skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Selectively looking at what's next.
I'd be more interested to know your opinion about the O.J. Simpson trial.
Lots of countries dislike each other. There's no reason to suspect that this is a "Russian misinformation campaign" and suggesting as much is just making things up to push xenophobic anti-Russian conspiracy theories. No different than the "QAnon" and "Pizzagate" conspiracies that the OP is deriding.
Or maybe just those manufacturers doing their online shopping and accidentally bought those kind of comprised chips.

Yes, you can actually buy the similar looking chip on Taobao.com by searching HHM1523C1[0] or HHM1526[1]. Some vendors even claims the chips they're selling are "Imported, 100% legit".

And, of course there can be another interpretation: We (China) bugged your server, because you (the U.S.) bugged ours first.

The water is so muddy right now, maybe wait for more information?

[0] https://s.taobao.com/search?q=HHM1523C1

[1] https://s.taobao.com/search?q=HHM1526
In the parent's scenario, the initiator would be China. How would you make China pay the bill for the audits? By achieving the goals of the trade war, which was supposed to happen even without the audits? If China really pulled the long con like that, they'd win this round. But highly doubt they'd do that long con, there's too much to lose in terms of attack surface, like exposing your zero day to the world without using it first.
There is no critique of a language's difficulty which is relevant to native speakers.
Thank you very much!
Nitpicky readers are the kind of readers I look forward to, since they're the ones that help me learn the most. That's why I thought this site would be a good place to post.
That said, I learned those two things in class, but I see I didn't make them come accross at all. I'll see how to make that clearer.

Thanks for your reply!
There were certainly plenty of great German speaking physicists and mathematicians. But those philosophers all sucked.
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Under antitrust law, once you have a large enough market share in one area, you may not use that as a weapon against competitors in other areas.

In the EU, a 40% market share is large enough to place your conduct under these restrictions, so actions that would be perfectly legal in the US can be quite illegal there.

Also, the chance of the EU competition commission buying the advertising argument is approximately zero.

>Microsoft agreed to Google’s terms and in version 3.2 of the YouTube app, released earlier this week, they had enabled Google’s advertisements, disabled video downloads and eliminated the ability for users to view reserved videos

https://m.windowscentral.com/microsoft-responds-detail-googl...
Vancouver's largest credit union had been offline for the past two days
...and if it had been used first?
Go read about Camp David accords, Egypt-Israel peace treaty and the whole mess of UN resolutions involving Israel and after you do that, let me know if it just depends on Egypt.
Steve "you're holding it wrong" Jobs wouldn't let a product ship with a bug?
The Coachella show was rusty, for sure, I was exhausted from the day too so I don’t blame the crowd for the energy dropping towards the end
Cautionary tale for disruptors putting intellectual ideology before reality
I'm tempted to give Bloomberg the benefit of the doubt.

Tech companies don't want to be hacked. And if they are, they want to be able to say "we cleaned things up and everything is safe now," not "we were infiltrated several years ago and have no idea what the malware does or even which systems it impacts."
>>You know, the Wall Street ... who's in jail now?

He is a seriously misunderstood figure. Have watched his YouTube videos too, not just the investment class but also his working sessions. Sure his excel skills are legendary.

But I learned a lot from him about skills, learning and mastery. Merely watching him work not only motivated me. But gave me tremendous perspective on time, its utility to life and how skills and knowledge need to work in general.

This guy has legendary skills in investing world. But apart from that he was always reading a book or two. He was doing organic chemistry, chess, playing guitar, learning programming and interests in wide variety of topics in economics.

He was first genuine example of 10k hour practice I have watched live in practice.

You also get to look into the mind of this guy, and see what's at the core of it, and you see most is basically 'knowledge and practice'.
I don't think China planting malicious hardware is under question, whether Apple was breached is.
Have you done any speed comparisons to other libraries? Since there are so many of these libraries that is a big deciding point, especially in C++.
They basically made T1 to blackmail arm into licensing them arm cores and peripheral ip.
Yeah, I agree. I'm thinking that the attack/breach was so bad that it could have major consequences for these companies.
Sure...You are welcome! And if you are interested in processor level parallelism, here is a very good article to read for start...

http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/
BSD is one of those things Ive heard of but know nothing about. What are the pros and cons of choosing BSD over something like Linux?
He was unfairly maligned about the medication thing. After that he decided to play troll but got arrogant and took it too far.
There are a number of ways to fool facial recognition.
What if the attack was so bad that none of the tech companies want to admit it?
Humans are complex creatures with many facets, and a crime and shitty PR doesn't change that. Most people don't defend criminals or unpopular opinions as to avoid alienation and judgement.

Generalizing people or groups of people over shallow associations says more about the commenter than those commented on.
Cover Up of Data Loss Issues in Dgraph/Badger
To be fair, the article does mention that it set off alerts.
Funny, in Hanoi I noticed a similar tactic -- make it absolutely clear that you can't see the oncoming car. Look at the ground. Walk steadily. This is "precommitment" to not flinching in the game of "chicken" (in a game-theoretic sense.)

I like to joke that it's why people wear those big conical hats in Vietnam -- you can't see the cars, so it's their job to avoid you :-).
This album is one of the best of that decade, period. It's futuristic, grimey, cerebral, and danceable all at once. The duo is at their peak and the guest verses are extremely memorable.

"Conceived under the influence of toxic wasted doctors, computer buggin, debuggin devices, and vice versa. And various viruses! Performed with laser light precision and verbal precision. For a linguistic ballistic lobotomy. Mind fuckin neuro psycho sodomy of the medulla oblongata. Exit your mind down your spine and out your behind. Fuck you."

That George Clinton spoken word verse is seared in my memory.

In my opinion, it took more than a decade before we'd see the emergence of hip hop artists who could pull off comparable alchemy with regularity.
Agreed. He really is an inspiration. In jail he's spending his time reading and learning, which you can follow along with on his blog. He's a very intelligent guy and I think he's almost like an anti-hero who's bad at portraying himself. I think if he played his cards right he'd paid a fine and spent no time in jail, but he had way too much fun stirring up a scene.
Coincentrix Capital secures busiest airport in the world as client
And not just plurals. Juxtapose the relatively sophisticated time sense expressable in English verb forms with the Japanese imperfective and perfective verb forms. With the imperfective form and without further cues you're expected to telepathically intuit whether the referrent is present or future.
You can let your imagination fly the way you want. But without hard evidence, it's just your imagination.
They have tried and failed multiple dozen times to create new products. They're bad at business.
Good point, but same logic applies to journalists - they’re just seeking clicks instead of votes. A story about Facebook gets peoples’ attention more than one about Exactis.
I absolutely hate plotting anything excel. I feel so stupid trying to get something to plot. GGPlot works so much better.
I don't really see how this is newsworthy... I've been purchasing virtualization and cloud services from a variety of smaller providers for years -- without fail, all of them are more than happy to provision custom images. My current provider, Reprise Hosting, accepts custom images without extra fees and without caveats to their SLA.
I read the entire article to my girlfriend earlier. Yes, she can read, she just prefers to listen to the sound of my own voice #blessed. Just wanted to say a big thank you! It prompted a lengthy discussion that went on till late. Would love to read some more of the potential articles you’re thinking about writing.
I am curious about how to develop skills to get those jobs. The descriptions are far fetched
The mean ass dad show
Funny! So if you own a company and I say your company is dirty, there is literally nothing you can do except to admit that your company really IS dirty. Because if you deny, you'd be lying, based on your own logic.
This is the well known and only not broken solution. Im glad ive read it finally
I am skeptical of the story. Bloomberg should have at least had pictures of the chips on a board, something from reality. Instead they had illustrations. These were commercially available products, they should have independently found a smoking gun board sample with such chips and analyzed it, and not take their sources' word for it. This seems like a planted story to me.
not Access to Basic, just Basic
Loved this album, but took my many many listens to get into it. It’s the entry point to Rolling Stone magazine’s top 500 albums if you ever decide to work your way through it
When you read the article, I believe they are alluding to the fact that Apple and Amazon did discover the vunerabilities.

“In 2016, Apple informed Supermicro that it was severing their relationship entirely—a decision a spokesman for Apple ascribed in response to Businessweek’s questions to an unrelated and relatively minor security incident.”
I have 10 Supermicro machines sitting in the room next door, bought through the years. If someone would tell me where to look I'd be happy to tear them down, but without any specifics, such as the serial numbers or SKUs of affected hardware it seems a bit thin. Though the hack itself sounds totally believable, compared to Van Eck Phreaking or powerline exfiltration it sounds pretty easy.
Thanks! I'll definitely check that out.
There have been times where I’ve off-handedly complimented someone, and their ensuing uncomfortableness makes me feel uncomfortable. Would love to read your insights on the topic!
That doesn't really address my point.

I'm talking about the mainframe (or other high-end server) situation.

Granted, you were specifically referring to "mid-range Compaq/HP servers", so perhaps I didn't understand what mid-range meant.

If they're just a branded/enterprise version of commodity servers, I'm missing how those are representative of hardware HA of the kind that the OC finds almost always terrible.

If they're non-commodity, then I'm curious what their price tags are and if "far more than one box" equates to at least several hundred (else there's still a decent enough chance of not getting bitten by even a 1% failure rate).
The disrespect he showed to numerous Senators, and the numver of questions he refused to answer, should alone be enough to disqualify him.
This has happened actually. I can't remember the details, but for some routers you could guess the wpa password based off of the mac.
I also have a non-IT friend who worked in a local bank. He mainly produced different kinds of report for analysis. His main tool was Excel and he was very good at it. He told me the reason why he became good at it is, in enterprise, IT resource is grouped into a single department instead of spreading across every department. Acquiring IT resource is difficult and slow. It is faster to just use excel instead of proper tool to generate the reports. Finally he acquired the skill.
I mean, imagine Dr. Strangelove, but with bugs instead of bombs.
> I'd assume it's standard practice for journalists to confirm that multiple sources aren't essentially from the same source

I do not believe it is.
Of course, it's about plausible deniability and logistics: You can't launch your nuclear arsenal and then look deadpan at the camera and shrug your shoulders. But killing a third of the world's population with insects sounds so unbelievable that there would be skepticism even if the President held a news conference and claimed responsibility right into the microphone.
"If you can't do it perfectly don't do it at all".

Nope, not buying it.
I was making GBP 43,000 at a very small non-software company with about 4 years of experience during 2014-2016. I’d say you’re definitely underpaid at that rate. I considered myself to be paid below market at the time.
The number of affected companies is also odd: 30. Wouldn't it either be 1-2, or "thousands"? Since almost everyone uses SM boards somewhere.
> Not to mention, if this hardware had been trying to phone home, it's safe to assume it would have set off some kind of an alert at at least one of these places.

Maybe at some big companies, but not anywhere I've worked. I hardly know anyone who audits outgoing traffic with dedicated hardware.
> Whose “law” is it that the closer you are to an event the more you can see that the reporting on the event is desperately flawed?

idk, but this description of Gell-Mann amnesia seems to touch on that idea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Nobody. People are perfectly capable of taking your content and disliking a group, or disapproving of the group. And the other way around. If you can't say things that cause people to hate a group, you can't say anything critical of it.
I've found that Buzzfeed News is pretty alright, but the main Buzzfeed website is definitely something to stay away from.
I don’t think that’s true. There’s nothing inherently bad about forking a thread while it’s holding a lock. The problem, rather, is with not forking a thread while it’s holding a lock. That is – from the child process’s perspective, it’s as if all the threads other than the one that called fork() were abruptly terminated. If any of those threads happened to be holding a lock, then it will never have the chance to finish whatever work it was doing and release the lock… because it no longer exists. On the other hand, if fork() cloned all threads in the process, then they they could keep synchronizing and working as usual, oblivious to the fact that they’re now in a new process.

Well, mostly. One significant exception: Synchronization mechanisms sometimes identify threads internally using a system-global ID. For example, some variants of the Linux futex() syscall require you to write your thread ID, as returned by gettid(), to the lock word to indicate that the lock is owned by you. This obviously won’t work if a thread’s ID can change at any time; you would have to switch to some other ID that’s instanced per-process. Except that would break mutexes shared between processes using shared memory, so you’d have to find a different solution for that. Solvable, but not quite trivial.

By the way, as a sort of existence proof, Linux already has a way to do something like multithreaded fork()! Namely, CRIU (“checkpoint restore in userland”), used with containers, is a program that can dump a process (or set of processes) to disk and restore them later – including multithreaded processes. This is normally used for things like migrating containers across physical machines, but AFAIK, in theory you could restore the same dump multiple times to get multiple copies of the same process; it would just be slow, and massively overkill. :) The catch: it relies on PID namespaces, such that all processes and threads get the same PIDs and TIDs after being restored as they had before – but they’re only unique within the PID namespace, i.e. container. Thus it doesn’t have to deal with the possibility of TIDs changing, but the process has to be isolated from others. For a container, isolation is what you want anyway, but it’s probably not what you want if you’re just a random Unix program trying to fork.
cough - LinkedIn - cough
You'd essentially build up a reputation score for Reddit users based on their post history, but this would assume you have some programatic method to verify their expertise between domain knowledge data sources and their comments. I would assume only someone like Facebook would have have the resources to accomplish such as task, as they own the platform, and are actively working to discriminate fact from fiction in user posts.
I largely believe now that the left movements across the world have degraded to making a virtue out of laziness, poverty and people lack of ability to take initiative.

There was no way this guy could have survived, in fact Martin should have spent time learning a little politics too.

If you have the kind of skills, motivated enough, have ability to take initiatives and overall quality of human enterprise that this guy has you are bound to attract envy, spite and more importantly people just want to see the end of you for being a live anti thesis to their lives.

I have a feeling that people won't relax until they see Elon Musk meeting the same fate too.
Is this[1] possibly what you were referring to?

It might be interesting to try and reach out to that person, they may still have the hardware.

[1] https://communities.intel.com/thread/123362

Edit: the mobo in that post is the X11SPH-nCTF, which has the AST2500 BMC
Biohazard by Ken Alibek is pretty descriptive of Soviet bio research efforts and denials of such. It does, however, read like fiction.
If the paywall is so offensive, why not ban WSJ links instead of allowing and promoting copyright infringement on this site?
They backed down almost immediately, but after Google removed the YouTube app for Amazon's Fire TV, Google also blacklisted the Fire TV web browsers from accessing the YouTube webpage that had been optimized for televisions.

>As discovered by The Verge, the TV-optimized web version of YouTube is no longer accessible on the Fire TV. Instead, visitors using both Amazon’s Silk browser and Firefox for Fire TV are being redirected to the full desktop client.

https://9to5google.com/2018/01/22/google-blocks-youtube-tv-o...
I think these JS miners are stealing ten cents of electricity to generate one cent of cryptocurrency.
Lost of news reports result in strong, aggressive denials. Bloomberg assembled extensive evidence, with around 17 sources. Perhaps Apple needs to provide more evidence than just a denial (though it's hard to prove a negative).
Yep, it’s definitely tricky gauging when and how to complement a stranger. I find it quite fun complimenting my friends and acquaintances. It’s really just quite funny to see a person’s reaction to a completely “curveball” type compliment that you throw at them out of the blue.
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> where is the hardware now?

How many people at Apple or Amazon have the ability to steal compromised hardware and surreptitiously hand it to a journalist? That seems like a pretty lofty expectation.
As I understand it, use of they/their is on the increase even for singular rather than plural specifically because it is gender neutral. The older alternatives often exclude women (by saying 'he') or require the writer to spell out 'he or she' or 's/he'.
You might find this a good read about knowing the iraq wmd story was a lie in advance. From someone who predicted it, they explain their reasoning. It's rather convincing.

http://blog.danieldavies.com/2004_05_23_d-squareddigest_arch...
Depends on the relationship and contracts in place. If he said employer#1 and employer#2, yes, that's a problem.

"Customer" implies a much looser relationship, but you should still make sure appropriate contracts defining ownership are in place.
Since everyone assumed IPMI was crappy and potentially backdoored, that's why the story seems fishy. Why go to science fiction lengths to subvert some easily subervertable thing?
I'm 100% certain you would.
I do a bit of side work yeah, cutting lemons, folding napkins and running wine etc etc

I made $300 on 18 tables today!
> ...a middle-manager plant intercepted the message as it went up the line...

maybe such a manager would, by doing that in this case, be protecting the top level execs
Given that GitLab/GitHub/etc (and, often, online package repositories) automatically display markdown files as rendered html, a directory of markdown files is a fine way to document your project. The docs can, at any point, optionally be processed into html that goes into a separate website (lots of folks have written tools for this. My own is [Rippledoc](https://gitlab.com/uvtc/rippledoc)).

Also, if the project is a library or framework with a public interface, you need both API docs generated from source, and prose docs.
Uber joins Lyft in offering rides to voters for the midterm elections
> “Asked point blank if Apple is lying to the public in the interests of national security, this executive replied, "no."”

If they were lying about this why wouldn’t they lie about lying about it?
It's sometimes surprising who gets unhappy when you tell them they can't just run arbitrary code from places unknown in prod.
I agree.

Could you have a canary community that calls companies once/quarter and specifically asks the NSL question? Seems safer for the companies themselves.
Yes. The world is full of overwhelming incompetence. After a brief honeymoon period where you're learning almost every job turns into "I'm surrounded by idiots" unless you're the idiot. The exceptions are very effective organisations, and when they're businesses, very profitable or fast growing. Lots and lots of people reach the level of competence sufficient to not get fired and basically stay there.
I got one image into this article and tried to block the "Like us on Facebook" element. While I was doing that, a full-screen nag popped up and, upon being blocked, I discovered that scrolling was now permanently broken.

Refreshing the page works, but scrolling breaks again when, presumably, this popup tries to come back.

sigh

This is normal now, isn't it? Does this kind of crap really generate quality leads? I don't understand why it's so pervasive.
I think the main note on the article sequence was the ending article (PTY support) but the ANSI support is nice too :).