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> since they're an open-source intel group, anyone can verify everything they've found

This is a common misconception; to properly verify their investigative work (not just the specific findings), you also have to know what they possibly found and didn't show. That basically means replicating their work, and being more informed about their subjects than themselves.
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Incidentally, for those not familiar with early Earth, she is a guest on their debut EP, Extra-Capsular Extraction, along with a friend of the band you might have heard of named Kurt Cobain.
Good response. I agree with the intent of the article. For one I have a project where I just use Bash to set everything up (no containers what so ever). It's simple and convenient. I have it set up with Let's Encrypt, SELinux and git push deploy. The whole script is maybe like 100 lines of Bash + 2 configs (nginx and SELinux policy module).

For anybody who is interested in understanding this basic building blocks I decided to write https://vpsformakers.com/.
While it's practically certain that hacking attempts do happen from both state- and non-state actors, this particular instance is so "alleged" that it's practically theoretical.

Where's the actual hardware? Why didn't someone decap the tiny chip and probe it? Its design should be well within today's reverse engineering labs' capabilities.
> I also find that the "continue watching" section on Netflix frequently does not appear as the first row, and there are all sorts of "trending" or "critically acclaimed" rows that I have to scroll through to get back up to the "continue watching row" at the top.

I know that scrolling up instead of down will get you to 'My List' very quickly, and I believe 'Continue Watching' is there too, but I cannot confirm while I'm at work. I almost never scroll down anymore (unless I do so subconsciously).
That presents an interesting privacy conundrum. It would undeniably be an incredible capability for you to have, but pretty much all of your day-to-day interactions would be sent off to Google or Microsoft for processing.
"Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server." According to Apple.

If I were cynical, and I am, I could see that Apple aren't telling the whole truth here.

If you don't want to find malicious chips in your servers, don't look. Just destroy the ones you suspect and don't examine them.
otoh you have to consider the probability that flashing the firmware will brick your server (p >> 0.0 in my experience).
Ask HN: WPA3-authentication?
How does the authentication of client/server work with WPA3?? Thanks a lot
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I'd just call it "road rage." There's some research into this and my high-level understanding is that when people feel "safe inside their armor" - whether that's the metal of the car or the semi-anonymity of the internet, their animal instincts come out.

It's fueled from both directions. In a tweet you don't really have context or body language or any of the other signals to tell you how someone means their message to be taken, so it's a lot easier to unintentionally offend. And then because you don't have to face the consequences of digitally "throwing a punch" a lot of people just fire off a nasty tweet without really caring.

I guess I see it as not surprising. Civilization is fragile, and the institutions that hold it up take generations to build. All of it is basically a thin veneer over our animal selves that helps us individually and collectively function as a higher level creature than we really are.

The internet fundamentally changes most things about communication and therefore human interaction and therefore the institutions of civilization itself. And really, looking back at the original internet ethos, that was kind of the point. So it shouldn't be surprising that something we use to "disrupt" civilization is in fact disruptive to civilization.
That's not true if actively managed funds fail as bad or worse during a bear market.
I doubt that Twitter has improved politics, but I can remember them being pretty poisonous well before that. I also found a couple of sentences in the article a little bit apart:

"A majority of UK voters still do not have a Twitter account."

"By 2012, the number of Brits with (more or less active) Twitter accounts had overtaken the number of people who regularly bought a newspaper."

Hard times for the newspapers, I guess.
"traditional approaches" in CV & NLP were also ML (a quick reminder that machine learning existed long before the deep learning hype).

Not sure what the parent meant by "algorithmic approach" though.
I wish more housing in cold-winter North America (like here in Minneapolis) had something like that.
The argument says that there is a very high probability, not that it's for sure.
Is it possible that the article on Bloomberg was state sponsored and there is no backdoored chip under another chip?
Contract goes to the lowest bidder.
I feel like the devil is in the at "or so" part.
I haven't had a box from walmart yet from amazon, but know a guy who clears 6 figures a year doing this walmart arbitrage. I don't know how long he has in that business model before amazon starts price matching walmart.
I worry that I can't discount the possibility that some heretofore latent feature of human thinking is incompatible (in a physiological sense, not just a psychological sense) with being perpetually plugged into the internet.

The answer you're looking for is Dunbar's Number [1] and it's been an issue since the agricultural revolution. Humans simply struggle to cooperate with, care about, and even understand people outside of a small group. Human societies have developed governments and legal codes in response. It's not a perfect system, though, and the Internet has begun to reveal the cracks in the mortar.

Prior to the Internet, groups of people tended to segregate themselves geographically. This allowed independent cultures, governments, and legal systems to develop. The Internet has broken down those barriers and revealed the contradiction to all of us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
The real star of Amazon Prime video: Skip forward button. So easy to skip past logos, titles, or even just plain boring bits.
> If they really cared it would be reflected in what they buy.

This is wishful thinking, caring about repairability does not magically make such devices appear on store shelves.

Besides people caring about repairability often have few option due to limited budget which is often why they care for repairability in the first place.

> I see, you are so smart and the rest of us are sheep like idiots for buying products they can't repair.

Being knowledgeable about a kind of product has nothing to do with being an idiot. Not knowing that you can buy a 4GB RAM with mid range cpu computer now, and upgrade to 8GB and better cpu later does not make you an idiot. To each her own field of expertise and most people are not computer hardware expert or do not have the luxury of having time to spend on this.
I think sure, there might have been a better deal between GM and Honda, but I think at a deeper level it's probably different industries trying to "circle the wagons" so to speak.

My guess is only outsiders in the auto industry will create deep partnerships with big tech. I think big tech will probably end up being forced to move into manufacturing through grass roots efforts or acquisitions if they truly want to compete in this space.
Based on the captions in the original story, I think it's just a photo of a random signal conditioning coupler, which the chip in question was said to strongly resemble.

But I'm not sure.
3) the purpose of the operation was to produce headlines and fear in the western press. A few bytes changed in some firmware, or even a malicious BMC design (presumably they're gate-array designs, not full-custom) wouldn't allow for macro photos of a chip the size of a grain of rice and all that.
also on chrome desktop. the site is hugged.
FWIW, NSLs prevent you from talking about being under a NSL. I don't think they can be forced to lie, though
I liked the scene where Luke drinks milk.
It's not at all hard to imagine, especially from a country who is so paranoid about backdoors from other country's operating systems that they have written their own:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system)
A ton of intelligence officers used to hang out in something awful too back in the day. Like not in the 'navy seal copypasta' keyboard warrior sense, but people I knew personally and knew they were actual intelligence officers.
If DRM ever gets to the point where it starts arbitrarily deleting data from my hard drive that will be the last time I ever touch software written by anyone involved.
Wind turbines do absorb energy from the atmosphere, that is clear thermodynamic fact not my intuition. Having arranged an atmospheric modelling capability, these researchers should have included the scenario for heat plants concentrated emissions in their study, or at least in a full discussion.

"heating/cooling effects of fossil fuels have nothing to do with the thermodynamic energy release of combustion"

Re-examine that assumption - If windfarm's might cause problematic warming through atmospheric mixing, how have you assumed ground level heat emission from power plants can cause none? There is actually a growing body of research into this which indicates significant geographical warming is possible. You could look into "effects of anthropogenic heat flux on climate"
From the moment that news outlets started reporting on things said on Twitter years ago, I assumed this would happen.

With enough bots, you gain the ability to create any narrative you want. Create story, then create the image that you want the supporters of one side to have, followed by the image for the other side. Use bots and retweets to amplify.

You gain the power to define what's happening culturally if the news reports actually take Twitter trends as what's happening culturally. Create a villian, politicize the villain, popularize / demonize websites, etc.

An entire Twitter event can be orchestrated to amplify the irrational into a position believed to be popular/main stream.

The only recourse is to treat Twitter just like any other message board...and ignore it.
A person who manages to accumulate a million dollars is far beyond middle class and a wage of 2x the median household income is well beyond middle class.
I don't even have that.
In the security world, there is always a new attack vector. With the advent of Spectre and Meltdown, I am expecting to see more hardware-based attacks in the future.
I agree. Regardless of what GP's feelings on the matter are, Open Source is a proper and well-defined term that was originally used as a way to sell open software business models to high-level execs.

I've never seen anyone advocate the term as open-but-not-free beyond those stating it to defend a point.
If you're choosing a car to build into a self driving test fleet electrical capacity is a really low priority because it's so easy to fix yourself if need be. There's nothing preventing Waymo from bolting a group 31 (big, cheap battery sized used in commercial trucks) down beside whatever over-engineered enclosure holds your self driving computer.
I literally don't know anyone who watches Netflix on a device with a space bar. I mean, I get it. For you that is important. I couldn't care less, and would never watch any of these things on a laptop. I usually watch them via devices that are connected to a regular TV. Otherwise, very occasionally on a tablet or phone.
And as everyone that praises Plan9 keeps forgetting, improved on Limbo and Inferno, which was actually the final stop.
All those millions of man hours of human capital investment in those officers...

Burn.

Plus, it’s probably safe to assume this will be a gift that keeps giving. Presumably there are other GRU locations where whoever was in charge of registering GRU vehicles made the brilliant decision to register them all at. Identify one, and you get them all.
org-mode, with org-capture and Emacs bookmarks. In the past I have used deft, before zim and even before a custom spaghetti-code tiny monster that was a series of script and text files...
> Democrats care about what they say this week because they align with their political ideology

What Brett Kavanaugh's former classmates, or a bunch of law professors, have to say on the matter is indeed irrelevant for most things. But it is relevant here.

Just like you would want to listen to computer security experts when talking about computer security laws.

I mean, I see what you're saying, and yes I agree with you that either way there's no free PR for those with "opposed political values" these days. But it's still relevant.

> You misunderstand him, believing him to be a "republican judge" when the concept of such a thing should not exist.

I want to clarify my earlier statements, and this goes for Stevens as well as Kavanaugh. When I say "Republican judge", I mean "Judge appointed by republicans, with an implicit political calculation that they will uphold pro-republican decisions". This is what has become of the court and there's no pretense around it anymore, and why I was saying in my initial post that I find it sad.

But if we agree that nonpartisanship is important, then I do not understand how you defend the actions of a man who, instead of addressing allegations in a calm and composed way, cried, yelled, and blamed "the democrats" for "a revenge for the clintons". How the fuck is that nonpartisan?
I predict that the Chinese style of governance will eventually succeed and will be improved upon by others. They seem to be able to get away with everything. Chinese style data oriented micromanagement of populations is likely to be the norm for the future. You cannot escape algorithms judging you and placing you in a category. The "category" that will define your experience of the world from then on. Western tech companies are complicit in all of this.

As people in the field, we need to resist this at every turn but the money is just too great of a lure for now.
Cruise Automation was cofounded by Kyle Vogt, a YC alum who cofounded, built Justin.TV, which became Twitch, and sold to Amazon for a billion dollars before starting Cruise with Daniel Kan, which was acquired in early 2016 by GM. It's a tech company. It employs it's share of tech superstars. Vogt himself participated in the Darpa challenges as a robotics undergrad at MIT, before dropping out to do Justin.TV.
I suppose it might be possible to fix fork() but the performance costs might be prohibitive.

The kernel would need to suspend any thread that attempts to take a lock or is not currently holding a lock. That immediately makes userland-only synchronization besides lockless impossible; the kernel has to know about the synchronization primitives.

Once all threads besides the forking thread are blocked trying to acquire a lock or suspended without holding any locks the process can fork and all threads resume.

A far better payoff might be making processes cheaper to create, faster to startup, and providing easier-to-use IPC mechanisms. Those things benefit lots of programs, not just esoteric uses of fork().
Yum update, pip install whatever :)
Here's a link referring to the days somewhat before Twitter:

http://prospect.org/article/lbj-and-dallass-mink-coat-mob
Why would Disney purchase Star Wars only to shackle themselves and filmmakers to decades of convoluted lore, not to mention rights negotiations and royalty payments, to rehash stories that have already been told, and tell them to an audience who, for the most part, couldn't care less?
Isn't that exactly what a deal is?

This wouldn't be a loss for Waymo if everyone was licensing their software.
Asset productivity is what the intrinsic value is; i.e. the future cash flows, discounted to today's money.

However, intrinsic value and market value are frequently out of whack. You can see this in the stock market: stock prices change within fractions of a second, but nobody should believe that the company's intrinsic value is actually changing second-by-second.

Calling an asset "overvalued" is a judgement call. Same with calling an asset undervalued. You have to do your own analysis to make that interpretation. And when you see something that's undervalued significantly, you buy that asset!
This will also depend on the interest rate.

If the interest rate for a 30 yr loan is 1% vs 10% that will change the appropriate price to rent ratio.
One factor called out in the article is the number of instructions that can be carried out simultaneously during a single clock cycle.

>Monsoon (A11) and Vortex (A12) are extremely wide machines – with 6 integer execution pipelines among which two are complex units, two load units and store units, two branch ports, and three FP/vector pipelines this gives an estimated 13 execution ports, far wider than Arm’s upcoming Cortex A76 and also wider than Samsung’s M3. In fact, assuming we're not looking at an atypical shared port situation, Apple’s microarchitecture seems to far surpass anything else in terms of width, including desktop CPUs.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...

Apple first moved to wide CPU designs with the Cyclone CPU core found in the A7 SOC first used in the iPhone 5s.

>With Cyclone Apple is in a completely different league. As far as I can tell, peak issue width of Cyclone is 6 instructions. That’s at least 2x the width of Swift and Krait, and at best more than 3x the width depending on instruction mix. Limitations on co-issuing FP and integer math have also been lifted as you can run up to four integer adds and two FP adds in parallel. You can also perform up to two loads or stores per clock.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7460/apple-ipad-air-review/2
Board an intercity train? I think you get tracked now, but I'm not certain. Intercity bus? I don't know. Intercity van? Probably not... but you might.

Public transit within a city? I don't think you get tracked for that.
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Is this a full-time remote position or do candidates need to relocate to DC/SF/NYC?
Human beings are susceptible to "group think". If a large group of people are saying something, we're more likely to believe it, which means we are more likely to parrot it, which means the group of people that subscribe to that thought grows. It's a recursive cycle.

The internet has created the biggest connection of people the world has ever seen. It's no surprise that among the many who use it, there are a bunch that lack critical thinking, and tend to just subscribe to whatever group roughly matches their ideology. It's not long before theories like Hillary Clinton being a lizard can start to gain traction.
Media criticism of Twitter is suspect. If the Weinstein case in the US has demonstrated anything, it is that news is itself a currency that can be traded, hoarded and deployed to accumulate and wield power. Twitter is one of several welcome checks and balances against that practice, with hopefully more to follow.
I like this resource a lot for new data scientists: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-... . Rule #1 seems pertinent to your situation.
I know more than one vendor who's dumped firmware from BMCs to compare to the vendor image. Simply reflashing the firmware would be caught by this, an implant wouldn't.
Actually, it is you that have the bizarre idea. BSD licences do not permit people relicensing code without permission of the copyright holder. Copyright licences cannot do so. No copyright licence could do this.

To do this, the actual copyright ownership has to be transferred. A copyright licence is a grant of permission by a copyright owner who retains that ownership. It is not a transfer of ownership.

* http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title17/chap...
Nobody likes a braggart but the author strikes me as way oversensitive to anyone saying anything positive about themselves, their accomplishments or possessions. (Or not even actually saying - implying is enough!)

You can taxonify every imagined slight into ever-so-finely distinguished categories, or you can think hard thoughts about why it bothers you so much. Personally I prefer to go for the latter- I'm bothered, but why? What's going on with me that whatever another person said is affecting me this way? What insecurity has it hit upon, why am I insecure about it?
I totally agree, and wasn't arguing that a new title wasn't necessary. And I'm ok with my downvotes for that comment :)

It's just funny that "Data Scientist" seemed to be originally branded as the more technical/engineer-y version of a data analyst. Now I get recruiters contacting me for "Data Scientist" positions that entirely revolves around SQL and excel, and nobody in the Bay Area hires "Data Analysts" anymore.

Alright, guess it's time to update my LinkedIn and resume to adjust for this inflation? Maybe I should jump up a few inflation levels and just become a "Deep Learning Engineer."
Interesting. We order on Prime multiple times per week and I can think of once, maybe twice where they didn't get it to us in 2 days. Conversely, I can think of times where it came in 1 day also.
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Last year, my macbook (mid-2012 non-retina) starting acting funky (wouldn't boot half the time and would lock up intermittently). I took it in to the Apple Store (after I had made a reservation and had to wait a week) and the technician looked at it for a few minutes and said it was probably a logic board problem and that it would be about $900 IIRC and suggested I not even bother as it would be ineligible for repair soon anyways...suggested I just buy a new one.

I found a 3rd party repair shop down the road. Took it in, they did some diagnostics on it while I was standing there and confirmed it was a harddrive cable issue...they said it was a common issue for these models. Quoted me $100 (mostly for labor) and said I could wait or come back tomorrow...I decided on the latter. On my way home, they called and said it was ready for pickup. They said the cable was under warranty and bring it back if I have any more issues...fingers crossed it has been running great ever since.

I really enjoy my macbook, I had wanted one for years and finally saved enough money to purchase one in 2012 (I believe it was about $1200). I also made upgrades to the HD (changed to SSD) and upgraded the RAM as I didn't have the $ to buy all the upgrades at time of purchase but knew I wanted to make it better over the years. It has allowed me to work on iOS and use a great OS while still have access to UNIX bash. That said, I don't think I would buy the latest model...probably out of principal (I disagree with the high cost, the inability to upgrade the machine and the gimmicks being added rather than making it a Pro device). I might try to find a 2015 model the day my 2012 dies but I don't really think I could justify a $3000 purchase on an item that I can only take back to the manufacturer for a solution...should a problem ever arise.

I doubt any of this matters to you, just wanted to share my experience.
Emacs-er (I'm a proud one) tend to live in Emacs, not in browsers so a delay it's normal :-)

Especially since HN emacs interface offer a decent way to read but not a way to post and since HN itself is not much good in term of conversation (even worse than Reddit, far far far worse than classic usenet) spending time in adding post capabilities it's probably not much interesting...