skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to point that out myself. yes. many people do end up continuing that cycle, although there is some ability to stop which is different than other more pressing things (like insurance).
This is incredibly useful, thank you! It would be awesome if we could chat more about your use cases at some point. Drop us a line on hello at questdb.io or join our slack. Whichever is easier for you.
Then why are there only 2 people on the planet with $100 billion in wealth?

Answer - because it's really freaking hard to multiply by 10,000 times.
I don't know much about that side of the industry so this is only what I've gleamed from mentors and account managers at suppliers: silicon fabrication is extremely conservative and naturally monopolistic because of the sums of money involved and these two factors interact in weird ways. The gross margins on chips are 90%+ but because of the large amounts of upfront capital, they have to strike a balance between derisking the R&D and maximizing profit. Since it is so expensive, demand for specialized chips can only support so many customers per design which limits competition and redesigns are so expensive that clients are locked into their suppliers. The vendors know this and they know that hardware designs are locked in whereas customers have a lot more control over their software so when it comes to derisk the project, investment into software quality is always the first to get cut to the bone. Afterwards, due to that derisking, most of their software engineers spend time chasing bugs in the barebones software and supporting customers so they never get to invest in the software after release before they have to move onto the next product.

This isn't the kind of environment you'd find many passionate software engineers because most of them leave for greener pastures unless they really care about the product they're working on, but they're rarely qualified to run developer experience departments.
I have often wondered if controlled breathing was actually a big part of what smokers find relaxing. When I gave up smoking I noticed sucking air through a small paper tube was also relaxing.
I agree with almost all of the content of Practical Typography. But “stop underlining links on the web” is the point I disagree the most violently with. Removing link underlines is user-hostile. There’s a large body of research to that effect: underlined blue text means a link, not-underlined text in a colour different from the surrounding text… might be a link? But many will miss it. “Are un­der­lined links dead? Maybe not quite. Dy­ing? For sure.” Nope. Not dying in the slightest. If anything they’ve been making a comeback as people come to their senses and realise that æsthetics aren’t the only thing to worry about. (You know what has really beautiful æsthetics? A pure white screen.)

Now in this particular case, I don’t feel the chapter headings should be underlined—because I don’t feel they should be links. As it stands they don’t even look like links, just like underlined headings. If you want to provide a link to this heading, do it otherwise: probably as a character outside the left margin of the heading or after the text of the heading, commonly using # or ¶ or U+1F517 LINK SYMBOL, potentially only visible on hover (not many people want to interact with those things, after all, so it’s fairly OK to conceal them).
Yes, only because the reference point is the average of all manufacturers :-)

Last time I checked, they hadn't corrected the documentation of their previous line of SoCs (almost 10 years old), despite acknowledging the errors I reported many ears ago. You can either consider that personal support was good, or that, by not correcting stuff they know is false, they don't give a damn about wasting every other user's time (and wasting the support staff time again and again each time a user will ask the same question).

I also remember using a simple piece of software from them (a GUI for pins assignment, which basically consisted of a list of checkboxes, or some kind of simple spreadsheet if you want): that super basic thing leaked several gigabytes of memory per hour, just idling. Well, I couldn't let it on 1 hour, I had to take the habit to stop and restart it after 15-20 minutes...
MMS Exploit Part 3: Constructing the Memory Corruption Primitives
The active application was "Activity monitor" as you can see on the screenshot. I did indeed have two Firefox extensions active (vs 7 on Safari). I disabled them and got same results. But everyone should be able to easily perform a similar test for themselves and compare.
Of course the mortality rate will be higher if you only test the people that are hospitalized.... They should have known that.
Google Achilles heel is they have two businesses

a) Spy on people and sell the data to advertisers.

b) Use that data to directly push ads

That's basically incompatible with b2b services. Or consumer services. As a customer you're judged by how valuable the data they are collecting on you is. Which is less than a support call costs. That bleeds into every facet of their business. As such even if you pay them money you get the same treatment because they can't think any different.
We could. I’m not holding my breath.
I started reading his book Breath, and he made the starting claim that, in essence, you could choose to be either energetic or restful by picking one nostril to breathe out of for awhile. (Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time, and the body goes back and forth, but "it's a balance that can also be gamed").

I found this claim a bit... suspicious, and Googled, and didn't find much scientific evidence for this claim. I found a bunch of blog posts by yoga-affiliated people, and the like.

I asked about this on Biology Stack Exchange, unfortunately with no answer.

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/94651/

I would be very curious if any HN reader knows more about this. That said, my impression of Nestor (who is a journalist, and not a scientist) was that he was perhaps a bit too eager to jump to conclusions.
20 seconds of Googling:

https://www.intelhawkpi.com/category/asset-search

http://www.uslicenseplatesearch.com/

https://spycenter.com/product/license-plate-lookup/

https://www.irbsearch.com/vehicle-sightings.html
How do you make statistical inferences from data?
Another way to do that is to buy commercial SaaS vendor monitor AWS costs: CloudHealth or Cloudability.
Versioning Better Than SemVer (2017)
It depends on the company. I went to work at Apple in 2001 and received a large option grant. I made a lot of money when I exercised them in 2011, taxes notwithstanding. If the company is a start-up, their options are probably worthless and should never be an excuse for an artificially low salary.
Bank Level Security != "256-bit SSL encryption and read-only access."
An assessment of Earth’s climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence [pdf]
saving discussions about a bug in a long ago version of SunOS probably wasn't very interesting.

Honestly even that sounds pretty fascinating:

It could help someone gather stats on the nature, frequency, and severity of bugs over time and across companies from another angle.

It could provide a fresh perspective on modern OSes by showing how historic OSes did things.

And it might be good material for a course on the history of software engineering practices, showing classes of bugs that have been eliminated, and styles of development and customer support that worked or didn't work.
i started this technique several years ago, and it's done wonders for both me mental state and attention and my meditation practice.

whenever annoyed or waiting, several deep breaths and then continued breath awareness for as long as i remember.
The way you're framing this is disingenuous at best. This isn't a disagreement between medical professionals. The person he linked to isn't some respected pathologist, it's a person I can only classify as borderline if not outright insane.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-cov...
So? People do blame those problems outside of this discussion. Calls to abolish the electoral college began in 2000 and have only snowballed since 2016. Does every thread have to encapsulate each facet of society at large?
There is one case where going for a bad tool can be risky: when the cost of migrating away from it grows over time.
I wonder every time I see things like this whether more conventional exercise will also do the same thing. I'm a recreational runner, and as I become more fit, I notice that my body is capable of entering deeper and deeper states of relaxation. When I go to sleep at night, my breathing and heart rate slow to rates that I never could have sustained before getting in shape. Being conscious and in control of my breath is important, especially at high altitude. And a long run out in nature definitely puts me in a meditative state.

I wonder if this kind of conventional exercise might provide more "bang for your buck" than just controlled breathing in isolation.
It’s a great idea to build the eras out too. I’ll track you down in HN when I’ve managed to do this in the next month or two :-)
I know ETFs are more popular with most people, but I'm a reasonably good investor. Average about 18% a year on a 50-50 mix of stocks and bonds, and that's before counting cryptocurrencies.

I absolutely knew that DigitalOcean was going to win as soon as I saw their UI, API, and pricing. I was almost as sure with GitHub.

What I like about dealing with the underlying in stocks is I can evaluate the product. Certain companies are no brainers when it comes to product (bought Tesla at $30, early Shopify, Apple after the iPhone came out, etc) and once I check out that their fundamentals don't leave them out of cash in a year or two I don't mind making the call. I also don't mind selling early. Buying hundreds of shares of Apple and selling call options at 10 or 15% above the current price six months out is a reasonable way of making a good return without getting greedy. If it swings south again I buy again.

That said, I haven't bought much in a couple years. The easy wins aren't there and the market as a whole was overvalued before covid and now it's just bananas. So I wait like a bear and make some piddly 1% return in a money market fund. Tempted to short the market, but I don't like shorting and puts are too expensive right now because of volatility.
JK Rowling and the Chamber of Trans Youth Misinformation
What about the following, though?

Theorem:
for: x
where: y
then: z
'some statement'
Wasn't there a HN post somewhat recently about the scientific health benefits of breathing exercises? I can't find it.

I made a note to read it after I saw the post but forgot about it until now.
It has been a while since I've read him. If I'm not mistaken, Thiel is a libertarian, but also pro-monopolies. Has he discussed where he stands when a monopoly conflicts with political freedom, individualism, freedom of choice, etc.? Pivoting slightly, I suspect, deep-down, he favors technological progress at the expense of individual rights with the notion that technology will sort it out without government oversight in due time, which seems wrong.
> The Haudenosaunee (incorrectly referred to as the Iroquois)

As far as I'm aware, Iroquois is considered an acceptable name for Haudenosaunee, much as the country known to its inhabitants as Magyarország is known to the rest of the world by a name that is not anything close to that.

Note that the men's team is the Iroquois Nationals, but the women's team is the Haudenosaunee women's team.
Not arguing either way, but there is a natural disincentive for employers to have to plan around their employees being gone for those long periods of time, plus the ramp-up time upon their return, depending on the job.
> infintesimal compared to dying by suicide via a handgun

Which, in turn, is small compared with dying in a car accident (wherever you live and whether you drive a car or not).
Why does it show that DNS-over-HTTPS is app layer?

Isn't HTTPS HTTP-over-TLS? (transport layer)

Therefore DNS-over-HTTPS is (DNS-over-HTTP)-over-TLS? (transport layer)
Bitcoin isn't an investment, it's insurance
Writing 1+ page essays and MLA citation formatting is work that seems to only exist in academia.

Proper written communication and literature searching skills are demanded everywhere in the workplace. Doesn't everyone dread getting muddled, poorly formatted emails because you have to guess the meaning or write back and forth several times to find out what's going on?

I don't get the pervasive hostility to education and academia in this forum. Granted, much of high school and regional college is piss-poor, but instead of writing off all of university as useless one should demand proper performance.
I didn't know that LoC has any discretion regarding keeping items mandatorily deposited for copyright registration. Do you have more information on this?
> I’m intrigued that Intel would be chasing the low cost 6nm however.

My guess would very much be availability of delivery dates; I would be unsurprised if the first couple years of 5nm was largely sold out, and provided you can deal with the lower density 6nm (which is, after all, primarily just an incremental 7nm improvement with the same design rules, etc.) it allows them to bring it to market sooner.
Safer for the professors though.
Ask HN: What are your teams doing to maintain trust/rapport during Covid?
As more teams are working from home to stay safe during COVID, and more companies starting to support remote work, I think now is a great time to open a thread for ideas on what creative ways teams are maintaining trust/rapport while being disconnected.

One of the main downsides to working remotely, for many, is that it's hard to establish and maintain close connections with your coworkers, which can have long-lasting impacts on trust and rapport.

I figure the HN folks would have some of the best ideas to share, so I thought I'd open a thread. I'm sure ideas range from organized games, meeting on various "fun" topics, etc.

Would love to hear your ideas!
Give a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
You present my comment as criticism, but you left out important context. I did not respond directly to "Correction:" but to a comment by sundarurfriend that seemed to be acknowledging that "correction" did not play the desired conversational role, even as it represented an attempt to be less confrontational than "FTFY". My comment was friendly suggestion of alternatives, along with some measure of analysis as to what went wrong.

The issue I was pointing to was not subjectivity vs objectivity at all. I was pointing out that the way language is used often doesn't square up neatly to a narrow semantic analysis, and that acknowledging the intent of the communication even when you are moving to a more explicit, semantically-oriented regime might help sundarurfriend achieve more of the kind of conversational outcomes that I understand them to prefer.
> Whether it'd scale better, performance-wise, is a very tricky question, which depends a lot on the task at hand. I think flexibility is a more important aspect. If your task is monolithic and all you need is raw power then maybe k8s isn't the answer.

For most (80%+) of the applications I've seen k8s used on, the performance question is not tricky at all. Monolithic performance would definitely be orders of magnitude greater.

I can't help but draw the conclusion that people are using k8s because it looks good on their CV. Whether I'm wise in being skeptical about k8s at my age is a good question.
On prem, low count physical boxes, more mgmt effort than value returned, given the context

I use it else where, with much preference
Hi, thanks for the clarification.
The link you share leads to an article which mentions an investigation by Bellingcat[1] and dismisses it because they are paid by the US. Bellingcat are hardcore investigators though and I'm inclined to take them seriously. What bothers me in both the WL and TheNation's publications is how much quotes they provide out of the context and usually it substitutes for original material.
A really good way to build strong opinion on the matter is to sit and construct a careful chronology of who did/said/wrote what when and to check every source cited, but I don't have the time now and will leave it for the future.
[1] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2020/01/15/the-opcw-dou...
From G side they gained users interacting with 50K+ topics and occasionally posting views, sentiment etc. (and likely all Deja News historic interactions)

In addition to the search history, email content, geo location etc. G have for many people
The cases of IBM and more arguably Microsoft and Oracle tell us that if you reach a certain scale, you can continue to coast for a very, very long time after you lose relevance. Microsoft might be an example of having the glide time to regain it depending on how Windows 10 and Azure go over years, but it's far easier for a large corporation to spend billions defending their shrinking turf than to make the big changes usually required to regain it. The problem is that defending your shrinking turf can show positive revenue numbers for quite some time, so it all looks great while it happens...
Why write to disk when you can just sleep() sporadically?
Think of it more like browser fingerprinting & bits of entropy instead of a one-shot classification. E.g. cross-reference with other data to get near-100% accuracy:" digital fingerprints being emitted from your phone, tracking movement, checking out with a credit card, license plates entering the parking lot, home address vs store location, etc.
Personally I would pay a decent subscription to a journal or newspaper if they offered incredibly high quality content ad-free. Instead what we have are cheap ad-saturated papers competing with each other to the lowest common denominator.

It's a vicious cycle kicked off by Google and co.
This is interesting and I'd love to hear some kind of real-science debunking (as I'm sure it would be the case)... or conversely, showing someone (via video and some kind of monitoring device) directing air in and out of one or the other nostril at will.
If you're working for a megacorp, they might be self-funding their own insurance plan. Otherwise, it is just 'insanely expensive', we just have a system where some portion of that insanity is 'hidden' by employers participating in the transaction (much like FICA tax 50/50 split).

I did some work for a small insurance broker - about 15 employees. They provided health insurance for all employees. They invited me to a few company meetings, and the owners asked what people thought the cost of the insurance was, per month, per person. Lots of $100 and $150/month guesses. I said '$600'. Someone laughed, and the owner said "you're close - it's $586". The room went silent. It was going to be going up to, IIRC, something like $630/month, and he was preparing people for "hey, we're going to cover this, but we're probably not going to be able to do much else, or may have to cut back some minor reimbursement stuff."
Visa Earnings Result 3Q 2020 [pdf]
Sure, sure - only criminals should be able to have guns in a city.
That first one feels very chicken and egg - if you're anxious your sympathetic nervous system is going without the breathing. Can breath be used to relax you? Absolutely, but that's as much about focusing the brain on the breathing instead of the anxious thoughts as anything else.
> 1. HTML3 had the <FN> element, long since abandoned: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/footnotes.html

Less abandoned and more just a complete lack of HTML3 implementation. HTML3 was in some ways an early "spec from an ivory tower", and implementers essentially wrote HTML 3.2 in its place. That said, many of the ideas in HTML3 later came to fruition.
How to Develop Microfront Ends Using React: Step by Step Guide
Panasonic AG-5710. It has an RS232 port meant to be driven by a hardware controller for professional video editing. I managed to acquire the manual for it, which documented the protocol it speaks -- something that would never happen today, sadly. I wrote a driver in Python for it that I'll probably open source at some point. From there I wrote a Mac app to drive the VCR, preview the output (useful for inspecting unlabeled tapes before capture), perform the capture, detect end-of-material to then stop playback & eject the tape, and fully automate the post-processing. It's been several months in the making with tweaking here and there. Next up is automating the generation of a webpage with the library, and maybe even generate the emails I send out (although not sure if I can interface easily with Dropbox to get the public link that I send). I originally went down the Linux/Windows route with different capture hardware, but both proved to be horrible development experiences with unstable drivers that would crash my system, have audio stop working, or some other kind of misc problem. It's too bad because I have a much fancier video card in my linux box than my 2012 MBP possesses for hardware-accelerated encoding. That said, doing the extra trimming/splitting operations in QuickTime Player has been quite easy in a way that I don't think Linux/Windows would have matched as well, so I'm happy with my solution.

I probably will do a write-up at some point (and would love to open source it), but I might have to clear this with my employer first.
At least it doesnt say "Military Grade Encryption" like every other site on the planet.
The fact that nobody had enough fucks to give to archive these groups tells you everything you need to know about decentralized peer-to-peer proof-of-work blockchain nerd hobbies. This content exists on a completely open peer-to-peer content distribution network and here you are whining that one company -- the company that already rescued this archive in a midnight U-Haul run 20 years ago -- failed to archive it.
Scientists successfully revive 100m-year-old microbes from the sea
Maybe class of 2024 is just going to be a lost generation if this keeps up. I know some recruiters keep these factors in mind for entry level.
Crust runs in a RISC cpu inside the Allwinner chip, and it only works in that. I don't know if the NXP chip has a 'dedicated' core to manage the actual ARM cores, but all the work done in Crust won't be portable to the Librem, if it can be done, it'll have to be done from scratch
Just FYI, I've been using this for a while and it works very well: https://kodiakhq.com

You can self host if you want, easy on Heroku.

Plug and play.
Are we so sensitive to racism that the word "master" is offensive? There is a task to change the default branch to "main".

Note: there is no "slave" branch.

Intent matters, not the literal meaning of the word taken a specific orthogonal context. Not a single person in the millions of developers ever had a perverse notion of what master branch means.