skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's much more complex than that. Security bugs have different levels of severity, with different reactions to those.

Let's for example see the Microsoft ESU policy:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-secu...

For Windows 7, only Critical and Important security updates are shipped to those _paying_ customers. This leaves Moderate and Low as uncovered.

For Linux: http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2018/08/24/what-stable-kernel-...

> Older LTS release

> There is one huge caveat when using a kernel like this. The number of security fixes that get backported are not as great as with the latest LTS release, because the traditional model of the devices that use these older LTS kernels is a much more reduced user model. These kernels are not to be used in any type of “general computing” model where you have untrusted users or virtual machines, as the ability to do some of the recent Spectre-type fixes for older releases is greatly reduced, if present at all in some branches

> So again, only use older LTS releases in a device that you fully control, or lock down with a very strong security model (like Android enforces using SELinux and application isolation). Never use these releases on a server with untrusted users, programs, or virtual machines.
Yeah, it’s pretty dumb to assume that your experience of learning amounts to universal axioms about education. I have learned a ton from podcasts over the last decade. In fact, apps like Airr and Snipd have come on the scene just for people who like to capture notes from podcasts.

I prefer Snipd, they use a bit of ML to predict useful start and end points around where you toggle the capture. They also generate transcripts for the podcast and the snip itself. It’s not perfect, but it makes editing your highlights a lot easier.
Mind maps help. White boards are even better. In my early college years, I used my bedroom's closet mirror like a starving artist would.
> The US needs to stop using public facilities (schools, the military, etc) as white-collar welfare and hire more people that actually care. Ignorance is forgivable but when combined with a steadfast opposition to personal growth it becomes malicious. It'd be better for society to fire clowns like these and administer them unemployment than to have them crowd out those that actually give a shit.

That presumes that the purpose of school is perceived by the participants to be something other than printing credentials that justify trans-generational wealth and power accrual.
If I ever visit Irkutsk, I'm definitely getting a selfie next to some signs.

My family plays the game 'Risk' at holiday times, Irkutsk is one of the featured territories.
- Super hexagon (Edit: ios only now, used to be on both)

- Duet

- Osmos (Edit: ios only now, used to be on both)

-tsumego pro

These are all basically mobile-gaming-on-the-toilet perfection.

I wonder why those creators pulled from the google play store. I'm 100% sure I had them on android, my ipad is new and my first apple touch device.
Why are you angry with me for downvoting something? How would you know that? Sorry for not reading your friend's book. Never claimed to be a drug expert.
Can you be more specific? Microsoft is big, I am guessing you don't mean Microsoft Lahore?
Chinese athlete accuses former top Communist Party official of sexual assault
Misconceptions about Nuclear Power
The basic trie only matches exact consecutive characters. Does anyone know the data structure/trie variant for matching partial sequential characters?

e.g. ABD matches A Brown Dog
^ ^ ^
If fusion ever becomes a reality, that can be used to power lots of carbon capture, along with desalination and electrical power plants. Short of that, it will likely require a combination of approaches, including planting more trees, and spreading olivine on beaches.

I suppose major advances in molecular nanotech could perform the carbon capture. That's what Drexler proposed years ago.

Three decades with increasing urgency and likely more government funding can make a lot of progress. I wouldn't be surprised if we do have a major technological breakthrough to mitigate climate change.
It's getting ugly... The choice of newspaper section is telling...

"San Francisco says children 5 to 11 will have to comply with proof-of-vaccination mandate"

https://www.sfgate.com/bay-area-politics/article/San-Francis...
Article doesn't mention the frontal airbag. It says the modder had to write custom firmware to get the Model 3 steering wheel to "work" in the Model S Plaid. Hope the airbag deploys if/when needed.
Their license to operate was worth up to a million; then Uber happened and now it's worth $100k; but many are in debt to $500k or so...

So did the government steal value by failing to enforce the "lack of competition" part of the agreement whereby they issued licenses in the first place?

Or did the government steal value for all the years from then til now by enforcing a licensing and regulation scheme that it now admits wasn't necessary or in the public interest?

Or was the "value" complete horseshit all along?
The post isn’t intended to harm unwitting buyers. The post is sending a message to the thieves, before they try to sell the cards. Should they try anyway, educating buyers to watch out for stolen goods is a great idea that will make the cards harder to sell if it works.
Casey Muratori's refterm lecture series (5 videos) (October 2021)
I do it while listening to a podcast.
You might find my blog post on some of the uses interesting: https://blog.waleedkhan.name/union-vs-sum-types/

In a language like TypeScript, they can be used for function overloading since there is no runtime dispatch based on argument type. But usually they're used as sum types in the same way as e.g. Rust enums.

Typescript supports so-called "singleton types", in which a given type is inhabited by exactly one value. This lets you do things like specify not just `string` but specific values like `"foo" | "bar"` as a type. In these cases, I often use them in combination with Typescript's "mapped types", which let you index into a map with a certain type and get another type out. This can be useful for things like RPC calls, where the type of the output depends on the type of the input.
the giant system is more powerful and has been around much longer than the guns. and when you say "they're reliant", you make it sound as if somehow the citizens of berlin get offered the chance make a daily choice to be nice, when in reality, it's baked in at a much deeper level. there are hardly any crazy people in berlin (in the sense of wanting or needing to assault people). your daughters live in the middle of a giant system too, but instead of one that puts a priority on the kinds of things that berlin does, its a giant system that "requires" them to have guns. not only that, but they still have to worry: you don't get to pull out a gun in a dangerous situation without adding to the potential danger.

btw, i live in new mexico now, and my daughters are both grown women who live in chicago and philadelphia, and still do not carry guns.
What do you want, a source that literally uses the term "oppression"?

Does CRT not posit that all inequities in our society are a result of white supremacist oppression?

Is the point of privilege not to imply that those who have it must forgo equal treatment in order to correct for historical oppression?

And if white boys fail to do enough to combat this white supremacist, oppressive system, is the implication not that they are furthering this supposed oppression?

>the latest "critical race theory" boogeyman.

First, I don't know how else to repeat this, the fact that young white boys are being singled out for their race and shamed into atoning for their privilege is emphatically not a boogeyman. It's happening. Second, being opposed to racist doctrine being taught in schools to children is not equivalent to attacking public schooling in general. Maybe public schools are under attack because CRT inspired doctrine is offensive to parents of white males, when it does not even allow debate over the premise that all social inequities stem from white male racism, aka oppression. This is not the way to end racism, it will only breed reactionary white supremacy.

Again, if you are accusing white boys of inheriting privilege from an oppressive white supremacist system then you are obviously implying that if they do not actively work against this system, they are acting as oppressors. Your argument is disingenuous.

But at least we've seemingly moved past the lie that "CRT isn't being taught in schools".
> That is not and never has been - up until literally a few months ago - the definition of vaccine efficacy

I remember something else. At least where I live, since the very beginning of the vaccination programme, people were advised to not wait for Pfizer and Moderna vacinnes that were in short supply, but use already widely available AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines because even though their efficacy against transmission was significantly lower, they still provided very good protection against severe illness; and that protection was always being explicitly stressed out as the most important.
San Francisco has the benefit of some wealthy taxpayers to stick for the sizeable bill that will be necessary.

Seriously, this is a problem for the ages. If they take a continued 'soft' stance on homelessness, it's just a beacon to draw more to the population. To take a harder stance requires political change, which will take courage and some backtracking.

As techies, many of us have a connection to SF. I hope for good results here, it will be something sociologists can discuss for a long time.
Not sure it would change results dramatically but the table schemas do not seem fair.

TimescaleDB schema in this benchmark uses NUMERIC (variable size, exact precision) versus Float32 or Float64 for Clickhouse schema.

Would be interesting to see the results with TimescaleDB schema updated to more fair REAL (Timescale/Postgres's float32 equivalent) and DOUBLE (float64) columns as per Clickhouse's schema.
Unfortunately, I don't have a recommendation.

But I have a suggestion for the community – could we make this a monthly thing? A "Who's not sucky to work for" thread on the 3rd of every month might be interesting and help us understand the complex reality of employer versus employee preferences.
This is already an issue Apple has with their own Apple ID 2-factor authentication; in order to authenticate, you must either accept the prompt and receive the code on a current Apple device, or (secondarily) recieve a code via SMS.

Frustratingly, there is no option to add a TOTP code (like most other services, including Google, offer) or to disable SMS 2FA as a backup (despite its known security issues).

I say this mostly because I assume Apple would use your Apple ID credentials as a way to log in to these services on a Windows or Linux machine, as they do currently with the "Sign in with Apple" flow.
That came to mind for me too.
Reframing a question is when the questions are equivalent in the end. Editing someone's words into a different question is something else.

> As a company we wanted to arrive at a budget through a global view and then allocate from there.

Looking at some individual results seems a good way to check that process.
two people get the same constructive feedback,
one person goes "wow, I am getting feedback
that will make me grow" and the other person
goes "ouch my boss wounded my ego, I hate it"

In that hypothetical example, yeah, I wouldn't know how to judge the company.

In reality things are a little more detailed. I would want to look a little deeper. Is the feedback technically sound? Is the feedback actually constructive, or more along the lines of "this is shit?"

I recently eliminated a company from my job search because I received feedback during the interview process that IMO failed in all possible ways: it was technically poor, it was rude, and it was unconstructive. (Perhaps one would say it was fragile ego, but I've been in this industry for a while and that was a first, so I've got enough anecdata to believe my ego is not fragile...)
it is less boring to generalize...
I understood that distinction perfectly. And as OC wrote "at the time Dune was written", it is absolutely true the distinction was generaly not made.

However this movie has been made in 2021. People who fail to make the distinction today are few and far between, except maybe in the extreme Christian Right or Fundamentalist Islam. Somehow, I don't think those are the target groups for the movie or book.

IMHO the filmmakers wanted to "protect" (if you allow me such an expression) the "cause" of homosexuality by using preventative narrative censorship. However, a trope cannot be fed if next to nobody understands it in that way, under that specific context. Most of the audience would completely gloss over his homosexuality. Even homophobes are "used to it" now.

This is precisely why I think they did a disservice to the work to pander to modern virtues and little gain. The audience/readers are supposed to find the Baron to be the most execrable human-adjacent being they have ever heard about.

The author wanted to drive us to despise him. In only watching the show, you are robbed of the necessary substrate for that emotion to arise. His evil was abstracted.
I don't know much about the situation in Ethiopia, but if the PM is telling his constituents to defend themselves from rebels, sure, it is an invitation to use violence but it's to defend against violence.

It's not too dissimilar from say a mother or father telling their daughter if they are in imminent danger, use a weapon against an attacker. Yes, it's condoning violence but it's to counter other violence.

Ethiopia should demand FB have an office there that will answer to their local laws. FB should not set the rules for the whole world form a campus in MP.
https://archive.md/dPTD5
“Bonzi Buddy” Creator Settles Suit
Relevant: Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and corporate strategy.
The only strategy that was engaged in there was (a) the time honored HN tradition of noting that the plural of anecdote is not data and (b) noting that there's nearly always more context to any leaked document or covertly recorded video, and the context frequently doesn't line up with what the party pushing the material is trying to say.
I'm pretty new to doing proofs, and I constantly think in words while doing them. Are you saying that there may be a point when I won't think like that? That would be amazing.
Probably not, but at least it's an actual solution to climate change. It's often disliked because it removes the control that people want over society that comes with the spectre of climate change. But of course it's the only real way to deal with it.

I wish governments would stop bickering about political goals, all of which literally do nothing to change CO2 levels, and focus on actually technological goals of pulling CO2 out of the air to meet whatever target is decided. That is the practical solution, but it has no political value, so instead we argue about "science" and try and hamfist socialist politics into every climate change solution.
I wonder if this is true for other languages? I’m trying to find relatively simple Spanish texts read by a native speaker.
1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed – Eric Cline
They still do. Support will upgrade models of MacBooks every once in a blue moon (have had it happen before).
Yes I sensed this… didn’t mean to come off as critical at all, in case it seemed that way. I agree with this take on things.
How about just

syncTime()

And they take care of the mess
> As the dominant informational networks of the twenty-first century, they need to be accountable for the content they broadcast, whatever its source.

The article seems to be arguing that social media companies need to be judge, jury and censor over every message that is "broadcast", i.e. sent to more than a few close friends.

It admits that defining a "public interest" standard is basically impossible, but assumes that this ambiguity won't be exploited by whichever side is in control of whichever body gets to punish the social media companies for under- or over-censoring.

If someone tweets "Click here to read my 400 page manifesto about what is wrong with America", would Twitter need to assign lawyers the task of scouring that document for "problematic" passages like "defund the police" or "give more power to ICE"?

Perhaps if there were a workable system in place for silencing extreme and misinformed voices on the TV and radio, we could try applying it at scale to the internet too, but right now that's like trying to run before you can crawl.
What is the objective then?
Consumer rights haven't taken a loss because there is no consumer and no rights. Users have no right to use stolen property. The have rights when they legitimately acquire the product.

Even if its changed hands, its still illegal to purchase stolen property and the police will just take it from you without compensating you.
Truth about ProtonMail
A regional bank headquartered in my area of upstate NY, which is also a publicly traded company, paid, in 2019, three out of their five C-level executives whose salary is disclosed, a base salary of $500K or less.

Do you or have you worked in a place where "engineers" make $500K? Have you thought about what they outsource to people making 1/10th or less, and why?
Do your research. There’s tons of “Best places to work” lists out there. Glassdoor and LinkedIn. Probe your network of friends, acquaintances, friends of friends.

I work for Red Hat in Presales. Formerly of Red Hat Consulting for 4.5 years. I’ve been here over 5 years now. Love the place. I’ve only ever worked on our Kubernetes distribution, OpenShift and related products. Great mission. Great work to do. Great people to work with. Good Managers. We’re always hiring.

I also worked at NASA/JPL at the start of my career. Worked on the Mars Rovers, satellite network simulations and then enterprise software. Also great work to do. Great mission. Great people to work with. Good management. Pay was always behind industry. But hard to complain when closing down a project can sometimes mean creating an archive for submission to the National Archives.
Ask HN: Strategy games that positively push your cognitive boundaries?
Hey, folks. I'll keep it simple.

Does anyone have any recommendations for strategy games that have helped you develop new ideas that are useful in the life of an engineer/entrepreneur?

Looking to do a bit of gaming and maybe get a little bit of brain exercise. Thanks =)
The govt has massively reduced corporate tax and they have to get the shortfall amount from somewhere.

India has double taxpayers now compared to when Congress rules.

It's not like suddenly people stopped paying income tax during current govt
I don't see the reply I made here with that throwaway (shadowban?), so I'm doing it with my other one.

> for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to

Apparently not! Using throwaways, people have upvoted me like crazy. Hundreds of points per month, for a person with no identity. If it kept going at the same pace, I would outrank some of the highest-point users within a year or two, all from using throwaway. Is that not community? And if it's not - isn't it better than community? Isn't upvoting someone you don't know, don't owe anything to, who you hold no preconceived ideas about, actually a more honest way to interact with a community?

When I get upvoted, I'm happy. Me being happy encourages me to post in a happy mood, so I create happier comments (on average). When I get downvoted or ignored (on my 'real' account), I get angry and depressed, and that makes for much less happy comments (and just a bad feeling all around). Using the throwaways not only makes me less angry and depressed, but it also enables creating content that people clearly approve of.

> Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community

There have been throwaways on this site for ages, in addition to known people. The community hasn't disappeared as far as I can tell. So it seems like you can, in fact, have it both ways. In addition, I've been a member of a lot of different communities. A lot of the time, the ones that banter on about how much of a close-knit community they are, enable some of the most toxic behavior. There are some great aspects to community, and some horrifying ones. Rather than trying to change the community to fit the standards we think it should have, perhaps we should encourage the behavior that metrics show have a more positive outcome. I could be crazy, but it seems like anything that inspires more upvotes (without the content being hateful, vitriolic, judgemental or divisive) seems like it's worth keeping.

Maybe I missed something, and there's some metrics-driven approach where you're pushing back on all throwaway behavior because its existence (regardless of content) leads to worse outcomes. Or maybe you just consider 'most' throwaways to post divisive content, and push back on all of them. Or maybe you just don't like the idea of throwaways, I dunno. All I know is this little experiment with throwaways has made me much happier on HN.
https://archive.md/syt0z
I'm going to go against the grain of the comments section here. As someone who likes both AI and 3D graphics, this is awful. It's graphically pleasing, sure, though a bit sluggish, but why? It's such an incredibly inefficient way to convey your qualifications/experience to another individual. Do you know how long it took me to learn that you work on GANS? PDFs aren't broken, don't fix them.
Or you could have a large fleet of
a million plus instrumented vehicles gathering data as they drive, then you could use that real world data to analyze and learn from all sorts of situations.
QA on their refurb units is definitely out of whack.

I bought a B-Stock GTX 580 from them which was rendering artifacts iirc. A replacement 580 also rendered the same issue. The next replacement was a seemingly new GTX 960 which has worked without issue ever since. Having received a $200+ card for $80 + some hassle was a net positive experience in the end for me.
Old-timer here. I was old enough to vote for Reagan.

Truth be told, Jimmy Carter was and is a good man. He leads a straight and modest life. As a president, he did not preside over a happy time and he was defeated soundly by Reagan.

Then Ronald Reagan was elected and the national mood was elevated. When Reagan ran for re-election, he won with 49 states. (Lacking only Minnesota, home state of his opponent. It was said that Reagan did not campaign there to avoid being a jerk.)

49 states won. It's historical fact. Don't let anyone re-write history.
I would take literally half the going market rate to work someplace like that.

But I think they're near-impossible to pick out, unless you know folks who work there.

What I mean is: even if they publicly advertise open job roles in all the usual places, it's very tricky to actually know they're "that" kind of shop, unless you know somebody on the inside. Even if you are a very proactive candidate during your interviews.

Just IMO/IME.
GitHub CEO reporting to Gu is fundamentally different to the new structure of the GitHub CEO reporting to

"The mission of the Microsoft Developer Division is to earn the trust and love of developers across
all languages and platforms and make them successful as they build the applications of the
future. DevDiv today includes our developer tools and services including Visual Studio, Visual
Studio Code, NET and C#, TypeScript, and the OpenJDK. Our Azure Developer SDKs, as well
as our Azure Application Development PaS and Serverless offerings (including our Azure App
Services, Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Dapr, Redis Cache, Spring Cloud services,
etc.) are also part of this organization."
backend being the key word. Just CRUD but with React front ends that do not a lot more than before.
How are the referral incentives at HD?