skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its so frustrating when science become politicized. Every "statistics on guns" report is either "America is less safe than Somalia" or "America gun owners are the safest people in the world". It's infuriating how politics an run math and science
Well, not zero killings but the fact you have to go back 17 years for your examples illustrates the US is a tad worse. I tried to find some stats but couldn't for Italy.
Exactly. Most of that white powder in a sugar packet is dextrose filler.
Seems sort of bizarre that the review hearings are done in front of a jury, rather then some sort of panel of people with relevant expertise. The person has already been found guilty, so there isn't really any judgement call to make as far as the facts are concerned.

The cynic in me thinks this is done just because no-one wants to take the responsibility of releasing these people, since if even one goes on to commit a sensational crime, the person who made the call to release them will get pilloried by the public (and probably, by their own conscience). So the jury provides a way to pass on the responsibility for the call.
FTA:

> The couple moved there full-time in 2011 when Leon Lederman started experiencing memory loss problems that became more severe, his wife said. His Nobel Prize sold for $765,000 in an auction in 2015 to help pay for medical bills and care.
China planted chips in Apple and Amazon servers, report claims
I am yet to bother with GraphQL and Appolo, and I bet in 5 years they will be in same place as NoSQL databases are today.

I honestly don't see any benefit over plain Web APIs.
A Running List: The Nobel Prize 2018 Laureates
Possibly, but the notion of a retirement home as a kind of prison or punishment seems to be rooted in pop culture.

Remember the running gag from "The Golden Girls" where Sophia, the oldest member of the cast, was often threatened to be sent back to the retirement home of hell "Shady Pines".
> A trusted network is fine, but are the telephone networks trusted?

In the old days there was an assumption that if you were in the network then you were trusted, which was always dicey but made more sense when Ma Bell controlled everything tightly. Since the monopoly breakup that model was no longer true, and many problems can trace back to the nature of back patching security onto an entirely different model that no longer fits reality.
Laptop cpus are still quite faster for complex computation, on a phone it's rarely the case and they have gpu/npu as coprocessor to avoid wasting energy there.
It's interesting to finally have some explanation as to why I have always found dark themes worse, also having astigmatism.
Why Is LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY Running Wild in Humanity?
Wait until landauer principle gets proved :)
Facebook is making users wait twice as long to delete their accounts
You don't need to "define" it in some philosophical sense to use it.

Compare "mass". What is mass? Can you really define it? You can say what it does, but what "is" it? Well, nobody can define it, except in terms of the things that it does. Because those are all we see of it. We can measure it, we see those measurements let us predict other outcomes. So we can use our knowledge of mass in practical, predictive ways to build things and accomplish things. Physicists still don't know what it "is" and they don't have to.

Now intelligence. You can measure it. The measurements stay stable on a given person over time and between tests. The measurements predict a wide variety of outcomes - both of a large life scale (income, longevity, criminality, etc) and on an individual task scale (this person can learn X in Y time). It's the most solid, repeatable, predictive result in all of psychometrics - more than personality traits or anything else we can measure about the mind. but what "is" it? It's the thing that predicts all those outcomes. No practical use for it requires that it be anything else.

The whole "what is intelligence anyway" thing is a giant red herring; it's a specific case of a general-purpose counterargument that can be used to attack literally any statement about anything by demanding endlessly more rigorous definitions of the terms involved.
On the other hand, I loved the decision making in Skyrim.

Major plot points turn out completely differently on every playthrough. I played as a nord - storm cloak (nationalists) in my first run based on the tradtitional mold of the warrior hero freeing their country from the Invaders.

Mid way through the game their facist side became more apparent, and I helped a genuine asshole of a person become king.

This made my 2nd playthrough as the empire (colonists/settlers) just that much more fun, as I tried to seek revenge on the asshole that I didn't like from a previous life.

It has been 8 years since it came out, and no game captured me quite like it. (Borderlands and Witcher came close)
One little side comment: within one of the photos shown as part of this article, they show a photo of Grace Hopper, but no mention nor credit of COBOL's roots to her, nor her contributions to COBOL. So, the past was only made up of cowboys, but not cowgirls, eh? Tsk tsk.
Right but if you postulate that "perseverance" is prerequisite for "education" then why would Coolidge list it separately, as an argument that "it's not enough"?

Also, there are other examples of success without perseverance. Obvious ones are inherited success: e.g. just being born as king makes one - well, a king. No perseverance necessary.
FWIW, I do think it's a game of probabilities - all these traits (education, IQ, perseverance etc) increase your odds of success to certain degree - and none of them guarantee it.
How does this workflow work when there are 3 commits that need to be applied in order (A, B, and C), when C gets approved from a code-review standpoint before A and B?
As much of the research in BCIs this one is more of a feat in engineering rather than science. What is the ultimate goal of the study? We know that flashing stimuli cause a response in a brain (this is called Steady State Visual Evoked Potential or SSVEP and is studied a lot). We know that a TMS device can cause receiving person to perceive flashes. This game could be fun and all, but it is a technology demo and ability to say "I did this first".

Another thing, SSVEP has two modes of action, one is based on vision and the other on attention. That is: if somebody is just looking at a flashing light, the signal is clearly visible in the occipital region of the scalp but this is _not_ brain signals, it is a signal from the optical nerve. It is (according to a paper) possible to consciously control the SSVEP response amplitude (for example with the two flashing targets in the peripheral vision and an eye-tracker that ensures that the subject is not actively looking at a target, merely concentrating on one). This response will be of lower amplitude but will come from the brain.
I'm sure that companies will start to re-shore production on to friendlier countries or at least require sub-contracting restrictions. From the article it sounds like a sub-sub-sub-contractor (SuperMicro->Main Chinese Contractor->Compromised Chinese Contractor) was the weak link.
PR rep deliberately using newspeak to convey he's ordered to lie?
Clover CEO here. Won't comment on a competing device but this may not work the way you think. In Clover's approach the touch controller input isn't reaching the Application Processor running Android when in PIN entry mode. You can do patent search if you're interested.
I'm not sure "infiltrated" is the right word when discussing a state-level actor in a totalitarian country.
Yeah, I always like to be the most conductive thing around in a lightning storm. Keeps life exciting. Doesn't resistance translate to heat and explosions? Besides, one in 7 million and all.

https://xkcd.com/795/
Second this, after having to go through a service level 1 DSS review for a few years. Lower level reviews (3,etc) just require self validation.
In fact there are nearly always a series of prizes one typically sees before the Nobel, e.g. the Wolf Prize, Boltzmann medal, etc. It would be odd that someone comes out of left field and takes the Nobel.
Can you please expand on your transition? Was it something that felt like acting at first? Did you give up “neediness”?
The title is a bit misleading. The study is basically comparing the path of the top 1% to the top 2% of the IQ distribution and arguing that it doesn't matter that much in term of extraordinary achievements (nobel prize, etc).

If you compare the top 20% to the bottom 20% of the distribution I bet there will be a strong correlation to professional sucess.
Supermicro was already delisted prior to this article and had about $370k of US dollar trading volume yesterday in the OTC markets. Don't think people will make much money shorting it as this point, since it is already so illiquid. Highly doubt that is the explanation for the article.

EDIT: I read the volume amount incorrectly - it's more like 6m of volume which is not too bad. Someone could probably make money shorting it but again since its delisted already it would be difficult/risky to do so.
Even human languages aren't not fully used.

There are multiple levels of understanding, regionalisms and specialized technical terms that few get to use.
Never change Hacker News

(actually do change, please)
Hey! I'm interested in this goal too. Fancy a talk? Email/twitter is in bio.
How is dextrose in a sugar packet filler? That makes no sense to me. Maybe it's just a confusion of terms.
That's a good point. It makes things murky, which I suspect the massive amount of collaboration is the only reason Bloomberg published the article.

Could it be a conspiracy to deceive Bloomberg? From all the conspiracies, that seems the most likely to me.
The original article contains exactly 0 real technical information and reads like a spy story beginning.
Looks like it will be really interesting to me once it can support modal keybindings.
Procedures change, as attacks get more sophisticated the next step could be disposable devices. But an attack like the one described in this article won't be mitigated by having a disposable device. On the other hand having your laptop "hijacked" while on a business trip will most likely involve some extra PCB or components that are a little more obvious that something that's "built in".

Then again many companies or public institutions would find it hard to justify shredding each week maybe tens of laptops and phones that still have to be good enough to work on. Basically they still have to be a "standard issue" device with your company's software stack, config, etc.

I'm sure someone can find a good compromise between security and wastefulness.
2 articles already on the front page. HN rules also ask you to submit the original source, not articles reporting what another site reports.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138328
That's not how TS/SCI works. You've been watching too many movies. Source: was TS/SCI cleared for 15 years. Information being classified just means you can't divulge the information, not that you can't divulge the existence of the info.
Contrary to popular belief, westerns are not documentaries, and it's not common for people who are already under the gun to try to quick-draw and outshoot someone.
>the main problem today is not unequal pay for equal work, but whatever it is that leads women to be in lower-ranking jobs at lower-paying organisations

If only this was the conversation we could have, we might actually make some progress.
Some companies certainly do that (in case the question was for me).
The more likely answer is that the PR department isn't being told the truth by corporate security. Security clearances trump corporate hierarchy.
A lot of people are unaware of how anonymous sources in a serious news organization work. Here, it means that the multiple high-level intelligence officials described in the article are known to and vetted by Bloomberg. They've looked at their resumes and bona fides, and confirmed their backgrounds. They're just not revealing their names to us.

So which is more likely: that multiple intelligence officials are making this up, or that Apple/Amazon/Supermicro feel obligated to lie because this is an ongoing classified counterintel investigation?
The problem is not the data on the machine, it's that you connect that machine to your trusted network when you're back.
Hell, how many conspiracy theory's have come out as true in since 2001.

Remember the "The telephone companies are routing all our calls and internet data to the NSA" conspiracy.

A bunch of people said that was fake, and there was no way this could happen.

Then more evidence came out, and the same people said there was no way that could happen, its too big of conspiracy and it would have leaked way before then.

Then the government gave the telco's retroactive immunity for spying on the public.
Depends on the hardware and the anti-tamper measures. I've seen POS terminals where the pcb was completely encased in security plastic, where any attempted breach would wipe the internal security keys, which meant the hardware just became a useless. They're so sensitive that these things enter "tampered state" from time to time without any tampering. I developed software on these things - and bricked multiple devices by accident, even though this was 'development' hardware.
I have not seen anything that indicates how installing this chip would do anything at all without also modifying the trace design and fabrication of the PCB itself.

Also does anyone have information about the "baseboard management controller" mentioned? I would like to understand the complexity required to MiTM a ROM or FLASH memory read by such a controller before concluding the feasibility and number of players in manufacturing chain required for it to work.
Not true. Luck is just random, preparation allows to spot more opportunities, but no amount of preparation will make up for a lack of them.
Chinese spies reportedly inserted microchips into servers used by Apple, Amazon
The motto is also spoken by the 'cowboys' in 'Space Cowboys' as well.
And it's horribly buggy, slow, and terrible all-around.
So, what was the SMT part supposed to be, and what was put in there instead? I would love identifying markings, or you know, a datasheet.

Nothing so far I've read includes part numbers. Sure would like to go through my supply to see if I have any of the offending parts.
I never claimed that intelligence is nothing. I said that the IQ measurement is itself not worth much except as a general guide in fairly broad ranges.

Intelligence is certainly something. It is relevant. But it is not precise, and is useful, as I said, only in the broadest strokes. And like all psychometrics, the manner in which it is measured is itself not stable.

But comparing intelligence to mass or any other physical measurement is a non sequitur. Mass is precisely measurable with perfectly repeatable results, and has perfectly repeatable interactions.
This meme has been around for at least 15 years. Banks will be fine, since they have unlimited resources.
US indicts 7 Russian spies in hacking campaign linked to Olympics doping scandal
Maybe they meant cellulose?
I got a personal text from Trump yesterday confirming this.
For enough money, I'd say many. COBOL isn't sexy, but it's not difficult either. And it's demonstrated a lot more staying power than most other languages.
You are a PR guy. A respected and big news agency puts out an article saying your company is involved in some secret stuff - stuff that you wouldn't know about.

Do you release a press release denying everything without asking the guys who are supposed to know about it? Would those guys say to you it's all fabricated and urge you to deny it or will they evade answering it (or even more likely they'll go up the chain)?

This is a CEO level incident.
>But yes, being able to produce fresh food better, faster and in more controlled way is definitely worth pursuing for humanity.

But it isn't better. And why is making worse food faster worth pursuing for humanity? All the available evidence seems to suggest that a rural agrarian lifestyle provides more happiness and fulfillment. It would seem that we should be pursuing how to move people into the country to grow their own food, not how to support the highest possible population of humans at the expense of those humans and everything else on the planet.
Sure, we were discussing someone saying their devices came with extra PCBs inside (it's a bit hard to follow but scroll up to the original comment, currently first on the page).

> We would be getting products from China with added boards to beam credit card information.

>> Trying to guess the contents of a box that you cannot open sounds a bit like madness.

>>> Use X-ray? or whatever can penetrate the exterior shell

2 different types of attacks, 2 different types of responses.
Plugging my own site, but here’s a collection of poems Kim Addonizio put together after visiting The Lightning Field: https://verse.press/playlist/into-the-desert-223272706940846...
The US government argued for years that chips needed to be made inside the US - which they were for certain military applications. Then, President Clinton allowed huge technology transfers from the US to China, and the US was no longer making its own chips for military applications.
It looks like many of videos on Reddit are re-uploads from YouTube or other websites. It would be interesting to see how they'll deal with copyright laws.
Might it be thermoelectric?
Power consumption is more or less square to per-thread throughput.

Power consumption is between square and m^n to inter-core bandwidth and count.

So, a high-end smartphone CPU might do 1/5th of the throughput of a desktop CPU using 1/25th of the power.
The Synchrocyclotron
Intelligence doesn't matter much when you have it.
It matters quite a lot when you don't.

Like in basketball - being 2.50m tall doesn't mean you'll beat everyone on the court. But being 1.50m pretty much guarantees you're out of luck.
Half of those views are probably people trying to reload the video because it isn't playing.
Someone made a chemistry joke that went over your head. Dextrose is sugar. Common in corn syrup, to be exact.
I've always wondered if that passive device in the great crest at the US embassy in Moscow had equivalents which got hooked up to consumer devices with high voltage parts (to make people reluctant to play inside)

Remember the furore when Zenith was the last domestic manufacturer of TVs in the USA? We've come a long way since then..
'The Fletcher checksum cannot distinguish between blocks of all 0 bits and blocks of all 1 bits.'

For some reason, I find it fascinating to read about such a fundamental limitation. But I understand it doesn't apply much in the real world.
Yep, it's about the one client I ever see be 3x3. They use a specially customized version of the 2014 BCM943602 to do it. Don't think I've ever seen a 4x4 client pop into our logs that wasn't an AP to AP bridge but I know there are a handful of adapters made which support it.

Interestingly Intel gave up on making 3x3 cards a couple of years ago but will sell you a 160 MHz 2x2 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Indeed. When I'm on desktop I try to avoid opening links to images and videos hosted by Reddit.
I think we are already at this stage. Just compare someone with PhD in physics against someone with just a basic high school education. This is a gap that very, very few people are able to cross.

One may say that, intellectually, the humanity is already split into two unequal parts - less than 1% of, let's say, intellectually capable people, and the rest (I belong to the rest).

It is important for us (the rest) to let the 1% work and drive the progress, and not to interfere. Unfortunately, this too requires effort, so the end result is... you know, just turn on the TV.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
i set up a kubernetes cluster 1 year ago at work and a private one last weekend.

last year took, i think 2 days. my private one was up and running within ~1h, including writing the ansible role to first install binaries/dependencies and join the cluster as a worker node.

either you didn't use kubeadm to set it up or ... i have no idea how you could've possibly failed.

its pretty much

(all) ${packagemanager} install docker-ce kubectl kubelet kubeadm
(master) kubeadm init -> prints token
(node) kubeadm join ${token}
> cut costs by firing the "expensive employees" and hiring "cheaper and newer"

You should do everything else to cut costs before you start getting rid of your people. Those people understand your business and you're going to need those people when things turn around (and they usually do). Any time you let people go, you're throwing away domain knowledge. You've PAID for that. It is an asset. You'd no more throw away all the computers in the building, why would you throw away your employees!?
Realizing one 2 tablespoon serving of peanut butter was half a full meal was a wakeup call. It turns out 1/4 or less of a "serving" of most processed things works the same taste-wise and doesn't lead to insatiable hunger later.
> The scope of verifiable components is fundamentally limited by the state-space-explosion problem. For example, in order to verify cache-coherence protocols with Murphi [Dill et al.1992], a widely used model checker designed for that exact task, at one point the biggest system that could be verified had only 3 cores interacting with a single-address memory having two potential values. While improvements to algorithms and hardware (for running the analysis) continually increase the feasible system size, there are fundamental limitations of such tools that explore finite state spaces, in the face of exponential growth in state spaces as we add processor cores or memory addresses.

> In this paper, we introduce the Kami framework for the Coq proof assistant, which brings this style of development and verification to the world of computer architecture, simultaneously reversing all of the weaknesses enumerated above for most hardware-verification tools. Kami makes it possible to code and verify a fairly realistic processor within Coq and then extract it to run on FPGAs (and almost certainly in silicon, though we have not yet had the opportunity to fabricate a “real” chip). We also emphasize that our use of “verified” is more in the tradition of CompCert [Leroy 2006] or seL4 [Klein et al. 2009] than of the day-to-day practices of verification engineers in the hardware industry: we prove that a system with any number of shared-memory cores with associated coherent caches correctly implements the functional-correctness specification of our instruction set, with respect to sequential consistency.

https://deepspec.org/entry/Paper/Kami.3A+A+Platform+for+High...
The user is still protected in that case.

If you create a proxy for foo.com, your javascript can't get the browser to send the user's cookies for foo.com to your proxy.
You're confusing anecdotes for data and extrapolating a few bad cases to malign hundreds of thousands of people.
Let's talk about complexity for a moment, for one aspect of a simple service: ingress.

Kubernetes:

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: test-ingress
spec:
rules:
- http:
paths:
- path: /testpath
backend:
serviceName: test
servicePort: 80

Nginx:

location /testpath {
proxy_path http://127.0.0.1:8080
}

Which is less complex? Which is beta, and thus could be changed over time (it happens a lot). Which one requires major (and breaking) infrastructure updates every 3 months?

> I'd argue you have less YAMLs with k8s than with Ansible for a small project.

Since you typically need one yaml document per K8s resource, and can describe multiple independent and idempotant actions in one Ansible document, I think this is easily demonstrable as false for small projects (and likely big projects as well).