skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this instance, just to be fair, Bloomberg did not present any concrete facts that can be confirmed or denied by the industry. (Concrete facts would also have the benefit of being able to be confirmed, or not, by reporters not affiliated with Bloomberg or FAANGs.)

As it is, Bloomberg just kind of said, there is this issue that we're certain exists. So the industry is left to guess what the issue is in so many ways.

I think we'll all need to wait for the outside reporters and investigators to run some of this information down to get a better idea of what's going on. Because right now, even most of us are just guessing at what it could be.
Humans literally are not good enough at biochemistry to have created Zika.
I wouldn't trust Anker too much either, I got an Anker 3-Port USB-C to USB-A hub + ethernet jack (because like you, I heard they made good stuff) and it blacked my wifi whenever I tried it use it. Maybe I got a counterfeit one, IDK, it was sold by "AnkerDirect" (the hub looked to be made pretty cheaply too). Either way, I returned it and got a charjen hub.
Can We Really Make Tornadoes for Energy? This Man Wants to Try (2015)
Can confirm. This was a MAJOR issue for my last startup and affected a ton of decisions.

Even the SBA (small business administration) requires personal guarantees, i.e. you're loaning money to yourself but giving someone else the interest.
Capitalism is the most efficient economic system.
Trading existing shares is not allocating capital (from a company POV), you are correct. But a company issuing new shares, for example, is an example of such. The markets set a price, and the company can take advantage of this liquidity to raise money
I think we're on the cusp of a lot of rules changing in that regard. The stagnation of Moore's law would result in some degree of stagnation in software architecture.

We're at the mercy of chip process engineers to a greater degree than is generally recognized.
We frequently overestimate what we can do in 1 year, and underestimate what we can do in 10 years.
In another thread Walterbell points out:

From 2016, https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/repor....

> Apple has begun designing its own servers partly because of suspicions that hardware is being intercepted before it gets delivered to Apple, according to a report yesterday from The Information. "Apple has long suspected that servers it ordered from the traditional supply chain were intercepted during shipping, with additional chips and firmware added to them by unknown third parties in order to make them vulnerable to infiltration, according to a person familiar with the matter," the report said. "At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there. Building its own servers with motherboards it designed would be the most surefire way for Apple to prevent unauthorized snooping via extra chips."
That surely omits establishment-approved violence like "attack Iraq", "round up criminals", "{legalize|outlaw} abortion" and "[sterilize] transgender children".
Moreover, what if they got a gag order which put them under obligation of never confirming the attack?
Hooray! Yet another "Apple vs Android" shitfest thread.
So anyone can just claim anything now and it is up to the person being accused to prove their accuser wrong? We're just going to assume guilty until the accused can prove themselves innocent? That is not a world I want to live in.
>>Technology led a hospital to give a patient 38 times his dosage

>>LETS GET RID OF TECHNOLOGY !

----(joke end)----
seriously, a bad title and bad article. I was thinking he/she might be a primitivist or some gradient of it. Look at medium article, see the promoted book. His book, "The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age " I assume is him expressing skepticism at why he thinks teledoctor and telemedicine are bad or something. Biased against technology much tho.
Coming from a highly prolific author who rarely kept idle it’s an interesting observation - though, and as the author of the article points out, it’s likely a perspective on a theme that he debates himself either/or...and of course it goes without saying that Kierkegaard was an absolute genius and well worth reading!
There’s an edited version on Spotify.
You're in Australia, OP's anecdote is in the UK. Different laws apply in different countries.
Dang: typo. Should be "Where in the World Is Danmark's $2B?"
Something is weird there. There is smoke but it is hard to know what exactly is the fire.
I don't know if this is true but I think I read somewhere that andre has major performance anxiety which actually contributed to the band breakup.

Either way Aquemini and Stankonia make my top 25 of albums ever made and I'd say I have pretty eclectic taste in music.
>I'm doubtful about the story but not against it entirely until more evidence and sources can be presented...

This is a reasonable position. I'm with you. I'm waiting for some independent reporters and investigators to run some of this stuff down.
> But more than anything already listed... the nurse didn't question giving someone 38 pills beyond "must be dilluted" yet the article pushes the focus to how technology led to the error?

The nurse did question it further. I feel as though the articles addressed this and your subsequent point pretty adequately.

> Since the Paleolithic Era, we humans have concocted explanations for stuff we don’t quite understand: tides, seasons, gravity, death. The idea that the Septra might have been diluted was the first of many rationalizations that Levitt would formulate to explain the unusual dose and to justify her decision to administer it. At first glance it might seem crazy for her to have done so, but the decisions she made that night were entirely consistent with patterns of error seen in medicine and other complex industries.

> What is new for medicine is the degree to which very expensive, state-of-the-art technology designed to prevent human mistakes not only helped give rise to
the Septra error, but also failed to stop it, despite functioning exactly as it was programmed.

> The human lapses that occurred after the computerized ordering system and pill-dispensing robots did their jobs perfectly well is a textbook case of English psychologist James Reason’s “Swiss cheese model” of error. Reason’s model holds that all complex organizations harbor many “latent errors,” unsafe conditions that are, in essence, mistakes waiting to happen. They’re like a forest carpeted with dry underbrush, just waiting for a match or a lightning strike.

> Still, there are legions of errors every day in complex organizations that don’t lead to major accidents. Why? Reason found that these organizations have built-in protections that block glitches from causing nuclear meltdowns, or plane crashes, or train derailments. Unfortunately, all these protective layers have holes, which he likened to the holes in slices of Swiss cheese.

> On most days, errors are caught in time, much as you
remember to grab your house keys right before you lock yourself out. Those errors that evade the first layer of protection are caught by the second. Or the third. When a terrible “organizational accident” occurs — say, a space shuttle crash or a September 11–like intelligence breakdown — post hoc analysis virtually always reveals that the root cause was the failure of multiple layers, a grim yet perfect alignment of the holes in the metaphorical slices of Swiss cheese. Reason’s model reminds us that most errors are caused by good, competent people who are trying to do the right thing, and that bolstering the system — shrinking the holes in the Swiss cheese or adding overlapping layers — is generally far more productive than trying to purge the system of human error, an impossibility.
Perhaps value investing is the definition for "investing". And the rest speculation
> a society that makes its members memorize such useless information

That is a really strange angle on the subject of native language. If there's any language my society has made me learn, it's the one I'm writing now, my second (and absolutely indispensable) one. The gendering of nouns (in my national case, two genders) and sundry other weird historical linguistic baggage is just the way things are and ever were.
Blame management.
I would blatantly present two debatable claims:

1.The intelligence flaw is a high order lie in order to mislead public to believe the war is launched by wrong information. It's not. The intelligence flaw is irrelevant or is intentional. The war is predetermined and flaw intelligence has nothing to do with real cause of the war other than a cover afterwards.

2.The narrative that the Bush Administration launch Iraq war with flaw intelligence is another lie that the majority of public who support the war were not responsible because they were misled by their leaders. The war is launched by not only Bush administration but also UK. The main stream media were not orchestrated by government like a totalitarianism regime can do. For example, CNN interviewed a famous Iraq nuclear scientist again and again to sell the impression to the public that Iraq DO have nuclear weapon. CNN independently promote the war which happened to match the government agenda. US/UK are democratic countries. Both countries collectively(meaning enough portion of the people ) decide to over thrown Iraq regime
No, but Facebook is already in deep trouble in terms of how the average American views the company. I find it likely that they want to protect their reputation at all costs (including lying to congress...)
True, for those lucky enough to afford that option (what % of homes have HP's?). Then there's this caveat:

Heat pumps are not great in cold climates. They are most effective at saving energy when in the heating mode. In a cold climate, however, your house needs more heat as the temperature outside goes down—but the heat pump works less efficiently at lower outdoor temperatures. Below a temperature known as the “balance point,” normally from between 30 and 45 degrees F., supplementary heat is required—and that means expensive electrical heating kicks in.
https://www.hometips.com/buying-guides/heat-pumps.html

My home town seldom reached 30 degrees from November to April.
This argument comes up a lot within Google. The style guide is revisited frequently (for example =delete in the public section is now the standard for disabling copy and/or move/assignment vs. the old macros in the private section).

Non-nullable types are helpful for implying pre-conditions. However, readability at the call site (e.g. Foo(&bar) might mutate bar, whereas Foo(bar) should not) is still considered more valuable in a large scale codebase. Passing nullptr as a pointer argument is generally assumed to not be okay unless explicitly documented as permitted -- this is opposite the assumption that you stated.

There are places exceptions are made, where the use of pointers is deemed more confusing than non-const references (e.g. move-maybe semantics in very specific cases). Ultimately, most code follows the default style guide.

Besides, nullptr dereferences are pretty easy to diagnose in a library like this. And more often than not everywhere else too.
can you include a link to these articles that is not blocked to non-subscribers?
I'm living in a Cantonese speaking area (Hong Kong) and my Mandarin teacher (from Taiwan) claims that the multiple written forms of the third-person singular pronoun were introduced a generation or two ago in order to be able to more faithfully translate foreign works into Chinese. She says that many people, particularly the older generation, always use the older character, the one that now means "he".

As far as dialects that might have different tones to distinguish he/she/it, it's possible. It's also possible for a dialect of Chinese to have wildly different pronunciation of those characters, maybe something like "ta" , "ki", "zu".

Chinese dialects differ by more than most foreigners expect. It goes far beyond "Texan arguing with a Brooklyn cabbie" or "Texan arguing with an Aussie" level of dialectal differences. Cantonese and Mandarin are less similar than Italian and Portuguese. Cantonese uses the same two characters for rooster as Mandarin uses (公雞 "gong ji"), but reverses the order (雞公 "gai kung"). "gong" and "kung" sound pretty similar, but "ji" and "gai" are totally different. (On a side note, the Thai word for chicken is also "gai".) Also, I need to be careful about mixing up the numbers between Cantonese and Mandarin... the Mandarin word for one differs only in tone from Cantonese word for two, and my Cantonese tones are terrible. (1 2 3 4 5 is "yi er san si wu" vs. "yat yi san sei ng".) I have a friend who (I have no idea why he was so crazily naive) is a native Cantonese speaker and thought he could just go to Shanghai and speak Cantonese with a Mandarin accent and be understood. He ended up speaking English his whole time there because Cantonese just sounded like gibberish to the Shanghainese and Mandarin speakers.
The described hack is nowhere near science fiction levels. Even embedding a bare silicon chip in the layers of a board would be factible.
Agreed. I miss the old Nexus line :(
The Apple timeline in the Bloomberg article doesn't seem to make any sense. Apple found an "accidentally" malicious driver on a Super Micro board in 2016, and that caused them drop them right away.

So if Apple found a batch of 7,000 manipulated boards a year earlier, why would that not cause them to drop Super Micro as a supplier?

A government gag order is plausible, but is a government keep-buying-malicious-hardware order a thing?
The original article specifically says that they saw odd network behavior and issues with the firmware. If this is all true (?), that's a piece of how they found it.
I think overall diversity (not just gender/race) is an issue. The same domains/voices keep on popping up.
> They gave you two weeks to become a data scientist and implement a working solution? That's nuts.

Oh c'mon. Any large company today and the expectation or deadline for practically anything is "asap" or measured in a few weeks at most. Short-term thinking is a major player in publicly traded companies. Because of that, this is what opens the door for startups to play the long-game.
Friday nonsense. I can’t conceive that MS would yet again hitch themselves to a failing os.

If you want to make money in mobile, you have to prioritize iOS.
Also, some technical detail about what a chip with three pins can do. Was it working with another chip? Enabling intelME? There's just not a ton you can do with chip of that size.

Is the story that the board had an extra undocumented chip, or that the chip was used to exfiltrate data?
fuck off and die
I've always loved this essay. It's a great example of good-natural ribbing that manages to make humor out of the eccentricities of something (a language, in this case) while making it clear that the people who like that thing are fine people. Mark Twain doesn't really hate the German language nor think anything but the best of Germans --- and it comes across in the essay. I'm not sure whether we can still write essays like this today.
推背圖案預言台灣會統一中國Hmm那用這種方法統治中國，你說怎樣?(第一篇)
If that's your conclusion, you didn't RTFA. Why so defensive?
Physicists Should Stop Saying Silly Things about Philosophy
> Why doesn’t Bloomberg’s sources have the hardware or know which boards they were?

How do you know Bloomberg's sources don't? They're anonymous, and while they might know about the implants in detail, they may not have the authority to take examples on a public dog and pony show.

Also, if they want to keep their anonymity, they probably have to be careful about what gets released in order avoid exposing themselves. For example, if you have a limited-distribution report you want to leak info from, leaking a summary of the report is a lot safer than leaking the report text itself. At a minimum, the latter narrows down the leaker to someone who had physical access to a copy.
> Was there a time when politics wasn't full of poison? By the end Thomas Jefferson hated George Washington so much he refused to attend his funeral.

Don't forget the little old Hamilton-Burr incident in Weehawken. It's so odd to read journalists whining about poisoned politics. If you go back in history, there hasn't been a period where we didn't have political contention. And a lot of that was fueled by newspapers ( many times owned by politicians themselves ). One of the reasons for the Hamilton-Burr duel was because of hate Hamilton's newspaper ( NY Post ) wrote about Burr.

> Twitter, FB, YouTube and the rest could use some kind of reputation systems, which at least provide a gradient of user interaction instead of just blacklisting.

They should let it be a open uncensored platform to ideas and opinions. If anything limit the journalists, newspapers, etc. Twitter and the rest of social media used to be fun ( even if was offensive ). It became toxic when so many journalists/media types started getting involved.

Take twitter. Who is responsible for a significant amount the toxicity? The journalists and celebrities with the blue check mark.
One example of when generating from source can make for a less than ideal experience is the Monaco editor's documentation[0].

- Most modules don't have intro sections to guide you to where you might want to start looking for the most common tasks. You have to guess the kinds of names they might have chosen for the given tasks. Turns out customizing syntax highlighting is mainly done with setMonarchTokensProvider and not setTokensProvider.

- Many methods or classes have redundant docstrings, like how setLanguageConfiguration[1] says "Set the editing configuration for a language" or setTheme() says "Switches to a theme."

- To find out what you can do with instances of a code editor, you don't click "monaco.editor" in the right sidebar like I kept thinking. Instead, you'd click the create() method on that page, and click through to its return type, which is actually IStandaloneCodeEditor.

- The search field only searches on exact prefixes of the basename. This isn't exactly a generate-from-code problem but a typedoc UI issue that led me to just download the code and use search-in-project instead (within VS Code ironically enough).

Fortunately, for the most common tasks, the Monaco playground[2] and Monarch playground[3] were helpful in pointing me to the right direction. So that offsets some of these annoyances. But I actually switched away from generating bland documentation via typeoc for my app, and started using a custom documentation generator that allows me to structure my app's docs in a way that is more human-friendly.

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/api/index.html

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/api/modules/monaco...

[2] https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/playground.html

[3] https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/monarch.html
It makes me happy to hear that OutKast has had way more recognition and success than I realized. From the moment I first heard those horns in SpottieOttieDopaliscious I knew that these were guys to pay attention to.
Cliff notes--
New EMR/ordering system. New physician. New nurse. New pharmacy dispensing system. The physician couldn't order 160mg of Bactrim because per kg dosing was required. They mistakenly ordered 160 "mg/kg" (40x the intended dose of 4mg/kg) on the order screen. The UX on the screen was partly to blame-- dosing mg or mg/kg apparently came down to a just a dropbox. With EMR ordering systems I've used, this mistake is virtually impossible to make since weight-based dosing pops up a completely different window, calculates the dose and then goes back to the original dose screen showing the total dose.

That order went to a pharmacy robot which diligently counted out 40pills, put them in baggies and sent them to the nurse. The nurse thought it was strange, but ultimately trusted the dispensing system that said everything was correct.

The medication error was noticed after the kiddo felt whole-body tingling. Poison control was called, but it didn't seem like they were able to give a clear treatment advice. A "rapid response" was called, they came and evaluated the patient. He was left in a non-ICU room. Several hours later he had a seizure. He recovered from the seizure and was then monitored in the ICU.
This is just a very recent conditioning. Doesn't (yet?) work for all of us. I cringe whenever I encounter this strange use of plural they to designate a single individual. In fact, I consider the old convention of 'he' in certain context meaning 'he or she' far less a rape of linguistic integrity.
BSD has a great firewall, it's usually more integrated than Linux (for certain definitions of "integrated"), and some argue that it's more secure/stable. Some argue that the BSD license is superior. Hardware support and software availability tend to be more hit-or-miss. N.B.: I do not use BSD.
Nah being the Git guy is easy.

Step 1: Look in .git/logs/HEAD and roll them back to whatever state they were in before the mess they're in now.

Step 2: Forward them the e-mail you keep handy that lists the only 3–5 commands they should ever use, verbatim, without deviation.
The aluminum tube claim was pretty obviously bogus. The tubes were narrow in diameter, variably finished (often rough inside), thin walled, and would result in laughably inefficient uranium hexaflouride centrifuges. It just didn’t make any sense to anyone with even a casual understanding of enrichment methods.

They also made perfect sense for missiles/rockets.

The chemical weapon claims were believable. I mean, didn’t we help Iraq manufacture chemical weapons during the Iran/Iraq war? Wasn’t that long-suspected belief later confirmed?

So, yes. I knew at the time, and I said so. I wouldn’t fundamentally have had much of a problem with invading Iraq (one could have that argument), but the justification, timing, and prioritization didn’t really make sense. Watching Powell pitch that goat rodeo was pretty sad.
In the case of investigating potentially state sponsored espionage I think it's plausible to keep buying the malicious hardware so the investigation can continue as they work their way up the supply chain.
Thanks! We actually found a really good adviser that is a general contractor in the area which has been super helpful. He's definitely ahead of the curve in terms of technology adoption in this space but we all feel this is where things are heading.
Some Thoughts Upon “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup”
I've always thought of regular BuzzFeed as a vehicle to fund BuzzFeed News
First of all, Microsoft gets a cut of every Android phone sold[0].

Secondly, does anyone know why Microsoft quit competing when it came to mobile? It seems something so odd that future history books are going to point it out. I mean I really don't get it. Unless if they are planning to ramp up and go whole hog on Continuum and they don't want to worry about supporting older phones, which this lull allows them to do.

[0]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-making-2bn-a-year...
Mux is hiring engineers to help build AI powered video streaming
Thanks. TIL about [CTRL]+[F2]. The menu items don't have the little underlined letter to indicate the key, but this is pretty close. First letter does it.

Just have to select, then arrow down to display, before continuing.
This confusion/imprecision is only common among non-technical people. When a software project describes themselves as open source, in the overwhelming majority of cases they actually mean this https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
Ah the old softmod, with the 007 game as I recall. Made a great party trick.