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by jnbiche 8y ago
I was unclear. The profession I'm talking about is not related to engineering. However, I don't want to be more specific because the profession in question is fairly unusual and I don't wish to identify myself.
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I've recently returned to professional programming after working in another profession for 10 years. My former profession (let's call it "medical transcription" for the sake of my anonymity) is a dying profession, and is
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That's basically what I did and I ended up with tens of thousands instead of millions (if I had HODLed). Then again, I've been beset with illness and medical bills, needing to pay for multiple surgeries, so I had little choice.
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> Resulting code for a gc looks like this: https://github.com/serprex/luwa/blob/master/rt/gc.lua Nice! That's a compact gc, perfect for browsers.
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Interesting. I don't think Apple world make a sworn statement to Congress if they weren't absolutely sure it was true. Look like I may have been wrong--perhaps this was a false story planted by certain US officials to slander Chin
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> It’s quite remarkable how quickly things can change sometimes. In either direction. Something we would all do well to bear in mind these days in the West.
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Based on the captions in the original story, I think it's just a photo of a random signal conditioning coupler, which the chip in question was said to strongly resemble. But I'm not sure.
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> That is a good question, did the Chinese target specific customers, identifying the relevant sub-contractors and modify these boards? Why not go read the story? It addresses this question and many others HNers are asking now. It's
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In this case, there's relatively little ground for misunderstanding or exaggeration. There's either a malicious chip or there's not. I suppose in the "worst case" scenario, there could be a malicious chip, but some
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But go read the Chinese response. It certainly looks like a non-denial to me. Pretty much says, "yeah, it was us, but US is doing the same to us". The full statement can be found at the link below, but the take-away is pretty much
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> Alledged disappearance.. His wife filed a missing person report.
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> This is a CEO level incident. And as the article describes, the CEOs were summoned to DC, briefed, and at that point almost certainly asked to keep the investigation under wraps.
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That's a bit misleading. There are code word programs and classified investigations where just revealing the existence of the info would be a serious violation. In this case, if a cleared employee is asked: is this information true, is
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A lot of people are unaware of how anonymous sources in a serious news organization work. Here, it means that the multiple high-level intelligence officials described in the article are known to and vetted by Bloomberg. They've looked
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The people issuing press statements are almost certainly out of the loop. And of course, no one with knowledge of the situation is going to step forward, given they have a strong incentive to stay silent. I mean, think of your own company&#
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They're designed in the USA, but manufactured overseas (although in some cases the components are assembled in the US).
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> Either Apple and Amazon are lying or Bloomberg is wrong Apple and Amazon are compelled to lie. It's a classified investigation and likely only cleared employees are aware of it, and they have to deny its existence or stand to
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> They get wiped, X-rayed, disassembled and checked, including any accessory (chargers, mice, etc.). Given how sophisticated these attacks can be, I'd think they'd issue disposable equipment to be destroyed on return, like a ch
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> But don't most Kenyan and Ethiopian marathon winners also grow up in Kenya or Ethiopia? No. There is a hugely disproportionate number of Americans and British of Somali, Kenyan, and Ethiopian origin who excel in world class distan
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> we do more asymmetric cryptographic operations now Could you use session keys to take some of the load off, exchanged using asymmetric crypto, or are you already doing that? Also, cool thing about Rust is that you can start writing par
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> Why has China produced most of the serious competition to US software titans? In a word, Chinese protectionism. However, given how our software titans are dominating our society, I'm not sure it's a bad thing that competitors
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Putin's Russia is weak but more bold and reckless than the USSR.
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Just don't store your email password in your vault. You could probably quickly regain control of most online services if you retain control of the email you used to sign up.
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A trio of top-notch Polish mathematicians/codebreakers: Jerzy Rozycki, Henryk Zygalski and Marian Rejewski.
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Exactly. When we praise statically-typed languages like OCaml, Scala, and Haskell, I think people miss that we're not just talking about random type annotations. It's exactly what you describe -- we're talking about being abl
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> But this will bring home the reality of how it can be used against them. It's not a bad point. But bear in mind that the worst Google employees face is being fired, or very unusually getting sued if you're at the executive
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Please don't assume to know what is legal or not in another jurisdiction. Not all states or countries have the same gambling rules as Nevada.
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> Peterson in interviews even says he is smarter than every interviewer (I've listened to a few of them) I've never heard him say this. Can you direct me to one such interview? I'm not a huge Peterson fanboy, but neither d
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> so maybe the feeling that he was wrong has chastened him Or maybe he's just jumping on bandwagons. I'm not sure that's the case, but it's another possibility.
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> That's not really the same thing as a moon shot program. Matthew Weinberg, former Special Advisor to the SBA's Office of Investment and Innovation, disagrees with you. With respect to the SBIR program, he said: "It’s fun

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