skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is camera placement worse than what we can see as a driver?
And the Ukrainians who are dead or have had their homes and communities bombed? Who are now refuges or fighting for their life and country?
I am always mystified by such emails. Does the addressee think they will receive messages automatically? Or does the sender think everybody has an email in their name? Very curious...
Russian UN Diplomats Expelled from US
Chuck Csuri has died
Tried this in person once when signing up to the companies club or a discount. Once.
Let me guess: root?
Pfizer vaccine's protection against Covid wanes quickly in kids 5-11, study says
How many Russian people are gonna die because of losing the ability to have their domain registered with Namecheap?

And yes, people will suffer, that's what happens when one country invades their neighbor in an unprovoked attack. You're placing blame in the wrong place here.
postmaster? admin?
You comparison to 'cancel culture' was still ridiculous. Even calling it virtue signaling is wrong - it's not signalling when this company is giving up money for their beliefs.

This isn't making a moral judgment on a group of people - this is a company not wanting to do business in a country. They aren't generalizing people at all - they do not want to do business with the Russia government, and have every right to do that
I was thinking servers.
I would guess njal.la, founded by Peter Sunde of the Pirate Bay [1], would not respond to frivolous DMCA requests.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sunde
> There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming".

Come on, you are clearly harassing them pointlessly. And you are doing that over something they don't have much of a choice about.

> We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop.

That is sad and abhorrent, but this kind of moral posturing and superficial puritanism is both ineffective and hypocritical. I am pretty sure you are aware that some of your own tax dollars also go towards bombing people.

I will not register any domains with you guys in the future.
I think National origin and Citizenship are protected classes and by federal law. They probably should not discriminate by them.
How many apps do you need installed (and why)? I feel like I'm a pretty heavy user, but if I forget to update for a week at most I have 6 apps to manually click through. It seems likes an insignificant gripe considering the other alternatives (Play Store, Amazon, Huawei, etc)
Surely a desktop running a well respected Linux distribution is much more secure than any smartphone. It will be locked for much of the day, possibly with disk encryption. There are few services (any?) exposed to the network. The software can be all open source, both OS and applications. The only weakness would be the web browser, and there are web browsers used on smartphones.
The big problem with Autopilot is the sleazy way it’s been marketed and sold to customers and regulators versus what the system really is. Charging folks $10k for an option with the CEO insisting that “full self driving” is shipping next year is borderline fraud.

I won’t buy a GM product and I won’t buy a Tesla product either, happy?
A few years ago, including a browser with your OS was an antitrust violation. What happened?
it already mentions "by march 6", i think it's enough time
I think when one country threatens the whole world with nuclear annihilation we don't need to play silly wordgames.
Fair enough! I'm not familiar with the book.
> But as you've probably seen from all the 'prisoners of war' videos out of Ukraine, most soldiers don't want to fight this war.

Most soldiers? How many remorseful POWs have you seen vs. the ~200k soldiers actively participating in the war?

Some POWs will say almost anything to not get killed and have a chance at freedom again. Just like in a trial, a statement or confession made under duress is not valid and they’re likely under extreme duress and afraid for their lives.
I don't think OP meant shell as in the Windows shell, or Linux DEs. I mean, how many of those use fork() even on Linux, or would be easier to implement if they did?
> People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government.

This is correct, but your actions are going to silence (or at least muffle or interrupt) these people's voices. Don't double down on it because you're riding some righteousness high. You still have time to backpedal and not act like a vain fool.

The tax dollars you are talking about are pennies to the oligarchs. You are only hitting regular people with this selfishness. It's a pathetic gesture, and I'll never use your services.
The article notes that the vaccines still protect against hospitalization, even if they are quite ineffective at preventing infection.

I wonder if there is a noticeable hospitalization benefit for healthy kids, or if the entire benefit is for kids with serious pre-existing conditions. I tried to find the underlying data, but it doesn't look like it's published.
> But the majority was just chugging along in 'everything is fine' mode as long as they had their jobs, their pension and their food on the table.

And shortly they will have none of that, nor their DNS services. Global sanctions on Russians mean they are being given the same choice as Ukrainians were: rise up or die.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
Yes, they do have to pay a higher price, because the problem stems from there and they now have a small window opportunity for a regime change.

They are at a point where they can reach critical mass. If we don't push enough this can be dragged out to a North Korea like status, and that is going to be a lot worse for everyone.
>We’re really stuck between two equally hostile political forces pursuing their interests at any cost.

I know. It's awful. If we can't get Russia to stop attacking Ukraine with bombs, tanks, guns and missiles, perhaps we could convince the EU to stop bombing Ukraine? Oh, wait...
AFAIK, Interactive Brokers told all Russia-based accounts to move after sanctions were announced.
This is gross. People aren't their governments, did you cancel US domain registrations when the US government invaded Iraq?
Ah, that makes a lot more sense.

I must be weird in that I almost never use exec() after a fork().
Until this is "fixed" by the Pi project (indeed, most PCs will boot loop if no boot devices succeed), I'd try something like iPXE (loaded onto SD or USB.) That should be able to loop properly.

https://github.com/ipxe/pipxe
I agree, but several presidents have given clear and unambiguous statements that the US would defend Taiwan. Both Biden and G W Bush did this.

In the light of the Ukraine situation strategic ambiguity is looking less and less attractive. A bit more clarity and commitment might have avoided this whole situation.

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentar...
I could be wrong, but I think that was only if you were a monopolist.
This is bad:

int exec_failed = 0;

{
some_type some_var;

pid = vfork();
if (pid == -1) err(1, "vfork() failed");

if (pid == 0)
execve(...);

/* oops, execve() failed */
exec_failed = 1;
}

if (exec_failed)
cleanup_code; /* bad! */

/* parent */

But, it's hard to write code like that instead of:

pid = vfork();
if (pid == -1) err(1, "vfork() failed");

if (pid == 0) {
execve(...);

/* oops, execve failed */
some_cleanup;
_exit(1);
}

/* parent */

You have to really try.
afghanistan was a justified invasion
I cannot see the goal of this move. Those Russian users will move to other platforms and those platforms will still pay taxes on their Russian sales - which in turn helps authoritarian government. What is the difference?

Or is it just because it is harder for Russian users to make payments?
The taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant tabbed to do it
How stupid these big corps are spliting the world. That's why each country should develop their own Internet Infrastructure.
I see it's back online. I'd also remove the last sentence or reword "a bunch of tech nerds", that seems a bit stereotyping.

HN is lacking many features. Reddit has direct messages between users (inbox etc), HN barely has voting and flagging. Some users do what you did here: submit another Ask HN. You can also email the moderators, contact link is in the footer.
Sanctions induce poverty. Russians will be thinking how to get a bit of food on their table and survive another day, they not going to have energy to make the change. Sanctions may look like a good tool but unfortunately they just make authoritarian regimes stronger.
I assume copyright law prohibits this too.
Yes, but they will remove root DNS.
Just keep looking out for when they attack a western/white majority country. Then, yes.
Swift Not a ‘Nuclear Option’ for Russia, the World Is Eurodollar Not Dollar
I guess Namecheap is on my list of opinionated companies ie they are in notallowedlist now.

Also some things to think about:

People who don't have access to their e-mail right now wouldn't even know they would be "asked to move".
In the 21st century this probably means people who can't read the e-mail are in the hospital, e.g. after a traffic accident or on a ventilator with COVID. Imagine going to coma/whatever around Feb 15, recover somewhat in the first weeks of March to encounter all your digital life was wiped from the Internet (despite being paid on time).

People who hosted their e-mail on a domain hosted on Namecheap would lose the ability to receive the e-mails (if for any reason wouldn't make it in time), which could greatly complicate the whole moving process. Giving the NamecheapCEO gave only 5 day to move out this is pretty contradicts their "please kindly fuc^W get out".

Given the majority of Namecheap support is located in Ukraine I highly doubt all these "[Russians,] contact us, we'll make exceptions" would go well.

And finally, riding a high horse is always good, but I doubt NamecheapCEO paid 1700 Ukrainian employees the same salary he would paid to 1700 US employees. Sure, this is not "Don't cut in my profits", but while the horse is high - it stinks.

EDIT: oh, and I really want them to publish the stats on how many people moved the domains from them in the next week, with at least Russia/non-Russia owned break-up.

But something tells me we wont see that.

EDIT2: Ha! To add insult to injury the guy could be literally locked up for actively participating in protests against the war![0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505604
> Only Russia (and collectively, Russians) can stop it.

And how do you propose they do this? What are you suggesting?
I agree Belgium's NATO contributions are not playing an active role in the conflict.

I'm not sure I can agree that Belgium's contribution of machine guns to Ukraine [1] don't qualify as playing an active role.

I guess I should say that regardless of whether it's an active role, I'm happy that they are doing it, and I'm happy that my government is doing the same.

[1] https://www.thebulletin.be/belgium-sends-convoy-military-equ...
You're probably the first person to try to use Oracle for a startup :)
I made a typo while checking this, and amusingly while neither cd /D nor cd "/D" work, cd "/D? does.
Why not just set one of those addresses as the reply address for the magic link?
I support your stance on this. looking forward for you to stop providing services to Israel, Saudi Arabia, USA, for the same resons.
Might as well drop a nuke or two then? Extreme actions have a proven track record, after all. It would certainly cause the government to reconsider, civilian casualties be damned.
I am well aware. Tbh i am trying to figure in my mind what the first target will be. Hope its just and overreaction on my part.

Edit: grammar
I have a more vivid imagination than you... I could only last about 2 seconds imagining it before freaking out :D
If Ukrainians continue to put up a good fight and maintain strategically significant control, the risk of a nuclear war increases. With Western weapons flowing into Ukraine, Putin might do something extreme as a scare tactic. I doubt there's much increased risk of a nuclear volley; if Putin did do the unthinkable, the West would almost certainly cease the flow of arms. But that still constitutes a nuclear war, leaving behind a far bleaker and far more unpredictable legacy.
I'm sure some restaurants do actually make proper birria but there is no chance they can afford to pay rent and also offer it for $1.50 a taco like someone whose only expense is materials and labor (and not commercial rent), so I haven't even seen anywhere make a go at this market at this pricepoint. One place I do like for tacos that is a restaurant is itself very barebones, a walkup only shack of a building situated in the parking lot of a liqour store that doesn't have any indoor space except for the small kitchen, and they charge accordingly more than a comparable street vendor (more like $2.50 a taco). This is probably the floor of what a brick and mortar can afford to charge for that tier of meat with involved prep.
Bitbucket allows the repository administrator to set up a mapping of email address to user. I think this is a nice middle ground.
This column gets longer each time it's posted.
I signed up. This is what the site looks like:

* Dashboard/feed: https://i.imgur.com/bUGZX27.png

* Book page (from search): https://i.imgur.com/9BQK7hF.png

* Bookshelves (adding a book is just a modal on this page): https://i.imgur.com/sHzorJE.png

* "Community": https://i.imgur.com/nzI9FNZ.png

* Profile: https://i.imgur.com/kcxitYb.png

There isn't a lot of content to showcase, but the screenshots on the homepage (at https://www.booqsi.com/) seem to show off each of the currently-available pages. It'd be nice to have some kind of search to see book search result pages for yourself without signing up, but honestly there's not much to see (yet?). You can see for yourself: https://app.booqsi.com/books/9781408865446
Shells have relatively simple operational models, so _any_ API would probably be workable for shells.

Meanwhile, programs with more complex requirements have to work around these APIs. And many programs call other programs, or otherwise have to do tricky process lifecycle management.

The lowest-level APIs should, in theory, cater to the most complex cases, not to the simplest ones. This doesn't prevent a simpler API from existing, but catering to a simple use case in the primitives does hinder more complex needs.

(I think the more nuanced point is that the OS itself might not have a much better design available in any case. Unixes have a lot of neat stuff, but it's a lot of "design by user feature request", and "standardize 4 slightly different ways of doing things", so there is a lot of weirdness and it's hard to have The Perfect API in that case)
Here is their current lunch menu (via Google search): https://www.themetropolitangrill.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...

Page two, see "Daily Specials". If you only get one dish, then, yes, it seems possible to eat for less than 25 USD with a tip.
If only the NSA had been spending the past decade hardening our cyber infrastructure rather than spying on its citizens and keeping found exploits secret from our industries
Joke's on you, puny human!
A Brief History of Pickles
There are two major problems with standards.

First, companies lie. I've been through a few companies that were audited for security compliance and simple truth was the company made great pains to keep the auditors away from but a few key people who will say what the auditors want to hear. Once, I was even told what I would need to say if I were asked (and it was blatantly untrue). Companies see security as a cost, not as an investment for on-going operations. So, the goal is to check it off the list that you're complying, not actually do it.

Second, best practices actually aren't. For instance, in my company I talked with the head of security after a presentation. I said that having passwords rotated was a horrible practice. It forces users to come up with something memorable. We should be using password managers and start using a long, random, gibberish passwords. He agreed, but "this is (such and such's) standard of best practices we contracted to support so we have to do this."
Right, which is exactly why companies / other nations / etc are having to step in to stop the Russian regime, because clearly the Russian people can't / won't.
Your blatant whataboutism aside, I do agree that the world would likely be a much better place if companies applied morals like this across the board.
Here you can see how effective propaganda is. Even when the facts are there for all to see it still work to a degree that people will take those memes and spit them back out as their own.
These situations are too complex to just view them as "democracy = good, tyranny = bad". I firmly believe this is a true statement, but the unchangeable fact of the matter is that attempting to resolve tyranny can lead to more harm than good.

There's a reason the cold war was a, well, "cold" war; the consequences of resolving it would have caused far greater harm. This is also the reason NATO is careful to avoid too much direct involvement right now.

So in short, also insert something about the road to hell being paved with good intentions.
Just the people who complain, which seems reasonable. Quoting the GP:

"If more grace time is necessary for some to move, we will provide it."
Also, it was probably flagged by users, not by the mods. If enough users flag it, the post get's killed.
For a brief amount of time, I did a similar thing and hosted my personal website on the domain that spelled my full name using the .si TLD after finding a registrar that let me buy one (turns out that `.si` is the country prefix for Slovenia, and I guess they let people from outside the country buy their domains). It was a bit more expensive than a .com domain, but still reasonable (I think in the $20-25 range), but I didn't end up renewing it after even many of my classmates in the computer science program at my college seemed to be confused by it.
Archived: https://archive.ph/LjnWr
Exactly, thank you for pointing that out.
I find it morally troubling that we accept sanctions and private company trade withdrawals like this, yet we clamor about the evil of collective punishment. It's a matter of degree, not kind, and where do we draw the line?
The accountability happens when the pressure the Russian people feel as a result of the actions their leadership has taken is greater than they can bear, and they replace their leadership in response.
Good explanation. I wasn't aware of that part of Alameda's reputation though, where can I find more data?
"Equally hostile"? Seriously?
At least with radar, it was causing the car to make more mistakes given it was reacting to either.
I disagree, 6 days is not enough time. Especially for people who are not tech savvy.

Bad move.
That would be the fugliest, most unwieldy API in history. In addition to the two most basic things I mentioned, there are namespaces, control groups, setuid/setgid, and probably a billion other things I can't think of.
> Just out of curiosity, how are you screwed? Is it so hard to move to a different registrar?

Normally, if you pay for a service for a year and then it ends after a couple months by surprise, you could describe that as being screwed.

> Additionally, and with immediate effect, you will no longer be able to use Namecheap Hosting, EasyWP, and Private Email with a domain provided by another registrar in zones .ru, .xn--p1ai (рф), .by, .xn--90ais (бел), and .su. All websites will resolve to 403 Forbidden, however, you can contact us to assist you with your transfer to another provider.

Looks like a bunch of people were kicked from Namecheap's cloud services with 0 notice though. Or do you mean that these services are relatively simple, and it would be a pain to migrate from a service provider who provides much more complex services with 0 notice?
I do this all the time, albeit with a qmail x-foo@ alias, and just straight up own it - "I sort my email so I can tell who sells my address". I've never really had a problem.
Yes, I can. That perspective came to me from Russian friends, but it's not hard to find news stories of "actual" incidents.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/vandals-break-windo...

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/russi...

I even came across tweets sharing the same experience, while searching for these articles. Here's one:

https://twitter.com/ZITTIEBNl/status/1497963179409915910
Not sure what this headline means. On my keyboard, Command-V and CTRL-V are two entirely different things.
This feels kind of shallow. Much like the BLM support thing, where they would attach a slogan to their website. "Let's get some social points" is what this amounts to.

I think businesses need to stay out of politics and social issues. You're, in effect, punishing people who have nothing to do with what the Russian government chose to do.
Please kindly check your whataboutism at the door. It's not HN-caliber discussion.
I think the world has changed in the past twenty years, and I think if the U.S. engages in future foreign wars, maybe they will have to suffer similar consequences from non U.S. companies. I hope so, and I say that as a U.S. citizen.

I for one like this. If you are a shitty citizen in our increasing global world, one positive benefit of globalization is the many ways that that global world can now bite you in the ass.

There is no excuse for wars of aggression. And in the past people would throw their hands up and say "well what can I do?" Well we are all connected now, so increasingly there is something you can do.
I honestly have no idea. We use the stock 120V charger at home and occasionally will charge at a public charging station if it's available. I couldn't tell you word one about amps.
Microsoft are somehow getting away all sorts of dark patterns pushing Edge, on top of it being included, default, and hardcoded for some links from system apps.
Here my two cents as someone that has visited, lived in, or good friends in authoritarian regimes such as East Germany, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Hong Kong:

- in a democracy, the population is responsible for what the government does. Conversely, the more authoritarian the regime, arguably the less culpable the population is. (Of course, people shouldn't have allowed an authoritarian figure to gain power... indeed. But frankly, those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.)

- it is imperative to distinguish between the government and the people, in particular in very authoritarian regimes. Sometimes the population is behind their government, sometimes they aren't.

- here, it seems to me that many Russians (and quite possibly the majority) are increasingly critical and sick of Putin, and, as far as I can tell, most are, like the rest of the world, against this war.

- who suffers most from this war are ordinary Ukrainians, obviously. However, I venture to say, most ordinary Russians suffer, too.

- thus, as far as possible, our sanctions should be laser focused at targeting Putin and his collaborators, the inner circle, government, and companies close to the government.
The example that comes to mind is Solidarity, but with the kind of popularity that Putin inexplicably still has that may not be a viable option, and it would have to be very carefully planned and coordinated, going off half-cocked will just get lots of people shot in the streets, setting this up will take a lot of time. Alternatively, some of the remaining bigshots may decide to throw Putin under the bus (or, preferably, a tank).
Not only are you shifting goal posts but you still haven't linked anything.

You just keep saying that despite those graphs being up over 700%, somehow this stat you chose and haven't sourced is down.

You haven't explained in any way why you think that but you keep saying it over and over.