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Wiz walks away from Google's $23B acquisition offer: CEO's message to employees
Ask HN: Why Linux over Windows Server from a technical aspect
So my question why Linux over Windows Server from a technical aspect. Windows Server has the kitchen sink built in to it, without the need for external packages. Please don't say pricing or that Linux is just open source
The 2009 agreement with the EU mentioned in the article seems to be the one about the integration of the Internet Explorer (IE) into MS Windows.[1] But it only applied to IE and the commitment was limited to 5 years.[2]

Or is the article referring to something else?

I see no reason why the EU should object to Microsoft's adoption of eBPF as long as MS Defender simply uses the same API that is available to all competitors.

[1] Here is the original text: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/cases/dec_docs/39...

[2] See section 4, paragraph 20.
> I am unclear why Jaroslav Kyocera chose to make ALSA single-client, but Apples CoreAudio multi-client driver model is the right way to do digital audio on general-purpose computing devices running multi-tasking OS'es on application processors, in my opinion.

Because ALSA is a different layer in the audio stack than CoreAudio.

ALSA corresponds to MacOS drivers and I/O Kit.

CoreAudio (Audio Toolbox / Audio Unit) corresponds to Pipewire / Pulseaudio.

But on the Mac side everyone is OK with using CoreAudio (with the accompanying set of daemons), while on Linux, for some reason, everyone wants to go as low-level as possible, "just open the device file" and is wondering, why something is missing. Because you skipped that, that's why.
Google talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz fall apart
> Over-reporting it is essentially trivial, e.g. two people who are in the relevant income range exchange favors (do each others' laundry etc.), or claim to have, and then actually report the transactions as income and get the credit.

True, but this is less of a problem if the credit rate is comparable to the payroll tax rate. In that case, a worker who over-reports their income will create an obvious payroll-tax debt in the hands of the notional employer.

> Stop using a complicated progressive rate structure, and instead eliminate the phase out entirely.

From a welfare-cliff perspective, that's a fine idea. However, per the article here, the unconditional cash transfer seemed to lead to reduced labour income. That's an obviously worrisome sign, suggesting that integrated welfare system might need an even stronger pro-wage bias.
From the horse's mouth: "the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email."

Send plain text emails. Use * and _ to emphasize things. This was something people have been doing for damn near 50 years now.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-talks-to-acquire-cybersecuri...
How do you know the WAL was not lost during transmission, or the server crashed before transferring the WAL even though there were writes after the last WAL you have in your backup?

That's why.
Shortwave radio; but I couldn't find any worthwhile channels. Mostly ran across BBC, religious programming and encrypted military comms.
That's https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/nintendo-vegas...

I don't think it's worth the huge amount of effort extra compared to a simple trim.
> then $1mil in stock for 4 years

Most FAANG engineers are NOT getting $1M stock grants.

That is the stock grant for Google L6-7, Amazon Principal SDE, and Microsoft L67.

These are engineering levels comparable to Director of Engineering or Engineering Manager and extremely rare.

> a Staff Engineer at an avg startup might get $250k base salary, in a HCOL area and maybe a 10-20% bonus

This is the norm at FAANG as well. Just add a $60-150k/yr stock grant, which is normal at other public companies in the Bay Area and Seattle tech scenes as well.
The Open Air Museum in Denmark is a museum of old buildings from all over the region

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frilandsmuseet

> The museum features more than 100 buildings from rural environments and dating from 1650-1950. All buildings are original and have been moved piece by piece
Does docmost support tags? I'm curious of how information stored in it could be queried.
I think it's great you're engaging in casual anglophobia and xenophobia, it just perfectly demonstrates how xenophobic Germany is, it's such a nice example.

I have a funny story, my grandfather actually was German and fought for the Nazi German Empire in WW2 and moved to the UK afterwards. He used to cry about how much worse the English were and how unfair it all is that the Nazi German Empire (your Nazi ancestors) is vilified compared to the English. Will you bring up the Boer War now? He used to do that too. Anyway it's all very on brand for a German to give off pretty familiar national socialist vibes. Takes me right back to my childhood trying to navigate interactions with that autistic old man :')

Funnily enough, they do say that German society is like one where everyone is autistic. It all adds up!
If I had been using using linux as main OS in that situation, I would have had to reboot. How is that different?
> ...why is MySQL falling out of favour in recent years in comparison to Postgres

I'm curious about this myself! Anyone know, or care to share?
1. People who never collaborate globally/cross TZ vastly outnumber those who do. And the people who do can already use UTC right now.

2. Making everyone in the world to use UTC is going to make everything less convenient for everyone who lives a few hours away from the UTC TZ (i.e., most of the world). Because in UTC many of their daily events are going to span 2 dates/weekdays.

3. For the handful of people who need to schedule cross TZ meetings there's https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html, no sign up required.
General aliases are bad imho because it tends (in my experience) to attract spam... One way I get around that, is instead of aliasing @domain.com, I do .a@domain.com, so I use my emails when i subscribe ServiceName.a@domain.com

good balance for me...
You want fresh produce in your supermarket, but you don't want to be the person who drives around to various farmers to get their produce, the person who stocks the shelves, the person who plants and harvests the produce, etc.

(Well, I guess if you're american you don't have fresh produce in your supermarket, but the point stands.)
I'm under the impression that Google/Microsoft etc get paid far less in the UK than in the US though, would you say that's correct? I've been working in the UK since the late 90s. Started in banking and banking contracts are still probably the primary source of big cash in the UK as there aren't many startup and much less FANG. I moved away from banking pretty quickly as I didn't really want to stay in London much longer and found the work fairly boring. Maybe I just don't like money :-( .
Just remember to leave early enough to arrive at the airport 90 minutes before your scheduled departure time ;)
i didn't mean to suggest that i doubted your veracity; i just think you're letting apple off too easy
Optimizing Emergency Response in Calgary
Windmill is pretty lightweight and easy to deploy. https://www.windmill.dev/ you can configure it to have a single worker on the same server as the ui and database.
One of the most used feature of the Notion is databases. This Notion Clone doesn't have that feature yet.
I saw this video, which explained it for me (it's german, maybe the automatic subtitles will work for you):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJViSH6Klo

He argues that the randomness you are looking for comes from quantum fluctuations, and if this randomness did not exist, the universe would probably never have "happened".
Hugo awards reveal thousands spent on fraudulent votes to help one writer win
lol what a stretch of an analogy
My understanding is there isn't much evidence of a link between soy an almost anything positive or negative (unless you have an allergy). "Plant estrogen" is different enough from human estrogen to be at most a weak form of the same.

Consider for example that it's highly popular in China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan, and Japan has one of the highest life expectancies, second only to an autonomous region of China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
I'm not sure what you mean. I don't find Idris restrictive (except for the lack of union types with subtyping). Rather I find any mainstream language very restrictive - or is that what you meant?
Where are you getting those FAANG numbers?

I maxed out bonus/stock at MS as Senior my last year, still left for PeerDB. But MS pays much less in Canada I guess
I've recently had the morbid thought that perhaps my loved ones could appreciate my blog if I died prematurely. I don't maintain my blog much and I certainly don't think anyone reads it. It is much more for intrinsic benefits of working through thoughts in a structured way.
Start your own business & you COULD make way more than a FAANG salary!
It seems like you are getting down-voted, but I think you are probably right.

One concern I have is that publicly announcing ways to break the law might result in the government cracking down on those particular ways. You could make a case for telling people how to break laws which don't really matter either way, and let them figure out how to break laws that are stupid and matter though.

Another, less pressing, concern I have is that if taken to its limit, no laws will matter anymore. I would hope human kindness would keep people from murdering and stealing from each other for the fun of it, but I'd expect some Tragedies of The Commons to occur. This could still be worth it though. I'm in a fortunate enough position to not really understand how limiting the stupid laws are, but I do understand that laws are hard to repeal.
This complexity underscores the richness of the concept
I was wondering for a long time, why do they reduce benefits so easily. Like if you study or do volunteer work.

It wasn't like that earlier, but at some point all the farmer families' wives applied for unemployment benefits...
well your guess is wrong
> you would get back a `Map<String, String | int>` (or, equivalently, `Map<String, String> | Map<String, int>`)

How are these equivalent? Wouldn't the latter result in {foo:1, foo:"two"}, where the former wouldn't?
> Isn’t this the deal with all open source?

If Netflix still heavily uses this internally, they should still do the most maintenance. Others contribute based on their own needs.
Email is preferred for me (no oauth) unless there is a particular need to access data on something like a Google account for the service to function
Every time you say "wait a second" you're using time without a calendar or a timezone. You're referring to a point in time as an offset (1 second) to "now" which is the point in time when you say it, and its the same point regardless of which timezone you're in, or whether there's a timezone change in between.
The probability distribution is subjective for both parts -- because it, once again, depends on the observer observing the events in order to build a probability distribution.

E.g. your random number generator generates 1, 5, 7, 8, 3 when you run it. It generates 4, 8, 8, 2, 5 when I run it. I.e. we have received different information about the random number generator to build our subjective probability distributions. The level of entropy of our probability distributions is high because we have so little information to be certain about the representativeness of our distribution sample.

If we continue running our random number generator for a while, we will gather more information, thus reducing entropy, and our probability distributions will both start converging towards an objective "truth." If we ran our random number generators for a theoretically infinite amount of time, we will have reduced entropy to 0 and have a perfect and objective probability distribution.

But this is impossible.
"Conclusion: networkd works well enough for someone configuring an IPv4-only network from 20 years ago, but is utterly inadequate for IPv6 or dual-stack installations, doubly so on a software distribution that claims to care about privacy and network security."

Great to see some sanity in Debian again. Now please also get rid of systemd altogether and generally simplify the IP address configuration and routing to the level of OpenBSD.

But this is a very good start.
can someone help understand why this is there and perhaps what threat it introduces.
Nice work. Main content extraction based on the <main> tag won’t work with most of the web pages these days. Arc90 could help.
> Why do chis degrade? Is this due to the whiskers I’ve heard about?

No, tin whiskers are a separate issue, which happens mostly outside the chips. The keyword you're looking for is electromigration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration).
At this point I'm a bit surprised that nobody has created a netlist of the board and simply reinstalled the relevant chips on it. There has to be more density that can be eked out for easier that way than carefully taking a Dremel to an existing board.
My system is different and simpler:

The root partition / and the home partition /home are different.

There's a /home/etc/ folder with a very small set of configuration files I want to save, everything else is nuked on reinstall.

When I do a reinstall, the root partition is formatted, the /home partition is not.

This allows me to test different distros and not be tied to any particular distro or any particular backup tool, if I test a distro and I don't like it, then it is very easy to change it.
Y Combinator News but Cibersecurity
Is there a couple of websites you can recommend for cibersecurity news in a ycombinator news format? Thanks.
"Tomorrow" is an interval. I meant to say, is a specified instant within the "tomorrow" interval?
paywalled. whats the "one question"?
Sure and many others but outside of CrowdStrike most are not very competitive and being a fresh entry has it's benefits.
It's what the internet grew up with, actually.

> That's why when you create a new user on a *nix box, it asks for that information.

That's your local account, not information that is visible to anyone outside of your network.
I'm not familar with Mac speech, so idk if this is better or worse:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/text-to-speech-client
Can you share some examples of what you're describing. I enjoy blogs, have one of my own that I haven't added to in quite a while. I don't feel under any pressure, for many of the reasons stated in TFA, to update it regularly. But I'm now interested in exploring this alternative you describe.
However, while your definition effectively captures a significant aspect of entropy, it might be somewhat limited in scope
> There is a common view out there that the QUIC transport protocol (RFC 9000) is just another refinement to the original TCP transport protocol [1] [2]. I find it hard to agree with this sentiment, and for me QUIC represents a significant shift in the set of transport capabilities available to applications in terms of communication privacy, session control integrity and flexibility.

I've recently heard QUIC referred to as "SCTP over UDP".
I was thinking this very thing. At the start of COVID I stuck 20k into a trading account. It went up, it went down, it went up again. But overall I'm probably about break even. Which is too say I did a shitload of researching, buying, selling, watching, worrying and waiting and paid myself a fat zero for all that wasted time and energy.
Scientists discover 'dark' oxygen produced more than 13,000ft deep in the ocean
https://archive.ph/zJvZ0
Really? Why? If anything I'd expect the opposite, non-American companies to eschew hiring engineers from the US because they'd cost more than equivalents in lower cost countries where those companies presumably are / can access more easily.
The difference is that Euler’s rule doesn’t need to be verified after each use of it.

AI may speed up research by uncovering interesting patterns, but I don’t believe it’ll do great things all by itself.

AI is, after all, just a name for a statistical model of something. We’ve been using statistical models for a looong long time.

Any domain already relying heavily on statistical models (like protein folding, I believe) may really benefit from AI (like alpha fold), but domains which don’t won’t.

It’s no silver bullet.
Bytedance, Nvidia, OpenAI, Stripe, Anthropic, Checkout.com, maybe parts of Shopify
Is there a link to the published research so it is easier to read through it without all these buttons to click to expand?
“If he’s so smart, why is he working here?”
wyng backup does this. It uses the device mappers thin_dump tools to allow for incremental backups between snapshots, too:

https://github.com/tasket/wyng-backup

edit: requires lvm thin provisioned volumes

There is also thin-send-recv which basically does the same as zfs send/recv just with lvm:

https://github.com/LINBIT/thin-send-recv

it uses the same functions of the device mapper to allow incremental sync of lvm thin volumes.
Ask HN: Examples of interfaces combining data display and user-generated input?
I'm developing a web-based desktop app for internal users to view and analyze datapoints on various companies that is stored in our database. Users need to create short and long-form narratives based on predefined questions about the data (e.g., funding rounds, employees, patents, news, sales).

The interface should:
1 Display the stored structured data (in sections)
2 Allow short-form confirmations/fact-checks for specific data points
3 Enable longer narratives referencing multiple data points
4 Use various input types (text areas, fields, tags, selects)

Does anyone know of some examples of any apps with similar functionality so I can check out their UI?
BBC plans to lay off 500 more staff, reports £263M operating deficit in 2023/24
If you don't know the coin but you can see that its blockchain is connected to a blockchain that you know and trust, you can look at DEX chain-to-chain trade volume between your blockchain and the unfamiliar blockchain to determine its value and the amount of volume trustlessly (the volume would be measured in your own trusted coin coming from its own blockchain in a cryptographically verifiable way).

If you can see that $1 million worth of your own coin is being exchanged for that other unknown coin each day and people are paying $50K worth of your own coin every day to cover cross-chain transaction fees, surely you can take a risk and accept that unknown coin as payment for a $100 product. The risk of the coin being a scam goes down with the amount of verifiable trade volume.
Hi HN !

I've recently seen a post about the 8 most common issues in Kubernetes. I'm actually working on a Open Source, easy-to-deploy, low cost and all-in-one script, that can easily check on those issues

Here is the list of those errors :

- ImagePullBackOff

- Pending Pods

- Node Not Ready

- Service Not Working

- Insufficient Resources

- PersistentVolume Claims Pending

- Pod Stuck Terminating

- CrashLoopBackOff

So i've made a post on the project blog that explain to you how to use Kexa Open Source script to be alerted of these common issues !

If you like the project idea, start us on Github at '4urcloud/Kexa'
"Where is the toilet?"
TypeScript's type foundations are not sound, and I would argue that this is a major factor why it is so good. I have yet to see a sound type system that is as pleasant to use as TypeScript's—certainly not Idris.

I am not a fan of encoding all sorts of correctness statements into a static type system. I'd much rather use a theorem proving environment for correctness, but one that is not based on type theory.
Another example of this: when I bought my current phone it took me well over a week to figure out how to put it on silent, because the option to do it is no longer on the control panel you sweep down from the top of the screen.

No, now I have to actually adjust the volume to make the volume indicator / slider pop up, and then the mute button is visible.

If the volume slider was accesible through the regular on-screen interface, I might have looked for a mute button alongside it. But pressing the volume up / down buttons didn't occur to me, because those buttons are for nudging the volume one step in either direction, not for making hidden UI elements appear.
What do you mean by "compatible"? You couldn't assign a `Foo` to a `FooBar` variable unless all `Bar` properties are optional
The list of so-called skilled labor jobs like lawyer, etc., that I would be willing to fake if I had to is pretty long the list of un skilled labor jobs basically starts with ditchdigger and ends there, and I’m even even scared of that one because of how you can die in a ditch if it collapses.
But if it's on localhost, how does the management engine get a chance to reply?

Are you sure you're not actually talking to some Windows service?

EDIT: From reading further in the Twitter thread, it is indeed a Windows service you're talking to.
How about just shipping a networkd.conf(.d) config snippet and .network file with the wanted defaults. This is just another instance of I-hate-systemd-for-no-reason whining
/home/etc or ~/etc?
Retro Area Gamescom
This is incorrect information. Check out levels.fyi. The average stock grant for Meta E6 is well over $1M/4years. Just one example. Plenty of data on other companies offers there.
If $250k base salary is "not enough", you should really step back and look at what you really want in life. Even in HCOL area, consider relocation and/or remote.

And to clarify, I'm not saying it's greedy or wrong, just that you'll be happier in life with clear goals beyond a salary number. I found that what I wanted was attainable with lower salary and not working for FAANG or living in Bay area
GM indefinitely halts work on its driverless car at Cruise unit
The vpro cpus include things like
AMT (Active Management Technology), which is similar to IPMI. A way to remotely manage the device even if it's not booted yet.

The internal web server shown here lets you configure AMT, disable it if you wish, etc.
I have used pretty much the same setup for the last 6 years. I run borg to a small server then rclone the encrypted backup nightly to B2 storage.
Nobody wants to write or debug groovy, especially scientists who are used to python. It also causes havoc on a busy SLURM scheduler with its lack of array jobs (heard this is being fixed soon).
The Intel Management Engine is part of the CPU, and it's there for remote management of a system so you can do things like control power on/off or configure the BIOS from over the network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...

https://www.meshcommander.com/
It has happened for me many times, so could have some truth here
> [heartwarming story of how money isn't everything and when life hits you hard and death is staring you in the face, you realize it's about the personal connections and love in your life that matters most]

> "yeah, but person could have made a more money-optimal deal elsewhere."

I mean, this entire post is about how to maximize money so I shouldn't be surprised, but this response just made me shake my head in sadness. Hope you're able to find joy and feel you have enough with your choices.
> was once...

...and is rapidly becoming so again, hence modern UIs treating it as a second-class citizen.
where is the disable javascript on the menu
“What did you study at school?”
Would be curious to know what that way is, because it’s not exactly made clear in the show.
Elixir is taking a similar direction if I'm understanding correctly (they seem to insist their type system is fundamentally from Typescript's, but to this day I cannot understand how, both are structural and based on set theory)