skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was something to do with forging essays or something similar as I kept reading it as Forge-tica.

I always thought the use of study notes was just in writing them to stimulate memory, not actually reading them (for me at least).
I can't comment is exactly what they can and do say very frequently. Apple could have not commented on any investigation or not responded to a request for comment. This would have been completely normal. "That's not something I can talk about" is a very common phrase.
This is the most plausible theory I've read in this thread. Assuming the image in the article is a stock image (there isn't yet a clear image of a definitely compromised board), then the added part could simply be another TSOP8 Flash part. This implies the firmware to the AST2400 is unsigned (which it appears to be, as there's coreboot options for it).

That makes the whole thing gloriously simple.
A part "stuck on" afterwards is obvious. A part fitted into a no-fit footprint after optical inspection is not, it looks exactly as if it was meant to be there.
Like data breaches, this will be big news that some devices were compromised at some time. Then followed by a slow dribble here and there, that, oh yeah, well more than we initially thought. Then a few months later it will be, "Yeah, it's really a lot more than we thought." Maybe a year from now it will basically turn out to be everything. But numbers get so big so fast people don't really know how to effectively parse the difference between 20 million devices and 20 billion devices. So it won't matter to most people.

And really, it shouldn't matter to most people. There's nothing the vast majority of people can do about this. It's not like we can just go buy stuff made in the U.S.
Or with smth even simpler, like condo (https://github.com/prepor/condo)
Because energy is cheap, and optimizing for efficiency would be a waste of time/money (currently).
What percentage of stories like this do you think never come out publicly? 50%? 90%?
its mostly to guarantee ad views... mobile web clients can filter/change/block content where the app forces it in your face.
> treat artificial sweeteners as a single group

In defense of an otherwise-poor study, it didn't do this. Six of the most common artificial sweeteners were tested on the bacterial assay and their results reported and discussed separately. Another sequence of assays was run on a panel of sports supplements with varying sweeteners. It looks to me like the only reason for grouping these chemicals was practical - they have interchangeable dietary uses, so it's helpful to observe their varying responses on a single test.

It'd be a pretty interesting study, except that the assay's quality and sensitivity seem hugely in doubt.
Anyone know what the licence is for the font? It is free to download, but doesn't come with anything explaining usage and distribution restrictions.
Nice article. Bad pop-over.
Historically they've been:

- racist: for one example, black and white people smoke marijuana at the same rate but black people are far more likely to be arrested for it

- irresponsible: just recently an officer broke into the wrong apartment during a raid and killed an innocent man. Rather than apologize, her department then tried to discredit the man

- unaccountable: many officers found to have committed misconduct simply find work in nearby departments. Within the last few years a video surfaced where an officer played a twisted Simon-Says game with a potential suspect (asking him to both put his hands on his head and then crawl). The officer shot and killed the suspect, but the judge withheld that video evidence from the trial so the officer was found not guilty.

- violent: many, many, many instances where officers shoot fleeing suspects in the back, choke suspects who are not resisting, beat suspects, etc. The officer in the previous example was found to have etched "You're dead fucker" into his gun - they glorify violence and are eager for "action".

They are becoming more militarized. They are not prepared for mental health situations - in many cases it is not a good idea to call police if a loved one is threatening suicide. They shoot first and ask questions later (exacerbated by gun laws in this country, but that's a different issue.)

These things, to my knowledge, do not happen this often in other developed countries. Police in America do not have a good reputation - the phrase "All Cops Are Bastards" was coined here. I have trouble agreeing with that phrase - I do believe most officers do their work out of a sense of duty and public service - but I understand why people feel that way. Even if they started today, it will take the police in this country decades to undo the decades they've spent building up an awful image.
Eh, dark matter is the bug they seek.
>Counterpoint: even if we ignored the fact that you cannot possibly produce the volumes of chips necessary at the price necessary in your country rather than in "we don't have to acknowledge all the human rights violations" countries, why would you believe this problem goes away if chip manufacturing were done in your own country, rather than another?

It's certainly easier to enforce laws and observe manufacturing processes at domestic factories than it is at factories thousands of miles away in a country that actively encourages IP theft and other wrongdoings, don't you think?
Hm made an Ad with this font and your future customers will remember.
Have to hurry up to create a brand ;D
Your laptop consumes 200w? Maybe I'm not reading this right, but I have a modern 3.5Ghz/8-core server in the closet which runs a small army of VMs and its from-the-wall draw never exceeds 80w (about 35w on idle).
The article says they shipped the boards to a company in Ontario, lawyerly:

>…At no time, past or present, have we ever found any issues relating to modified hardware or malicious chips in SuperMicro motherboards in any Elemental or Amazon systems. Nor have we engaged in an investigation with the government.
> In order to get further down the trail, U.S. spy agencies drew on the prodigious tools at their disposal. They sifted through communications intercepts, tapped informants in Taiwan and China, even tracked key individuals through their phones, according to the person briefed on evidence gathered during the probe.

So this is still possible ? And this is slipped so lightly in the article.
because of all the network IO thats now baked into operating systems?
FYI the last part of the conclusion mentions this as well:

"Do you want to do all of this because you think is fun? Or because you want to learn the technology? or just because? Please, be my guest! But really, would I do all of this just to run a personal project? No thanks."
GOAL was the next iteration of that idea, used in the Jak games. Crash used GOOL, which you can read more about at https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ba...
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On the opposite end of the spectrum, there's my very illiterate and very short JS raytracer (959 bytes): http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/tiny-raytracer.html

To atone for my sins, I also wrote a (free, online) 3D rendering textbook, half of it dedicated to raytracing: http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratc...
I tweeted about this yesterday, from the article:

> "Students remembered 57 per cent ... written in Sans Forgetica, compared to 50 per cent .... in Ariel"

7% delta retention isn't so much, is it?
> Maybe I’ve just worked for companies where developers have a lot of say in what and how gets built.

that's probably closer to the truth.

if you're large enough to have multiple teams of multiple people, in most cases, they don't all have a full view of what's going on (priorities, roadmap, feedback, etc). even if someone said "I ain't doing this!" and quits, there's no real impact. If an entire team dug in their heels on something, that might have influence, but you're getting to a situation that doesn't often happen.
They have to deny it. If the allegation is true, it means the Chinese CCP Gov knows which computer parts are produced specially for US gov or certain big companies and target precisely. There has to be some deep link for information flow to allow that. Anyway, worth further digging.
In addition to the ZipCPU itself, the zipcpu.com website has many useful blog posts for the beginning FPGA developer. I've found it to be a great resource. Mr Gisselquist (a.k.a. ZipCPU) is an active contributor to a number of FPGA forums and, in my experience, is always helpful to newcomers.
grain-sized? and they still need power.
> 1 out of 200 people in the population have an IQ of 140+

What is that, 25 million?
It seems to be part of some pseudo-vegan zeitgeist. The denaturation process in cooking and digestion makes animal protein practically indistinguishable from plant protein. If there is any measurable dietary effect, it would be in the nutritional factors closely associated with those protein sources--for instance, the heme iron in animal meats, and the porphyric magnesium in green vegetable chlorophyll.

The proteins themselves are unlikely to have an effect beyond the ratios of their specific amino acid components, and the potential for indigestible misfolded prions. Animals are loaded with pepsins in their guts and proteases in the rest. By the time an amino acid reaches your arteries, if has already been broken down and built back up into something else.

A simple web search turns up pseudoscience and broscience everywhere. If there ever was a real dietary health study, it's now buried in the noise.
Just wanted to thank you for posting this, as I [self-censor].

I'd like try to boil things down a little further for people:

1) Most things in the modern world require high degrees of trust. Once a significant portion of people begin to question the system, it fails.

2) The main goal of most organizations/governments, in general sense, who find themselves in a favorable position is to keep the game going.

3) Though it's impossible to control for all variables, 'we' believe we can manage most common ones. The uncommon (foreseen and unforeseen) often arise in times of crisis (panic behavior) and often are unwieldy.

So... the veracity of the story is generally less important than is managing reactions to it.

4) IANAL, but I worked w/them for many years and have crafted many statements. Communication is an art form open to interpretation.

5) I've long suspected that such "tampering" was standard practice, for any global power. Why? See point 2.

I encourage anyone skeptical about any portion of the story, to don his/her 'megalomania'-cap for a bit. Then everything, at least conceptually, should make sense.

Cheers!
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The underlying message is that Boeing isn't confident they'll beat Crew Dragon to orbit. They've already stacked the deck with more funding due to their "legacy overhead" but apparently even that isn't enough.
>Error: Video request failed (Possibly blocked by Firefox's Tracking Protection)

I fucking hate reddit
When will we have artificial fat?
Pretty much every large tech company you've ever heard of was VC backed originally. Facebook is a recent example with a couple of the VCs putting in 500 million in a later round (see http://fortune.com/2011/01/11/timeline-where-facebook-got-it...) Also see more recent examples with fairly capital intensive companies like Uber and Lyft. The odds of getting tens of millions of dollars in the very first round is unlikely. But that's also an unreasonable ask by unproven founders: you'd need to show that you have some clue what you're doing with smaller amounts in the earlier rounds... Apple got <$1m from their first investor.
I don't see how there could be a problem unless the author is distributing a binary. If you give someone GPL code, they can do anything they want with it, as long as it's for their own use. It could potentially cause problems for other people that want to mix the two in improper ways for purposes of distribution, but that's not the author's problem.
I can tell that that isn't your story, because there's a lot of conjecture in there that isn't supported by the data. Even just starting with #1, the ability to pick a degree at _all_ is a privilege not automatically afforded to everybody. Should you be able to do so, then working during college is strongly linked to worse outcomes, as you have less time to dedicate to learning - thus making #3 harder as you're competing against people who have had better chances than you. If you can't do 3, you can't do 4, 5, 6, or 7, and 8 is predicated on that.

It might be "common sense" to you, but it's directly contradicted by all the data.
Because of leakage current.
Those are interesting possibilities, but they seem crippled by the underlying failure to calibrate or prove the assay.

It's possible there's prior lit here and I'm just not seeing the reference, but it looks like there's no claim that these changes are sweetener-specific. Without that I don't think it's a viable environmental test.

The correlation with prior toxicity work is more promising since this looks like a relatively easy test, but I still have some questions about how robust that correlation is to changing substances and dosages.
Obligatory link to this series on the making of the original (written by one of the developers):

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ba...
This is the best thing I've seen in quite a while.
This library is for symbolic manipulation AFAIK.
Only time I've encountered a desperate fixation by a CIO on documenting applications was when the relevant development team was about to be laid off.

Fortunately I had already resigned at that point.
Your OS is multithreaded, JavaScript isn't.

Scrolling in your browser is bad enough when JS/dom has to many allocations.
Do you have a citation for that?

On the surface it seems like an absurd statement, since IQ isn't a "thing", like for example, sickle shaped blood cells, which are protective against malaria.

It's a human devised statistical metric, which says nothing about what actually causes a particular score.

Even if there is a population wide correlation of higher IQ to better mental health, it would be heavily confounded by other huge factors affecting mental health, like income, education, health care access, family conditions during childhood. To prove this you'd have to control for at least those factors, and possibly many others.
I have worked in both chip design and security so I feel well qualified to make this assessment: a single mole in the right place who knew what they were doing would definitely be enough. Security holes get past design review all the time by accident. A skilled hacker could easily insert an intentionally obfuscated one that would escape detection.
IQ is a garbage measurement that isn't predictive of future results, yes. It's more the hard work and sacrifice part I'm disagreeing with.
I'm starting to suspect that society is set up to make IQ matter less than we think.
There was some discussion on this https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils/issues/31
FWIW, the described technique (or something roughly equivalent) is now standardized as 0-rtt early data in TLS 1.3. (you still need 1-rtt for TCP, unless you can combine this with tcp fast open, or run TLs over UDP)
What's the old saying about sleeping with dogs?

Yeah. That.
I stand corrected. I misunderstood how strong freedom of the press is in the U.S.
This. Where did all the infected motherboards go??
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It is correct. Incompetence abounds. You are correct about the HSM but it does not enforce anything except for the exchange between whoever and MC. You do realize that pin codes are entered into a UI and phone system as plain text right? There are PCI audits but they are a joke.
Also, as far as I understand the argument, it goes beyond "Canadian steel is a national security risk". A couple of years ago, Mexico was caught laundering $2B of Chinese aluminum to avoid US taxes.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/09/chinese-aluminum-giant-is-tied...

The theory, from the Trump crowd, is that Canada is also engaged in similar shady dealings with China. If true, that would put the US at risk.
Nothing in life is guaranteed, but some things sure stack the deck. Average skills, hard work and a bit of ambition will greatly increase your chances of a comfortable life.
Did anyone click the link? It's comparing to the theoretical limits and the potential of minimal-energy reversible computing[1].

When you talk about "computers using so much energy", the span of inefficiencies could include:

A) Why so much energy per primitive operation (e.g. write bit to data store, XOR two registers)?

B) Why so many primitive operations per desired computation task (sum these three numbers, find the largest of these five numbers)?

C) Why so many computation tasks per unit of economic value delivered?

The article is talking about A). I'm pretty sure we've improved on A) over the history of computation.

I think we've gotten worse on B) per Metcalfe's law (Intel giveth and Gates taketh away).

[1] Called "reversible" because thermodynamics says the only reason you need to dissipate heat/usable energy is because you perform an irreversible operation, and to avoid that you'd have to do your computations using only reversible logical operations -- where the input space has a one-to-one mapping to the output space.
I wonder, given the fact the C&C were identified, wouldn't be external firewall configuration much cheaper mitigation method than motherboard replacement?
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I actually started the project almost a year earlier, and made many mistakes before finally presenting at ORCONF in September of 2016.

That said, I am considering a RISC-V compatible design. I just haven't committed to doing so.
Interesting, did you track the underlying cause?
This feels cargo cultish. Products drop from the sky. One day they become poisonous. You have no idea how to reproduce them locally. So you come up with hacks to make then less dangerous.

We really need to get back into manufacturing if this is our brave new world.
If the mass had to all move to one other place this would be correct (the center of mass would have to change), but the attackers are able to move the mass to multiple other places.
I wouldn't know. We were just buying the stuff.
Won't these other competitors have to purchase some bandwidth from the government as well? Would that still be an "unregulated" industry? Could a firm that just wanted to serve a small local area get into this?

In the soft drink industry, no firm has to do anything but start mixing and bottling soft drinks. Which explains why there are hundreds of smaller firms, from the 7up-RC company on down. The moat that Coke and Pepsi have is maintained purely by marketing. There is no Federal Drinks Commission whose members expect lifetime sinecures from Pepsico.

You conclude with an astonishingly ahistorical explanation for current telco monopoly. Ma Bell was protected from competition by FCC for decades, and both the "divestiture" and the later "unbundling" were carefully choreographed by FCC and DoJ to arrange for just the reconsolidation we've seen since.
Are those chips still sitting in functioning DoD servers?

How have they mitigated this issue, and where will they source new hardware from?
It would be interesting to see some kind of health warning with stats or articles, including replication, funding sources, invitro/animal/human studies etc.

I just cannot trust even the most basic science announcements on mainstream media as things stand. It is simply more important that it generates clicks than it advanced people’s understanding these days.
Not to be the usual skeptic, but "scientifically designed" doesn't really-really mean (at least to me) "designed by scientists" (which this thingy is).

I mean, nice and all, but what about some actual tests/reports of it actually being noticeably better at remembering what you have read?

The concept is very nice and interesting, but besides it:

>The science of Sans Forgetica

>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.

I would like to have something more than a video by the scientists that designed it.

If it wasn't a UNI backed thing, I would have thought that the video was a sales pitch for Kickstarter or similar.

I had some expectations for the .pdf inside the downloadable .zip but basically all there is in it is:

>Learn more about the science behind Sans Forgetica at
sansforgetica.rmit
It isn't just banks either. I'm a greybeard sysadmin type who has seen the insides of hundreds of companies, and for some reason in the late 2000s it seemed like everyone from law firms to insurance companies decided to fire their IT teams and then pay 3x the money for 1/16 the service from contractor/msp-types... and they wonder why they wallow in tech debt... I'd they even knew what it is, they did fire all the people telling them about it after all!
Enough with - i suppose - lots of other gifts. I would assume anyone with his height is less likely to even try basketball.
I honestly will take 7% less retention to not have to look at this font any longer than I have to...
0. They know you're in there, don't they?

Heh. Yes. But, after 4 hours alone in a small room, many people roll their eyes, do exercises, scream, yell, talk to themselves.

1. OK, so don't talk to family in that room, right?

Yes. BUT. Your family sure will within seconds start talking.

2. Seriously? Why is that? Couldn't you just pee below the camera (if they repeatedly refuse to let you go, and you previously announce it, ...)?

Yeah. People just become agitated. Start agreeing to things, start rocking, start looking nervous, sweating, pacing around, or peeing on the floor -- it isn't a great look on camera.
At the company I am employed with the ideology is the time an employee spends in cube + salary earned + company resources must = maximum profits. So this means the amount of time a prospective employee takes to ascertain a solution is way more valuable then the times he/she takes to fix the problem.
That largely depends on the size of your board and the total number you want to ship. As soon as you reach full truck loads or full container loads that additional shipping cost is marginal on a board level.
Cherry picking isn't really needed, infrastructure and health care are a disaster here.

edit: For some perspective, there are 240,000 water main breaks every year in the US, wasting over 2 trillion gallons of treated drinking water.

https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/drinking-w...
Here is the permission list from the Play store. There's a number of questionable items on here that are not needed to display stories and comments.

This app has access to:
Identity

find accounts on the device
add or remove accounts

Contacts

find accounts on the device

Location

approximate location (network-based)

Photos/Media/Files

read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage

read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Device & app history

read sensitive log data

Other

receive data from Internet
view network connections
create accounts and set passwords
full network access
read sync settings
draw over other apps
use accounts on the device
prevent device from sleeping
toggle sync on and off
install shortcuts
view network connections
create accounts and set passwords
full network access
read sync settings
use accounts on the device
prevent device from sleeping
toggle sync on and off
Humans do seem to generally prefer the company of those with a sufficient degree of shared traits, interests and preferences. Being an extreme outlier in IQ, as in any other area, may just make it statistically harder to find such company.