skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the parent comment was saying that none of these were primarily made by cloudera.
It's not particularly magical, there's consumer chips around which are not a whole lot bigger (though obviously in a more standard package). You don't get a lot of resources, but you don't really need it if all the other frameworks are in place in other software. If this sort of thing is something you can buy on Mouser for a few cents, the espionage grade material is probably an order or magnitude more higher quality.

https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATtiny4

For scale, this alone is about the size of a large SMD capacitor and would basically be lost in most designs today.
I'm employed at a company that engineers financial institution software. I have no qualms admitting when I moved to QA I quickly wrote a program to do my testing. Now each release I just update the relevant variables compile load and run. I see no problem with using my grey matter to it's full potential.
Eh, this only economically makes sense when the time you spend direct-licensing everyone over email is much less than the money you make from the licenses. Anything under $100 or even $500 is just too cheap to spend time dealing with all your licensees. (e.g. if your desired salary is $100k, could you see yourself write 1000 contracts in a year or is that too much work?) And if the software is that expensive, why not have a professional marketing website instead of a hidden unprofessional LICENSE file in your distribution?
> a bank fired some old people to pay a billion dollars to a contractor who would hire the same (!) people to do the job

"a bank" is technically incorrect. The decision was a perfectly rational prisoner's dilemma defection from one executive (cut costs by firing the "expensive employees" and hiring "cheaper and newer"), who went on to be promoted on that basis, and it was the next generation of executives who had to deal with the mess and "hired IBM" so they could absolve responsibility of a situation with no visible upside if successful and tons of visible downside if not.
Auditability is important, especially given how wildly inaccurate* some of these 'speed detection' machines are. Most of the ones I have seen are pretty close, but some are clearly malfunctioning and would basically generate speeding tickets for 100% of the vehicles passing them until they are fixed.

*https://i.imgur.com/NF6eYb9.jpg
Yea agreed, very poorly phrased.
The web is the state it's in because it's a no-mans-land between warring proprietary vendors. Any one of Apple, Microsoft, or Google (even secondary players like Amazon, Oracle, or Valve) would much prefer a world in which they had the dominant platform and could get a 30% cut and arbitrary veto over all software written for that platform.
Thanks, I'll check it out.

I have quite some experience working with Kubernetes clusters for my larger clients. Usually for clients that are big enough to have their own AWS account.

The thing I am still on the fence about is whether I should go for a DIY Kubernetes setup on one or more Hetzner dedicated machines (cheap, more work, less scalable) or if I should just shell out for AWS and run an easily scalable cluster with Kops (which is what I use for some clients) and take advantage of all the AWS goodies like load balancing and RDS.
> You seem to think that the papers that got accepted were 'banal', but that doesn't change the fact that they were accepted.

The banality of the papers is the central weakness of the whole thing. The whole point of Sokal- or SCIgen-style hoaxes is that the papers were gibberish - so when a journal publishes one, the author can legitimately say "Hey look, this journal published gibberish!".

The authors here can't say anything like that. They wrote real papers, arguing real conclusions they thought the journals might agree with. Then those papers got rejected, so they toned it down and wrote more, and then they got peer-review feedback so they changed things in response, etc. The most one can fairly say about the results is "Hey look, these journals published papers that we think are really bad". Which is fair enough, but surely they could say the same thing about most of what those journals already publish, right?

The liberty of the whole thing is writing it all up as if a Sokal-style "we got them to print gibberish" narrative had occurred, when that seems clearly not to be the case.
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Apple at the very minimum tests many thousands of devices before shipping hardware.
>On the other hand, because I live in rural Japan and am only really friends with the people who live near me, almost all of my friends are over 70 (I'm 50). While this is of course selection bias (as well as being anecdotal), people I associate with don't end up in nursing homes -- at least long term.

That's not what selection bias is -- that's just an accurate reporting of what you see around you. It would be selection bias if you additionally claimed that this must be the case elsewhere too.
Figure it's custom silicon, given the nature of the story, and "magic" in the sense of "magic number programming" to time the attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29

For example, looking for ELF or Portable Executable headers, as a crude estimate to determine attack opportunities. In this case, the magic numbers would probably be more selective and sophisticated, but still have an aspect of hard-coded values, since we're talking custom silicon.
It's not free to run a proxy like that.
I'd love to see a text-only mode for the articles inlined. Would be super helpful in low bandwidth conditions.
> but I still haven't really found a killer use for it yet

I think the main "killer feature" is that it allows you to optimize the way you interact with your phone. It's obviously more useful for power users than casual users, but both could benefit since shortcuts are so easy to share.

I have two Shortcuts that stemmed from real-life problems.

[1] - When I'm in a bookstore, I tend to go through dozens of books looking at the GoodReads reviews for each one, trying to discover new authors that might be worth a read. I made a shortcut to turn this into a single-tap barcode scanner, instead of me typing the name of the book into Google each time.

[2] - I was recently suggesting my favourite spots in NYC to a friend, and was trying to remember the streets and addresses of some of the places I took photos of. With a shortcut, I was able to easily geolocate photos in a map, and even get a nearby 360º panorama to remind me of what else was in the area.

Videos/code:

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9jnhc5/scan_a_bo...

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9klosk/find_near...
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Hurray, this is such a sexist meme against men, glad they recognize that.
>Amazon’s security team conducted its own investigation into AWS’s Beijing facilities and found altered motherboards there as well, including more sophisticated designs than they’d previously encountered.

>...the malicious chips were thin enough that they’d been embedded between the layers of fiberglass onto which the other components were attached

>...that generation of chips was smaller than a sharpened pencil tip, the person says.

I hope this corrects the mistaken believe that China can't home grow sophisticated tech.
You can't, but the immigrants did, and so did police too to follow them, and of course photographers and journalist documented it, in which case the police forcefully removed the journalists and the photographers.

At this point, this particular highway was closed off from traffic because of the immigrants and police, if I recall correctly.

In any case, I'm no expert on the matter, but the actions of the police that day were deemed unlawful by the court.
Disappointed they didn't fit blockchain in there somewhere
My gut feel about this for many years has been outsourcing chip manufacturing to another country is a serious security risk. This was a hardware device, hard to detect as it was, how much code is in the chips we already expect on a motherboard?

It seems flat out foolish for one country to own the world’s computer manufacturing.
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1) No obviously the US police does not work like that (mostly)

2) Think that doesn't happen in the EU ? Think again:

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/05/18/562151/Belgian-pol...

Please note that "police chase" here means that they ordered the van to stop and it calmly kept driving, less than 40km/h on an empty road. No police officer was in danger at any point, nor was anyone else.

So they shot "for the tires" (that wasn't their initial story, but oh well) ... through the backdoor ... and right through a 3 year old Kurdish girl. That girl is now dead.

Then they captured them and refused to bring these people to the hospital. Whether there was anything that could be done for the girl at this point is an open question, but the police did not make such a determination. They just refused medical care, pretending it was an escape attempt.

So just stop it. Police "gung-ho" attitudes are not a US problem. The whole appeal of working for the police obviously includes the power you get over others. Another attraction is the many movies about the police. And there's very few "let's get the legal details right" movies about police, isn't there ? This attracts exactly the sort of people that do shoot to kill in situations that absolutely don't justify it.

And it's not limited to the US.

What IS different however, is that the odds of anyone actually successfully mounting a legal challenge to such an officer afterwards are WAY higher in the US. There's more procedures, less immunity, and generally the system is much more aware of the fact that it makes mistakes in the US.

Does that make it better ? Don't know. At that point the damage is done, of course. Still, it's better than nothing I guess.
> For example, a murdurer wanting to stick the charges on some other person could steal that persons devices (phone, fitbit, etc). Wear them while commiting the murder. Then return them, without notice if done at night or something.

A good theft-prevention measure, such as locking the device whenever it’s taken off, should prevent such a scenario.
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With advances in technology, the trend is that we are more and more able to catch speeding, red light passing, and other infractions. And it turns out a lot of people are eventually doing some.

I'm wondering what would be the consequences of a truly omniscient system, where each and every infraction would be immediately caught. We could maybe have mandatory black boxes in vehicles that transmit the infraction in real time.

It seems with a truly complete system, every driver would eventually run out of points on their license and wouldn't be allowed to drive anymore.
> Is it in low-speed, residential areas where drivers know that an extra 5 mph won't save them any time at all (and would greatly increase the risk of injury in an accident)?

Based on my personal experience in such areas, drivers very much do not know this. The number of people speeding down residential streets in my city just to get to a red light at the end of a block is astonishing.
Depends on the culture too. Some of those "not sharing" those feelings belong to cultures that are OK with putting your parents there instead of taking care of them -- and think it's "for the better". Others wouldn't (statistically) let that happen, even if they have "busy lives" themselves.

(Another alternative of course popular in some cultures is to let them toil away even at 70 or more, and have them live alone and "independent", with the token visit).
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People get upset about relatively unimportant things. I'm pretty sure sexism exists and is bad, but this is just... not it. It's a dumb meme, that's all.
It's been a few years I've given up on the idea of privacy with technology.
The number of security flaws that get discovered daily is only the tip of the iceberg.
I'm pretty sure some governments (or organizations) have had backdoors, be they hardware or software, in place for more than 20 years. We simply don't know about it yet (and probably never will). Would that actually be that far-fetched? I think not sadly.
Even the Intel Spectre et Meltdown fiascos are a sign that we have no idea how to actually secure this stuff. And that's normal, the very definition of IT security is that nothing can be secure.
Take the whole antiquated concept of processor rings for instance, we are adding a new level every other year now it feels like...
I find it way more interesting (even if it is ultimately "worse") to adapt to the mentality that "nothing is secure" than "let's try and make it secure", which as stated is in itself a fallacy...
This was news all over Scandinavia and debated up and down and the police actions were condemned from everyone.

It was an extremely troublesome case even here in Norway. It rocked the very principals that our societies are based on.
So yes, it can happen (it has happened once) but it's not institutionalised.

I suspect this case will also be used in training in the future as an example of what not to do.
I was doing some work recently on an old asp.net app, and rather than rocking the boat, I just updated it with the existing webform / viewstate structure... which I haven't touched for years. Was weirdly smooth and easy to do things. There is some disadvantages to the approach... but there is definitely something kind of nice about the approach.
It's called the Service Members' Protection Act, although it's often known as the "Invade the Hague Act." https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2009/0213/p05s01-woeu...
Yes and it makes me curious how they missed such obvious bugs despite thousands of tests.
What's your source on this? My impression, without having any particular evidence, but as a Swedish citizen, is that they follow a similar policy as American police if their own safety is at risk. The main difference is that there are less weapons in Scandinavia.
Where I'm employed the company's philosophy is employee time + salary earned must = overall maximum productive results. When a prospective coders interviewed the time spend debugging and recompiling takes precedence over how many times he/she attempted to fix the issue.
That you cannot create money out of thin air, that you are only trying to force increasing the relative value of labor vs. capital / land / moral hazard etc.

If your increase in minimum wage follows productivity then what's the point ? It's like voting for no child labour laws after most of the children are not working anymore
How common is it for a seemingly standard security audit to inspect motherboards with such level of detail or at all?

They likely needed to have the exact official schematic of the motherboard to compare every single detail of the hardware with.
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A police officers job is to enforce the law, and nothing else.
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You added a wrinkle that seems to partially explain it. Moreover, it does not and should absolve the relevant parties of their responsibility.
>Elon Musk says a lot of things

Like landing first stages, apparently. Crazy guy.
Think tanks and political organizations (including government bodies, the UN and such) are more in the business of selling numbers, than reflecting reality accurately.

The problem is that most others don't have access to the infrastructure and raw data to get accurate numbers themselves (or redo the data collection with better methodology).
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For a comparison, the other week I drove 4000km across Europe and most of the speed cameras I came across were in areas where the speed actually makes a difference i.e. in towns and residential areas. Along a three lane motorway it doesn’t make much difference whether you go at 130kmh or 160kmh, if you aren’t paying attention and do something stupid it’s going to end badly either way. From seeing where speed was actually enforced, it seems that the authorities here believe that too.
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I take a different view of this. Some 30 companies got this hardware, two are named as having the resources to find the offending hardware. By this logic you’re still safer using a company such as Amazon.
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This sounds like speculation. I'm quite capable of coming up with my own unfounded speculation, but there is a real report out there with the actual details in that really needs to be made public, legally or otherwise. There ought to be a CVE about this. Where is it?
This article frightens me considering that you can almost always identify the endusers for a lot of the personal devices shipping directly from China.
Exactly. I've read a story about a US police officer (a former marine) who managed to defuse an armed situation, and got reprimanded or fired for it.

So not only are (at least some) US police officers insufficiently trained to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations, they are actively punished when they do de-escalate. They are expected to shoot people.

Equally bizarre is that law enforcement experts warn people not to talk to the police without a lawyer. Not even as a witness or to help them. The American attitude towards police and police work is utterly alien to me.
So THIS is why Germans prefix their name with "Doctor" or some such, which feels weird for us non-Germans.
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> The illicit chips could do all this because they were connected to the baseboard management controller, a kind of superchip that administrators use to remotely log in to problematic servers, giving them access to the most sensitive code even on machines that have crashed or are turned off.

Obviously this would still be possible without IntelME, but having an always on, highly privileged and remotely accessible baseband definitely makes the modifications easier and smaller...
The police in some countries are very corrupt. When they pull you over, they won't give you a fine. They will just ask for money, otherwise they will drag you to the police station for whatever reason. It happens in Eastern Europe and other poor countries.

In some countries, the police is feared because they abuse their power, like the police in India with their colonial attitude: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Common-people-are-...
>Supermicro subcontractor

There is only one I know of: Soyo motherboard
They failed because compiles took forever and you couldn't debug very well. With Graal and WebAssembly, performance might be better.
Try looking by military budget instead. The US military budget is larger than the next few budgets combined. The most recent increase is bigger than the entire Russian military budget.
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This sounds strange but it's commonplace to make parts like this. Some DCDC converter modules have silicon dies embedded into their PCBs to save physical footprint, most notably there's a family of Texas Instruments ones which use this technique.

https://www.electronicdesign.com/sites/electronicdesign.com/...
The fact that it is news at all, and that people widely condemn it, says a lot. In the US, these sort of situations seem to be terrifyingly common. In Netherland, police do carry guns, but they are very rarely used. And even more rarely fired.
Well I think that's more of a cost question -- AWS can get expensive pretty quickly. Three t2.micros (one coordinator, 2 nodes) are absolutely pitiful in terms of processing power but that's already ~$30/month when you could get a way beefier machine on Hetzner whether dedicated or cloud (also Scaleway[0]).

I'm a fan of Hetzner because I think their cheap dedicated machines are worth the operational costs for me, and the issues with upkeep I'll face are good for me because that knowledge has value. Also, I want to note that if you actually start subscribing to the immutable infrastructure movement that's going on right now, once you look past all the buzzwords it's a fantastic way to run servers stress free -- as long as your data is backed up/properly managed, just shoot servers left and right, spend a lot of time to get them into the right state ONCE, and never worry about it again. You can even use terraform to provision hetzner. Again, this kind of thinking and the related tooling is catchy/popular right now because it's useful at larger scales, but it can also free you of a lot of worry at lower scale. For example I have a post on using Container Linux to go from brand new machine to single node k8s cluster, with one file.

To be honest though, setting up a Hetzner dedicated machine is very very easy -- they've got great utilities. You could even go with Hetzner Cloud and things will be more managed.

I would say go with AWS if you want to experiment with AWS technology as well -- and want to use their value added services. If you run kubernetes on a dedicated machine on hetzner you're definitely not going to get the rest of that, of course.

BTW, kubeadm is better/less complex than kops -- It's almost impossible to fuck it up, but there are subtle things in kops due to the AWS integration that make things a little things ever so slightly more difficult.

[0]: https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/

[1]: https://vadosware.io/post/k8s-container-linux-ignition-with-...