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hbt··on Domain Registrars Which Developers Recommend
verisign the company owning .com tld has a 49% profit margin and increasing.
hbt··on Domain Registrars Which Developers Recommend
updated link https://www.icann.org/en/accredited-registrars
hbt··on Domain Registrars Which Developers Recommend
a lot of domain registrars are seeing transfers as the.com is increasing 7% per year and the cost is passed to the consumer
hbt··on Domain Registrars Which Developers Recommend
anyone knows how to find resellers? you can find the list of registrars on https://www.icann.org/en/accredited-registrars&ved=2ahUKEwj5... but it doesn't include resellers
hbt··on NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
or you know, publicly shot in the head for standing up against the deep state and keep delaying the release of secret files even after 50 years.
hbt··on How Japan is tackling a syndrome that creates recluses
the population between 15-39 of men

you are inflating the numbers of women by increasing the age range of the population. you are including old ladies and comparing their issues to the issues of young men, full of life who are lost or disappointed by the state of the world.

I don't understand why they give up, it's really a sickness. something old ladies wouldn't understand because they are alone after they had families who abandoned because she had a terrible attitude

hbt··on Llama 2
Thank you for sharing your project. Do you know why it would print this message that it cannot write code? https://gist.github.com/hbt/4fc643f64ac9e34250cdd1a3d6279eba

However, when using the API https://www.llama2.ai/ It can actually produce code. https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://gist.githubuserconten...

Is this a prompt thing? a model thing?

Thank you.

hbt··on French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists
And your definition of democracy is nothing more than electing a master to rule over you for 5 years. As long as his actions are legal, you consider them legitimate despite being highly unpopular and imposed on people through police violence.

There is more to democracy than a vote every 5 years.

Consent of the governed: "Government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented to by the people or society over which that political power is exercised."

The founders of the United States believed that the government of Great Britain should rest on the principle that government depended on the consent of the governed and that any government not based on that consent could be justifiably overthrown and replaced.

Pretty sure revolutionary France abides by the same principles.

hbt··on French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists
Will you be celebrating the 14th of July buddy? Or will you be condemning the act of 633 angry French citizens "storming the Bastille in Paris, capturing its munitions, releasing its seven prisoners, lynching the governor and demolishing the fortress".

After all, they broke the law and since it's the law then clearly the government had full legitimacy... right?

Next, you should be defending the "Code Noir" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Noir That was also the law at some point and only affecting a minitority of the population. The suffering of anyone in society shouldn't interrupt your daily life as any act of revolt is illegal and therefore illegitimate.

Are you even French? "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" unless it inconveniences my day-to-day.

hbt··on BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
selective law enforcement truly undermines the rule of law and legitimacy of institutions.

it turns the rule of law into rule by law: rulers and the ruled

it creates a class of people who are not subjected to the law while unleashing "order" on the powerless.

it's all hidden behind the curtain and turn a society into nothing more than "might makes right".

the vail is lifted whenever the inconsistencies are exposed which is why the system always aims to avoid transparency to maintain its power.

instead of rule law, society becomes nothing more than a hierarchy of power with a lot of bullshit decorum

unfortunately, it's pervasive across governments, especially less subtle authoritarian governments.

I wish nothing more than true rule of law.

hbt··on Ubuntu to Make Firefox Snap Default in 21.10
My point is: you can easily install software in Docker using apt-get

You cannot easily install software in Docker using snaps.

This makes snaps less useful on servers than traditional apt-get.

hbt··on Ubuntu to Make Firefox Snap Default in 21.10
try running snap inside a docker container and see the gateway to hell it opens
hbt··on Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
I use and forked SurfingKeys on Chrome https://github.com/hbt/Surfingkeys

Calling tridactyl a replacement for vimperator ignores all the features and extensive customization available through the old Firefox API. I've used vimperator and pentadactyl and tridactyl doesn't even come close (because of the awful API limitations).

My point is: Firefox API is now a cheap version of Chrome API. Why would you develop extensions for Firefox instead of Chrome? As a power user, it makes no sense to support Firefox. It offers less than chrome.

They had firebug back when Chrome dev tools was crap, an amazing API for extensions and customization; they threw it all away for this mediocre crap chasing average users and are now playing the privacy / save the web card and guilt tripping people for not choosing them.

They can offer better APIs, they are not entitled to power users.

Power users write extensions, write tools for web developers, developers are the most importance resource. Who even bothers to test on Firefox now? For what, 7% market share?

All that money and support; just all gone. Complete waste.

Anyway, I sunk a lot of time into Firefox over the years and it was my browser of choice for years; I'm definitely still bitter about it. They literally abandoned power users. Fuck them.

hbt··on Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
true. their api is now a dumbed down version of chrome.

I still remember the days of vimperator and treetabs in xul.

firefox did this to themselves. they dont deserve support.

hbt··on Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines
unvaccinated people are two to three times more contagious than vaccinated people.

therefore they are spreaders.

please note I'm only repeating what I heard from the cbc.

the other arguments are mostly economics and logistics. e.g delaying surgeries

hbt··on Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night
national security letters and secret courts have no inertia and need no bipartisan consensus.

the political theatre is only when they don't want to do something and delay. the state is swift with pursuing its interests.

hbt··on Add dark mode to your sites, or at least let the browsers do it for you
the great thing about https://fishshell.com/ us it works even if you have forced dark mode flag enabled in android chrome

where as the OP site renders light

hbt··on “If you want NYC salary, work in NYC” – Morgan Stanley CEO
do they give a discount on their pricing page based on your location or do they charge the value of the product ?

cost of living seems to only apply to employees and not customers

hbt··on Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
you call him a creep, I would call him a go getter.

it is immensely frustrating to deal with automated systems, resume keyword matchers, no contact within a company and being ghosted after taking the time to write a proposal and cover letter that is a fit for the job description.

so what, he called an executive and got around their spam filter?

my advice

treat job hunting like a sales process.

you're successful based on the number of interviews you get.

figure out during the interview what's their decision making process.

read more books on sales and learn to handle rejection.

stop pursuing status jobs, at least until you have one with a good income.

hbt··on Supreme Court expands meaning of 'seizure' under 4th Amendment
>> Qualified immunity is a shield from civil suits not criminal liability.

"generally requires civil rights plaintiffs to show not just a clear legal rule, but a prior case with functionally identical facts."

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/publicat...

It's not a crime if there is no precedence; cannot establish precedence because there is no precedent.

Sounds like immunity to me; but please, feel free to point me to the high number of court cases of criminal cops held accountable in a court of law.

You should also send that to the american bar association; they are clearly wasting their time pursuing criminal justice reform for the complete lack of accountability.

hbt··on Supreme Court expands meaning of 'seizure' under 4th Amendment
>> People, even police, are not above the law and are not granted special exceptions of hostility,

That's literally what qualified immunity provides; in addition to all the special laws they lobby for that undermine the rule of law e.g investigating themselves, reviewing footage of their crime prior to giving testimony etc.

hbt··on What's the role of Go in a universe where Rust exists?
incremental compilation is so slow in rust. it is ridiculous.

it completely ruins my flow

hbt··on Build your own X, a collection of tutorials (Search engine, Neural Net, etc.)
Feynman said if you understand a concept well, you can it explain it simply

in the age of computing, if you understand a concept well, you can simulate it.

hbt··on WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore
a post to support your comment

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6omry/an_o...

hbt··on GPT-3 has ‘consistent and creative’ anti-Muslim bias, study finds
or perhaps when a mentally ill person attacks someone with a knife on a German train screaming the name of their God; dozens of articles are written, political pundits blog about it and tons of social media comments are created.

but when a foreign state blows up a wedding / funeral based on cellphone location data, only trace of the event is in some WikiLeaks pdf somewhere.

one is perceived as legitimate and uses different vocabulary and methods to murder people ( drones instead of car bombs).

gpt3 is a glorified auto complete algorithm. it doesn't reason or look at the bigger picture.

hbt··on Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
based on your output and how many people can also create the same output.

that's what drives down the price. as long as other people are willing to create the same output for less money, you will be paid less

hbt··on Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
same I bought a cpu from Amazon 700$ and sold by AMD

they shipped me a used one where the paste was already partially applied on the socket.

it works but still payed full price for a "new" item when it was a returned item.

it's just scummy all around

hbt··on Google outage – resolved
FYI if you have cronjobs using Google apis, disable them or delay them.

a bot is flagging ips as abusive. it should clear up later.

hbt··on Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
http://generalintellectunit.net/feed.xml
hbt··on Dark Reader – enable Dark Mode on Wikipedia and many other websites
https://github.com/matthewhadley/chromedotfiles
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