skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the one-stop-shop handles your domain registration, then yes.

Regardless, whoever handles the registration should have an interface to add records. For example, you'll need to add MX records to use Google or Office365 for your mail service. You'd also need to add TXT/CNAME records to prove ownership of the domain for Google Webmaster Tools, etc.

Here's Google's documentation for Wix users: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6149037?hl=en

[Edit] Just read the Wix instructions. Looks like they made it easy and offered presets for Google Suite users. They could do the same for Mailchimp. But they do allow arbitrary records. https://support.wix.com/en/article/adding-dns-records-in-you...
What would be a better term in your opinion?
I think Essential did it like a year before Apple.
This image from the product page made me laugh:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/DzUW6cuCUFirvQPz9

Trying to stay ahead of the current trend toward larger phones.
This is representative of the fundamentally primitive nature of humanity. We are pathetic creatures that aim to bring others down, like crabs in a bucket. We harass and hurt each other insidiously with varying degrees of subtlety.

That we need to rely on technology for such behavioral control is indicative of a broader fundamental issue with the human condition. Take away safe spaces, consequences and so on, and a sufficiently nontrivial subset of humans will revert back to primitive and malicious behaviors.

I’ve found myself to be utterly disgusted by human existence. That such a thing even needs to be built reminds me of why I am glad to have never procreated, for the risks of misery are significant and random. Life is a craps shoot even when the odds are in your favor.

For all of the progress we’ve made as a species, these domestication tactics have ended up making our species more weak.

I do not support these initiatives, but then again I don’t support Instagram fundamentally. Humans will evolve with technology, but I’m afraid we will build in ways to ensure that the weak survive.
I recently tried a coworker's QC35s and was impressed. I decided to buy the TaoTronics TT-BH22 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075CBHN9M/
(about $60; don't get tricked by the "newer model of this item" link which is quite different) -- and I think they're a fantastic value with maybe 75% of the noise cancellation performance of the $300+ name-brand product. I use them basically all day in our open office. The active noise cancellation cuts down tremendously on low-frequency noise from air handlers and distant conversations. Would recommend.

One downside is that when they're first turned on, I can faintly hear the switching power supply charging up the internal capacitors for the first few seconds. But I've been told that I have unusually good high-frequency hearing, and this basically goes away once it's charged, and is certainly not audible over music.
It's pretty pathetic too after they release a whole slew of ads making fun of Apple's design choices... Only to unashamedly copy them in the next iteration.
> People who buy value phones don't care about stock Android.

What does this even mean? I mean, since there are no cheap stock-Android phones clearly anyone who buys a cheap phone doesn't only care about stock Android.

But it's absolutely possible for someone to (1) want a phone at non-"premium" prices and (2) want a phone running stock Android. The fact that they then have to pick at most one of those two because no one but Google makes stock-Android phones and Google have gone premium-only doesn't mean that they don't, or shouldn't, want both.
If you have a reference cycle, the two Rcs will keep each other alive, and their Drops will not be called.
> Ah yes, Bloomberg, well-known for protectionist rhetoric and support for Trump.

To be fair, many of Bloomberg's sources were government, so the government could easily have said "we'll leak this to Bloomberg." It doesn't require Bloomberg to have a protectionist agenda more than being a pawn.

I agree with you on the rest though; "masterful and precise" in particular seems pretty farfetched and ridiculous, and many parts of China's economy look like a house of cards.
In the case of healthcare, profits and inefficiencies.
Easily solvable with voice recognition or just calling people on hands free. Cutting out usage of phone for that is overkill.
True, but the total wealth increases. Money is just a proxy for the things we want. the things we want are the actual wealth. When you can buy 50" LCD screen for 200$ instead of 700$, you've got more wealth, same for land: that's Progress.
Conspiracy theories do love the combination of the whataboutism and the competitive debate strategy of "spreading" where you make lots of weak (or better yet, completely unsubstantiated) points, and if your opponent fails to refute everyone, you win.
There's a lot of ~50 year teardowns where I live, but it's people that want to build something big and ostentatious on the lot in desirable neighborhoods. The homes they are destroying are often all brick construction.
I'm on my third Nexus 5x. The first Boot-looped thanksgiving 6 months after I bought it, the 2nd boot-looped during christmas the next year. The third has stayed steady, I've just avoided all holidays.

I bought a pixel (2nd hand, dumb mistake) and then it bricked itself within 3 months. Went back to my repaired Nexus 5x.

Google's hardware is awful and their support is an opaque cloud of pretty UIs and unhelpful people.

Should have gotten a 1+
The supposed infiltrated part is a six terminal RF device. Not something that would ordinarily show up on a server motherboard. In any case, Joe Fitzpatrick has already disclosed that he used the part merely as an example and Jordan Robertson expanded that into a work of fiction.
Are you talking about the "old" ChromeOS or the new one with Linux app support? I think with Linux app support it shouldn't be hard to do this at all.
Audit Cleared Google Privacy Practices Despite Security Flaw
On a technical basis I'm surprised this project was / needed to be undertaken at all. What am I missing?

The reason for my confusion is that the search engine already implements various "knock out" rules, for example:

- it inherently makes a choice as to how to respond to a query based on what it knows about the user ("Tyler" is more likely to refer to "Cowan" for me while "Swift" for the little girl next door).

- Though Google has resisted to some degree, it has whole swaths of results which are not permitted in various jurisdictions (various definitions of "hate speech") for example

- New "right to be forgotten" restrictions and copyright attacks

- "Fake news" attacks and complaints -- spam

Given that there have already been implementations (of varying levels of compliance -- I believe many of the censorship demands are intractable) really how would Dragonfly be different? Couldn't a censorship request from CCP use the same API the RIAA does?
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> When you can buy 50" LCD screen for 200$ instead of 700$, you've got more wealth, same for land: that's Progress.

Great example! More to the point, total wealth is useless, just as GDP is useless as a measure of citizen wellness and happiness (US GDP was 18.57 trillion USD in 2016). It's the distribution that matters and where we're utterly failing. Your example is not progress when necessities inflation (housing, food, education, and healthcare) races ahead of other consumer expenses and incomes in general, unless one is expected to watch that 50" TV in a van down by the river.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/lookout/fed-official-heckle... (March 11, 2011)

> Reuters reports that New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley was heckled at a speech in Queens today when he suggested that the rising cost of food is offset by how cheap iPads are. "Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful," he said referring to Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) latest handheld tablet computer hitting stories on Friday. "You have to look at the prices of all things," he said. This prompted guffaws and widespread murmuring from the audience, with one audience member calling the comment "tone deaf." "I can't eat an iPad," another quipped.
I found Netlify a few months ago and use them just for my blog currently. They are great though and would recommend them to anyone. It was trivial to get something setup with https with a Let's Encrypt certificate on my own domain, pushing to GitHub to update the site.
It's Google's Apple care equivalent. Pretty disappointing. Pixel used to come with 2 years warranty, now it comes with one, if you want 2 years you need to pay extra.
How would such a beacon work though? As RL_Quine points out there's only so much you can do at this point, especially if you want to be super stealthy. If you wanted to send a ping to an external server you'd have to craft an ethernet frame with the right target MAC address containing an IP datagram with the right IP address to be routed correctly in the datacenter and through the public firewall. You better make sure that your packet looks legit otherwise you're sure to trip anything looking for suspicious activity. "Hey look, our servers send weird packets to this suspicious IP, what gives?"

And you have to do all that with a very low power device running from within the port itself. Seems like a very high bar to me, especially when there seems to be so many easier ways to backdoor a motherboard.

But maybe the component is only hosted in the ethernet port but is actually connected to other signals on the motherboard.
To have a Postgres instance and a web server without having to install them locally and screw with configuration. docker-compose and done.
Zig is good, but I like the look of Kit (https://www.kitlang.org/)...it feels a lot more C like with many of the features (ADT/pattern-matching/generics/type-inference) of the latest crop of languages. Not fully ready though, but promising.
I don't know, previous revelations of wide scale breaches haven't affected the target companies that much.
That was a thing, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_for_Germinal_Choi...
The "no language barrier" point was only for Berlin. I know that in the countryside almost nobody speaks English, but inside the city you will be able to get everything you need. As far as I know most of the government agency employees are required to speak at least basic English.
That's to prevent someone from logging into your phone. However, they didn't mention anything about privacy, which would be what happens when you're already logged into your phone, and Google is tracking what you do.
FWIW: many community colleges in my area are beginning to offer BA/BS degrees. I've seen data that shows students who get their two-year degree are often able to get into better 4-year schools than they would have had they applied straight from high school. Certainly given the cost, community colleges make a great deal of economic sense, though are perhaps held back by reputation.
Their debt mechanism is a lower risk model for investors -- After you sign on, before you finish the program, you sign future income away. And investors are buying into that pool of future revenue.

There are arguments for and against this mechanism. I'm against it, clearly they are for it -- everyone should make up their own mind. Wikipedia has a high-level write up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_Share_Agreement
>I sometimes think that they answer to the Fermi paradox is that the universe is an exceptionally dangerous place. Even when intelligence evolves, it has to dodge a whole bunch of bullets from the universe randomly sterilizing chunks with GRBs.

Or maybe since all this started with the big bang, there's some other civilization at a similar level of development at the opposite end of the universe - so far away we'll never cross paths?

Or maybe there's only 1 intelligent form of life per universe, but many universes?
DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon Systems Vulnerabilities
It makes a lot more sense when you realize how many Google employees are Chinese citizens, and how many of the remainder are outright communists.
> I can't imagine students paying $4 a couple times a day for a Starbucks coffee when they're paying with borrowed money. This is just grossly irresponsible.

When I was in college, undergrads would have to purchase a meal plan, which could take a few forms. You could have a designated number of meals, and buy things from the cafeteria that qualified as a meal (one entree, one side, one drink), or you could have balance of food dollars which could only be spent on campus. There were also plans that involved a mix of those two types of currencies, but the better plan was to get the food dollars (which were called Declining, for whatever reason), and use that to buy food, because that gave you more flexibility. You could spend Declining at the cafeterias, at the corner store, at the Starbucks on campus, it was literally cash that you could only spend on the campus and only on food.

At the end of the academic year, though, your balance gets zeroed out, no matter how much you have left in Declining. So every year starting in April or so, people would start buying stuff in bulk from the corner store or from the Starbucks just to get something out of the money that was going to evaporate. My senior year, my girlfriend spent like two hundred dollars on coffee beans and gave them to people as presents, because what else was she going to do? I myself spent like sixty bucks on fifteen pounds of sour patch kids.

No reason to not buy that four dollar coffee every day when the money's already spent and you're not getting it back.
Ask HN: How do telephone networks operate?
A curiosity I've had of late, particularly due to a bunch of spam calls. I was wondering what protocols telecom networks use and how my call (or a spammer's call) get routed from beginning to end.

I'm pretty familiar with the TCP/IP stack, I was wondering how it differs.
Where Does Money Come From? Who Controls All the Money?
> 3 bed apt near Union Station for $1200/month? Maybe 10+ years ago.

It was 10+ years ago, sure, but also I had the smallest room (actually a den) so I paid the least. The total rent was 1500 IIRC for what was technically a 2bed+den. I just googled and rent for the same type of apt in that building is going for around $2000 as you said. So if I were to have the same rent splitting arrangement today, I'd probably be paying around $600, maybe $700 for a better room. Which, remember, is around the same as the 3-bunk-bed-room deal-of-the-century in SF.

Also consider my salary back then was CAD 37k. Nowadays a person w/ 1-2 yrs angular experience can land a CAD 100k job fairly easily. My wife sees new grads getting 75k at CGI fresh out of school. The real estate bubble popped too, so it's definitely a buyers market now for those who were eyeing home ownership.
How about MySpace? https://myspace.com
The cleared department is handled the same way as in the military in terms of security. Amazon has SCIF's etc. So unless a disgruntled employee steps forward who doesn't care about there life, I imagine its easily contained (and symptoms of an employee being disgruntled are highly monitored when they hold a clearance)
Apple has definitely copied features, and even a few design elements (see Palm Pre UI), but they always tweak them to make the product appear unique and "innovative". With the Pixel 3 and the Pixel Slate, even the most oblivious customer can see the resemblance with Apple's products. That, combined with the lower price points, kind of gives the impression that Google's trying to make cheaper versions of Apple's products. I know, not logical, but people don't always like cheaper.
From my perspective, I don't recall Apple's motto ever being "Don't be evil". I expect Apple to make the call that will generate the most revenue for them as my baseline assumption.
Not sure how these are better than buying a 2-year old iPhone (which has better support, better UX, and better resale value)
I've loved my 6p, but it's gotten slow AF in the last year or so. I replaced the battery after it stopped lasting more than half a day, and thought that might solve the issue. But it's still intermittently slow.

I'd love to keep it, but it's gotten quite annoying to have to wait for it to respond. I guess it could be malware on it, but it could also be just the hardware not lasting as long as I would hope it would.

I'd like to upgrade, but I don't want to spend $1000+.

Anyone running a Huawei phone that they've flash with a custom firmware? I was thinking of going that route, as it's significantly cheaper.
> I don’t recall Google ever having a rationale for how “don't be evil” helped them make money, either explicitly or implicitly.

Google's success depends entirely on user trust. If users aren't comfortable having Google accounts, having Google host their email, typing their deepest desires into the search box, taking private photos on their Android phone and uploading them to Google's cloud, then there is no Google.

"Don't be evil" is about being a good enough company that users trust you.
Even if they didn't do it first, at least Apple has a plausible claim for why they did it -- the iPhone screen goes all the way to the bottom edge. The Pixel doesn't have that restriction, so why do a notch?

The thing that really irritates me about a notch on the Pixel (or any other Android phone) is that it's much more intrusive. Not just taller (though it is), but on iOS notifications are not handled the same way, so you're not really giving much of anything up with the notch. But on Android, notifications frequently take the entire top of the screen -- right where that notch is. Seems unnecessarily clumsy.
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Apologies if it sounded like I demanded a “cool new language enhancement” solution to this issue. On the contrary; if it were just documented that either fs::File [1] or the io::Write trait [2] could silently lose data with no error codes when dropped, that would be one such sufficient solution.

Perhaps I misread this documentation; if so, I don’t think I’d be alone here. I don’t see any particular mention that dropping an fs::File could lead to data loss, and I had generally assumed major edge cases like ‘data loss from a file system library’ would be documented.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fs/struct.File.html

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/trait.Write.html
You miss the point entirely. The sound quality is incredible, don't be an asshole by pretending you can care/or even hear the minute differences between hi hats and lip smacking, much less caring.

The noise cancellation is fantastic. I literally can't hear people who are a foot away from me. What more do you want?

Sennheiser Momentum aren't even close. Wired is a complete deal breaker for many people. Built to last? I've had every bose pair for YEARS, replaced instantly if any issue.

Find me cheaper headphones with similar warranty, same quality, and wireless, that i absolutely don't have to mess with EVER to get working.
You see it mostly with smaller homes in areas that are desirable. The smaller homes, usually built 50-60 years, tend to have low ceilings, small kitchens, no master bedroom, etc. Some have structural issues due to neglect but most are fine structurally just not desired by buyers.

When the owners decide to sell they usually get snapped up basically for the land cost - demolition cost and are torn down for "teardown" houses. In Chicago it's pretty common. Our street is about a 50% mix of 50s homes and < 10 year old teardown homes.
In Brazil we sold our electric grid, and it was great!

We also leased our production and we got ripped off by politicians.

Basically, YMMV, as the details matter much more than the large picture here.
£189 for a keyboard case!!

Tell 'em they're dreamin'.
I looked up a bunch of similar products about 5 years ago. Just last month, I looked them up again, and found that many don't exist anymore.

It's definitely a tough market. I suspect that it will be the larger corporations with enough revenue that can release such products into the market - and probably even release them as free features of an existing suite of products (e.g. iOS with Downtime, Disney's Circle[1], etc), as opposed to a standalone product.

[1] https://meetcircle.com/time-limits
I think most of the "caring" is a token effort. Too many businesses benefit from tech/mobile addiction. It's a form of green-washing IMO.
Except, is the Pixel actually cheaper? Maybe this year with the bump up in prices for the iPhone, but as I recall the Pixel 2 was actually more expensive than the iPhone (in particular, priced the same but with less flash storage).
This is old school, but how about a blog?
"This will be exactly what POTUS needs to get his AG to move against the press."

If this was anything, it would be a reason to move against China.

However, several days later, we can be fairly confident in saying it isn't any reason for the President to do anything, on the grounds that to the best of my knowledge, he hasn't done anything. (This opinion subject to change if someone cites something, of course. But I'd expect it would have come up in our HN conversations by now.) If this was a conspiracy from the government to make hay out of this news, they would have done so by now. Next day at the latest, given the speed of the news cycle nowadays. I think we can safely discard this theory now.

(I also see no reason to even suspect that the President thinks he needs some sort of additional casus belli against China. He seems to believe he's got plenty already. If such things are being faked, they aren't being faked in stories like this, but at a much different level in much different places.)
The censorship aspect is a red herring. Google is giving the government the infrastructure to identify candidates for "re-education" via their Google searches. Is Apple funneling dissidents to the government via their app store?
15 years ago I heard the head of DARPA talk about the work that he thought would the hardest to do and the biggest reward. High on that list was what he called "an artificial nose"--a chemical detector so sensitive that it could reliably distinguish between millions of different scents.

To this day I don't think we are even close. Think about how we still use dogs in highly critical functions like tracking people, detecting drugs or explosives, or even detecting when a diabetic kid has a blood sugar level out of its safe range.

So, I think we are still a very long way from being able to arbitrarily synthesize a scent. I don't think we even fully know how a sense of smell works; it's not just the receptors but also the cognitive processing. As an analogy, look at the complexity required to understand and manage color perception. And physically, the EM spectrum is way less complex than the organic chemistry in scent.
I like how if you go to https://store.google.com/product/pixel_3_how_to_buy and click on any of the company names under "Find your phone. Get up to $300 back" you will be redirected to Google's internal corporate SSO page:

https://imgur.com/a/DkmG4uL
Two of the big players in the space are Disney and Xfinity, both of which IMO don't have much to gain by actually reducing screen time.
Right so Google was actually aping someone else and hadn't even noticed that iphones have that notch.

Be real here, it isn't a big deal, but they clearly set out to mimic the Apple counterparts.
Which is actually incorrect usage of "object oriented stuff", because you should use an accessor, not depend on the underlying representation. So that should have read `$this->mess`