skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they didn't have to lie and there was no legal order but voluntary cooperation, as the grandparent post suggests, then such voluntary misinformation can easily be a violation of SEC requirements; and one part of the government certainly can prosecute you for doing something that another part of the government suggested (but didn't/couldn't legally require), it wouldn't be the first time.
Google’s Pixel adverts mocked Apple’s lack of 3.5mm jack.

https://youtu.be/Rykmwn0SMWU?t=42
Can they include pre-rendered code execution results to display when code execution is not available?
The main problem is the environmental damage. The concrete industry is the third largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions in the world. It also represents a third of all landfill waste.

Reinforced concrete is incredibly expensive to repair and maintain. Because of the dozen different ways it can rust and spall, you need to inspect it frequently. The longer you wait to repair it, the more costly it is. A great deal of our reinforced concrete bridges are now structurally unsound. And recycling it is expensive, difficult, and reduces its strength.

Roman concrete lasted centuries, even millennia. But it's very difficult for us to produce concrete of a sufficient quality to last a very long time, as there are many ways to introduce defects. Many of our modern concrete structures wouldn't last a century without significant expensive maintenance.

On the other hand, wood buildings can actually be deconstructed easier, recycled easier, composted easier, don't have a gigantic burden on the environment, and can be made quite strong, as well as lasting for centuries. They're also much easier and cheaper to repair and replace.

I live in the northeast, where 100+ year old wooden homes litter the landscape. The biggest problem with old homes isn't the wood - it's their dated construction methods. My girlfriend lives in what was essentially a wooden barn converted into a house. It wasn't designed or maintained properly, so it's slowly shifting and falling into disrepair. But a well-designed, modern wooden home can last a century or more with maintenance without falling apart.
Airpods are fantastic, haven't had any of these issues.
> I just checked the certificate of networthiness page and they don't have a valid SSL certificate. I recall that being the case years ago too. I wonder if it's been that way for the last 7 years? That's a cute little terrarium of the whole biome I remember.

That's not quite true. Internal use sites don't have a valid cart issued by a "default" external vendor.

Public sites use existing CAs that are in use by the public. E.g., the Marines public facing site[0] is signed by DigiCert. If you go to a site that's public facing but for internal use like MoL[1], you'll see that the cert is issue by an internal DoD CA. This is intentional.

The DoD has an internal CA already set up. These internal use sites are a gateway to sensitive information, so the DoD doesn't want to rely on an external CA for HTTPS. What I never understood was why these internal CAs weren't marked as trusted on the internal machines. That would avoid the browser warnings when accessing one of these site from DoD hardware, and it would (in theory) force the user to double check when accessing the site from an external device.

[0]: https://www.marines.com/
[1]: https://mol.tfs.usmc.mil/mol
Google.

https://youtu.be/Rykmwn0SMWU?t=40
I am a self learned programmer looking to apply to Lambda school.

1.How are you different from General Assembly and Flat Iron School?

2.Both General Assembly and Flat Iron were acquired. How does Lambda expect to survive when their biggest competitors couldn't?

This concerns me since many of these bootcamps are going the route of itt technical institute.
I love Firebase Hosting probably just as much as Netlify. Even more if you consider the various services besides hosting that Firebase offers. Thank you for making a great product! And if you're hiring, my email is in my profile :D
The HD280s are basically equivalent to this. Similar noise attenuation and already designed to work as headphones. I used to switch between the earmuffs with earbuds below and the HD280s when playing drums along to music.
How's the sound quality on those?

I've tried 3M "worktunes" eamuffs (which have an audio jack), but at low volumes the sound quality is quite bad (there is background white noise).
Can you access google photos through other apps on your iPhone. While you are in a non google app, how do you access the data stored there?
> There are plenty of cases where you'd prefer an application to crash upon an unhanded write error, rather than silently losing data that could be highly important and irrecoverable.

Not in the programs I write. I grant that perhaps this should be configurable.
probably because then they would be liable for when someone hacks your shit and then uses it to login to your bank and steal all your stuff
It's possible that many heroin addicts have "holes" in their life that they fill, but it's also pretty much a certainty that if you take a random person and unwittingly feed them heroin for awhile telling them it's harmless, they're going to have withdrawal symptoms if they stop.

What point are you even making here? You know there's a difference between physical dependence and addiction, right? Someone who isn't a heroin addict can easily stop taking it if they are weaned off. And heroin addicts relapse all the time after physical withdrawals have subsided.
It's not 'Airports' it's class B airspace which is a very short list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Class_B_airports_in_th... Only ~1/2 of states even have one, and most of those have just the 1.

Being limited to ~99.99% of the US is hardly a major issue for drone operators. Further, people are very poor at judging altitude consistently, and it's much easier to enforce 'don't' than try and enforce only up to 100 feet or something.
Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t realize utf-8 had that nice property.
It makes complete sense on those phones though, doesn't really work on the pixel 3.
https://store.google.com/countrypicker will let you choose your country.
How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy
swappa. pixel 2 may be a better idea if you are ok with the headphone jack situation.
Illustrated Guide to LSTM’s and GRU’s: A step by step explanation
What high technology manufacturing America does is in the security space, otherwise Japan is a trusted source.
FiftyThree, maker of Paper and Paste iPad apps, acquired by WeTransfer
This reminds me of how beautiful properly-crafted wood can be, as well as functional. I'm reminded of Frank Lloyd Wright's & the Prairie School's emphasis on working "honestly" with materials.
Well... it does give us a possible motive for not telling the whole truth, or even lying. Not saying this is the case here, but this piece is far from objective.
Wait. Really?
"AI in Pixel 3 enables new features that make your day-to-day actions simpler and easier."

I wonder if they'll go so far as to make it recognize my Italian wife's name when I pronounce it in Italian.
Telnet: the backbone of our Defense Industry
A named source, but not a named victim, in this case. I would not call this verification.

This is a really hard story to know what to think about. On the one hand, yes, hardware implants are a major risk. And having so many of our electronics manufactured in a country with massive state control over its economy and with which we have an adversarial political relationship is definitely a big concern.

On the other hand, the denials from the companies cited in the first article are remarkably strong. And again this article fails to give relevant details. It just cites a security contractor who says he had a client who had this issue.

But Bloomberg is a serious news organization and they are holding strong on this story as well. So what to think?

It strikes me that if your goal was to ramp up tension between the US and China at multiple levels, then planting this sort of story would be a great way to accomplish it. Politicians can cite national security. Wary consumers are triggered over privacy. Corporations become more and more gunshy of investing in China and partnering with Chinese manufacturers.

I hate to dream up conspiracy theories. And yet, we live in a world where many states, politicians, organized crime groups, political groups, and corporations are all intentionally spreading disinformation of all sorts all the time designed precisely to ratchet up tension and suspicion.

I don't really believe that's what's going on just yet. But I also don't believe it's as straightforward as the Bloomberg stories make it out to be, either. Something very strange is going on.
But the incentives are very different. Bloomberg makes almost all of their income from the Bloomberg terminal. Their TV network, their news website, everything else, is solely in service to their primary business.

The percentage of revenue that comes from advertising for Bloomberg is vanishingly small. Companies follow incentives, and in this case, I think we can reasonably conclude that Bloomberg thought the article was 100% accurate (not saying it is though, I think it's too soon to tell).
They may have changed it, but if I remember correctly that guarantee in the original quality only lasts for 2 years. So after uploading photos for 2 years, everything is converted to lower quality. They'll also implicitly use your photos for facial recognition and I don't believe there's a way to disable this "feature."
Is it free for personal projects?
stat() cannot (on platforms I am familiar with) be performed in a selectish/nonblocking way. That call can block forever. Local filesystem access in general is still not async-capable in very important ways.
Of course it's possible. Foreign states have fed much less believable information to work against US interests and a good chunk of the population believes it wholesale.
Yea, I did. I agree my comment was tangential to the article title, but the idea is that the overconfidence in these sorts of stories might be at least partially attributable to journalists overemphasizing importance/impact/emotions to the detriment of accuracy/skepticism. (I actually said something to this effect when I first wrote my comment, then removed it because I felt like I was editorializing too much.)
You're not refuting anything the post you're responding says.

Murdering people can be a completely non knee-jerk response to domestic issues. They ARE getting away with it, aren't they?
The point was that it was cheaper than a water cooler with non-poisoned water. Free wasn't even mentioned at all.
You download photos from Google Photos to your device before they're available to other apps. That's a fair weakness to point out, though it's never really been a problem for me. I only delete the local copies of photos every couple of months.
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Human childbirth is an amazingly complicated process with a LOT that can, and frequently does go 'wrong'. In CA, the first-birth c-section rates range from 15% to 60%, hospital depending [0]. That's 1/6th to 3/5ths of all CA first births, let alone the obvious fact that you cannot plan a birthday. Your pregnancy can go from 'low' risk to 'life-threatening' in seconds; there is no planning for this and no hospital will tell you the bills for it.

[0] http://www.chhs.ca.gov/Press%20Releases/Smart_Care_Californi...
Apple's ethical lapses have all been on the supply-side.

Rare-earth mining, contributing to serious environmental problems in China:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/business/global/30rare.ht...

https://www.cnet.com/news/digging-for-rare-earths-the-mines-...

(Apple stopped mining rare-earth minerals in China in 2017, 7 years after the NYTimes story broke.)

Child labor, with teenagers working 11-hour days to assemble your iPhone X:

https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/apple-has-been-using-teen-labo...

Child-labor in the mining of rare-earths:

http://fortune.com/2017/03/03/apple-cobalt-child-labor/
These phones are also way cheaper than the iPhone5s was at its launch. If you pay $350 for your phone and replace it after 2 years, that seems to me to be better than paying $700 for your phone and replacing it after 4 years?
I find this very odd. Decent lighting is so cheap that even minute increases in efficiency would be worth it. You'd expect all of those warehouses to be bathed in crisp blueish white light to keep people alert and avoid costly mistakes. Maybe amazon isn't as efficient as they're cracked up to be.
Netflix operates the same way - they consider their offices untrusted networks, and everything goes through their SSO / MFA architecture.
But Android manufacturers weren’t seeing it as “essential” until Apple did it. Same with ditching the headphone jack. The industry makes fun of Apple for doing something, then the next year, copies it
And it's not supposed to be as good as actual speakers?

Disc: Googler but don't work on related teams.
Venture capital investment in US companies to hit $100B in 2018
I got the big Leight headphones a while back and more recently QC35's.

My wife happened to get the older model MPOW adapter in the post; it broke with the blue-flashing-light issue that appears in some user reviews--she replaced it with a Yeti, which worked. Also, MPOW has newer models that might not have the issue and at least one reviewer said MPOW replaced their blue-flashing-light unit.

Seems accurate that the Leight things' passive isolation, combined with playing most any sound through them, should make background speech indistinct enough to be less distracting. Generally, like the post says, ANC is great at quieting deep rumbles (cars, trains, etc.), and physical isolation is better at blocking higher pitches (speech and higher noise). (Also ++ to the comment saying it's a shame many folks have to make up for employers imposing open offices, but only so much a single worker can do about that.)

What the Bose have going for them are 1) ANC seems like a legit win for train or plane trips, 2) I wanted a BT headset (including a mic for phone calls) and the QC35s provide that, 3) the QC35's are decent, though not audiophile-level, as headphones. And I'd heard lots of praise for them from acquaintances, which made me hopeful there'd be no unpleasant surprises.

The QC35's are doing the job. I don't know if some cheaper/different arrangement would also have done the job. ANC seems great when you want it, but for me that's not every day; maybe I could have gone w/something cheaper, or two setups similar to the blog post, one for work/calls and the other for the occasional noisy trip.
Appleboum said one key sign of the implant is that the manipulated Ethernet connector has metal sides instead of the usual plastic ones. The metal is necessary to diffuse heat from the chip hidden inside, which acts like a mini computer. "The module looks really innocent, high quality and 'original' but it was added as part of a supply chain attack," he said.

How uncommon are metal vs plastic ethernet connector sleeves?

This seems like a clue that even non-experts could use to track down an implant.
If you're against Lambda School model then what are you for?

The only viable alternative is to take a loan and go to college.

The average us student debt is ~$40k (https://studentloanhero.com/student-loan-debt-statistics/).

So what model do you think is better?

a) College "give us $40k now, good luck with your job search"

b) Lambda School "we'll teach you for free; we'll help you find a job; if, and only if, you get a high-paying job, you'll re-pay us $30k for the education that we already gave you"
> [...] that ships with the new Linux-enabled ChromeOS

Thanks for clarification. I wasn't aware that Linux apps are now officially supported on ChromeOS, and assumed that most developers simply replace ChromeOS with Xubuntu-based GalliumOS.
It's like, on a civilizational level, we're just begging for a scenario where we accidentally destroy ourselves.
Apple dumped supermicro in 2017 for security issues. But Bloomberg really needs to provide some information to back up their claims, this isn't a minor issue, this is a clam of spying from China.

>Super Micro Computer Inc. SMCI, -18.58% dropped 8% in late trading Thursday after a report said Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.93% ended its relationship with the company after finding "a potential security vulnerability" in a data center server provided by Super Micro.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/super-micro-plummets-after...
Or swap the boards out in transit.
Is it illegal to report an intelligence attack that is perceived to be foreign? If not, why not have all attack reports assume they are foreign to begin with? This would give the reporter credible deniability, and put the burden on the US government to argue otherwise. Regardless, the report is released without the reporter getting in hot water. Or am I missing something?
Well airplane mode shuts bluetooth and other radios off, so yeah, if you respect airplane mode you cannot use wireless peripherals.
Mautic is pretty good opensource replacement of MailChimp.
So what would be next great wave of internet companys, that doesn't profit on your data? Actually just data storage with strong private encryption?
Doctorow tackled this in "Walkaway," a novel that takes the commune concept all the way to the end - what if the only form of community organization on the planet was the commune?

They often used Wikis and other distributed messaging platforms to trade tips. It was really fascinating to read.
Ask HN: JSON with names?
I've been thinking about the differences between XML and JSON. A key constraint in XML is that all elements are named; in JSON, all objects are anonymous by default.

Of course, it's simple to add a "name" or "type" field. However, the name of the object ought to be denoted differently than its contents, IMHO.

I propose a small change to the JSON specification, where a "name" can be optionally placed before the opening bracket of an object or array:

"employee": Employee {
...
},
"fibonacci": Sequence [1, 2, 3, 5]

Any thoughts? Would this burden parsing or serialization?
Is it your data that it wants or your attention?
That is not true. You can enable Bluetooth whilst in flight safe mode. KLM even an ounce this on their flights. I own airpods and Bose QC35s and use both wirelessly on flights all the time.
Solving the problem? You mean immortality?
You can sniff the right target MAC and source IP from the traffic flowing through the port itself. (Just assume the machine itself has internet access and use its source IP and the target MAC it uses for public addresses.)

As to the beacon itself… DNS is pretty good. Just send an innocuous DNS request to a machine you control (say a NIST time server), if you think an iterative request won't show up on radar. Or send a recursive DNS request along a path you've wiretapped. (I'd be surprised if the NSA doesn't have a feed of all DNS requests to 8.8.8.8.)

Of course you will want to wait to see whether the bugged machine itself sends any such packets out first, to ensure that yours can hide in the noise. Bad idea to send a DNS beacon from a machine that doesn't ever make DNS requests.

Actually on second thought, given the above capabilities, you don't even need to inject packets at all. Just mangle existing DNS queries in such a way that you can identify them in a wiretap. Say, for all DNS requests with a specific hash, mangle the ID field so that it matches some orthogonal hash (and unmangle it on the way back of course). Very unlikely to be noticed by an IPS, and you can statistically determine that machines sending more than expected packets whose ID field matches this second hash are successfully bugged.

Or, why even send packets? Instead, drop all DNS request packets matching some specific hash. They'll eventually get retried with a new server or new ID. Again, statistics applied to wiretapped data can determine whom you've bugged. You don't even need store+forward capability here; just emit noise over the tail of the packet and the switch will drop it for you.
I think that's what OnePlus is doing these days. Not sure if you have heard of this youtuber @mkbhd he recently made a video that OnePlus 6 became his daily driver from Pixel 2. OnePlus 6 devices already run Android Oreo based OS.
I only largely use Facebook for the events calendar anymore. Big brands and community groups use that part of the site heavily for event promotion. If we want Facebook to become obsolete, we would need to create a comparable event promotion experience elsewhere. So far, though, I've only seen inroads into discovering events already being promoted. The real money is disrupting how events are promoted so the customer doesn't have to do any "discovery" what so ever.
I agree the notch looks really bad. But if you have the option of not having screen there vs having screen there, I am okay with the notch. You anyway have an option to turn that part of the screen off on Android? I don't know why everyone is up in their arms about this.

I guess Google really wants to stick with two speakers. And not sure about the Apple's patent about folded OLED and/or others having the expertise to do it.

Disc: Googler but don't work on the related teams.
Reminds me a lot of Bret Victor’s “inventing on principle” talk and his “learnable programming” essay. Great way to connect the creator with the consequence of their action. I’m a visual learner myself (I know the science of learning styles is bunk) and have found most to benefit from a similar way to “seeing code”.
It's been decoded from geekcode, the $ on the end translates to "Getting paid for it!" in whatever was used to decode
I had an idea for a business idea that never got off the ground. However, before it flamed out, I wanted to hire some overseas people that I personally knew to help. However, I got conflicting advice about how to actually pay them. I wanted to do it the legit/legal way, so they would have taxable income and pay their withholding. I got advice from just pay them with PayPal to bank-to-bank-transfers to forming a back office in the foreign country.

I strongly suspect these distributed teams are taking shortcuts.

With contingent employees in the U.S., you can just 1099 them at the end of the year; W2 employees will require reporting and withholding depending on the state they live in. But what about foreign employees? I'd love to hear from anyone who has done this.

How would this actually work in practice? Do bank to bank transfers, or are all of the workers simply contingent employees that invoice and paid in USD or local currency? I suspect they are avoiding paying payroll taxes and not reporting to the foreign taxing authorities.
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People like nut butters, you know? Justin's Peanut Butter got bought for a quarter billion
How to Solve the Hardest LPWAN Geolocation Problems
well companies like Apple and Amazon are reflashing/updating, so that wouldn't stick.
I can only imagine there are a lot of health tech companies we could find/reference who have received VC money, and who haven't hurt anyone - who are aware of the ethics and are good people. Of course there will be people who are naive, perhaps the "mercenary" type who see an opportunity, get money, and try to push for growth and marketshare without caring about health and safety first; Theranos seems to be one of these situations.
They will be in for a surprise: Using those massive buggy systems is not one bit easier for the hackers than for the actual users. Maybe the many bugs in those huge systems will turn out to be the best protection against enemy takeover... not actually too crazy an idea, when I think of biology and the mess that are biological systems, where even errors are vital for the functioning of the whole system (e.g. accidentally making a protein that is turned off, but sometimes it turns out it's useful to have it around when the environment changes, but an error-free efficient system would not have made it).