skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have never increased the price of a single domain name after registration in our entire decade of existence.
Can ActivityPub deliver E2E? I've read docs but don't have enough experience to fully grok. Do I still have to figure out key-sharing?
Seems like the author has an axe to grind.

> When you want to send a message to someone, you ask the server for one of their one-time prekeys and use that. Decrypting this message requires using the private half of the one-time prekey, and the recipient deletes it afterwards. This means that an attacker who intercepts a bunch of encrypted messages over the network and then later somehow obtains the long-term keys still won't be able to decrypt the messages, since they depended on keys that no longer exist.

> Since these one-time prekeys are only supposed to be used once (it's in the name!) there's a risk that they can all be consumed before they're replenished. The spec regarding pre-keys says that servers should consider rate-limiting this, but the protocol also supports falling back to just not using one-time prekeys if they're exhausted (you lose the forward secrecy benefits, but it's still end-to-end encrypted).

> This implementation not only implemented no rate-limiting, making it easy to exhaust the one-time prekeys, it then also failed to fall back to running without them. Another easy way to force DoS.

You just described a security/convenience tradeoff in the use of prekeys. OK. Then, the app's choice to go with security over convenience is a security problem, because you're not allowed to send messages without forward secrecy. For greater security, the app should have allowed messages at a lower level of security.

If you want to make the case that someone did the wrong thing, do it in a way where they wouldn't also have been wrong if they did the opposite of what you're complaining about.
Fine, scrum sucks! I agree. What's the alternative?
Only a sucker would pay 850 a year to a company that can invent any tld.
A Garry's Mod Clone for Steam Environments VR
I wrote the physics gun/tool object force code, and the tool gun UI and engine hooks, decompiled and remade the map in the SteamVR Environment tools, a cut-down version of the source2 tools. Waiting for S&box updates. Interested in VR/3d physics.
No they won’t.
Good luck replacing the ones in the center, I guess?
The coolest is absolutely .cool
>Is your name not Bruce then? - Python humor.
In Azure DevOps at least, 'self hosting' means running the CI/CD on your own private server which could be a VM, bare metal, even a container. This method has some advantages like being able to fully customize your tooling, it could be less expensive, faster, etc. All depends on your use case.
Learning rudimentary components being a waste of time may be a bit of a stretch however expecting to master the language through apps, YouTube tutorials, not using books and physical media is laughable if not delusional.
Are you interested in some additional work?
> The chapters may seem okay individually, but you'll find chapter 5 contains statements which completely contradict those in chapter 1.

I can't find documentation for ChatGPT's "context window", or how much text it can "see" at once. Some people say it might be 4k, or maybe more. But I would be surprised if it can actually work with multiple full-length chapters at once. So it's essentially like giving chapter outlines to multiple authors and gluing them into a book.

But as long as you stay within the context window, ChatGPT usually has no problem remembering what it's talking about. This isn't GPT 2, which wandered all over the place incoherently. ChatGPT is capable of writing a 1-page short story that is consistent throughout, and that has a clear structure and progression.
At least in the past there were cases where some registrars automatically registered the domain if someone searched for it, it may have been in cases where their algorithm deemed the name somewhat premium. They would then essentially hold it hostage for some time, but would then cancel it during the refund period. AGP Limits policy (https://icannwiki.org/Add_Grace_Period) was created to combat that (and some other issues with refunds).
The bad outcome was removal of the price caps. That happened without any outside interference. The rest of the scheme depended on that first step and they got away with it.
'agrivoltaics' is a cool thing:

https://kansasreflector.com/2022/02/14/lets-grow-a-brighter-...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47803-3
Based on my calculations, at my latitude (40 degrees North), you would need about 16% more panels to generate an equivalent amount of energy per year. This isn't taking into account potential issues with snow buildup (which theoretically would be worse with flat panels) or the effects of cooling (which theoretically could be better due to contact with a thermal sink, the ground), but it's probably pretty close. Even if 20% more panels are required, that means capital costs are superior as long as panel costs are less than 5x racking material and labor costs. Currently panel costs are more like 3x racking costs and will probably continue to decline. Racking costs will probably not go down unless steel prices go down pretty significantly. The only thing that surprises me is that there are not more companies doing this. Perhaps there are factors that neither Erthos nor I am properly considering, but I think this is how most utility solar projects will be done in 5-10 years.
To me, the fact that these things are omnipresent for 99 cents is just as much proof that our species can do pretty much anything, as much as it is that we have levitating trains.
Why would I care what this clown has to say?
Yes. If i was running mission critical systems it would be another story. In this case i have triple backups so worst case I take some downtime.

Still easier (and faster) than running the same servers on AWS, which is where I migrated them from.
Most of the even half usable pronouns.com domains are long gone. Usually squatted, sometimes actually used. But gone nonetheless. That’s why people try to use other tld. Though I personally picked .net for my personal/name domain as .com is squatted.
Also, Twitter is a great big centralized system- it seems like it ought to make public key distribution very easy and straightforward.
smarter people are deceived by different things but they are no less subject to propaganda. one of the propaganda points that works against all people is "you are in the club of smart people, let me let you in on some things most people either dont know, or dont want to know!"
People place way too much importance on github stars.

I will continue "bookmarking with stars" and not using half the things I star :)
Deserts ≠ wastelands. They're home to their own ecosystems.
Verisign is entirely able to change the price of .com domains if they want, as far as I understand it.
A timely reminder of the non-cryptographic issues you must get right, in addition to the cryptographic ones, in order to build a robustly secured system!
There’s no need to invoke the microbiome to come up with a general mechanism by which artificial sweeteners could have effects on those who eat them: you have taste receptors in your digestive tract!

https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/article/62/10/3336/174...
Ok maybe I'm a weird type, but I got really excited when the first thing they teach you is how to write a test/assertion.
The solution here seems to create a zone that is completely inhospitable to the ecosystem that should exist in that spot. In the picture in the article, the bird poop will be highly concentrated in the forest area that is nearby. While there will be some birds that fly over this dead zone, I bet the droppings will be minimal.

Edit: The article mentions a 100 MW installation. At 2.5 acres per MW, that is 40 acres or 0.25 miles x 0.25 miles. While there will certainly be some service roads, no matter what the ecosystem was before, it will be covered with something that doesn't support plant material, insects, etc. that may be consumed directly by birds or the small animals upon which birds prey. Birds will find a more hospitable place to poop.
I'm sorry but this is a non-story. gTLDs have been working this way since before Google got into gTLDs. Don't get me wrong, they're making bank on this stuff; but frankly, they're just beating domain scalpers to the punch. Compared to what domain scalpers try to charge... $850 just isn't much.

If this is the first time people on Hacker News are hearing about premium domains, gTLDs and asymmetric renewal prices, color me shocked. There are even ccTLDs that have asymmetric renewals.
This is a blog post relating flaws the author found in systems that naively used libsignal. The "axe" to grind here is that libsignal can be misused.
That passage also appears in Reef Points, a little book given to USNA Midshipmen.

And one would be remiss to neglect the NSFW rendition of Friggin' in the Riggin' by the Sex Pistols => https://youtu.be/rwZjubLNPfE
Try Linear[1] and let me know if you have ideas how to sell speed to program management or execs. Startups get it, it’s more rare that large companies see the value.

[1]: https://linear.app/
See the recent Matrix fiasco for a more vivid example.
That's certainly been the suspicion over the years, and IMO it seems extremely likely.

But... have you ever seen direct confirmation of that from folks who worked inside Apple at the time? Curiously, I've never much inside info materialize from the Apple II side of the business.
Because you don't want to live in a bubble of self absorbed stupidity?
Wait to you get the offer in writing. Then before accepting just ask. Decide what you will do if they say no in advance. Try to think of possible objections they have. You might get a kneejerk no to begin with but probe a bit more just to make sure it isn’t a “policy says no”
thing and
someone had thought about it.
…”but I have been the owner of hundreds of domains for almost 20 years and I have never faced anything like this before.”

Well fuck you and your squatting and how does it feel?
I used to own blockchain.*.(my-ccTLD) and the national registry took these domains from me after a short while (like 3-4 months).

The new owners didn't even use them properly.
The author wasn't stating whether the bulk of the cryptography community should be aligned with Musk's views. He's saying that they aren't. That's a descriptive statement, not a normative one.

I'm not a member of the cryptography community, but the author is a prominent cryptographer [edit: not accurate; see below], and so right now I have every reason to believe that his statement is correct.
Mmm the good place or at least it’s last season.
Just that.
When we lived in Deutschland in the 70s, my Dad would joke that the "D" sticker on German cars meant "Drag racing" as the Germans drove with their foot on the floor. He would putt putt along the autobahn at an agonizingly slow pace.

I asked him why he didn't enjoy driving fast. He replied that he'd firewalled Mustangs and SabreJets on the deck, and driving fast on the autobahn was boring in comparison.

If you vote for me for Governor of the state, I'll get some autobahns here in the US!

P.S. If you ever watch "The Battle of Britain" movie, in the first combat scene you'll see an Me109 flying balls-to-the-wall at about 10 feet off the ground. Incredibly fun, and incredibly dangerous. No model work with that shot.

P.P.S sometimes you'd see jets hedge-hopping over the countryside. I asked why didn't the citizens complain about that, he said they understood why the pilots had to train that way. Radar cannot see them, the flak gun crews cannot hear them coming, and they cannot move the gun fast enough to line up on the aircraft.
I took a foreign language class in college where our pronunciation was corrected ruthlessly, right down to the accents and stresses we placed in our sentences. It was super helpful for having conversations later on. YMMV, I really liked it. I remember a couple cases where our teacher interrupted the lesson and kept calling on students to repeat the same phrase until we all (or mostly) got it right.

This extended to vocabulary. If I forgot a piece of vocabulary, the teacher would call on me again later in the same class to either make the same mistake or remember it this time.

This was one of the best classes I ever took in college, in any subject.
Another myth would be „people want to ride fast“ - indeed, the majority of Germans now support a speed limit on the Autobahn: https://www.adac.de/verkehr/standpunkte-studien/positionen/t...

Given the advantages mentioned in the original article, it’s becoming silly that there’s still no speed limit. Why isn’t there? Probably because the minority who wants to drive fast is very vocal about it.

This has been compared to gun laws in the US, which also seem to be defended by a vocal minority (source: too lazy to look up).
Reddit has a good Shopify community - ask them if they’re familiar with the concept.

You can also do a 7 day trial of SEMRush and do some competitive research on the app’s domain.

See if they’re ranking for any keywords/how much search traffic the keywords have.
This has been so frustrating. My company has two Chrome extensions, one of which we've been able to migrate and are just finishing up, and one of which we are blocked on because we're waiting on a dependency to be sorted out.

Of course, we're not just on Chrome — we're also on Firefox. But our migrated extension doesn't work on Firefox, since they haven't fully figured out their transition plan. We're left with a gigantic mess that will be confusing to users (because our Chrome MV3 has significant changes to our freemium model, which made sense to implement during the manifest changeover). We'll have to explain to our FF users that they still have the old version, but the new version is only on Chrome. But for our other extension, everyone's on the old version. What a mess.
Apple didn't even do that first... or at least weren't alone doing that (though their competitors quickly failed for one reason or another, until Android)
Note that Google's collection doesn't seem to include all of their extensions. For example, they are missing Google Voice, Google Dictionary, Send from Gmail, Page Analytics, Google Tone, Chrome Web Store Launcher, RSS Subscription Extension, Google Scholar Button, IBA Opt-out, Google Mail Checker, Google Similar Pages, Endpoint Verification, Chrome Remote Desktop, Chromebook Recovery Utility, Certificate Enrollment for Chrome OS, Screen Reader, Print, Google Docs Offline, and I'm sure there are plenty of other Google extensions that I missed in my search. Some of them have been abandoned for a number of years.

Also, this site [1] has been tracking Manifest V3 migration, but I think they might be incorrectly including Apps and Themes in their counts (I believe the 180K figure represents all of the items on the store [2]) which might be throwing off the numbers a bit.

[1]: https://chrome-stats.com/manifest-v3-migration

[2]: https://www.debugbear.com/blog/counting-chrome-extensions
> No online course can ever teach you to become fluent.

I get your point, but with the pace of AI, there's a good chance this statement is not true in 5 years!
Don’t doxx yourself but can you link to an example, public case? One you weren’t involved in maybe?
200Gs for at most a 5k business class flight. And everyone wonders why Elon is cleaning house.
The first time you finally get to fire off your first short, stupid joke in a new language that actually makes native speakers laugh is one of the greatest feelings ever.
Mainly because most people here don't care. This is a professional tech community, and we view news from that lens. Because of this, what looks like a scandal to you is not surprising to us at all. Your idea of "The Freedom of Speech" just doesn't resonate with us. Anyone's who's worked at a social media company knows that if you don't aggressively moderate your content you end up with OnlyFans. Platform creators need broad moderation authority to do their jobs.

The idea that Twitter and other sites are "the digital public square" is the unfortunate result of CEOs overselling their businesses. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc are entertainment media first and foremost. They are not a suitable replacement for educational or public institutions, and people need to stop treating them as such.
How is this any different than any other digital asset? They are all, in one way or another, "created out of thin air."
The axe to grind here is that whatever the author mentions is, ipso facto, a flaw. I've highlighted an example where the author presents as unreasonable a choice to go with greater security over lesser security, and labels that choice a security issue. This is not a reasoned or reasonable decision on the part of the author. I'm going to generalize the quality of argument here, which is terrible, to whatever else the author says.

Want to make the argument that libsignal can be misused? First, go through all of your examples and make sure they actually show misuse.
It's to stop squatters from buying 10000 common word domain names and trying to sell them for crazy amounts.
>If you pay a premium price you expect premium service.

Only the point of the Louis CK joke is that mere flying in the air, and getting to 1000s of miles away in a couple of hours, is a beyond premium service, when thought of in historical perspective... closer to a miracle.

It's this "taking for granted" that makes us consider it a standard thing in mere 100 years after its invention, and when it was not just a thing for rich people, but a totally unimaginable dream for millenia...
I'd still much rather see "100 MW continuous" over "100 megawatt-hours of power each hour". And the former actually tells you a lot more than the latter, as with the latter it could be bursty (e.g. much more than 100 MW momentary draw), which would be a lot harder to supply. Fortunately for everyone the power draw is actually steady.
Then I think it comes down to what balance is best for the available resources. I'd rather drink a can of diet coke with aspartame in it than tap water with chlorine in it or bottled water with microplastics in it. Have there been studies comparing the effects of that on the gut biome or what the relative purity in non water ppm is?

A lot of people in the third world trust the cola cola company more than the local water supply to not poison them.

Plus, I like the taste of diet coke more than just water.

Cans are easier to recycle than plastic bottles as well.
> A classic example is creating a dependency and then raising the price.

Okay let's see your example then. What's a case you are thinking of that is vaguely similar to this that was ruled a breach of contract?

> Also look up "antitrust".

This isn't a constructive argument. I could equally just rebut it by telling you to look up "antitrust", right? What part of antitrust laws would apply here? Surely if you have an idea you can write a sentence or two to explain.
Ask HN: Fastest way to find out tech info like ChatGPT
In light of the recent ChatGPT, I feel like I'm the last one to find out about ChatGPT.

How does everyone find out about these incredible things going on?
i've tried but didn't keep up with it. it seemed promising at least.
Density in tilted installations is quite bad. If you want to capture morning and evening sun at an optimal angle you have to space the panels out a lot, like 5-10 panel heights. You can have them closer, but then you get shading, which defeats the purpose of tilting the panels.
Can you elaborate more how such fraud happens? Also, how would you even get access to court record for these estates? Would these records not be private to the party at hand?
He's got a point though. Why are 18-year-olds taking on so much debt? Why aren't the career counselors in high school warning them against it? I knew a guy who borrowed 100k to go to a small college to study music. He graduated and is now a school gardener that teaches kids about gardening and nature. Every month he had to figure out how to pay his loan along with his family's expenses. He's 1 of thousands.
My Philosophy of Product Building (Part III) on Launching and Learning
This is called "front-running" by the domain name registrar and it is a big no-no. Fortunately it's not what happened here though.
I would be dead if i was born 20 years before.
Also, working gives hobby a meaning. I don’t know a translation for this:
El ocio es la madre/padre de todos los vicios.
Too many free time would kill us. We are a specie which evolve through work. But it shouldnt mean: bad job = ugly death
ChatGPT, Galactica, and the Progress Trap
Can you link to whatever you're referring to?
It uses the same library as glow (glamour) -

https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/e876b229634b02d40bdfbb15844d...
We can start by recognizing that scrum and agile cannot replace actual development talent. When companies throw additional scrum masters and project managers into a failing project, the project only fails faster.

People first, tools second, and then process.
When this happens, you can still reply by clicking the timestamp above the post. The reply button will also appear after a while, the system just wants you to slow down.
Let me guess without reading the article. "Without evidence", "baseless", "fact checkers say"
Honestly. Software at Big Co is more like building a house.

If you’re in a high uncertainty environment with loads of market risk, by all means Agile away.

But if you’re designing and developing something fairly well understood… something more oriented towards a better understanding up front with bigger customer delivery increments is completely fine.
And it is fair to say that a significant price increase was likely after the transaction. From the above linked article, it was a leveraged buyout (which by its nature puts a lot of pressure on extracting revenue from the business and its customers).

> This concern grew after it was revealed that the [$1.1 billion] transaction required taking on a $360 million debt obligation.
I don't like the drawers either but the good news is you can disable them in Settings > Tools.
Yes, Madeline, You Can Have a Unicorn
Yep it’s nonsense and a complete racket. It should just be first come first serve, for the initial registration and for lapsed renewals. Like it used to be (forever ago, but still).
What works best for you.
How about: Don't follow a fixed, predefined process but find the one that works for your specific situation and adapt it when needed.
Clearly it’s become much more than just that.
Don't know the backstory, but if the comapny that makes Raspberry Pi can make them enough to fulfil demand, how are those replacement going to come by? If it was easy, Raspberry's company would do it themselves...
> IME languages that are designed as general-purpose languages tend to be better than languages that are designed for niche purposes, even within those niches. The things that make a language good require consistent, general thinking.

Julia is a general purpose language, while being the best tool for scientific computing.
They price some names as premium and charge a specific amount for them, they seem to have a number of different tiers.

I bought a Premium domain from them during the auction, and still pay for it. They've always been very clear about the renewal cost both before I bought it in the auction and every year on renewal.