skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve always developed this way and I’m surprised how often other developers will spend all sorts of time on tertiary tasks or will compromise the stability of the critical path for the sake of some abstraction.

Make it work, make it work correctly, expand from there. But it must always work.

One example I saw recently of this done wrong is Duo Lingo. That app’s subscription’s main feature is the ability to do lessons offline. The thing is, it almost never works and it’s been buggy for years now because the app refuses to cache enough data and has poor syncing support.

How can you fuck up your principal revenue stream like that? It should be the critical path.
That's my point. There is no way to verify the date assertion of an arbitrary page.

The problem is akin to standing in a crowd where some people hold a sign with their age on it and others do not hold a sign, then trying to verify the age of an arbitrary people.
You don’t need a Landing page, you need a proper Funnel Here’s why
It sounds like either they can hold onto their old customers (the current share) or try to grab the newer customers by letting go of backward compatibility and start to improve on things.
I believe you are talking about "Rotational Moment of Inertia" about various axis, instead of "Angular Momentum".

Angular Momentum of a body at rest is zero.
Oh how I loathe WebSphere.
Consumer or Enterprise? If it’s the latter, get a list of customers who will put in (can be legally non-binding) writing, “If you build X it is worth Y to me.” Get enough of those and take it to a VC.
If you go to joyent.com you'll see "Multi-Cloud Kubernetes" is on their homepage above the fold and listed in their products & services category. SmartOS is an operating system. Triton is a data center for running container instances. Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool. These are all solving separate problems...
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#3 isn't the intel community protecting Apple, it would be protecting themselves, which is a lot more plausible. They don't want detailed information about the techniques coming out. Odds are good that the Bloomberg story is still incomplete in some critical way, and decent that even if the story as a whole is broadly-speaking "true" there's still an outright lie contained in it. My guess would be the way in which it was discovered.

I work for a company that sells network appliances, and I've been questioned by customers as to why I'm doing an SRV DNS lookup instead of a standard A DNS record lookup in some software I wrote, and had every detail of how I use TLS picked over by some customers. (More power to them. Not a complaint.) Some people run really tight networks. I wouldn't be surprised the real discovery mechanism was someone noticing the packets heading out that had implausible source-dest pairs ("why is my internal network that barely knows the internet exists trying to send packets to $RANDOM_LOCATION?"). If the people discovering this were actually the intel agencies themselves, for instance, they'd find another story to tell rather than reveal that. I am absolutely, positively not claiming this is true; I have no more evidence of it than anyone else. I'm just giving an example of the sort of thing I mean. It's also possible the intel agencies slipped a hint to someone about what to look for; again, I have no info to that effect, just an example of why they might not want something to go to court.
I really think that's going to be a thing in the future. We can make it a thing now if anyone wants to fund me =)

Straight to cryogenic storage from there.
Its not just 'a few bucks', it is a considerable amount of money in the long term.
The title is slightly misleading. The study is only about neotame, and not artificial sweeteners in general.

EDIT: Nevermind, only one article was linked. Thank you for linking the rest below.
Holy fuck this island costs WA tax payers $39,619,104 _just_ for the “inmates” per year
But, your experienced in your teams code. Now, let's say you and your team get fired except maybe some person on another continent they hired to keep it up. OK, 20 years from now. Your reincarnated and you just got hired to dig through the code and you've hard of java, but nobody uses that relic anymore.. Good luck.

That would be a fun text adventure....
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but IT isn’t really taken very serious outside of IT. I mean, they want money from it, but you don’t get money by telling the world that your primary tech companies are compromised.

Though judging by the replies, I think Bloomberg needs some really solid sources, so there is probably nothing to it.
Wouldn't this mean you just find the merge that caused the regression? The merge itself might bring in an awful lot of changes (of a single topic).
> I'm sure it's clear as crystal to the people who wrote it

This - in general - is the problem with programming.
> Apple and Amazon probably have a small set of TS/SCI cleared employees who dealt with this mess.

For those who are wondering:

TS: Top Secret: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Classified_inform...

SCI: Sensitive Compartmented Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sensitive_Compart...
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You are probably a scapegoat. Pull the ripcord.
It makes me wonder how compromised the prosumer/enthusiast motherboards are. All of my important home systems are homebuilds using off-the-shelf motherboards purchased in person, and lack any IPMI access. Sure there's AMD's PSP (grumble, grumble) in my Ryzen box, but I can't help wonder what might be lurking on the motherboards, or for that matter in my network switch, router, access point, etc.

I've sometimes thought about picking up some type of used rackmount server, but hacks like this give me cold feet - aside from the usual issue of 1U/2U boxes sounding like jets taking off.
It's just something I've noticed over the years. Personal charisma as it relates to sales/persuasion/compliance correlates with peripheral vision.

I went through a period in 2012 where I did more negotiating (car buying and lots of contract negotiations) than I've ever done before and noticed that the more personally charismatic they were the greater the ability to focus on me while being visually aware of what was going on around them.

I don't know of any greater meaning behind it but I've noticed a correlation then and since.
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> A phallometric study indicated that men who are more homophobic show greater penile arousal to stimuli depicting gay sex than do less homophobic men.

An interesting tidbit if there's any real scientific value to this device.

The study:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081030231209/http://www.oogach...
No because then you have to invert the question too, and you’re back where you started.
In practice it would inform the market where to divert resources. If you want to give poor people help, then you should provide them cash. This preserves the purpose of transparent prices, which is to inform other suppliers in the market to enter to drive the price down.

However, this is not done as it's more difficult to corrupt and profit off of this since it is transparent how much help the poor are getting. It's easier to muddy the waters and steal from taxpayers by creating a byzantine system of tax breaks and subsidies.
Kubernetes has a definite whiff of NoSQL - a massively hyped tool/technique originating from Google with oversold benefits.

I tried it about 6 months back with the intent of using it in a corporate prod environment and getting set up was... a massive pain in the ass to say the least - compared to the existing ansible set up. It was supposed to solve headaches, not cause them.

I wasn't impressed. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being "Angular 1.0" to someone else's react.
And to clarify the "wary" part - the higher the charisma the less skeptical you will be of the person you're negotiating with.
"Citation needed."

https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Managing+Images

https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/How+to+create+a+Virtual...

https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Managing+NICs

https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Using+the+Service+Manag...

...and that's just a small, tiny sampling of what can be done, most of it doable across datacenters with Triton. With SmartOS, one virtualizes datacenters.

"seriously where do you go when you need SmartOS support?"

To read the comprehensive manual pages, then fire up DTrace, then mdb, then to the SmartOS mailing list, and if I want professional support, I pay Joyent, like I'd pay redhat, SuSE, or Canonical.

I'm a computer science major with formal education and certification in Solaris. Those tests were notoriously difficult to pass. I know C. I know UNIX. I know how to program. I know how to debug. I know how to administer UNIX systems, I know how to design physical servers from the ground up, everything someone system engineering large scale systems needs. How much support could I need with such excellent and comprehensive manual pages with lots of examples in them?

"The Kubernetes slack community has over 48,000 members and nearly 1000 are online right now"

...maybe that should tell you how "simple" Kubernetes is then, unless they're all there to grill smores, hang out and sing "Kumbayah"?
I was on that project as a grad.

They spent a billion dollars, over 5 years, with a staff of 1,000 strong to replace old software.

I would be surprised if even 20 of the 1,000 were touching COBOL.
It's an old cliché, but car analogies rarely work for explaining computer phenomena.
You won't be running a 1000 little kubernetes cars, and that's what k8s approach is all about running thousands of disposable little servers at Google scale.

With any car it's about making that single car more reliable or performant.

K8s doesn't care about reliability of any single instance, just the uptime of the whole service
Do you honestly think any of that is not something a nation state actor could pull off though?
I think it's now time for Bloomberg to respond. This almost feels like a repeat "Newsweek Reveals Satoshi".
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You could roll your own source code escrow with a "canary" where if you don't check in periodically...your client gets the key to decrypt a source tarball (with whatever licensing you want to put in it).

I can't vouch for it, but I found a tool that does this: https://bitcannery.net/overview
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Huh? The second paragraph says "six common artificial sweeteners", and the third says:

> Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore tested the toxicity of aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame, and acesulfame potassium-k. They observed that when exposed to only 1 milligram per milliliter of the artificial sweeteners, the bacteria found in the digestive system became toxic.
Which is a bad attitude in general, but an especially bad one for an industry known to use exceedingly old tech.

In all honesty: why is COBOL so prevalent in the finance sector? It can't seriously be SO GOOD as to be completely un-replacable?
Nothing adds up here. Supermicro boards have "designed in the USA" proudly stamped all over them. This means that either:

(a) the design process was infiltrated, which would have been done US side thus the nationality of the actors is debatable.

(b) the manufacturing process was infiltrated, which SHOULD have been picked up during design validation and production sampling.

(c) this whole thing is a load of rubbish.

Lots of questions here. This is not a tinfoil hat measure as well; genuine questions from someone who HAS worked in the EE side of things.

I wonder if this is a bunch of pre-emptive finger pointing and ass covering for an implant closer to home?

I don't trust either side of the fence if I'm honest.
What liars. Apple has done this before as well, when they said they had "never heard" of PRISM, despite a Snowden leak showing the exact opposite.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...
Do you have more information as to why?

0. They know you're in there, don't they?

1. OK, so don't talk to family in that room, right?

2. Seriously? Why is that? Couldn't you just pee below the camera (if they repeatedly refuse to let you go, and you previously announce it, ...)?

3. OK, that's common sense to me.
The article actually says that some of the information is classified:

"The sources were granted anonymity because of the sensitive, and in some cases classified, nature of the information."
Nothing but Linux, even my phone is powered by Sailfish.
well a security token has some clock or chip to issue mathematically hard sequences so you can log in. I have no idea what a utility token does
It's clear you've had an unpleasant experience in the past. It's sounds like maybe you were burned in that experience and dumped the blame on a particular group.
But jsonp have to be supported by your extern API.
"...I felt the driving experience was subpar."

I test drove a BMW i3 (via ReachNow). I was piqued by Sandy Munro's tear down of both the i3 and Tesla 3. My first electric car (bigger than a golf cart).

I hated it.

The regenerative breaking felt all wrong. I thought something was wrong with the car, like I had left the brakes on. Worse, I'm used to coasting on the highway. And the i3 requires active acceleration.

My conclusion is that I'll have to relearn how to drive. My transition from ICE to EV will be comparable to moving from manual to automatic transmission.

(Gods, I miss manual transmissions. My left foot still doesn't know what it's supposed to be doing.)
> Can the Chinese Government be trusted?

The US Government can trust the Chinese Government as much as the Chinese Government can trust the US Government. ;)

The spy game has been played for 4,000 years...
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Processed foods + sedentary lifestyles = perfect storm.

Pretty obvious "something" happened in the 70s and we've been on this ride ever since:
https://nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/obesity.gi...
Ah you’re right!
That guy has a B.S., M.S. and a Ph.D and works for Google. It's just a hunch, but I suspect he is very perseverant. Indeed, I'm not sure it's possible to even complete a Ph.D without being off the top of the bell curve on that trait which is why they're so revered.
Wow, what a travesty. Thanks for posting that
The only way to have really quality documentation is to have a lot of people reading it and providing feedback, over time.

It also doesn't hurt when a quality technical writer actually writes or edits the documentation in consultation with the people who designed or implemented the system.
All of which are overcome by nation state actors if they want too.
There are only 12 milligrams of sucralose in a packet of Splenda. So the toxic levels found in mice had the same concentration as an 8 oz. cup of coffee with 16 packets of Splenda.
It'd be interesting to know how that interweaves with things like SEC requirements to disclose material information.
I love Siri Shortcuts.

Apple gets criticized on HN quite a bit and some of it is warranted but Siri Shortcuts feels like the return of the old Apple.

One thing though about this Shortcut it does not automatically send anything to your recipients. It asks you got confirmation before it does.
For large scale you have to first make your application capable of scaling. That's a bit that's missing from most of these conversations. Only the simplest programs can "scale up" by just adding more programs - most have to be re-architected to move all the state in the program to some other service.

That is to say, if scaling is your primary concern, you have a dozen other things more important to fix than your choice to use shell scripts vs. Kubernetes.

And, fwiw, Linux has run professional services somewhere around 10x longer on those "beginner tools" than containers have even existed.
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Out of curiosity: why do they use the word "untrue" instead of "false"? Are there some legal nuances I am not aware of?
> Either Apple and Amazon are lying or Bloomberg is wrong

Apple and Amazon are compelled to lie. It's a classified investigation and likely only cleared employees are aware of it, and they have to deny its existence or stand to lose their clearance (worth $$$).
Fwiw Dbxfs seems to be a lot faster than rclone
> this means that they are lying in these statements.

Cyberwar with China is the current equivalent of the old Cold War scuffles with the USSR in third countries. How many lies were told back then, to cover up the worst mishaps? And then they were "uncovered" when it was safer or more convenient to do so.
3D printing has some issues in a vacuum. Normal plastic will outgas and any voids can literally blow a hole in the filament. If you bring the right equipment, you can make lunar concrete with processed lunar rocks as the cement and the dust as aggregate. You could build sound structures out of this with inflatable liners so you can actually live in there. Gravity is 1/6th so the buildings don't have to be as strong as they do here on earth. However, you do need to keep the concrete warm which makes things harder.
The whole world of blockchain confuses me but I found this like the only useful, simple ELI5 explainer so far.
I have tried that, but Gmail forces me back to use the new interface.
> The purpose of peer review is to decide whether a paper is useful to the community, whether the presentation is good enough that the community can precisely understand what happened, and whether it has methodological issues that the authors may have missed.

It clearly failed to do that in this case.
I'm not at the level required for MENSA (140 in the UK) but all I heard when I looked into it is it's a bunch of pretty dysfunctional people trying to one-up each other. I already have Reddit and HN for that :-D
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What's the motive? If we assume a motive of theft, seems more reasonable that there's organized crime involved than a state actor.
The Republican congress got serious about attacking the IRS after the fake IRS Tea Party scandal.
At least in the U.S. the fear with this type of thing is twofold:

* It instantly triggers an antagonistic mood for the entire encounter with police. It should not of course; police should always be under legal scrutiny considering how much power (and weaponry) they have access to...But police get aggravated when the laws are applied to them, so if they see something like this app, they tend to respond negatively and in a hostile manner (by hostile, not necessarily using force, merely that their biases begin to manifest). So, what might have started out as a mild case could be exacerbated by simply using this shortcut.

* Also, reaching for a phone, that police might "mistaken" for a gun, could almost instantly trigger a police officer to draw - and of course worse, set off - their firearm.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of this shortcut...but i don't think it is enough. In fact, I think car makers should just sell cameras and recording equipment in their cars for this purpose - as added features! i think built-in devices - to protect US! - would go a long way. Of course, what this says about society - that i would even consider offering a feature for a car that monitors our own police - is a saddening state of affairs.
Utility tokens are tokens that give you access to a product or service produced by a company.
While most of your points are valid, you've misunderstood the last quote. CBA didn't fire people and then need to pay a billion dollars to fix something. They specifcally did migrate to a modern system - they completely replaced their entire legacy core banking system with a brand new one.
The article alleges (b), and give indications of why it wouldn't necessarily be picked up:

> In one case, the malicious chips were thin enough that they’d been embedded between the layers of fiberglass onto which the other components were attached, according to one person who saw pictures of the chips. That generation of chips was smaller than a sharpened pencil tip, the person says. (Amazon denies that AWS knew of servers found in China containing malicious chips.)

There's plenty of precedent for missing things hidden away in stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
This is an interesting perspective because I view k8s as the "shade-tree" version of a robust cloud platform. It's cheap, quick, dirty, and probably can take off a few of your fingers if not done carefully, but the payoff is in being able to spin up lots of resources very quickly.

What do the pros use, then? I hear of things like DC/OS, Openstack, I know that Google's got "Borg", which is like professional k8s.
I am not so sure either why a complex robotic arm with 5-6 DOF is necessary. It seems more suited for manufacturing in general, for handling components of varying size and complexity, or areas with limited space issues. Or the need for more modular-based processes

But farms generally have lots of land / space availability. The pipeline for growing, farming, and transporting crops is fairly predictable, minus unexpected events like hurricanes/tornados/rainfall, diseases, pests, spoilage, etc

With farming, everything to my understanding is mostly predictable for crop size. Farms generally specialize in one type of crop if I'm not mistaken, especially if its hydrophonics /inhouse like in the dutch farm video mentioned in this thread.

SCARA makes more sense for farming
They're designed in the USA, but manufactured overseas (although in some cases the components are assembled in the US).
There's a broader set of problems with the whole 'personal data store' space and a lack of evidence of user research to address big problems users have and incentive for companies / app developers that would drive the necessary adoption for impact. https://medium.com/@shevski/how-solid-is-tims-plan-to-redece...