skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 2003 war lasted 1 month, 1 week and 4 days (Wikipedia)

The invasion tactic was shock and awe.

They didn't plan to occupy, they thought it would be easier to setup a puppet government than it was. They couldn't leave until Iraq was in a state to balance Iran's regional influence.

USA wanted to use Iraq for a oil/gas pipeline to Europe from Saudi/Qatar. They realised that was not possible due to the USA lack of state building abilities. So they turned their attention on Syria for the pipeline.

Jordan agreed but Syria was a under the Russian sphere of influence, so they needed to topple this government for the pipeline.

The pipeline would have challenged Russian oil/gas monopoly in Europe.
I must have a very confused model of what it takes to run a domain registry. I don't know what those 1000+ people were doing before Putin came knocking, but I'm glad you're looking out for them.
interesting!! I've done something similar with https://www.chezmoi.io
It would be much preferable for Russians as a whole for the West to send tanks to Ukraine to engage the invading troops. And no, it wouldn't automatically be WW3, either. It would be if the tanks crossed the Russian border, but they don't have to do so to break the invasion.
Practically, this is the struct you have to fill in if you don't use clone or fork.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/719fce7539cd3e186598e...

IMO clone looks a lot better than screwing with that giant struct and all of the kernel bugs that would exist from validating every goofy way those options could be setup wrong by user space.
The convention "everyone" uses doesn't stop being arbitrary just because most people use it.

Who cares what most people think?

And, yeah, it's true that most human cultures are very conformist, although I'm not sure I agree with your assertion that social groups full of old people are the most conformist. That conformism is why, for example, it took the humans 2000 years from recognizing that light darkens silver chloride until they invented photography, and they're constantly killing each other en masse in warfare, and 50 years after the first Moon landing there are still no cities off Earth.

So, lighten up. Play a little. Violate arbitrary conventions. The mind you save could be your own.
Yeah, the employees of Namecheap are going to sleep wondering if they're going to wake up or just die in a hail of Russian MLRS rockets. Meanwhile half this forum is very concerned that Namecheap's actions sounds too much like woke cancel culture.
He keeps getting richer because he owns a large stake in a company that's grown massively in a few years. He's given away millions of dollars by age 29.

Your criticism is he isn't giving away his money fast enough? Get a grip.
Why are you giving an unrealistic deadline when the transfer takes 5-7 days?
Hi

I've got excited about WebAssembly and used it with C#'s Blazor

but I feel like it moves incredibly slow, especially things like GC / DOM Access, etc.

It feels like we're getting closer and closer to half of the decade

How do you see it?
Initially my comment was that i approve of this. We need to calm down. Some russians are also a victim of putin. While from the comfort of my arm chair is easy to demand that russians show the same bravery as ukranians and topple their dictator, the reality is different.

We need to let our governments take drastic action, and sure, us as citizens stand up to anyone in support of putin and the war but not issue blanket bans and private sanctions.

We dont want to create the conditions of the first world war where innocent germans were punished for actions they were not responsible for, led to misery and was later on used as propaganda. Many in Russia dont even understand the enormity of what is happening, and that includes some here on this forum. Yes you can be well educated and highly paid and still not understand that russia has attacked humanity itself in the name of long gone glory and pride.

As such i would kindly ask that namecheap changes this policy and applies it only to those customers that display clear support for the putinists (i.e. government entities, propaganda farms, money launderers and so on).

Remember, Germans were the first casualty of the nazis.

I stand for ukraine, but i stand for freedom loving russians too.
> Seriously, what kind of argument is this?

Whataboutism.

It's become the main pro-Putin talking point in the last couple of days, after an abrupt drop-off when the last one (Russia will never invade, Biden is a madman, etc) abruptly stopped working.
Ukraine invasion: Misleading claims continue to go viral
>And if the west would send tanks to Ukraine it'd be WW3

that tired misconception should be dropped. West can send any weapons to Ukraine, and volunteers from West, trained tank drivers and pilots, can drive those Abrams tanks and fly those F-16 planes. Russia and China has been doing "volunteer" trick just fine.

World needs to start to learn to deal with such situations. China/Taiwan is coming and total sanctions regime wouldn't be possible with China.
Fuck dang. He's a prick.

And fuck you too asshole.
> Which country is going nuclear free?

Germany is intending to, once their current plants are decommissioned.
part of your problem might be with the .co , since outside of tech industry circles or people who are actually Colombian, it's rare and weird. I bet you'd halve the problem or more if it was a .net or similar.
He does give money away but it's hard to give quickly unless you just spray and pray which is against his ideals. And I don't agree that FTX is dubious, I think they're a genuine legit exchange. I take from your comment that your issue is with crypto, which is fine, but people are making money in that space and if someone wants to use that to their advantage to make a load of money for charitable causes I'm all for it.
that thread has significantly more information: it links to the reuters report that names the supplier, notes Toyota's JIT manufacturing strategy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Ira...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war...

What makes this one different? I can understand being appalled at governments waging war at the cost of civilian life, but it's not like that just started 5 days ago...
They should have just said Ukraine was harboring weapons of mass destruction.
> I use KOReader for PDFs, but it's not great. Are FBReader or Librera any better?

I think I've only tried PDFs once on each of these apps, and that was so long ago that the PDF experience could easily have changed since then. (I mainly use them for ePUB books.) Perhaps someone else can answer?
I have been interested in age regression as a phenomenon lately, not just in hypnosis, but as something that happens even if you get somebody to talk about their childhood. It’s powerful for building rapport and it doesn’t surprise me that you’d get pain relief as a side effect.
And how many of those can be turned on on literally any street in the US?
I don't think it's a PR move. The company has many Ukrainian employees, and those people are understandably angry now, and want to lash out at something to do with Russia; so they found a target within their reach. It's still a bad idea because it doesn't actually help anything except Russian propaganda, but I can see where they are coming from.
I haven't found s/w metrics to be useful.
Seems Finland is going to seriously consider it now.
A shader is the human-editable code that gets compiled into the GPU to do graphics rendering. In terms of 3D objects, "wireframe" is broken into vertices and fragments, where vertices are points in space and fragments are the interpolated positions between vertices. You pass any information you want to the shader from your main CPU process (e.g. time elapsed, screen resolution, textures you want to use, click events, random variables you conjured) and the shader executes whatever you code you wrote for it -- maybe it adds a blur effect, thresholds colors into black/white, mines bitcoin, it just executes whatever shader code you wrote, however creative you wanted to be. Some really cool examples at shadertoy.com
Besides, would you really want to stay after something like this?
“The simplest explanation here is that the Russian military is bad”
Technically true, and arguably practically true too. Because Toyota do not maintain a stockpile of parts, the supplier and Toyota themselves become practically indistinguishable (except one is apparently easier to attack). When taking out a supplier shuts down 14 factories almost immediately, the supplier being a separate company for business, logistical, tax or PR reasons makes no practical difference.
> In 2015 John Mearsheimer claimed that Putin did not want to invade the Ukraine nor did Putin want to re-establish the old Soviet empire.

Note that could have been true in 2015; what Putin wants can change over time.

At any rate, I watched that video some months ago, but from I recall Mearsheimer's point was that this kind of response is rational when reasoned from Putin's interests and worldview. I don't recall he said there would never be a war, and IIRC actually warned against a possible war (which we now have, albeit in a different shape than Mearsheimer thought in 2015).
Oh no! Will somebody please think of the domains?!

/s
2021 please.
I created this account just to inform you that I am moving all my business away from your platform.
So... nowhere in the comment thread? It was just something you introduced out of nowhere?

Yeah, that's what I thought.
Do most apps use the NDK?
But, you had a contractual agreement with them.
When I hear stuff like this, I begin to ask questions:

Why is your supply chain so vulnerable that a cyberattack on business partner (or multiple) causes you to close down *all* plants in your country? That's insane.

That sounds like your supply chain is the key problem here, and the cyberattack is just a smokescreen that is compounding the problem.
I feel you. I have a two letter domain and constantly have to explain that “Yes, that’s it.” when they want to add an extra .com on the end.
If you want foolproof sandboxing, you need opt-out namespacing. Because there might be resource types that your version of the software doesn't know about, and these should really be namespaced by default.

Besides, what really matter is whether namespacing is idiomatic or not. It was always idiomatic in plan9, and containerization has certainly made it more idiomatic even on *nix systems.
Federated learning with formal differential privacy guarantees
> That hurts ordinary people yes, but - this is a war. Better an economic hit than being bombed or shot.

40,000+ people died in Venezuela because of sanctions.

[0]: https://cepr.net/press-release/report-finds-us-sanctions-on-...
Right, and trying to unseat Putin has historically meant prison or death to its citizens.

We can support Russians to create political change, without hardening them to feel like perhaps yes the rest of the world is against them.

This is about Putin and Russian elite who support him.

Frankly, the fact Trump is still not in prison and probably running again doesn't say much good about US democracy and justice.
Indeed his last foreign blackmail was against Ukraine regarding sale of the Javelin weapons they now desperately need.
Do you think that having a single set wage helps you have the flexibility to land both those employees whom other companies find to be the most valuable as well as land the broad middle performers that are so needed to build a scale up company?

I can’t see any way that “everyone, no matter their interview performance and relevant experience in what we need done, either gets an offer of exactly $X/yr or gets rejected” is an optimal strategy.
I want to love OsmAnd~ but the ux and search features are spectacularly terrible.

I was recently in Pomona, and searched for a Walgreens. The first result was for Livermore, with the next couple results being 100-200 miles away. 4th or 5th on the list was a store in Ontario, and the rest were 30+ miles away. I discovered there was a store in Pomona while driving to the store in Ontario.

For UX, several months ago my phone decided to display pot leaf icons for all the pot stores in Seattle. This only happens in Seattle, and I've spent at least 30 minutes searching through the app trying to figure out how to toggle off the pot stores. Mind you the pot stores stay up even along side the results for more recent searches.
What is neural architecture search
running a kubernetes cluster is what bloggers call "technology minimalism" these days? joking aside, i've been trying to find some time to mess around with nerdctl's ipfs functionality, seems like it may be a better fit for smaller teams and the self-hosters out there.
Wikipedia also locks most interesting pages so only established accounts can edit them.
> cost of LIDAR units through economies of scale

Is there some cost prohibitive licensing on it that affects adoption the way e-ink patents have limited product creation?
> Overreliance on JS is an architectural flaw

I don’t buy this. There’s lots of valuable things you can do in a browser with only JavaScript.
How can one find, or measure, the SSI of a given light bulb?
I think this article is overblown.

Will adoption of meatless meat increase in the next 8 years? Probably.

Will there be a dairy and cattle "collapse" in the next 8 years? Highly unlikely. Many people are not interested in lab grown meat. They want their traditional sources.
The "closed-source restrictions" are on the SDK itself, not applications written using it. At risk of being a bit flip, there's a pretty long history of people developing applications that run against proprietary SDKs. The "niche hobby platform" might prove to be more of an issue, but I don't think anyone developing for -- or for that matter, buying -- the Playdate is doing so with the expectation that it's going to be the next Nintendo Switch.
I was confused what you could possibly mean by that but then I read the opening paragraph:

> The Wasmer 2.2 release features significant advancements shaping up to impact our Web3 and blockchain community in a big way. Wasmer is reintroducing Aarch64 compatibility for our Singlepass compiler. With the newly overhauled Singlepass, Web3 and blockchain developers can efficiently run Wasmer Runtime with Singepass on Windows, Linux, and macOS. The new release also fully supports the much anticipated Apple M1 processor.

And since the rest of the post doesn't mention anything more, I share your curiosity.
I understand that. But how is Namecheap supposed to deal with this nuance? It seems like they're handling it pretty darn well. They said they're not going to provide a service to the people attacking them, and are willing to consider exceptions where it's clear they're hurting people that are supporting Ukraine.

In the meantime, the policy as a whole makes a lot of sense to me. While it's certain to have some collateral damage, but so does shelling a city. Guess which group of people I have more sympathy for at the moment?
These crystals are almost like primitive plants.
100% agreed. But in that case, it's better to say that such is the reason.
if you own a two letter .com or .net or something, and not some new gTLD, you should probably sell it for a fat stack of cash... unless you have a very compelling use for it.
I'm flattered you think my hobby project might replace jpeg. Maybe one day we'll figure out how to do discrete cosine transform as a lambda expression. All I'm trying to accomplish here is sharing interesting ideas and inspiring the curiosity of programmers who dare to dream that things can be better than they are. It's not the the responsibility of the educational materials I provide free of charge to folks who love computer science to help you comply with hardening policies aimed at reducing risks relating to malicious actors exploiting the most recently disclosed weaknesses in your hardware. Powerful knowledge has many applications so it always makes me sad when people choose to focus on the negative ones.

If you want something that can provide that level of assurance then I'd suggest looking into Blinkenlights, which can be retooled to abstract a level of memory obfuscation and processor insulation that effectively neutralizes such threats, much stronger than alternatives like docker/gvisor/vms/etc., but at a cost of performance.
I had a similar experience in, of all places, on the road (there's only one!) to Denali, in Alaska years ago.

My wife started feeling ill and there was nothing nearby but we remembered passing a motel about 30 miles back and Denali was at least another 90 minutes away. We went in to get a room for the night and I'm not exaggerating when I say that the place would probably be condemned if it were anywhere else. The price of the room was insane, but it was the only hotel in at least 50 miles so it was either that or sleep in the car.

The only thing I remember specifically from dinner was a smoked chicken and root beer. I love root beer and the menu claimed it was made by a local about 10 miles away.

The quality of the food was incredible.

Yeah, I've never paid $30 for half a chicken before or since, but it was the best chicken I've ever had. So was the root beer and whatever else we had for dinner. Everything they put on that table was absolutely delicious. And this at a tiny roadside motel where we were apparently the only guests.

Wish I could remember the name of that place.
Same thing in Portland. People think Antifa burned the city to the ground.
A younger, stupider me was riding a motorcycle on highway 99 near Merced. It was just after dawn on a Saturday, with literally no one else on the road for miles.

So as an experiment, at 70 mph I put my face down on the gas tank: I could see the highway lines on either side, but literally nothing ahead. I wanted to see how long I could hold that position without freaking out. Answer: about twenty seconds.

This is far from the only experiment I did back then, I’m lucky to be alive.
Why not just block renewals and new registrations? Do you have to pay taxes to Russia on .ru registrations at other times?
I've heard no one, yet, consider that maybe Russia wanted to get crushed on its first pass. If we think of it from a psy ops perspective, they said they were going in to support the independence of the people is certain regions. They can now spin their domestic propaganda that they went in as peace keepers but we're surprise attacked and murdered trying to keep the peace. Then use that as justification for overt total war. Or not.
Once upon a time trading with the enemy would get you shot. Now obviously those days are past and it is no apparently perfectly acceptable to do this (see: German Gas), but for Namecheap this isn't about money, but about the fact that their employees are mostly in Ukraine and that you are effectively asking them to continue to trade with the party that has declared themselves their enemy, which they - in good conscience - probably can not do, effectively or at all.

If your country was invading mine and while I'm trying to stay alive and keep those near me safe, food is running out and worse would be aware that my employer is still serving customers on the other side of the divide I would seriously consider giving them a piece of my mind.
I have used the waypoints feature on numerous occasions when trekking and have found it incredibly helpful for determining my location relative to various points of interest. It really is a fantastic app. The barometer has actually notified me of a rain storm about 30 minutes before some of the first drops fell- i was prepared for rain in the forecast that day, but it was still remarkable to see the app in action.
You fight with the weapons you have. If you have a rock to defend your family with, you fight with the rock. The guy you kill with the rock is, realistically, probably as innocent as the commoners back in Russia.

If you have the ability to hit the Russian government where it hurts - in their money - not using it to defend your employees is as unconscionable as not picking up that rock to defend your family.

War has never differentiated between innocent and guilty in the past, nor can it differentiate today. It's a battle between governments, and people who are really hurt will always be the innocent.

Fuck war. But don't blame someone for defending themselves, their family, their employees, with the weapons they have, not the weapons you wish they had.
> The only person who made Putin invade Ukraine is Putin.

Well, yes; but when dealing with such high-stakes international politics you need to consider what consequences your actions will have, even if you think your actions are completely justified and the consequences are stupid. To say "Ukraine is the West's Fault" is a bit clickbait-y, and the actual content is more nuanced, but I do think there's truth in that we ("the west") could and should have acted with more caution and consideration of the possible consequences rather than operate on grand ideals.
I can see why they might not want to use that name...

Now, if we could just make tepid superconductors...
You may just need more developers, and sort out everyone’s exact skills later. People aren’t just cogs for a machine.
Right now, the most important action that the West can take is military aid to Ukraine. Ideally, direct air support, but even equipment helps. If the invasion ultimately fails, it's unlikely that Putin will remain in power for long. Not because of any revolution, but because the Russian elites themselves will pin everything on him.

With government and private sanctions, it really depends. Some (e.g. disconnecting SWIFT) will be a major pain in the ass for the elites. Others, like this one, really only hurt the population at large, and the govt propaganda is going to tap into this big time.
He is making a solid cause and effect description though. About something i hadnt thought about from this perspective before. Namely that by its size it heavily influences the market and its trajectory. The effect is not so different from big companies being able to sell a products at a loss. At the end of the day the existence of the Pi likely played a role in why we dont have a good open source equivalent yet, because it hampers the business models that could finance the necessary development through an institutional advantage.

And i dont have to look further then what i use my Pis for and how much that fits the description of a charitycase. I use it because its cheap and do it despite the sad state of the code base. I dont want to talk you out of your righteous indignation but i think its something interesting to think about. The upsides dont mean there are no negative effects. At the end of the day the complexity and workload for new open source projects is limited. You have only so much spare time. At a certain point you need a business model to get you to a level that allows adaptation which might move it further. There was a interesting thread about it earlier about how many giant projects started as a few week solo project. Think Unix or Git. The more complex hardware gets, the more difficult that gets for anything outside of the monoliths due to enormous entry hurdles.
And at the end of the day the Pi doesnt run a mainline kernel and its boot process needs a blob. Its in competition with any open source platforms, be it in sales or developer time, that dont have the same advantage. The fact that they do amazing work doesnt change that.

edit: Not a summary but what i took away from it.
Absolutely. I think your last point is especially good. Facebook consumes a ton of cash for what many people feel are disappointing results. Are they vulnerable to a competitor who is less about what users want than what they need? A competitor who can do that for 1/10th or 1/100th as much money? That could be very hard for the me-me-me companies to keep up with.
I'll own one, and I'm a game developer, so, at least one.

What part of the license do you feel I should be upset about?