skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everyone running a high-level domain like that is essentially rent-seeking, no?

Possibly as a technical, economics definition. I'd say no because real registries are adding value. What I'd call rent-seeking here specifically is destroying the market just to increase one's share of it.

The value I see registries providing is in large-part just consistency. A .com should cost and act about the same 10 years from now as it does today. If you start exponentially increasing cost (well past inflation), you're mostly just holding everyone hostage that currently owns a domain, until everyone is priced out and the TLD is destroyed.

> there a better term for 'high-level domain'?

IMO TLD is fine for this level of conversation, I'm not 100% sure if it's technically correct or not in _all_ cases, but it gets the right idea across. A "domain registry" or just "registry" is a good term for an entity running a TLD.
Absolutely easier:

Steam and Apple stores have policies that merchants are legally liable for, including refund and availability policies.

Who enforces it when the creator no longer honors your token?
#2 onwarda means you need an API or a library or something. Unfortuntely many app creators dont recognize when their app has passed to stage #2 so we get all these unholy hacks.
Im not sure what a war in Iraq that didn't even involve NATO has to do with Russia raping and pillaging across Ukraine, but the real question is how many countries does Russia get to rape and pillage in your world until the world decides maybe the rapists should be stopped?.
How does this compare with prices for AWS/Google Compute Engine/Azure ?
> a type system that could describe and enforce numerical stability traits

Wow, that sounds cool! have your reasearched if anyone has done anything in this are? how would you even start to approach the problem?

Do you think it has any change of being done without massive sacrifices to performance?
>Array indexing is such a core thing and I don't understand why anything mathematical or scientific would start with 1.

Because starting with 0 is neither math nor array indexing in general.

It's just how the base addresss of an array pointer memory block was referenced in C (and it spread from there).

Which is why all math focused languages use 1-based (fortran, apl, matlab, r, mathematica, etc.)
Game devs could offer transferable content without stores if they stopped using the stores (ok, admittedly, iOS makes this harder). Web3 has nothing to do with this.
Five years back, my Della [0] project got me hired. It was a Secret Santa app built using Django. They also noticed Rockstar [1], a joke project, and I wasn't expecting anyone to bring it up. However, they liked how I was managing the issues and pull requests.

Also, I have two side projects which seem to get a lot of attention from other developers, and they have reached out to me to hire:

- fast sqlite inserts [2] - I am experimenting with inserting one billion rows as quickly as possible for a test database

- caskdb [3] - an educational project which teaches you to build a KV store from scratch

[0] - https://github.com/avinassh/della

[1] - https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar

[2] - https://github.com/avinassh/fast-sqlite3-inserts

[3] - https://github.com/avinassh/py-caskdb
The most relevant bit for me is that apparently the minimum price for 1TB of transfer is now $6 instead of $5. That's unfortunate.

Any suggestions on the best VPS providers for bandwidth-intensive applications?
It took a long time to get to where I am. It's like a personal operating system. Over many years, tons of little tweaks and a few tool changes got it to where it is right now.

Key thing is to ask yourself what you want:

- plan your day or ahead of time?

- remember what you did yesterday, or over the past week?

- record details about a particular experience?

- journal thoughts and ideas?

This is not a complete list. Once you have a list, look at your note taking practice and ask yourself: What is one thing I could change in order to be able to better accomplish what I want with my note taking? And then do it. Rinse, repeat.

What I do is likely not going to serve others. What I have draws a lot of inspiration from GTD and from wikis. Some things are 'process" oriented, such as my TOOD list. Some things are "hub" oriented, with things like "Books", "Finance", "Project: Fix the sprinkler system". Hubs an have TODO lists, TODO archives, information, journals, pictures and anything else that relates to a given area. TODO lists hyperlink to relevant hubs. Hubs link to other hubs. Hyperlinks are key for keeping related things discoverable. It's likely that your notes will not form a neat hierarchy. Think of them more like a web. Notion is my favorite tool for this, but that's a personal preference.

Based on how you describe your note taking practice, it seems that the biggest problem is that it is "most frequently non-existent". Start by doing, and then see how you can do it better, improving things bit by bit.
Direct link https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/superchat/oemnnibg...
Mildly sarcastic. But it's much more sane than VLOOKUP which makes it feel like a big feature to people like me who always hated VLOOKUP.
No. They are the most indepedentest of the independent. They only serve one lunatic dictator and his family. And developed nuclear weapons against the wishes of US, china and russia. Can't get more independent than that. It's a country that literally starved itself to stay independent.
Thank you for the suggestion, I have already done this as soon as I could (late March) and they have not yet responded either.
Do you think you are capable of listening to those countries?

Take Kazakhstan. It's a country which is in several bloc-like agreements with Russia: СНГ, ОДКБ, ЕАЕС. How are you going to listen to it? I will tell you how the West do it every time:

You are going to find some opposition crackpot who will badmouth Russia and crap on Kazakhstan regime, and you will ignore all other voices.

The one who may as well be on some Western "free press" aid program and therefore not really speaking for themself but for you. You are only going to listen to yourself.
I can teach people enough csv to write config files and much more. CSV FTW?
Most of these seem to be about packages in the ecosystem (which, after clicking through all links, actually almost all got fixed in a very timely manner, sometimes already in a newer version of the packages than the author was using), not about the language itself. Other than that, the message of this seems to be "newer software has bugs", which yes is a thing..?

For example, the majority of issues referenced are specific to a single package, StatsBase.jl - which apparently was written before OffsetArrays.jl was a thing and thus is known to be incompatible:

> Yes, lots of JuliaStats packages have been written before offset axes existed. Feel free to make a PR adding checks.

https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl/issues/646#issuec...

EDIT: Since this comment seems to gain some traction - title is editorialized, original is "Why I no longer recommend Julia".
exactly this, I love it.
balenaSound: open-source multi-room home audio streaming using a Raspberry Pi
Definitely not "a lot" - searching the existing docs, I see a mention in the FAQ at https://reactjs.org/docs/faq-functions.html#how-do-i-bind-a-... , but not really elsewhere.

Also, the new React beta docs at https://beta.reactjs.org teach function components rather than classes, and thus there's no use of `.bind()` at all.
You certainly can point to a local blockchain node but the question is - have you ever run your own?

Running your own blockchain node is nothing like BitTorrent. The required storage, memory, cpu, and IOPS performance is already pushing the limits of readily available standard hardware.

This applies mostly to Ethereum. When you go to higher throughput chains like Solana and Polygon the node requirements jump to hardware that’s unobtainable/impractical for most people - top of the line NVMe drives with storage requirements beyond a single drive (typically need striping for IOPS anyway). Solana all but requires CUDA acceleration. Syncing the Solana devnet constantly uses at least 50% of my RTX 3090…

IPFS is even worse - the CPU, memory, and bandwidth requirements to do anything beyond playing around are ridiculous.

There’s a reason virtually everyone uses various node providers. This is rapidly setting the stage for all real-world uses of blockchain to end up on Web3 AWS (Alchemy, Infura, Piñata, etc).

The entire Arweave network currently hosts about 64 TB of data. In the scope of a worldwide network that’s… Not a lot.
I could see that working for a set of moonshot efforts at startups who primarily only have to keep investors interested, or some subset of research projects at FAAMG companies with money to burn.

But how could that work with big companies making contracts with other big companies as their customers? Doesn’t seem like they could afford to just “let many fail” as they could lose the customer’s trust.
From what I heard, at least at some time McDonalds profited more from trading real estate than from selling burgers. As in, buy a shop, wait for the district around to develop, sell the shop. So I would expect them to continue buying shops on the outskirts where cities are expanding.

For myself, I can't really imagine this whole operation with Mac selling now for some reason instead of a hundred years later—after all, presumably they still want to have burger joints in all those places. But maybe I don't understand too much about real estate.
McDonald's is leaving Russia altogether
Why? From his description it sounds like he enjoyed it and that's probably the best kind of work.

I've spent more time on tooling for myself than i got out of it in saved time and learned a ton without pay.
Alternatively i'd have been paying a match of a videogame that i'd have forgotten about by and probably regretted now.

These past days I spent a lot of time doing research into and designing an own keyboard at home. Something similar exists but is imo overpriced yet i'm not even saving money given all i've spent on a soldering iron, etc
But i'm enjoying myself just creating something that i've gotten invested in.

Meanwhile at work I feel like a damn clerk. Making minor changes, arguing, pushing little bits of overhead out of the way and working slowly on something i consider an inherently inefficient design bound to require a complete rewrite at some point for reasons out of our control.

I wish i could go back to those occasional few problems I cared about to work just that bit more to get it working.
In neither scenario I really cared about the overarching company but if there was never ever anything to catch my drive like that i'd have changed jobs by now.
> Those scenarios exists, but are the exception

More like, they are the rule.
...so, blogrolls?
Personally, it's going to take a lot more failure for me to be convinced that averting ~4 million deaths was somehow misguided in the long-term. It's interesting how much American media is trying to convince me otherwise as of the past few months.
It's not about "game assets". It's a about having disintermediated access to the state of the "world".

Think of all the stories of startups that offer a product that locks their users and then go to be acquired/shut down by some other bigger company. If the services and the data live on the blockchain, it's guaranteed by design that the users are in control of their own data (no lock in) and that if the company just drops out of the market, others can continue using the services however they want.
I’ve been paying for a cheap dedicated server for ages for some things but never bothered to migrate my DO workloads. With the price increase this means my DO workloads cost nearly as much as the dedicated server, and I know they can be containerized and shifted easily.

Guess I have a reason to migrate now.
Anti-note advocate here!

Your notes should either be updates on tickets, documentation, or comments in code/git readme. You shouldn't be isolating information on separate platform and outside of the tools that you share with your team to manage a codebase/software stack/etc. You're doing a disservice to your team if you're withholding access to knowledge!

If you're not a natural notetaker don't worry about becoming one. Update tickets/tasks, docs, etc.
It's still at version 1.x, maybe an explicit roadmap could help tackling those issues?
>I would be suspicious of any orange juice where the company feels the need to stipulate "real orange juice". What the heck else would it be made of?

You're right to be suspicious; most juices are not just "freshly squeezed" from a fruit - they're processed.

Part of the "process" is to actually extract the sweetest part of the juice and leave the rest behind (so way more sugary than "natural") and some will actually contain some other forms of filler (like non-orange based oils).

It's a lot like McNuggets or Subway chicken sandwiches - they're made "from real chicken" but with all of added the salt and fillers, you end up wondering exactly how much of it is actual chicken.

One of the best way to evaluate "real juice" is by how long it'll last before it expires (either shelf life or after opening) - more than a few days will indicate there's extra preservatives, etc. in it.
Its a game of tradeoffs, you are going to be spending money somewhere. Consider:

- You ignore resource usage and move to dedicated hosting. You are now wasting money on inefficient processes. To remedy this you apply software engineering practices to understand the model and design it correctly.

- You ignore server unit costs and stay on cloud, but improve your runtime characteristics. You are now wasting money on the hardware, but your software is efficient. To remedy this you have to learn how to manage infra and take it on as constant maintenance.

It seems on your team it makes more sense to me to just pay for the cloud and stay in your software wheel-house.
this article is lazy, and has no real substance.

> The Web3 community approaches this from the opposite side: Instead of a lightweight communistic take, they follow a heavyweight libertarian path: Everything should be monetized.

the web is already monetized - we pay for games and game skins, software and apps, access to news, media streaming. current web2 payment and ownership model favors payment processors like VISA, and the distributors like Spotify, not the creators and consumers of this media.

> So, unless the setup and maintenance trouble of the initial setup can be reduced (and there are community efforts out there), the best way to go is the centralized model: You pay someone specific to do this. Maybe set up a not-for-profit association to provide the necessary money.

this already happens in web3. OpenSea charges 2.5% on trades for the UX and network effects they provide. other marketplaces offer 0% on trades but do not have the same reach and UX. despite this, users do have a choice to go with any service they desire, since the asset is not locked into any single walled garden.
Possibly but the fact that Turkey has been a NATO member since the 1960s pretty much makes that "wish" irrelevant or at least not ignorable. Seniority does count for something and ignoring it is great way of destroying a organization/treaty.
The claim is the Russian rich folk commit criminal acts. The method is civil forfeiture. The outcome is nothing need be proven, the assertion is sufficient.

“We are already working with our international partners to freeze and seize properties belonging to sanctioned Russian oligarchs worldwide,” said Attorney General Garland. “We will continue to work together to take all appropriate actions against those whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue its unjust war against Ukraine.”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-departments-justice-and-tr...

Reward program: https://home.treasury.gov/about/offices/terrorism-and-financ...
The EU is "don't need"ing Russian oil and gas for some time already. So?
"70.23% of @ElonMusk followers are unlikely to be authentic, active users who see his tweets."

Somewhat alarming, if accurate.
Not affiliated with Hetzner so I feel comfortable pointing out that:

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud (scroll down to unbeatable prices).

and it's been that way for a long time.

There's also: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/

... why is this news ?
Did some DD work on upcloud.com as well - if you want fast storage they're the ones.
> As an example, notice how they said "almost all dealerships" and not "all dealerships".

There are probably some dealer facilities open because ambulances, police cars and food delivery vehicles still need servicing.
What's the compatibility with Freedos on the whole like? I assume DOS as a whole with its sheer "simplicity" means that reimplementing it isn't on the whole incredibly difficult
Stack under attack: what we learned about handling DDoS attacks
Now I'm hopeful that (a fork of) WordPress can eventually run on Cloudflare's new D1 service:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-d1/
That's not how must treaties work and certainly not how the NATO treaty is written. Maybe you should read it first.
Did you consider finding another pediatrician whose view of the data better align with yours?

There is a whole bunch of stuff that has changed over time -- for example the fairly recent view that evidence now weakly supports swim lessons at a young age to prevent drowning -- and I really don't know how to keep up with this, other than by talking to a bunch of friends who are MDs and tracking their own choices vs. the data I see.
What alternatives do you believe offer easier support for user-defined binary operators? Almost all parsing technologies are more rigid and more complicated that numerical precedence offers.
Sounds like an issue with your hardware's quality and not analog 3.5mm-delivered laptop audio itself.
In addition to inflation, they may also be offsetting part of the projected cost of the $4 tier as well.
That sounds like it'd make social media somehow even worse, by incentivitizing clickbait, flamebait, reposting, fake news and shock posts.
AWS Lightsail was already slightly cheaper than DO, and now it's even cheaper yet.
Sweden most especially is not supporting the PKK. The PKK is even designated a terrorist organisation by the EU.
Elon already knew this of course. Buying Twitter was just an excuse to sell Tesla stock at a peak while avoiding suspicion. Now he’s teeing up his excuse to pull out. /conspiracy
64.56432% of significant digits are misused.
How is your email setup?
I don't know if I would call them the 'best', but Kamatera offers pretty good bandwidth, 5TB/mo or 50MB/s unbounded at $4 (for non-dedicated allocation, $9/mo for dedicated). I don't know if I'd call them the best because I don't really need much more than something that's reliable and has decent speed, which it satisfies pretty well.
I admit, I've not read Moxie's post.

IMO "people" would run many of their own servers if it were easy. At the moment, it's not easy because it's not easy to safely open up to the public a server running on your computer/phone, or home network. ISPs benefit from making this hard, and (as best I understand it) the IP4 address space isn't wide enough anyway.

If "people" could run servers on their phones, safely, with minimal effort, they would. They would, because it would be so minimal effort that no-one needed to think "I'm running a server". They should only need to think "I'm available now" and that be it.
I mean India is doing it because it doesn’t have those billions today to sink into pure clean energy setups: as you’re saying they want their turn at easy growth that western countries have had and that’s understandable.

Why isn’t the west that’s able to be concerned with the earth and environment pooling its resources and providing India the subsidized billions now in the form of solar panels et al? (Not just India - all the developing nations). It is not like Indians like living in the smog and 50c temps.
DigitalOcean announces price changes and a new $4 droplet
Assuming that's true, would that mean that Elon has a way out that does not involve paying 1B$ ?
Use the emacs server then. Start once use many.
India is still part of the british empire/commonwealth. They gained independence and left the british empire. A few years later, they rejoined it. They actually claim the british queen as their head of state - even if it is ceremonial only.
Has this had any impact on conventional economics, which rests on the assumption of efficient markets, at all?

Or is this like "Large Limits to Software Estimation" (http://scribblethink.org/Work/kcsest.pdf), which is undeniably true, but 100% ignored by consultants, process experts and managers?
Wow, the situation is even more dire than I thought. So by and large, the decentralization benefit is completely off the table for most NFTs.

Would you be willing to share some numbers on what you're seeing? This is valuable information.
Thanks, this was very helpful(and interesting) for the IR part of the question.
Musk should have hired these people before he waived due diligence
The DHS has been able to track Monero since at least 2020 [1]. Basically, as long as you have an in and a likely out, governments can do statistic analysis to determine payment flows.

[1] https://de.cointelegraph.com/news/privacy-coins-no-more-ciph...
"Passionate ruthless leaders" also aren't guaranteed to stay that way as the company gets more established.
> Unfortunately, you will not get the message until you have to go out with friends that are tuned out to you because they're constantly scrolling TikTok on their phones.

Maybe you need better friends. Or you could try being more assertive and saying something like, "when you are looking at your phone instead of paying attention to me, I feel ignored. If you continue to do that, I will leave and do something else." And then ACTUALLY leave if they don't stop! They will learn quickly that if they want to enjoy your company (if it is indeed enjoyable) then they will need to have self restraint.
Here's Arnell Group's explanation of their Pepsi Logo redesign:

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

While I disagree about the heat map in the article being pseudoscience, I agree that Arnell's "design thinking" totally is.
There are insane people on pretty much every side of every issue. That doesn't seem to justify blithely continuing to destroy the world.
yeah, if you cut out and overlook all the key defining aspects of a Ponzi scheme like the fraud, sure.

Once the government privatizes social security (and similar mandatory retirement programs in other countries), converts it to a for-profit system, encourages speculative “investing”, makes deceptive claims on returns— you’ll be exactly right, they would be the same.
Go to Taiwan to see how ostracism from the WTO order turns out: hint, Disney et al. copyrights and trademarks are universally used without fear or concern by just about everyone. What can the IP "owners" say: "We're going to sic the WTO on you!"?? The trivial answer: "We applied to the WTO and for political and diplomatic expediency they won't have us so we are not governed by the WTO"

The same will happen with Russia and western IP.
Data portability is a huge value prop: Everywhere you sign-in, you already have all of your data.

Is it bad to pay to click, if you earn more from the ads on the page? Along with micro-payments, you also micro-earn.
Genuinely curious (I don’t work with low level systems day-to-day), but why would C/C++ be better for safety?

I would imagine that the risk of bugs related to memory access and data racing would be pretty high, compared to a higher-level language or something like Rust that focuses on safety.
I don't think blockchain is the answer for this. The answer is self-hosting and requiring SaaS companies to offer a self-hosted version.
not a surprise at all.
It was the Chinese pronunciation 600 years ago.