skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point of order: they didn't say better, they said good. They didn't compare it to the value of reading the article.
I saw these guidelines 6 months ago. Was living in an area that was at legit risk of a nuclear incident.

Saw all the Covid stuff and just started laughing. No sense of scale or proportion here.
"The company has raised over $3.4B so far."

Where does $40B come from?
I think the meme is funny, and fun marketing. As others have mentioned, the answer is to talk to a lawyer. You’re running a business, and that means you have money to lose. I’m not lawyer. Cease and desist is at the very least a trial balloon to see how you’ll react. You should absolutely not ignore it and hope it goes away.
Visa, Mastercard block Russian financial institutions after sanctions
Right. What little is left of the medical system now is only a million and twenty three times overburdened instead of a million and twenty four. I guess it's good to inject some humor into dark situations.
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If they’re fleeing they’re not yet out, and foreign payments have been stopped.
Even the tighter bound of $75k-$250k is not a job posting where you will get a good quality applicant pool. It reads as "this job is worth $75k, but if you really impress the interviewer, you could earn $250k." You will get a lot of people currently earning $60k in your applicant pool, which might be fine if you think the job is really worth $80k.

But if you think it's worth (say) $200k, you will not get a good view into the labor pool at that level because your posting looks like you don't value the job at $200k, so $200k-worthy applicants will not apply.

Either way, you will get too many applicants who are not a fit and take longer to fill the opening. Plus, your firm will build a reputation for dishonesty.
Those are good points, but I don't quite agree because there's a few things to add to the list:

- Putin's popularity jumped up during the invasion to 69% - which is a lot.

- Only 5% of Russians believe that Russia is responsible for the incursion, while 50% believe that the problem is NATO (I understand at least part of this is due to heavy propaganda)

- While the choice for war is a bit ambiguous and probably errs one way or the other depending on how much propaganda buy in there is, the fact of the matter is that Russians will ultimately, proudly accept the annexation of Ukraine as their vassal state and buy into the notion of that broader destiny of Neo Russia that Putin is pushing for. The 'We Are One People' is enough to elicit the cultural chauvinism among the population so that while they may not support conflict, they will accept, and possibly promote the outcome without any regard for the self-determination of the Ukranians.

(Obviously, this is due to a lot of propaganda and lack of real exposure to other information, but it is what it is.)

- Chinese citizens are broadly happy to see the crackdowns in Hong Kong (i.e. "Why do those they believe they should have special rights, especially when they are attacking China!"), and fully accept the 'regional internment' of the Uyghurs, including re-education prisons for many specific individuals purely on the basis of their ethnicity. Similarly the eradication of Tibet as an entity. And of course, the possible invasion of Taiwan that we might see in the coming years.

There is a degree of complicity among the population, at least for the nationalist claims, especially to the extent they look past the materiality of some of the violence etc.

Second, is that the citizens probably need to be informed of the issue. While the sanctions might form a bit of a blip in the Ruble, it's not going to affect most people's lives particularly dramatically, it may just slow the economy down in largely imperceptible ways to the general population. Many will blame 'NATO' for their disinvitations to sporting events.

It's dramatic for a Western-connected software developer who has the means to get a flight, and who cares about Ruble/USD exchange, but not likely for most of the plebes.

Therefore - it might be a good idea to do 'populist sanctions' - like shutting down all the Starbucks, McDonald's, IKEAS, Netflix, Hollywood films, Nikes, NBA games, televised football of all kinds - all those things and more.

I'd say include iPhones/Android but probably we want to maintain for them an outlet for information from the outside, and frankly to collect data if we need it. But we could dramatically reduce what's available in the App Stores, stop selling a bunch of variations and product lines etc.

None of that is hugely material at all, it's not going to harm anyone frankly, it won't hugely affect the economy, but it's a 'really strong daily reminder' of the fact that 'they are excluded' from the system. No more 'nice lattes', because 'we don't like you right now'.
There is a lot of talk of innocent people. Yes they are. But this is war. As Kharkiv is getting plastered by Uragan as we speak, to break down the territorial defence units and creating a lot of collateral. So killing businesses and destroying livelihood of Russia will help in the long term war.

This is not going to get resolved any time soon I do not think. As much damage as can be done to Russia now should be done.
I'm pretty sure this is just a skinned version of tldraw set to a Mac UI.
Why? In relative terms, yeah, obviously, but a respiratory virus breakout in a fallout shelter certainly isn’t any less troubling than a respiratory virus breakout at a workplace or music festival.
Not who you're replying to, but it's trivial as long as you don't use threads.

I suppose third-party code could be opening up file-descriptors behind your back and privately maintaining that state in private storage, but third-party code that does that without documenting it is relatively rare in the Unix/C world in my experience.
Ukraine receives SpaceX Starlink terminals amid Internet disruption
The company has employees in Ukraine. Where's the double standard?
The company has employees in Ukraine. And you're also a new account with only 2 comments specifically about this issue. What unit are you in, tovarisch?
India relies on Russian spare parts for our ships and planes. Russia has stood behind India when everyone else abandoned. USA just left behind billions of arms and weapons in Afghanistan that is being sold as parts and transported to Pakistan. With whom there is still border conflict.

What do you think India should do?
The response seems a lazy, thoughtless, self-serving cop-out, one that permits a false identity claim and then pushes the entire burden of challenging it back to the primary victim, who may well be unwitting, and where secondary victims (anyone defrauded by believing a false attribution) have no standing at all.

You can file the whole line of thinking - from design to support - under "worst practices" and "things not to emulate in your own product".

When it comes to handling how unverified author identity is presented and cross-reference, Github could stand to do a lot better.

Fortunately, the problem appears confined to Github's web interface; a git show --quiet e83c516 still produces

Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu Apr 7 15:13:13 2005 -0700

Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell
According to the article: "Russia and Belarus usually account for nearly a third of India's total potash imports. It would not be feasible to replace them amid a rally in fertilizer prices to a record high, a senior industry official told Reuters."
The US govt is literally adopting the dumbest takes on Twitter[1] as official policy.

[1] https://twitter.com/DanaHoule/status/1496723469890949127
In the case of containers it gets tricky because of how it interacts with the scheduler (e.g. if a node is idle but has a bunch of paused containers that could be unpaused at any time, the scheduler has to decide how to proceed), but I love the concept. It's something I've thought a bit about in a world where the server can be compiled to WebAssembly, because it's imaginable to suspend it and serialize the memory state so that it can be sent off to storage somewhere and pulled out when the next request comes in. This was actually part of the motivation behind a library I wrote called Stateroom (https://github.com/drifting-in-space/stateroom), which creates a stateful WebSocket server as a WebAssembly module, but I haven't yet implemented the ability to freeze the state of the module between requests.
The company has employees in Ukraine. I think that's a pretty good reason, isn't it?
If Orwell was alive today he wouldn't be a DSA member.
Note that the Librem 5 is practically a scam. There are still people who ordered in 2017 who have not received their phone. Requesting a refund takes hundreds of days to be issued.
Indeed. I would've been sorely tempted to post all Russian customer information including payment details to Ukrainian social media to exploit as they are able. Until this is over I regard every single entity inside the borders of the Russian Federation as persona non grata. Public, private, living or dead. I'm not about to be the guy who postured about legality and politeness when it turns out some of my customers were history's next SS.
Yes, that's a good point. The document does specifically talk about avoiding contact with fallout, or removing it if necessary. Hopefully everybody gets inside before it drops.
"Do you have any prior evidence that sanctions have led to protests/riots that have successfully overthrown a regime?"

Yes, the Soviet Union.
This decision came on the same day Intelia published positive results with gene editing, the stock would have jumped much higher without this decision:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8sRdXFHlM

https://ir.intelliatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details...
Also, fallout generally goes from what was bombed (cities) to what was nearby (forests and not cities).
1952 - "Duck and cover"
2022 - "Mask and distance"
As someone who doesn’t feel so enamored with React’s hooks, I find this compelling.
What the fuck, this has to be a parody:

Be Safe AFTER

Immediately after you are inside shelter, if you may have been outside after the fallout arrived. ...

Engage virtually with your community through video and phone calls. Know that it’s normal to feel anxious or stressed. Take care of your body and talk to someone if you are feeling upset. Many people may already feel fear and anxiety about the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). The threat of a nuclear explosion can add additional stress. Follow CDC guidance for managing stress during a traumatic event and managing stress during COVID-19.

Last Updated: 02/25/2022
either way nothing you can do. So don't worry until there's something you can control
Agreed, but North Korea's isolation hasn't helped topple the regime nor improve the lives of the people living there.
Oh, when it gets below 60 degrees fahrenheit, or there's a wind. I can probably tolerate working outside as long as it's still sunny down to 50 degrees fahrenheit.
Historically, when jails have been cramped the solution has been dead bodies in trenches. Putin has demonstrated that he can be ruthless and he admires ruthless people who preceded him. If I was in Russia and I had a family (as I do here in Canada) I would be very afraid of them losing me because I expressed dissent during an extremely contentious and high-pressure war. Maybe that makes me weak or part of the problem; it’s just where I’m at and I can sympathize with people there who might be responding to the situation the way I would.

Priority 1: Stay alive and take care of my family

Priority 2: Do something about the social and political issues if I can, but not at the expense of priority 1

There is some overlap and conflict there. Maybe the government can put my family directly at risk, for example. In this case that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening unless your family has been sent to fight. For those people, god, I don’t have words. It’s unthinkable.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/02/28/uk-ukraine-crisis-eu-bor...

This is being openly done by the EU already. I can't imagine that the CIA would lag the EU.

It seems like pictures would come before weapons in what nations would be willing to give.
The "Whig History of CRISPR" article [1] by Nathaniel Comfort that Eisen quotes is one of the most jaw-dropping rebuttals I have ever seen of anything ever. When Lander was named by Biden to high office I just sat back and waited for the shoe to drop.

[1] https://genotopia.scienceblog.com/573/a-whig-history-of-cris...
"If possible, please position the nuclear blast between yourself and COVID-19 in order to minimize proximity to COVID."
That's just some injected opinion, I assume from someone contributing to glibc who doesn't like posix_spawn I guess? In any case it is wrong.

Don't assume what is written in man pages is the truth. Some of them have a lot of opinion added. It can be useful to cross-check man pages between systems - they don't always call out non-portable options or behavior.

On some kernels posix_spawn is a syscall or specifies flags that make it more efficient than fork+exec. Darwin is one such system, though you can use POSIX_SPAWN_SETEXEC if you still want to replace the current process with a new executable rather than creating a child.
350k-yo skulls from a Spanish cave show high rate of fractures, many healed
Agreed. I want more native apps, not less. I cringe when I see web apps that are slow, don’t take advantage of native API’s, and have a completely different look and feel from the OS. No thanks.
For (b), imagine a set S of all possible universes. Then the two universes that agree perfectly up to the chosen event and then diverge are certainly both in S. And since they are non-interacting, there's no problem with energy conservation.

FWIW, the existence of infinite universes to justify calculations also strikes me as deeply unsatisfying...
Oh I totally agree with you, my problem with it is that they missed out some pretty basic fundamental advice. Like if there's a nuclear winter and subsequent collapse of society it's very important to huddle together for warmth in groups of no more than 3 while your nomadic tribe follows the migrating buffalo herds. See it sounds obvious now but it's easy to miss these trifling details.
Sure, but there are lots of irregular/reservist fighters that could use the kind of high quality imagery a provider like Maxar can deliver, who are not necessarily plugged into the military information ecosystem. Conversely, the military (or western governments supplying them with satellite intelligence) may not want to reveal the extent of their capabilities to as to keep the Russian army guessing.
Static file descriptors were a bit more common in the old days, but look horribly out of place in modern code. Keeping the code fork safe is easier than keeping it thread safe, at least with fork you aren't sharing the heap.
One frequently-overlooked software “tax” is geopolitics. (2005)
Not extremely. Helpful stuff to know, but there is, right now, no real reason for anyone to launch an attack of this scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
re: 5: The device is for enthusiast, traditional gamers that buy dedicated hardware. This customer doesn't really play games on their smartphones.
I'm not sure I agree.

This somehow reminds me of how Putin, in his ridiculous speeches, cited NATO involvement in Serbia and Iraq as a reason to attack Ukraine. Of course, the western politicians responsible for those decisions are now gone, because unlike Putin, they respected term limits.

The US hasn't had a perfect track record in the "wars of choice" department. The US voter does have some moral responsibility for it. The flaw, however, would be in saying as Putin does that the US political system is totally invalid for this, or justifies bad behavior elsewhere.
Folks really underestimate how many economic chokepoints there are if the right people feel threatened. I think and hope most Russians know who to blame, but it only takes one person misdirecting their rage to end your life if you're there and look like a target.
It's the news. Fear is their business model and they're all hurting, so they gotta ratchet it up to keep the dollars coming. The whole Appleby's advert in the middle of the Ukraine raid siren is the epitome of what they do. They also have a lot of sway in getting pols elected. It only works when people get fooled by it. The spell will break soon I hope.
> Who do you think will sanction India?

Any of the countries that have sanctioned Russia if this is done with the express intent of evading those sanctions. There is plenty of precedent for that.

> For putting Indian interests first?

There is precedent for that too.

> This is the most dumbass comment I have ever heard during this crisis.

Time will tell.
Estimated 6 k. Of 144 million in ~60 cities.

That's 100/ city.

I'm not so sure about the claim "sheer scale of protesting". We are a IT forum and I would think that the overlapping demographics with 'us' is more aware than the other 99,9% that isn't reading here.

Please don't misread my comment. There are multiple reasons why people won't dare to protest too, outside of being ill informed ( eg. Rural areas only using TV, according to what I read).
Wasm is a sandbox first off. Any situation where you want to isolate a computation is an application suitable for wasm. Browser is just one instance of that
I don't really think it works at all. If other domain services are available, its just annoying. If NONE are available because they all agree, its just deplatforming basically.

Do you think Namecheap would turn off Americans (their own country, regardless) domains as a method to get them to agree to call their reps and stop a war? I somehow doubt it.
> I, for one, believe that we should enact stronger protections to ensure that research partially performed at publicly-funded labs remains in the hands of the public.

I agree!

> In particular, I think that the Bayh–Dole Act should be strengthened to vest the patent with the institution directly, and to create a default presumption that the institution owns the IP.

That is not the same thing though. The universities have historically been very exclusive about who can license their patent portfolios, and at high cost. They're the same as a business in that respect.
Hmm, sounds great to me. I loathe automatic updates and consider them a great way to ruin the software I'm used to. I can't possibly count the number of times an update to a piece of software (especially on closed platforms like iOS) broke something I rely on and I had to either wait until the developer fixed the issue, or just accept that the software is never again going to work the way it used to.

Further, I disable notifications for nearly everything, so that point doesn't matter to me either.

I'm definitely relieved that the most-upvoted comment critiquing F-Droid doesn't raise anything of concern for me! I was worried I was about to read something that might push me away from making a de-Googled Android device my next smartphone... haha
A covid outbreak in March 02022, when everyone is already vaccinated and the dominant strain of covid is the omicron strain (which, even without vaccination, is only as fatal as the regular flu instead of an order of magnitude worse), is dramatically less troubling than a covid outbreak six months ago, and it isn't worth mentioning in the context of fallout safety rules, except to say not to worry about covid.
The comments here are silly.

You can absolutely prioritize your risks, which means you’re not precluded from taking sensible precautions if you’re able to. This isn’t rock/paper/scissors. If you’re far enough away from the point of impact and the winds are right, Covid might be more of a threat than a nuclear bomb.

If you’re two states away from where a bomb goes off, and insist on open-mouth kissing strangers as they cough on you, that’s up to you. But also you can just throw on a mask and step a few feet back from folks and be a little safer.

Also, really bad scenarios can often stem from a couple of things going wrong all at once. So just be safe and use as much good judgment as the situation allows. And lean on easy, automatic, strategies to help you not compound issues.
I looked into something similar for implementing a concurrent GC. I ended up just using mmap() and ptrace() since I did have to manipulate the process for certain barrier operations; I probably could have done it with non-ptrace system calls; there are tradeoffs to be made (either way you need to interrupt any pending systemcalls, but there are multiple ways of doing that).
I am rather experienced. Eagle scout, that sort of thing. Maybe I should have been more clear: That wasn't advice, just what I think I would do.
the steam deck, from all early reviews, sounds like endless settings fiddling to play high visual load games.

the simplicity of the device with play.date is its selling feature (to me).

there’s a lot of diversity in interests so I don’t get the quick to claim DOA on this.
> If you are told by authorities to evacuate to a public shelter, try to bring items that can help protect yourself and your family from COVID-19, such as hand sanitizer that contains at least 60 percent alcohol, cleaning materials, and two masks per person. Children under two years old, people who have trouble breathing, and people who cannot remove masks on their own should not wear them.

I beg to differ.
The sections mentioning COVID have been in place for over a year: http://web.archive.org/web/20210326031042/https://www.ready....

i.e., from a time when almost no-one was vaccinated, and the strains of COVID going around were much deadlier. It's absolutely reasonable for the guidelines of that time to try to prevent fallout shelters crammed with thousands of people from all coming down with COVID simultaneously -- and particularly trying to protect aid workers.
Protests almost by definition cause collateral damage.

If you are blocking off streets, you are slowing down people getting into work, slowing down emergency services...

If you are not doing any of that, you are not getting heard and there's not much "protesting" going around.

I think GP's point was that these protests, while aligned in spirit, might actually work against each other. Non-Russian companies stopping to provide service to Russian-protesting entities will mean that they can't achieve their protest objectives anymore.
Snip-snap! Snip-snap! Do you have any idea what three ceo changes does to a company??
I think that feeling contributes to some people falling for conspiracy theories. Agnosticism is exhausting. Constantly finding out that you were wrong is just miserable. You just want to believe something, so it's tempting to just throw yourself into some belief. Also an important role religion has traditionally served. The non-falsifiability is a feature, not a bug.
We’re just web developers, not affiliated with or funded by any major company. In fact Google pays Apple 15b usd a year for search engine placement on iOS which is presumably why they haven’t been fighting it.

It’s been a huge amount of unpaid work, but the entire industry had been held back for so long we felt we had to do something.
Having been one who grew up during through the cold war in the 80s, it's just something you have to accept. I remember in 4th grade on the playground, the kids (me) were debating with the teacher whether it was better to stand outside and get nuked or go inside and live through the aftermath.

Having said that and having lived through all this before and nothing happened, I wouldn't worry too much. Also read Alas Babylon, it's pretty good and related.

On a side note, we could also get hit by an asteroid at any time with no notice, so there's always something to make you unease if you dwell on it.