skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about measuring zone file access programs?

How many users utilise the full number of existing domain names in the world today?

How many names do users realistically need to access in a lifetime?

What if we exclude ad servers and other domains that exist solely for marketing?

It depends on the user, but in some cases the majority of their non-commercial web^1 use can be accomplished without ever making remote DNS queries; the IP addresses can be stored and used on a long-term basis. That is because a user may only visit the same small number of websites. The foregoing is of course only an opinion based on testing conducted by yours truly. Every user is different.

Try measuring how many times the non-commercial websites you visit change IP addresses in a year.

You might find that DNS resolution is like that "definition of insanity" meme: making the same query day after day, expecting a different answer.

1 It makes a difference whether or not a user is using the web to make purchases. For making purchases online, DNS resolution is almost always required. Domains and IP addresses in that context are constantly changing. Go figure. OTOH, if you are visiting a website such as news.ycombinator.com on a frequent basis, is it really necessary to look up the IP address for news.ycombinator.com every time you visit the website? I have used the same IP address for years at a time.
Apples to apples here. My '16 leaf was 15K after generous incentives and it only gets 120 miles on a very good day.
They all still run webkit and are vulnerable to the exploits which Safari in iOS is vulnerable.

If I can oversimplify, 3rd party browsers on iOS are just like a theme for Safari.
> We were looking for that rare combination of someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting to close many huge deals and becoming a hyper-growth enterprise software company very quickly.

To bad they're on the hyper-growth train now as well, but I guess their investors want to get some money back. I'd preferred seeing them grow slow and stable, because I feel that focusing solely on growth often leads to decisions not in the interest of the users.
Very few people with kids to support should try this no matter where they live. When it just you (a supportive spouse with a day job can be helpful, but supportive is key) the worst case can get pretty bad: you can sleep under your desk in the cheapest roach apartment in town, eating beans for dinner - living on less than 1000/month for everything (you are taking a risk that you won't need the insurance you are skipping). This allows you to live for a long time on very little cash flow. Your bankers will wonder how you can run a business with so little money in the bank but you will always be on time for your minimal bills. It won't matter that you can't afford activities, because other than your daily 30 minute exercise in the local park you won't have time for any activities (even this is optional, but for your health I recommend it). Hopefully the business takes off after a couple years and you can settle down to a more normal schedule.

Once you have kids to support it gets harder. Not only are there more bills to pay, spending so much time on business means you miss many once in a lifetime opportunities to see the kids as they grow.
> Germany’s embattled car industry suffered a one-two blow after prosecutors charged Volkswagen AG’s two top executives with market manipulation in the four-year-old diesel scandal […]
I just don't see them wrestling control away from the deranged, cult leader. He truly believes he is destined to be president of the world and revolutionize.. well every thing. There best bet would be to drop the multi-class structure to get into passive funds.

It needs $8.1b market cap to get into S&P500.
I predict Microsoft will acquire SO in the next 5 years.
I wonder what future Fedora will have if this new CentOS Stream will be stable enough for developer daily driver. 6 month release cycle of Fedora always felt awkwardly in-between, not having the stability of lts nor the continuity of rolling. I guess lot depends on details on how the packages flow to CentOS Stream, do they come from released Fedora versions or rawhide etc.
Site turns any Wikipedia page into an “extremely citable” academic paper
LOL +1
Company - WeBroke
Investors - WeWoke
Employees - WeQuit
Wow does a day not go by that we get new news of wework falling apart?
There's not much more, unfortunately: https://youtu.be/5ygYSdL42Zw?t=4778
Not for your browsers, no. UBlock Origin is far better than any host-based adblocker.

I use pihole to block ads inside apps, it's unmatched for that.
Somewhat off topic, but is there a name for this convention:

> Most people supporting no deal don't believe they're true, and for valid reasons!

> Let's break it down.

It is the same pattern and cadence that Sheryl Sandberg uses when describing exciting new privacy initiatives in interviews, but it's also used by PR managers at many tech firms.

Is there a PR school where they describe the subconscious thought process of a typical audience:

> Sure, I want to join this really fun bandwagon with all of the enthusiastic people developing privacy policies at Facebook, or learning all the great ways that a no deal Brexit is going to be truly awesome for the UK. However, that's just my emotional response to wanting to be included, so please give me some nominally rational arguments for post hoc rationalization

I think it probably works, at least until it is overused, but I am curious about whether there is a name for the whole approach.
Operating Apache Kafka Clusters 24/7 Without a Global Ops Team
There was an article yesterday where Softbank was saying that they think they can renegotiate those LOCs to go forward even if there is no IPO this year. They might end up being a lot smaller and have worse terms for We though. I wouldn't be surprised if pushing Adam out was the first demand the banks made in that renegotiation.

Softbank wants to delay the IPO now because it would mean a massive writedown of their investment value.
Original United States Input-Output Table from 1947
> And there you exhibit the problem: taken out of context, and selectively quoted, you declare sociopolitical opposition "bad" and implicitly support censorship thereof while yourself demean them via racist insults. THIS IS THE PROBLEM.

What is taken out of context here? What context do you need to understand bullshit conspiracy theories? What other context do you need to understand that bit about Scott? Could you dig up something redeeming he has said recently?

Sociopolitical opposition is not bad, harming people is bad. If your sociopolitical opposition is hurting people, then your opposition is bad. We had a word for these people on old school messages boards and forums - flamers - people that add nothing to the conversation but just fan the flames and sully good discourse for no real reason.

I'm not supporting censorship, I'm not saying to censor these guys. What I'm saying is that if you are nothing but a flamer, then you will find that people will just start ignoring you. That's not censorship, that's just the side effect of losing your damn mind.
Yes, my thoughts are partly shaped by how I perceive things, see them, read about them.

However when you have spent time exploring the concepts, go to their origins, subject them to your analysis, to what people before you have thought about them through the different ages, pay attention to the meaning of the names and not use them flippantly, look at who wields the power and who benefits, watch your own motivations and those of others, then I believe it ceases to be mere perception and the true nature of the thing under consideration reveals itself. Yes you may not understand it in its entirety, but you tend to grasp the essence where earlier it was cloaked in myth.

I'll give you an example. People exemplify the benefits of division of labour stated by Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations. That is how it is conventionally taught. But they conveniently ignore how he talks about the soul crushing, mind numbingness of it later in the book. How it negatively affects the nature of man. And this resonates with ones experience having gone through the grind.

Also the nature of things is not fixed, static. It evolves too. It changes those using it and in turn is shaped by them. What started of as a good idea, mutates into a self-perpetuating myth.

Please read the book I referred if you are really interested in the actual nature of these concepts.
at least they are offering the ability to confidentially explore the opportunity - just think if your friends found out!
In 2027, at least 7 out of the top Tiobe languages will be Tree Languages
Not defending the law, but yes, at the moment where Google is hosting that information, it has effectively become another source and seems fair to treat them the same as a source.

They could get out of it by not being a source.

Say you search "John Doe crimes". Consider these Google results:

1) <some url>

2) <some url> John Doe was accused of kicking a baby in Brussels...

In case 1) Google is just pointing you to a url and isn't a source. In case 2), Google is hosting some of the content itself and has become a source. So any law that says "if you have the story about John Doe kicking the baby, remove it", then it should apply to the summary Google gives in 2.
I ask here after every ReactOS release...does anyone here run ReactOS full time? Is it stable enough now to be used as a normal desktop OS? What does it give you over Wine?

I'm genuinely asking this; I'd like to get my grandmother off of Windows XP, and there was some piece of software (some weird productivity pack that she loves for some reason) that I couldn't get working with Wine.
It shows up for me. There is an announcement at the bottom of the home page and the download links already show links to CentOS 8
I agree, but with some minor quibbles specific to the HN audience:

1. The ability to write software is an asset and the DSV type projects are more software adjacent. Software has such great margins that it's much easier to create a profitable business than anything that involves shipping or physical goods (MicroSAAS, Dev Books/Courses, Themes, etc.)

2. It's sort of left unsaid that much of the purpose of buying these "domains you can make a business around" is to optimize SEO. And my honest feeling is: well done, that's a huge leg up in ranking.

But there have been some changes to SEO (Google weighting factors and more navigational searches) that have reduced the value of them.

Also, I think there's a strong argument to be made that if you're just starting out today and have $20,000 you'd be better off today with:

duderanchjourney.com ($14 to register) + $19,986 in content, advertising, etc.

vs

duderanch.com ($20,000 to buy) + a blank page.
I find this argument very weak. Should communists not buy anything? Should anarchists not use roads?

When your political beliefs are at odds with the current legal framework, you have no choice but to compromise to some degree. That doesn't mean you don't actually believe what you claim.
And on the iPad Pro, you can do it with a random USB-C card reader.
The point is that, given India's population, "multiple suicides per day" tells us nothing. That could be astoundingly low or astoundingly high. More precision is needed.
I guess different strokes for differnet folks. Games that put me in another world in VR at some level kind of ruined similar non VR games for me.

Like I just bought No Man's Sky since they added VR. I thought I'd only play it for 20 minutes just to see the algorithmically generated worlds but I ended up spending 20 hours in it in VR. I felt like a little kind full of wonder and glee everytime I jumped in a ship and took off. I felt like a little kind building a camp. I felt like a little kid when I found a water planet and launched and rode a submarine. Same with drilling through an entire mountain. It was amazing to "be there" instead of "looking at a picture of another character being there" (normal 3D games not in VR). It's not a great game yet IMO but just being in these situations in VR blows me away.

Breath of the Wild is my favorite game of all time but I was disappointed it was not in VR once in a while. I wanted to just be able to look around with my head not the R stick. I also like VR games where controls are in the world, not the buttons. Like reach over your shoulder to grab your sword and hold up your shield not press Y and old R.

I'm actually surprised Blizzard hasn't made VR WoW and hasn't either added facial capture attachment or pushed Valve/Oculus for one. If there was a low-res device that could capture your mouth shape and eyes so that your in game character could match your expression I'd think the enjoyment/addiction level of playing WoW would be 10x whatever it was at WoW's peak.

I agree the good content isn't there for VR yet and there isn't enough of it. I also agree there may never be a big market for many reasons. But, the moments VR's strengths shine I'm blown away and can't go back.
The latest Slate Money podcast had a great segment savaging Neumann.

https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money/2019/09/slate-money-o...
It also needs to be ebita profitable for 8 quarters in a row before its added to the index IIRC
I haven't read these thoroughly, but hopefully it's a place to start. I searched for "picking victims study." That seemed to come up with some hits. A search for "group dynamics abuse" was less helpful.

Targets who displayed vulnerable body language were more likely to report past histories of victimization, and psychopaths identified these individuals as being more vulnerable to future victimization.

https://www.workplacebullying.org/gait/

What Do Sexual Predators Look For When Grooming Victims?

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/jeffrey-epstein-what-do-se...

Short Circuiting the Victim Selection Process

http://www.protectivestrategies.com/victim-selection.html

Marked for Mayhem

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200901/marked-ma...
It's luck, and taking credit for the work of the people they hire.
Is this part of the business model of these large, unprofitable VC-backed companies? Build a valuation to meet the 8.1bn threshold, then sell the shares to passive investors in S&P 500 index funds?
Brexit is a word that seems to have many meanings. Brexit to Brexiteers means a clean break. Brexit to remainers (remoaners?) means the end of a trade regime that Britain was doing fairly well out of despite the large dues. After Brexit, whenever or if ever it happens, Britain will have to sit down with Europe to negotiate trade deals. This is not mentioned by Brexiteers. The complication of the Anglo-Irish Agreement was pooh-poohed by the Brexiteers during the run up to the Referendum of 2016 and now they are hoist on their own petards. I realise that there are many other reasons besides the above.
Google is not merely a reference. As soon as it scrapes a site it caches it, and hosts the summary, and makes the cached version available.
Did anyone actually pay those top rates ever? It seems to me that the wealthy had enough brains and resources to avoid ever landing in those absurd 90% tax brackets or whatever they were.
You know, this could all be solved if TI would lower the cost of their calculators, and make them easier for schools to buy them and maintain them as opposed to students having to shell out $120 for a glorified Z80 processor.
second this, can not remember reading an article that did not give me a new perspective on the topic.

Also Jeff Atwood, the other cofounder of SO has a blog that is very informative called Coding Horror.
I played around with it. I really like the integrated DNS over HTTPS, but the reporting doesn't quite match up. I didn't bother switching but it would be a perfectly usable option.
what does 'pressure' actually mean? How is it exerted by outside investors?
Rust sorta can, but prefers to be compiled to WebAssembly.
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In Search of an Honest Man
wow! that was quick. surprising to say the least.

these kind of people tend to be driven by ego, so this must have hurt.

looks like he'll still be chairman though.
Sometimes I can't tell if the break them up rhetoric is out of a desire to see things improve with competition or a desire to stick it to the big bad tech companies.
Ironically, the folks pirating the software didn't run into any interruption because there is no iLok
Ok yes well that one is absolutely crazy and scary. Regardless of whether there are race biases in the database.
Yep. More people should read the Gervais Principle.
It's a niche more because of initial cost. The Quest seems to be a good standalone bridge for people who want to get into it. It's definitely not a gimmick. Everyone I've had try my Vive are blown away by it. Motion sickness is like sea legs, some people don't need to get used to it, others need a little time or adjusting.
All the more reason for employees to be excited about the opportunity to finally see liquidity for their shares.
61kWh, not bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_e6
Serious a: Use something else than e-mail.
I'm surprised he paid $20k for that domain name, and then made the site look like this: https://i.imgur.com/3XYXdo6.png

That is Firefox by the way. I suppose it looks differently in whatever browser it was tested at the time? Or maybe it is my adblock blacklisting wpengine.com by default?

He could have hired a web designer/coder for a fraction of that price.

Edit:

Turns out it is uBlock.

Don't use styles/JS from domains used for serving ads I suppose. That's analogous to sending legitimate mail from servers that also tend to send out a lot of spam.

You'll have spam filters/adblockers ruining your day.
Corporate governance was definitely a factor, but getting cut down from $47B to $10-15B is... a lot. Public market investors clearly have a much worse opinion of We's fundamentals than SoftBank did.
How have we gotten to the point where a company that is considering a $10-46B IPO is in a position where 1/3 of its staff is redundant and can be laid off, where investors can look at that company and think it's a good and growing investment to sustain their public pension or hedge fund returns, where bankers and consultants can come in and say yes deprive these 5000 people of their income and livelihoods because we need to give the founders and early investors an exit, where "tech" has come to be defined as a more flexible office space leasing model that scales quickly, where the brightest new students want to replicate another SV "tech" success by following the same playbook.

There is something extremely wrong with the rate of innovation, productivity growth, the division of labor and capital, and the distribution of profits between labor and capital in developed countries today, and it's unsustainable.
Here, this page has a picture of the two-speed. Third down, on the left:
https://www.prices4antiques.com/Bicycle-Pope-Mfg-Columbia-Sh...
How about instead of cutting workers, oust the CEO, stop making payments on the leases for properties that he owns, and let him try to sue his own company while he's choking on his leverage?
My 2009 Asus laptop is running the latest Window 10 Professional just fine.
Many previous presidents of the US were "very well off" but not Rich in the warren buffet sense (Obama comes to mind). Possibly the most powerful position in the world.

Many generals of the US army are not "rich".

I suspect there are some cabinet positions that don't pay a lot, but offer a lot of power...
What Is the Best Place in India to Visit?
I think it's most recent quarter + 4 previous. I'm also fairly certain it's selected by committee. I'm no finance expert, hence the securities fraud conviction. I don't really know which index it could get into with a high amount of passive investment.
> But if you are from a country that has high per-capita emissions (I'm assuming you are from one) then your country is much more responsible for the problem.

It's interesting that you expect someone in a country that has 1 brother and 2 children and 4x times more natural resources per capita (our population density is 1/4 of a India's), to enjoy the same level of life of someone in India that has 4 brothers and 3 children.

Now is my turn to say it: good luck with that.
Can I be honest?

As someone who hopped on the K8s bandwagon back in the early days (circa-early 2017), _do not_ go into production with Kubernetes if you're still asking this question.

Just a few of the issues I've run into over the past 2 1/2 years or so:

- Kubernetes DNS flaking out completely

- Kubernetes DNS flaking out occasionally (for ~5 percent of queries)

- Giving out too many permissions, causing pods to be deleted without a clear reason why, often taking down production traffic or logging with it

- Giving out too few permissions, making our deployment infrastructure depend on a few lynchpins rather than sharing the production burden

- probably a dozen different logging aggregation systems, none of which strike a balance between speed and CPU cost

- probably a half-dozen different service meshes, all of which suck (with the exception of linkerd, which is actually quite good)

- teams with bad santization practices leaking credentials all over the place

- Running Vault in Kubernetes (really, don't ever do this)

- Disks becoming unattached from their pods for no discernable reason, only to be re-attached minutes later again with no explanation

- At least one major production outage on every single Kubernetes-based system I've built that can be directly attributed to Kubernetes

- Etcd failovers

- Etcd replication failures

- Privilege escalation due to an unsecured Jenkins builder causing credential exfiltration (this one was _super_ fun to fix)

Kubernetes is a powerful tool, and I've helped run some massive (1000+ node, 5000+ pod x 3 AZ's) systems based on K8s, but it took me a solid year of experimenting and tinkering to feel even remotely comfortable putting anything based on K8s into production. If you haven't run into any "major" issues, you're going to very soon. I can only wish you good luck.
I had concerns earlier this year when I interviewed at WeWork—which was the worst interview experience I’ve ever had. I applied for a data science role. The first two hours of the on-site were painful—they seemed to be asking questions tailored to be outside my experience. The third interviewer came into the room and said, “I, uh, just looked at your resume and I have to ask, why do you want to be a backend engineer?” :facepalm: I showed him my application for a DS role, so he left and came back with a DS guy who made up an interview on the spot. I (fortunately?) didn’t get a call back.
That really isn't a like-like comparison. You are looking at just one product from Apple. In the Android and Windows world for each generation there are hundreds of thousands of hardware combinations from entry level to high end that are expected to run Windows. Also MS/Google cannot test their software with future un-released hardware. If anything, this should be a cakewalk for Apple - if they choose to. I don't know what special "tuning" is required that prevents Apple from supporting the hardware.