skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully some additional links too, to show how it evolved from Domain Name Front Running[0]. Moved into Domain tasting (which things like Domain Kitting is related to) [1].

There are posts all the way back to 2011[2] and probably further showing GoDaddy doing this for some time, and even I spotted it when using Network Solutions back in the day [3].

ICANN introduced charges (from the Wiki article) to try and reduce the Domain Tasting element, so I a guessing it is better now), but I (my personal opinion) think that it is still out there, just not as obvious as it once was!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22005265
Well Channel 4 actually critique the government for one… secondarily they produce different content than the BBC which will also soon be privatised.
It’s the cling film they were wrapped in that makes me sure they we outside the building.

My theory, an academic “forgot” they had “borrowed” them. Probably found a innocent broke student to deposit the package outside the office in the library in exchange for a sandwich. They will certainly have cctv of the person returning it.
None that are usable i'm sure - it's merely a theoretical idea.
> There's too much pressure to serve shareholder interests and make everything profitable.

This is the perfect example of why I don’t like the “serve shareholder interests” line of reasoning. The state is the shareholder, and they their own interests being served.

The current administration is probably less profit-driven than a hypothetical private one, but there’s still somebody at the helm.
The Battery Report 2021
So basically like old reddit then.. Sadly we see how that turned out in the end. But yeah, I do agree that would be the best.. But even better would be to kill off SM entirely and return to dedicated sites/forums.
Making companies chase growth is good for the economy.

Assume for the sake of contradiction that we the humankind decide not to incentivize companies to chase growth. This would mean the humankind is enabling a company to sustain its current position with existing assets and operations and nothing new. Since the company has no incentive to grow (introduce something new), the rational company will not create new additional value. Since the company is in a market dominant position, no new entrants will be able to create new additional value.

Curious to see if others see any ways to protect the interests of the humankind while taking away the incentives for market dominant companies to continue to make progress.
Looks like outrage porn or Bloomberg doing Tencent favors, yes. The FL press release contains no mention of Tencent [1]. It also doesn't contain a publishing date, which I find funny since they're claiming to be first:

> First Light Fusion (First Light), the University of Oxford fusion spin-out, today confirms it has achieved fusion.

[1] https://firstlightfusion.com/media/fusion
> "worse is better"

Of course not! If I have to choose, regarding system/embedded programming languages, then I'd go with "less is better".

> Maybe you are looking after Zig?

Definitely Zig is under my radar too.

Fortunately, after all, I'm not alone. Many others I hear from the industry feel the same way.
Kind of incredible how deeply having good public transport can transform culture.
FYI Channel 4 is a completely separate company to the BBC and BBC4.
You can't write "Printer" and "Linux" in the same sentence! :D
I was at a company whose P/E was super high as we saturated our market. The CEO would publicly state that the price didn't make sense to him, and we tried to find more home runs. In the end, inevitably slowing (but still positive and profitable!) growth caused a panic and investor-mandated layoffs.

I'm sure it could have been handled better, but elegantly transitioning out of hypergrowth is a surprisingly hard problem, even when you recognize it as such.
Because false beliefs can affect everything in society

https://trendguardian.medium.com/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale...
But that's boring technology that has worked for decades. We don't want that. /s
This is something I've been wishing for for ages - I'm glad to find out it's a real thing now. It's a shame about the licensing, but it's a good start.
Sometimes it feels like people are confused about the nature of themselves. We have this idealized version of ethics and rationality that maps poorly onto reality. Yet everybody (especially on social media) talks as if this idealized version is the obvious natural state of all humans.

Our intellect as a species is a blessing and a curse. We are self aware, but only to a certain extent. The blanks are filled in by wishful thinking and hopelessly logical rationalizations.

It's fine and serves its purpose well as something to strive for. But it significantly hampers our ability to understand and empathize toward those that for whatever reason goes against the ideal.
Is this an attempt at satire? The Amazon warehouse workers are not the ones discussing SQL queries or master/slave protocols.
Games are really just abstractions. Play is an abstraction. Stages are definitely abstractions. A painting is an abstraction.

A simulation is also an abstraction, but a different kind. A flight simulation might simulate wind, but not a crew member getting drunk. It's there to abstract things towards a goal. Plays are often a reduction of a story - often unimportant characters and scenes get cut out. Games are a reduction to give the player maximum agency, a form of empathy, or practicing certain skills in a more controlled environment (e.g. Football Manager).

But the universe? What would it be abstracting?
Your first paragraph is vaguely reminiscent of a piece of folklore that I encounter a lot with small town wannabe entrepreneurs. It seems to roughly go like this: "One thing you need to do to make people trust you as a newly started business is to flash money. The more useless the stuff you spend your money on, the richer and therefore more trustworthy it will make you seem."

The reality is that you can expect your business parters, especially the ones that matter the most like equity investors and lenders, to be able to see right through that and expect you to exercise poor stewartship over their money.

The reason it's so widespread is because it's great for cognitive dissonance reduction. Say you leave a well-paid job as a middle manager in a factory to set up as a self-employed management consultant working for other factory managers. Your well-paid management job is a significant element of your identity, and leaving the job will create cognitive dissonance. On one hand you continue to think of yourself as deserving of the same financial status you had yesterday when you were employed and you think of the people who you hope will become your clients as your peers in terms of financial status. This implies you should be driving a brand new BMW. On the other hand you realize that you're taking a huge risk, and are asking the people who you hope will become your clients to take a huge risk on you, and it would be prudent financial risk management to make do with a used Volkswagen.

So there are two voices inside your head, one that says "Get a brand new BMW", another one that says "Get a used Volkswagen". Cognitive dissonance reduction sets in. The latter is the voice you're going to try to silence. You tell yourself: I am not shallow. But those people are shallow, and they will never hire me as a consultant if I drive a used Volkswagen. So, whether I like it or not, it has to be the BMW. Mission accomplished in terms of cognitive dissonance reduction. Whether or not it's the truth is a whole other matter.
I like how "I’m not sure if they realize it yet, but Tailscale seems to work extremely well for polycules." is thrown in, as if its usual for any company to know what a "polycule" is.
Your expectations might be too high, would you like all applications to monitor if you enter a bad part of town and revoke tokens just in case?
There's also a ton of unicode characters that'd probably pass straight through the filter. Something like "ʯƞﺂơƞ"
That seems very optimistic when compared to some of the bigger engineering projects we have going as humanity. Aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines as a whole system (including the multiple computer networks and their software) are much more complex than browsers, to say nothing of one-offs like the ISS (lots of cutting edge hardware but also full of software) and the systems controlling modern factories. Browsers don't even come close.
The broadcasting licence it is issued with will contain conditions describing content it must produce. For example, it might say that it must broadcast 15h of original news per week, or commission 20% of its output as documentary programmes.
Google is spending its resources in more important things like spying on everything you do! They ain't got no time for despamming!
A quick search on Google for "USB-C to Dual HDMI" seems to show lots of options.
> BBC iPlayer, which is miles better

iPlayer and "miles better" in the same phrase, really ?

iPlayer has the most ludicrously useless interface.

Low hanging fruit example: looking up things based on the schedule ? Forget about it.

For clarity I'm not saying Channel 4 is the best, but at least they cover all the blatantly obvious low-hanging fruit that the BBC singularly fails to do.
Man, you should see how the same type of people are reacting on twitter right now and around the net.. The cries of "private exception" have suddenly become "NO NOT THAT WAY!" overnight. lol
Why would anyone pay a premium for equity in Netflix if it is not going to provide premium returns? If I wanted average return on investment, then I would just buy a low cost index fund like VOO.
Damn!

You are right of course; words like "Truthfulness", "Trust", "Honesty", "Integrity" are liberally sprinkled everywhere but don't mean anything anymore at all. Everybody knows this but still we are all forced to play The Game.
That's not a model of language. Language is a communicative activity between language users, who do things with words, with each other.

What you're talking about is ignoring the entire empirical context of langauge, as a real-world phenomenon, and modelling is purely formal characteristics as recorded post-facto.

This will always just produce a system which cannot use langauge, but will only ever appear to within highly constrained -- essentially illusory -- contexts. Its the difference between a system which makes a film by "predicting the next frame", and a making a film by recording actual events that you are directing.

A prediction of a "next frame" is always therefore just going to be a symptom of the frames before it. When I point a camera at something new, eg., an automobile in c. 1900 -- i will record a film that has never been recorded before.

And likewise, with words: we are always in genuinely unquie unprecedented situations. And what we *do with words*, is speak about those situations *to others* who are in them with us... we aim to coordinate, move, and so on with words.

To model *language* isnt to model words, nor text, nor to predict words or text. It is to be a speaker here in the world with us, using language to do *what language does*.

No model of the regularities of text will ever produce a language-user. Language isnt a regularity, like the frames of a film -- its a suit of capacities which are responsive to the world, and enable language users to navigate it.
Yet some of the tactics of spammers/scammers are so obvious that it's surprising YouTube doesn't provide simple solutions for some of the case.

For example a common example as MKBHD mentioned is scammers impersonating channel owners within their comments.

Why can't content creators set an option to auto-flag other users that use their name and profile picture (to some degree of similarity) in comments under their video?
> Did you look at the main website? https://redwoodjs.com

I didn't. Thank you! It would be nice if this information was on the link posted to HN though, or maybe the link should be changed to something more clear.
I don't know about this case in particular, but generally these things are hard to pin down for a reason. But start with the privacy policy.
No, I'd like applications to check with me whether I was ok with the state of my user and their device.
Reminds me of approach lighting at Reykjavik airport in Iceland. Although not quite as dramatic as Adelaide since it's not in a residential area, it goes right through a very busy road intersection:

https://www.google.com/maps/@64.1388,-21.9398871,3a,75y,144....
How can the person you're replying to answer the question about how many people should be able to block it? If we look at the consequences (as I am inclined to do), then it's going to depend on the specifics. If the airport is not going to bring a tangible benefit, then it doesn't matter if it's one person or ten thousand blocking it. On the other hand (putting it very roughly), if it brings great benefit, then we can estimate those benefits and mitigate the harms to those forced to sell by compensating them well for it. If the compensation to those displaced outweighs the benefit, then there's your number regarding how many should be able to block it.

As for the trolley dilemma, it's a great thought experiment precisely because people's answers and their reasons for their answers differ. I'm not sure therefore of its relevance here. Presumably the person you're responding to can just be consistent in their response to both the question about airports and the trolley dilemma.
> Clearly you’ve never seen some of the bizarre stuff that C4 had put out over the years then?

Bring back Eurotrash I say !!! ;-)
Roku Announces Multiyear Extension with Amazon for Prime Video and IMDB TV
Web developers may not create their own frameworks as much as game developers, but many spend a lot of time switching frameworks, libraries or simply just rewriting existing applications. I see this tendency at work, where the relatively simple React app has been rewritten 4 times in a couple of years. The recent hires would rather rewrite it from scratch than to refactor / improve the existing one. Apparently, the 5th rewrite will solve all problems with the first 4...
> That's fine, you don't need the same quality of engineers when you've dominated a market. You've built the thing. It's done. Let them go and build the next thing.

> But the engineers aren't the only ones who are paid in stock - so are all the executives. And they want money! So you must keep the growth up.

This might be why so many (not all) great software services and products eventually turn into crap. They start out focused and well made, caring about their users and workers. Then the owners and decision makers try to squeeze everything out of it and carelessly add bloat, while "optimizing" internal processes into oblivion. And all that because some people simply cannot get enough stuff, is a business' goal always to extract value and power for the few despite already having massive market share, a good name and happy customers?

There is another path: invest in the long term by putting workers and customers first. Give back, invest in R&D, education, open source, social stability, the _quality_ of their product, growth of their workers and relationship with their customers.

If this was the common path of successful companies, we would live in a different, fairer, more sustainable advanced society.
Yes, Amazon is lame because you weren't able to login, certainly not because of the worker abuse mentioned in this very post.
Nadine Dorries... I mean I don't know what I can say that is polite language. She should not be a minster let alone a cabinet minister.

This decision is brain-dead and I would not be surprised if it dies a death in the lords or commons.
I use All4 a lot and never had a single issue with it. I use it in the Browser. Is there any data to support it being "buggiest"?
I had the same vision last year and after talking with Simon and other contributors, I came up with the Datasette Dashboards plugin:
https://github.com/rclement/datasette-dashboards

It is still very alpha but usable if you know Vega syntax.

Looking for some contributors to bring Datasette to the level of Metabase!
I have long searched for a configuration (Linux laptop + docking station) that can drive a triple monitor setup. Ideally all three at 4K@60 Hz but I might settle for one of them being QHD (2560 x 1440). Why isn't there any confirmed options? Or is that the limitations of Thunderbolt?
It’s also a very recent investor — apparently only got in at Series C in February 2022. The startup itself has been around for more than a decade. But of course “Parkwalk Advisors-backed startup” won’t get them the clicks.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/first-light-fusion/c...
Maybe this system works in a business environment where everything can be measured in terms of effectiveness such as achievements over time, but it doesn't work for me. It insists that projects need to have a fixed deadline. This is not true for creative professionals like me. If I'm writing a book, article, or a long-term software project setting a fixed deadline would be highly counter-productive. Some things are only finished when they are finished. Of course, this requires a certain amount of self-discipline, but that's something that no artificial deadline can give you anyway. Areas of responsibility are too unspecific to replace projects without a fixed deadline. Other activities could have a fixed deadline but shouldn't. To these belong small tasks that are part of a project that can be done whenever one feels in best shape doing it.

GTD recommends to set as few deadlines and calendar dates as possible, and I still think that's the right way to go. If you can, you should work items on your todo list in the order that best suits the context and current abilities.
> maybe some of the smaller ones allowed people to take PC's home...

I worked for a large studio at the time and anyone who could carry a workstation home could take it.
so why does google tries to fight spam on gmail but thinks it's a lost cause in youtube comments?
Post login scenario which can happen also after a password authentication :) I mean it already happens, in places... (but your point about distributed heavy duty systems still stands, to keep in mind)
But they already hand a brand, just not the .com. Do you really think if they just changed their name to remotove.com, it would have worked just as well?
They don't actually. The 15"/16" MBP are listed as compatible but need 87/97W at full tilt but the most the VGA adapter will do is 60W. They do have that on the separate support page but not on the store page.
I know plenty of people who, after being identified for career progression, were sent on courses and certifications on company time (and dime). Factory supervisors, bank managers, etc etc. This is Europe, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't the case in any vaguely-unionized job even in the US.
We must watch different programs on the BBC. I see BBC presenters and journalists criticizing the government every day.
Depends on what the game engine X and Web Framework Y are trying to achieve.
I sort of wonder what happens when you use that API on a different language. Like if you spend the time building trpc, and then decide to allow a Droid to use your api do you have to create a new api?

What if you have an untyped language interact with it?

Like what if you build this API out and then add/build an admin site in rails, but it uses the API?

Now you may say, we're never going to need to worry about that. If javascript has taught me anything it's that Javascript practices change really fast. I still have maintain coffee script, jquery and backbone from time to time. :)

I don't want to have to maintain two different versions of the API.. and the one thing I can say about REST.. it's worked for a very long time.
For those interested: GalliumOS.
The legal mechanism to split up Russia is to decapitate it, so that individual regions will cease cooperation with Moscow.
A lot of industry like datacenters and vehicles are moving to 48V. 48V is right on the limit of what is considered low-voltage and therefor doesn't have special safety requirements. And because it's a multiple of 12V, it can work well with old equipment by putting exiting supplies or batteries in series, and using very efficient constant-ratio down-converters.

see for instance:
https://www.vicorpower.com/documents/whitepapers/wp-boosting...
That's a standard, brown A4 envelope. A standard inkjet or laser will print on them without any problems. The printers I have can accommodate them with no problems. If it's a top feed economy laser printer, it's even easier for them.

Black/White lasers don't insert microdots most of the time. Also looks like it's printed in economy mode, so tracking it would be very hard, if not impossible.
In our company we tend to swing between "big important projects" and "tiny wins" quite a lot. The big important projects are the ones that unblock sales and that move the product forward a lot. The tiny wins are small things we can quickly fix, which came up from a concrete customer and would make their lives better immediately.

I have tried for years to find a rule to balance these types of projects. But in the end, I have just come to believe that both are essential, and that alternating between high-level and low-level somewhat randomly is the only solution.
Malcolm Turnbull advertised that FTTN could handle speeds up to 100Mb down. I thought that sounded alright -- cheaper, faster rollout, and same speeds as FTTP anyway (with faster FTTP speeds than 100Mb allegedly being absurdly expensive anyway).

Of course, that requires keeping distances from nodes to a minimum, and in the end that wasn't done. I can't get higher than about 50Mb down due to distances from the exchange. I recall them saying that their 50Mb plan is most popular -- but I'm only on it because my connection is unstable at faster speeds. So yeah, it sucks.
I think that might be passed the capabilities of what DisplayPort can push, so it would be passed what USB-3 alt-mode can do, because that uses DisplayPort. I am not sure if thunderbolt adds extra capabilities here.
This is a "cool factor" splurge. Spending ~100k cash for a bootstrapped startup on something rather superficial is enough to question their future decision making. To me this shows a bit of immaturity and irresponsibility. What future shinny objects will they splurge on instead of focusing on investments that have more substance?
Cushion: Running Costs
RMS(Richard Stallman) was way ahead. Like him or not. He is right.
Using the Dirty Pipe Vulnerability to Break Out from Containers

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/dirty-pipe-contai...
There have been many billionaires, or billionaire-equivalent for their time-period, in my tiny unit alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cheshire_Yeomanry_off...
Score cards are simple but prone to manipulation. Another approach from multi-criteria decision-making that is very useful for benchmarking is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) [0], or the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) [1] for group-decision making.

A strength of DEA is that criteria are not weighted but that alternatives are compared against the efficient frontier (similar to risk/return in a Markowitz portfolio). DEA is very useful for benchmarking many alternatives.

AHP uses pair-wise comparison which is less prone to manipulation than scoring is but it needs a group of people that do the comparison.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_envelopment_analysis
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_hierarchy_process
Facebook degraded in quality and tried to squeeze everything out of their users instead of improving quality and innovation. It's short term tactics.
The southern and western parts of the CBD are really under-developed. Single storey buildings are the norm.
A web-based UI deploying and managing applications Kubernetes clusters