skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised the sirens aren't tested more frequently.

In Denmark we have a national system of sirens. They are tested once a year at a specific date and time. In the cold war era they used to test them every Wednesday at noon, but it has been scaled down since then :-)
I think Aaron would've been happy with the developments in the field of scientific publishing over the last half decade, had he been able to see them. I've specifically got Sci-Hub in mind here. Sure, it's not exactly legal, but everyone uses it regardless.
WTF?

How is that any different with web interfaces? Or are you saying that people should just generally not be able to use their own computers for banking purposes?
It doesn't matter if you're on an island or not.

An ICBM (which is what you're usually talking about with nuclear bombs) takes about 30 minutes to reach its destination, which will be a large population centre.

So, you have less than 30 minutes to get out of a large city. Because you won't be the only one to try this there will be major congestion on top of the usual city traffic. Public transport could be an option but I wouldn't be so sure that trains keep running either once such an alert has been issued.
It's a bet that cannot be settled: intelligence documents are only declassified long after the fact, and even then may be full of misdirections and information that requires internal knowledge to interpret.

(It's also in the interest of three-letter agencies and external state actors to raise the suspicion that they have the capability to do something even when they don't.)
That seems appropriate, although depraved indifference (2nd degree murder) would be ideal, it would be essentially impossible to prove to the necessary standard.
Being prepared for an emergency isn’t a bad thing. Being a “prepper” is fucking conspiracy level bullshit. They shouldnt even be your friend. Nobody should be your friend, you’re a fucking moron.
Yes, I already note that at the end of my post.
Fair point. Still, political correctness is very much about avoiding offense or further disadvantage toward marginalized groups. It still doesn't fit to claim it's politically incorrect to go after rich white people. It's a pedantic point though, I admit.
Having to manually press a download button is not a machine readable interface. Also, this does not allow me to submit transactions.
Stop encouraging girls to code for a living
Agreed that having to drop to .NET is a fail. So usually when trying to learn to do file I/O in a new language you google it. The first few examples I came across were slow and when I looked into it, it was doing as this example did. It's been awhile, but it wasn't obvious how to do it with a stream without resorting to a C# esque version which at that point, you might as well use C#. I'm not sure why there isn't a PS oneliner option like Python's with statement. I really like the idea of PS, but some simple things are more trouble than they're worth.
>The probability that a random person in the population could look at your iPhone X and unlock it using Face ID is approximately 1 in 1,000,000 (versus 1 in 50,000 for Touch ID)

I would love to know the likelihood of this in reality. For example, What about people who look like you? You don't tend to hang around with completely random people, its often parents and siblings who, unlike fingerprints, may bare facial resemblance enough to trick it
So basically you want Snap packages?

https://docs.snapcraft.io/core/snapd
This thread is so fucking full of consipracy nut jobs, it’s goddamn insane.

What a sad day for humanity.
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Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell

The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman

The Four Steps To The Epiphany - Steve Blank

The Game - Neil Strauss

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

Ultra Marathon Man - Dean Karnazes
That's how it should be. As I maintain - mistakes are places where the systems and automation are too weak for our fat fingers, and mistakes of my team are my mistakes.
Sort of? So?

Though, mind you that "local app" is not the only way to run software. I could also install software on my home server to, I dunno, send me XMPP messages for incoming transactions, dunno whether you would call that a "local app"?
> Would we make different decisions today? Yup. Hindsight is 20/20. We didn’t know then what we know now.

From very far away, WinFS looked like a turkey even a dozen years ago. I don't know how a smart cookie like Gates went for it. Probably was standing too close.
For some time 80186 was quite common in SCSI devices. I've seen large amounts of 5.25" (and larger) SCSI harddrives with 80186 and IIRC some RS/6000 workstations had 80186 in their SCSI controller (on MCA card).

It is one of the saner Intel's attempts at x86-compatible embedded CPU with integrated peripherals.
Misguided. Circumstances are that he either is or is not qualified for a single point of failure job like that. If not it’s management failure. If the human is “qualified” for a single point of failure responsibility like that, he’s now fired.
Because people never waste at home? :)
You can buy wholesale Internet bandwidth from most larger ISPs. Get quotes by contacting the carriers in your area. Expect to pay a few grand per month for the pleasure.

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> That is a lower priority than responding to an active threat.

No, that is the active threat and anyone in power would know it. A panicked civilian population can do about as much damage as a real bomb and the military knows it. Such a long delay in the all-clear message is incompetent and dangerous.
I really hope this takes off. I even run XenServer on my workstation with GPU passthrough etc. and the changes in 7.3 will cost me two Windows 10 licenses and having to start my workstation all over.

It felt utterly hopeless but this might reignite my hope for continuing running on ~xenserver.
Some days it's hard to believe he's really gone.
Now people are impressed with what should be all along.

I think a small group of people feel "mission accomplished".
I suspect that if your criteria is “you can never make a mistake” that no one is qualified for a single point of failure responsibility.
Even for a megaton hydrogen bomb, there is some radius in which you would be safer in your basement. It's just a big radius.
I'm always a bit shocked at the number of people here calling for someone's head in this sort of situation. I imagine the same people would downvote to oblivion anyone who came on here and wrote something like: "The only way we're going to get better software is by firing people who write bugs and make sure they never work in the industry again."
> Also, cooking at home doesn’t really make sense from an economic standpoint when you think about it

It depends where you live. In some countries, you can't find healthy food outside (e.g. infamously (parts of) the U.S.). In other countries (where cost of labor is high), eating outside is much more expensive than eating home.
ENV=prod is never a good default…
I wish more people in the bay area understood that Microsoft has a really awesome development and server ecosystem.
Not able to answer your questions, but a comment on the article -

>During this same time period, we saw additional CPU increases on our PV instances that had been previously upgraded. This seems to imply some level of HVM patching was occurring on these PV instances around the same time that all pure-HVM instances were patched

This is likely due to Vixen: https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-01...

>.... Instead of trying to make a KPTI-like approach work for Xen PV, it seems reasonable to run a copy of Xen within an HVM (or PVH) domU .....
>.... all PV instances in EC2 are using this ....

So the initial bump after the reboot would have been the shim hypervisor which mitigates Vixen. The secondary bump, and bump the native HVM instances saw, would have been the Spectre related stuff.

Based on https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2018-... - guessing Intel microcode updates
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Here's some info about the original research they are referencing http://www.eggie5.com/127-paper-review-the-case-for-learned-...
work needs to be done to allow those with records into jobs that require occupational licenses. these can be local, state, or even federal restrictions. a felon could serve to fight wild fires and find in many jurisdictions they cannot become a fire fighter or hold any public job.

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> I'm struggling to think what meeting or item would have an importance higher than "incoming ballistic nuclear missiles"

That’s not what happened. No military system detected a threat. “Incoming ballistic projectile” would be a high priority. “Civilian request for official confirmation everything is fine” is not.
You're right that people don't understand what they're buying. $200 new, modern Windows laptop is a market segment that cannot exist -- it's like a $5K new automobile in the US. Except there are standards in the automotive market in the US, so no one is allowed to sell the kind of trash that would be a $5K car. You can buy such a thing in, e.g., India, but it's exactly as bad as you'd think it would be, with terrible emissions and crash performance.

As for hardware endurance, I don't think you're giving quality hardware enough credit. I've owned a lot of computing hardware in my lifetime, and the only failures I've ever experienced have been fans going bad (which is easy to fix) and spinning hard drives crapping out. Oh, and I dropped a laptop really badly one time and broke it that way, but that's not really the hardware's fault. Solid state components last quite a long time.
Makes me think of the stories of the early days of school computing, and how the admin would give the kids that hacked said computers part time jobs as they had demonstrated themselves both interested and talented.
> A panicked civilian population can do about as much damage as a real bomb

Honolulu was vaporised? Keep your perspective.

Responding was a priority. The error was corrected in 13 minutes. It’s just not as high of a priority as an incoming ballistic projectile.
The long delay is what lightly tickles my suspicion that maybe this wasn't a mistake. It's a little too much of a coincidence that this particular alert happens in Hawaii at a time of escalating tensions with North Korea.

I mean it's probably just a simple mistake, but it's also the kind of thing you would do if you wanted to stoke fears about a nuclear strike.
How is remote administration painful? All 30+ servers I run have VSTS agents. I can do most administration by running Powershell scripts and choosing the deployment groups based on the purpose of the server. I have Consul agents for health checks, Consul watches for alerting and/or automatic recovery, Nomad for running executables across the app servers, HashiUi for monitoring and controlling the Nomad pool.

I can approve and deploy a release from my iPad (the website is painful on my phone) by logging into Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Services website.

I won't even start to gush about how easy setting up a build and release pipeline is in VSTS compared to the other tools I've used.
> why would you perform a drill

Was this a drill? I understood it to be an unplanned mistake.
If you want to understand the state of AI research, just pull out the origins of the papers from top conferences, that is it. Or for conference like ICLR, there is a rating attached for each paper, even easier for sorting top out influential ones. Anecdotally, US/UK/China are countries frequently popped into my mind, Iran is nowhere to be found.

Research doesn't work by aggregate, in fact most of the papers are useless. The top 1% influential ones are the ones that really matters.
All status lights were hosted on S3 and the AWS datacenters were hit first.
Roughly half of the population of Hiroshima survived.
Be a youtube beauty guru. Start a for-profit career counseling firm for high schoolers. Go to clown school. Be an instagram model.

So... two versions of being professionally pretty, clowning, and counseling high schoolers.

No self-esteem issues there...

Edit: “Instagram model” was the quote... not a whole lot of wiggle room there. I’d add that clowning does not pay well and is dying around the world, and I’m not an engineer.

Any other wild swings you’d like to make?
For those who are curious about POWER, here is the firmware link for a 880.

https://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/SFA/07d79/0/01SC86...

In response to recently reported security vulnerabilities, this firmware update is being released to address Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures issue numbers CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754. Operating System updates are required in conjunction with this FW level for CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754
I wonder what those procedural changes could be

Could they do it so say, two people have to input a code or something from different machines, or something more physical like turning two keys, hitting a button etc
Holy fuck.

MAYBE this actually happened, but your sources lack even a shred of credibility. Jesus fucking Christ.
The arrogance of the bureau and academia killed Aaron
It's like they're trying to get a record by not doing that. For years I've been baffled why Notepad at the very least couldn't understand unix line endings.
Looks like my comment triggered some snowflake tech bros
While I think that many websites don't need much JS in the first place, you pretty easily hit a degree of complexity where a package manager is very useful. And the whole build thing is in part precisely to keep load times down.

(That said, I'm a front-end dev who is leaning more and more towards good old back-end rendering and something like TurboLinks perhaps, for many situations where previously I'd automatically go for React or Vue.)
I don't know how to better put this, but the Economist comes off as very condescending whenever it talks about countries not in the West. India doesn't have a hole where its middle class should be - it is just smaller than what you would expect for a country of its size. I grew up in India and probably went from lower middle class to a upper middle class with time. The Indian middle class is not on par with with the American middle class - they can be much poorer, and have different priorities and often span a wide spectrum. And to be honest, I don't see why rampant consumerism is good for any society. India has a huge native market for Indian consumers - it is the fact that so many people cannot afford those goods is appalling.
Getting AI "right" isn't defining what "right" is, only saying it's clever enough to do the job of designing the even more powerful ai for us...
The article makes it pretty clear that prisoners typically have diseases, and that these diseases are pretty likely caused by malnutrition.

Studies of the benefits of multivitamins for otherwise healthy people aren't really relevant.
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I think the point is that many prisoners do have nutritional deficiencies. They aren't getting all the vitamins that most of us do from regular food. Of course providing them with better food would probably be a better solution than crap food plus vitamin supplements.
The objection to software you manage is the same as the objection to software you write - that you won't have the checks, balances, and liabilities of registered suppliers and this would create uninsurable risk that the banking ecosystem can't be expected to bear.
> the responsibility is on the people conducting the drill

Was this a drill? I understood it to be an unplanned mistake. In either case, I agree. This was a fuck-up. I am simply saying the cause for the delay, once the mistake was made, is understandable.

> You keep trotting out this excuse

This is a shitty thing to say.
Ubuntu comes with drivers for Broadcom chips. You just have to select "yes" when the installer asks if you want to use proprietary drivers. Otherwise you have to open to the Software and Updates app, go to the Additional Drivers section, and manually check it.
It's an YT apology etiquette. But donating it is also a great idea. Too bad he did neither like the dbag he is.
Government projects work with contractors, either directly or through contracting agency. They pay well and have good projects. I'd venture to say that government have equal or better people than what you find in startups.
Why do you think your preparation will be enough? If things do go that bad then it'll be very few people that will survive because of just how much of our mechanised infrastructure is needed to feed us.
I lived in Highland Park when he committed suicide and attended the same high school he did(NSCDS). NSCDS talked a lot about Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. They also talked a lot also about Gandhi and other activists. It is a day school so they have an alternative form of teaching. I feel comfort saying this influenced his decisions for later in his life.
Why? Comcast et all sell subscriptions, are they paragons of customer care?
If I remember correctly, others was a man in a basement only a few hundred feet from ground zero who survived relatively unscathed.

Don't underestimate the protection cover can offer!.
Thinking prepping is silly is not synonymous with believing "when gloves of society are off, we all gonna be happy singing kumbaya and respecting rules."

I think prepping is ridiculous, but it's precisely because I know the nature of humanity. (Among a bunch of other reasons.)

It's also ridiculous to think this particular incident has anything to do with, well, anything...
Kudos. That is how you manage. However my concern is that it took over 30 minutes to send another message stating it was false. Seems like they should have been able to spot their mistake almost instantly.

As I commented below, if this happened when the stock market was open, this could have had a huge impact financially. Over 30 minutes with no updates is an eternity for news to hit Wall Street and algo trades start kicking in.
Containers go a step further, tossing out most of the system above the kernel. This works, but might be too expensive for personal computing.
This idea of model-dependent realism [0] strikes me as a very mature approach to epistemology, which I was very glad to discover a few years ago.

As to what extent science is a human construct: personally I'm with you but I think many would disagree. I feel like Tegmark's ideas about the universe stand in contrast to the idea that science and maths is inherently anthropocentric.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-dependent_realism
That’s certainly part of it, but there’s also the political dimension. You don’t lose an election by being tough on crime/criminals, but on the flip side... Dukakis. Plus, there is just so much money and power and jobs tied up in law enforcement and corrections.

Then as you say, there is the religious/cultural dimension.

Edit: I’m just describing the realpolitik, not endorsing it.
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Sci-hub and Library Genesis take a decent amount of inspiration from Aaron Swartz mission.
I live in a 5 story apartment with two basement floors, exactly as shown in the image. The bottom floor actually has a bomb shelter, in the area rated "200".

I've often wondered, what does "protection" mean if the building has collapsed around us, so we're now 20 feet below ground, with a pile of rubble on top, and no way to get out?

I don't think you should direct your ire towards Hollywood, at least not in any significant way. I don't think it was until "The Day After" (1983) that any movie showed anything like a realistic depiction of the aftermath of a nuclear war, and even that was deliberately downplayed.

It surely wasn't a Hollywood depiction which caused Dorothy Day and others in 1955 to protest the "Operation Alert" drill, saying:

> We will not obey this order to pretend, to evacuate, to hide. In view of the certain knowledge the administration of this country has that there is no defense in atomic warfare, we know this drill to be a military act in a cold war to instill fear, to prepare the collective mind for war. We refuse to cooperate.

This "The Heritage Foundation" report from 1984 titled "The New Case for Civil Defense" also doesn't mention anything about Hollywood depictions. https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/the-new-case-civil-d...

Finally, the NWSS book you cited says "American official policy, or at any rate the implementation of that policy, is based on the assumption that civil defense is useless." Again, I don't think that policy was influenced by Hollywood.

(BTW, it's funny that Teller says "With the use of American automobiles an evacuation could be faster and more effective than is possible in Russia." - I guess he never saw a city trying to evacuate from a hurricane. Or the plans to evaluate NYC should there be a major disaster at Indian Point.)

Instead, NWSS and The Heritage Foundation (and an essay I read by Freeman Dyson) all say the US policy of MAD was a much bigger influence.

(I'm not going to get into a discussion of the validity of MAD. I only want to point out that I disagree with the idea that Hollywood depiction had much of a role.)
Following up on my own comment, here is an article that talks about 2 placebo-controlled, double-blind studies that found a decrease in violence by adding multivitamin supplements.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry...

So that's pretty good evidence for benefits, and it is certainly a relatively inexpensive intervention.
I'll admit that I went to the page skeptical, expecting another "let's see how some arbitrary mathematical function turned into a song sounds," but I was pleasantly surprised that some of these sound decent.

It makes me wonder: what if we take existing songs, try to find space-filling curves that explain them, and then look for different paths through those curves? In other words: would it be easy / possible to parameterize existing songs as curves, so that we can find which subset of the space of space-filling curves is actually interesting to human ears?
* better backups

would be great. the backup situation on xenserver compared to vmware/hyper-v sucks. or to say it differently veeam gui is kinda strange, but it's a really good backup tool.
Isaacs Asimov touches on similar themes in his essay The Relativity of Wrong: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
It's sad that a beautiful paradise like Hawaii is still threatened by the scums of the earth (North Korea), propped up by Russia and China.

We really need to step up the sactions against Russia and North Korea, and start to impose tariffs and sactions against China. Otherwise a nuclear strike will likely head to hawaii, silicon valley, new york, or tokyo.
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Like clockwork...

But why are Singapore and Ireland so interetested?
Nutritional supplements compete with pharmaceuticals. Could there be a conflict of interest when an institution that is heavily influenced by big pharma puts out a study on their competition?
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2009/10/23/bitter-pills/
There’s plenty of instagram influencers that don’t rely on their looks, they are highly profitable sales jobs that require a good variety of skills - camera work, set design, editing.

Clowning, Magic, and other obscure art forms are underrated, and if we should be encouraging people do to anything, it should be art.

These things are pretty high paying and/or interesting, so what self-esteem issues are you talking about? Maybe your own, because you think engineering makes you look smart and can cover for the fact that you aren’t?