skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If some plucky startup solves tech addiction, it will be in a way that makes you a more effective worker or consumer.

Well, that might not be ideal, but it might be better than the alternatives. My last employer paid me a dollar for every day that I tracked a workout meeting certain criteria and synced it with the insurers app. Employers save on insurance by having healthy employees, so they pass on the incentive. Not exactly utopian, and there are privacy concerns, but overall it was positive, even if the motivation behind it wasn't really because they care. But now try to think of an alternative. No one else has the incentive to do it, except government. And if government did it, it would probably end up being a complicated tax deduction only taken by wealthy people who hire accountants or would involve some Orwellian government-backed tracking app.

I'm not really afraid of capitalism doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. The beauty of capitalism is how often self-interested people are incentivized to work for mutual benefits. If the free-market actually has incentives to fix smart-phone addiction, that's great. If the incentives aren't strong enough, then we'll probably end up with a government solution involving GDPR type clumsiness, but that might be the best we can do.
Because I guess I have more drive to maximize my income than I do integrity. I'm able to do these two simultaneously for the most part.
I wonder if Western intelligence agencies had already identified these 300 agents and is unhappy with Bellingcat for blowing their identities in public. Russia is always going to have spies. This will just cause them to hire and train new ones that are harder to track.
What is the likelihood that #2 is correct?

I read a lot of (recent) American history books - #2 gets my vote.
Like some others here have already mentioned, the problem is not the TV, it's that you're exhausted from the work day. Chances are your current job is stressful or high work load (or both), or maybe your commute is a nightmare (e.g. SF Bay Area commutes), and that's draining your energy. I've been through similar phases, and also been through times when I've had a chill job and have energy to work on side projects.

If you really want to work on your side projects, maybe you need a new job that's less stressful, or a different post within the same company, or a different commute.
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The private market will do a far better job fixing the status quo than the government or industrial complexes will. Some "random guy that's making a startup" presumably would do things to be safe, and ethical, no? You can make generalizations and assumptions otherwise, though that isn't very helpful. If you've ever had the displeasure to experience the healthcare system, you'd learn too that "professionals" are indoctrinated in a system that doesn't update their knowledge, keeps their knowledge in silos, and overall is inefficient and not getting people access to the most recent/best information/knowledge.

Edit to add:

I should have clarified/furthered my thoughts - and it's true you shouldn't by default trust a startup to do things safely or ethically, you should certainly do your due diligence that they aren't making claims that can't be backed up, nor are following processes (etc) that can do more than what is a pre-existing level of acceptable risk/harm.

Presumably however, if they're/a startup is expecting to survive in the long-term they'd need to be leveraged and connected with safety and people with the appropriate knowledge, because they should be scrutinized more thoroughly if they're involved with health. Otherwise they're going to die off - and hopefully without hurting too many people or getting too big, like where we could reference Theranos.
It's thanks to Turing that we know that a programmable machine is not Turing-complete.
> "Nobody" will "ever" misuse, and misuse will be easy to detect... And lastly, of course, abstraction has nothing to do with "security systems".

I've spent a lot of time digging around in other people's C code over the years, and with very few exceptions, the kind of low-level byte munging in the original post tends to be absolutely riddled with bugs. There are off-by-one errors, buffer overflows, integer overflows, and memory leaks. The error-handling code paths tend to be broken, too.

And if you run a fuzzer like libfuzz or American Fuzzy Lop, it will almost always find even more vulnerabilities. (A handful of C programs do better, including djb's tools, SQLite, dovecot, and significant portions of Apache. Apache seems to mostly succeed because it has good abstractions for strings and buffers.)

Back in 2002, I published a ~7,000 line XML-RPC library in C, with extensive unit tests. I ran it through multiple code quality tools, including Electric Fence. I spent a long time carefully examining each function for correctness. I chose Expat as my XML parser, because it was one of the best-written at the time.

Overall, I thought I was an unusually paranoid and careful C programmer. But here's the list of CVEs against my library and—most importantly—its dependencies: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/pkg/xmlrpc...

If anybody here writes C code, and if your code runs on potentially hostile data, I strongly recommend experimenting with a fuzzer. It can be a brutally humbling experience, even if you think you're an exceptionally careful programmer. And if you rely on anybody else's code, like I did, you inherit all their bugs.
For me, the office noise isn't a problem when I'm in the zone. The noise is a problem when I'm trying to get into the zone.
Not much indeed but it might deter some low hanging leak hacks..
The initial allegations from Bloomberg suggested ON the otherboard, not in, as I understand it.
Seeing as they screwed up a bunch of the details yet again[1], I'm still skeptical.

1. https://mobile.twitter.com/marcan42/status/10496904808065843...
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Picture or it didn't happen.

What is up with Bloomberg?
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For an alternative economic explanation of what happened, you can read other posts (mine and other) in here. Basically what it has been done is saving, by an indirect route, the Germans and French banks exposed to Greece without improving (worsening actually) the life of the people there.

Consider that, theoretically, the problem to be solved was the public debt and now, many years later, and after forcing the solution on the patient, the debt is the same or worst.

I have to say, that I find totally alien the moral perspective from wich somebody can say something like "they are a bunch of liars" about an entire country.

Who is the liar? the taxi guy in Athens? the children of the school in the corner? the old people that miss the drachma? the young people that had to leave the country?

Never mind where you are from, a little of introspection (and some history reading) will show you how you could be easily any one of them.
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>So does it really matter if it's true or not?

Is this Bloomberg's new slogan?
> If I, as an employer, avoid Xooglers to make a statement

You mean the bank statement you have to show your top dollar lawyer to keep him on retainer for the discrimination lawsuits?
For the longest time this is actually what they did in the League of Legends eSports scene. Even if they could have afforded proper equipment they continued like that. I guess it's a pretty good enough solution.
For me it is an officemate talking loudly on the phone that is really distracting. Last year a guy in the office would have long, loud, sometimes heated conversations on the phone with me and 2 other people sitting in the office. Apparently, he was also a preacher and his cell phone ringtone was "Our God is an Awesome God" and he was one of those people that when he made a call on his desk phone he would put it on speaker phone, dial, let it ring, and then pick up the phone. That's when I brought in my over the ear hearing protectors.

Luckily, he got a different job but oddly, the person who sat behind me moved to his desk and now she has started making lots of calls. Maybe that desk is cursed or something?
You don't know that. We do know that the USG covertly intercepted fiber communications.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/04...
I hate telephones because the audio quality, even today, is bad. I can tell when I'm talking to a landline because it's so much more clear.

For some reason, it's difficult for my brain to process even a little digital noise. A modern cell phone is just about at the limit of what I can understand. It's hard for me to carry on a conversation because I've lost my hardware acceleration. I'm spending all my cycles trying to interpolate what words were said.

Literally every 10 seconds I have to say "What did you say?" It didn't used to be this way.
Re: "you quickly realize that this isn't the place to be if you want to buy a house, start a family, or make any other major life decision"

The reason rents are so high in California is because everybody and their dog are trying to do the same thing. There's only so much room in California. That's just the reality.

Too bad there are not incentives to create start-ups in places with relatively depressed economies, like Chicago and the Rust Belt.
I think they do both.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...
I've worn headphones in open plan offices and that combined with a bunch of concerts and clubs has given me some good noise-induced hearing loss & tinnitus.

My Audiologist suggested the headphones dont help the Tinnitus as they trigger the Limbic system and heighten anxiety which could trigger Tinnitus. Anyone heard this?

So advice to people - go easy on the headphones, even if the volume isn't high - too many hours a week is bad. I'd avoid the white noise too - maybe just ear plugs are best.
I think it depends on the voices. I have one person who has a gravelly loud voice which can be heard above all others. Using noise cancelling headphones seems to make their voice even clearer.
Most any security company would LOVE to get access to the purported hacks and study them.
It's worth considering the source of this advice. Heroku is a service for which a major customer segment is people who are not adept with unix. A large part of Heroku's power, and success, comes from the fact that it makes it really easy to do things without understand everything that's going on under the hood.

Yes, this is a clear break with the unix tradition! But it's not intrinsically bad - it's just a context to bear in mind.
From my experience, it is not so much the noise level, but the distractions that they create. A nice set of noise-cancelling headphones allow me to focus in on my tasks.
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Isn't the idea that the boards weren't tampered with but manufactured by contractors including extras?
What are you talking about? I liked his comment.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171562
Some real doublethink going on here, with Bloomberg continuing to insist that supply chain attacks are real, yet seemingly accepting the denials of each company involved. I am really not sure what to make of this.
It is difficult to get people that are stuck, and with blocks making them stuck, to change behaviour; this is as much as a human feature - that serves a purpose - as it is a bug/problem. For people to change they must believe and trust everything relating to that change - they must trust at least a little more than they distrust, and/or the reward can help outweigh the distrust and lack of motivation/desire.
Well if you look at the US company stocks since the story (not the chinese ones) you'll see none of them had a negative day.
So either they miss-planed their "stock market" manipulation or it was not their intention...
I've had the same reaction, "They live" was an unforgettable movie. These glasses appear to have the same design as well
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As I pointed out: entities involved in regulatory capture.

Money creation through debt is another topic, but still benefits primarily the same parties.
You are right and you are wrong. Legally, you are right. Practically, there is evidence that various elements in the US Government have at times coerced people into making untrue statements.
>Iirc Oleg Kiselyov implemented proper delimited continuations in ocaml as a library, without touching the runtime or compiler.

To clarify this, the library you're talking about implements most of the functionality in C, reusing the runtime's exception mechanism. So it doesn't require any upstream change to compiler or runtime, but it also can't be implemented in pure OCaml.
Since when is having previously worked at google a protected class?
And if your main dynamic features are things like handling forms or an occasional db call on the backend, this isn't a bad approach. It's cheaper and less maintenance generally for a lot of simple cases, but obviously won't apply to all cases equally well.
9to5mac is an apple fanboy website, but it doesn't mean their claims should be ignored.
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This is absolutely my experience with alcohol.

A lot of the time, though, we have to quit dysfunctional behavior before we can identify what functional behavior looks like.

I totally agree with you that there is a chicken and egg problem. My typical advice for folks is to quit the behavior completely: you're correct in identifying how blocking tools cause their own problems and just mimic the same addictive behavior.

Then, at that point, it's going to be necessary to find some other behavior, but that's often a lot easier once you've got to do something... you just have to make sure that the things you choose to do are good.

Like, I gave up my codependent relationship with my ex wife, and that made it possible to give up drinking, but I still have to play a shit-ton of scales on guitar and piano and about an hour of yoga or I get weird.

Or I quit facebook, but now I do a a daily run of Kahn academy and working on electronics projects; that's a symptom, but it's a symptom that I enjoy.
When you tap the “screen call” button

Uhg, no thanks. How about stopping them without interrupting me, or requiring an action from me? My entire family gets these calls, my kids get the most. I had to put their phones into "do not disturb" mode and only allow calls from contacts which is a terrible band-aid.
No, you do all the complicated paperwork before the emergency, so you already know exactly what to do when things go wrong.

How well things go during an emergency depends on how much effort you put into preparing ahead of time. Nothing new or strange about that.
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Oh my god, no.

Edited: When i first read your comment, it sounded like you were emploring the president to act against the press. I see that i misread.
I got 2% on the test and 25k on testyourvocab.

English is my second language and I don't have a TV.
I disagree.

Vast majority of buyers and sadly huge chunk of tech press won't be able to tell looking at the settings if our how much was benchmark skewed in Intel's favor.

And it plenty skewed.
Is this a desirable state of affairs?
I'm not sure what you mean by "system" here, but if the OS does it then the architecture is probably not cooperative, but rather preemptive. On the other hand, if the runtime (such as the Go runtime) causes a context switch between coroutines because one of the coroutines is waiting (on blocking I/O, etc.), then the architecture could still be considered cooperative because the scheduling is such that none of the coroutines would ever be actually preempted by the runtime while executing instructions. Of course, they could still be pre-empted by the OS because they're ultimately all running as system threads, which is one of the downsides of all this: eventually, it all comes back to threads, how many of them are present, and how the OS handles them.
totally seems like this is the case to me.
Perl is still my goto language for scripts. It all depends on what you're used to.
Well, the story just came out a few days ago. I wouldn't rule it out in the future, nor would I leap to the conclusion that an absence of such a move means there's truth to the story.
Well it's good to see.
The transition from the "endless growth" and scale story to a sustainablity story is going to cause major tension given much more than just the financial stakes involved.

There is no point talking about controlling the world's temperature
if every exec in a corporation is programmed by the stock market to robotically keep things mindlessly scaling.

But from experience I also know the exec class when under attack are well trained to just get defensive/batton down the hatches and do nothing. They will change their minds only when everyone is on the same page solution wise.

So rather than just be satisfied with the Us Vs them narratives, focus has to shift to solutions. The Chinese have to be pushed to have these discussions in the open about what they want and why it's good.
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Wait, was this a vulnerability or a breach? Because if every vulnerability is now a breach, there are millions more than we know about.

Microsoft sends out monthly security patches. Each fix is in there is fixing a vulnerability. Every Windows server has multiple vulnerabilities fixed every month. Is every company that uses Windows now required to determine if any of those vulnerabilities were actually used? This seems like a bottomless hole.
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They don't have to know it is false. They just have to find their sources credible.
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I wonder if this could be solved with a general jsx decorators feature? For example:

<input @bind("username") name="username" />

...where bind is a normal function in scope that receives the element and/or its props?
https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/mines-money-mandarin-china-i...

https://www.voanews.com/a/zambia-sovereignty-concerns-put-ch...
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Last bit from tfa:

"Project IceStorm

Project IceStorm is a previous project that documented the iCE40 bit-stream format. It will become a part of SymbiFlow. SymbiFlow will support the old Yosys-ArachnePnr-IceStorm flow but will also add a Yosys-VPR-IceStorm flow."
I read this as "the work water-cooler was full of poison so I found some cheap antidote and now I only suffer mild headaches."

I'm glad this person found some inexpensive tech that works for them. But if we only focus on blocking the sound (which is not that effective for some) rather than focusing on what it means to have an effective working environment, we're missing opportunities to shape our working cultures/environments to be one of "library quiet respectful".

I'm extremely sensitive to sounds of all varieties. I don't understand how anyone works with music blasting into their ears. Even white/pink/brown-noise feels like a barrage of sound. Earplugs make me feel claustrophobic, and I have the uncontrollable urge to rip them out after 15 minutes. Noise-cancelling tech almost always fails to block human voices (our brains are hard-wired to listen for voices after all).

At the risk of stating the obvious, we need to pay more attention to making more "zone-friendly" workspaces. I.e., not loud, open offices where everyone feels okay talking at full volume.
No, you start the docker container to run the CLI tool, because the tool is exported as the CMD for the image, like this one [1]

[1] https://hub.docker.com/r/mesosphere/aws-cli/
I would hazard that Japanese "scientists" must have vaults crammed with this stuff.
The most compelling explanation I've heard is that the BMC chip could be programmed by two distinct flash chips, one for factory programming and one for some other purpose. In some SKUs, the latter isn't populated but it has a higher priority than the first chip.

Since there are many flash chips fitting the same pin out, all it took was soldering a compromised flash chip (with firmware for the BMC chip) onto pads that are already part of the design to compromise the whole system without any obvious sign that the board was tampered with (because in some SKUs, both chips were populated).
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The most recent one was more superficial, and likely would have been fine. I have a fairly conservative doctor who doesn't tend to prescribe anything if a bit of time will work. The thumb, though: It needed antibiotics on top of being lanced (I wound up at urgent care) as the worry was that it was entering the bloodstream - the red streaks were a warning sign. That one was more likely to have killed me at some point. Folks died quite often from infection. An infected tooth can kill: Same for infection after childbirth. Sure, they can go both ways and the body takes care of things until it doesn't.

My broken bone would have been fine, but folks died of this stuff as well. They would list cause of death as the accident rather than the infection due to lack of knowledge. Compound fractures were more likely to kill.

Even in this day many people can't or don't afford surgery or medication and still manage to survive wounds.

This is true, but people will do some self-care for wounds. Can't afford stitches, but can clean the wound well and use the bandage strips on it and continue to keep it clean. People didn't always do these things and some of the things we did were just wrong, simply for not understanding microbiology.
I think it's totally plausible. See my other comment in this thread for my conspiracy theory :)
If it was their intent and they lost money, would be funny if they went to jail too.
1. because it is technically possible?

2. we should not 'believe'. but we should demand an investigation, and if it is true, then we may want to consider investing a bit into securing our infrastructure. maybe. maybe the agencies that are tasked with actually protecting our infrastructure actually do their job? instead of, you know, intercepting our communications.

and if it is not true, then we know who published the news, and who should publish a retraction and maybe pay a fine.
"contract releasing them"
I am no lawyer, but this can be a grey area. Because the child born of such an arrangement can not consent to the terms of the contract - and some judges will interpret the court's responsibility to ensure both biological parents are supporting the child to mean the sperm donor (a.k.a: the father) does have responsibilities to the child.

Keep in mind you'll have more than 18 years from the time of donation until the child reaches adulthood. there are going to be unexpected anomalies within some legal jurisdictions in that time. It's inevitable.

Consider this case from california [1]. now ask: would an famous individual selling sperm at a premium establish presumption of parenthood?

maybe, maybe not.
but what is the likelyhood there'd be a lawsuit about it?

[1] https://blogs.findlaw.com/california_case_law/2017/08/sperm-...
It's on Youtube [0], though the quality is lacking. Thanks for sharing this!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgfU_RRNYkw
A public company issuing such strongly-worded denials that turn out to be untrue would be leaving themselves at risk of an investigation by the SEC and/or a shareholder lawsuit.
I would think that measures less costs of the language than costs caused by differences in compiler quality/focus.

Or are there go features that make it inherently slower than C for kernel programming, even when ignoring GC?