skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And there's also probably a big difference between the top 0.01% percent and the top 1%. The difference between the top 1% and top 2% isn't very important for most types of talent. Being in one of those categories for athletic talent, for instance, wouldn't get you into a professional sports league of any kind.
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I am a mathematician who wants to get into software development. What are the absolute essentials bits to know from theory, application and coding guidelines such that one is able to do basic back-end or front-end development. Learning a whole CS curriculum appears very time consuming and is most likely not that practical or do I have the wong idea? How does one best approach such undertaking?
I'm just pointing out your exaggeration of the result of this test, not the danger in real life, which I believe you assess accurately.
I worked in an IBM shop in the early 1990s, at the time they had a big chart on the wall titled "Punch Card Elimination Project." It was one of those big thermometer charts like United Way drives use to document how close they are to their contribution goal. As I recall it was at about 70%.
Couldn't have thought of a better description
I think this is really funny, sorry to get downvoted.

I would ban Sears CEO from coming close to any public company and he really needs more publicity for amount of value he destroyed and peoples lifes and careers his moves upended.
There's a glitch at the edge of the universe that could remake physics
There are a lot of efficient PC's available. My HTPC sleeps when not playing and when streaming 1080p/4k videos only uses about 25 watts... which isn't bad considering its streaming from a NAS with plex through to an Xbox One.

Phones, on the other hand, are highly specialized - PC's are general purpose. Trade off is often power requirements and performance.

My 8 core 16 thread Ryzen Gaming PC smokes anything my phone can do and i guess if i really wanted to compare i could do a taskper watt calculation and see how they compare.

When i use my phone like a computer, its power draw increases and i get just a couple hours of battery use. play fortnite on your phone and it goes dead quick.
That's a bit misleading. There are code word programs and classified investigations where just revealing the existence of the info would be a serious violation.

In this case, if a cleared employee is asked: is this information true, is there such an investigation? Then simply by saying they can't comment on the question, they reveal the info to be true.

I think most people with high-level clearances would play it safe in such situations and just deny any knowledge of the situation.
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It is possible that because of the nature of counterintelligence investigations, the individual companies agreed to gag orders while law enforcement does its work.

Also, these companies want to continue to do business in China, and likely do not want to be on the record accusing the government of a massive criminal conspiracy.
I don't understand your logic. Why can't they just delete any information that isn't part of an active investigation? Because they don't want to take any heat from pro-authoritarians in the case that a later investigation could have used the evidence?

In the past police departments have been happy enough to just ignore rape kits for years and years. I guess people would flip their shit if unprocessed rape kits were destroyed, but that's specific evidence...
If someone is sick, they'll become slow. All they'll want to do is lie down some place quiet.

Watch kids, healthy kids. After a meal, all they want to do is run, talk, jump - move. Sitting still is the last thing they want to do.

My point is perhaps, sedentary behavior is caused by something, a symptom outside the control of those afflicted by it.

Here are some culprits we could explore:

Schooling: Being trained, forced to sit in a spot for hours could train people to be sedentary.

Processed food: Maybe its doing something to the body. Like how zombie ants are controlled by fungi.

Aging process: All animals become less active with age... Even snails.

Environment: Tech makes it harder to be active physically. A tv remote, car, internet for shopping...

Poverty: There's a proven link between experiencing poverty at a young age and inability to control food intake, and spend responsibly.

Genes: People used to bulk up for winter hunger. Now there's food all year round. But the lizard brain is still in control.

There might be more reasons why people binge eat, and remain sedentary such as processed water, poor air quality, domestication (The more Wolf gene a Dog has, the more active it is)...
Good observations. A few data points (from a white citizen of the US). 20 years ago I saw a police officer as a friend. If I was lost, I would ask one for directions, help, etc. Now I generally prefer to ask a sane-looking stranger. I saw other folks, including military officers, express similar feelings.

I think that composition of the police has changed. Before, it was mostly local boys who joined police after school. They view random strangers as mostly friendly and have a "do not bug them unless they need help" mind set. Nowadays, there are strong preferences for recruiting vets, which often means time in a combat zone area with distinctly unfriendly locals (and possibly PTSD). They see random strangers as potential threats and this can affect all interactions.

Independently, when you are pulled over, especially on a highway, it is usually a local cop who is encouraged by his town to write tickets that help local budget. They are likely completely professional and probably even friendly, but by default we are at the opposite sides in this interaction. Extra information on my side does not hurt.
This is only true when comparing older PC hardware.

There is simply no comparison to make when we are talking raw compute power. If there were, the DC market would be dominated by x86 processors with stupidly low power consumption. The cost savings from the smaller power/heat footprint would be absurd.
Oracle doesn't even offer free LTS versions of java anymore. You have to upgrade every 6 months to stay on a supported version. https://react-etc.net/entry/oracle-to-stop-providing-a-free-...
Normally I'd assume this sort of leak would only be the result of orders from above. But there was recently the credible allegation that Trump backed off the ZTE sanctions after China threw a few million dollars at the Trump Organization in a real estate deal[1]. Whether that was a successful case of bribery or not I can see a highly placed employee looking at that and deciding they can't trust their superiors to do the right thing in this matter.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-zte-order-after-china-...
Yes, they need to provide more details on how its supposed to even work. We can come up with all kinds of theories but proof is needed that this device is even a chip. I want layer photographs of that thing.
Tinfoil hat time. Based on my assertions elsewhere I suspect this is posturing plausible deniability for a more local actor being responsible for implants that may or may not be discovered already.

The vigorous denials from Apple and Amazon are suspiciously against the grain in these situations.
True but you are assuming the IQ test is inifinitely precise which I doubt it is. It is only a measure of intelligence.
Holy molly! This sounds similar to what I thought a couple of days ago: China is the major electronics supplier to most technological companies, what if China added some sort of sniffing or malware on the chips to spy on their customers?
I wonder what is taking so long for this project to be usable. I didn't do anything to help but it's been a while and I can't wait to use this editor.
Koomey’s law says new computers use less and less all the time :)
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Your total seems to be one to two orders of magnitude greater than what we paid. We fully prepaid, and there were no complications. However, I wasn't talking about cost but replying to the assertion that one could not forecast costs.

I replied to, "It's insane how difficult it is currently to figure out how much even routine and planned operations like delivering a child will cost, and as a result people don't bother to even try". Your post seemed to refute that as well.
They don't actually have an obligation to do much of anything after a crime, either.
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I think the biggest diference here is the society in US is more heterogenous, divided and the levels of inequality is high than in Scandinavia. The white Americans that live in rich neighborhoods would feel safer with police presence but an afro American will be viewed as a threat an enemy by the policial forces so is natural this part of population feel unsafe.

basically class struggle
Why would Apple care and lie to protect them?
That would be in line with the requirements. You go through stringent certification with the software and hardware that has access to the actual PIN and then show that the application and application hardware never really has any access to it so that you can customize/update your software.

This is the easy part.

The hard part I remember was establishing secure communication between all components in the system (initializing HSMs, injecting keys). I remember helping designing the process and writing hundreds of documents describing various security-related procedures like how the HSM racks are inspected, how the keys to the racks are fetched from the safes, how there are multiple safes for multiple security officers, how the officers are prevented from ever having access to other safes, how fetching anything from safes requires logging and using tamper-evident containers, how the logs are inspected, and so on.

I have designed a special cryptographic protocol so that we could generate and inject keys to the devices in KIF (Key Injection Facility) and separately to our database (to establish communication with the terminal). Fun.
I've bodged together a slow python implementation here: https://gist.github.com/JosephRedfern/ea6a7e8f3f59a28296ac30...

I kept variable names roughly the same in order to make it easy to compare the JS version to the Python version. I also translated vector.js to python (for the same reasons), even though you could probably just use numpy directly.
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> A lot of engineers have this tendency to worry about scalability long before it's ever a problem.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" -- Donald Knuth

Translating the old suggestions [1] to the realm of devops, I think the point really is: if you are fairly certain that your optimization (k8, docker and so on) will result in "better" code and practices right away, then you should do it. If not, you shouldn't.

I personally find this stuff to be way overkill in a lot of cases. Does Kubernetes really accelerate your development process? If you are a two-men startup, your objective is to find ways to deliver value as quickly as possible, not to play at being Facebook. When you become Facebook (or even just Basecamp), you will then have enough resources to do this optimization. But if you feel your development process is really so much better with K8 and friends (because it's what you used in a previous job or something), by all means go for it.

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?PrematureOptimization
Has this story from 2014 ever been discredited [1] ? If not, I don't see how any supply chain is safe from G8 powers

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
This is my point. They wouldn't.

If you compare to MSFT etc whenever there is a "global cyber incident" the story is the same and correlates with the governments etc which is business as usual.

This is not business as usual.
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Presumably I could order up an AV and it could drive to my house when I needed it.

Why would there need to be strangers?
>Anyone who knows that their D&D Character with a 20 INT isn't invincible.

Isn't this some kind of circular logic? A character with high intelligence is just that a charade of the user playing it. So it doesn't matter if the INT is high, if the player is a moron bad things will still happen.
Thank you. I was trying to make sense of the news stories listed below the stock listing.

Whatever is going on with whatever stock is being traded is now visible even in the delayed listings; you can see it on https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SMCI?p=SMCI&.tsrc=fin-srch or your choice of provider.
It does, and all the technical details mostly match up. From the plausible attack vector (targetting the BMC with an implant) to CG animations of a compromised motherboard showing the implant at the exact spot between the BMC and its firmware chip (which makes perfect sense if it's some kind of SPI interposer).
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At Facebook, same comp and level bands as non-frontend.
It takes 980 MBAs to reach the level of schmoozing required to secure the contract.
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Musk seems to attract so, so many tinfoil hat type conspiracy theories. He's veering into being almost a Hank Rearden caricature.

EDIT: The tinfoil bit was over the top, but he's such a lightning rod and attracts so much criticism and persecution from the entrenched interests he is trying to disrupt, that it starts to look like there is some shadowy cabal trying to bring him down. I rather like the guy, we need some level of technological optimism to counteract the gloom and doom that is ever present.
How could that possibly solve the problem of determining exact creation dates?
FWIW, IQ is not pseudo-science. The research around IQ is some of the most robust psychological research that exists. In fact, it is one of the few areas of psychology that has basically been unscathed by the replication crisis.
> This is a CEO level incident.

And as the article describes, the CEOs were summoned to DC, briefed, and at that point almost certainly asked to keep the investigation under wraps.
There are many tens of thousands of third-party and no-name chargers, and Apple only tested hundreds, or maybe thousands. The vast majority of chargers, including all chargers for which Apple is responsible, work fine.
Best line from an otherwise serious and and important piece of reporting:

"Two of Elemental’s biggest early clients were the Mormon church, which used the technology to beam sermons to congregations around the world, and the adult film industry, which did not."

...which did not.
It's in the article:

"The illicit chips could do all this because they were connected to the baseboard management controller..."
How can gag orders force companies to write such press statements?

Outright lying is financial suicide. Shareholders can and will sue the company.
I have an interesting take on this article. I had an IQ > 150 when I was originally tested when I was a teenager. Later in my teenage years, I experienced trauma that resulted in my IQ dropping by 20+ points, permanently. This means that my IQ is currently in the higher end of the normal range. Here is what I noticed:

1. I feel less "sharp". By this I mean I feel slower to react to things and it takes longer for me to formulate thoughts. Words "caught on the tip of my tongue" happen more often.

2. It takes longer for me to learn. This applies to things like reading comprehension all the way up to learning new technologies. I need to read more slowly and practice more often before I can master a topic.

3. My concentration has decreased. I have ADHD, even as an adult, but following the trauma, it became worse.

What it didn't affect:

1. My motivation. I've always considered myself an entrepreneur. If anything, I am more motivated to be successful - even if I have to work harder.

2. My dedication to lifelong learning. I am a strong proponent of learning new things is important to being successful.

TLDR; IQ has its advantages, but it isn't the only factor.
It is not possible to convince them that they are wrong. The denial of gender differences, or even the existence of gender itself, is practically a religious tenet. It does not yield to science or even common sense.
Disclaimer, I'm not a psychologist. I think IQ is a measure on how good you are manipulating abstractions and detecting patterns. For this other part

>> when it came to starting my own business, I needed a lot of active encouragement or I would give up too quickly

For that abstraction and patterns doesn't help, this is about your temperament, I'd look on how you score in the big five of personality traits. If you don't want to rely on being encouraged all the time. I think you could learn a set micro skills to compensate for those aspects that your natural temperament falls into 'need encouragement' pattern. Note there might not be known micro skill for some of traits, but at least you will have a model that explains your tendencies.
I'd very much love to hear more stories if you have any!
I would say it depends on the thing.

I worked at Defense Science & Technology for a year, and there were levels of classification I wasn't even cleared to know about.

It was very common for someone to be working on something they could not tell their direct boss about, because their boss was not cleared for it.
Well, I like to think persistence matters more but getting into top 1% of everything requires more than determination.

1. Going from bad to good requires x amount of effort/persistence.

2. Going from good to best requires 1000x amount of effort.

When you've put 800x amount of effort, you'll realize this harsh bitter fact. You have already given up on your hobbies, family, social life, ... and you are still considered as "good+" not "best-". To bypass being-best-barrier you need more than persistence.

Things like IQ, family wealth, great coach, ... matter when you are approaching near top of the hill.
Going back to OP saying the police should be courteous and polite, I agree with him/her.

In Australia the police always niceley greeted you and generally polite, in US, it’s the other way, I’ve rarely met a polite one, most are brash and treat you like a criminal from the get go.

The US police system for some reason I don’t understand doesn’t embrace politeness as a value (may be it makes the police look weak?) I don’t know.

But yeah, you want to stay away from the US cops if you can.
Related, I have (had?) an above average IQ, am on the spectrum, and have many symptoms of ADHD...then I had a transient ischemic stroke.

Everything calmed down after.
If unrewarded genius proves that genius is not the thing, then unrewarded persistent person should prove persistence is not the thing either. And there are plenty of unrewarded persistent people.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent, but also, there are plenty of persistent people around who are unsuccessful.
I wonder if this is a classic moon with an interior barycenter or more of a binary situation like Pluto and Charon
And that can be (and is) done with the stacked diffs model as well. CI is orthogonal to whether you use the PR model of the stacked diffs model.
I totally agree that the US is way more violent, was just pointing out something
Actually he is one of the best humans I have ever met. Extremely kind and generous. He was just looking out for himself.
i love this ~

quote captures the human element playing strong in face of bad system
Well, it would look like they were moving headquarters specifically to avoid having to hire women. Whether or not that was actually the case.
Many states also bar sex offenders from living near public parks, and then jurisdictions will create tiny parks out of odd bits of land, to chase sex offenders away: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us/building-tiny-parks-to...

Louis Theroux has done two documentaries on the subject, both very interesting.
No, lol. I like the way asp.net urls are supposed to work. That is, simple routes in plain english. It never works out that way though. I think the end goal should be to make it as easy on the user as possible. So to me that means doing any heavy lifting possible so the user doesn't have to.

Just think about paging. As soon as I see paging I know I have to create a whole JavaScript state machine to keep track of the index and etc. I think that's hostile to the user. Give me everything even if it's just an array of ID's so that I dont have to make that state machine.

Another example I gave was having multiple urls for the same image. I really do not think that's practical. If you need something like a high definition download put that in its own section of the API. For 99.9% of use cases the normal image will do.

Just K.I.S.S. Before you write anything stop and think if you can say it in a more plain way.
> Precise estimates vary, but currently about 5 percent of all energy consumption in the U.S. goes just to running computers

30% goes on transport.

> the human brain is a computer. This particular computer uses some 10–20 percent of all the calories that a human consumes

So society's computer uses 5 percent and our own, evolved over millions of years, uses up to 20.

I'm not saying computers can't or shouldn't be made more efficient, but relatively speaking, the title of this article is pretty bizarre. Computers don't use very much energy compared to almost everything else in the world.
The question is, is she a good barrister? Not trying to play down her achievements, but in the end, anyone can graduate in law if they put in enough time and effort.

As an example: I once had a tax dispute where I was represented by a lawyer who I felt was not very sharp. We were losing / going to lose the case.

Realising the mistake I had made retaining him, I swapped to a senior lawyer of a named tax law firm. He was extremely sharp and experienced, and would think 10 steps ahead. He was also a bit lazy though (which is fine, so am I at times). But he's hands down the best professional I have ever worked with -- the only person I would ever trust without having to double check his work.

I prefer the smart lawyer, as opposed to any person with a law degree. The fact that the first guy in my example persevered and got a law degree says absolutely nothing about his ability.
They allege 30 companies were compromised with implanted Supermicro servers.

Surely one of them could show the world/researchers an infected motherboard?
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Issuing such press statements is the opposite of "keeping the investigation under wraps".
> I said that the IQ measurement is itself not worth much except as a general guide in fairly broad ranges.

IQ predicts about 30% of a whole host of life outcomes (mostly related to job performance, educational attainment, earnings, etc.). That might not seem like a whole lot, but it's the best single predictor of life outcomes that exists, aside from looking at a person's parents and siblings.
>an 8 oz. cup of coffee with 16 packets of Splenda.

I have literally seen people do such things at Dunkin Donuts. "Yeah can I get a medium coffee with extra cream and 20 sugars." You WUT M8?