skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just for others who may not see where the handles column is: "Open task manager, go to details tab, right click on one of the already listed columns, click select columns, then scroll down to check handles."

After sorting by handles, I see similar results. Logitech Hub Agent has 13,000 handles. It seems these gaming companies hire the worst coders without care for actual performance. Yet...they advertise their products as cutting edge performance. Quite the irony.
I'd say Chapter 1 of https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/ "A Guided Tour Of The MySQL Source Code"
SSDs work in an odd way: they have more capacity than they claim, and when you overwrite some data you're really just writing to some of that spare space while the old version is just marked as free [1, 2]. Admittedly, at that point it's going to be very hard to retrieve the old data (you'd need to bypass the remapping logic presented by the controller circuitry), but it's theoretically possible. If you're paranoid, it's best to rewrite the whole thing even if it's encrypted, ideally several times (at that point a little original data could technically be left over but it's unlikely and it's not going to be feasible to get any of it if it was encrypted).

[1] https://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2021/06/what-every-p...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27572218
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It's a hard one. Trump was promoting it when there was not enough evidence and was acting as it it was obvious. As a scientist you need to be much more careful and precise in what you say. As far as I can tell, what we have now are some very strong cues, but still no definitive proof (that might be impossible to have without the cooperation of the Chinese government).
If there was enough on that laptop to start up a clone of the service then that would be enough to go to existing customers and sell it to them instead of original service.
I don't believe that restaurants or other organizations should feel entitled to make me use my mobile data, which I pay for by the gigabyte, to access their services.
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Even if you care about salaries, German engineers are cheap. If you are looking for the best engineers they are as cheap as India (India has a lot more bad engineers for cheap, but they have plenty of good ones that demand and get a good salary).

The real downside of Germany is lead Engineer is a non-union position so you end up with the majority of your engineers refusing to lead the project (despite the higher salaries, the union benefits are considered worth it - as an outsider I don't know what these are). Thus you end up with a lot of great mid-level engineers who try to stick to their own area of expertise instead of growing to make a better whole.
Aah, the self-deprecating German, so common it's almost a meme now.

Remember, grass is always greener on the other side.
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How Do You Read?
Are you wanting to read SQL queries people write or are you wanting to read the source code to MySQL. I could interpret this either way.

SQL isn't hard to pick up. Do a few online tutorials, setup an install and start experimenting. You can find online datasets even that you can load and query which will force you to use SQL which will reenforce the tutorials.

If you mean MySQL source that powers MySQL then that is a much bigger hill to climb. You'd be smart to start with smaller, more simplistic code bases at first and work your way up.
NTireCRM
nTireCRM software stores and manages critical information that agents can use to provide the best possible customer service.
This seems like something to watch as it’s not just a key. Amazon is imploring management groups to integrate their software/hardware. This feels like their purchase with ring. It’s another area that Amazon can be in this privacy/surveillance market overnight. “It’s free…”

I just wish there was something more than just this as the story. It feels unfinished.
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Would like to learn how to code and develop apps on the pulsechain network, any recommendations would be great!
Thank you, insightful. Do you recall if diving in to NixOps internals and fixing bugs yourselves was necessary at some point? Did you have issues with incomplete coverage of AWS APIs?
Eh the salaries are alright. It seems to me like the salaries are higher in America, while in Germany they're lower but include things American end up paying for: pensions, insurance, and education.

If I were American, a part of my net income would still end up going to health insurance, student loans and other things. My employer might pay less benefits, but pay a higher salary to compensate for those costs.

I think that a direct comparison is very difficult in that regard. That doesn't even include different expectations regarding work life balance, and legal requirements regarding parental leave and sick leave.
PeopleForce
For more view - https://www.sunsmart.co.in/product/customer-relationship-man...
Fair but that also stemmed from their own reporting that their own coverage was flawed...

It makes me trust them more since they're auditing themselves like that. Shows high journalistic integrity.
Great article. One takeaway from this is pretty straightforward: as a startup, this is strong evidence to invest in cyber coverage specifically with those top carriers.

One of the shortcomings of the article though, is that they don't address the price effect:

has the grouping of IR led to cheaper premiums with top carriers?

Are top carrier cyber policies effectively a "better deal" as a result of this gating?

Or is the margin even justified given the commoditization that is taking place at the top firms?
Policies like this may spark a civil war.
It is called climate change because the oil industry PR people created a new word that defanged Global Warming.

Change is good right? Could be bad, could be good but times are changing.

*edit, boosted an existing phrase, Frank Luntz RNC Propagandist

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.c...

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/6/21/1870021...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/in...
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> Humans are predators,

Look at our teeth. We're actually omnivorous.
The implication was that the Netherlands exemplified a country with a remarkably low number of cars per capita. The numbers do not support this assertion regardless of what GP might "feel".

It is true that most urban dwellers do not need a car. But that point can be made without trying to amplify it with false assertions.
I don't see banning on opinions happening on HN, but I understand that seeing the same rehashed fallacious statements over and over gets old quick. Case in point: the "this is not happening because something similar happened before", with no quantification or data or independent research or citation... is just noxious bullshit that deserves, like I wrote, to get you a red username, not green. What's your favorite color?
Without being that categoric, I agree there's a psychological side of things that needs to be studied.

I heard there is a brain mechanism that allows us to "ignore the inevitable". This makes doom-saying predictions a hard sell.

The first step to manipulating people is not to say it's manipulation. Call it "marketing" and "lobbying". Everyone does it, climate activists have to do it too :)
Related:

https://www.swytchbike.com/
It seems likely that the BBC itself has limited rights to broadcast the material internationally. This phenomenon isn't unique to the Olympics. There is a lot of other BBC content that isn't freely available outside the UK for similar reasons. However the IOC is well known to be very aggressive in the demands it makes of partners and even host nations so it would be unsurprising if that was the reason here. I don't really understand why they have to switch off entire radio stations though if that's what they're doing, unless so much of the content on those stations is currently about the Olympics that it's not worth continuing to run the rest on its own.
I believe it is an art project of some nerd who took "Pride and Prejudice" and translated it into classical punch cards. I stored some of the cards as images on my computer and took some reader to see if they really contained what the author stated and yes - they translated back into the novel's text.

So it looks like a summer/fun/art project.

I liked it and it fueled a little bit of nostalgia for me.
What do you mean? They did not uncover themselves that the WMDs did not exist.
Even language carriers don't get my name right. Sometimes I say it myself, they realize they were mispronouncing it and say "why didn't you say about it?", but two weeks later they mispronounce it again as if nothing happened.
Yeah, Sanger's gone batshit, and it makes me regret ever contributing to Wikipedia. What's really interesting is the pattern: First he was skeptical of WP's ability to crowdsource its editing, then he felt that WP's NPOV was biased but wouldn't explain how, then he tried to get some sort of special paid editors to be even more neutral somehow? And now we're here, where it turns out that his complaints about neutrality were smokescreens for latent delusions and politically-motivated departures from reality.

Maybe Sanger couldn't handle the fact that a community can produce thousands of free Featured Articles (community-verified high-quality WP articles) while he ran out of money trying to produce a few dozen.
MySQL Code base. Advice noted. What I want to know is that apart from learning C and C++, Data Structures and a bit of computer science (I know quite of it already), what other things will I have to learn? Math? Algos also?
Now this has utterly disappeared from the front page. wtf happened ?
> It's insanely hard to avoid that main stream media content (celebrities, dramas, dramas, dramas and $bad_stuff/propaganda) that affects the mood, even when I don't use "normal" social medias.

an annoying trend is that, over time, almost every webpage or program controlled by corporate interests will come to include a "feed" that tries to lure you back into the modern news/outrage cycle

e.g. opening a tab in microsoft edge, clicking the weather widget in windows 10, "pocket" in firefox, the "keep with the times" inlined video section on youtube, of course social media sites like facebook and twitter, the list goes on

it's not enough to have a wide-reach product, every company needs to put a feed in it
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Yes, and I remember that the people watched the project with a skeptic eye. It was neither pessimistic nor optimistic, just cautious. It's just an impression though.
Germany is hands-off the best country to invest in all of Europe.
And then imagine the stigma your new colleague would be subjected to when HR underscores that they hired a red haired Sri Lankan genderfluid voodoo priest.
There are a lot of industries like this and a lot of people on HN who need to reevaluate their career choices.
Thanks for clarifying. But I would take issue with the statement "science has no way to observe consciousness"

A cornerstone of science is empirical observation, and we can all observe our own consciousness to some degree. It's hardly perfect or even nearly complete, but it's something.
Bias is in every source (although I'd give Reuters an AP a general pass there). Being biased is not a "bad thing" just because it doesn't fit your world view, it expands horizons if you allow other views into your narrow view.

And poor? Laughable. NYTimes is a high quality source on-par with WSJ.
Thanks, I came to similar conclusions.
It's native Linux, wadaya think?
How do these compensations compare to the housing costs in top metros there? Are the housing markets in say Banglore as saturated as other tech-focused cities, Would love to hear from folks in India!
FWIW, I fall exactly into that niche. I've never written a line of Rust in my life but am quite competent with Haskell and Ruby and have dabbled in at least half a dozen others. Seeing everyday `cargo` use made me think of bundler and the Future/Result type signatures were easy to map onto Async/Either and the like.

So yes, it's a long article but I didn't mind that in the least. Keep it up!
The chances of young people dying from Covid are slimmer than them dying from being struck by lightning.

There is no need to exaggerate.
That is not true.

If you're vaccinated you have the same chance of getting infected whether the person you're talking to is vaccinated or not, within miniscule margins of error.

If we're going to argue about the miniscule margins of error then you might as well ban pharmaceutical medications as well because there's always a chance of adverse side effects.
Chicken licken?
Very interesting article. It mainly focuses on what happens after an attack, but I was left wondering - before selling the insurance, does the insurance company require the insured to perform any kind of basic cyber security audit? Are they required to take regular backups, and to test those backups on a regular basis?

I know I can't insure my home if it doesn't meet basic fire-proofing standards. Does cyber security insurance work the same way?
A well-working system? Germany only has an income tax but no wealth tax, unsurprisingly there's a huge inequality in wealth. If you earn your living in Germany through work you are basically a sucker: You have to hand on average 38.9% to the state. Taxation on capital gains, interest and dividends is 25%. This difference is compounding every year so the net effect over a lifetime is huge.
"When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?" ― John Maynard Keynes
Ahh the good old days of web rings and IRC chatrooms and such. Now it's a bazaar of monopolies, disinformation, vanity, and photo-sharing. The issue is we no longer rely on some server in some guys basement. A BBS out of a college dorm closet. Or a network of like-minded individuals for the sake of learning off each other. Everything is owned by a select few companies that add tracking cookies to advertise to you. It's become a giant mall for the minds of the world.
"Still, in certain markets they are not a "minor" player, and even then that still doesn't give them an excuse to abuse the position."

1. In which markets does Apple have a majority, i.e. monopoly, position?

2. Given that the answer to point 1 is "none," they have no monopolistic position to abuse.

Special rules only come into play when one player effectively controls an entire market, like MSFT and personal computers in the late 90s.

You don't get to draw the market boundaries in such a way as to establish that Apple has some weird, narrowly defined monopoly.
Simon Winchester's book "The Perfectionists" [1] is a good popular level intro to Maudsley, Whitworth et al.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Exactly-Precision-Engineers-Created-M...
> There are much fewer female Chess players, so it is logical that there are less female GM’s

But even relative to the total number of female players, much smaller % reaches GM.
So you're living in SV now?
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I'm not a lawyer and this is random guesses. If the SEC goes after the company due to this then you may be liable for civil penalties as you lied on a contract. This could mean that any of your other US investments could be taken if you lose the case. It may also make the initial contract around the investment void in which case you may lose out on any increase in valuation. I suspect the SEC would be much in favor of the last one happening to discourage such actions in the future.
Exorbitant privilege, why would it happen otherwise?
He never published anything publicly. His essay was written internally and then deliberately leaked by the sort of people who want to punish any ideological dissent. And it worked: the leakers were it seems never found, and Damore was fired, despite that his essay was written in response to a diversity training workshop asking for feedback.
Actually I think there are seperate titles for correspondence chess, and these might be easier to get.
> It's the result of people only being able to afford single-family houses 1-2 hours away from their workplaces

Idk how this works in the USA but shurely if you can afford a single family house you could easily rent an apartment near to where you actually work?
And sadly that long tail of work will be completed just as the platform is becoming obsolete...
I used to play Scrabble daily and got pretty good. Memorized all of the two letter words, memorized a good number of the three letter words and thought about playing in a tournament.

Then someone gave me the book Word Freak and I lost any interest in playing in a tournament. The people that win Scrabble tournaments memorize dictionaries as their full-time job hoping to make $20,000 in tournament prize money per year. I can't compete with that.

It's still amazing to me though that the winner of the 2015 French Scrabble Tournament didn't speak French.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378...

All of his strategy tools and anagram skills would've helped him but he still had to memorize 386,000 French words that he didn't know the meaning of.
Money isn't everything to many. Life in Germany is good enough, and there's no guarantee that it would be betted in the US. Sure, more money is nice, but the pay in Germany is still decent, and the perks are considerable: 22% fewer work hours, for instance.
Heh, downvoted. Guess people don't like thinking about the implication.

(For those who don't understand, the parent comment is willfully ignoring that most sexual relations between subordinates and managers are coerced. In this particular case, the implication was that she might be passed over for promotion, fired, or even blackballed if she didn't engage in sex.)
>still in the middle of the computer revolution
Are you implying it will end? Either Moore's law leveling off or an externality (unrest/war/climate change) that ends it?
> We're talking about making it your full-time job for at least 10 years

I played pretty high level scrabble and devoted 3 years of full-time effort to it (while holding down a menial job). I wasn’t particularly talented but I was willing to put the work in. Until one day I woke up and realized it was a total waste of time and moved on with my life.

During that time I heard it put even more pessimistically about chess. That 10 years of dedicated effort allowed you to maybe see most of the game.

There are people who devote their whole lives to Scrabble, poker, chess, backgammon, basketball etc. Many are horribly adjusted people and some of them end up incredibly skilled at a game. And a few of those people can end up making a living at it.

The average person just can’t comprehend the skill gap between the people who live their lives around a game and themselves.

There was an NBA benchwarmer named Brian Scalabrine who said about good YMCA basketball players, “I’m closer to LeBron James than you are to me.”

It’s nearly impossible to even fathom how good truly top-level game players are.
Another template<typename Propaganda> article from the so specialized nytimes, so textbook it hurts.

Checkboxes checked, as coarse as they are:

Use maximum chutzpah implanting the idea that the new order of things is permanent and irreversible

Do that on every occasion, appropriate or not, ever so persistent

Briefly touch on the implications of a new idea, but paint a luring picture of alleged advantages to sell the idea

Describe how ostensibly eager people are to lap it up right now and en masse

Of course, don't hesitate to localize and amplify out-of-place alreadisms - "QR codes may be new to many American shoppers, but they have been popular internationally for years in Japan"
It's also low-tech compared to chip manufacturing.
In 2011 I remember reading about “QR phishing”, where a transparency is overlaid on a QR code to completely change the data while barely modifying the representation.

http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2011/08/06/hacking-qr-codes/
Your definition of "PC" is really, really narrow, then.

IOW, you're defining "PC" in a way that excludes the thing you don't want to define as a "computer," which amounts to a semantic game, not a description of reality.

For many, many people, an iPad answers all the needs they have. It's a computer.
> “We want to be fully assured that everything will work properly,” he said, clarifying that all of the municipality’s files are being secured.

Not sure if an attacker encrypting all your files counts as them being 'secured'...
I'm all for concentrating the problems in a place where I don't live.

- A Berliner
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Ask HN: Where do you buy computers from?
tl:dr - Where do you buy software-development-capable computers from for an individual?

Long version:
I've been offered a remote position and have only ever worked on-site up until now. At home I have a fairly basic, years old laptop that is fine for browsing the web and side-project-level development, and a windows machine that I got for my kids to do class work. Neither is really appropriate for "real" software development. Not enough RAM, mainly.

I haven't had to buy a computer for work in a very long time, and I'm unsure where to look to get started these days. I realize I could put my own together, but I'm hoping there's an "out-of-the-box" solution. I realize there are thousands of placing selling computers, I'm just hoping there's a go-to for the HN crowd.
I would love see something like that for Germans. I have the impression that Germans get quite lazy or simply ill will to even try to pronounce it and it's quite disrespectful. If you are German and you are reading it. That's for you.
what you choose to do in your own private space, where the consequences of your actions is not going to affect me, is up to you.

But if you take (or not take) actions that causes harm for other people, then you do not get to claim freedom of choice when you are stopped.

Because if by this logic, you choose to drink and drive, and kills someone, you would claim that it's your freedom to drink!
Why you think that Germany has a lot of good and cheap engineers? I think the biggest problem that low salaries are causing there is that people with some(5+ years) experience are moving either to Switzerland/US or to freelance for Switzerland/US companies.

So, there's big deficit of experienced engineers. German companies are trying to solve it by inviting Eastern European/Indian/Asian workers, that are cheaper, but that results in mediocre one staying and exploiting job security system and good ones moving to Switzerland/US or back to native country(where foreign experience can help them to get to higher managerial positions).
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It would have been so easy for the article to state upfront that QR codes are URLs coded as a monochrome patterns of squares. Scanning a QR code is like clicking on that URL. Nothing more, nothing less.

So users that scan a QR code have to be concerned like anyone clicking on a link. It has positives and negatives just like links. Nothing new there. I am just surprised that specialist companies have sprung up that capitalize on that simple idea.
which is not impossible but very unlikely.