skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that there's less than 10 million Danes I guess that's a good bet.

how much did it cost me to have a baby in Denmark, gee I don't know how much did you pay for the crosswalks on your street?

What I do know is that when I went to hospital and the baby was born nobody hit me with a $15000 bill afterwards just like when they installed a new crosswalk where you live nobody came by your house and billed you $15000.

Did my taxes pay for all of my baby being born - I guess they probably did I am in the highest bracket and have been for approximately 15 years. However I also know that anyone who has a baby in Denmark has it without getting billed. And I guess that's the way most of us like it.

So while there may be more American babies that Danish babies born with taxes paying for their birth I'm just going to have to point out that there is a greater percentage of Danish, or pretty much any European country's, babies worn without the parents paying a relatively large fee for the privilege.
That's on you, dog. You're the one misusing the term:

>“Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
> the NSA would make sense as the source of the implant.

That doesn't make sense based on the assumption that US telecom companies already cooperate extensively with US inteligence agencies.
It didn't magically make the Spectrum have more colors or better sound, like the arcade game had.
Useless trivia. Perl was doing unit testing back in the mid-80s. One of Perl's early selling points was how portable they were, and the fact that they had comprehensive unit tests so long before the rest of the industry realized that was a good idea is one of the reasons for it.
Except Sveriges Riksbank is the central bank of Sweden. It doesn't care much about name recognition, and given the name and design of the prize clearly desired a strong association of its prize with the Nobels.

If there's any slight it's to Alfred Nobel, who didn't create a prize for economics.[1] Apparently Nobel's great-great-nephew was upset by the conflation. "In 2001 [he] asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given 'in Alfred Nobel's memory' from the five other awards". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#cite_note-31

[1] Is there any evidence that this was deliberate? If not then I fail to see what's substantively lost in the conflation.
Mailchimp doesn't have to make this a requirement. They can offer it as an option for businesses who are concerned about making their mail not appear phishy, and have the competence to create DNS records.

If you create the record, they'd make the links use your domain: https://mail.your.biz/destination?unique=123abc

If you don't, they can do what they do today: https://something2-x1-really-sketchy01.mailchimp.com/m0re-sk...

Also, there is precedent for service vendors telling companies how to configure the appropriate DNS records (with a variation for each common domain registrar). Example: https://support.google.com/a/answer/33353?hl=en
>Multiple weapon systems used commercial or open source software, but did not change the default password when the software was installed, which allowed test teams to look up the password on the Internet and gain administrator privileges for that software.
Well, there are some devices that try to inrease the screensize to the max, for example the Oneplus 6 (which has sadly a very high SAR value) or the newly "leaks" of de Mate 20.
I listen to the same radio station on my commute to/from work, and to avoid needing to use Shazam etc., I wrote a script which parses the radio station's "now playing" web page and logs it to a file every 2 minutes (if the song is different from at the last run). Then I can more easily find/remember songs I liked and see trends etc.
> ...doesn't "attack" american companies with covert implants.

Specific example aside, it's worth talking about why this does happen. "Black bag jobs" can mean "we didn't get a warrant", but they can also mean "we got a warrant and still aren't telling".

Even given a court order, there's still a possibility that employing surveillance by fiat will cause somebody to leak, or modify how they handle data, or simply reveal information about what sort of surveillance tools a given agency employs. Given that a FISA order can be obtained without a defendant, getting a court order and then doing the thing secretly anyway gives a sort of "bowling with bumpers" advantage where the project is approved if it gets revealed, but also done without revealing anything if it isn't.

More disturbingly, there's also substantial evidence that the NSA attacks companies covertly in places where they couldn't get a court order. Taking a specific device out of the supply chain and adding surveillance before it's shipped to the destination is a warrant-worthy project. Setting up systematic physical vulnerabilities with a use case of "turn it on some time in the future to get something interesting" isn't in the purview of a FISA order, so if the NSA did do that it would have to be without an order.
Japan builds houses to last approx 30 years, and it wouldn't suprise me if other first world countries copy that: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...

I suspect most 80's houses anywhere in the world (concrete or wooden) are rather undesirable.

"What's the environmental cost" is not as relevant to most people as having a modern house, and what's the long term environmental cost of old homes with poor insulation?
We are truly living in the age of idiocracy.

I heard Alan Kay sum it up well in a podcast this morning where he was talking about how evolution doesn't have to evolve to be the best anything. Paraphrasing- "If you live in a stupid environment, stupid is the most fit."
I had the opportunity to tour the "USS BONHOMME RICHARD," as well as talk to visiting sailors and marines, this weekend during SF Fleet Week.

My takeaway impressions (other than that god damn do these people drink and holy shit are they young), especially after talking to the mechanics and network IT folks, is that a ton of their systems are old, the manpower turnover is between 1-2 years as they get cycled between boats (or 4 max as most of these kids are just putting in their 4), and training is extremely specialized. Most parts of the systems (this especially from the mechanics) usually perform to about 10% their pitched lifespan from whoever made them before they fail, repeatedly.

The windshield wipers on all Ospreys (those dank helicopter/plane things, think Ghost in the Shell) have been disabled/removed because their motors would catch fire in inaccessible places near the pilot's feet.

The only thing preventing access to a boat's network is standing orders and the threat of punishment. You can just plug right in.

Every system runs on the same network. This includes radar, weapons systems, anti-air, emergency comms, in-ship cameras...

This on top of the fact that half the people I talked to, the ones actually running these systems, are overworked 19 year olds with circles under their eyes. The only people over 25 seemed to be officers and pilots, maybe those guys know about the systems and can offer expertise? I'm not sure, I didn't get to talk to any of them.

I'm hoping my perception of the military is completely wrong, which is entirely possible because I didn't get to talk to that many people, maybe like 4 or 5 mechanics, a couple marines, and a couple of the network IT people, all relatively low rank. But, as of right now, I have absolutely no confidence in the military to withstand a full on cyberattack from a similarly provisioned military.
I appreciate your careful and patient explanation, and assay a superficial and snarky one of my own: it is impossible for the measure of the rationals, if it is to exist at all, to be exactly `e` for every small positive real number `e`. Even if we didn't know anything about the overlap of the intervals, we'd know at best that we had a (possibly non-strict) upper bound of `e`; but the only non-negative real number that can satisfy such a bound for every positive `e` is `0`.
Is Google shutting down Plus a harbringer of doom for social networking?
I would love to edit that out but the two-hour edit window is so short, sometimes.
I own a pair of the Sony Wh1000mx2/B. It was pretty pricey (I think $250ish?) when I bought about a year ago. They work flawlessly. I work in an open office and I think it's one of the peripherals I use the most out of anything, including my phone. No visible wear/damage or battery degradation so far. I highly recommend them! According to reviews the newer generation (Sony wh1000mx3)is even better than Bose's comfort and NC (significantly apparently).
It's worth noting, the birth rate here in CA has been reducing for the last 30 years and recently has reached a 100 year low. It's currently lower than it was during the great depression.
Young children threatened with rape and death – Swedish media ignore it
I really want to see someone on here with access to one of their recent boards try and report on this. I'd try it, but I sold my last Supermicro board years ago.
> My biggest concern with Firebase is if it's still going to be around in a year or two

That's interesting , why Firebase would go away ?

It's just back end on top of GCloud.

Actually , everytime you do something in Firebase , it create a ressources in your GCloud account.

Firebase may not be super popular for SaaS but for Mobile , it's the king and by far , you can use it with no doubt.
>> What's been the biggest risk you've ever taken?
Walking away from a job (3'ce in my career)

>> Was it worth it?
I believe yes.
Happy I didn't pull the trigger on the Lenovo Smart Display. Home Hub looks pretty nice and although the screen is smaller than both of the Lenovo models, I think the price difference makes up for it.
There are more dimensions than that. For example my Aussie APEX card (+ Aussie passport) gives me more visa-free access than a US passport (and the US APEX card gives no visa-fee access).
The system itself can be hard to understand.

The basis on which the system works is easy to understand.
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That's a good point. I guess trucking lighter wood around makes more sense than heavier concrete, but still. I've also noticed prefab sections of brick facades being trucked around.
Also try to get your severance in months of pay and not hard dollar amounts if you can. Severance is a win win, as the business doesn’t have to pay you now and has no impact on the current bottom line. So at the surface there is no impact to throwing you a bone if they let you go. where I gets fun is when you rack up 6-8 months, as then they have to make you happy, or their paying you and a new employee (your replacement) for the terms of severance.

Having it in months, then it is based on current rate pay on exit, so if you get significant future raises even more pain for them on exit.
Notifications are on the side though. If you have so many notifications that the notch would cover them, you're probably not caring about those notifications anyway?
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There were quite a few pictures of what is supposed to be the device in the Bloomberg article. Knowing what they say it looks like and knowing roughly where to look I'm 99.9% sure that none of the boards I have here have that device on them.
If anyone’s upset about it being destroyed, I’m offering to draw new copies for 1 pound per piece. 5 for 4 pounds. For an extra 50p, I’ll even shred each one in a pretentious manner.
Many of your technical details are badly incorrect. Not sure who you talked to, but they're not well informed.
> The real answer to solving technology addiction is the answer to sustainably solving most problems: innovation spurred by capitalism.

On the contrary -- innovation spurred by capitalism is what sublimated the addictive aspects of human nature into a profit-making mechanism for the tech giants.
> This permits them to stay conveniently ignorant of the ugly parts of the supply chain

Yes, but it also leaves them completely ignorant of the extent to which modern capitalism is an unprecedented miracle of human cooperation and effort, which results in a lot of very silly rhetoric about the evils of corporations that wouldn't survive the slightest contact with the realities of running a business.
"They’re not outright wrong, but they are theoretical"

The source is upset that his technical jargon and long-winded explanation didn't make the final article. That's the connection to the above post. If you are a non-technical reader, and you had to read the raw transcript of a hardware guy telling you about firmware updates, you'd fall asleep. The point here is that the journalist cut out that stuff, which maybe makes the story less accurate, but the point of the story is still preserved.
Personally, I always go to Wikipedia for these sorts of things. Information density is so much higher:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Google_Pixel_sma...

Looks like the Pixel 3 stats aren't up yet, but I assume the Wikipedia editors are working on that.

(Also very useful for figuring out what changes between iPhone/Mac revisions.)
Are you saying economic growth can proceed at an infinite rate?
So now you're using 2 different services to host a site, instead of just using hosted Wordpress (or squarespace, wix, etc). Does Contentful provide the same content editing experience? What are the advantages here?
Funny ... they have it for teens, and they call it "Wilderness Therapy." (To be fair, it also involves focused therapy from professionals).
> As you roll the dice an infinite number of times, what is the probability that your die will ever deviate from the necessary strict repetition of the repeating segment? It is literally 100%, because no matter how many times it happens to conform to the repeating sequence, there remain an infinite number of rolls remaining in which to deviate.

While I think that accumulating as much intuition as possible is a good idea, I'm afraid that this intuition may be misleading. The problem is that there's no roll at which we can give up and say "oh well, we deviated from the pattern and aren't rolling a rational number", because we have no idea in advance when we've entered the repeating portion of the decimal expansion. That is, if we roll 0.000123456789, and then roll a 6 rather than a 1, we can't conclude that we're rolling an irrational number; all we can conclude is that, if we roll a rational number, then the repeating portion of its decimal expansion either isn't 123456789, or else hasn't begun yet.
> Google Photos gives you free, unlimited online storage for all your original quality photos and 4K videos.

So what will happen to your photos when Google decides to "sunset" Google Photos?

Also, what happens to your phone/contacts/purchases when Google (AI?) decides you have violated YouTube T&C and locks your account?

Edit: Finally, are your phone data used for improving the targeted ads?
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It has more terminals that a resistor, it's a pretty unusual package and it would stand out enough for me to spot it knowing that it is there. The area of the PCB that you could expect that thing to live in is about 5x5 cm square.
I'm not sure what you mean then, what is whiteboarding exactly?
Ironic that an article about how bloomberg may have misunderstood and jumbled their expert sources' info has some glaring mis-transcribed quotes!

"For example putting two pieces of silicone in a single package makes sense when one of them is flash storage and the other is a micro controller. But an experienced observer could easily jump to the conclusion that it’s a hardware implant."

yeah - silicone. but more importantly: he certainly meant IN-experienced.
Still, it wasn't like you had to push all the pixels. You only moved 8x8 (or whatever it was) characters. So the C64 was pretty decent, actually. Also, of course you had to shift characters once every 8 pixels.

I was envious as hell on my MSX, which had no pixel shifting at all.
Why will someone use a paid plan of CLoudflare when Netlify is already free?
Have you considered inviting Satan into your life?

/snark

The removal of the headphone jack is just stupid, and annoying. The fact that I've had no shortage of issues with my car and bluetooth since Oreo (except for 2 months of late betas for P that worked, only to have it break again after the public release). Screwing up hangouts, which was once such a great messaging app everywhere I needed, and voice integration worked great.

Broken and inconsistent "groups" management. Just plain unfinished web interfaces all around. It reminds me of Windows 8... mostly shiny, but some truly ugly areas with it. Not to mention AMP and so many other things they've done that don't really make anything better.
> Only if they built a stronger keyboard with a adjustable latch that could hold the tablet body.

ThinkPad X1 Tablet[1] seems to fit your description perfectly.

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/windows-tablets/thinkpa...
Alternatively, you can run this in the web console to fix the links:

for (let a of document.querySelectorAll('a[href*="/url?"')) { a.href = decodeURIComponent(a.href.match(/[?]q=([^&amp;]+)/)[1]); }
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The lack of (publicly available) evidence is annoying, since there are a lot of people who'd love to check their own servers. As this is an attack directed at high profile targets it's unlikely the average size company will have ended up with one of those, but it's still a fun exercise IMO.

It would also be great to know what the attribution is based on. Just the fact that they're manufactured in China? Who else might get their hands on these devices in the shipping chain? What kind of traffic did they monitor? I guess just observing it's talking to a Chinese address doesn't tell much. I mean, just take an S3 bucket and dump your stuff in there. Setting up your own server in your home country pretty much screams "we're here!"

> I'm now wondering if someone found an NSA implant and misreported it as Chinese. We're going to end up in the stupid situation where people are afraid to report foreign intelligence attacks because it's illegal to report an attack by US intelligence agencies, aren't we?

That's pretty tinfoily, but it'd be a cool way to still report on it. "Whoopsie, I totally thought it wasn't you guys, sorry for disclosing"
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Headphones are NOT a solution to open office plans. When I wear headphones or earbuds, I can block out the sounds, but I become more sensitive to other non-sound cues indicating human activity around me such as movement seen out of the corner of my eye and even air currents. And these become more unnerving with the sound blocked out.

And open office plans are never adopted to "foster collaboration". That's bullshit that management feeds you to mask the real reasons:

1) they save money by packing more employees in the same space

2) it's an easy-to-implement panopticon, letting management keep tabs on you easily
Nope. It is pooped out.
I discovered draw.io few days ago, and used it, looks promising
(Hey, OP here, thanks for reading I really appreciate it!)

Look, on the one hand this can get a bit too cynical, to the extent that you start looking for a "grim cabal" (quoting myself, not you) to blame. There are no lizard people etc. etc. :) So you have to phrase things carefully.

On the other hand, this quote from the article is me trying to highlight...exactly what you're saying here about optimizing human output:

"The slave works for his owner. The indentured servant for his master. The communist for everyone. The American for himself. It’s a powerful idea, a powerful motivator, and a powerful system. A grand competition, where advancement can be achieved through merit and competence — so don’t be shocked when those with merit and competence flock to compete. And they make perfect competitors."

I wanted to dodge the Culture War / Politics questions a bit. This was more about specifying the pain points than proposing My Genius Solution To The Utopia Problem #729.

But I didn't want to let it go unsaid that the American system powerfully motivates the sorts of people most-apt-to-compete to do exactly that.
Designing Events-First Microservices
> I only mean it's visibly more obvious, you have an indented block...

Haskell is more similar than you realise, it's the difference between this:

withSomeResource $ \resource -> do
someFunctionOn resource

and this:

with some_resource() as resource:
some_function_on(resource)

> I'm not very familiar with Haskell but it seems like you'd get used to the type system telling you everything you need to know

As an outsider, you might expect a type-error to mean that you made a logic error, in practice it usually means you made a typo.

What happens is that the type system forces you to write things in a certain way. You internalize its rules and it moulds your style. You don't try random things until they stick, you write code expecting it to work and knowing why it should, just like you would in Python. It's just that more of your reasoning is being verified. "Verified" is the operative word here - the type system doesn't tell how to do anything.

> it seems like it's maybe quite unhaskellish to have to rely on a naming convention and remembering not to use the return value of the function?

The Python equivalent of the problem here would be:

current_resource = a_resource

with some_resource() as resource:
current_resource = resource

current_resource.some_method()

So it's not that using the return value of the withSomeResource function is a problem, it's the resource escaping from the scope where it is valid.

I think the crux of our discussion is about checked vs unchecked constraints.

When you work on (successful) large codebases, whether in a static or dynamically typed language, there are always rules about style (and I mean this in a broader way than how your code is laid out). For example, in large Python projects, there might be rules about when it is acceptable to monkey-patch. These rules make reasoning about the behaviour of these programs possible without having to read through everything.

Large Haskell projects also have these rules, but Haskellers like to enforce at least some of them using the type system. It takes effort to encode these rules in the type system and it is more difficult to write code that demonstrably follows the rules than implicitly follows them, but the reward for this effort is that it gives you some assurance that the rules are actually being followed everywhere.

For some rules this extra effort makes sense and other times it doesn't. The type system is just another way to communicate intent. Writing the best Haskell doesn't necessarily mean writing the most straight-jacketly typed Haskell, but it does give you that option. Beginners often fall into the trap of wanting to try out the new-and-shiny and making everything more strict than is helpful.

For one-man projects, there's really no advantage to Haskell over Python (with the caveat that you may not remember all of the intricacies of your code in six months and using Haskell you may have encoded more of your assumptions in the type system).
> Or rather just because something has a probability of 0 doesn't mean it can't happen, events with probability 0 happen all the time.

There is definitely a mathematical sense in which events with probability 0 can happen, but I don't know of any 'real-world' setting, e.g., in statistics, in which we correctly assign an event a probability of 0 (rather than just "too small to distinguish from 0") and yet find it happening. Could you give an example?
Great rule.