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Russian techie flees Russia following FSB spyware plot
They should focus on battery usage instead. I love Windows, but Windows on a laptop is a horrible experience…
> but it's hard to comprehend why Russia was unable to do anything at all.

The dust hasn't settled, but my assumption is that the Russians had a sort-of working plan that the Syrian army would do the heavy lifting and Russia would be funnelling in supplies and providing power for key points - following a proxy-war style defensive model. Given the speed and totality of the Syrian army's collapse they didn't really have anything to do that wouldn't be hideously draining on resources that they don't really have.

The collapse of the Syrians may be related to the Russian military being distracted by the Ukraine war in an indirect or direct way. My base case guess is the Turks/Turk-backed faction spotted an opportunity while the Russians were distracted and went for it, and the Syrian forces were complacent because they hadn't really prepared for the situation where Russia is in a war elsewhere.
Isn't it very typical for an ISP to run their line onto your premises and put the demarcation device on your premises with your power supply etc? Usually there isn't a "their side" where it still works. It's your premises, then up to kilometers of wiring, then the central exchange. Equipment required to terminate the wiring at your end obvious has to be at your end, not theirs.

It's possible that the termination equipment could be a bare SFP and not a big box, but the ISP wants to be able to monitor the status of your connection up to the termination equipment, because that is their responsibility to keep online, and they can't do that if it's just an off-the-shelf SFP. They probably wouldn't agree to do it and still have any SLA.

If there's a physical problem with the box (too big/loud) you can try negotiate for a different box but if you just want control over your network, sorry but that just isn't how it works. Your network starts at the demarcation, and you don't want to be responsible for speaking whatever protocols the ISP is using internally, either. Up to the demarcation, it's ISP internal network, and past that, it's your network, with a standard handover interface like Ethernet.
i get colourful snow and a headache trying to make my eyes do things. it just blurs and unblurs :'(
Using a mouse is completely natural if you do it often. So is using a pen on a tablet. Whatever you use, you get so used to it that is it an extension of your own hands or whatever you use to control input. Your own bias is showing in the assumption that you can develop muscle memory for keys but not other input devices, or that because links are in different places, the mouse becomes cumbersome.
No problem - I'm afraid my posts are longer than they could have been with more thorough editing.

If I had spent more time on it, I might have noticed that in your reply upthread to thephyber, you had written "I'm obviously talking about the concepts we use to think about reality, not about the words we use to describe it." You are entitled to have some fun pointing out that you had already anticipated the paragraph in which I bring up the arbitrariness of language.

That is not to say, however, that there is nothing to see here. We represent, communicate and reason about concepts, including concepts about reality and the real world, with languages that are arbitrary in their syntax and grammar. In addition, large swaths of factual knowledge about the real world can be learned through language alone (for example, it is the only way that I have come to know anything about atomic and subatomic physics). Given these facts, a rational person is entirely justified in doubting your claim that neither arrangements of atoms, nor anything else physical, are capable of having (or giving to concepts) the likeness to reality that your argument is predicated on.
This link seems to redirect until failure for me.
everybody but the one who proposed it wants to go home...except those who have a good excuse and are not there for starters...who in their right mind thinks co-workers are a good match for having fun, partying?
Show HN: My website has encountered some problems with Google indexing
The website was newly launched on November 1st. Around the 10th of November, more than 200,000 URLs had already been indexed. However, there has been no new indexing until today. Hundreds of thousands of URLs have been found in the sitemaps, but they haven't been indexed continuously. Should I wait patiently? After all, it's a new website.
I agree-there's nothing wrong with the means nor ends.
But, I'd bet that most people, after having failed a big endeavor that they put a lot of energy and time into, would feel at least some mixture of doubt/discouragement/disillusionment. Pile onto that resorting to less respected work (in a culture obsessed with money/power/prestige) and I can easily see how the parent commenter would feel some sort of humiliation during those times.
There's a lot of evidence that Russia was probably involved in Oct 7. They're certainly cozy with Hamas...

https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-visits-its-closest-frien...
There is an interesting discussion on Optane on the Oxide podcast that I linked to. Long story short Oxide was interested but Intel's culture of secrecy got in the way. Not surprised the cloud providers weren't interested either.
> why should their ideas be let in through a social network?

Who would decide if they are a rabble-rouser or are seeking to disrupt a country?

Let’s imagine a government where officials believe vaccines are bad for their population.

Then, under their state monitored and filtered social media, they see some rabble rousers from Norway trying to encourage people to be pro-vax.

What does that government do?

They make a virtual “wall” to prevent unauthorized ideas into the country.

Its kind of the opposite of a good idea.
Touchpads exist.

A mouse (or rather, a floating cursor) is often a much more efficient way to get your cursor in position than slamming your arrow or hjkl keys multiple dozens of times.
Can you explain your logic
Even if that's a lie?
Some universities have a press or media outlet which generates press releases and handles media relations.
An MLIR-based JavaScript intermediate representation
You were absolutely experiencing privilege. I know you recognize it now, but hearing this is scary. This is why folks often vote Republican - they have no idea what life is like for very hard working actual poor people who would need services after breaking an ankle.

Your comment really brought it home for me.
Boundary Check vs. Try-Catch
Varanasi in India, more specifically Manikarnika ghat in 2008 for me. I am a rational non-religious person but that place imprinted itself in my heart by exactly this... something else in the air and I mean everywhere I went in that place (apart from ashes of burnt dead which you breath in 24/7). Never felt anything similar anywhere else, not even in St. Peter's Basilica which is an engineering marvel on its own I can certainly appreciate its beauty.

Which goes against whole concept of institutionalized religions and tells a lot about how humans are wired internally, and nothing (at least positive) about existence of god(s) and some made up bronze age rules accompanying those stories.

BTW been to Notre dame before the fire and felt 0 nothing above usual cathedrals effect (compared to say Sagrada familia which wasn't that spiritual but wow effect definitely), but there were various parts to visit and I don't think I covered them all so maybe missed the spot that worked for you.
nice idea - maybe for really bad articles
In the end they couldn't alone keep fighting Al-Qaeda(rebranded) and ISIS, supported by USA, Turkey and Israel
No, they block legitimate ads on creator websites and then put their own ads in front and offer creators a cut. It's an outright racket and scam.
that’s an especially valuable tool considering the constant stream of media information one must evaluate when making investment decisions. How do you ensure that I get all the latest information about a stock like NVIDIA? Is there an API for specific keywords in the news?
> Then move to europa.

I'm sure humans or something descended from us will, in time.

> I for one will stay here

Looks like your limits are self-imposed after all.
Touchpads don’t solve for muscle memory for the same reasons mouses don’t.

And yeah, of course. Most people who use keyboard based workflows dont just use hjkl to move a cursor around. In vim, for example, there are many more text-centric ways of moving around a document.

Using a keyboard is generally much faster. Try using your daily code editor without any hot keys at all. No F5, no Ctrl-s, none of that.
I'm french. Live in Paris. I do not understand the excitement the world has for Notre Dame.
Question for you, reader: what does the fire and/or the rebuild means to you? Why do you care?
This should only be offered to families with children.
Thank you. It's too late to edit, but I've learned.
Google shut down Google Reader on July 1, 2013.

Firefox removed RSS support in version 64 on December 11, 2018, approximately 5 years and 5 months later.
You are arguing between different flavours of jihadist groups, none of which I would refer simply as "rebels" or showing them taking over as a positive thing.
Is Ukraine actually the largest war since WW2? Is it bigger than the Second Congo War?
80k is worth the learning, our society spends more on a college degree. ain't gonna learn anything just throwing cash at everything
Show HN: I built a lightweight, terminal pair programmer for developers
Thank you for your kind words.

That's really interesting about your blog getting 1,000 search engine visits daily.

I hadn't thought about tracking the different types of visitors like that.
I'll definitely look into analyzing my traffic sources better.

I'm curious - what makes Google visit some sites more frequently than others ?
pretty cool idea!
The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood
It definitely does not mean lotto tickets and restaurants. People living paycheck to paycheck do not go to restaurants. If you are going to restaurants it means you have funds AFTER bare expenses. Paycheck to paycheck means just enough to survive.
Show HN: AI tools search engine optimized for AI agents-Anthropic's Computer Use
J'ai essaye d'etre discrete.
1. Super fast Website loading speed.
2. Multi language support.
3. Wrote article around main functionality.
4. Lastly, Focused On SEO => OnSite. (HTML tags h1, h2 etc)
oh that's funny, somebody saying they should buy bitcoin with part of their money rather than blow it in 2 years trying to pursue their entrepreneur dreams.
We don’t hate crypto, there are just a loud bunch that like to complain about other people using it. Lots of us are building and using daily.
You can’t develop muscle memory when your target movement isn’t the same.

Using a mouse is natural as in intuitive. You don’t need to really tech someone to use a mouse. It’s easy in that way.

But that’s not the same as muscle memory. Using my hands is very natural, but when learning guitar, I still need to be conscious of what position my hand is going to be in.
After a while, since my hand is constantly going to the exact same position, I develop muscle memory and no longer need to be conscious of where my hand is going.

I feel like I shouldn’t need to explain muscle memory with analogy.
I think you can decode a stereogram into the depth map with like 5 lines of Python, but it's been a while since I've played around with this stuff.

Meaning, maybe GPT can't (yet) see magic eye images, but it shouldn't have trouble building itself a prosthetic that allows it to see them.
> For annual cycles, the easier method is simply to overbuild your generation. If you have half as much solar input during the winter, then build twice as much solar.

At latitudes such as of New York or London the solar input during the winter is 5 times lower than in the summer, or more. That's because there are three effects that all go in the same direction: shorter day, lower inclination and thicker atmosphere for the rays to cross (because they come more slanted). If you build five times more solar than you need during the summer, it means you have to idle 80% of the capacity at that time. Long before this will happen the marginal profit of building a new solar plant will become negative for the investors, and long before that happens the profit will be positive, but the risk too high for the investors to secure financing.
It's a tricky question at this point: the clicking sounds seem to be due to a natural increase of cavitation in the plant's stem. But it's hard to judge the extent to which the plant actually evolved to do this vs it being an accident with little selective downside. In the near future genetics might shed some light on whether an ancestor was too quiet/noisy and had increased pressure on relevant genes.

The disadvantages of too much noise are obvious (herbivores) but I haven't seen any convincing explanations on what the plant's advantage would be. There is some speculation on plant-plant communication, but maybe it is about attracting pollinators and seed-dispersers before the plant dies. Just a lot of stuff we don't know yet.
Have stereograms advanced in some way over the past 30 years? I know how silly that sounds, but: I remember back in the day when the fad first broke, spending minutes, many minutes, trying "get" it. And having to focus (heh) on focusing my eyes. And sometimes failing. I haven't looked at a stereogram since then until now.

And these were easy. The first one literally took 15 seconds to "drop in." The second maybe ten. The third was near-instant. The only one that gave me any trouble was the continuous function one like an egg crate, with no sharp edges, just dropping down and up. That took maybe twenty seconds, and once I recognized what I was looking for, it was easy.

So has the technique changed/improved? Or has my brain changed?
Show HN: Analyze if an idea is AI Agent or Not
I'm tired of seeing every AI product calling itself an 'AI Agent.'

I've created 'Agent or Not,' a tool that analyzes product ideas to reveal their true agentive nature. It cuts through buzzwords to provide real insights about AI capabilities.

It uses GPT4o and Claude and takes an average on the following factors to determine whether it is an agent or not.

Autonomy, Goal Oriented, Persistence, Adaptability.
I don't know what kind of package manager you were using, but I've never seen an update take a good part of an hour before Nix.

Pretty much all popular package managers. APT/dpkg, DNF/rpm, pacman, etc.

I have just updated one machine to the latest unstable. It updated 333 packages, a substantial part of that system. It took 1 minute and 50 seconds, most of it downloading. So, not sure how it takes a good part of an hour for you.

Seriously, are we going to shame people who can't afford to buy lots of storage??

I'm not shaming anyone. Just saying that 1 or 2 TB is pretty normal nowadays (outside Mac, because Apple makes you pay for it). At any rate, you can make the size pretty similar to any other distribution. It's not like glibc or GNOME takes up substantially more disk space on Nix.

If you end up using 100 GiB of storage, you are either keeping a lot of system generations around or you somehow have different nixpkgs versions in your system's closure, ending up with duplicate versions of glibc, etc. If the former is the case, set up automatic garbage collection and the space use will be far less. E.g. on one machine I have only three NixOS unstable generations and the system is 18 GiB (which includes a bunch of machine learning models, etc.). It would probably be substantially less on NixOS stable, since there are less differences between generations (e.g. I have qemu, webkitgtk, etc. three times).
Your typical hitman is probably an 18 year old small-time criminal riding a motorcycle in a t-shirt and without shoes. Ride up to the target, shoot in face, ride away. There's no way police could follow a motorcycle in the chaotic traffic of South America where this typically happens.
DMSO produces dimethyl sulfide in the body when it is metabolized. To say there is no effect of dimethyl sulfide is to not know human biology or health. Therefore DMSO could play a role as a medicine and it is currently still an area of research for cancer.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9801450/

http://bmrat.com/index.php/BMRAT/article/view/614

As well as an overall immunomodulary agent:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S017129851...

I am not, of course, suggesting that everyone take DMSO, but the fact is that this very cheap molecule is not studied for one reason; it cannot be patented. And since it is possible that the pharmaceutical companies might know this, banning it would give them time for drug discovery and a patent on a molecule that acts similarly to DMSO.

It is a fact that the FDA gets nearly half of its funding from corporations it regulates.

https://today.uconn.edu/2021/05/why-is-the-fda-funded-in-par...

You at least should have a skeptical eye when it come to the FDA banning a molecule like DMSO. I can understand regulating it, but banning it was an over reaction by the FDA.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-...

"These companies wanted to put DMSO through its paces and eventually market it as a drug."
That's cool that they have converted it to HTML. I made a simple Space Invaders game in a version of GW-BASIC on our home PC a long time ago.

Before that we had a Color Computer 2. "Getting Started with Extended Color BASIC". https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hard...

I really liked the book. I was like 7 years old and it completely explains everything starting from what keys to press all the way up to graphics. And such cool little computer character illustrations.
Couple reasons I can think of:

- GPT translations aren't that better than regular old MT, it still "sound robotic" and starts talking unrelated things that share literal expressions just like anything before it.

- Not all languages has same word orders, and some people think as they speak; this means babelfish is plain not possible without a time machine.

- Actually, try running some French or German TV or YouTube or TikTok content through that pipeline and see if you like it. You can automate the process later, ask ChatGPT how or outsource to penguins in Antarctica for a bucket of fish, just see if the concept of "funny videos from somewhere else with AI voiceover" works at all.
> That sounds an awfully lot like your understanding. What Christian would your above statement not apply to?

Most Christians I have met or read about would not learn from an Islamic Sufi Murshid, or Guru Nanak, or Buddhism's 8-fold path, or Taoism, or Judaic thought, or the Gita, or the history of WWII.

> I guess I'm just having a hard time squaring these statements with you calling other people "vultures", "dipshits that they are", "lying motherfucker", "I damn them, too",

I've done no harm so long as I'm being honest and only wish them to get their heads out of their asses so that they will stop hurting others. That is for their benefit, too, tho those aholes tend to ignore all recommendations to fix their sh_t and, by doing so, stop inflicting misguided, selfish misery on others.

Jesus said he "did not come to bring peace but a sword". Maybe my middling level of spiritual development includes my using unsavory language (and, therefore, I should, myself, level-up in that respect; I'm not convinced I shouldn't speak more gently), or maybe I am a product of the times we live in, and I am merely speaking in the way that motherf_ckers will understand :-) because this sh_t is serious!

How should the Allied forces have spoken about Axis sympathizers (who lived in Allied countries) when those Axis powers were causing so much misery and devastation?

Every day, we are all choosing one of the three sides in this world:

1) The side of universal compassion.

2) The side of animalistic brutality.

3) The side of selfish ignorance that doesn't take a side and just says, "It's not my problem."

There is no fourth option, my friend.
Ghastly
I don't see much of a point. If someone makes a website and wants people to be able to send money to them for that, a link on that website should work just fine. I'm failing to see the benefit of a HTML meta tag related to that.

> I wish I could click a button to easily send a "tip" to someone who created something I enjoy or to browse other options for supporting them.

I believe most people invested in getting donations already have a similar button on their page.
I have this book on my bookshelf. I wonder how common it is for people to keep old books like these instead of discarding them. I also have "APL: An Interactive Approach" among others. It feels like more than a coincidence that these two books were given to me.
Our experiences on airline prices seems to differ. I see them going up.
This Russian losses are primarily not young people actually. There’s been somewhere in the ballpark of 600-800k casualties (I believe the latter) which has been a huge struggle for the labor force. But, in fairness, it hasn’t been the young folks.
What eventually made it out of VisualAge into the wider FOSS world was Eclipse.

https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_Where_did_Eclipse_come_from%3F

Eclipse is the FOSS version of the C/Java rewrite of Visual Age SmallTalk -- which is still on sale as VAST.

https://www.instantiations.com/company/history/
For a lot of cultural/literary reasons, I think it's just iconic in a way that many other (at least equally beautiful) cathedrals--that most people probably couldn't even name, even the ones in Paris--are not.
Hey, there is a lifetime option and it's just the higher number you mentioned.

I suppose it's not immediately obvious that it's a one-off purchase, so I'll be working on the design aspect of this.

Thanks for your interest and suggestions!
Comcast Business by itself is not DIA. You are still on the same CMTS as residential users. So you share the same resource pool. I have had Comcast Business for ~14 years and still fight with normal residential problems.

Such as over-subscription and having to contact the BBB to finally get a non-"Let me look at my book, ah yes! it's your modem" response. I finally was contacted by the Technical Operations Manager to affirm "Yes [name] is correct, bandwidth demand exceeds the capacity of the system in their area. We are working on a permanent solution to allocate more bandwidth"

That was 9 years ago, and I'm back again. I pay for the catchy "UP TO" 35 MBit/s upstream and can barely hold 2 MBit/s during peak and about ~25 outside peak.
when API and larger context window? i'm interested in using it in production
Her personal motivations make total sense and this isn’t a judgment of her, but your comment makes it sound a little like misaligned incentives just switched places, but the misaligned research incentives remain (and she doesn’t do research professionally anymore) and now she introduced a new misalignment: the content creation business.

It’s totally fair that emotionally she was done with one and able better to continue work with the other, but removing the hobby element actually did remove one set of well aligned incentives and did not replace them with another.
They're spilling a lot of blood right now because they felt the Ukraine was intolerable. You can accuse them of a lot of things (war crimes and disastrous stupidity among them) but "all talk and no do" is bizarre. On the military front they are responsible for something close to the most doing in Europe since WWII and their pain tolerance in doing has been demonstrated to be remarkably high.