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That secret "Chinese weapon" you hold on your finger tip is a very common electronic component called the signal conditioning balun, worth $0.29 and sold here https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/TDK/HHM1932A2?qs=6JAMGB... . The Bloomberg report can really win the Ignorance and Stupidity Award of this year.
This is exactly what people have been voting for with their wallets though.
Did you already use haskell?
This is often what happens anyways. I just had my entire MacBook Pro 2017 replaced, all but the bottom plate. Same happened to me 5 years ago..
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Sea based wind farms seem to have 3W/m^2 limit.

Also low average density is not that bad - it means less bigger turbines can be used to extract same energy:

"In the onshore region, with characteristics similar to that of the USA Great Plains, the farm power density is bounded to around 1 W m−2. This is in line with previous studies (Adams and Keith 2013, Miller et al 2015). Despite the relatively low farm power density, the wind farm efficiency remains relatively high under the condition that the turbine spacing remains wide (10.5 D0). Therefore, in these areas it would be more efficient to build one very large wind farm with a wide turbine spacing, instead of several separated smaller wind farms with a more narrow turbine spacing."

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa5d86
I would be happier in a decentralized network staying connected with other sheeple and have my own options of sharing information.

This is an attempt to doom it before it was even tried.
I've watches some videos on youtube of guys who try to salvage Tesla's. I am not sure if these are growing pains or if Tesla is just more interested in a model without independent mechanics.

In these videos it seems more that Tesla is VERY hostile against people who repair their car. They have no access whatsoever to parts, so their only chance is to buy damaged cars and salvage the parts. My feeling was that it was very hard for the owners to keep the cars updated and to super charge these cars.

My experience with dealers repairs and independent contractors is that most of the dealers change assembly groups and good mechanics change what's damaged. You've got less problems if you change assembly groups but it is way more expensive.
Given the quality of big budget films like The Last Jedi and The Predator, I would say they have attacked the wrong target.

Or maybe the battle has already been won.
Compare that to the Android world, my last Android phone got one update after 6 months and that was it.
I love OS X, but nowadays I can't stand Apple's hardware.

Living outside of the US, using Mac products purchased in the US means you have to go to third-party repair shops. Last week I took my 1-year old, $2,500 MBP to an Apple store in Istanbul, only to find out that Applecare doesn't work here, and a replacement screen would cost me $650 (thanks to super high import taxes). Tomorrow I'm taking it to a 3rd-party repair shop where the repair, with what is likely a counterfeit or stolen screen, will cost $400. I'm considering just buying a used Dell instead, but I hate Linux on the desktop.
No human population does not imply no wildlife. Wind and solar farms represent significant intrusions into wildland, that should be studied. Off the top of my head, I can think of a few positives and negatives of desert energy development. But it shouldnt be the same way we treat fossil fuels, that out of sight is out of mind.
top level await is not important.

The easiest solution to this is just put one single line of code at the top of your application, then you can have as many awaits as you like under that.
What they said in the interview was that they "knew" about the story, as in "We've heard it", but they also say that they can neither deny nor confirm it. So that's not much.
> my 2017 MBP keyboard is starting to become faulty. I've been dreading having to turn it in because I actually need this thing up and running.

My '15 MBP retina had it's keyboard and trackpad shit itself about 12 months after I purchased it. It was becoming apparent at the time that a) apple wouldn't repair it (they told me that I must have damaged it myself so they wouldn't do a warranty job, before even inspecting it) and b) they wanted to take the machine for diagnosis and repairs at the "local" apple centre (roughly 400km away at the time) which through experience I knew to take at least several weeks.

This was not a viable solution for me as it was a work machine, and any downtime was problematic. So I've permanently had my wired keyboard and mouse with me since.

Needless to say I've got an 8th gen i7 Dell on it's way in the mail now.
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What exactly did they know? Did they check anything themselves or did they hear the same story from the US IC that Bloomberg also heard?

Supermicro servers are extremely popular in data centers. Yet no one has noticed anything and no one has found any malicious chips in them. Unless the Chinese secret services also hacked all of the firewalls, someone would have picked up some outgoing packets that are going to Chinese C&C servers. And those would have been scrutinized and chased down. A company I interned at this past summer was scrutinizing every client on their internal network. They would have easily detected a machine that was connecting to an IP outside the subnet, for example.

This whole story is just fishy and every company mentioned in that Bloomberg piece is not only denying it, but strongly denying it ever happened. And Bloomberg reporters have zero evidence... except for some stories from "anonymous sources".
To be clear, there is a very real threat of China embedding chips that do "bad things" inside chips that are sold to the US (source: I once worked on a government contract and saw such chips - they were, to my knowledge, unrelated to this specific case). I'm not sure where that points, but there are strong motivations at play.
It’s a lottery (slowly becoming in literal sense with the same magnitude of probabilities), but I could vote for at least one of the two reasons - your salary requirements, or you are >>30 years old applying to a workplace full of people in their 20s.
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I just realized I wanted to address this additional point:

> If you had enough resources for the first and not the second, but the first was good enough, why not do the first?

Why would you build something that is so immensely large, if you can only simulate a portion of it at a time? This hypothesis suggests that you would have to make the universe at least this large, or that lazy simulation is simpler.

Again thinking in terms of occam's razor and path of least resistance. It seems silly to make the unprovable theory even more complex and even harder to prove.

With that said I like Razengan's take on it; that is, c would be the speed at which the simulation computes new results (it also assumes the simulation isn't paused during computation).

Remember, even in simulation theory, there's nothing that suggests we humans are the intended product or object of observation; just like an ant farm that happens to be somewhere in some house in GTA5 isn't specifically the point of GTA5. So I wouldn't conflate "lazy loading" with "there are humans in this tiny corner of space, so we only need to simulate this tiny corner of space, and that makes a big difference in terms of computing power".
Bloomberg is really doubling down on this story
Funnily enough, he actually covered this angle yesterday!

Regular readers know that a major theme of this newsletter is Everything Is Securities Fraud, so in that vein, let us consider a hypothetical. What if:

1. Everything in the Businessweek story is true, Chinese spies planted hardware backdoors in computers built and used by major American companies, and the FBI investigated along with those companies and discovered the backdoors.

2. It is a national-security secret and the companies were instructed by the FBI never to acknowledge it.

3. The companies are patriotically but falsely denying the hack.

If that is true—and I have no particular reason to think it is, it’s just the sort of hypothetical we like around here—then, obvious question: Is it securities fraud? (Assuming that the hack is potentially material to the companies’ business?) 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-...
> Every time you add a gate to a task (this person must accept this before it progresses …

This seems to be the standard failure mode. When a ticket is wrong, I try to fix it only to find I'm not allowed to, because the workflow presumes the actual state of the project today can't happen.
The problem is that it's not 0% its more like 2-3% and most want repairs at a reasonable rate that is enabled by a robust market and available parts without weird restrictions like those put upon official sanctioned shops.
Isn't zero also finite?
Fact. Considering the financial situation of the vast majority of farmers, this gets me furious. Independent agriculture advocate and "Apple Grower" author Michael Phillips strongly suggests using 50-year-old tractors, etc, for just this reason.

p.s., in addition, a significant proportion of Deere's manufacturing is now overseas / outsourced -- but of course they still trade on their historical image as an American working-class icon.
I can play harmonica(chromatic), by the ear. I play mostly Hindi Bollywood Music.

To be frank before I 'cracked it' it largely felt like magic. After I cracked it, it largely felt like the time I learned to ride a bicycle without training wheels. It felt magical.

But on a whole lot, not having to look at a piece of paper, sight read and then play is a huge convenience. You also begin to thing in terms of sound, than sight. Which is basically the whole point of music. I think the first person who needs to enjoy your music is you. If you have to look at piece of paper to play a song, you sort of get too busy to enjoy it yourself.

Harmonica is a very enjoyable instrument, its portable, you can carry it anywhere, and play it at your convenience. You can play a wide variety of genres on it. Other big part of playing the harmonica is its in your mouth, so you can't exactly see the keys, like you see on the Piano or the Guitar. I've seen many people think of it largely as magic.

Music is the closest to Magic, I've gotten after code. To manipulate emotions, purely by thinking in terms of thoughts and sounds is just Magical. Not just to those listening, but to you yourself. You feel yourself creating art in real time.
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> You could find random people on the network based on what they filled out in their profile and start chatting with them.

In my case not ICQ, but a local messaging app had this feature as well. When I have moved to a new city a girl who has also recently moved there has found me by age and location. We've been married for 13 years now :)
What makes you feel like you're an expert on what is and isn't reasonable?
Think you meant to reply to jdorfman (parent poster to the post you actually replied to).
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You are completely right, I missed this carry. Thanks !
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Sending it to their Cupertino address might be a good way of protest at least.
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It's 100% possible to make it harder to tamper without the user certifying its OK without making it require apples permission.
Congrats on being in the 1% by definition most people aren't here.
If this were true I would have expected some corporate waffle like "Apple takes supply chain security very seriously and regularly audits suppliers. We cannot comment on internal security matters but customers should be assured that blah blah blah."

I wouldn't have expected this extremely strong denial which is one step short of outright calling Bloomberg liars.
At least in Denmark, the official Apple repair company sends someone to collect the laptop, and posts it back after the repair.

It's still worse than the best Dell etc can offer, but it hasn't taken up too much of my time. The number of necessary repairs is presently very high though.

(I only know about the Dell service in theory. There hasn't been a problem with any of the laptops, and when a server HDD fails I prefer that they just mail the new drive.)
I think Microsoft rarely gets credit for plenty. They were the ones who started AJAX and Mozilla reverse engineered it for example. Now they are going pretty much all in for WebAssembly with C# with their Blazor project which lets you either render views on the server as they already are or render them on the client with a 1 liner type of setting. I have yet to see another major company building WebAssembly tooling this early on. This is the kind of thing that puts WebAssembly in the mainstream and readily available though.
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Really it’s the cynical engineers, me included, being skeptical about an unholy alliance of two tools known for their occasional slinging of hand grenades into the workflow.

In fact both tools effectively compromise the underlying concepts they encapsulate.

GitHub for example ties you to a very centralised model. The moment there’s a github problem, the whole “post push” workflow falls to its knees. Forget CI, PRs, everything. It’s down or working incorrectly or inconsistently until github find the poo and shovel it. When your old self served SVN server had downtime measured in seconds in a year and your build infrastructure was several orders of magnitude more reliable. Genuinely, it’s worse and needs more humans to keep it ticking on medium sized teams. That’s less humans on adding business value.

JIRA itself is an interesting tool. The tool itself has its own problems (abysmal performance mainly) but the main problem is that it has a propensity to be configured by people who don’t know or understand it. That results in many staff effectively running around in a hamster wheel every time they have to do something trivial.

These two together multiply and you end up with thousands of hours of developer time thrown out of the window. This is seen as the status quo of development but it doesn’t need to be.

We need better more reliable tools, not better integrations between pits of despair. Also we need a firm stick to beat the workflows into shape.
If you don't want to be nullrouted at the first abuse or DMCA complaint, I recommend more professional hosters like Hetzner or OVH. They will forward abuse mail to you first and only react themselves if you ignore the mails entirely and repeatedly do nothing about it.
Felt just like reading about Kevin Mitnicks adventures. Such a brilliant piece of work this.
Well one can definitely say that the people at Bloomberg don’t doubt their story. Is it at all possible that higher ups making statements from Apple or Amazon didn’t know? Even if so, I don’t see any way for some sides credibility to not be severely harmed by the end of this.

And Facebook now enters the fray, saying there was an attack (though doesn’t seem to be claiming they were effected by the chip in previous article?)

Edit - I read the dates of the articles wrong, and thought this was a new one this morning. It was posted alongside the original story, but main point of comment still stands so keeping it up.
It is an interessting story indeed, espiacially with third country sources more or less confirming the general story but not the specific details. I personally have a hard time to believe Bloomberg went public with it without a thourough due dilligence. They should be totally aware of the consequences if they did.

At least for Amazon, having jepardiced servers, this goes strait to the core of their business namely customer trust. Until now Amazon did not have any data breaches of customer data which they did pride themselves a lot for. If the Bloomberg story is true, this ould be at risk. So, yeah, a strong denial is exactly what one could expect. I'm curious to see that story unfold.
I'm not convinced which story is strictly the correct one yet but I don't think the strength of the denial is an argument for either. It just shows that it's important that your narrative wins, truth or not.
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Avoid these guys, they don't follow up after going through their process.
Link to the original research:

https://keith.seas.harvard.edu/publications/climatic-impacts...
Indeed -- Apple's pro machines were really expensive pre-1998 -- I remember in particular that the Quadra 950 [maxed out with 256mb memory! a rendering monster in like 1992] retailed at around ~$4500ish
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Dev here. I worked in the company that used Jira. Used it for 4 years. It was really useful.

It is anyday better than getting tasks over email.

We had very minimal customisations. A simple set of swimlanes that we update throughout the product development process.

From what you are telling it looks like your team had other problems in delivery. You tried to solve it via Jira by adding new custom fields and forcing people to update them. Solving the deeper issue would have helped there.

I have been able to track my deliverables. See how my team is performing. Plan for the next sprint. Perform retrospectives and capture action items. The tool hasn't broken while doing this. UI is decent. I really don't see a problem with the tool, it serves its goal.
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> you could just as easily view the network of humans in a society as its "brain"

You could far more easily view the brains of humans in a society as its "brains."
Yay for a future where 30% more of Netflix is low-budget local holier-than-thou crap, more shows about UK people baking and more pseudofunny German history sketches. And because now they have to buy, EU studios will get extra demands when it comes to pricing, meaning less money for interesting productions.

There is a reason why European cinema and TV drives people to Netflix.
Out of this language was spined off an entire company (Esterel technologies). They developed the SCADE suite and it was/is used to develop safety critical software in various industries (aeronautics, railways, nuke...) [1]. There are companies providing industrial proof engines too [2]

I have had personal experience delivering the technology in the fields. We implemented the entire safety logic of a driverless train control system using SCADE (hence esterel). Airbus uses it for their onboard computers. So as you can see, this has had massive application around the world.

[1] http://www.esterel-technologies.com

[2] https://www.prover.com/
I disagree, if the project is organized the way PT is intended, it's nice. If you have too many cards, or too much information with each card, it gets cluttered, and handles clutter worse than JIRA or Asana.
No. I happen to agree that the best thing would be for the market to purchase these items and for food subsidies to adjust. But you say

> they [welfare programs] will need to be revamped where appropriate.

as if this will certainly happen and that it will happen quickly. But that is certainly not the case. And what do people do in the meantime? It doesn't seem tough when you've got $1,000, $500 even $100 in the bank. But losing a small benefit for even a couple years can be brutal if you're in poverty. The gears of the market are a powerful tool for making our society wealthier but they'll grind you up just the same if you're living on the margin as they begin to turn. Ask anyone who has been a resident of a Midwestern town for the past 50 years.
It will definetly be bad for the business of these companies, especially for Amazon, as it undermines customer trust. In the case of Amazon also the most profitable division, AWS, which provided the majority of profits in 2017.
Implant can refer to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implant

This thread is about implanting malicious chips in hardware, specifically motherboards, see the "The Big Hack" story by Bloomberg, all over the place, most recent discussion is currently #1 on the front page here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18145815
Word. T520 / T61 user here -- upgrades and repairs are a breeze compared to when I was using an MBP -- to say nothing of the design that is actually ergonomically sound [within reason] as opposed to merely cool-looking
My general response whenever there is something like this: Look at the past stories by the reporter. Bloomberg handily lists them for you. https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AQrv1y2ieI0/jordan-roberts...

Take a look at those stories in the strong light of being able to see them in retrospect and decide for yourself if this reporter is prone to going to press without a full understanding of the situation.

I have my opinion, but it's best for people to form their own.
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Straight up some hardware/embedded nerd that posts on here would have one of these chips in the wild and already have posted a hardware break down blog post under a microscope of one.

They kinda seem like a Tom Clancy fantasy. But I dunno.
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After a web search I read that Rayon is a word play on Cilk, but neither are dictionary words.. Would someone explain the word play in the names for us non-native speakers?
> Can you open up create a new ticket window and how many features and fields do you count?

Not sure what is the point of asking that question, it depends on what you have configured.
FWIW you might find that Windows 10 Pro + WSL can get you a lot of what you want in terms of desktop capabilities.

MS have been improving the WSL/Windows Interop quite a bit. I find that for things like scripting, text file manipulation and connecting to Linux servers, WSL works fine.
Just in case, it was not meant sarcasticly.

Repairs can be done by shipping it to whatever support address they provide. I haven’t done it in years but if your repair shop takes 14 days, it can be signifixantly faster.
Passive funds were never meant to be used on this scale.

I don't have time to explain it to you, but this post outlines the problems with passive ETF pretty well:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-09/horseman-global-unv...
No offense, but I think that your suggested statement would only lead to serious escalation for media enquiries, especially since this story came 2 days after the interview of the Apple CEO [1], where he underlined that privacy (and the relevant security measures) constitutes the core value of the company.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD1cP8SK3Q0
If you talk to anyone with a TS/SCI clearance, you'll know that it is very common to be unable to discuss or divulge what you're working on to your superiors.

There are MANY material things that CEOs do not know about TS/SCI information.
Look into Asus laptops. Doesn't have to be ROG but very much worth the money
You could allow EITHER party to authenticate a repair. You could even let Apple issue you a new key.

Hardware attacks are virtually a non issue now. Pretending this is about security is just nonsense.
But if your argument kind of hinges on the idea that these disciplines axiomatically believe in their righteousness due to their lack of scientific data, wouldn't it be quite strange to say you believe they're making scholarship more ideological, without the data to back that axiom up?