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Look I worked at a company that built boards in China. Every board is xrayed to verify every level of the board for every trace. They are matched vs. known good perfect board. If anything is wrong the board is destroyed. The boards I am talking about where complex 26+ layer boards which is way more then any standard motherboard. HW wise this is not impossiable, just improbable. The better method would be in software, replacing the on board system management software (intel ME) for example with a compromised version. That is very doable.
Hey, userbinator. I had previously paraphrased the article, including the article's depiction of the error made. Now, I'm making an edit to help clarify an important detail:

Go fuck yourself.
I used to carry a usb stick with knoppix on it

Most of my teachers had no idea what i was doing but actively encouraged it even though it was against most policies.

I'm super grateful for them
It's a poorly designed interface, but the real problem, IMO is that the nurse didn't double check with somebody before giving the kid 38 of the same pill. A dose like that just doesn't make sense, she should have known better.
Funny how this story comes out shortly after Apple announced you can’t fully repair the newest MacBook pros and iMac pros without their software for “security sake”.

Coincidence? Yeah probably, and very tin-foil hat, but who knows?
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What do you mean by "batch file"? Surely not a .bat.
Biggest piece of advice for writing a press release?
I wonder if the miners get a better $/KWh than auto-playing video adverts?
It’s funny you belittle the medical profession considering any rando can make a Github account and apply for software jobs with zero training.

No, the medical system isn’t perfect. It’s made up of humans, shocker. Ignoring the cost (in America), it does pretty well most of the time, and I’d rather blindly trust people who study medicine for 12+ years than someone who would otherwise try to drain my blood and balance my “humours”.
In their capacity as authors of a blog post, sure - but in their capacity as conductors of a social science experiment they're also claiming to have verified a hypothesis (that certain journals would publish absurd papers), and that's the claim I think is weak.

Please understand I'm not defending the content of these journals - I'm saying that this ten month hoax doesn't appear to have established anything.
Same. I’m in the epicenter of the SF startup bubble and while I’ve seen tons of ads and heard all the hype, I’ve never met a single user. Anecdata of course, but I’m a little skeptical.
Recycling tree matter in the woods.
One interesting bit of fall out here would be companies moving out of China proof or no proof. One of the startups I worked at had fab in China and San Jose. The devices we sold to the government could only come from the US fabs. There were a few non-gov customers that insisted on the same.
Unless I'm mistaken, while AVIF may be "right around the corner", it's still quite a way off relative to the speed of technological advances. Unless I'm mistaken AV1 is very far from finalized or being a realistic option for the web, and as AVIF will effectively just be a still-image subset of AV1 it's going to take some time as well. (I'm still very excited about it, however.)

I suspect they might be motivated by the rapid way in which HEIF seems to be taking over. My understanding is that comparatively, the patent situation of WebP is much better. If you're a company concerned about software patents on the web, it might suddenly seem that throwing your weight behind WebP as a way of avoiding the proliferation of HEIF is worthwhile.
...and it did not even kill him.

Meanwhile that same technology has replaced a reportedly convoluted and error-prone manual process that presumably worked perfectly and never harmed anyone, otherwise surely the authors of the article would have gone into that.
> Any Linux OS that supports ext3/4 file systems and has cloudinit 0.7.7, cloudbase-init, coreos-cloudinit, ignition, or bsd-cloudinit

So my guess is no.
Do you mean like a justification to massively pull a major industry out of China?
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Great, but we really need Safari to support WebP since that is the only option for iOS mobile devices.
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£47000 will put you in the eightieth percentile of London earners.
>Since when does news make healthy margins?

That's exactly his point. He's saying they always wanted to be legitimate news, but didn't have the money, so they built their war chest using clickbait.
I'm with the other person saying much of the same thing. Far as less reliable, they might mean all the people and companies paid for fake reviews. Google for that to find a lot of reasons for not trusting Amazon results.

Another thing Amazon is doing is competing with companies selling product through them. Competitors might differentiate a bit by making a deal, contract and/or charter, that they will never make products that compete with those using them as an intermediary. They'll always be a facilitator and nothing else far as those kind of contracts are concerned. That could help in that current and long-term risk might be reduced.
Most (all?) of these cars would be used as taxis, so you wouldn’t be allowed to drive anyway.
The US Government and IC have lied into a war before, I don't see why now would be any different.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war...
One other software trick: Certain comments and certain accounts are marked unvouchable. You would never know this from the outside. https://imgur.com/5GMh3Nw

(For example, this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076424 I'm not saying it was a good comment, just that the mods do have that power and that they do exercise it, further giving the appearance that the community is on their side.)

EDIT: Note that I tried to edit my comment below (posted as shawn), but a side effect of making a comment unvouchable is that it becomes un-editable. My edit was dropped. Here it is:

To recap my points for anyone who is listening:

- Many comments that are [flagged] are not in fact flagged by the community, but manually, by Dan.

- When you are banned, it is no longer possible to use HN: All of your comments start at the very bottom, and very few people know what `showdead` even is, let alone use it. You cannot submit more than two comments every five hours. And if you have submitted any comment, you cannot submit any stories.

(Obviously, that's the point of a ban, but Dan likes to pretend that the vouch system is in place to catch just such an occurrence. That leads me to my final point:

- Some of the comments that are [dead] are unvouchable. If you try, the software will simply register your vouch but do nothing. This further cements the impression that the community is on their side.

Note how tremendously difficult it is to even let anybody know what is going on, let alone to do anything about it. This is no coincidence; HN has apparently gone to great lengths to ensure that it is just so.

Except, it's not HN doing this. It appears to be one person.
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FireOS on my Kindle Fire is still at Android version 5. Fortunately, I was able to install Google Play Services so that I didn't have to use the Amazon AppStore, however multiple profiles doesn't work well on the Kindle Fire. F-Droid is pretty awesome and the ADB toolset is pretty powerful too. I'd love to find a wrapper that just uses the core Android tools for management.
>Look back at this again if golang adds generics and other features that will change how code in it is written.

Absolutely. I was surprised by the number of proposed changes in Go 2, especially regarding error handling. Curious whether old code will be migrated or left behind.

>That's not an issue with Java, but how the GC is tuned

Good point, I haven't done much GC tweaking personally but that sounds worth learning more about. However I think language might have something to do with it: In Java almost everything is a referenceable object, while in Go one can put values directly inside structs. So Go has less work to do. Without that advantage I doubt it would seem competitive with Java GCs.
My business is 80% mobile traffic, of which 80% is iOS. It feels a lot like the old IE6 days, only (fortunately) less painful.
Yeesh. It took about one day of poking about, maybe a decade ago, to realize that Windows installers are a one-way ticket to crazytown.
This is the only way I could get Docker volumes to work correctly with WSL, and it only works about half the time:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2017/12/0...
> Moreover, SELECT should be at the end not the beginning. Query comprehensions and LINQ did this right.

I'd one-up this and argue that all SQL statements should be in order of execution (within reason). Moving SELECT to the end is definitely a good start.
If someone is creating a new language now, that is a concept that would definitely not be included.
I've heard that auto mechanics know these as "Ever since you..." stories.
I'm all for single party consent.

But it's also the privacy of everyone close enough to the microphone that single processing can extract what they are saying. That's 0 party consent that I'm not ok with for always on devices.
> $1 trillion

I wonder if there is some magical market cap boundary beyond which companies stop being grossly negligent. We know it's over 200B as Intel somehow never bothered fixing their products for decades, let's hope five times that is big enough.
Fascinating. If you were to pick an optimal global language - which would it be?
My native language has that distinction and I have never found it useful - it's nuisance at best. I'm thankful it's something I don't have to think about when speaking in English.
Google drive! Just taking notes in google docs work pretty well.
Is there anything that stops them making their own x86-64 CPU?
Its their own blog. I think its ok to be writing about every feature they build on the blog even if its a simple feature.
Depends if you knew, or should have reasonably known that the vehicle was faulty.

Probably a moot point considering that the operator, owner and manufacturer will be the same company.
I may as well chime in. If anyone is curious what got me banned, it was for saying "I don't see much hatred on /r/braincels, just a lot of depressed men." Specifically, I was rate limited; I emailed three times asking why, and then promised not to write about such topics in the future in exchange for being un-rate limited. These were all ignored. When I tried to ask why in public, I was banned for 3 months. Presumably this sentence was pulled out of a hat.

Judge for yourself, as Dan likes to say: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054259 (You'll need showdead enabled, of course, which most people don't use.)

When all attempts fail to ask reasonably and to act reasonably, what do you do? I don't know. But there is a reason the mods insist you email all questions to hn@ycombinator.com – if people were free to post about HN, much of the bad behavior would come to light.

FWIW, I was shocked that this seems to be the situation. But times have clearly changed.

If anyone wants to discuss what an alternative site might look like, you can reach me at shawnpresser@gmail.com. A few people have, but many of them are people who deserve to be banned.

I had to use a combination of Tor and multiple accounts to post this many times in quick succession. This loophole will probably be shut off. It's already difficult to create new accounts via Tor, since their recaptcha implementation doesn't work via Tor. (Or at least it didn't; I haven't checked in a few weeks.)

Let this be a warning: Your dictator had better stay benevolent. In modern times, it's easy to get the impression that the only places worth speaking on are HN and Reddit. Surprise: YC controls both. That gives certain people tremendous power; till now, they have acted reasonably with it, but that appears to no longer be the case.
What's really killing me is that the genders don't matter when you have a plural form.

It's all the same (ie. using "die" and the plural cases)

In Spanish or French for eg. you still have gender marks (los/Las for eg.) with the plural form but in German, it's all the same.

That makes me wonder why it's so necessary to have genders in the first place since the German plural doesn't have marks of it and it doesn't hurt understanding.
Medication errors are common enough that they happen on a regular basis in any reasonably sized hospital. They happen both with or without electronic systems.

The majority of errors are caught — by the prescriber, by the pharmacist, or by the nurse administering — but a few fall through the cracks. Order of magnitude errors, where the dose is x10^n the intended dose are some of the more common errors.

We have a lot of safeguards — for example packaging medications in dosages that are likely to be safe for a single dose — but there are also some factors that make errors more likely, such as paediatrics (who need smaller does), geriatrics (who often have many different medications which can interact), and critical care (where things move fast, and big doses might be needed).

I'm a student doctor, and hopefully you believe me that medicine is hard. Electronic systems might help with some of the hard bits, but they're often a hindrance, or pose their own hidden dangers. As a software engineer I know that a lot of medical software is far from fit for purpose.
What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU&t=6s
They probably just ‘shopped one half of the car reversed.
I support the last complaint:

> “Philosophers care too much about deep-sounding meta-questions, instead of sticking to what can be observed and calculated.”

Philosophers are so lost in their consciousness/mind/body debates they can't appreciate the simple framework of reinforcement learning. RL would require simpler initial premises - no need to define consciousness or mind vs matter - just agent, playing in the environment, maximising rewards. All measurable and testable in simulation. Using RL AI's even bested humans at go, learned to walk and play complex computer games. But more importantly, RL covers all the aspects of mind vs body and consciousness. RL has more precise terms and they would benefit a lot from understanding this framework.

Among the philosophers of today I mostly align with Daniel Dennett and Dawkins. So there are still a few with the right mindset.
If you’re going to drop it on a kid carte blanche, you have some responsibility to put it in context. And it’s really not about the language, so much as it is the theme of the music. The South may have something to say, but you have to have some years or seriously hard living behind you to hear it.

A five year old can handle Purple Rain and take quite a bit from it without any assistance, even if they will have to be older to “get” the song/album more fully. There is a lot of music that’s really just targeted to adults and simply does not have the broad accessibility as the two albums the author referenced. I feel like Aquemini is one of these.
They are perhaps better at forcing user to install adblockers?

I can generally tolerate ads, but when I notice laggy browsing and my laptop’s fan spinning up at max speed, I leave the site pretty quickly, or switch to adblocked browser.
Great album. Amazing that ATLiens, Aquemini and Stankonia came out within a few years of each other. This cemented OutKast as arguably the greatest hip hop group ever. And then shortly after, they released an album that won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
There's a book from the 70s called Technology and Social Shock that my father, a research scientist at NIST (one of the US national labs), gifted to me recently. Given this crazy Internet rabbit hole that I've made the big thing in my life, I think the hidden message is to be careful and to take the time to consider the negative consequences of the "cool stuff" we're working on and giving out to the world on this new platform of the Web.

There are some really scary stories in there, and I think that it remains a timely exposé of what happens when you aren't careful, given the accelerating rate of change that we're seeing in the development, deployment, and "hands-off" attitude that we're taking broadly across so many different contexts.

Some of the most egregious examples include the use of thalidomide, which ended up being teratogenic (babies without arms and legs), along with the "cool tech!" of X-ray shoe-fitting machines that ended up causing hundreds of thousands of cases of cancer and other diseases, all in the name of advancement (read: profit) by participants. Whats really great is the book was written before the advent of computers, so it provides very useful perspective into matters that should be deeply concerning to those who are in positions that enable the rapid deployment of wide-spread technology.

I can't recommend it enough.
Aquemini and Stankonia are both all-time classics.
Since when is it easy to steal corporate equipment walk out from the premises and surrender it to third parties to take photos so that a random hacker news user feels satisfied ?
I don't understand how this is relevant to holding a single pin low.
TFA does mention that, to be fair:

> [...] But even in simplified form, you can see why the old system was hugely error-prone. A study from the pen-and-paper era showed that 1 in 15 hospitalized patients suffered from an adverse drug event, often due to medication errors. A 2010 study (using data collected during the pre-digital era) estimated the yearly cost of medication errors in U.S. hospitals at $21 billion.

> Those of us who worked in this Rube Goldberg system — and witnessed the harms it caused — anxiously awaited the arrival of computers to plug its leaks. [...]
That should be the first rule of SharePoint too. Yuck.
This whole thing is bollocks. If it were for real, we'd have the firmware dumped from that thing in minutes flat.
It looks pretty bad on mobile...https://imgur.com/a/33groyA
If you have all the resources of a state actor to accomplish this, it’s owuld not be a chip on the motherboard, it would be a set of circuits in the motherboard.

Why make something easy to photograph when you can embed it an area that can only be seen in an x-ray?

That’s how I’d do it at least.
Yeah, its incredible the amount of people that seem to believe that colonizing mars is right around the corner, when the most inhospitable places on earth, like Antarctica are many orders of magnitude more habitable (they at least have trivial to access air and water), yet contain to a first order approximation, nobody.

It also has the bonus of not being millions of kilometers away, and hundreds of billions of dollars for a small crew to reach.

It feeds into the dangerous fantasy that once we ruin the earth we can all just go to mars and teraform it.

We can't, not even remotely close, and neither will your grandchildren's grandchildern's grandchildren.
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I do not see any problem with that. There is a ton of confusion in the tech world regarding labels, who does what, it is needed or not, outside of the core actions that need to be done. The net effect of laying off 50% of tech people from public tech companies might even result in a net positive for the companies. Not for a tech worker like me, so please do not tell them.

Taking advantage as much as possible of hypes and other people's lazyness is fine in my book. It is certainly not my duty from the outside to educate recruiters and business people who make hiring decisions on the field – when I tried, from the inside, to gently point out that what they were thinking did not make any sense, I just put myself in a dangerous spot. I can be a data scientist, deep learning engineer, machine learning engineer, machine learning research scientist, whatever pays more and whoever has the most fun. If using an RNN instead of a more effective and efficient linear regression gives me more money and prestige, I will do it – as an IC you either go with the flow or you are not having a good time. The vast majority of us is not saving lives anyway.
> Unless senior means Senior Vice President, it’s meaningless.

And not even then.

I suspect if someone did find something like this, they were told to bury it for plausible deniability.

"Okay, crap, you found a hardware security breach. We'll tell people inside to quit buying those servers, but we'll cough up some other reason. Don't breathe a word of this any further."
I suspect it's pretty common. I recently corrected a prescription / dosing issue with my 89-year-old grandfather that was largely the result of the people involved not sanity-checking what was going on.

I'm still of the opinion that most people are better off letting doctors and nurses do their job than trying to manage their own health based on stuff they've read on the internet. There's a lot of bad information out there and sorting through it takes practice. You have to enjoy reading medical literature more than blogs.

The specifics: he's in a home hospice care situation as a result of severe aortic stenosis along with some complicating factors. Hospice is designed to provide "last two weeks" care for their patients, and they have a specific drug cocktail for that, but he's been on home hospice for over a year now because his body just isn't done yet, and there is no death-with-dignity law in his state (nor available providers in the neighboring state).

The drug cocktail is an opioid, usually morphine, along with a benzodiazepine, usually Lorazepam (generic Ativan). Taken together, they help relieve anxiety, reduce respiratory distress, and lower blood pressure. That last is important, because the morphine/benzo cocktail is specifically cautioned against in medical literature for elderly patients who are still ambulatory, because it creates a fall risk. They go to stand up to use the bathroom, and there isn't sufficient blood pressure to stay conscious, and they pass out and hit the floor, hard.

And that's exactly what happened to him. The third time, it hospitalized him and, because his speech had been slurred and his consciousness had been altered before the fall, I suspected his medication wasn't right. I went out there and carefully went through everything, and sure 'nuff, that's what it was.

The doctors just prescribed whatever hospice asked for, and hospice just asked for their usual recipe. It took an annoying number of meetings with staff before a younger visiting physician dropped in to one of the meetings and followed up with the literature I was citing. The next morning they started reducing his dosages and he began recovering, including getting his mental faculties back.

He's been back home for a couple of months now, doing well.

Physicians aren't magic. But, they work in a field that's totally alien to most of us here on HN, and trying to navigate the field as a layman can easily lead you into some pretty woo-woo nonsense. Trust, but verify.
Quite frankly, as a software engineer who works next to a couple medical companies, I won't let automation near me in medical contexts. I've had more than one coworker get hired by a medical device company and peace out a couple months in after seeing their codebase. Stuff like panics on any error that then set morphine pumps to full on. Not the worst way to die, but not the way I want to go...
I love Silicon Valley, but it’s deeply flawed
> The United States (and allies) have already used rain seeding, river damns, and a number of other techniques for damaging adversary nation's economic and agricultural abilities.

Would you provide more information in the form of a reliable source?