skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some compelling use cases for .brand TLDs, especially when a given brand is a large company that has lots of different websites. Take Barclays for example. They're a bank, so they're obviously especially sensitive to security issues, and they run a bunch of different websites. Just using websites of the form barclaysfoo.co.uk is obviously unsafe, because it's rife with phishing opportunities since you're training customers to accept these kinds of domains and then some phisher goes out and registers barclaysblah.co.uk and users don't think twice about entering their credentials there.

Subdomains off barclays.co.uk are also not great, because cookies can be shared up to the domain level (intentionally or accidentally), and you don't want any risk of your potentially less secure marketing websites being compromised through CRSF or something and leaking access to sensitive login cookies on the actual bank's website.

So the best solution here really is to get and use the .barclays TLD. That way, there's no possible cookie/session-sharing security exploits since every website is truly a different domain, and only Barclays itself can register .barclays domains so customers can have trust when they see a .barclays domain that it is actually the bank they're dealing with. Additionally, there's fun security things you can do at the TLD level, like globally applying HSTS preloading, that Barclays isn't doing (but should be) and that we are.

And as for open TLDs, the existing generic namespaces like .com are heavily mined out and it's very expensive to acquire a decent domain name in them. So having all these other alternatives available now makes it much easier to get a decent domain for a reasonable cost, which is good for users (and bad for domainers, who I have no sympathy for). For example, I managed to pick up cyde.dev at the base registration cost, which I'll be putting some real content on at some point in the future. I think that's a pretty darn good, short, domain-specific domain name, and much better than anything I could've gotten on .com. cyde.com, by contrast, was registered way back in 2002, 4 years before I ended up going with my second choice of cydeweys.com. But I like cyde.dev better, so I'll be migrating stuff over to it.

Full disclosure, I run .dev (but not .barclays!).
Wow, this is really surprising to hear because literally the opposite happened around here, the experience has drastically improved in the last ~7 years. Now multiple theaters have been converted to "luxury"-style theaters with huge reclining seats, giant aisles, and dedicated arm rests with a swiveling side table.
Mosquitoes kill more people per year than every other animal (including humans) combined[0].

There may be unforseen consequences to eradicating mosquitoes, but to do nothing is already pretty catastrophic.

[0] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Most-Lethal-Animal-Mosquit...
That's a big "if" though. "If" our infrastructure is good enough that oil+CCS is more efficient and no more destructive than alt energy methods, then is there still a need for alt energy?
File formats don't have an API.

> SQLite is a file format with a familiar API and uses SQL as the logic for searching/adding data to the file.

That description is for a library, not a file format. SQLite is a library, that saves to a convenient format and allows you to query the file using the SQL syntax. File formats dont have "logic".

You are arguing the equivalent that Word is a file format. While there is a Word file format, Word itself is an application.
You've got a sharp eye. And I'm not talking about your pet.
The author of American Psycho said if it would have be made today it would star Silicon Valley workers instead of Wall Streeters.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...

The vanity described in the article is not something I've seen in European tech scene were tech wages are lower and more on par with all knowledge based jobs, outside of management consulting, medicine and law. I feel people here get into tech because the enjoy it, not because it's a quick way to get rich, because it definitely isn't.

To me, it seems like vanity just follows the money and has nothing to to with tech specifically, making such articles fairly pointless. 30 years ago it was Wall Street now it's SV and with all that VC money floating around it's bount to attract various types of personas.
Maybe emily-c knows the details. If the processor starts in real 16-bit mode these days like it used to do in the past (8086-compatible instruction decoding, flat mapping form virtual to physical memory, protected mode features mostly disabled, *16 segment registers, etc), there is no reason there should be a difference between 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs. But who knows, these things can get pretty hairy, and a lot of it is quite arbitrary, so you need to research the boot process of a modern x86_64 CPU.
bane said "not stupid"
Are they "bugs" from the point of view of the gba designers or the game programmers? I was u der the impression that the game programmers purposely read invalid memory this way in order to prevent emulation
CCS technology is uneconomic. Like incredibly uneconomic. Like, the last thing you would pay for after doing all other possible things. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stock/files/gillingham_sto...
https://ourworldindata.org/how-much-will-it-cost-to-mitigate...
I like wirecutter for this. Their picks are rarely the most expensive and they try to recommend things that last long. I am happy they can make a dollar or two of my referral link pick for the research work they do.
I organise some tech conferences. We tend to hold our speakers dinner at an upmarket all-you-can-eat buffet, mainly because we have a mix of adventurous and not-so-adventurous eaters.

We try to let our speakers and guests have an opportunity to try our local cuisine, but I'm starting to think that buffets aren't that great for doing so. Travellers new to a country/region wouldn't know what to take, unless there's a local by their side explaining the dishes to them.

As the person that foots the bill, I also usually observe how much everyone consumes — it's usually 2-3 small plates worth; probably valued at a quarter of what we're paying per head.
DigitalOcean has had free DDOS protection for quite awhile. And it sounds like Linodes solution is fairly similar. DigitalOcean decided to not advertise the fact because advertising your defenses is an open invitation to break them.

They still null route when the upstream links become congested but this is becoming less and less frequent as their network edge grows.
If you enjoy this, there is a more recent version you might appreciate:

http://i.imgur.com/16N9R.png
It looks like the author is applying Set Theory [1] and concepts from 12-Tone [2] to tonal music. It is an interesting exercise - though I would expect that this music essentially boils down to "Tonic -> Domainant" relationships. Schenker would be proud :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory_(music)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique
"The technical challenge right now is efficient C02 capture. We've largely shown that long-term C02 sequestration should work. However, we still don't have a ton of ways to capture carbon at scale that don't involve significant energy expenditures. The whole system needs to be carbon negative to work ..."

Thank you for this interesting contribution ... I agree that the full-lifecycle accounting of CO2 and the requirement that the entire cycle come out carbon negative is the really challenging part.

I would go a step further: I am skeptical of carbon sequestration in gaseous form. Call me timid, but I wouldn't want to make high stakes bets on gas staying in the places where we put it. Instead, I would like to see a reaction that converts the CO2 to a solid form (chalk ?) that is stable in physical form.

I believe that weird seed-the-oceans-with-iron-dust proposal accomplishes, roughly, the same thing - carbon sequestered in a solid, stable form.
I think it's very cool. I didn't inspect it with a fine tooth comb, but did a few searches through the docs and seems promising. (one silly surface level search I do is this: do the words "car" and "cdr" appear? if so I shake my head at the design choice to use a word with much less meaning to pander to academics when there is a better one. happy to see that it does not appear in MSL.)

My biggest question of course is this: is there something built with this I can play with?

By my count there's been between 493 and 1323 Lisp-ish languages over the past ~60 years (or approximately 10-20 new ones every year), but only a few end up lasting. So my dilemma is I'd prefer to wait and try a product to see if it's really great before evaluating a language.
And if 4K, whether it’s 4k@60hz or 4k@30hz. Almost none of the affordable hubs support 60hz.
There has been, since about 2012, an almost complete lack of increase in the market share of eBooks compared to print books. eBooks appear to have peaked at around 20%, and might even be poised to decline as audiobooks gain ground.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/23/20991659/ebook-amazon...

Also, libraries are used for a lot of things other than checking out books. Austin's library has boardgames available (I see people playing them there), and a lot of music and movie media.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style, and in particular please drop the personal swipes from your comments here? You've been doing that repeatedly, it's against the rules, and we eventually ban accounts that keep doing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
never really thought about the distinction until now, but yes, you are right. But most people don't really care and call it usb-hub, including me^^
Questions Surround Canadian Shipment of Deadly Viruses to China
In your situation, I would follow his order exactly, do the minimum and let him be the firefighter.

I wouldn’t follow a non-technical manager if I have a choice. I tried it once, it’s a shitty experience. It’s hard to build trust between us. He simply didn’t trust/understand what I said. There were always a pair of eyes watching me. The conversation and management overhead is very high.

I probably wouldn’t hire them if I were the boss. They don’t add value to the project much.
This is really cool. One more bit of data that would be helpful: cord length. Almost all of these have short cords that are great for portable use cases, but not ideal for use at a desk.
I love seeing this: there are massive opportunities to build fundamentally differently architected database based on evolving computer architectures (ram, persistent ram, GPU, heck - even custom hardware) as well as improved understanding of ACID in distributed environments.
SQL remains an important API :)
I originally thought this seemed unnecessary, but I'm using a variant of this already, and it's so much better. And I love that Reason's approach is extensible as well!
I feel like they’ve been slipping recently in order to maximize referral income. There’s been a number of things they’ve suggested that are simply no where near the best. I’d use them as a guide but not a definitive answer - that should go for any site with affiliate links.
That’s closer to the type of iterative change one might expect from a new model of the same type. As long as they’re structurally sound, the folding wingtips present more of a maintenance risk than a safety risk.
PC Assembly Language [pdf]
Could I connect my mbp to this with one cord to get power and external monitors?
r/mormon seems like a neutral sub. You can find believers and non-believers conversing there. All respectful posts seem to be allowed, even if critical of the church or it's beliefs.
And the older apps that are not hiDPI aware, would ignore the scaling request, and be too small to use. No thanks.
Still rules:
http://www.grandis.nu/glftpd.old/
I still don't have a dock for my MPB at my home because none of them support 144hz+. Just have to shuffle cables around every time.
Yeah, the design was/is more of a quick and dirty to get it up and running, will definitely improve it!

The Story: I was actually looking to buy a USB-C hub myself but was annoyed by the amazon website: no filtering, no clear marking of features... Talked to some tech friends, they had encountered the same thing, so I quickly acted and created that website^^
http://hyper-db.com/
And then the next verse about pigs. Which (unlike frogs) have ears and tails, and also are funny looking.
It's weird to see going to the library referred to as a social activity. While in many cases it may be a social activity that involves a stay, in most of the cases I observe, it's brief and transactional, akin to visiting a convenience store or a short-duration service provider (like a car wash).

I went to the library about eight times last year, and in every case I was there solely to use their printer or fax machine (because if you don't work in an office, this is about the only place to access these things; certainly the cheapest). While there, most of the people I observed were either doing the same thing, or were stopping in to briefly browse and check out books or media. These aren't "social activities" unless buying a pack of gum at the corner store is a social activity. A haircut is far more social for me, and I had more of them last year.

My mother takes her great-granddaughter to the library a couple times a month, for various fantastic events the library puts together, which are highly social. They're well-attended, so I have no doubt that there are a decent number of people who do legitimately socialize there, but I wouldn't count most library visits as social events.
Intel Joins Chips Alliance, Contributes Advanced Interface Bus
Bulk URL Shortener
There’s also QuasiQuoter which can make valid code with list comprehensions not compile, but it doesn’t just compile it, it gets stuck looking for the end tag.
Not sure if that qualifies :P
Open Sourced PowerPlant Framework for Mac OS, Mac OS X by Metrowerks (2012)
Found this delightfully insightful.

"I doubt anyone has ever stood out on a street corner wearing a sandwich board reading, “THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END IN A FEW HUNDRED YEARS.”"

I love it.
Nietzsche was the first person to come to mind.
Also there are a lot of mirrors. Easiest I can always remember is 0wikipedia. Just add a 0 before the hostname, no block.
I was quite curious about this project a while back. But I later talked to an academic, a friend who happens to be an expert in the kinds of reaction kinetics the project relies on. His view was that they are not using the correct reaction rates in their calculations. He said they were linearly extrapolating existing data, when in reality it is a non-linear relationship. So my understanding is that their reaction rates still need to be empirically validated. Disappointingly, my friend had no faith that this would ever work - although academics have of course been wrong before. Regardless, I'm very interested to see how this project plays out.
FuJaBa Archive
Good idea! Will add that feature:)
Interestingly, they actually briefly mention something on the topic in the article:

> In the time that the block was in effect, we heard from students, teachers, professionals and more in Turkey about how the block had impacted their daily lives. For many students, the block had occurred just days before their final exams.
Not that I'm a fan of the oil/gas industry, but the beneficial effects of cheap energy (virtually free in the case of natural gas in the US) shouldn't be overlooked, particularly if we can offset their negative consequences.

Climate change must be addressed and I'm all for clean energy (as in a significant portion of my portfolio is in clean energy ETFs, and I'm actually shorting oil and natural gas producers for the moment) but let's not kill a potential golden goose on principle. Decades of cheap energy could help lead to a rebirth of the American manfacutring sector.
First time I saw this word used in this sense (as a column in a database) I was baffled: in the UK a nonce is a paeodophile.
"managed" is an AWS instance or a digital ocean droplet. "serverless" is an entirely different thing.
Hard to feel sympathy for this. What is his hourly wage like $200/ hour?
There is no standard format. Plain english is good, just make sure you put any constraints together up front too. What I like to do is give pre-conditions, communication points, actions, errors and goal of each page I think I need -- and tell them to feel free to challenge or adjust as needed. This gives them basic data points of what your goals are per page, and the pre/post conditions tell them how to get to the goal of the page in the least number of steps and what designs might be best. Also, if you know you have a data structure you have to present that is complex and would work best in a certain style of control, tell them that up front so they can design around it. This can make a major difference in time to market.

And as new_guy said, always point them toward a few different apps/websites you like the design for so they can get a feel for the design.

Also, if you have a color pallet give it to them early, like if you have any brand standards etc, then they can incorporate that all up front. I have had many designers on my staff over the years and this is a major sticking point for them when clients would give us projects. It sounds stupid, but sometimes you can't just change the color in a design and have it look right, it requires a different layout etc. So just be up front if there is something to avoid or something you really want.
Definitely! It is on my todo list to include https://reviewmeta.com/ information for every product :)
Only if the problem is purely software. I've had reproducible problems that were impossible to solve by myself. The process went like this:

- Huh, getting USB disconnects randomly, need to fix this

- Hmm, device driver seems to be fine

- Hmm usbnet driver seems fine

- Hmm xhci driver seem fine

- $5000 and one USB 3.0 protocol analyzer later...

- What the heck is this host controller doing?

At this point it was looking like a hardware problem but seeing as I didn't have the schematics or verilog of the host controller I could go no further (nor did I want too... I never imagined USB could be such a deep rabbit hole).
I am working on RediSQL[1] and I am about to launch a managed version.

The interface will be either HTTP or Redis protocol, you create your database, and daily I will back it up on S3.

(If interested you can subscribe for updated here: https://simplesql.carrd.co/

[1]: https://redisql.com/
Plantation owners weren't farmers in the sense that they themselves were actually out working the fields, and since they had set up a system where labor and capital expense were conflated (i.e., labor was treated in the same category as farm animals or machines) they didn't place a priority on 'labor saving' systems until the time and maintenance cost became an issue.
Contribution of Image Optimization to Web Performance
Hey, thanks for putting this list together.

Is anyone actively curating it one level down: Current $/ton, predicted $/ton, total feasible scale, third party (preferably peer reviewed) vetting for scams, etc?
Cool, I missed that menu at the time this as posted on HN. One can probably manage to get solar to behave exponentially with this. One can also use it to limit the availability of fossil fuels into more realistic numbers, and increase the effectivity of capture to something that reflects people at least trying.

That does allow one to fix the largest issues. But one still has to fix it.
Not much of an interview, is he just making the rounds to market Agency?
haven't heard of them, yet. will check it out :) maybe a combination of fakespot and reviewmeta?
Quite interesting, thankfully it makes use of Intel syntax.
FWIW Ctrl+L locks the screen in GNOME and you can press Enter instead of dragging up the lockscreen.
What's the difference between starting a company in NYC vs. somewhere else?
Wanted to get the communities thoughts on if location for a startup matters. It does matter whether or SF or not... but I am in New York City and wondering whether to start a company here or elsewhere (not SF).
Yep. Coyote population is purely tied to resource availability, which unfortunately can include domesticated animals.

Any farmer will tell you that security is more important than hunting for coyotes.
How to Speed Up Your Website?
Is anyone here a fan of Gibson's post Neuromancer trilogy work?

After enjoying Neuromancer and loving Count Zero, I was pretty disappointed in Mona Lisa Overdrive, and that's when I stopped reading him, and I've heard his later work isn't so much scifi as very near-future social commentary, which doesn't really interest me. But I've still had a vague interest in what he's done since. Any recommendations?
There are other metals and materials involved. It’s a partial solution. We really aren’t even close to a truly carbon neutral steel production. Maybe by 2100.
I mean hopefully most people think of going to a buffet as a "once or twice a year" thing and not something you do on a regular basis e.g. Bacchanal at Caesar's Palace in Vegas or a higher quality All You Can Eat Sushi place.

I'm okay with going all out on the good stuff at either.
Centaur New x86 Server Processor Packs an AI Punch
Well, Amazonas is also the name of the largest Brazilian state by area and one of the largest subdivisions in the world.
With the way the Corona Virus is spreading we might all be wearing Face masks pretty soon.

This may seem like common sense after Flint, but at this point I think a home water filter is needed for most parts of the country. Can't blindly trust the municipalities.

A Home Air filter is probably needed too.

Here's a growing list of things Youtube told me things one should invest:

1. Home Water Purifier

2. Air Filter

3. Good Mattress / Pillow

4. Blackout Blinds for Windows (sleep)

5. Gym Membership

6. Standing Desk

7. Travel

8. Vegan/Plant Based Diet

Oh and Washing Hands regularly.

Yeah its a growing list, and getting kind of expensive. I'm surprised how much it starts resembling living in a 4 star hotel.
Performance is not tied with price, only with instance count and the amount of computational resources assigned to each virtual instance.
Which project is the Event Calendar you referred to? I found this: https://github.com/Zren/plasma-applet-eventcalendar