skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just one small example but Ben & Jerry’s banned(? discontinued?) the sale of their ice cream in occupied Palestinian territory[1] and they faced a lot of backlash and accusations of anti-semitism[2] despite Ben and Jerry themselves being Jewish. So there definitely seems to be a knock-on effect when it comes to bans/boycotts. Even when a company has a long history of “activism” that’s folded into their brand identity it can be costly to stand alone in imposing these types of bans. And at a certain point, it seems, not participating in the ban when everyone else implements it can be equally costly. Safety in numbers, I guess?

[1] https://www.benjerry.com/about-us/media-center/opt-statement

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/opinion/ben-and-jerry-isr...
"What about their daily lives in Russia where they need to get driver's license online to be renewed but couldn't because their DMV website is inaccessible?"

I struggle to imagine a less consequential outcome... A whole country of people are being bombed out of their houses, vs some portion of people maybe won't be able to renew their driver's licenses?

You've convinced me; cut the internet.
I keep hearting this false equivalence. Sure the west is full of propaganda, but what's going on in russia is another level. I heard from people on the ground in ukraine that the this is a full on aggression and I heard from other people in russia that the common people literally believe that this is just a special operation that meant to overthrow the corrupted government etc etc.

How, in the past similar propaganda happened in the west, when the average american thought civilians in afganistan or iraq weren't really hurt when the US "surgically" tried to punish the "bad guys". I get it; and in the same vein I wouldn't think that the solution for that propaganda was to cut off the american population from actually getting information from abroad.
Russian Aviation Has About Three Weeks Before It’s Show Over
This reasoning never made sense to me. We always could have hired them directly, offer them relocation or simply set up a subsidiary of an American company in Russia to keep them busy.
Ok, heating water makes mild sense, but heated seats would gross me out.
Yes, he financed the extra debt using credit card loans during a downturn. I believe it was more than 100k+ in credit card debt. His other debt was just regular debt at more reasonable rates.
A little confused. I assume he is already quite wealthy as a very successful Fantasy author with a long list of books written. What is the point of this? I doubt he needs the money and could already self publish and is well known enough that his fans will buy what he puts out. What does this achieve other than a cashgrab?
Would this make things like Net Neutrality and public broadcasting laws likewise unconstitutional

These are a trade the provider makes with the government to abide by certain rules such as content neutrality and in exchange get many advantages from the government. For example, common carriers are exempt from state and local barriers to entry and receive universal access subsidies. While I wish US ISPs were common carriers they currently are not.
I presume you have not played Stardew Valley, or at least haven’t gone fishing in that game yet!
I don't think all of the things you have listed have been proven to be false? Do you have sources on any of this?

I'm pretty sure sunflower lady is definitely real, there was a video.
The other test is also, "How does this action help prevent Putin's next invasion?" Actions should not only be about applying pressure now, it's about destroying a literally imperialist government's ability to win its wars. So anything which undermines any aspect of the Russian economy is fair game. If we can keep them from training people, good. If we can keep them from raising taxes, good. If we can keep them from feeding their troops, good. If we can usher in strikes over unpaid wages, good. If East European stores stop importing Russian goods, good.
I'm interested in this too— ten years or so ago I briefly got into long range wifi and bought a bunch of Ubiquiti gear (eg https://dl.ubnt.com/sr71a_datasheet.pdf). I was never successful in getting much more than 1km, even with their recommended antennas, but I was also working with watercraft, and I know that's hard mode for 2.4GHz, particularly when your antenna isn't able to be very far off the surface and only one end can be directional.

My impression though is that recent advancements in wifi have all been focused on getting high bandwidth at very short range, like same room line-of-sight, so I wouldn't assume there'd be much to be gained over b/g/n range performance in trying an ac- or 6-based system.
Are you talking about the US because both of those statements remind me of the US government and media but instead it is American propaganda
China loves globalization, and there was a joke saying that China is willing to re-instate the 1948 Sino-American Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation but of course that is just a fantasy.
It's entirely rational. To this day IBM is often cited as an example of a western company that did business with the Nazis.[1] No consumer company wants that kind of stigma attached to them.

Also, they are rightly concerned about the longer term effects of sanctions and instability as even if Russia pulled their troops out of Ukraine today (not going to happen), tensions aren't going to ease in the near term and sanctions are likely to remain in place for at least months, if not years. So it's not like business is going to come back in the short term. For the brands that depend on a 'squeaky clean' image, trying to keep as far from controversy as possible is good business.

[1] See, I just did it.
I don't think that takeaway is universally true:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/appsblog/2013/feb/08/bjork...
You've misunderstood kickstarter. It definitely doesn't have to be projects "that wouldn't get support from traditional funding channels".

And they can be quite strict about only allowing projects that are nearly complete. It's extremely common for a boardgame, or other project to be "complete" but need a tonne of investment for production, shipping, etc.

Seems like the perfect model for a book launch. And the fans get what they want too with all the bonuses.
Nothing against your company (I'm definitely looking to fully WFH in the next 2 years minimum) but to the OP's point, all your job openings have a remote option.

All you need is 1 remote person on the team, or a business partner that works closely with the team, to all meetings being compulsory on Zoom anyways

OP isn't just looking for a company that has an office they can go to, but a company that forces everyone in person, which I believe will be very hard to find this year
>>I've looked at self-published stuff that has embarrassing and, frankly, appalling typos in them

2010 called, they want their attitude back.

This whole "Self published stuff is low quality, only legacy publishers edit their books" is such a terrible meme, it needs to die. It might have been true in 2007-10 when indie publishing really took off, I can't believe people are still repeating this.
I'm also not referencing it. The gay wedding cake case was decided on the basis of the baker being directly targeted by the local government.
These are kind of case-by-case decisions. It depends on the contributor community. In the case referenced, we did have a CLA. Most of the potential (and actual) contributors were academics, supported by their universities or by research grants. AGPL allowed full scientific transparency, without any real downsides. There were other contributors who were turned away by the CLA, but it was not an unreasonable trade-off. We still had hundreds of contributors. And we did release a small piece of the system under Apache, because we wanted an industry standard for an API/format. Having that piece under Apache encouraged competitors to adopt it (which didn't really happen, unfortunately).

On project I'm currently leading -- and I can't speak for success yet -- is AGPL without a CLA. Most of the business value comes from network effects. A good analogy would be if Facebook had started out AGPL (or Wikimedia, for that matter). The code has little value independently of the community and partnerships I'm building. AGPL allows for full transparency, which has a ton of value in the market we're targeting (at least for people who think through these things deeply). For people who don't think deeply, having an FSF/OSI-approved license gives name recognition and opens doors.

I'm leading two major projects. The other is pursuing a closed model because it makes sense there.

I can't speak for any specific case. All I'm trying to say is it's an in-depth case-by-case analysis. Businesses which pick closed because they "want to make money," open "to contribute," BSD to "be more open," or similar knee-jerk reactions are doing it wrong. It is a complex analysis, and my case is different from yours.
The Final Empire is a good start, or maybe one of the more standalone books - Warbreaker is one of my favourites.
Links made manifest:
* https://www.adama-platform.com/
* https://www.adama-platform.com/2022/03/02/early-access-launc...
* https://www.adama-platform.com/2022/02/24/open-strategy.html
* https://book.adama-platform.com/
* https://discord.gg/W3Cj4By
Putin’s and his inner circle’s plan was that it will take 1-4 days to take Kiev and two weeks to take most of Ukraine. Minimal resistance was expected. The window of opportunity with this expectation is from mid-December until end of February. They picked a date with this plan.
> overloaded

?

got curious enough to turn off my adblocker: i was presented with TWO ads on desktop

i think you overloaded the term overloaded.

though they are huge on mobile.. and appear to be subleased or something. also there appears to be another ad element below the "(C)" line on mobile which is missing on desktop
They were illegal as mass arrest, there were plenty of other people who got legally arrested protesting the Iraq war (and were not released the next day).

I know the scope is different, but it is also good to keep in mind that bad things don't only happen in Russia.

edit: s/mass protest/mass arrest
One square is living dangerously, if it's just regular old two-ply paper. My guess is the first time someone pokes their finger through and finds it covered with some poo, they grab a big handful next time. And then every time after.

I bet TP makers have worked out the average number of squares each person uses per sitting, but I haven't tried to find that information.
Experts often cite Threads as the most probable accurate depiction of life after the bombs drop.
Why don’t devs and management try to consciously trim that list?
"I fully realize that I sound old and paranoid. I used to hate comments like these"

We told you that client-server apps would be the end of PC ownership, that started way long ago in 1997 with ultima online, then we got steam in 2003 and world of warcraft in 2004.

That told the tech industry all they needed to know. The average person using computers, even among professionals is oblivious.
My friend, 95% of my coworkers have very little understanding what I do to the point where I could ghost for a week and there’d be probably 80% chance no one would be the wiser. Lots of jobs are like that. Deadline are generally floating, a project can take 30min or 30 days, and micromanaging doesn’t help much if at all. I keep track of what I’m doing on GitHub, make sure my backups are good, and do my thing. They don’t need me there and when I am in the office, very few people need to talk to me lol

I say this as a very social person. I like having colleagues. But the fact is I just don’t need to be in there most days, and they don’t understand what I do beyond “video,” so they don’t offer a lot of opportunity beyond that if we are being very utilitarian about it (which I generally don’t).
And when a group with a leader and a concrete goal achieves results you get COINTELPRO[1]. There's a reason modern protest movements are "leaderless". It's in part to avoid the kind of disruption operations hierarchical groups are vulnerable to.

There's no objectively "winning" hand here. Governments are always going to try to surveil and subvert protests and protestors. Peaceful or otherwise. Thinking that this is a new phenomenon seems ahistorical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
The idea really was that 2.4GHz spectrum was already polluted by microwave ovens (because microwave ovens operate at the resonance frequency of water molecules), so it was left for public use.
You're right, that was dickish. I could have asked what's different without the snark.
Oooh a guarantee from the Kremlin! That settles it then!
Fresh brewed coffee is piping hot. Sure. Coffee held at that same temperature for 3 hours is not fresh. It is merely hot.
From the article, it sounds like the author was spending more than just 40 minutes a day on their spiritual pursuits. They also didn't describe their actual practice.

This thread seems to be full of people trying to debunk meditation as some kind of dangerous dark art.
The Case for Intelligent Design
In the UK, this is between HM Inspectorates of Constabulary: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-inspectorate-... (splendid name) and the police complaints commission https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/independent-poli...

> many citizens like a strong, unaccountable police force

Indeed.
I doubt RR would ever have gotten this response -- he's never been consistent. John Grisham, Stephen King or the late Tom Clancy may have. They are/were consistent over decades. That said, Grisham's last book deal was huge (over 100 million I believe), and Sanderson absolutely has the clout to negotiate a great deal with Tor if he wanted to go that way.

He did mention that he expects the books to eventually come out as trade books under an imprint (at least the hardback), so the kickstarter is more to allow superfans to buy extras.
It is not too late to stop anything.

With enough political will, anything is possible. Albeit very slowly and painfully.
Russian Protests Against the War with Ukraine. A Chronicle of Events
Isn’t that what the CIA is for?
Before long we'll see people attacking and targeting Russian Americans like they did Asian Americans and the media will justify it.
I've been tangentially involved in 2 books (1 from start to finish) and there are a number of people that will contribute to editing and making sure the content is solid/flows well.

I was surprised by how much post production happens after the initial draft is written.

As I recall, our biggest cash outlays were marketing and editing.
Before zstd existed I was a big fan of LZMA (Created by Igor Pavlov). There are some more software over at https://github.com/igoradamenko/awesome-made-by-russians.

You can make similar assumptions about a lot of different ethnic groups.
The difference really makes you think what?

Ukraine is a (mostly christian) democratic country who's main exports are not drugs or oil. The leadership doesnt declare holy war on other countries.

Also there's the focus on the history of the USSR and Ukraine in europe, alongside their efforts to join western alliances. Afganistan or Saudi Arabia or Iraq never tried to join the EU or NATO.

Cultures that are alike tend to by sympathetic to each other. That's it.

In regard to US vs Latin America -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America%E2%80%93United_S...

Commercial interest and local defense. When Putin fueled separatist armies prior to the invasion, this was equivalent to the banana wars in Latin America, fueled by the US. The world stage generally ignores these kinds of regional 3rd party conflicts.
I worked part-time at a gas station many years ago. When the chores were done, I'd often be reading the newspapers, or straightening things out, and I'd inevitably end up reading the labels of snacks and drinks and such. Eventually, I'd end up reading all of the asterisk'ed statements on the junk food, and it left me with a severe distaste for 'marketing speak', as well as how less-than-honest some of the labels were. This distaste carried over from snack food products to just about all consumer goods.

Windows 8 forced defaults that people didn't like on desktops. You could fix this relatively quickly, but my issue is the principle of MS assuming that MS knows better than their users. Otherwise, I was a fan, so long as I could use educational licenses for free.

Windows 10 was kinda nice, but is (imo) roughly when MS decided that they should force their ways on people. No matter what settings I provided to their update service, it would inevitably decide that I must update and restart when I was trying to use my damn machine. Multiple times in college, I'd get up from what I was working on to do some little 15-minute task, and find that Windows had shut down and was in the process of updating. After the second time I lost work, I made some registry edits to block the auto-install and auto-restart. Updates would get run at my convenience, finally.

Microsoft managed to make updates easy, and then painful again.

Around that same time, it felt like the 'marketing speak' was starting to talk down to me, infiltrating dialog boxes, and implying that Microsoft knew better than I did as to how I should be using my machine. When once dialogs were simply informational, they were now suggestive and intrusive, and groan-inducing. It's only gotten worse, and more pervasive.

I updated my PC a few times when trying to get Elden ring to work last week, and ran into the infamous full-screen not-normally-closable Edge advertisement. The 'close' button was disabled, rightclick in taskbar->close did nothing, and the ONE option available was to click 'Get Started', implying that I as a user agree with this all in some way. Instead, I killed the window via task manager, and decided that my next desktop PC will be linux-first, with a locked-down Windows partition for when cross-compat isn't available for my use cases.

I view an OS as a piece of software that allows me to make use of the hardware in my PC, and not as a service. Cue me, some years ago setting up something for Windows, and being told by the installer that "Windows is a Service". Bullshit!
The GP didn't say anything about anyone needing more money?
IMO they should be closed after due process. Not by administrative decision, i. e. censorship. If they were closed because after a short trial, a judge determining that they were spreading disinformation systematically, that would be completely fine.

But some administrative authority claiming that it should be closed, then getting it closed in a few hours? with hundreds of actual professional journalists getting shown the door as a consequence? That's just the sort of shit Putin does. I want my country to do better than Putin in all matters, please.
Really the only one who should be deciding if an interruption from one person to another is worthwhile should be the manager. They know whose time is more valuable to the company at that time. Plus managertime is easily interuptible.
I get why ICANN doing this would have been a bad idea.

On the other hand, Russian-language countries are a major source of malware and other serious cybercrimes.
Can I officially request that Boston Dynamics put on this play with a bunch of Atlases?
> a team that has a free-for-all remote policy is effectively a remote team (as others have noted)

I don't think this is true in the sense that you (or possibly the original commenter) mean. I think what happens is that if, e.g., 1/3 of a team is remote, the rest of the team has to choose between either excluding them by doing most interactions in-person, or leaning heavily on remote even though 2/3 of the team is in-office.
yes a very low quality article that doesnt really say anything-- why is this on the front page?
Didn't we already have a $1M bounty on Putin dead or alive by some other millionaire?
Agreed, but this isn't thoughtful. An arrest with no authority is a kidnapping, and $1M wouldn't come close to the cost for kidnapping a paranoid ex-KGB agent who has made it this long.

It's an empty gesture meant to make this guy look good.
If Tokyo's model was so terrific and worked so well, you'd be able to list lots of cities that emulate it. Instead, you can only point to Tokyo. Their apartments, by the way, are way too tiny for most Western tastes. "A typical three bedroom apartment for a Japanese family would be around 70 sqm (753 sq.ft)." That's smaller than most American 1-bedrooms. Average cost is about 877,000 yen/sq m which is a little bit above $700/sq ft, which isn't exactly cheap, either.

https://www.rethinktokyo.com/blog/zoe-ward-japan-property-ce...
If you want serious protection you should probably use one NOT based in the country you live in.
I'm somewhat using it as a stand-in, but I do have this gut feeling that bitcoin has a few characteristics that will make it the standard (more on this later).

I also think there will be digital dollars issued by central banks. In that respect, I don't see Bitcoin being used for day to day financial transactions. I see it being used as a backing value store for these digital dollars though.

I think economists and central banks throughout the world are reluctantly coming to grips with the effects of going off Bretton Woods:

- There is more influence over financial cycles so they can be smoothed over to help with the functioning of day to day life. This is desirable.

- The above influence has gone too far and has created an epic asset bubble and economic disparity that is even concerning to many of the world's most powerful and wealthy (i.e., it's creating an existential risk to them). Obviously this is undesirable and even worse, the central banks have no potential solutions to deal with this in their existing toolchain.

Why do I think bitcoin will win out? Somewhat for the same reasons I'm skeptical of that backdoor scenario. The major national governments have little trust amongst themselves, this trust is getting worse, and we're seeing an adversarial situation play out.

- China and some other economies outside the G7 want off of the USD as a reserve currency

- The G7 are reluctant to accept a world in which China exerts the financial influence they give up

All will realize something in the world's financial system has to change and for the sake of world peace a new arrangement is worth a shot. But none of these adversaries trust each other in such a way that a nationally derived crypto would be acceptable as the basis for a value backing store. Furthermore, existing assets will inherently be untrustworthy too because they're in a bubble. Nobody knows the true value of a house any more. Step in crypto...

- I don't think it will be Ethereum because as I said, reputation has been tarnished (there may be Russian influence). But it also tries to do too much and that may be undesirable for a value backing store.

- I think it will end up being Bitcoin simply because it's a lot more simple. It does less. And furthermore, nobody really knows who invented it so it is inherently not tied to any given nation. Or at least there's plausible deniability about it having been invented by a particular state.

- Other cryptos are distant runners up to these two main players so I don't see any other viable alternatives
function slug(string $s) {
return pipe($s,
fn($s) => strtolower($s),
fn($s) => str_replace(" ", "-", $s)
);
}

slug("10 WAYS to EAT more HEALTHY"); // 10-ways-to-eat-more-healthy

I'm not sure I see how this example demonstrates the point of something like this.

Surely this is simpler and more succinct?

function slug(string $s) {
return str_replace(" ", "-", strtolower($s));
}

Even if you wanted to break it up into two lines:

function slug(string $s) {
$s = strtolower($s);
return str_replace(" ", "-", $s);
}

A better example might go a long way here.

Edit: Never walk away to refill a coffee before pressing submit or the rest of HN will beat you to it. :P