skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they are overpriced, I still want them available. If for no other reason, to ensure that battery replacement is possible. My last two phones were fine when I retired them, except for the battery. In the laptop world, I have kept some of my old devices in service for a long, long time by getting cheap battery replacements on ebay.
There's another article linked to from this one that has,

> The whole point here is that Verisign gets richer while ICANN does all the dirty work. All this while ICANN will receive additional funding ($20 million) from Verisign over the next 5 years. So ICANN will be spending a part our stolen money, money ICANN helped Verisign steal from us registrants, to get higher salaries and bonuses. Thanks ICANN!!!
I thought a system that favors the people with the most money and weapons was the whole point of the libertarian idealogy?
What a cool place. Ancient Greece has such a colored history.
Verisign going to be the next rocket stonk
Bypassing macOS TCC User Privacy Protections by Accident and Design
When Network Solutions had a monopoly these were $100/2 years, later falling to $70/2 years. At this pace it will be a long, long time before we are back up to the bad old days.
Edit: changed the title to convey the age of miss Funk.
For those not familiar, the two new ones are below. I never worked at amazon, but throughout the (grueling) interview process you have to memorize these and every question you answer needs to intertwine some of these principles. They tell you to have 2-3 “stories” of how you exemplify each principle. IMO with how many they have it doesn’t make sense since you are bound to forget nearly all of them day-to-day. And honestly you can just think of anything you’ve done and slightly twist it to make it align with a principle. Meh.

Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer

Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead with empathy, have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun. Leaders ask themselves: Are my fellow employees growing? Are they empowered? Are they ready for what’s next? Leaders have a vision for and commitment to their employees’ personal success, whether that be at Amazon or elsewhere.

Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility

We started in a garage, but we’re not there anymore. We are big, we impact the world, and we are far from perfect. We must be humble and thoughtful about even the secondary effects of our actions. Our local communities, planet, and future generations need us to be better every day. We must begin each day with a determination to make better, do better, and be better for our customers, our employees, our partners, and the world at large. And we must end every day knowing we can do even more tomorrow. Leaders create more than they consume and always leave things better than how they found them.
fuuuuuuuck that hahahah
I think it's more a broad brush description of age-old propaganda techniques[1], which have been widely employed by many organized religions over the years, just as they have been by others with an interest in controlling debate.

One particularly interesting (IMO) tidbit was Berman's strategy of encouraging doubt and ignorance. Rather than argue facts, try and muddy the waters he suggests:

> “Instead of getting the ‘he said she said’ debate, what you will get with the factual debate, often times, you’re going to get into people get overwhelmed by the science and ‘I don’t know who to believe,” Berman told the attendees at the conference. “But if you got enough on your side you get people into a position of paralysis on the issue.”

> “You get into people’s minds a tie. They don’t know who is right,” he said. “And you get all ties because a tie basically ensures the status quo.” [2]

Thus the utility of paid-for "expert" opinion taking issue with one strand or other of the broad scientific consensus on climate: not to win the public debate but to make reasoned debate ineffective and "ensure the status quo."

This methodology is part of the subject matter of Agnotology - "the study of culturally-conditioned ignorance." [3]

1: https://propagandaprinciples.wordpress.com/propaganda-techni...

2: https://www.desmog.com/2014/10/31/oil-and-gas-industry-s-end...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
These sound overly broad and non-measurable.
25 years ago I treasured my paper copy of an article about how to do general purpose I/O on a printer port, and always kept an old PC around for experiments for that. But with Raspberry Pi computers, interfacing is so much easier. And no need to worry about blowing up a precious motherboard, because they don't cost much. And the Pi4 is as fast as oldest PCs I still have, core 2 duos.
Bits relating to Alpine security initiatives in June
They do receive bonuses for doing more work, not necessarily for granting a patent. And you’re dead wrong on the second part, it’s way way way way easier to write a rejection than issue a patent because there’s a good chance the applicant will file a continuation and you’ll get more counts for the same work for an application that you already know well and have done the legwork on. So no, examiners are not incentivized to grant bullshit parents in any way shape or form.

Source: former examiner, current patent attorney who works with examiners regularly.
You did miss something. The Wynne government implemented a cap and trade system before the federal mandated carbon pricing system came into place and also implemented many other policies like an outright ban on coal power plants.

If you look at GHG emissions for the period and compare them to the rest of Canada, Ontario did better than average. Not perfect, of course, but to say that the only way to bring down GHG emissions is via a carbon tax is just not true.
It doesn't have to be. They have a video where he hits the exterior with a propane torch - not all construction materials are the same. These appear to be quite well constructed and as long as they have figured out how to prevent air infiltration at the joints once it's unfolded and fully assembled these should be far more energy efficient than the vast majority of tract housing being mass thrown up.
The problem with organizational metastization is that it optimizes towards the organizational and regulatory structure, vs the organization's original intent.

E.g. Directors become whoever is most capable of winning and holding a directorship. Donations funnel to whatever solicits more donations.

Texas style regular tear-downs, or at least periodic reauthorizations, aren't the worst solution.
I'm going to strive to be a tyrannosaurus rex.
Agreed. Most patents include a sequence of progressively narrower claims building on one another, including permutations of subsets of the new mechanisms claimed, with the expectation that the broadest is likely invalid, the narrowest is definitely novel, and the courts can determine where the boundary falls between the others.

That this patent does none of this I agree suggests a lawyer did not get paid enough, or the patent was intended to publish the ideas (i.e. stop the "big players" from copying an idea and patenting it).

As-is, depending on how you squint and read it, the single claim either is too specific for anything but a clone of the product it's describing to infringe, or so generic it's just describing prior art.
The article is good, in spite of the uninspiring title.

Instead of "X language sucks" or "X vs Y", what would be nice to have:

Use X if you have goals A,B,C, or Y if you want D,E,F

(or something similar)

I dont know if a list like this exists
Part 1 of the excellent The Century of Self gives a good overview of his impact. /watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
"We'll try not to PIP anyone"
Apologies if the title seems click-baity. It would have been too long if I included the new principles in there.

The new principles:

* Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer

* Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility

I don't work at Amazon, but it's my understanding that they take their leadership principles seriously and use them as they make decisions every day. They do not live up to these two new principles today, but this does seem like a significant step.
Is this a quote from somewhere? It’s actually a valid question however it also sounds like something that could be meme-ish. If it’s longer than 120, maybe 160, characters, then yeah it’s kind of silly and why do it in one line.
If you don't have a customer, can you have any workers? If you treat your workers poorly, will your customers be treated well?

Just because one is the emphasis doesn't mean the other is not important either.
"SMS 2FA is an antipattern. Many people know this ..."

Much SMS 2FA in the world is used not for your security but to solve the difficult problem of spam/scam/sockpuppet accounts.

Of course it is labeled as being for your security but it's not about that at all.

Bad actors are relentless and forcing them to burn a SIM chip any SIM chip to participate at least slows down the onslaught.
Your Guide to What’s Happening with Vaccine Passports in the US
Also, this figure was probably lower during when the stories took place.

Why? I would assume the opposite, if there were earthquakes in "17 AD, 60 AD, and again in the 17th and 14th Centuries" as the article states, I would guess that more gases were released when the area had higher seismic activity.
I'll say that this is not new. The thing is the only real movement to at least deal with one aspect here (remove lobbyist influence of politicians) is being pushed by a very minor section of the democratic party but the powers that be in both parties in the US are pushing back against them, and so the cogs keep turning without halt.
It is the same stem as "cybernetics", after all,
Is it just me or does the author never actually answer the question in the title?

Also, does anyone know if the pricing graph accounts for inflation?
The problem with these "movements" and "organizations" is that they usually have very clearly defined goals and they come together to solve a specific problem.

I don't think any of the people coming together realize that, once they solve their problem, they're put themselves out of a job.

In a rational world, they would go find other causes to champion, but instead you see "mission creep", because no one wants to go through the hassle of building up an organization into a multi-million, or multi-billion dollar organization, only to have to dissolve it once you "win" your war, and then go build yet another organization to tackle yet another problem, although this is exactly what should be happening.

We're seeing this with civil rights right now. Any person who thinks the LGBTQ+-whatever community is actively discriminated against at a federal, and even at a state, level, is frankly being dramatic at best and mentally unbalanced at worst. But there are no "easy" major wars left to fight. This is an easy one that - in the minds of the "soldiers" at least - can be won with little money and nothing but a Twitter account. Beating climate change, conquering income inequality, etc.; those are long hard wars that will require lots of money, lots of time, lots of defeats, and lots of pain.

Most people aren't going to sign up for that when they can complain that there isn't a non-binary bathroom in Mom & Pop burger joint down the street, so they must be transphobes.
Go does not support using some types as map keys, including slices, channels, functions, and other maps. Slices are the most annoying, and I have seen plenty of code that uses fmt.Sprint(s) as a workaround. Fortunately the compiler now recognizes when you convert a []byte to a string for use as a map key, and will not allocate a new string.
High fees don't prevent high value domains from being squatted. They do have an impact, but it will only be felt in low value domains.
> helps us relentlessly pursue our mission of being Earth’s most customer-centric company, best employer, and safest place to work.

I think I’d have more respect for Amazon if they were just honest. It’s clear that they’re not the “best employer” in the world, and furthermore I don’t think they ever can be - their business relies on a fleet of low-paid workers doing manual labour.
I'm sure it's a huge percentage but I doubt 54c/yr/domain is really going to make a dent.
Why? Just cause they can? It's not like it costs them that much in maintenance per domain I imagine..
I think you might be missing the main "aha!" of clojure REPLs vs REPLs in non-homoiconic languages: you can very easily execute small parts of the program you're editing without re-typing the code.

In emacs, for instance, you often use `eval-last-sexp`, by default bound to C-x C-e. This lets you move your cursor to a particular point in the file, often deep in a function, and get the results of just the form(s) you're pointing at.

This is a superpower! It lets you test small pieces of your code without writing any test harnesses or scaffolding. Try it with an editor that embeds the repl and has these commands, and you'll never want to develop any other way.

It does cause you to want to structure your code in 'repl-friendly' ways, so that you can, say, restart your main server or reset your state without restarting the whole process.
I'm not sure if a 10% increase on registration price is going to materially change the math on squatting. My understanding is that squatting is like the VC game; you expect many of them to be complete losses, with a couple giving outsized returns.

If you want to address squatting, then address squatting. If you want to address people squatting on new domains (as if there are many squat-able .com's left), then change the registration for new domain registrations only (and not renewals).

A change like this will primarily affect small domain holders in a way that is financially not worth fighting back against individually. I don't really see a "devils advocate" position here.
Blind is the keyword here
Propaganda is a pretty nice, short, readable book
From what I've heard from their former employees (engineer / corporate, not warehouse), the best employer bit is laughable
I feel like the core idea here is really intuitive, but the presentation as fractional bit encoding obscures it—at least to me. It's just encoding an array of values with K distinct possibilities as a base-K number. I had to read the code in the link above to understand that; the exposition didn't help me at all.
This nicely encapsulates why our society sucks. Helping people you can't see doesn't provide the self-congratulation dopamine hit, thus people don't do it.
Always good to find new evidence so people can't say "that was in the past, Exxon has new management now, look they even support a carbon tax".
I prefer the term "Domain Scalping". Domain Squatting has a specific legal definition and it really only applies to people trying to sell a domain name that involves a company with a pre-existing trademark.
As a whole, these are really good leadership principles. I strive to exemplify these in my own work, and can think of many cases where the leaders I admire exhibit these attributes.

Separately, it makes me curious how individual Amazon managers, and the company as a whole, jive these principles with many of the public, consumer-facing concerns raised nowadays. Things like fake reviews and mixed, counterfeit stock. No doubt there ARE good reasons if one was privy to the whole view, and odds are there are very serious efforts (past and present) to improve things. It's just a good opportunity to reflect on how you can have an organization with great leaders, admirable stated values (that most employees probably take to heart), and still have fundamental, mission-critical issues at play that outwardly appear to be being ignored.
Was that an autocorrect error: "ramen profitable"? I like it, but I'm looking for more than ramen money. I'm guessing you meant "really profitable".
It's weird. From reading the article, I kind of like the concept of the console.

But expecting third-party developers to create great games exclusive to a platform that is likely to sink like a rock and sell them at a price point that is all but guaranteed to turn into a huge money drain just doesn't sound like a proposal many developers will find attractive.
Shell Scripting in Rust? – Jason McCampbell
Yes, this sounds like pure profit (and it is) but part of me wishes .com domains were 10x to 50x more expensive. It's selfish, I recognize that, but to purchase a basic domain today I'd have to pay anywhere from $10,000 to $1,000,000 to purchase an unused parked domain.

Is there a solution or a place where ICANN and/or Verisign limit the massive amount of parked domains?
Thank you for those links/references - much appreciated!
Amazon uses "leaders" when talking about self, for all "workers". Internally, others are often considered "customers".
My question is "how is the talk walked"? How does action relative to the 13 Leadership Principles translate to performance evaluation at Amazon? Is there a rubric, or are the principles a context for describing someone broadly? Is there an "L.P. metric" or somesuch for looking at strategic decision?
I vehemently disagree. Not with your explicit reasoning, but with the implicit assumption that there is some 1-dimensional metric of specialness or greatness that we're all being measured against.

The great thing about life is that it's so multidimensional. If you want to be the richest person in the world, of course you're setting yourself up for failure. But if you want to be the best version of yourself, you can easily be the best father-husband-son-coder-blogger-walker-painter to your children+wife+colleagues in your city in July 2021.

More than that, you can do things no one else has done. If you like research, the frontier is endless and extremely high dimensional. Find some niche that you enjoy and crush it. If you like helping people, there will never be an end of people you can help. You don't have to be average -- you can be in the 1% of what you're passionate about, easily, because there are so many possible choices of passion.
Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer at keeping our jack boot on the neck of the union movement.
Nah, I'm.....probably joking
That's not the full definition. This is:

Strive to be Earth's Best Employer

Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead with empathy, have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun. Leaders ask themselves: Are my fellow employees growing? Are they empowered? Are they ready for what's next? Leaders have a vision for and commitment to their employees' personal success, whether that be at Amazon or elsewhere.

Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility

We started in a garage, but we're not there anymore. We are big, we impact the world, and we are far from perfect. We must be humble and thoughtful about even the secondary effects of our actions. Our local communities, planet, and future generations need us to be better every day. We must begin each day with a determination to make better, do better, and be better for our customers, our employees, our partners, and the world at large. And we must end every day knowing we can do even more tomorrow. Leaders create more than they consume and always leave things better than how they found them.

That said, these are not objectives. They are more like vision statements. I assume goals a measures are derived off of these and updated over time.
Yeah, he does cast his net wider than I implied :)

> Rick Berman, a Washington lobbyist and arch-enemy of other lobbyists and do-gooders who would have government control—and even ban-a myriad of products they claim are killing us, products like caffeine, salt, fast food and the oil they fry it in. He's against Mothers Against Drunk Driving, animal rights activists, food watchdog groups and unions of every kind.

- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-rick-berman-aka-dr-evil/
I agree about FIDO2 USB keys. As a matter of practice though, what happens if you lose the key?
Based on a quick look at Zillow, 5 acres (undeveloped, no house) goes for nearly a million dollars. We have fundamentally different ideas of what constitutes a "decent price" if that qualifies for you. I'm 6 hours drive from the my office in Mountain View now, and I'm looking at a similarly undeveloped plot that's 250 acres and worth somewhere between $200k and $300k.
That blog post was really interesting. I'm going to save it for future reference.
Most principles are, no? They have goals and KPIs and reports and what not, these are the leadership principles. One would hope they revise their numbers as well to reflect these principles and correct for unintended consequences.
No, you just need to know the account number and you can click something to the tune of "forgot password".
Last I checked about half are registered but don't point to anything. I can't tell you how many are squatters hoping for a big pay day vs peoples' aspirations of starting a blog or small business that never went anywhere though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Randolph

Bernays' nephew... first CEO of Netflix.
>> Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer

They have a long way to go on this one:

1) Many of the headquarters / office jobs require super long hours and are high stress. Employee turnover is high and mental health issues are common.

2) Warehouse and delivery jobs are known for demanding quotas that are practically unrealistic. Working conditions are terrible and management is unsympathetic.

3) In nearly all environments, employees are seen as a replaceable commodity to be exploited, pushed to the limit, and then replaced with new blood after burnout or turnover.
I can totally relate to this. The most valuable thing I have retained from all of my previous jobs has been the relationships many of which are ongoing.

Once I realized this it occurred to me that instead of trying to optimize for accomplishment I need to optimize for these relationships. This changes the game.

This also explains an economic paradox. Why does our compensation go up when we switch jobs?

The reason is because each job switch opens us up to new opportunities to build relationships.
Calls grow for an investigation into FDA approval of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug
Besides pump and dump altcoins on PancakeSwap? Flipping websites using online marketplaces. Especially if you can develop a private network of buyers. On iOS for example, I've heard of like basic functionality TikTok clones that took 6 weeks to build going for $500k. Best of luck ;)
I was just there; that whole region of Turkey (and Turkey in general) has really amazing and well preserved ancient artifacts and structures. I would definitely recommend the trip! My friend and I rented a car and just drove along the coast stopping at different museums, palaces, and ruins.
One of the best comments I've read in a long time. The importance of a steady paycheck is underrated, especially for peace of mind.

I'm in a point of life that I actually long for easy and laid back CRUD-style jobs where one can do everything easily, quickly, be productive and also work a reasonable amount of hours and can stop thinking about work after signing off.

I recently had to start a new front end using just jquery (customer requirement) and oh boy, I felt so much productive compared to react/angular
Haha, I hadn't actually clicked through :)

Yep, Nutt always made a lot of sense to me. I never got the point of having an independent drug advisory committee if the government wasn't going to listen to a single thing it said, lean on them to say what that wanted to hear instead, and indeed make policy completely at odds with the science.
Uses Clojure and Neanderthal (https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal).
Chrome started forcing tab grouping on mobile so I've tried switching to Firefox. My bank's log in screen doesn't work and posting to Facebook Marketplace is broken. Not sure why basic functionality like that doesn't work but it does force me to keep Chrome around.