skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noise canceling isn't perfect, so it leaves comb filter peaks of uncanceled sound in the sound field.
There could be other arrangements made with Bloomberg that would be jeopardized by that course of action. EG... you find a serious piece of news that can destroy me, so I pay you or make another arrangement to prevent that. If I later turn around and sue you, our backroom deal could blow up in my face. Too much is unknown right now.
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I dunno about "market opportunity", but I think very strongly about what Cal Newport said... that we have to train ourselves to be comfortable with boredom.

The device is very attractive at boring moments, like standing in line at a grocery store, or waiting for someone. Which causes a habit, when then interrupts you when you're actually doing something useful.
I have the Sony WH1000XM2s and they work very well for an office. They have held up very well and give me noise cancellation, durability, and good sound quality. Sony just released the WH1000XM3s which are probably worth a look if you are in the market.
If you look at the activity in the frequency domain, you might find a clock that's present in adulterated hardware that's missing in the nominal hardware.

> exposed power consumption of random periphery parts

Sampling these analog signals is done outside of the computer itself. Even if it were exposed via i2c, you couldn't trust anything that it would tell you.
I find these attempts to distinguish between different state sponsored criminals to be a diversion and subterfuge.

Whether China or the US re-allocates your IP, you can expect a competing product made in China. That you might have a relationship with one of them probably doesn't change anything unless they actually think your firm is the best one for the job of maximizing the results on their tax base.

I mean maybe I'm wrong; would it make any sense that these Republics take private corporate property more seriously other parts of their Constitutions they have violated at least until caught?

The US makes the claim China does not and former president and CIA head George Bush floated corporate espionage as THE plan for handling the absurd costs of "intelligence" criminals after the cold war..

I'm always astounded that working in a competitive market seems to blind people to significant stated facts of the environment their market is operating in.

In nature, it might make sense to just outrun the weakest, after all, a bear has a limited appetite. But superpowers have unlimited apetites and will collapse like the USSR if they should ever expand slower than cancer.
If both are going over the same physical interface, there could be tiny voltage drops to power the chip itself. The vague-as-ever article gives no indication as to how the chip would be powered, but such a small implant could conceivably leech off the legitimate ethernet interface.
Ask HN: How do you manage your day-to-day tasks?
I often find calendars too difficult to quickly read & maintain.

My digital TODO-lists often become out-of-date since I don't always have just phone/laptop available to jot down notes.

My paper notes have worked for short-term tasks but seem to be lacking when it comes to long-term tasks/events.

But perhaps I'm using these things incorrectly. What do HN users use?
Pixel 3
What about the last 15 years leads you to believe that we can rely on startup founders to care about safety and ethics?
That might still be in the works, legal process moves slowly. If we don't hear anything in another week or so, this could be worth considering.
Well-deserved -- congrats to Chris, Matt and the whole Netlify team!
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or 3) Bloomberg is vaguely correct, but wrong in the specifics, including naming Apple and Amazon.

I.e., They get credible reports of SuperMicro servers having been compromised, they know that Apple and Amazon are customers. They find 1 over eager source willing to say Apple and or Amazon received compromised servers.
> Surely they can't confirm the end security of every usage?

If attachments are going from Gmail to Google Docs then they're probably fine, I'd imagine one audit could cover all those types of apps. For things that send email to Slack or whatever I'd expect that Slack would need to pay to have that audited.
Why? When taking into account the cpu cache, branch mispredictions, etc, I bet it would be slower than just zeroing it, besides it wouldn't be secure at all, imagine a process that stores a secret key, and then releases the memory, if another process can trigger the first to generate and release the key memory multiple times, they would be able to read it.
> Reporters can't be this dumb.

What makes you think so
simple and useful <3, thanks!
Tech is absolutely a health hazard. Driving while texting is measurably as dangerous as driving drunk. It kills people.
> As someone who works in a garage most of the day as a mechanic, just what is office noise? they all seem pretty quiet to me. What are we trying to reduce?

It's not about the loudness, it's about its nature. I can't give you a precise characterization, but for me the most distracting noise is other people talking about stuff potentially relevant or interesting. Other things are easy to ignore, unless I'm in an irritable mood. Also note that people (myself included) often fight this kind of noise by playing even louder noise on their headphones - but that latter noise is not distracting and completely under control. Programming is a job requiring a specific kind of deep concentration, and it's easier to tune out a 747 flying directly overhead than two cow-orkers talking in the same room.
Funny you should say that... Guess what I'm working on, go on, guess. :-D

And don't call me kidding. ;-P
My understanding is that certain parts on the PCB were swapped out for malicous parts. If that's the case, it's probably not something that could be uncovered by a purley visual inspection. The 'spy' chips were likely made to look identical to the original parts.
> Finally a named source, but [...]

Indeed, insisting on evidence and reasoned argument is a good thing.

> I'm now wondering if someone found an NSA implant and misreported it as Chinese.

Sigh...

If you don't know you don't know. You can't use uncertainty about the source of someone else's hyped conspiracy theory as evidence for your own nuttery. Stop it.
Question to Netlify's founders. Did you really have to raise from VCs? Was the company already profitable?
I got an HP ENVY x360 15z about a month ago now on HP's labor day sale.

Ryzen 5 2500U
256GB SSD
16GB RAM

for only $859. I'm perfectly happy with the speed of the CPU, and the integrated GPU is fantastic (can even play Destiny 2 on low settings at 720p). That, and the build quality is absolutely superb.

Keep in mind, I bought this for programming at home, not gaming. But I'm glad that it works as a portable light gaming rig when needed.
"any ethernet port with only Ethernet connectors should be safe from this kind of attack? "

I know that some IPMI implementations can control/use the on board ethernet. There might be some hole there. Similar for the built in management on some Intel processors and nics.
I like him and find his columns entertaining, and always have. I'm not like, picking stocks based on them.
Pixel Slate first look
That's defamation, but not libel. For clearing libel, all you have to prove is that the statement was presented as fact, was false, and caused harm.

From my lay understanding, Supermicro has a slam dunk case given the impact on their stock price.
According to CNN Google just dropped a bid for the DoD Cloud Computing project JEDI

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/tech/google-defense-contract/...
How good can you develop, let's say something easy, for example some python + Postgres + node.js on a Chromebook like the Pixel Slate without rooting or removing ChromeOS?
Live stream here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsoQGTA1SxY
Should've asked the guy to perform an exorcism on the desk before he left the job.
What search terms do you think are being censored?
Yep. There's a couple ideas here. It's a bit convoluted though.
My consumer board exposes that information.
There is a tab called system information with hardly readable text which lists all voltages etc by component

I've never actually checked in the bios of any server, as that information was never relevant to me, but they probably have that as well
Comply foam tips are incredible. I bought a cheapo pair of in-ear wireless earphones off wish.com and the sound quality was abysmal, I stuck some Comply tips on and now they sound excellent. The tips cost more than the earphones.
That isn't always the point of a review embargo. Take a game with heavy marketing that the corp realizes is going to get bad reviews. Sometimes they will delay reviews of things like that as long as possible, until day before or day of release.
Are there any good guides or tutorials?
I've found GPUs difficult, in part because I don't really know where to start.

FWIW, I have an AMD GPU with ROCm. HIP it's a lot like CUDA, so NVidea-focused tutorials ought to be fine. With the caveat that I'd have to be aware of hardware differences.
Using machine learning to index text from billions of images
Headphones generally help my tinnitus as long as I have something (anything) playing in them, even at extremely low volumes, but it's interesting there's a chance it could (temporarily) make it worse! That said, yes concerts/clubs, and poor choices when it comes to car audio, etc have all contributed to some hearing loss and tinnitus for me. I think headphones have been the smallest overall contributor. I typically don't listen to headphones turned up loud, however.

I'm pretty sure as long as the volume is always kept to a reasonable level, wearing headphones constantly shouldn't be an issue as far as any hearing damage is concerned. Especially when it comes to NC headphones- I would think this would often cause the wearer to not have to have the volume as high since less needs "drowned out".

There are other issues with long-term wearing, though, at least for some. For existing tinnitus I suppose it could be a problem- though even earplugs aggravate that for me because the less sound I hear externally the more perceptible my tinnitus gets (power outages are the worst because when a room goes dead silent my tinnitus goes nuts). And of course there are issues of comfort, migraines/headaches, etc
NEOM Advisory Board: Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen and Others
They’re supposed to do the right thing even when it costs them, just like the rest of us. They don’t get excused just because they’re incentivized to do the wrong thing. Most of us manage to keep our morals even when it would be to our advantage not to.
> Some "random guy that's making a startup" presumably would do things to be safe, and ethical, no?

That's a very risky assumption to make. Ethics are often secondary considerations for engineer and business thinking (for better or worse). To the point that people advocate the removal of ethics courses from university STEM curricula (not sure how widespread this viewpoint is, but I've heard it my entire adult life, so this whole century).
Read Michael Pollan's books and essays about the "healthy" food market, and marketing "magic ingredients" that make factory junk food "healthy". Omega-3! Chia seeds! Vitamins!
The way I interpret it is: since it's being introduced at the manufacturing plant, those installing the devices have no idea where the finished product will end up. Thus, these are not targetted attacks; they could wind up in the servers of a Fortune 500 company, or just as easily in some hobbyist's home lab. You'd need to compromise a large percentage of the products to increase the chances of landing a juicy target. The scattergun manner is what they're playing up here.
The site is actually a bit out of date, the ECP5 bit (Project Trellis) and nextpnr are already working:

https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr
The reviewers used Game Mode on a CPU without NUMA, so it was pointless and only meant to damage.
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Provided the Linux container system works well on it - it should be easily possible. Whether the UX is good for a developer workflow I can't be sure. Users at reddit.com/r/chromeos seem to be able to do some good dev work on crostini-enabled devices.
Anything that makes it harder to write node is IMO a net positive for society.
9M cameras and DVRs open to APTs, botnet herders, and voyeurs
Locally? You can’t really unless you are just looking for a text editor with markup.
The New Cyber Strategy Frees Up U.S. Cyber Muscle. How Will It Be Flexed?
"But certainly whatever the cause - it's much deeper than something like the ECB mishandling the situation in Italy. "

This is not a mishandling, the ECB is what is, for now, saving the Euro.

The problem, in Europe, at least, is the design of the Euro is flawed. A different question is if that flawed design it's being used for other goals.
so we can't call someone out who apparently didn't even watch the linked content, while still posting a comment that criticizes the content?

I'm curious about where in the rules it says we shouldn't call someone out on their BS.
> Some "random guy that's making a startup" presumably would do things to be safe, and ethical, no?

I assume the exact opposite of nearly every startup.
What's interesting to me in all this is not the immediate response but what the medium- to long-term impact will be.

Does anyone doubt that semiconductor/electronics manufacturing will become a strategic industry in the same realm as uranium refining?

I think we'll see electronics supply chain integrity play a growing role in major project delivery in the years to come.
Or an article author wanted to move the market. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18162440
Pixel Slate
Wouldn't you want to encourage Google engineers to quit and work somewhere better? If everyone blacklists them they'll just stay at Google forever.
That’s not what the BW/Bloomberg story claimed - it specifically called out a chip that wasn’t on the official BOM and had been added to the build.
You first argue that the free market is suited to solve these problems, then criticize the health-care industry for problems caused by its competitive nature.

I want to address your point here, but I have no idea what it is.
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The Chinese aren't the ones pleading for a Google search solution. They won't talk about squat.

Google will, however, need to talk to curious investors on missing billion dollar opportunities while Bing goes about serving search without a fuss in China
some of my values are inherently qualitative, so I would expect ask for examples (which are not ancedotal).

For example,

- Provide written plans for the last 2-5 features you pushed out.

- What's the process for firing employees ... is any of it in writing?

- What's the template for communicating ideas across the company quickly? Amazon has the 1-page tactical doc, the 6-page strategy doc, M$soft the 30 second CEO update, Google the 2 minute pitch. What communication norms/templates do you have within your company?
They disabled half the AMD cores.
The live demos feature sounds really cool!
We who?

The current American economic system has been in place long before I was born and will continue without or without me. It is run by those who control it, not those who it controls.
WTAF is going on with the Chinese hack of Supermicro chips?
Given Amazon's scale, I would be very surprised if they're not either leveraging Open Compute designs or doing something similar with custom designs similar to open compute. Supermicro makes nice motherboards and servers, but they definitely are addressing general purposes, and something tuned more towards the specific needs of Amazon could be a lot more cost effective; even if that just means getting hardware that runs OpenBMC so the BMC firmware isn't complete trash.
This may be a naive question, but how many websites are actually static these days?
Pixel 3: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_3

Pixel Stand: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_stand

Pixel Slate: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_slate

Home Hub: https://store.google.com/product/google_home_hub

It is so weird these days that 95% of the marketing and copy for new hardware is actually marketing and copy about software, not the hardware. They do however have a spec compare page for the phones: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_compare
i do not think the Chinese can understand the long term value of this open toolchain (as it will not make them sell MORE chips in the short term. that's IMHO their only expected ROI for any effort..).
anyway i've recently got a nic(h)e board Lichee Tang (http://tang.lichee.pro/) sporting a "weird" Anlogic Eagle FPGA, that's also sold with a 1o1 "pin compatible feature" against similar parts from X & A(I) manufacturers.
that's tells a lot about their marketing practices!
any word that starts with a minus sign, for one!
I paid $180 for Headphones that only lasted Two Years
You can read this story as a CYA because they overstepped in the first story. The have good details here. But in the Apple rebuttal, they note Bloomberg only had a single source for the Apple claims.
You can’t run docker normally on ChromeOS you can run it on some chromebooks that support dual booting with something like GalliumOS, or rooting the machine and running your Linux distro in a container/chroot.

Unless you are severely strapped for cash and can’t find the same low end chromebook hardware in a low end windows form factor that can be simply reinstalled over there is absolutely no reason to even consider using a chromebook for anything other than it was intended unless you are rooting it for a hobby.

People abuse the fact that you can sometimes find them for sub $200 for $300-400 worth of hardware but it’s a hack on top of a hack to make it run anything.
The new experience for video conferencing, up to 100 participants, no downloads
This looks really nice!

As an aside, is there a course where its not just details in text but some actual hands on mini-implementation work too? I like reading books but for programming I've found I internalize the material better by working through an actual project, even if its a toy project
Investigating the Truth of “Macs Are Overpriced”
Appears to be a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176993.
Semantic UI vs. Skeleton Css , which is better?
It could just be a sort of beacon to help identify where hardware went after the manufacturing process. If the same company is building the same hardware, the agent can slip in something more nefarious to make sure they target the right company. Servers are commodity products but they aren't manufactured in mass quantities like phones are. If a company orders thousands of them, that's likely thousands that will need to be made. A chinese manufacturing plant gets contracted to spin up production and an implant is slipped into some of the first boards just to see where they go. You don't want an expensive hardware trojan to end up in a Fortnite server; you want to hit Apple, Google, Lockheed Martin, Spacex, anyone with valuable IP or information. The more beacon implants you throw out there, the more likely someone will find one and you don't want to get caught too early in the game. Once those implants come online and phone home, you have a better idea where the remaining boards are going and slip in the real deal implants, the ones that will actually get you a backdoor.
> Some "random guy that's making a startup" presumably would do things to be safe, and ethical, no?

“They ‘trust me.’ Dumb fucks.”
But they probably can force a handful of engineers to tell nothing to their employer, who would be vehemently denying in good faith.
A bigger notice mentioning why you shouldn't would be better, though.
Memory allocation and deallocation on the heap basically mean calling the `operator new` and `operator delete` functions in C++. The language provides a default implementation but you can override it.

Constructors are orthogonal. The job of a constructor is to construct your object given that the space for the object is already allocated. This could be on the stack, where allocation means bumping the stack pointer, or in-place in preallocated storage (like std::vector), or the result of calling `operator new`. Simply using the `new` syntax does both as a shorthand.

Similarly the job of a destructor is to destruct your object without deallocating it. One can in-place destruct without deallocating, or destruct and then deallocate implicitly when the stack pointer is adjusted, or not at all. The `delete` syntax does both destruction and deallocation as a convenience.
Wonder when Google will abandon this tablet like the 6 previous ones? 6 months? 12?
From the guidelines

"Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that.""
I still have not used a pair of NC headphones that muffles noise as well as my QC35. It's like stepping into a bubble.
I've never seen an onboard Ethernet jack that doesn't have metal sides. The only places I've seen all-plastic Ethernet jacks are consumer networking gear and really ancient add-on cards. That makes me wonder if their source actually knows what he's talking about, especially given the lack of technical details about how this works.
Uops.info: Characterizing Latency, Throughput, Port Usage of Intel Instructions
Personally not a fan of active noise cancellation as I dont like the feeling of it, plus the Bose are expensive and I mostly want to mask speech. I settled on noise isolation in the form of studio/dj headphones, that work well wearing for long periods with glasses on. Got these Beyerdynamic https://www.amazon.com/beyerdynamic-770-PRO-Studio-Headphone... though paid around $130 instead. The 80 ohm version still works well with my phone without amp.
I think “company values” only makes sense if there’s a solid rationale behind it for how it helps you make money.

For example, “don’t cut corners” by itself is easily lost. “Our reputation for high quality products creates loyal customers and allows us to set higher prices” will be more durable. It’s not perfect by any means, but it helps.

I don’t recall Google ever having a rationale for how “don't be evil” helped them make money, either explicitly or implicitly. It was just a fun little thing they had.
Yeah, valuation seems low...

Look at marketo for a good comp: 21x EV/TTV - http://tomtunguz.com/marketo-vista-ma/
I love this service because it takes away the local toolchain required to do static sites and does that build process online.

If you're a ruby guy, you can do Jekyll and Middleman for example.

So my toolchain (using middleman) for my company website is:

1. Make change locally

2. Push to Bitbucket

3. Netlify notices the change to the master branch

4. Netlify pulls it to it's container, builds it

5. Newly built files are put in a CDN and HTTPS...all for free

One of my favorite services right now.

EDIT: To give more context this is what I did before:

1. Did the build using middleman to create static assets

2. Uploaded those static assets via FTP to AWS S3
Why do you need docker to develop "something easy" like the OP asks?
Not true, ChromeOS now has a Linux container stack with apt.
Yield?