skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, the blurb talks about forcing families to split up. Does this law override permanent residency visas there?

"Can Non-Jewish People Settle In Israel?

Under the Law of Return, it is possible for non-Israeli family members of Israeli citizens to gain long-term residence status in Israel, including spouses/partners, children, and grandchildren, if they themselves are not Jewish.

Where a non-Israeli national is married to an Israeli citizen, they can initially acquire a temporary residence in Israel after six months. With this temporary status, they can then access the social welfare system in Israel, including healthcare. Citizenship is then possible after four years, however, the process for securing this is quite rigorous, as the Israeli immigration authorities want to be assured that the relationship is genuine.

Where a non-Israeli national is in a relationship with an Israeli citizen but they are not married (i.e. a civil partnership), it takes three years to gain temporary resident status in Israel. Permanent residence in Israel is possible after six years (as opposed to four for those who are married). However, those in a civil partnership cannot acquire citizenship, just permanent residency, regardless of how long the non-Israeli national lives in the country."
https://immigrationlawyers-london.com/global-mobility/perman...
> The one reason I don't use systemd timers is that they don't have an automatic, reliable way to send me an email with their output.

I can't remember the exact unit file syntax but you can define Before/After hooks, so you can point that to a script that emails people (or in my case pushes to a notification queue).
Most recently in 1973. Their occupation has gone on for almost fifty years since then.
I don't see why, hypothetically, they can't all be sent with encryption that the government has a secret key to decrypt.

The world worked using mail, then phones, for many decades. These were treated as "mostly secure", but could be tapped. The world basically worked fine.
In which country did you see that? I'm curious because that contradicts my experience.
How (not) to ask a technical question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53zkBvL4ZB4
So if that's the case then give them the en-US version? They'll either accept it because that's what they've explicitly requested, or change their system settings to match what they actually want.
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> It’s not the case for a very large portion of people around the globe.

Yep, even people who speak one language might put their phone or browser into another language for learning (immersion) purposes but need your important (e.g. banking) application to be in their native language regardless.
Unprovoked? Neither “class” has realistic access to social services or health care in the US, so the mental health and addiction issues that often lead a person down this road go unaddressed.

Further, the US legal system (and US society) heavily stigmatizes “offenders”. Once a person is down its extremely hard to get back up, and people need money survive.

Not saying that violence is ok, but in many cases people just need help instead of punishment.
Agree about FreeCAD, but I'm hoping it will follow a similar path to Blender: an idiosyncratic program that consistently improved to the point that it's now really competitive with the $$$ alternatives. Or... maybe we should fork it and fix it?
This is happening the most "inclusive" workplaces, and it's spreading. Count yourself lucky if you haven't encountered it yet.
This is not correct. The discussion is about imposing further sanctions (= stopping gas imports -- so far, Germany is still buying gas via NordStream1 and other pipeline(s))
They got $1 billion for the iron dome [1]

Regarding the Israel lobby, it is strong, but it's losing its grip:

25% of American Jews consider Israel to be an apartheid state [2]

Young evangelicals are increasingly turning away from Israel [3]

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-u-s-senate-approves...

[2] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/a-quarter-of-u-s-jews-agree-...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/05/26/a...
Working on this project, I've already had the pleasure of getting to know many artists and listeners and the opportunity to learn from them. Things are really coming together, so I thought it would be a good time to share with more folks and keep learning!

I'm happy to answer any questions I can, whether they're technical, philosophical, or business related. I hope in return you'll let me know what you think. Please tell a friend too, because the more the merrier!
You know exactly how to get to Google in English though, don't you? A new person picking up a misconfigured laptop seems much more likely to get lost than a temporary visitor to another country.
How is an example of doing a tail activity like competitive powerlifting and the anecdote of underperforming in the activity on a vegan diet relevant?

I am pretty sure that gentlemen at the lumber yard do not have 300kg deadlift events and are not competing.

It is well known that diet has very little to do with progress for an amateur athlete. Consistency is the biggest factor in long term success. If you want to eek out the most out of your body, then you might want to optimize, but then you're already deviating to obsessive behavior.

Yeah, if you want to increase your squat by 20% short-term, you're going to have to eat more food and be obsessive about it, but if you're fine with consistent training over a span of 10-20 years, there's no reason to stress too much about diet.

When I hear people talking about diet and "optimal performance", I always wonder what the hell are they doing that they need to optimally perform. Like, what exactly is optimal performance of a sedentary programmer that maintains elasticsearch clusters? What, he feels tired sooner if he's on a vegan diet instead of something else?
Better explanation: monolingual people thinks that computers will always be configured to the local language and any other setup is a "misconfiguration".

In real life a large number of corporations (and developers) have their computers configured with English as this is the main language of the coorporation and makes IT-support much easier. (we don't even need to talk about how badly botched many language translations are).

These users will still want Google to return results in their native language.

There is a much much larger number of users like this than travellers from USA.

One thing that bothers me a lot with US websites is that they always assume English language means 12-hour clock.

Apple has learned the above over time: it is much easier today to get a Mac running with English and 24-hour clocks.
One is Ukrainian, but the arrest happened months ago. The extradition this week seems unrelated to the rest of what's going on in Ukraine.

The other is Canadian. The arrest was earlier this year. Getting both extraditions this week seems to be a coincidence.
It only takes a couple of seconds to acquire a certificate. Not long enough for people to raise support requests.
This IP based personalisation is such a pain especially if you work remotely and need to use VPN to connect to company network that happens to be based in different country. Worst thing is that Google knows very well who am I (due to me being logged in to GMail), knows what language I use, but still serves me completely wrong results only because my IP is suddenly from different country.
I don't disagree, they are the perfect boogeyman. The problem is that if they may have started as just a boogeyman, they have undeniably grown to be an actual problem with huge institutional power.

That's why if you support ukraine, making excuses instead of wanting them gone is just playing right in the hands of russian propaganda. The more those groups grow in influence (like they have been doing since the start of the invasion), the more it's going to be hard to deny for western powers by just claiming it's a Russian red hereing.
It's a bit much in terms of... feigned malice.

What I mean by that is, it should be trivial for these organizations to both find an in-country vendor, but also rotate a certificate/keypair.

It's entirely punitive yet (I imagine) ineffective.

I understand halting business with a region given they probably aren't sure they'd be paid with the ever-growing sanctions
FWIW, this law is not banning marriage, rather it's preventing Palestinians from becoming automatically naturalized citizens through marrying an Israeli citizen.
>I really prefer people to warn me before dropping a bomb

Why? These "hi" or "are you there" or "can I ask a question" are useless to me. Also in the reverse role I find it useful to just type up my whole problem. Sometimes in the middle of typing it all up I will figure out a good solution and then just not send the message. Even if the person is not there to help you, you can always copy paste your message to someone else.
Except they will give residency to people that converted to Judaism via special programs not available to members of other religions.
> If government can demand the keys, they can take them and decrypt it.

The question isn't how its decrypted, the question is how to determine WHICH traffic to decrypt in order to inspect it.
The restriction applies to everybody, not just Israeli Arabs. However it is true that Israeli Arabs are the ones most affected by it.
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Even if Bitcoin "wins", the government can go "you have two months to convert your BTC to FedCoin, after which BTC is illegal".

If we let the government do whatever, no technological moat is going to stop them.
I'm sorry, I'm non native, I've read the article again and didn't find that, can I ask you to quote that please?
> Neurotypical people use this sort of social foreplay as a way to handshake a conversation[1], where the tech types want an input/output process devoid of mood and feeling

Majority of "tech types" are neurotypical. Neurodiverse are minority in tech. There is more of them in tech then among teachers or something like that, but still.

And even neuroatypical use elaborate rituals before they ask question. Even autists in tech.
Communication can be difficult. I'm sorry I wasn't able to communicate with you. I agree with your evident opinion that the things you enumerate are not rationing.
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I’d say it’s probably good to know at least one bowline variation that locks the tail end so it can’t come loose, but that’s maybe the climber in me coming out too strong. Otherwise I’d agree with you
The world was very different a couple of generations ago, let alone the hundred years you're talking about. You'll be shocked to hear what happened 20 years later.
Their various services are inconsistent in how they detect language.

Some elements may appear in the language associated with the user's location, while others are based on the browser setting. It's highly inconsistent, as someone who travels frequently it's also pretty annoying.

Facebook properties have this problem as well.
Traveling thorough Argentina in 2019 my phone showed all prices in Argentinian Pesos.

Particularly annoying on Google Maps when looking for hotels. Crazy inflation made remembering an exchange rate to € or US$ useless.

But what's more, after I returned to Europe this stayed for a few months. I.e. Google Maps still showed me hotel prices in Argentinian Pesos – in Europe!
In the mid 80s I bought some 720KB 3.5" disks at the (what seemed) cheap price of £25 for five. At the time that would have been around $40.
I live in Switzerland and every website seems to think I speak German (I do, but this is not the point). Everything is configured in French on my computer, so why do you insist serving me content in German. Yes , I do understand that 66% of the country speaks Swiss German, but still, why can't the website respect my language preferences.

The worst offender are the swiss websites (like digitec). You would think they at least understand the regional differences of Switzerland and they even have a website for each region, but still default on showing me the German version.
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>Let’s not pretend like the government can’t decide to reclassify what it thinks is legal based on what coloured shirt it’s wearing.

Well it can't given that the rule of law exists in Canada. But if you're telling me that central bank money makes it possible to shut the funding of groups down who stage illegal protests that cause untold economic damage because they don't understand how vaccines work in my book that's the best argument for CBDCs yet.

I'm not exactly sure why I'm supposed to freak out about the fact that the government can declare things illegal. Like, yeah that's it's job, digital currencies aside.
I live in France, speak French, but work with English as my primary language.

So, I had to make the same settings change, otherwise google would keep putting French searches before English ones (despite the fact that I searched with English keywords).

I don't remember how I found this, but it might something along the lines of "I'm really annoyed today, let's fix this NOW". When you speak 2 languages or more, and they don't match with your location, Google, Microsoft, and most other big tech companies go completely nuts. So, you get used to fiddling with languages settings.

I have no idea how we got there, but my guess is that most Google engineers are either : completely ignorant of internationalization issues, don't care, or don't speak more than one language.

PS: Speech recognition, autocorrect, and mobile keyboards : Same problem.

PS2: Apple get it right most of the time.
Then it sounds like a misconfiguration after all? Because that would mean they didn't configure CAA for their CDN.

In any case they could've hijacked the IP for the authorative DNS server, but that would at least add some complexity.

Also, this assumes their CA actually did their due diligence and the hackers didn't just fool them into reissuing the certificate to them.
Money. They want money.
I do not work at Google, but I speculate that this is a case of software architecture leading the product: For fast results and scalability Google will just DNS-redirect you to the closest servers, and those servers are configured to a specific language.

Sure, they could work on it, but for Google engineers cache is king, and for optimal performance they don't want to bother on personalizing that first access.
Lots of countries don't deserve to be a state. Russia manages to stand out among that crowd, but even so, international relations are about what's possible rather than about what's right. They are a state and there's not much you can do about that shy of war -- which is a really, really bad idea.
Off-topic but if anyone else is curious about where that image comes from, it's a Lord of the Rings themed mashup:

https://boingboing.net/2010/12/09/eye-of-mordorus-doll.html
I don't find any of this offensive or extreme. Easily within the mainstream conservative spread. I think you need to broaden your news sources.
Oh, it's just a silly fun thing: https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-di...
The occupation of the West Bank does nothing to deter this.

The annexation of the Golan Heights is somewhat justifiable on strategic grounds. The occupation of the West Bank is a land grab, pure and simple.
> 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.

But then why doesn't Google just make it easier to set that setting? Honestly, when I'm in another country, I don't get too upset that Google results are in another language, I just get upset that I can't seem to find a simple way to change it.

Even then I'm probably giving Google too much of a pass, because they know everything about me. This happens even when I'm logged into Chrome. If they're able to target hyper-personalized ads to me, surely they know I'm an English speaker even when I'm in Mexico.
> How do you think the French would react to the import of Arabs

An Arab from Morocco would "import" to France - Morocco is an independent country. Israel does not recognize Palestine as an independent country but as territory belonging to Israel, and the IDF patrol the West Bank and haredi settlers create settlements there, in violation of UN resolutions.
At least it's not as bad as Aliexpress.

They have randomly served me the page in Russian, Turkish, Spanish, Portugese, Thai, German and Romanian.
The only good thing is that the menu to change back to english is less hidden nowdays.

Yet to see it in my native Finnish.
And all these without a VPN and from a domestic consumer ISP connection.
No disagreement, war is war and they are in a vulnerable position
Seeing Pockit gives me an idea: can we do something similar for Web APIs?

Perhaps a web app with a 2D board where users can place modular blocks the same way one would place Pockit blocks on the magnetic breadboard. We could have a geolocation module, vibration module, button module, slider module, camera module, etc. Like Pockit, the system finds a script with the closest matching blocks to what's placed on the grid, and runs the script. E.g placing a camera flashlight module + button module on the grid triggers a script that would toggle the light when the button is pressed. User could also write their own scripts.
You can still have your small talk. Just put it in the same message. Getting pinged for "hey" and then they spend several minutes typing was a waste of pining me when they could have just prepended "hey" to the full message.
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Going on a tangent, but I love the idea of a form of visual communication (like reading) that would have eye movement as feedback.

Something like a computer interface where the direction you choose to read in reflects a choice. Something like a menu selection.

If you started with a language similar to the logographs in the Arrival movie, and built into the language the fact that your response flows in a specific direction, giving the system a chance to generate new output to you.
I wouldn't say the contents change what it is - a sandwich is a filling between slices of bread, nothing states it must be savoury, even though they often are.

Jam, honey and (mashed) banana are also sandwich fillings.

That said, there is no way it would qualify as cake, which would require a much sweeter and thicker batter - bread isn't the same.
The inconsistency in how different companies and products within companies handle this are indeed annoying, and speak poorly for product management and engineering at these companies.

But it's not as simple a problem as the article wants us to believe. Local laws often dictate different content or function for sites and applications served in their jurisdiction, leaving the product with a hard choice: if Japanese law requires that I get a Japanese version (from a function point of view) of a site when browsing from Japan, but the browser settings request French language, I may or may not have a French translation of the Japanese function to serve.

I think a lot of the irregularity is just bad product management and engineering, but some of it is actually trying to deal with a hard problem.
And yet New York and California are lifting their COVID restrictions even though this is not over.
> "This script leverages FreeBSD build options and a minimum kernel configuration file to build the minimum kernel and userland to boot FreeBSD under jail(8) and the bhyve and Xen hypervisors."

Does that imply that OccamBSD cannot be installed on bare metal?
I encountered tumors in regular meat of many varieties multiple times. For some reason, pork has the biggest probability of tumors.
If Israel was an ally they would be helping to supply weapons and armor to Ukraine. Instead they will not supply anything more than medication. The US gives Israel plenty of military $ for them to share in times of need.

As a strictly emotional thought, this makes me feel Israel is a country to cozy up to the strongest nation at the time. If the US falls from grace Israel will have no problem ‘switching’ sides to Russia.
Unfortunately the problem exists in both directions. I run my setup entirely in English and Google will still try to squeeze in the local non-english language.

Confusingly Google will also write some sentences half in english and half in the local language. E.g. "Google is also available in: <insert foreign language here>" (rather than the full sentence being in the foreign language.

It's the kind of attention to detail that I've become accustomed to from them
Yes that is true. The question is what are the alternatives? Giving in to Russia is not option. Escalation to WW3 by EU or NATO troops in the Ukraine isn’t an option either.

Giving the Ukraine as much military support as we can without direct involvement and continuously increasing sanctions against Russia is the best solution I can think about.

The ethics of this isn’t easy.

That why I think the solution to “smash windows in Russia” is stupid. It will effect average Russians, not businesses, the government or the military. They have IT department, staggered role outs, update cycles and so on. Software that “bricks” a PC won’t penetrate the entire nation at once or actually brick a device. We are talking about PCs not mobile phones. Besides, it is windows, those users are used to reinstalling. I would also be surprised if there is any relevant military hardware out there running windows. I get a strong vibe of “why do the Russians get to steal Windows and I still have to pay” from the original post and find his reasoning unethical and spiteful.
Because it’s under military occupation. And not recognized as Israeli territory by anyone, including Israel.

If the territory had been annexed and put under civilian law and everyone there had been given Israeli citizenship 60 years ago, I would indeed agree that although that was bad, it’s not worth crying over spilled milk in the present day, much like e.g. the British conquest of Quebec. But that’s not the case. It remains a military occupation and bad stuff continues to happen, today.
> The explanation of a digital currency, when you get past the paranoia about an increase in tracking you[1], sounds exactly like a "narrow bank". But the Fed has always been against those, because they think customer banks will be too poorly capitalized if everyone uses a government bank directly.

This sounds uncomfortably similar to the "reason" the IRS can't do our own taxes for us and send us the bill.
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