skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s a slightly different question: the article mentions that Ethos is paying to take over PIR, thus taking over .org administration as well. How transparent is this transaction?

Viewed uncharitably, it looks like ICANN built a separate entity to admin .org, built a separate entity to buy it, and then claimed that the purchase was just normal business, even as they were self-dealing to sell to friends. Is this accurate, or is the purchase by Ethos actually something like market-rate? In that case, even if I dislike the capitalization of .org, it doesn’t seem illegal?
Amazon purchases 100 acres in Chantilly for $73M
MS provide the digests on MSDN if you have a login

and there's plenty of dumps of them kicking around if you don't
This is very important, especially when discussing it with people who rent. People who are paying 3000-3500 a month looking at a 1 million dollar house as something insane (well, it is, sorry I'm just using round numbers to make it easier for myself).

But depending on interest rates and property taxes, these might be almost the same thing, or very close. Once you consider the portion of the mortgage that goes to the principal, and if you assume some amount of inflation and increase in value, the 1 million dollar home might be cheaper, even if you consider that you could have invested the money in S&P (in this particular example the market would have to be in a fairly ideal state to favor the mortgage, but still, it's close, and you get to make holes in the walls without anyone bitching about it).

Homes are this expensive because, for better or worth, they're worth it. That's the problem. As long as they are worth it it will keep going up (and rentals as well as infamously AirBnB are making sure they're always worth it unless you push out an INSANE amount of supply, where incremental boosts in house building, rent control and affordable housing initiatives may make things worse rather than better.
This is textbook fake news
the wikihow-like place that's better is the entire internet. It contains more useful information than wikihow does (by definition, because it contains wikihow).

wikihow could be valuable if the content it contained had some generally assumed level of authority that was better than the internet at large, so you could assume that a wikihow article was more trustworthy than any other random result from google. as long as wikihow articles can't be assumed to be more helpful than any other google search result, google is a superior alternative to wikihow.
I suspect what the new gTLD program has really done is to make com/org/net seem even more trustworthy and premium because people can no longer keep up with the influx of new gTLDs ( all 1200 of them!).
What we have now is much worse than a housing bubble. We have a severe housing crisis caused by lack of supply, regulation, zoning and thus costs to build.

The difference is: Even if no one can afford housing: There doesn't have to be bust. For example: if there's only 9 houses on the market, there only need to be 9 people willing to buy in at that price. So, essentially, with a severe housing shortage, only the richest 0.1% need be able to afford the houses on the market and they can still maintain an extremely high prices.

Meanwhile the coping mechanisms are in full effect:

1. longer and longer commutes causing ever more CO2.

2. multiple generations living together

3. roomates bunking together, not having families, not having kids

4. decreased spending in other areas as every last dollar goes to housing

5. ever more louder cries for rent regulations which makes it even hard to build more supply thus resulting in a death spiral.
Suggestions for improvement:

Add a (+) and (-) button to move up or down to the nearest floating point number.

Show the local precision (not sure if this is the correct term), i.e. the maximum difference between the current float and the two nearest ones.
Microsoft Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Patch Forthcoming
> No one should be traveling to China right now, period.

You and the LIHKG guy are spamming up this thread with hyperbole
They aren't and they never were.

On which basis would you restrict registrations from country x, where founding some organization is free or even comes with tax benefits while you'd allow registrations from countries requires some kind of operating income?

It doesn't make any sense.
Why should it? .Org is about an ethos of philanthropy, which a club just doesn't have.
How old are you? The key feature is not breathability but "waterproof+breathable." You might not be old enough to remember airtight rubber raingear, or questionably waterproof oilskin, or horribly "water resistant" synthetics.

You also might not be into gear enough to have realized the significant spectrum of breathability between a nylon jacket, a 2.5 layer jacket, and a fully 3-ply goretex pro.

It is a real thing, not marketing, for many who care about and rely on these things for comfort and safety.
Electrify America is mainly funded by VW as part of the Diesel-gate settlement. So not entirely voluntarily.
Tauri: Create Cross-Platform Apps Using WebKit in Rust
For babys?
MLSys conference is looking for reproducibility committee members
FWIW, the (untested) PowerShell equivalent would be:

New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate" -Name "preventbinginstall" -PropertyType DWord -Value 1
See the story of the Donner Party for an example of how warm-bed proclamations of moral superiority (“I would starve to death first”) are rather trite. It’s easy to pretend how great we would be in the face of adversity when in the comfort of not being in such adversity. Look at how prostitutes often end up where they end up: at 11 years old I bet they would have declared that they’d never have sex with random, disgusting people for money while getting addicted to drugs and getting beaten for their efforts.

Maslow’s hierarchy holds true. Morality is a luxury for many.
The signed exchanges protocol requires that the content be signed with a key with a short expiry date (< 1 week), sites are free to make it shorter. In extreme cases, the providing site could sign with an expiry of < 1 day or even something like 1 hour.

And iiuc, sites are still free to revoke their certs. So this is actually probably more secure compared to something like https in that regard.

[0]: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/6cc3237b36c2f9ce7534...
Indeed - I travel by train as much as I can.

The web sucks. Society/civilization is shaking in its foundations.

I just wish the passive non-violent approach would work. It worked for Gandhi, but in this day?

I feel we're all getting overrun by technology. Unfortunately, as it could have been the opposite.
My understanding is that service animals are already limited to just dogs and miniature horses. It sounds like this is just allowing airlines to ignore ESAs as a privileged category.

Edit:

After some digging, apparently the Aviation Carrier Access Act[1] does not use the ADA definition for service animals, but instead uses its own definition, which is more expansive [2].

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Carrier_Access_Act

2. https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...
As well as the reasons you mentioned there is also perceived value for money. I suspect this trend is due to an interaction of psychological marketing and consumer preference.
I like this comment. What you're describing is essentially the Great Conversation, and there aren't enough participants. But, the door is always open!
This happened to me once. Used proximity infrared sensors that used I2C with a fixed address. Needed to use multiple of them. I was able to fix it with a tri-state buffer, but quite the pain to figure out why things were not working and coming up with a solution.
Ask HN: How to Promote My Small Development Company
Hello,

I run a small software development company down here in Uruguay (5 developers and one UX designer). 2019 was a great year since we developed 2 medium size projects. One project was a file upload and radio transmission system for a telecommunications company (medium size startup). The other were 2 single page application systems for a large multinational corporation. Everything went smoothly and both projects were finished. The first project is still in use and needs next to nothing maintenance. The other didn't gain much traction and died (contrary to what you might think, it was the corporate software that didn't make it).

2020 didn't start well since I haven't signed any development contract yet. I had calls with entrepreneurs willing to develop mobile applications, but they didn't have money. I never paid attention to marketing and that's a big mistake. I did that because I've got recommended several times and always have developed high-quality products, so clients kept coming.

I know that clients will eventually come, but I want to start working on a marketing strategy and hiring somebody to do sales. People hire us because we are cheaper than locals (outsourcing) and we produce high-quality products (compared to really cheap outsourcing). Also because we are at EST+1 timezone (sometimes EST+2). I'm interested in getting clients in the US as well as Europe. We are very good at working with entrepreneurs since we help them get ideas down to earth but also love corporate clients due to stability.

The following ideas came to my mind:

- Hiring a local guy/girl to do sales using LinkedIn (cold email and cold calling).
- Hiring a sales team in the US.
- Paying for ads to increase the company's web traffic.
- Going to the US meetups and conferences, meet people and tell them about our services.

What do you guys think I should do?

Thanks!
It’s not. But 3 across is obviously important because your vehicle selection goes down significantly once you need to expand to a third row to grow your capacity.
King David is not necessarily mythical, some historians and archeologists think he existed especially after the discovery of the Tel Dan Stele in 1993 which mention the house of David.
Still, I wonder if either the quantity or the quality is too low.

My university was particularly known for its well-rounded, humanities-friendly culture. But in my own experience, I only had one humanities class that I really felt like I learned things in. It was titled "Great Texts" - we read excerpts from The Iliad, Augustine's Confessions, Nicomachean Ethics, Plato's Republic, and others along the same lines - and most of the course was spent having engaging, open discussions about the readings. It had a major impact on my inner life and I wish I'd had time to take some other classes like that.

My other "humanities courses" included:

- "Political Science" - rote memorization of how the United States' government works with very little analysis or discussion

- Psychology/Sociology, which were somewhat interesting but pretty straightforwardly scientific/memorization-heavy
Sounds like you are an engineer (a real one).

Consider that a lot of what you do will be done regardless of your participation and whether by you doing it less harm is caused because you maximise efficiency and economy.

Only if you think someone else could be doing it substantially better (in terms of economy) then you should be concerned.
A fundamental principle on which the law in a free society is based is not a "fine hair to split." The police don't get to decide who is and isn't a criminal, nor are they always justified in pursuing suspects by any means. Certainly not merely because evading the police is a crime.

High speed police chases exist because of the aggressively escalating tactics of American law enforcement. The posted article even mentions that police routinely ignore rules of engagement and alternative methods and put public safety at unnecessary risk. They'll run over pedestrians while chasing someone down for a busted taillight. It's an absurd display of state violence and often unnecessary.
It is now a hindrance as every other EV maker (except soon GM) gets the subsidy to compete against Tesla which no longer does.
In my experience, many of those requirements are waived or reduced in engineering and CS programs because of their significantly higher eng/CS course load. Not to mention those programs typically have a higher rate of students graduating in >4 years.

So yeah, you're technically right, but it's disappointing to see universities actively moving in the other direction. Of course, it still seems like university hires are woefully unprepared on day one, though I think many of us agree that 6-12 months of "real world" training for new hires is unavoidable.

My own anecdotal experience as a BA working in $BigTechCorp is that basic skills usually studied in the humanities are woefully lacking in many of my peers: writing/grammar, the ability to understand others' perspectives, and most of all ethics. The number of times I've had to say something like "uhhh, no, you can't do that, it's illegal" or explained to someone why maybe adding more telemetry to a client-side explanation may be controversial.
Thanks for explaining reasons for downvote.

I just changed one news source from LTN to a pro-Beijing news source Oriental Daily News, which reported the same news.

Also, although the image (1 out of 3 non-duplicative sources) is hosted and curated by LIHKG, the image is allegedly a screenshot on Weibo (Chinese twitter), which unfortunately is behind a login wall and hence must be screenshot.

I don't think Weibo is extremely biased against China, unless you're questioning the authenticity of the image, which yourself could verify by searching 逃離武漢 on Weibo.

I hope people can engage in a civil discussion instead of/after downvoting.
Before someone says something like, "This is why we need to colonize Mars" remember: the laws of physics do not permit sustained exponential growth, full stop. Even with arbitrarily advanced technology that allows you to freely colonize the universe at the speed of light that only buys you polynomial growth (indeed, only O(n^2) growth) in the absolute best case.

Sooner or later mankind is going to run up against the limits of exponential growth. We can make conscious decisions about how to deal with it, or we can let the laws of physics decide for us. IMHO things will go better for us if we take the bull by the horns, but very few people seem to be on board with that even here on HN where gloomy Malthusian prophecies are rarely received with much enthusiasm.

Happily, I'm now old enough (and childless) so I can afford not to give much of a fuck. But sooner or later someone is going to have to. If it's not you, it will be your children, or their children. The sooner someone starts to give a fuck, the less painful it will be when -- not if -- we finally discover what the limiting factor to growth actually is.
>their houses

>rent payments
... and emoji's! (Seriously though, pretty great for bots)
I don't understand. Can you clarify what you mean by "registrations from countries requires some kind of operating income"?
Some places require kids to be in car seats until age 8. This is 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade. These are not babies.

The manufacturers have lobbied for this "think of the children" law. Sales go up because parents are forced to buy the product. The manufacturers would be happy to raise the age even more.

1% of those kids are over 92 pounds. One can outweigh the mom, and can be asked to install his own car seat.
I'm surprised to see this argument. Tooling and infrastructure are only as clean as the services they support. I don't think you get to wash your hands because all you did was build e.g. Palantir a giant database that's great for storing locations if you know customers will be assassinating political dissidents with it.
Billionaires who made their fortunes by trying to stop climate change
Pretty sure this episode was from the 90's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRz3vfRFfs4
Can someone point me to statistics about this phenomenon? It sounds true that foreign investors use US housing as an investment and inflate prices, but I have no idea how large this effect is.
Nonprofits still have to "make a profit" on the services they provide if they want to be a going concern. Unless you've got some big project to dump it into, it goes into an endowment for "a rainy day". Which then starts looking for places to park that money.

Some of the biggest nonprofits also have the biggest endowments and/or asset holdings - colleges/universities, hospital systems, religious leadership, etc etc.

Fundamentally, most non-profits are still run like a for-profit corporation and provide services in exchange for money, they just don't have publicly traded shares, dividends, etc. Think Harvard or hospital systems, not ACLU or Red Cross.
#1 US-UK-CA Trading Board. Stock Simulator #2020
I missed that part, but Here's a good summary rebuttal[1].

Exploration for uranium has been rather limited through history - more importantly, the question of reserves cannot be answered without considering price point. Just like petroleum, at $100/barrel there are far more economically recoverable reserves than $50/barrel, and uranium is currently so cheap in terms of MW/kg that fuel costs are orders of magnitude lower than building and even just operating costs for a plant, such that you can easily double or triple the current price of uranium without impacting generation costs.

Moreover, focusing on uranium only is [deliberately?] myopic, as it ignores proven breeder reactor technology as well as alternative sources like Thorium which is far more abundant, requires minimal refinement (and iirc no enrichment) and carries additional benefits including no risk of proliferation.

1.http://www.americanenergyindependence.com/uranium.aspx
oh man apparently some ceramics are air porous .. I'd like to know the material/chemistry behind the process.
You know there's something seriously wrong with the state of the housing industry (how it's regulated, zoning, etc), when our only hope is to hope for a Recession or worse.
I think this is one theory among several:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispania#Etymology

One must also likely compare the proposed root with Latin Hispania rather than directly with modern España.
Seattle-Area Voters to Become First with Full Option to Vote via Smartphone
Is the source code motel compiler? Or is it /dev/null? Or something else? These questions are tough.
Right now, if you visit, you have a 1 in 81 million chance of dying from this disease.

You have a far far higher chance of dying of something else during your trip.

Obviously those odds could change rapidly.
https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/ is the clearest and most coherent explanation of floating-point numbers I've found; it was really what gave me the lightbulb moment I had been missing. This site is a great companion to it though.
Because they could run nuclear reactors? Or are the only terminal to a ancient water pipe system?

There is a legal element which may allow them to do so, but it is incredible unresponsible to do so. Even the small Win10 migration process break people.
> Lawyers for example, defending large corporations etc.

What about lawyers that defend violent criminals?
I remember being in an airport and having a woman I was sitting next to openly admit to me that her dog she was bringing on the plane she had "just went online an registered as an emotional support animal so I can take him with me". Clearly implying she did not, in fact, require an ESA.

I just remember being so blown away that she assumed a stranger would be 100% on board with this tactic as to tell me about it unvarnished that I was stunned into silence.

I love dogs, but you're ruining everything for the people who actually need service animals.
Kelly also started an annual summer program, along similar lines, for high school students.

https://hcssim.org/

It's still running after almost half a century (with Kelly still in charge!). I got to attend almost 30 years ago (wait, how has it been that long already?).
> All the brutal shit starts in places like this where humans and animals are mixing in dirty environments and freak meetings literally birth a destructive new threat instantly.

The solution isn’t as easy as you think it is.

These “mixing areas” are part of their culture. It’s part of their cultural context. Trying to impose Western cleanliness standards will take a very long time, it was tried in India with “Poo in the Loo” and I guarantee you there are people still taking a shit in open areas. And not washing their hands after either.
I mean, it's easy to justify:

"Our organization does good work with the money we have."

"We could do more good work, or better work, with more money."

"Therefore investments/endowments we receive should be invested inwards, to increase the amount of money we have available with which to do good work."

You can see, of course, how this kind of cycle could become more about the money than the good work.
I'm curious if private equity chose .org for a specific reason, and which other TLDs could be next. Perhaps there was something about the organizational structure that would make the .org TLD easy to extract profits from.
Tiresias – Proof Arm and x86 Are Turing-Complete Without Data Fetches
A rectal surgeon says bidets are way healthier than toilet paper
It depends on your channel’s culture, but generally you check the box when you want to draw some of the general channel population into the conversation or just want them to see your reply.

If you want specific others to participate in your thread, you just @ them in your reply. No need to send to channel.
What if there was a grandfather clause for existing orgs, so there is no funny business on pressuring people to change their domain.

But I also feel like it would make sense to have a domain extension that meant something. Right now it seems like it does, but it doesn't.
A 'header' is a board-to-board or wire-to-board connector:

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/w-rth-elektronik/6...

This is the type of connector most commonly used in hobby electronics, such as on the Arduino and Raspberry Pi. 0.1" is the 'pitch', the distance between pins. I picked a 1x4 (meaning <rows> x <pins> or <rows> x <pins per row>) version, but they come in many different pin and row counts.

The version above is very simple, just bare pins that would get soldered to a PCB. There are many that come with additional 'features' that could be useful. For instance, you could get a locking header that has a tab to retain the connection against vibration or tugging. Or you can get a key or shroud that forces the connector to be inserted in the correct orientation. They also come in versions that support soldering directly to a PCB, vertically or at a right angle, or connecting to wires directly.

Here is a locking header:

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/molex/0022232041/W...

If you scroll down to 'mating products' you can find wire-to-board connectors designed to mate with it.
Stillfront Group Acquires Storm8
I'm prepared to bet folding money that the folks who worked on the 5th Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM-5) have given at least as much thought as you have to these matters.

The implication that research and practicing psychologists and psychiatrists, as a profession, are unaware of the profound variability of human beings is just silly.
This is fascinating, but I just have to ask why?
"But children, I submit, cannot be fooled. They can only be betrayed by adults, not fooled—for adults, unlike children, are fooled very easily, and only because they wish to be. Children—innocence being both real and monstrous— intimidate, harass, blackmail, terrify, and sometimes even kill one another. But no child can fool another child the way one adult can fool another. It would be impossible, for example, for children to bring off the spectacle—the scandal—of the Republican or Democratic conventions. They do not have enough to hide—or, if you like, to flaunt."

—James Baldwin, "Dark Days" [1]

[1] https://classic.esquire.com/article/1980/10/1/dark-days
Based on this blog post:

http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2014/02/x86-is-tu...