skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind the genome really isn’t big enough to store enough hueristics to make a functioning human.
The great Pacific garbage patch is largely abandoned fishing gear
Too many law school graduates.
Nobody is disputing that, given a remote-access tool running on a machine, actions taken by that tool are seen to come from that machine.

What is being disputed is that making it look like it came from a Russian intelligence officer specifically, as opposed to from some random infected machine somewhere, is easy. I see that you're claiming that if you set up a botnet and start infecting people and wait, you'll eventually get someone who works for a bank or someone who works for the military, sure. But what are the changes that you'll find someone who happens to work for the specific intelligence agency that is widely suspected as being the actual perpetrator?

Are you claiming that lots of botnet operators happen to have infected so many machines that their chance of being able to get to the machine of an employee of any government agency in the world is high? That the average GRU officer has hundreds of RATs in their home from hundreds of bored teenagers around the world?
I don't know, I would think that the cost of finding good investment opportunities would increase as a fund gets bigger assuming all the funds have enough money to operate well. An opportunity to invest 20 million dollars with an expected profit of 50% would be a lot better for a fund managing $300 million, but not as exciting for a fund managing $3 billion.
I don't understand how there isn't a non-ML based piece of code that looks at moving radar and lidar returns and preforms an emergency brake, light flash, horn, or dodge if that vector would intersect with any confidence. Even slowing down to 20MPH can turn a fatal accident into an injury.
Or they, correctly, predicted that it would be spun that way, and wanted to mitigate their risk ahead of time?
The rules on engagement and action has changed in this digital age. Now you can do more damage from far far way. No need for an army but only armed with hand full people, few computers and the dumb-asses to exploit.
A majority of the advances in Krita come from the crowdfunding campaigns, and those are centered around the painting part. I'm sure if there were a senior dev in the project who had the desire to improve the photo editing parts the foundation would let them crowdfund that independently of the drawing work.
My original Samsung Galaxy Gear (that I used literally once, lol) had this "feature". You had to do a douchey motion to see the time, and it often missed your motion so you'd have to do it again.

I knew I'd never actually use it but was hoping it'd be relatively hackable and I'd think of a use case for it. That never eventuated.
Working with recruiters to hire the same position that was part of a layoff in the same calendar year is problematic for obvious reasons.
https://electrek.co/2018/01/08/auto-executives-battery-elect...

It’s not all conjecture.
That is one datapoint - one death.
At scale for profit, I'm sure BMW could do it at scale just not for profit. The statement say they do not want to scale up forth generation due to costs. It makes sense, but I hope it will not be too late.
In a perfect world, sure. But in the actual world that we live in, reducing false convictions to zero is not realistic. So we have to look for areas where investing our resources in fixing a problem will have a comparatively large beneficial impact. If it's 25/100, there's a lot to be gained there. If it's 25/100,000, there isn't.
Fair enough. A juice machine will not automate farming.

But is not SV also the home of companies like Google, Apple, etc., that make real, cutting edge stuff? (And lots of unsexy companies doing boring work too, nevertheless with real customers).

I think it’s fine to give credit to farmers and the insights they have. But SV has a great deal of unique skills, and casting them as somehow unable to solve real problems seems, to me, quite unrealistic.
> Are you implying that "right of the people" implies that it is not an individual right?

I think you had me wrong it is an individual right. They neglected to include the of the people part in their quote. The 2A applies to the people not the militia

I pretty much agree with you on the rest
I first came upon 'provenance' in "Programming Pearls', Jon Bentley, 1986. The word has been traveling around hacker circles for some time.
I wouldn’t want to work for a place that targeted older workers. I need to respect the company I work with.

That said, whoever hires or fires based on age, get good at hiding it, because its illegal, and one should not be expected to just let that go.
I can relate to this. Luckily, my only side project was only a few weeks and not a year. After that experience, I realized that freelance programming was different than hobbyist programming, that I would prefer to have free time rather than a side gig, and if I wanted to do freelancing on the side again I would charge a premium (it was for a friend, so I converted my salary to an hourly rate and charged them that).
It is the right of the people I didn't think I was ambiguous
I have an i3, I would say it is more fun to drive even then a fully loaded 3 series but it is compromised and terrible value.
> this is not self-evident

Self-evident is just a lazy term meaning I believe it without evidence. You could for example, be living in the matrix and the real world could operate under different art of rules or maybe no rules. Science puts these types of questions aside for expediency

> taste, for example, has no discernible rules. therefore taste is irrational

Not true. Some of what is called taste can be boiled down to rational analysis. For example, photogeaphers have rules which helps them take good photos

On a fundamental level, science and rationality depends on premises unproven. It is a great tool to examine the universe and it nature, but that does not mean it can answer every question. It was never intended to
"If it ain't broke don't fix it" is the typical line item that covers "keep systems up to date" in city government, next to the standard budget allocation, "$0".
FCC's new 5G rules favor fast setup over federal reviews
Ask HN: A crash course in networking
I'm looking for a quick crash course in networking. It doesn't have to be very basic but something that can cover TCP/IP, DNS (and records like A, TXT, MX, CNAME etc), VPN, (NAT, Bridge), CDN, Routing and other concepts which are useful especially in the context of cloud platforms and cdn vendors.
To me there is a very clear moral line (and practically results vary from intentions): If your primary motivation is not to improve the life of those within a country, you must keep out of their politics. Much like I should not interfere in my neighbor's family life if my goal is to harm rather than heal. I see no goal from recent interference other than to destabilize, which is morally akin to a preemptive military strike.

Edit: I also don't think just any improvement would morally justify interference in another country's sovereignty. There must be a significant evil that must be overcome so that the interference becomes the lesser evil - a hard test to pass.
> I think it's fine for large web companies to apply their own morals.

This is rather like saying you think it's fine for libraries to only carry books in line with their morals. Or perhaps that your phone only works for approved topics.

At a certain size these sites become primary platforms for communication. I would argue that at that point they should be considered a governmental entity for laws around freedom of speech applied to historical means of communication. Or made into one.
All of the articles you link are about trying to derive attribution using signatures from the malware itself, which is unrelated to the thing you're talking about. I agree that trying to find meaningful attribution from the evidence left on the machine is unlikely to work and that spoofing this evidence is easy.

But that has nothing to do with a watering hole attack - are you claiming that successful watering hole attacks against GRU personnel are commonplace?
Electric cars don't have engines or transmissions. But lately I have not found that that is where problems occur. They still have all the other things that ordinary cars have such as tires, brakes, wheel bearings, suspension parts including shocks, springs, struts, sway bars, bushings and links, steering mechanisms, electronic control systems both for the motor and the interior accessories, all kinds of small things like power windows, power seats, lights, entertainment and navigation, many of which need periodic replacement if not routine maintenance, and all of which may fail unexpectedly and require repair.
Why do you say it's a sample size of 1? They've been driving AVs for a while.
South Korean government to shut off computers to stop its employees working late
This is true, almost every other e-reader had failed. The Kindle hardware is pricey and not that great but the ecosystem is.
Some people want to appear to by high minded as long as it doesn’t inconvenience them.

Scapegoating the business is the easiest thing to do. But when push comes to shove they just don’t want to put in the work.
I have my own Cavium rep. Show me a real CPU, board and worthwhile sheet metal (i.e 10+ nvme) I can buy in volume because you might know something he doesn't and I'd be happy to eval it.
If evolutionary algorithms are so magical, why do I only encounter them in academia?
this is all a moot point since the DNC servers weren't hacked. just ask Wikileaks and Kim Dotcom. oh then there's all the evidence suggesting that the "hack" was indeed an inside job as the transfer rates for the data could only happen on a usb not over a tcp network.
Do you have the figures? According to this Hillary got more support from PACs etc too:

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/
The tax advantages don't matter if you have no income!

Also, with main tax advantage I know of (interest deduction) you still pay more money if there is more interest.

i.e. if you have 20k of interest a year, the income tax deduction makes it seem like ~70% of that, depending on your tax bracket, or 14k. But if you're only paying 15k of interest per year, then it's 70% of 15k, or ~10k. 10k is less than 14k.
~1m range errors in the pseudorange from just the satellites which are on the other side of this hole, is a relatively small error, and certainly within or close to normal ionosphere and troposphere fluctuation impact on GNSS performance.

This would not be noticeable at all on a standard GNSS like the one in your phone.

Survey receivers use (at least) two frequencies which allows a simple calculation to determine pretty much exactly the delay due to the ionosphere, so they aren't affected by this at all.

This is an interesting anomaly, but GNSS is built to cope with this under normal usage, so it's inconsequential as far as I can tell.

If anyone has time and wants to see for yourself, 'CORS' - continuously operating reference stations, are available all over the place around where this happened, and the raw receiver data is freely available. You can download it and because you know the exact position of each receiver, you will be able to see the exact impact of this event at which ever location you would like to analyze.

Various open source tools are out there to process the data such as gLab and RTKLIB.

If anyone has the time to give it a crack and needs a hand or guidance feel free to ping me here.
The government & corporate prison complex has been declining for about a decade now. It has been rolled back about 20 years. It's not growing fatter:

https://i.imgur.com/ppyHKC4.jpg

By the time pot legalization gets to over half the states (in the next 10-15 years), we should have the incarceration machine rolled back to the mid 1980s, just six or seven years after the mass incarceration boom took off.
> They stopped being religious while making contributions to humanity. As if they burned through their stash

My claim was merely that you don't need to be atheist to contribute to humanity

> Christianity just stole those results, tried to pass as their own.

Christianity did not steal anything, they built on existing knowledge. No one is denying that. Every generation builds on what previous generation knew. You think Christians should have the thrown out knowledge from pagans in the name of honor ?
While not constructive, this is by far the best comment on this thread. Nice to see some of Reddit's finest have moved on to HN. I lolzed so hard at this shameless and perfectly constructed comment.
So what if the person had used a bomb? Or 3D printed a gun?
If you normalize your numbers to be written with digits from -5 to +5 instead of 0 to 9 in each place, then the multiplication table is more symmetrical so you can memorize a table 1/4 as big and then just remember the signs of each quadrant.
Most of the damage was always done from far away. Field operatives are a minority in every intelligence service.
this is all moot, right? there was no hack of the DNC servers. it was an inside job.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/bombshell-nsa-experts-s...

or just ask Wikileaks or Kim Dotcom.
> What makes you so confident that they are using a Peltier?

Because you can buy the exact device on Amazon (Noctua heat sink sold separately)[1]. Compare that image to the images shown in this MIT news article[2].

> The paper never mentions "Peltier". If the "condenser" is actually an electrically driven Peltier, this would seem like a fraudulently bad description, justifying retraction of the paper.

I would agree.

> The condenser of the device was fabricated with a copper plate (4 cm by 4 cm and 0.6 cm thick) attached to a commercial air-cooled heat sink (NH-L9x65, Noctua) to efficiently dissipate the heat from condensation to the ambient.

This describes a Peltier device exactly. Pass a current through it and one side will get hot and one side will get cold. Hence the heat sink. You need someway to dissipate that electrical energy.

Ask yourself, if the system works passively (i.e. ambient temperature), why do they need a heat sink? Would attaching a heat sink to my shed cool it off? I think the answer is clear.

Ignoring everything I said, to condense water from air you need two things. Air with water in it and a temperature differential. How is the differential generated? According to the paper, a condenser. How does every condenser generate a temperature gradient? Electrical current.

1. https://www.amazon.com/TEC1-12706-Thermoelectric-Peltier-Coo...
2. http://news.mit.edu/2017/MOF-device-harvests-fresh-water-fro...
This is only good. Everyone is arguing here about stuff that really does not matter if this move the needle forward.

x64 by AMD pushed Intel to do better. Things became faster / cheaper. AMD fell behind and Intel rested and priced for high end went up. AMD released Ryzen and all of the sudden we see movement from Intel again. ARM on the low end pushed Intel to look at their lower powered chips and try to do better. IBM pushing P9 to win at the top at a reason price point pushed on AMD and Intel. Competition is only good here and brings value to all of us.

All of this is only good.
Different article and different source.
Thanks for the comments, I'm not normally one to have a rant but this one ticked me off and I reacted.
I'm still annoyed/baffled that they don't include this feature as standard practice, I mean really, how hard could it be to 'hide' this information (does it really cost a $1 a month to set a flag automatically (that can really be set just once)?)

It's a blatant grab for money and regardless of the organisation, it's disappointing and doesn't speak well for their business culture from my perspective (and I'll leave it at that :) ).
thanks
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Most everything is easier with negative digits. Easier addition, easier rounding, easier multiplication, much easier subtraction. The one part that needs slightly more distinct techniques vs. what you are used to is division, but it's still probably easier overall.

The grandparent poster's example only looks more complicated because we don't have standard glyphs for the negative digits.
ISTM they're just waiting until night again? A simple mechanical design could contain water vapor in a chamber isolated from environmental atmosphere but not ambient temperature. Eventually it condenses and is harvested. The MOF acts as a sort of Maxwell's Demon, moving water from the environment to the isolated chamber. The trick would be to remove the MOF from communication with the chamber (e.g. at 2 PM) without allowing the chamber humidity to equalize with the environment. Probably there is some sort of airlock?
True.

Except the Russians haven't worked very hard to try to deny it.

And - more importantly - everything else they do aligns with this same goal.

It's like during WW2 finding a person spying in London, finding they were passing information on English plans to attack German air defenses to someone in Berlin and saying "Well.. they might have been American, because the US and the UK were rivals during the Washington Naval treaty process during the 1920s". Yes.. they might. But there's a lot of evidence pointing the other way, and German actions indicate it was the kind of thing they would like.

Same here.
Even crazier is that this is a noob mistake.

There are better ways to hide. From experience (I work in security), the ones I would use are (individually or combined):

- Have the VPN set up in my router using OpenWRT (the R7000 is great for that) and drop all connections when VPN disconnects (with a script).

- Rent a VPS on a botnet friendly host that accepts Bitcoins (i.e Hostsailor).

- Then do all my shady stuff from the VPS or even better, configure Tor and proxychains on the VPS then use proxychains when doing anything on a remote host.

I think the guy was just lazy and preferred convenience.
IBM appears to be in a world of pain.

First, while individual discrimination cases can be difficult to win, it's much easier to win a case exactly like this because of the "disparate impact" standard. Under this standard, an employment practice need only be shown to negatively impact a protected class to be unlawful — it does not need to be intentional, and it cannot be easily waved away by a claim of alternate intent (rather, it puts the burden on the employer to prove business necessity).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact

Second, an EEOC attorney stated in a case in 2012: ""We hope that all employers and employees will now understand that even if employees sign severance agreements with their employer, they are still entitled to file a discrimination charge with the EEOC."
https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/12-20-12.cfm
I'm not sure the article supports that conjecture. BMW said in the article that the current models are not "profitable enough" to scale up, meaning that they have profitable unit economics but think they can do better. Specifically, they think that the fifth generation is better than the fourth, and are working on a sixth generation.

> “We wanted to wait for the fifth generation to be much more cost competitive,” Chief Executive Harald Krueger told analysts in Munich. “We do not want to scale up with the fourth generation.”

Taking that into account, I would wager that scaling up would require big capital investments, so they want to optimize the timing based on when they feel the technology reached a certain profitability threshold.
The opposite side of this is that the value of knowledge held by such workers is enormous and getting rid of them because the bean-counters will see a savings in wages and salaries is counter-productive to the long term health and viability of the company.

However, one trend that has become apparent over the last couple of decades is that there is a growing attitude that older workers are unable to keep up with technology. The funny thing here is that, many time, this new technology is a repeat of older technology in a new set of pyjamas.

The younger set, in not having a good grasp, of technological history, do not see that what they have created is a repeat of past endeavours. In some cases, the conclusions of the past was that the particular track was not followed for specific valid reason which are still valid.

For many years, there is a portion of the older community that has used specific tools and languages which have made us very productive yet date back to the 60's, 70's and 80's. we have been looked on as not getting with the future by many of the younger generation, while we are viewing it as we are waiting for the current generation to get to the future (where we are).

It is actually quite funny. I am not saying that new technology is not worth pursuing, I am however saying that many lessons of the past have been missed.
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Your website peeked my interest as well. I just subscribed and am curious to see what kind of jobs you have available.

(I also messaged you guys about skipping the stripe process)
97 is pronounced like "four-score-ten-seven".
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I've read some of James Palmer's work on Foreign Policy, he's definitely a bit biased and likes to exaggerate his words ever so slightly. A key example is his piece:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/26/chinas-stability-myth-is...

where he pointed out fireworks being banned on Chinese New Year as a form of public displays being banned or something which is false, don't think people were being herded into their houses and stopped from celebrating because thats ridiculous and you will get a revolution from simply doing that.

Rather Reuters points out that its to curb environmental pollution which China has struggled with in the cities:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lunar-newyear-china-firew...

I however do agree with some of his sentiments, its very hard to deal with numbers in China because they are subject to change and bureaucrats will polish it up to make themselves look better. Overall, I believe James to have the right ideas and facts but his commentary is slightly over-the-top.
Wow.. can you imagine seeing this in the news in 3 years time:

"bigian" (an alias) taunted kenbaylor on an internet message board call Hacker News to attack the NSA or Mossad"...
After reading this, I tried to download my data from Facebook. However, avast antivirus on my machine detected a Trojan in the zip file from Facebook with my data and blocked the download with this message:
"We've safely aborted connection on bigzipfiles.facebook.com because it was infected with Java:Malware-gen[Trj]"

I find this very weird. Did anyone here faced the same issue ?
There is no hiding it, if they go by statistical methods.
Oxbridge has admission routes where you get in touch with professors directly, and if interested they will offer you a position using their own funding. Thus, you don't need to wait till next year, nor applying to a specific programme. This happens anytime in the year.
It looks like they’re saying that we’ll move to hydrogen fuel cells, not that we’ll stick with gasoline. That’s not really a bad thing.
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Akkadians et al. kept using both decimal and sexagesimal arithmetic in parallel.
>Numerous studies suggest clearly that long-term marijuana use reduces IQ.

https://www.leafly.com/news/health/marijuana-and-iq-studies
Even better, replace pfsense with PF running on OpenBSD. Pi-Hole is awesome though, can't recommend it enough.
I'd argue in IBM's eyes it's short-term pain (increased training costs/doubling up on resources/lawsuits, communication/teething issues) with the view for long term gain (lower long term costs / liabilities). That's not to say I agree or disagree with the approach but it's definitely not an easy decision to make.