skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you say that the story is "probably true" when there is no evidence to back up any of the claims?
Yes definitely, with supported hardware.

This blog was useful for me: https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/#multimedia

and https://www.openbsd.org/faq/
It's a joke about normal distributions
JavaScript Date Object
I don't really understand what you're saying.
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This is where independent resellers via Shopify, their own cart system, etc. have a chance. There's no way to be sure you're getting a real battery from Amazon so I always buy this type of thing from a community-trusted independent vendor that has a real account with authorized suppliers.

It might cost more in shipping and delivery time, but it's strongly preferable to having my desk catch fire due to missing or defective safety components, which are very common among knockoffs. At least there's someone to sue if that happens with an authentic battery.
It blows my mind that a decent mobile version of this hasn’t been released. One came out a couple of years ago but it was a huge scammy microtransaction pile of crap
For a story claiming physical alteration of products, they should have had photographs of altered products. Otherwise it's just "anonymous loudmouths blow smoke".

Everything that would be done with the extra component could more easily be done with BIOS code, attracting no attention. So it doesn't pass the sniff test.
This is `usually how national security problems are reported on, due to the classified nature of the work. You don't have to believe it, but it's naive to think that you're going to see actual chips. Currents and formers can talk about the what, but not the how. I mean even China knows the "what". Methods and means are a big deal, PRB kills entire chapters because of it.
I agree, DPC++ can also be used as a backend for SYCL IIRC.
Erlang/Elixir and Chez Scheme are backed by large companies.
It doesn't, in and of itself. Here it's a proxy for a certain social or cultural group.

To me it's interesting because it seems to reflect how innovation in things like music tends to migrate from ethnic African groups to the white middle class.
That could pose its own ethical issues, especially if companies start accidentally creating documentation and links to guthib.com without realizing it's redirecting them. At least this way it's clear you've made a mistake.
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Besides static (which seems likely - perhaps there is an issue with the grounding), I can think of two other explanations:

1) the computer is near a heater. The heat both attracts the cat and overwhelms the cooling enough to cause a crash.

2) The pc makes some noise (e.g. Coil whine) when it is about to crash, and the cat can hear that noise.
Falling salaries? That's news to me. Are you talking about IT and operations, which is a very different endeavour from building hardware/software product? Or are you talking about the latter?

As far as I can tell, core software and hardware development salaries are showing no sign of slowing down in their growth.
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Used this awhile ago for a large Python project, was very useful. I would love to use it still, but most of my work is now on rust / golang.
Police must have satisfied the primary requirements posed by the people at some point in the past, if we are to believe that democracy works at all. Requirements must have evolved since then, which is to be expected.

Sometimes it feels like the prevailing sentiment is just “police hurts us so we need to create outrage until they remove police and/or give us a better one”, which is understandable but remembering that how police works today is in fact a result of democratic process (and that indeed it works for the taxpayer) might be useful—less “us vs. them” and more “taxpayer today vs. taxpayer of the past”.
It would be really interesting if micron or intel collabed to make a gpu with a ton of 3d xpoint.
If you're going to be writing CUDA, then I don't think C++ will add a lot of overhead. In fact, I think that SYCL/C++ being single source makes it more ergonomic for GPU programming than higher level languages.
So you’re saying people who don’t live in an area...... don’t get to vote on the laws in that area?

What else do you propose should happen? Should California allow Texans to vote on state propositions? Should Marin county voters decide on who the Santa Clara County Sheriff is?

Since they haven’t moved there, how could you even decide which hypothetical future residence county they were voting for or eligible in? Would I get to vote in Vail, CO because I’ve always wanted to move there? What if I decide that’s actually silly, and change my mind - are my prior votes now invalid? What if I have 10 different places on my want to move list?
This particular story should be verifiable if it is true.

Nobody has been able to verify it, including the journalists who wrote the story.

Nobody doubts that China engages in a broad range of hacking attempts. It's just that this story is entirely unsupported by evidence.
Yes, I think the parent would accept that the automata in the simulation do not have free will of the "Conway" type. I believe he is saying the agents have free will of the "compatibilist" type.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
Yep, VA paid for the shirts from the Community groups petty cash fund, much as we paid for events at LUGs and other non-corporate events (my first two years at VA we gave out endless amounts of swag, distro CDs, various and sundry, but the team was almost totally an island unto itself. I just have a view that the events were too community-level to have had much of anything to do with the roadshow (and certainly from a professionalism standpoint would have been a distraction), and MS was already doing FOSS (as well as other *nix vendors, primarily SUN) a bunch of favors with its antics.

I was given the "official" spiel from Hall and it was otherwise not discussed much at VA (other than deciding very shortly afterwards that we all looked largely ridiculous, a position I still agree with - thankfully I'm in it for all of 1.5 seconds), and what I recall was that it was finished shortly after IPO and then sat for a while (because of lack of funds) waiting for final edits. At that stage you can't exactly go back to re-film much if you're already scrambling for cash.

"My only point was to push back on what I perhaps wrongly expected the narrative on HN to be, which is reflexive hagiography that doesn’t bear much resemblance to reality then or now." My feelings on pretty much all coverage of SV in general. But I am very biased, in that I love what I do in tech at the micro level but am ambivalent as to what the industry itself has morphed into. The beginning VA days were full of pre-HN/TechCrunch/Reddit sincere sense of wonder and opportunity to do something for the time radically different; in many ways VA succeeded given where the alumni landed (various key spots at Google, 23andMe, AWS, Samsung, Apple, AMD etc) and I still consider that period to be some of the most exciting of my career, if only for the sheer seat-of-pants ride it was.

I learned a lot and made numerous lifelong friends (and maybe a few lifelong enemies), but it was a helluva ride (cheesy events held in Fry's parking lots notwithstanding).
From my experience, the $500 Intel NUC in my basement has greater reliability than nearly every single company which calls their IT departments "SREs" now.

Probably 99% of the SRE problems I've seen are not IT problems. They're usually bugs or shortcomings in code some engineer deployed.
I just read some people in Texas are camping out in their cars to keep warm.
I haven't found anything better. It's back to my own research and conclusion. I miss the days when sorting Amazon's best selling item was the way to go, adding reddit as a keyword to the search query for best X or even sorting Newegg ratings by best. Nothing seems trustworthy anymore.

I don't mind spending the time researching things because the frustration of owning something that isn't up to usually snuff costs more time, grief and money.

All that being said, here are a few sources I still respect:

* Appliances: Consumer Reports
* Kitchenware: America's Test Kitchen
* Hardware: Project Farm (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rzsm1Qi6N1X-wuOg_p0Ng/vid...)
* TVs/Monitors/Audio: (https://www.rtings.com)
* Gym Equipment: GarageGymReviews (https://www.garagegymreviews.com)
* Laptops: (http://www.notebookreview.com)
Could it be that you are just observing productivity? It seems plausible that anything which slows things down helps people work on a thing as a team because it's easier to keep up and there is more time and energy available to organise teamwork.
Funny, I’ve exchanged the 12 mini for the 2020 SE because the overall screen size fits my thumb better and it was cheaper. They should have made the overall size of the mini the same size as the SE’s screen.
There are many alternative cryptocurrency projects to solve the environmental, speed and cost issues of Bitcoin. Nano looks like a genuine project but ultimately it’s an experiement with a non-inflatonary currency with high-volatility. This model is bound to fail barring a miracle.
> The 2010-era Apple Bluetooth Keyboard is actually my favorite keyboard to type on.

Ugh. I absolutely hated that keyboard. Felt like tapping on a slab of granite all day long.
FWIW, of the claims made in the article, there are two relatively independently true facts one can find.

One is the cited testimony of someone regarding a (large?) batch of Lenovo laptops found to be phoning home in secret, from public court testimony.

The other is the incident with Intel reporting that a modified update package was downloaded from Supermicro's update site and infected a system, causing it to phone home, and both Intel and Supermicro admitted (assuming you believe the journalists aren't making things up out of whole cloth) that something happened resulting in Intel contacting Supermicro to report the incident.
I don't trust Gruber to be free of bias, but on the other hand, everything he says in his response is correct. This is a non-followup to a non-story.
Forgive me for answering a question with another question, but may I ask if you believe in the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit based on the leaks we got? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

I do, and based on that it feels perfectly reasonable to believe that every other superpower probably has an equivalent. It also feels perfectly reasonable that server BMCs would be a common target for all such units considering the ludicrous access they provide, e.g. remote BIOS flashing, continuous screen recording, etc.
wtfutil is a another terminal dashboard [0]. It uses .yml configuration files to define the layout and the content of the splits.

At some point, I used ImTui to create a more convenient way to create these .yml configuration files: wtf-tui [1]. I also made an emscripten port of wtf-tui for easy testing in the browser [2]

[0] - https://wtfutil.com

[1] - https://github.com/ggerganov/wtf-tui#wtf-tui

[2] - https://wtf-tui.ggerganov.com
This is part of the reason .par files are popular - as long as you can access a fixed number of par files, you can recreate the source file.
They are clear when succint, and especially for setting a value.

-- example:

var x;

if(this)

x = 10;

else

x = 11;

-- is uglier than:

var x = this ? 10 : 11;
> I'm not sure why you're implying that you need a super-spy to pull this off.

The factory doesn't have assembly lines marked like 'for apple', 'for the nsa'. It's just an assembly line making a bunch of identical boards. You'd have to identify a specific board way after it's left the assembly line, and probably after being integrated into a chassis to put your spy chip on it if it's targeted at a specific customer.
It's understandable that people want control over property they don't own. Doesn't make it right though. And it doesn't make sense for the law to give them that control.
The US needs public identity services which large platforms like Amazon can be made to integrate with.

In this case the idea would be to link accounts on Amazon with these services, so that users can filter only by reviews written by individuals that have gone through the necessary steps to verify their identity more concretely. Government should step in here, not necessarily as the only provider of these services, but as an alternative to the current insecure and inefficient model of doing this all ad hoc across any number of companies individually.
The admitted it when they discovered the NSA was tapping their fiber links. They not only admitted it, they were furious, and encrypted all their internal traffic.

What's more, they didn't just keep quiet, they made very strong public denials, the kind that would result in SEC and shareholder lawsuits if they were proven to be false.
Well, as they say, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. And there are none so blind as those who will not see.

Tasting wine is like listening to a polyphonic note with different envelopes. It has extremely complex flavours that change in the mouth.

Is the taste of an apple simply the association from your memories? An orange likewise? Or do they not have a pleasurable qualia all of their own?

Have you ever tasted a cocktail made by a good bartender? Isn't it fun picking out the different flavours, and feeling how they mix together to create new sensations, not trivially reducible to the component parts?

Wine is like that. But it's not just flavours. Take tension, for example. Wines have acidity, which makes your mouth water, and red wines have tannins, which make your mouth pucker and feel dry. Many great red wines will have a good balance of acidity and tannins which seem to confuse your mouth, leaving it balanced on a midpoint of watering vs drying out. It's quite a peculiar sensation, and it makes you want to go for another sip.

Then there's wine pairing. A fun thing to try is a few pates with a couple of glasses of different wines. One wine brings out spicy notes, another herbal flavours. One pate may make a wine seem fruitier, while another more lactic, or more savoury. In many cases there's no right or wrong; the wine is another ingredient in the mouth, and it simply changes the flavour profile. More variety for your eating!
Wikipedia: "Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing."

Which I think most would agree is the standard definition of surveillance, and I also think the concept of being surveilled comes naturally to most, which is why parties that surveil people make clear efforts to obfuscate the fact that they do so.
So how much do these things actually cost? The title makes it seem like it's $999, one-time. But the website refers to $24/car/month. And there also appears to be a $200 harness fee at installation. Are there other fees?

I might be interested in a system like this, but I would only use this infrequently. If it costs $1,200 + tax up-front and about $300/yr in perpetuity, that seems like much less of a good deal.
This doesn't sound right, it's very doubtful that all storage tech has royalty (unit-based) license terms.

Instead of electricity consumption the limiting factor will be raw materials to manufacture storage. Likely even worse for the environment given the energy and raw material cost to manufacture storage devices.
Sure enough!
Has anyone been able to credibly verify a TAO implant like the ones we have photos of them installing? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

People seem to be reading way too far into looking for a "custom chip" when the actual hack is probably just backdoor-implanted BMC firmware on a generic SPI flash chip.
The title is promising but the comparison is more than subpar and misleading:

- There shouldn't be any comparison to a bare CPU because M1 includes a TPU, a typical CPU doesn't

- Comparing it to Colab's GPU is good because latter includes a TPU but OP should have stated which GPU he got; Google Colab allocates different GPU models
Well, either that or DNS
Plastic or rather polyethylene tarps or sheets, even plastic bags, stapled to Windows around frame help a lot to keep house warm.
Another very good trick, is to hang blankets in hallways that don't have doors. It keeps the room where the heat is warmer, and really really helps with drafts. That also helps to survive, if no heat anywhere, and to keep one living space warm
To keep water in sinks bathrooms kitchens from freezing, keep the cabinet doors open, and if really cold, keep the water trickling, especially in cold water lines. These tricks can save your pipes from freezing, which is real mess and expensive.
Source - Canadian.
Definitely, if it's food or health/medical, I'll skip Amazon & buy it from Target or Walmart directly (not a 3rd party seller on their platforms). Other categories like memory cards, kids products, I'll also avoid Amazon (especially since Amazon reviews of those products often claim they received a fake).
On Safe Network (developed by Maidsafe)
* data is self encrypted client side
* IP is scrubbed and given a Kademlia or XOR address? I forget exactly
* qp2p (QUIC implementation in rustlang w/extra features) encrypts traffic
* nodes can’t choose their disjoint section (shard) and are randomly relocated (churn).

Nodes are made up from a ‘Safe’ (previously called ‘Vault’) executable file and some spare space on disk of everyday computers. Nodes first go through a short PoW resource proof so the network knows the nodes capabilities and how to place them. Sybil attacks are prevented in many ways including random placement in sections and random relocation, and node ageing, which is a way of incremental responsibility when a node behaves all the way into the next relocation event and that is halved if misbehaving or offline. You would have to control a significant portion of the network to cause a problem and would be cost prohibitive in most cases.
In a young network the highest risk comes from a ‘Google attack’ where they deliberately allocate their resources early on and either try to control the consensus or rug pull their resources which would cause massive data loss.

Safe Network also has Safe Network Token (SN) as an digital payment/incentive layer for providing or purchasing network resources (bandwidth/cpu/storage).

If you think CRDT’s or Asynchronous Trutworthy Transfers (AT2) are neat innovations you should definitely check it out as Maidsafe is really pushing the envelope there.
safenetforum.org
https://primer.safenetwork.org/
Reminds me of https://howdoeshomeopathywork.com
I think they mean it's just a brick with smooth edges. Nothing fancy. Nothing truly iPhone. The iPhone X only differentiated itself from others with a beautiful new notch and the iPhone 11 with a wonderful electric-shaver-like camera setup. Take those away and you can barely tell it's an Apple device.

The iPhone 4 through 5s felt like luxury devices.
We reduced. we didn't cut out entirely. We still have a high fibre (carb sourced) breakfast every day. Pasta moved to a special treat, potato likewise. Bread is mostly avoided.
They are starting to do that in India.
Wasn't the age, we just didn't want to pay for burying the power lines, so high winds in hot dry weather... Oops.
Tezos uses proof-of-stake and launched a little over 2 years ago.
Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage
Two things can be true simultaneously:

1) The US and China have lots of espionage going both ways and both countries are always trying to do something like this.

2) The Bloomberg story had no evidence whatsoever for any of the specific claims they made, not even "the nice NSA man told me to trust him".

And for a bonus, 3), there are probably other stories that happened and didn't get reported in media.
Google “NSA Interdiction”, tons of news articles detailing them “upgrading” target shipments of laptops, networking gear, and other electronics.
Is there a web version available?
News Break Stories – Health, Amygdala, Hormones – Flipboard
Ships from Amazon.com

Sold by Amazon.com

These two indicate who holds the stock and who delivers the product. All prime-eligible items are shipped by Amazon.com (although some other shipping methods provide 'prime free shipping', without a 2-day guarantee), while Amazon also will wholesale buy and sell items themselves if they're high-volume enough, which is indicated by 'Sold by Amazon.com'.

The whole 'Visit the <Brand> Store' is a way to go to a page that only shows products sold under that brand/company. For example, this Corsair ql120[0] has "Visit the Corsair store" under the product name which shows all Corsair products. Amazon generally limits the amount of off-Amazon linking done, although it's not strict and it's not off-limits in product images or the description.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z9SQX7M
- Kotlin (Jetbrains)

- Chez Scheme (Cisco)

- Erlang (Ericsson)

- Rust (Mozilla)

- Java (Sun Microsystems, Oracle)

The above examples show languages that outgrew the companies that developed them.

Typescript might follow a similar path in the future.
1. Make a batch of bugged boards

2. Wait for an order from apple

3. Add the bugged boards

If the warehouses and manufacturing lines are all in China (as is the case with just in time manufacturing) I don't see why this is difficult to pull off.
Filing taxes is too often ambiguous, which negates the fun
They do explicitly distinguish between compromised firmware and distinct hardware implants in these systems, in this article, and claim examples of both.
Airpods could do this as long as you keep your phone nearby.

But, I guess they're not open source...
Hmm. That's a bit over-literal.

They meant, if a group of spies were pointing guns at the physicists and engineers and saying "You will build a functional quantum computer within 5 years, or we will pull the trigger," then their life expectancy will be exactly five years.

(I assume the "factoring 15 parlor trick" doesn't count as functional, since you have to punt the number of gates just to get the expected answer.)
'Design and Software' ???

Brand, marketing, product strategy, product marketing, industrial design, ui design, millions of lines of code which is all part of design, massive retail distribution chains both direct and indirect, massive loyal userbase, millions of developers, massive supply chain - and the ope rationalizing of all of that.

China is not competing very well in many of those things.

China's advantages are starting to look like working capital , the factories, the labour, and the local supply chain - which is much more advantageous for lower end products but it's still a price advantage more than anything.

I was in the drugstore - there were over 20 different kinds of electric toothbrushes. 20 kinds! I will buy 1 and maybe, maybe another some time in my life. That's a rough business, as is almost everything in hardware.

The 'high end stuff' is not necessarily going to be China. It could, but not necessarily.
As a learner of Italian I was always wondering if there is any tech site like HN, SO, etc. in Italian. Besides the really good 2024 podcast from Radio 24 - https://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programmi/2024 - I did not find anything I would return to regularly. Any hints?
TOR’s onion services. Someone should clone it and publish to the the Safe Network. Anyone can be the next DPR.