skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I wonder how wide spread this is in electronics produced in China. Say, in those cheap usb blutooth radios, for example.
2) I wonder if this is spurring the current trade war push, besides just Trump.
3) Seems time for more transparency on supply chain integrity and security.
They edited the post after my response.

What I responded to was different.

So I see how it appears that way.
One of the few things we actually know for sure about iq is that it has a protective function when it comes to mental illness.
Right, and this isn't "Clearly bad for your gut" how? Nobody is claiming that eating "too much fruit" is good for your gut.
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I feel much the same way. I might still pick Ruby/Rails or Django/Python if what I'm building is easily solved by the ecosystem, in a way that it isn't by hex.pm, but I'd probably err on the side of Elixir.
Wouldn't that be the definition of sustainability?

With our means of production, couldn't we achieve self sustainability amongst ourselves, or is there always someone slaving away?
It is a sequitur in the sense that a few open-hardware motherboard designs will not be commercially successful.
Please no. Suicide prevention is not important. What's important is giving people the tools to end their life safely, painlessly and with dignity if they choose to end their suffering.

I was in a coma for a month exactly a year ago from a blotched suicide attempt. It took the majority of the year to learn how to walk again, and use my hands. I am not sure if I'm thankful for another chance at living, but I do know that it I had a safe and guaranteed option to take my life, things would have been a lot easier. I know I will attempt again, and it is my right to do so.

How can these hypocrites pat their own backs sitting on their high horses? They talk about rights and suffering, yet never acknowledge that life itself starts with a violation of consent. Nobody asks to be born into suffering. And nobody deserves it.

Stop this madness and let people end their life in peace. It is the only true way to gain freedom.
$100,000/year salary and $1M net worth are incredibly specific numbers, where are you getting them from?

It's a tautology to claim "average genes, hard work, and sacrifice can generally guarantee upper middle class" because if someone isn't upper middle class you can just claim they don't have average genes, they didn't work hard enough, or they didn't sacrifice enough. None of those things are measurable.
Surprisingly, many findings show there is not. Malcolm Gladwell explains this well in his book Outliers.

https://www.honorsociety.org/articles/trouble-geniuses-malco...

“Gladwell cites studies done by Arthur Jensen that indicate the IQ level needed to successfully attend and graduate from undergraduate college is 115, after which Jensen believe IQ becomes relatively unimportant. For comparison, Albert Einstein, a well-known and commonly agreed upon genius, had an IQ of 150. Studies by Liam Hudson indicate that, ‘a mature scientist with an adult IQ of 130 is as likely to win a Nobel Prize as is one whose IQ is 180.’”

He gives the example [paraphrasing from memory] of an individual with an IQ of 170 who was so intelligent it impaired his ability to relate to normal people and hold a job.
I don't see anywhere that you've explained how the original article "went way over the author's head", and your examples of suitable small project vs non-suitable aren't in the original article at all, you just decided all of that yourself.

The original article concludes with "It's my contention that Kubernetes also makes sense for small deployments and is both easy-to-use and inexpensive today". This article contends that it's not at all easy to use and price-wise he hasn't compared like-with-like.
You'll never get me to agree. I still use it when I need a `let`.
I'm actually baffled at how bad reddit's native video player is. For a core part of the browsing experience, it is truly an embarrassment.

Here are the behaviors that I deal with on a regular basis:

(i) On mobile, I simply cannot view a native reddit video in landscape. When I turn my phone to landscape, it plays ~3 seconds of the video and then pauses. I hit the play button to continue, and it plays ~3 seconds of the video then pauses. Repeat ad infinitum. To clarify, this is not a buffering issue, as the video always plays when I hit the play button again.

(ii) On my mobile and laptop, their video buffering experiences holes in the buffer. It will be buffering, and after a certain point a gap is created between two buffered sections of video. When the video player reaches this gap, it is legitimately not buffered and stops playing.

(iii) Moving forward with the previous scenario, once it reaches this hole in the buffered video and stops playing, the playback stalls. I can sit there for minutes and it will not continue. I have to drag the slider backwards a few seconds, which will restart the playback/buffering process and then it works fine.
I work in ATC simulations. After simulating usual aircraft (like Airbus and Boeing), we try to add models for helicopters or seaplanes. Nobody is asking for simulation of flying carpets or UFO.
Iq is standardised on a population level, where age is an important parameter.
I wasn't opposing you. I just tried to mention, how easy it is to loose to your rivals by just being born in a wrong country.
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> breakfast cereals, yoghurts, ketchup-like sauces

If you're trying to avoid both sugar and sweeteners, those aren't the kinds of foods you're going to be eating... Unless you're referring to plain oats and plain yoghurt, which surely must be available unsweetened and unadulterated.
People will just learn to lie with their brains.
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Is there a list of known compromised Supermicro SKUs?
>energy [is] a tiny fraction of the cost of dev time

I think that is in a lot of cases not true, just that the developer (and his company) is not paying the bill but the buyer/user. While individually this might not be a lot, therefore the individual will not complain about it either, for applications with lot of users it will add up a lot. Let's say you have a application or a device with 1 Million Concurrent users, and you could reduce the power consumption by just 1 Watt per instance, this amounts to nearly 9000 MWh yearly, which as a total cost for end users in germany would amount to more than 2,5 Million Euro (+ the climate emissions). I am quite sure that in a lot of instances you could reduce the power usage by 1 Watt and that it would cost less than even 10% of the aggregated savings.
Even simple things like game menu screens having no frame limiters and putting the GPU under heavy load have been a thing in the past (e.g. Diablo3 at some point).
The issue is that the developer has no incentive to improve such things, except in the most extreme cases as he doesn't benefit from it but from a macro-economic and ecological perspective it would be beneficial.
Cellulose is used as an anti-caking/anti-clumping additive. It doesn't add bulk like the puffed up dextrose or maltodextrin does.
We and i mean i , because i do a lot of solo projects solved it this way. I drop on a regular base my latest sources at a notary, with a list of clients / software. When i might go bankrupt or die, they have access to the sources.
There is only one "real" universe. If simulations are being run there's a potentially incomprehensible number of simulated universes. As a member of one of those universes, it is probable you are in one of the many simulations and not the only "real" universe.
It's astrology for people who think they don't believe in astrology.
A mouse is like 20g. No way are they shoving 16g's of splenda into one.
Your point being ?
Get out while you can. You were brought on as a checkbox on someone's list, either a BoD, external investors, someone's due diligence. You'll have little to no impact with your domain expertise sadly. I have seen a few times where the boss would not listen to any standard reasoning or best practices.
I agree 100% with this. Especially if one is the software industry, it is a top priority to keep up with the new tech.
Drawing firearms doesn't seem to be habitually recorded in the statistics, and even if it were, I suspect that thence pointing it at someone's face would still not be recorded.

Here are a number of LEOs discussing how frequently they draw their weapon, but again nothing about actually pointing it at someone:
https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=432377
Other such discussion seem to indicate similarly; that even drawing is not common.

On such forums, detectives seem to indicate that they have even less need to draw firearms.

The 2016 LAPD review use-of-force review indicates that in 2016 there were 40 officer-involved-shooting. I understand the LAPD employs on the order of 9000 to 10000 police officers, so on the order of 95% or more of those police officers didn't shoot at anyone. However, it looks like they don't record drawing a firearm or pointing firearms at people's faces.

I suspect citations for your hypothesis - that LAPD beat cops draw and point their weapons every day - will be similarly hard to come by, but if you have some, please do present them.
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Was there any particular reason why you didn't choose Clojure? From what I've heard, and based on my own experience, it scratches many of the same itches that Elixir does, especially in comparison to Node/Rails.

Personally I went for Elixir instead of Clojure for a bunch of reasons, but I'm very curious to hear how others feel about this.
Well once they started helpfully prefiltering, I hiked. The writing was on the wall. Its a shame voat was already entrenched by edgelords and under constant ddos. I think a new clone with better privacy filters would do well.
This reminds me of Anne McCaffery's PartnerShip: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410927.PartnerShip

One of the plot lines involves a similar attack vector.
Americans can be bribed to do anything. However, you don't really need to bribe or ask someone to betray their country and fellow citizens when it's done on Chinese soil...
>I have no idea where that comes from

Here, I will show you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I reckon this could be addressed with contractual guarantees in exchange for doing business in the first place. Make it a contractual requirement that the supplier agree to adjudication in the United States in the case of security related concerns or other tampering with the final product or with the designs. They could still refuse if something happens, but I reckon at that point you can just work to shut them out entirely from the US market.

At this point, I think it's fair to establish an industry watchdog group that works as a clearinghouse for knowing all the American companies sourcing parts from the PRC and which companies they source from. This watchdog organization would be responsible for blacklisting suppliers from the entire US market if they don't agree to adjudicate in the US or if they fail to meet that contractual obligation).

This won't bankrupt them outright, but it will sever them from the US and if this watchdog group expands to aid non-US companies, could help shut them out of the entire global market.

I would also require registration of all top executives of these corporations so that you would make the punishment sticky if they moved to other companies. Overall, you've got to set a high punitive cost to non-compliance and non-cooperation.
And it's not white collar resort prison ... no no no!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBzvMLW0ii4
Huh? This would be between you and the Chinese manufacturer. If you found s tampered unit, you don’t pay them. How should that make you go out of business?
For sending data to china?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138328
We might find an energy exploit for free energy.

Like some neural net life forms found such an exploit in a physics simulation.
When did the US turn into a dictatorial state? I thought the US was free country.
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That moves the goalposts a bit. We've gone from a simple service to a fleet of highly available services on multiple hosts with zero downtime requirements.

At which point, sure, use Kubernetes.
Not making Google the default search engine would not lead to an antitrust suit. Even if Apple were a monopoly, setting some other search engine to the default wouldn't be a problem.

GP seems to be overstating what Apple is selling, which is just the default internet search function, not the private data that is stored on the phone. Sure, I'd love it if Apple went with a different search engine as the default, and Google is most definitely getting access to information through that partnership when Apple's customers search on Google, but it is not from Apple giving Google access to anything on the phone that you'd assume was being kept from them.
> he doesn't have the slightest clue what k8s does, but is completely certain that smartos somehow does "the same thing" better.

I stand by this statement. You don't have any idea what k8s does.

If you actually cared about convincing people that you don't need k8s and smartos is better, you'd write your own article describing in detail how you can easily use smartos for running personal projects on a 3 node cluster. Put up or shut up. YOU are nothing but hype.
> If a clone is given the same rights as a non-clone, I can't see how cloning is unethical.

I've seen three popular takes on this, leaving aside religious objections and confused "cloning is a matter replicator" opinions. Two were practical, and so are probably settled, and one is, um, stupid.

- A major concern in the 90s was that clones would have serious health problems which wouldn't be obvious until later in life. That was based on health problems in Dolly and some other large mammal clones, plus concerns about telomere shortening when replicating from adult cells. I don't know if the telomere issue was ever settled, but with more evidence large-mammal clones seem to have normal health outcomes and lifespans, so I think the debate is largely dead.

- The next was that living clones would be placed in untenable positions, being judged by their genetic predecessor or being brought into existence "for a purpose" like donating bone marrow to a sibling or even 'recreating' a deceased child. All of which seems true, but no more applicable to clones than twins or younger siblings.

- The last was that creating life in unnatural ways is inherently immoral. Which I find laughable from anyone who isn't appealing to a religious prohibition (or similarly concrete ethic, Kant would have opposed it), but which was absolutely a major point of debate. By 2001, Leon Kass was heading up the President's Council on Bioethics and advocating this position. He variously argued against the inherently unnatural nature of cloning, its possible effects on overpopulation, its ability to create true "single parent children", and its dissociation of sex from procreation. He also opposed in vitro fertilization and intentional life extension, so he was an internally-consistent idiot, but I'm still convinced it's just the naturalistic fallacy redefined as a moral code.

(A final fear I've seen more recently is that extremely widespread cloning opens the door to monoculture disease risks and Muller's ratchet from mutation load. Which is again probably true, but not at all an inherent issue.)
> Odds are good that the Bloomberg story is still incomplete in some critical way

You mean like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18139371
Just look at the photo, and the motherboard model.

It is only used in 1 server. And given Elemental is mentioned, it must be a blade

So that matches nicely.
eh, does this mean that the motherboard is not tampered with ?
This is the logical conclusion of companies giving in to shareholders frothing at the mouth for increased profitability by any means necessary. Manufacturing crucial components like motherboards in China is just absurd.
I think you mean "scale out" [1]? These days, it shouldn't really require a rearchitecting of a system. Almost all modern web frameworks are designed to be stateless anyway, externalizing ownership of state to databases and other services (themselves stateless APIs to databases).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability#Horizontal_and_ver...
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> X-raying PCBs and then diffing them against clean PCBs is a worthwhile thing to do if you're concerned about hardware backdoors, or 'interdiction' of hardware in a supply chain. I do this sometimes when ordering super-critical equipment like Thinkpads from the U.S as you never know what lurks on the motherboard (keyloggers, etc).

I'm curious - how does one go about buying or getting access to an x-ray machine (and how much does that cost)?
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Whether or not that is the case, it seems to me the most interesting conclusion of the study was this:

> the bacterial responses were correlated to the results of previous toxicity studies and bacteria may be used as a toxicity evaluation tool.

One would want to establish that this method is actually useful, no? It seem this study is pointing in that direction.

If it is effective, there may be interesting ways you can use this test, such as:

> The tested bioluminescent bacterial panel can potentially be used for detecting artificial sweeteners in the environment.
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if they really are widely seeded (and it’s general knowledge/easily assumed that the pla leans on other manufacturers), this gives me a few ideas about what could happen in the event of conflict between china and the US. turnkey shutdown of the entire economy.
I don't understand. The prevailing encoding (utf-8) is only as wide as ASCII is for encoding the same characters, so you are getting what you want here, unless it's an internet without other cultures and languages on it.
That's not what the article says:

> Yang sees that the Diff for the “fix” is out for review. Yang uses the Phabricator command line tool to patch that commit on top of master. This means that it’s not a branch. It’s just a throwaway local commit. Yang then starts working on the first change. Yang submits a Diff for review from the command line. Later, the “fix” has changed, so Yang drops the patch of the old version from the Git history and patches in the updated one via interactive rebase.
It seems to me that embedding an RF front-end, back-end, and signal manipulation logic in a chip of the size shown in the article would be extraordinarily difficult. Assuming that feat was achievable, it would likely result in serious performance hits on that transmission line right? Signal latency would probably be a dead giveaway for something like EEPROM reads being manipulated.
The meme may or may not be sexist on it's own, there are good arguments on both side.

When used as part of a job ad? Very different consideration.
A startup gushes about how they are focused on disrupting the world by ushering in a new age of love and understanding.

Doesn't explain how they will make money.

I'm a hopelessly idealistic person…but that's also kind of how I recognize this as marketing puff.
> fizzy drinks like Sprite or Pepsi - which have sugar and sweetener

Assuming you're not referring to HFCS (the article mentions "aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame, and acesulfame potassium-k" as the artificial sweeteners), I'm not seeing any artificial sweeteners in those drinks. Sprite has HFCS and Pepsi has HFCS and Sugar.

Sprite:

> CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVORS, SODIUM CITRATE, SODIUM BENZOATE (TO PROTECT TASTE). [1]

Pepsi:

> CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CARAMEL COLOR, SUGAR, PHOSPHORIC ACID, CAFFEINE, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVOR [2]

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This whole line of debate is really getting tiresome. Kubernetes has proven its value in production use cases across a wide variety of application domains. That doesn't mean everybody should be using it, any more than the proven value of containers means that everyone should be deploying in them. I've been working with k8s for three years and run multiple production clusters, but if I had some little thing I might very well toss it up on a paas like app engine, or just install it on a free micro instance as the OP suggests. Or... maybe I would create a cluster and run it there. Point is kubernetes is an alternative that I can take advantage of where it makes sense because I've gotten some experience with it. It might make sense for you, it might not, but it's not essential that all developers immediately come to agreement on whether or not all software projects should migrate to k8s by tomorrow.
That's interesting. Why do you think most of your friends a psychological disorder? Are they self diagnosed? Is this a case of "birds of a feather flock together"?