skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern isn’t over the current price. The larger investment is my time. If I spend hours and hours learning software and creating things with that software, I don’t want to risk it being crippled or the price being raised exorbitantly.

I would rather use open source software or pay for software with a reasonable licensing model (and ideally from a company without a history of consumer-hostile practices).
Pinephone “Community Edition: Manjaro with Convergence Package” Linux SmartPhone
It's interesting, you can see in the URL that at some point the article was named "How Renormalization Saved Particle Physics". My guess is that an editor changed it to make it more comprehensible / clickbaity.
https://lookup.icann.org/ is what I use for basic whois information before buying and check if they domain is available.
If you are building below grade, W.R. Grace Bituthene is what you want: https://gcpat.com/en/solutions/products/bituthene-post-appli...

On the outside of course so that water pressure presses it more tightly against the surface. It is like Grace Ice and Water Shield but is suitable for vertical application. Unlike liquid membranes, the sheets will always have the required thickness and you can inspect for overlapping joints. As a commercial product there are factory technical reps whose job is to help insure the reputation of the product.

However, the real lesson in the article is you can't afford custom construction if there is any question about affordability. The major issues with the house are design issues. A few hundred hours of architectural design work that didn't happen resulting in some thousands of dollars of site work that didn't happen and some thousands of dollars of materials that weren't installed and so on.
An illuminating Bibliography — the passage:

> "Only a minority of the small minority who were literate were so literate to the level of being literati."

could be attested in Revelation, by

> "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy"

which implies that they that hear were not expected to readeth themselves. On the other hand, the license terms of the prophecy are somewhat illiberal:

> "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

> And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."

Severe restrictions via Divine Rights Management?
In most cases you don't need to specify lifetimes. The compiler is smart enough to infer it for a lot of cases. As noted elsewhere by Steve, it's not even required for this signature.
It happened to me too, while I was trying to find the domain name for the new project. It was free and the next day it wasn't.

But, what godaddy does with the domain they registered? Do they try to sell it to you for an exorbitant price? What's their deal?
Watson and Crick's paper contains the sentence "The novel feature of the structure is the manner in which the two chains are held together by the purine and pyrimidine bases."

Perhaps this claim to novelty is incorrect - I certainly don't know enough about the history to have an independent opinion - but I think one must take the conventional view to be that Watson and Crick did indeed discover the structure of DNA.
Yeah, that's until the price of solar reaches a point where desalination becomes economic. The fact that today is not a day when it's profitable to cover the world in solar panels means as little as the fact that today oil can be more profitable.
Rumors of bad samsung yields, fake low stock to increase MSRP of cards, Nvidia providing 50-100 dollar rebate to AIB's for cards sold in September, super expensive cooling solutions for FE...I can't admit I was around for previous GPU releases but jeez.. Hopefully AMD has good stock because I know they are going to kill it on efficiency and price and I would rather loose 5-7 percent of fps attainable than give money to Jensen's annoying marketing over hype.
True about maintenance.

Read this book

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

for the story about the Train shed; that book reveals the inner logic of contemporary vernacular architecture just as Jane Jacobs did for the prewar period.

Also there is a "local knowledge" that rules supreme over indigenous people and other people -- in the US South people have awful problems with insects so you cannot necessarily translate experience in Pennsylvania there.

Finally there is a "safety in numbers" in that a standardized house is a easily traded commodity. There is a system of finance, insurance, law, construction and other practices that make it likely if not certain that you can sell a conventional house for at least what you paid for it in a timely fashion.
Yes, asking for the SOA record for the zone within the parent domain is safe and usually good enough -- and will tell you if it is registered (but not definitively if it is NOT registered). Following up with a single normal WHOIS.
Speeding Tesla driver caught napping behind the wheel on Alberta highway
Some TLD registries have policies to prevent registrars from front-running their clients by squat-registering their domain searches.

But, if you're working in a TLD where Freedom<tm> is more important than actual free markets, do your domain checks against the root servers yourself with dig +trace.
Modern software is full of bait and switch techniques. Get people involved with certain expectations, then require more sign ups, accounts, permissions, etc. once they are already invested.
Called domain front running

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running
I see one mask maybe every other day (major city in Sweden). I would guess mask usage is close to zero.
People need to get out of their seat, which is hard.
You're close on the names of the binaries. They're 'sz' and 'rz'.

I used the crap out of them dialing-in to systems back in the day. I had TELNET and FTP access to the Internet out of a dial-in to a shell on a Unix host in the mid 90s (no SLIP, PPP, or SLiRP from the provider at the time. It was great to be able to ftp down files to my home directory then 'sz' them back home.
They control SSL decryption for a massive number of websites. Governments will gladly fund Cloudflare for eternity.
Silq – The First Intuitive High-Level Language for Quantum Computers
So .... how can we use this to our nefarious purposes.... anyone want to build an API Tool and random name generator and get GoDaddy to register tons of bogus names.
I've found Porkbun to be pretty good as well.
This sucks and I feel for you. But the sad fact is that domain registrars have been doing this ever since domain names became big business in the 90s.

As a PSA to everyone, you should only ever use whois in a terminal window to see if a domain is available.

It's included with macOS, Windows (?), Linux or any other OS anyone's likely to use. [Edit: a reply says it's not included in Windows. It seems you can download it free here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/whoi...]

I guess ICANN's lookup tool (https://lookup.icann.org/) is probably more trustworthy than commercially operated ones; it would be a terrible look for them to engage in this practice.

But I always feel much safer using whois in a terminal than any website that can see what I'm searching for.
I'm guessing that will be against the TOS and those devices would be remotely bricked (but that's just conjecture)
The US government did step in - really early on, soon after Covid-19's existence became known, they guaranteed that they'd buy up the production of N95 masks if no-one else did in order to encourage companies to risk producing more of them even though Covid might not turn out to be a big deal. Generally, the only acknowledgement you see of this in the media is in the form of complaints that they didn't guarantee to buy up production for even longer.

The fundamental trouble is that effective masks like N95 require special melt-blown plastic in order to filter out particles whilst still allowing people to breathe through them, there's limited production capacity, and the equipment to make it has long lead times and limited production capacity itself. There's no clever way around this. For example, invoking the Defense Production Act wouldn't help despite how hard the media pushed this idea because the companies literally couldn't make any more masks, so ordering them to do so would be completely and utterly pointless. And it's not like there are other materials that work as well either.

The reason why "The market is, in fact, glutted with face shields. But the U.S. is still far short of the 3.5 billion masks that public health officials say are needed this year." is not because of a lack of central co-ordination, it's because pretty much any old manufacturer can produce face shields (people were even making them at home on small scales with 3D printers for a while) but N95 masks are really specialized things.
Sweden didn't close schools, 1 person under 20 has died out of about 2 million.
Not really familiar with submission rules and customs here, but shouldn't that headline be prefixed by "Tell HN:"?
>Factor in a glut of people who're living into advanced age, due to the progress of medical technology, so naturally in a precarious place against any infection

Then why does the annual flu not wipe out this population? Immunity lasts about 3 years so every such person who is exposed to the flu should be dying in one 3 year cycle.
Just FYI, as a long time cat owner. An alarm clock cat will be a reliable alarm clock, except when you have a very important meeting when it will let you sleep. Either because it's emotionally connected to you, and senses you were nervous and having bad sleep and didn't want to disturb you, or becauae it's a cat and thought it would be fun to mess with you.

If you have a good cat was supposed to wake me up story when you make it to the meeting, your very important clients will laugh and be amused. You won't get this contract, but you'll be considered for future ones.
I've been using iwantmyname.com both as a registrar and domain search engine. Never had a name sniped from me.
I hope someone from Godaddy responds to this.
yes, whois:

whois godaddy.com

whois superuselessdomainforeveryone.com

look for "No match for domain" at the end
Zoom Secures Their Rapidly Expanding Attack Surface with Cast
Set aside the free speech stuff which involves groups inciting violence - while we can agree that it's bad, deciding what to do will inevitably lead to wildly divergent ideas.

Cloudflare says that it's "free speech" for their customers to claim to be Adobe offering a "Flash Updater", or for their customers to claim to be Bank of America.

That is how evil Cloudflare is - they allow clear and unambiguous crime for pennies.
What do you mean by astroturfing, then? At this point I don't even know what I'm being accused of. I linked to the Wikipedia article because according to the usual use of the term 'astroturfing', it doesn't really make sense to accuse someone of astroturfing and yet deny that they are working as an agent of an organization of some kind.

Again, we could easily resolve all this with a phone call, if you were actually interested in the truth of the matter. But I guess you'd rather hide behind your online persona and cast false accusations around.
At 5 MW, these MMR (Micro Modular Reactor) look like a specialized alternative to diesel generators servicing remote locations unserviced by the regular power grid. 20 year lifetime without refuelling is an attractive proposition if the capital costs are competitive.
Another guess: Even the indoor areas likely have no windows/doors and have tons of fresh air. So even if you get the virus, it's likely a lower initial viral load which seems to be correlated with less severe outcomes?
A coworker had his work Macbook synced up to his iPhone messages app, and was getting blown up during a meeting by his friends in a group chat ranting about Trump.

It could have been way worse. I've never understood why people sync their personal messages/emails to their work computers. It can and does get watched - gods help you if your friends have a borderline taste in memes and send you something offensive while you're presenting.
A very interesting app you've built. So good in fact, I would license it as Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial. Anyone can take everything and re-upload your work as their own and monetize your work as they please.

Well done on your release though. I think this project is worthy of Apple promoting it (Seriously). Unfortunately, they are mostly after projects that have subscriptions.

Don't end up being like this guy: https://twitter.com/videodrome/status/1055285640420483073
I don't know about Arkansas real-estate, but my sister has moved a couple of times in Missouri and Kansas and has never paid above the cost of building the house, and once paid much less.

Structures are depreciating assets, and in many parts of the US the land does not appreciate enough to cover that up.
IP Subnet Calculator
It’s truly just an extrajudicial assassination list, whitewashed by “western first world” government propaganda.

https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/britains-secret-as...
I've been using hover.com for years. never had a problem.
Writing Systems by Language
I’ve had really good experiences with Fortify so far. It took me a lot of hours to figure out how to write custom rules but once I was able to do so it became super valuable.
The complaint is here. You can read it to understand the basis of the filing: https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Final_Complaint_f...

In a nutshell, the basis is:
- Restricts right of travel, which is considered a fundamental right that has been repeatedly reaffirmed by the Supreme Courts of both the state and the country.
- Restricts free speech: people are being barred from exercising political speech (or speech of any kind) inside the park.
- Restricts freedom of assembly: Peaceful gatherings in the park to discuss these things are barred.

Basically, the beef is with the ordinances that fine and enforcement that harasses people who will enter the park anyway.

EDIT: There is another interesting basis: One of the plaintiffs is a black store owner (store located in Palo Alto), who pays taxes to the city (that presumably contribute to the upkeep of the park), but still can't enter the park, because she lives in Menlo Park, a neighboring town. So what is the basis for excluding her from the park? It seems to me that 'residents pay taxes but others do not' is not a valid argument for barring access to nonresidents, if you consider the plaintiff's complaint.
> The issue here is them pushing an extra "control center" type app through ads that pop up on the desktop without any consent or interaction from the user.

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. These fancy input devices usually have LEDs, macros, variable sensitivity and other nifty features that are configured via vendor-specific driver applications. I've never used one that was even remotely good.

My Clevo laptop shipped with gamer-style bloatware that would take over a minute just to start up. I managed to reverse engineer it with wireshark and made a command line program that implements most of the features I cared about. The code is pretty short, here is the project in case anyone wants to see how it works or create a custom version for their own hardware:

https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x

It was just a matter of figuring out what data the manufacturer's application sends to the device and making my program do the same thing.
A Sleeping, Recovering Bandit Algorithm for Optimizing Recurring Notifications [pdf]
This is a brilliant brilliant article.

Does anyone know how Shopify created it's Architecture Guild and grew it ? The author talks about "should have done it earlier"
Biggest draw for me would be how it handles Dvorak-Q method input. I found VSC falls apart on Mac with that where Coda handles it like a champ.
I also work on software in the medical industry. Maybe you were talking about the specific firm you were interviewing with, but patient safety (accuracy) is absolutely the highest concern in my team. That doesn’t mean we cut corners on security and privacy, it means that all must be done correctly to be successful.
Love Jill Lepore.

There was a state change. When these systems changed from primarily identifying the demographics to driving the demographics.

Sometime between 1960s and 2010s. My hunch is the social mediums accelerated the autonomous sorting feedback loop. Most likely related to algorithmic recommenders and the dopamine reward system.

Like what happened from the transition from blogging to tweeting. Searching, foraging, ranking were outside and on top of the content system. The interest graph was inferred. Then the content became a feature of the interest graph.

Ezra Klein's Why We Are Polarized thesis talks about how these systems first became expressions of our identity changing to activating our identities.

I keep thinking about something Danny Hillis (may have) said: Once they become complex enough, systems of communication become systems of computation. Very transhuman and Singularity themed, I know, bare with me. It does acknowledge a state change, when quantity becomes its own quality.

What if these feedback loops became self reinforcing? Beyond our agency, understanding, or control?

"Collective amnesia"

Spot on.

My first real world experience of this was validated by Andrew Gumbel "Steal This Vote". His phrasing was something like "America's recurring amnesia about electioneering and chicanery". I was a baby activist raging against the incredulity and disinterest of the establishment.

Sure, I had read "1984", but this forgetfulness is not deliberate, it's not what Orwell described. Some people drive the process. Since forever, according to Riane Eisler in "The Chalice and The Blade". And some people benefit.

But I now mostly think we do it to ourselves. It's intrinsically human. Not intentionally. I think forgetfulness is crucial to human ability to get along. Related to homophily and sociability and ultimately allows cooperation.

Our intrinsic forgetfulness and gullibility, traits which allowed our species to thrive, have absolutely been exploited. It's weird how the very key to your success will eventually lead to your downfall.

I've certainly forgotten uncomfortable and inconvenient things about myself. To my own detriment. Know that I'm not judging forgetfulness; I am just trying to understand.

Of course, some people cannot forget, are not allowed to forget. And others still work tirelessly to keep us from forgetting.

A never ending battle.

Edit PS:

I should probably comment on the main thrust of this article.

I remember being flabbergasted by Isaac Asimov's notion of psychohistory. So outlandish.

Imagine my surprise learning that the notion was central to entire enterprise. Asimov wasn't making something up. Rather, common to a lot of great sci-fi, he was just speculating how these new ideas might turn out.

Jill Lepore daylights one facet of that original conceit here. It's just a great article.

I have some books about the history of computing with respect to government. Per Lepore's tangent about amnesia, we'd all do well to understand the origins. Just like reading classic literature, to understand how we became who were are today.
The idea that there is a single "top priority" is the problem. There's inevitably going to be a list of primary criteria, with the specific situation driving how they are balanced.
ClipX ( https://bluemars.org/clipx/ )
Mezer Tools ( https://bayden.com/mezer/ )
AllSnap ( https://github.com/iheckman/allsnap )

No updates in years (this thread is making me realize one does have, minor, updates actually ...). Do what they do perfectly. (Except, only on my laptop, ClipX will randomly crash/close.)
Doesn't CF already have an "Always Online" feature using their own infrastructure? So this seems like the opposite happening.
They didn't build it, they bought it 6 years old. But apparently they overlooked warning signs too at the time. It already had cracks and leaks, and was being sold $45K below construction price.
It doesn't even have to cost them very much. Nothing or a few cents at most.

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

https://icannwiki.org/Domain_Kiting
> Bikes are safe. Cars are unsafe because they often kill other road users. You have them confused.

knifes kill people too

but I'm sure you use them

Guns kill people too, but they love them in the US, they love them so much that they put them in the hands of kids and let them go the school to shoot other kids

Cars are not unsafe, people driving them are.

It's the same people that ride bikes.

You have them confused.

As Conan's father said:

"No one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts."

BTW

If you like to live, don't ride a bike.

--

"More cycling fatalities than deaths in cars"

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/more-cycling-f...

--

Crash Statistics - who was at fault?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ClubExpressClubFiles/86708/graphics...

--

Fatality rate (UK)

https://fullfact.org/media/uploads/DfT_chart.png
If there are companies paying $thousands per month then you may have just not been looking at the right potential customers. At 10-20x the price with service guarantees (maybe spread it across DO, AWS, Azure and emphasize your independence from problems with any) you might have been taken seriously by some of the companies paying higher bills. For enterprise customers the processing cost of paying $5-10/month recurring charges might be higher than the actual charges.

Edit: that doesn't mean it's bad to serve small clients, but if the concern is significant revenue....
Yep: this project is funded by donations, and donations tend to favor the politics of the donors.
This is a scummy move. In the industry I work in, we call this front-running and it’s a criminal act. If the same laws applied here godaddy would be looking at a nine digit fine and jail time for whoever thought this is a good idea.
'I'm not sure if they expect you to slide into another dimension, but a loud, sharp c-word generally jolts them out of their idiocy.'
Thanks for the entirely accurate and entertaining read. There are definitely many c-words among us, and I assume you don't mean 'commuters' -- most of those of us are just trying to get along without getting squashed, and that often means using infrastructure in ways other than the intended, because it was never intended for our safety.
If you can understand enough Danish to use it I can recommend https://gratisdns.dk
What's the difference between "componentization+engines" and microservices?

From a deployment perspective are your engines deployed and scaled independently?
The "difficult to return zones" are exactly that: the subset of zones that are represent the greatest challenge to resettle. Most of the exclusion zones with less severe categories have been lifted [1].

The point is, people assume because of Chernobyl that a nuclear disaster will render land uninhabitable permanently, or at least for decades. That is not the case. Chernobyl remains excluded because there's no real incentive to clean it up and reopen. The city was built to support the power plant, so with the latter gone there's no real reason to put in the effort to decontaminate the former.

1. https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal-english/en03-08....
These days when I push a branch, github gives a URL in the response that I can click from the terminal to open a PR. It is indeed very good.