skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
«Risk-averse companies narrowed the color palette on the assembly line, and risk-averse consumers did the rest. Driven by the promise of resale, Americans are chromatically sheepish when it comes to big-ticket purchases, painting their homes gray (or neutral colors) and driving gray cars. (According to a 2020 survey, more than 72% of cars on the road—read: cars that people bought—were either black, white, or gray.)»
It just kinda seems like you've re-invented an ad-hoc framework by gluing various different components together. There can be advantages in this, but there are pretty frequently downsides to this approach too.

It's like back when everybody was going through the "I want to use Sinatra rather than Rails" phase and what happened was a million different half-baked reimplementations of 20% of Rails that were different on each project for no significant benefit.
Kinda burying the lede:

> To a large degree, it appears the lack of regulatory oversight has allowed for the cheap installation of sub-standard solar panel systems, from the solar equipment and components used in the installation to the actual installation of the solar panels. Interestingly, the same policy and market forces that have helped deliver inexpensive solar to Australian residents are also responsible for the issues observed with Australian solar installations. Though these policies have reduced the time to installation, they’ve also reduced the opportunity to catch errors in installation or issues with equipment.

So, TCO for 20-25 years of service might be a better metric to be using here.
Maybe you're right. But it would have been better for all of his family if he'd literally lit that money on fire instead of buying thousands of unread books.

At least then, he wouldn't have left us with a huge problem to deal with in his wake.
I found "odds of success" chart hilarious.
I’ve been thinking about using maybe Netgate hardware running pfSense in an business setup. Apparently the 1537 model [1] can do over 10 Gbps routing and firewall according to their marketing tests. Base model is a bit over two grand in USD. But probably not super ‘efficient’ throwing a Xeon at it and not especially thrifty.

It looks like a branded generic Supermicro machine but seems convenient to get it out of the box and the price doesn’t seem bad considering what’s in it.

1. https://shop.netgate.com/collections/rack-appliances/product...
Of course it is, if it were cheaper then it would always win over EC2 for container workloads.

This is why I said it's a matter of usage - it's worth paying more per unit time if it's running less and more sporadically making it cheaper over all.
Personally I’m conflicted about this.

It does give broader access to illustrations and artworks, and this is likely just a stepping stone to even better tools. ”Prompt engineering” is becoming a creative skill itself.

OTOH a corporation scraping artworks and making money from producing knock-offs (you can even directly name an author to copy) doesn’t feel fair to me.
Haven't touched Japanese since I studied it at university for several years. Useless that I am, I didn't use it or practice it again and can't remember anything after 30 years. I've bought the book :D
This isn't advice. Not is it intended to be actionable.
Not really, no, because IIRC registers can "return" a domain within a period of time for free or nearly no cost.
So we've come full circle. From the talk of author on how "NPM was a big mistake", to "Nobody is adopting it, we will die without the NPM ecosystem". I was hoping that Deno will spin off into something that can be compiled due to type system hints into something more optimized than JS, but seems like I was just living in dystopian utopia.
Why did Betamax lose out to VHS? Why did MiniDisc never take off? Why does the internet still rely on JavaScript?

From my sideline perspective it's probably because Bluetooth was developed without knowing how successful and expansive its use would become. It was developed by mobile phone companies to connect wireless earpieces to mobile telephones, and that was it. The entire scope of the product that is Bluetooth. They didn't even expect it to be used for stereo (or more channels) audio, _just_ for telephony ear pieces.

It has since been used for many things that it just wasn't engineered to do.

However, it _is_ (or rather has become) a rather ubiquitous protocol through lack of alternatives, and now is the must-use option for any hardware vendors wanting to connect to nearby devices. Pragmatism/apathy.
At least in the past they would “kite” or “taste” the domain - register it and then cancel before the grace period - so it was no cost to them. It’s been a while since I’ve looked into that space and don’t know if that’s still a common practice.

It should be noted that GD had a kiting operation, but then paused it, after which the original owner publicly decried the practice very publicly. The company has since been sold and I would wager that the opportunity was too profitable to ignore.

Source: I built the analytics system for parked domains that was used for pricing early GD domain auctions as well as the initial integration with Adsense for domains.
Nintendo abused the DMCA system to take down videos of Switch emulation before. They've hired private investigators to go after and intimidate modders.

Their legal team knows that with their excessive legal funds they don't need to care about what the law allows them to do, their lawyers and henchmen can simply bleed their targets dry and make them give up.

They're a terrible company that happens to make some fun games.
When we last moved we managed to get down to 6 large shelves and a couple of small shelves of books (if I pretend I don't have a storage unit with a load more in)
Today I learned for the 7th time, never to go with Godaddy.
Is Namecheap better?

My domains are currently split between the two

Might as well move my stuff over if it means avoiding things like this
The Chinese were threatening to shoot her down? I don't do think so, except for some excited bozos sending threats from their backyards
Came here to post about Hazlitt and you've beaten me to it.
Facebook had a titan that definitely shipped
For audio devices like speakers or headphones I've thought about an idea for playing music at least. You could have the host device send the playback device the files and the playback device would play the file locally and it would be synchronized with some sort of a timestamping routine between the host and the playback device. There wouldn't be any need to transfer data in real time in high bandwidth between them so you could have lossless audio. Being able to play back a majority of audio codecs shouldn't be all that hard or license encumbered. Even if you take a shortcut method and just transcode everything on the fly to flac. You maybe only need to store the current song that you're playing back. Heck you could extend this so it doesn't need to be built into the headphones or the speakers as a protocol and it could just be like one of those portable Bluetooth things that you can buy that you could plug any audio device in except it uses this new thing.

But the touch on all of the things that you brought up in your original post related to like real time audio. I swear there are implementations where multiple headsets on one device or multiple devices to one headset do exist. I don't think the problem has much to do with Bluetooth as a standard even though the standard is extremely complicated I think it all has to do with software and implementation on the part of the host device like the computer or the phone and the playback device. Like if there was a standard reference device example for both of these things that did everything correctly I'm pretty sure all of the things that you brought up work. Although I would like to be corrected on this.
oh the memories.
I think the whole point is you don't have to daisy chain a bunch of stuff. It's batteries included.
Problem is companies change.

Godaddy was at one point ok to use.

Namecheap is popular but there are warnings about them now in this sub too…

You can make an informed and good choice, and years later you have a bad registrar.
They're the registrar for MANY spammers and scammers, and provide hosting for plenty of them. They used to respond to abuse complaints; now they just drop complaints sent to their abuse address.

That doesn't make them any worse than, say, GoDaddy, but given enough time, they'll probably end up just as bad.
Sounds like fraud. Do you have the communications?
By your criteria, the Central Valley was never a great climate for growing things. A century ago there was not enough water in the San Joaquin valley, and people were talking about getting fresh water from hundreds of miles away.

I assume your opinion is probably that the water projects in California were all mistakes, but it’s not accurate to say that at some point the Central Valley was naturally ideal for growing things without artificial irrigation from far away.

but “does not require artificial irrigation” was not what I meant by “ideal climate.”
Fealty.
Is A16z a meme VC fund now?
Never seen a vaccine before that train your immune system but doesn’t reduce infection.
This just doesn’t make sense!

do you have any peer reviews research paper that have data showing it doesn’t reduce infection?
Language design used to be central to everyone! It was one of the major core skills of programming computers. Consider for instance how when bell labs had a difficult programming job to do (like write an operating system!), they tended to eventually create (multiple) languages.
I wish there was a financial instrumented which is regulated and allows to bet on a stock decreasing while the potential loss is limited.

Binary options providers are often scams.
Your comment reads like a sales pitch for RDS. We have failover replicas in different geographically distributed datacenters. Failovers happen more or less instantly and the added latency (~0.5ms) is fine.

So for us this doesn't increase complexity, it greatly reduces it while increasing availability and general confidence, even though the underlying system (RDS/Aurora) is clearly very complex.

If you're running a tinpot site with a single developer on a couple of pet servers, then fair enough. But it's definitely not correct to say that a simple, direct system is the epitome of reliability. It's not.
With what kind of sites do you see this as as a problem and what level of traffic do you get from these scrapers? There was a discussion [0] 11 days ago about this concerning a search engine, but for many other websites you can just pre-generate almost all of the content and use microcaching to cover anything that has to be dynamic to drive the per-request cost to almost 0.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32339314
Did everyone always know that solar/crop dual use was often purely beneficial for both? No. Did somebody know? Yes. Does everyone know today? Evidently not.
What is a scientific racist?
I think the point is the users are very unlikely to do it. Tailscale's UI is designed to be used by as many people as possible and even a single additional menu hurts that goal
Is there a roadmap to being able to use it with Vite?
You can't just switch to another payment method when the customer explicitly set up the credit card as payment. That argument goes out of the window if you ask me.
There is no way to make cheap, autonomous war machines that can operate at extended ranges like in the Pacific theater. Anything we build to use there will have to be large and expensive in order to meet the mission requirements, regardless of whether it has humans on board or not. For example, the US Navy and Air Force 6th-generation tactical aircraft programs will probably be optionally manned, but will be larger than their 5th-generation predecessors (F-22 and F-35) in order to reduce reliance on vulnerable tankers. Unit cost will be upwards of $300M.

Big ships are vulnerable, but far from obsolete. There are many ways to break the kill chain before missile point defense comes into play. Lessons learned from battles in the congested Black Sea littorals don't necessarily have much relevance elsewhere.
> "fastily/autobots/ubuntu/scripts/bin/vomitSMART.sh"

What a descriptive name :D
> ...make 80-90% of npm packages work in Deno...

Can this really be right? What is the number for Nodejs?
If it's an API for "listing a directory" the things in it aren't strings they're paths, and Rust indeed gives you Paths here (actually PathBufs in case you want to do stuff to them)

Paths might just be strings, but they aren't necessarily, and since Rust actually cares about types if you want strings you need to write the code to decide what to do about this, even if your "It's not UTF-8" case is just "Give up I can't be bothered".
Some second order thinking might involve long term thinking but my understanding of what is commonly meant is:

Long term thinking is termporally based, what will X look like in Y amounts of time

Second (or third) order thinking, is based on response to consequences or changes. Could be over a long term, or over a short term.

This seems pretty straightforward but you seem to take issue with it. I'm curious what you think is being messed up by people using these definitions?
The Webfaction situation was so weird. You have a very customizable, powerful, idiosyncratic shared hosting service that's going to be basically impossible to migrate to any other hosting provider. And it gets bought by GoDaddy of all people? And the plan is to migrate users to normal GoDaddy shared hosting? I wonder if they gained even a single user from that purchase. For me, the idea of switching to GoDaddy was a complete non-starter.
What you might have missed at Black Hat and Def Con 2022
As a founder-developer of a company of 3, would you expect me to have 2 computers, for the security of customer data? It’s an interesting idea, I’m just asking.
New server API is modelled after API available in "std/http/server.ts", so for most folks it should be a drop in replacement.
They don't actually have to pay for it by using "domain tasting" which gives them the option to grab the domain for up to 5 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running
GoDaddy Acquires Dan.com
Any idea how this scores on the text-to-image generation benchmark COCO:

https://paperswithcode.com/sota/text-to-image-generation-on-...

Based on the few examples provided, appears much weaker than the state of the art.
Valuable? I don't know about that, but fun? Sure.

I developed a 3-D crossword tile-building puzzle. Everyone that tried it was vociferous "You should sell this!" My response was always "I already have a job and I like it. This is a hobby." And I consider it (mostly) completed, not abandoned.

https://i.imgur.com/qlLl434.jpg
The problem with these kinds of comments is, most people who use godaddy probably haven't had issues with them either. If 10% of users have their domain terminated for bullshit reasons -- which would be a ridiculously unimaginably high fraction -- 90% of users would still say "I have yet to have any issues with them".
I am surprised to see so many negative responses.

I bet most of the people here agree 100% with the problems and structural shifts this memo identified, and that technological innovation in the housing space to facilitate both social cohesion and affordability would be a *very good thing*.

Sure, Adam had some highly publicized issues at WeWork. Also, a16z is on a lot of people's shit list right now. Still, why do so few people seem to be rooting for their success? If you're prone to cynicism I get it - the only way this can end is grift - but personally I would like to see more companies trying to address these issues and Adam seems like he genuinely cares about it. Maybe a little too much, even.
Small bash functions that're useful for silly-ego-reasons.

## coding analysis
function lines_coded {
perl -ne'print unless /^\s*$/ || /^\s*(?:#|\/\*|\*)/' $* | wl
}
function lines_commented {
perl -ne'print if /^\s*(?:#|\/\*|\*)/' $* | wl
}

And wl is just a small alias (because I used it all the time):

wl='wc -l'
I prefer a fast UI over fast UI development.

Todays web based apps tend to skip my inputs if I type to fast, and I'm not a fast typer.

Apps stand and fall with their UI.

Apps should please their user nit their developer and I say that as a developer.

The goal of an app is to make the life of it's users easier not mine. It's my blood, sweat and tears so they can save theirs for their job.
I have 2 Ubiquiti U6LR APs serving most of the house (and 2 more older AC-Pros serving the yard/outdoor patio and lower priority/IoT networks in the house). I frequently get complaints from my kids that "my phone doesn't work very well on the WiFi at my friend's house".

The older one finally asked me "do you think the WiFi is just super-good at our house?!"
Dude, what are you smoking? I'm talking DNA data collected by Ancestry. I'm thinking behavioral data ala Tik Tok. Not sure what the US Dept of State has to do with this, especially since 99% of their mission is overseas engagement as opposed to domestic. If you're referring to collection on foreign citizens, well no joy to be had with the FTC. Lobby your foreign government to engage with USGOV on treaty obligations that sync privacy... shouldn't take more than 30 years to get that done.
A great book, if you're interested in complex systems and feedback loops is Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinking-in-syst...
I've been thinking of switching to GrapheneOS for a while. This might be the last push I need.
if he mean “does not completely prevent you from getting infected” then this is true.

All vaccines do not completely prevent infection. But that’s not a reason to stop calling them what they are and start calling them therapeutic :-)
The reason I don't mind paying more for iwantmyname or DigitalOcean is that their support actually, for-realsies works. Now I'm not scraping by to feed myself, and if I were this may be a different story, but I just do not understand why people ever sub-optimize their future happiness in order to save $3 a month or something silly like that.

Edit: And if you have to take the cheaper option, at least go with Namecheap. They're a lot better than GoDaddy and at a similar price point.
The future of work isn't just remote, it's part-time
>If you mostly hire capable seniors to lead and ambitious juniors to follow then you can run things the old way just fine.

Or you can run them even better on AWS assuming you had the same level of competence except in cloud deployments. Granted they'd probably pick a more specialized cloud platform than AWS for the specific problems and scale of the team.
Statin therapy is not warranted for high cholesterol on a low-carbohydrate diet
Anecdotally, we herited a ovh dedi infrastructure when signing a new client and tbh its been going swimmingly. I think the Incident made them really up their game.
> I believe my ability to retain an “internal map” of an area was ripped to shreds by non-euclidian games.

So fascinating to see such opposite recommendations for these games! I'm not sure whether to try them, or run away haha.
I know at least two Mensa members.

I still wouldn't stereotype individuals based on those low numbers. I will say it seems like there's not a lot of value in being a member. And without the person bringing up their membership, there's nothing that would make one think they're in Mensa.
This is an interesting vector for fraud. While I look over my bills for unauthorized charges, I buy enough from Amazon that I can't begin to scrutinize them effectively. And until now, I've trusted them. This is going to make my bill paying more time intensive.
Depends if they get breached haveibeenpwned.com style. I definitely and clearly get spam from several breaches. Some is generic (it’s on some big spam list) and some of it is targeted - like crowd funding campaigns spamming the hacked list of kickstarter accounts - which I am surprised how much of I get given how community driven such things often but I guess are not always.

Some of these addresses were the unique style you mentioned.

So I guess you’re just lucky.
>It took me about 4 minutes to find out that he was robbed for the ~15th time,

You do realize between his comments here, and a cursory look at his Twitter, he's told about 57 tall tales too many, right? If it was such a bad experience, why did he go on to buy an alleged SEVENTY-FIVE more properties there for starters?

Because the bulk, if not all, of this is probably entirely made up.

I mean, the guy claims he's developed a fusion reactor, all by himself apparently, for crying out loud. https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/1488959967235219458
Honestly, I switched from Gandi to Cloudflare the second I could, Gandi has been okay but pretty expensive where it didn't seem necessary especially for just a domain and nothing more. I have had no issues with Cloudflare as my registrar.
I think a pretty good example would be WeChat.

There was a whole bunch of talk about how WeChat style super apps would take over the West. (WeChat in China is not just messaging, it’s payments, food delivery, ride hailing, ID, Facebook-style update sharer, Yelp, etc.)

Attempts to break into the US have been lackluster because US consumers do not want one mega-app. Facebook even tried doing this itself with Messenger and it fizzled out. In particular, people are not super interested in QR based WeChat pay; it’s a vendor locked system that arose out of a lack of sophisticated or common banking payments infrastructure, but in the US that’s not the case, and you’re more likely to see credit cards and people paying with smartphone wallets at payment terminals.
This happens so often it's not even funny - the lack of "what the domain is" in the post makes me suspicious that if you did a whois history you'd find that it expired some time ago and finally went down.
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This was the impression I got as well, but that instability was preventing some of the benchmarking from happening.
Well, they broke down my wood fence to get to the neighbors garden, hopped over the chain link fence on the far side to get to the public park, and started climbing onto my roof
E = mc^2 is a notable example.
> In English, "buy the textbook only if you can afford it" means the same as "affording the textbook is necessary to buy it". That is a tautology; that's true for literally everything: to buy something, you need to afford it.

Having the ability to throw the money around is not the same thing as being able to afford to spend that money. Americans are very credit-happy, among other things.

Or imagine it says something more like "don't give us money if that would cause you to be unable to make rent/afford food/hoard candles".
Google Maps Regularly Misleads People Searching for Abortion Clinics
We do have something better!
And we’ve had it for decades.

It’s a cable.