skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in Japan most of my life and while there is some truth to what you say, I think the notion that Japanese are ultranationalists or that they think all other cultures are inferior to Japan's is plain wrong.

One thing is that nationalism is taboo in Japan. While Japan doesn't reflect on its war past as strongly as Germany, there is still a strong sense of guilt and any nationalistic sentiment reminds them of war times and is perceived as creepy. Also a survey showed that Japanese don't have as much confidence in their technology and economy compared to what other countries think about Japan. I think this is largely because the Japanese are more aware of Japan's decline than people from other countries who's impression of Japan might be from the 90s, at the peak of Japan's economy. Also humility is a strong part of Japanese culture.

That said, Japanese will love it when foreigners talk about their convenience stores, or any other praises about Japanese culture. I also agree that foreign media outlets fetishize Japan when Japan is just a normal country just like any other. Foreign media often write stories about Japan having a family renting business for example, and that particular story turns out to be completely made up. They also write stories that exaggerate Japanese politeness. Then on the other hand there are stories that exaggerate Japan's ultranationalism which is a very fringe movement. Foreign media just write whatever drives clicks and so Japan gets depicted as more unusual than it really is. Also Japanese aren't so aware of what is written about them and even when they are, they don't react strongly so as to force Journalists to correct their stories.
While I’m at it - using a mouse to indicate focus seems silly if good gaze tracking is available.
The ad market for lang=x, location=y must be abysmally small, even for tourist destinations. When you pretend that you didn't notice that the user is not a local you can still bill the impression and most importantly the occasional accidental click as a "mission accomplished".
Domains are expected to be set up to stay online without intervention for years(1-10 years + even) it’s not right to yank domains away in a couple weeks time span just to virtue signal your support for the anti-Russia agenda. Some of these domains are probably used for internal services for hospitals, medical equipment, domestic transit, electricity grid, telecommunications and more so when you fuck with domains it causes all sorts of problems for real people who had nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine (which arguably Ukraine started, contrary to the msm message, Ukraine allegedly bombed schools and homes for 8 years in DPR) interview with civilians on Patrick Lancasters channel seem to support the claim that Ukraine was the aggressor.
This should be its own submission to HN
My father in law has a room completely filled with VCR tape copies. My wife tells me that they weren’t allowed to mention them since they attended a church that an FBI agent also attended. The FBI agents job was looking for people making copies of Copyright material (I presume on a larger scale than my FIL). In the nearly 3 decades I’ve visited their home, I’ve never seen anyone watch a single one of those VCR tapes. LOL
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It's a mistake a lot of companies make. They are so proud of their ability to lookup a country from an ip address that they forget that there are hundreds of millions of migrants living on this planet who probably speak something else. Not to mention tourists, business travelers, etc. I'm a non German living in Germany, I have to deal with this all the time. It's a combination of corporate stupidity, rookie & clueless product management, and just indifference. It's wrong every time. No buts. No ifs. No exceptions.

Use browser and OS settings, always. Anything else is a mistake that will cost you users and business.
This is more a utopian HOA than a country, under the rule of a sketchy real country.
Profit doesn't have to be equivalent to abuse. The idea that you have to abuse your users to make a profit is a relatively new one pioneered by Silicon Valley scum thanks to anti-competitive practices and lax/non-existent regulation.

Before this, we had centuries of businesses who were sustainable by just charging a fair premium on the goods they sold to their customers, and both sides were happy enough with the transaction to continue.
No that’s not the reason.

In large channel, asking to ask just straight up spam the channel.

In small channel, the communication is mostly async. And by the time someone saw your “Can I ask something” message, you are probably offline.
Very short message, but concise.

I think it very much relates to the sentiment of Nardwuar's TEDx talk: [0].
He's an interviewer. He's interviewed practically everyone alive with music, from Nicky Minaj to Kurt Cobain and back! almost every genre !

And you know what the message is from his talk ? Just ask.

You wanna do an interview with X person ? Just ask, do it!

He doesn't wait for anyone to push him, he wants to do something, he does it.
He interviewed Billie Eilish and even interviewed Cobain before the 2000s !

refs

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkSUazeI2nM
A lock with many keys: Spoofing DNSSEC-signed domains in 8.8.8.8
Google's answer to this problem is, "Just log in! Then we will always know what language you prefer." So Google doesn't make it easier to change that setting because they want you to be logged in all the time so they can track you better.
This article doesn’t really provide much in the way of explanation for why this law is being enacted. Here [0] is a better article that quotes supporters and objectors to the law.
It includes the (IMHO not very convincing) figures that "Between 1993 and 2003, around 130,000 Palestinians were given Israeli citizenship or residency through family unification, including children, according to court filings. The Shin Bet security service told the Knesset on Monday that between 2001 and 2021, about 48 were involved in terror activities.”

48 of 130,000 amounts to 0.037% being involved in terrorist activities which seems very low to be used as justification for a law around security.
How would that be different from NodeRed?
https://nodered.org/
Xfce accepted to Google Summer of Code 2022
From the article: « Proponents say the law helps ensure Israel's security and maintains its "Jewish character". »

Which is eerily similar to the arguments in favor of the 1935 "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour" (Nurenberg laws) in Germany, which forbade marriage between Germans and Jews.
Apparently, we have two opposed rationales.

Rationale 1: Terrorists are constantly looking for ways to get in a country, if the marriage background checks are proven not to be secure then it makes sense to pause it until a solution is found indeed.

Rationale 2: Jewish hate Arabs is the explanation for everything.

And I'm saying it would have been great if the article provided enough information so that we could make our own opinion based on more facts.
Chelsea is an English club with local employees, local fans, etc. and it is being destroyed. At some point this looks like cutting off your nose to spite your face...

You also make a very good point that the government decreeing to freeze all the assets of a few individuals just like that without any due process is deeply troubling, although apparently legal.
I love the concept of monorepos. With the proper tooling and support I think they can be force multipliers for high functioning engineering organizations. However almost none of the publicly available tooling for CI/CD, IDEs, Source code hosting, or any of the other force multipliers out there support it properly, so for most organizations I think it's a wash.

It's a shame really since if they did support monorepos better or even just stop assuming too much about the repository then a whole lot of things could be unlocked for engineering teams. As it stands though going the monorepo route means you'll be building a lot of bespoke tooling to support it.
You don't strictly need a local network, you could probably get it to work across a VPN. As long as you can get a TLS connection directly between the two devices.

In my experience the protocol is quite light on the network, because this directly influences where the cursor is on your screen you probably want to keep latency down as much as possible.
This just moves the tracking, stalking & dark patterns online.
The people of the West Bank have engaged in terrorism against Israeli civilians up to 2005 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada - and that's not particularly ancient history.
TSMC today is already full. What is your point?
To solve the mystery, Kagi is pronounced kah-gee (and is Japanese for "key")
> I don't see why, hypothetically, they can't all be sent with encryption that the government has a secret key to decrypt.

Because it's too risky, simple as that.

Let's say there is a single, super-secret-key, for government use only, that can decrypt any encrypted message on the planet.

What happens if this key is leaked? What if it's found out? What if the implementation of that key turns out to be buggy and is cracked? Remember, once there is such a key, it won't just be some criminals in godknowswherecountry trying to get it, it will be state-level actors with unlimited funds, resources and manpower.

If a single one of them gets their hands on this key, even ONCE, it's game over. Our modern society relies on encryption. If this key gets out, the results could be catastrophic; eg. Airplane navigational data manipulated in flight, stock market data manipulated in transit, financial transfers wide open for everyone to read and manipulate at will, control data for electrical grids, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants out in the open...it would be anarchy.
> They have literally committed war crimes, rapes and torture. And that's been documented since 2015.

A month ago all the alleged war criminals were sitting in jails (convicted ones are still incarcerated). This doesn't equal to rehabilitation.
I hate small talk more than you do. Promise. The logic here is if you're heading through hell, speedrun it
I am British. The BBC is the best media service in existence, and although one must watch with open eyes (like any media), it is generally more free of bias than any other available source, especially when covering international matters.

If there were an option to pay the license fee from the US, I would.

I can’t decide your generalizations are pretty ignorant (at best parroting the Daily Mail and friends) or malevolent.
Generically, yes. (So - ignoring details of Thawte's legal situation, etc.)

Sanctions, supporting Ukraine in various ways, etc. should be intelligently used tools, with an informed, competent, long-term strategy behind their use.

A lot of what's happening now feels more like "millions of 3-year-olds are really mad at Russia, so they each scream loudly, grab whatever thingie is close at hand, and bash really hard on Russia". Great for venting and follow-the-crowd virtue signaling. Probably far less useful for achieving reasonable strategic goals.
All countries. Western countries aren't especially evil or hypocritical.
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Just don't use it on any computer you play online games on. "Anti cheat" software tends to freak out on things like this.
Interviewing Cobain after 2000 would be even more impressive!
Well... they would love to sell you an new one every couple of years!
While we are complaining about this, can we all agree that using plain <select> for country is an anti pattern. There should be a fuzzy search.

So many times I have to search for my country under

United Kingdom

UK

Britain

Great Britain

England

Only to find that it was “Great Britain” but collated in the B’s amongst Bhutan and Belgium, etc.
> My theory has always been that in any given country, there are far more native speakers with misconfigured computing environments than there are visitors and nomadic folks like me. So it’s merely a numbers game: I may be frustrated, but at least Google and other companies aren’t losing business when folks with misconfigured computers close the tab because they got a page served to them in, say, English instead of their native language.

If you're right and they're following a numbers-game, Google's reasoning could only make the tiniest bit of sense if they were a disruptive minor player facing stiff competition. As it stands though, however frustrated a native speaker with a misconfigured browser may become, they're not going to flock to an alternative service. Plus, I would argue that a user that is not technically competent enough to change their own browser's language preference is the user least likely to even know where to look for alternatives to Google's services.

This is all the worst considering that a user whose browser is configured for the wrong language only needs to change their settings once. However, a user who happens to physically be in the wrong place for their language does not have the luxury of fixing the problem, short of using a VPN or travelling to a location that Google has decided speaks their language.
What happens in countries that have multiple official languages that can't be determined geographically? I only assume such places exist, or there must be places on the borders where the accuracy of geo-IP and the demographics aren't clear-cut.
Serious escalation: US believes North Korea testing intercontinental missile
I'm 99% certain it was Top Gun, and also, IIRC, it was because it had a Pepsi ad bundled with it before the movie (a somewhat groundbreaking move at the time). That subsidized the 'cost' of the movie on tape, reportedly.

EDIT: looked a bit more. Diet Pepsi, not Pepsi, and it was 1986. Article I just found said it was only dropping the price from $29 to $26, so the bigger price drop was likely/possibly something else before that. My memory was that that Top Gun / Pepsi thing was the big deal that changed the VHS pricing, but it's been 30+ years so I'm likely misremembering...

EDIT 2: maybe it was TG after all... https://www.everything80spodcast.com/how-the-top-gun-vhs-cha... ?
Every time one of those moronic bills show up I wonder if they know they are making the entire US banking system and online marketplaces vulnerable to Chinese and Russian hacking.

And what is that for? Some false promise of security? People who commit real crimes will just use illegal tools and would rather be prosecuted for """illegal use of real encryption""" than for whatever they are doing

Meanwhile people who actually need it for legitimate reasons are endangered by this law
Thankfully, no other state does this
It is polarizing though. There are a lot of people who will get positively offended at the notion that their wireless earbuds are not perfect.

One of the things that biases is that they hear the others OK, so assume the earbuds are fine. What needs digging is to understand that when somebody has open mike like that, most meeting software engages heavy noise reduction or even half-duplex conversation; so there's a lot of interruptions and "what did you say" and garbled voices for other people, that is hard to trace to root cause of that open busy mike.
Romania is south as well.
But thats not the situation today, you cant base current policy on past grievances
Yeah, erm ... Europe != USA and the linked blog post is clearly written for the US audience.

The US does a lot of things differently to Europe, perhaps most famously employment. The US (unsurprisingly) takes the capitalist approach and sides firmly on the side of the company. Europe stands firmly on the side of the employee. Employment Law in Europe is a very complex topic indeed. There are tons of things you can do as a US employer that in Europe would be guaranteed to put you infront of an Employment Tribunal with expensive results.

Therefore I would strongly caution about trying to transpose an article about US company formation and operation to an EU context. You are likely to be wasting your time, frankly, as the nature is so very different.
I think switching sides to China might be a more realistic possibility.
I think you missed where they said they created a throwaway account (suggesting they've got a regular one they don't want downvoted into oblivion), and even named the account throwaway_foo (all pretty much the standard on HN afaics).

If you are looking for a propaganda troll, you are likely barking at the wrong tree.
They never publicly announced how many employees they had in Russia, but I heard informally that they have over 5000 people there, mostly in the Saint Petersburg offices.

5000 employees with family members... even if many of them choose to quit, that's a lot of people to move across the border that can close any time.
The problem with monolingual is the thought that there is One True Language.

It isn't so. I write half my emails in one email, the other half in another. Often emails will have sections in one language (e.g. quote from another email) and other sections in a different language.

Spelling tools must be able to detect language automatically to be of any value and be able to handle multiple languages within a single sentence!
There are also plenty of countries with multiple official languages.
In general I totally agree with your sentiment. As you seem quite knowledgeable in the subject I want to nitpick your choice of words in your closing statement.

> any company that uses geo-IP location to serve me pages specific to that locale

A company should serve you content based on your geographic location. That's exactly what "localization" is for. E.g. the content should be adapted to local regulations and law whenever necessary and it makes total sense to do that based on the visitors physical location and geo-IP is often the best approximator you have for that. What should be adapted to user's choice is language.
The intent of a Central Bank is as a Bank for Banks. Consumers never interact with the Federal Reserve directly. The Federal Reserve is not owned by the actual government, there is a board of governors who reports to congress. The actual ownership is shared across actual banks as shareholders.

I find it very peculiar that they want to interact directly with consumers via a digital currency. An article I read mentions ideas around financial products, etc. which to me sounds like a huge red flag that they would want to interact with consumers. It sounds like another way for Banks to siphon off money from common people with the advantage that they (or 3 letter agencies) can track the money.
Institutional discrimination? Sounds like a great idea.
The VPN exit point for the big tech company I work in Europe for seems to be in Poland for whatever reason. I had to switch to duckduckgo to not be served search results in Polish all the time.
If the Ukraine war goes on for 50 more years you might start to see Ukrainians attacking Russian civilians too, once it’s clear they have no other option.
> such as money launderers / tax dodgers / deadbeat dads / unpaid parking tickets, and eventually ends up targeting ordinary citizens.

I mean... I'd say that at least two of these are ordinary citizens, probably actually three of them...
It would be interesting to see the ration between the Arab Israelis wishing to marry an Arab from WB/Gaza and Jewish Israelis wishing to marry a Jewish from WB/Gaza. Laws make sense in a context of a society.
That's not the point. People should not be forced to switch from one language to another, multiple times, for every site they visit, when in a country that speaks a different language than the one for which their computer is configured.
How is this different from synergy ?

I used to use Synergy all the time before the computer got so powerful that I didn't need multiple computers to drive all the monitors and run things in VMs
Depends on the /state/ as well.
When I'm abroad, visible under another country's IP address and my system's language is set to English, neither should be used to assign the language. What should be used is locale. Some users may have operating systems in language different to their own but probably more users have proper keyboard language set in their OS.

Using IP address to assign the language is the dumbest choice possible but using OS language is not much better.
I think this explains why my old computer was so confused about languages. The windows apps were in Finnish, system settings etc. were in English. Then some parts of Google stuff were in Turkish, some in Finnish, and some others were in English. Every now and then some random app would appear and surprise me in Turkish. It was truly impossible to tell what language would appear after each click.

It was originally running windows 7 with English as the system language. Some software were installed while I was in Turkey, some (including windows 10 upgrade) were installed after I moved to Finland. Now I’m learning that my computer couldn’t handle this gracefully :)
The first time I saw Star Wars was at a drive-in. The second time I saw it was on laserdisc(!) at someone’s house years later. The third time was when it was broadcast on TV. The fourth time was on VCR tape. The fact that our family could watch a movie in our home just by going to the rental store was mind blowing.
As an outdoor photographer I’m constantly referring to an ephemeris[0] to check out the light situation at different times. This isn’t nearly as full featured as what I use but I love the idea of hacking something like this together with common APIs for a quick and dirty approximation.

Interesting work. Thank you.

[0]: https://app.photoephemeris.com/
If you can maintain a route to the real host, you could pass through real HTTPS traffic back to it until you got your certificate, making it undetectable from the outside (besides maybe some extra latency).
Yes, that’s true.
West Bank occupation began on, or after, the six day war, a conflict started by Israel.
My headphones connect to whatever device is currently being used unless I tell it to otherwise.

Again a very specific anecdotal point.
Thankfully "Tweak New Twitter" in chrome cleans all that up.
Along with some select muted strings to suppress promoted tweets.
Ofc it also helps that I don't use twitter on mobile at all and confine it's use to my desktop computer.

Been a very good idea these past doomscrolly years.
I think the CDN has to configure CAA.

So if your site pulls in js from another site without sub resource integrity, and the other site doesn't have CAA configured you are vulnerable.
South Africa abstained to vote on UN resolution against Russian large attack on Ukraine.

West didn't ignore apartheid, they quietly supported it, because USSR supported Mandela and anti-apartheid struggle. Kinda "enemy of my enemy is my friend".

IMHO that was the stupidest position of the US, they should've "united" with USSR on anti-apartheid position.
It's not about trademarks, patents or licenses. JetBrains made a public statement against the war in Ukraine, now they fear for the safety of the employees left in Russia.
Ah yes the old child abuse argument, because it would never happen without crypto.
We only have how many 1000 years of proof otherwise.

The thing is mothers really believe that. When I told a friend's wife that there should be no regulation on what people can post online she replied with "even child abuse". And I was caught unprepared.
Of course I don't want children or any other people to be abused but outlawing crypto is not the solution to that problem.

Of course I'm aware that you're aware.
From my estimates it's probably closer to 1500. They have 1900 employees worldwide: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/annualreport-2022/
Ironically the bluetooth on my AirPods, Macbook and iPhone are miles better than any other device I used in terms of bluetooth.