.com/saniv/ got suspended, after alt-Rights mass-reported it for a working copy of a book on immigration, where I supported illegal immigration and called Mexicans to fight ICE Nazis and storm US border en masses. The WIP copy of the book had other controversial content, but immigration-related passages were the exact reason Github tech support stated for the ban on my account. Guess Github believes in borders. Github have a history of bullying people based on their gender. In addition to my text notes repository, they also banned other repositories, with source code, which had no political content at all, including my programming language https://github.com/saniv/symta

Lesson learned: keep everything on localhost, which should be safe, unless Putin's FSB arrests you and confiscated all USB sticks.
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Tech moves fast; this morning's bleeding edge is this afternoon's yesteryear, and you don't want to know what happens if you bookmark it to read tomorrow.
Here we go again with the front end developer hate
Someone Stole Vbk.com and They Are Trying to Sell IT?
The point was to avoid having all your eggs in one basket, basket being a jurisdiction in this case.
The pressure may have been having hands. It's amazing all the things we can do with our hands.
this comment captures some real life communications, probably not uncommon. agree
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626540
Thats memory mapped IO. Registers, and control registers are mapped onto certain regions of memory on ARM Coretx-M processors.
I have a domain name like that, I primarily break login forms with it but that was the initial idea, yes.
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The vast majority of users do not expect that their digital identity could be stitched together so easily. We can either imply that they deserve this for imagining they had any privacy, or we could take a normative stance and make it difficult to reveal someone’s private information. We have a choice. We can pass laws and ban this nonsense.
Yeah for some reason learning mathematics in school always felt too abstract to me. The only courseS I really excelled in were probability and geometry because I could more easily visualize and conceptualize the topic as opposed to lines and positions in 2D space.
Austin is significantly larger than SF lol
Most likely only a small fraction of the people who were going to make a purchase heard this news and only a fraction of them decided to follow through and purchase the next day.
Huh, lucky. Apparently no one's got them online yet.

Just hoping I don't have to wait as long as I did for my last CPU - an i7-6700k. It was quite a few weeks after "release" before I could actually buy one.

I'll probably stick with 32GB of RAM for now - I don't run a lot of VM's or anything - but I'm going to try an Intel Optane as a main SSD drive this time. Thinking about the Aorus Master sTRX40 since I'm a bit partial to Gigabyte for motherboards. These TRX40 boards are not cheap.
And what exactly did you / would you think to accomplish with these questions? Besides attempting to publicly humiliate people who're paying you and stroking your own ego?

"Questions" like these put other people on defensive (which means they won't listen to you anymore) and mark you out as an a*hole (which means they won't listen to you at all). It's counterproductive.

I'm always baffled how engineers don't get that: they can understand that you need to write "printf()" and not "abort()" to achieve printout, but can't understand simple rules on how to achieve results when interacting with other people?
Give it would be a loss leader.

Given they get extra PR.

They might have made money? Not sure this is great schadenfreude.
The original Show HN was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15892066
I thought, the Peripheral library is deprecated for STM32. Is there any reason to use it besides the STM32 CUBE framework?. Because, the later seems to support more STM32 product lines.
What if all three organizations don't care if they lose their 501(c)3's? A billion dollars is a million dollars a week for 20 years, it can pay for a lot of kickbacks.
> the lesser animals is that the lesser animals don't sit around and talk about what makes them different from us.

Yes, they do. I won't let my cat near the computer, as she'll use it to log onto catnet and plot the cataclysm with the other cats. I've also caught her leafing through my electronics parts catalogs. I'm not sure how worried I should be.
This guy could not locate a prototyping tool for app design for Linux?

He has never heard of Figma?

It is hard for me to take this article seriously if someone writing a review of available graphic design software is not aware of the existence of Figma.
Ask HN: Have you ever left tech to do something completely unrelated?
What was the experience like? Do you regret it or feel happy you did it?
If this goes through, I hope this is all he is remembered for.

Like Hans Reiser.
How many people would even care about pirating this sort of content? A 4K movie can easily take up 50-100GB in its native format - even the cost of storing this on durable media is quite non-trivial. I suspect that there's nothing of substance behind this renewed "protective" push besides content studios' artificial paranoia, the point of which is mostly to cling onto a delusion that their content is somehow uniquely valuable.
Tha Author (Jason Brock) probably never tried using Inkscape for anything else other that "test" it for his article. Buggy software that it's even worse that CorelDraw for Windows.

Btw, I'm using CorelDraw since 1994 (Corel 3). Even now (Corel 2019) it crashes when you try to Import some EPS files or just randomly crashes...

My 2cents: If you want to start as a Graphic Designer, Adobe is the only way to go. Windows or Mac, doesn't matter. Start with a PC with any crappy Monitor (they are all crappy) and then when you have the money, buy a Macbook Pro or an iMac.

Finally, the state of Linux graphic design tools, it's exactly the same as it was 10 years ago. They just don't work properly for professional work and there is a perfectly good reason NOBODY is using them and will probably never will in the future.

cheers .-
Confused because amd apu often struggled a tad more than Intel machines. Ipc wad weak and igpu was under utilized iirc
Some additional info on this excellent article: Zoffix worked very hard on giving Perl 6 a different name. At that time however, the Perl 6 community was not ready for that yet. Which resulted in Zoffix leaving the Perl 6 community.

In October 2019, the Perl 6 community decided that a rename of the language would be in the best interest of everybody involved. Since then, the language is called "Raku" (https://raku.org).

Zoffix is still sorely missed.
> You can tell it's not property because the one thing that's guaranteed to result in losing a domain is failing to pay the fees.

There's a sibling comment that points out that courts recognize it as property, and certainly trademarks are a similar "property" that requires active enforcement.

But while the law is a good authority because they've gone through many disputes and have had to work out good arguments, I don't think it's the final authority; laws can change after all.

That a domain requires upkeep doesn't make it not property. Even in the absence of taxes, your house or any of your stuff requires some degree of upkeep.

But a domain is certainly not chattel, and intangible property always does seem like... not property. (Though, even with tangible property, it feels fuzzy, and that's part of why fences are used to reify borders.)

To my mind, a bigger issue with calling it property is that there's not necessarily a single registry system.

My thought experiment is to ask what we'd do without registrars. We'd all simply advertise our domains to the DNS servers, with all the obvious conflicts that registration is meant to avoid. And we'd have to resolve those conflicts by having the DNS providers agree that a particular advertisment was correct. I think that gets a bit closer to the heart of what "owning a domain name" means.

Owning an agreement with these entities to manage those disputes looks very similar to any other kind of security or bond. It also has qualities of an asset: you can trade it, it's not very liquid, you can derive an income from it by developing things on it, etc. That's why I lean on the side of the "domains are property" camp.
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That's a bit of a different situation though. They were illegally running a gambling operation in the United States at a time when that wasn't legal, and they lost a lengthy court case to that effect. The domain seizure was incidental.

Contrast with the situation in the linked post, in which a .in domain was randomly seized without warning, and crucially, without due process. Bodog had the benefit of due process.
Residences, not residents. Buildings, not people.
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From the end of the article:

> # But what about (cough) running Adobe on Wine? (cough)

> Yeah, I'm sure you can do it. But this isn't about breaking end user license agreements. I'm not about that life. This is about the efficacy of real, open source, design software running available on open source platforms, right now.
Those are the rules of the game.

That may be true according to the current authorities running the show, but clearly those rules are far beyond their useful lifetime now. For practical purposes, domains often function as a primary form of identification, for websites, email and other functions. Both the domain registrant and anyone trying to reach them have a reasonable expectation that the identity in question will not silently and suddenly be changed, a huge amount of everyday activity now depends on that expectation, and the consequences of violating it can be severe. We are well past the point where such critical infrastructure should not be in the hands of private businesses or individuals without sufficient regulation to safeguard the common good.
Rage about what?
The bless command and the macOS boot process
An old and fitting Soviet joke about this:

An old man is relaxing on the couch in his apartment in 1917 Saint Petersburg. His grandson runs excitedly into the room and proclaims: "Grandfather, the revolution has begun, we're killing the rich, and nobody will be rich anymore." To which the old man wearily replies: "My generation fought so that nobody would be poor."

Simple arithmetic shows that if you were to completely strip the 0.01% of their wealth (which just isn't going to happen, since they own the Congress) and "give it all to the poor", the poor would still be pretty poor: 6T between 350M people is $17K per person, or about 3 years worth of Obamacare. And that's pre-tax.

The way you prop up the poor is by creating opportunity and competition for lower skilled labor and trades, by rejecting some parts of globalism, which forces "the rich" to pay more for their labor supply. That propping up seems to be happening as we speak: unemployment is at a 50 year low (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-september-nonfarm-payrolls-...)

Historical reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt
Yeah, but open source is just not a generally good business model, and open source companies seem to be rediscovering the reason intellectual property exists, leading to cognitive dissonance.

Open source is a good business strategy when you're trying to achieve vendor lock-in via price-dumping, a la what Google did with Android (and has been fined for in the EU).
The point is open source. Figma is not open source and their "free" version allows for only 3 products? Please don't suggest trashy SaaS apps in the future.
Yesss!! Kick them out of their SF office and put in a WeWork in its place!
That environment sounds horrible. Something similar is going on where I work now and it's really discouraging and negative.
The gTLDs seem expensive. I usually use .us for cheap domains, and the free monitoring the NSA gives me is a bonus.
> attempting to publicly humiliate people who're paying you

No it's the opposite.

How does highlighting millions of cost savings from CTO's initiative humiliate him?

I am confused how you got that impression from my comment. what did i miss.
It's how you access memory mapped registers in C. It's writing the value 0x04 at that address using a 32-bit memory write. There is a peripheral register at that location.
I was looking at one of their fridges that was on Black Friday sale and couldn't get the page to load. I had no idea they extended until today.
Raise men as girls? What good parent doesnt try and raise there sons do have care and empathy and to be reasonable? Are there any positive traits that you think men possess? You are only taking the negative side of mens tendency for risk taking. Willingness to take risks has many positive benefits like getting to the top management spots you mentioned.
Shhh. Don’t wake the two elephants in the room from India and China. They represent the primary cause for real estate inflation in the Bay Area.
> most Emacs modes depend on a lot of regular expressions for syntax highlighting and many other things. Regular expressions are slow

I use Emacs every day. Never had a problem with slow syntax highlighting when working on regular source code files.

I don't feel regexs are bottlenecks in everyday use.
In the early 2000s there were probably 10-20 national dialup services, plus tons of local services (it was an easy business to get into, either get a t1 for upstream internet and a t1 for your modem pool, or run a radius server and contract out through megapath), dsl had competition with clecs running in the central office and mandatory line sharing, and these were also in competition with cable (which had some minimal line sharing in areas).

There were a ton of hosts back then, but there still are. I don't remember exactly when registrars became a concept, i'd guess that might have been 1999 though; I don't think there's that many more or less now. A lot more registries with .ninja and .bike and whatever.

I agree though, if law enforcement wanted your domain back then, it would be about the same as now. Although, maybe someone would have called/emailed you about it with whois contacts back then.
You really don't need a compiler to be fast. A fast architecture is really the first order concern. lit-html generally beats Svelte and Vue at performance, but has no compiler.
OT: anybody know a way to use widevine on aarch64? Can't use spotify or netflix on my nvidia jetson nano.. boo drm
That's a problem with all country-specific TLD's. At any moment country 'X' can decide to take over '.xx' and nothing anyone can do.
that's neat. i talk to my dog all the time. she (a rescue) came to me already knowing "do you wanna go out?" but had a really hard time teaching me when she had anxiety diarrhea and needed to go out. i really needed a button for that (she's mostly over it now though).
Thanks for the reply, but this is quite a tangent to my point. I am not arguing that it is not legal to hold a domain indefinitely for investment purposes; I'm saying that since so many domains are being held this way, startups are being forced to sketchier ccTLDs.

It also paradoxically means that .com domains are not quite what they used to be: as more cool new companies have a .ai or .co, the public has stopped thinking that "only .com matters". Like I said, the holders of the .coms are just poisoning the well for the TLD.

To address your point directly, I do personally disagree with you that "squatting for speculation" or "parking" as you prefer is harmless. Since ICANN (or Verisign, I guess) controls the TLD, I do think they should disincentivize this holding behavior with some kind of property tax. It's as if vast tracts of Manhattan were just empty fields - not really in anyone's best interest, in the long run, not even the property investors, who are at risk of property developers going to more-hospitable jurisdictions.
Giant companies get to personally negotiate their own favorable property tax rates. If people goose-step to the polls in 2020 to confiscate additional property from commercial property owners in the form of increased property taxes [1], the mega-corporations won't pay a cent of it. The mom an pop business that give SF its character, however, will be driven out of business.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Change-in-Calif...
I wish more protects like this used processing instructions. They're intended for exactly these kinds of use cases.
>More than 10 percent were immigrants to the US.

I wonder what portion of that 10% fits into the inherited wealth bracket also. Anecdotally I've met a lot of rich Indian and Chinese immigrants in tech, however they came over with family money, with strong family power networks, attended top schools and then parlayed their wealth + connections into something even greater.

It feels as though we throw "immigrants" out there to be synonymous with "broke" and "powerless".
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The .Net DLR has fancy call-site caching:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4622527/some-questions-o...

https://code-maze.com/advanced-csharp-dynamic-type/
absolutely. I recognize those nameservers from my work in a registry, and usually came as a request from a federal agency.
Stopped reading after Monday when it took a strong turn into weird racist shit, but Monday is accurate and it would be great if someone could tell me how to get out of office hell rather than encouraging me to become a “Gee Bob, great idea!” office improv guy
> Those are the rules of the game.

I don't think anyone disagrees that those are the rules we have. I think everyone who actually creates websites thinks those rules are not working as intended and should be changed.

I refuse to believe that having speculators pay for thousands and thousands of empty domains is "working as intended".
Freedom of speech lies on a spectrum. You can currently speak your mind on the internet, with little fear of the virtually non-existent threat of de-anonymization. That is a good thing for the well-intentioned majority. Any marginal increase in fear of speech reduces freedom of speech, so making de-anonymization easier doesn’t “teach ‘em a lesson.” It just kills something beautiful, something that must be protected. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think this tool alone would do that, but it’s another step in that direction.

What next? A publicly available ML web crawler that analyzes speech and belief patterns, triangulates them with metadata, and returns someone’s identity with 99% confidence? I’m not naive enough to believe the government won’t build that, but for that to be freely available is just a recipe for chaos. It should be illegal, and it should be illegal to distribute many intermediate tools as well.
No. Every time a house changes owners, it can be re-assessed at current rates.
There are good FOSS reddit clients for android. Build one then install it.
I love airmash. I am so glad it didnt die. A great community and a good game.
BlueWave was such a great way to read mail comparing to Gmail for example. Got me thinking about building an online clone if it just for fun.
Not so. Judges can be impeached by the legislature and recalled by the voters. And there are appeals.

BTW, one of the reasons things are the way they are is that the "indigent and commoners" don't necessarily believe they'll get a fairer shake from someone who has a JD from Harvard than someone who doesn't.
>> The way I view it, my editor is my sandbox

This position makes no sense to me. How can your editor be your sandbox but your branch before pushing is not? That’s an arbitrary distinction without merit.

Noone rebases on a public branch so both scenarios are about what you do before publishing your work.

I think the whole conversation about history is missing the point. The problem we’re trying to solve is complexity. Having a bunch of out of date commits floating about does nothing to reduce complexity.
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Some memory allocators allocate objects of different sizes from different blocks, which can be far away from each other. This reduces fragmentation, but I'm wondering how much data locality we typically get, even in the best case, for composite objects composed of different-sized parts?

It seems like it will vary a lot depending on details of the language implementation. An array of value types should be laid out linearly, but beyond that it seems hard to tell what's going on?
How is this different than being judged by a drunk king based on his whims? It's not at all. So what happened to rule by law? How does such a system exist? How does it have supporters? This is perplexing. Sure justice is not valued at all in American culture but do south Carolinians not care at all about justice or having a civil society? It is beyond appalling to give stupid idiots (and there's no kinder way to describe someone with no legal training acting as a judge) power over others based on whatever they feel like doing since there is no legal framework in place.

In such a system where one randomly gets punished without any evidence of a crime being committed, why should one not turn around and assault or even kill the judge? After all in a society without laws, without morality, and without even common sense like south Carolina, that shouldn't even be a problem. It's just savages vs. savages once you get to this point. Why would anyone act ethically in such a horrific situation?
It's all been lost by third parties, though. Any idiot can make a pretty webpage advertising BitCoinBank and all the best thieves in the world can try to break in.
Just remembered this illuminating USCSB coverage of the West Fertilizer explosion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdDuHxwD5R4
DESQview. Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in 20 years.
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That's not actually true, since the website had a message saying it while suffering. I also finished my purchase the next day.
I use Gimp a lot but I still think Photoshop is way ahead. For example I don't know why the author thinks Gimp has tight typography controls.

I always struggle with typography in Gimp while in Photoshop it's so easy.

And I never understood why they use layer bounds in Gimp. Sometimes I think this is more a technical reason than a UX reason. It just always gets in the way.

And why should I create a layer from something I paste? I never understood why someone would need this extra step.

Gimp is great software. I am very happy it is available. But I'm not sure it you can call this A grade professional software.
Suggest title change - “Github bans accounts if they support illegal immigration”.
I would suggest this article on how sub/countercultures become mainstream, and why that’s detrimental to that culture: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
It's not like the author is shy of his views and agenda. If you truly don't see the right wing talking points, well maybe you just perceive as normal the views of a far-right political writer, no need to be shy about it.
Ah interesting, it looks like you are right. If the any partition grows to > 10GB on the main table or a GSI, that partition splits into sub-partitions using the sort key as part of the hashing function. If there is no sort key, the partitioning scheme equally distributes items across partitions, so all partitions sub-divide at the same time.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40272600/is-there-a-dyna...
.de has quite amazing protections for a TLD, and if you forget to renew, it won't automatically lapse, but will be "in transit" for 2 weeks until you decide what to do with it.

Registrars also can't just change owner data, or move a domain between registrars easily, that requires a two-factor authentication.
When I’m doing Christmas shopping I have no tolerance for malfunctioning websites, I just jump over to some similar service with similar pricing
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