skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
218,691 registered domains. [1]

$3M/month. M as in million, not mille [2]? Mille is still commonly used in accounting [3]

$36M/year is $164.61 per registered domain per year.

Porkbun [4] offer .ai $72.40/year. Even 3 letter domains don't seem to have premium pricing.

Something in this unsourced tweet literally doesn't add up.

[1] https://domainnamestat.com/statistics/tld/ai-TLD_ID-1236

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mille

[3] https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income...

[4] https://porkbun.com/
I'm enjoying the bed bugs store faq: https://www.cheapbedbugs.com/faq

>How do I keep the bed bugs alive?

>Bed bugs eat blood and blood only. They aren’t picky to a particular animal. At Cheapbedbugs.com, we use a custom made blood feeding machine.

>How do you feed bed bugs?

>Unfortunately this is one of the things I cannot share.
> Tesla don't need to invent safety standards they only need to implement them.

Safety standards aren't some black and white thing where you can meet them by exactly following some rules set down in a rulebook.

If you know something is dangerous (or a reasonable man would have known), you can't do it, even if there isn't a specific rule against it. And often you learn things are dangerous through experience.
I don't like them as any other tech person, but lets give a credit where the credit is due. Ads and SEO ruined it way more thoroughly than cookie prompts.
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The USD retains its value because it's used as a global currency, it's as simple as that.

Not because US bills are used in SE Asia or other places but because big transactions (like oil) are done in USD.
There's google, which is less infuriating to use than microsoft stuff from what I've heard. Microsoft, google and yahoo regularly block or delay mails from independents[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35380823
Newsom can replace her fairly quickly, so it won't have major impact on critical Senate votes.

But, her death leaves her committee seats open. Filling those seats will take time and where she was in a leadership position, that needs resolved. Committees often have a 1-vote edge to the majority party, so those committees may be effectively deadlocked until replacements are nominated/approved (this is almost exclusively a Senate task - so can the Democratic leadership in the Senate get new members into committees in a timely manner).

Edit - typos
That's true, but I don't think GDM actually cares about OpenSSH.

On my machine (which I didn't alter from Ubuntu defaults) GDM runs after:

system.slice switcheroo-control.service dbus.socket plymouth-quit.service console-setup.service cloud-config.service gpu-manager.service rc-local.service systemd-journald.socket systemd-user-sessions.service basic.target plymouth-start.service getty@tty1.service fwupd.service sysinit.target

according to systemctl show gdm.service --property=After

cloud-config is the weirdest one, but it has to do with locales and system configurations for automatically deployed systems (and after first install), I believe. getty@tty1.service is also strange, but doesn't even show up in systemd-analyze blame.

In my boot-analyze charts I don't really see that many problems with illogical start orders to be honest. systemd-networkd-wait-online seems to hold up a bunch of networking services but that depends on the rest of my network responding in time so I can't even blame it for that.
LOL next you will try convincing me huaweis flagship phone is good.
I'm not so convinced a LLM remixing all the tutorial blogs its ingested is a meaningful quality step above those tutorial blogs themselves.

Earlier this year we had a linux task that was above the normal complexity my team deals with. So a few people threw it at chatgpt and were amazed at how good the results were. In reality, it was full of outright factual inaccuracies and non-breaking bad decisions. But their skill ceiling prevented them from seeing how bad the output was.

I didn't want to be a wet blanket, so I let them have their fun and quietly guided the jr working on the resolution through an appropriate implementation.
> And I've seen very little that can disclaim that.

Is that how we operate now? You have to see evidence that a claim isn't true?
A fair amount of Americans where adults in the second half of the 1970s and early 1980s... it isn't that new of an experience for them.
But only because it is necessary. It would be better if we could be independent from commercial considerations.
One of our serious cultural flaws is powerful individuals don't divest their power, and the system doesn't force them too. A prerequisite to becoming rich or attaining political power is a desire to have it. And those people never in their life reduce their scope.
US railroads are so large and old that they literally don’t know how many miles of track they have.

And some tracks are usable but unused until a customer asks for a train.

And some records show tracks where no rail has been for forty years.

Fun fact - some of those rail2trail trails are still considered railroads because the track can be readded at any time.
Don't discount the huge advantage incumbents have, both in campaign contributions [0] and name recognition.

0 - https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/incumbent-adv...
You can use IP based tracking or something like a query parameter to track within that session
Are you saying that First Past the Post won at being First Past the Post? :-)
The question always is whether there's a negative consequence outweighing the "positive" incentive of trying to increase favorable consent decisions by using dark patterns.

I had the pleasure to learn a lot about this while working in the higher levels of some german company with a somewhat questionable track record.

Here's what you can do (only applies to Germany, but might be similar elsewhere):

Complain to the data protection authority of your local state in writing. These complaints will be followed up by the authority and if enough of them accumulate, the company will have a bad time and the aforementioned incentive equation will be bent towards the end that favors user privacy.

Don't write angry emails. Nobody cares and you waste time.
>not the only one who is (edit: was)

is: "McConnell’s frozen moment renews questions about America’s aged leaders" https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/31/politics/mitch-mcconnell-...
You log the IP address, referrer, user agent and the requested page URL but you don't set a unique cookie to identify the user.

This still gets you plenty of actionable analytics information: where geographically people are located (via GeoIP), what pages are most popular, what platforms (including desktop vs mobile) people are using.

I've been using https://plausible.io for analytics on a bunch of my sites for a couple of years now and I honestly don't miss the extra level of detail I got from cookie-based analytics I've used in the past.
> Elixir has very few engineers to source from.

this : http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html comes to mind.
I don't seem to understand what's the civil liberties union points.

If there are more gunshot incidents in neighbourhoods with predominately black people, they shouldn't be installed as so to not appear "racist" ?

What am I missing ?
> Enum.map returns a list which is not an array but is represented in the language as an array

What do you mean by this?
In banking and consulting this is not unusual. Some let go the lowest perfoming 10% every year. They do it because it is beneficial to their case and there is no resistance.

Scaling quickly has risks and the current wave of layoffs is just a way to minimize risk. It is probably better this way than raising tons of cash until things are falling apart and you are forced into panic mode.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. People have already started hoarding water a month in advance of the arrival of the "salt wedge"... The last time this happened in New Orleans was 1988 and lasted ~2 months[1], life continued, and the event was largely forgotten.

From a post on /r/neworleans:
"In the last event sales of bottled water skyrocketed before the event. Once the salt wedge arrived, sales went down and everyone stopped buying water. Data suggested public didn't view the situation as sufficiently threatening enough to continue buying water."

So it doesn't seem to be the 'emergency' that media is trying to make it out as... Seems like the larger issues are increased heavy metal contamination from the salt and silt relocation affecting the health of the delta and related ecosystems...

The current plan is to ship in fresh water, which is what was done last time, and also there is talk about building a fresh water pipeline in the next 30 days that would extend ~12 miles up river. [2]

[1] current estimate is that current the situation will last ~3 months

[2] https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/saltwater-intrusion...
How the TRON music was made [video]
I take umbrage with the idea that just because it wasn't a nice affirmation or multi-sentence deconstruction of their position that it was a "personal attack".

My comment was a) a genuine human emotional response followed by b) a factual observation that such a mindset is clearly derived from a lack of trust.
For a year you will be correct. However after a year what is left will start to rebuild, and gold works better than beans (remember the cans are all eaten by now - we are talking beans someone actually grew). The problem with beans is they spoil (even carefully stored): eventually someone says "I have all the beans I need now, but I still want to sell my shoes". Using something like gold as an agreed medium of exchanges means the bean grower and shoe maker can make an exchange without trying to put together a complex trade involving a dozen people just to get enough of various goods to satisfy the show maker. Instead the shoemaker can get some gold and then buy everything as an individual transaction - and the people he buys from can in turn go to the bean grower if they want beans.
> In the modern Western economy, it's pretty easy to find oneself not financially able to sustain a family until one is in one's early forties. I'd say people "waiting too long" are meeting your criteria.

In Africa, there's someone who lives on $10/month. It's not stopping them. When you talk about "being financially able to sustain a family", I get the impression you're talking about getting a purebred dog with a pedigree, because you want a pet but it can't be just any... "has to be perfect".

> So my lack of having the true and genuine human experience of passing through a vagina

No one cares about that, least of all I.

If you think it's comparable to what some people dream of though, well, I don't know what to say. Be grateful for your lack of imagination and its protective properties to the manmade horrors beyond comprehension heading our way.
> When I am presented with cookie options, I start to wonder why there are "unnecessary" cookies present: why are you letting me accept "necessary" cookies or "all" cookies? Why would you have ones that are not needed? Seems hyper sketch ... and I'll go elsewhere (or reject all)

Because some are required for the functioning of the site. They can justify dealing with those without you approving it.

Some are there for advertising, that's not required for you to use the site but they'd definitely like to. So they need you to actively consent.
I don't know PostgreSQL as well. I mostly use MSSQL in production, and it's had good replication for ages, so I just wasn't really that worried about single-node failure for the critical stuff.

And, frankly, even for the less-critical stuff that was only running on a single node, I still dealt with fewer availability problems back in the day than I do now that everything's gone distributed. I think that a thing that's been forgotten over the years is that a lot of this stuff that distributed systems do to be reliable was more about digging oneself out of the hole that was created by running on lots of cheap hardware instead of using a single server with redundancy built-in. I acknowledge that, past a certain scale, that's the only option that makes sense. But if you're not operating at that scale then there's a good chance it's all just verschlimmbessern.
This would make for a great blog post: top 10 things that ruined the internet. I nominate generative AI for the version of this post two years from now.
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476
I'm not super experienced with Elixir/Phoenix, but I did notice the documentation was rather disappointing when I tried to learn it, compared to Rust. I kept trying to find a tutorial for a basic web app with Phoenix, everything I could find was for an older version which wasn't compatible with/had different names and locations for the various files than the version I had. Kinda blocked me from getting more into it.
And often you learn things are dangerous through experience.

Yes, this is exactly the point people are making. Tesla has had the opportunity to learn from the experiences of other manufacturers and should be applying those lessons as they begin operations.
I meant Linux Desktop Environments.
I think the closest we are going to get to that is the Consent-o-matic plugin, where you set your permissions centrally and it automatically fills in the forms for every web site it can.

And that leads through to another tip to make your consent request less obnoxious - make sure that plugins like Consent-o-matic do actually work correctly and invisibly with your site.
> Developers avoid ads like the plague.

Yep. As a developer, running a pihole, I don't see any ads and I wouldn't click even if I did.

I thought the tl;dr; of the article was going to be along the lines of "if you're selling a "developer tool", don't bother buying ads because "developers" (i.e. your customers) are likely going to lengths to not see these ads in the first place.
Except this is not the question. Why is it so hard for people to understand cookies are absolutely needed even if you just want to calculate retention or number of unique visitors.
Is your stance that subtlety doesn't exist, or just not for stallman?
I remember when I got back into programming, this site was one of the things that really made me excited to code + develop a deeper understanding of algorithms :)
I'm not. But do you think they'd still have that incumbent advantage if they consistently voted against their party's interests (I should also clarify that with "and were honest about it, not lying through their teeth and claiming otherwise").

And even then, they wouldn't keep getting major donor funding if they weren't voting in those people's interests, incumbent or no.
Apart from the others suggestions.

Make sure that it does work with extensions like I don't care about cookies. That one is usually easy but make sure it works with the uBlock script too.

Do not have that the banner force any site reloads.
Analytics for example can be loaded into a page wihtout reloading.

If that is done the ad blocker users will never notice the banner.
I watched Simulant last night (mediocre movie about human-like AI robots taking over the world).

One of the "laws" in the fake world in the movie was something like "AI must only be used when it's being supervised and doing things at the direction of a human"

I thought this was actually an interesting way to think about it.

E.g. If it becomes possible to tell ChatGPT to "spin up a website in the format of NYTimes.com and post 15 new articles relating to recent events each day. publish articles without human review". I think prompts like would really degrade the internet if we also pair it with prompts like "Create twitter accounts, fake engagement for 6 months or until you reach 5000 followers, then start promoting my NY Times clone using these accounts without getting banned from Twitter"

That sort of prompt 1) performs an initial action, which is fine, but 2) also creates a repeating action that continues the AI's use into the future in an unsupervised manner and in a way that its output is used verbatim unreviewed by a human.

I think this whole AI ban discussion needs to be a lot more nuanced. We can't just throw "freedom of speech" at the argument and call it a day.

Honestly, I just don't want to live in a world where 10 years from now my coworkers are able to write a prompt "I'm taking a day off tomorrow without telling anyone so simulate me on Slack. Join daily standup at 9am using an undetectable deep fake. Answer the questions in the style of everyone else. Analyze my Github activity to update my coworkers."
Delphi/VB weren't low code! They were full blown languages with IDEs.
Yep, that's an arrangement with the blood god
Speaking of stallman, the doom community is still alive and going strong all these years later. Dooms source was released under gpl a long time ago and the modding scene is incredible.

Check out doomworld some time to see what’s been going on. Unbelievably good level design and mods all over the place, custom source ports everywhere, thousands of maps, etc
There's a bunch of train video channels on YouTube (because, of course there are). I love throwing on something like [1] just as background while I'm working.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsVJ8PCV-0M
Three yards of books, arranged as they are by colour in that photo, reminded me of a really great team leader at Automattic.

I forget his name - and even if I remembered it would not disclose - but when I had a Zoom with him the books were behind him. Nothing random, all perfectly arranged by spine colour. They looked fantastic. I do not recall if I asked as to why the arrangement, after all, not my business.
> I think people forget that nobody buys a computer because they want to use a computer.

As in, I am "forgetting" that I am an exact clone of the "the average user", whoever that even is, instead of knowing precisely what I like and respect, and what I don't? Nope.

My first use of an Apple was 1999 when friends asked me to help them get on the internet when their parents were away. Never had used an Apple before, took me like 30 mins, all the while feeling insulted by that one-button mouse that was completely unusable without the modifier key on the keyboard. That was my initial impression -- this has to be a joke -- and everything I saw and used since then just confirmed it. From users not knowing what a file is, to devs constantly having to jump through hoops to keep software running because Apple has some new hoops to jump through.

If it's good enough for you, that's fine. Doesn't change that it's not good enough for me. Training wheels are great for zoning out on auto-pilot, they just suck when you're fully focused and would prefer to be able to make tighter turns.

The average user is getting so exploited and fucked over every single day, that what they think they want because they don't know better doesn't impress me in the least.
RotMG has a great idea that I wish more games would copy: difficulty scales with elevation. If you want to take it easy, stick to the coasts. If you want a challenge, strike inland towards the mountains (or follow a river upstream). It's a great way of intuitively expressing difficulty ranges across a sprawling world map, and I remember being disappointed the first time that I played Skyrim that it didn't seem to do the same.

For posterity, here's Amit on map generation: https://simblob.blogspot.com/2010/01/simple-map-generation.h...
There's more than two parties. Nobody is forcing you to vote for one of them. Parties are also an anti-pattern. Again we need a better system than first past the post that naturally biases towards a two party system.
Yes, I don't understand why people think that gold has some sort of intrinsic value.

It only has value because we collectively agree it's valuable. But in itself it's not super useful, yes there are some industrial applications where it's better than other metals but if it was only valued on this basis it would be worth much, much less.
Missing Fred Dinah’s name in the title.
Although I’m not sure if there’s anyone else it could be.

How long before we can have AI speech of real voices?

This is one voice I’d like to hear more of, the other obvious one would be Peter Jones as the Book in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

It’s one thing for voices to sound like humans though, but another to sound like experienced professional voice actors with impish humour.
I guess it depends at what point you buy. A lot of people on Reddit got generational fuck you money betting on GME, Bitcoin and a lot of other stuff. But if you're getting your Reddit tips from CNN then ya you're probably too late.
There is already a PR out for it. Somebody beat me to it by a few hours. :)
It's a pretty big claim, 280kWh/m^2. That's 4x the density of proposed iron-air batteries at utility scale (100h storage x 3MW/acre = 74kWh/m^2). However, I don't know if areal energy density is relevant to the market.
I think it's pretty obvious that there is more than enough information in the training set of a typical human to learn grammar. Because we do. And people in different countries learn different grammars.

Also keep in mind that people get more feedback over their control of language ad grammar while they're learning. We don't just listen, we communicate.
> due to Samsung being considered janky-to-insecure, depending on who you ask

If you ask a member of the Church of Apple, yes, you'll get that answer. Ask any heretic and they'll give different answers ranging from 'I want to keep things separate so I don't flush my PC down the loo next time I forget to take it out of my back pocket' to 'I want to keep my PC personal and don't trust ${vendor} to abide by that promise'.

As to 'Samsung' (or, rather, Android) being 'insecure' it is remarkable to see this premise being pushed. From what I gather there is not much difference between Android and iOS in 'security' - if anything it seems to be iOS which is more often in need of patching against yet another 0-day/0-click related to problems with iMessage or other text-parsing related bugs where Android 'security' problems seem to be more related to the lack of updates for older devices.
It's not the first time that a company got compromised due to microsoft software. This time it was their cloud offering, the previous N times it was AD, Exchange, Outlook, WSUS (for delayed updates), ...
And even if they'd move to something else they'd reach for solutions that also get their tentacles into everything because those solutions are convenient during those time windows where they're not exploited.
I tried to learn it, but to me it just looks like if a crackhead wanted to create his own version of PERL.

The code is unreadable.

Then why would I use it if I can do the same things in Go or Python with much more sane syntax.
Modern modems have "buffer access mode" for this. When you need to receive data, modem notifies you with a message '+QIURC: "recv",<connection>,<len>', then you send 'AT+QIRD=<conn>,<len>' and you know next <len> bytes are data, without any parsing.
OK. Maybe the "email provider" part is the problem. They were probably lax on spammers or they couldn't keep up with them.

I have experience with hosting my own on dedicated servers. It's mostly been fine.
That's only because Schrems hasn't got round to suing them yet.
I’m Brazilian and I lived through our hyperinflation over the 80s and 90s, it’s not the same at all, if it was the economy would already be underground given how much money was printed
I would suggest never doing that, because it makes it impossible, or at least very difficult, to:

1. Lint the code using ShellCheck, which IMO is essential for any shell

2. Run and test that code locally, or anywhere outside of the CI tool

It’s only marginally less convenient to externalise the code into a .sh file and load it in CI.