skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think is more likely judging by the WH and Trump's behaviour, though?

Sure we don't have proof right now as it would be Top Secret if it exists, but I'm sure we will find out in due time.

I will reserve my final judgement until the special counsel investigation is completed, but it certainly seems to point towards collusion to me, or Trump has something just as big to hide (RICO).
> rentier

I don’t think that word means what you think it means...

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rentier
Of course it's evidence of something!

Suppose, as a massive oversimplification, Uber's self-driving cars crash with some constant probability P for every mile driven (i.e. a Bernoulli process).

We now have learned at least one thing with absolute confidence: P > 0.

The first mile driven before the accident, of course, also showed P < 1.

But beyond absolute certainty, we also have a better idea of the actual value of P. (Intuitively, the longer we go without a crash, the lower we suspect P to be, and for every crash, we increase our estimate of P).

If there was only one crash in 3 million miles driven, this is evidence for values of P near 1/(3 million), and evidence against values of P far from it.

Is it strong evidence? Nope! But it's evidence!
> We interfere all the time in foreign elections, and so many countries tried to influence ours I don’t see anything innately wrong with it.

There's a big difference between 'influencing' an election and committing a concerted campaign of espionage, propaganda, disinformation, hacking, and potentially extortion in an effort to subvert the the government of another nation. The scope and aggressiveness of Russia's actions are quite a different animal than normal statecraft.

The fact that several members of the Trump campaign have been indicted and made plea deals indicates that there is a lot of criminal activity there to unpack. Most definitely not business as usual.
More like Tatooine.
"systems susceptible to most types of malware today are unsuitable for the critical work of the day"

keep your systems up to date.
Almost as stupid as trying to hire hackers that will agree to never consume caffeine.
It’s always up to law-enforcement, which laws they want to enforce.

Some laws are harder to enforce than others too. That’s why people drive around my town with really loud engines and the cops never do anything about it.

There are plenty of laws that the FBI does not enforce within the realm of white-collar crime.
exactly - we can't prove they were doctored, or not - but my point is that the "lone wolf hacker doing us a public service" story just went out the window, instead we have an "evil Russian spy hacking Americans" - all the motives that people assumed are different - without inside knowledge there's no way we can know what's true or not, so essentially the emails are proof of nothing
The Volt is not an EV, it’s a hybrid. If it has an ICE it’s not an EV, it’s a hybrid.
OP was suggesting not to have included backwards-incompatible changes, using deprecation warnings instead and branding it as a minor upgrade
> I charged triple my day rate

What was your rate, if you don't mind me asking? About how many hours/month were you able to book?

I'm asking because high rates are great if you can get regular work...
> What about just curved displays?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/band

http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-fit2/

Actual applications do exist. :)

Lots of cell phones have screens with a slight curve to them now days. Or in the case of Samsung's edge displays, a rather dramatic curve.

To the best of my knowledge, neither display in those fitness products was flexible, just bendable.

I know that as of a few years ago, Corning was hard at work on flexible "glass" for flexible displays.
It runs fine on Manjaro xfce for me.
It’s a connected world, and the US being one of the centers means that nearly every country has a stake in the outcome. I don’t think it’s wrong of them to use their influence, as we do. It bothers me, but then I think of what we should do if Turkey ever came up with a free election. In my opinion that would be doing everything we can to influence, the slide to dictatorship and oppression is more unpalatable to me.
The ol copy paste while binge watching a Netflix series on the couch method.
I feel like every gas automaker has a vested interest in saying electric cars are not viable until X years out in the future. Perpetually.

They're making money now on the current system, not much incentive to do anything besides look like they're trying to be more efficient whilst moving just quick enough to hit efficiency standards.
> but seriously it's illegal to upload that info to FB?

In Germany, it is.

Relevant quote from the Whatsapp TOS (Whatsapp belongs to Facebook):

> Address Book. You provide us the phone numbers of WhatsApp users and your other contacts in your mobile phone address book on a regular basis. You confirm you are authorized to provide us such numbers to allow us to provide our Services.

Relevant german court order:

http://www.lareda.hessenrecht.hessen.de/lexsoft/default/hess...

It's a bit lengthy (and difficult!) to translate. In summary it's a child custody case about excessive smartphone use in which the court orders the mother, among others things (limiting smartphone usage) to get written consent from all contacts in the child's addressbook.
The issue is that in Germany, your contact data is "copyright" be yourself. You don't have to put up with people freely resharing your contacts and theoretically, the child could have been "sued"(+) by anyone in the addressbook who isn't also a Whatsapp user.

(+) There is a "light version" of "sueing someone" in Germany, called "Abmahung", which is frivously used by some law firms.
Or one log entry was altered to insert the desired IP address — because the chain of custody of these logs is so ironclad? Or a MITM altering packets to generate the desired log entry....

“We found an IP address in a log which lets us tie Guccifer 2.0 to a specific GRU agent” is laughable on the face of it. But with the absolute shitshow that the investigation has been to-date I personally am way past caring, and way past beleiving anything at all to do with the Russia narrative.
When Federal law enforcement takes down criminal enterprises they don't reveal the evidence they have until they're ready to take down the head(s) of the organization. The proof will come then.

Right now they're just rolling up the smaller players so they can build a case against the bigger fish. All those plea deals being cut are not because Mueller has a weak hand.
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"A source familiar with the government's investigation" doesn't imply it's a government source.

Recommended reading for understanding attribution: https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-read-news-story-about-invest...
"this man" is a cog in the machine, not the person who gets to decide what policy is. Because there is no such single person, it's a matter of laws passed by Congress.
> What makes you so confident that they are using a Peltier?

The article contains a link to an older one and says the device is based on that: http://news.mit.edu/2017/MOF-device-harvests-fresh-water-fro... . Notice the heat sink? Notice quotes like:

In fact, the system doesn’t even require sunlight — all it needs is some source of heat, which could even be a wood fire. “There are a lot of places where there is biomass available to burn and where water is scarce,” Rao says.

That sure sounds and looks like a peltier device to me. MIT is gaining a reputation for crackpot stuff like this.
>> Most any form of helping someone out carries risks.

Really? I've never heard that. Can you give some examples? Preferably ones that seem harmless but could go wrong. I guess providing such examples is my job but I'm too tiered, so help me out.
That $7500 battery need to be paid for up front, and consumes electricity that is not free.
So does this make it easy to retrieve the current window size for a connection efficiently?
But, it is outside the environment?
If GRU agents use only a single hop to ambiguate their connections when attacking their mightiest foreign opponent then we don't have much to fear from these guys.
sugiyama?
Good. nice timing
>Making pot legal is the simplest way to solve the problem

It's getting there slowly.
> Ata’s bones contain DNA that not only shows she was human

The fact that there's a DNA already means it's not an alien, doesn't it? Having a life form with the same uber-complex chain of nucleotides as the life on earth developed is as improbable as a server on an alien mothership being compatible with a Macbook. (Quick primer on the subject: https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/cracking-aliens-gen...)

Having said that, the NYT article reads like the researchers are still unable to explain the discrepancies between the age and the well-formed skeleton as well as the number of mutations. Were there any secret nuclear tests conducted half a century ago in Chile? But that would also probably be insufficient to cause all that. I would bet on experiments trying to cause deliberate mutations.
> D3 now uses Promises

Thank the lord!
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I like the video. I also really like Mastodon. I've completely ditched Twitter and all my needs are satisfied with mastodon (granted, I don't follow sports / friends on Twitter). The interface is sweet and my instance is great.
Well, obviously the FBI can't encourage its employees to smoke pot, but unless there's a federal regulation on drug testing, the FBI isn't forced to drug test it's employees.
At 3000 feet it’s about .9 atmospheres of pressure, but honestly humidity is incredibly variable. The lower pressure at 3k feet just places an upper bound on possible humidity, it doesn’t tell you what it is. My instinct is that you’re right, and we’re still talking about vast volumes of moist air. We could also “enrich” the air with solar powered evaporation of seawater and wastewater.
This is exactly it. The thirst for the dollar makes us more willing to swallow bullshit with a (feigned) smile. But what can we do about it? That's the worst part. To dismantle the machine requires the coordination of a significant number of cogs.
It's very hard to spoof a log of a TCP connection in one country from an IP address assigned to the residential internet connection of an intelligence official in another country. It's certainly not impossible, but it's not as easy as just adding an email header or something.
Except for special US DoD things (like supercomputers that simulate nuclear weapons) for Sandia Labs and the like, the math also doesn't work out for HPC...

Let's say that a 44RU rack of 1U, narrow (half of 17.5" width), dual motherboard, single socket systems costs $N if it's built with Xeon or EPYC CPUs. As an example here the Supermicro barebones which are two long, narrow motherboards in 1RU with single sockets and front to rear wind tunnel airflow. Same rack of systems costs $N multiplied by 2.25 if built with power9, but only performs 1.25 times faster.
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Googled "hemlösa" and, not surprisingly, got many pictures from the US.
Weed kills motivation, hopes and dreams, and limits potential. This is true, but not universally for everyone. Some people truly do function better stoned, even perpetually as many hackers apparently are.

Numerous studies suggest clearly that long-term marijuana use reduces IQ.

Perhaps in the future we'll have customized DNA-derived profiles that accurately tell whether someone is better doing no weed, lots of weed, some weed, and so on and so forth for all chemicals. We all have unique chemical makeups, after all.

Some background: My father was an extensively published pharmaceutical (toxicology, pharmacology, brain expert) academic researcher. Drugs are entirely about dosage. The logic applies here.

FBI policy may be antiquated but does exist for a good reason. Perhaps that reason needs refinement at a societal level, through technological progress.

I do expect this comment to get downvoted. HN'ed.
Are you really expecting the NSA to publish 0-days they are actively exploiting for intelligence gathering operations? :)
Well it's against the (Federal) law, right? And it's your job to enforce the law. Pot bans may not make sense, but it's tricky if you start openly ignoring a law. I mean it's not like they get people's personal data without a warrant or anything. :)
I don't understand how you make that leap. Physical books can be copied or stolen. We are still allowed to own and buy and sell them without any unbreakable system to track their ownership, or a register of who has the right to read the book at any given time, or anything of the sort.
Given everything that we know the CIA does and has done, why did this seem like a respectable job to you? I assume you wouldn't work for organized crime.

EDIT> There's a darker part of me that would enjoy working for an intelligence agency, but I acknowledge that it's not a better part of my nature. Even if you aren't doing the torturing, or assassination, you're directly aiding the organization that is.
The majority of car-makers are Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) expertise shops, plus a design arm, plus a manufacturing arm. Most farm out the design and manufacture of the other components (suspension, brakes, seats, airbags, etc).

Every electric car that Ford or BMW sells is the loss of a sale of a higher margin ICE car. Because of this, none of them have an incentive to switch unless some outside force makes them, or they see a huge percentage of customers demand electric and only electric.

It's not just culture or stubbornness. These companies simply don't want to replace their high margin ICE cars with fairly-invested expertise and tooling, with a lower margin car that will, almost at best, just 1:1 replace the sale of a higher margin ICE car.

So they'll have "options" here and there, but they are going to wait and see for at least half a decade before they commit to anything like meaningful production numbers, a charger network, etc.
I appreciate the guts of the researchers, Iam quite sure that they will be under immense political pressure to contain the results.
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...inside joke or something?
Trump>Stone>Guccifer 2.0>GRU>Putin

And today Trump ejects his sane national security advisor, H.R. McMaster, in favor of the hawk who was one of the four architects of the Iraq war, John Bolton.

John Bolton penned the WSJ article The Legal Case for Striking North Korea First published Feb 28 2018.
The reason they can't hire is because it is illegal and opens you up to be compromised. It's that simple. Drug dealers can put you, your family, and work in a shitty situation because they need more money because of something happening to them.

The risk is too high for law enforcement. Once Congress changes the law they won't give a shit.
Didn't Notch use MS Paint for Minecraft?

Use what works and what you're familiar with.

Not that Minecraft has particularly demanding graphics!
Not that relevant, but wanted to elaborate a little: I exhaustively solved a toy version of my problem on a cluster, but found no discernable gradients. Good solutions were isolated spikes, with no elevations adjacent that could lead to them. So, random sampling would be as good as you'd get.

The thing to do is change the problem, transform the space/dimensions, so better solutions were spatially proximate. But then, I'd be solving the problem.

Another approach is to have the computer do this, seach the space of search spaces. But this higher-level space is even less likely to have informative gradients.

OTOH, the data was in terms of a language, which would have introduced its own artefacts. A better search space would compensate for those, and might have been easy to find.
Thirteen indictments of foreign agents is a shitshow?
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This is adorable.
For a short intro to neuroevolution there is http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Neuroevolution
However, these overview articles do not include the newest research on evolving deep learning networks. Three such papers are introduced at https://www.sentient.ai/sentient-labs/ea-1/; there are other recent ones at https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/using-evolutionary-a... and https://eng.uber.com/deep-neuroevolution/. It is a rapidly developing area.
> If all it takes is "one occasion"

Depends on the occasion, no? There's a difference between "the target account once used phrasing more typical of a Russian speaker than a Romanian speaker" and "the target connected to the server from inside GRU headquarters".

> it's also definitely easy to throw investigations off course

Connecting to a server from GRU headquarters isn't something I'd call "definitely easy". If the claim is true, Occam's Razor suggests that the GRU was involved in some fashion. What's the alternative? That the DNC compromised the network of a Russian intelligence agency?

(How much faith to put in an anonymously sourced claim about what was in the logs of an unnamed social network is a separate question, of course.)
Thanks, for the suggestions. Next year I will definitely try UK PhD programs. Nevertheless, I am still very biased towards the US for several reasons: 1. It has been a dream for me for a long time and I know that eventually I want to go study there. 2. The professors who are doing work that best matches my interests (RL applied to robotics) are mostly located in the US. The best match I would say are people such as Sergey Levine and Pieter Abbeel. Others are Anca Dragan, Dieter Fox, Emo Todorov, Drew Bagnell, Abhinav Gupta, etc. 3. The good universities in Europe which have researchers who are actively working in RL for robotics are not that many. Oxford is maybe the closest match. While the other universities mentioned also have very good people working in AI, their focus is usually either too theoretical for my interests or oriented towards pure ML and DL.

I know this might sound too picky and fastidious, but bottom line is that I will be spending approx 5 years in this program, going very deep and working very hard. It is just going to be a failed PhD if I take a position just for the sake of doing a PhD and end up doing research that I am not really interested in.
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While I applaud his efforts, Jeffrey Pfeffer probably doesn't really want his book to "be the 'Silent Spring' of workplace health," considering that Rachel Carson had a bad habit of citing suspicious sources, falsifying scientific research, and twisting words to fit her agenda. For example, egg thickness tests done on eagles didn't support the thin-shell claim she wanted to push, so her researchers lowered the calcium levels in the birds' diet until thinner egg shells were achieved. Also, Carson claims in her book that when quails were fed DDT, "few of the eggs hatched." If you actually read the research she's citing (from an article in "Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry," by James DeWitt), you find that around 80% of the DDT eggs hatched, compared to 83% in the control group, who weren't fed DDT. Since when are 80% and "few" synonymous? In the tests on pheasants, contained in the same article by James DeWitt, the control group (no DDT) hatched 57.4% of their eggs and the DDT pheasants hatched 80.6 of theirs. After eight weeks, the survival rate amongst the DDT chicks was also higher. I'm not saying we should use DDT as an ice cream topping, and that there's nothing wrong with it, but I'd prefer actual science on the matter rather than inaccurate sensationalism. I'd also prefer to believe Pfeffer's research is impeccable and that he's above the sort of consequentialism that Carson apparently embraced.

I don't have anything against saving the environment nor saving ourselves from toxic work practices. I just don't think we need to stoop to mountebankery to demonstrate the need for awareness and change. Such consequentialism undermines good causes, I think.
I honestly think it’s unlikely any collusion happened, but if proof comes out impeachment is the answer. This investigation reminds me of Whitewater, Travelgate and other political theatre Bill dealt with. The Stormy story is a watered down Lewinsky.

With that ballot we were going to get 4-8 years of this garbage news pandering either way. Obama was an outlier, far cleaner than average.
Is it really just pot? Theirs the dress code, the location, the secrecy, the bureaucracy, etc. The entire culture of the FBI is the polar opposite of typical hacker culture.
Amazing how nobody talks about POWER unless they're in the middle of an IBM trade show (in this case, THINK2018).
Someone knocks on your door, bleeding from a wound on their arm. Are the a person in need or an armed assailant waiting to gain entry into your home?

A person flagging down help on the side of the road. Are they going to do something while you're in a vulnerable position changing a tire?

Most any interactions where "help" is more than verbal information transfer usually lead to situations where the helping party is put into a position of vulnerability. To help someone is to literally "go out on a limb" i.e. put yourself in a precarious position.
>their work on compression

Like that time they stole Jarek Duda ANS and are still trying to patent it fraudulently claiming to have invented it 4 years after Jareks public domain publication?

https://encode.ru/threads/2648-Published-rANS-patent-by-Stor...
Here’s hoping it somehow aids in carbon sequestration tech development...
Everyone with ability and motivation has done this on every occasion. Going after individuals when it's obvious it's a state actor is what puzzles me.
Yeah, basically everything my parents, teachers taught me was wrong. Been unlearning and retraining my mind for the last 3-4 years via YouTube and listening to people who learned the same lessons I did as a kid and changed themselves. I’ve worked so hard and in the corporate world had basically nothing to show for it so started something else. As long as your realize this and adapt you will be ok but I was in anger/denial for too long. People cannot do anything but ‘surive’ on a company wage. I had colleagues (engineers/devs) stressing about how to pay rent or bills while expected to come in early/leave late and focus.
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I don't want to watch videos at work ... I want to read the articles that were posted. I appreciate when there's a [video] notation added to the title but it's rare that those with auto-play make the front page and to hit two of them in a span of 5 minutes is pretty ridiculous.

I'm aware that I posted almost the same comment twice ... I may be old but I'm not that forgetful yet. How is your comment adding value to this thread? How is the comment I'm typing now? At least my original comment was suggesting some community norms.

Have a great day!
A very common pattern of discussion is

Nerd being a nerd: Foo is terrible for privacy!

Nerd trying to look non-nerdy: Nerds say this, but ordinary people don't care! So Foo will win, get used to it.

This scandal however, makes it seem more like ordinary people would care, except they don't know about the terribleness of Foo.

Actually I think the it's a confusing mishmash of the two. People don't learn about stuff because they don't care. And its rational not to care about something if there isn't something you can do about it.

But when a scandal like this hits, more people decide to care because "join the bandwagon of protest" becomes a thing you can do. And that makes more people know about it, which make the potential bandwagon bigger, etc.
What is “constructive” input?
Or in other words, instead of trying to prevent leaks, we should encourage as many leaks as possible, so as to provide transparency on political campaigns.