skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is another case of regurgitated received folk wisdom that is wrong and that has been wrong for years if not decades.

> The processor starts working in real mode.

Intel CPUs have not started in real mode since the 80286. The 80386 and later start in unreal mode. The whole explanation of real mode addressing, based upon not realizing that the 80386 and later always use the segment registers and do not do that real mode address calculation using the value of the selector, is irrelevant. Futhermore: In some scenarios nowadays, CPUs never run in real mode, going straight from unreal mode to protected mode and, because they then run a protected mode EFI bootstrap, staying there.

> When attempting to boot from a hard drive, the BIOS tries to find a boot sector.

PC systems have not necessarily loaded the MBR and run it for more than a decade, now. Systems bootstrap the EFI way, and this is nowadays fairly common and mainstream.

> The core image begins with diskboot.img, which is usually stored immediately after the first sector in the unused space before the first partition.

This "boot virus area" does not exist on modern systems with EFI partitioning. That is also common and mainstream nowadays, too.

* https://superuser.com/a/347115/38062

* https://superuser.com/a/345333/38062

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/efi-boot-process.html

* http://rodsbooks.com./efi-bootloaders/index.html
Relevant dead comment from leifus:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that pretty much exactly what ViaWeb did back then? Just use continuations to simulate a "classic" programming environment even if it's spread out over HTTP calls?

Some googling provides some corroboration:

https://thelackthereof.org/docs/library/cs/continuations.pdf

Some more frameworks using this style:

https://common-lisp.net/project/cl-weblocks/

https://github.com/SeasideSt/Seaside/
That was how BlackBerry worked wasn't it?
This is often overlooked. If your kid wants to work in security it will be hard to get a job if his/her info and history can be found on social media.
surround yourself with non engineers and the language will come automatically. Also read non engineering content. The Economist or CIO or other magazines and books that use a non technical language and describe technical concepts without jargon.

What you're asking here can be massive career changer and lift you up from a skill perspective. Many business types have not much idea how your world works but if you can bridge over into theirs it will certainly open doors.

After a while you might see a huge contrast when comparing to HN, reddit and technical mailing-lists or any chat & digital channels. While "growing up on Usenet" can give you an edge with reasoning / arguing in the technical world, it can massively backfire in business.

Everyone in the business world I know makes their connections IRL (and not online). So having hobbies that get you off your screen and into real human groups would be a boon.
Looks like "original research" to me, quite interesting nonetheless.
This is an EU wide directive. The price advertised should be inclusive of all taxes and additional charges. It is so that the buyer (consumer or business) has clear information about exactly how much something will cost them, and so they can compare prices to other suppliers.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/pri...
I'd recommend a year of Toastmasters. Both the communication and leadership track will help immensely.
The FAQ page: How Can I Improve my Chances of Receiving an Award?

One answer is: Sponsor the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards

There's a voting scheme, but the FAQ does state: The popular vote will only be considered if two or more nomination are tied for an award
Parents like this should be denied all tax-exempts. They should even have to pay a high extra tax. That tax money can then go into vaccination education and treatment of unvaccinated children.
In Australia we have the staff still ruling us off in the electoral role. That usually takes a minute or less.
The entire voting process (including queuing) depends upon the popularity of the individual voting booth and time of day, but is usually less than 10 minutes. This may be because there are an adequate number of booths and trained staff.But it is also because of compulsory voting.
The highly likely attendance numbers per booth and their distribution across the day are known and can be planned for, unlike some other more random systems.
I'd recommend a year of Toastmasters. Both the communication and leadership track will be immensely helpful. Additionally, it will provide direct evaluation from a more diverse audience that you likely have at work.
Consider that some countries do not have a reliable access to Google backend.
The problem remains when trying to use notifications with a PWA. AFAICT, there's no way to set your own notification service in Chrome/Firefox/Safari.
All fantastic. If on a winter's night was the gateway for me, and I've been slowly getting into invisible cities, which is beautiful.
Google is a good example. They start with search. Become king of the search hill and then search goes into the background. Are the people running Search in charge of Google? Nope. The empire defense people get put in charge. Who then spend more time and resources on Chrome and Android. They don't create knowledge. Humanity does. But the empire defense folk, get it into their head they need to own the knowledge graph and rent it out to humanity. No questions or debate.
Now imagine if StackOverflow or Wikipedia decided to pull the same bullshit.
Water landings have their peculiar risks also, I think there was some incident in Mercury program when Gus Grissom's craft got flooded after splashdown.
Absolutely wrong. There's nothing that says people living under a socialized medical system don't have access to clinical trials. Government is an extension of the people. If you want generosity you vote for generosity. In Canada, where I grew up, it works wonderfully. In the rest of the civilized world, it works wonderfully. There's no reason it won't work in America. Moving to America the scariest thing in the world was giving up my OHIP card (my Ontario government socialized medicine card). Still is, honestly.
Hence Greg Wooledge's famous advice not to parse the output of ls. As catern points out, in a fully-fledged systems programming language, one can just directly call the library routines that read directories. And thereby obtain metadata without having to parse it from locale-dependent forms, too.

* https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/503711/5132
My experience is also out of date but I know they gave it a facelift recently to make it a more "modern" Mac/iOS app.
Can you show me an example? All emails I have received from them state the price as is unlike what you claim.
Aren't a few of the big players already piloting consumer-accessible taxi programs?

IMO, the stuff which has already been demonstrated is a bit too creepily good for comfort, even if we're talking about limited Tesla autopilot.
EU citizens cannot access this site. So, use the Wayback Machine copy. Apparently, comments like this are buried down and repeated.
I am the opposite. I hate when people pretend to talk objectively while actually talking about feelings. For example claiming the code is objectively bad when it is just that they have negative emotional reaction to some difference against how they would do it. Or trying to convince me to do something out of "objective" reasons when they are just stressed or afraid or panicking. Or talk with certainty when situation is not certain at all and they know it. Like, I am willing to accommodate your feelings to some extend, but not when you pretend it is all rational choices.

I feel like..." followed by something that is not a feeling usually just conveys uncertainty or awareness what follows is not fully proven. It is more honest, imo.
The epitome of how capitalism can and will cannibalize itself. As corporations move towards maximizing profits for shareholder value, the individuals upon whom they depend on for profits are squeezed out of the system. The more successful companies can produce profits, the less people can afford the very products and services being produced and the companies will have no customers.
Think about commercial goals, not just technical goals. What will make us successful as a business? What do our clients need?

Have answers rather than questions. Many posters pointed out that it is good to provide options as potential
solutions. But this may not be leadership. Engineers love options because we are creative and options are opportunities to experiment. The problem is that we need to be bold when a decision must be made. A decision is explicitly closing off our chance to explore all but one of the options. This is tough leadership.

(We need to know when it is time to make a decision and when it is a time to explore options)
No, Government officials in the US are afforded socialized medicine. "The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program is a system of 'managed competition' through which employee health benefits are provided to civilian government employees and annuitants of the United States government."
> On that note, I find it supremely fucked up that people have to turn to crowdfunding to get their unexpected healthcare costs covered by benevolent internet citizens.

Keep in mind the percentage of folks who abuse this method of fundraising, instead of being truly needy.
It's not a half implementation. They just don't want to comply so they restrict access from this geographic area.
Can you give me an example? All emails I have received from Tesla states the sales price as the sales price and does not state price minus gas savings as the sales price.
Just adding a datapoint. I run a SaaS where people can run their own (Javascript) code. The first thing I did was block any Coinhvive script as those were the first obvious abusers of the service.

Coinhive is now, for me at least, always associated with scammers.
Many minor macOS updates add features. 10.6.6 added the App Store. 10.7.2 added iCloud. More recently, 10.14.3 [0] added things as small as "a menu item to News for opening a story in Safari". (As an arguably even more trivial example, 10.14.1 added new emoji.)

Most minor updates also fix small, non-critical bugs, like 10.13.4 [1], which "fixes an issue that may prevent web link previews from appearing in Messages".

Do all of these updates fix security bugs too? Yes, because a company as big as Apple is probably always fixing security bugs. That doesn't mean they ONLY do minor updates for security bugs though.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209149#macos10143

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208533
You can find the ui end2end tests here: https://github.com/gotify/server/tree/master/ui/src/tests
And I assume that the existence of US to Thailand and India medical tourism means that the medical systems there aren't strictly worse than the US?
Please don't let be be the only person to have misread Euler as Ruler.
Go's garbage collection is optimised for reducing GC pause times, and while it is extremely fast in this regard this is only one of many ways GC performance can be measured.

If for your workload GC pauses are tolerable and throughput is important (say when doing offline CPU bound batch processing) then the Go GC is not optimal for your use case and will be slower than other options on the market.

Some runtimes (such as the JVM) allow the user to pick from one of many GCs so that they can use the one that is most appropriate for their workload.
He isn't necessarily lying, and there won't be a lawsuit.

The "self-driving" will be made available, both in hardware and software. It just won't be usable on roads (because every state will immediately outlaw it).

Few owners, brave enough to try it in spite of regulations, might discover some notable flaws... But hey, — no one promised you a perfect self-driving! You will be able to "self-drive" in couple of dedicated cities or around wilderness in the middle of nowhere (with modest risk of damaging vehicle), and that's supposedly what everyone has paid for. Musk won't be held responsible for restrictive laws, — he most likely anticipates that and hopes precisely for that.
Fascinating that drugs in Canada are perceived as so much cheaper than in the US, and yet, you know that Canada doesn't have a socialized prescription drug program? Instead, provincial health programs negotiate drug prices. You know who can't do that? Individuals. Also, Medicare.
Absolutely this. Have encountered them before.
This is why I don't report bugs to Apple anymore: it's a waste of my time because quality has slid so far and there's no sense peeing into a hurricane. Becsuse their processes and culture have fallen-off, it's playing with mud for any outsider trying to help improve things with detailed experiences. Sadly, I don't see Cupertino culturally and/or organizationally reforming anytime soon.
Yikes! Bad day for the PR flack who pitched this story. She probably didn’t think the headline would end up “she takes what you’ve told Facebook and sells it to luxury brands.” Goes to show how once you’ve gotten on the wrong side of the narrative it’s very hard to come back.
“Resecurity also said it warned Citrix on December 28...”
And then:
“Citrix, meanwhile, said it took action – launching an internal probe and securing its networks – after hearing from the FBI earlier this week.”

Putting aside the fact this security company seems to have never been heard of before; Citrix’s appears to have buried their heads in the sand until the Feds came knocking.

If it’s true that the company was tipped off in December then the ‘I know nothing’ defence is truly shocking.
Of course, the problem here is in thinking that there is "the" shell, and that one needs to always use a POSIX compatible shell for interactive login. (The C shell users of the world should disabuse one of that particular notion, if nothing else.)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672023

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17989710
Gentle reminder - all of the above comments are against the guidelines - a.k.a. the house rules.

I have learned this the hard way by being flagged on China related topics. We aren't here for a flame-war or to even mention the word 'downvoted'.

I am personally of the opinion that China are way ahead of us and that there is a tide of lazy views relating to our hard working, highly educated Chinese friends. Fun fact: the Iron Age came to China 2000 years before we think the Iron Age happened.

Hence my suggestion. Rather than take the bait or think you can make a reasoned comment in response to something ignorant, use the 'flag' button. If it breaks the house rules, flag it and it goes. In this way we can hopefully improve discourse regarding anything China related.
You have a fascinating perspective on medicine and research. Research should be paid for by the people and made available in the public interest. If a private entity does pay for the research they are entitled to protect their inventions for 20 years via the patent program. That doesn't mean buyers or buying organizations shouldn't be allowed to negotiate.
I can’t understand the downvotes on this post. The PRC has never controlled Taiwan and has made annexing it (with other words to hide intent) an explicit goal. Of course Taiwan is a territorial ambition of the PRC.
The Century of the self-

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/
As a fellow engineer facing the same problem, I don't believe it's so much in the language, but more the outlook and how you perceive things. As an engineer, we tend to get into a lot of nitty gritty, with a lot of "it might be possible if we first do X, Y and Z, but that assumes A and B don't take place, in which case we need to do..."
I guess the "correct" answer here would be "Yes it should be possible, but give me a couple of days to confirm" - Most people don't care about the details. In their minds that's why they hired you.

But again, the language is only a fraction of it. It's how you handle situations. When you change your approach to problems then your language changes as well. I'd highly recommend reading some books. The two I've read in the past month and really liked where "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
and "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" and Patrick Lencioni
Both books give examples of how they handled situations, and you begin seeing patterns in the speech they use.
None of those were released when the operating system they applied to was a "previous" version of macOS.
No, they absolutely are fixed by universal healthcare, as they are everywhere else on earth.
I think most people will get a better picture seeing the usual numbers like "4.8 l/100km urban, 4.5 mixed, 4.2 highway" than something like "median fuel cost per year 850€".

Especially since you can't estimate the future price of fuel.
What's suspicious about PR Newswire / Business Wire? They're the industry standard wire tools in Public Relations.

The Golden Bridge trophies seem to be available to buy if you've won.
When they say “Constructed” is expensive because you have to acquire the cards ahead of time... why don’t tournaments allow you to play with cards where you’ve just scribbled with Sharpie whatever card you want it to act as?
There is nothing wrong about being an engineer. In fact, most of the best leaders I know are engineers, because having both operative skills and decisions skills is incredible powerful.

You don't need to negate your engineering skills, just acquire leadership skills over them. You will need:

-Skills about people, phycology types, influence, procrastination, deals and negotiation skills.

-Knowledge about the "Forrest" perspective of your business, in engineering you will have deep knowledge about the trees. It doesn't matter if you do a perfect job if you do the wrong job. If you do you will fail, and your best people will leave soon.

-You need caring about your people(the people on your team). Isolate the blame on yourself(and your system, change your system when things go wrong) for all errors of your people. Give credit to them when things go well.

People know when you care about them, they sense it. This overpowers anything you say.

In today's business it is all words about how the most important things in the business is its people, and they they trow their people under the bus. You can even joke and say all day you don't care about your team that if they know you care it doesn't matter.

This is very easy to state and say, but it requires years of practice and lots of mistakes before you are good at this. Focus on improving one skill at a time and log improvements on a notebook or something.
Agreed.

There have been cases around vat free sales, and 'we pay the vat' promotions that have been pulled up by advertising standards though. That as far as I understand isn't an EU specific thing.
Not only 10x people but also advanced machinery like the T34 which ended up being the best mid-sized tank of the war. Mind you, before 1930 Russia was pretty much 100% agrarian. So yes it took a lot of blood - not only on the battlefield, but also in the farms, where the lives of peasants were ruthlessly traded for machines - but also an astoundingly focused effort at the highest echelons. None of this was organized by people chilling with their feet on the table, casually dispatching orders.

More broadly, the idea that they partied a lot - which is also one of the great story arcs in the book - does not detract from this. Think Wall Street, the Valley, etc.
Thanks for the feedback, that is good, is that on mobile or web browser?
Thanks for finding that. This image from their directory listing (maybe on their site somewhere but I couldn't find it) shows me at least something about their offering - looks like another dark web breach alerting service.

https://resecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/slide-3.pn...
In France vaccination is mandatory, and not vaccinating your kinds is considered child abuse in the eyes of the law.

I have argued for a long time that not following the child vaccination programme (in Sweden,my home country) should disqualify you from childcare and any public schools since you are putting other kids at risk. then I'd probably withdraw their government benefits (1050sek/month/child)

Edit: but of course, one should also see to what works on the population scale. Sweden has no compulsory vaccination, but also has the highest percentage of vaccinated kids in the world. I do however think removing child benefits or limiting childcare for unvaccinated kids is a good idea. You can choose whether you vaccinate your kids, but you can't choose not to have an infection sensitive kid that can't be vaccinated.
> coders of the future shouldn’t have to master abstract math that they’ll never need

This is awful. Humans should be moving rapidly towards mathematical literacy, not away from it.

If you only need calculus for .001% of your job, that doesn't mean you only have to learn .001% of calculus. No one is paying you to use calculus everyday. They're paying you to know when calculus needs to be used and how to apply it, the one day they actually need it.
Alternating between complaints about White overrepresentation that aren't even true and politically correct terminology like "People of Color" and the entire article being a love letter to an underrepresented group is just jarring. It makes me wonder about how informed the author is about tech if he thinks Whites are overrepresented generally. There's either a lack of accuracy or moral consistency. Why the hell is the author even bring up his poorly informed opinions on racial topics in an article about ageism anyways?

Anyways the article as a whole is heavy on anecdote and low on data & facts. There is an emphasis on outcome metrics but the author doesn't bother to examine any data on productivity vs age.
It is getting tougher and tougher.

There are routine layoffs and the company offers "voluntary" retirement, but I am not sure how "voluntary" the process is. Lot of politics is involved too I am sure.

If you are laid off then you are screwed. I know of people who found it extremely difficult to land jobs because they have too much experience but if you have experience in hot tech like Salesfoce, clound, niche areas of SAP etc then you might survive. Nobody cares if a person can solve problems or not. :-)

Everyone around me is pretty sure that their time will come. :-) We look at our annual appraisal and sigh out in relief when its not bad because that would mean a minimum of another 2 years. :-) But many of us have not really prepared for it. I am absolutely worried about it too. But the count of people is so huge and no matter what skills you have you will be just another face.

I am thinking of doing certs in cloud in hope to keep me relevant in my company and long term thinking is to do something not related to IT at all.

I have been keeping myself updated for years - taught myself Android, nodejs, golang etc etc but those do not matter in outsourcing shops.
Writing Easy-to-Change Code: Your 2nd Most Important Goal as a Developer [video]
> Research has shown that sleep is important for both mind and body. Sleep is vital for learning and memory and long-term sleep deprivation can lead to depression, compromised immune function and other chronic health problems.

As the father of three under 5, I can testify this is absolutely correct(!)
Oh yeah, I can remember when trying to deal with Blackberry over a decade ago, when they were still relevant.

Ultimately, we just gave up and didn't release our app on their platform at all.
yes, and help you are not sick or infect from animal ills.
That is absolutely not true. You're generalising too much. There are many people that are trying to democratise healthcare the private way.
> Inventor Paul Graham

> 1997-05-27
Application filed by Altaba Inc

> 1998-01-05
Assigned to VIAWEB, INC.

> 2019-03-10
Application status is Expired - Lifetime
That's a really good idea. I may write a another article or an addendum on it in the future.

Thanks :)