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Under the amended Cooperative Agreement, the Department of Commerce noted that the domain name marketplace had grown more dynamic and concluded that it was in the public interest that, among other things, Verisign and ICANN may agree to amend the .COM Registry Agreement to permit an increase to the price for .COM registry services, up to a maximum of 7 percent in each of the final four years of each six-year period (the first six-year period commenced on Oct. 26, 2018). The proposed agreement announced today updates the .COM RA to reflect those changes. ICANN is not a price regulator and defers to the Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Justice for the regulation of pricing for .COM registry services.

This is one of the more interesting trends seemingly caused by the current administration (both of the departments listed have come under new, Republican ruling under the current administration).

Not the first time that Verisign has made some actions that were hostile to the common good while the Department of Commerce was controlled by Republicans, but the first time they've gotten this blatant about it (and, notably, that ICANN has cooperated):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign#2003:_Site_Finder_leg...
I found the seasonal variation really interesting, to summarise on average people's resting heart rate is ~2bpm higher at the start of the year than it is in July. The authors don't hypothesise why this is, my guess would be general unhealthy behaviour like excess eating, sedentary behaviour and alcohol consumption around the Christmas period (population was from the US), but it could also be colder ambient temperatures.

It'd be interesting to try and control for this e.g. see if this phenomenon is also present in non-Christian majority countries, or Christian countries within the tropics where the annual temperature variation is smaller, but on average higher than most of the US.
Your experience and GPs are definitely valid, but I will say that there are many different San Franciscos if you try out places that aren't downtown or the Mission.

The Sunset and Richmond have very little of the homeless problem and I never have to watch out for feces, and they are generally clean areas. The commute is a bit worse to a lot worse depending on where you're going, but they do have bus/Muni lines that will get you where you need to go and you don't need to leave to do fun things (they are self-contained mini cities with great food, services, etc in walking distance).

If you want to have a shorter commute, Noe Valley is similar to those but slightly dirtier due to proximity to the Mission. There are tons of other great neighborhoods that are clean and relatively clear of homeless people with various tradeoffs of commute time and proximity to nature, such as Potrero Hill, Mission Bay, and Bernal Heights.

Ever since moving out of the area adjacent to Market St I've come to really love San Francisco and find that most of the criticisms I hear of it are honestly uninformed as to the real nature of the city in 70% of its neighborhoods.
The Voyager probes are running out of power[1] and hydrazine[2], seems about 10 year left of either. At their current speed it seems they need about 14 years to reach a light day[3]. So likely we will not get to find out, but one could remain hopeful.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program#Power

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Attitude_control_and...

[3]: https://www.google.com/search?q=7+light+hours+%2F+%2817+kilo...
So, if I buy a car and rip out the radio, and then resell it, a used buyer down the road should refer to the Monroney sticker and demand that the seller put in a radio?
That doesn't help with transitive dependencies.
Was about to write the same. I suppose WiFi support to an average FreeBSD user is as useful as floppy disk reader drivers to Win 10 users.
How to Sit: Simple Principles for Better Posture
Vaporflys are only good for 2-3 races, so if you run competitively, you are looking at six pairs a year or so. Which is quite a bit more than $250.
A machine could emulate consciousness in the sense that we could probably in principle build a machine that acted, viewed from the outside, as if it were conscious. But we have no way to measure whether something is conscious or not so we would never really know if the machine actually was conscious, had interiority, had qualia, etc. (three different ways of saying the same thing).

There is no good reason to believe that consciousness is reducible to physical phenomena. I think that intelligence is almost certainly reducible to physical phenomena, but consciousness? No. Consciousness is a mystery that quite likely will forever be beyond the reach of physical investigation.
Tell ICANN what you think of their plan to raise the price of .com
I misread the title as Mediawiki cookbook and was disappointed to learn that it wasn't filled with handy tips for customizing a mediawiki site.
Or a way to get you more familiar with tagging, or the various queries and filters on different api results. It's annoying at first, but it leads to less reliance on the console and more effective scripting. (Instead of naming my instances I just made a script which looks up the instance I want and outputs the IP and username, and put that in an SSH config)
Meh.. you're still at the mercy of whoever your boss happens to be. They just need to put a little effort into framing the metrics the right way or to make sure you're getting work that doesn't touch on the right metrics. The idea that performance metrics are fair is just corporate propaganda designed to make you have the incentive to improve them, thus being easier to control and replace.
The problem is that the ESD protection can only stop short duration spikes. The device would have to have a fuse (or other overcurrent protection) to prevent the 20V @ 5A as allowed in the USB spec from destroying the ESD circuit.
The obvious workaround to that regulation would be to make tweaks but try to call it the same shoe for certification reasons.

Like, say, the Boeing 737.
Can you explain why you think this is cool?
This argument falls apart because it is using the incorrect definition of “supply”. The “supply” is the amount available on the market. Just because the cost of duplicating a digital file is nearly zero does not mean that the supply is infinite. The supply is limited by laws that restrict who is allowed to duplicate the file and the limited number of people who are willing to break those laws.
We've had our Rails like apps (Sinatra, Padrino) Dockerized for 5 years now and running on container orchestration systems. First Mesos, now Kubernetes. And some running as Lambdas as well. We do not have a single production app not in a container and we are mostly Ruby.
What’s it missing?
OrderedDict was always a subclass of dict maintaining additional information (which is not free, it has to store and manipulate two pointers per entry).

It remains so today, ordereddict is not an alias or trivial facade to the normal dict because it has to maintain its doubly linked list and implement a bunch of additional operations based on that e.g. pop first or move to end.
So, you said I had no first-hand information. I didn't reply to that at the time, because that was not the most egregious part of your post. But, pray tell, what actual first-hand information do you have? I suspect none. (I'm assuming that if you actually had some you would have supplied it.) So, you know... pot, meet kettle. Maybe you ought to be embarrassed, by your own standard.

Most of the rest of your post is too incoherent to bother trying to untangle.

But yes, have a nice weekend.
I've only used Krita once and never followed the development before seeing this title, but I must say that I really enjoyed the format of this, felt like reading a letter from a distant friend in the mail. Thanks!
Your second quote sounds like a fairly straightforward description of P-zombies to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

However, to add to the criticism you have of this article about this book, your two quotes taken together appear to be contradictory: if consciousness is a fundamental element of living matter, then given that we can make new living matter, why should there be any reason we can’t make a conscious artificial machine?
> The CYPD4225 is definitely not rated for space. I have no idea if it would work in space.

There lays the rub. Even today computers rated for space are relatively underpowered compared to consumer hardware. Comparing the microcontrollers used in USB-C wall warts to the AGC is like saying your car has a higher top speed than a tank. You wouldn't be wrong but you'd also be purposely ignoring some key differences in design goals.
>It will be “nothing but clever programming… fake consciousness—pretending by imitating people at the biophysical level.” For that, he thinks, is all AI can be. These systems might beat us at chess and Go, and deceive us into thinking they are alive. But those will always be hollow victories, for the machine will never enjoy them.

Mostly agree with Koch, but I'd take it a step further...

There's major problems behind the concepts of AI and even intelligence itself - and it's difficult to articulate why. It’s as if these terms require aggrandizing to the point of impossibility or they lose all their apparent meaning. Which is why I feel we'll never achieve what we call (Strong/General) AI, or if we do, we will always find ways to be unimpressed by it...

I mean, is it that absurd to consider that the ideal concept beholden to intelligence isn't a reality - even in humans? If you pull back enough layers on how or why humans think or do the things they do - we arrive at things we can't explain. We don't know what causes intelligence and have trouble coming up with an adequate definition for it; similar to the concept of life. For all we know we might be just highly complex biomechanical machines operating on stimuli, analogous to what current computers already do. Where's the fine line between making something conscious/unconcious?
> In January of 2020, the U.S. President assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, risking the possibility of World War 3

I generally try to give the author the benefit of the doubt. The writer lost me here.
Spreading fast, sure. Killing fast, no. That's in many ways the issue - If this thing spreads strongly and asymptomatically, and eventually develops into conditions with high mortality, that's a really bad situation to be in.

Folks keeling over before they can spread it is one thing, but appearing fine until long after spreading it to other people means it's spread isn't known until the symptoms start showing up all over the show.

Not sure I can agree that western media is biased towards not hyping these kinds of events.
Love NOFX! Been a big fan since like 7th grade (circa 1996) They are real a-holes, but they also have some pretty spot on commentary!
> Now it's slow as molasses

Given that the iPhone 4s can't run iOS versions past 2015's iOS 9, "now" would seem to be fairly relative. Also, I'm not sure I'd describe iOS upgrades as "one-click"; IIRC, you need to click through at least one screen telling you about the new OS and enter your passcode before the install. A lot of people probably do breeze through that without really understanding they're going through a major OS upgrade, but that's awfully hard to address. (People tend to just breeze past any boilerplate-text dialog unless it looks threatening and dire.)

I agree that Apple should make it much easier to downgrade the OS, though. (I'm not 100% sure it's even possible, although I think you may be able to do a clean install of an earlier version from iTunes if you've archived a backup.)
Hi Dang,

I wasn't suggesting that all topics must focus on tech, but that the majority of Hacker News users come from tech, and may therefore have an interest in the technical presentation of the submission.

My apologies if this was not clear.

I think that if users find technical aspects of an article a more interesting topic of discussion than the content, they should be free to discuss it in this forum.

I do not think that the guidelines should be updated to prohibit "off topic" criticism, as the parent comment suggested.
You mean the government full of non technical politicians make bad choices when regulating technology? Who would have thought?

Next thing they will be telling phone companies what types of cords to use....
Ask HN: How did you write your side project's ToS?
I have a side project / lifestyle business I'm launching in a few weeks and wanted to see what resources other HNers have used to write a basic ToS?

The project has no users or revenue, so I'd really just like to homebrew something basic for the moment.

Thanks!
Er just about every nation, ever? As nations develop legal & regulatory systems, the means of corruption changes, but the corruption stays.

In India companies directly pay politicians to skirt regulations. Here in Australia that's rarer, but the corporations via lobbyists simply write the regulations that they then largely conform to. Same deal. Different means.
FWIW, you don't need to be in the Apple ecosystem to have features like having a secondary device auto-unlock your laptop or desktop. Windows has supported a paired device unlocking your user account for a while now, and it does not have to be a manufacturer specific device. Logging in with devices like Yubikeys is also a supported login method.
You are very perceptive with the "subscription model of commerce" thing. I do not like it either. But as for this:

> I can accept unintended bugs, this is a risk I would be willing to take (and hopefully neither me nor my family would suffer terribly for)

I will never buy a car that has computer-controlled systems complex enough that a software bug could kill me.
Supernodes Are a Social Medium Anti-Pattern
It's more obviously a game board in this photo. The irregular placement increases the difficulty of the game.
There's no difference. Except that the processing and shipping of ions is passive / much easier. Contrasted with large permeable membrane plants that have to burn power to push all that brine out into the ocean.
Yes, that would be a good idea. But if you ever run scripts you didn’t write, there’s the potential people didn’t do this, and you have the potential for hard to discover bugs. The language should be designed such that bugs are difficult to encounter, this is an instance where it wasn’t.
Future generations will equate this logic to that of the people who healed all ailments with leeches.
Ask HN: Were you in a computer user group, back in their heyday?
I'm writing an article about The Golden Era of User Groups, and I'd love your input.

This idea came to me when I mentioned user groups to a young person who'd never heard of them. Oh no! It was such a special time of community support! Let's not permit the memories to go away!

So tell me about your experiences!

The basics:
When, where, what type of group, how big it was.
Your role, if relevant. (e.g. I was president of one group, VP of another, and on an international board of user groups... you might be "just a member" which is fine!)

Your memories: How involved were you, for how long? What drew you to the user group? What made it special?

Mostly I want to hear stories, anecdotes, and nostalgia. So please share! (And let me know if I can quote you, at least by first name.)
So does Android use some type of magical battery technology that doesn’t degrade over time?

And good luck getting operating system updates after only two years on Android.
I agree mostly on the hardware complaints ( I have the same and I use a mechanic keyboard and standalone trackpad), but not sure about atrocious user experience of the OS. One of the biggest plus of mac is that it's terminal is posix.
Exactly my thoughts. Payola was alive and well until Internet distribution took over.

Music Journalists were the "Social Influencers" of their day.

They were given front row seats, overnight stays at 5-star hotels, lavish meals, and flights on private jets with touring bands.

Without Music Journalists, and their access to print, there was just no means to getting the word out. They could make or break any artist.
That was already the case in python 2.7 or 3.1.
Fair enough, but even the tenured professors were untenured at some point before so they did matter and were not problematic enough to deny tenure. And tenure doesn't really apply the same for adjuncts or some lecturers, who are perhaps even more dependent on student evals. And of course it depends on the seriousness the university takes teaching, as there are R1s that are more research oriented and care less about teaching, but they account for 1% of all universities.
> Firstly, they only slowed down older phones to prevent them from crashing as they had less and less reliable battery draw.

Yes, and they did this to avoid a recall of millions of iPhones because the batteries were unable to provide necessary current for designed operation less than 2 years after purchase.

Then when they got caught, rather than issue a recall they instead offered replacement batteries at a discount from their normal price.

Basically they sold a defective product, hid it with a behavioral change after launch that encouraged users to upgrade, and when caught swindling people managed to convince everyone to instead pay them to fix the issue.
Cut the cloud strings attached to plug-and-play surveillance cameras
As I’m reading your comment I have the MDR-7506 (the V6 is discontinued, I think) right next to me.

They’re almost useless for mixing, but whenever I record something with a mic, I’ll put headphones on and crank up the mic gain. Does wonders for getting clean recordings.
This is just sad, I thought the regression of civilization described in Foundation by Issac Asimov was far fetched BS.

How wrong I was! This is the exact example he uses in his books.
> The only reason to not use microbenchmarks is because you think they will somehow lead you astray and cause you to optimize things such that user experience actually gets worse.

That's not the only reason. It's about putting the effort where it's matters. Sure gaining 30% speed in synthetic benchmark seems great, but if in real world scenario theses things doesn't happen that often (and spoiler alert, they don't), it will means actually much less than 30% of the speed gains. That's not a good metric to go toward.

It's simply about investing the development time that you got, where it matters for the user.

If your usage is closer to synthetic benchmark and thus you lost close to that 30% of performance since Chrome 75, then take your real world scenario and send that to the V8 teams, I'm sure they'll be happy to consider it in the test suite.
The UX is discriminatory against visually impaired people.

The layout genuinely hurts my eyes to read. I have vision problems and the continuous picture changes after every sentence is very uncomfortable to view. The contrast changes rapidly from bright to dark or completely black. Then there are light pictures with white text rendered over them. After the first few "slides" I had to close the article. It was too uncomfortable to read. Perhaps you should think before you run with your ableism.
This is worse than leeches. It's more like arsenic.
A disaster.

I'm opposed to the construction of new nuclear plants (still open to possibility of new fusion plants at some in the future) but from an environmental standpoint it makes far more sense to maintain the existing nuclear plants - at least for now.

The biggest drawbacks of nuclear power (expensive and slow plant construction) are off the table with existing plants! Hardening existing plants against possible future catastrophe is probably far cheaper in both economic and human terms than new coal plan construction.

Japan already does pretty good job (relatively speaking) with solar power, but it could do much better with the money it will spend on new coal plants if it built more wind power and fixed up existing nuclear plants.
The entire Internet uses DNS for billions of hosts. To say it won't work for a tiny internal network seems a bit strange.

Also, if you can push files with rsync, you can write a script to SSH to every host and check its DNS settings. Pretty simple stuff.

DNS isn't "new" at this point. I remember configuring old SunOS boxes in the 90's, switching them from NIS to DNS. Exciting times.
In Ohio, most schools permit open enrollment, but virtually none of the school districs surrounding the major metropolitan areas do. Coincidentally, while there are plenty of poor children in both rural and urban areas in Ohio, it is only in the metropolitan areas that there are large populations of non-white students. These students are shut out of the wealthier, whiter, better-ranked suburban school districts.
They're in the camp that since you can't measure subjective experience its magic.

Well, they're here reading this, since they cant measure their experience they must not exist. /s
Toronto handles this in part with a separate fleet of buses for wheelchair users. It’s effectively a taxi service with the same cost as a bus fare. It’s not perfect, it has to be booked in advance and times / availability can be unpredictable, but it is there.

http://www.ttc.ca/WheelTrans/index.jsp

All regular buses are still wheelchair accessible, but in practice I cannot remember the last time I saw a wheelchair user on a bus.
Koch (or perhaps just the reporter quoting him) contradicts himself. Even in his own definition of consciousness a machine architecture merely needs a feedback loop to be conscious, something hardly unheard of in computer programs. Now arguably that definition isn't terrible because human consciousness does seem like a supervisor -- something that synthesizes all the subprocess work and makes sure it has a coherent story.
Trump leaving won't resurrect the children who died in ICE custody anymore than Obama leaving resurrected the wedding party that got hit with a drone-launched smart munition, but this sub-thread feels like a digression from the topic.
Or a sticker saying "Photoshop included".
God bless Richard Stallman for open source and GitHub for making sharing it easy

https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto/blob/master/README...
I have found this is true in the Bay Area as well. The really congested freeways seem to be bad from about 7 to 10.
Ahh okay, that makes sense. I wasn't aware that using different methods of copying + backing up data had tangible effects on it later. Super interesting, and vital if you're looking to gather accurate data from experiments.

By the way, I recognized you guys from the other tool you publish, Nancy. While I don't have a direct usecase for it myself, I thought the idea was super valuable as well.

I am a huge Postgres guy (did you know you can build an entire web app in JUST Postgres?[0]) so I had bookmarked a couple of your projects.

Thank you for the response, you guys do some fantastic work.

[0]: https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta
Computers can take input and handle it however the programmer wants in order to replicate ordinary steering. This is true in both games and in actual space.

Why is everyone in this comment section seemingly unable to say anything negative about Space Frigates? This deserves its own 2 hour documentary.

I’m tempted to submit a random .io game and see how people react.
Same thing happened in Germany. This is a really hard problem. I consider myself pretty pro-nuclear but it can never be 100% safe. I can't blame Japan for wanting out after Fukushima, but at the same time there has to be some kind of approach that balances short-term safety against the long-term consequences of carbonization.
Every extra finance-guy in the team means an engineer gets squeezed out. Eventually, there aren't enough engineers to make the team effective. Eventually, there is a disaster because the finance-guys don't have the engineering smarts to recognise failure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22271453