skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.com domains NEVER cost $75/year. In the 90s bad (but popular) registrars like Network Solutions got away with massive markups.

Registrars are still allowed to add a markup, just there is so much competition that doesn't really happen any more.

EDIT: Correction, Network Solution was the _only_ registrar between 1995 and 1998. For three years they charged insane amounts, $100 for 2yrs. Before that it was free, and after that it was about $8 from other registrars.
I don't have any intelligent comments on your question, but I wanted to say that I am a fan of Quanta magazine, but somehow had missed this really cool article. So thanks for pointing me to this fascinating field. ;)
Do the admins think that driving more people to .win Reddit clones (which seem to be bizzaro world version of mainstream echo chambers) a good idea?
I believe you have to make assumptions. AFAIK the data being picked up by the sensor can't map 1 to 1 with a display screen or a jpg or a print. So there has to be some mapping involved. Some cameras will give a RAW file, but developing a raw file isn't really a special effect.
I still do a good portion of my creative writing in Microsoft Word 97.
> who is being genuine and who is not

Does it matter? Judge the idea, not the person behind it I say. If the argument is not worthy to stand, it will fall.

> That democracies have corruption

But it's not corruption. That's the issue.

"When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy" [1]

That's not corruption. If America was a true democracy, the country would look completely different.

> The CCP creates laws that individually or in part can benefit its populace, but are often or solely pro cadre or their personal interests.

It doesn't seem like that from the outside. Looking in, it seems like the CCP has successfully pulled an astronomical amount of people out of poverty and increasing QoL insanely, all while maintaining public legitimacy.

Honestly, all it seems like, is that America drunk the cool aid too much and now believes so hard in it's own propaganda that it looks like brainwashing, while the reality is utterly different.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/america...
Would you mind telling me at what kind of Enterprise you had that experience with finance?

I led a product finance team at a SaaS company (ServiceNow, Atlassian, Okta, etc. tier) and all of our models and analyses are product driven including a/b testing and surveys with customers.
A good researcher should be an empiricist. They might want to test whether a pet theory applies to a new domain, but they should be challenging that assumption and open to the possibility that it doesn't. The architects who cause problems are those who dogmatically insist on a particular approach in defiance of all evidence.
Yes, and it could "keylog" over remote connections as well.
THAT will lead to the downfall of the regime :-)

OK, probably not. Kids will figure out how to go around it somehow.
Wim Wenders had some pretty strong words about phone photography, claiming it's no longer photography but a new medium itself [1].

"The less you have, the more creative you have to become."

In On Photography, Susan Sontag argued that photography, which itself took a while to become considered an art form, gradually began to absolve painting of its duty to represent 'reality.' I can see 'phonetography' doing the same: dedicated photojournalists with dedicated cameras are losing ground to amateurs with just a phone and social media account.

Painting didn't die and neither will photography, but it's definitely going through some sort of midlife existential crisis. I can see it doing the equivalent of buying a vintage roadster as a senior citizen, i.e. return to its youthful state (film and mechanical/chemical processes) and explore its own unturned stones.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ezzpuOqkX4
Thank you for confirming that there is no "big rewrite" madness going on. I rely on Nextcloud daily and I was worried.
That will show em!

Look at all the convenience your giving up, just so you can be red flagged.
First and foremost that Rust is a systems programming language that shouldn't have any kind of implicit runtime.

If you run any implicit eventloop, that property would no longer be given.

Next, it wouldn't even be desirable for lots of applications. Async IO and functions are not necessarily be faster than synchronous operations - it might as well the opposite if you don't have a lot of concurrency. E.g. if you read from one blocking socket, you do a single `read()` syscall. Add async IO, and you need an additional `select/epoll_wait` call.

Then there is an actual cost for composing Futures which are large values on the stack, sometimes having to box them (since otherwise recursion won't work and dynamic dispatch will neither, etc). The latter might certainly be avoidable with a different kind of "async design" than what Rust currently has, but there will always be some tradeoffs.
> I've heard from various Mainland Chinese people: that many of them thinks western media brainwashes us (think the thing about Olympic photo coverage of Chinese medalists) and many condemn westerner take on social matters (the US' handling of [COVID], for example, is seen as a "proof" that the our infatuation with freedom has severe failings).

That's clearly anecdotal because I worked and lived there for a year recently and what you said is only what *some* of them think.

I have spoken to many people, particularly those who are yonung and educated, who don't think like what you have said. Many people are also very eager to speak to foreigners about their governments and, in some extreme cases, they openly criticize their own for exactly the same reasons that much of the HN crowd probably would. Also, I was just a regular worker who wasn't anyone's boss, and I spoke to them in Chinese.

I'm not interested in debating against anecdotes with more anecdotes, but I think what you said is not the whole story of "their side" and is potentially manipulative even if it wasn't your intention to be.

I also don't think "authoritarian" is a loaded word, it's just an indication of how likely or unlikely someone is willing to work with others openly. The important thing is what to do to fix it, hopefully, together, after realizing what the issues could be, not toning in down and making everyone comfortable with some illusions in the first place.
Identical thing happened between me and my younger brother. He'd use me to read game text to him for a while until I got fed up with it. I had learned to read from the game text myself. (The game was an old space RPG-like game called Escape Velocity.)
Same experience in Singapore when practicing speaking Malaysian... steer back to English, although I get the occasional person who's genuinely amused with my attempts.
I’d welcome a challenge to this rule or trying to find an exception to it!

I actually think about this a lot. I try to keep mental track for every notification I get and they’re all either:

1. A person contacting me

2. The response for some action I took, and is typically just a chime or small transient notification (a download finished, etc)

3. Something that shouldn’t exist at all (“try new feature” dialogs, etc)

4. The grey area: Something I wanted to know, but could have been implemented in a better way.

The “other way” things should be implemented in case 4 varies, but here are some examples:

- Xcode shouldn’t alert me with a modal popup when something fails, it should just put the failed status in a multi-item notification drawer that can be ignored

- That thing telling me my password is incorrect shouldn’t be a modal popup, but just a small status text on the UI I’m already using

- The “tips”/“what’s new in X” information should be in the app’s menu in a section that can have some level of prominence so long as it’s reasonable (bold, highlighted, etc, but never in a dialog that I have to dismiss to continue using your app.)
The trouble is whom and how to ask. The submarine world is a giant, international cat and mouse game, and asking around gives away operational details that may involve compromising other things (e.g., special operations deployments) if you say "at exactly X coordinates at time T we bumped into something. Anybody know?"

Also, since the dawn of militaries, much of what occurs is posturing. You want the other side to think you are big, bad, competent professionals. "We ran into something and we don't know what" makes you less superhuman in the eyes of the public and potential adversaries.
At this moment in time the interest on debt created by governments, multinationals and rich elite is paid for by the increased housing rent of people in the range of poor to upper middle class. Not only in the US but almost everywhere. Low and even negative interest rates cause investors to invest in bricks. and where investors go, lowlife speculator creeps seem to follow.
But they can't be trusted to choose the right thing either. Wirth, sitting in his office at a university in Switzerland, has no idea whatsoever what problems I'm facing trying to use un-extended Pascal in an embedded system with memory-mapped I/O. (No, it wasn't my choice to use Pascal without extensions in that environment.)

The point is, you don't have enough information to choose for me. You can't do it. Even if you can absolutely, 100% correctly decide what the "right thing" is in any given situation, you don't know all the situations.

(And if you'd say "the right thing is to not use Pascal in that situation", I'd agree with you. But as a language designer, your language will get used in places where even you may think it's not a great fit.)
The system processes a stream of log events and triggers lambda functions that each handle various API calls in a user provisioning flow. Some of the tasks could run independently of the others, and those that depend on successful completion of a prior task are triggered based on a pattern-matched log emitted from the dependent lambda functions. Failure on any of the functions pushes events to a shared dead letter queue. Everything needs to be idempotent and use the original source timestamp field to be handled correctly. We could have achieved the same business logic with Step Functions (or any number of approaches, with the requirement that no new servers had to be managed) but Event Bus had a ready-made integration with an event source that we needed, and was a lot cheaper to operate. I can't really speak in depth to the gripes of others, but I can say that tracing and debugging was hard until we made it easy. If we had to add a lot more interdependent business logic to the system it would have probably become difficult to maintain.

Here is one HN thread about some of the issues others have run into: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19072850
A lot of software development paradigms seem to have developed from requirements of Enterprise Software.

Sure, you'd have a Caramack here and there, but if left to their own devices, most software would end up being spaghetti code. Especially when it involves a steady stream of changes over time.
For those here,
Give fcron a try [0].
It’s way simpler than systemd-timers , syntax is very similar to cron , but its just as powerful as systemd-timers (if not more).

I’ve been using fcron a lot recently as a cron replacement and its really good.
Even works in non systemd systems too :D

Its 100x easier to debug , comes with a cli tool to give you info on when its gonna run , you can force it to run immediately in cli during tests and debugging of the cron job, can literally save you a loooot of time and is mostly an almost drop-in replacement of cron.

[0] http://fcron.free.fr
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I did the same thing back in the day in iTunes with Japanese artists etc. But iTunes had comment and "Sort Artist" and "Sort Title" fields that solved your first 2 problems and the iPod supports the same set of unicode as the Mac, so it worked out pretty well. It also helped teach me Japanese!

People complained about the bloat in iTunes, but at times all those features did come in handy! I'll miss the depth of features once Apple finally ends up replacing the Mac music app with a port of the dumbed-down streaming service they have on iOS.
Htsget-rs: Bioinformatic file formats accessible to the web, 100% Rust
My 5 year old niece learned to read playing video games on those touch screens everyone hates. She’s doing exactly the same kind of role play most young kids do with dolls or action figures, but learning the interface and getting text to speech and speech to text is dramatically more educational than playing with dolls.

My nephew was the same way, it’s not better or worse than how we grew up just different. What people forget is escapism is normal behavior. Games, TV, Radio, Music, even Books have all been blamed for the younger generation not being productive except fun is also useful. Watching hours of TV doesn’t seem like a great use of time, but the 3,001th hour leaning a musical instrument, woodworking, or whatever has serious diminishing returns. Kids don’t actually benefit that much from doubling down on what adults think is important, just look at all those Asian countries that don’t turn hours of cram school into massive economic advantages.
You're really missing the point. No navy would ever assign one of their limited number of surface warships to that mission. There aren't enough to go around. And if a ship detects a massive blob passing underneath it's already too late. 1,100 feet isn't nearly enough range for collision avoidance; a ballistic missile submarine can't turn on a dime and a collision risk can come from any direction including astern. None of your suggestions are even remotely practical in the real world.

When submarines actually need to be sure of avoiding collisions they just run on the surface and follow the same rules of the road as any other vessel.
I will say, the older I get, the more I find I need chemical help when I need to learn a new skill fast. I especially rely on Paxil, which I will take for a month if I need to learn something fast that month.

As I get older I want to teach, and perhaps this is natural, to want to teach more and more as we get older, but sometimes that actually gets in the way of learning. It's as if I spent decades putting knowledge into my brain and now I want to pour that knowledge out of my brain. If you've ever read my blog, you know I like to write about things I've learned during my tech and consulting career.

But occasionally I need to still put knowledge into the brain, and fast, and chemicals like Paxil are very helpful there. SSRI drugs are known to increase the flexibility with which new neuronal connections are made. And I suspect that is very helpful when trying to learn a new skill fast.
I didn’t make that connection! (P)lay(d)ate E(x)ecutable is what I thought.
No it isn't. What is a downside is you could not be arsed to explain why (blah means blah) to a reasonably intelligent audience.
Space Team is a great mobile game, well pre-dateing Keep Talking Or..., which really captures the the spirit of "hectic cooperation".
I agree there are market forces fighting this. That’s why I’d like to see better event detection and handling built into user tools. It’d be great if I could, say, right click on a date and “add to calendar”, with details auto-populated via ML or site-specific algorithms. Or maybe I could paste a URL directly into my calendar app and it would scrape the details for me. Seems like it could be doable.
All of these platforms end up more closed as they get bigger. Why let someone view events in their calendar for free when you could get them on your app and looking at adverts.
Fuck apple. So tired of their shit.
UI is subjective. Performance, however, 2000 was again the peak there. It was the first desktop OS that supported SMP (obviously not the first workstation OS. But I'd argue Windows 2000 was a cross-over platform that brought workstation stability and performance to desktops).

Also look at the era: OSX wasn't yet released and Mac OS 9 was a tire fire (worse than Windows 98). Windows ME was somehow worse than Mac OS 9. BeOS was awesome but pretty much a failed company by that point plus lacked a lot of software one needs day to day. And Linux was pretty buggy as a desktop -- usable but a long way from being polished. Windows 2000 wasn't just a good OS by it's own standards of the hardware at the time. It was an incredible OS by the standards of everything else available at the time.

By contrast, when Windows 7 was released, Linux was still faster and had several well polished desktop environments by that time. FreeBSD made a decent desktop too. OSX was in its prime. Windows 7 was only good by comparison of what it followed: Vista. But it was a long way from competing with the competition on anything bar AAA game support.
I like this proposal, a lot. I believe the prevailing languages of the next decade will solve the colored function problem not by removing colors but by integrating the concept into the syntax so as to achieve the appearance thereof. In other words: make calling either one a simple matter of context which the compiler should carry 99% of the time and the user should only worry about when there's a reason to do so (when the compiler cannot infer or the alternate context is needed explicitly). If the user wants an async runtime, so be it. If the user has no need for one, that should work too. The magic will be in making this seamless so that neither camp feels left out.
Good. It was a stupid war and waste of money and lives.
I think the difference in magnitude turns it into a difference in kind.

Fraud alerts are something I asked to have sent to me, so to me it’s more of a tool doing its job. A tool I chose to use. Similarly if I decide I wanted to be alerted about severe weather, a notification isn’t just “technology contacting me”, it’s a tool I use, performing its expected function.
I set the rules of what software I choose to use, and when it breaks them (and I have a choice), I stop using that software. Pretty easy really.
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> It most certainly has not.

It has, but, again, mass market clothing doesn’t use it. Bespoke clothing and tailoring does.

> Even in men's legwear where your clothing is more or less fully defined by two measurements (waist circumference and inseam length),

No, those are what mass-market panta tend to use as nominal size dimensions, with variations in the relation of those and other standard dimensions being brand or style variations (where there are options for some of them within a brand, typically multiple of them are collapsed together under another single axis like slim fit/classic fit/loose fit, which tends to lump ankle)

The standard measurements for men’s pants include all of:

waist circumference
front and back crotch length
hip circumference
waist to knee length
knee circumference
thigh circumference
calf circumference
ankle circumference
waist to ankle length
inseam

(sometimes, some of these will be estimated based on visual inspection and the other measurements.)

> there are lots of variations between brands for garments with the same nominal size.

Yes, mass market clothing nominal sizes have no consistent relationship to even the things the subset of measures they noninally represent.

> Let's not even get into women's clothing where you can have such ill-defined terms like "size zero".

The only difference between women’s dress sizes and men’s pants sizes is that the former is a one-dimensional arbitrary ordinal category and the latter is two dimensional, and pretends to a (false) correspondence to a standard length measurement.
Apparently half the issue is that IMAP sucks so much that any email client is bogged down in dealing with an ancient and bad API that they waste resources before getting to making it good. All the proprietary clients use a custom API which doesn't have to deal with legacy garbage.
Please do! It has some growing pains. While it supports 100+ languages, Korean is one of few that has first-class support (just based on cross-cultural relationship statistics). I may reach out to you over email if you sign up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28357544
Yes, Siri does tend to prioritise song names over album names. I've learned to say "Siri, play the album The Getaway" so that it plays the whole album.
> And there's no definitive evidence that playing any video game for more than 3 hours a week is in conflict with our good or the good of the society

I agree, though definitive evidence is clearly *not* the threshold for when laws to protect us are or are not created.

For example, there is a mountain of evidence that smoking is exceptionally bad for adults, but there's no law against it. I could smoke 20 packets a day from now on. I could even drink 10 bottles of vodka a day perfectly legally.
I’m only discussing the idea there’s such a thing as a “lifetime cash holder” who holds any material quantity of their net worth in an asset that says it depreciates on the tin.
> The implicit strategy of such active measures (according to the sources), is to take advantage of homegrown, nativist movements and co-opt them from the inside.

You just described US foreign policy in South America and SE Asia.

Somehow people think the United States is too big or too exceptional to be the target of agitprop.
The Windows ecosystem (in the case of computers) and Google ecosystem (in the case of phones).

I’d consider using Linux if I didn’t have to use macOS for my day job, but I recall it not being much better (KDE would still put up tips on startup, I still remember getting lots of first-run popups the last time I tried GNOME3 too…)
World leader in fining people thousands of dollars for the most benign reasons. Australians also can't leave their own country anymore.
The "dribbilization of design" (in reference to Dribble.com) seems to have gotten especially bad in the last decade or so.

I used to teach Human-Computer Interaction, and it was exciting to me when many companies started hiring UX designers. But ultimately it was disappointing because especially in consumer products it seems like product managers prioritized hiring folks with strong aesthetics even at the expense of fundamentals like usability and research.
I'd argue that this started earlier, with the snapshot aesthetic pioneered by street photographers like Garry Winogrand and Daido Moriyama who often used wide <28mm lenses. The human field of vision is pretty wide at 120º, which equates to a ~12mm; wider is closer to what we "authentically" see. Then there's the obvious technical limitation of always being able to digitally zoom in but never out.
Glad I could elicit a laugh :) And I hope I didn't cause any offence.
Companies can be around for a while before they refine their product and really take off. I disagree with the idea that AOL's heyday was the early 90's. From my own experiences growing up - and even from just looking at their subscriber growth - their heyday (to me) is the late 90's. If you have a different perspective that's fine though.
Everyone's fussing about the walling off of Primephonic, so I guess they can safely kill off Dark Sky now that it's not newsworthy?
The most interesting thing to me about this article was, "what, is that even seriously being discussed?" I'd be curious as to the take of any UK folks as to whether this is even a topic of serious conversation.