skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In other words, it may be easier to change the CEO than the CEO's mind. (A possibly useful criterion: when did the CEO last admit a mistake? If the answer is "never", and reality indicates the need for a change of direction, the CEO has to go.)

Another possible reason is that it may be politically difficult for the incumbent CEO to do the hard thing, but an incoming CEO (especially if he is from the outside and therefore has not accumulated a web of obligations) can do something like lay off a fifth of the company more easily. There are turnaround CEOs that have made a career of being the doer of unpopular things.
If you just had most if not all international payment methods stop, your only option now is to transfer your domains to a russian state owned or controlled entity which should be obvious why it could be problematic.
I guess it depends? For business travel it’s carry on only and documents are verified at security.

I had the process down perfectly where I could leave home and be at the gate, ready to board, 30 minutes later. Jump out of the cab, go to pre-check line, 5 min later walking to gate.

Without online check-in that would be impossible.
Do you have issues with spam filters blocking your emails? I've heard that any non `.com` email is a mess from a deliverability perspective.
> Based on their calculations, a system with just 1 square meter (about a square yard) of collecting area should be sufficient to provide a family’s daily needs for drinking water, they say. Zhang says they calculated that the necessary materials for a 1-square-meter device would cost only about $4.

If true -- this could be utterly transformative for much of the world.
This is a nation that just invaded a democratic country, and you call actions against them 'cancel culture'? This isn't some celebrity on Twitter losing their job - it's a private company that no longer wants to give tax dollars to a evil regime
> This is their chance to get rid of Putin.

And how would that happen? does anyone really think the oligarchs going to overthrow him, they are more afraid of him than comrade peasants were afraid of Stalin.
> In some jurisdictions it can be libel or something legally similar, even if they really do that

The only sensible time I would see this being legitimate is if it was something secret/confidential (but still legal) being made public (and viewed as being revealed maliciously, depending on content/context); I doubt it would be considered libellous however (but if you have a reference, I'd like to read up on it).
> planet incinerating

FTX pushes Solana, a PoS coin, very hard. Blockchain doesn’t need to use PoW.

Solana has other issues around scalability, reliability, and decentralization, but it isn’t “planet incinerating”.
I tried two meals a day, found it easy, went to one meal a day (always a big deal at my house anyway - all sitting around dinner table, lots of talking, dessert, coffee etc). Anywho, I was hoping to lose a bit of weight and instead lost a lot of weight, and sleep better than I have since I was a teenager (a long time ago now). Amazing results. And I still get to eat pizza, ice-cream, everything...
same; my RSS feed opens the comments section of each article, and I check the first two for someone saying 'this is blogpam / clickbait' before reading

maybe i should just delay reading articles for 24hrs until the filters do their thing, but then i cant contribute to the convos :(
And here I thought they were just a weird coffee shop in Fort Mason.
This war has created such pain and damage in only a few days its unimaginable. See my previous comments for my position on russians, but at the same time, out of solidarity i think they should move out of namecheap. Its too sensitive for the company to debate it and process it. People that last week were working at tech giants, people like you and i, were here commenting and debating and now they need to hold guns in their hands and fight in a war started by russia while their families are displaced.

So out of solidarity, russian users could move their domain names out and leave it as is.
There are some kinds of attacks that are more likely to be launched against well known people. But even for lesser-known developers their names with corresponding addresses will appear in the archives of mailing lists, and this could be used to correct the record.

But if there's no record of someone at all then there isn't an easy way to detect this kind of abuse.
In a vacuum, yes. But the bar has been raised a bit by having one country threaten to annihilate the world as we know it, and is presently at war with the country that hosts the workforce of the suppliers. In the past trading with the enemy would get you put up against a wall, this is a very logical and understandable step.
Yeah, I have the same problem with octal. At least I'm young enough that I don't automatically do the conversion in my head.

I commonly say things like "Troy fell around 01100 BCE". Except that usually I look up the date so I don't get it wrong like that. I don't know what the Long Now folks do.
> Fuck this mentality that makes the life of ordinary people harder and call it "sympathy".

The sanctions will do this too. They will make Russians very poor, it might take time -- but odds are ordinary Russians will become poor.

That's sad, but what is the alternative?
Independent of my feelings on this - how is doing exactly what the contract states reneging?

> Namecheap expressly reserves the right to deny, cancel, terminate, suspend, lock, or modify access to (or control of) any account or any Services (including the right to cancel or transfer any domain name registration) for any reason (as determined by Namecheap in its sole and absolute discretion), including but not limited to the following: <SNIP MORE OF THE SAME>

from - https://www.namecheap.com/legal/universal/universal-tos/

Those terms of service documents that no one reads are part of, if not all the of the contract. Most service providers have the same (effectively anyway) clause in them. They also have clauses that allow them to modify their terms of service any way they want.

Unless someone has a different, specifically negotiated contract with the company that states otherwise - this is not a violation rightly or wrongly. This is why a lot of B2B involves contract negotiation that takes a long time, those businesses can't tolerate the instability of a contract that can be terminated or changed on a whim.
> It got me (back) into electronics. Hooking stuff up to the pins was great, but I soon worked out that an AVR chip could do more or less the same for under £1. So the pi got neglected :(

I'd argue that the pi was a complete success. It got you back into electronics, which aligns with their goals - get people to learn stuff.
The theory, and the reason Toyota get studied, is that having no buffers means no waste and overall better production. The plastic doohickey supplier is producing plastic doohickeys at an optimal rate, and when supply stops everything stops. The problem is immediately apparent, and all eyes immediately available to fix the problem because all work has stopped. The alternative is a buffer. The plastic doohickey supplier needs to be able to produce plastic doohickeys at a faster rate than Toyota can consume them, to build up that buffer in the first place and to replenish it when problems occur. This extra capacity makes plastic doohickeys more expensive, both because of the excess production capacity and storage logistics. Many believe, including Toyota, that this thinking is the key to their success. It certainly requires good risk management though, identifying points of failure that will just shut down production for a short while vs. points of failure that risk destroying the company (say, a fire in a unique chip manufacturing plant that could take years to rebuild). See Toyota Production System or Lean Manufacturing.
Are you giving more time to everybody or just the people who complain?
Or that could be the best way to start WW3. Your call!
There was quite a big court case about it, you know.
And unbanned about an hour later?

https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489504958596714499
That is only for women, men are forced to stay in Ukraine.
It’s kind of a sensitive subject. Not worth getting sued over.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-email...
I use Document Viewer (org.sufficientlysecure.viewer). I haven't compared it to the others but it's pretty good.
U.S. expels 12 Russian diplomats at UN for espionage activities
This "fix" also made it impossible to represent times before 1970.

Admittedly that's probably a rare problem, but I can imagine it could have broken something

(An interesting tidbit: Since 2018-07-22, a 32-bit signed time_t with an epoch of 1970-01-01 has been able to represent the date of birth of every living human. Chiyo Miyako was born 1901-05-02 and died 2018-07-22 at the age of 117 years, 81 days. 2^31-1 seconds before the epoch was 1901-12-13. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe...)
You are expecting people to remain completely rational while being shot at. What your emotional response is is of no concern.
Seems like not a great time for their chat support to be down for maintenance.

Incidentally I am in the process of transferring a domain to namecheap today.
AFAIK (which probably isn't that far) it's not any worse if you die from the explosion, but, unlike with a regular bomb, with these if you survived the blast you have to then immediately find air to breathe (probably while injured) because they're designed such that they consume all the oxygen in the immediate vicinity. So even if you're already outside, unless there's a stiff breeze you might not be able to crawl to where there's breathable air before you die.
The commit log could still credit the bug discoverer even if that person's proposed fix isn't used.
> The hiring rigmarole is just an IQ test in disguise.

Do you have any data to back a claim that ridiculous?

I hear this bullshit all the time, yet nothing to back it up.

If you think IQ would be a good hiring signal, then just administer an IQ test instead of LC question.
Do you mean that your company has switched 800 employees from Windows machines to RPi? Are the 800 people non-engineering? Are the RPis thin clients? Everything running in the cloud?
I'm going to be honest, I don't know what point you're arguing against at this point. Can you clarify that?
That does need indeed put it into perspective.

This was a decision made by someone who has heard horror stories and seen their cheery teammates turned into shells of themselves.
That makes sense.

Sounds a bit like what my old timer buddy says.

Google's KPI is hiring talent away from competitors who physically live in the San Francisco bay area. And the ads/ML teams that they drench in their 1%ers.

Everyone else is window dressing.
>By definition a civilian is not fighting.

They might not be bearing arms, but they are contributing to the russian economy.

Without the presence of nuclear weapons, NATO forces would be bombing moscow right now, causing significantly more economic disruption and disruption to civilians.

It's war.
The radiation thing is not true.

Kofman claims that Russia is yet to treat this war as a conventional one. What we have seen so far is not representative of their capabilities. There is military failure, but it's also a question of how much destruction Russia is willing to inflict.

Unfortunately there is plenty of room for escalation. Putin may not be willing or able to throw in the towel. Cornering a wild animal can be dangerous.
You're missing the point. It's supposed to inconvenience the Russian people.

You can't have it both -- benefit from western companies and technology, but keep a leader in power that is completely indifferent to any human life and suffering other than (arguably) the one of the Russian people.

We like to think that we're all just citizens under the rule of the few, but we're all complicit in who governs us, whether we like to admit to it or not.

In the west we're all very aware that any kind of regime change in Russia will involve bloodshed amongst innocent Russian people, but that is already happening right now -- except you've exported the genocide to your neighbors, Belarus and Ukraine, and that is unacceptable.
I would have assumed that to mean, very specifically, that you wouldn't do business with, for example, a Private Military Contractor accused of human rights abuses. The specific business. Not brushing off the individual citizens of an entire country collectively, no matter their agreement with the war, for the issues you have with the country's governance. In some cases, they would have assumed themselves safe with you, in fact, because they were not seemingly aligned with their government and more aligned with Western values, and thought you would be more censorship-resistant. Far from them, I am certain, would be the idea that you would be the first to threaten their domains when they can't even pay for another registrar. (Which is another thing that would have been a good reason for, say, a Russian activist to renew with long 5+ year terms, which... Are you going to refund those? Or just tell them to figure it out?)

I mean, I can understand where you're coming from, but it's a stretch. I would not think that's what the language means in the terms. At all. It would make an activist's day 1000x worse. Imagine if they're right now being detained and can't renew or move their domain (and this is why they took a 5 year term with you!) and they can't even see this email or this discussion. You might make the worst week of their life into a much worse one. It seems bad for business. Just saying. Older netheads expect the net to be censorship resistant, not ban-happy, for what it's worth.
A Network Map of the Witcher
You do, but it's not a good implementation for a general API is all I was trying to say.

Do you really need an "asynchronous process creation" call? The rationale is that "blocking is bad", but a thread creation system call blocks the caller too until the thread is created. So it's not just "blocking", it's the amount of blocking if anything. Is posix_spawn or vfork+exec really too slow for your case?

Then multi-process and multi-threading seems like a reasonable solution. Asynchronous system calls are the exception not the rule in unix. So it wouldn't make sense as a traditional afork(2) system call. You could probably do a posix_spawn for io_uring, but do you really need to?
Anyone Else Disenchanted with Reddit?
Not sure how much effort i want to put into this, as i’ve already wasted enough time on it, though it might be interesting to web sleuths. Basically, i’m not sure reddit was ever a quality site, but it appears to me it’s been getting crumbier and crumbier with funny tokens and power ups and by my observation poor moderation. TLDR i got banned from the buttcoin sub for exhibiting common behavior, and now i’m getting the runaround. It wouldn’t bother me except that there are no good alternatives to reddit. Anyway, here’s the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/t30iej/comment/hys6a0k/
When your country is attacking another country, asking for empathy is best done by relating what YOU are going through, personally, as opposed to telling stories for others.

I suppose that's somewhat metaphoric for the philosophical differences in how authoritarian rule manifests vs. whatever it is we call it in the West.

I have empathy for everyone in Russia who is going through hardship during this time.
Namecheap is by far the worst registrar I've ever used. Through the years, I've occasionally had people who wanted my domains use bots to spam abuse reports on them, and Namecheap remains as one of two that buckled.
Donating all income from Russian users to the Ukrainian war efforts or refugee relief efforts would have seemed like a much more satisfying (and effective!) way to go about this.
So given that context - that you're not removing services - what is the meaning of the "whitelist" you've mentioned in several other comments? What are those users being whitelisted from?
This is an super exaggerated number to attributte only to sactions, our TOTALITARIAN REGIME actions killed those people and the reality is that sanctions just helped them

Before the sanctions, (that started in 2015), we had already huge economical problems (and problems of kinds), mainly due the goverment focusing on making one of the greatest corruption acts of all times [1] and focusing on systematically making the venezuelan population poorer, sicker, hungrier and dependant, in order to keep the power and keep stealing money.

The thing is, sanctions did absolutelly NOTHING in favour of venezuelans citizens and their freedom, in fact, they made it easier for the Venezuelan totalitarian regime to justificate their acts (forcing hunger, violating human rights [2], etc) and made it stronger in a way that since our country got alienated, we got more support from other totalirian regimes such as China and Rusia.

So hurting the ordinary people, as that post say, was just putting an extra nail to the coffin of every venezuelan that died of hunger and sickness.. Was just encouraging more people to fight for freedoom with rocks vs guns and died or got detained [3] [4]...

All for nothing, and 6 years later, over 300billions usd stolen later, 2.000.000% hyperinflation later, 7.000.000 venezuelans gone later, over 400 people killed in protest later, over 5,000 political detentions later, the govt is still there and... blocking venezuelans from using stripe, transferwise, etc, is going to help us haha ..

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Venezuela

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_protests_(2014%E2%8...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_protests
An average Russian can't just pack up bags and leave willy-nilly. Few countries will issue a visa for anything other than tourism or short-term business. If one has skills that are in demand (say, IT), it's easier - but most people don't have those skills.

I fail to see how protesting the war is a "way to not pay Russian taxes". Unless you specifically mean refusing to pay taxes to protest the war, which would go about as well in Russia as it would in US. Well, except that, once you get arrested, the cops are likely to "entertain" themselves by e.g. putting a gas mask on you and squeezing the hose. Or shoving a bottle into your anus. Or just beating you with rubber batons until you pass out.
Anybody affected by this or not, at this point I’d really recommend moving your domains away ASAP from such unstable leadership anyway. Just read in the comments and see how this person seems to be taking such critical decisions at whims comment by comment. They seem to have simply lost the plot. Tomorrow it can simply be you at the receiving end unless you change your passport to where this company is based (not sure even that will work) - assuming they’d give a clean chit to at least that country.

PS. Or maybe Namecheap is making a smart preemptive business move. It’s a good possibility that very soon Russians might not be able to pay them for renewals (at least for sometime) and then when they start letting the domains expire, and rightly so, they do not want to deal with “please be considerate”.
https://organicmaps.app/ as alternative to Osmand.
How you spend your time is fine. Most people lack the expertise to maintain a solar panel. This becomes an issue when you die or sell your house and the new owners don't know anything about maintaining solar roofing. Over time, this will become a massive cost center especially since solar panel installation have a painful lack of standardization, especially DIY panels, which drives up costs immensely.
California issues permits to Cruise, Waymo for autonomous vehicle service
Because ultimately this is not about money but about decency.
Hypothetically should Americans stop paying taxes? Their government has a history of arming extremists/conflicts worldwide.

I understand the Ukrainian invasion is sickening/a travesty but I struggle to square what appears to be an underlying hypocrisy.
> Do you think the CIA is going to let a bunch of top secret Russian armor sit on the battlefield untouched? IMHO, probably not. A lot of Russian military secrets are going to be revealed to the west.

This is just wishful thinking, Putin isn't an idiot even if CNN tries to portrait him as such.
Disney halts all theatrical film releases in Russia
The email and CEO's explanations say otherwise.
My sense that is that any written record (especially publicly posted records), an admittance of guilt can later be used as evidence in court. That is, if the bar needs to defend itself in court later, admitting guilt now would make that a lot harder.

And they're a bunch of lawyers -- they likely know that.
If you know of a domain registrar that will not respond to frivolous DMCA requests, I'm all ears. Unfortunately, DMCA is being abused and registrars will continue forcefully removing you off their platforms, even if the DMCA request has no merit.

This is the biggest problem (and yes, I know one can make a .onion website, but I would like to stay on the mainnet).
And all the suppliers need to be able to ramp up supply after a problem to replenish the buffer, which means excess capacity normally sitting idle.
A high rate of interventions is virtually GEO-fenced to only highways and not cities.
This is going to crush the opposition and demoralize these people even more while it will have zero effect on Putin.
Why is a drop in insulin desirable?
In the legal "trading with the enemy" sense an "enemy" is a country your country is actually at at war with... Germany is not currently at war with Russia, Ukraine is.
I don't care about this war, and all I get from this is that this domain registrar could block me with no notice for an abitrary reason. They (Namecheap) can do whatever they want, but I'll be actively working to deter people from using it.
I think they're saying they own a two letter domain , which if it's a .com is probably worth enough money to sell, put into a S&P 500 index fund, and retire.

https://dofo.com/blog/two-letter-com-domain-names/

If it's a two letter domain at some new esoteric recently created gTLD, quite a lot less.
Literally everyone is willing to terminate services for political reasons given the right reasons for their politics. If Russia was invading a city where you or your coworkers were working and your employer decided to stop doing business with them, I think you might be more forgiving
Agreed, it won't work. It won't remove Putin.

But it means that if we have to fight a war with Russia. The Russia we'll be fighting will be poor.

I'm guessing that's the cold logic behind it.

Mind you, sanctions probably aren't at that level yet. Oil and gas still flows.
The problem is the US has to maintain payment schemes including SWIFT with Russia in order to use their oil. So it makes blocking them from the system difficult.
Explanation: the real reason is NATO radars providing complete situational awareness to Ukrainian side, and Russian side can't do anything about that without shooting at NATO radar planes flying in NATO airspace.
I have a .net
Their mortal enemy is Russia - the state and the government - not every individual Russian.

But in the absence of any ability to hurt said mortal enemy, they seem to have picked a target by association that is within their reach, so as to hurt something related to the enemy.

I understand why this is happening, but I don't see it as justifiable.
This one links to NHK website while the other one links to Reuters. Thus it still serves a purpose.
There is a difference in your Linux desktop workstation and your most private device. Desktop systems are not nearly as secure and should not be seen as such, and Linux surely at the tail end.

People using F-Droid might not be aware that they are trusting a third party as they think it is a trusted distribution channel, relying on the information stated on the client app or website.