skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> creating enough food for a family of 4 from a home garden requires something like 8 square meters of land, chickens, and loads of labour. It’s non trivial, and if you make a mistake you go hungry.

Not even close. Potatoes produce more calories per unit of land than anything else you can grow in a temperate zone garden. Intensively cultivated potatoes may produce 10,000 calories per square meter, but that would be a stupendously successful crop. In other words, to provide all the calories for a family of four, you'd need on the order of 1 to 2 square meters of potatoes per day.

Since you can't really live on potatoes alone, to get adequate nutrition across the spectrum of human needs, you need quite a bit more than that. You could feed a family of four for a year on less than a acre, if none of your crops failed or did poorly. I'd hate to be responsible for trying it on less than that though in the temperate US.
Very neat, about time someone tried to disrupt goodreads. Here's some thoughts:

- Get people to create a bookshelf as part of the onboarding experience, even with just a few books that they are reading, or have read. What you'll be able to do is instantly provide some recommendations. Finding new books is hard! You have a nice opportunity here to drive really valuable recommendations. Amazon doesn't know what's on your shelf, they know what you've bought or "saved" to buy, this is important.

- Get influencers to upload photos of their bookshelves and do the leg work of digitizing them. Heck, maybe even make this a feature and auto-magically digitize your users' bookshelves for them. Or even better, do some research and figure out what vertically specific influencers are reading, then manually create those bookshelves and accounts.

- 10% affiliate fee is not going to be enough, you need to figure out a much better way to make money, this will be your hardest challenge.

GL
Namecheap is to a large extent a Ukrainian company, so there's not a lot of inconsistency here, nor much threat for setting a precedent. (If country A invades country B, residents of country A can expect difficult circumstances doing business with vendors in country B.)
I’m truly sorry for all honest Russians that don’t support their government and what’s going on. But the world cannot let Putin go on and there is only two ways of doing that; military action that will result in full nuclear war or pushing the Russian population to step up and overthrow your government.
Probably a combination of nostalgia, sunk cost fallacy, pride at having so many supported arches, a reluctance to inconvenience some hypothetical person who's still using DEC Alphas and trying to keep them on the latest kernel, and lack of motivation for someone to remove them (probably due to no one feeling that dead code is in any way a bother).
Launched some NAP crystal in December and forgot to remove it, just looked at it and it's quite big and beautiful :)
It's scary how many organizations are just straight up outsourcing their decision making to Twitter.
I am frankly shocked and dismayed at the number of people deriding this decision. In a grey world this seems like such a black and white thing. Sure it may inconvenience a few, but on the other hand innocents are being slaughtered. All the weight of these complaints don't even begin to touch the scale when compared to literal children being murdered.

Besides all that, Namecheap is a private company and can do business with whomever they wish.
> culpability that comes with nationality

I thought we were over this 80 years ago
Thanks for the heads up. There seems to have been a past thread on a similar topic, when the Ltd announced its IPO
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29392649

Its a structure like Mozillla, meaning the company is fully owned by the foundation
It seems the answer is clearly Yes, you are in danger of losing your account if Erdogan does something crazy. I'm confused why you would ask this question. Russians are being banned for the crazy actions of Putin, why wouldn't Turks be if their country engaged in similar actions.
not a military victory, almost surely, but a long-term insurrection is I guess a kind of political victory when the invaders finally leave.
Bystanders living in Russia are defacto supporting the regime by paying taxes, working, buying goods, etc.

Leaving isn’t free, but it’s much safer than protesting inside Russia.
> NIC.RU, the state-owned registrar.

But without SWIFT, will they have trouble to pay the ICANN fee?
You are not reading that right: 582bn rubles, probably $7B before the recent crash.
Good cognitive exercise and fun.

Also if Putin sends the missiles, it may come in handy in 2022.
I followed this website and it works:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-stop-updates-installing-a...
That's why I love Vegas. Amazing food, amazing experience easily accessible to all.
I'm not going to rehash all the other advice already on here about IANAL YMMV yadayada but I'll offer a few observations:

- using a meme does not scream "professionalism" to me; kinda borders on childish in my view

- the whole "made in Country A vs. Country B.": I generally do not care, but seeing this leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

- "created in 2020s vs. when IE6 was still a thing": to me, older stuff means it's been time tested; the tone makes it sound like cockiness about the superiority of your product that has yet to be proven

- You include a comparison chart on features that both do/do not support, which is good; but the wording on some rows is questionable, namely "Scrolling": "Great vs. Bad" is not at all objective. Additionally, I will decide what I prefer; a better description would be "Row/column-based vs. Smooth" (and for the record, I prefer Handsontable's smooth scroll)

- Pointless other jabs: "Choose Handsontable and you're guaranteed to slow down your web app and upset your users." Is this a money-back guarantee you offer? This alone is likely what got you that letter (and to be frank, I think you're lucky that's all you've gotten so far).

- "Freedom of speech" only applies to government censorship; stuff like libel/slander still applies for private entities - your "Freedom [to publish whatever I want (about those guys)]" is equal to their "Freedom to sue you on whatever you wrote about them".

> What should I do here? Ignore or take action?

Take action--based on the feedback given to you here (ie. you'd be foolish to take action against them).
You fail to address any of the substance of their paper, or of my gist (TFA), then go on a rant about unrelated things. The authors of that paper deserve better treatment even if you hate Microsoft.
You are being inconvenienced. People of Ukraine are suffering. Grow up.
I see "an unexpected error has occured" on mobile chrome milliseconds after the article content renders (and is then hidden)

This is across the entire site.
I agree with everything except the real loser is Ukraine.
Genuinely curious, I feel sorry for everyone involved in military conflict, but: how is dying from this worse than dying from a normal explosion? Does it hurt more? Or does it injure more?
“ Western countries are perfectly willing to act against their own interests purely to punish a country that steps out of line.”

Going after China would be magnitudes more painful than going after Russia. It would also hurt the US whereas Russia is mainly causing problems for Europe.
Agreed, but it beats having your country invaded, your cities shelled and starved. That's what is in the balance, compared to that you have a luxury situation.
Thanks for the heads up... looking into it!

EDIT: I did tested in Safari and Chrome (iOS) and things are working properly there. Do you have JS enabled? Could you provide more details that will help reproducing the issue? Thanks!
You definitely didn't get that from my IP address.
How is that statistic in any way relevant
St. Vincent Hospital Nurses Vote to Keep Their Union
What is this publication/website?

> Now with regard to the assertion that Western countries will not send a single soldier to die for Ukraine.

> It should be noted that this is likely to be the case.

> However, in the event of Russia's invasion, this does not at all rule out

> massive assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the collective

> West with a wide variety of weapons and military equipment and bulk deliveries

> of all kinds of materiel. In this regard, the West has already shown a consolidated position,

> unprecedented until now, which, it seems, was not predicted in Moscow.

> There is no doubt that the United States and the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance

> will begin a kind of reincarnation of Lend-Lease,

> modeled after the Second World War, there is no doubt.

> An influx of volunteers from the West, which can be very numerous, is not ruled out.

I think the consolidated response has surprised 'western' leaders as well.
Do you blame him? He can probably make more than $400k a year grifting with NFTs, doing an order of magnitude less work.
Thank you for what you and your team are doing. OVD Info is very important project for Russian civil society and we shall not let you down.
> You can throw out a number ...

Part of this entire thing is to know when a number is "right enough". Anyone can choose to just throw out random numbers ... we're talking about being able to come up with numbers that are right enough.

Otherwise the whole thing is genuinely pointless.
ah yes - because Russia has had an exemplary representative democracy since the fall of the soviet union

hatred of Russian people has spiked like crazy lately. I've seen calls to deport Russian nationals from the US even.
The current system has done a very good job keeping certificate authorities honest and secure by holding them accountable. Those who disagree can easily modify the trusted root certificates on their own devices to their liking.

The article presents several arguments why the proposed legislation would be worse than what we have now. Perhaps those who support these plans could try countering these arguments, rather than trying to force a "compromise" while accusing the other side of tyrannical behavior.

Some might argue that the government enforcing which websites are trusted looks a lot like a tyranny.
Your search term was British Petroleum, which hasn't been the name of the company for 21 years, but when I searched for BP it actually supported your point more strongly.

Thank you - I do believe that, on reflection, I was full of shit.
IIUC, the two main goals/advantages over the traditional two-step approach is efficiency in the store-and-forward/block case and patching holes that lead to data leakage in the online/stream case, correct?

If so, it would be good in both TFA and the RFC to state this up front. Otherwise, one might wonder if it ain’t broke, why are we fixing it?

If not, all corrections/explications hatefully received!
I got access to this today. They basically started to recreate Hoppscotch (https://httpie.io/app) and then packaged it as an electron app. Hoppscotch has a lot more features though.

I still recommend Insomnia or maybe Paw.
> russian people chose to live under dictatorship

Russian people are born under dictatorship and choose to live. There is a difference. See Navalny?
The internet, right? How else will they learn that President Trump (not the illegitimate so-called-president Biden) supports our great leader Putin!
Yes. I'm a bit surprised it took so long for someone to come up with something better. But if someone had tried and had come up with anything other than Rob Pike's UTF-8, we might still be sad. Sometimes you have to make mistakes before you know that's what they were.
As an explanation it doesn't make much sense, because there are other ways to alter the environment of the about-to-be-run program (see any non-Unix OS for examples).
> tax dollars

First of all, tax rubles.

Second of all, tax rubles of your customers are negligible compared to oil money. The basic scheme of Russia is that the guards are paid the first cut of oil money. Removing even more options from the general population, and reducing their contact with the West, just makes them weaker compared to the guards. Thanks.
The “but he did it too” spiel rarely works when talking to adults.
But you know what, if someone force me to switch dns provider when my government is killing innocent families with my tax money I’ll gladly do it without whining on the internet.
The middle ground is an infinitesimal wide line between Russia and Ukraine called 'the border', and more accurately the line is right now around Russia, Belarus and Chechnya soon to follow. If you are on the other side of that line then you will suffer economically, but not nearly as much as when you are inside Ukraine where you could very well lose your life.
Sounds fun!
It sounds like you're only posting here in order to launch personal attacks on other people rather than because you have anything to say about old operating systems. The contrast between the amount of relevant and interesting information communicated by your comment, the only one you've posted on this thread, and the comment of mine that you're attacking, is extremely glaring, and it is not in the direction you assert.

Please don't do that.
> fork() -> fork bombs -> fork() is a footgun!

> You have to know how to use it. Yes. So what?

No, you have to own everything that you could call. For one example of many, are you in and out of a library that longjump's? That's really fun.

Basically vfork's sharing of the full on mutable stack between the parent and child is full on bananers.

> Links or it didn't happen :)

You know that some people write proprietary code, even for unixen, right?
Also:

Beware of commercial advertiser funding!

Media doesn't bite the hand that feeds it. This severely limits the truths it's allowed to talk about.
This "Mean Girls" style of running a company is not something I'm willing to accept even for remotely important services.
If an Iraqi company wanted to stop doing business with US clients during the Iraq war, they'd come across as reasonable.
This would work better if it has the following:
- Mobile app which uses contacts
- Import and sync from third-party services
Samsung Has Record Revenues, Now Its Workers Want a Big Pay Bump
> Most games will use Playdate’s Lua API

Oh my sweet summer child. Reminds me of the Android documentation that said something along "Most apps shouldn't use the NDK".
Exactly, insert something about tyrany and good people doing nothing enabling it.
Depending on your situation, this might not apply to you: Often, when airlines need to bump passengers, one of the factors they'll use is the checkin time. https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...
This does not, in practice, stop people. Both because it's possible to make throw-away accounts, and because some people don't have a reputation to care about to begin with.
> Disrupting the everyday lives of Russian citizens

No it doesnt because is not a democratic country, why is it so hard for people like you to understand that things work very different in a democratic country than in non-democratic country?

Do you know what happens when you are in a country that doesnt respect human rights and you go to "protest"?

Do you know what happens when you, as a citizen with no power, try to fight a military regime?

Do you really think, russians right now are enjoyinig this and will somehow march to get Putin's head because their quality of life will be miserable now? no, they wont, because the moment they start doing it, they will be repressed and killed, and there you will be, super happy sharing your support posts to those people

the worst part of all of these, is that you don't realize that one of the goals of putin is to undermine his own state, so he can keep power for the years to come, and here you are, helping him :), good job at making every russian life even worse.
> Thieves used to break into (relatively unsecured) travel agencies, steal the blank paper tickets, and resell them at astronomical markup, with the agency "on the hook" for paying the maximum value of the tickets stolen.

As I recall, the room security for the ticket printer was a requirement of our sponsoring travel agency and our insurance company. I had to meet with a representative of our insurance company, a person from The Hartford who was dressed identically to an IBM salesperson of old, for them to inspect the arrangements. According to my boss, who was in the meetings to get set up, we were just barely a big enough company that our owner (the company was private at the time) didn't have to sign a personal guarantee for something like $3 million worth of potential ticket losses.

Of course, us eggheads in the IT department didn't fully know any of this until the stupid printer blew up.

Oh and thank you for the links. I did kind of wonder where those incredibly cheap but shady looking travel deals in the classifieds came from...
These can all be made a part of the combined fork+exec API.
Wow, cancel culture come to the nations level. Can you cancel France please, they do nasty things in Africa right now, and Black Lives Matters. But anyway, breach of contract pretty nasty thing, you will probably get class action ed sometimes later. Client can be a corporation with real lawyers.
I mean this with sincerity (it's a genuine question).

Why write such a lengthy comment telling someone you're dismissing them rather than just dismissing them? Is it to discourage their behavior, or to warn other readers? Or simply to share how you feel?
Right, it's written "00900".
Have you actually tried to grow stuff?

I grow a lot of stuff and have for years and it’s an excessive amount of labor, you only get certain food during certain times of the year, sometimes for only for a few weeks, and that’s assuming you don’t have losses due to pests.

Agriculture is best left to the professionals for feeding societies.
There's Aurora Store [1] as well. Both come default with CalyxOS [2].

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/

[2] https://calyxos.org/
I am a Russian citizen from birth who permanently lives and works in the UK. I do not support Russian regime in any way and offered my help with relocation to Russian and Ukrainian citizens from the start - see my post in LinkedIn. On namecheap I hold non-ru related domain paid till February 2023.

So what the heck they are blaming me for being Russian and terminating the contract without any agreement?
Yeah the fact is that the more demand there is for it the cheaper they can make it, so everybody wins in the end.

Well except the people living around the place where the raw materials are extracted, but that's another story.
“Will this new model sell to a thousand customers or a billion? You can't tell in advance.”

Very often you can know if it has a chance to be in the thousands or billions just by looking at the market size. Or you can estimate a possible size of installed base by looking at how many companies may be using your stuff.
Stop at 100K if you like! Or 1000K! You're a free being!
This is deeply concerning, as many have echoed, because you’re punishing people who are already on your side, for the most part. But it’s also concerning because you claim it’s not deplatforming as other registrars exist. Do you not think they will not follow your lead? Do you intend that only when a country violates human rights in the particular way that happened here that the aggressor’s country will be removed? I cannot know this, but what I can know is you’ve stated you will remove people this time, and hand waved it away as “not deplatforming.” No amount of mental gymnastics will make that not true. Even Cloudflare owned what they did when they removed 8chan. Either way, I have hundreds of domains on Namecheap, and now I’m thinking I’ll need to find a new registrar, lest the track record of the US be something I as a conscientious objecting citizen be held accountable for.
The Rust code using `.unwrap()` is explicitly testing for a missing value and signaling a well-defined error when the prerequisites are not met. Contrast this with dereferencing a null pointer in C, where doing so results in undefined behavior.

More importantly, in Rust you don't have to allow the value to be missing. What Rust has but C does not is not nullable pointer types, but rather non-nullable ones—in C all pointers are potentially null, or dangling, or referencing incorrectly aliased shared memory, etc. Barring a programming error in marked `unsafe` code, or a compiler bug, if you have a plain reference in Rust not wrapped in Option<T> then it can't possibly be null (or invalid or mutable through other references) so you don't need to check for that and your program is still guaranteed not to crash when you use it.
I've watched how Mozilla's CA process operates in past incidents, as well as in the review of new CAs, and the criteria they use and the evaluation they do seems quite transparent.
By all means, promote the Ukraine point of view (I support them 100%). For example, put up links to the speech Zelenskyy did in Russian, aimed at the Russian people.

Ukraine themselves understand how to fight the information war. You treat your prisoners of war well, give them tea and let them call their parents. They'll tell their parents that Putin sent them on a murder campaign on a neighbor, and that they're lucky to be alive and treated well.

That's how you play the game.
Ukraine vs Russia certainly favored Russia, but realistically what does Russia have to show for it? They hold some highways and chernobyl? Maybe a few small things but they have spent what? $100 billion so far? Thats not even trying to account for sanctions at all.

Taking chernobyl was idiotic. Every solider they have defending it is getting fatal doses of radiation. The fighting and movement through the area is killing belarus. Ukraine knew not to defend it.

Lets say Russian military is as awesome as their rep suggests... they are getting absolutely wrecked. By a bunch of civilians?

I dont underestimate the russians, but it suggests the spetsnaz are being routed by someone else who are simply better. Where are the seals, rangers, and dragoons? Massive proxy war explains why the russians are being wrecked.

In fact look at the amount of support... general mobilization + this much support? They are the most supplied and motivated freedom fighters in the world.

Its a completely unwinnable war for russia and only a matter of time their troops make a huge accident and cross the wrong line.
> This is a very hard situation, and I hope Namecheap finds some way to resolve it

I hope Russia will find a way to resolve it, that is the root cause. And if Russia continues with this war, have you considered that Namecheap in its current form might not even exist anymore?
That is not always an option. I think even in countries like US armed rebellion would be classified as domestic terrorism and suppressed violently by the government nowadays.
> I thought we were over this 80 years ago

We don't hold ordinary citizens accountable for the crimes of their country. Putin invading Ukraine doesn't justify dropping bombs on Russian homes.

But culpability? For resident nationals? Unless you were a dissident or in the opposition, yes, you absolutely bear culpability. I wouldn't even go so far as to say in a moral sense. Not automatically. But at least to one's ability to interact with other countries' economies.
> ninth time in a row!

A 9th dan black belt is a rank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_(rank)