skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Individual Russian programmers are not responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, so I would be reluctant to punish them for Putin's crime and to deprive Linux of their contributions.

True, but individual Russian programmers are not free of Putin's influence, and could be compelled to do undesirable things.

The day after the invasion of Ukraine, my employer locked out all contractors we employed who resided in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. They got their access back once they relocated to a non-combatant country, which most of them did in short order. That probably also saved many of their lives, since it meant they escaped the draft.
I doubt it. MP3 players were popular when the iPod was released. They just took a share of the pie.
I'd tend towards the latter, AI would have been more wordy and polite (it would have written "Also, please share" instead of " Also requesting you to share").

Sounds like someone just had a desire to make this pesky bug report go away, requesting detailed version information, detailed steps to reproduce, expected behaviour and a screencast (!), hoping the reporter wouldn't provide them so they have an excuse to close the ticket?
Those laws are stupid and huge double standards in the first place (on top of being not effective and backfiring).

But even so, it's not just about Linus merely following the law (of course he'd have to, what can you do). The sad thing is cheerfully advocating for this too.
Not open source specific, but:

> Treasury, in consultation with the Department of State, has issued a new determination under Executive Order (E.O.) 14071, which prohibits the supply to any person in the Russian Federation of (1) IT consultancy and design services; and (2) IT support services and cloud-based services for enterprise management software and design and manufacturing software. The determination will take effect on September 12, 2024.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2404#:~:text....
You have made a lot of assumptions my friend. I personally have issues with all authoritarian countries, including the ones you mentioned.

> End the stage performance, please. We all know it's all about money and power.

You are ridiculously incorrect. For me, it is about freedom, democracy, and the right to continue breathing. I currently live a few hundred km from the war in Europe. Russian state media threatens to invade my country of residence every month or so.

Every time I go to the grocery store, I see Ukrainian refugee mothers and their children trying to survive. It is real here, not some theoretical far-away thing that my edgelord friends and I get to pontificate about online.
Some decisions are difficult and no matter what you do, it's going to be bad.
The future of stronger structural connections with interlocking metasurfaces
and why are there hardly any in South America and Africa?
The Sad State of Mac Calendar Scripting
You ain't seen nothin. Check out the bourne shell source code from unix seventh edition. https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd... I can't believe it's not ALGOL.
Running pihole as your home DNS is far more feasible for blocking ads and other intrusive requests. The UX perspective is a valid point
Anyone remember the Dallas Semiconductor DS2400/DS2401

https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data...

1-Wire, unique 48-bit ID. I don't remember the year it was introduced, or cost.
Yes! This is a seriously underutilized browser feature right now.

Unfortunately, Brave still isn't supporting them [1][2].

[1]: https://community.brave.com/t/copy-link-to-highlight-text/28...

[2]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/22906
This developer worked for Baikal Electronics (from the Google snippet of his GitHub page, and earlier emails from him to the Linux kernel lists — showing his work was for that company).

That company received very significant subsidy from the Russian state. They produced CPUs for the Russian military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_CPU

https://ge.usembassy.gov/targeting-russias-senior-officials-...
No LLM struggles with two digit arithmetic. 100 digit addition is possible with the use of state of the art position encodings. Counting is not bottlenecked by arithmetic at all.

When you ask an LLM to count the number of "r" in the word Strawberry, the LLM will output a random number. If you ask it to separate the letters into S t r a w b e r r y, then each letter is tokenized independently and the attention mechanism is capable of performing the task.

What you are doing is essentially denying that the problem exists.
Do you have some kind of an accessibility tool for this? Maybe a whole screen filter that changes colors in a specific way so you can distinguish them?
I came here to ask a similar question, looking for alternatives to Lockdown Privacy on iOS/iPadOS. [1] I've been using Lockdown for some years as a local and system firewall to block trackers across all apps, but this company got sold a few years ago and has since been annoyingly and frequently pushing for its paid subscription. It also moved some free blocking lists to the paid subscription.

Any alternatives to Lockdown on iOS/iPadOS would be nice to know about.

[1]: https://lockdownprivacy.com/
Possibly, but I got my Apple Card in early 2020, so fairly soon into the program.
> hence not shipping Exynos in the US

I thought it was primarily because of some patent/royalty dispute with Qualcomm?

And/or it not having support for CDMA which was not relevant outside of the US. Now that it’s not an issue I wouldn’t be surprised if Samsung would transition to Exynos eventually (they are already apparently selling some models).
I wasn't talking about you personally.

I was talking about the type of human who is shown in this commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X55JPbAMc9g

We need to be very clear that they are human, and not a reptile wearing human skin and using human words to get to eat human babies.
classic mistake to sell hardware without a killer app.

well i can't think of a single killer app for this or any VR headset for me.

at $3.5k there is pressure to position this as a leap forward in solutions to non existent problems.

watching films on a flight or using a virtual desktop don't excite most people.
> above the origin of a supermassive black hole

I spent couple of minutes trying to understand your thought experiment and was puzzled why can't I understand it. It seems that it is probably because I don't understand what you mean by "just above the origin of supermassive black hole"?

I feel that you have something interesting to say but not clear.
This is such an easy thing to overlook for those of us that don’t. Red/green tends to be a default selection, perhaps because of traffic lights?

I started putting myself in the shoes of a family member who is in the 8% and now i spend more time trying to pick better color schemes
I assume your interlocutor was referring to how he dismissed those who complained about the move as "Russian trolls" more than the original delisting itself.
yeah yeah yeah, do all these things, and afterwards, look at 2d interpolation methods that don't require AI for your inbetweens. There's some real fast kernel math that can lerp from one blob to another at 8 billion fps.
Immersive porn.
Color-blind man here. While I think it’s important to consider color blindness when choosing colors, it’s not actually 8% of men who would have trouble distinguishing the two colors. That number is somewhat lower. Perception of color varies even across colorblind people so just because someone says it works for them doesn’t mean it will work for someone else, and vice versa.
If you want to be able to swap out implementations, personally I’d much rather rust’s trait system (or Java or typescript’s interfaces) over what “OO languages” like C++ give you. I basically never want a strict tree of object types with inheritance.

This isn’t an OO idea. I’m pretty sure FP languages like Haskell or ocaml have something very similar.
Nice website. I like the dark theme of the site.

I have a question about your criteria. In the FAQ you say

> Buy Once Software is a directory of software products that you can purchase once and own for a lifetime. No subscriptions, no recurring payments, just a one-time purchase.

From that description it doesn't seem like that excludes software relying on hosting, APIs or 3rd party services?

I ask this since I'm developing an app and I'm thinking about pricing. I really like the idea of a one time purchase, but the app has an API and uses push notifications. While the costs are nominal, there is no way that I can commit to keep the app working indefinitely.

And I can't help but feel dishonest if I set the app up as a one time purchase since I know that ultimately it is either not sustainable or claiming that purchasers will have the app forever looses meaning and becomes marketing.
> Research firm TechInsights recently discovered that Huawei’s latest AI servers contained processors made by TSMC, Nvidia Corp.’s most important manufacturing partner.

So they cut off Nvidia? Or do Nvidias customer order chips directly from TSMC and it's one of those clients?

It would be funnier if it was Nvidia, but probably not.
Russ Olsen, author of Getting Closure, Eloquent Ruby and Design Patterns with Ruby, telling the story of the moon landing as a conference talk.

Inspired me beyond measure and brought tears to my eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3XwpSKqNZw

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George Lakoff’s lecture on Moral Politics. Instantaneous understanding of political language and identity politics. Incredibly important, especially today in time of extreme polarization.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5f9R9MtkpqM

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY&vl=en
At first, I thought it was like $35, and was almost ready to order it. Then, I realized, in my morning haze, that I'm not seeing the decimal point, and it is actually $340.

For that kind of cash, you might as well get the real Vita from a second-hand market. Better yet, for that kind of cash, get Steam Deck, unless you have some restrictions like OP (i.e. "SD is too big")
Part of this is not about how politics affects open source world. It's about lack of open discussion and transparency. Certainly it'd be wrong for linus to call the opponents "trolls" from Russia.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105484-Gu... Well better than current run of things.
Plenty of awesome old guard still around (for example check out this mind blowingly awesome resource on all things water: https://water.lsbu.ac.uk/) among many other small web folks who are moving back towards making and maintaining a personal website. All that stands between you and the small web you miss is you. Kagi is fantastic though, I started using it recently and it takes me back to mid 2000's google. they even have a section dedicated to small web; https://kagi.com/smallweb
> one of the most impressive pieces of technology that I almost never use

> someone else who like me also loves it and uses it all the time

Wait, do you almost never use it or do you use it all the time?
No, everyone loves it. By everyone I mean the vast majority of the world.

The fact of the matter is most people do not grok addresses, so a dedicated address bar is useless to them. It's bad user interface design that defies what most people can do.

Here's how most people actually use a web browser if they want to go somewhere, say Amazon:

1. Type "amazon".

2. Enter.

3. First result is (probably) amazon.com.

4. Click.

5. ????

6. PROFIT!

In the dark ages this was facilitated by setting the home page to a search engine like Google, changing the address bar to a search bar removes that additional step making it that much easier for the common man.

Is it horrible for security and privacy? Yeah. But you write a web browser for users, not security and privacy nazis.
Agreed that it's not a MITM but for other reasons: Automattic didn't insert themselves in between two communication nodes. Instead, they replaced one node with themselves. No further communication between the original nodes to in-the-middle intercept.

Isn't it rather a flavor of
Impersonation Attack?

And "fraud" is maybe an ok word too?

> wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain

(says some dictionary)
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105484-Gu... + People just don't check ssh keys normally.
We are all very sad.
I get them from the UN and from watching the entire Gaza Strip get flattened with people inside, financed by my taxes. Where do you get your numbers?
Its' really telling that Google doesn't offer an API to access a firewall which provides a clear list of connections and the apps which create them and a way to prohibit such specific connections, possibly also according to blacklists.

They really don't want users to have control over this.
FYI, the move from desktop apps to web apps to phone apps to whatever in future will not make your programming knowledge obsolete. Programming at its fundamental level is same as it was earlier - you write instructions to read, process, write data. What changes is the tools/frameworks/languages etc which you should be able to pick and learn as you move to new things.

Overtime the abstraction level of programming has changed, earlier you would write a sort function in assembly, now you just call the standard library. This was bound to happen due to the idea of software/code re-usability. AI for programming, if it kept improving, will be just another abstraction layer in the same way but that doesn't mean anybody who has no idea whatsoever about fundamentals of software engineer and programming can just use AI to create (complex enough) software.
While they can sell phones in the EU, having no access to the closed parts of Android is a big deal, as it brings problems with many everyday needs like banking apps.

In my country, Spain, Huawei was the market leader with over 28% market share:

https://e00-expansion.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/20...

Since the ban, their market share suddenly plunged and is now 3%, and obviously the reason is lack of Google services.

I myself stopped buying Huawei phones despite thinking that they were far superior to other brands (Xiaomi is a joke compared to the reliability of Huawei products, my 2019 Huawei P30 Pro is still in active use by my wife and its battery lasts for more than a day after close to five years. She didn't want to "update" to a newer Pixel 6 Pro since the battery was much worse). But I don't have time to spend on periodically hacking the phone to get access to Google services when an update makes the previous hack stop working.
And of course notorious renaming hamburgers to "liberty steaks" in some restaurants in the timeframe between WWI and WWII.
It's sad but I'd place LLM's above some of the bottom quartile writers. I am often convinced a person is a bot, when it turns out they were human after all.
Thank you, kindly! I dictated it to ChatGPT which paragraphed but kept verbatim. I was on a roll! Hehehe :)
I mean... Even Uber used to complain.

That being said with the exception of Qubes desktop devices are dramatically less secure than Graphene, so unless you're foregoing digital payments altogether I don't see how you could avoid some degree of risk.
Excel is still arguably the world’s most popular programming language. And excel is much more functional than imperative.
Does your ISP peer directly with Aws?
Not to be confused with:

https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop

https://zen-browser.app/

My favourite web browser these days
>Since they don't give you a residence card

They don't? Then what use is the visa? You cannot live here without a residence card. As a non-citizen, you're actually legally required to carry your residence card with you whenever you're in public, and present it to a police officer upon request.

Something doesn't seem right here.

Edit: apparently you can live here, without a residence card, in a temporary apartment, for up to 6 months with this visa. Just be sure to carry your passport everywhere you go.
You have it backwards: The omnibox (or whatever you want to call it) came about because people don't know what the hell a Universal Resource Locator is.

Most people don't know how to navigate their local file system, let alone the internet.
> Could this have been an NSA attack? Maybe. But there were many others who had the skill and motivation to carry out this attack. Unless somebody confesses, or a smoking-gun document turns up, we’ll never know.

USA? Russia? China? Israel? North Korea? Iran?
really cool tool, thanks for building this.
Heheh, ok! I will have to rewatch :)
Thunderbird has gotten a lot of love in the past 2 years. Still have random hangs and the like meaning I'm finding myself just using my mail host's web interfaces often, and search... is what it is, but it's better!
This made me immediately think whether MIT Loop of Common Lisp was an inspiration here. Checked the user's profile and sure enough, a lisper!
People are being too individualistic here - Japan or any other country is never going to go after individuals who happen to work for remote companies or freelance while they globe trot working on tourist visas.

But when companies like Shopify go fully remote, if they suddenly have a lot of employees who are frequenting Japan, they are painting a giant target on their back and exposing themselves to legal risk. A company is never going to expose themselves to this kind of legal risk so HR will very quickly (and understandably) clamp down on this. This is why even the most progressive "work from anywhere" policies tend to have fine print that amounts to "your country of residence and any home countries you can legally work in". This is then why we often see "remote" coming with all kinds of conditions like US remote or EU remote etc because the reality of legal compliance for HR is a huge headache.

These nomad visas are a baby step in the right direction towards unburdening companies from this liability.
Only in China I believe.
> We’ve no way to detect dark matter directly, and so no way to prove or disprove this hypothesis

We can and we are already searching for dark matter directly [1] and indirectly [2]. The phase space is being closed every now and then and this is progress. This gives us information about where to look next.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_detection_of_dark_matte...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect_detection_of_dark_mat...
> Most people who talk about SSO Tax don't really care for it's values but rather want free stuff.

Most people who put out open source software don't really want to accept useful PRs (which implement OpenID) rather just want free distribution.
What we didn't learn from the past
Awww, Apple, don't become Google... I mean, if you go for a product like this, you should be prepared to sink money into it for at least 3 to 5 years. Thats what you owe to early adopters. There is nothing more sad then owning a piece of hardware which totally stopped being supported. Examples like this will steadily reduce the willingness of consumers to play with new stuff. The risk will eventually just be too high.
It's too soft and layered, the drill tends to chew it up. I've had some luck putting duct tape over both sides and drilling through that, but for very clean holes you'd still probably have to clean the edges with a craft knife.
Currently in Germany many folks are enjoying Xiaomi Pad 6.

I don't care about non-OEM Linux support, I love what Android with a managed userspace is pushing for, instead of yet another UNIX clone.

My only beef with Google is the Android Java vs Kotlin vs proper Java story.

As such, I usually don't bother researching about non-OEM Linux support.
I think they have been transparent as they legally can be. We're going to have to read between the lines here.
Getting a credit card as a long term resident alone is hard. Getting a phone number can be troublesome for some people fresh off the boat. One longstanding issue has been people who come to Japan expecting to settle down, then quickly realize it's not for them and take a flight home without telling anybody. Debts left unpaid and landlords not even contacted.

People who come here with the intention of milking some cash and living in a "cheap" country have even less reason to be loyal to it. The consequence will be companies being even stricter, but parasites like AirBnB and similar companies making a killing off offering apartments 5x above normal asking price to rich nomads who will say "wow, it's so cheap!" without realizing they're being ripped off, and killing neighborhoods by driving rent prices up. Owners of multiple homes stand to gain, but typical companies have been doing the math for a long time and see nothing but losses. The general sentiment by locals towards this policy has been "So we're really becoming like Vietnam and Thailand, huh?", so the vast majority of people will not be welcoming nomads with open arms, or at all. There's already massive controversy over new apartments being bought up by foreign investors and locals being pushed farther out of Tokyo.

People can downvote because they don't like hearing this. But it's the state of things here. It's a system forced against the citizens against their will. In a country with a noted history of centuries of distrust of foreigners, this visa scheme is not helping.
"German Americans were looked upon with suspicion"

This isn't about Russian Americans, though. This is about Russian developers working for Russian companies that are involved in the actual war.
You won't be getting a phone number or bank account without one. You might also have problems getting prescriptions filled.
> I trust KeePassXC but I don't really trust the mobile apps

I'm using Keepass2Android Offline. It doesn't have the network permission, which for me adds a ton of trust already.

Of course there are other ways to infiltrate data too, but you can be only so paranoid if you want to get things done.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi...
Hahaha! :) You are evil
Isn't that AGI?

I completely disagree with this viewpoint. I've created terminal games with my own rules, and that shows me the tool can take what it knows about Rust and assemble code to complete a task. It's essentially doing the same thing a human would.

While I understand the criticism, I sometimes feel that the cynical perspective we bring into these discussions prevents us from offering more meaningful critique.
Or when they release a phone with no keyboard, no apps, that couldn't even do 3G speeds. Followed by the iPhone funeral parade held by microsoft. Or when they release a tablet. Everyone was talking about how that was merely a content consumption device and no one would want it at that price point. Later everyone was concerned that Apple would cannibalize its laptop market.

Apple has a history of doing products that seem expensive and weirdly overspecced at the beginning, and then stick with it if they truly believe in it. OTOH, there are also clearly products that Apple killed because they didn't work out. But I believe it's still to early to tell where the Vision line is going.
A lot of people think SQL is antiquated, and therefore not worth learning. However, SQL is based upon Relation Algebra, which is the foundation of database optimalisation. Any data querying language/library that is not based on relational algebra will lack the performance. In particular ORMs fall under this category. Having said that, there are other languages/libraries out there that do use the relational algebra constructs.
Agreed cursor is good to very good, I’m just extremely tied to my old man vi workflow.