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> There are so many Google employees that I won’t expect them to all agree on these things.

At some level there are shot callers at Google that simultaneously reject the DOD for "values" and green light Dragonfly. I'm left to wonder how many euphemisms they'll need to employ to obscure their inherently unavoidable facilitation of China's Social Credit System. Good news for Google is they'll be ahead of the curve when the stars eventually align and the establishment gets its opportunity to deal with wrongthinkers in the the US.
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I can't find a privacy policy. How is privacy handled by this shared instance?

Also odd how this page overrides the scrolling mechanism of mobile Safari. No swipe-and-scroll.
I get all that, but your last line resonates most with me.

> My very proprietary Chromebook updates painlessly.

This is how my experience is with Windows. It's painless. Zero issues. It operates exactly as I expect, and I have no problems.

Besides, running Linux distros came with the veritable cavalcade of revolving "Why won't this basic thing work?" -> "Maybe this forum post from 3 years ago will help" -> "Okay now my mouse won't move." -> "Better reinstall the OS to get things working again" -> "Why won't this basic thing work?" and so on. Ubuntu is probably, to me, the experience you feel you're having with Windows.

Linux desktops feel like a hobby unto themselves, which may be fine for some, but is not what interests me.
The lighting issue is pretty surprising, if only because making people pick goods in the dark sounds like it would decrease efficiency far beyond any money motion sensing lights might save.

The rest is pretty unsurprising, although if the lights did work right, there's still a very special misery associated with being in a large space that has only motion sensing lights. Something about being surrounded by darkness while you're perpetually under a light is very strange, and it's made even more disconcerting because motion sensors on their associated lights don't trip until you're getting into the space where you need that light. It feels like constantly walking into dark rooms and then having somebody flip the light on unexpectedly.
That is not "regardless of the law". That is "when it can be argued that the law does not apply".

The law itself is solid. Whether a particular person with paperwork issues will be given the presumption of the facts being in their favor is another story.
Google debuts Pixel 3, new Google Home Hub smart-screen
Seems like the "journalist" does not understand the role of academic artifacts (such as published papers) or science in general. Most academics are not trying to drive excitement in the general population with their research, but rather appeal to their peers, who by the very nature of their job must evaluate methodology and formal approaches to ascertain the quality of the findings. Sensationalizing your research before it has attained general acceptance in your discipline (or ever) might be fine with regard to PR, but terrible for your overall academic career.
>I prefer regular commercial-grade pizza

Have you considered you like commercial grade food because of the possibly addictive ingredients they use, like excessive sugar and salt?
In my opinion, maybe a self hosted blog or Neocities [1] for public discussions. Perhaps self hosted Nextcloud [2] for sharing stories, emails, files with friends. A self hosted Mumble/Murmur [3] for end-to-end encrypted chat and small file sharing.

[1] - https://neocities.org/

[2] - https://nextcloud.com/

[3] - https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page Use their dev snapshot. It is quite stable and can scale to thousands of users on a small VPS node.
> The community agrees to cover those expenses.

I think a lot of people don't really grasp what that commitment really means. My twins were born three months early, and each cost about a million dollars in NICU services - and they had minimal complications. My family alone would've cost this commune 40 years worth of their current medical care spending just for the first year.
For people who want to buy phones in the several-hundred-dollar range, 2 years of official updates really isn't sufficient. My Nexus 4 lasted 4 or 5 years, the last few on unofficial firmware - but I shouldn't have had to use third party firmware on a device that was working just fine.
My understanding is that the google tapping was done in UK using British intelligence services, thus bypassing the legal constraints.
Right, but is there any indication that they understand this? Keep in mind that "don't be evil" originated well before people entrusted Google with their e-mails and photos and all that. (I don't think search is considered invasive enough for most people to care about that one.)
There's not much in it really. Looking at UK prices, the Pixel 3 is £11 cheaper than the iPhone XR which is basically nothing when you're talking about a £700+ phone. The XL is a hundred quid or so cheaper than the iPhone XS which is a bit more meaningful.

To balance that, they only promise three years of software updates. It'd be treated as an absolute scandal if an iPhone was dropped that quickly.
CSR? The one and only "social responsibility" they have is to get the benjamins. Wishing for the corporate money machine to root out evil or educate the poor or champion gay rights or take whatever political stance you like (or regulate itself, ha!) is completely delusional and in fact counterproductive in the long run.
To add to this, end of the 1990s I worked in the kitchen of a camp for disabled adults and children in New Jersey for a summer (as a foreign student). Before that I had occasionally had kitchen duty in the German army, and before that, at about 16 at the end of the 10th grade in East Germany, I worked in a meat processing factory for a few weeks and before that in a brewery, also for a few weeks. As a student I also worked in a chocolate factory for a few weeks. I also know two people who owned or own (good!) restaurants in Germany, one of them a professional cook, one of them only "part time cook" and owner (with a professional cook on staff). Never saw gloves.

My experiences in all those places where good: It was clean, always, and I never saw anything that would have me question their methods or (food) results.

Nobody ever wore gloves though, as far as I can remember (I certainly didn't). You needed a health certificate from a doctor. I think we had hair nets in either the meat processing or the chocolate factory, or both, don't remember, and in the camp kitchen. But no gloves. I don't think they add any significant benefit. Covering the head may often be beneficial, depending on the concrete setup. You don't want hair in food even if the hair is clean, and you don't wash hair as frequently as hands (especially when preparing food).
Hey, OP of the article here, didn't realize someone submitted it here too!

Yeah, this is exactly a rephrasing of the point I was trying to get across.
Upvote this comment, if you did not find the it simple at all.
Would anyone care about an OS (probably Android) that specifically limited the ability to use the time-suck apps (like snap/gram/tube), but still left the ability to use other things (like music/maps/camera/texting/etc)?

I tried disconnecting a while back, but felt like those were the things i was lacking because I was using a flip phone and was really frustrating. I have actually been considering picking back up this idea to focus on modifying to allow for curated list of allowable apps.
I had software to edit teletext pages on my BBC Micro, fun to play with but I never got my hands on the interface sadly.
Can you elaborate on that please? I'm actually looking at buying one since there should be a price drop happening on them.
Yea, two seconds of DuckDuckDucking https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/24/google_glass_spywar...
By explanation do you mean theory or is it coming from somebody who has special knowledge of the situation?

I'm not trying to be adversarial, even if it's only a theory it's an interesting one, but given the amount of conflicting information we have regarding this whole mess I think it's important to be clear about what's pure speculation and what's been reported by people supposedly in the know.
Using mi a2 for last 2 months. A android one phone. Stock android, no bloat, very good looking hardware.. Overall a good value, but software is slightly buggy (occasional heating, random boots) and no clear communication on software upgrade policy
Why don’t we establish a free market for sperm and let the best ones win? Surely people would pay a lot of money for the sperm of a gifted man?

Putting some good money behind donation would then encourage more men to do it, leading to more variety.
There's technology to make the sound with the screen. Vivo Apex did it:

https://www.whathifi.com/news/vivos-apex-concept-smartphone-...

https://mashable.com/2017/02/28/redux-phone-screen-speaker/
Isn't this just because withMyResource returns IO a rather than IO ()? It doesn't seem reasonable for it to return the resource.
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there are various ways to put this into a syntax.
one way would be to have a dedicated attribute that behaves this way for relevant components.
This would then be similar to the vue.js approach https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/forms.html

<input model={myJsObject.text} />
or
<input bindValue={myJsObject.text} />

At least for standard HTML components this should work, as they would only have one editable property.
In our case, we moved a blog from WP to a static Gatsby.js site. It's hosted on Netlify and all content is driven by Contentful where updates trigger a webhook on Netlify to rebuild the blog (new posts are pulled during this build process).
When wood burns (at least CLT Beams) it has a much longer time until failure than steel. When steel gets hot, it quickly loses its structural strength, and can collapse.
There is a static renaissance happening as people realize it doesn't make sense to serve content that rarely changes from a database. Think of the millions of Wordpress blogs that could benefit from the speed, reliability and security of a static frontend. Here is more in-depth argument for static:

https://www.takeshape.io/articles/why-the-best-websites-are-...

Also check out https://jamstack.org/ for more info on tools and techniques for going static.
No one cares about "forever". In the long run, we're all dead, and there's no theoretical limit to exponential growth until we're all dead.
I don't think Google has any "internal" networks, or at least not many. I think you can get to any of Google's "corporate" SSO login pages.

I could be remembering wrong.
If a $15/hr wage is apparently a pay decrease for these "peasants" then they were previously making a very livable wage. So what exactly is Amazon doing that every local cafe or retail store isn't?
The answer is, we don't know, Apple is a much more secretive company with far fewer leaks. But Apple does tens of billions in revenue a year in China, and it's entire edifice is built on Chinese manufacturing, and so there is the potential for tremendous leverage by Chinese authorities. If China asked Apple to provide a list of accounts which downloaded VPNs in Xinjiang, are you 100% confident they wouldn't if threatened with sanctions? Perhaps it's even via a plausibly deniable mechanism, like buying keyword targeting on the Chinese app store, and phishing people to fraudulent apps in a 'sting', while you look at other way.

There's enough money involved that anyone should seriously question how strong an executive's ethics can be if they've got a $1 trillion market cap to defend. I'm not saying any company is superior to the other, I'm saying the allure of tens of billions of dollars is a powerful motivator for weakening of ethics, and I wouldn't even trust Edward Snowden's ethics if tens of billions was on the line.
Oh I thought I had just hit the end of the page, that makes a ton more sense.

Privacy Policy was at the very bottom: https://octobox.io/privacy
I use Firebase hosting for a static site that gets between 100-400gb of traffic per month, and it works out a bit cheaper than Netlify ($15-$50/m vs. flat $45/m). I hardly ever use their web interface and just deal with their one line CLI.

My biggest concern with Firebase is if it's still going to be around in a year or two. That's why I'd be reluctant to use it for DB and auth stuff. I narrowly avoided jumping into Parse back in the day before that was shuttered so I'm wary.
I think you just need an Android phone with dual-sim tech. Doesn't some of Motorola's lineup have that feature?
Thanks for this. I hadn't been able to track down a clear statement of what was exposed, which is an awfully important question in a case like this. It's frustrating that "someone on HN dug up the API" is the most reliable way to get information like this, and speaks ill of how this was handled even after it was disclosed.
I'm sure there will be a lot soon. You can trigger builds anytime content is updated via Netlify CMS/Contentful etc.
We need all the help from our programming languages (and tools) that we can get. Donald Knuth is a remarkable programmer and computer scientist. Interestingly, he kept a list of all the errors in his program TeX[1], which starts in March of 1978.

TeX is an exceptionally stable program, the design has been frozen since version 3.0 in 1990 reflecting Knuth's desire to have a format suitable for reproducing the typesetting precisely even for archived texts that were developed on hardware that is no longer running. Since 1990 only minor changes have been made to TeX and this is reflected in the current version number, 3.14159265, which is converging to pi.

A comment by Knuth in the error log in March of 1990 was "We’re now up to Version 3.0; I sincerely hope all bugs have been found." At that point there had been 908 errors logged. The last entry is currently an entry made in 2014 for error 947.

I've always been fascinated by this list (see [1]).

[1] http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/errata/errorl...
GA Tech OMSCS is still about 6-7k. $1300/2 course semester is what I'm paying right now.
I think that's ascribing Apple a little too much. This design trend would have happened with or without Apple, and their design goals aren't everybody's. Phones such as Essential had this notch before Apple was even rumoured to have one.
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Where is the 6-terminal claim from?
Move these to either a client side database like firebase/firestore or to lambda / cloud functions.
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It's both Amazon (because Bezos owns the Post) and Google (because of Eric Schmidt's close ties with the DNC).
Freedom synced with my phone and laptop does something close enough to this for me to suffice. The shame of turning off their timed blockages is enough to keep me away from time sinks.
The worse figures are in colonies that Europeans plundered for a century or more (India and Africa). Sadly neither numbers nor suffering is sufficient to wipe the century old propaganda that their thievery was 'benign civilization'.

Sad.
Oh, Docker is so easy, and especially in an environment like ChromeOS, I imagine it's by far the most canonical way to develop.
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believe me, i find it equally frustrating that all the crap we don't need is getting cheaper and cheaper with more progress. And yet, the bare essentials of life which are so important, aren't making any progress at all: shelter and medical insurance, etc.
X-ray won't catch substitute chips: they will have the same package and same markings but a few extra functions on their silicon. Good luck eyeballing that one. I think you're right though: they should examine a sample of the boards at lest.

In addition--layering defense--one would imagine simply putting a motherboard on a quarantine LAN, simulating their production network, and watching its network traffic for phoning home.

The real implants might be waiting for a specific situation, like a date or a string on the bus, so you never really know if you got them all.
Or, without making ridiculous unsupported pop-psych claims, people buy iPhones because they like them better. But I think Apple managing to induce Stockholm syndrome to millions of people worldwide is much more plausible.
Parts of that whole expose were covert. In the case of Google we know by tapping fiber connections that they had between data centers (as sseth mentioned, using foreign intelligence peers to do an end run around legal protections), which was on Google owned fiber, theoretically entirely "in-house", so Google transferred it unencrypted. I believe they called this operation "Muscular". After the fiasco Google started assuming everything was hostile.
I've been looking for a service like this and I'm really interested. Too bad the site is choking a bit on extra traffic right now. I'll have to check back later.
Skills can be learned and honed. I have had several managers who have only managed that are terrible managers.

Based on that, the problem is a value add proposition. The really good coders might add more value as really good coders. Transitioning that person to a position of manager, might be negative value as there will be impact as a really good programmer will have to be replaced, and then trained to be a manager.

If you really want to transition to management from any previous role, go get outside training, add degrees or certifications to your resume. Apply for the next management position, or jump ship to a new company hiring in as a manager.

It can also give you some leverage in upcoming reviews after being passed over for management roles for a raise to make compensation on par as if you were doing a manager position. Where as if you are more valuable as a developer you should be compensated for the job you are doing, but don’t want to be doing.

I would also stress to, for anyone regardless of role to also negotiate for a severance package so that your cheaper to keep than to be let go. Start it low at a month or two of salary. Try for it lue of a next raise or a smaller raise plus severance when offered future raises. If you do get a severance package (in writing) make sure each future review you negotiate more months of pay in the severance. Also only accept the severance if it does not specify exit terms, so any exit from the organization you are compensated regardless.
This is not the first nor the last time we see reports about hardware manufactured in China being suspect of tampering like this. It will continue to happen. China steals technology and then manufacturers it for itself.
The cynical part of me thinks that they’re only doing this to make themselves look better in the face of reducing the quality of life of their customers.
Ask HN: What's been the biggest risk you've ever taken? Was it worth it?
I have been thinking for the past few days that one thing that is being missed here is even that the few people who are viewed as "perma-bears" (John Hussman for example) are in reality bulls in disguise; they are just being a little more picky about waiting for the right buying opportunity. But they're still planning to buy. As is everyone, and if you fully expect the market to recover no matter what happens then you're likely to buy whenever it dips even a little bit. Faith in the ability of the Fed to rescue whatever has gone wrong with capitalism has reached such levels that the bull market won't really end until people start to believe that things are so bad that even the fed cannot rescue them. So my question is, given that the bull market can't continue indefinitely, what would have to happen to convince people that the next dip is not just another buying opportunity?
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I have been purposely misquoted several times in several California small town news agencies (their agenda almost diametrically opposed to my information), I am not particularly surprised this may be happening with Bloomberg. I have stopped responding to requests for interviews, as I am rarely informed ahead of time what the person's (or editor's) agenda may be, to decide if it aligns with what I wish to contribute ammunition/fodder towards.
Artificial procreation isn't a sexual encounter, it's a type of medical procedure, which is up for regulation.
Didn't Samsung's flagships have edge screens before the iPhone X was released?
It's actually an interesting idea. Of course the negative points should be at least debatable, so that you can say you actually chose to spend more, or to have a notch. Every time someone makes fun of you because you spent a thousand bucks on a phone, you're forced to go into self-defense mode, and that reinforces your identification with the object. Pure speculation, of course :)
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OK, dumb question. Why are ancient sites always excavated, under several feet of soil. Is the soil comprised of 1000's of years of decayed plant matter? That all has to come from carbon dioxide.
I agree. I don't want a new phone right now, I just want to keep getting software improvements. I still have the OG Pixel and I really don't want to replace it. It has a headphone jack and it still runs as well as it did day 1. Unfortunately google will probably stop supporting it soon forcing me to get a new pixel to keep getting software updates.
Another of a my personal programming heroes has a page that's even simpler https://bellard.org/
I can confirm that something is definitely going on for sure.

Since 2008, google in China were: coding mules, tech support for ad doubleclick, sales for minor 3rd tier products. That was stable for 10 years, but suddenly, since around a year ago, they began to talking about whole new campuses, and rumors began circulating that country's top tier talent is being poached through shell companies by an obscure "internet search startup"
The good stuff is in the PDF:

https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/694913.pdf

- Running a port scan caused the weapons system to fail

- One admin password for a system was guessed in nine seconds

- "Nearly all major acquisition programs that were operationally tested between 2012 and 2017 had mission-critical cyber vulnerabilities that adversaries could compromise."

- Taking over systems was pretty much playing on easy mode: "In one case, it took a two-person test team just one hour to gain initial access to a weapon system and one day to gain full control of the system they were testing."
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> during my studies I enjoyed working at the "UML level" much more

There are still jobs like that in the non-Agile world of business application, mainly in government I think (at least here in Europe). The position is called "system analyst" (sometimes also "business analyst", but that is likely to include more fluff). It involves writing down system specification, which includes detailed requirements, user's interactions with the system (use cases), the data model etc. The other part of the job is talking to developers while they're developing the system and testing their work(making sure there are no bugs and they they understood the specs correctly) after they're done.

It's not a bad job, definitely less headaches than coding IMO. The downside is that you need to deal with business people more (can be an plus for some people), and mainly that it's just not that common any more in the post-agile world. Also usually pays less than development.
Which one? The one in Bosnia that NATO stopped or the one in Kosovo that NATO stopped?