Honestly? Good. Puts them on a more even footing with other infrastructure. If trains aren't free neither should highways be.

I'm not trying to be too pc, but you can't really tell based on someone's name where they were born.

That said, the US only has some 5% of the worlds population (albeit probably a larger proportion of the literate population), so you'd only expect some fraction of the world's researchers to be US born. Not to mention that US born is an even smaller fraction of births (2.5-3%, by Google), so you'd expect an even smaller fraction of US born researchers. So even if we assume that we're on par with peer countries, you'd only expect US born researchers to be a fraction of the overall research population. We'd have to be vastly better at educating people to do otherwise, which is a longshot.

Obviously this makes turning away international students incredibly stupid, but what are we to do against stupidity?

I'm a little surprised at the outrage here. I guess sure if you're using tiny self-hosted runners this would be significant, but if you're using even an 8 vCPU machine from blacksmith for instance (16 cents per minute), this is roughly 10% extra. That seems reasonable for them providing the platform?

If you thought you were, you were tricked.

I think your sarcasm detector needs calibrating.

Looks like a lisp? Here's the library I think they're using (and wrote): https://github.com/ianthehenry/bauble

I have no insight, but I would assume it's a 1-1 sort of split, that is that everyone that previously had one share of sourcegraph now has one share of sourcegraph and one of amp? That seems like the least legally fraught way to do it.

yes that is easiest; or just be a 100% owned subsidiary. (that's what say, waymo is).

the good thing is that you afterwards the cap table of the subsidiary or the spunoff can evolve (ex: waymo / amp can raise money independent of the parent company).

Why is that preferable to just pivoting?

Because Sourcegraph is a viable business in its own right. Small companies find it challenging to do multiple things well, and it's normally better for them to spin off promising ideas that aren't directly part of their main product.

Presumably they wanted to continue working on sourcegraph? Or maybe they want to have something left if amp flops?

Re: "I'm always surprised how they supposedly also manage to be some of the most cunning and evil actors when it comes to hacking."

I sort of suspect this is just the result of a nation state that is willing to be a pariah. That is, I think nearly any large state could do it if they didn't mind burning bridges.

This is my assumption as well. In general it seems like hacking becomes a lot easier (still not easy of course, just easier) when you have no fear of getting caught or going to jail.

Does anyone remember LAPSUS$ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsus$ from a while back? It was reported for a while that it was largely made up of teenagers, and it seems two did get caught. I recall their whole MO being brazen social engineering/using stolen credentials in a way that got them caught pretty quickly, but also got results fast.

It’s not just that they don’t care about being a pariah state, it’s a literal fund raising exercise, unlike most other state sanctioned hacking.

See also Russian hackers being notorious simply because Russia is willing to turn a blind eye to cyber crime that doesn't target Russia

Crime being illegal doesn't prevent crime, but it adds an enormous amount of friction. In the West if you are decent at hacking, low-level APIs or reverse engineering you could turn to cyber crime. But if you instead get a regular job in cyber security or software engineering you still get a good salary, and don't have to worry about your online friends being police informants, can tell your potential significant other what you do to earn a living, get money wired directly to your bank account instead of having to go through costly intermediaries with significant risks, don't have trouble with the tax authority, etc.

If you reduce the legal opportunities and remove the downsides of the illegal ones the calculation completely changes, and with it the talent pool

"Pariah", they've had the longest embargo on earth (which has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths), they had 90% of their whole countries infrastructure bombed by the US, and the Korean war has been called a genocide in the North by many scholars.

The world doesnt make sense if you ignore history.

They probably hack for the same reason the west does it: attack/defense and money.

What other options do they have? They've been sanctioned to the point where they have few options left but to turn to crime.

Their brutal dictatorship is a choice.

Isn't the whole point of a dictatorship that you don't get to choose?

It's an ability from the show: https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_Clone_Technique.

While perhaps not practical for oceanic shipping as is, it's a fun exercise to demonstrate the energy density of nuclear power.

Idk about the op study, but I could imagine confounders with instant coffee consumption.

True, and it could also be what the person has with the coffee. I have a feeling people that drink instant coffee are more likely to add milk, creamer, or sugar.

That said, instant coffee is just freeze-dried coffee. There's a possibility its effect is no different.

I think it’s typically a different species (Coffea canephora). So theoretically drinking bean tea of a different plant could have different health impacts.

Also known as Robusta. I have two different instant coffees at home and just checked - one is robusta, one arabica.