skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the risk is real. Imagine the US made phones for Russia during the Cold War, and the phones were so complicated and full of microcontrollers that reverse engineering and ensuring that a backdoor wasn't in place was impossible. Do you really think the US wouldn't have taken advantage of that?

The specific technical risk is unknown, though. There are thousands of microcontrollers in a modern advanced electronic device. It's nearly impossible to inspect each one and see what exactly is backdoored and how.
One of the reasons most criminals get caught, is because they think they are smarter than all other criminals, and only the stupid ones get caught. No criminal thinks they are stupid.

The ones that don't get caught are typically full on psychopaths, because they are random and don't have an MO that identifies them.
I don't know if I want 5G. It sounds like wimax but faster. I don't think it gives that much benefit, triangulation already was able to bomb a terrorist in Russia in the 90s. How much worst could it get?
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I'm going to just start putting that on all my PR. Ex-Googler. No one is going to check, and if it biases the opinions of idiots... so be it...
Most things fall on a spectrum - I view this as an iterative enhancement.
80k per year, not per semester, and most students that don't come from wealth pay nowhere near that.
I wish we could get a black bar for this guy.
One of my main complains about LXD is the documentation. It's scattered and generally not all that good.

Logging is also a bit of an issue for me, but that might just be me not configuring it correctly. Basically I don't think LXD provides enough logging to correctly and easily pinpoint problems.

I know it's a Canonical project, but at time it seems like Stéphane Graber is the only person actively involved in the project. Everything seems to point back to him and his Github account in some way.
Agreed that there’s a market for home electronics that doesn’t try to sell on looking coolest in a store, but are reliable and work well in real life. No beeps, no unnecessary LEDs or LCDs, no fancy branded™ features. Just simple, basic, sturdy design that looks right in a home.

You could probably sell commodity hardware with high margin if you sold it with this promise and story.
They are ahead of Intel, at least. In the server/VM market, that is roughly the same as being first...at least for now.
But for at least Portugal and Greece, and maybe Italy and some eastern European countries, the ally is china since 2014?

While Obama made his move over SE Asia, the CCP applied the strategy they used in Australia with the PIGS. And while Trump very successfully destroyed what Obama tried to do in SE Asia, the CCP installed foreign military bases near center of trade in the Indian ocean while gaining political goodwill with middle east poorest countries. Most of Iraki oil is sold to China.

I'm not claiming i know what should be done, i'm just saying that China have already a lot of political allies and try to gain more, and now reached europe.
JLC/LCSC isn't exactly aiming to be a hobbyist firm, they have over $30M USD from Sequoia China and other VCs.
A CNC machine is as much a robot as an industrial arm is. I suspect you might specifically mean "autonomous robot"?
> We trialled with 20 tech startups and 100 volunteers. All startups are from the UK right now. 90% of volunteers are from UK as well

I don't quite understand how this is legal. UK has national minimum wage. If people are working they need to be paid. People can volunteer if the company is a charity or community service company or non-profit, but otherwise they're workers and need to get at least minimum wage.
I think you're understating the human rights impact of going from third world to first world living standards. You like having your teeth?
I prefer these...

https://boingboing.net/2016/06/08/the-amazing-shitty-robots-...
> They have good accountant

That’s true their accountant are good at sugar-coating the bad state of company, negative cashflow along with net income loss which is consistently increasing since listing. Not making one dime in profit and still claim profitable business.

For $1 revenue they spend more than $1, so sorry they are loss making company not profitable and on top due to negative cash-flow much worse.

The numbers speaks for itself without sugar coating that shopify is loss making venture. As long as investors money through stocks will keep coming they will survive and will be bought out by someone one day to cash-out those investors. Anyways with cost of borrowing 0, sooner or later someone will acquire it.
I've been going back and forth on whether or not Hey is worth it for me. I really liked my trial, but $100 just feels like a high price. But according to this calculator I'd only have to value my free time at $3/hour to start "saving money".
And that's why I colocate my servers.
I imagine they'll improve on that. This bot is purely for research/funding.
Why? Because portability, standardisation, documentation and quality.

Something GNU manages to screw up pretty well.
Well I mean they sell their same courses for like 20 bucks on coursera.
Data centres account for about 0.3% of US emissions (less in most countries). So unless you can cut at least 200 times more co2 in other places as well, why bother?
And we already know China has been backdooring other equipment: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...

So yes, this is a small victory in a massive war.
I also wonder how much of it is "nerd" adjacent.

I came to software development late in my career (I was a lawyer and a health care administrator first). I work for a good company and I like a lot of my coworkers. I would never want to be friends with them. That's a barrier I'm not very comfortable crossing. When I worked in a hospital, when I was a lawyer, it was the same. Good coworkers, no desire to keep seeing them after quitting time.

I have a lot of software development friends who play board games or video games or go climbing or whatever with their coworkers. It baffles me. They ask me and my wife for social advice and I have nothing to give - how I'd resolve a given problem with a friend and with a coworker are too totally different things.

I've talked to friends from college who've gone into many different industries, and a lot of them distinguish between "friends" and "friends from work".

Except engineers, developers, and data scientists. I'm not sure what it is.
Yep, check some salvage related documentaries on Youtube. Raise a ship even in harbor is far from easy, especially if it ends up on a side, which is apparently quite common.
This reminds me of a joke:

During Soviet times, a Russian man was arguing with a British man over whether their respective countries had freedom of speech. The British man said "I can go to the Houses of Parliament and call Margaret Thatcher an idiot". To which the Soviet man said "It's the same for us. I can go to Red Square and call Margaret Thatcher an idiot".
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I'm sensing some sort of agenda here possibly? Also the irony of only showing the abstract made me laugh a little.
In other words, you pay what you pay to attend Harvard, to a large extent, because of its network effects. And that is really the reason at the end of the day. This is especially true in areas where network is expected to be a big factor --think Economics, Law, Business.

And that's why you pay that much to go to Harvard, to gain access to their network.
Confused that you woke up in the bedroom? Do you not normally sleep there?
How does Github save time over the predecessors like self hosted a Git or SVN repository?
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It reminds me a gag from the last season of What we do in the shadow. A character puts a toothpick on his lip and suddenly none of the other characters recognise him.

Like if spammers and hackers were not aware of the + notation, and like if it wasn’t trivial to extract the underlying email address by removing anything after the +...

Unless you have an alias that completely obfuscate the underlying email, I just don’t see the point.
Deferred action is better than nothing, but yes, I would prefer it happened immediately also.
I couldn’t get through his ramblings. But I got the gist of it, and of course it’s typical Gary Vee-type of hustle porn advice about skipping college and starting a business. Sigh
Whataboutism gets brought out too fast to dismiss discussion. Democratic systems project their values by demonstrating them. A democratic state that cannot show that its values work will have no ability to demand of others to emulate it.

In that context the failures of the US (as it is de-facto the standard-bearer of political liberalism in a broad sense), have real influence.

When the Chinese look around the world and they see the state of the US on imprisonment, racial conflict, failure during the current covid crisis and so on, this strengthens the domestic control of the party and the alternative autocratic system the government is advocating.
Has the No Child Left Behind Act and the push for teaching to the test really benefited kids?
> Since Canada changed but left the taxes the same (14% in Ontario IIRC) there seems to be a lot of rounding-off in favour of companies instead of consumers. $0.01-$0.02 per transaction

This assertion is wrong. If the item you buy is $1.00, then after your 14% tax it will be $1.14, which is rounded up to $1.15. If the item is $2.00, then after tax it is $2.28, which also rounds up to $2.30. But if the item is $3.00, then after tax it is $3.42, which rounds down to $3.40. If the item is $4.00, then after tax it is $4.56, which rounds down to $4.55.

Secondly, the rounding to nearest nickel is done per transaction, not per item. So if you go to a supermarket and pick up 3 items costing exactly $1.00, then the total you owe is $3.42 (which becomes $3.40 in cash), and it is that amount that is subjected to rounding, not the individual items (which are $1.13 and would round to $1.15).

I live in Toronto and have analyzed my retail receipts. (I'm aware the HST is currently 13% but that's not relevant to this argument.) The rule about rounding to the nearest nickel is sensible enough, but I've witnessed various weird behaviors. For example, each vendor has a different kind of wording to show how they rounded your cash transaction. Some use a negative sign to show that the penny rounding deducted money from your total owed, while some use a negative sign to show that the penny rounding increased your total owed (as if you paid negative money). Also, a few vendors always round down to the nearest 5 cents (to appear nice to the customer), which causes a surprise when I'm trying to prepare the correct amount of change. Finally, some vendors don't display cash rounding on their receipts, so for them it is an oral culture that isn't formally written down.
Your sample is wrong. We are comparing the number of successful new companies that came out of VC vs the number of successful new companies that came without VC.

...and it's easily obvious that almost all of the new large tech companies emerged from VC.
You might be dumping 900k gallons of diesel fuel in the harbor by doing that.

Anyway, sinking a ship isn't easy. There's no self destruct button, and they're designed not to sink.
I kind of assumed all my cloud computing resources were already private and confidential.

Not so?
I think we just passed peak production in europe last year, i highly doubt we will be able to afford more energetically expensive devices anytime soon without overexploiting shell oil.
Its essentially private tutoring. I think its a lot for many parents to do. Their willpower is depleted after a day at work.
Great article, worthy of a post itself
Yes, I was referring to covid, but just an example. Initially experts thought thought 1% was correct for covid, AND people thought it was not a big deal.

Thankfully there have been reports that make us think the fatality rate is much less than 1%, but that doesn't change the fact that people though 1% was a tiny number.
This reminds me of another interesting flying boat story;

https://medium.com/s/story/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that...
It's always the Welder...

For some reason they tend to burn down a lot of things. My Dad was a welder, he set himself on fire daily. My Mom would always be yelling at him for all the holes in his cloths.
1. The pilot (Ashby) and NFO (Schweitzer) were subsequently convicted of conduct unbecoming for destroying evidence; each was dismissed from the Marine Corps (the officer equivalent of a dishonorable discharge, which in turn is the equivalent of a felony conviction, which stays with you for life), and Ashby was imprisoned for six months. [0]

2. The USS Greeneville incident was a career-ender for pretty much everyone who was even remotely involved; that's small comfort to the families of the people who died, but the problem seems to have been one of failing do one last precautionary check after doing others, and Murphy's Law worked its magic. I wasn't a sub sailor so I can't really opine as to whether or not that was grossly negligent or simply one of those stupid mistakes that humans sometimes make. [1]

[0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(199...

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_c...
> It is possible but unlikely that Harvard has Secret Math

Here is an entire undergraduate course in abstract algebra, taught by retired Harvard professor Benedict Gross.

http://matterhorn.dce.harvard.edu/engage/ui/index.html#/1999...

I know Gross personally, and have heard him lecture several times; although I haven't watched these lectures in particular, I'm guessing that that they're just about as good as it gets.

You can also find online lecture courses in a variety of subjects offered by MIT, Yale, etc. It's telling that these universities feel confident in giving away this material, to anyone, for free.
One reason explained here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23831435
Is this homomorphic encryption or something else?
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Why bother improving anything at all if it doesn't immediately save the world in itself?
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You aren't helping your case by citing the Supermicro article, which was denied by both Amazon and Apple, led to widespread criticism of Bloomberg, and no source came forward.
That is even more so for people doing an MBA. It is all networking.
>And that's why I colocate my servers.

And its often cheaper has better performance and no lock-in to a cloud provider.
My theory is that the prevalence of blue LEDs to this date is an after-effect of people who grew up back when blue LEDs were rare and expensive, and who came to see blue LEDs as a way of signalling higher value and who got used to wanting to put blue LEDs in everything for that reason long after the signalling effect was lost.

(it was first in the early 90's that bright blue LEDs became available, at least at reasonable price points)
The elbow and 'finger' joints are fully extended, so are locked and don't require energy to support. The pectoral muscles are supporting the weight of the bird, but they are very much stronger proportionally than ours.

But it's an interesting question. According to a couple of papers I found online [1][2], when soaring birds are soaring their energy use is not much higher than when sitting. Soaring is very efficient.

1. How Cheap Is Soaring Flight in Raptors? A Preliminary Investigation in Freely-Flying Vultures
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893159/

2. Heart rate and estimated energy expenditure of flapping and gliding in black-browed albatrosses
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23661772/
Pretty soon just unqualified celebrities kids will be going there
I had a few "astral projection" experiences while experimenting with lucid dreaming in my early 20s; exactly when sleep paralysis kicks in, if you are able to maintain awareness, you can literally feel your "soul" ripping out from your body and being able to move away from it.

I'm 100% sure it is an hallucinatory experience, but it is an extremely vivid experience and I can see how you get the mysticism that surrounds it.
Thanks... I can at least partially relate to that already. US toolkits (wrench/spanner, sockets, and the like) have conventionally included both metric and imperial tools for at least 30-40 years already. (I find myself about evenly using both.)
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Even if it does boil down to that, there might still be value in ranking the savings per service you buy in. Except for a core product, it is almost always going to be the case that buying in is cheaper than building it. However, having limited resources, it's valuable to work out what tools could give you the best value for money, and which others are a more marginal call (given the uncertainty about support work etc.)
China will certainly stop burning coal when the economics of doing so makes sense to China. How long will that take? I suspect sooner than you might imagine.

Coal is already uneconomic against renewable energy in many scenarios and this trend continues inexorably.

Coal is not only our worst large-scale energy resource in terms of global warming. It also produces local pollution, which disproportionately impacts air quality in Beijing.

The rate of change in China is fast. Following behind other countries, they aim to become the global technology leader.

China has already demonstrated intent and ability to economically dominate high volume technology industries in pursuit of its own interest: LCD panel, solar panel etc. Next comes battery. Currently the most significant constraint on renewable energy deployment.

If things pan out the way I hope, then good for China. And good for the rest of us too.
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The EU by design is not a single unit with governing power that would counteract the US or China. It’s not a federation but a union, each member has to manage their own international relations.

France for instance is about to take the same steps as UK, and get out of Huawei deals within the next years.
> Data centers consume about 1.5 percent of the world’s electricity and are responsible for about 0.5 percent of carbon emissions. And the Internet overall is reducing greenhouse gas emissions because it distributes goods digitally that once were delivered physically, like books, music, publications and mail.

The number from the first sentence is misleading. The internet consumes about 4 percent of the world's electricity[0], data centers are just one part of it. Citation needed for the second sentence. Americans own about 25 electronic devices per household[1], and that wouldn't be the case without internet. We now stream music from YouTube all day long instead of putting one CD on repeat. A kindle costs 170kgCO2e to manufacture, whereas a second-hand book close to 0. The carbon footprint associated with the digital revolution is not clear cut because of all those behaviour changes.

IF we used new technology only to gain efficiency, and not to consume more without energy gains, this would hold true. But society is not doing that.

[0] https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-onl...
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2013/01/02/24-electroni...
They document a "physical address based tweak". My understanding is that this is xoring a function of the physical address with each 128bit block before going into AES-ECB (and that function is that same for every VM on your system).
No, Microsoft became IBM and now Google is becoming Microsoft.
I question the limits of security in cloud services, but there's more to it than the technical aspects. There's a component of CYA for regulatory compliance. If you're a financial or medical company, you've got to demonstrate a good-faith effort to implement various thresholds of security to pass e.g. SOC audits, and this helps. Nothing is 100% secure. This is a component of an overall security plan. I don't want to overstate the benefit, but it's more than just PR.
Yeah I agree, I think this space is huge. Imagine two or three generations down, someone from a poorer country using some form of VR tool with this, maybe with two arms instead of one, navigating your airbnb rental, cleaning counter tops, doing laundry, and organizing your stuff, and then jumping to the next appointment and doing it over and over for a solid days wage for their respective economy. With someone manning the bot, I see this being far more flexible than just your robot vaccum. They might not be able to do as many things as well as an in-person maid, but for 80% of tasks they might be able to do it good enough.
Why is it surprising that as interpreted language are used more for code, they are also used more for malicious codes. The same reasons apply to both.
> Maybe the long term resolution involves recognizing that even if China is totalitarian, it's only within it's own borders.

If it was not for china North Korea and possibly Pakistan would not have had nuclear weapons now. So no, it is not just in it's own borders.
Even worse:

"Twitter is where all the action happens in the tech industry"
A tiny change like a typo in a comment I would just edit in both the git commit --patch `e` editor and in the working tree copy. Anything bigger I'd either abort or skip and edit/test normally and then amend. My main use for `e` are not really edits to the final code but rather for splitting up changes that affect the same line.

I only had problems with errors from `e` on Windows - I'm guessing due to wrong line endings.
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You cant say that out loud anymore. The world we built eh?