skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do Greencard holders have right to Social Security? What can you do if you are denied it?

Background: I was a GC holder and the expiration date on the GC was past due by the time they processed my application for social security. BUT I had also already applied for citizenship, and when doing that online the website informed me that my CG status was automatically extended a year or so because I had applied for citizenship.

I showed the Social Security Administration the printout of the document that showed my GC status had been automatically extended. But they denied my social security application with the reason "We have not been able to determine your age is > 64".

I had been to the SS offices several times showing them my actual greencard and my valid passport from my country of origin. The government issued GC showed my birthdate. Also I showed them the printed social security statement they used to mail me every year or so, showing my age.

So it seems to me I was denied social security on totally false premises. They surely were able to easily and reliably determine my age.

How can this happen in USA? Why would they do this? Do they have a standing order saying "Deny every application you can if it is an immigrant?"

What should I do? Sue the government? (I understand you cannot give an exact recommendation what to do in this case, but would that be a viable practical option?)

Thanks
Delta seems to be allowed (at least partially) because of the DMA and the EU.

I'd also love to hear your suggestions on those couple of apps. Last time i checked, proper apps either charge whatever they want to because of their monopolistic position(+ the cost of an Apple Developer Program to a hobbyist) , and free apps unclear if they even solve the problem are designed to harvest and sell almost everything you have.

Orion is a very rare exception in both of these cases but they weren't able to make uBO work
> You still consume memory at the same rate, but now it is a heap-allocated stack that is programmatically controlled, instead of a stack-allocated stack that is automatically controlled

To be precise; with precision:

In C (and IIUC now Python, too), a stack frame is created for each function call (unless tail call optimization is applied by the compiler).

To avoid creating an unnecessary stack frame for each recursive function call, instead create a collections.deque and add traversed nodes to the beginning or end enqueued for processing in a loop within one non-recursive function.

Is Tail Call Optimization faster than collections.deque in a loop in one function scope stack frame?
Nvidia and Microsoft Open Next Era of Gaming with Neural Shading Technology
That’s a fun little Easter egg! It’s always cool to see small details like this that add some personality to otherwise routine tasks. Makes me wonder what other quirky things could be hidden in security tools without compromising functionality.
I don't think she is a stoic or particularly bothered by rich people using it. She is a historian and this is a topic that overlaps with her area of study.
The original comment and the reply are talking generally, not specifically about this one case.
America Needs Talent
Please explain how “funding is plentiful” for the industry - as an American Musician and artist, I am truly curious how money is available to creatives in Japan in this sector. Thank you!
Hi all

I have a general question that perhaps others can answer too. I am currently located in Switzerland but I plan to move to the US as my partner just got the medical license as a doctor in the state of New York.

My question is, as I am currently still located in Switzerland, does it make sense to already look/apply for jobs in the US from here? If yes, what's the best way to do so?

If there is a choice, does it make more sense for an immigrant visa to be sponsored by my partner or by an employer?
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-...

Unfortunately the archive version doesn't show the visualizations.
It's funny—S3 started as a "simple" storage service, and now it's handling entire table abstractions. Reminds me how SQL was declared dead every few years, yet here we are, building ever more complex data solutions on top of supposedly simple foundations.
And why do you think that matters to this topic at all? I don't live in SF I don't know about its crime rate. How on earth is the architectural quality in any way shape of form related to crime rates? Why even bring up such a ridiculous unrelated point?
I have an E-3 visa sponsored by my company. I know that it doesn't have a direct path to green card; so anything that I should be doing now at this point for permanent residency?
Oh they are super productive alright when you measure by story points just not in any revenue/profit impacting sense
Expressing support for Hamas is also protected speech, and that's not controversial in terms of 1A law/jurisprudence.
This requires a trusted timestamp, which is possible, you just have to think of it when you are designing the system.
This is a requirement for any motherboard I purchase now. I have enjoyed the ability to use AMD CPUs that are slightly outside of the generational support or enable features I am not promised.

Without the ability to flash from USB without a CPU doing this requires keeping spare CPUs that will work just to flash.
Constantine gave Christians reprieve from persecution in 313 with the Edict of Milan.

In 380 it was Theodosius who made Christianity the state religion with the Edict of Thessalonica.

Negative assessment of Paul's influence on the development of Christianity predates Jefferson by many centuries, e.g. in the writings of ߵAbd al-Jabbār and Ibn Ḥazm. Muhammad himself believed that Christians had diverged from the truth about Jesus' identity and teachings, though he didn't criticize Paul specifically as far as I'm aware.

It's something of a theme, really, that shows up, seemingly independently, in the writings of those who "want" the core teachings of Jesus but are determined to identify an irreformable corruption that invalidates orthodox Christianity as such. Some identify that corruption with the influence of Paul, others find their smoking guns within the pre Nicene church, or post Nicene, and so on.
The problem is that the difficult not only increases with time unbounded, but is on a steep curve. Eventually the manpower and resource required to keep up with upstream will eventually match and outstrip that required to develop and maintain a new engine.
Yeah, that would be very cool!

With a read-only operating system that is identical across machines (i.e. NixOS or Silverblue), you would only have to send the dirty pages, too!
It took me a while to to figure out why I find your position so disgusting. I think a lot of people perceive this contempt as intentional distortion, dishonest, socially hostile.

I dont think we need more stoking of conflict and contempt, but need more good faith and balanced information sharing. I don't think your have correctly modeled the effects of your approach.
I was recently listening to a podcast about Silicon Valley thought which theorized that at its root it is a justificatory mechanism and not a coherent worldview. Whatever the current problems facing Silicon Valley, its leadership will find some new theoretical underpinning that happens to justify whatever is in their naked self-interest. It's "move fast break things" but with philosophy. Their example was Marc Andreessen who once had coherent ideas that could be agreed with or disagreed with, but saw the writing on the wall and has aligned his "thinking" with the political movement he thinks will most protect his interests.
I don't have clear context on this but I also want to say you could cherry pick PRs from my career to make me look however you want. I think especially for outlets with a wide variety of writers and editors and a huge backlog of stories people get caught up on specific mistakes.

Not to put too fine a point on it but even in your post, which was made in good faith, you said "American Chemical Society" when the link clearly says it's "American Chemistry Council" (though maybe there's some context I'm missing).
This is exactly why "Smart" TVs don't make any sense. My in-laws have a perfectly fine Sony TV, it's nok 4K, but the HD picture quality is amazing still. Apps have slowly started to disappear as they are no longer being updated and new one aren't being added.

I don't know how this work, but either Sony or the streaming service must be making the apps, and neither seems interested in maintaining apps for a 10+ year old TV. So when the streaming services are updating their backend, older TV don't get updated applications.

Smart TVs make absolutely no sense, the streaming service are moving to fast, so you'll need a cheaper box, or a product that is support for a decade.
M2 Ultra refurb was over $4,000, last I checked.
Depends, radio silence will cost you money compared to just fixing the problem if that's feasible but it will save you money compared to accidentally admitting to liability in a rushed press release.
Customers will gladly use an outdated browser or OS with known exploits to access their most sensitive information. Automated updates are necessary evil. Even a smart speaker with a vulnerability could end up as part of a botnet.
The second point is the really important one here. Mistakes happen, having a factory reset that actually works is crucial to avoiding extremely expensive recalls.

I'm reminded of the time a random NPR station accidentally bricked the infotainment systems on thousands of Mazdas and because there was no factory reset feature they had to spend millions replacing head units. That's just bad design.
Comfort Bloggers
Exactly, the situation with Chrome is the exact same sort of benevolent dictator problem we had with Internet Explorer, except this time dressed up with an open source license.
I did this for a bit. There has to be an employee employer relationship even if you have equity. You must establish that you can be fired by the board or an executive in the company. Also you need to be on payroll (W-2) at pulling a prevailing wage for your region and job description.
Author here: Agreed that there's certain dynamics that are different in public social web spaces compared to an office, honestly I am curious if the "online->action" barrier to be overcome with an extremely loose association (in this case: enjoys donuts), so we'll see!
The problem comes in if that old firmware has security holes, particularly if the device is network-connected.
A lot of folks in this thread say rollback to a known firmware version is required. Where are they getting all this microcontroller ROM?
It's almost exact same thing as purchasing an insurance.

If the management folks have personal health insurance, surely they must understand the concept and the need. And this is a much better deal because unlike actual insurance this is more like "invest once, enjoy forever" type of thing. And multi-stage boot chain, recovery partition and staged rollouts are not some rocket science that needs some serious expertise.

Yet, here we go. Humans are not really rational actors after all, and collective humans are even less so.
A small team of skilled engs hurts managers’ careers - they want large teams
Seconded - https://bsky.app/profile/scalzi.com is one of the more interesting feeds on the site.
A "cunning plan" to force upgrades? :-)
Depends on the company. Staff can mean somebody who...

- Has very specific domain expertise in an area critical to the company

- Can work across the stack and get a project done from 0 to 1 without throwing their hands up in defeat when they can't plow through it with SO/Copilot

- Gets a bunch of stuff out the door that management cares about

- Acts as technical lead on large cross-team initiatives

There's basically no consistency from company to company as to which of these truly qualifies somebody as Staff-level. As I'm so fond of pointing out there are places that call every non-Junior person a "Principal Engineer" and places that hire 24-year-olds as "Senior". Titles simply aren't fungible across companies. Show an Amazon employee this comment and they'll say that those first 3 are expected of a Senior engineer. I similarly was doing a lot of 2, 3, and 4 at a company that flat-out refused to promote me to Senior because I didn't meet some arbitrary HR criteria that they cooked up decades prior.

At this point I don't care what somebody calls me as long as I get paid market value to do things in a smart way with people that are well-intentioned.
you can't think of an example where it doesn't? I can. I'm not saying there is any virtue to it, but panic can subside without having had negative side effects on anything other than your mood
As someone who works with clients, some with more restrictive rulesets than others, we opt to treat ALL client data/information/processing to the most stringent rules set by our clients. I disagree with Strava's action in this case, but I do understand what they're doing and why.
Lol at the idea that The Guardian would promote grok, or that the article is making grok look good
When, if ever, will this be released as a bare processor/memory/motherboard combination that I can buy and throw in my own case?

Does anyone know?
> because our office fridge kept freezing my carrots.

That sounds like a goal to me
I own one Samsung product, a very expensive fridge freezer, and it's been garbage since the day I bought it. I'll never buy a Samsung product again.
every dollar kept is a choice not to effect one dollar of change
Prequel (YC W21) Is Hiring a Strong Front End Engineer
Eventually, the ironic becomes unironic. If you're pretending to be an idiot, eventually you'll find yourself surrounded by actual idiots. Or bigots.
This just swaps one locked-down company for another. You're still at the mercy of a giant corp, and worse it's unlikely to work well with my linux laptop and Android phone whereas at least Samsung tries (and often fails). A better solution is needed. I buy Sceptre TVs when I can, though for a "big screen" there aren't great options.
Instagram reels.

There is a ton of content with dark jokes, black humor, very provocative content and even "nazi" memes and people send it to each other to laugh about it.

Those reels usually have very few likes / comments but A TON of sends. I personally am on multiple group chats where we only send each other those kind of memes.

The thing is, instagram being a huge echo chamber. Before you have no idea those exists, and once you are in you see a ton of those
almost is the key term here, yes, it depends on the situation causing the panic.
Though the name Aidana is Kazakh, the pictures would be more plausible for a member of the Russian minority in Kazakhstan (15% of the population according to Wikipedia). The article doesn't reveal where those pictures were stolen from, does it? And the voice? Typical spam call centre voice ... Philippines?
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Unchecking resistFingerprinting in the settings disables these. You can also use the new firefox FPP settings to enable most if RFP stuff but opt out of specific stuff like dark mode, timezone, etc. You can even add per-site exceptions.

For example, my config is at https://codeberg.org/accelbread/config-flake/src/branch/mast...
> If it's higher than the .1% natural concentration they're mining wouldn't they mine their waste piles?

Your mental picture of the process is a bit off: Uranium mining happens mostly by pumping a leaching agent (typically some acid) into the ground, and extracting it elsewhere via wells. This is very obviously not helpful for groundwater quality.

And you are not extracting just Uranium (or even other "desirable" heavy metals)-- most of the radioactivity (>80%) is in economically uninteresting decay products, and you just want/need to get rid of those.
I challenge the authors of this website to show me a software written in the last 10 years that never had a bug. I have scanned the first 20-ish items and it seems those are either fixed or not considered important (unsure about the latter; didn't give them too much reading as of the time this comment was written).

In general it seems it's just a collection of GitHub issues. The FQDNS thing seem to be people outraged at systemd for something that the Linux kernel does not (or did not?) do well with certain hostnames -- those ending with a dot.

And there are some security issues / CVEs which is regrettable and I hate it but again, show me software that does not have them.

Seems like a very petty way to just attack something from a cursory glance. The author(s) might have as well made a ClickHouse remote query directed at systemd's GitHub issue tracker. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
IMO this is a terrible idea for many reasons but the most important of which is: As a consumer I should have the right to have my device revert any b.s. update and get my setup to how it was the day I bought it.

So many companies have begun rolling out updates that makes the device I purchased call home before allowing any user functions and if/when that server goes down my device becomes a brick. This behavior essentially invalidates my ownership of the product and renders it to a service, provided at will by the manufacturer.

Your idea ensures my device will one day become a brick as soon as the manufacturer decides to mark their update requiring internet check-ins “safe”.

If you think I’m exaggerating check out Louis Rossmann‘s YouTube channel.
I was going to say the same! I got it years ago, it's hard to top a math book with a quote from a certain Al Einstein on the back cover singing its praises! Morris Kline's "Mathematics for the Nonmathematician" takes a similar approach, as I believe other books by the author do. Can also recommend "Code" by Charles Petzold and "The Information" by James Gleick, while not comprehensive they do cover the development of key mathematical insights over time.
Growing up I was a pretty reserved, depressed kid. Culturally Christian background but I was a pretty staunch agnostic. I am not a perfectionist when it comes to work, but I did always strive to be as rational as I could in how I approached life. It was very much naturally my coping mechanism.

If faced with being wronged, "They're just a biological machine, how could I be mad at a tree that grew the wrong way?", personal failures, "I am just a biological machine, this is just where I am at at the moment", "Whats it matter what I accomplish? Were all dead in the end anyway", faced with some accident, "Well something was bound to happen at some point. Its nothing unexpected that it happened now", a loss of love, "It happens to everybody, things just didn't coincide".

Its all very calming, and can make you resilient to what's going on, but I came to realize that what I am really doing is disassociating from every aspect of my life. Instead of feeling/processing my emotions, I was simply just not caring about any of it. I read Nietzche's Genealogy of Morals, and it was such a derailment from my natural philosophy, and yet it felt he was saying everything that I wanted personally. You're human, be angry if you're angry, be sad if you're sad, do what you want to be doing, have and enforce YOUR will for life.

Yes I agree this line of thinking is definitely needed and can be extremely helpful to someone with the opposite problems, but as with all things in life, its complicated and in truth there is a fine balance that's always difficult to know in advance.
See my comment to OP
> A failsafe firmware reset back to factory state.

This doesn't work if your threat model includes denying rollbacks to prevent exploiting bugs in old firmware. I'd love to be able to roll-back firmware on some of my devices to allow me to "jailbreak" them using old firmware.

In some cases your newer firmware may be blowing e-fuses that prevent old firmware from functioning. See the Nintendo Switch, for an example.

To be clear: I think this is anti-consumer and wrong, but manufacturers absolutely do it.

Edit: I also think it should be illegal, by way of consumer regulation. I don't think consumers should have option to waive their right to manufacturers not damaging hardware they own.
> 1. Staged rollout of firmware update

Especially if there is an internal testing stage before actually rolling out to production. It's possible that the users seeing the bricked devices are in fact limited to the initial wave, but the damage is already done.
it's like you can see the shadows, but you can't see the solids. nothing you have said is wrong, it's just so.... misguided.
What would it look like to you for a president to reinforce white supremacy? I don't think Trump is a white supremacist himself, but he's close with some of them and helped them in their white supremacist agenda.
Do you guys miss owning things and they were just...yours? Like, you paid money for them and then you had them and you had full control over them and someone half a world away wasn't able to reach into your house and break them or make them do evil things?
Sonos completely missed the boat on these two simple concepts as well.

See their new app debacle which coupled a non-reversible firmware update that made the hardware incompatible with the old app.
LGs, while still smart TVs, are relatively competent at being dumb TVs. Your only other options these days (sans rescuing a dumb TV from e-waste) are commercial panels and projectors.
Unfortunate you'd need to weave that all the way through the whole product stack in order not to end up in a state that looks like it's working at first glance but actually isn't doing what it is supposed to - like everything running but not showing an image, or everything running except networking is dead (-> also no further updates possible), or (remote) input devices, etc etc
Are Supernovae Implicated in Mass Extinctions?
To follow up a bit: I got my citizenship. Then I was approved for Medicare. Then I applied for Medicate part C and D with the healthcare provider Humana. Humana initially approved my application but then sent me a letter saying my part C and D was DENIED the reason being: "Illegally present in US".

I have never been in the USA illegally but always had a valid visa until I got my citizenship. So where did Humana come up with the claim I was illegal? I can only assume that Social Security Administration told them so, perhaps to cover up their mistake that they had wrongly denied me social security.

Should I sue Humana or Social Security Administration?
Also allows them to ship unfinished/buggy and poorly tested software and "fix it later OTA."
Apple's actual marketing postures the iPad as a general computing device

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S5BLs51yDQ

“with iPad Pro + iOS 11, a post-PC world may be closer than you think.”

https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/16/ipad-pro-whats-a-computer-ad/
Browsing through the "selected works", some of the photos don't do him justice. There is some interesting stuff but also some drab apartment housing, and even a shed ?
> will be booted automatically if all else fails

I prefer to keep the factory firmware reset to a manual process that requires user intervention.

For example, holding down the reset button for 10 seconds after plugging the device in.

In my experience, it's not a good idea to have a device automatically roll back firmware and erase user data after failed boots. These mechanisms get triggered too easily during certain power outages (power comes on then goes off just long enough to cause multiple failed boots) or when users are doing simple things like rearranging their power cables.
Apple TV is just as bad (and in the context of the OP's statement, would be the same as a Roku box or an Amazon Firetv).
Is your wife's research overdue for reckoning or nah?
Damaging or removing features should reopen the return window. Then they will be more careful about what they change.