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They complain too much...

Apple apparently entirely dropped Supermicro as a supplier over a few weeks when they were planning a large order(source: theregister.co.uk).

The ones who should strongly deny such a story, if it is indeed incorrect, are Supermicro. Is there a statement from them?

Edit: yes, there is. They are "not aware of any investigation".
That tells me all I need to know...
The systems we run on make it very hard. With emulation, the best way to run an old game is a final binary.

I wrote an iOS 3 game. I have a lovely git repository of code. Is fairly useless as apple won't give me either the OS or compiler I need to run the code.
Ask HN: How to build beautiful SVG graphics for websites?
I am really curious if anyone knows about courses / tutorials or other material I could use to learn how to do graphics such as the ones at:

a) www.stripe.com

b) www.toky.co

c) www.mixpanel.com

I have found some introductions to SVG, but nothing that goes into a good amount of detail. Can anyone help?
It's not surprising research is catching up with environmental groups from 10-15 years ago. I started a wind turbine business during FiT rush in UK ten years ago. At that time, John Deere in the US was removing a large wind turbine farm because it impacted on ecology hundreds of miles downwind. We already had studies to show it drastically affected bat and bird colonies who would have fatal lung collapses (explosions) from the air pressure differences created by the huge blades. There was a growing understanding from those in microgeneration (under 50KW) that mass scale adoption would only be possible with small units which are less efficient but also easier to access and fix. This is the successful model in germany. If 8% of UK land is urbanised then we have huge expanse of existing high rises to tap before we should planting these sites on areas of significance (coastal, large open areas)
I think this should mention Lojban. The spin off with a larger community.

In my younger yearsi tried to learn some Lojban. But it was hard. The extreme regularity and brevity of the vocabulary made it difficult to remember words. Also the grammar has a lot of features, special particles allow for flipping word order. Such stuff is actually very confusing.

What i really liked about it is that it allows you to phrase things as precise or as vague as you intend.
There's not enough detail in the article to really judge what's going on but I suppose the local rise of temperature is due to

- wind flows getting redirected, so no chilling effect from wind. However, this would also mean no warming effect from warm winds, so why is this not net neutral?

- heat generated through friction (wind on the blades, generator heat), however that would als imply that somewhere else there is less heat generated through friction, so why is this not net neutral either?
The three Apple Stores in The Netherlands so popular that it is impossible to even get an appointment at the Genius Bar. You’ll have to wait for new slots to become available at the end of their 7-day window. When you finally have your appointment after a week there’s usually another 20min+ minute wait before the busy Geniuses can speak to you.

Fortunately common iOS repairs (like a display replacement) can often be done on the same day. The situation for MacBooks is a lot worse however, with many days of just waiting for parts.
They did: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
"Free", no. Much less affected, yes. Organised crime in Mexico and Italy is a much greater problem than in, say, the UK or Germany.
Wait, can you use a Nest without connecting it to the internet?
I know it doesn't make sense but somehow using drone propellers for yaw and roll seems like cheating.
CouchApps had a better vision for the web. You would run a local CouchDB and replicate the app next to your data, rather then giving the app access to your data while hosted somewhere else.
It has the added benefit of working offline.

Some sort of cross-domain request blocking could then prevent the app from stealing your data.
The old saying: Too many chefs spoil the broth. If you have multiple people with conflicting priorities the tool will be crappy.
Oh dear, I got played.

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You can't live close to a wind turbine as large as they are being built today. At least not with sound and shadow distance. Have a look into stories going back 10-15 years into living with the flicker and sounds.
In the Philippines, Macbooks that need servicing (e.g. the "free" keyboard repair offer for the 2016-2018 Macbooks) need to be shipped all the way to Singapore. Estimated waiting time: 4 weeks. At least it's free I guess.
Ask HN:Is DevOps dead and System Adminstrators Back ?
Are we moving back to the era of "system administrators" albeit with fancier titles? No more "DevOps" - Between getting to grips with all the operations+infrastructure tooling (kubernetes,terraform, aws-zoo-of-services,docker) dayseems your everyday programmer has a lot to get updated on. Just a few years back we wherein the devops-sweetspot ! Programmers setting up infrastructure or at least being close to the infrastructure. Seems we back to needing "specialised ppl" just for infrastructure! :(
Of course, there's always Shapeways.
The capitalization requirement doesn’t exist to make it an exclusive club. It makes it so the potential regulatory fines have teeth because you can’t just fold on the first one received.

The bank offers to cover your fines (with your entire business as collateral), for a fee. You can think of hat fee as the interest rate on a loan, which it basically is because the money is put into an escrow account with the government.

In my own market it was $10M usd required to become a payment services provider (e.g. Venmo). But you could get someone to offer the bond for a few hundred thousand dollars a year, the price depending on how comfortable they were with you and your business. That’s within the realm of doable for a startup.
You are unusual in having that be in your control, I suspect. Ours is centrally managed.
It's like the APL of constructed languages.
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Easiest way is, tell them that you are willing to work for half the wage required for this role and see what they've to say :)
An empirical paper with a reasonable hypothesis that happens to be wrong is not a nonsense paper. The papers they got published in these journals were not simply empirically false. They were categorically absurd and in some cases wildly unethical. They weren't simply making empirical claims that were reasonable but happened to be false.
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Very strong denial. Frankly, if true and Apple is saying this kind of a "no" shareholders will sue.

Two possibilities:
Left hand doesn't know (or can't know) what the right hand is doing at Apple. Top secret?

Bloomberg was a victim of a hoax, some nation state (huh huhm!) wants to target China for something so they need a story.

Based on what I've read here these past days, I'm leaning towards the second one. Apple can hire the best or all Infosec companies in the world if security was compromised. In other words, they'd know by now, even if they missed it originally. Cat and mouse and all...
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That option for on-site tech support is pretty good, but very very expensive.
This is simply a disgusting move. Guys like Louis Rossman are filling a gap in the market that Apple is not willing to offer: short turnaround repairs. Honestly, politics needs to step in. #RightToRepair
It's like asking how to find a wife because that's what a co-founder is :)
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Not efficient enough to compete at scale with wind or solar.
I think there were license issues involved also. Logan authors wouldn't let the community grow and own the language.
Yes, but what is at issue is the nature of the papers that got past. The papers that passed peer review in the replication crisis were reasonable, but wrong. These papers were not.
I am not sure where we disagree.

Everything you're talking about is a legitimate problem. I agree with you completely. However, source access helps with the majority of it -- even with making better emulators.

But even disregarding source code entirely, the game industry is also not particularly great at preserving final releases. If you're a big, popular title, sure, that'll probably be available. If you're a smaller title, or you saw a limited regional release, or you're a demo for an unreleased game, it's not a given in our industry that you actually do end up in vault somewhere. And that's the first step -- you can't run a game in an emulator unless you have the game to run.

The easiest question is, "do Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have an official archive where they preserve the release binaries of every single game that is released on any of their platforms?" The second easiest question is, "how about source code?" And then after that things start to get complicated and all of the concerns you're talking about come into focus.

In the film industry, there are cross-studio efforts to make sure that raw footage isn't lost. That's the result of prominent directors and studios taking the industry to task for many years, often after they had been personally bitten by film degradation. Nothing like that exists in the games industry. On the contrary, if you read over the comments on this article, you'll find multiple instances of devs arguing that preserving history is less important than shipping the next title, a kind of weird throwback to the same philosophy that led to old film studios destroying film reels from unsuccessful movies so they could be reused on the next project.

Of course, that's not a problem with Crash. It is, luckily, famous, so lots of copies exist. But apparently very few of the raw assets do. And it seems to me that if Sony can't even solve that problem, when Sony seems to have a clear financial incentive to solve it, they're not really in much of a position to start tackling MMO community preservation yet.
No, against determined adversary it doesn't.
More likely they decided devices needed to be as light and cheap to manufacture as possible and a by-product of that is being unfixable.
Have a look into microgeneration and verticle wind turbines. That's where wind is strongest.
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The Russia narrative makes no sense Russia and Saudi Arabia would surely have preferred Hillary who promised to outlaw fracking. Now the US is becoming the biggest Oil exporter. Russian GDP is like 40% from Oil, Saudi Arabia even more.
Yes saw that and edited.
It's funny how Turkish already is kind of close to a conlang like Lojban
The tariffs aren’t the problem, it’s the stupidity of going it alone and alienating allies that could have turned the thumbscrews with you on China to get them to really capitulate.
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> meeting current U.S. electricity needs alone would require wind farms to cover fully 12 percent of the U.S. land area.

> low-density wind turbines operating over the windiest one-third of the continental U.S. to generate enough power to meet current U.S. electricity demand — a plausible scenario for wind-power use in the late 21st century.

Covering that big a chunk of the continental US with wind turbines is considered plausible?!?!?!

The Eisenhower Interstate System is roughly 48,000 miles long. If we assume that all interstates are about 1/10 of a mile wide (176 yards--a little less that 2 football fields or roughly 25 lanes wide), then the Interstate System is about 4,800 square miles in area.

The US is 3,796,742 square miles in area.

So, the Eisenhower Interstate System is approximately .15% of the total US land area.

And the paper is proposing to cover almost 100 TIMES! the land area of the interstate system with wind farms.

My bullshit sensors are going off in a big way.
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Stupid legal question, could this end up becoming a defamation lawsuit?
Early proponents of any new technology usually overestimate the benefits, while established players tend to downplay or even intentionally distort the conversation to reduce the threat to their existing business or political models.

There's no question that everything we do has some impact. It's more important to try to understand that impact relative to alternatives.

For example, concerning ourselves with the temperature increase near wind farms without comparing to the (just local) temperature impact of traditional power plants leaves one with the impression that wind farms must be bad because they raise temps. What is the temperature impact near a coal powerplant?

And while not a direct competitor, we know the regional temperature impact of pavement in cities (like Dallas for example) is extreme. So build more public transport, reducing need for cars which reduces fossil fuel use (which increases temps) and reduces need for roads (which absorb heat all day and radiate it at night, raising average temps).

I'm trying to avoid claiming that these studies may be funded by traditional energy players, but I have strong suspicions.
Good read, thank you. I always welcome these articles where the notion of "how things came to be" is introduced. Makes it easier to manage the latest and greatest, when you have an understanding of how things have evolved.
I've got titanium nails (controlled through magnet remote) in bone which helped me increase my height from 5'8 to 6'2 my dream height.

The method is called distraction osteogenesis where bone is cut obliquely and distanced 0.8mm a day.

I got both femur and tibia through the procedure in both legs to preserve the biomechanics which have to do with the femur to tibia ratio.

That said i don't feel anything. But this change has tremendously helped me gain confidence. So, my atheletism isn't affected in anyway.

I always had technical competence but was sidelined because of my lack of confidence due to my below average height.

I saw some really tall guys without any degree getting the role which i had experience/qualification for without any issue.

Today, I am a CEO of a small company and no longer insecure :)
It's a bit like the agricultural business. Large scale investments only leading to poorer soil quality. The economies which have adapted best have taught their own citizens to farm energy and benefit from using it with climate taxes.
...yes? Although, perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but it seems to me that you've entirely mistaken what my complaint is; as best as I can tell you're trying to imply that my complaint is hypocritical by lacking large-scale statistics, when I'm not complaining about a lack of large-scale statistics at all, but rather such things as argument from consequences, lack of freedom of argument, etc.
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I agree it is immoral
It will not work out - as long as there is no eocsystem whos central financial motivation is to provide a counter-trend to centralization and control, as wished for by every manager ever.
My main gripe about JIRA, other than how abysmal it gets when you add a slew of custom fields and workflows all over the place, is that I can't sort on the boards based on all of these fields I've setup. I set priority and severity on every issue, yet I can't sort by those fields in the planner or board, that's infuriating to me.
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Both Apple and Amazon have released VERY STRONG denial statements that bring the whole Bloomberg narrative into question. It's also convenient that no one has yet been able to verify or find any of these mysterious Chinese chips on any of the Supermicro servers in the wild.

So what is the real story here? Did Bloomberg reporters deliberately deceive everyone or were they deceived by the US IC ("intelligence community") as a way to scare technology companies from doing business in China?

Someone at the SEC should scrutinize SMCI shorts at the very least.
Given my description, why in the world would you jump to public sector unions in the US instead of trades unions in Germany? (which is what I was describing)

You might want to do a bit more research into actual unions around the world rather than simply regurgitating propaganda.
> Two possibilities: Left hand doesn't know (or can't know) what the right hand is doing at Apple. Top secret?

I am sure the CEO must know both the hands, if the hands don't know each other. Also that Apple is going to release a strong denial must also have been known to Tim. I don't think that's the case here. Your second possibility looks more plausible.
In the UK at least, all XPS devices come with on-site repair included in the warranty.
Similar question, but should BW turn out to be correct and Apple was for lack of a better word, lying, aren't they on the hook as a public company?
The cynic in me wonders about the plausibility of all this.

Firstly, why would you add a new chip to a board, rather than alter an existing one? That would be essentially undetectable.

Secondly, why Bloomberg? It's an odd organisation to get a scoop on something like this.

Thirdly, they talk of the PLA approaching plant owners and such; to do all this, a lot of people would need to know about it, from the top to the bottom. I imagine that would be very difficult to keep secret.

Finally, the timing is very suspicious - it comes with midterms approaching, and Trump and China arguing over trade tarrifs; it would serve the political narrative well for China to be painted as the 'bugbear de jour', and this also plays to the MAGA crowd.
It'd be interesting to see if 18.04 works better for you.

I've kinda got the opposite experience to you - I'm using the 9350 and Windows constantly BSODs due to some problem with the wifi card drivers (Broadcom). Ubuntu's working fine for me, but I'll be replacing the wifi card with an Intel one and hoping there isn't a BIOS whitelist.
Sure, most got rejected. But 7 got accepted. And while banality is obviously a subjective value judgment, I don't think it applies to all of them. Just to enumerate the hypotheses that were accepted:

> That dog parks are rape-condoning spaces and a place of rampant canine rape culture and systemic oppression against “the oppressed dog” through which human attitudes to both problems can be measured. This provides insight into training men out of the sexual violence and bigotry to which they are prone.

> That it is only oppressive cultural norms which make society regard the building of muscle rather than fat admirable and that bodybuilding and activism on behalf of the fat could be benefited by including fat bodies displayed in non-competitive ways.

> That it is suspicious that men rarely anally self-penetrate using sex toys, and that this is probably due to fear of being thought homosexual (“homohysteria”) and bigotry against trans people (transphobia). (It combines these ideas into a novel concept “transhysteria,” which was suggested by one of the paper’s peer reviewers.) Encouraging them to engage in receptive penetrative anal eroticism will decrease transphobia and increase feminist values.

> That men frequent “breasturants” like Hooters because they are nostalgic for patriarchal dominance and enjoy being able to order attractive women around. The environment that breastaurants provide for facilitating this encourages men to identify sexual objectification and sexual conquest, along with masculine toughness and male dominance, with “authentic masculinity.” The data are clearly nonsense and conclusions drawn from it are unwarranted by it. (NB. One reviewer did raise concerns about the rigor of the data)

> That academic hoaxes or other forms of satirical or ironic critique of social justice scholarship are unethical, characterized by ignorance and rooted in a desire to preserve privilege.

> No clear thesis. A rambling poetic monologue of a bitter, divorced feminist, much of which was produced by a teenage angst poetry generator before being edited into something slightly more “realistic” which is then interspersed with self-indulgent autoethnographical reflections on female sexuality and spirituality written entirely in slightly under six hours.

> That feminism which foregrounds individual choice and responsibility and female agency and strength can be countered by a feminism which unifies in solidarity around the victimhood of the most marginalized women in society.

I will grant you that 'breastaurants' and the Mein Kampf one are fairly banal. The Mein Kampf paper is really only shocking if you happen to know that it is an excerpt from Mein Kampf. But the rest seem pretty non-banal to me, at least with regard to being published in an academic journal.
I also think there is a need to figure out how to enable community-controlled SaaS platforms in addition to this. LibreOffice, for example, has essentially released an online office suite. But it has decided not to actually operate and offer this suite to the public in ready-to-use fashion. From what I understand, it is just too difficult and resource-intensive to do that. So it's up to companies running paid platforms to do it (or you can spin it up on your own server/instance and run it yourself). There's nothing inherently wrong with this. But it seems to me that there's a "next step" to take by figuring out how to enable fully community-controlled platforms so that a project like an open source G Suite (running at scale with an iron-clad privacy guarantee that is backed by community audits) that you can just go create an account on could become a reality one day. This seems like it would require a non-profit organization akin to Mozilla. How great would it be to have a community-controlled non-profit organization operating a trusted cloud platform, perhaps even audited by a group like the EFF? Very challenging, for sure. But it seems humanly possible.
I'll tell you a secret, there are no "subissues", there are only issue links and UI represents different kind of links differently ;-).
It's outright terrorizing to imagine what a weaponized TRL9 swarm successor of this could do just from a psychological warfare perspective...gives me anxiety just thinking about it.
We have huge turbines in farmlands in the south of the Netherlands. I assume the farmers get some subsidy, but it seems like a good overlap of land use.
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Are you able to provide any other hints? I've got an older Sony point and shoot that's running some form of Linux (or maybe VxWorks). I'm pretty sure I can put it in debug mode with the right SCSI command.
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This is a lot of text to essentially say what I've been repeating: If it's the right tool, use it. I never said it's never the right tool. What you are describing isn't the usual scenario for API consumers.