skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a summary of the current meaning of "Don't be evil":

re. the USA: No, we can't possibly bid on the US Department of Defense cloud computing contract. because the contract may not align with the company’s principles.

re. China: Yes, we want to build a censored search engine for Chine because there are a billion potential users there.

To me the hypocrisy is astounding. What I don't understand is how Google's employees deal with the cognitive dissonance. I guess they're real good at compartmentalizing.
Ask HN: Why should I believe the Bloomberg reports regarding SuperMicro?
I loved using Divshot, and was sad when their service was shuttered.

I’ve been using Netlify ever since, though, and have launched 20+ web projects in the past 18 months. Easily my favorite hosting solution I’ve ever used.
What's wall street doing about Google's hostage situation - held hostage by their own outraged employees.

Two publicly documented big opportunities missed so far - the Pentagon missile deal and to an extent this. Maybe the China search engine opportunity is also at risk. Time for Wall Street to sell Google, and let their opinion be known!
Maybe they should never have joined the Euro? They already cheated to join with the help of Goldman Sachs.

Not paying taxes, retirement with 50, not playing by the rules, people go blind very quick: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/0430/Greek-islan...

There are only two options:

1. Leave the Euro (not the EU). See, what your new Drachma will be able to buy you.

2. Keep the Euro, negotiate a hair cut. Change how things are done in Greece.
East Wind members share a pool of community cars, they don’t have to cover expenses like car repairs out of pocket.

East Wind’s food businesses, particularly nut butters, are of course inspected and licensed by the health department. Most of the photos you’re seeing are of food production for community consumption.

FEC communities have a self-insurance fund to cover catastrophic health costs, and seek state subsidies when available, which they often are for low-income people who live on communes.

But you’re right that chronic illnesses that need continuous expensive medical care can be a strain on community finances. The community agrees to cover those expenses.
Following the first story it was reported that Amazon had already ditched Supermicro as a supplier.
XRP: How a Technology Advancement Spiked a Cryptocurrency
They're not yellow, so they don't actually look that odd. If I walked past someone wearing them, I'd probably not notice what they are.
Having a child is really expensive if you don't have health insurance. You can negotiate that cost in advance, but I don't know if people really do that very often.
Nicotine Patch/Gum
Bloomsberg has no evidence other than a confidential source. Both Apply and Amazon deny the allegations. The US Govt has said nothing, neither has any other government. Why should we believe any of this?
"Jupyter notebooks may replace the traditional research paper typically shared as a PDF..." - hardly a replacement as long as Jupyter notebooks are not self-sufficient files you can download and view offline everywhere. Even if you have up-to-date versions of Python and all the libraries installed you still have to run a server and open it in a browser which is a way more clumsy than just opening a PDF in Okular/Evince/AcrobatReader. I also doubt Jupyter notebooks are easy to view on mobile devices.
The author says he tried the bose qc20 (in-ear headphones), but then goes onto describe the bose qc25 (over-ear headphones). I'd like to defend the honor of the bose qc20, which has superior noise canceling to the qc25. While it's true that it doesn't block out talking, it makes it sound like it's in a distant room, and with a little bit of white noise or music it makes the open office noise a non-issue for me. Furthermore, it's a godsend in a loud city and it's incredible to hear the little details in your music and not having to crank your volume past 50%.

That said, they're super pricey and they do fall apart, but I've got mine patched up after three years and holding onto them until other products can match this level of noise canceling.
Just about anyone on Google's Project Zero team, off the top of my head. They would probably be both competent and enthusiastic.

Beyond that Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and probably Amazon have sufficiently capable public (or past public) researchers working for them. But I doubt many would want the publicity one way or the other.
A lot of "tech" stuff is kind of like a bottomless bag of potato chips. If you have nothing else to eat, you can keep reaching for another potato chip and never really feel satisfied. Slapping your own hand won't really fix the problem, but Thanksgiving dinner will have you groaning at the thought of trying to eat another potato chip.
Why should I believe any of this? No proof!
Rohan here. Please feel free to comment below.
Fair point, edited.
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If you look at that illustration, you see that it's not just one ethernet connector, it's one of these massive connector stack with one ethernet and 2 USB, also, it adds quite a bit of depth to the connector; it must have been made with one particular brand/type of motherboard in mind.

Still, if these are in the wild, then perhaps our chinese friends might have reduced the footprint even more to the size of one connector.

I know the connectors with integrated magnetics are quite a bit 'longer' and 'beefier' than the passive ones.
Functional approach to React components (getting rid of `this`)
I've been looking in detail at three different Supermicro motherboards but so far have not been able to spot anything. Even against a backlight there is no sign of tampering between the layers.
Yeah, good luck when the Chinese will confiscate your assets.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/world/asia/sri-lanka-chin...

Make a list of islands you want to give away for 99 years.
Database of Remote Jobs Websites
Hi everyone! I am currently building a database of job boards for freelancers. I would like this to be a database for those wanting to search projects online.

I just started collecting on my website with reviewing different websites for writers, editors, proofreaders, coding development, designers, VA, video editors, accounters. You can check it here. There are reviewing chances of getting projects and competition and chances to get long time projects. https://periodix.net/job-catalog/

What do you think about the idea?

I would love to hear what websites you are using for remote projects? So that I can review with my team and add to the platform that helps and supports you :)
I work in an open office. Turns out that if I’m in the zone, noise around me isn’t a problem whatsoever, so long as someone doesn’t say my name.

I end up wearing my Bose much less often than not.
Haha all true, us expats in Bangkok are truly pissed off.
If Bloomberg's reporting is/was, in fact, entirely false then why wouldn't Amazon/Apple/Supermicro immediately sue them for libel/defamation?
> The US cannot force those companies to lie. They can force them to stay silent, in which case they'd just say "No comments". If those companies are lying, they are committing security fraud.

Would the US government have to force these companies to lie? It's quite possible that the denials were the result of voluntary cooperation.
"90*" is unrecognizable. "90 degrees" is recognizable, but takes up more space than "tau/4". "𝜏/4" takes only 3 characters of course, same as "90°".
Gaps in the market are unfortunately not the same as gaps in the psychology landscape.
It's not the same thing, but even simpler is just a white noise app and regular ear buds. That's worked well for me everytime, I don't need silence to fall asleep on a plane I guess.
even better: companies that don't have middle management
Larry was just discussing this with my wife (the official(?) Perl poet) yesterday. His wife and my wife didn't like the name he proposed. I kinda liked it.

I don't feel at liberty to disclose the name, but it might be in the recent irc logs.
Noise cancelling isn't hearing protection, fwiw. Ear protectors do a much better job of that, too.
The templating system is still perl, and all their tests are run in perl.
My personal site does not have any JS, but honestly at this point what I really want is an app where I can edit the page and see the markup and then press a button and it will generate and upload the content to my website.

I tried to finagle gitlab into it (since they offer free hosting and CI) but I haven't gotten the last step to quite work yet. Would be awesome to be able to work in both of line mode or through my Chromebook, and sync everything with git.
The only important one is the backup one :p
Maybe create a `new-master` branch with the offending commits rebased out; then automation to cherry-pick new commits between `master` to `new-master`.

Or change all CI / dev docs to use `--depth`, and save more than 350MB per checkout in the process.
Thank God we don’t have to deal with this crap in modern languages like e.g. Haskell

type GenParser tok st = Parsec [tok] stSource
Most likely, we will move to the Mainnet on 10 October. Right now we are testing the app on the Ropsten testnet.
A lot of people are saying sand shortage, but surely weight savings matter more? If your building is 6x lighter your foundations can presumably be a lot cheaper?
Crypto Industry on ‘Brink of an Implosion,’ Researcher Says
I'd rather do my math with a machine even though it requires finite precision. How operations affect precision is well known and not difficult to keep track of. You will only have "error accumulation," as you call it, if your desired precision is at the maximum that your computational machine can tolerate. So don't do that, and everything will work out fine.
Hey,

Hope it _is_ what you're looking for!

Happy to receive any feedback and impressions.
Does concrete last centuries when reinforced with steel?

I know next to nothing about building construction, but I saw this article recently, which suggests it doesn't:

https://theconversation.com/the-problem-with-reinforced-conc...

found via http://www.notechmagazine.com/2018/09/no-tech-reader-21.html
A portion of the article speaks of an Amazon fulfillment center:

“The top floor on which I worked was a gloomy place, with the only natural light coming in through small rectangular windows located far above on the high ceiling,” he writes. “Most of the light was provided by grey steel lamps the shape of rugby balls and about the same size. These were dotted about the ceilings on every floor and cast a peculiar yellow glow about the place. During the course of the night … many of the motion-sensitive lights would malfunction, meaning a dozen or so workers would be left scuttling around in the dark on the top floor of a warehouse at three o’clock in the morning. Who, when they purchase an iPhone charger or an Adele album with a click on Amazon’s website, imagines anything like this?”

Who wouldn't imagine something like this ?

What else could it possibly look like ? Regional shipment centers predate Amazon (and the web) and one would have to be comically out of touch with reality to not understand what a time sensitive shipping facility would look like ...
A laser revolution: How lidar is changing the way we see the world
Usually, in the communities movement, “commune” is a term-of-art for “an income-sharing community”. So, your list doesn’t really reference surviving secular communes.

The Farm stopped being an income-sharing commune many decades ago. Now it’s more like a co-housing community, with private ownership or control of most things.

Dancing Rabbit’s founding income sharing group disbanded many years ago, but it’s core mission wasn’t about being income sharing, and the community continued just fine without having an income-sharing subcommunity.

Earthhaven was never income-sharing, to the best of my knowledge.

So I don’t think any of these are really counter-examples; a business that new members can plug into (and a mechanism to exclude free-loaders, which The Farm didn’t really have) are both really important for a long-term successful income-sharing commune.
Tags seem to me to be the best solution because sometimes a post would have been shared to multiple circles: e.g. a link to an article about historical Samurai weapons/tactics could go to "martial arts", "Japanese language and culture", "Role playing games".
New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
> It may soon be that the only companies who can sell hardware outside of their own country are those who sell Open Source Hardware which can be 100% verified as true to its published design.

That would be a very, very good outcome, IMHO. Use espionage fears to push forward other objectives, like open source.
Yes I read it. seems they added another device to the network/ethernet interface which they detected sending network packets.

Curious how this one affected the server or did compare to the original article.

This one seems more benign considering it won't be able to mess around like the BMC has access to things like secure boot and other system busses like the PCI.
How I dockerized my personal playground server
Set aside whether this report is reliable or not, I don't see how something like the Digi Connect ME:

https://www.digi.com/products/embedded-systems/system-on-mod...

or the 9210 version:

https://www.digi.com/products/embedded-systems/system-on-mod...

cannot exist in Gb speed, if I recall correctly the original Digi Connect came out in 2005 or so.
I thought about it , but those came about recently, when cigarettes are known as an active health hazard. So it's more like a health product. We are not yet at the point that tech addiction is considered a health hazard, and imho it will never be, because tech adapts, evolves and improves productivity, and at any give point tech-less life will be a poorer alternative.
Does it count if I can uniquely identify the person/thing after having seen the Wikipedia overlay? For example, I saw a name that sounded vaguely familiar, but once I saw their picture, I recognized who they were and what TV show I knew them from. But I couldn't necessarily have drawn that connection from just the name.

Put another way: are you testing that I know of the entity itself, or that I know the entity and its/their name?

EDIT: another example: For a given novel title, I could probably have recalled who the author was (which would seem to be "a unique fact about [it]") but not anything about the plot. However, you listed the author right under the title, so... did I "know" that novel?
Read it more carefully. The ethernet jack is a tactic used by US intelligence years ago. That was mentioned in the story to explain the history of supply chain attacks.
who believes that some version of Dragonfly hasn't been deployed in the US?
I don't know. I'd assume they are only sold in countries where it's not common to have an oven. In the USA I've never seen a house or apartment that didn't have an oven included so if my experience matches reality than at least in the USA it doesn't seem like there would be any market.

What other countries is it not common to have an oven?

One top of that there is the issue that if it's not common to have an oven then it's also not common to cook things that would require an oven. So, I have no idea how common these ovens are in Japan in general. Given so many models by so many companies and given they can also be used as a microwave I'd kind of assume they are gaining in popularity. Foods that require an oven are also slowly getting more popular over time but I suspect it's still not common.
The pricing seems a bit weird. I'm dubious about hosting something semi-important on the free tier, but the first paid price point is $45, which seems too high for easier static hosting.
https://linux.die.net/man/1/finger
So how much did it cost you to have a baby in Denmark, just so the conversation is clarified?

Also as an aside there are lots of babies born in the US that are paid for via taxes and cost $0 out of pocket for the family. Medicaid, the VA, Tri-care etc. I don't have the numbers in front of me but I'd bet that there were more American babies that were tax paid for than Danish ones in a given year.
The problem here isn't that the FAA is regulating, we do need rules of the road for drones. The problem is up until this point they didn't have the legal authority to do so. From 2010-2014 the FAA put out some draconian memos and statements with scary insinuations that suggested they had the power to regulate drones flying inside your house. These fear tactics required my university to shut down flights of model aircraft, my competition team at an aerial robotics competition couldn't compete from 2014 - 2017.
>I would call that a personal preference

shrug it's two features that I see causing two classes of bugs on an extremely regular basis.

It's a trade off that affects everybody, but it's hard to weight up the trade off without a lot of experience.

>There isn't anything like this consensus for the changes you are suggesting.

Exactly what I said, yes...

>This change would make Python more strict about typing than virtually all mainstream static languages!

I think dialing up the strictness is a good thing and so do the language designers (that was the idea behind introducing type hints).

>Again, not something most people would use.

That's exactly the point. Making strings iterable list of characters isn't something that most people use - its primary function is to cause weird bugs for functions that take lists of strings (and you get an output like 'm', 'y', 'd', etc.).

Changing it so that you'd have to do string.chars to get an iterable list would, at very little cost, cut out a pretty common class of bug.
Google Pixel 3
I'm gonna step in and defend the Bose headphones that he seems to have had some seriously bad luck with.

I had a pair of wired QC25's as my first pair, and they had some really good noise cancelling. I could still distantly hear people talk, but when I had music on them (albeit probably louder than him) I could hear almost nothing.
Regarding Quality: Those QC25s were used when I got them (couldn't justify full price at the time), and they lasted for about 2.5 years beyond, being used literally every day for 5+ hours per day (Programming with music is my thing)

When those broke, I had absolutely no problem justifying what seems to be an exorbitant price for the newer bluetooth QC35 set. These are far beyond what the other set were. Nowadays I keep my music much quieter - listening to soft electronica at maybe 1/4 of the volume I used to, and when I do that, I can't even hear myself type on my mechanical keyboard, let alone any people talking. People can come up to my desk and talk directly to me and I won't realize it unless I see their mouth moving.

I'm not sure why his experience with Bose has been so bad, but I'm more likely to suspect he got a lemon for his headphones. I have had my QC35's now for....2 years, with I would average at 6-8h of use every day at work. They don't have a single iota of visible wear on them, and the battery life is still 24-32 hours on a single charge. I imagine that, barring any accidents with them, they will probably last another 2+ years for me.
> The US cannot force those companies to lie

That's a nice government tender you're working on, looks very profitable! Would be a shame if someone rejected it because reasons.

While it isn't the direct influence described i imagine this scenario is highly effective and getting companies to stay in line.
Delta = numerical comparisons only, or at least that's the only context I've ever seen delta used in.
Again, that doesn't really have anything to do with my core point.
I understood what they meant by "low-code" before I clicked the article, but I'm just one person.
More power to them! MailChimp is more deserving of unicorn status than vast majority of unicorns. It solves real world problems and helps real world businesses communicate with real world market. A happy MailChimp user here!
Google Pixel Slate with Chrome OS Unveiled
I think this is a turning point for Google's dominance in search. While they focus on reducing search quality in order to access more users, somebody out there will focus on improving search quality.
I’ve noticed after doing bursts of healthy eating that most processed food is _extremly_ sweet. Even food we think of as “salty” or “savory” is dominanted by a sugary flavor. This is because sugar is such a cheap way of making something taste “good” and since everyone is doing it your brain filters it away
Nice little summary here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2349cn0-T0
This sort of interaction, where multiple grownups just talk about a topic they have fundamentally different beliefs on, and being curious and mature enough to have a civilized discussion about it, seems just so distant and alien in these times.

I've had conversations like these, about VERY sensitive topics, with friends who disagreed, and none of us held a grudge (that I know of). I miss that.

I know this happened years ago, but still, thanks for sharing. It gives me hope.
i call bs. again. one source, to many technical inaccuracies imo
Which is the preferred version? There's a newer 2nd edition available there, but not many updates and lots of warnings about it being a draft.
Do you think the NSA manufactured their implants in China?
How are you going to monetize the apps? I don't think ads will be enough.
Wow, reading this article and some of the other linked Intercept articles, in my mind the culture at Google has finally hit a tipping point, having gone full-bore over to the "evil" side.

I know most folks on HN will think "Google has been this way for years", but I think the way The Intercept articles describe the erosion of the culture at Google is a perfect template for how virtually all large profit driven companies eventually turn "evil". It's the added secrecy that can be rationalized at first, the stretched gray areas (e.g. "we're just in an exploratory phase") that eventually cross over to full-fledged lies, but you're still able to convince yourself it's just a little "spin" for the greater good.

The really hard thing about "not being evil" is that in requires conscious, continuous effort to forgo profit (sometime huge profits) to adhere to that value. The lure of the Chinese market is simply too great, so people convince themselves it's possible to get at that potential market without compromising their values, and they do lots of mental gymnastics trying to get those opposing ideals into congruence.

I've seen this pattern many times before, honestly with much lower stakes than what Google is contending with, so I applaud Google for holding out as long as they did. This is one reason I hate talking about "company values": it's easy to adhere to those values when they're not in conflict with the company making money, but the second there is a quarter to hit or a metric at risk, those values always seem to go out the window (or at least get vastly watered down) in the pursuit of profit. I think it's pretty inevitable, and I wish companies would just admit to it.
Dutch appeals court upholds landmark climate change ruling
> If you asked me to predict what a quantitative economist would be using, it would be Python, followed by R, and maybe followed by Java or C, or something like that.

I've never heard of an economist using Java, and very few using C. Fortran is still quite popular in some areas.

Stata is extremely popular in some areas. GAUSS and Matlab in others (though GAUSS is declining for sure). R is quite popular, particularly since RStudio came along.
I hear ya. Thanks for the clarification.