skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that ~5 years ago, HP started providing firmware updates and such "only to customers with a valid warranty, Care Pack Service or support agreement". They are no longer freely downloadable.

In a post ironically entitled "Customers for life", HP wrote [0]:

> ... we are in no way trying to force customers into purchasing extended coverage. That is, and always will be, a customer’s choice.

Now, this might not be an issue if all of your servers belong to $work and $work maintains active support agreements for them even after the warranty period has passed. Many of us buy servers for small businesses or even for personal use at home, however, and it would be really nice if we could keep them up-to-date with the latest firmware, security patches, and such.

At the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I can find and download any drivers, firmware, etc., for my Dell servers quickly and easily, without logging in to anything or providing any information whatsoever. If I wanted to, I could even download and install their "Repository Manager" and run my own local mirror!

WRT other vendors (unless things have changed), Cisco requires registration but not paid support (for server downloads) and IBM requires "entitlement validation". I can't speak for any other servers vendors.

EDIT: I just now checked for any updates for a Dell PowerEdge R720 (which is EoL/EoS, by the way) I have here at home, found a BIOS update from about a month ago [1], downloaded it with wget, and am now live migrating ("vMotion") the VMs running on it over to another host so that I can take the host down and install the update -- it contains microcode updates addressing several of the CVEs for Intel CPUs.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20140209062309/http://h30507.www...

[1]: https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversde...
The Navy doesn't like to spread the wolk around. Congressmembers like to spread it around to get a piece of the pork.
Fake and Dangerous Kids Products on Amazon
Like the decorator syntax for tracking observables. Is the under the hood implementation an inspiration from mobx? Basically, the use of Proxy.
It would be $0 and probably covered up if the corporation had the choice.
Unless they can prove they intended to sell that stock anyway before they had knowledge of the hack, that seems criminal.
I work at Seeq Corporation, which is also a fully remote company with over 100 employees (not on the list). We compensate everyone the same regardless of their location. The other companies that I've worked remotely for (Groupon and a startup) did not do that, and I think it's great. At Groupon, my compensation was adjusted for "Cost of Labor," not "Cost of Living," which was annoying since the calculation was completely opaque. When I decided to move they misinformed me about how my compensation was going to be adjusted.

Anyway, living in a city doesn't appeal to me, so companies that don't incentivize living in a city do appeal to me.
Codex Alimentarius
When China will invent game changing technology that benefit the world in a massive way, then we'll be able to say they're leaders.
...insider trading? If there’s not an investigation into these “executives” already underway, there should be.
Indeed, and some of the worst offenders are among the most trendy car companies (looking at you, Tesla).
If you're accustomed to windows/office you can just set up a CSV as an ODBC data source and use access.

Otherwise [csvkit](https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) gives a pretty good command line interface to make sql queries against a CSV or dump the CSV into a database so you can use any standard database tool to query.
I have never understood why averaging the stick inputs makes any sense (who is controlling the aircraft in that case?)

In this case, I see that the ship's left and right power controls were transferred from one station to another one at a time. Regardless of whether, in the system's byzantine command structure, there was a way to transfer them together, the fact that they could be transferred individually suggests that someone thought there was a scenario where it made sense to have two different people, possibly in widely separated places, handling the two sides of this function. perhaps someone could enighten me as to the scenarios in which that is useful?
If bundling the assets of a hundred or a thousand people made a difference, then entities with millions would be able to get the same deal already. But 1 year treasuries only pay like 1.5%, right? Who is getting >2% risk free?

I don't see where the there is.
Worked in tech (ISPs, support, then unix sysadmin) in my teens and after graduating high school, quit my job to go back to college at 21. Worked part time in IT dept during college and summers, remote part time work for a web hosting company during summers as well. Business major, not CS.

It seems like dev jobs in particular are interview meat grinders.
It was removed in Skylake, not Broadwell. Ice Lake reintroduces the FIVR again. The inductors are now in the package substrate (rather than discrete inductors on the package or the weird 3DL module in Broadwell-Y) and efficiency at low power is improved. The latter is obviously extremely important for mobile workloads.
What about when Apple decides to change things up or get rid of that feature? In my opinion, you don't really fully own your data until you own the software you use to interact with it.
The coordination between steering and speed is the job of the conning officer, not the helmsman or lee helmsman. Things happen quite a bit slower on a large warship than they do on a sailboat, so that method of control works fine.
That paper is from 1993. Hard to believe that it took such a long time to find a concrete pathology in a Newtonian system. Now the question is whether these blowups only occur on initial condition sets of zero measure.

John Baez also has a nice, accessible series of articles called "Stuggles with the Continuum" [0]. As a side product, it gives a nice perspective on the development of modern physics as a series of attempts to fix these infinities (only to create more subtle one).

[0]:https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/struggles-wi...
It’s true, the problem looks much less concerning if you leave out all the data that would make it look concerning.
Get to the next level of what? Understanding of the alienated situation we find ourselves in? (genuine question)
I'm afraid your ignorance cannot be excused.
i m sorry that's just hate speech
Starships in Silhouette
Yeah, but’s what it’s the source so...?!?
From what I have read stuff like this is also high risk for the lawyers who may be working on this for years without getting paid. I agree that regulators should go after these companies and also prosecutors instead of putting people in jail for years for possession of marijuana.
i dont know about strange, stagnant, yes. when things stagnate they rot
The surprising thing for me working at a fully remote company for the first time (Seeq Corporation - over 100 employees) is that, with the right tools, I think it's actually better for junior roles that need more help. For one thing, there's a lot less friction hopping on a video call than finding someone at their desk. Another thing is that results are the only metric you have to go on, so you don't fall into the mistake of assuming someone is doing okay just because they're sitting in front of their computer and not asking for help.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Jokes aside, everything has its place. You're still allowed to hate it though. For example, I hate Redux because everyone uses it for every React app and it's got boilerplate up the wazoo.

Just know that if you "hate" things, though, you won't learn as much in life, like I won't learn how to use time travel debugging. Almost anything that gets this popular has at least a few core ideas we should probably learn, or learn from.
Do you mean the President Rudy Kalbfleisch simulacrum who keeps breaking down in "The Simulacra", or the President Abraham Lincoln simulacrum who doesn't want to be sold in "We Can Build You"? Or do you mean the world has gone full blown "Faith of our Fathers" where the government is putting hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply to keep us from discovering the truth about our glorious leader(s)? Or some other book written by the fake Philip K Dick simulacrum built by Hanson Robotics, who was was ostensibly lost on a flight from Dallas to San Francisco in late 2005, and is rumored to have absconded to an undisclosed location and rebooted his writing career on the Dark Web?

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/226460.The_Simulacra

The Simulacra, by Philip K. Dick.

Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android. Against this backdrop Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to practice in a world full of the maladjusted. Ian Duncan is desperately in love with the first lady, Nicole Thibideaux, who he has never met. Richard Kongrosian refuses to see anyone because he is convinced his body odor is lethal. And the fascistic Bertold Goltz is trying to overthrow the government. With wonderful aplomb, Philip K. Dick brings this story to a crashing conclusion and in classic fashion shows there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the one we see.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400270.We_Can_Build_You

We Can Build You, by Philip K. Dick.

Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold.

Is an electronic Lincoln any less alive than his creators? Is a machine that cares and suffers inferior to the woman Louis loves--a borderline psychopath who does neither? With irresistible momentum, intelligence, and wit, Philip K. Dick creates an arresting techno-thriller that suggests a marriage of Bladerunner and Barbarians at the Gate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_of_Our_Fathers_(short_st...

Faith of Our Fathers, by Philip K Dick.

Tung Chien is a Vietnamese bureaucrat in a world that has been conquered by Chinese-style atheist communism, where the population is kept docile with hallucinogenic drugs. When a street vendor gives Tung an illegal anti-hallucinogen, he discovers that the Party leader has a horrible secret.

https://www.hansonrobotics.com/philip-k-dick/

Philip K Dick, Research Robot.

Activated in 2005, Hanson Robotics debuted Philip K. Dick (aka Philip K. Dick Android) at Wired Nextfest. Designed by David Hanson as a robotic paean to the sci-fi writer of the same name, it was initially created using thousands of pages of the author’s journals, letters and published writings.
Engineering? I hear the interviews can be incredibly lengthy and brutal, and the process just too time-consuming. That said, the job market is positively white-hot. Most companies in major markets simply cannot find enough people to hire. The economy's been growing at a breakneck pace for a decade now. I don't doubt your experience, nor would I blame it on you personally (I'm no wizard). Just a bit curious about how that experience comes out of this market.
I’m also confused... Would not put it past a marketing company to pump a post w upvotes
Ironic that all journalists got the Iraq war wrong without the need for fake news.

We don't need real journalists, we need a way to pay for news that makes accurate reporting profitable.
It is a stuttery mess in Firefox + Windows 10 also.
No. It’s much worth more than 6 to them but they are trying to tell you it’s less
It's no tragedy Ember is a niche product and the community is unique and hasn't gone the way of angular or react with all the false corporate stereotypes
Isn't that guilty until proven innocent? Rather, I would think that whoever does the prosecution would need to prove the execs knew of the hack prior to selling the stock. The execs don't have to prove anything.
If you compare IT to venture capital or just being a Senator’s son then sure it’s got its problems. But when you look at the pay and difficulty of IT compared to nursing, teaching, truck driving, coal mining, construction, etc... it’s the easiest money you’ll ever make. So if you don’t want it, please show yourself the door.
Self doesn’t have classes or inheritance, and it’s as [single-dispatch] OO as they come.

(Certainly moreso than something like C++, which wouldn’t look out of place on a Melanesian island. Never could figure why C++ and all its typed kin would choose to dispatch [dynamically] on only one argument instead of on all. Playing to their weaknesses, no?)
The problem with TransferWise from a business perspective is that the money appears on your bank statement to have come from a local bank account, of a party different from the party that is supposed to have paid your invoice. That's a dramatic difference for taxes & accounting from an international wire (charge VAT vs no VAT, being able to prove it).
This involves forcibly moving people out of their homes and out of land they feel is their country, and doing so in massive numbers. There's a whole lot of subtlety in the dynamic between high-level problem solving and human emotions, and that's not even considering logistics.
I think technical limitations like this are the worst possible solution. The genie can't be put back in the bottle with any particular technology, and the lack of widespread access and awareness means the damage from any particular deepfake that _does_ get released can be that much higher. There is zero chance this tech won't be in the hands of every government-sponsored group on the planet, not to mention all the other independent bad guys out there online.
Anyone Can Build This Open Source, DRM-Free Kindle Alternative
That's fine, I'm more interested in punishing companies for poor behavior than getting a couple bucks in my pocket.
The point of this article is not that we should exclusively trust RDRAND.
I picked up a copy of Chandrasekar's "Hydrodynamic and Magnetodynamic Stability" a while back and started working through it. The basics are relatively approachable, but dang the differential equations can get gnarly. It feels like a large portion of the art is in asking the right question that can aviod toppling into a mess of non-linearities.

Really good book, as far as I got through it. The beginning has a nice derivation of Navier-Stokes, which was mew to me.
Where are you getting 2% from?

The 77.5 is roughly 20% of the settlement fund

Or if you want to include the crap credit monitoring it is 11% of the total 700

In either case no one will be getting near 125 but still 80 million is quite a lot for them...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding about class action suits rarely benefit anyone but the lawyers; isn't the whole point to hurt the corporations where it hurts?
This article appears to borderline plagiarize Gary V’s well-known content model: https://www.slideshare.net/vaynerchuk/the-garyvee-content-mo...

I highly recommend looking through that deck for anyone interested in modern digital marketing strategy.
They could do it but the pilots wanted something to do so they got to fly manually. The Russians did unmanned launch and landing with their space shuttle Buran.
Just a few paragraphs in, the writer incorrectly states that Unsplash requires attribution, which is the exact opposite of the entire premise of Unsplash.

If the writer can’t pick up on that obvious fact, makes me trust the whole story less.
Also, you aren't affected if you actually have a CA. This only blows up if you use the Cisco device's own self-signed certs which it always mints (in affected versions of IOS) with notAfter 2020-01-01.

For stuff like web tools that might happen by least effort, but for SSH it's a bunch of extra effort, 90% of the effort of doing it properly, yet with almost none of the security benefits. Anybody who cares will use their own CA and be unaffected, anybody who doesn't care never enabled certs for SSH on the Cisco boxes.
Here are some things I find problematic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21848597

But I’m happy for you that you like ES6. You all own the language now, so enjoy it. Us ES5 folks are going to have to rewind and fork so we can have a community again.
> 80 million is quite a lot for them

Against $3.5bln in 2019 revenues? That's not really a lot at all.
> Two key terms in this definition are SUBJECTIVE and IMAGE. One cannot measure bokeh, as it is something that may be pleasing to one person and not another. I have my opinion of what makes for good bokeh, and, as I own this site, I get to define good and bad Bokeh for the purposes here!

And every time he mentions it he uses those caveats.

> You may have your own idea of what good bokeh is, but this site will be evaluating lenses based on MY opinions. And lets face it, there are actually times when BAD bokeh really works for a shot, but that is usually for people who have a whole lot more artistic talent than I do.
Same experience here. My guess is most people view their photos on their phones, via Instagram or Facebook. Rarely are photos looked at in full size on a high quality monitor.

I have no intention of giving up my Olympus mirrorless system. I'll probably add at least one more lens to my collection next year - I've been relying on my 12-40 f2.8 for portraits, but I'm liking what I've read about the Sigma 56 f1.4.
It might or might not have been insider trading.

However, I think a journalist is seriously delinquent if they don't acknowledge that insiders normally schedule their stock trades ahead of time to insulate from insider trading accusations. A reader needs to know whether this was the case or not in order to be appropriately outraged.
> Tesseract.js wraps an emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine.

So it is a wrapper library of a C++ project, which is cool. But saying it is a "Pure" JavaScript is purely misleading.
A good tautology can be helpful in revealing errors in reasoning. Like here, the sentence "ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to" sounds reasonable; the equivalent statement "best reasoning is the most persuasive" is clearly wrong.
If it weren't for Rails then maybe those small businesses would not be as successful as they are and wouldn't be around now.

Rails is definitely more niche but it's still a great framework IMHO and it's not dead. Still gets feature updates to this day.
One of the things I really wish Ember would focus on is reducing the amount of JavaScript shipped to the browser. I just tried out the included project with ember-cli, and the default JavaScript bundle is 2.7 MB (591 KB gzipped)[1] for an app that doesn't have any functionality. I know that you get a lot with that 591 KB (Ember's router, the Glimmer VM, etc.), but it's still much more than what you can get your React app down too, especially on initial load. For comparison, my _entire_ React application (which includes emotion, react-router, and a full data synchronization library) is only 356 KB (104 KB gzipped). Don't get me wrong: there's certainly applications where the size of the JavaScript doesn't matter, and I think Ember is _great_ for those use-cases. I just wish it could be used for smaller, mobile-focused applications without being several times larger than an equivalent React app.

[1] Apparently this is the development size. The production size is 712.29 KB (180.80 KB gzipped). My point still stands though.
This part, though:

"ARM stands for Advanced RISC Machines, the name given to the company when it was spun out of Acorn Computers back in the day. It was abbreviated to ARM when the firm went public in 1998."

It was always abbreviated to ARM, ever since the 1980s. The whole reason for "Advanced RISC Machines" was to match the acronym they already had.
Love it. Keeping documentation screenshots and code snippets in sync with development has been a headache for me on past projects. This is clever!
Ask HN: Why are foreign funds investing in startups at ridiculous valuations?
Why are foreign funds like the Saudia Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and SoftBank’s vision fund dumping so much money into US tech startups, giving them insanely high valuations. HN’s very familiar with SOftBank and WeWork. I just read that Cloud Kitchens (Travis Kalanick’s new startup) was valued at ~$500M in September of this year. 2 months later, the SA sovereign wealth fund invests $400MM at a $5BN valuation. Can someone who understands the dynamics of global economic forces explain what’s happening?
"2% of the shortfall", which would mean "2% of the 119$ less than the 125$ I could've been getting".
Is there some version of SK8 floating around the net that one could boot up in Sheepshaver or similar? I'd really like to experience this for myself
I can't say that I've ever noticed that to be generally true, but I'll certainly be looking out for it now.
>People also don't want to pay for good government.

Maybe because it’s already a paid service and its quality still has to be observed. But if you take their government from them, returning that substantial income cut, they instantly want it back.

This doesn’t have to invalidate your point, but this particular comparison seems pretty shaky. (Or it’s not and I’m missing something.)
A subpoena of exec email accounts could sort out who knew what very quickly.
With a cursory glance, a lot of these changes make Ember look more familiar for React users, w.r.t. not treating root specially (versus Angular for example) and with moving away from mixins for more functional composition. All in all I think this is great and would like to take a look at Ember and see what it has to offer nowadays.
You're discounting the fact that most extant native peoples almost certainly displaced other native people by the time the Europeans showed up. To provide a single example, Southern Athabaskans ventured south from Canada and displaced the Pueblo people after Europeans had already started showing up in North America.

Also, "aslyum-seeker" and "immigrant" are two distinct concepts.
Good journalism is still no match for a functioning US intelligence apparatus intent on disinformation.
Why are you comparing how much the lawyers get to Equifax revenue?
In theory, yes.

In practice, as usual, they're getting fined $5 for stealing $100, so not really.
In somewhat-related news, a group of Washington Post reporters tweeted a party photo labeled 'Merry Impeachmas'.

There is no impartial source of media today. Not traditional media, not social media. You have to go out and talk to people around you to know what people really think.

"If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed, if you do read it, you’re misinformed."
- Denzel Washington
> I do think investors will eventually wake up and realize that user demand for data control means better edge devices and avoiding reliance on the centralized cloud.

Hear hear! We need to not forget the core lesson of the internet, which is centralization is a weakness. I have not been happy with the increasing trend towards centralization in tech, and I agree that people taking more ownership is going to mean more edge devices.

The hardware is there, it's the software that needs to catch up.
So you're saying there are hundreds of people who all create accounts at the same time, all use the same type of profile picture, all join together to be admins of political groups, and then all spend all day spamming links to thebl.com ? That's beyond belief. It's very unrealistic to think so many people would behave so identically.