skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, squatting should be mitigated and is worth some collateral damage. OP mentions having owned “hundreds of domains” and the domain in question appears unused, so my sympathies are… let’s say low. It’s a widespread problem that that squatters can sit on good domains for years, at a very low cost, waiting to extort someone who wants to use it for something productive. That could potentially be fixed with higher fees for popular words and names. Changing the price at renewal time is deeply problematic though, since it increases the surface area for extortion (by a different party).

However, why should Google or Verisign make money from selling names? Other than operational costs, it would be better to auction off domains fairly to extinguish the squatters and use the surplus for non-profit internet infrastructure work.
I’m not sure if you’re being for real right now, but maybe you should just start by looking at the definition of “anecdotal evidence”. This is just what this is, by definition. I’m not sure what you’re going on about.
Space is cheap, and there is a LOT of it in Texas.
Roland is doing just fine selling digital emulations of their classic gear. But they aren't exactly amazing innovative instruments. I look at Roland today as the Gen-X Harley-Davidson: Selling nostalgia gear to aging dudes hitting their mid-life crisis.

Korg has some missteps (the Electribe 2 could be so much better), but seems to still want to make unique, interesting instruments. I'm disappointed in the build quality of the wavestate/modwave/opsix, but their other gear is top notch.
Oh the saints here who talk about why speeding is bad...

Nobody cares. Much much more people die from processed foods/air pollution in the world than from motorway accidents. Around 120x more people die from cardiovascular/cancer related disease than motorway accidents. And not every motorway accident is caused by excessive speeding.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

It's difficult to be underwater when the curve looks like this. It would mean just buying extremely recently. Give it time. This recent jump was unprecedented.

Q2 2020 322k

Q3 2022 456k

34% in two years

Closest analog is the jump before total meltdown in the 2008 housing crisis.

Q3 2003 192k

Q1 2007 257k

28.9% in four years

This entire move was pretty much retraced in the following
two years. Imagine the carnage if the most recent move retraced similarly.
No, you’re missing the point in more than one way.
Honestly, because everyone wants to print their own money. Every chain, sub network, and token has their own unique hypothetical target use case that they're hoping for people to bite into.

Debugging the code for a self modifying ai sounds like detangling a schizophrenic rats nest (like ai post catastrophic fuckup autopsy), but I think a blockchain as a train of thought and sort of a git commit log for the things it "learned" and state info for why it was learned, and actions or decisions would cite rules/"facts" learned from previous commits, something like that could actually make it doable by human beings.

As for cryptocurrency itself, it might be a good idea, but
as is with anything involving human beings, greed might make it a wash.
Over the last 2 years, I made ~$30k/year on projects that could be completed in a weekend (10 hours/week max).

It was fun to work on something outside my day job but it required some judiciousness to ensure I could meet my set time limits.

I found taking on bigger projects + a demanding day job pushed me to burnout pretty quickly.
The biggest issue going north is probably snow.

I'm at 54N and my output has been 0 for the past month as we've had a lot of snowfall. My panels are at 20 degrees, so even in the few sunny days we've had it's not been enough to melt the snow. A steeper angle probably would have cleared it a few times.

Usually the beginning of the year has more sun but it's colder, so I'll see what happens then.
Hey I'm the organizer of that conference!

It's taking longer than anticipated but the talk will be published soon this month where you can download [0] presentations for free.

Sign up for the newsletter [1] if you'd like (we're indie and the extra eyeballs help.)

[0] https://guide.handmade-seattle.com/

[1] https://handmade-seattle.com/newsletter
> We price some domain names higher than others to help prevent cybersquatting, so that desirable domain names remain available for legitimate registrants rather than being sold for extravagant sums on the after-market.

It's hard to take this seriously when $850/year is still way higher than other registrars charge for new domains. Are "legitimate registrants" supposed to be comforted that their extravagant sum is being paid on the primary market instead of the after market?
I'm in the same situation that you were in, and I'm looking for an extra revenue stream.
Because the usa is huge and full of low value arid desert near areas that need lots of power. In short, economics of the sun God
Who cares? Honestly, a hundred acres of scrubland turned into green energy is a steal compared to everything else we do on this planet for food, energy, and material
Second chance pool

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309
You gotta be more creative than that: https://imgur.com/a/hpWyeW2
Gourmet tasty ones. If you are into looking at magic spores under a microscope, we also do those too. The microscopy scene in the UK is huge.
The main problem I see is it's more work because there's another aspect of an applicant that needs investigating; an extra step with those with records.

I actually had a convicted killer as a helper for a short time and had even worked for his victim's company in the past.

It was a non issue because we all knew the details of the incident and knew the only person he is a danger to was dead. We didn't need to spend time researching him and there was no nagging doubts about our safety.
With `useSWR` the return type is

export interface SWRResponse<Data = any, Error = any> {
/**
* The returned data of the fetcher function.
*/
data: Data | undefined
/**
* The error object thrown by the fetcher function.
*/
error: Error | undefined
mutate: KeyedMutator<Data>
isValidating: boolean
isLoading: boolean
}

https://github.com/vercel/swr/blob/14956a840ac9b75fe321bf846...

so if I check `isLoading` in my component then typescript isn't able to narrow/refine the type to something more specific since it isn't a sum type.

While with react-query, it's a proper sum type that can be differentiated by checking `isLoading`.

The type is actually quite long so here's just a bit

export type QueryObserverResult<TData = unknown, TError = unknown> =
| QueryObserverIdleResult<TData, TError>
| QueryObserverLoadingErrorResult<TData, TError>
| QueryObserverLoadingResult<TData, TError>
| QueryObserverRefetchErrorResult<TData, TError>
| QueryObserverSuccessResult<TData, TError>

export interface QueryObserverLoadingResult<TData = unknown, TError = unknown>
extends QueryObserverBaseResult<TData, TError> {
data: undefined
error: null
isError: false
isIdle: false
isLoading: true
isLoadingError: false
isRefetchError: false
isSuccess: false
status: 'loading'
}

https://github.com/TanStack/query/blob/9b21609350d9ad41faf5c...

The key point in the type above is `isLoading: true` and `data: undefined`, which means if I check `isLoading === true`, then typescript knows the data is not available.

SWR doesn't provide these guarantees.
ChatGPT has gained 1M followers in a single week
There’s a difference between an “appeal to authority” logical fallacy and the “deferral to expertise” heuristic. Look it up.

I can’t believe I have to explain this, but nobody on this earth knows everything: therefore we specialize, and we resort to other experts. That is the reality of being an agent of bounded rationality.
Terry Pratchett refers to this counting system in the Tiffany Aching[1] books.

Tiffany is called "jiggit" (the Yorkshire Dales word for twenty according to the article) by her grandmother as she is her granny's twentieth grandchild.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Aching
I think this stuff will always come down to messy judgement calls. Some people come from cultures which see “abrasive” behaviour as totally normal. Sometimes, being blunt with someone is a sign of intimacy. (We’re close enough to “skip the BS”)

This will always be in uneasy tension with modern “positive vibes only” office cultures.

One person’s “bullying and harassment” is another person’s “intimate honesty”. There are no easy answers.
Has anyone tried "Language Transfer" to learn a foreign language? I've done a few of the lessons and it's so incredibly intuitive. They use concepts and patterns in the listener's native language to learn concepts in the target language. Surprisingly, It's completely free (please donate if you can)

https://www.languagetransfer.org/complete-spanish
Isn't .tv a country code TLD?
> […] nobody used any […]

With all due respect I don't know what to make out of absolutist, generalised statements such as this one.
LOL! Early on I had some unexpected luck selling some of my domains for low-ish thousand of dollars. That encouraged me to kinda just buy domains when I have an idea or stumble on a thing that I believe I might do some day or let someone do some day.

For example, I sold hackathon.co for good money (I even gave them the GSuite at that time). I also sold html5.in to Microsoft sub $10,000 (via a broker, unfortunately, which I realized way later) still for a pretty good sum. I have also sold quite a few more for low $100s.

And I donated thus.org to a Texas university for zero dollar and gave them the GSuite too. I'm happy that an educational institute is using it and the domain is alive.

I own nsfw.in, which was "a link shortener to warn you that it might not be Safe before opening". I got lazy and is on sale and I keep getting regular emails/contacts to buy it.
You won’t quit with that analogy will you? 70x is loosely trailing inflation?
I'm afraid I don't really understand this question. I am interpreting it as, "Why is the author giving it away for free instead of charging money for it". If that is not what you meant to ask, sorry!

Anyway, if that is what you meant to ask: Well, I'm the author, so my answer may have some substance (-:.

I have a good job and it pays me to have impact. I can have much more impact by giving away the book to people interested in learning. [º]

[º] This is not 100% true. Over the years, people have told me they value a book more if it costs something. I am not looking to please them.

In particular, I grew up in India and we could not afford fancy (but great) Western textbooks. If there's a student like me right now (whether in India or Indiana) who wants to learn from my book but for whom its cost is an obstacle, that would make me very sad. That's why all the books I have (co-)authored have been available for free.

On the first edition's site [https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-0...] you can see the different models by which I have made the book available. They have netted me some modest revenue. But there's always a free option.
> Wet in the south is something completrly different from wet in Florida.

So, "the south" refers to someplace like the Falklands? :-D
I want to hook ChatGPT into Language Reactor (better with realtime ASR and TTS) to make a virtual conversation partner. Latency might be an issue. I was playing a bit with GPT-NeoX before. It would be nice if you could restrict the vocabulary it uses somehow for beginners, if not the range of grammatical concepts. I don't know how you would achieve that. A 'conversation partner' might be a bit aimless as a activity, I thought.. you could feed in the transcript of a short youtube video as a conversation starting point.. or some kind of game..

I just tried this on ChatGPT, looks pretty good:

What is the grammatical error in this sentence: "The dog eat the cake."

>> The grammatical error in this sentence is that the verb "eat" should be in the third person singular form "eats" to agree with the subject "dog." The correct sentence would be: "The dog eats the cake."

What is the grammatical error in this sentance: "I have been living here since three years."

>> The grammatical error in this sentence is that the preposition "since" should be followed by a specific point in time, such as a date or year. The correct sentence would be: "I have been living here for three years." Alternatively, you could say: "I have been living here since 2016."

This also works:
Please correct this sentence: "I have been living here since three years." Do not type any additional text.
With so many TLDs, and the acceptance of domain hacks,
e.g. usefennel.co (available lol!) if your name is fennel, I think there is plenty of competition.

The real estate analogy is good. Find a cheap town!
The "more" is surely whether they're premium or not, which is what Op was responding to.
I built a social media analytics API. At its peak, it brought in about $23k/mo, with server costs at about $3k/mo. When I got a job at Instagram, they decided it was a conflict of interest and told me to sell it, which I did for a very healthy six figure sum.
Did you notice how they arrested, impeached, and replaced a President in Peru earlier this week? They seem really exercised about things like illegally interfering with the legislature. In a functioning democracy you just let the marketplace of ideas sort it out. Sounds like they have too much free time down there in Peru.
Why feature gating/flagging/togging
I speak several languages, most living, a few dead. I love languages and have a knack for them. Duo lingo is great at keeping you practicing, which I think is important. However, if you really want to learn a language, you must use it. If you want to learn quickly, use it a lot as often as possible. Speak it, listen to it, read it, and to whatever extent possible think in it. This is easier now than it ever has been. It’s easy to get TV, movies, games, books, music, websites, and so on in whatever language. It would be better to find some actual humans to speak with, but movies and TV are better than nothing.
You probably would if it is a short one like 131313 in Australia (sure there are US equivalents)
That post links to a query for a non-premium domain name. Of course forum.dev is more valuable than asdfggg.dev. If you query a premium domain name that is available for registration (e.g. money.dev), you'll see that the listed price is higher than $12/yr.
Got it. Really appreciate you taking a look.
The long lines building in New York was home to the NSA TITANPOINTE program and project BLARNEY.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_(The_X-Files)
Interesting project... You should link to an actual article of the story and give a summary.
C is standardized by an ISO working group, and then there are multiple independent implementations. Rust is developed in the open, on GitHub by a single organization, which creates a single center for community to naturally aggregate around.
I created sportsweb.com in 1994 and was featured in the magazine Computer World.
Can someone give me a sanity check here? It seems that Taibbi often describes communications much differently than I understand them. For example:

> Taibbi[0]: "...They prepared to ban future presidents and White Houses – perhaps even Joe Biden. The “new administration,” says one exec, “will not be suspended by Twitter unless absolutely necessary.”

> Screenshot[0]: "...if it is clear that another account is being used for the purposes of evading a ban, it is also subject to suspension. For government accounts, such as @POTUS and @WhiteHouse, we will not suspend those accounts but will take action to limit their use. However, these accounts will be transitioned over to the new administration in due course and will not be suspended by Twitter unless absolutely necessary to alleviate real-world harm."

Taibbi's description is completely different than my reading. I understand this as 'government accounts are exempt from the typical ban evasion rules unless they meet further criteria for real world harm'. I see nothing in this screenshot that talks about Biden not being suspended?? His selective quoting seems incredibly disingenuous.

Another example:

> Taibbi[1]: "Even the hashtag #StealOurVotes...is approved by Twitter brass, because it’s “understandable” and a “reference to… a US Supreme Court decision."

> Screenshot[1] (red name): "perfect thanks yoeir and pconlon I was wondering about this part *Trump and his new #AmyConeyBarrett #SCOTUS will try to #StealOurVotes,"

> Screenshot[1] (green name): "Ah, that's understandable (red name) believe that it's a reference to the a US Supreme Court decision on processing mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day."

I read this as (green name) saying "ah, that's understandable" in response to (red name) specifying the section they asked for a review on after Yoel and (green name) responded in confusion and to another section of the Tweet. I do not see how Taibbi can read this 'understandable' response as an endorsement of the hashtag at all.

In another example, Taibbi claims[2] "...senior execs didn’t appear to have a particular violation..." after Trump tweets "Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd." However, Taibbi's previous posts have multiple examples of them taking action on mail-in voting misinformation. Additionally, the chat links to external files a couple of times in contexts that suggest the document contains information about their action or rationale for taking action (Yoel responds "agree with the recommendation").

Am I misreading the screenshots? If not, is this accidental or deliberate? It really feels like this report is about supporting a narrative rather than being transparent.

[0]: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601355779474620416?s=20 (#6)

[1]: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601375333319868416?s=20 (#42)

[2]: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601371334503968768?s=20 (#36)
Point of clarification: I don’t care about the fork. If you want to go a different direction than a parent project, that’s absolutely what you should do.

I do care about the way that the fork happened and the misrepresentations of the fork, so I’ve written way too many words about this today.
Personally works love to see the research on that assertion. If you are unvaccinated and get sick, you are more likely to be symptomatic and stay home. On the other hand if you are vaccinated you are more likely to be asymptomatic and socialize and therefore more likely to spread it.
Unfortunately I don't know the numbers. How much more likely are you to be asymptomatic if you are vaccinated?
> If you asked for a novel (less information content than a 512x512 image) from ChatGPT and judged it by how it held together at a high conceptual level relative to output from a stable diffusion image I don't think it would seem that different.

Try asking ChatGPT to write you a novel, chapter by chapter. The chapters may seem okay individually, but you'll find chapter 5 contains statements which completely contradict those in chapter 1. And this can still be true even if ChatGPT is producing chapter 5 based on chapters 1 to 4 as input. (I think ChatGPT could do with some more training and/or engineering on detecting and avoiding contradictions in its output.)

I think one advantage of generating images, is you can notice problems with the output very quickly. With text, you might not notice the contradiction between chapters 1 and 5 until you reread it days later. Similarly, if you get two generated images, and you like bits of both of them, it isn't too hard to edit them together (even roughly) in an image editor, then use further generative techniques to smooth that roughness out. If ChatGPT writes you two different fifth chapters for your novel, and you like bits of both, merging them together can be a more tedious process.
Also RE: the initial optional comment option for the submitter. Looks like new lines aren’t working at all. Not sure if you wanted to make that work or not but would be nicer I think.
https://archive.vn/SC2bh
Because if you don't get a lawyer, you may lose even more. Also b/c you may be sued over what you're saying here and on Twitter.

Bite the bullet, hire a lawyer, do what she/he says and prove correct your claims, Then, and only then, can you possibly reverse previous judgments and impose damages upon those parties who violated your trust.
I know Meta pays a lot, but did you ever consider an alternate path where you didn't take that job and instead grew the service out further? $23k/month is good money.
> it's become a genuflection to that society to dunk on Gladwell wherever his name pops up.

This is such a trope that I seriously got halfway through the article before I realized it wasn't actually just a long set up for a punchline to explain why Gladwell really sucks.

Interesting article.
Right - in fact UK police specifically have engaged in seriously unethical behaviour: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/28/secrets-and-...
No problem. Good luck in your endeavor!
They don't have elephants there, so good for them, but what about Texan wild pigs roaming around? :)
The GPT Times – Submit a Tweet and Have GPT Produce the News
> Roughly how much "work" does every person in the world need to do so that every person in the world can live a minimal but decent lifestyle?

It turns out people have to work harder for that than they do working under a free market system, where they get to keep what they earn.
The real world just isn’t that clean. There’s no way that a weight spreading shoe will do more than some random frequent dust cleanings
you can have a back mirror on this, they probably do
Scrum has failed the developers
No. You sound unhinged. If you are not ready to talk to an attorney then consult a pastor, therapist, or friend. Trying to troubleshoot the problems in your marriage via social media is foolish to the point of delusion.

I'm sorry you're having problems, but this is not a smart or constructive way to deal with them.
8.5 years is not a decade. Precision matters, especially when talking about money and time.

Did you verify the actual payment processed by the merchant processor, or just the category it fell in and the price of that category when the domain was actually registered?

Bad code happens, the Google Cloud Print DDoS fiasco is but one example.
Why are they nerfing all the most interesting prompts…

Not sure why they are restricting it so much.
The coolest TLD is .ninja 'cause ninjas are cool.

Or maybe .ice, 'cause that's cool as ice.
Ah ah, took me a few years before discovering this fine trick.

You just have to let two empty spaces in front of a sentence. Not less, not more, just 2.
Lilith Fair
They don’t. It is, like Australian table wines, for laying down and avoiding.
Hazard lights need to be accessible with zero thought so you can warn people the instant a hazard arises, without taking your eyes off the road during hazardous conditions. My car has them on a big red button in the middle of the dashboard, and that's the way it should be.
This is straight up rent seeking behavior, and despicable.
After further reading, I've learned that the membership is much smaller than I had thought.

The Teamsters Freight division, which includes other roles like dockworkers and mechanics, seems to only have 75,000 members.[^1] In 2019, the US Census Bureau reported there were 3.5M truckers.

So you're probably right.

[1]: https://www.teamstersjc42.com/about/trades/
[2]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/06/america-keeps...
Yep! To contract, I have to find clients, solicit project work, write invoices, keep after clients for payment; in general, I have to do all the extroverted business shit I became a software developer to avoid doing.

As an employee, I can work on problems I identify, invest time in mentoring colleagues, spend time building a skill that will be of long term but not immediate benefit to my employer, etc: stuff nobody would pay a contractor to do.