skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sake of perspective.

Let's say Belgium was invaded and I had to to handle a support ticket from the same nationality as the agressor.

I'm not sure if I would have the clarity to handle it with the "expected" care, if I just had to flee my home. While standing with your employees is one thing, I'm not sure if the same support quality can be achieved.

The whole continent received nuke threats by now, making it worse.
also, we've preemptively invaded two countries (UN war crimes also) and our oligarchs get to keep their mansions and yachts and none of them will ever see the inside of a prison cell. we should absolutely condemn Putin, but I wish we'd also lock up our own war criminals.
If they're willing to terminate service for political reasons in this case, who's to say they won't do it in the future for other political reasons? Here begins the slippery slope of Namecheap terminating service to those it deems "wrong".

Been a happy, confident Namecheap user for a long time. Now I'm not so confident.
> due to a cyberattack on one or more of the automaker's major business partners.

...and that's about the whole article.
Would you give me a list of "wrong" things I shouldn't do, or "wrong" places I shouldn't live, in order to not have my service terminated in the future? I live in Turkey sometimes. Am I in danger of losing my Namecheap account if Erdoğan (the dictator) does something even more crazy than usual, in the future?
Yes, it is completely silly? And you admit it? Then why do you do it?

It's also annoying to read. It costs a half-second to think every time we read a year. That's rather reader-hostile.
Are you sure this will help your objective?

Putin is a maniac and his war is horrible.

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.

Russians that are savvy enough to setup their own domain, will also be the ones that use a VPN to read foreign news. Very few in the Russian "tech scene" like Putin.

Shutting down their means of communication may make it harder for them to stage demonstrations, etc.

Instead, you should "magically" add emails to their inboxes, with e.g. Zelenskyy's speech to the Russian people, or add banners when they login to control panels etc.

(I'm not Russian btw, I live in another European country and not a customer)
Trading between nations that are in open conflict is kind of interesting. For example in this case yes, Standard Oil was providing the Nazis with fuel, but presumably they were getting paid in return and part of that money was funding the US Government through taxes paid by Standard Oil, directly of indirectly.

There's also the Nazis' pov, of course, for lack of a better term. One could say that they were giving money/liquidity (I suppose US dollars, not sure on this one) directly to one of the enemies they were fighting.

Like I said, these type of examples (which are pretty rare, at least to my knowledge) can be pretty interesting if you start going into the details.
This is true of all projects that scale uncontrollably
But it might run Linux. I could take the hit in performance if Linux run perfectly (including hibernate, etc).
> Which means that Putin actually receives more money because of this.

When you cut a country off from trade, obviously some agents within that country are going to get more business.
Hello Namecheap: Are you sure this will help your objective?

Putin is a monster and his war is horrible.

As you've probably seen from the 'prisoners of war' videos out of Ukraine, most soldiers don't want to fight this war (and are mislead).

Tech-savvy Russians (have their own domain) will also be the ones that use a VPN to read foreign news. Very few in the Russian "tech scene" like Putin.

Shutting down their means of communication may make it harder for them to arrange demonstrations, etc.

Instead, you should "magically" add emails to their inboxes, with e.g. Zelenskyy's speech to the Russian people, or add banners when they login to control panels etc.

(I'm not Russian btw, I'm European and not a customer)
They updated what they said to clarify: They're only banning new loans, not repayment of old ones.
A single continent is another way of saying an island, and while shipping via air is routine now, ocean shipping is by and large the way we move goods in and out of our country. You can see how much it is by looking at how the ports are backed up right now.

Correct the Beirut explosion was cause by international shipping not domestic but my argument was that if you do not have safeguards then you will have more chances of something like that happening. Small backwater and intercostal ports in the US might not have the resources to deal with abandoned ships and cargo in the way that out international ports do.
This is fascinating, and the crystals look so cool! I also recently got into chemistry, mainly for metal finishing like anodizing, and also making my own medication as I can't rely on the healthcare system.

It is amazing! For serious stuff, you need a lot of materials and equipment, but a lot can be done with the simplest of tools and proper knowledge. Having a room full of simple lab equipment I still feel like Heisenberg lol
Some things are obviously wrong, I know how to tell right from wrong. Do you not understand how to?
I wasn't trying to debate the merits of crypto. I'm pointing out that the parent has a clear misunderstanding of what a ponzi scheme is. The semantics is the whole point. He's using the word incorrectly.

By your definition, every successful stock on the planet is a ponzi scheme
M type dwarfs can easily have a lifespan in the main sequence spanning many trillions of years with even their red giant phases estimated to outlasting even the main sequence of stars of our size.

A steller mass black hole's estimated lifespan would of course make even these seem like an eyeblink by comparison.
I am from a third party country that has absolutely nothing to do with this war, but my thought after seeing Russian civilians complain about these policies is that, they should stand up, go out of their home and complain to their government.

The reason why all the world is doing this is because their freaking leader (Putin) has threatened nuclear war, and is pushing for war, invading a country. Like... hello? you have no business in any international matter (finance, sport, gaming, internet, etc) until you fix your shit in your country.

So yeah, I am happy that this thing is making Russian civilians uncomfortable. Hopefully they will be uncomfortable enough so that millions of Russian citizens raise their voice and stop this madness, before it is too late.
Efficiency depends a lot on illuminance and cell type as well. To hit 35% you need super pricey multijunction PV panels for outer space. The amorphous panels that work best in dim indoor light are only 10% efficient at best. Conventional monocrystalline is 21%. As you point out, shading and orientation can pull you down from those peak numbers.

I really liked the Z80 idea myself, because CP/M is close to the minimum system where self-hosted development is a reasonable thing to do, and there are full free-software toolchains for it. But as it turns out, according to the datasheet, the Z80 is super power hungry, like 500 mW when it's running. Two orders of magnitude worse than the STM32L, and three orders of magnitude worse than the Ambiq chips! And there doesn't seem to be a low-power clone. Also, the Z80 isn't very good at running C, even if it's not quite as bad as the 8080 or the 6502.

Unix doesn't demand much more than CP/M, but fork() does require some sort of MMU, and writing a large system in an unsafe language probably requires some kind of memory protection for fault isolation in practice (at least an MPU). There's lots of available chips that can do milliwatt computing with the oomph of a SPARC-20 or PowerMac, but none of them have MMUs, not even PDP-11-style segmentation registers, and they also have less RAM. You'd have to compensate for the lower RAM by using secondary storage more aggressively; fortunately, secondary storage is four orders of magnitude lower latency now than it was in SPARC-20 or PowerMac days, but in the submilliwatt regime you're probably limited to I/O rates that are slower than those machines could typically manage.

If you're interested, more detailed notes can be found in Dernocua in notes/energy-autonomous-computing.html. Along with, of course, lots of marginally relevant crap.

You may be interested in the discussion about Oberon that started the other day if you missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467122
These things aren’t some secret paperwork that needs to be filed, they’re publicly visible legal reforms that make the economies and legal systems compatible with all the other member states’. Not to mention a ton of regulatory trade stuff. I would compare it to rewiring an entire operating system AND bios AND… I dunno assembly language or something. And this isn’t just about compatibility, it’s also about trust - EU membership goes along with many commitments and standards.

And now imagine 10-20 years down the a post-Putin Russia influencing Ukraine once again, only now it is a EU member state, Zelenskyy has retired and some other euro-sceptic madman is manipulating the EU only from the inside. This also is a concern politically - how sure can we be that Ukraine, which is known for swinging East-West, doesn’t swing back?

Just look at the conflicts that Poland and Hungary have caused. These are countries which are basically breaking democratic standards from the inside and vetoing change. Not an easy situation.
Most registers accept other currencies too, like GBP, CAD or AUD which you didn't mention as being blocked.
Understood and I share your cynicism. I was just confused when reading the post initially.
It's a sanction. Meant to cause contention within their society to promote regime change. Think of it as tough love.
I am truly appalled by a response like this. Is this really the Namecheap CEO? I am sincerely glad I have never made use of your services (as a non-Russian, European citizen). By your logic, YOU should have acted against the (proxy) warfare the US is doing throughout the years.
How about you just stop collecting taxes in Russia instead of cutting them off?

Either way, I'm noting you down for BDS.

I suggest you also employ people in Palestine, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Myanmar, Kashmir, etc.
I think Tesla actually used radar data to provide ground truth for this. So they don't even do that to generate ground truth. What happens if things have the same relative speed when doing the labeling? Or low light conditions? How do you account for per part variation in lens and sensor designs and how it messes with your predictions?
Wow, what a way to treat your customers...

In general I think punishing mostly innocent individuals for a decision made by their government is a terrible way to proceed. Furthermore with the 1-week notice you're literally urging people to get off your own platform. I don't condone the Russian-Ukraine war, but just because you take a political stand -- legitimate or not -- doesn't mean it's fair to put undue pressure on .ru domain owners just because those TLDs happen to be Russian (are they even reimbursed?).

I'm not picking any sides here but I won't use Namecheap if I know it can deny me service on a whim just because the government of the country I have registered my domain name in has gone to war with another country. War is force majeure but Namecheap really didn't have to do this: it makes them an unreliable provider in regard to the current world's political instability.
Why hasn't Russia gained control of the air?
Portugal has 10M people, Russia has 146M, so 4x14,6=58,4.. A similar coup would result only in 58 deaths.. ;)
There’s a lot of conditions that come into play. If I’m actively in the meeting and the number is obviously wrong and I have no analyst support (usually at the point). I’ll just table it and apologize and send a follow up to the attendees after the meeting and summarize whether I feel like the correct calculation impacts our decisions/discussion. These things do have a reputational cost so it’s my job to see that myself and my team and putting out error free stuff and having it proofread and such is usually the best we can do.

There are many times when the math is in fact correct and the numbers are just implausible. That’s usually the meat of the meeting and something to dig deeper on. Hopefully we noticed it, double checked it, and it’s one of my talking points to address in the meeting. Either I want to point it out and explain why or point it out and ask why depending on who I’m talking to.
> I often drive with sub in my eyes at dawn/dusk and trust that the road is clear

For others left wondering what this meant, I think GP meant "I often drive with [the sun] in my eyes at dawn/dusk .."
Maybe it's wrong to place less emphasis on renewable energy but one of the arguments I hear in EA circles is that renewable energy/climate activism is already popular and gaining support. It's not a neglected cause area.

However causes like malaria prevention are pretty unsexy and don't get much love even though it's cheap, easily preventable.

Also, not talked about != not a worthy cause area to pursue.
This is a terrible attempt at slippery slope argumentation. Launching a major land war while pursuing nuclear escalation is a solid cliff above cancel culture.
I share that sentiment.
I'm so sad that the Beagle project doesn't come out with a CPU refresh.
This has been posted a few times today, the biggest 100pts, 49 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30500753
Everything about this screams immaturity. You didn't think about this, how it would affect others, whether or not it would actually improve anything for anyone, etc. This doesn't affect the Russian government in any way whatsoever. You are not making a difference, not a positive one anyway. You're acting purely based on spite, attacking mostly innocent people in any way you can purely because they are living under a government you disagree with, not necessarily by choice. I don't know what led you to believe that russian citizens can just wake up one day and decide to kick out the government, but I am sorry to say that this is not true.

Thankfully I don't use namecheap, but if I did, I would be moving my domains out of it right now, russian or not. I do not wish to rely on a service run by people who may throw a childish tantrum and terminate my service at any time due to something I may not have any control over.
Then again, weight loss is such a ubiquitous desire that it tends to underlie every conversation about food. So much so that it seems like weight loss is the only thing that gets most people to consider dietary changes.

At which point, "eat less" and "CICO" do seem to suggest to people that calories are the only thing to consider while gut health, metabolic health, sleep quality (TFA), etc. sit by the wayside.
Already Chinese money is a big no-no for anyone touching the federal government.
F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store
The bit about the Zoom call was one instance. For me, the ability to do rough estimates and calculations permeates everything I do ... it's everywhere, all the time, and when I'm with people who don't do it, they seem to be missing something indefinable. It's not about pulling out a calculator to do some sums in the middle of a Zoom call, that's just a hint, just a flavour.

But we're repeating ourselves. I'm saying I agree with the submitted post, that it's everywhere, and in everything, and feels like a superpower. You're saying you don't understand, therefore it can't be that important. That's fine, the post (and my replies here) have tried to give you an insight into this experience ... you don't have to believe it.

Back in a previous job we'd be in a meeting and people would be discussing strategies. The ability to sketch out options, choices, rough costs, and expected benefits on the fly meant that it all flowed without pause, without hesitation. Pulling out calculators and working out the numbers would have made things horribly staccato ... I've been in meetings where that happened.

> What does that comparatively make people who use calculators to do estimates? Simple primates using an iPhone?

It makes them ordinary people (in this sense) without this superpower. They may have other skills that people find extraordinary and don't understand, they might not.
Practically, syscall overhead has gotten in the way of that being the ubiquitous in the past. Here's to hoping that newer models of syscalls that reduce kernel/user overhead make such a thing possible.
A lot of times I’ve found the amount of time it takes me to solve a problem is about the same whether I’m actively working on it or not. Once a problem has been percolating in my head for a while things eventually “click” and it just becomes a matter of typing out the code. This looks like procrastination from the outside, but I’m still working even if it looks like I’m taking it easy. At least my brain is, somehow. I have come to trust this process after many years.

Alternatively if I start tackling the problem immediately and really put my nose to the grindstone there’s often a lot of moments where I realize I didn’t understand the problem fully, and waste a ton of time backtracking. So it ends up taking the exact same amount of time, only difference is how many times I banged my head against the wall in frustration.
It isn’t paywalled though since Medium gives you 3 free articles to read.
It should be forbidden to ask these questions without posting the text of the C&D for us to read.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 28, 2022
I think that infrastructure changes and car2car communication, will also make LIDAR less necessary. Imagine if a stopped emergency vehicle could communicate to all cars, AV or not, to slow down, stop or stay out of certain lanes of traffic.
Curses, you're right!
Have you tried adding more hearty/'stick to your ribs' style portions to your dinners? Thinks that make you feel satisfied and full longer, so you make it through the night.
Yes the Android OS requires you to be rooted to add the feature if your image wasn't built with the privileged extension.
Corporations Raise Prices as Consumers Spend ‘With a Vengeance’
I hope it works out, good luck.
Very cool crystals. A lot of them look like the icon for a crystal you'd see in a video game.

Can you add dyes to color them? Or will the crystal exclude the dyes as impurities? Maybe the could be dipped after growth is complete (or added to a surface coat?)
I mean... I would be OK if namecheap decides to terminate the service for other countries that threat the world with nuclear bombs. I think that's a whole different level.
Thanks for your kind words about serializer :)

Really happy you enjoy using it.
Scientists want to create a library of every sound in the ocean – Science – AAAS
I'm genuinely curious and haven't found an answer online so I'll ask you: why stop at 10K and not 100K? Also we represent 3-digit years like 770 without problems, so what does this solve?

Is the hypothetical problem so bad that solving it is worth the ambiguity between octal numbers and the extra effort for readers to parse 02022 as year?
It gets crazier. At least back in the 1970s, you used to be able to emulate 7090 (IIRC) software on System/360. So if you have a 7090 program from the 1950s, you may be able to still run it today on z/OS, because you can probably run the 1970s-era emulator.
"Tax dollar"... I don't want to diverge the discussion, but that's the very same reason I've been avoiding "Made in China" products (as much as I can) for several years now.
OK. What should I do if I don't fall under a refugee description, don't have any immediate family in the EU, my diploma means nothing to EU, and have no bag of gold to immigrate illegaly?

This is me, plain and simple. I would like to immigrate, but I have no legal grounds.

Serious question, no gimmicks or laughs: should I die or be cancelled by the rest of the world?
Depending on how you delineate the families, the origins of x86 date back to 1972 (Intel 8008) and obviously x86 itself dates to 1978 ;)

Z80 also dates back a really long time, and there is a ton of stuff that still uses Z80-family processors in many embedded applications (microwaves, calculators, etc).

I realize neither of those are probably the absolute oldest, but this is going to hinge on what each commenter's exact definition of "families" and "still in use" are. Active development/new chips being released? Still in widespread legacy use? One-off legacy systems still hanging on in an industrial installation somewhere?

In terms of what is the absolute oldest - again depending on your exact definition of "family", z/System is arguably the oldest computer family, you can trace a direct lineage back to punchcard tabulation programs, which date back into the 1880s. z/OS systems can run programs originally compiled for System/360, which was designed to be directly ported from plugboard programs for programmable tabulators, so in a "ship of theseus" sense that is likely the oldest computer family.
> a life overseas in some poor country is worth as much as a life here (in NYC where I live)

Similar methodology, perhaps, not philosophy.

Both seek to objectively measure impact across multiple causes e.g. healthcare, education and other disparate philanthropic domains.

The scoping is, however, as you note, different. Robinhood holds that a life nearby is more valuable to the people near it than one faraway. (There is also an institutional component to this argument. A life elevated in New York has a higher chance of producing multi-generational change than one in an intermittent war zone. Though the war zone is in part a product of that depression.) So helping one person in the Bronx at the cost of five in Sub-Saharan Africa is okay, but helping one person in Manhattan over two in Queens is not. (Drastically oversimplifying, but you get the point.)

> company's philanthropic arms

The Foundation has nothing to do with Robinhood, the company.
I mean, I've personally had to fix cves from vfork(2) being a such footgun; so I wouldn't consider it a "incorrect conclusion".
If you are using it to back up data that is not easily compressible then yes, it can be.
> Whereas I think the value proposition of smartphones was fairly obvious.

As someone who was in the industry at the time, I think you're looking with hindsight goggles on.

In the initial age of smartphones we had Blackberries (email/productivity devices) for business people, then a hodge podge of HTC Windows devices, the Hiptop, etc. There was no obvious path to ubiquity, and they were made for business men or teenagers.

Nothing at that stage indicated either the likelihood of every person in a western country carrying one, common services and businesses switching exclusively to them, the massive quantities of time spent on them or them becoming our primary computing devives.

Fast forwarding 15 years - yes, the value proposition is obvious. However it seems we're in a similar situation with a hand wavey "VR is just for gamers". Time will tell.
I did not know Amazon had purchased Abebooks. Damn our antitrust regulators have been asleep for a long time.
> These bills are mostly useless if they don't include bonus and stock compensation

Most employees in Washington State receive neither. Step out of the tech bubble for a second.
Ask HN: How to Leave Tech Walled Gardens?
I want to take more control of my digital life. How do people leave walled tech gardens? Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and so forth. Are there sites you can recommend to assist? Resources, platforms, tools that you like?