skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK tells operators to shut down crypto ATMs or face action
USA just passed omnibus 2022 $1.5T spending bill which has $250 Million for Israel iron dome upgrades.. there is a POWERFUL Israeli lobby in the USA that won't let such sanctions get off the floor.
Who can have sympathy for a Russian Oligarch (Roman Abramovich) who has had billions of his assets frozen?

I do. But not for the reasons you may think.

My position is that it is in no way justifiable to sanction the individuals, citizens of a country for the actions of their leaders.

Roman Abramovich is a billionaire that owns Chelsea Football Club. No doubt the way he earned his fortune is suspect.

However whatever he did in the past does not factor into what is going on now - no one cares. 4 weeks ago, everything he was doing was absolutely fine. What did he do wrong?

Nothing. What has changed is that Putin attacked Ukraine. But what does that have to do with Abramovich?

Nothing again. He is purported to be a friend of Putin's.

Do we have a rule of law? If it were shown that Abramovich had assisted Putin in some way, who would object to these sanctions? But nothing is shown legally. Our governments are acting in a unilateral way against people and their money - legality has nothing to do with it.

For those of us cheering these actions, spare a thought for those Russian that are not oligarchs. Is it ok that their bank accounts are frozen? Should you or I be held to account for the actions of our President or Prime Minister? Of course not.

If we are cheering the sanctions on, what we are cheering is for government to have the right to act outside the rule of law, and to act as judge, jury and executioner. Where does this end?

If I raise an objection to these actions, should I have my bank account frozen? I'm not expressing the sanctioned opinion, that's for sure. Perhaps I deserve punishment?

If this sounds ridiculous, just consider that this is what happened Ottawa to those who participated or even donated to the protests.

The concern here is that - if we do not take a moral position, and see this situation clearly - we are going into hard tyranny. Ultimately, the winners will be the worst oligarchs - they will have consolidated their power, at the expense of the freedoms of the individual. Is that where we want to go?
And likewise Mozilla M-series builds supported DOM mangling 20+ years ago.

On paper that sounds like you could do much of what we do today, maybe with a little more effort but it'd work, right? Nope. In those M-series builds DOM mangling routinely crashed the browser. "Ask me how I know". And likewise your Borland C++ 3.0 "support" for templates means a lot of basic stuff works but if you try to get fancy (and of course there's no guidance provided on what's "fancy") you will get spurious errors or blow up the compiler, or worst of all, silently produce wrong binaries...

More than that though, having templates doesn't magically fix this problem. jcelerier says C++ fixes it by offering "generic lists" in 1991. But... it doesn't. In 1993-4 Stepanov presents the STL to the committee, with what will become std::list but that's not an intrusive list. So you would need to do all the heavy lifting to build your own intrusive lists, they are not, in fact, supplied with the language.

Thus we'd be in the exact same place, with people arguing about the implementation, except that (from experience) C++ proponents would be saying what the kernel needs is yet more C++ features...
Russia is a big country. It produces many things, despite decades of oligarchs capturing as much as they can and stashing it abroad.

No country that produces real things and issues its own currency needs to have a worthless currency. If it does, it's usually because the rulers are in desperate extraction mode, trying to ship as much value abroad as quickly as possible with no regards to the medium term consequences (either to creditors at gunpoint, or to private accounts).

That may still happen in Russia, if Putin can't keep the oligarchs in line. But he pretty much has, since 2003. It can also happen in the slightly longer term if Russia strikes a desperate deal with China which goes wrong (that's basically what happened to Venezuela).

But barring that, there won't be hyperinflation in Russia, "only" an Iceland-style one time devaluation (plus sanction-derived shortages, which Iceland dodged). Economically speaking, Putin can probably shield regular citizens from even Soviet-era scarcity, since the economy is still more productive despite oligarch looting. Whether he will is another matter.
It might be a function of how long you stay there. Usually when I visit Thailand, I stay for a couple of months. Likewise when I stay in Ukraine, the adverts I'm presented with on both YouTube and Instagram switch mostly to Ukrainian. Or Serbian when I'm in Serbia, or Turkish when I'm in Turkey, etc.
> These 2 nations are de-facto at war

Israel has said Palestine is not a nation, and has worked to block Palestine from entering the UN as a member state.
I'd certainly value your input on https://www.webiny.com, it's packed full of features and we've been working hard to improve the documentation, with more to come in the near future.
Doppelgänger creates polystyrene substitute from plastic-eating mealworms
Thanks for bringing that topic, for me as an expat it a major pain. I live in a country with rather unusual language, but I have only contact with English speaking people. And every service puts the locale of this in default - even with stating in browser settings what are my preferences.
The worst part of this is that in many places I don't even know how to change local on specific pages manually.

VPN is the only valuable option for me unfortunately.
The problem is that you cannot "deflate" land. You need to talk with the existing land owners and they don't want to share. It's like a completely different economic problem.

Like, economists have spent centuries figuring out how to solve the "scarcity problem of reproducible goods" but they haven't spent a second figuring out how to solve the "scarcity problem of non reproducible goods". The suburban sprawl nonsense only exists because we can't figure out how to redevelop existing plots within the city in an equitable way. Yes we have to kick the old residents out, there is no other way but we also build more housing than the numbers of people that were kicked out so if this were done at scale you wouldn't have to worry about leaving the city, just the block you are living in.
> Did Britain allow tens of thousands of Nazi party members to emigrate to the UK during the Blitz?

England and the US definitely allowed Germans to move to the country before, during, and after the conflict - and plenty of them. You'd be grilled by authorities for sure, and probably observed for months afterwards, but that's it. And here you're equating members of a political party with people born in a certain country, which is not really fair.

> Should the Ukraine allow a million Russians to marry on Zoom and come live in Kiev?

Why not? They would see first-hand the result of misguided policies and likely support Ukrainian instances. Unless, of course, you think there is such thing as a "Ukrainian race" worth preserving...
This isn't really about interreligious marriages; it mostly affects Muslim Arab Israeli Citizens marrying Muslim Palestinians.
Paying them isn't quite the same as making them miserable, at the same time, it's the kind of proposals that a right-wing party, which I don't believe is specific to Israel, and as such, does not explain that law ... Nonetheless, thanks for the info!
My solution to this was remarkably simple. When the census person came by, I told them I lived in my house and shut the door. There is no obligation to give any other information, at all.
Older founding documents for the US enshrined it as a White nation.
That assumes the user has a working display and that the BIOS can output anything to it. I mean usually this was the case, an audio signal (between 2 and 10 beeps if there was an issue, a single beep for no issues / POST success), and a visual output indicating the problem.

But a (working) display is not a given for any system, see e.g. servers.
I remember this in the ~2000 era. This was still a time when most viruses were fun or destructive. I assumed this one was a 'fun' one.
Never until I read this did I realise my fan or PSU was on the way out.
Palestinian people, an ethnic group, are not comparable to Nazis, a murderous ideology. That's an insanely racist comparison.
Yes, for individuals, it's worse. For accurate information, it's probably a wash, or a close call. There are so many other ways of biasing information streams than overt oppression.
You are commenting on a post that is about Twitter removing the option to see latest tweets by default…

Also, the chronological timeline is not ideal once you follow > 100 profiles. One of the issues at hand here is that they removed the “missed” section and replaced with the algorithmic feed. There is no way to catch up with only the most interesting tweets from people you follow, other than scrolling through all of it.
Thanks for the long reply. It seems our way of seeing things are just different, irreconciliably different. Like, fire and water different. Like, extra terrestial beings different.

That being said, skipping on job hopper’s resume actually brings positive on both sides. We avoid wasting each others’ time. You are doing the right thing.

Actually, real life is way way more cruel than the 5 line dialogue that I described above. You don't know what people struggle in their life.

Maybe, hmmm, just maybe, they are supporting a few older generation women in their family that are all divorced and no longer can work? Just maybe, hmm...

Maybe, just maybe, that person has an aspiration of doing better for the world instead of chasing compensation, but limited by his/her circumstances, so he/she has to do leetcode + jumping ships all the time, just maybe.

Reality is brutal, cruel. Some people have so much, yet some people have so little.
Whoa! This has the potential to grow to unimaginable scale! I'm seeing star-trek gadgets. I'd love to get my hands on a starter kit.
Swiss German here. Je suis bilingue. My OS is set to English with a Swiss German keyboard layout. This works fine everywhere.
Except: The Microsoft Store app just keeps on running in French with English content. No German to be found. It looks damn silly.
This is not about inter-religious marriages - this is about Arab or Christian Israeli citizens marrying other Arab or Christian Palestinians (or Lebanese and and a few other countries). This is as if the USA denied the right to extend your citizenship to a Mexican spouse - in some ways worse than the inter-religious thing.
> Re: location based on geoloc: I remember some HN user from Switzerland saying that IIRC either his IP is being moved around in geoIP databases between Swiss regions, or getting slightly distinct IP each time; as a result, he randomly gets all kinds of websites in French, and sometimes in German. Imagine this.

Yep that’s a super fun one in all multilingual or small countries (where you might be geoloc’d in a separate linguistic community, or a country with a rather different culture).
Ethereum has had "proof of stake" as a goal for multiple years, with no obvious evidence that it is any closer to implemented today than it was 3 years ago. I will believe Ethereum to be proof of stake when I see it.
>Some Knesset members said it was intended to prevent a gradual right of return for Palestinian refugees who were driven from their homes or fled during the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation

absolutely disgusting
Indeed. It's just sad that's the way it is. As much as we humans like history, we never seem to learn its lessons.
So short sighted. A strong facial recognition system can locate lost people in a wilderness from drone footage. A strong facial recognition system can discriminate between twins, near age siblings, and ethnically similar but unrelated individuals. A strong facial recognition system retains reliability when test imagery is poor quality. A strong facial recognition system can identify kidnapped children being trafficked, even after they have aged. A strong facial recognition system compensates for the complete lack of quality operator training within the facial recognition industry.
Came across the solution by chance, a couple of years ago. It's really maddening.
The article doesn’t mention religion anywhere.

There are plenty of Christian and Muslim citizens of Israel, and plenty of Christian and Muslim Palestinians, so the marriages don’t have to be inter-religious.

Inter-religious marriages are already impossible in Israel, and have been AFAIK forever (but you can fly to e.g. Cyprus to have one performed and it will be recognized in Israel).
It is.

So is investing in the stock market when I can't choose when to pull out. Working for another year or two to wait out a bad marekt and planning when to retire and therefore when/how to shift my investments from riskier assets to more secure ones like bonds aren't an option. Given that the stock market is highly volatile (and I don't see that changing within the next 20 years), putting money in when I can't choose how and when to take it out is insanity.

Plus a lot of assistance programs I'll need once I'm permanently disabled won't help me if I have assets. Saving up 200k is no good when I'm going to end having a relapse at 45 and spending it all on healthcare. (Versus spending it on things now which will continue to bear returns and then be eligible for help later). If I save money, odds are I won't actually get to use it. It will all go healthcare corporations/the government/care homes.

I would greatly prefer something more stable (and this isn't my sole financial strategy - I specifically moved back somewhere with a very LCOL so I could buy and pay off a house in <10 yrs, for example, but that's less relevant); I'm a pretty risk-averse person.

I mentioned it not because I think it's a good strategy for everyone, but because it's worth thinking of alternative systems in general. Currency is useful because it can be exchanged for other things; if currency is unobtainable for whatever reason, seek alternatives.
Surprised the article didn't mention that you are generally welcome to use the restroom in a Japanese convenience store, which will usually have a spotless toilet with fancy robotic bidet features. At least in Tokyo a few years back, it seemed true of every place you went and it makes American cities seem savage and inhospitable in comparison.
Doesn't need to boot an OS to show any data, but it may need the CPU for that already, I don't know if a BIOS or whatever it's called these days has any processing capacity of its own nowadays.
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.

[0]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-coalition-battle-knesset...
Yes I saw they attacked the sub domain holding the javascript (developers.kakao.com), but could they have also attacked the main domain?

Sub resource integrity wouldn't help if they could have re-routed requests from klayswap.com
> If the system that enables these companies should be dismantled or not is a completely different argument to “should this event bus exist”.

Fair enough. But if the "170 MB of logs pre customer per day" suggested in another comment are even remotely true, that's still a huge mammoth to shave...
I'm not a fan of the occupation of the West Bank, but those are not 1:1 scenarios. West Bank was occupied after Jordan initiated the offensive, not Israel, as opposed to Russia who is the aggressor.

A 1:1 scenario would be if Ukraine invaded Russia and then Russia took control over Ukraine territory, which in that case i'd argue the outcry would be minimal.
> I like crusts that aren't soft and nearly all bread and sandwiches in Japan are very, very soft

> (I'm European if that matters in this discussion, not from the USA)

It might matter: I don't like french bread: the crust is so thick it can break in pointy chunks that sometimes cut into my gums.

It took me a few bites and a few different attempts to realize French sandwiches (and bread) almost guaranteed the taste of blood in my mouth, so I may enjoy the Japanese soft bread with its thin crust.
this should be the most upvoted comment
Reminds me of that old yarn: "Can I ask you a question?" "You just did."

This makes a totally valid point in online communications.
> Arab or Christian

You mean Muslim or Christian (either of which can be Arab).
I'd LOVE for BSD to be a good alternative for daily use to Linux. But it's simply not. There's more and more stuff that is Linux only nowadays (wayland, gnome, several drivers, power management, wifi, Steam and proton... to name a few, very important ones)
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2539428

> Settings you can change...

> Language
Provide weapons. Maybe nuclear, chemical and biological to boot.
Unusual demand or plausible deniability?
JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
That’s using backcompat in source code, like “CompatMode”. Thankfully dictionaries aren’t full of all the variable names that exist in source code.
Is the problem just cost in your mind?

Do you think there should be a price limit?
No love for http://Yandex.com ? It's the only search engine I know of that actually answers the question when searching for "what countries are using ivermectin" instead of giving out a bunch of anti-ivermectin editorials.
Libcuckoo: A high-performance concurrent hash table
Just bookmark this: https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Are...

As a bonus, no ads.
The back sun isn't just a pagan symbol. This is pure revisionism, the exact version they use was literally designed by Himmler for the SS. Are we really doing " the swastika is just a religious symbol" or "the confederate flag is just about historic heritage" now?
If you start dating and marrying “the enemy” suddenly they’re not the enemy anymore. You start to understand them and treat them as an equal. As more mixing happens, opinion will start to shift and the state will start to see some resistance to the disturbing and inhuman way they treat Palestinians. The state doesn’t want to have to start treating Palestinian’s like equals. This law may not make marriage between the two groups illegal but it makes it unworkable.
While NATO had placed sanctions on Iran, we had to pay for our oil imports through German banks, so a bit unsure if the German would ever leave money on the table.
Can a melody be copyrighted? I believe so, but changing just one note is enough to avoid it (see: Queen's Under Pressure vs Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby; the latter has one extra bass note)
The book of Ruth in the Hebrew bible tells the story of ~5th century BCE Israeli refugees to neighbouring Moab. The story is repeated in the old testament in the Christian Bible. In Moab, the son marries Ruth, a local Moabite woman. Even though the son dies, when conditions in Israel improve, Ruth agrees to return to Israel with her mother-in-law. Another Moabite woman who marries another of the sons refuses the opportunity to leave Moab for Israel.

As the Book of Ruth makes clear, Ruth herself was a formidable woman. From her descended famous Israeli offspring such as King David, King Solomon and, if you are Christian, Jesus Christ himself.
Regarding Excel: Watch out with multi language setups!
I was working with an English iPhone, an English Windows PC and a Swiss German Mac on an Excel file stored on One Drive. Editing sometimes in Excel and sometimes in Excel Online.

Result: Broken data due to SUM/SUMME/etc formulas, broken phone number recognition and (worst) broken dates.

What a mess!
I'm so sorry for all these native English speakers missing out on the automatically translated pages put there to bait google and others. Then the "clever" ML people scour the web and use multilingual pages as rosetta stone to train their translation engine that they, of course, SEO to death.

Long story short, "how do we say that word in English again" is a minfield on google.
As I replied to a similar comment that was deleted: this is irrelevant ancient history.

What matters is that Israel is maintaining their illegal occupation even today, and even expanding it (building new settlements, etc.)
Obvious Russian propaganda is obvious, but I will bite.

"what moral standing do I have to say: 'Russia bad'?"

A. Two things can be bad at the same time - Russia's unprovoked slaughter of the Ukrainian population is bad, and the US government fabricating reasons to invade Iraq in 2003 is also bad. I would not be surprised if a vast majority of people hated both Putin and Dubya for these wars of aggression.

B. Some atrocities are worse than others. Clusterbombing hospitals and nurseries on a nationwide scale in a war of aggression, or threatening to blow up nuclear power plants and release radiation in the same war are fairly high up that scale of atrocities.
I wonder if some sites are using JavaScript to handle language, but they don’t want to use navigator.language since below IE 11 doesn’t support it. In this case, it might make sense to fall back to location.
If someone buys your bond for 10 mil of X currency, you have to pay them back 11mil in couple years, if you devalue the currency in the meantime you just pay them back worthless papers while they've invested real money into you back in the day. Also US dollar is like global currency (everybody country trades in that) - so like 70% of dollars are outside of US. While US prints 100 bucks, 30% of devaluation hits US, 70% hits the world - that's why the world is pissed at US FED printing money like crazy.
Your site is probably vulnerable to this attack and there is very little you can do to prevent it. You can monitor for BGP hijacks but you can't really do anything about it when it happens.

The best you can probably do is pay for a TLS certificate signed by a CA that only signs certificate requests after actual, human verification, and pin that in a CAA record. This should prevent other certificate authorities from handing out a domain-validated TLS certificate.

If you're going for the monitoring route, keep the amount of domains your site connects to to a minimum. Self-host your fonts, frameworks, etc, so you only need to monitor your own host. If the developers of the attacked site had hosted their own JS, they might have noticed that something was up when the attack took place, because they can't know for sure if a route change for an external company like Kakao is intentional or a mistake.

The core of the problem is that advertisements by routers that have no business announcing specific routes like these are taken at face value. Certain ISPs that do not require RPKI or other security mechanisms will happily route traffic headed for your IP addresses to some router on the other side of the globe.

Web technologies like DANE used to be popular for this purpose (using DNS to distribute the certificate of your website, with DNSSEC validating the DNS records) but it has seen little actual implementation so far. HTTP key pinning (HPKP) was implemented in some browsers for a while, but its potential for holding websites hostage and general unfriendliness towards bigger websites caused it to be phased out.

If you have apps that operate your service, you can pin your TLS certificate in those and that should protect you against such hijacks.