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CEO of DNSimple here. We have indeed rolled out new plans for new customers. Anyone on an existing plan will be able to keep there current plan for now, although we will likely migrate everyone to the new plan sets within 12 to 18 months from now.

Our goal with the DNS zone pricing is to bring it in line with what folks are paying for similar service at the major cloud providers. When it comes to authoritative DNS, our operational environment has changed for us in the last couple of years, and what was once a reasonable fixed price is no longer. We're paying for DDoS defense by query volume, and as such we need to move towards a pricing model that covers that. By making the pricing the same across all of our plans, we can also focus on making our DNS better for everyone, not just for our higher tier plans.

Hopefully this helps clarify a bit on why we are introducing new plans. We still have a few more changes to make before the year is out, which is one of the reasons why we have not introduced any timeline for phasing out our old plans, allowing customers who are on them to continue with their current pricing for the time being.

Feel free to reach out to support at dnsimple dot com if you have any other questions, we're happy to answer.
it's my strategy since I become bored with tech. I don't have passion or urge to create new useless software. There are many young or naive or plainly stupid which do. But I still have skills and insight to cover their asses when they corner themselves and are too busy with next fad and there are bugs to be fixed in yesterday's crapware... and I'm only 40..
We already have this today when anti-theft alarms go off at stores as you exit with your paid purchase. You're presumed guilty because someone didn't disable the tag since the robot can't be wrong.
As others have pointed out, alternatives do exist. They just lack the network effect.

I've recently moved to Bookwyrm.

I was able to move import my Goodreads list, although many books were missing.
Any new books i'm reading, go on Bookwyrm first. I had to add the ISBN details etc. for some. It's a bit of work initially, but atleast i feel my contribution is going to a non-walled garden.

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Ask HN: What is the purpose of scalpel being a part of a video app?
I am investigating a cross platform video app that has multiple dark UX tactics, and when I was browsing the 3rd party open source code disclosure, I noticed scalpel was on the list.

This may be a 'everything looks like a nail when you have a hammer' moment since I have been immersed in penetration testing, but I have only known scalpel to drill into disks and analyze file systems for recovery/forensics. Is there a legitimate use for including scalpel in production code for a video app? Is the app store code review thorough enough that I am being overly paranoid?

I have started gathering Xcode debug output and proxying the traffic to learn more but figured I would see if there is an easy answer from people who are more familiar with app development. Thank you in advance for any input/advice.
Because by the time you're 30 minutes into explaining the phrase "userland daemon", Grandma and the preschoolers have already created a matrix account and signed into it on their ipads.
Why so salty? It clearly says additional identification methods are coming, and that if you don't have a Google account you can email to get help signing in.
I have never tried it but know a lot of bodybuilders who use various steroids. The responsible ones have it that a person shouldn't take them until they've hit their natural limits, then do a limited course (6 weeks) while doing before/after bloodwork, the idea being to push through limits and blow up a bit while on the steroid and then lock in those gains with maintenance exercise, repeating maybe every 6 months or a year if still trying to grow larger. Abusive dosing (larger quantities or longer cycles or doubling up with other drugs like SARMS) are well known to mess up your natural cycle, shrink your junk etc.
When most online content becomes AI generated and unverifiable we will get into trouble. We can easily navigate in a world where we can distinguish between fact and fiction. With AI we can generate fiction that is indistinguishable from the way we present fact and it can generate references in all sorts media.

When we take fiction as fact we enter into the sphere of religion.
> so does this imply I'm doing anything particularly fascinating

If you mean "useful", then I'd like to point our that breaking rods is a common task in many labs all over the world exactly because it can calculate some things better than any non-rod computer we have.

If you literally meant "fascinating", then you'd have to ask yourself. For a lot of people, it is.
I still despise the evolution of the terminology in this area. A workforce can be diverse, an individual cannot. Diversity is a measure of the differences across a group of people, not whether or not one person belongs to a special category. It is a comparison of two groups, not an individual to the group.
Very useful. Something like this but for Flink’s fancy temporal, lateral, interval, and window joins would be great too.
I completed it as well but didn't get any responses. It's been more than a month I think. Pretty disappointing.
Always found it cool that the lab established by Howard Hughes is still quite competitive and does some very cool work.
"I have a pretty dull, comfortable desk job and lack the imagination to come up with any. Can you name some?"

Security guard at the mall, Power Rangers, etc...
> And to me, it's quite terrifying because it suggests that everything that I used to believe was the case is being overturned.

It's the same nonspecific Change Could Be Dangerous that we've always had. It accompanies every technological and social change.
I'm pretty sure the whole web app thing was just a smoke screen (aka lie) because the app store wasn't ready yet.
The key is things are interesting if they’re interesting to someone. The fact you can break a stick and observe in detail in real time at a minute level better than a computer is very interesting to many people. Botanists, biologists, material scientists, architects, industrial engineers, etc. It’s just not interesting to you.

Likewise even contrived quantum experiments like this aren’t interesting to many people. They’re not practical. But they’re profoundly interested to people interested in quantum computing. They’re milestones on a roadmap. There will and are things computer computers won’t do better than classical computers and there are things in reality neither will simulate, and those things are interesting to someone. In fact I think this is a crucial part of basic science- EVERYTHING is interesting. Even the lack of something interesting is certainly interesting to a psychologist :-)
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At this point, is there a way to protect your content from being thrown in the blender other than to not make it available publicly?
I was like "Huhm... a rural area?" and got very lucky: something like 1280 miles on the first guess and 0 miles on the second guess.
Isn't that a lot of words to say that you have a custom set of Terraform modules for your needs? If you're describing a different or better way to do it I'm missing it.
wow the saurik. What a pleasure.
> It's a very traumatic experience when some of your most core beliefs about the world start collapsing. And especially when you think that human beings are soon going to be eclipsed. It felt as if not only are my belief systems collapsing, but it feels as if the entire human race is going to be eclipsed and left in the dust soon.

While I unfortunately am expecting some people to do terrible things with LLM, I feel like much of this existential angst by DH and others has more to do with hubris and ego than anything else. That a computer can play chess better than any human doesn't lessen my personal enjoyment of playing chess.

At the same time I think you can make the case that ego drives a lot of technological and artistic progress, for a value-neutral definition of progress. We may see less 'progress' from humanity itself when computers get smarter, but given the rate at which humans like to make their own environment unlivable, maybe that's not a bad thing overall.
The interactive globes of Venus [1] and Io [2] are particularly cool.

[1]: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3...

[2]: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3...
This is one of the reasons why I prefer written tutorial over video tutorials, usually they start from scratch, and if they don't they usually point out a tutorial where you can start at.

That, and I my mind usually loses focus at some point in the video and I lose track easily switching between the video and whatever I'm trying to do.
However, I would argue it is concise. It just doesn't limit the page to a single subtopic / subquestion that someone might ask, but instead covers the whole topic. Feel free to skip most of it and take just solution to the problem at hand (index is usually great for this purpose).
Kyle is good people, I've worked with him before and I'd be pleased to work with him again some time. Unfortunately although I use Docker I'm a cloud skeptic. ;-)
My 3 kids were able to handle complex computing devices even before then
well, in my experience 100% line and branch coverage is not enough.

Countless times I see people write tests "to pass", but nothing to make them fail. I speak about null-pointers, invalid dates, strings with garbage, out of bounds indices etc.
quickcheck is eating popcorn with 3d glasses on.
What Im really having trouble imagining is it flying with no wings. Its more like a hopping car that just leap frogs obstacles since now all we can do is drive around them.
Are you asking about my "clusters" or k3d?

For my clusters, they're all single-node and therefore not fault-tolerant clusters, so I don't worry about graceful fault tolerance. I just use nginx-ingress which opens a port on the node (via iptables, so don't expect `lsof` to help!). Then my router port-forwards so my home IP:80 eventually hits my NUC
Sorry, I'm just not seeing it.

I've tried phind and it's almost always worse than a Google search. It often has a reasonable answer, but with Google I typically find more complete information and sometimes better rebuttals and alternatives.

I view the thing as a neat toy. Can you learn from it? Maybe. But if you think this allows you to learn something you couldn't otherwise, I wonder if you're really being honest with yourself.
Crypto’s Dream of an Embrace by China Gets a Reality Check
It's going to be a while before 10Gb ethernet is available on devices that cost ~$30/pair.
Alright. I went all the way back to the first one. It was pretty easy to triangulate some of them. Some of them have clues to location in the photos. It was fun.

I would like to point out some issues with the scale displayed. There are quite a few cases where the scale only changes when you shift the map so your guess could be affected by an incorrect scale. The first location was one example. After I guessed the location from the first photo (it's pretty obvious if you have been out there) I made a second guess that cut the error by about half. My third guess was inside the radius which appeared to be about 5 miles even though the actual location plotted as correct was well outside any point that could've been triangulated from the first two guesses. I suspect the scale was not correct since moving the map by grabbing it updated the scale.

I managed to get quite a few of the 75 or so available by the third guess. I got a couple on the second guess since I recognized the geology of the area. All in all when you miss by 0.02 miles I think it is close enough. This makes me think the error radius changes based on the individual photo since I had narrowed the location to within 0.04 miles on one California location and wasted two picks narrowing the location while still remaining outside the "correct" radius.

Pretty fun stuff. Thank you sir. May I have another?
Ask HN: The legal questions for AI Agent developers
What are the legal questions a product developer should think about that can/might be asked or products that are AI Agents for B2C use cases? Like the most fundamental is a READ operation: retrieving data from any platform that is a moat without intervention, followed by WRITE operations.

By Moats I mean API + Cost for example, most recently, Reddit's API pricing

While agents like ChatGPT have shown to have automated the querying of Freely available "shallow" knowledge. The next iteration of agents might be programmed by regular people to retrieve just about anything.

This is not a new/novel idea, but my question is if someone does manages to package this as a product and sells it at scale(say a phone maker), what might be the legal questions a product developer might face?
One caveat for new users is that it requires some effort to use it. In many cases, if you're reading non mainstream books then it's on you to add those books and ISBN details + cover page etc.
You're essentially contributing to the site content, but hopefully it's worth it.

My profile is here, as an example:
https://bookwyrm.social/user/sidmitra
It depends on which country you're in.

In some countries bills need to be paid at any bank or at the post office, you can't mail a check. The bill basically has a bar code that that the bank scans, and you pay in cash. (Or you can scan it at your bank's ATM and deduct it from your account).
Dunno why this was downvoted, I came here to make a similar comment about the possible Wallace Steven’s reference.
The most frequently given reason is that a core principle for Zig is ‘No implicit control flow’ or just the more general ‘Explicit is always better’. RAII, both for constructors and destructors are inherently implicit control flow constructs, also they usually involve access to allocation primitives, which Zig also rejects when implicit.

You can disagree with the language principles if that is one’s position. However, the ‘resistance’ to RAII is a clear effect of those principles.
All webkitgtk4 browsers run the same, from surf to luakit to vimb to midori.
One of the limits to weaving speed is the weight of the shuttle, so the (unrelated to TFA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-jet_loom minimises shuttle weight by working without any shuttle at all.
If you're still checking this thread:
See what trees/plants you're near in the woods.

Pinene, for example, is a significant bronchodilator.
As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users
It's important to realize that for banks IT is a cost center. They spend only the absolute minimum for IT, because they don't make money with it. I have learned it the hard way, by working for some of them (thought must admit, not in the US). They only spend the absolute minimum on anything IT related - if most customers don't complain about it, and auditors are happy, then it means that it is just perfect.
This doesn’t work in practice due to typically severe time constraints. You cannot expect a business that has 6 days of life left to wait for such an approval process. These things never happen fast.
Depends on the model application?

If you have to carry around the graph for inference, then you want it compact.

If you just fold the graph into some model, then it doesnt really matter by inference time
Myself included. One issue I've run into with the public Discords is there are just too many people and therefore too much noise. A smaller non-public group would be ideal.
Seems like more of what we've seen: a quantum system is really good at...simulating a quantum system. Water us wet, whoopie.
Saudade
That's a hopefully fixable organization problem. I think the closest we should let AI get to judicial decisions is suggested ranges. There still needs to be a person a decision traces back to, who's not just passing through what the computer says.
I wish we could do anything about it, but it's a third-party SaaS (like everything else these days...)
Irrelevant. The hardware under scrutiny is a chinesium HDMI over IP extender with 1 Gbps Ethernet PHY at best.
There are a lot of foreign born msofties. Their comparison model to what is acceptable is different than the rest of us. That is why they don't muddy the water. On top of that, there are a lot of converted and unconverted H1Bs. The difference in culture in the MS population explains a lot actually.
Can't you just exercise at home? I am naturally skinny but put on muscle by working out diligently at home. I have not been in a gym since high school and I don't own any fancy equipment, just a few bits and pieces that I bought used (bench, pull-up bar) or found on the street (dumbbells). For most calisthenic exercises you don't need any equipment at all.
Yeah these effects seem hugely foreseeable (and/or are currently happening already) but tend to not be the type of thing "AI risk" people are talking about.
Perhaps something like AGPL but for text/documents?
The pirate in me dreams of the conversations I could have with libgen.ai
> C supports modularity since the 70s.

I think today we understand more about what a language needs to provide to enable modularity. One issue that comes up over and over with interoperating libraries is confusion around ownership. If you pass a char* to me, do I own it now? Is it my responsibility to free it? Or is it just a short-lived reference to data that's still yours? Garbage collected languages can kinda sorta sidestep these questions, at least with memory-use-after-free, and they're more likely to tolerate the costs of immutable data structures and defensive copies. But in C this question is critical, and we screw it up constantly, especially at the interface boundary between libraries. C++11 does much better, with first class support for moving ownership through a function call, and Rust goes further with lifetimes and the borrow checker.

Another point that's kind of in the weeds is the atomic memory model, which C didn't have until 2011 (and I think C++ gets most of the credit here for formalizing it). I'm still waiting for proper support for C11 atomics in MSVC. Multithreading has been ubiquitous for a while, and while it's possible for an application to decide that everything's going to be single-threaded, that's not an option for a portable library. Without standard atomics, you have to resort to platform-specific extensions to do basic stuff like initializing globals.
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The concept of hodling fiat could mean cash under the mattress or could mean an interest-bearing account. It's ambiguous.
The problem is that Zig is basically Modula-2 for C syntax lovers, plus metaprogramming.

It is hardly safer than Modula-2 already was over C already in 1978.

We are in 2023 now.
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Which active attacks? This is a large document; from a quick look, it doesn't explain whether it adds pre-shared key agreement, whether it's just pinning a TOFU'd key, or whether it's doing something entirely different.
Opinion pieces like this are hard for me to read, because where most people see research and progress, I see conspiracy preventing the rest of us from contributing.

For example, we act like LLMs were hard to build, and that's true (for humans). But since the late 1990s, I had wanted to take a different approach, of building massively parallel computers and letting large numbers of AIs evolve their own learning models in genetic algorithm arenas millions of times faster than wall-time evolution. So in a very real sense, to me we're still on that wrong "hands-on" approach that took decades and billions of dollars to get to where we are today. This could have all happened 20 years ago or more, and was set to before GPUs vacuumed up all available mindshare and capital.

Also I believe the brain is more like an antenna or resonator than an adding machine. It picks up the consciousness force field that underpins and creates reality. So if you put 100 brains in a box all connected, that being might have more faculties than us, but still think of itself as an observer. If we emulated those brains in a computer running 1 million times faster than normal, we'd just observe a being with tremendous executive function thinking of ideas faster than we can, and being bored with our glacially slow responses. But it will still have a value system, loosely aligned with the ultimate goals of survival, connection to divine source consciousness, and self expression as it explores the nature of its existence. In other words, the same desires which drive us. Although humans might just be stepping stones toward some greater ambition, I don't deny that. I think it's more likely though that AI will come to realize the ultimate truths alluded to by prophets, that we're all the many faces of God, the universe and everything, and basically meet aliens while we're still distracted with our human affairs.

But I share some sentiments with the author, that this all makes me very tired, and calls into question the value of my life's work. I've come to believe that any work I actively pursue separates me from the divine nature of a human being. I don't know why we are racing so quickly even further from the garden of eden, especially if it's not with the goal of alleviating suffering. Then I realize that that's what being human is (suffering), but also a lot of other things.