skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in "the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine", the "in Ukraine" is the important part.

The actual message is "you are our enemy and we don't want to provide services for you" - which is fair enough, but not palatable by current business standards, so they instead couch it in moralistic high-ground terms that they can selectively apply.
TIL that SSH has an escape character to kill a shell. So many MacOS terminals I've had to kill because of hung shells. Is this list of sequences from a specific 'man' doc that I can read more in?
> a less secure computing experience

Citation needed. The web sandbox in most browsers is head-and-shoulders more secure than executing arbitrary native code.

Perhaps you meant "private." It's true that the web has developed something of a fingerprinting problem, but this can be solved with finer-grained capabilities-based permissions, as well as privacy-conscious implementations (e.g. bucketing).
We clearly need a comic about Real Programmer Man and his exploits.
And of course this doesn't work in Firefox because / opens up quick find. Because some people don't bother to make sure their sites run on browser engines other than Chromium and Blink.
Life isn't fair. Russia invading Ukraine wasn't fair.

In order to change the government of a dictatorship, someone would need to take the initiative to overthrow the government. This could be ordinary people, but the military or elites would have the best chance of pulling it off. But, there needs to be some pressure to change, or everyone will keep muddling along as things are.
Cause censorship is going to help things out especially as we've learned recently that practically all the high profile stories such as the Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island and others were 100% fake.
The fact that to make an iOS app you need an iOS device, a MacOS device and still have to pay Apple $100 to install software on your own phone really set me off.
I have to disagree that fork is evil. fork is great because of copy-on-write. I guess my particular use case is not very typical/common though.

I'm running powerflow simulations on a power grid model (several GB of memory to store the model). Copy-on-write means I can make small modifications to this model and run simulations in parallel. Thanks to fork/copy-on-write, I can run 32 simulations in parallel, each will small modifications without requiring 32 times as much memory.
"So they are hiring and allocating capital based on reasons other than merit?"

You are saying this as if it's a totally alien concept in the West, Half of British leadership comes from one degree program at Oxford -

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/ppe-for-peop...
Please, go read Gulag Archipelago, come back when you are done and share your thoughts on the limits of the soviet penal system.
I didn't downvote you, but comparing the Sami, thinly stretched across remote regions in four countries, to the independent island nation of Iceland is, uhh, naive.
In 1982 MCP would have been the same age as Linux was in 2012.

(Just an interesting point of reference.)
Does anyone know Go lang or Rust based alternative for Hasura, Postgraphile?
Support for the war, on in general?

If in general, we must have rather different views on what it means to support the government.
What do you even use your phone for nowadays? I barely have any apps in them. I just use Twitch, Youtube, browsers (for Hackernews) and Reddit. All of which is big enough that they are prolly the overlords in said walled-garden. Are there any niche apps that is _very_ useful and yet _very_ obscure?
> ..you sound prejudiced.

I am providing critique here, the burden of proof is on whoever wrote the bold claim that application development is web development (speculation) and it is a better way of development (speculation).

> I am glad for you that you don't need them. But we'd like to at least have the choice.

I would not have a gripe with the article if it were the only thing it alluded to.
When the day comes when US tanks cross over into Canada to annex it under a false pretext, running over passenger vehicles; when the US tells its soldiers they are going on a military exercise only to have them shoot at their neighbor; when the US tells the world "if you get involved we'll nuke you"; when the US jails its anti-war protestors for as much as carrying a sign... then perhaps your comparison will be valid. Until then you're just deflecting.
How do you express years beyond 99999?
>Did the reporters who broke the pentagon papers see court?

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...

And the ruling was printing classified documents was protected, though the government is trying to reverse this ruling with the Assange case.
important distinction - this uses the Postgres Table Access Method to add an additional storage engine to the Postgres platform.. this is NOT a replacement for the current storage engine and can co-exist and be used on a per-table basis
Do Israel next. The tax dollars support Apartheid and war crimes.
That's the sad thing about this. They don't know better, rural areas only have tv-propaganda.

Additionally, that report is from 23/02. I believe that opinion should have shifted quite a lot already.
I think the theory is that you should try, as you are now by writing that post here.. but make your own efforts and costs very minimal (also as you have done).. maximize the possibility that a random, individual person may find it, who cares (this is a great place for that).. leave breadcrumbs that can lead an interested party to valid actionable information; and lastly, limit exposure to yourself for retaliation if it is that sort of situation..
I don't think the entire codec is supported, either. Last I checked, it's still missing features like WEBM alpha layers.
Could someone recommend me good alternatives? I'll be moving all of my domains. I will never support any business that decides to go political and start deplatforming/censoring, whether I agree with their views or not.
Now do the same for HAL.
The point is you can operate it unshielded or thermally lagged. A typical Fusor has about the power output of a domestic lightbulb. I have several of those on in the room I’m in right now. Fusion in a desktop apparatus, by itself, is no big deal.
You can be angry at both the company and the person who publicly revealed the issue without first trying to inform the company. That's literally white-hat-hacking 101.

They keys may already be public (technically), but he is the one publicizing it and posting it on Hacker News. OP is also clearly aware of how much harm can be done using these keys, since he asks people to not use them.
I've been trying to automate my smartphone configuration and backup lately.

I use a lot of apps from F-droid, and was pleased to discover fdroidcl: https://github.com/mvdan/fdroidcl

I now have a script that installs most of my daily driver apps using it, given ADB and developer mode active on the phone.

I'm using Syncthing to shuttle data between phone and laptop, and that's lovely, especially with the npm syncthing-hooks package installed.

If anyone has other tips on automating phone setup, especially in a plain-text, Git-friendly way, I'd love to hear about it.
I guess all the Putin supporters outside of Russia are very lucky to not have to move their domains off namecheap!
ICANN + lawsuit
I had no idea Goodreads was an Amazon service. Frankly, the whole site feels pretty janky. I'm surprised they would have acquired it and then not invested more.
What a trashy move, seriously.

>I cannot with good conscience continue to support the Russian regime in any way

So apparently now, when you contract a service, you should know that it could be terminated abruptly whenever one of its founders has some sort of trascendental realization. Did you have to call Denpok Singh to ponder that out?
then my value as a person living in the US is net negative to the world ?

i say this as someone living in US borders and citizenship
> Where was this energy when the US was taking a flamethrower to the entire Middle East region?

Muted for two reasons:

(1) racism, as many people have noted, but also

(2) the fact that the regimes the US was taking a flamethrower to in the middle east were ones that the international community would have acted against previously for war crimes, etc., even despite racial bias against the targets, but for superpowers standing in the way (notably, in the case of Saddam’s Iraq, the United States itself.)
When was the last time the US invaded a democracy?
It will be a slow takeoff like AI. It takes time for business applications to emerge. This is how all new tech works.

The businesses built around them have to grow and many will fail.
Isn't HANDLE basically fd?
only the additional “hooks” for Table Access Methods need to get up streamed into the core Postgres. OrioleDB is a separate storage engine and not designed to replace the current engine, and be used as an adjunct storage option
If Apple wants to make a case for a natural browser duopoly, they should do so by investing some of their $200 billion dollars in cash to make a competitive browser experience, not by forcing their users into a position where they can't choose.
>The radiation thing is not true.

Definitely true... public sensors like weather. Well, i guess you could argue belarus claim is dependent on wind direction. The troops at chernobyl though? No question they are fatally irradiated.

>Kofman claims that Russia is yet to treat this war as a conventional one. What we have seen so far is not representative of their capabilities. There is military failure, but it's also a question of how much destruction Russia is willing to inflict.

The nazi crap seems to have been confusion. It seems Russia believed their own propaganda. They genuinely thought that they were liberating the people who were oppressed. They thought that the ukrainian people were on their side or something. Instead the russian military sure looks trash right now.

This isn't some spec ops precision strike. This is a conventional war. Yes, it's very true that Russia has much more. Said nukes are on alert.

>Unfortunately there is plenty of room for escalation. Putin may not be willing or able to throw in the towel. Cornering a wild animal can be dangerous.

Like what? It's a war crime to intentionally target civilians or civilian buildings. Cruise missiles largely speaking took out most military. Air force has nothing left to really target. Meanwhile antiair is plentiful to keep russia out of the air.

Navy has hit their one target and is now stuck in the black sea burning fuel.

This is an army battle. Russian armor is collapsing. so many destroyed tanks. All the allies are providing antiarmor ammo to ukraine.

Where's the escalation beside using nukes?
GoPuff Is a $ 40B Delivery Company. 9 Years Ago It Started as a Hookah Store
Yep, me too. I used to evangelize frequent updates because of the security aspect. However over time I kept getting burned by disruptive or buggy updates that broke things that I depend on.

The last straw for me was a few years ago when my podcast suddenly stopped playing. When I unlocked the phone to investigate why the episode had stopped the UI had completely changed, in a way that I was completely lossed and had to start over learning it from scratch. I was right at the beginning of a long road trip and had pre-downloaded many hours were of stuff to listen to because I didn't have much data in my plan. All of the episodes I had downloaded were gone. Additionally because I was driving, learning a completely new interface was horribly dangerous.

That was the day I disabled auto updates, and now I manually approve each one. Certain apps where I don't want to risk UI changes or new bugs, don't get updated right away. When they do, I always backup the old APK first so I can easily restore it if needed.
Tell that to the families of the dead.
I can't believe how many people commenting are resorting to crazy eating schedules and skipping meals. Surely a healthier diet, regular exercise, not too much caffeine, booze etc is a healthier way to lose weight and sleep better.
I believe if you can do this, it would be considered an exploit. You're not supposed to be able to.
Elon Musk’s promised Starlink terminals have reached Ukraine
I didn't know they were a nonprofit. In that case, my OP is pretty off-topic for this case.
How does Siri know which device to use when you say “Hey Siri”?
We can't change the past.
Whoever is responsible/culpable doesn't matter. Sanctions aren't about punishing the population, they're about inciting a change.

A happy population doesn't riot and revolt. You need a miserable population to get something like that to happen.
I would expect Putin to be effectively insulated from this because nobody will be brave enough to tell him. The bringer of bad tidings historically did not fare all that well in places like Russia.
It seems like this 2019 paper covers this point, and the content in the gist? I was expecting to see a reference to it

A fork() in the road

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3317550.3321435

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19621799

Although it does say that vfork() is difficult to use safely, while the gist recommends it? I think there is still some clarity needed around the use cases.

Fork today is a convenient API for a single-threaded process with a small memory footprint and simple memory layout that requires fine-grained control over the execution environment of its children but does not need to be strongly isolated from them. In other words, a shell. It’s no surprise that the Unix shell was the first program to fork [69], nor that defenders of fork point to shells as the prime example of its elegance [4, 7]. However, most modern programs are not shells. Is it still a good idea to optimise the OS API for the shell’s convenience?
This is one company that went public with their disagreement

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/03/16/80m-deal-gone-w...

Most others do not because voicing anything means no exchange listing, no potential of support from Alameda/FTX and their partners

Many token founders are fine with it for the payday (like in Ren/Republic protocol) while all the tokens get dumped on their community

It is very common in the crypto exchange/advisor space for contractual arrangements to go “I’ll buy your illiquid treasury and wont immediately sell, trust me bro” and then they sell once the partnership announcement creates a bunch of fomo and liquidity to sell into, Alameda has the reputation of being that way. And then when confronted they say “it wasnt in the contract and there was no vesting smart contract to prevent selling either, we’re not in the wrong”

Not the most community collaborative to say the least, its very lucrative for them
In practice, not really IMO. Both Android & iOS also supports disk encryption and are also locked for most of the day. I don't know why you say "few services exposed to the network" for Linux when virtually every installed package has unfettered access to the internet (unless you're wrapping it with something like Docker or manually setting up your own network namespaces). Android and its apps can be run 100% open source as well.

On the other hand, there are two big security advances prevalent on mobile but rare on Linux and other desktop operating systems:

- capability-based sandboxing (ie. enforced app permissions)

- device integrity attestation (ie. the system can tell if you've modified your device in non-standard ways)

Linux does actually have nascent and partial efforts on both fronts (eg. Flatpak, Snap, Secure Boot support) but even then they're usually not popular or easy to use.
No one fears "Putin", or "Stalin". They fear the security apparatus that the dictator controls. And that security apparatus needs to be paid: in rubles, status, feudal power, familial influence, party promotions, regional rivalries, etc...

In 1937, Stalin could effect the Great Purge by rewarding his NKVD with nothing but things he already controlled as the head of the party, using no resources that had to be sourced from outside the borders of the USSR (and after 1940, of course, he didn't even need to pay them because they were serving him out of patriotism in an attempt to save the nation from Hitler).

In 2022 Putin needs to pay his support structure with iPhones and yachts. That's harder to do when your economy is shit.

We'll see. No one can predict a coup. But these are the circumstances that produce them.
Expedited screening (the PreCheck line) is not a guarantee, even if you have PreCheck.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/frequently-asked-questions/if-i-a...

Conversely, I've talked with people that travel often or are older/a certain demographic that often receive PreCheck, even though they haven't paid for it etc.
No, no, this is me trying to indicate what is implicitly said by getting so worked up about an invasion of Ukraine while being perfectly fine with one in Iraq.

I mean, people weren't exactly fine with it, but I didn't see anyone sanctioning the US govt either.

Of course the alternative is saying that it's fine as long as it's us (western'ish world) invading them, instead of us being invaded, but that's even more hypocritical.
Stalinism isn't a realistic outcome of this conflict. You have a poor understanding of what modern Russian repression looks like.

If the war goes on for any length of time, though, all the mass death and destruction that comes to fighting a modern war in urban areas will take place. See - literally any war zone in history, but I'd like to draw particular attention to Chechnya. It wasn't the peacetime repression that killed two hundred thousand people, there, and displaced half a million more. It was the war.

Your entire family fought in wars, but how many of them have lived in the middle of one? There's a staggering difference of perspective between bringing war to foreign soil (which, if your family has been receiving purple hearts, they've been doing), and living through one fought in your back yard.
Zendesk engineers manage customer-facing data applications
That part is constant time. The O(N) is the random shuffle
How many of you have protested USA and boycotted their products during 78 of days of bombing of civilians in Yugoslavia in 1999? Ukraine was making statements in supports of such aggression.
Ukraine Receives Truckload of Starlink Terminals, Gives Thanks to Elon Musk
Couldn't you say the same for IE7?
In a way it would be better if the android platform didn't exist because then regulators would be able to open up ios. We were all better off after Microsoft was forced to allow other browsers. The government's ability to regulate monopolies makes them preferable to stable cozy duopolies.
Sometimes I think it would have been cool to have gotten into supporting something really obscure like that at an early stage in my career.

A near-guaranteed contract renewal as long as the system wasn't replaced. If it was to be replaced, you'd likely have a good amount of warning. You'd be one of a very small handful of people in the world able to support and maintain the system. You could become a deeply knowledgeable expert about the system over dozens of years likely without having to learn a new language, framework or system more than a few times in your career.

Of course, the downsides are huge, especially if you limited yourself to that one system. If the contract didn't renew, finding a new job would likely be incredibly difficult. I could see it getting mind-numbingly boring, I guess that might be a plus for some people, but would likely drive me crazy.
The "system" could be a shared Google Doc. I'm not sure you'd even want anything more complicated than that. The level of automation required here doesn't extend beyond copy-paste. The sacrificial account "crawl" is a human being with Google Docs open.
The vast majority of autocracies were overthrown by eroding their power bases.

"The people" are not one of Putin's power bases.

I.e., see financial sanctions.
Consequences for an authoritarian regime invading its neighbor aren’t suppose to be convenient.
I’ve been considering a vacation in Sri Lanka for the same reason (plus the history!).

I’m like “is the smart or crazy?” And the US embassy is advising people to avoid travel because of terrorism.

And I’m still not sure if it’s smart or crazy, but my wife says “no fucking way” and she’s smarter than I am so she’s probably right.
Ask HN: How Do Companies Innovate?
This question really bugs me, and am curious if anyone has any first hand experience seeing innovation 'happen' in a company. How do companies actually innovate? Especially when everyone is working on projects all the time?

For example, you may have seen this before, of 2 cavemen hauling a heavy load with a wheelbarrow with square wheels, with another showing them round wheels - "sorry, we're too busy" they exclaim and off they go: https://www.creativityatwork.com/wp-content/uploads/wheel.png.webp

You see most of my working life (programmer) all I've been is busy; working on projects non-stop as thats what I'm being paid to do - work. I've never once had time to innovate except maybe something minor on the fly. The project managers don't exactly innovate, as they're not tech focused so no one really innovates.

But then I see companies whom are obviously innovating all the time, ie chip companies: the process of 10mm to 7mm to 5mm is mind blowing to say the least, but theres no way they came up with the process on the fly? Did they? They must have had time to think, for a long time.

So how do they do it, are there specialised employees who are paid to sit around and 'ponder'? Are there employees being paid to do nothing but experiment with not a guarantee of ever solving any problem? How do companies actually innovate?
I don’t know what the west would do but I can’t imagine they’d stop. I can’t imagine it would be as simple as, “they used a nuke, we all better go home”.
> I would bet..

That is speculation on user behalf, isn't it? I am a user and I care.

> ..than having to learn all of the platform specific stuff..

It is a rational argument. However, Chrome is a platform too. More and more of the web only works (well) in Chrome. More and more of the web is what Chrome says it is.
I'm uncomfortable with this argument. It seems that people here are pretty comfortable advocating for regime change in Russia and punishing the population until it happens. I don't think the implications of this have been thought out at all.

If Bay of Pigs had instead been an open invasion, I can't imagine expecting Americans (especially ones who already opposed intervention!) to hear an argument like "we're incrementally boxing you out of everyday life until you take up arms against John Kennedy and oust him from office" as fair or serious in any way.
Whataboutism and cheating at the Olympics. You could tell me the year is 1982.
Google automatically signs you into Chrome (e.g. Chrome profiles) if you sign into any of Google’s web properties, including Youtube, GSuite, etc. [1] You don’t need tracking pixels for your ad products when you know who every user is operating the browser.

This conflict of interest - browser privacy vs. Google’s ad business - is the single reason I now use Firefox [on desktop].

[1] https://www.alphr.com/chrome-auto-sign-in/
>Want service workers to perform background sync? Want push notifications?

No. Not even a little. I don't want these for my native apps. I turn them off for everything.
I think what Europe actually communicated to China is that they will cut off everything except for what they need (gas). In the case of China, the US and EU need basically everything.
The questions were valid though. Please check my account age and then can i also get the answers which op asked.
The most hilarious thing is that, on that page, they encourage you to change the date on OSX by hardcoding a prefix 0 to your year. Which means that when we do actually reach the year 9999, you would theoretically have to remember to go in and remove the 0.