skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be along the lines that you have to have a minimum of assets to and money to qualify for some of those things. You know to prevent middle class and wealthy people from abusing the system designed for people who can't afford care.

Having something that you could sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars therefore may be a disqualifer.
You do if you're programming in assembly.

Developers need to understand how the layer underneath their code works. If you're writing Java, you should understand the JVM. If you're writing C, you should understand the compiler.
I think you might mean "unequivocally"
“The Commodore Datasette recording format is heavily optimized for data safety and can compensate for many typical issues of cassette tape, ”

I used the tape for a few days when I got my C64. It didn’t take more than a week before I realized that it was too slow and unreliable and talked my mom into getting the 1540 drive.
But I thought that the "current" economic thinking states that production should move wherever the work is cheaper?! /s
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If well known, well off, high profile people like Lederman get wiped out by ill health and no one cares just think how much worse it must be for the more average person. I really enjoyed his "God Particle" book. RIP.
The GreenArrays chips still use dramatically less energy than ARMs for comparable operations, but it does still appear that they are more difficult to program.
I think many of us grew up in very bad social situations. The public school system I went through did not stratify children by intelligence (lets say) until 7th grade. I didn't have many friends until 7th grade.
I personally don't think this is much like the Kavanaugh situation.

For example, Dr. Ford stepped forward publicly, in full knowledge that a massive machine would swing into action to besmirch and defame her, whereas the allegations about espionage were made in confidence. The six(?) individuals making these allegations are risking nothing at this point.

Also, Dr. Ford's allegations reach back into time and are difficult to conclusively prove,* while this is a situation where physical evidence does exist somewhere. It may not be presented to us at the moment, but if the allegations are true, there were physical motherboards that could have been examined to demonstrate the exploits.

What the two have most in common is that we the public are unlikely to be provided with a full and transparent investigation. The FBI's "investigation" into Dr. Ford's allegations did not involve speaking to her or others who could corroborate aspects of her story. Others from Yale approached the FBI and did not get interviewed.

The same is probably true of this story. Even if the allegations are true, for diplomatic or other strategic reasons, the government is unlikely to shine a spotlight on the details.

* Note that "Conclusively prove," is not the same thing as "Obtain enough confidence based on other reports to make a decision about job fitness."
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1) Lol. Not really relevant.

2) 22 is late for athletic careers.

4) You skipped 3? Ok... so you want 80 year olds who just started marathon running to beat everyone aged 20-30 in their athletic prime? That's actually pretty impressive since those other 80 year olds have probably been running marathons their whole life.

5) I agree. It takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice, and few people are willing to do that. Are you upset that only 10% of people can be the top 10% and that the distinguishing factor is often how hard they work?

You should also look at it this way: For most things, you don't need to be the absolute best in the world, nor is there a way to measure who is the best in the world. Who is the best in the world at software engineering?
Its fairly interesting that this article doesn't mention actors, futures/promises and async/await style co-routines which are all extremely available in all of the major languages available today and broadly used (with the possible exception of golang).

Frankly, I think the concurrency story is one of the weaknesses of golang. Contrary to what this article says you cannot stop thinking about concurrency in your code in golang like you can in some of the more avante garde concurrency models (STM) and it doesn't provide nearly the sophistication in type or post build checking of other languages.
I'm pretty sure this is just Poe's Law in action.
"To give a rather pointed example, the human brain is a computer." -- Scientific American, 2018.

This isn't even bro science!
What if Apple or Amazon didn't find the chips but other investigators found them in Apple/Amazon servers. That would make their denial wording technically true. They didn't say no chips were found, they just said they didn't find any.
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>Yes. Because mainstream is what you should select for when choosing your tools

It's a hugely important consideration. More devs, larger community, better support, more/better tooling, more libs, etc. If you don't think those matter then you're only concerned with pet/toy projects.
If the source is China, in a hostile period they might stop sending it. But according reportings I have read, the US DoD only uses about 0.5% of steel in the US, and only ~30% of US steel is imported.
I can think of a practical use case for Forgetica Light, a font with the opposite design of Sans Forgetica:

Instead of simply deleting messages after a short time, Snapchat should render them in Forgetica Light, so you can't even remember them!
That Turtle!
https://mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/08/31/episode...

>That said, I think Node is not the best system to build a massive server web. I would definitely use Go for that. And honestly, that's basically the reason why I left Node. It was the realization that: oh, actually, this is not the best server side system ever.
OMG, that is so so so so brilliant! I'm going to go tell my boss right now that the suppliers better suite up, otherwise we are going right to their more expensive, less experienced vendor and will delay our product launch for a year....and likely still suffer the same problem. Those Chinese vendors better shape up or we're going to really teach them a lesson by driving ourself out of business right quick!
Seriously? So following your logic the US should just let al qaeda access to weapons and let them vent off in NY.

"would there be offensive actions by [al qaeda]: almost certainly. But they'd likely be on a scale many orders of magnitude smaller than [US's actions in Afghanistan] to date, and I doubt they'd be sustained"

I hope I'll never live in a country that will allow their citizens to die in order to appease some murderous religious group.
Simulation involves a lot of overhead. Computers and life can be built from the same stuff QED. the simplest simulation of a lifeforms must be more complex than the direct equivalent of that lifeforms.

That's not to say the simplest possible equivalent organism exists in that universe, but anything that could make a simulation should also be able to make that life form.
who cares its a decent phone at a great price point?
The Book of Genesis is probably around 3000 years old - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis#Composition
People are crazy (literally) about Kubernetes.
Sorry, but this makes no sense whatsoever. We don't convict people of crimes based on the category of people they target.
There was excitement when the first study showed hard-to-read fonts improved test performance in 2007[1]. Since then, there have been enough attempted replications for a 2015 review to conclude that there's no effect[2].

[1] Overcoming intuition: Metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning: http://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2007-16657-003

[2] Disfluent fonts don’t help people solve math problems: http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-13746-007
I think it's stuff that hackers like to read not stuff related to hacking.
I'm still waiting for technically literate description - as an electrical engineer I don't know what a "signal conditioning coupler" is - searching DigiKey doesn't find anything under that name - it's not a "common" part, at least in my experience. The part looks like an RF filter look-alike of some sort. But that would normally be hooked into a power rail (and ground) - kind of hard to insert signals into a data line unless it was wired strangely

So tell us what the part is pretending to be and how exactly it it was wired (and what it was connected to - is this another Intel ME backdoor?)
One of my personal favorites.
You’re right about that. Because as long as you have income and your credit isn’t terrible and you pay your monthly bill, you can get an expensive cell phone.
That's because they have been under tremendous scrutiny recently.
I can easily write closed source crypto that will be absolute garbage. I can also write open source crypto that will be total shit. With enough seller skills I could convince some people to use the closed source crypto, I guess with open source crypto I would be called out quicker.
This will be unpopular...

He was rejected from our universal healthcare system because of the astronomical costs of keeping a 96 year old man (with a life ending disease) alive.

Those costs exist under every system regardless of whether or not the customer sees those costs.

This is not a defense of our "private" healthcare system. This is a defense of our public healthcare system. They made the rational decision to focus their resources on younger people with better chances of recovery. Dr. Lederman made the rational choice to sell his Nobel prize to extend his life. At least that option was available to him! The same can't be said for people like Charlie Gard.
Apple did more than ipod and iphone. You also missed Next and sale of Pixar at $7 B
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> What might be worse is it's quite possible Boeing is finding out through this reporting.

_If_ Boeing really is behind all this, they may well be unaware of the specific details, sure. But so what? This doesn't make them any less responsible. So I don't understand what makes this "worse".
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I am reading it as "we don't any any option outside China and we have to live with this". I guess even after adding cost of doing additional of products you buy from China its less than what you would pay to buy it from other place.

Thinking about it more, what you are doing make sense also because tampering can happen with any supplier, irrespective of factory location, given how aggressively states are pushing for spying on each other and their people.
Huh, that's weird. PS1 assets were remarkably transparent. Generally the audio was just CD-A tracks or ADPCM files, and the rest of the data was a ISO-9660 filesystem that showed up when you stuck the disc in a computer.
How do you come to that conclusion? The UK government won't fund a nursing home unless you have exhausted most of your assets. See, for instance, https://www.carehome.co.uk/fees/feesadvice.cfm. I dare say it might still be better than the US but I don't know for certain.
During elections people used to be bribed with alcohol.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/swilling-the-pla...

One of a thousand examples.
Sounds like he had a fancy nursing home with horses, etc...
Ericsson abandoned Erlang, or Erlang abandoned Ericsson, depending on how you look: Ericsson banned it internally, and shortly afterwards when the Erlang team managed to get it open sourced, they resigned from Ericsson and founded their own Erlang company.

(source: http://webcem01.cem.itesm.mx:8005/erlang/cd/downloads/hopl_e...)
Colonialism is one of them. History books in US and UK still teach that the colonizers saved the savages and brought them to the modern age. They continue to completely ignore that most colonies underwent centuries long recession as a result of the repression. Japan was never colonized and became quite advanced.
Run, run far away... (I realize you did, but man...)
I think people can understand one another and still disagree. I think that's okay.
The F1 is also not (officially) coming to the US
Isn't Pony the language where x / 0 == 0?
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> for Russia, the military doesn't care that their chips had frequency measured in kilohertz, and had sizes measured in square sentimetres

Well, if your chips are bigger and slower, you will need more chips and mounts/packaging to place them. If you need more chips then the weight of missile/plane/tank will be increased and available space decreased.

So at the end, the 'uncaring' military will receive a weapon which is worse than competition.

All thanks to an outdated chip.
This seems like the most likely reason for domestic companies to deny everything, and for their supply chain distributors to play along.

1) Big company partners with distributor.
2) Distributor has security issues.
3) Gov is already aware of security issues, says nothing.
4) Big company becomes aware of issues.
5)Gov steps in and pitches a deal:
i)Both big company and distributor must deny.
ii)In return, gov gets to:
iii)Preserve any existing contracts
iv)Protect the big company and distributor, with any legal, trade, or commercial benefits
I think similarly to how Dr. Ford knew she would be questioned and pushed into the spotlight when making these allegations public, Bloomberg similarly would've had to calculate the risk that Apple, Amazon, and China would push back on this story vigorously and try to discredit Bloomberg.

I guess my basic premise is that I'm more liable to believe that Bloomberg is operating in good faith in reporting this story. Now that does not mean that their sources may not be credible, but I'm more likely to believe they published this story in good faith rather than Amazon and Apple denying the story in good faith.
It does not seem like this story is true. If it's true, it makes absolutely no sense for Apple and Amazon to attack Bloomberg. Sure, a national security letter could force them to stay quiet, or maybe even to lie to the public and say it didn't happen, but it can't make them criticize Bloomberg. Attacking Bloomberg if the story is true is only going to convince Bloomberg to dig deeper. And the story isn't even that bad for Amazon or Apple - it's much worse for US-China relations than it is for either of those companies.

The key technical detail of what these chips are allegedly doing also does not make sense. From the article:

the chips allowed the attackers to create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines

How can you get around a firewall by using a compromised machine that's part of the internal network?

I don't think Bloomberg reporters are just making stuff up. But the technical confusion here makes me suspect that the government officials who leaked this story just didn't understand the details of a real incident that happened, and in the leaking the story got mangled into inaccuracy.
What is this 'flagship design' nonsense. The notch is a horrible idea, iphone or not. Glass everywhere makes it less grippable.

And now we see the complete lack of originality in the phone industry as the manufacturers compete to clone the iphone design.

The pixel was pathetic, with it's pandering lack of headphone jack. And now we see Nokia continue the race to the bottom of cloned design phones.
Syntax is a crucial component of any programming language.

I would disagree, though, that there's anything inherently easier about imperative languages. Could it not be that it's simply more familiar to people today? People don't (IME) learn to program in school. They learn by futzing around with whatever free thing is on their computer. In the 1980's we had BASIC, and today we have JavaScript, and Python/Ruby/Java/C# also seem to be popular. At this point, imperative programming is winning because of path dependence. Nobody ends up using Erlang by accident.

Once you get to concurrency, functional languages are clearly punching above their weight. I find it impressive that Go makes imperative programming work well here, but it still looks a bit old-fashioned to me.

Is Go leading the pack by having a great concurrency model, yet with an imperative language that runs on bare metal? Or is it trying to hold back the tide, when almost the entire rest of the industry is solving concurrency by moving to functional languages running on a portable VM? I don't know.
While I really do like Erlang I think everyone should take a look at what Elixir is doing on top of the Erlang VM. https://elixir-lang.org/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/setting-the-record-str...
> losing the birth-lottery

He actually WON the birth lottery, having died at age 96. The medal was probably a more practical asset to sell-off for the family than something like real-estate.

The cited rate for skilled nursing care in the article is not accurate. US 10K/month is about normal for a SHARED room for someone who is NOT in a memory unit. It only goes higher from there.

There's something to be said for keeling over from a sudden heart attack as a septuagenarian.
Sony production lines assemble Raspberry PIs in the UK:

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3014651/sonys-penc...
I wouldn’t argue it’s worse than slavery, but as a singular event Bikini Atoll was horrific.
> The United States routinely has health care prices well-above the rest of the country.

Above the rest of itself?
When we're discussing things at the level of 'higher than our own universe', there is no reason to assume the concept of probability even exists.
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Nokia - please make modern versions of your past industrial designs. Current phones are too thin and too fragile.
Doing the same thing cheaper is a perfectly valid design choice
I think it really does come down to a disconnect of ideals, how much to support others by giving up some of your own?

For instance, I truthfully told my boss I wouldn't mind my tax rate increasing if it meant everyone got medical coverage. He almost lost it, like he was ready to kill me, he was so angry. The fact that he would lose even more of his money, the rage, it was ferocious.

I really saw first hand the "I got mine, fuck y'all" mentality. I didn't think it was real until then. I always thought that was sound-bite fox news talking point and the argument was over how much one should sacrifice for others. I stand corrected.
I think he's trying to dog socialism by attaching it to the wealth requirements for qualifying for medicare/medicaid. IE you can't have hundreds of thousands of dollars in asestes and property and qualify. I don't perceive this as a problem with socialism, so much as preventing people that could pay for care trying to leech off government programs because they don't wanna and are butt hurt because poor people don't just die in a gutter.
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Anytime someone say password are not good I reply: can you change fingerprint? Can you change retinal imprint? How accessible are such data? => biometrics it's no good.

n-th factor auth: how can we trust a token? I mean at a hardware level? => if we can really control it's a nice ADDITION to password protection, but no more.

Other options like "granted third parties" (SSO solution by any kind, from Google to mobile phone auth) IMVHO can be trusted LESS than passwords. So in the end we only need to teach XKcd password strength vignette and teach developer how to care about security.
IQ is the best measure we have, sorry to disappoint you, but it's here to stay.
Yep, that's true. However, JavaScript does it right out of the box and the JavaScript ecosystem is very well-aligned for async.

One of the most significant reasons to use a language like Node for server-side async programming is that for any random library you choose to use there's a very high probability the library also supports async and won't block on you. For better or for worse, async is pervasive in the JavaScript ecosystem. Even languages that have good async frameworks, like Python, most libraries will block as it's the normal I/O mode for the language.
Seemed like an interesting thought when I read it yesterday. But, after reading this article [0] today - it's clear he did not want to come out of Tesla otherwise he'd not threaten his board with resignation.

[0]- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-teslas-elon-musk...
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Because you get to pay money for closed source. And if you're paying, you can justify it for yourself that it's somehow better, because it costs money.
If we know that we are in a simulation, then we can try to break out of it and enter the real world.
The screen almost completely covers the phone, except the notch and a small bezel on the bottom. That's the point.
This article shows different: "Blanket denials from Microsoft, Google, and Facebook -- and efforts to clear their names -- are the opposite of what AT&T and Verizon did in response to reports saying they opened their systems to the National Security Agency. " [1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-surveillance-retrospective-at-...
I'm inclined to believe bloomberg as well - however, "who has incentive to lie" seems reasonable on its face, but is a bad heuristic because you will never know the mental state of all the players, and what their motivations are.

I was originally siding with Apple since they flat-out denied that they ever found a planted chip(and didn't waffle with a 'no comment' or something), but re-reading the statement seems like they may be weaseling out with their phrasing "Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server." Bloomberg claimed that Apple found suspicious chips on the motherboard, which may have not been considered a "server" at that point.
supermicro.com is down for me: "This site can’t be reached"
Small scale farm bots is an idea I am trying to rule out.