skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like to give recommendations since it either mean promoting the company I work at which just feels like mixing professional and private, or promoting competitors which just feel worse. Instead I prefer giving general advice on what to look for when picking a registrar.

Having a personal contact at the registrar for example might sound unnecessary, but it means that a person at the registrar should know the company involved and the impact of the domain or domains before any serious action like suspension are made. In large and bulk like registrar this isn't the case and as such no one likely knew what Zoho.com was or how many users it would effect. It was likely just an other $10 annual fee among millions of other domains, and as such it is very easy to just suspend and forget and later try fix any issues if those are raised. Cheap and quick solution but very costly if the owner values the domain name above that of $10.
I think people are just used to a certain page, just like they are/were used to their favorite local news station. I doubt most people periodically run tests to see which search engines return the most relevant results for them.

Plus, people know that google search is the best, so why use something else? The problem is that they seem to "know" in the same sense that they know Kleenex are the best tissues; its all marketing.
Radiation King TV on the Simpsons (12-second clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScUjHWUL34
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It is either malicious, or it is negligent. Either way it erodes trust significantly. Given the trend of changes in Chrome lately, if your alarm bells aren’t ringing yet, you are probably not paying attention.

I have switched to Firefox and have used this as an opportunity to begin my transition away from GMail.
Unfortunately, the average user (I'm picturing my mom) doesn't give two shits about Chrome not deleting Google cookies when clearing data.
A classic example of identifying the threat model when designing a security system.

There's no point in making a very expensive and complicated system to deny ID cards to international "Day of the Jackal" level of murdering terrorists because if you make the documentation process more complicated than simply killing someone who looks like the terrorist and taking their wallet...

Meanwhile the actual threat model for identity theft is a dude setting up an assembly line of dozens or hundreds of fake IDs to get loans from banks that are never repaid. The registry is somewhat lax, the registry of registry users is somewhat better run. I can request my birth certificate be mailed to me and as long as nothing interesting happens, nobody cares... but if a couple bad loans were documented by BCs mailed to me at my house... this is why the BC request process seems a heck of a lot more interested in legally identifying who is getting the certificates than it is in how much I "deserve" to get the certificates.
It's analogous to something like Code Climate, Coveralls, TravisCI, etc. Some companies require an on-premise version or want to run the scan themselves and only call an "upload my dependencies as JSON" API, which is fine. The scan is only to get the list of deps and their versions, it doesn't care about the actual source code.
>Firefox did that once

At least twice.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/16/firefox-mr-robot-extensi...
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9ii8sj/firefox_kee...
> What about you? You think the opposite?

I mostly agree with everything you said.

But I speculate, a good collection of today's "chrome leavers" here already use another browser - and are just adding fuel to the fire.

Or, they're not actually leaving chrome - just threatening, because they care.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing :) ATS seems to be a little bit far from Lamport because you do have data types and other stuff, but yeah.. maybe this is as close as you can get.
Yes. They also run away and escape the place like rats when the law rightly comes after them.
Last time I worked in big corporate I had to use their laptop even if I didn't plug mine into anything, because of security. At some point said laptop got stolen and I sent a buying request for a new one. Took a year without feedback and a heated discussion for my boss to accuse me for having been to passive on it. I was then using my own laptop. At that point you can't even call it shadow IT anymore.

Any buying requests go through the direct supervisor, the financial department, the director of the company, then back to the supervisor for the final signature. And because it's Germany, it was on paper. When I say any buying request, I mean any. From any programming book, to any accounting book for finance or any HR book.

You'd think people at the top have better things to do. You think that, until you hear the department heads discuss which excel format files should be saved in.
Treating medicine as a generic, traditional business has done nothing positive for society.
There has been a lack of innovation for fear of breaking things, but things are seeming more broken all the time. Maybe we'll start to see some traction.
You can also get GPU instances at much cheaper rates from Hetzner and OVH.

https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu

https://www.ovh.com/world/public-cloud/instances/prices/
> What is the underlying mechanism that leads
to the emergence of Zipf’s law in passwords?

As far as human-generated passwords go, it does not seem surprising that they follow Zipf's law, since it seems humans are hard-wired to communicate via Zipfian languages, and we likely adhere to that distribution unwittingly when choosing passwords.

What's interesting is that when humans choose numbers, those numbers typically do not follow Benford's law (which is a special case of Zipf's law), and can be detected as fraudulent. I would be interested in seeing if machine-generated passwords also follow Zipf's law (my hunch is that they will not, much like how human-generated numbers do not follow Benford's law and stick out like sore thumbs).
Being vegan is a lot easier than you might think, but you're right that reducing your meat intake and trying to buy more humanely raised meat also helps. What I recommend to my non-vegan friends is to just pick one day a week in which they consume no animal products and then expand from there.
No. https://tidelift.com/docs/lifting/paying has the long answer to that.
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To be fair, the OP was complaining about short-term biases from management. The entire ethical discussion is pushed way over its actual relevance (really, how big an ethical flaw is not deleting a cookie? Google will identify you anyway, cookie or not).

That said, about this:

> and now you understand how SYSTEMIC problems persist: Nobody is held personally accountable

It looks completely backwards. Environments that fix systemic problems are overwhelmingly on the side of not blaming individuals and looking only at the system. You are probably thinking about goal misalignment problems, and yet, just going after the individuals is still counterproductive if the system won't support the ones that do the right thing.
Congrats on the launch! After many, many years of my not being into podcasts, I recently returned, and am loving podcasts. The challenge has been both in finding a decent player/client, and discovery of podcasts. I'm most recently using Stitcher, and so far its not so bad. My favorite feature is the ability to automatically download episodes for offline listening. So...for now, i think I've got a decent player/client. On the discovery front, I sure hope your app/service begins to grow, because i think it would help in the discovery of new podcasts. Kudos and good luck to you!
Whatsapp first, then Instagram, something is going over there, who is next and why?
>>If not, can we release a rat specific poison or is that impossible without harming the entire ecosystem?

Animals bunch around places where there is food. And the hard part is if you have food these animals generally multiply well enough to eat that food.

In India its common to see street dogs, because food littering. Some times they take away the dogs, but they repopulate again in months/years. And in places where they don't litter you will see there are no dogs.
What lead you to trying things on "the edge" in the first place? Were you actively looking to make money or were you having fun?
People always yell at me when I say this but what if we lower corporate tax rate and tax revenue instead of profits? Does it encourage companies to get even bigger and do everything in house?
If your argument is that they can do more good by staying, fine. I say the exact same thing about staying in Ontario despite the recent election of a wannabe Trump populist.

But if you say, “Ontario made this stupid decision,” I can’t tell you, “I didn’t vote for this, I can’t change it, I’m not responsible.”

I have to tell you, “It sucks, and as a citizen I bear some of the responsibility, and here’s what I’m doing in the hopes of fixing it.”

My only argument is that people who stay have some accountability. Accountability doesn’t mean they are automatically bad people, but it does mean we can ask them, “What are you doing about it?” And they don’t get to shrug and say, “Nothing I can do, so my conscience is clear.”
They seriously can't buy a graphics card and slap it in the PCIe slot?

Well I mean they obviously can...

First of all you're assuming IT will just let you have a decent machines with PCIe slots. It's all about laptops don't you know. Workstations are so 2012.

Secondly while they might, after much begging, let me have one graphics card to put into this one old workstation I've scavenged, they certainly won't let me have a machine with top of line specs with several cards or, heaven forbid, several machines, (but they'll happily let me have a laptop that costs just as much for less than half the performance).
> the cloud has economies of scale and benefits from specialization

For GPUs it's the opposite. With some legal BS, NVidia forbids Amazon to rent out GeForces. Doesn't look OK to me, I don't think NVidia has a right to deside how people will use the hardware they have bought. Anyway, Amazon has to buy Teslas, and Teslas are 10 times more expensive.
I think, the idea is the distributed ledger, which allows you to store the information not with a centralised authority, but yourself. Blockchain would not necessarily be a good technological approach, but a distributed ledger, would be.
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Wadjet Eye, for me, have to make some of the best adventure games I have ever played. Heartily recommend Technobabylon and Gemini Rue.
Cultivated land, regardless of how it's cultivated, is generally way worse for habitat conservation than pasture land because you are by definition destroying the native flora to plant food crops.

Here in the Canadian prairies, the ranches are by far the best conservators of native ecosystems because cows can graze on the same plants that bison did for the last millenia.

My province of Saskatchewan is one of the biggest producers of pulse crops in the world (chickpeas, lentils, etc..) but has also some of the worst habitat destruction worldwide (less than 3% of native grasslands remaining) precisely because so much land was plowed under to produce those crops.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the flavor of the week as you call it, began to develop out of Stoicism, a school of philosophy that was forming in the early 300s BC. CBT began to be formalized in the 1960s, and it's backed with numerous studies confirming it's efficacy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2933381/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6000963/
In most of the developed world, literally all of our necessities (housing, healthcare, even food) require interaction with the money economy, which is the opposite of what is described here, so probably not. Even the Amish have to interact enough with the "English" economy to buy things like nails, and to pay their property taxes. Possibly we can operate this way again, with nano-factories turning homegrown soybeans into jeans and iPads or something, and a self-healing infrastructure, but that's far future sci-fi, not current reality.
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I don't think your assertion is valid. What you're describing is accomplished with describing how a person can have a mental illness, be suffering from coercion and or is contrary to the social conditioned accepted norm.
Further, persons assess circumstances based on their own reality. We live in a world where the normal people look at the ones outside the circle as ill and try to bring them into the circle by doing whatever it takes by punishment, institutionalizing, and medication. It's silly trying to establish society (a system), perfect as it can become and adding an irrational belief to people; it results in harm to the system.
While it has been mentioned, I want to repeat and emphasize it because it's the main point. What beginners do, after all, is only relevant for beginners, but I think the question is about violin play in general.

The issue is that the locations simply are not fixed. For one, there are different ways to tune a violin, and second, depending on what environment you play with and with what other instruments you adjust your pitch automatically accordingly. Since it is so very easy for the violin this is the instrument which adjusts to the others, the piano can't do that on the fly.

I also can confirm that it is much easier than it looks at first. Somebody said most beginners use markings, but the few other beginners I know, but also the violin teachers I know, don't use them (when I say teachers I mean for their students of course). I didn't think about it much when I started a few years ago (at well after 40, but it's fun and works out quite well), I never felt a need for it.

What you notice when you play is that it actually is pretty easy to adjust on the fly. You develop an ear for the right pitch (if you don't you may have a problem). In my experience you quickly place the finger in at least almost the right place, I doubt that any marking would help do it better when you are in the middle of a song, unless it's the slowest of slow. For the tiny differences that you need to adjust for markings are of no help because I would say you cannot hit them as accurately as would be needed anyway.

Even if I had markings, they would be useless. I would not look at them most of the time, besides, you are looking at quite an acute angle since you are holding the violin with your chin, so you would have to mentally adjust for that too! I think it may well end up being more of a hindrance than an aid.
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No, not in most corporate it shops... card had to be “procured” through the corporate vendor, support has to be in place, drivers for some shitty obsolete os flavor has to be installed... that’s assuming you can even find a server in rack that is recent enough to even run it all, if not then same shit has to happen with the server.

It’s all ITs own fault frankly - or more like fault of corporations approaching IT as mostly a desktop Helpdesk support.
Social Security Death Index is nationwide in the US and seemingly instantaneous, certainly no more than a day or two to update.

Although half your argument is invalid, the other half remains perfectly valid, along with the overall conclusions, etc.

SSDI is pretty useful for recent (dead in the last century or so) genealogical research.
There were multiple memes with screenshots of people declaring they were quitting Facebook and using Instagram exclusively. Don't know if this was widespread though.
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The first aspect is that every* TLD has it own registry and system. For the generic ones you got ICANN accreditation process, but there is also a bunch of registrar reseller that act as a middle man between ICANN and other registrars.

Usually most processes involve some form of capital investment and/or technical capability. Country specific TLD can either be easier or much much harder depending on which country.

* Not really everyone.
Most EE EDA/CAD tools are ancient monstrosities of patchwork with a user experience reminiscent of using eclipse 0.01. Full of bugs, lack of fast CLI tools. Everything must start a core process that takes many seconds to even boot. It's ridiculous. Software engineers don't know how good they have it in terms of tools.
Displaying colors properly on wide gamut displays is one. Can't use Firefox because of it — I can't design in the browser if it renders everything wrong on my iMac.
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The 'user' of a virus is the virus author - not the person running the software. A user is someone who attains some gain from running software. So, no, this would be a very low user count.
> Because nobody pays for software
I find this really annoying and silly. People spend money on many other useless stuff, but not software. We have reached a point were software and internet services is expected to be free.
> People have meat for almost every meal

I'm gonna call BS on this unless you provide a citation.

Many people (in the west) eat a breakfast (cereal, pancakes, waffles, bagel, toast) or lunch (PB&J sandwich, salad) that contains no meat every day or every workday. Then you have to account for all the meals where there is no meat (pizza, mac and cheese). You'd need to have a substantial fraction of the population eating meat (almost) literally every meal in order to make up for the people who habitually don't eat meat at particular meals.

Edit: I'm talking about meat for the purpose of environmental impact and sustainability here. I'm not talking about meat from the perspective of strict veganism or the milk in your coffee or the eggs in your baked goods, those have negligible impact compared to raising animals to slaughter for food.
Why isn’t a child part of your footprint? You certainly caused them to exist, and rejecting that responsibility isn’t going to help anyone.

No, you don’t want to kill your children.
> At best they'll remain a second-rate player in the cloud market, riding the ripples of their 90s enterprise clients until those die out as well.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/microsoft-beats-aws...
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Ultimately, they have users too. However the context is general application development - certainly, special-case users have their value as well...
The idea that technical people are all impeccably ethical is not very plausible. Consider the scientists who promoted the claim that smoking was harmless long after it clearly was not, the engineers who concocted VW's diesel-emissions fraud, and the developers who produced Madoff's fake accounting. And, of course, this particular deception is hardly the first fall from grace on the internet.
Engineers losing control to money types and bureaucrats is a gradual process. It is not that one day Google strikes out the second word from its unofficial motto ("do not be evil"). Engineers might dislike each small step in that direction, but it is not enough to make them pack up and move (house, family, kids, etc.). Pretty quickly they are tamed by both money people and the bureaucrats -- still appreciated and paid, but as brains to be tasked, with no ability to influence company policy.

People accept a LOT with gradual changes over a few years that they would never accept as an upfront bulk package. This is not just in engineering. But there is a flip side to this -- once bureaucrats are in control and engineers who stay accept "that is the way we do it" as a justification they often lose energy and become set in their ways. This is more dangerous to a company than a rotting executive class. My 2c.
A crucial difference from Patreon is that this is a commercial service (an enterprise maintenance subscription). Participating maintainers help do the work behind it, and subscribers who buy it receive benefits for their money.

This is complementary to and different from a donation model.
They seriously can’t.

Typically if you want to buy some hardware in a big Corp you go to some preapptoved internal catalog to pick up from one or two models of desktop or a laptop from vendors like Dell, HP, or Lenovo - whatever was preapproved. Sometimes you can fine tune specs but not in a very wide range.

Buying anything outside of that will require senior level approval and - heaven forbid - “vendor approval study” (or similar verbiage).
Maybe this is too much tinfoil, but it feels like Google has a bit of a perverse incentive here to make their spam blacklist unnecessarily trigger-happy. After all, anyone they block will just think running their own mail server is too hard these days and might switch back to using Gmail...
"Hi, I'm Equifax, and this is 'Enabling mass-scale identity theft!'"
I think the main thing veganism and vegetarianism have done in recent years is win over minds. As opposed to the clichéd vegan that will mention that fact whenever they can, the number of quiet vegetarians and vegans around me has skyrocketed in recent years. Even though they hardly ever discuss it, the fact that more and more people around me, even though still a minority, refuse meat and/or dairy products for themselves has really denormalised the role of meat in our society.

And that, in turn, makes even meat eaters more likely to consider voting for a political party that will restrict industrial farming practices, or to consider eating meat from farms like the authors'. And in that sense, it might still be the answer, regardless of the effectiveness of the veganism/vegetarianism itself.
Reading through the thread, people have similar problems with namecheap, name.com.

So if you cant afford something enterprise like MarkMonitor, and you don't want something super cheap $9.99 per year. What sort of good quality middle ground choices do we have?
It's called confirmation bias. They are looking for positive evidence confirming how awesome they are and are blind to evidence of the contrary. Not only are they blind but they seem genuinely confused why people are disagreeing with them so much. From the outside this is an obvious PR disaster. It shouldn't need debating. It's that bad.

I imagine the internal mailing lists are going to be a fun read the next few days. I was on similar mailing lists in Nokia when the iphone launched. I'll spare you the details but Nokia suffered from a similarly bad case of confirmation bias and it was decision making based on that in the years before and after that ultimately led to them getting out of the phone business entirely a mere 7 years after being the dominant market leader (and not by any small margin). Confirmation bias kills companies.

Anyone from Google/alphabet still capable of making a difference reading this, here's some free advice: sort out your management ASAP. This is one of those issues that stems from a lack of leadership. Heads need to roll, especially the ones doing too much nodding. I'd start at the top. I've had my doubts about the current CEO for a while. Too invisible and stuff like this keeps happening on his watch. Also the product portfolio seems a mess lately. There's something wrong there and current leadership is part of the problem.
The way to get rid of rats is not poison, it's to remove their food sources. The only reason they live in the sewer system is that there's always something there for a rat to eat. The whole sewer system we use will have to be redesigned. Not impossible, but definitely not easy.
Is there some actual data on this somewhere? I'd be curious to know the browser / OS breakdown.