skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who are ultimately in charge of Google Ventures fly from a federal government airport on taxpayer subsidized jet fuel, and are currently embroiled in a dispute with their labor force about building ML tools for the military’s drone program—with the leadership being the initiators of the program and the objections coming from the rank-and-file.

Don’t be so sure of the lack of integration here. If they’re willing to bend for China’s censorship, why wouldn’t they bend for any manner of much-more-palatable (to them) directives from their home government?
I think folks might find Sentry’s use of Rust interesting. Sentry is quite invested in Python on their backend, but needed additional performance mostly related to symbolication of crash reports. So they have a Rust symbolication library with Python bindings giving them the best of both worlds for their app.

https://github.com/getsentry/symbolic
Pretty sure you can get some kind of really cheap experimental type of license to distill as well.
I'm in the market for a car and will be visiting some dealerships soon. I can already imagine their confusion when all the connected features make it a harder sell for me.
New media slowdown: Openings at Vox, Buzzfeed, Vice at lowest levels in years
It goes pretty deep everywhere.

https://twitter.com/aplusk/status/1021409519098769408
If you can create html, You should help raise awareness of companies using banned CFCs that burn holes in the ozone.
Ok, "encourage and facilitate"
This is one of the reasons why I don't want a car with a wireless network interface. (The other reasons are related to safety and security, and not wanting anyone to have the capability of remotely disabling my car.)
I would say exactly that.
>In particular, by writing that codes of conduct are "punitive spirit", RMS shows a misunderstanding of how these texts came into existence.

But they are written in a punitive spirit. Someone did something, or behave in a way that someone dislike, rightly so in most cases. There's just some weird assumption that we can punish our way out of having certain types of people in or around a project. That never going to work, it doesn't work in real life and it's certainly not going to work online.

I have yet to see a single code of conduct, besides what Stallmann just posted, that's actually trying to address the underlying issues, and not just ban people. Kicking someone of a project isn't going to make them go away, nor is it going to positively influence they personality.

In one of his videos Brian Lunduke rightly pointed out that many of the people behind the FreeBSD code of conduct could be kicked on the FreeBSD project, if you where to follow their new code of conduct strictly. That it issue with most codes of conduct, they are written extremely aggressively, but enforce very very selectively.

Also, one question that has me puzzled, let's say that a person with autism behaves badly, not because he or she is a bad person, but rather have extremely poor social skills, due to a handicap. In many cases you can't kick that person of the project, because that would be targeting a person with a mental handicap. You can't really allow that person to stay either, because someone else got their feelings hurt, or feel attacked. Stallmans solution is better, because you instead aim to correct the behaviour.

Let's face it, in the end the vast majority of us know who to behave professionally, and the small group of people that we're targetting with a code of conduct isn't the type of people that will change due to the words of a well intended document. If you could write a text that would make people realise that they've behaved inappropriately the world would already be a much better place.
The interesting thing about BNC is that the strain relief is with the device chassis, not the boards themselves. This makes them enormously more robust than, say, a PCB mount HDMI or anything like that.
Multi-GNSS support increases the reliability and signal availability. Commercial chipset will usually add support for all of them and don't just choose one.

Newest phones (like iPhone 8) work with GPS, Galileo, Glonass, and QZSS. Beidou support will come in the future.
Can anyone tell me why is it better for my privacy that all of my data flows through a 3rd party? A 3rd party who will now know everything about me (at least what pages I browse)
Tobacco is commonly subject to many laws (or standard leases) around public and even private consumption. Look at how few places in e.g. Finland or Hong Kong you can smoke a cigarette in compared to just two-three decades ago. In some countries, you may not be able to smoke in your own home or car if children are present or could be present (since toxins linger); if you rent, there are virtually no landlords left who will let you smoke inside; if you live in a block of flats with other people, you cannot light up on your balcony; parks may ban smoking, etc.
Tell that to Gawker.
Agreed - conversational violence and physical violence are two very different things.

If I heard somebody say 'violence', I definitely wouldn't jump to conversational violence in my head. But as far as descriptive nouns go, it's not a terrible one. Just as long as everybody understands the context.

Your note about being able to control interpretations is interesting - I haven't had great success with that myself. Like if some rando came up to me and shouted bad stuff in my face, my day would be pretty ruined. I could try to rationalize it away later, but I definitely wouldn't be unhurt in the moment. And probably the memory would affect me whether I wanted that or not. Sticks-and-stones might be one of those "in theory, theory and practice are the same" kinds of situations.
Capitalism is capitalism. It's limited by laws and culture. In the US, that means it's limited by laws - Wall Street doesn't care about culture.
I kinda felt similarly until I found one of my existing web services wasn't quite fast enough (currently serving around 1000req/s at peak). I could either go for a third rewrite in yet another framework hoping to increase performance by maybe 30%, or I could try something entirely new.

First attempt with rust more than doubled performance of the existing system on the same hardware. Now I feel a need to learn more.
How would that actually support anything though? I don't understand how this entire story has any legs without physical evidence. People can say things to multiple people, but that doesn't make what they're saying more true, right?
Yep, we use those in (hobby) drones for extra precise location data.
I’m curious; why?
What's more progressive, public schools (benefit everyone) or private schools (benefit the rich)?

Now consider that the tax bill makes private school tuition tax deductible, but state taxes that pay for public school non-deductible. Hardly progressive.
Supermicro is a fairly large player (4th largest) and they still manufacture servers. If this story were indeed true, none of these companies or any other company buy their servers. The story is simply fake news.
Try searching for the groups that reverse-engineer ECU's in order to override them with sportier tunes
The study incorporated many more variables than whether marijuana was legal in each state, including demographic factors, so this amounts to a controlled experiment.
A big issue with startups today is that it takes longer and longer to get any kind of liquidity (5 years is very quick these days).

So, in the small chance your startup works out, you only get that equity pay day after half a decade at best.

Is the experience worth the risk and opportunity cost? Depends on your situation
I'm not sure what the difference is between sounding rude or aggressive and being
rude or aggressive, which certainly the site guidelines are asking you not to do.

Swipey phrases like "preaching of a religious person" count as name-calling in HN's sense.

Your comment was clearly written in the flamewar style. ("Your virtue signaling is unimpressive. Please take it elsewhere.") That's very much what we're trying to avoid here, so please don't do it on HN.
US companies are integrating fairly public "spy chips" in the form of Intel's ME and AMD's PSP.

These have very little/no benefit for the average consumer.
The game isn't saying we should ask the rich to solve our problems. The game implies a system is fucked that allows one person to own a seemingly infinite sum, and leave others to suffer and die on the street. I think this is a fair assessment. A system that gives any one liberty to seek the greatest riches, should also protect those who's fortunes, being a part of the same system, are much poorer. It is probably a simple exercise to economically model how too much in one hand prevents enough in another's stomach.

Better than questioning the morality of looking into rich people's bank accounts, is the question of whether it is ethical for people to accumulate so much in the first place. There must be a sense of commonwealth, because the only thing that exists "in a vacuum of society", is nature itself, and that must in some respect belong to everybody. It would not even amount to "wealth redistribution" to tax the top 0.01% enough to afford decent housing and education; it'd be a soft cap.
While you are correct that “respect people” is a better general purpose rule, you are throwing out the baby with the bath water: experience is valuable.
I’m a skeptic too, but if there’s one person who can make this sort of moonshot project happen, it’s him. His expertise is right where it needs to be.
Well yes, haha, but if they knew or should've known that what they were reported was false and it causes monetary damages, then they can be taken to civil court. So, if they are sued they will be fighting to prove that they believed this article was true when they published it. Since Joe Fitzpatrick, one of the sources, has already come out and said that he speculated some hypotheticals that then made it into the story as fact, it doesn't seem that hard to prove that they published something they weren't sure was fact, which did cause a lot of monetary damages to quite a few companies.
I think Keynes is a lot more comparable to Freud than to Darwin. Hugely inspirational in his day, inspired a lot of interesting ideas, clearly a very bright guy. But not necessarily ever right about anything, or at least anything new.
The denials seem convincing. And yet the story seems very much plausible. US NSA does these kinds of attacks, why not China?

> They offered no proof, story kept changing, and showed no interest in our answers unless we could validate their theories

If that's really the case then it seems likely that their source may have indeed deceived them. But don't they have multiple sources?

> The article also claims ... we conducted a network-wide audit of SuperMicro motherboards and discovered the malicious chips in a Beijing data center.

Bloomberg's source for this claim must be distinct from the Israeli security researcher, right?

Perhaps, if this was a Russian HUMINT attack, it's another glorious success for GRU.
I guess. . . but even around that time, when I was doing a lot of work on a pretty pixel-limited laptop screen, I typically made real estate by just having several different virtual terminal sessions (plus one for X). A flick of an F-key to switch VT's wasn't as quick as a flick of the eyes, but it was close enough.

And way better than anything that involves reaching for the mouse, which would seem to be an essential part of doing it in a 3D DE.
It would be unwise for Chinese missiles to use a positioning system controlled by the US military, to say the least...
What on earth are you talking about? Can you rephrase in a way that a reasonable person can follow?
California Cannabis Tax Revenue Increases in 2nd Quarter of 2018
> other steps

I recall reading about a spec house builder who would design the houses so that the dimensions of the rooms would fit an even multiple of the widths of carpet rolls. This nearly eliminated carpet waste, and made installation cheaper, too, as there were no seams.
> car companies that wanted to offer cool new options to consumers, like enhanced navigation or remote access

It was big news when those "car hackers" found a way to control car systems over 3g. They want to increase that surface area?

Their lack of paranoia is insane to me.
Man, I live here and feel bad for the people of Louisiana.
The gulf is turning into a giant wasteland/superfund site.
Such a corrupt state.
Thanks for explaining. But there are bank robberies today. And everyone knows banks have cameras. :)
That would be catastrophic for Bloomberg - if a news org is seen as more interested in protecting its reputation than protecting its sources, no sensitive source would speak to it again. They can easily eat the hit of one potentially bad story. They can't eat the hit of 'dicks around with sources'.
Web scraping is such an underappreciated art. Unfortunately, it's harder and harder to do little hobby projects since many sites will quickly ban you.

I was working on a music project, trying to use Rate Your Music as the data source. Got banned before even hitting 50 requests (less than one a minute). I should have checked their TOS first ...
The inconsistency is worst.
For people who want to read the literature / propaganda / ephemera of the time there was a magazine called Arkangel which has some back issues available on the web.

There was considerable debate about whether fire bombing was a non-violent action: the aim was not to harm people, but to cause massive water damage (from the sprinkler systems) to shops and their stock. Other people said you know violence when you see it, and burning down a building is a violent act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkangel_(magazine)
It's a good acronym if you consider companies like the ones mentioned to be included. So because Google is there, Microsoft belongs there. Twitter goes with Facebook, and Spotify goes with Netflix. Yahoo! is missing but it should be IMO. It's neither huge like Google nor socially innovative like Netflix. The five mentioned companies encompass a wide range of powerful tech companies.

It's a concept that works if you don't take it too literally.
He's using an analogy to drive home a point about authority, persuasion and command. The principle might have been better applied elsewhere, but that doesn't mean there's no substance; ironically you haven't seen the substance (essence) because you became hung-up on appearance. The essence may be less profound than he lets on, if we divorce it from the psychoanalytical justification, which is the point that when someone is kind to you (or gives the appearance of being so), you will feel less inclined to disobey, but it is merely the use of the techniques of someone experienced in convincing.
Food prices are confusing. Back in the UK I could get cheap loaves of bread for 55p ($0.71 at current exchange rate), while here in Berlin I see them for €0.59 in mid-range brands for a slightly smaller loaf that works out as $1.08 when adjusted for size as well as current exchange rate.
“SO has probably added billions of dollars of value to the world in increased programmer productivity.”

No: the voluntary contributions of many skilled programmers, mediated by a website, has increased programmer productivity. Stack Overflow has captured and exploited some of the value created, and the contributors have not been paid.

Skill needed to create SO / Expertise embodied in content provided for free to SO = approx zero.

Running a big site like SO is hard, but it’s trivial compared to the expertise required to write the content on SO from scratch.
Elephant in the room: we shouldn't trust journalists to begin with.
I'm curious too. This seems like a sides thing, and of course a lot of people are anti-tech these days. But, to side with the publisher of garbage tech journalism just because you don't like tech seems a little counter-productive. You can hate tech people without willfully believing things you know are false.
That was definitely true before Rust 1.15, but it becomes even less beneficial with each new stable release.

I work for one such prominent early adopter of Rust, and we were very happy to move to stable sometime back. Stable versions are widely used, so issues are much more likely to be noticed, and fixes are backported to the current stable release.

If you pick a random nightly version, you have much less support to begin with simply because fewer people use it, and you're on nightly because you're dependent on features that haven't been as thoroughly tested as those features that exist on stable, and which could disappear entirely in the next nightly. Each time you upgrade to a different nightly increases the risk of introducing some hard-to-find bug into production.

Some companies do use nightly Rust in production. You're completely correct. It's just not something that I would personally be willing to do unless I had absolutely no reasonable alternative.
I'd say "aware" and "familiar with" are two totally different groups. And while I'd agree that "aware" seems like it'd approach 100% of the general programmer pop., from my experience "familiar with" is a surprisingly and saddeningly lower than 100% percentage.
Not sure how important this is. Is there a doubt in anyone's mind that FB got Oculus for John Carmack ?
Why not implement the GCs themselves using low-level WASM code? That would enable a language-agnostic approach (though it would prohibit collecting garbage over multiple cooperating languages at the same time, which is a less urgent problem imho).
Some of the cheapest exotic wood you can buy is from estate sales for this reason. The person running the sale can look up model numbers and prices for tools they know nothing about. But even one familiar with hardwoods will have a tough time accurately and efficiently labelling a stack of boards covered in dust, wax and bleached by the sun. Obviously some exotic wood is easy to identify (ex. zebrawood) but most look like any other wood after sitting in a garage for years and are usually sold as such.
The CoC does not require religious belief in the least. They are secular rules.

By this same logic, we should reject all scientific research that predates nation state funding.
One can posit the Bloomberg story (be it legit or not) led to a worthwhile task of US companies taking a pause and scrutinizing their hardware..
I didn't say ignore senior opinions. I said don't ignore juniors.
At one time people thought that you couldn't possibly have a high performance runtime that supported both object-oriented and functional patterns vis-à-vis garbage collection, yet the CLR managed to pull it off with some clever use of ML (pun intended)[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/ZTbyKsw7uIU?t=684
I agree; I've also seen the term "aggression" co-opted in a similar manner.

Both violence and aggression require intent, and a big reason such communication skills need to be taught is that so many people don't understand how they sound.

This is important because the best corrective action for unintentional harm may be different than the best corrective action for intentional harm.
Markets and bubbles crash because of a mismatch between a price and actual comparable value (which, in their large form, are usually caused by artificial market levers or _regulations_).

Stop with this mysticism inspired "greed is bad and therefore actions inspired by greed are inherently bad so we need even more powerful people who are of course not influenced by greed to set rules for the greedy" nonsense.
Yeah, if you lose the N, it becomes inappropriate. And GAF doesn't sound great.
Not at all, and my personal opinion is he is just using Facebooks computing power to achieve his goals.
Wow, I've never heard of amazon packages being delivered to your truck. That's really cool! I'd be a little worried about someone breaking into the truck, but in lots of places I'm sure it's perfectly safe.
They pay their journalists bonuses if they move the market. That gives some pretty perverse incentives to the journalists.
The game mentions that and says something like, "Deal with it. This is a game."
Netflix is in there instead of Microsoft because at the point in time Jim Cramer started shouting "FANG" Nextflix stock was a hot buy and Microsoft stock was still firmly in the Ballmer doldrums.
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So? What's wrong with that? Your service to humankind may as well be a service to Christ.

And you are the one to decide what server the Christ.
I don't know if anyone's written about it. I don't even know if they're on, I've just noticed that they all have small but obvious cameras. They're marked ClearChannel, so I assume they own the boards and cameras.
nah, they'd just change their name more frequently
Fluid Annotation
Let me explain further then. It is all tied in, across the spectrum, along with linux code of conduct and sqlite topic today. In 'normal' company I can either respect the rules or walk away, there is usually little room for changing them. In open source project, small number of vocal butt hurts or political opponents that can use and channel 'hurt ones' can do much harm to the project, because they 'can' enforce different rules by being very noisy.

In this particular case, same with Linux CoC, reasons to try to apply or change rules can have much more sinister motives than what it seems on the surface.

Case in point.

1. Initial linux CoC is introduced by Greg KH, after one sensitive 'programmer' got hurt by Linus general behavior. Oh also she was working closely with Greg if I am not mistaken. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/374

2. Next Linux leaves the project (temporarily? fingers crossed) and Greg KH remains to be the top decision maker for what goes in into kernel. Same guy who wanted to push d-bus like his life depends on it, which doesn't show good judgment for the project well being.

3. Then one of the first things to do is to introduce even more rules, even if Linus returns soon: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/22/188

So underhand politics that has nothing to do with small tiny sensitive souls continues and quickly.

When I see Stallman not buying CoC crap I respect that.

Did I explain better?
Hey, I don’t know your situation so this may be nonsense, but what you describe doesn’t sound so PC.

The guy’s code worked? Doesn’t sound unreasonable that the project leader would want it merged. Put the technical debt on the backlog, get on with writing other code that works.

The project leader presumably had a team to manage. Seems perfectly understandable that they would want all their team contributing, even if some team members were vastly more productive than others. The alternative is over-reliance on key personnel, or back to the recruitment treadmill (both of these are risks and uncertainties - which it’s the PM’s job to manage down).

The project leader should want his less skilled employees to grow their skills so that he may one day have a greater breadth and depth of talent at his disposal. It might even be reasonable for the leader to want his most talented developers to do nothing but coach junior colleagues - particularly on a typical project that isn’t rocket science, where 5 average developers will be more useful than one rockstar.

Like I said, I don’t know your situation. My point is that the behaviour you describe seems like it could be quite normal and rational and not motivated by PCness at all.
No one is excluded.
You can destroy something without taking it out of orbit. The pieces will happily carry on along their orbital trajectories.
The car is last place I want targeted advertisements and distractions. I live and breathe tech, but I drive a manual car with no GPS, no Bluetooth and no remote connectivity. I turn on local NPR or connect phone using aux cable to listen to podcasts. I never found any use of tech in my car.