skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as I can tell the only people who come out badly out of this are the Chinese intelligence agencies

The richest and most powerful American companies, some of whom are critical to national security and/or make their operational security as a critical selling point (the CIA among others), would be found not to be in fundamental control of the essential infrastructure powering their core business. It would trigger expensive large-scale review of every server in the world, and investors would run for the hills. This would be massive, and have heavy repercussions in the markets. FAANG are not protecting the Chinese, they are protecting their own finances - and the authorities will let them get away with it because the alternative is unpalatable.

If you keep it as a denied rumour, there is an official excuse for people to just get on with business as usual - nobody wants to deal with a market crash, not even most traders, and after all newspapers say many things, not all of them true. Maybe Supermicro is compromised, and maybe if you really care about hardware security you should buy elsewhere <wink-wink>; but it's not official, so most people can just pretend nothing is happening and go about their day, until a solution can be found.

> I don't see why they would risk it when they have so little to gain.

They have everything to lose, though.
Cops here don't act like part of the community. I guess the general feel is that even if you're not doing something wrong, if you see a cop you're likely to get anxious because all of a sudden you're wondering if they're going to hassle you just because, hassle you due to a minor thing that's going to get blown out of proportion, or if you're lucky they'll just leave.

They're not my peers, they're a force of power and intimidation and an interaction with them feels more like a confrontation waiting to happen than anything else, even if you're not even doing anything wrong.
Gemalto manufactures and assembles many, many products in Europe. The entire European security cluster won't use anything else. I know because I played a part in smart card development there. And all of that was from Europe. Wafers, chips, holograms, mag stripes...
If we can detect that we're running in a VM, this by definition means that the virtualization is imperfect. We could use these imperfections both to obtain abilities not normally allowed by the VM rules, or contact either the "supervisor" or "parallel VMs", again, gaining abilities not normally possible.

So finding a reliable proof that our world is a simulation automatically means finding some kind of an escape hatch from it, or at least a peephole to the "outside", which arguably would matter.
When I looked (decade ago), your description would have characterized their online haunts but not IRL meetings.

Maybe being online turns anything into Reddit/HN.

On the other hand, word was most members are inactive and only a small percentage turn up at IRL events at all, i.e. strong (self) selection effects.
Banks were among the first to computerize their systems, and switching systems cost a lot of money, regardless of industry. Hence they have a lot of old systems.
Another code review tool that lets you work this way is Review Board: https://www.reviewboard.org/
it is, but what's that got to do with the price of potatoes?
I definitely agree that parents need to curate what their kids watch on YT. I seem to spend half my life looking over my son's shoulder. Fortunately ATM it seems to be restricted to gamers gaming.
We probably don't remember those who were eliminated.
Safety practices for people going into space? Honestly.. Pretty sure people going out of the atmosphere, inches away from an instant, unimaginable death are aware that it's not exactly safe. The company obviously has a huge vested interest in not having people die but it's kind of inevitable when you're in such a high stakes game. NASA has had plenty of deaths
It's not unreplaceable, but it costs money to replace, and it's a risk to replace it; the old system is tried and tested, whereas the replacement might not work quite the same way.

So at any specific time, the safer and cheaper option is to stick with the old system, despite the growing risks and costs in the long run.
It does. I've deployed systems that would not only notify staff when novel packets were observed but immediately isolate anomalous hardware through a combination of powerdown and network fabric reconfiguration.
If we're in a "simulation", ie, in a computer program, there is a possibility we may find a bug, an exploit, or a backdoor, that would let us become "superuser" and do magical god-like things (and most probably, just crash the process, destroying the universe and all there is inside it).

On the other hand, simulation or not, this doesn't exclude or prove the existence of God. A simulation could be generated by unconscious physical processes in the super universe, as they could be created by "people" in that super universes (ie. gods). If the universe is not a simulation, it can still be a creation by a God, or happen to be by itself (or some unconscious meta-physical process).

And as you note, it's also orthogonal to the question of whether the universe is a closed system or not. (both information-wise and energy-wise).
This depends heavily on your choice of subs. I kill a lot of time on reddit and I see none of what you describe. Literally - zero of it.
native video player has... issues.
I have a very similar background and hate the idea of having a bunch of dependencies too - but I found my Vue pwa 'just works' even with 1007 folders in my node_modules directory. We'll see if it stands the test of time.
ManicTime and Leechblock are two solutions that work entirely locally, on Windows.
Why do you use those suppliers?
Anyone remember the hack of Apple via Supermicro firmware.... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/apple...
Blazor is an experiment. They're trying to get an MVP & figure out a solid foundation.

There are a ton of performance wins they can do later. Those have little value right now.
Firefox and Safari on Mac requires MacOS 10.13+ to display variable fonts.
https://caniuse.com/#feat=variable-fonts
[2017] Apple denies existence of Supermicro Malware-infected firmare
Not being able to link to just video is a bigger issue.
$0.184 per Gallon of Federal Tax. In Texas it's an additional $0.20 per Gallon.
Heat Storage Hypocausts: Air Heating in the Middle Ages (2017)
Physical constants in Python
I love the focus on implementation. That really connects the underlying ideas with working code.

For those interested in a gentle introduction to those underlying ideas, including a refresher on the required math, I taught a class on how to implement a ray tracer. All the materials are available: https://avik-das.github.io/build-your-own-raytracer/
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I honestly did not know about that. I thought that if you move any mass (remove non zero mass and place it somewhere else) there must be at least one axis which you can use to detect the change in moment of inertia.
It also implies cut-rate shit.
Simulating a lot of atoms doesn't require more atoms, with quantum mechanics. You only need to compute the wave function! You need to instanciate atoms only when they're observed (and you can garbage collect them once they vanish again into the wave probability).
Aliens might not be constantly watching all billions of life forms. Aliens might not care if we find them or not. There's plenty of reasons aliens wouldn't bother to interfere.

If you buy the Simulation Hypothesis, based on the premise that aliens have infinite computing power in which to run simulations like this, then logically you should also believe that we're not special. With infinite computing power, they don't need a giant datacenter and a research team to run us. It's just a few basic principles they chose last month (in their time), and a little box sitting on someone's desk, like the TNG episode "Ship in a Bottle". With infinite power, there's probably millions of simulations running.

Maybe if it becomes self-aware, a light turns on, and they cheer, like we do when the bouncing DVD logo hits exactly in the corner -- and then they go on with their life. Maybe kids pick different initial conditions and race to see which universe becomes self-aware first.

I don't believe the Simulation Hypothesis, but if it is true, the most likely scenario is that there's gobs of different simulations running, and aliens don't care about us at all.
It's not just the drug companies but the insurance companies. If you can identify genes which put a person at high risk for an expensive medical treatment, you can develop a heuristic which adjusts premiums accordingly.
That's kinda amazing
> Anyone have any ideas on what could cause a mass shift?

I have a few, but basically if you keep the UI simple, support multiple communication paradigms (e.g. not just reddit/hn style, but also live optionally-threaded conversations, more forum-like approaches, blogs+comments, microblogging, etc), and make it highly configurable (e.g. voting rules, moderation rules, threading rules, etc) I think people will come running. Bonus points if it's easily self-hostable, can be federated, can be encrypted, and/or can self-delete/rollover old messages.
Shasta: a free energy market embedded into ethereum
I know a few people with >130 IQ and they all have...

No, those are just the ones you know about. You know, the kind that tell people that they have a high IQ. You probably know more people with IQs > 130, you just don't know that you do because they're well-adjusted, and they don't feel the need to tell you about their high IQ.
> Our goal in all realities should be to break free of that reality's constraints.

Eh? Even if we cease to exist “outside” this “reality”?

What does it mean for a 2D pixelated game sprite to “break free out of its reality”?
You've received a lot of responses, but I'm shocked that nobody has told you most US cops are assholes.

Most of the times I've interacted with cops, they were not smiling. Sometimes they were not evil, but most of the times they are asking questions to see if they can arrest you for something.

For example, one time a cop came up to me while I was taking a nap in my car. He asked me questions for 5 minutes straight to see if I could admit to any equipment failures on my car, or if I was drunk (despite not operating the vehicle).

In the US, you must exercise extreme caution around cops, at all times, period.
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It is not done in real time, it is done in relative time!
Competing UI frameworks exist. Blazor is just one. See Ooui & Uno for others.
How did you arrive at that 200k number? 39.6 / 9 = 4.4 millions each
You can do exactly that... you can add shortcuts to the ‘Today’ view, and to the home screen.
Say two PRs get sent in by two different developers. CI builds both, passes them.

Reviewer comes and approves PR#1, it is merged into master. Depending how much CI power you have, PR#2 (and any other PR in queue) can be automatically built again on top of new master to verify it wont break anything.

You can do it lazily too and just re-check PR#2 once it gets approved by human - like other comment mentioned, CI coordinates and serializes all merges into master making sure master is always green.
I feel like we're ignoring scale here. 16 packets of Splenda in a mouse's stomach.
Surely if we're cloning people it won't be too hard to accelerate growth as well.

If not, just stick all the clones somewhere and have them sit around waiting until their organs are needed. ie. the movie "The Island"
Humanity is waging a war of terror on wildlife across the globe
Ah. The schools where I knew kids like you described were the ones where the "attendant" had "Brother" before their name, haha...
> it has finally stopped falling over.

Even that I'd disagree with. I still get "You broke reddit!" screens every few days or so
Quantum machine learning is a big leap away
Top comment at r/science:

Ordinary table salt and most other essential non-organic mineral naturally found in healthy foods, are toxic in increasing doses to bacteria. As a biochemist I'd be willing to bet that those necessary minerals in the human diet would stress the hell out of these bacteria in increasing doses also. The bacteria in this paper do NOT show growth inhibition with these artificial sweeteners in the doses used.

It's a pretty huge jump in scientific presumption - from a change in fluorescence in a contrived sub-inhibitory bacterial "stress" assay, to the authors statement of "we may speculate that the response observed in our study may be relevant to gut microbiome and thus may influence human health". (statements in italics not tested by authors)

So doubt their basic premise has any validity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/9ki9nw/scientists_...

Not only that, they were only using a fluorescing E. coli as a proxy for the incredibly diverse gut microbiota. For it to have any real bearing on human health, they'd need to do at least an animal model study and show a difference in 16s rRNA quantitation and/or sequencing for relative abundances of different species. But I sympathize with the need to make your study sound significant and worth doing....
Because bitcoin and all of the other cryptocurrencies don't mine themselves.
The low-res version is available by replacing 'www' with 'i' in the url for a much friendlier mobile experience.

eg
https://www.reddit.com/r/backpacking
vs
https://i.reddit.com/r/backpacking

Helpful for bookmarks.
Seth Lloyd had written a nice paper that spoke about the thermodynamics of computing -

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10984064

Also refer - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13570 by Igor Markov
The BMC is an ARM microcontroller that has complete access to everything, exactly like the Intel Management Engine, but the server vendors prefer a separate chip for the same job. What is described in the article is very easy to do by inserting a microcontroller on the SPI link that connects the BMC with the flash memory containing the BMC programs, which are copied from there to a RAM at boot.
However, such a microcontroller would need 8 pins for at least 7 signals: ground, power, SPI clock and 4 SPI data, to and from BMC and flash memory.
Nonetheless, 8-pin packages can be very small, e.g. 0.8 mm by 1.35 mm, i.e. only slightly larger than 1 square millimeter.
So from a technical point of view, all is easily feasible.

The problem is that it would require compromised people in several places at the subcontractors, because the design files for the PCB must be replaced wherever the PCB is made and in another place, at the PCB assembly, the pick & place document must be replaced and an extra reel with the backdoor component must be mounted on the equipment and that reel must come from somewhere else than from the normal suppliers of the assembly line without raising suspicions.

It can be done, but many accomplices are required. Because most of the time the backdoor component will pass the SPI data signals transparently, it will not be detected at any electrical testing and the usual optical inspections are unlikely to detect such a small change.

I am using many Supermicro motherboards, so I am wondering if this story is true. If it were true, it would not be much of a surprise, because they did not do something really novel but they just matched what USA also did, e.g. in the Cisco case.
Blockchain is very exciting. I can see how it can help with traceability and food safety. It can record when pallets were loaded or the date when it was sowed, harvested etc, but it’s also possible to generate this after ..hypothetically..I buy strawberries from Costco and pass off on my own. Of course, won’t work when Costco is more expensive than wholesale. But I am just saying that blockchain is not entirely about ensuring trust/transparency here. Involvement of IBM also likely means that it’s not decentralized. Produce is a physical good and not a digital transaction.

It’s overkill for lettuce sold to Walmart, but I can see why Walmart wants to try it. I am curious to see how we can implement and use blockchain appropriately in the supply and value chain of food. Walmart mandating lettuce blockchain and patterning with IBM is a good start, but honestly at this level, it can also be done with just well managed database systems. But I am all for it! I am excited to see where this will lead.

I also can...intuitively only because I can’t articulate it or prove it.. see this as ‘laying down of the road’ before the town is built. Exciting.
Phones are much less powerful than PCs, but they feel comparably fast because most software developers waste exactly as much performance as they can get away with. The phone app developers are forced to write better, faster code than the PC app developers, just as PC app developers ten years ago were forced to write better code than PC app developers are today.
On the contrary I use an app called Slide to view reddit. It's open source, add free and I personally think it solved all the qualms I held especially against the redesign.

https://github.com/ccrama/Slide
I recently implemented a feature that depends on CORS and I don't see anything in this article that adds any value over Mozilla's thorough CORS docs.[1]

If you're writing an article on CORS today I also think you should mention recent CORS developments such as Cross-Origin Read Blocking (CORB)[2] and features on the horizon such as Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy, Cross-Origin-Window-Policy, etc. that in light of Spectre, Meltdown etc. are meant to help plug speculative execution holes.[3]

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS

[2]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/corb-for-dev...

[3]: https://www.arturjanc.com/cross-origin-infoleaks.pdf
+1. The method of getting from good to best also matters a lot. A coach definitely helps. You can't become the best of anything, in isolation. Deliberate practice also helps. I was not a believer in deliberate practice but once I started it, I am seeing good results. For instance, I can retain at least 30% more of what I have studied or coded or even just casually read. However, deliberate practice takes a toll. It's excruciating to do it even for 4 hours a day. Maintaining consistency is even harder. I have probably been able to do it for a week over the last couple of months.
The snowden leaks among others show that most companies aware of PRISM ended up flat out lying about it. Either it's a type of NSL we haven't seen before or employees receive death threats, etc.
GP mentioned 9 residents working for the prison, not 9 inmates.
Talent is a trap. It has taken me years to see this, but because "talent" is really how easily you can accomplish at a high level, it can be a shock when you run into an area where you need growth.

I was limiting myself from growing in important areas because I gave up too easily when my "talent" didn't shine through. I should have realized at some point that it's all work in the end, and sometimes you have to slug through it.
Their customers are not their only product, nor presumably their primary one, given that they sell software and hardware. The customer is not the one and only product if other things are sold.

So while weaselly, their wording is not incorrect: the customer is not the product.

Though their customer's data may be a product, in certain business areas.
In my OLED phone screen, my eyes do thank me (although I have anyway the black mode in Kiwi browser all the time)
> This sounds like a terrific thing to host on a vps.

Just make sure your provider has backup and redundancy in place for the data storage.

Imagine waking up to total loss of data for all of your customers. Ouch!
Not exactly a scientific analogy, but it reminds me of rolling for stats in D&D or similar, where points in one area usually mean less points available for other areas.

It also seems like there's variance in the amount of "points" available normally. Dolph Lundgren for example seems to be playing with higher stats than most people.

Acquired Savants like Jason Padgett who seemingly become able to use dormant brain areas and Phineas Gage who's personality went in seemingly the opposite direction make me wonder if there might be some way to manipulate those odds-to make sure the IO doesn't wind up being a chokepoint.
Not exactly, PCB assembly is super cheap everywhere thanks to propagation of chipshooters, what makes the cost go up is logistics - what do you do after you populate the board for your part? Ship it across the world, or to another factory behind the corner?
wasabi.com might be worth looking into. $.0049 per GB/month, no egress charges.

That's roughly $5/month for 1TB, which probably beats doing this on a VPS.
> I wonder what reason Apple has to hide.

The perception is that Apple is perfect and worth paying 3x the cost?

EDIT: Curious if all of these Apple comments are going to disappear. I believe they have a strong marketing team to hide dissent.
You're probably right.

On the other hand, almost all of my friends have anxiety, depression or executive disorders, but I know the IQ of a few of them.
or they uncovered it using non-standard procedures?
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Maybe being online turns anything into Reddit/HN.

See if you can find some old usenet discussions about "prior art".
Some of the most robust psychological research, as long as you define intelligence as the ability to do well on an IQ test.
Do you have any research backing up this position? It seems to fly in the face of every reputable study I've seen, which suggests the opposite is true - average genes, hard work, and sacrifice is not enough to "guarantee" anything.
A guide to mathematical emotions
> Clearly bad for your gut or you wouldn't be getting these side effects.

That's not how that works. Ifyou eat too much fruit the sugar in that can cause a laxative effect,and the mecahnism is the same as with suga alcohols. The undigested sugar causes osmosis, which floods the gut with water, which causes diarrhea.
Certainly true, since Dropbox doesn't work on Windows XP anymore.
I've seen the claim about animal protein many times before, never the sources.
Ah, yes, and then we would voluntarily go out of business. And the supplier will just have another customer that would not be so principled.
The FBI is not the only jurisdiction these companies have to follow, if they want to continue to operate internationally. Couldn't such silencing orders come from China or something?