skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A major problem I dislike about the current system is that when a domain expires, the domain registrar has the option to keep the domain name practically free (18 cents/year):

https://www.namecheap.com/legal/domains/icann-fee/

The registrars usually keep expired domain names and put them in an auction. If it's a "good/valuable" domain name, the registrar will keep it locked up indefinitely at a high price since it's only costing them 18 cents/year.

If a domain registrar wants to conduct domain auctions on behalf of its users and take a cut of the selling price, I'd be fine with that: users would still have to pay the annual registration fee while it is being auctioned.

Registrars should not be allowed to hold expired domains longer than 60 days - long enough to make sure the previous owner doesn't want it.

Not saying this would fix all issues, but I do think this one is a major wart that should be fixed.
I'm probably biased being Canadian, but I feel a lot of Americans talk about social democracy like it's this ideological utopian grandiose dream that's never been tried or achieved.

But in reality, there's plenty of countries who've done it for a long time and had great success with it: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Iceland, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, India, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong for example.
In my interviews, I lay out two explicit expectations for the candidate upfront..

See, I've never once gotten that without asking for the detail. I'm convinced that most companies have pathologically bad interview practices.
I've been struggling with Doctorow's tech exceptionalism thesis for a while. (One of my geek brothers is a huge fan, so I get plenty of opportunity to founder.) It seems like we're directionally similar, so I really want to be in alliance.

But I just can't figure out what he's talking about.

It's the same feeling of unease I get trying to grok Gore Vidal, Christopher Hitchens, Greg Palast, and other curmudgeons.

"Okay! Stop! You've convinced me! Stop! Just tell me what you want me to do! I need action steps!"

I imagine my reaction to Doctorow is how most people react to me.

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That said.

I reject the dichotomy of idealism vs materialism.

My own thesis is still poorly formed. But the nugget is the growing evidence that belief systems are about identity. And that much of today's social pathologies, of most concern to me, are the stimulus which most effectively activate identity.

In other words, using Doctorow's first example of flat earthers, the proclaimed beliefs of those adherents has nothing to do with ideologies, facts, persuasion, whatever. It's only about identity and therefore acceptance by that social group.

Most simply: Cults.

The toxic part is the automated isolation and amplification of those identities. Those machine learning algorithms (aka newsfeed) that finds the difference that makes the difference and ruthlessly exploits that delta for profit.

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Skipping the big section about intellectual property...

(But I will say that I've become a fan of the "information wants to be expensive" school of thought.)

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"We can work to fix the internet by breaking up Big Tech and depriving them of monopoly profits, or we can work to fix Big Tech by making them spend their monopoly profits on governance. But we can’t do both. We have to choose between a vibrant, open internet or a dominated, monopolized internet commanded by Big Tech giants that we struggle with constantly to get them to behave themselves."

There's a lot of daylight between repeated radical cashectomies, which I support, and nationalizing these platforms as utilities, which I also support.

One crazy notion would be to simply treat digital markets like physical markets. Rule of law, consumer protection, right to appeal... You know, the usual stuff found in modern civil society.

Another crazy notion is to identify the undesired feedback loops, then break or bend them. Freemium and targeted advertising seem like two pretty good candidates for the chopping block.

Edit: Sorry, should have included my original radical, and therefore obviously correct, proposal. Extend property rights to personal data. If someone's making a buck off my data, I want my cut.
Any list that doesn't include Sommerfeld is written by amateurs. But it's unsurprising. He's the best physicist no one has heard of.

Aside his long list of accomplishments which span pioneering work in all of physics, from QM, relativity, to fluids, he also accomplished:

- Arguably the father of QM, since the "founders" were all his students and built upon, or generalized his ideas.

- Four of his students got Nobel prizes. Three of his post-docs got the nod. One of them, Pauling, got two Nobel prizes. His students include Heissenburg, Debye, Bethe, Pauli.

- Nominated 84 times.

- His work on Special Relativity helped it gain acceptance

- Wrote some of the best physics books.
Framework review complete, Fed's Powell starts hard sell for higher inflation
Housing is an investment, but it isn't a savings account. There is a difference.

As an investment a house is a place including neighborhood to live for a long time. You should be friends with the neighbors. When you get old it is a cheap place to live (you have it paid for). It is a place to save your memories (little Bobby tables bit the rail there...). A place to make what fits your life.

It isn't a savings account to get cash out of when you want some.
I was talking about the same definition as the article. Of course, when I am dead, I will not fear death. That is not much consolation.
Of course an accountant would give a condescending non-answer like that. The clients who give her the most money for the least trouble are the ones for whom that's true. We shouldn't let them or her speak for new businesses, though. People trying to get into business have the clearest view of the problems they face.

For an organically grown start-at-the-bottom business, $1000/year to declare a company is bad (it's much less outside of California, but still). The constant threat of the IRS deciding you aren't serious-business enough and sending you a bill for 30% of your revenue in the last 5 years is bad. Not profit, revenue. The fact that "serious business" is defined about as well as my memetic language would imply is doubly bad. We should fix this.
This makes perfect sense to me.

It gives women engineers better hiring prospects, which should help put them in the best positions they are qualified for. At the same time, men can't complain they are given unfair disadvantage. Except maybe that the competition becomes a bit bigger.

Moreover, it avoids a problem I have heard women really hate. It avoids the possibility of a female hire being stigmatized as 'only getting the job because they are a woman'. Because really, no unfair advantage was given to the women. All that happened is that she was offered more chances to apply, which generally leads to getting a job that better matches your qualifications and desires.
I think the argument is we aren’t spending enough on anti-aging research.
Weird. Though there would be value in working with the vendors backing VT to get this fixed as this is just one of the issues with a false positive. Another is that users who use these products are probably alerted or otherwise prevented from using WinRAR too.

VT has it as malicious with the new hash too [1] .

Antiy-AVL calls it Win32.Shelma. Only good definition that seems to match that detection is from Kaspersky [2] stating that the 64 bit version is detected as using metasploit [3] components.

[1] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/21dd688a5371f5b0d297a307...

[2] https://threats.kaspersky.com/en/threat/Trojan.Win64.Shelma/

[3] https://www.metasploit.com/

edited: formatting
People are not recommending 7-zip in response to the cert problem but rather to someone directly asking for a superior alternative in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24284253

Regardless, 7zip does not have as much of a need for a certificate because it is foss so you do not need to trust the creators, in comparison to winrar which isn't and you need to trust them.
I'd like to buy this. Where can I send the $50 million?
There's no magic required here, people. Batteries, engines, just tiny changes on existing Teslas. This car is dooable by Tesla and by third parties like Lucid Air just replicating some of the things Tesla has done and making small improvements.

1. Battery capacity: Tesla had 100kw cars 4 years ago. 13% increase - easy, even within Tesla's grasp, they just have not bothered.

2. Efficiency and range - this is just a small improvement on what the Tesla model S has, add more batteries. The Lucid Air is bigger than a model 3 and closer to an S. The S already has 400 miles. Tesla improved on the original 2012 (yes, those are 8 years old!) model S' range by using the more efficient model 3 engines on the S. The S has 100kwh currently.

3. The model 3 has different batteries than the S, apparently they have a bit higher capacity in the 3 than in the S. All Tesla has to do to give the S another boost is switch to using the model 3 batteries, add a few more. The one downside of the 3 batteries is supposed to be they have less max power, so less acceleration? Tesla is going to have 'battery day' soon when they will talk about their next generation batteries, and perhaps talk about S improvements.

4. Manufacturing, and especially getting enough batteries - this is where Tesla is likely really ahead. It's hard to make cars in volume, even expensive ones. But getting enough batteries for a large fleet of cars is the early 21st century unobtanium. Every other car company that ones to make large volume EVs can't do it. Where everyone is at least Japan and Europe and the US. China might be able to pull this off, too soon to say.
Thank God those subreddit admins are keeping us safe from disinformation. We wouldn't want anyone to think.
One of the things I got out of learning Haskell was learning about QuickCheck.

Now, my preferred testing method is to write pure functions attach generators for the given input types, assert invariant properties about them, and then let QuickCheck fuzz my functions where it will try to find a minimal example that breaks the given invariants.

The remaining stateful portions of code are tested through integration tests.
> But more importantly I don't fear things that have happened, I fear things that are impending - a pretty key distinction here, which I feel fundamentally breaks the symmetry (ie: time is not symmetrical).

Why is time not symmetrical? I don’t mean from your subjective point of view but in terms of objective physical reality. The answer is: entropy increases over time. Which is the same reason that death is inevitable. Perhaps one day people will live for ten thousand years and perhaps that would be nice, but death will still find us all eventually.
The "most efficient" speed is pretty shockingly low, like 25mph to 45mph low depending on if you have "overhead" loads like AC/heat/lights/etc... (for a Tesla Model 3 at least)

And the 70mph does have a MASSIVE difference. Anecdotally, going from 65mph to 75mph in my Tesla absolutely destroys my range (last time I checked, the extra 10mph there would reduce my range by about 60 miles).

But that can be misleading in the real world. If you care about "time efficiency" as in "what speed should I drive to complete a long distance trip in the least amount of time", the most efficient speed for Teslas is something like 90mph! That's because the Tesla superchargers are so fast that they make up for the loss in efficiency from going much faster.

This is a good video on someone that actually did the testing to figure that out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS2Vp9Y_jrc
I believe that we are working kinda sorta well against so-called 'premature' death. But I do not believe that death is widely considered to be itself a solvable problem - this article itself starts with this defeatist statement:

> Your demise is inevitable. I hope that doesn’t come as too much of a shock.

There's a lot less work going into increasing our maximum lifespan that there is going into increasing our average lifespan.
Not that it matters, but for the record: Did you mean _fusion_ reactor technologies?
It seems pretty obvious that TDD was a good idea for some folks, but it became a meme long before most of us were ever exposed to it. By that point you couldn't just write tests and do dev work, you had to join the church of TDD if you wanted to play. Then some lazy ruby scripter like me gets told to write tests not code, and we end up with another layer of glorified middle management to make sure "everything was written with a test"

Eventually those of us who have work to do throw away the junk, get things done, or we move on. Its a pretty natural progression for most bureaucratic organizations.
Could that be based on pronounciation rules ?
Works for FF 79, Manjaro Linux

Maybe it was removed for the Windows build? If so, what a bad decision, maybe for security reasons?
Tax treaties definitely apply to businesses... And foreign taxpayers.

Your being taxed as a US citizen, so a tax treaty wouldn't apply to your US income.
I see these as a consequence to having no real way to remove bad doctors through the legal system. They all protect each other. There's some idiots looking for narcotics, but that isn't all of it.
> So maybe the difference is that in your country the magnitude of corruption is lower than in India,

I don't know about corruption levels in India. I am under the impression that the level of corruption in my country is rather tiny, so this could very well be the explanation.
The existence of remote attacks was perhaps the most important concern for them on using Android specifically, perhaps I should have phrased it as "remote hijacking/escalation".
They did two things for two phases of the satellites' lifetimes. In the first phase the satellites are raising their orbits to their final position over a period of a month or two, and SpaceX started rotating the solar panels to reflect less light toward the Earth. But they can still be visible sometimes, until they reach the operational phase when they are in their final, higher orbit.

For the operational phase SpaceX added a sunshade which reflects light away from the Earth. This plus the higher orbit makes the satellites dim enough that they cannot be seen with the naked eye. This sunshade was designed with feedback from astronomers at the often mentioned LSST, which is the single telescope most affected by large satellite constellations. It will prevent artifacts from the imaging sensor's pixels becoming saturated, which is the main concern. The satellites will be visible to the telescope but can be filtered out with standard techniques already in use to filter out the thousands of other satellites already in orbit. See https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-update-04-28-2020/
At the 60k ft the Concorde flew at, a loss of pressure results in loss of consciousness in 10 seconds (or less). They already had unusual emergency procedures.

You can't just mindlessly descend because that would overstress/overspeed the airframe.
Regulations are written in blood.

We didn't have rules, then something extremely bad happened to make people say, "that should be illegal." So it's made illegal. A generation passes and young people look at said regulations, think, "that's a stupid rule," and they revoke it. Goto 10.

Investments that require you to be accredited are often pretty bad ones. All the great opportunities get cherry-picked by those with the right networks. What most people will be investing in are the scraps that all the smart investors passed on. That's how accredited investors get burned and go back to boring old index funds.

If you open these markets up to average Joes, it's going to be a bloodbath. Fox News will switch from running ads to invest in gold to ones for scam companies with fraudulent books. Elderly women will get hounded by phone salesman. We'll go back to the way it was in the 80s.

The problem with caveat emptor is society as a whole gets screwed as well. We all get to live with the economic collapse brought on by the situation.
It's likely to save you more than $800 too.
Irrelevant to the current discussion.
I'm not attributing malice at all. The moral obligation of corporation is value for share holders. Shading the satellites doesn't add value. Thus no reason to even think about it, unless there's a public outcry which might damage the value.

I extremely dislike this moral code and Milton Friedman and its second order effects on our society. But that's the frame of mind most people who go through US MBA are indoctrined with.

Regarding Musk, he has proven to have this Randian Hero mentality. He might care about astronomy, and he might just think, who gives a f*CK we're going to Mars.

That's why democracy is important, it reduces the variance of impact these bigger than life type personalities can induce.

I think it's crazy a single person can decide for.all of us how the future will look like.
It’s not the same. It’s like you shipped your software to people and someone took the copy you sold them and gave to it someone else.
Benefitting developers is a consequence. They are the middle man for housing. You can't get housing without aiding them (at least not easily).

If your goal is to avoid benefitting developers, you will have a hard time encouraging housing.
IIRC Revolut Business is available in Estonia, so probably no need to travel.
Most people will see a pop up on their phone and click OK without reading it so they can get to Facebook, just as they do with every other little box for an updated TOS, European Cookie Law notifications, etc.
If Privacy Dies in VR, It Dies in Real Life
A tax treaty would not apply to that situation.

It protects foreign taxpayers from double taxation, not expats. Expats most get relief from their home country for home source income.
It's not really a "wealth test". It's more of a "is this person likely to have proper legal counsel" test. Or at least that's how I understand its intent.
Even in the days of MS-DOS games, I could just buy a CD for $2 from a contact (he'd ride his bike to me and deliver them), it would be full of games that you could just extract and play, no installer involved.

It became slightly harder for a period of time when CD sized games became common, and Internet speeds have not yet caught up.
Try the book. When writing, you can go back in time and change your words until you've expressed yourself adequately, and can add references.
Lollypop is an underrated Music player that you need to look at
I kinda agree it's the loss of joy and happiness that causes most of the dread.

I may be naive but death is change-too-large (change in relationships, change in groups, neighborhoods, change in locations due to work, destruction) and avoiding that is to change accordingly.
Pg: What phrase signals that the person using it doesn't understand your field?
This is super fun! I wouldn't want to see it on a serious website, but for games and such it's a really nice toolkit.

Some minor suggestions:

- The table isn't animated. Bringing in the grid lines the same way that HRs appear to be (like in the project example) would make sense. Possibly cascading the cells like the text renderer.

- The sounds (which are excellent and super nostalgic btw) would be better with some variation. For example the author's portfolio site plays the same chirp every time you scroll a new project in, and sounds repetitive. Games will randomly pick from a set of similar sounds, which are often just the same sound at different pitches or different envelopes. That'd help here.
> I really enjoy listening to people's anger ranting why its not really art (...)

This reminds me of Barnett Newman's "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III" which has elicited its fair share of visceral reactions as well, with some people going so far as to vandalize it in museums - 99 percent invisible did a great story on it a while back

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-many-deaths-of-a-...
Making bad actions visible can better inform voters and increase accountability (even if it doesn't remove bad actors themselves from the system). Qualified immunity is useful and helpful for the justice system in theory, but it is increasingly clear it causes more harm than good.
lol maybe 10 years ago and briefly.

There have been a SaaS services for this the whole decade, and that’s only because the issuer exemptions were expanded to even need a lawyer because an investor saying “yeah Im accredited” wasn't good enough for some securities issuance exemptions.

You don't lie to the lawyer (or most lawyers), you show assets. Assets which so happen to have a value and are totally illiquid. You trade a single unit of something you create for $1 and you happen to have 2,000,000 more units. You’re accredited by any standard. No different than your portfolio of houses in a place nobody wants to live in, which still happen to have appraisals totaling over $1mm.

If that doesnt feel “right” to you then you might be confusing who actually has the consequence here and might have been unproductively conditioned to “follow the letter of the law” compared to the consequences and implementation of the law. Again its a prohibition on the securities issuer which they pass on to the investor. Its not a prohibition from the government on the investor or the lawyer. And the securities issuer simply has to go through the motions. Check, check and check. And the investor has to pony up the cash. If they don’t have the $25K or $100K minimum anyway then get out. The government’s role in this is just a redundant deterrent.
When's the last time a tanker of battery components spilled their contents into the water causing massive damage to the ecosystem?
Recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257648
Another use: character names for books, where some ambiguity of gender &/or background can be useful. Could have done with it a couple of years ago. For games too I guess
Consolto – Simply Meet Clients Online
> Then shouldn't every business have to follow the same rules?

No. Physical goods are actually scarce. Making copies costs lots of money and finite resources. Making copies of data is as easy as copy paste.

Copying data actually does cost money due to electricity, storage and bandwidth costs but this is so widely distributed over the general population it might as well be zero.

> Making a "copy" of an iPhone costs $20 or $30

I thought electronics factories cost billions of dollars to set up and operate.

> Should Apple have to crowdsource their factory and IP then sell iPhones by weight or value of raw material?

Not at all.

> Why do content creators get screwed because physics doesn't let them attach an atom to their creation?

Because data is really just a number. Like all numbers, all creations already exist. The creator just happened to somehow find the exact sequence of bits that represents the picture or music being imagined. All intellectual work boils down to this. Even programming.

Trying to sell data is like trying to sell numbers. It just makes no sense.

> The vast majortiy of what you pay for in any product is the creation, not the material.

Yes, but physical products actually lend themselves well to being sold in a free market since they're actually scarce. This allows companies to recoup the costs associated with intellectual work.

This model breaks down when people want to do nothing but intellectual work and sell the resulting data as if it were a physical good. That's when people start coming up with insane ideas such as intellectual property, copyright, patents and god knows what else. It actually worked well for centuries... Until people invented computers, a technology that trivialized the copying and worldwide distribution of data.

We have computers in our pockets and homes which can copy and distribute data worldwide with zero effort and cost on our part. Data simply isn't scarce. Maybe one day we'll invent Star Trek replicators and making physical copies of iPhones will be similarly trivial.