skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy group seeks last-minute Kavanaugh delay, citing extraordinary disclosure
Modula-2 used to fit all those points, except backed by major corporation, unless we consider GM a major corporation.
Not much to add, but want to note that you're spot on. I've encountered this SO many times over the years and this is always the explanation I'm given. At first it just made me indignant, too, and to some degree I guess it still does, but now I just try to let it go.
This back and forth between Bloomberg and Amazon/Apple reminds me of the recent allegations against Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh.

In both situations it's difficult to identify who is telling the truth and is probably impossible to know the truth from the outside looking in.

In both cases I've taken a "who has incentive to lie?" view on the allegations and denials, now this does not mean my hunch is correct at all, but it seems way more likely to me that it's in the best interest of Apple and Amazon to deny this story strongly as it makes both parties look bad and the investigation may be ongoing. I don't believe that Bloomberg made this story up but its understandable to question that maybe their sourcing was iffy, based on Bloomberg's history and the level of sourcing that they have cited I'm leaning towards believing the story as accurate.
I've always had a problem with the "Handling Customer Complaint #2 Apologize Immediately" thing both from a customer service rep and customer stand point. As a rep I really don't like to apologize for something someone else did or didn't do. It seems like a cheap get out of jail thing. I've always been a fix the problem person. I've found that if I listen to the issue and fix it fast there is no reason to apologize. Customers that complain demanding an apologize are more than likely looking to get a bigger, better deal out of you. I don't give in. If I did it then I'm more than happy to apologize. From a customer stand point I hate when a rep apologizes for something their just now hearing about. To me it sounds like empty lip service and they're looking to either empress their boss with how great their call resolution is or they're looking to get you off the phone faster. This pisses me off and is the quickest way for me to escalate a call just so I can yell at their supervisor. I'm kind of an asshole like that. If a company is so big on making a rep apologize for something they didn't do then maybe the C-suite crowd should take calls and see how it feels to get yelled at 8 hours a day for shitty pay. I was a call center rep for 3 years with a cell carrier. It's the whole reason I work in a non-customer service field now. Sorry to go on a rant. Customer service should be punishment for J-Walking or littering or something.
No but the gov might be unhappy that the secret is out while they were trying to use the chips to infiltrate/reverse engineer wherever the chips were reporting to? Amazon has gov contracts it wants to protect so Im not surprised they would deny this at the govs request, and Apple's #1 product is privacy so having something like this show up on their servers would undermine that product strategy so I can understand their denial too (homegrown or at the govs request)
This story isn't really about "losing the birth lottery", so to speak. Its about someone not being able to afford nursing home care.

The fact is that the US spends much of its money on caring for the elderly already, and there is, as the article notes, medicaid for those who cant afford to pay for nursing home care. As a result, im a bit confused as to why he had to sell his medal.
No they won't, it'll be whitewashed in textbooks and only those who study history will know. There's already so many so-called black marks that are worse and already quietly overlooked.
5M ARR and 7 Years Later: My Farewell to TINT
It's absurd to think that any entity within a simulation could draw conclusions about anything outside the simulation itself.

"Better than 50%" my ass, Elon and Neil are hacks.
This resonates for me, particularly the description of falling into bursty-then-herculean-then-barely anything. So what did you do when you were hitting that wall? Myself I've started putting more time the last few years into non-computing hobbies when outside of work. It's a hard decision because that feels like an abandonment of things I used to like to do or of creative things I had high hopes for producing. But it's probably necessary.

I know that taking a vacation is important too, but it's hard to take enough time off when you only get 10 days' a year. And I have a crap immune system so I end up using half of that to cover for when I run out of sick days every winter. (At my last job they started "hemorrhaging" developers because a local startup put out a standing offer to higher people for 20% less pay, but 20 days starting vacation. So many people took them up on it that our branch office dwindled from 12 to 2-3 people and retention of new hires went to the basement as well. The impression we got from management was they'd let the company burn to the ground before making "more vacation" a negotiable, probably because they had a vesting scheme and existing senior employees had worked there 10+ years to earn comparable amounts.) At my now-job I have the option to work 9 hour days and get a day off every other week, which helps make my "real" vacation hours stretch longer but the downside is that 9 hour days are not easy, either.
After reading your comment and learning the immature research backing this article, I wonder why this is trending at number one post.
StateService: Automating recovery of third-party services after a major outage
Didnt all the companies lie about working with the NSA before the Snowden revelations?
Please explain how the US "healthcare" system is in any way run as a free market? I don't see it.
Anyone else surprised he could get so much for it?
I read the source code, and here are 2 improvements:

1) in get_block, we can replace "dec count" with "cpy count"
It should save one or 2 cycles, if I'm not mistaken

2) get_countdown can be rewritten as follows:

ldy #$89
c4:
cpy #$89
bne c1
c0:
jsr get_byte
c1:
ldy #$89
bne c2
cx:
jsr get_byte
c2:
sty tmp_cntdwn
cmp tmp_cntdwn
bne c4
dey
cpy #$80
bne cx
rts

which saves probably 4 bytes
Amazon launches accelerator program for exclusive brands
You would think that University of Chicago could sacrifice 0.1% of their endowment to help out someone who had brought them so much prestige.
Backstage Capital, a VC firm for underrepresented founders announced incubators for London, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. They announced a contest for the fourth city and Detroit was just announced as the winner.
It's actually not hard at all to tell who was lying. Kavanaugh perjured himself several times about inconsequential details like the meaning of "Devil's Triangle" and "Renate alumni", while Ford was consistent.
The Sick Dürer–a Renaissance prototype pain map (2004)
I'm not actually certain that the Civil War era is viewed universally as a barbaric time, or that slavery is universally viewed as a black mark in American History. There is still plenty of popular music and subcultures that look on those times positively, perhaps even fondly. In some sense the culture behind the civil war is still very strong in America, and whether or not it was bad is still heavily debated.
not surprising considering the leanings of the new
administration. AMLO is more of a socialist than populist.
What are some of these worse black marks?
I'd love to learn more - got any sources?
Good thing I don't plan to get a Toyota, then. And at one point they were known for good ergonomics.

On the other hand, in my 2011 car (and it wasn't exactly anything new at the time either), adjusting AC does not require looking down at the screen, let alone hunting for a flat and featureless part of a touchscreen, that can move with the next software update.

Tesla is a great idea. But IMHO the execution is nowhere near what the price would suggest, and it is advanced in a very SV way, the way Juicero was advanced -- by adding extra tech and complexity to things that have been solved for longer than anyone at Tesla has been alive, and only add to the price with no improvement in UX (or, as with these, with an actual degradation in UX).
I hope you're right but I don't want to be an immortal gamma in a Brave New World.
The novel prise isn’t given to people already considered notable by the general public. Of the 200 and some physicists who are Nobel laureates most dedicated physics students would struggle to name more than a dozen, let alone arbitrary members of public.

They become notable to the public when they receive the award because if it’s public recognition, but they are awarded it based on their research contributions being notable.
I don't see (from that issue, this is the first I've heard of it) that they "have to stick with it". They're saying they won't try to move to python 3 until the V8 build does. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
If Apple and Amazon are lying, they're committing securities fraud.
Doesn't the very fact that he was so readily able to review these blockchain projects negate his thesis?
As just one example, you say Google most likely saved SpaceX from bankruptcy in 2016. As far as I know, neither Google nor anyone else did any investment into SpaceX in 2016. Where are you getting your information?

Also, have you not even considered the official reasons given for why SpaceX is cheaper? Namely vertical integration, extreme cost consciousness, use of off the shelve hardware, designs made to take advantage of economies of scale (several smaller engines per rocket instead of a few), the advantages of clean slate designs, and details like friction welding?
The Actor model is trivially implementable with CSP.
It's a combination of both.

The event loop and non-blocking I/O are inherent in JavaScript. The language lends itself very well to scalable server-side programming.
Today's Money Stuff ponders another angle of this: whether those companies would be committed securities fraud by abiding by such a request:

> I do not think that the securities laws explicitly allow companies to make false statements of material fact if required for national security, but you could see giving them a pass here.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-04/computer-...
Still no statement from supermicro. Nothing on Twitter. Nothing on the website.
That's a kind of strange after the stock price droped so much.
Certification [...] I can tell you - it's no joke :)

I'm not so sure. "And then initial supplier inserted hardware that thwarted all those pressing considerations" sounds a punchline to me. :(.
As someone on a slack server I use pointed out: a server wouldn't need to phone home, could have a planned failure and request an RMA, even if the system was wiped when it came back, it could have data stored somewhere secretly, and why you may not find anything in an audit.
So when Microsoft just refuses to roll out better crypto in some crucial piece of infrastructure (a network tunneling protocol perhaps) for years on end, and you can do nothing about it, that qualifies as "no better". I see, I see.

Sure no cryptosystem is going to get better if nobody cares to actually validate it; but at least when it's open, you're allowed to fix it and move on (whether you're the first or six-millionth person to actually care whether it's good or not).
When does spacex launch over populated areas? They are either launching into polar orbits on the west coast or florida for non-polar orbits, neither of which overflies populated areas.
I don't know if any fitness trackers actually do this, but I'm sure it's possible to differentiate between "I'm not on the user's wrist" and "I'm on the user's wrist and not detecting a heartbeat". Skin (with or without a pulse) and air should have different electrical resistances, for example.

Also, I'm pretty sure the case of "oh no I can't feel a heartbeat - oh wait, I'm on the charger" is detectable, too (that is: if it's charging, don't assume the user is dead because of an inability to detect a pulse).
> full force of Google pushing it

This trope is getting old. Variations include "Go is only popular because Google spends millions marketing it!". There is a small team at Google that work on the language along with the open source community. I'm pretty sure none of Google's marketing team works to promote the language, and I'm sure that its success is much less important to Google than Erlang's success was to Ericcson. I don't know very much about Ericcson, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out they spent many times the amount on Erlang that Google spends on Go.

There are probably lots of reasons why Go is successful, but I'm positive that it has more to do with simplicity, learning curve, tooling, ecosystem, etc than it does with corporate sponsorship or marketing.
Yeah there is:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
> So now you get the downside of a fragile glass back without any kind of benefit like wireless charging. Just leaving the back metal would have been better.

The entire phone is a knock-off, they've cargo-cult'd the main features from the iPhone X. There's no purpose to any of these designs.

The whole point of the notch was to put a large screen into a small phone. If your screen is going to be small anyways, then what's the point of the notch!?

Edit: I'm just salty I paid $1500 for a phone that I can soon get for $350.
A Russian billionaire paid USD$4.1 million for James Watson's Nobel Prize. In an act of stunning decency he apparently returned the medal to James Watson.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/09/russian-bill...
Hospital costs are high... because of medicaid? You sure you don't want to trot out the old chestnut that they are also high because we're subsidizing the rest of the world's low medical costs? Pull the other one.

Also the last sentence you wrote doesn't make sense. Please justify your use of "socialist aspect of downsizing assets to qualify".
Nice moving the goalpost there (table stakes -> changing one's programming life).
CirnOS – Bringing the Workflow of Arduino to the Raspberry Pi
Go's answer to this is tooling, -race in this case. I think Go's general strategy of moving complexity/functionality to external tools is a little underexamined -- it's definitely interesting, especially as it's kind of a middle path between "language with lots of helper stuff" and "IDE with lots of helper stuff".
No. Snowden's documents show they worked with the FBI, which we already knew and the companies have always admitted to.
In what way does this story make them look bad? They're allegedly the victims of a state sponsored attack. It would only make them look bad if they were co-operating with the Chinese to enable this.
Erlang, I think, is crippled out of the box wrt performance by its emphasis on immutable data, live troubleshooting, small processes with lots of messaging, etc.

These are the things that make it a brilliant language for use cases where it's well-suited. Not every language has to be a kitchen sink language like Java, thankfully. I like opinionated languages with well-defined strengths and weaknesses.
I feel like the only person confused is you. You're talking about trees (IQ isn't intelligence) when everyone else is talking about the forest (IQ and outcomes).
> But in my experience, Apple PR does not lie. Do they spin the truth in ways that favor the company? Of course. That’s their job. But they don’t lie, because they understand that one of Apple’s key assets is its credibility. They’d say nothing before they’d lie.
I don't doubt it, but it still doesn't quite answer my question. (The answer may seem obvious to an industry insider but likely to anyone else).

If labor costs, for any comparably-sized farm, dwarf artificial light [1] costs, then it would be a form of "penny wise, pound foolish" to opt for free light if it means incurring the labor cost. This is true, even if each is the biggest single cost in each scenario.

[1] Even that needn't be 100% artificial, since windows and skylights exist, though, again, my ignorance as an outsider may preclude me from realizing something that might be obvious to an insider, like this option not moving the needle on cost.
Bloomberg reported that the startup I worked for was for sale and the founders were pitching it to potential buyers. Internally, they vehemently denied the report and said Bloomberg completely made it up. Bloomberg was dead on the money. That's not to say every journalist/article they publish is going to be spot on, but I definitely give them enough credit that I will believe this report until proven unequivocally not true by the accused.

edit: spelling.
Supermicro

While we would cooperate with any government investigation, we are not aware of any investigation regarding this topic nor have we been contacted by any government agency in this regard. We are not aware of any customer dropping Supermicro as a supplier for this type of issue.
Every major corporation in today’s security climate is constantly responding to threats and evolving their security posture. As part of that effort we are in regular contact with a variety of vendors, industry partners and government agencies sharing information on threats, best practices and new tools. This is standard practice in the industry today. However, we have not been in contact with any government agency regarding the issues you raised.

Furthermore, Supermicro doesn’t design or manufacture networking chips or the associated firmware and we, as well as other leading server/storage companies, procure them from the same leading networking companies.
I understand that but I meant there are a lot of the same accounts making multiple of the same/slightly altered comment.
There are plenty of event loop and non-blocking I/O libraries for the languages I have mentioned.
Lots of Americans agree with you. The problem is those that don't are:

1. Willing to gamble they'll never get sick
2. Don't want "their" tax dollars paying for other people's medical bills, other peoples anything for that matter. More aircraft carriers please!
3. Don't think there's a problem with the system because it hasn't destroyed them yet.
4. America is #1, best health care in the world, and any contrary information is ignored.

Unfortunately for a lot of people if a problem doesn't impact them directly, it's not a problem or doesn't really exist and anyone else can eff off. In a very real way it's not just anti-socialist, it's just anti-social.
I couldn’t easily find average incomes, but Tanzania has a GDP/capita that is more than 60 times less than that of the US. So the $10 is the equivalent of it costing $600 There.

You’re likely seeing cheaper prices because of cheaper labor and doesn’t really tell us anything about the efficacies of a free market system or a third party payer system.
Leave aside the extremely interesting engineer behind th go scheduler and goroutine.

The abstraction that goroutine provides is a simple, indipendent, isolated unit of execution.

You start it, and that is all you can do with it.

No way to set priorities, decided when to stop it or inspect it.

After the goroutine start the only interface that you get is a channel where to push and pop stuff from. Which is just too limited consider the complete lack of genetics.

It is really the best we can come up with?
For fans of geometry I can recommend the following book:

Apostol, Mnatsakanian: New Horizons in Geometry :
https://www.amazon.com/Horizons-Geometry-Dolciani-Mathematic...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_calculus
> taking more time away from actually building your side project and putting it into building infrastructure around your side project.

I generally dislike this way of thinking. Infrastructure is a core component of whatever it is you're building, not an afterthought. Maybe you can defer things until a little bit later, but if you can build with infrastructure in mind you'll be saving yourself so many headaches down the road.

You don't need to build with the entire future of your project's infrastructure in mind, but deploying your project shouldn't be "ok now what?" when you're ready, like it was a big surprise.
True, but still, I would like to see a statement on the website or on twitter.
IQ is highly predictive of future outcomes. Where are you getting you data from?
> Snapdragon 636 SoC, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a 3060mAh battery. The display is a 5.8-inch, 2280×1080 LCD

Xiaomi Pocophone F1 - Snapdragon 845, 6GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a 4000mAh battery. The display is a 6.18-inch, 2246x1080 IPS, $300-310.
I think that the filters you mention are an important mechanism here. These continuous variables like IQ or test scores get mapped onto binary ones (filters/gates) as you make it, or don't, into schools or jobs or other opportunities. It's not necessarily a linear or symmetrical mapping, either.

For example, when I was in graduate school, the chair was discussing how high GRE scores were not very strong indicators of 'success' in grad school (i.e. doing good research, publishing it, and getting out in a reasonable time). However, low GRE scores were much stronger indicators of 'failure' given these criteria.

IQ probably maps pretty linearly to GRE scores (for most of the small subset of the population who would ever take such a test), but with regards to scientific progress there are a series of thresholds that are more important (grad school, faculty hiring, securing funding, etc. etc.). These thresholds are really about opportunity and access.
I think it's in the interest of both companies, especially Amazon as AWS servers are critical to this story, to maintain an appearance of having iron clad security systems both to investors and customers.
The fact that they didn't just run the units through an xray machine would seem to support your theory.
Certainly not saying this didn't happen, or creating a false dichotomy that a nation-state has to be a friend or foe.. but evaluate this in the context of: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white-house-begins-the-... (in case people get the feeling that this story is being pushed, or feel like it's coming out of nowhere suspiciously close to an election)
The article was selected to discuss in our reading group.

Here you can find a very interesting remarks and important questions that were asked:

https://papers-gamma.link/paper/112/

Sorry, but I am too lazy to copypaste them here :D
For personal gardens, there is a cool open source project called Farm Bot: https://farm.bot/
Yeah that wasn't my question at all.

Maybe you aren't a native English speaker but "walk me through" is an idiom in the English language it is not a literal phrase.

The OP's comment was quite terse and so I asked if they wouldn't mind elaborating.

As you can see someone else replied with a more concrete example, which is all I was asking.

Your response displays a shocking level of immaturity that appears to have been triggered by your own total and complete misunderstanding.
The response to comments at the end is amazing. Subscribed.
lol. you haven't worked with a vendor in China before, have you?
Ummm.... this would happen in Canada as well. Nursing home care is subsidized, but only after you have exhausted your own personal assets or income.

My grandfather went into a nursing home in Canada and the gov’t took 80% of his pension income and then subsidized the rest. That includes savings as well.
> Mixing threads with event loops is possible, but so complicated that few programmers can afford the mental burden for their applications.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't basically every UI framework from the last 20 years do exactly this?
Iiuc, his goal for this is to create a better experience for one off exploratory stuff, not for evented servers.

http://tinyclouds.org/jsconf2018.pdf