skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Librera PRO is a great PDF (and eBook) reader on FDroid. And bonus: the version on FDroid is the paid version on Play (last time I checked).
> The Android security model strictly forbids it.

Citation, please?
Which CVEs?
It seems that in determining who first 'invented' CRISPR, the PTO has gone into lab notebooks as far back as 2012.

https://twitter.com/jsherkow/status/1498413788994940928/phot...
Tell HN: My tale of trying to pay for Oracle Cloud
I tried out a 30 day trial of Oracle Cloud, decided it would work for my needs for a new company I'm starting. When it came time to upgrade my account to the paid version, the payment verification failed (I tried multiple times with multiple different cards, they must have blacklisted me).

Anyway, thinking it was an error, I tried chatting the support: https://i.imgur.com/dlf2wQP.png
(you need a paid account to chat with support, even if you want to chat about paying for your account)

Then I tried emailing to see if they could assist: https://i.imgur.com/T9jkKx7.png

I guess this is the type of customer service Oracle provides for customers trying to pay them money (only around $300/month to start, maybe not enterprise enough for Oracle).

Decided with that last email reply that it's not worth starting a new company on Oracle Cloud platform if this is the type of response you get from support.

Oh well, back to AWS I go!
They always could (and in the past they have to individuals). Any provider can, but at least now we know one that for certain will.
The protesting issue you describe is a tragedy of commons. Mass denial of global services to Russian people is exactly the incentive for them to overcome it.
I agree, which is why I argued upthread that they exempt private individuals and focus on domains that are operated by companies.
Am I able to add more than one "currently reading" books? I will usually read a couple at a time and it'd be nice to select multiple. Also it would be nice to have the ability to quick select books from my "Books I've Read" bookshelf when adding books to my recommended feed since I would almost never recommend a book I haven't read.

Also, are there privacy settings? I might not want a public profile or have only parts public.
Open Web Advocacy
Thank you. I was trying to keep the title concise, so maybe that made it confusing.
okay. if you can respond about a fictional OS that tries to kill it's user, i can respond with a real song featuring a fictional robot trying to destroy all operating systems

https://youtu.be/1Lb3CNe6k4Q
So completely agreed.

And my outrage is also in sync with yours as long as we are talking about children in the white little backyard of Europe. Other places? Other war crimes? For that we’ll outrage on Reddit. Join us.
How’s this (reportedly) 64-km long column of Russian tanks and armor outside Kyiv for ‘irreversibly committed’? (1)

1: https://t.me/uniannet/33675

I’m afraid that Putin can’t afford to lose face now that he’s started.
I imagine the conversation today went something like:

> NamecheapCEO: "What % of our business comes from Russia?"

> Accountant: "It's marginal."

> NamecheapCEO: "Cool. I have a great idea to get some spotlight."

Am I far off?
Just thinking out loud about this...

I am a business owner that sells services worldwide. We've just checked and found that a non-trivial number of our customers are registered in Russia. I don't feel comfortable with our company receiving their money.

I am appalled and horrified by the invasion and I wish to make this right some how. I just don't know what to do here as the leader. I've had relationships with some of these clients for years, and I know them to be good people. (Others, not so much - they will be easy to lose.)

The other thing is - and I'm ashamed to say this - I have a lot of fear about being drawn into the spotlight by publicly removing customers in the way that you have. We are a well-known data provider in our industry with clients all over the world, and I personally rely on this business for my livelihood. As I said, I feel ashamed and guilty about this, but I just don't feel brave enough to take a stand like you have. That said, I do want to set this right.

So I wonder what can be done?

- We can close the website to new visitors from Russia, and prevent new paying registrations, as an immediate first step.

- We can make a donation to the defence and rebuilding of Ukraine, covering the entire amount of revenue we received from Russian companies in the past year.

- We can contact paying clients located in Russia, informing them that their service is being terminated at our discretion, as we are no longer able to serve clients in Russia. We'll have to check our T&Cs for termination as there may be a 30 day cooldown, but we can certainly immediately stop their payments.

I know this isn't even a half-measure and I feel terrible about that. I'm just too afraid of having a target upon me or my company right now. I will just do what I can because it feels right.
> your most private device

What? A smart phone is just a computer—they are the same thing. Everything from private chats to TOTP tokens are on both my phone and my laptop. The only difference is my bank cries if I’m rooted on my phone and says nothing about it on my laptop.
Putting aside the linked content I'd just like to marvel at the speed of the site - near plain text, minimal markup, basic JS. And even a dead link to a guestbook in the source.

A few modern enhancements would be a nice addition to fix the overly wide width and font selection but they certainly aren't required.

Ah, 1999. A simpler web. Transporting the build of those simpler times to the world of today would deliver instant gratification.
Of course, the only command line in OS 9 was the MPW Shell.
Linked links:

https://i.imgur.com/dlf2wQP.png

https://i.imgur.com/T9jkKx7.png
Best comment so far. The mail ia indeed immature and the actions are unproductive.
> his government

In the US, Europe, etc, one's government is actually approximately representative of a large portion of the populace.

In Russia, the government is autocratic and not at all representative of the populace, so comparisons like "their government is doing a worse thing than we're doing to them" kinda falls flat.

What it sounds like is happening here is that Namecheap feels like they want to do something, and they're doing a thing that they are able to do, and something causes damage in the general direction of the intended target. Probably there are non-zero Russian state news, propaganda, etc sites that will be affected by this.

But this is clearly not a war born out of popular desire of the populace, and the collateral damage from this is huge. The amount of harm this will cause random people who may be trying to flee Russia, or to Russian opposition organizations that might now be less able to organize internal protests, almost certainly outweighs any inconvenience caused to the Putin regime.
It's not just any idiosyncrasy. For example, someone might have the idiosyncrasy that whenever they mention some not-completely-common concept they put in a link to the wikipedia article on it, which I think might get rather annoying. However, I would believe that they thought they were being helpful to the reader, even if they weren't. So in that case, I wouldn't think, "if they don't care about communicating this, why should I bother reading it?"
I'm not a tech person by trade, but isn't that what regulation & compliance such as ISO27001 are there for? To ensure that best practices are followed and to prevent breaches like that?

I was also told that most Cloud-based providers have a shared responsibility model when it comes to security, wouldn't that jeopardize some of the existing relationship between the business and the Cloud Platform?
Discussion/hot takes: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/t3st4b/rrus...
Yes! Every system call should take:

- an event queue handle for completion notification

- an optional event queue handle and timeout for waiting on before returning

- the actual arguments to the system call
No. Not "equally" hostile AT ALL
> You simultaneously recognize that morality is important (because you try to actively cover up or lie about your immoral actions), and you spit on it at the same time (because you do the immoral actions when you have an alternative course of not doing them).

I think what you're missing is that Putin does not give a pretext for his actions because he believes they are immoral, he does it because it muddies the discourse. Think of it this way: look at what happened when Putin said he was sending "peacekeepers" into Ukraine in order to stop a "genocide". American politicians called him "shrewd". Praise for him ping ponged around right-wing media, and it was reflected back onto RT to the Russian people, who were treated with looping reels of American media personalities heaping praises onto Putin.

If Putin is overt about his goals, he doesn't get the benefit of everyone spreading a message that he's stopping a genocide, or that he's being very clever by fooling everyone with his ruse -- even though he's not and didn't fool anyone who wasn't already fooled by him before. It benefits Putin that the world is calling him clever and shrewd, even though they're simultaneously calling him a murderous tyrant. His hope is that back home, he will repel the tyrant talk as much as possible and allow Russians to only hear that he's a master technician who stopped a genocide.
I both agree that it's an idiosyncrasy that prioritizes the interests of the writer over the comfort of the reader, and love to see stuff like this on HN, because it's the only place in the world I'm exposed to it.

I was familiar with the general Long Now ethos, but seeing prefixed years in the wild and going down this HN rabbit hole has been worthwhile.

Also seeing how politely & reasonably you folks debated back and forth on this usage makes me love the HN community (if we can even call it that?) even more.
I understand namecheap's decision because they have coworkers in Ukraine.

However, unless you apply that same logic to the US, UK, and a host of other nations, you are being hypocritical. They have murdered so many civilians, including kids, that surely they deserve the same punishment.

Yet we both know we're not about to see that, and I think we know why.
i’ve been a namecheap customer for a long time (10+ years). i do not think you are making the right choice. you are punishing the wrong people. you are sending a message that selecting namecheap isn’t just choosing a hosting platform but also a making political alignments. you say you’re doing this because you want nothing to do with the war, but by making this change you are involving yourself even more with the war
02022 also looks like octal. :)

$ echo $(( 02022 + 0 ))
1042
Before I respond to you about domain names, is there anything we can do to help your team's families get out? Do you have a fund? Are there refugee organizations you're in contact with?

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> If more grace time is necessary for some to move, we will provide it.

Why not 14 or 30 days? I've moved domains before (many years ago) and I think it took > 10 days depending on lots of factors, complications, and even had to cut support tickets, etc.. So I'd hate to see an innocent Russian freelancer get punished by this, if they missed your notification and had to move in a hurry.
I mean, as I said, that's ToS boilerplate. Go look at practically any service you subscribe to or even thought of subscribing to. There will be very similar verbiage there.
Culinary fluid mechanics and other currents in food science
I feel insulted by your attempt to play dumb. Protesting is a way to stop the money you already paid from going towards the war.
I think Namecheap should focus on corporate customers first and foremost, and if after sufficient grace time has passed they believe that it is also right to cut off the personal domains then they should proceed with that. But not like this and without differentiating between Russia and Russians.
My first name ends in 'in'. So, I registered <2-(n-2) letters of first name>.in, giving me an email address of the form a@bcdef.in. If you remove the '@' and the '.', you just get my first name.

I thought I was being clever at the time, but nobody gets it. Sigh.
Isolation hasn't helped in the case of North Korea, so I would not be surprised if it doesn't help in the case of Russia.
I think there are a lot of us who don't believe crypto will achieve the ideals you've outlined above. If the current implementations don't evolve then there is always the potential for new systems that do what you've described.
No.

It's your claim that poverty makes you happier than employment on some average. The last thing he said and the only relevant thing to even discuss here.
Most US based airlines will charge you a rebooking fee however, so it’s not completely hassle free. It’s often around $80-100 USD. Southwest Airlines is the only major carrier I know that does not charge this fee.
I have a gmail account that I grabbed when I worked at Google that reads very fake. It might as well be spam@ (it's not). Geeks love it. Normal people think I'm lying. (Geeks think I'm lying too but I can prove it, so they quickly more to the loving it phase.) I often get replies from support teams quickly because they want to see if it's fake.
Hello, I'm Ukrainian developer looking for work, and I have experience with using different payment services.

I will write you email nearest hours.

Thank you!
Oh my god, thank you for saying that about Brave. Brave is by far my favorite browser, but all the crypto-pushing is just weird to me. It makes more sense to have them be add-ons, but the way the browser encourages it as part of it's functionality is indeed off-putting and why I took as long as I did to switch.
What a horrifying policy. This may be tone-deaf as Namecheap has many Ukrainian employees, but this policy is antithetical to customer needs in an infrastructure company.

The US has a history entering conflicts i fervently disagree with. Wars and smaller, more targeted attacks. The idea that my business's production infrastructure could be at risk because some POTUS drone strikes the wrong wedding is exactly the sort of reactionary policy-making i try to avoid when choosing which companies i associate with my production infrastructure. This general neutrality was a reason i became a Namecheap customer many years ago.

I won't say that i can empathize at all with those deeply affected by this war. I fully understand people want to use the means at their control to change the tide here. But as a customer, this move scares me.
"The primary interface between the user and the OS" is the definition of "shell". That's why the Microsoft Windows process that draws the Start button and filesystem windows is called "the Windows shell".
If you are wondering why this comment is downvoted, DOS 1.0 certainly did have COPY.COM. I suspect the commenter misread the 2nd paragraph and thought the three programs mentioned were CP/M program names.
It literally only took them 12 minutes to ban the sites https://twitter.com/Nodernary/status/1489636577097695236
Well from their website they have 3 offices and 1700 employees in Ukraine so I'd guess this hits a lot more closer to home for them than your simulated conversation suggests.
alan turing died for my sins. yes, i am a member of the church of christ, computer scientist.
>6 Stalin Sort

>8 Intelligent Design Sort

These don't sort the list.
Some of the other pages on the site are in French, so perhaps the author's first language is French.
very nice direct approach, do have questions about the diameter of the holes they
choose (1/8-inch) versus the thickness of the barrier layer.

also
the reservoir below will have to be significant enough that increasing the salinity below does not adversely change the buoyancy of the floating insulation with the convection holes enough to make the evaporation layer above too thin.

that is; in the closed system shown the insulation will float higher as the water is evaporated eventually self limiting
He was replying to someone challenging his claim that unemployment makes you happier than being employed, and so am I.
I think they have a few larger issues than contracts they are working to overcome. Pretty sure they are mostly concerned with getting their employees out safely. Further, those contract disputes are going to come mostly from Russia, and with the current state of Russia's isolation, I am curious if there is even a channel for an impacted Russian customer to raise a grievance. How would Namecheap even pay them out for damages?

They have a pretty clear carveout in their TOS where they get to decide a breach of Acceptable Use, and one of the AUP that says "Engages in or instigates actions that cause harm to Namecheap or other customers." which one could make an argument that providing means to an invading military force as an action that harms Namecheap. So please show something material that outlines they cannot discontinue service without massive legal implications. Not to say that TOS' are indisputable in court, but it's hard to imagine that a court in the West would consider this a material breach considering the situation. This seems much more like a concern troll than a legitimate issue.

And to frame it as virtue signaling after outlining when they are impacted directly seems really odd. Normally people are compelled to do something, even something dumb, when they face a large crisis. I don't think we usually consider that virtue signaling, and it seems like an unnecessary thing to bring into the conversation.
I never understood the need of such stuff

WASM only good for client side web browsers, anything is a pure waste of time and human resources
The thing with fads, and adoption cycles in general, is that what people 'want' can be figured out pretty quickly, but as far as I'm concerned, The Trough of Disillusionment is what happens when people figure out that what they need is something else.

So what you're asking is can someone come into the ToD and introduce a new product that steals people away? It's plausible and if I were in a better headspace I could probably name you a bunch of examples. But does it always happen? I don't think so. There are plenty of incumbents who manage to coast through and come out the other side having demonstrated a dilute form of change of heart - just enough to convince the customers that 'something was done' even if they can't quite put a finger on what exactly is better and how much.
Domestic doesn't mean a whole lot when reporting about a multinational. Domestic from the seat pof power? Domestic from the perspective of potential buyers? Domestic from the point of the reporter?

I know clicking through will tell me, but even without taking 'cyber' into account, meaning in 'simplified' news headlines is hard to find with the huge amount of specifics and context required with a lot of global news coverage.
Part of what makes games great is that all previous state can be disregarded when you start a new game. You can't wipe the board of NFTs. Any game that uses NFTs must die because the incentive to play goes away when the outcome of that game is a foregone conclusion and the only game remaining is one of oblique speculation.
Ukrainian pilots arrive in Poland to pick up donated fighter jets
I shall invoke Godwin's law, and compare this to IBM supplying Nazi Germany with computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II

Do you honestly believe that the right thing for IBM to do was honor German contracts after the USA and Germany declared war on one another? If so, would German bombardment of American cities change your mind?
Putin going Hitler doesn't seem like a slippery slope, it's surprising they're even able to legally continue business relationships with Russian customers at this point.
First they came for the Crimean region, and I did not speak out.

Then they came for the bordering countries, and I did not speak out.

Then they came for the military installations, and I did not speak out.

And then they came for the An-225...
––– Twitter Conversation –––

[Twitter User A]

Can anyone explain to me what the @UoT_Foundation is?

[Twitter User B]

Track the wallets. Where do they go? They all sound like pretty catchy marketing names to me [...]

All registered on Namecheap within 5 days of each other. All from Iceland (IS). Two of them using pretty much the exact same AWS nameservers. Hmmm. This isn't even tracking wallets.

[Namecheap.com]

Hello! We have suspended the abusive services

–––

Wow! To be able to terminate someone's domain with a few tweets. This is absolutely insane! I have many domains with Namecheap. I might reconsider my domain provider after this.
SD cards are less than optimal in Pis
for general computing usage, but you could put something like iPXE on the card. That's how I'd work around the issue originally described in this thread. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPXE
I have <mylastname>.com. I get so many emails intended for people sharing my last name. They think they can just register on a site with theirfirstname@mylastname.com and it will magically work.
It literally is OK if you are not shedding blood, just doing undercover color revolutions etc. It is human nature do want to increase your power, removing this outlet is not realistic. Just don't use physical violence, instead use subversion, etc.

Then it basically becomes one big game of chess or soccer, just between intelligence agencies. The trophy is power and influence. I am fine with this as long as no humans are physically harmed.

Therefore the 2014 coup was OK, but the 2022 war is not.
The point is that this has to happen for change to occur from within. Change of regime from outside with be far more disastrous to the Russian people.
I absolutely think the type of decision we're talking about can be modelled. I'm not suggesting it's trivial, and I'm not saying there's a nice and tidy closed analytical solution, which is what you appear to be focused on with your parabola/physics-based example, but I absolutely think statistical methods (or "AI/ML" if you prefer) can be applied to the problem. It's pretty much how your brain solves these sorts of problems too, there's no magic to intuition or human decision-making.
i think the deal was you always prepend a zero to highlight "the future." it's supposed to remind you of how much more work there is to go to get to the imagined, wonderful future. or at least that's what i always thought.
You mean besides the one where he said he wasn't planning an invasion? Use Google and I'm sure you can find some. I have to say, you really must be enjoying the kool-aid. Every leader tells lies. If you really can't think of an example of Putin lying, then I feel sorry for your naivety or complete and utter pathological denial.
> And yet that's what the spec says about child-side code following fork(). There's a reason for that. It's not just about signals. Async-signal-safe means, yes, that you can use it in an asynchronous signal handler, but there are contexts other than async signal handlers that require async-signal-safe code.

You cut off with the reason being threads and shared mutability.

In fact that's what the spec says too.

1003.1-2017 on fork()

> A process shall be created with a single thread. If a multi-threaded process calls fork(), the new process shall contain a replica of the calling thread and its entire address space, possibly including the states of mutexes and other resources. Consequently, to avoid errors, the child process may only execute async-signal-safe operations until such time as one of the exec functions is called.

Practically if you don't use threads you can do anything in the child process you can do in the parent. Any env that doesn't support that breaks decades of important Unix software.

And what are you fixing by changing fork to vfork there?
I don't think reviews or recommendations are the goal of the site, as there is currently no way to add reviews or ratings, nor does the site provide any reviews or recommendations of its own. It's literally "just" a social network to talk about books on.