skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easier than ever to built the web of 20+ years ago. Running a VPS with PHP where you had to patch the server and worry about hackers and malware has always been a concern, this is nothing new. But on today's web you can get around all of that with PaaS solutions like Heroku. $7/mo and you can host your custom site all you want without worrying about security or infrastructure.

A domain being seized by law enforcement for hosting illegal content (even if it was put there by hackers) is nothing new and has nothing to do with the state of the modern web.
"You can tell it's not property because the one thing that's guaranteed to result in losing a domain is failing to pay the fees."

Don't pay your property taxes and you lose your property. Courts have argued that domains are property countless times, and they are treated absolutely as such. They are in the sense of contract law, with rights and grants, but obviously are a virtual good, of sorts.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=016ee90b-496e...

"The idea that first registration entitles someone to (a) waste a finite resource forever and (b) sell it at arbitrary prices later was fought out in the early 00s, and the real WIPO trademark system won."

I specifically excluded trademark infringement, so why are you arguing that case? But yes, someone can "waste a finite resource forever" (by paying the same fee that a "useful" use of it would). Those are the rules of the game.
A 'crowd' of enterprises is called a consortium, joint venture, foundation etc. While the funding arrangement for those is less formal than in actual crowdfunding, plenty of those do get funded out of enterprise budgets.
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Afaik, those things are available in DBeaver [0] and MySQL Workbench [1] as well.

@jandrewrogers also mentioned a 4-fold performance increase by switching to proprietary solutions from pgsql. I am still wondering what those solutions might be...

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0. https://dbeaver.io/

1. https://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/
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Personally I can respect people who are open about their viewpoints, so in that way I appreciate authenticity. But when I strongly disagree with their viewpoints I still may not want to hang out with them. I wouldn't want to have Adolf Hitler in my book club, despite him being unapologetically authentic. I expect the people who rejected you feel the same (hopefully to a lesser degree than if you were literally Hitler).
I work at a registrar and as far I know there are no protocols. We are an intermediary between the registry and registrant (in those TLDs which have a registry/registrar/registrant model), but the business relations involved are a bit more complex. The registrar's job is mostly set to only handle the technical and billing aspect, while the legal relationship is between the registry and registrant. Who owns a domain and which registrar handled the billing and technical aspects is a legal decision which is outside the control of the registrar.

The variation between TLD and TLD is massive. Practically all ccTLDs have their own home made rules and more often than not their own technical solutions to match. A big reason why the more exotic ccTLD's can cost a lot of money is the hoops that registrars need to jump through, both legal and technical, and the "workarounds" for both.
a total pain in the ass to really secure.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/e-mail_vulner...
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>Their ranks include a Greenville lawyer appointed to the bench after siphoning thousands of dollars from accounts he managed;

Yeah, OK, so they lead off with a guy who is actually a lawyer and did shady things.

I'll give another example: 3 (elected) judges with law degrees who got into a brawl involving pistols at a white castle:
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/779339897/3-indiana-judges-su...

Here's another one:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/29/pneumatic_judge/

I don't care if a judge has a law degree. Most lawyers I've met in the US are functionally morons anyway. This is just dipshits with a certificate trying to protect their perquisites. I'd honestly rather a barber judge me in a trial than most lawyers, and anyone on here who is trying to make the law so godawful complex it needs an "expert" to interpret it, you're part of the problem.

While I'm dropping links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
> no wasted space between them

That too but also, if you have array of objects, then compacting GC will replace those objects in continuous area in memory. So conceptually it will optimize access to those objects. Cache prefetching by modern processors, all that.
This is my lane.
Is the run-down version of you the real you? How are you when you are well rested and having a generally pleasant day?
But the only similarity between a judge and a doctor is they both traditionally require degrees. If we accept that a judge doesn't need a degree then there is no comparison to a doctor. Ie, that is probably a form of circular reasoning.

Degrees might be a reasonable proxy for general intelligence which is nice to have in a judge, but so is popular support. We already let any fool off the street write the law, they should also be qualified to interpret the law.
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Computers arent getting much faster though, and software can only get so far without faster computers. The horizontal expansion with the cloud is no solution, it's like adding more wheels to a car. Machine learning is already challenging the limits of circuits and it has to scale up enormously for real AI. As long as Big Corp keeps hoovering the blood of everyone else , whatever value is created requires more effort for less return. And there are other things that are very important such as payments, which are just as slow/bad as before the 'net. just some counterpoints
In context of the project, that doesn't seem odd at all, does it?
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You should probably also be worried about VPS seizure by the hosting provider.
Related to "watching every new netflix release", this podcast tries to do just that: https://player.fm/series/recently-added
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Also out of context it sort of sounds like a denial of the suffering and conditions - even if that is the name thet used.

In my experience there was no denial about the travesties but the Trail of Tears and maybe the Black Hills got name checked as events perhaps because of the precedent and disregard for even the Constitution and the Supreme Court in the first and the egregious "kick them off of their own reserved lands for a short term gold rush".
So I went hunting and there is information available about SOM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_Object_Model

https://ecsoft2.org/ibm-somobjects-developers-toolkit-os2

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-library/os2-2-0-...
I agree. That’s why I use normal account. I have had clients need a self hosted solution. I think Bitwarden is good. I haven’t checked the website for their security audit. I’ll check now
Not exactly what you're looking for, but: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
It’s hard to trust the intent behind this Jacobin piece, especially because the article is unclear on what problems it is trying to solve and therefore comes off as purely ideologically motivated. It seems like this is walking exactly the path of past socialist authoritarian regimes, where eventual total public control (AKA party or ideological control) comes into being in the name of empowering the common man and “Democratizing”. But how long before public control starts limiting the freedom of the internet by imposing rules on what’s allowed and not allowed in even more heavy-handed ways? Given that the far left (like Jacobin) have been rallying _against_ free speech and mocking it online with “freeze peach” memes, I am terrified at the possibility of them eventually ceasing control of speech platforms. Mind you, I’m not a big fan of the current state either, with a few companies controlling everything. But we have tools for that - namely anti-trust law. So let’s take incremental steps for change rather than entertaining dangerously radical changes.
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Your argument assumes the correlation, but you're arguing that the causation exists without even establishing the correlation.
One problem with using Oracle as an example is that they are well known for using lock-in tactics and even intentionally overcharging governmental customers (because they got away with it for some time until they got caught). I find it hard to believe that Ellison didn't know this was all happening. I find it more likely to believe that he, like Gates, orchestrated those tactics.

So does it count as generating tiny value for millions or billions if you're actually forcing a customer to stay with your overpriced product when there are actually plenty of equal or better cheaper solutions?

I get what you're saying, but I think it would be a struggle to find many corporations whose actions are enough net-positive to society to justify their CEOs' compensations.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191130183259/https://www.usato...
That is a tragic story, but it has nothing to do with this submission.
Wow, it's really messed up that you get downvoted for saying you are gay and people are quick to dimiss or fire people for being gay. And here people are dimissing you.

I agree with you, US Republicanism is completely incompatible with the healthy existence of gay and queer people as understood by the communities in for example San Francisco (where I am from). There must be gay republican communities in other areas, but I'm sure more west coast queer communities would consider those republican gay (prob not queer) communities to be repressive and unhealthy.

It's a shame people cannot relate to what you are saying, and plenty of evidence that even liberal Silicon Valley (assuming it has an outsized influence on this comment thread) has a lot of growth needed before queer people can really be appreciated in tech circles.
OSINT research.
Promoting yourself / your personal brand?
I remember reading that the Church in the middle ages was pitted against tribalism. So they tried to make rules to weaken it. One of those was recognizing free consent to marry over betrothals arranged by their families.
This is doubly true of emacs lisp, which is both dynamic in the type sense and dynamic in scope.[0]

Thus one has to guard both against type change, and change in what function a symbol resolves to.

[0] elisp does have lexical scope, but it's bolted-on, reduces performance (at least, used to) and isn't used in the core codebase, which predates it.
Conversely, new bosses and landlords who want to avoid choosing someone who is objectively a bad choice for everyone else involved (they say they're a full-time carpenter but they're really a weed dealer/bassist in a progressive death metal band, etc.).

Not saying this is a net positive for society by any means, but just another example of a potentially legitimate use for doing online research about someone.
What exactly do you fake at work? I fake nothing in my life, including work, and don't really understand this.

Maybe this is a cultural thing?
To not even begin to poke at the obvious holes in this proposal, in this supposed utopia the government fully owns and runs the entire backbone, ISPs via municipalities, and any service that scales to serve a certain number, including hosting platforms such as AWS?

There's people out there who believe this would be a good thing? Really?

If we accept this as naive, then we accept the proposer as modernly blinkered and historically blind and can likely be dismissed as such. However, if we accept the proposal as being made with full knowledge of the eventual consequences and outcomes in mind, then we can only label those making such proposals as a danger.
I agree. With the way thins are here, I'm often surprised we don't see more companies leaving SF.
Fair enough. You can delete my original post if you so wish.
No the logic's easy, DRM exists to inconvenience honest consumers.
Well, they probably do understand that but reject that on the same grounds they reject raising humans just to harvest their organs when they're 10 years old no matter how great of a life they had up until they were lead into the operating room. And organs actually save lives.

It seems obviously unethical to me to raise a sentient organism (human or cow or cat) just to kill it prematurely for what's purely a luxury good for most people. Giving it a beach ball to play with seems completely ethically inconsequential.

I wonder how many people who assert how great of a life this must be, only to be killed at someone else's pleasure, would accept this life for themselves or their children or even their pets. And they certainly buy their meat from the supermarket where their meat never got to play with a beach ball, anyways. It's closer to ethics-at-a-distance fantasy and utopian thought experiments instead of anything grounded in the horrors of reality.
The executives of the big banks that caused the 2007/8 financial crisis... and cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions (in additional federal debt)... were they really contributing to society in line with their compensation?

There are lots of examples of consistently bad or self-serving behavior of banks - banks which get special benefits from the people, including quantitative easing (essentially the ability to print money). I find it incredibly difficult to believe that they are contributing to society in line with their compensation. In fact, I believe in some cases it's the opposite.
Don't you mean Geoworks, that was bundled with Phillips PCs?
For the curious, NIXI is the "National Internet Exchange of India", a government non-profit in India. INRegistry, the organization responsible for the .in TLD, was created by NIXI and operates under them.
I seriously disagree that being able to take part in the human production chain or being a member of human society is the only way to determine if a creature is smart.
> without using a 3d scanner, i can take very precise measurements by hand

Ignoring the practical part of this, which is that the Museum isn't going to let you close enough to the bust to do this. But assuming they did for a second -

> with a result that rivals the scan

The linked scan contains nearly 6.5 million tesselated polygons, and surface color data in Ptex format. You are not going to be able to get within cooee of that. Any hand measured copy is going to qualify as an artists interpretation and would not violate copyright I should think.
> they’re asking for people to take positions and have opinions.

Yes only positions and opinions that make them look good.

For example, in a tech all hands. "Ask" questions like these

1. How did the upper management react to cost savings from initiative X.

2. How did vendor feel about us canceling their contract by building a cheaper home grown system that is saving us X million $ every year.

3. What is the strategy for filling out open positions faster. ( we are doing so good that we have way too many open positions)

4. "joke questions" , did CEO actually finish 50 pies in pie eating contest at the management retreat ,like he claims he did.

also, consultants rarely get invited to these all hands in the first place.
Anyone have a link to that? Sounds interesting.
Sorry but this is predatory af. I'm confident governments probably already have a tool to accomplish the same. However, the creators have now made it that much easier to stalk/dox another human without any cognitive overhead. Too quick to prove that you could without asking yourselves if you should. Nice going.
> I was somewhat disappointed this went from promising an evaluation of Netflix originals to detailing his 4K streaming setup.

Aren't there enough movie review sites that also have lists of Netflix Originals with their reviews / votes?
Do you really think that companies like Amazon, Google and Apple couldn’t move to any major metro area and convince enough people to move there if they paid them enough where they could offer potential employees enough to live well, pay then less and benefit from a much lower cost of living?

Anecdotally, I would never move from where I live - Atlanta - to the west coast. There is nothing appealing about the area or the cost of living vs salary. I’m not saying I wouldn’t move to another major metro area if the jobs somehow dried up here.

That limits my salary (not really the COL vs salary is very attractive to me here) except I’ve seen a few local jobs for MS pop up here and jobs at Amazon (AWS) for Solutions Architects, Professional Services, etc. that I may be interested in in a couple of years.

I could also argue that a lot of companies that think they need to hire “rockstar ninja developers” to write their yet another software as a service CRUD app are mistaken and if they had to actually worry about silly things like profits instead of being subsidized by venture capital they could find a way to either relocate to a cheaper area or allow more remote work.
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It's worse than that. Those people with the very most equity gains, are paying the least taxes relative to their house value. Those with the least equity gain (like recent buyers), are paying the very highest taxes relative to their house. It's basically like saying the person who earned over 1 million dollars in equity gain pays far less taxes than the one who earned 10k in equity gain. It's extremely regressive.

And, since home owners are incentivized to stay in the houses that they bought a long time ago (whether or not it's convenient for them or not), it means there's far less housing turnover, less supply and less opportunities for everyone, and longer commutes which is terrible for the environment. It's a disaster.
A Hall sensor on each window (aka open/close sensor), plus temperature sensors in each room and one placed outside.

When the window is closed, but the outside temperature is lower that inside, it sends a notification to open the window. The opposite happens when the outside temperature exceeds the one inside, unless the window is already closed.

This is all written in Python via appdaemon since it's easier than defining the same automation via the UI (although that's also doable nowadays).
A web hosted in the hands of a few is exactly the problem leading to the problem here.

Centralization is the issue. May it be registries, ISPs, hosting providers or anything else. Heroku and PaaS do not solve this at all.
Interesting! Is there a more detailed post about this?

I wonder how they decide which objects are rooted only by the stack. Is it part of the write barrier, or computed at mark time?
I thought it was the opposite (which is something I'd actually be interested in). That is, finding usernames which aren't present in any social network.
Give Lean On Me[0] a shot. This is not the Bill Withers song.

It was pretty popular and something I remember from my radio listening days.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfFJ2OC0Cpw
FWIW, in re: reference counting vs. tracing GC

"A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection" https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bacon/...

> Tracing and reference counting are uniformly viewed as being fundamentally different approaches to garbage collection that possess very distinct performance properties. We have implemented high-performance collectors of both types, and in the process observed that the more we optimized them, the more similarly they behaved— that they seem to share some deep structure.

> We present a formulation of the two algorithms that shows that they are in fact duals of each other. Intuitively, the difference is that tracing operates on live objects, or “matter”, while reference counting operates on dead objects, or “anti-matter”. For every operation performed by the tracing collector, there is a precisely corresponding anti-operation performed by the reference counting collector.

> Using this framework, we show that all high-performance collectors (for example, deferred reference counting and generational collection) are in fact hybrids of tracing and reference counting. We develop a uniform cost-model for the collectors to quantify the trade-offs that result from choosing different hybridizations of tracing and reference counting. This allows the correct scheme to be selected based on system performance requirements and the expected properties of the target application.
I'm working on a similar project called Remake [0].

It lets you add a CRUD editing interface with automatic data syncing/saving to any element. All that's required are a few HTML data-* attributes [1].

It takes a different approach than most frameworks: it doesn't separate the data from the presentation layer. This makes it so it can make a lot of assumptions about the structure of the application and the saved data based on the hierarchy of the HTML elements.

Also, since it's based on a traditional, server-rendered stack, you don't need to include the front-end JS library 90% of the time. If the current user can't edit the page, Remake simply isn't loaded, which cuts down on the page weight dramatically.

It basically lets you have all of the benefits of a traditional, server-rendered web app, while also giving you inline data editing capabilities for free.

I just finished recording some tutorials for it 1 week ago [2]. I'd love to have some people try it out :)

[0] https://remaketheweb.com/

[1] https://remaketheweb.com/data-attributes-api/

[2] https://tutorials.remaketheweb.com/
> The whole idea that people change their behavior to avoid taxes is the basis of sin taxes - this is how things are supposed to work.

What sin taxes are at play here?

Edit: Or just downvote I guess, it was just a question.
And here without the whole AMP garbage:

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/hawkes-bay-comme...

Edit: I'm not blaming you, I know how annoying it is to get back to a "regular" URL, especially while being on mobile.
Funny you should mention vouchers - it reminded me of the article discussed here[1], which likened advertising with Google to handing out coupons to people who are already in your store

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465873
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I’ll have to read up on that, because I’ve seen nothing like that.

I compile with ARM’s GCC toolchain, nothing exotic about compile time or other safety checks on C code.
You're talking about law and legal terms of art, but the conversation is about English. There is often specific legal meaning to terms of art that does not align with the lay definition. I think you are making the case that this is another example of that. I'm not even sure that it is — the US legal term defined by ACPA is "cybersquatting," not "domain squatting. The latter appears nowhere in the text of the bill, whereas the former appears something like 66 times.
I just ran it against my own (typical) nickname and found a couple of instances where it was free on websites that I could see myself using at some point in the future so I went ahead and reserved them for myself.
Well it also depends on perceptions of relationships and monogamy. I don't know of their cultural ideal attitudes towards wives and agency (say she decides who she sleeps with period vs property to be shared spectrum) or actual for that matter but if it is a reciprocal norm it is likely a wash quantitatively. Not to mention survival concerns about having children to care for them in old age.

It reminds me of one joke about ancient Norsemen not caring about blatant signs of infidelity like the children having different skin and hair color so long as their sons were strong.