skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average price a domain investor sells a domain for is around $2,000. That's a one time charge, and then after that they pay just about $10 a year to renew.

And people register alternative domains rather than one an investor owns because they don't want to pay that amount.

So I don't agree with your thinking.

And in some countries $1,000 is a lifetime's earnings.
Worth noting that this is no longer true:

“The world’s best chess players are neither computers nor humans but humans working together with computers.”
That was very helpful to read, thanks.
Anecdotally, both of these were difficult to get to run at all and offered subpar developer experience on macos. :(
Now I cant get in touch with my freind see when hes coming back home
What sparked Ms Stokes interest in recording the news happens to coincide with my news awakening. The hostage crisis and Love Canal (which started when I was around seven or eight) jump started my new obsession.
No I cant get in touch with my freind see when hes coming home
This is a great idea, I bought into the yoyo fad as a kid in the 00s and still have the muscle memory for it, might try this out.
Lots of people have tried to create these "alternative roots" to the traditional DNS. It's a chicken and egg problem. In order for website owners to choose these alt domains, they need every browser, email system and software to support them. In order for the browser makers et al to support them, they need millions of people to be using them.
"When a God-level AI takes over in a science fiction book, it often remakes the world in its image: full of straight lines, smooth acceleration rates, and lots of chrome (AIs love that stuff). But as we start using algorithms to design things, we get results that look a lot more chaotic than that..."

It would be interesting to see a movie where an AI takes over and turns reality in to a Rube Goldberg machine.
My guess is that Wirth's approach would be to avoid having too much logic in a loop (if really necessary, break it into separate procedures) and if needed to do something like

WHILE ~someCondition DO
(* Stuff *)
IF ~someCondition THEN
(* More stuff *)
END;
END;

In general from a quick look at the projectoberon.com source code (which is largely written by Wirth) the vast majority of WHILE and REPEAT uses seem to be less than 4 lines long.
Yeah, I'm in Easter Europe. I had a 1:1 and shared it with my boss that I just had a break up with my GF so that's why my focus is not that sharp lately. He appreciated it and we moved on to other topics.
You're on HN, most people here don't care about anything but their own bank account and ego. Anything that threatens their comfort bubble will set them off.
Anyone who doesn't like hearing very loud flyback transformer whine should avoid playing the last few seconds of the embedded video.

I think what Stokes did in recording those tapes was outstanding, by the way.
Is there a Windows or Web client for DevonThink?
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For each TLD, there is only one registry. This is true for .com as it is for .org.

In many (most?) cases, there are multiple registrars, which is who the end customers use to “purchase” their domain from. The registrars (plural) register the domain with the registry (singular).
Is it a seven step process as described in the article?
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I don't consider signing up for chinese surveillance system with foreign bank accounts an acceptable solution.

How about cash?
> "We felt like little kids who couldn't do anything by ourselves," said Ms. Shortes, a junior at Clemson University in South Carolina. "We always had to say, 'Please help us!' "

I travel to Harbin, a major Chinese city in the northeast Heilongjiang about once a year. My group always consists of member of my host country that is at least marginally conversational in Mandarin (this on the menu please, going to this area, Mr. Cab Driver), and a native or someone with Native level fluency (There must be a misunderstanding, I promise we didn't intend to trespass). Our group leader usually exchanges a few days worth of meals in cash at the hotel before we leave for the day, but instead of paying for meals, we just slide our native friend the cash while he/ she scans their WeChat/Alipay app.

This past trip I decided to go rouge and just use my credit cards (unrelated: most of my credit card providers simply don't have an option to notify them of international travel "Their sophisticated algorithm detects when you're traveling"). Most places in the US let you know what digital payment forms they accept. Almost always Visa/Mastercard, Usually Amex/Discover, rarely ApplePay/SamsungPay/Google Pay, and - in tourist areas on the west coast and in Hawaii in my experience - UnionPay (China credit card) or JCB (Japan credit card).

I expected something similar over in China. Nope - WeChat Pay, Alipay/ Union Pay or Yuan. Not in Kansas any more.

I managed to install and link my credit card up to both the Alipay/ and WeChat iOS apps, but they declined my purchase at the counter. Not sure why the app would "accept" my CC info without doing a test transaction. It turns out you need a Chinese CC to use the Chinese payment apps, which requires a Chinese bank account. I'm sure you can easily get one if you have a Visa, but for some reason we never thought it out that far.

Those same cards that were declined tested satisfactory for a ~20USD at a Starbucks the same day. I tried a 40USD gift card purchase right after that and was declined. Our native friend covered me.

tl;dr first stop when visiting China should be a bank. you'll get an account, which will give you a card, which you can use for China's increasingly required digital payment systems
Can you pick up a 40-ton truck with 2,000 drones?
"pelosi met with trump" is translated incorrectly to Russian as "Пелоси встретился с Трампом"

The Russian verb is incorrectly in masculine form. Interestingly both names are capitalised in translation
I came across Reactable a couple weeks ago, and have been playing with ReacTIVision, which is their computer vision engine. It seems pretty promising for quickly bootstrapping a table-based interface. (Although I do wish their calibration docs had a bit more detail.)
No, there is only one .com Registry: Verisign. There's multiple Registrars (the companies you as an individual typically buy your domains at) for .org just as there are for .com
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si, con menos inclusive.
>This scene hints that the cashier's analytical skills are >next to none and this alone explains why she is a cashier.

Her numerical analytics skills perhaps, but she might be great at something else. Maybe she is a poet, or a musician, or great at handling 5 kids, or something else that you are terrible at.

Just something that doesn't pay well, so she has to be a cashier.

This is kind of a form of Moravec's paradox: we assume what is easy for us must be easy for others, and what is hard for us must be also hard for others too.

I can't find the reference right now, but this was a famous problem in early testing of monkey's intelligence. They showed the monkey's pictures of humans and they couldn't distinguish them, so it was assumed they were fairly dumb. But then eventually someone figured out they were much better at distinguishing pictures of other monkeys.

Of course it's still possible that the cashier is not good at anything, but in my experience that's very rare. Most people have some skills.
Huge corporations and governments are kind of like hybrid silicon/meat AIs and that's exactly what they've done. I think this is the most likely outcome.
>The provinces as legal entities are just legislatures that set provincial law for the provincial residents (i.e. the Canadian citizens who are registered as residents of said province), rather than for the geographic area those residents happen live in; and courts that uphold laws for those residents; etc.

That doesn't sound right. How would it work for corporations? If one province has strict pollution regulations, does that mean you can bypass all of that by registering your corporation in another province and bringing in workers from another province?
A neuroscientist once said that our brain's primary purpose is to coordinate movement.
Depends on what you mean by more "color detail". Assuming that the activation curve of the 4th cone is sufficiently different, it's definitely possible to create two different spectra that a trichromat would be unable to distinguish between (regardless of how close they were or how long they stared at it) that a tetrachromat could easily distinguish between.
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I set up a Chinese bank account to do it. I hate cash, so much. It's just so fiddly. AliPay it awesome in comparison.

I'm glad it's getting easier for foreigners to get more connected to the payments ecosystem. Makes for a much nicer experience.
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What if I want to support organ harvesting on millions of Muslims? Should I go to the French Guiana?
>Most of the complaints about the article are coming from people who know enough to understand that there's no alternative to interfering

Except Google claims they don't interfere, which is why this is news.
Basecamp is not a non profit. Of course they also care about making more money. If I recall correctly, everyone’s compensation there is based partially on profit sharing. They are feeding starving children in Africa.

And that’s not meant to be a value judgement. I think a company that has a business model of getting $x amount money from customers and spending $y where $x > $y is much better aligned with customers than a company where $y > $x, they are subsidized by VCs, and the company’s ultimate goal is to be acquired or pawn their money losing business off onto the public markets.
A small outage should not matter at all in case of renewal, because clients are configured to renew days or weeks before cert expiration.
Genuine question: can you explain a couple of these simpler ways please?
Any word on the internet archive's progress on this?
It was actually 20 pounds for 10 ish, so it comes out even cheaper.

Sadly it seems that was just a stroke of luck, since I can't find anyone else selling them anywhere near that cheap now
The implicit goal of a project like OpenNIC is to eventually get a seat at the standards compliance table, where they'll be able to convince decisionmakers not to make those assignments in the first place.

For now they do (B). They renamed their .free domain to .libre after ICANN registered .free.
I like the music. And you can mute it. Everyone wins!
I'd argue it's the other way around, that those seeking to change their lives for the better are a relatively self-driven minority and likely would have succeeded with or without religion, religion was just a convenient vehicle due to widespread availability and approach-ability.

It's anecdotal, but I was raised Baptist and married into a Catholic family (although neither my wife nor I are particularly religious). The people I've met in church over the years are no more or less driven than any other segment of the population I've encountered.
Founder here,

Chatwoot is a customer support tool for instant messaging channels which can help businesses provide exceptional customer support through their websites or social media channels.

This was a product we started building in 2017. It failed due to a couple of obvious reasons. We built on Vue.js and Rails. It was in an inactive mode for around 1 and a half years. Recently we thought of putting it out instead of letting the code to rust. Our idea is to make it something like Gitlab/Mattermost where people can host their own version and we will provide a hosted version for people who don't want to self-host.

After we open-sourced, we received contributions from 30 developers all around the world.

We believe bots alone can't solve all the questions and there is no context. On the other hand, having agents alone for customer support won't scale as your business grows. We intend to build a bot+agent platform which is fully opensource and supports most of the social media channels, email and websites.
I traveled to China over the summer, and this was a small inconvenience but when pressed people could never turn down a sale. One lady pulled cash out of her purse to make change and the deal happened. Its good that they are looking into a solution to this problem though.
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That's not what a newcomer should google. That is just a reference that someone can give quickly from memory, kind of like a short url.
dependiendo el talento para esos trabajos.
I actually had a start-up idea circa 2005 for translating business emails between Japanese and English. The idea (and please feel free to use it for whatever it's worth now) was to constrain the emails into the set phrases derived from MINNA NO NIHONGO, where you could only choose the sentence type and fill in the nouns and verbs.

eg:
“Do you think <NOUN> will <VERB>?”

would be translated to:
“<NOUN>は<VERB>でしょうか?”

and back in the other direction. The emails would be constructed from a sequences of various sentence types.

It would be a sort of highly constrained “business language”, but of course with a nice UI(!)
The best runbook is the one that doesn’t exist. Automating operational work vastly decreases risk, and gives you mechanisms to address many of the points in this article (you can write audit logs, tests to ensure your automation works when you need it, etc.).

If you need them, make them as short as possible. It’s an architectural smell if your runbooks are long and complicated—part of good design is making sure you can easily operate your system.
China's Hacking CON, Hacks Chrome, Safari, Edge and Office 365–But iPhone 11
I never heard of this distinction (self-help vs "true" philosophy).

Wikipedia[0] has this:

Stoics outlined what we have control over categories of our own action, thoughts and reaction. The opening paragraph of The Enchiridion states the categories as; "Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in a word, whatever are not our own actions.". These suggest a space that is within our own control.

Is that based on the self-help book approach?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism
I see AliPay and UnionPay symbols increasingly appearing in local shops where I live over the last few years.
Not a very good analogy since the translator knows the correct translation before hand and therefore can identify the incorrect translation produced, whereas someone using stack overflow does not know the correct answer before hand.
> London's tube map only uses 45° angles to aid its human readers. Now can you see the humanness in mainboard design?

What was that russian electronic board design software where nothing is vertically/horizontally aligned, no trace is straight?
That's how he knows.
Agree. Although I don't really understand gorhill's refusal to take donations for his work. I hope it's just that he doesn't need it.
The centralization of digital payments in China is absolutely terrifying. Everything is controlled by this one magic app - WeChat in China. I had a hard time staying there for 3 contiguous months, finally had to get a burner phone and install WeChat. Because, I was crippled without it.

Ofcourse, everything is linked the moment you get a SIM Card with your photo/passport. This isn't that surprising, most countries have policies to check ID before handing you a SIM Card. OTPs are then generated against that phone and then the entire ecosystem is tracking you. Your entire life is in WeChat.

Fuck everything about that. I'll take hard, cold, paper cash anyday.
One could argue that fame too is not a zero-sum game. With increasing populations, wouldn’t it be easier to have a million fans today than say during Shakespeare’s times? This could be one possible explanation for the rise of the influencers on YouTube, Instagram and the ilk.
This was my impression too, although they could have adjusted the wording to say "manually" or "directly" or something to indicate it isn't purely algorithmic.

Of course algorithms can have bias too, but still.
It's been about 10 years since I've done any Linux kernel development, but often you can get the rest from the documentation folder in the kernel tree, plus the source code of a similar module also in tree.
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Yeah, a 16K Spartan 6, 64MBytes of DDR3 RAM, and an FX2LP USB High-Speed controller is a pretty terrific repurposed FPGA dev board in the vein of the chubby75 or panologic, even if the high-speed ADC turns out to have too many limitations / too weird signal conditioning (i.e. is too VGA-focused) to be very useful (but VGA probably at least means a pair of I2C pins is exposed on the DSUB-15, right?). Considering the FX2LP is already wired up to load the bitstream to the FPGA, and expects to on every power-up, that's a huge bonus for a dev board. Even if the binary blob of FX2LP firmware provided in the manufacturer's drivers does checksums, signature checks, etc. to make changing the bitstream data difficult, it would be pretty simple to write a new firmware to allow uploading of any custom bitstream (see: fx2lib), since it's such a well-known and widely-hacked chip -- maybe you can even manage to trick Xilin's ISE into believing it's a real Xilinx "USB Platform Cable" (FPGA JTAG programmer) since at least some of them use an FX2 for their USB interface. With a generic bitstream uploader utility for the FX2 you wouldn't even need to deal with any hardware modifications or even need to buy and connect a JTAG programmer if you were just starting out. And with everything being uploaded on every reset of the devboard, you don't have to worry about bricking anything either, since you just power-cycle the devboard to bring the programmer AND FPGA back to their default waiting-for-firmware/"rescue" mode.

But while the article says he got a lot of them (at least 3 from the photo) for $25 total, it looks like they're more typically ~$50+S/H each on ebay, which is less exciting.

The same company seems to have moved on to 'av.io'-branded USB3 devices now, which from a quick glance/binwalk of the downloadable firmware package (inspired by this article) appears to have FX3 USB Super-Speed controllers, and Spartan FPGAs. But it's designed to store the FX3 firmware and FPGA bitstream on the device itself (to allow it to boot up as a UVC webcam with no drivers required on the host, like this article was hoping would be the case for the older device), so it would require a bit more reverse engineering to figure out how to kick the FX3 into firmware update mode to replace the FX3 firmware with a custom bitstream uploader. But it's a ton more expensive, and who knows what generation and size of FPGA or how much and what sort of memory it would have.
> One poorly understood school of google-fu is the art of googling for the words you want to google for.

That's a beautiful way to put it. You've distilled into one sentence a skill that I've been asked about many, many times (as the token IT guy).
I have collected a few CPUs from retired systems that I keep on the upper ledge of my IBM model M keyboard. One of those chips is a 21164.

Rest in peace, Dan Dobberphul.
Part of the reluctance so far is likely due to the fact that both Alipay and WePay charge very little processing fee to the merchants (which also explains their popularity with merchants). If they accept foreign cards do they have to eat the high processing fees that come with credit cards? It is not a problem when it is a domestic bank transfer from the users' bank accounts. They can't really negotiate individually with all the card issuing banks in the world over processing fees, can they?
Are most criminals really carrying guns? It seems like a bad trade-off to arm everyone all the time just for the one in a billion case that a criminal is armed.
Governments allow those but this would constitute another step in that governments would be forcing something potentially hazardous onto their entire populations without likely being able to escape its (potential) effects. Whereas your examples are all things that you can avoid if you like, though some admittedly easier than others.

I agree there are bigger issues but I'd think that that would constitute just delaying the rollout rather than seeking to roll it back if we find that it's affecting the health of large populations, which might just distract people even more from those bigger issues.
It must be amazing, having data logging almost every financial transaction by almost every individual in the country.

There are a lot of powerful ways that could be used. Both good and bad.
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I interviewed for an e-commerce startup company a month ago, I saw their ad on FB and was browsing their site and came across an API endpoint that was exposing potentially all customer's data, including name, email, phone, and full address.

A little background about the company, they scheduled an interview with me. I was ready for the interview and the guy interviewing me wanted to reschedule the interview 5 mins after the interview time. I agreed to reschedule and had an interview at another time. But they never got back to me about how the interview went. I followed back up with them 2 weeks ago and they said I was not a good fit.

What should I do now? What is the best course of action to inform them about this?
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Hm...with a single screen, probably not. With two screens with different output curves for each of R, G, and B; it may be possible to display a color that looks the same across the screens trichromats, but different to tetrachromats.
The Chinese example at the end where he had to look up the phrase himself (on Google) is particularly revealing. Humans don't have any more insight into words than the machine. They're just better at interpreting explanations written by humans and intended for humans.
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Checkout https://handshake.io

Most likely they will have to play nice with ICANN to go mainstream
Would you consider data privacy and features that enhance protections for end users becoming popular? Bear Notes just added a "vault" style feature. With all the leaks, hacks, and mis-use of personal data, surely there's something brewing in the market?
But that just isn't true. Neither finally-block appends a try-block that initializes the stream that it null-checks.

If the `in` stream init throws, the entire try-block isn't run at all. If `out` stream init throws, the following try/finally block isn't run either.

Lombok's docs get this wrong too. Unless I'm going crazy.
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Aw gee why are they bullying their most productive and obviously right wing algorithms?
It's magical when it works. Everyone who has been to China loves it. Cash also means tax evasion.
Not a translator, but a tri lingual person here. Often the decision what is a "correct" translation is not simple or unambiguous. As to the use of stack overflow, we all have our own experiences.
Er, Phil Christman really doesn't get "A Wrinkle in Time".

Somehow the page opened for me at the point, halfway through, where he starts crapping on the movie adaptation of "A Wrinkle in Time" for what seem, to me, to be really weird and deeply personal reasons.

Aaaaanyhow, as a fan of bad sci-fi movies (I just watched "Galaxina" last night, gosh what a turd of a film!) I gotta insist that you can't read too much into them.

Maybe future psycho-historians will glean important insights into the human condition from "Escape from Galaxy 3" (Oraclon! King of the Night!) but I don't think the Institute for Advanced Critical Studies will.
hash, equals, toString.
Nice!

That means we already have AGI, right? The corporation.