skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It’s worse when you consider that today, almost all the world’s knowledge is not only available in books, but also in most cases for free on the web.

Cool, so suppose you may want to take advantage of this knowledge - you need a reliable internet connection for a start and power supply, probably also running water. Some places lack that (more specific statements are impossible because the article has drawn 'Africa' as a single entity)

Alright, so suppose you decided that you can improve your community and want to order some farming equipment - does aliexpress deliver to your location? Does a package arive to you without getting stolen on the way? Suppose it arrived and you produced something, can you ship it to global market, is infrastructure for that present? Does a container of good reliably reach Europe (for example, large market) on time and at competitive price?

Suppose you are a city mayor, and you need to provide power to your residents, and you know you could isntall solar panels and they would pay for themselves in 10 years. Many western countries enjoy 0-2% interest rates, they can finance such projects and make a profit - but many developing nations can only access loans with 10% interest or even higher, making it impossible to finance simple projects with clear return on investment.

This article fails to address any of the structural disadvantages that developing nations suffer from, the fact that both South Korea and West Germany have recieved more aid that all of Africa combined - so yes, it is poor, in addition to being terribly managed.

That's even before we begin to address various underhand tactics, for example such as were deployed against south-american governments to prevent them from banning children from smoking.
StreetComplete is a wonderful Android app for contributing to the OpenStreetMap project:

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete

The UX is good enough that my five year old can use it (with a little help to read the rarer, worried quests).

Seriously, check it out. It took contributing to OSM from "painful thing I do occasionally from a sense of duty" to "fun hobby I look forward to doing and sharing with my kids."
Github now shows a warning when people visit links like that
You don't really need it.
The semiconductor industry relies on equipment and materials from the global supply chain, in particular, the suppliers from Europe, Japan and the US. It's a team game.
If the democratic world stopped doing business with TSMC (i.e., a sanction), it would have barely any chance to survive, let alone maintaining the position as an industry leader.
Reportedly, half a million refugees are fleeing the war in Ukraine.

I agree with Namecheap stopping service of Russian domains.
There’s no reasonable comparison. Namecheap isn’t blocking anything, they’re simply avoiding doing business in Russia or with Russians, and are willing to make exceptions.
The point is very much to create additional cost and disruption for the Russian economy. Namecheap’s step doesn’t do much in this regard, but perhaps it convinces other services to follow suit and stop doing business with Russian entities. After all, it’s the Russian economy that pays for the war. Whatever creates a competitive disadvantage for a Russian companies will subsequently harm their revenue stream and the tax they’re due.

For the record: Nobody with a sane state of mind believes that the Russian people are “evil” or guilty of their leadership’s atrocities in Ukraine. They just happen to be the subjects of an authoritarian government and an onslaught of propaganda. At best, one could say that far too many are complicit and too few stand up to Putin. But admittedly, it’s a tough ask for people to protest a government that murders journalists and poisons opposition politicians.
The book is completely fine and worth the read! Just know that it's a book to explain the career path of an Engineering Manager in the tech industry.

My criticism is around how often the book is recommended. Many people want to learn HOW to become a manager. Manager's Path doesn't provide that.

Conversely, a lot of people recommend An Elegant Puzzle. Great book, but I would not recommend it to first time managers – it's too advanced.

Elegant Puzzle is for experienced managers, specifically people that are managing Managers. Check it out if you're 2+ years into their management career.
All the cool kids listen to SKYKING now. There's a fairly persistent community around doing OSINT on that.
I also disable auto updates once every six months is enough for me. I really really don't care about the security of these apps.
It would have been totally fair, especially in America, because we have a direct way to influence the selection of our leaders. It's obviously harder and more indirect in modern-day Russia, but the principle is the same.

Remember: this isn't regime change for the sake of regime change. The Russian government has shown itself to be a belligerent destructive authority that is a threat to the entire world (given the weapons it possesses).
That's a great story.

When traveling, easy to be surprised at what aspects of my behavior would be considered way out of the local ordinary...
There are probably a dozen great handheld devices that will play GBA, SNES, NES, Genesis, PSX, and more for around $100.

https://www.amazon.com/Retroid-Android-Handheld-Multiple-Emu...

https://www.amazon.com/RG351V-Handheld-Console-Portable-Two-...
Dont you think that people that choose abroad registrar, choosed it not for low price (which is actually not low at all)? Dont you think that they have some other specific motivation "to be abroad"?
A wartime plea to Western satellite companies: “We need this data, please”
Are you arguing that Safari is so bad that all of its users would use another browser given a choice?

That would seem to be a pretty strong argument _for_ browser choice in my opinion.
Until very recently, rhetoric about sanctions was masked in polite fictions like "this is meant to target corrupt leaders" and "we fully support the people of the country in the struggle against their authoritarian leader," etc.

It is alarming how quickly this has shifted to open acknowledgment: "yeah, these measures are meant to punish ordinary people until they sacrifice their lives for regime change." This has always been the subtext, but I haven't seen it wielded so freely like this.

I wonder if this situation will change the framing of sanctions in other countries. Maybe we can stop pretending that sanctions aren't strictly meant to bend the population until they break.
I get your point, but in my experience it is more common to land on a website with a malicious ad than intentionally download an untrusted app.
It would be great if you could use Firefox on iOS then, wouldn't it?
This is exactly what the mainstream media like Reuters is doing deliberately - creating misleading headlines and removing the context in there to cause outrage for more likes and retweets.

Now you have people on Twitter who have proven themselves to not read the contents of the article rather than as far as the headline.

It’s hardly shocking or unsurprising since tons of people get their news from social media and are easily manipulated by inaccurate and misinterpreted headlines. They are also part of the misinformation crew as well.
I would also call it xenophobia as well. I can't believe what I'm reading here.
yup, I'd pay Apple an additional 20% per iPhone if they promise never to implement this horrible shit for website devs to endlessly badger users about to the end of time.
You can rest assured that when X declares in the internet:

"why doesnt Y protest and go to jail for righteusness!"

It will never fail that X has neither righteusness, nor follow their own advice.

Armchair fighters always fight with words, never actions, and will always send someone else to fight THE fight.
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Totally agree. It's amazing how many in this thread don't understand this principle.
The West's threat against China is that they would stop importing their goods. A coordinated action like what we're seeing against Russia would completely crash China's export-driven economy. I doubt the CPC could weather that (or at least, I doubt the current leaders of the CPC could weather that).

I agree we shouldn't try to cut off the Russian internet, they need access to non-government-sanctioned information. But the economic sanctions need to apply to everyone in the country - if nothing else, it reduces Putin's ability to wage (expensive) wars. It sucks.
I'd pull the trigger for $199, but with tax and shipping it is $231. I want it but it is just over my price threshold.
It's nothing to do with the organization of the grid.

Almost any "scalable workload" actually capable of scaling up will have a high $$$ upfront cost for all the machinery / infrastructure involved.

If a decarbonation plant costs many millions of dollars to set up, nobody is going to let it sit idle waiting for some excess power.

The best use case for smoothing the demand curve IMO is thermal "storage". While production is high, people can crank the AC or heat. That way they don't have to use as much energy when production is lower.
I understand the emotions at play and your inclination to support Ukraine, but blanket banning a country from your platform is not the answer.

This (1) adds to the incredible financial burden most normal, peace-loving Russians are in right now, (2) significantly erodes community trust in your platform, and (3) actually helps Putin on his quest to isolate his citizens from the Western-run half of the internet.

I have ~60 domains on Namecheap and have recommended you to my community for years. I can't, in good conscience, support a platform that makes sweeping generalizations/unilateral decisions like this. I urge you to reconsider.
Can you think of a case where sanctions have produced the desired effect of the regime change?

I live in Serbia which was under heavy sanctions in early 90s: those in power have only gotten richer and more powerful during the time. Only after economy started recovering in late 90s, and people could afford to worry about "freedom" instead of basic survival did people get enough democratic momentum to vote incumbents out (sprinkled with a bit of West-supported protests to avoid a possibly rigged second round with 47% votes for opposition to 32% for incumbents in the first round iirc).

But sanctions did nothing to hurt those in power. They did plenty to hurt the rest of us.
This is just wrong, morally. Most of their Russian users don’t even support this war.

This discrimination has to stop.
Apple could just add this functionality and put it in the settings panel in Mobile Safari. They won't add these features though because they want you to pay for apps from the App store. That's all.
I'm canceling my Namecheap services as well and will forever not recommend you. Corporate activism is one of the worst evils in our society and I won't support it.

This line of behavior only leads to ruin. Leave the fighting to the military.
The flaw I see in one day a month is rotating between people for problem solving. If you have 30 people work on progressing the same project, it adds a tremendous amount of overhead, and make it difficult to determine who should guide them or how they should be guided. It is very likely there will be disagreement each step of the way. Maintaining a momentum and direction would also be difficult. It would be much more effective to have 1 person working on the same problem for 30 days. Over years, the knowledge accumulated by one individual about the problem solved has a multiplying effect over knowledge distributed by 30 people, each having worked 12 days on a problem.

Once a challenging problem is solved, and tasks can be assigned to implement the solution, with each task being clear and well-defined, that's when you can start assigning them effectively. When the solution is of value and convenient to implement, that is when people can come together and coordinate to serve a purpose that can benefit humanity as a whole.

As a society, we would benefit by identifying solutions of value, and implementing them, and I think we have and will continue to get better at that, as demonstrated by increasingly unique financing models like venture capitalism, kickstarter, DAOs, better tools for collaboration, better ways of bringing people together over larger geographies to work together on the same problem and more.
do my research on what? on russian dictatorship? on logic? on slavery? lol
If you see inconsistency in my reasoning, I’m happy to hear your criticism, but not lazy “go
do research”, coz you have nothing to say
Check out GrapheneOS.org. You can optionally install a sandboxed Google Play services. I want CalyxOS to survive, but they are falling behind security updates.
You can have empathy while still taking the punitive steps that need to be taken on the country as a whole.
Long-Covid sheds light on other mysterious (and lonely) chronic illnesses
What would be the better alternative? It seems direct military action by NATO/else is far removed from the table. Should the rest of the world remain silent and allow this to continue without any repercussions?

I am genuinely asking, as I have not been presented with any preferable alternatives.
Advocates for openness and yet uses Discord to communicate. Ugh.
Thor project is run by scammers. Good move NC
Not sure if it's helpful to mention this, but just saying... one of my favourite things about the Raspberry Pi is how quickly a MicroSD card can be reformatted from scratch with an OS which can get it up and running quickly again. Even from another Raspberry Pi.
> I am a user and I care.

You care how an app is developed and delivered to your device?

The web offers a native experience in most cases, sometimes even better. Besides, giving PWAs more abilities doesn't remove native apps.

> More and more of the web is what Chrome says it is.

It's pretty ironic that you support Apple in locking down what you can do and apps you can run and what Safari supports, while blaming Chrome for being the dominant browser.
This is far from arbitrary.
That's like saying you can't write to the same file willy nilly after any context creation. In context, I obviously meant that you can perform the same actions in the child or the parent, not that you somehow get free synchronization for accessing all kernel objects.

Also, you can specify CKF_INTERFACE_FORK_SAFE if you want a handle in PKCS#11 that handles synchronization enough internally to call from both the child and the parent simultaneously.
But then you might impact legit transport over short distances. And is it actual distance travelled, or as the crow flies?
Terms of Service aren't necessarily legally binding - it's up to the judges to decide how much validity to give to them. Here, given they're offering refunds (and it's likely an American court that would theoretically handle this anyway), it's unlikely to have any serious consequences to the company (in legal terms).
You'd have even more control in a browser - you can easily turn these on or off globally or per domain on other platforms. Others want the features, so who are you to say they can't have them?
It's hypocrisy nonetheless, regardless of the scale
It’s the regular folks who could wake up from their comfy lethargy and actually protest their government.

Yes, economic sanctions have limited potential to actually topple a totalitarian leadership. With Russia, the concern goes deeper. This country is armed to the teeth and poses a massive threat to Europe. Hence, the point of these sanctions is very much to also weaken the Russian economy and curb its capacity to finance more wars.
Will you also block countries that use their tax dollars to arrest and kill LGBT people? Or countries that are involved in other unjust wars?

It's fine if you do, but this wording reads like cringy bandwagoning. I highly doubt you won't immediately revert all this and try courting those customers again if this war gets resolved but Putin somehow stays in power. Just go with a "sorry dudes but your president is doing bad stuff and we're making a temporary move here. Sorry" sort of statement.
As in they will not legally be allowed to accept payments from Russia. There will probably be usage of VPNs and USD/BTC, but that will also probably not be legal too. And even if it were legal, a lot of people and companies will just not do it. The world plans to make things very difficult for Russia should the war continue.

Also I just noticed elsewhere on HN that Namecheap has officially sanctioned Russia themselves.
I stalked them and I found one more very interestinig project they have, called Tontine. Everyone pays $10, and you have to log in every day. If you don't log in, you're out. Last person standing wins the pool.

It's only been 63 days, so it's ongoing. $71.4k pool, 2.4k living, 4.6k dead.
link: https://tontine.cash/?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=tontine...
I literally said the cost wouldn't react that way :-)
> committing war crimes against innocent people

does not sound like a right reason for your actions. Because with this, there are a bunch of other countries you should be suspending your services for. US, Israel, India off the top my head and you might want to include some Arabic countries to the list.

> people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded

makes your reasons legitimate though as you probably don't have people in other countries as victims of war crimes.
Commenter said they are fleeing Russia, should have more options available outside the country, no?
Even so, a web app is much better than no app. The unit economics of re-building a complex desktop web app in a different technology, in a highly-constrained medium for use by a relative handful of users aren’t great.
As a namecheap customer (or addict to registering names for things I may do in the future.... ) I appreciate this, and appreciate the flexibility for those with special circumstances. While this is a headache for innocent Russian bystanders caught up in this war, the response by the majority of the world needs to be overwhelming.
That wouldn't work, for example, when you're pushing commits someone else did in another repository. Git is decentralized, so you end up pushing a lot of code that you didn't commit if you use it the way it was intended.

The solution, in my opinion, is to show a great big warning or error icon next to the name of every unverified commit, and to every unverified push as well. Developers and version control managers can easily prevent this from happening but few see a reason to sign their commits, and perhaps with a UI change discrediting commits this can change in the future. Setting up signed commits takes five minutes, less if you already have a PGP or S/MIME certificate.

The trick the article shows is a neat trick that will confuse people that don't have any knowledge of how Git works, but the dangers of unconfirmed commits exist go beyond that. A malicious actor could easily inject a backdoor by injecting fake commits impersonating a trusted project member and very few people would be the wiser, unless they actually check the commit manually.

Enterprise/Pro versions of version control software (such as Gitlab) have this feature, but bots exist for free versions as well. You could change CI/CD pipelines to fail if the branch contains unverified commits to hack the functionality into the free version of such systems.
> Papering over that is like teaching people to click through warning messages, or that HTTP is fine because the site shows the right looking text.

That's a completely separate problem, and whether it is papered over is completely independent of this problem.

With this problem, even if you already verified the repo, even if there are signatures, it still shows the wrong profile.

> Connecting it to a random profile looks wrong, but trying to correct it to the 'right' profile lends it an air of legitimacy it shouldn't have.

Displaying nothing is not "trying to correct it to the 'right' profile"
Yeah, I think a lot of that is the interface isn't great/the abstraction is leaky and you need to know a lot about the details. Because implementations of async/await seem to usually rely on some sort of thread sharing, await also implies yield, and there's often no or limited preemption. Of course, in Javascript, you don't usually have multiple threads at all (unless you fit into one of the special exemptions that allow multiple threads), so your options are pretty limited.
That's graphistry's last 7+ years, where we do frontend CPU/GPU visual analytics experiences <> GPU server processes. 100% endorse this design, opens a lot :)

Main tweak is our model grew to "small client browser GPU/CPU session <> serverside multi-node multi-GPU time sharing." Current cloud services (lambda etc) fail here: cold-start, mostly CPU, etc, vs bursty sticky GPU sessions. A lot more power when you can scale resource use... so 1 server process is kind of dinky. Good backend abstractions are tricky here though, so starting with 1 process makes sense as they figure out a sustainable revenue model, e.g., powering demanding visual intelligence apps is vastly different from powering commodity netlify CRUD apps.
It was presented as the worst, because the day-to-day costs for things like doctor visits and x-rays were higher. My case was unusual.
It’s already sold by the second via compute. It just is repacked then sold in a subscription down the line for accounting ease.
Two things that you might look into

1: Pinhole glasses. Those are ordinary frames with opaque "lenses" with a uniform grid of small holes. Some people having problem with the lens in their eye sometimes report that these help. One person I know who had some deformity in their lens found these to be helpful. They seem to work by, instead of trying to converge the entire image across the diameter of the pupil, tries to converge the image across the diameter of one pinhole. And they are cheap, if they don't work then you just throw them away and there seems little risk of more extreme treatments. You might try to judge the diameter of the holes before you buy. I have seen negative reviews which claimed that they received something more like nail holes than pin holes. There will be a tradeoff in ease of manufacture, amount of light you get and amount of focusing, all dependent on the hole diameter. Note: I do not for a moment pretend to support the claims that these things cure eye problems.

2. Do a Google search for drug to shrink iris to correct vision without glasses and see if this sounds like it might apply to you. This might simulate the pinhole effect of those glasses in the previous item and might reduce the need for corrective lenses. The drug sounds like it has minimal side effects and discontinuing the drug should clear your system fairly promptly.

Both these seem similar to "pushing the f-stop on a camera", where the need for precise focus becomes less important.

If you get someone to diagnose exactly what your condition is and it has a specific name and you find which things seem to work and which don't then please report back so that someone else might know what to try or not try. Thanks
We do know that your ballot there doesn't count. The "vote" is the populace going in red square despite all the odds stacked against them.
Putin called for the nukes to be put on High Alert before there was any threat of direct NATO action (and there is still no talk of any). What is the next step? "Higher" alert?

MORE direct combattants, _especially_ from other superpowers, is the last thing that we need. Adding additional powerderkegs to the existing fire does nothing to stop it.
Can We Move Beyond Food?
Quakers in the United States have been lobbying for this for decades. It has no hope of succeeding but, hey, at least they're trying.
Protests in Russia are not a way to stop the government from doing anything. Haven't been for over a decade.