skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “It’s a big myth that there are thousands of [signatures] for any particular groups,” he notes. “These [TerritorialDispute] guys really focus on finding the two or three telltale signs that could lock you in [on an APT].”

I have a hard time accepting that. Sure,if it was a financially motivated actor or common malware a few "high quality" indicators are all you need. But APT actors know they are being tracked by their adversary using these same indicators. It isn't difficult or costly for them to avoid reuse of infrastructure and tooling. The few attribtions I looked at in detail require a more speculative and somewhat imprecise correlation by humans as opposed to clear and static indicators.

Please correct my ignorance if I am wrong.

EDIT: Security companies do use "thousands" of signatures and indicators to find events that might possibly be associates with an APT group. Why is the NSA special? That's what I can't accept. As good as the NSA is,multi billion dollar security companies are not far behind (I would say some are even ahead when it comes to defensive security)
- I started defending the value of good ideas 10 years ago in Quora. I debated with venture capitalist and entrepreneurs. They took me as a fool.

- I debated about the value of ideas in HN. They took me as a fool. "Ideas are worthless, Execution is king".

Now, I have a brain used to find good ideas quickly. My fuzzy process of analizing something complex is well advanced. And no venture capitalist, coder or entrepreneur will be able to compete with me cause I have years of advantage.

I've also trained emotional resilience and self-confidence cause I knew I was right even when the successful people didn't agree.

I don't even need to read the article to comment on this. Ideas are my area of expertise. I spent 7 years without working and letting my mind free, thinking about thinking.

Hacker News shepple: venture capitalists and entrepreneur sheeple: FUCK OFF!!!

Anyway, I know this sheeple will find another way to attract money for projects, cause they say just what others repeat and what people wants to hear. No what people need to hear.

Nature or another scientific magazine will publish an article in 2 years time about the power and value of being frank, blunt and honest. And how it helps the mind. Meanwhile, I will be taken again as a fool again.

Really: FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!
I will do my fucking projects without any external money.
The real reason for large amplification attacks? Not memcached. It's IP Spoofing
I checked for France : average frequency is 49,99456201 Hz in February with one measurement every 10 seconds (source : http://clients.rte-france.com/lang/fr/visiteurs/vie/vie_freq... ).

Same info for November 2014 : 49,99994706 Hz.
A bit of self-promotion. I wrote an essay about this. Perhaps it's worth reading for those interested in this thread: https://hackernoon.com/a-guide-for-getting-lucky-in-startups...
Additionally, it will be a region-locked clock by its very nature. We use 60Hz here in Brazil.
Your mother could walk into a boardroom job at any Fortune 100 company.
The map has too few countries and the games are too short. Can you add some configuration to set the map size, perhaps small/medium/big is enough.
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I worked on software for the Danish energy grid 10 years ago, so my information may be a little outdated. There is actually a connection now, or at least it's planned, but the grid was split simply due to historical reasons.

The Jylland-Fyn grid and Sjælland grid was developed in parallel so we ended up with a grid containing 400kV and 50kV cables West of Store Bælt and 60kV East of Store Bælt.
This is a very insightful comment, specifically the second tangent.
Funny you mention that. I surprised my wife with a proposal in the gardens just outside there, after her and her sister visited the Galleria. Also pretty sure her cousin dated the Borghese prince who was on The Bachelor.
sure, I just meant my PC has a very sophisticated (hence fragile) way of keeping its time accurate.

And forget about battery backing, it's a desktop and its bios battery is long dead :-) (hence the atomic clock)
Yes, but at what point do you hash it? The Nikon software proved it was unaltered since the shutter press, anything after that would rely on it not being touched until the hash was generated.
(Disclaimer: I'm an oncologist)

There is definitely a science of designing and performing useful diagnostic tests. I have seen many cases of illogical or misinformed testing that has harmed patients physically, psychologically and financially. I ultimately believe that more information is better, however, so far the transition to more direct consumer testing is failing miserably (eg Theranos, or all the companies claiming SNPs can help design dverything ftom skin care to exercise regimens). Then there are just crackpots who coerce vulnerable patients into expensive and totally unproven, never-to-be validated tests that cost thousands of dollars.
Imagine for a second that North Korea or US were involved in the electricity dispute in question... And because of that, as you say, Holland wan't test it's war alarm (which is vital infrastructure I guess) I wonder what would be the position of EU...
This looks like the work of a schizophrenic. It sounds demeaning but I've seen similarly "encoded" messages, often around some common item (like a cigarette pack). They write them during psychosis and later find them and obsess over their decryption.
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Synchronous machines with no net shaft power are sometimes used to supply reactive power, but these also contribute a coupled rotating mass. (edit: Apparently English people call these "synchronous condenser")

The question of "how can we build a large and stable grid without thousands of tons of rotating mass?" is an area of very active research I've been told.
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This is not how Steve Jobs imagined the “bicycle for our minds”
The maps are randomly generated. Sometimes they are small, sometimes they are large.
It's 2.5%
A bit of self-promotion. I wrote an essay on this topic. Perhaps it's worth reading for those interested in this thread: https://hackernoon.com/a-guide-for-getting-lucky-in-startups...
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I've found that antenna orientation matters, even in the Netherlands which is much closer to DCF77 (concrete house).
Yes, but they should both be alternating in a periodic fashion, right?
Your answer doesn't seem to address the missing energy, said to be 113GWh, though - which seems the bigger issue according to the report.
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> you're talking .03% in fees. On a $1Mil investment that's $300 a year.

i thought vendor creditcard fees are 2-3%?
that would come out at $20-30k for each $1Mil
Thank you for the beautifully written comment.
I would like to add another viewpoint from my own real world experiences.

Many people know who they really are deep, deep down. I find that most of the life long struggle is just to be, and express who we know ourselves to be.

I'm sure there are plenty of people that do not genuinely know who they are, and it's hard to blame them. In my 30s, I feel like our generation as born, lived, and died with extreme amounts of advertising and promotion in front of our faces.

The only thing that scares me more than not having an implicit identity is having an identity that is driven by so much consumption that you believe you need to buy the Crest Whitestrips, do squats for a bigger butt, or person who has lots of Starbucks Star Rewards. No disrespect to those goals in their own right, self-improvement is always a noble cause to me, but I fear of people just becoming: Guy with the good teeth, girl with the Kardashian butt, or person who knows every piece of Starbucks lingo.

I genuinely mean it when I say that I hope that folks don't allow their identity to be supplanted by everything that the glowing box says we should be. I hope we don't become as unique as the sum of our corporate fingerprints, but perhaps we should accept that corporate fingerprints are allowed to be part of us too.

There is no pretending here, I'm not anymore free of this than anyone else, but I sometimes think this is why the world (and to some extent Americans) say that if you leave milk and America by themselves, only one of them will develop a culture. We have the unfortunate chance of being a nation that developed in a relatively modern era with more advertising being done in the last two hundred years than in the entire span of human history (note: I have no proof of this, this is purely conjecture on my part)

P.S. I apologize if this came off as preachy in any way. I love humanity and I get sad thinking about people living and dying without ever knowing who they really are. This just ended up becoming a stream-of-conciousness type post more than anything.
Over the past decade I've sat on 10+ NIH study sections, and chaired a few. This commentary is spot on. Consider the response to a flaw in a grant. For a newer investigator or one no one has heard of, there will be much hemming and hawing about concern about ability to execute the project. This is code for, "who is this person in our sandbox anyway?" For one of us older guys (yes, unfortunately the pronoun is mostly right), the response is, "but I'm sure he can get this done, he must have thought about this." Even a modest scoring 'bonus' for new investigators doesn't correct this bias.

On the novelty front, reviewers are trained to focus on finding flaws or absence of detail or preliminary data. The presence of any of these requires that we score down - so it's just about impossible for something truly new to get funded. Until we do the project, we don't necessarily know what problems we'll encounter or what the data will look like.
The small number of NIH grants aimed at funding high-risk work by earlier-career folks (eg, the DP2 mechanism) are a great development but a tiny fraction of the portfolio.
The key thing to recognize is that any move to distribute funding towards younger folks or higher-risk work causes the old guard to scream bloody murder - "what do you mean I can't have 5 R01's at a time?". For study sections, I've observed first hand that old habits favoring established investigators and low-risk, incremental work are hard to break.
Yes, there is, any accumulated phase error during the day is normally corrected at night.
I imagine everyone was Bitcoin mining there and the bill was going thru the roof.
That is actually not true for the synchronized european power grid we are talking about here. The time that a clock that runs of the power grid is known as "Netzzeit" (grid time) and there is standards on how far that is allowed to deviate from the legal, public time.

There is websites such as https://www.swissgrid.ch/swissgrid/en/home/experts/topics/fr... that track and display the deviation.
This should be retitled: Reasons Why The CL is Flawed.

Long to short, why can't this be a form of some sort? Engineers / developers have enough to worry about, why add more minutia to the pile?

The CL is not an adequate OSFA solution. If quality and quantity is a concern, when is that going to be addressed?
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I really appeciate the testimonials. All software deserves personality and a soul like this!
You're correct. There are more fundamental conditions that have to be met for effective collaboration.
> there's no guarantee your descendants or next of kin will have any interest whatsoever in the minutia of your digital life.

Easy to fix - leave a note telling them you have huge wealth hidden away and the only way to find is it to solve the puzzles sprinkled throughout the minutia of your digital life.
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>Your questions are too over-specialized, too vague or too complex to be answered in a few lines.

I am obviously uninformed on the topic, so belittling my questions seems like a way to sidestep answering the spirit of the questions.

Edit:

>Cells are burst by that water. Is a simplification, but is a "mechanical damage"

From a quick google search, this seems to only happen when the cells are actually removed from the body and submerged in distilled water.

Do you believe that drinking distilled water causes blood cells to burst in our veins?
That's neat but you would have to pay 4 separate transaction fees each time you buy or sell.
The UK is not part of the Continental European Power System.

For the Continental European grid, the article links to https://www.swissgrid.ch/swissgrid/en/home/experts/topics/fr... which states that in the case of a time drift of more than 20 seconds the frequency will be shifted to 49.990 or 50.010 to correct it.
When moving from the US to Europe, I had the opposite problem. I had brought along a number of devices that I powered off a transformer (230V -> 115V) here, among them an alarm clock. Which worked off the AC frequency and thus was losing 10 minutes every hour on 50Hz.
If you start off with an inaccurate screening test, you waste a lot of resources with follow up testing, not to mention the psychological impact with BRCA tests.
People have been looking for one of these for decades. Guess Moore's Law (and SAT solvers) have finally caught up to this problem!
You summarise my comment very well; I'm sorry it feels unfair to you but I
hope you can take it as an example of the frustration of outsiders looking in
and I think I make it clear why I feel that way. I'm also pretty sure you're
right and that the performance of deep learning models is not down to pure
chance, but that intuition does us no good while we can't say why they work
well.

I understand that a fair bit of thought goes into deep learning models- but
what kind of thought is that? I get the feeling that most deep learning papers
simply describe the most successful of a series of knob-turning experiments.
"We turned this knob here and performance went up by 0.05%!". I can't help but imagine all the time wasted turning the "wrong" knobs and trying the "wrong"
things- i.e. tweaks to models that didn't pan out as hoped and that never get
published.

Having a "calculus of deep learning" would save a lot of the time wasted
fumbling around in the dark only to come up with a dead end. Experiments could
be guided by principle, people would know what is promising and what "might be worth a try". New researchers or outsiders would have a chance to get a
grip on the gigantic bibliography armed with analytical tools, rather than
forced to painstakingly develop an intuition that can be hardly communicated
to their peers.

The trouble is that there is nothing like that "deep learning calculus" yet
and the whole field seems to me (as an outsider, of course) to be much more
interested in finding what works, than understanding why it works.
Tangential: I was so pleased to see inline links to the actual studies cited. <3

I accept that others can evaluate us on some of these traits better than we can ourselves. Given that, how hard is it to update our mental models to better match reality? Besides doing a poll of my friends (which seems shaky), how can I self-evaluate to know more objectively where I stand on these? Is that even possible (by, e.g., studying biases, rationality, 'taking every thought captive', etc)?

It seems remarkably hard to try to address this in the workplace, where we feel so much pressure to be and seem competent anyway. I don't know if I trust my coworkers enough to honestly evaluate or be evaluated by them :D.
You can already try LibBF online at http://numcalc.com
This is super interesting ! I have a few questions !

How does the demand affect the frequency ? Is there a logical unit, somewhere, responsible of "communicating" through the network ? Or is it a physical effect ?

> When a factory is powered up, the turbines in the power plants are experiencing larger forces attempting to slow them down.

How does something like a higher demand, a drop in frequency, translate to a larger force attempting to slow down the turbines ?
If people don't know themselves very well, shouldn't we be more skeptical of men/women who claim they are women/men, when there is objective evidence that they are not?

In the middle school my children attend, there is a club for gay students that encourages students to be their true selves. Do sexually inexperienced 11-year-olds
know what their preferences will be as adults?
That price label may not fully represent the actual economic cost of the good (if the environmental impact externalities are not factored in). Factories could pay market price for all materials and labor, but cheap out on waste disposal. If that waste flows downstream and causes adverse health effects, the cost to that economy is not reflected in the clothing production. Market price for cotton could be the farmers who over farm their land. This price would not include the damage done and impact it might have on farming food years later.

You're right that we need to be fixing the issues at the level they appear, but every level is being squeezed for the best cost. It's up to the retailers, consumers, and fashion companies to place a larger value on environmental impact and pay the proper price.
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So, mind sharing a formula for getting it right, irrespective of which version of the box one has? E.g., what the ideal quantity of mix is?
This looks like a nice alternative to Smooch - whilst clearly nowhere near as powerful (yet), it is far more affordable. Pricing seems to scale sensibly, unlike Smooch's cliff edge where the plans go from free to $995.
Does anyone really think this is a good idea when the crypto market is obviously being heavily manipulated? Specifically by Tether but by others as well.

The behavior during the last crash showed obvious pumping and fake buy walls, and was only halted when Tether started printing EURT en masse.

The whole thing is insane.
There is definitely a commitment. European Power Providers keep the average frequency at 50hz in relation to UTC time. With very very high precision.
For curiosity's sake, if you're interested you can see how often mileage is reported incorrectly by looking at the MOT data set published by VOSA: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/anonymised_mot_test.
Just my two cents: “Do you need a computer science degree to be a developer?”
Note that you can also get the number of bytes processed per second by calling the SetBytes method. This is very useful on some bench (hashing, base64, ...):

func benchmarkHash(b *testing.B, h hash.Hash) {
data := make([]byte, 1024)
rand.Read(data)

b.ResetTimer()
b.SetBytes(len(data))
for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
h.Write(data)
h.Sum(nil)
}
}
You ever sewn any? Some clothing is incredibly labour intensive.
As a someone who used to do music semi professionally, I'm intrigued by this statement. I've never considered signing directly to a distributor. The major problems I see are, no artist wants to be locked to one platform and all the artist management folks Spotify would need to hire.
Oh. I thought for some reason that their index included the top 25.
> neither has a sufficient user base to attract suppliers

maybe it means 'exclusively'...

i.e. it's not the absolute size of user base that matters but relative

as long as there is no clear winner, artists would not want to sign up exclusively to one of the services
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APT groups have a set of tools, techniques, and processes (ttps) that they use. They evolve over time, but generally consistent per APT group. It's maybe dozens of methods and signature moves that teams use to attribute the actor. Malware packages and so on leak data, c2 servers might get reused (or the way the c2 was obtained might inform something).
From the attacker point of view, you don't change your methods if they are working.

However due to this, you are right: it's incredibly messy and attribution is mostly bullshit. If you notice, it mostly warns the operator to seek help, so others can try to confirm.
Radio-controlled is pretty much the default around here (and the cheap ones cost perhaps 5 €); I think I've yet to see a grid-powered alarm clock.
Key industry sectors are never up there for sales, such as semiconductor, which is widely acknowledged, by this government and Obama Administration.

Xi's China at best a competitor, at worst an enemy, it is getting clearer and clearer day after day.
I've wanted to run forensics tools on my computer for a while, just to see what type of information I leave behind. Will that old resume I deleted 5-years ago show up on my HD? Will my personal backup SMS files that I copied to a Veracrypt volume and deleted with BleachBit still be retrievable? Not sure how to be able to access the "real-deal" forensic tools.
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They've announced a few times that they are not planning on adding any coins, anytime soon. I think they are better off focusing on this sort of project to keep current customers, marketing to get new ones and strengthening their customer support. New coins make all of those tasks much more complex, for probably very little competitive edge, at the moment.
There aren’t places like this with short term leases. You either get expensive month-to-month (or slightly cheaper year to year) or you get a cheap 5-10 year lease.

If you are not established enough to take a 5 year lease, then wework (and their competitors, of which there are many) make a lot of financial sense, especially for the flexibility — e.g. if you downsize, rent goes down accordingly in 1 month. No “cheap” lease has this feature.

Also, WeWork is cheap compared to prices Regus used to charge 5 years ago; I would assume Regus did respond to the price pressure, but I haven’t checked.
Two days ago, I noticed that my alarm clock and the oven clock where both about 5 minutes late and I was about to create some conspiracy theory about someone manipulating the radio controlled clocks as 5 minutes deviation in the same direction was too much of a pattern to be a coincidence. But then I noticed that my wrist watch, which I hadn't changed since 3 years, still had the correct time. So I doubt my own pattern recognition abilities and changed the clocks.

When I read about the power shortage today, I was kinda relieved to get the confirmation, that my own pattern recognition was very fine, but that my theories where just not elaborate enough :-D
Having rolled my own ecommerce store on Ubuntu LAMP for several years, I finally got frustrated at the difficulty of recovering from power failures/spikes that hose it's file system after the UPS died. On average it takes 8 days to reconfigure and restore the new installation with all the lineup of products being tweaked to perfection.

This last time, I put Windows 10 and WAMP on the server and was amazed. I was tweaking products after a couple of hours. Things like ssl certificate, smtp/pop3 server, remote desktop all installed and worked with no arduous arcane CLI commands or hours spent researching tasks required.

Bonus: Robust antivirus and easy backups with a simple DOS script run from the task scheduler.

With only one buyer a week and 250 unique daily visitors, I don't need the speed of LAMP for my estore.
also, if the record labels are keeping royalty rates 'high' (most artists would say they are pitifully low...) and are therefore acting in this case, through their own self-interest, as collective bargaining agents for artists (or at least, rights-holders) then anything that gives Spotify more power and profitability is presumably even worse for artists
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