skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great to talk to a press if the press has goals aligned with the company: make people more aware of a product / service. As an example my girlfriend wrote a book, she talked to the press about it, which made interesting content for the newspaper and the radio, and got some recognition in return for free.

But as Tesla doesn't pay for advertising (unlike its ICE competitors), the incentives are not aligned, so Tesla and the press had bad relations for a long time.
So I’ve been using Bing for 3 years now. I like it a lot.
The article's answer is obvious: it's an extremely niche language and people learn it when they need to, using the proprietary system paid for by their employer. Supply meets demand perfectly, and people learn it when they are paid to.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24692676
Did you mean "stub domains and driver domains"? I'm pretty sure dom0less was used in production before it even made it into the main Xen tree. :-)

As I said, using Xen from a plain vanilla distro is more difficult to set up. There are a couple of reasons for this; one of them being simply that RedHat's main product is itself a distro, and so the setup of their product translates over directly into making it easy to be set up within other distros.

The companies with products shipping Xen, on the other hand, primarily ship fully-integrated products. Citrix Hypervisor (was XenServer) and XCP-ng are "virtualization appliances" in which everything is integrated. OpenXT and QubesOS are the same way. Citrix Hypervisor / XCP-ng don't use driver domains, but they do have custom QEMU deprivileging for device models. OpenXT and QubesOS do (as I understand it). If you install one of these, you get a secure setup by default.

Fundamentally, none of these organizations would benefit directly from making it easier to set up driver domains on plain vanilla distros; and so making it easier to use driver domains on a plain vanilla distro never gets to the top of their engineers' priority queue. If you're interested in using Xen on a server fleet, I would definitely recommend going with XCP-ng or Citrix Hypervisor; if you want a secure desktop, definitely go with QubesOS or OpenXT. On the other hand, if having your fleet / desktop based on a vanilla Linux distro is a priority for you, then KVM might be a better bet at the moment.

But as always, "patches accepted". :-)
“working from home is a lot less efficient than an ideal office” — Goes on to highlight the distractions of the office and all the efficiency/time gains of WFH.
There are so many permaculture websites. I get it, I'm a techie who has taken a course and designed my site. I maintained a blog for a while, kept chickens, and grew some of my own food.

But what permaculture really needs is the economics to line up and the wider culture to change. The main permaculture profession seems to be teaching. There just doesn't seem to be a plethora of jobs that are directly related to permaculture.

I love it as a design system and it definitely has opened up my eyes, but permaculture doesn't need yet another website.
For me it's all about routine, sleep and unfortunately accepting that stimulants make my life orders of magnitude more productive and enjoyable. However, my ADHD is also what gives me the ability to think in very creative and obtuse ways / also derive my anxiety into huge decision trees that have unfortunately proven to be very accurate.

As someone who was finally diagnosed by two different neuropsychs (involved days of testing) at 22 it's something I'll regret the rest of my life. Basically, the fact that my parents just thought ADD was a "fake disorder" and struggled through a majority of high school / college.

Frankly, I've also found significant benefits micro-dosing a liquid psilocybin mushroom extract a few days a week.

Please talk to a psych if you think you might have ADHD!
AT&T’s Decision to Kill DSL Could Leave Millions Without Broadband
Good for them. Why do we need a biased filter (journalists) between customer and company.if it is damage recovery journalists and their employers can be easily bought for cash.in this world of direct communication it would be childish to assume papers and journalists are still relevant
Or, in my experience, Google not letting you search at all, and instead acting as an endless fount of terrible, terrible captcha's.
Why do "most people" need to do this?

The questions isn't "What do 90% of people do?". The question is whether or not those of us that care about privacy have the ability to be private.
The most interesting and important parts of the smartphone stack are closed source.

The parts that control doing calls, connecting to cells, etc.

They are called "Radio" firmware.
A Nobel Prize is about a million dollars cash.
2% is actually a very large percent, considering how contagious the virus is. Many people like to say that all respiratory illnesses produce similar issues, but no other so widespread virus has such high chronic illness remains.
>It is practical to raise quail for eggs or meat in an apartment.

Having raised quail, I just absolutely cannot fathom having them in an apartment. They're loud, they smell, and they really, really like flying around. If you raised quail in an apartment, I'm betting it would be in semi-inhumane small cage conditions.

As someone who has not bought food at a grocery store (outside of citrus and other fruits we cannot grow locally due to climate and my absolute fear of scurvy) for the last 5 years, and someone who has cultivated this specific lifestyle for the last 20, I genuinely do not see a way for an apartment of folks to provide for themselves. Nor do I see a functional way for a city neighborhood to do so.

It takes so much space just to feed our family of 3 for the year, and that's with trading goods that we cannot or do not want to raise ourselves.

I agree that it builds a stronger local community and all that. But OP's premise is still accurate - this is an unrealistic expectation of people growing their own self-supporting food. The space just isn't there - in urban areas.
The only people who support this shit are people who haven't thought through all the second-order consequences. They're very few in number - most people generally dislike surveillance, but don't fight against it nearly as hard as they theoretically could. Economic incentives are working their magic here. For example, much of the NSA's spying programs are legal specifically because AT&T made everyone surrender metadata for advertising purposes as a condition of telephone service back in the 50s. AT&T had monopoly power, so the only choices available were to sign over your metadata or live like Richard Stallman. Furthermore, any indication that your phone call records were being bought and sold was hidden in the fine print of long, non-negotiable contractual agreements.

The problem isn't "undesirables" (MISS ME with that shit), it's lies by omission and economic power brought to bear against people's rational expectations of privacy.
> Why do we need a biased filter (journalists) between customer and company.

Traditionally companies have a hard time trusting that their customers will want the right thing.

The fact that this was ever considered related to journalism is hilarious.
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Hidden Features of Chrome DevTools
Yes. I am so tired of this somehow rebranding from murderer/rapist to eccentric security expert.
Avoidance of social media should be in this list.
> If we didn’t work to slow its spread, our healthcare system would rapidly collapse.

Is that really the case though? We keep hearing of a lot more infected, but at the same time the hospitals have a lot of capacity now (across several countries) so what is the risk for the healthcare system right now?
>It is the worlds most popular database, despite not actually being a database.

"A database is an organized collection of data, generally stored and accessed electronically from a computer system."[1]

Excel is an organized collection of data, stored and accessed electronically from a computer system. So I would call it a database.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database
Dylan was a Swift that came too soon, at least as the sibling comment mentions, we got Julia.
The distinction between the parties is little more than an illusion.
Covalent Is Organizing Ethereum Data to Enable Widespread Adoption
Think of PR pros as lawyers for the court of public opinion.
In most places I have worked, it is not called "PR", it is the Communications department. They typically do edit and revise all the public communications, in particular for public companies. You are partly correct that communications need to be careful to not divulge confidential information, nor information that could impact any regulatory requirements for public companies, which can feel like jargon. But they also will often help draft internal communications when announcements need to be sent to the entire company. Their role is to improve the effectiveness of all communications, making sure that people know what is going on, how it impacts them, what actions are needed, and where to go with questions. You'd be surprised how much gets written that fails to effectively communicate such things.
There is so much good stuff in here. Not only was Metcalfe front and center in many of the most important developments surrounding the development of computer networks and the internet, but he is a phenomenally cogent and entertaining speaker. His recollection of detailed specifics (dates, names, numbers, etc.) is impressive and makes the stories richer. I have read/watched dozens of these oral histories by now, and his is one of my very favorites. He also has had a much more diverse career than most, spanning the range from technology to business to punditry. If you have time, I also recommend watching the video version of the interview on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKz07DdaKzw
There are two kdb consulting companies in Northern Ireland, FD who own Kx, and AquaQ. Working here in London, you can’t move for FD and AquaQ consultants. I wouldn’t be surprised if they saturate the kdb job market, as both companies are on a massive hiring spree.
The Women Who Invented Video Game Music
It’s possible that all the habitable planets nearby have life, but it’s incompatible life to our own. After all we have specific enzymes for digesting specific molecules in terrestrial organisms. If we were to eat a plant on another planet it might be like eating dirt. This might even be part of the answer to the Fermi paradox.
These are all subjective complaints that are inherently anecdotal. I would also argue on the severity.

How many people complained of chronic fatigue 2 years ago? Maybe COVID has been spreading for decades making people tired and depressed! /s

Any severe case of pneumonia that damages your lungs is going to cause long term breathing issues, but that’s obvious and outside the scope of this conversation.
AES is one of the few that has a pretty good shot at it, yeah.
SHA-2 has had its margin eroded significantly over the last 10 years. I'd feel nervous about using it in security-critical applications now, never mind 20 years down the line.

ECB is insecure regardless of which cipher you use. There's no excuse for using it in production applications.

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I learned new thing today. it definitely looks much better.
This trend of wanting to move fast and break old code is exactly the opposite of what I want from my dependencies.

Look the story of AngularJS vs React.

As a library you’re the less important part of my system, I use you to save me time so that I can focus on business logic. The moment I am spending time on you constantly is the moment I am looking for something else
Totally agree. On the other hand, it does put us in the unique position of being able to learn lessons from mature infrastructure projects from around the world. Hopefully we can be more effective because of it, but we'll see!
The industry is absolutely inefficient when you consider what inputs required: pesticides, seed, machinery, fossil fuels for planting/harvesting/transport, massive government subsidies -- not to mention the depletion of the soils that come along with it. It is not even monetarily efficient: take for example the dumping of millions of gallons of milk to match quotas this past year. It's far from efficient.

I would not consider something that requires so much input to be "more efficient at feeding a person". It is however a system that is efficient at feeding mass amounts of people -- if you ignore the inputs.

We created Permapeople alongside the principles of permaculture. The efficiency you can create by designing systems that require few outside inputs is unmatched! While the output is not as far-reaching as industrial production, in the hands of enough local folks, growing in their yards, this maximized efficiency of land could technically provide a LOT of food.

PS: growing potatoes is probably easier than you think. One could grow potatoes with very little time and no monetary input.
Good point! Does it follow symlinks before setting __file__?

Because in the context of imports it does: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-s...

> Note: On file systems which support symlinks, the directory containing the input script is calculated after the symlink is followed. In other words the directory containing the symlink is not added to the module search path.
You don't seem to understand that this is not about us, but about the average joe who will never learn about PGP.
New JIT compiler for the BEAM offers performance boosts of 30% – 130%
Like wise. Explanations is this book appear accessible, the use of color is a nice touch too. I look forward to reviewing this more.
This is their best PR move to date.
There are data sources that have a clear unambiguous specification of what information is in each field, and exactly how they are formatted, such that you could auto-parse the column. And even have no data entry errors, so that you can rely on that parsing and have clean error free imported data.

There are many more that don't have a clear spec, or even if they do, have every possible variation of data corruption / keying errors / user misunderstanding / total 'don't give a shit, I'll enter it how I want, that's what the computer is supposed to handle' problems in that source data, that make parsing an absolute nightmare.

I've had to manually review a list of 10k+ data readings monthly, from an automated recorder, because the guy who was supposed to copy the collected data files as is and upload them, instead opened each one and fixed what he (badly mistakenly) thought had been recorded wrong. Different changes in a dozen different ways based on no particular logic beyond "that doesn't look right". And un-fireable, of course.
It's great to see that some people really like this, and the quote from HST is cool - obviously there is some value here. The collection is eclectic (public domain I suppose), and the UI is pretty nice. I found that recognizing whitespace was possibly something that could be improved a bit, but overall it felt really nice.

That said, this is not for me. One page and I was cooked. I had thought that this might be a decent way to enjoy a novel that I've not read, but one page in I can say:

Not only did I not comprehend what I was typing, I didn't enjoy it at all.
Ironically, the content of this article exists because of journalism.
Just a heads up ... you can create your own "noise cancelling" headphones by wearing your favorite earbuds and then putting on a pair of 3M/Peltor earmuffs - I use the x3 model.

Much cheaper, much simpler, nothing to break ...
Niantic selects 1k local businesses to add as PokéStops or Gyms, for free
New Research Reveals Millennials and Gen-Z Believe American Dream Is Possible
The symptoms sound similar to the longer-term effects some people experience with mono (Epstein-Barr virus / glandular fever).
Can you please provide a citation?
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No-Code Will Hardly Ever Be Able to Replace Coding: V.Lugovsky,CEO UI Bakery
No, it is too harsh. These rules will work for most people. In social media, never share your address book and don't give your phone number, which is very powerful identifier. Unique email is good too.
Specifically for fatigue, not so much the other symptoms, I'm wondering if there's correlation with it and places that have had long lockdowns. Could it be that when people stop normal activity, they lose an unexpected amount of muscle strength?
Paraphrased: "Sports do this so schools should also work this way."

For me this is a bizarre leap, but many people love the sports analogy. I think these are the drivers and please tell me if I'm wrong.

(1) Sports clearly do a good job of finding exceptionally talented people, so maybe we should follow their playbook.

(2) People like and accept competitive sports, so emotionally they should have the same reaction to competitive academics.

On (1), there are so many ways that STEM success is not like sports.

- On an individual level, sports are literally engines for scoring performances, so progress towards success is completely observable. The highest levels of STEM success are defined by doing never-previously-observed things in highly collaborative environments with no opportunity for an exact head-to-head comparison. There is zero reason to believe that your 1,000 AOPS math problems are the best way to advance your STEM education towards real success, even though it may help you outcompete your neighbor on a single test.

- On an industry level, sports are entertainment businesses that only needs to find enough exceptional individuals to create events people will pay to see. Participation as both a spectator or contestant are voluntary. Public education is a social investment in economic opportunity for its citizens. It needs to succeed for far more people, and the definition of its success doesn't stop at finding a few stars who fill stadium seats.

On (2), there's a difference between rooting for the participants and rooting for the system. We like seeing people overcome obstacles whether they are fair or not. I bet a lot of people would enjoy a movie about the Chinese family you describe building a better life for their kids. I like movies about people overcoming gangsters, nazis, and tornados. It doesn't mean I want to fund gangsters, nazis and tornados to make more great stories.

Finally, I unequivocally agree on flipping the bird to anyone who judges the Chinatown mom for doing the best for her kid. The issue is that a similarly brilliant kid shouldn't be held back because they don't have the same awesome mom. And hey, maybe there are other great ways that three-job mom could be investing in her family and herself.
> Plenty of perfectly healthy people are also dying of COVID-19, even with the efforts to slow its spread. If we didn’t work to slow its spread, our healthcare system would rapidly collapse.

Reference please
Ah, they split the cash along those lines? I see.
Why use Plausible rather than Snowplow?
Unpopular opinion for sure... But I think you're right, in that, nobody is considering other costs of lockdown.
Meditation works best for me. 15 minutes when I wake up every morning at a minimum. 25-30 minutes gets me really focused through the day. Started during lockdown, around day 130 right now. Best habit I picked up. Morning works best for me, if I wait until later in the day I don't feel like making time for it.

I use the insight timer app which has nice analytics and you can see everyone around the world and your city meditating with you, which is a nice social feature.
Ask HN: Which domain name registrars allow you to share admin access?
I want to grant a consultant permission to change DNS settings, without granting access to the ownership of the domain. Sharing my password is not ideal. My Google-fu is failing me. Which domain registrars offer this?

I can only find two domain name registrars that do, and neither of them support the TLD that I need.
After 12 years, Mitsubishi kills the I-MiEV electric car
Think of it as the price is shared between two discoveries, and for each discovery a certain number of people share that part.
Thea reasons PR department exists because you have a PR problem. Not having the problem is better.
Boris Johnson to unveil plan to power all UK homes with wind by 2030
You want Excel to auto-interpret a table of numbers, that come from a CSV, as entirely text?

Looking forward to the first time anyone tries to use your excel on a table of numbers and then immediately has to multiply everything by *1 (in a separate table) just to get it back into numbers...
Show HN: I made a desktop app to edit and preview Qt style sheets (QSS)
> Can someone with experience with this help me understand the point of a PR team to talk to press?

Simple: PR teams are some sort of equivalent to the "triage" at emergency rooms. Basically they scan incoming requests for stuff that could land the company in hot legal water or signalize a coming shitstorm (e.g. if journalists ask for information regarding potentially damaging stories during their research), misdirected customer service stuff (pretty common, especially in companies ... not exactly known for decent CS reps), youtubers/other influencers looking for merch gear, shareholders inquiring about financial or other information, movie makers / photographers interested in showing off company products, reps of athletes wanting a sponsorship deal... all of this usually goes through the PR dept who forward it to the appropriate departments or answer on their own.

The key role / function of a good PR team is that the individual departments don't get flooded by bullshit (you don't want to waste the expensive time of the legal dept on a youtuber wanting a Tesla for a rap music video).
Kudos for linking that issue, which makes your criticism quite constructive. The maintainers have responded in the thread, which I think is relevant:

> We do need some more info on the use cases for this in order to come up with the best solution possible so any feedback is appreciated. Here's what I'm getting from previous posts...

Its great when you can contribute to open source by merely explaining your use cases.
Great project, but it doesn't seem to play nice with Vimium.
Say you pin your project at version 5. An exploit is found. There is no 5.1. Instead they fixed the exploit in 7.

However 7 breaks your pipeline.

What do you do? Fix the vulnerability yourself on an outdated version (high effort) Upgrade your entire pipeline to the new version (High effort) Leave the vulnerability in place (terrible idea)
Think of it as marketing that targets both the customer and the employee base.