skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not surprising, when you consider that every intelligence agency spends at least 10x more money on offense than defense. I first became aware of this when I worked at a company where we had the NSA "defense" as a customer. We tried and tried to get contacts on the offense, because it was a much bigger market opportunity, but the company went under before we succeeded. So it's our Ferrari offense against their Fiat defense, and vice versa. (Not at all a comment on skills or motivation BTW. There might be an element of having one's pick of a larger talent pool, but mostly it's about resources.) It's practically inevitable that we'll both score lots of points off each other.
Given how often we've been told that IQ tests don't measure anything but the ability to take tests, the title is obvious bullshit.
I think it is fair, though, to say IQ tests tend to become less accurate as the test takers approach the intelligence of the test designers. An they're when the test takers are much smarter than the test designers, the tests are really no good at all at determining how much smarter.
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Agreed. Typed some quasi-looking-Python in their demo. It was not hard to “read” at all

A mono space version, with all the appropriate symbols, would be interesting to try out as a daily coding font.
He's written so many useful and maintained ansible roles.
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Could the future of farming be vertical?
no way, an intentional design-level plant would have to pass through many eyeballs. a single mole wouldn't be enough.
Not really, just been thinking about this.
It is often sufficient to US ends to merely depose a government and leave their country an ungovernable morass of violence for years, or else to let a local client do the hands-on work. There have been some high-profile failures, but nobody even pays attention to, like, Haiti, or Guatemala, or Libya, or wherever, where we've had our way without too much trouble.
I think saying "the writing was on the wall" is a bit weird. People have been claiming Reddit going the way of Digg for as long as it's existed. It's bound to happen at some point... death is an inevitable part of life, even of a website's / company's life. You and I are bound to die at some point, the writing is on the wall, yknow?

But yeah, I really miss Reddit not being full of vile shit. Does seem to be somewhat inevitable when a community grows. And the site has grown massively. Which means all the subreddits that existed back then grew massively. So new ones are created, and for a while those don't suck as much... but they grow as a function of the site's growth. And the bigger the site, the faster "fresh new subreddits" grow, and end up being atrocious.
I can’t speak for the Valley but there’s not been many real breakthroughs in this space to innovate on. Apple, a trillion dollar company, still can’t bring something more exciting than the Apple Watch to market.
100% agreed. If a dev thinks they might want to put something in Kubernetes eventually, there are a few best practices that they could adopt early on to make that easy. But basic hygiene aside, the should wait.

The number of projects that might scale up is much, much smaller than the number of projects that do. If I actually want my project to serve a zillion users, the right place for me to focus my effort is not on Kubernetes, but on user context interviews, user tests, and fast iteration based on the results of experiments.
Wasabi: cloud storage with no egress charges
The trick seems to be having sufficiently uninformed people in all positions that might get to write that kind of response. No need to feign ignorance when you can have the real thing.
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I'm sure most of the computation to run society occurs in the human brains of the millions of workers.
Re: top-level domain, there's a good number of universities on the list. https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db

It's about $200k.
This reminds me of a story about, IIRC, Soviet intelligence personnel determining that a photocopy machine at their consulate in the USA was bugged by the CIA by measuring it's weight and comparing that value to the standard value published by Xerox.

Modern times, but same old methods of "debugging"

The angular momentum stuff is innovative though.
But in the US we just use signatures for card transactions instead of chip PIN :/
China is sourcing virtually nothing from US. If US is attacking the supply chain of China, it's doing it on Chinese soil. Which brings us back to my interpretation
Is Cyrillic support planned?
Adding to that they left an old full DB backup on an unsecured cloud store which got breached recently.
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Please take this political posturing elsewhere.
Regarding both cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_order
I only used it once or twice, so to learn.

Every time I have had an EC2, Rackspace equivalent or other server I knew what I was doing and other than what felt like some minor stuff. I guess its kind of related to the comment that people didn't like not being able to tinker with the box. (It kind of felt like a black box to me, far more difficult to debug than a "normal" server).
The objection was that you can't reliably tell apart the 99 from the 99.99 percentile with a common IQ test.
> IQ is heavily correlated with the ability to succeed at tasks society classifies as "smart people stuff"

Or, more precisely, IQ is heavily correlated with the ability to succeed at taking IQ tests.
Or use the docker container directly: $ docker pull mozilla/send

https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/docker.md
Is it by any chance COBOL season at HN? This is about the third COBOL article in a week.
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Feynman took one test, in ~1930 when he was ~12 years old. Maybe it was a problem with the test, and Feynman actually had a much higher IQ.
I love a good Trump bashing moment as much as the next guy, but this is inaccurate. The DoD has stringent requirements and quality control procedures in place for their chip procurement. Not to say they couldn't be improved, but the DoD has been aware of this threat for a while, and seems to be mitigating the risk fairly well.
Subreddits don't help when there are "powermods" who moderate hundreds of large subreddits and coordinate offsite to run them all in the same way. They are basically Digg's power users but hidden from most normal folks on the site who don't go digging.
Triton can orchestrate containers[1] (they're actually Solaris zones[2], to which constraints in terms of project definitions[3] can optionally be applied, and those constraints are actually containers).

[1] https://www.joyent.com/content/11-containerpilot/chart.15076..., https://docs.joyent.com/private-cloud

[2] http://illumos.org/man/1M/zonecfg

[3] http://illumos.org/man/1M/projadd
Yet I somehow feel like the whole Commercial Crew contract wouldn't even exist had SpaceX not paved the way.

Other space launch activities, however, have been getting their lunch eaten by SpaceX. This is probably pissing off everyone who was comfortable with the old approach, not just Boeing.
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It does look like a balun which is clever but based on the pinout I think it is meant to intercept SPI flash and patch it as needed.
It looks like they may have been added since you read it, as they're in the article now.

What I find problematic is that they list a concentration, but no real world examples. We sell a concentrated product that contains 1.3mg sucralose per ml which would seem damning, if not for the fact it gets diluted 8-16x when mixed.

Current daily allowance is about 5mg/kg which for a 50kg/120lb person (very tiny) is 250mg. At 8x dilution this is 2 liters of sugar-free sweetened drinks.

Which actually doesn't sound that difficult to hit.
This response piece was published one hour after the original report. Bloomberg obviously had both ready. It would have responded already if intend to.
>These denials remind me of the vehement denials the big tech companies gave when the Snowden leaks came out. Did they turn out to be false?

At what point do such denials constitute a deceptive trade practive, enabling the Federal Trade Commission to bring action?

You can't lie in a privacy policy, or a TV commercial. Where is the line?
Source? I'm seeing both that it has a protective effect and that high intelligence is associated with mood disorders.
And we already have gold, which nobody wants to use because it doesn't allow governments to inflate at will. The exact same problem the cryptocurrencies have. What we see as a benefit, governments see as a drawback.
You could say that about every new reddit feature since they started the redesign.
> He gives the example [paraphrasing from memory] of an individual with an IQ of 170 who was so intelligent it impaired his ability to relate to normal people and hold a job.

High IQ doesn't do that (in fact, it makes it easier to understand other people, including those of average intelligence, if you are so inclined), though people with high IQ and a problem that does impair their social interactions may be inclined to prefer to attribute the social difficulty to their strength (IQ) rather than some problem.

Some of the problems that do that may be loosely correlated with IQ, despite being distinct from it, though.
It's just a probability thought experiment. If there is only one real universe and there are (hypothetical) at least 2 simulations of universes (regardless of their fidelity) then the odds that you, an inhabitant of a universe, is in one of the simulated universes is 66%.
Do you mean theoretically? We already use CaptainDuckDuck. I can imagine to give a bounty for it, but I don't intend to switch anyways.
I think tptacek is latacora.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
My assertion is that they will deploy Level 4 cars first. In fact, Waymo is deploying Level 4 cars to the public soon.

If you are so sure that Waymo and GM will deploy Level 5 and skip Level 4, based on your level of understanding of the technology and the economics involved, please publish a blog post or an Ask HN and see how many experts agree/disagree with you.

Otherwise, are you willing to bet with the people who disagree?

By the way, no steering wheel does not mean Level 5.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/autonomous-driving-leve...
LOL! Bezos is doing this to fuck Walmart. They employ much more minimum wage labor than Amazon does.
The amount of false positives a system like that would generate would rapidly render such a system entirely unusable.
> The risk is “not so much that an individual may have retired,” Andrew Starrs, group technology officer at consulting firm Accenture PLC, said. “He may have expired, so there is no option to get him or her to come back.”

Is "expired" a standard English synonym for pining for the fjords?
I agree with the idea the post is trying to do but not with the justifications, I think it's wrong to compare Kubernetes vs rsync or ansible, it resolves a different problem, container cluster management, a more appropriate comparison would had been to compare with simpler solutions in the same domain, such as docker swarm or nomad.
I'm not sure what your point is, so you might consider this splitting hairs.

Heat is not being generated, it's being converted. That conversion requires a source that will run out. It will continue to be warm for any meaningful timeline to a human, but it is not infinite and will end in heat death.
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> Sans Forgetica is more difficult to read than most typefaces – and that’s by design. The 'desirable difficulty' you experience when reading information formatted in Sans Forgetica prompts your brain to engage in deeper processing.

But does the effectiveness of this hold up over time or will your brain get accustomed to the font after a while such that reading it eventually becomes no different than reading whatever font you used to use before?
My favorite si far is BaconReader.
I had never heard of this...but now I can only imagine how exciting this must have been as one of the engineers-- working on a top secret project for the CIA in an abandoned bowling alley: https://electricalstrategies.com/about/in-the-news/spies-in-...

edit: whoops, looks like amatecha beat me to posting more info
I think the point is that actual honesty from these megacorps would be so surprising that even raising the possibility of it happening is so absurd it feels like parody writing.
The goal, explicitly stated and often acted on in many contexts, is to disrupt international order and cooperation (including trade), and promote nationalistic competition by all countries. Recently his UN speech, for example, advocated it.
The title and the contents of the article are seriously at odds, and I wish that FaceBook was dying. All I can say is that I wish every business I’m involved with could “die” like FaceBook, because traveling the world on a super yacht staffed by Swedish coeds seems like a nice way to retire.
Are you really arguing that most IQ tests have replicable sensitivity above 130-140?

Because that is very different than what I’ve heard. My impression is that most (perhaps not all) IQ tests are stable and highly replicable for results up to that range (assuming consistently motivated test takers, a very big assumption, particularly for bored smart people), but test scores above that range are mostly noise.
I mean:
> The companies’ denials are countered by six current and former senior national security officials, who—in conversations that began during the Obama administration and continued under the Trump administration—detailed the discovery of the chips and the government’s investigation. One of those officials and two people inside AWS provided extensive information on how the attack played out at Elemental and Amazon; the official and one of the insiders also described Amazon’s cooperation with the government investigation.
The Flynn effect seems to have been more of a short term thing and is now reversing in some countries.
While I agree with the intentions of your comment, it fails to be a persuasive rebuttal. Not saying you’re wrong, just saying a more productive comment would have responded to the specific claims of Gladwell’s in the comment, versus an ad hominem dismissal.
I don't have the link right now, but one of my favorite tales is a group of traders who called the bluff of both a pervasive incumbent government spouting all kinds of GDP fudging nonsense around the election cycle and a sprawling company who tends to work closely with and aggressively court rusted towns down on their luck as a source of cheap labor with dependent customers who are forced to rely on conditional subsidies that serve to keep labor in line during a growth hacking period to monopolize and export the company-town model requiring more negotiating leverage by leading shareholders with over-optimistic revenue guidance.

Of course, the story is more of a feel-good rationalization of fickle lottery tickets, due to the realism of "the market can be irrational longer than you can remain solvent" even if you're correct and especially due to the incentives involved to keep the insanity going as long as possible, bail out insiders, and conveniently backtrack on contracts due to concerns that actually losing money as a counter-party is not acceptable for the entrenched interests because the boogeyman of contagion would spread as the house of cards comes collapsing down with highly leveraged banks and pension funds unwinding the horrible bets they made that were rationalized by a feeling of untouchability when cozzying up with politicians.

But the details of the story are more interesting in that the methods used, such as realtime satellite based photography to more accurately estimate sales are definitely out of the current realm of accessible infrastructure and data collection methods for mere mortals who know in the back of their mind the stats are a ruse but can't possibly prove it.
No, but the dose does.
There were other considerations like the fact we were actually buing it from large reputable company and what happened was that some employees were doing it with no involvement of the company.

The fact is, doing any kind of hardware production in China, you have to be aware Chineese have different value system and you would not be suited doing any business if you throw tantrum at any sign of apparent dishonesty (assuming the company was involved which they could not have been as they have been the ones damaged the most).

If the company does screw you (like replacing components for something cheaper) they typically will not be thinking they are doing anything wrong. They are just testing if you notice and if you do not they will say it makes no difference for you but saves them costs.

The way to work is then verify everything and politely point it out. If you notice they will correct apparent mistake.
>measuring angular momentum on a special fixture

Can you elaborate on this concept a bit? I'm not familiar with this term and the sources I looked up were pretty physics-y and out of my depth.

This sounds like a very interesting and creative solution. Good lateral thinking on your part! :)
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I think this is proving my point. They're basically the same, but one is completely dynamic and the other will have to be changed as soon as anything changes.

We've been using Kubernetes in production for almost two years now and I have yet to face a big API change that breaks everything. The core APIs are stable. There's a lot of new stuff added, but nothing that breaks backwards compatibility.

As you just said, if it's a simple project, you can upgrade the infrastructure by clicking "upgrade" on GKE. We've only ever hit problems when upgrading when using the bleeding edge stuff and the occasional bug (once since Kubernetes 1.1 to 1.10 for a large Rails app).

Regarding the yaml document per resource, I mean... that's spaghetti Ansible. If you want to have a proper Ansible setup you will have separate tasks and roles. If we're going down the route of just have "less files" you can have all the Kubernetes resources in a single YAML file. I would definitely not recommend that tho.

While Kubernetes is a lot more verbose, it is light years better than the Ansible jinja2 weird syntax. Even someone that never heard of Kubernetes can read that Ingress resource and guess what it does. If we're being really picky actually, the proxy_path should be pointing to some "test" thing that would have to be an upstream that would already make the NGINX config more obscure.

I feel like people just hate Kubernetes to avoid change. These arguments are never about Kubernetes' strengths or faults but about why "I think my way is better". You can always do things in millions of ways and they all have tradeoffs. The fact is: ROI on Kubernetes is a lot bigger than any other kind of manual setup.

I'll repeat what I said on another comment: the only reason to do anything by hand today is if it's a play thing
Willpower can be trained:
https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/willpower.aspx
But IQ itself is predicted by parental earnings and parental educational attainment (and, IIRC, mostly by the sheer volume of reading for pleasure during childhood.)

There's a chicken/egg thing here that I think is a cart/horse thing.
Contender for a considerably better dyslexia font.
It's used as a filler in pre-grated "Parmesan" cheese. https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/ar...
Time would be saved because they won't use the system. /s
prepaid instruments in India are regulated. Beyond a certain limit you need to do a full KYC. Issuing a prepaid/wallet needs a license with fairly high capital and regulatory requirements (in the same order of magnitude as the payments bank).

You can issue a card in partnership with a bank or another license holder, but as i said before - in that case you better have a business model for that, because you aint gonna make money from MDR or anything.
This can go wrong so fast. If there are only two kinds of people, winners of lotteries and losers of lotteries, it doesn't mean I have a 50% chance of winning the lottery.

The simulation has to be 'good enough' to make a thinking person (win the lottery); my mind has to be only smart enough to think of multiple universes but not perceive the obvious simulation artifacts; I have to be written (as a simulation myself) to be capable of accepting multiple universes.

Since we even ask ourselves "Are we a limited simulation artifact, or a real thinking person?" the answer is right there in the question.
The specification actually mentions RISC-V, and why I didn't use it. In hind sight, it's harder to decode the RISC-V instruction set than the one for the ZipCPU--to many holes in strange places.
You're clearly a shill for the critical thinking lobby, GTFO.
Clockless CPUs exist.
> Look at the stock of supermicro, since 2015 (the year of revelation) it's been going down for them - reason might be because none of the companies bought new hardware from them.

They've also had accounting irregularities that caused their stock to be delisted from NASDAQ: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/22/supermicro_facing_n...

> "The delay primarily relates to the magnitude of work that the company must still perform in order to review the company's accounting judgements, estimates and records for transactions that occurred during fiscal year 2015 through 2017, as well as the assessments and conclusions on the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting."

It's interesting that the irregularities started in 2015.
This is also such a good anonymous story that I'd give decent odds it's made up.
Kids used their PCs to write homework assignments. Parents used it to print out directions from map quest.

The iPhone likely dramatically increased the frequency of use but PC penetration was near universal by the late 2000s.

FWIW my grandpa and most others at the retirement home use a dumb phone.
It may be quantum-resistant, but it won't be law enforcement-resistant, knowing BlackBerry's track record and public statements on the issue.
At least in the case of Amazon, the denial is published under the name of the CISO, Steve Schmidt, who previously worked for the FBI for a decade.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/setting-the-record-str...

Not saying he's not lying but it definitely raises the stakes.
I'm not a hardware engineer, but my understanding is that some FPGAs include an entire cpu core as part of the chip? This seems much more efficient than designing your own.
Your response is typical hand-waving when caught out pretending a couple of articles of anecdotes are data.
I can buy the mechanism of high sweetness/vol mucking with satiety or insulin heuristics. My problem with these studies is that the ones promoted by the media overwhelmingly tend to have "cheated" to obtain positive results -- they claim to have found a link between artificial sweetners and cancer/diabetes/whatever but show the usual signs of severe significance hacking when I skim the paper. My own belief heuristics lead me to the tentative conclusion that effect size is therefore very small.
>Seriously, why are we still outsourcing chip manufacturing to other countries?

I actually agree it might be better for the Americans to manufacture things in America - especially things used in critical government systems.

But this seems like a human problem - if all the factories were moved to America, couldn't those factory managers etc also be bribed?

American manufacturing in the 60s was rife with unions w/ ties to organized crime.
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