skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point, there are many alternative gTLDs that can be used for personal sites, and quite a few are super cheap. Maybe the squatters will catch up and eventually buy them all up but for now there's a decent availability.
Like every year, I feel I'm being lured in by an overly easy day 1.

Then somewhere between day 10 and 15, there will be a steep increase in difficulty and I'll tap out for the year. Then come back to the puzzles over the course of the year and maybe knock out another one or two.
This was exactly the case. The ergo keyboard was his personal preference. He did have wrist issues, but the keyboard was not prescribed. He put back the keyboard that came with the lab computer and he passed the exam.
I agree this isn't many, but from companies at a similar valuation / prestige level, I haven't heard of any product/eng offers revoked because of "shifting business priorities," and yet I've heard of a few from Stripe so far. (Only those bold enough to publicly speak about it).

With most of these top companies, if you're shifting business priorities, you find a new org for the person you just hired, or you don't hire them to begin with. If Stripe consistently just rescinds offers instead, that's worthy of the bad press.
It might be helpful to look at this as a percentage change- it looks like they were currently charging $42.18/year as the standard price (1), so this is a 30% price increase.

(1) https://news.gandi.net/en/2021/10/enjoy-our-io-promotion-bef...
I suspect they were always there, but google and ddg are getting gamed more now. The quality of results has dropped quite a bit in the past 4 or 5 years in this regard.
Your freedom to control over one's body ends when it comes to the safety and health of other people's bodies. That's why herd immunity is a thing.
This is not true if you want email to come from you main domain and you choose a remotely exotic TLD. I learned this the hard way. Don't be like me, choose a boring TLD, worry about less stupid things - there are so so many already.
Sure, that’s the loophole. What’s happening here is yet another end-run around the democratic process. People are tired of emergency powers, executive orders, and delegated authority being used to enact some of the most impactful laws of our time. We want the Schoolhouse Rock version of law-making because we at least get something of a say in it.
Realtime Postgres Row Level Security
Those two versions seem like two extremes. I would say his antisemitism belongs in the intro (the bit before the first paragraph header), but not in the first sentence. The style of the older version of the intro is definitely better and more neutral. Then again, I only read the intro and scanned the rest of the article.
Somewhere in here, there's a general (not-just-computer-science) lesson to be learned about certifications and hierarchies owned by private corporations vs. those owned by the people who work and have a place in them.
Yeah, this was definitely lazy writing. I think the author meant to say that you should schedule real interviews you care less about prior to those you actually want. That way, you have a few warm ups with real skin in the game, but if you bomb it's not going to take away a serious opportunity. I usually do this with interviews at Amazon since it's fun to waste their time.
Ah yes, branding is "stupid" now. Gotcha.
Enterprise ATT devices siphoning data using default credentials from 2017 CVE
> I think raising the price of TLDs is the only way to stop domain squaters

That does not make any sense in any world. If a squatter successfully makes money on a single domain, for example, they can reinvest on dozens or hundreds of domains next and therefore squat as much as they like just the same. And early, lucky squatters always exist. This does not solve anything. You are just pricing out people with legitimate domain name use and not much money, as usual.
No one is equal to anyone, that is how all of us functions (east or west) either implicitly or explicitly. We are not identical elementary particles such as electrons. Second, although against my preference, the article and discussions on this topic would require a "coordinate system" for a definition of metric (to reach what can be called an academic objectivity). But I want to leave that idea aside, and ask a higher order question: What is the alternative to judging a person based on individual merit? Do we want to substitute social or biological determinism (tribalism/racism in essence, one way or another) instead of actual person's merit/character/etc? In reality and practice, on our individual plane we cannot step aside from our biases (we shall only aspire to some ideal), however, on the institutional level and government level, we (citizens) have to demand complete and unconditional continuous effort to denounce and step aside from the evils of (institutionalized) racism/tribalism. (Of cause, we are loosing this battle every year in the doublespeak, slowly but surely). So, no matter what we call it, we should be aware of what the alternative is, especially if it develops into institutionalized process(es) and bureaucratic control (humanity has been there and done that).
Originality discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27339887
Article reads like a hit-job. It's a relatively small amount of money. The Facebook outage cost more than the entire Wikipedia endowment.
How many people were getting colds during a covid outbreak?
edit:
Found it "At baseline, two residents in the herbal medicine group had clinically diagnosed common cold symptoms, while there were eight people in the control group."
Also, says cold symptoms as it doesn't appear they tested for common cold.
Thanks for the insight. I wasn't aware of US v Lopez. The most egregious use I found of the commerce clause was Wickard v Filburn. It was a depression era ruling that said the federal government had the right to prevent a farmer on growing food on his own land to feed his livestock in opposition to a law meant to 'stabilize wheat prices' by having farmers not grow food. Ever since then I was no a fan of commerce clause. Would something like this be possible today or did US v Lopez make this impossible?

> Conversely, there is no constitutional right to /not/ get a vaccine

Doesn't it need to be framed as the government having the right to apply a medical treatment to me against my will?

I have a constitutional right to bare arms but presumably the federal government can decry that I do not have the right in certain places. Or is that not an affirmative right.

[EDIT] It appears that is what US v Lopez is about (federal restriction of guns near schools)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
The issue with this kind of thinking is that you can't have the freedom of an impartial supporting organization like Wikimedia without the pitfalls that freedom might trip into in the individual case.

Not giving Wikimedia money does absolutely nothing to stop a bad admin or group of admins from making bad choices. Wikimedia has very little control, if any, over things at that level. They can advocate for change but that change must come from the users themselves.
Coding challenges used to sound like a good idea to me. Who wants to go through the whiteboard torture session?

The last time I looked for a job I was presented with multiple "take-home" coding challenges. I had to spend hours on them each night after working my regular job. It was exhausting. I would send it off and either receive no feedback at all, a "thanks but no thanks" with no constructive feedback, or an invitation... to come in for a whiteboard algorithms red/black tree interview.

Ultimately I got a job that had a traditional (sucky) interview process.

These coding assignments are a disrespectful waste of time.
25 Years of RhymeZone and OneLook: What we're musing on lately
Hey HN, Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We're building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools. We're particularly focused on scalability. We take proven tools like Postgres, and we make them as easy to use as Firebase.

Today, Supabase is adding Row Level Security (RLS) to our Realtime engine.

The linked blog post goes into depth around the technical implementation, so I’ll just give a recap for the people who jump straight to comments (like me).

Supabase was launched here on HN when we open sourced our Realtime engine[0] - an Elixir server which clients (i.e. website visitors/users) can connect to via websockets and receive a stream of PostgreSQL changes.

The server receives those changes via a logical replication slot - the same system that PostgreSQL uses for replicating to other databases.

To achieve RLS we added a few SQL functions, the main one is apply_rls[1] which the stream is filtered through. For every user connected to the Elixir server, the Postgres function checks if they have access to the database change and appends an array of allowed user IDs. The Realtime server then delivers the change to the user only if the connected user is matched in this array.

This one has been a long time coming, and it's one of the reasons why we have maintained our "beta" badge for so long. A few of the team will be here to answer any questions - my cofounder @awalias and @steve-chavez from PostgREST, @inian, @wenbo and @1_over_n

[0] Realtime Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22114560)

[1] SQL function: https://github.com/supabase/realtime/blob/master/server/priv...
Mira launches virtual care, becomes the most competitive subscription product
Trends in eTLD+1 zone (effective TLD + 1, e.g. example.com, example.co.uk, ...) DNSSEC algorithm adoption. The graph plots the number of delegated domains with a given DNSKEY algorithm in the corresponding DS RRset published in the parent (eTLD) zone.

<https://dnssec-stats.ant.isi.edu/~viktor/algs-ds.png>
I live in Japan, but lived in South Korea as well. I have to say, I have never seen so many public displays of affection as I did in South Korea (and I'm an American). Matching clothes -- down to the shoes, hugging, hand holding, piggyback rides, and on more than one occasion a loud lover's quarrel. Take from that what you will.

Another interesting thing I noticed about physical touch in Korea is that the culture doesn't seem to have the same hangups America does about two heterosexual male friends touching. School kids holding hands as they walk together, and guys in their twenties resting their heads in their friends lap as they lounge at the park. It was refreshing and enlightening.
Hey, whatever happened to tarbackup?
Except in the US, the civil service is politicized and its employees are 95% in favor of one party, as shown by their political donations history.
> Which sounds to me like they were declared to be a monopoly,

Weird read. They were declared to have just over half the market and not be a monopolist.

You choose to read that as then being declared to be a monopoly.

This does provide helpful insight into why so many people seem to claim apple is a monopoly.
I know microservices have passed the excitement phase of the hype cycle, but they're not useless. One of the most enjoyable systems I've worked on was a microservice architecture.

That said, I'm going make some wild inferences about what you were getting at in ordet to say that I agree that a microservice architecture is probably a solution in search of a problem in most cases. And, even in the cases where it is a good option, I can see all sorts of ways to mess up the implementation. The article is right; the trickiest things to get right about microservices are actually organizational issues, not technical ones. My hot take is that dev teams who are considering adopting microservices should take a serious look at how much ability they have to influence the org chart and inter-team and inter-departmental communication. If management is strictly something that happens to them, I would not give them stellar odds of achieving sustainable success with microservices. Perhaps some other form of SOA, but not actual microservices.
Yup, the first couple of days are always simple, but then you're on Saturday of week 2 and wondering why it's already 4 AM.
I've got a hunch someone got tipped off about the thread yesterday, and either it's a slow news day or there's blood in the water for someone to publish their grudge.
A couple, but they're all "human" reasons and not really technical. The TLDs records will be served off the gTLD nameservers like everything else, you can change your own nameservers from there, and DNS is slow as hell anyway (by modern standards) so it's already not like it's tightly optimized usually, and performance as perceived by the end user is greatly predicated on how warm their cache is. So any performance difference between nameservers probably barely matters unless you're like Amazon or something.

Anyway, non-objective reasons I can think of:

Lots of people don't know anything but com exists.

Com is definitely still dominant, so someone sitting on yourthing.com when yourthing.biz.no is your real site will probably be getting some chunk of your traffic. Imagine if Amazon.co.uk was the real Amazon and Amazon.com was like, a news website dedicated to posting all the bad stuff Amazon does. Tbh that'd be nice for society but you can probably understand it would be undesirable for a company.

.io is one of the only ones that's managed to kinda read com-like status, and it's only for a niche (though a lucrative niche!) audience.
I think a lesser mentioned topic about interviewing is that the expectations / rigor of the interview vary parabolically based on the tenure of the position and how many years of experience you have.

For instance, even if the interview prompt doesn't change - an interview for a mid to senior position expects far better communication and execution than that of a NCG interview etc etc. This is sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy for people with more than 2-3 years of experience who don't perform well or haven't grown.
I wonder how the FS API performs compared to direct syscalls. Anyone knows?
I'm pretty sure the events surrounding COVID has undone most of that progress(assuming there's any left at this point). Our survival as a species is incredibly fragile and even more so with social media facilitating propaganda and misinformation. Even in developed countries, the situation is nothing short of depressing.
seems to fail the "accessible" part. Pretty much every math topic is written for path professors.
This is a good writeup.

It's worth noting that this loads the entire db into memory, and only saves to the filesystem when you tell it to (not on each transaction) so you could loose changes on a crash.

There is a brilliant project to add true transactional flushing and a block like storage backend to WASM Sqlite.js called "Absurd SQL", worth checking out. It's currently built on top of IndexedDB but they are working with the WG designing the FileSystemAccess APIs to ensure it has suitable block level support and locking for this type of tool.

https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql

https://jlongster.com/future-sql-web
> With a monolith any random developer can go and flip some private method to public, import it way across the modules, and presto you are now building a ball of mud.

If "any developer" can do it, then the problem is not with monoliths, but rather with your pull request reviews process and lack of code ownership. This can even be helped by Github and other platforms with a CODEOWNERS file.

Microservices by themselves doesn't solve this problem. If anyone has commit access to all micro services, then they can make an even bigger mess, the same way.
If many reputable people say he's an antisemite, which is the case here, it belongs in the intro. The first sentence may be a bit too much in this case.
it was not solved by those that advocate for land value tax because it is not seen as a problem, just like many do not see domain "squatting" as a problem
As others have said: SO content is ripped-off (poorly) and mirrored. The page games Google's algorithm and shows up as a 'legit' result.

Probably more complex than simple keyword stuffing, which isn't supposed to work these days..
Or did they just not run the trials long enough to detect the efficacy dropping?
While there are some performance differences [1] between TLDs, I don't personally think it should factor very heavily when choosing one.

As for reliability, there have been a few ".io" outages and I remember ".club" going down a few years ago but DNS makes complete TLD outages pretty rare.

I'd say the biggest reason to avoid certain TLDs is the human factor. Humans are used to typing ".com" or ".org" or ".net". I don't have any data to back that up though, so it probably isn't a satisfying answer!

[1] https://blog.nameshield.com/blog/2020/04/30/choosing-the-rig...
How is .me? It's used a lot by students for their portfolio, I bit the bullet but wondering if I screwed up.
Also if you're not US-based.. which nation?
No one will care what the extension is

Only on HN. In the real world, it matters quite a lot.

I tried to get a healthcare company to pick up its .health equivalent. The marketing department included the possibility of using the domain in its annual customer survey. The result was that a very large number of patients believed it to be a spam or scam domain.
If any company poses a credible threat to Google's monopoly on search, it's surely Apple, IMO.

I think after the underwhelming launch of Apple Maps, a lot of people don't think Apple could make a truly great search product, but Apple Maps quietly has gotten pretty good and Apple has the resources and data to actually compete in search.
If you are able to find two people with this experience willing to talk to you for an article just like that, that is a lot. There will certainly be many, many more.
I haven’t heard of rescinded offers so much but I’ve seen this happen in a different form: employees being hired into departments which were promptly shut down.

I saw this happen as an intern at Microsoft when BlackBerry was shut down.

I also saw it happen to some friends in the games industry. In one case the department shut down on a friends first day of work and they were promptly out of the job after moving across the country.

It’s still a shitty thing to do though.
I mean if you want to do some exercise instead of p90x or watching aerobics on the TV I guess these are OK, but it is only exercise rather than training, and despite them having "strength programs" you won't get properly strong doing them.
Except that journalists are looking for leads from various sources. HN is possibly best source for tech due to obvious reasons, so it is totally credible that Protocol picked up the leads from HN yesterday, got few further leads and actually interviewed them and published the story.
Yep, I'm fully aware of that. I should have pointed it out, sorry. Indeed, I have an ingestion process which populates an PostgreSQL db from the csv
> I think DDG is almost the nostalgia play.

Good point. Also their main focus seems to be privacy, not quality.

The privacy problems of Google just recently (i.e. last 5 years) started to bother me, their complete inability to fix their broken search operators has bothered me for a decade.

My guess is if DDG provided the same quality as the old Google instead of just this nostalgia play it could possibly rise even faster.
Just in case - tarps aren't always the advertised size. A 20x40 tarp, for instance, is probably 19x39.
The things the users found have been near miraculous
Bluetooth uses MAC addresses too, so this still applies.
Why .io domains are so popular?
I trust that there are people who can't code at all but somehow I've gotten my job offers without any coding challenges. I wonder how that's possible.
Seriously? Lisp of all languages? Also esoteric is already applied to languages like Brainfuck which are designed to be as abstruse as possible.
Came here to whine, got a what seems in retrospect to be a perfectly obvious and simple _solution_. Thank you!
>different pricing

.com is the cheapest

>different restrictions

.com has the fewest

Anything else?
That wasn't my experience as a young web user in the 90s. Older people definitely "got it". And it took off like a shot for folks of all ages when the .com market opened up.

There are a lot of ideas out there for what web3 would be, but sooner or later, some rubber has to be put to the road. The reason we don't "get it" is because "it" is so nebulously defined.
EU chief: It’s time to ‘think about’ mandatory Covid vaccination
so you'd be cool with employers banning employees who get an abortion.

something, something, consequences.
Combining these two approaches would let you get rid of the IndexedDB abomination.
Cloudflare Registrar is "at cost". Hard to get cheaper than that.
Company: oefrha-galactic-corporation.com

Project: oefrha-super-app.${something}

One owns the other. Useful for running multiple experiments at once, though shifting to a different structure is better (imho) if the experiment is succesful.
My personal website uses .one
Translation space force general wants a bigger budget for doing exactly what he is accusing other states of doing.

Weather or not this is related to any genuinely new or controversial activity or just that someone wants a bigger budget is one of those things "we the people" are not entitled to know.

It's completely against the ethos of the intelligence services to be truthful about what level of successful espionage is being conducted by opponents and completely unthinkable to admit to any espionage they themselves are conducting so this kind of announcement should not be taken as proof that something new or dangerous is happening, that warrants any kind of escalation.
Isn’t it great that you have access to math articles by math professors?
There were always different entities in charge of different TLDs. ICANN, for example, has no leverage over CCTLDs. Basically because "no central authority". Then, within a TLD, some allow resellers, so competition.
Agreed - I did Day One by copy/pasting the input into a spreadsheet and calculating the answers in additional columns. I suspect I'll need to actually write code soon, though. And give up soon after that.
New Data from ITU: 2.9 Billion People Still Offline
> Suppose an anti-abortion president gets elected and he elects someone as head and tells them that health care providers that accept medicare or medicaid cannot provide abortions

Not comparable. Based on current law, abortion is a Constitutionally-protected right. Based on precedent from the Spanish-flu era, the government has broad public health powers.

All that said, as someone who isn’t a fan of how much power Congress has ceded to the executive through administrative powers (which delegate legislative powers to the executive through rulemaking), I wouldn’t mind seeing those curtailed.
Whilst thousands of healthcare workers in the US —- those who are supposed to be proponents of public health measures and rational, scientific thinking - refuse to get vaccinated, ultimately resulting in stockpiles of vaccines getting destroyed … people in third world countries cannot get adequate access to vaccines. This is madness.
Queues are fine, but:

1) Queues should be of finite size (exactly what size is entirely application dependent, but the point is that it's almost never ok to let a queue grow indefinitely).

2) When a queue is full, producers should often be blocked (backpressure).

Obviously it depends a lot on the particular use case, but IME it's usually risky to think that a 'sufficiently large' queue is going to be an acceptable solution.