skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Employees told to turn off PCs [...]

... because no Domain Admin knows how to write two PowerShell expressions, obvi. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Horrible to see this, it goes without saying, but unless they have an A-Team like at Maersk they are likely well and truly screwed.

(me: originally from the ATL burbs.)
Do you retract your statement? https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone-dnc-hacker-gucc...
I think even if you think the accident was unavoidable it is certainly damning that the car never attempted to stop.
5) the GRU sharing the Democrats' campaign strategies with the Republicans...
Yep, if anyone is doubting you, they should know that the Russians are already at work on influencing this year's (2018) midterm elections:

http://time.com/5155810/russian-meddling-2018-elections/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/us/politics/russia-sees-m...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/politics/intelligence-chiefs-...
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Huh? It takes time to download all the filings by parsing the index for free [1] but it can be done. You also have to add back off logic when you get a "too many requests" error, but it isn't that hard. I did it and I am still updating as new filings are posted.

1. https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/accessing-edgar-data.h...
> I do suspect we only disagree on the degree of influence.

You are quite possibly correct. Much of "sanctions, embargoes, tariffs, and the promise of lifting those measures for the preferred candidate/party" would fall under what I meant by "openly setting out the country's position", and is qualitatively different from the (alleged) Russian interference and how the US (and others) have historically influenced elections.

I think much of the difference comes down to attributability (giving the country/government's opinion and how they will deal with any particular winner is fine; making claims that appear to come from other/in-country sources, or misleading the population of that country is not) and whether you are directly taking actions within the country/working with a particular political party (what is a small amount of money to the US could very easily skew the election massively in some countries, and lead to the US de facto deciding the result).
Thanks) I'm thinking to add a custom script from the sheet. Like Google Analytics or chat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5786720
> It's NOT a co-incidence that Facebook, Apple, Google, ... that dominate tech pretty much everywhere else lack a significant presence in China.

AWS is there, but they actually don't operate it (and the offering pales in comparison with all of their other regions)
Great question: Apologies if I wasn't being clear.

For example: the Chinese government has been waging war against the Free Tibet movement for years: https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=chinese+malware+free+tibe...

There's a bunch of articles there. One technique is they put up a pro-Free Tibet site, and put malware on it. The visitors get infected and they have an insight into who is interested in that topic and their IP addresses for basic geo location, and maybe remote control of their machines.

If we pick a topic that's super interesting for government intelligence people (like the Guccifer blog site itself), and put some awesome non-detectable malware on there, you could potentially infect multiple intelligence officers from multiple countries.

When the bots phone home, they will report username, domain name, email addresses, visited URLs, security certificates (or basically anything you want). So you now have a rolodex of machines you can manipulate. Mossad did it...nope....North Korea....nope CIA...nope FBI etc etc

Now this is super hard to do in practice. But you only have to be lucky once.
Are you suggesting that us like India of old cannot manufacture good technology in house?
That's just plain dumb sorry. It's not even apples vs oranges. It's apples vs orange seeds.
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Skripal was freed in a prisoner exchange. Cold war rules were that such people were off limits, so that prisoner exchange werent pointless.
They're about to miss a major target next week. "Musk said Tesla was ready for 1,000 a week at the start of the year and would ramp up to 2,500 a week by the end of March." - Bloomberg. They were at 355 a week at the beginning of 2018 and are at 810 now.

Also, assembly lines don't "ramp up" well. Costs are relatively constant regardless of the number produced. Every station on the line has to be manned. An assembly line running at 1/6 speed means a product that costs up to 6x normal to make.
Job seekers hire consultants? News to me. Good on them.
Facebook is literally spyware most everyone's convinced themselves is okay.
> If focusing on facebook just punishes facebook, who cares?

Everyone. Punishing one single bad actor (and one of the biggest, at that) is indisputably better than punishing zero. By having one answer by the consequences of their actions, the others see the same can happen to them.

The math is simple. A bunch of little people against multiple tech giants. There’s no way the people have a chance to deal with all the giants at once. One at a time, maybe.
Probably better if you gave a task example like being a mother or a father or a grandparent or an uncle or an aunt or a mentor or a friend or anything to do with human interaction.
It seems like they took lots of steps to mitigate the PR backlash...? It's also pretty unclear what your point is. If they did indeed age discriminate, wouldn't they also want to take steps to mitigate PR backlash?
And I suppose once TOP was in place scrapping it would b have been more difficult (like NAFTa) and getting China to play by the rules too
There’s life beneath deep oceans that thrive on geothermal - I think it’s possible some life can survive.
As a counterpoint, I found their interview process so frustrating and disorganized that I gave up on them and told them I was no longer interested...

They do both an online programming test, and an in person “code in front of us” test + whatever else. They don’t make it clear up front what the interview process is, and often drop the ball... miss appointments etc.
It doesn't, it's just more whataboutism. It also ignores that one campaign was being assisted by a foreign power, the extent of which is still being investigated and not fully known.

The U.S. desperately needs campaign finance reform.
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There was real time video surveillance of the building, both external/internal by Dutch and another unnamed European agency. Also RT published the names of the two officers who controlled the G2 account: Sergei Afanasyev, GRU Deputy Chief and Grigoriy Viktorovich Molchanov, Head of the GRU Academy.
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not directly related, just by association - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation - i imagine that would be a one source of alien legends (not that i don't believe in aliens myself :) One of the references in the article is about such practice dating back to Neanderthals (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/202808)
Public support for abolishing the electoral college also drops with higher educational attainment. It’s reasonable to assume as the issue is debated publicly overall support would drop as more become informed.

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Are you saying you agree that the world is this way but you don't think it should be?

I don't want to sound like a jerk, but to me that kind of statement doesn't even really have a meaning... We can all wish the world was different than it is, but what matters is how to live in the real one.
That's about right. The 2019 models will be already almost locked in. An electric for the 2020 model year is ambitious.

At the rate Tesla is screwing up, BMW might hit 5000 units a week before Tesla does.
Damn I want some of whatever you've been smoking.
I don't follow the logic. Where are you getting your pricing information from? Why do you think power is more expensive?
Sure. They could sue but they cannot sue for a slam dunk "breach of contract" suit. They would actually have to prove damages which makes any case much more expensive for the company.
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I think a better analog might be: If you're newbie, don't start with a 42-string guitar like Pat Metheny plays sometimes. Start with a 6-string guitar. Part of the challenge of being a newbie illustrator is learning a tool used by professionals. A tool designed for amateurs might be easier for a newbie to get started with.
To support your claim, here's plenty of examples of GP inventing new things:

http://www.genetic-programming.org/combined.php

Here's a fun article from Popular Science on Koza and his "invention machine" that readers might enjoy:

https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-04/john-koza-has...
When I bought my car it was still under warranty so I took it in to the dealer. Since they took care of things I didn't notice the damage they did until much later. If this was a ploy to sell me a new car it failed. I will never buy a car from them, there is no way for them to regain my trust.

If I ever buy a new BMW I will consider it as-is unless I can find an independent shop to do warranty work because the dealer can't be trusted. I will also do European delivery to prevent my local dealer from touching the car. This likely makes it impossible to buy another one.

I'm tempted to go back to an older car that I can just fix myself. New cars are apparently intended to be leased for a few years, abused and destroyed at the hands of inept dealers and then thrown into a shredder.
At least at the places where I have worked, salary has a pretty weak correlation to age within a single job family and level. Yes, older employees are probably over-represented in the more senior job families, but it’s pretty unusual for a company to just lay off senior engineers or directors ... they do cost more, but at least in theory they also deliver more value.
I think the formula is simple — if the amount of idle developer time waiting for development gear + the cost of development gear + the cost of porting your software to POWER > the potential cost saving of POWER, don’t touch it.

If POWER unlocks something fundamentally new and historically impossible on X86, like ARM unlocked cell phones, and such, maybe that’s another reason to try it.

At the end of the day, nobody got fired for choosing x86. Its well understood, it’s cheap, development tools are accessible, and it works.
Years ago I knew a professor who had a glass door installed on his office for that reason. These days it would be insufficient.
What’s that opinion based on? Apparently 75% of auto execs have a different opinion. I just read the two posts in this thread and it seems the argument is that hydrogen is less efficient to produce and distribute? Well even if that’s true it shouldn’t matter. There’s plenty of clean energy available. Our goal should be to use clean energy, not necessarily to minimize energy use.

The articles are then dismissive that the “only advantage” of fuel cells is energy transfer rate. That’s by far the biggest problem with electric. It’s a big deal.

No major manufacturer is “doing nothing”. They’re all investing in electric. What’s wrong with investing in hydrogen, too? Either would be great and they both have pros & cons. I’d love to have both.
A lot of the KDEPIM devs are working on Kube, which might be what you are after in... a long time. Whenever its ready. Though its been in development for two years and its soon to release 0.6, so it probably won't hit 1.0 for another two.
One doesn't need a Constitutional right to keep and bear arms in order to keep and bear arms, only to do so legally. Expecting a tyrannical US regime to respect the 2nd Amendment in order to legitimize the means of its own demise seems shortsighted, and other countries manage to have revolutions and coups without a legal firearms market.
I don't think this is a slope you want to go down because the constitution is law. Do we want people to view the law subjectively, especially juries that decide on cases? "When the government is acting in your best interests unwarranted searches and seizures are ok, therefore we can come into your home any time we want as long as we are acting in your best interests." I doubt you would be ok with that. Sadly we have laws in place for exactly that sort of thing, and people are ok with it because are we are really scared of terrorists.
Okay, for the sake of argument let's suppose that I was clever enough to come up with the famous Grandfather Paradox of time travel. Certainly no one has observed such an event before - or anything like it. I would posit that it takes more than pattern recognition to build the necessary mental concepts to design, much less understand, such a thought experiment.

In fairness, I will concede that pattern recognition is crucial to intelligence. I would clarify my earlier position by saying that pattern recognition alone can only get you so far. Intelligence is the process of taking data, recognizing patterns, constructing multi-layered concepts and models from those patterns, and then being able to simulate and extrapolate potential outcomes based on varying inputs.

The inability of modern AI to build complex concepts from they patterns they observe is why I know to slow down my car on a Halloween night in a residential neighborhood and a self-driving Uber doesn't.
How many of us are really in a position we can do that?
I know a lot of computer science folk who could do with trading a few IQ points (in plentiful supply) for some of the other more positive side effects it provides.
I wonder if part of this is due to the ever-increasing push towards creating metrics for every aspect of human behavior.

It’s not uncommon when applying for a job that you take a “personality test” that measures not just technical knowledge, but also scores you on traditionally “soft” traits like assertiveness vs. agreeableness, with the hiring manager getting a readout of where you fall relative to the “ideal” range of that metric for the job you’re applying for.

We recently had an open position, and I know for a fact that we turned down multiple perfectly qualified people with successful track records in this exact role because they didn’t pass a personality test they received after the interview process - the reasoning for giving them the test after was that this personality test is particularly expensive. The “solution” was not to ditch the expensive personality test, but to bite the bullet and give all the rest of the candidates the test beforehand. But my eyes were opened.

I’m very worried that applying metrics to people, not performance, is creating a homogeneous culture that goes along to get along, resulting in silent acceptance of the situation described in the article.
Hopefully I addressed it in the section above.

I believe that intelligence agencies are targeted all the time, and keeping machines clean is not that easy. Certain governments (like Singapore) adopted an air-gap approach, so the machines you use for work don't touch the internet.

But even then, it would be a lot easier to infect that persons's home machine.....Many of the people visiting Guccifers site were normal people, some were from intelligence agencies (proportionally probably a lot more than visit a normal site).

Assuming you had AWESOME undetectable malware, you'd have to infect the lot, get them to report in, and ferret out the interesting ones. Not exactly a weekend project, but if this was your passion in life, very achievable.

Spear phishing these guys is hard, watering hole may be easier.
It depends on the kind of panspermia.

If it's about generic organic molecules then the DNA is a local construct. If it's about microorganisms, then it's different.
If you're looking for the rate at which something happens, for the purpose of predicting events in the future, you need to see the event occur many times before you can fairly estimate it's rate. That's what my example means.

I'm not defending Uber here- I'm defending statistics!

With more data, we may discover that Uber cars are 100X worse, not just 25X. Or we may discover they're better. But we don't have the statistical power to make that estimate when we've only seen the event happen once.
My VPN sometimes just goes down. There's a little icon in the tray that turns from green to red. I could set my system to not allow internet access without the VPN but that mucks about with the boot process and I'm not running spycraft.
Ah.. but what about being able to afford a house on a job that requires minimal education like working in a factory? That was actually the main point from my interpretation.
FB policy may have changed? I was rejected last week and they said they couldn't tell me why for legal reasons.
I feel your pain but unfortunately free doesn’t pay the bills.

It’s more than fair that CI/CD is a billable feature.

And making a product plugin play as you ask would make supporting it a huge pain in the ass.

Keep in mind Jenkins is still free if needed
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The only insights will be related to what insights we get about the programming we are doing with machines. It is an entirely different order to providing insights into even the simplest of organic neurological systems.

Computer simulations can give insight into simple systems like water flows, etc. Simulating more complex systems like a single living cells or any system built on livings cells would require systems that would not really be worth building. It would be simpler to use cells directly.
Space engine doesn't have nbody or collisions yet, but if you want to explore a beautifully rendered and endlessly exolorable universe, highly recommend space engine. It's also developed almost entirely by a single guy in Russia.
That is my point, that the parent of my comment was not making a really comparable example to the one I was giving of Google's actions and how Section 230 absolves them of responsibility they truly should share in.
I find it amusing that those who call false flag sound as if they are the ones flying a false flag. It's exactly the sort of action one would expect to call out if I was trying to turn a population in on itself. False flag is a recently common accusation which did not used to be common on the internet.
If you want IMMENSELY powerful logging, take a look at how the trace logging of Racket's Medic Debugger works, an absolutely ingenious solution:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/medic/index.html

Highly interestingly, albeit a bit off topic, the authors of the paper from Medic originated very recently took this technique, and cranked it to 11:

https://conf.researchr.org/event/sle-2017/sle-2017-papers-de...

…which won them a distinguished paper award!
I can say for sure they are not more expensive than comparable xeons. Even cheaper by some measures.
why does the existence of such problems disprove the existence of a mathematical foundation? A well-founded mathematical foundation would prove/predict/explain why such problems don't "fit" with the "structure of NNs" with precise lower/upper bounds. Anything that works, and especially everything that doesn't work, must have an explanation. God doesn't play dice.
This sounds like a good start but it should really be implemented at the human level by having managers convince their people to go home (with their work in whatever state it is in). Without the blessing of your superiors this situation could backfire and managers might apply more pressure to finish before the Friday shutdown.
The topmost comment about getting a MS to qualify to get a job at IBM - that seems unintentionally funny after the discussion about IBM yesterday, but maybe new MS's are still cheaper than grey haired folks.
True. It's also possible that DNA is the only form of life that really works, but we just don't know yet.
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I am curious why people fixate on the battery so much. Several of my coworkers have had Teslas for years now. To my knowledge not a single one has had a battery failure. Of all the many complaints about Teslas, I think the batteries are the least of the worries. Plus Tesla would probably cover most battery failures even if they weren't covered by the letter of the warranty, simply because they can't afford to have bad press about batteries failing.
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Fair enough. I'm not trying to point at who started it, just why are 60 year old rules suddenly forgotten.
Yep... I've seen people that were smart, talented, that killed themselves at work. People said "they deserved to make it", "they're going somewhere".

But the lightning never struck, wrong place wrong time, opportunity never came, you name it.

Gently and quietly they went.
> 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.

Ya, i'm not arguing that this is a good policy. Merely that it is a plausible interpretation of the same evidence. It may be that IBM sees the most value in skills that younger people tend to possess (say, React.js coding skill), or that they want to pivot their business in those directions. And those things merely correlate strongly with age.
The new summit supercomputer uses power9. The reason nobody used it before was there was no server processor available.
I downvoted the original comment because I thought it was factually accurate but misleading. The implication was that the amount of energy required made it obviously nonviable, but you didn't actually show the work to make that case. Without strong evidence, "go figure how viable this is" is an unhelpful thing to say when someone claims to have a working prototype.

Your explanation here is much better (and I upvoted it), but I think it still misses the major point that the authors claim that the new device does not use a Peltier cooler. Instead, it's heated by the sun, and uses a passive heatsink. I think it's the same mentioned in the earlier paper as "We also report a device based on this MOF that can harvest and deliver water (2.8 L kg–1 day–1 at 20% RH) under a non-concentrated solar flux below 1 sun (1 kW m–2), requiring no additional power input for producing water at ambient temperature outdoors.".

So I think the answer to your question is "Yes, it can be viable if you have a convenient source of heat that can produce the necessary energy". 1 MJ is about 270 Watt Hours, sunlight at noon is about 1000 W/m^2, and solar thermal collection can be more than 50% efficient. This doesn't mean it's viable, but as the new paper shows, if you have a square meter of sunlight available the energy necessary for condensation is probably less of a limiting factor than the collection of the moisture into the (currently exotic) sorbent.
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Yep, I aim to get my news from places other than social networks. As they say in Australia, I couldn't give a rat's arse what other people think about current events, I'll take my news from various reputable sources, not the 'wisdom of the masses'.
>Just because the company has discarded this person it also means I must discard them as well? It kills me every time, but I NEED my paycheck more than I prefer to help my fellow human.

I think they should have given you a personality test before giving you HR responsibilities. I'm not trying to disparage you, but you seem not particularly suited to that job.