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So, to sum up:

- Pollute the environment

- Let yourself get paid in long-term bonds to stop polluting the environment

- Wait 50 years

- Profit!
> This appears to be actually true in Xinyang?

According to what evidence?

The entire story is based off remarks from an anonymous UN official on a random UN committee. [1] In classic style remarks from anonymous and highly partisan sources are repeated endlessly until they "become" true. There's absolutely zero concrete evidence that can be verified.

The deeper point is that Americans are trapped inside a propaganda bubble. Their outlandish understanding of the world is based on nothing more than gossip repeated over and over by their press. It's no better than Russia; the only difference is that most Russians know full well what's going on and are very skeptical of such claims.

On a deeper level I suspect Americans need to believe this nonsense, that there must be an external enemy to hate. It's not that they are deceived by the media, it's that they want to be deceived.

[1] https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/08/23/un-did-not-report-chi...
tl;dr this is the "proof of concept":

GET /ssl_conn.php?usrname=%s&passwd=%s&softid=%s&level=%d&pay_typ'e=%d&board=%d HTTP/1.0

Attackers will not be able to use that, nor will they care. There are already plenty of routers vulnerable to RCE on the Internet.
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How does this defend against a the type of hardware-based attack discussed in the article?
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It's not the human mind, it's a particular ideology. What's at work here is an ideology that must find enemies, the more heinous the better, in order to justify its own heinous actions.
Because then you evolve societies that spend so much time fighting each other for marginal increases in individual safety that the benefit of working together is lost.
"Turkey had a somehow solid democracy in place."

The civic quality of the Turkish system has quite a troubled history. Turkey's government has been held at a gunpoint by it's military for decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

"systemic corruption in the USA has been prevalent for almost a century"

I think that needs a quotation. US history is filled with genocide, empire building and after the 1970's, funnelling the profits from the economy from the employees to the capital owners. That, however, is not the same thing as corruption.

We're not discussing who is 'good' or 'bad', but comparing the quality and nature of institutions on the national level.
What's with dogs ? I mean fine but then there are also cats or other pets ? And not buying them doesn't mean they are not there, that's not a sufficient solution. Stray and such, still there and consuming resources.
Think Three Days of the Condor. They printed it, but CIA cleaned up most of its mess, or is in frantic cleaning mode right now. Suppose Story is true, but Bloomberg mangled couple of facts, and didnt know about bigger picture.

- Chinese did in fact make firmware implants, but purely software based (no chips).

- hacks were highly targeted, aimed at Elemental (CIA drone feeds) AMAZON (aws) APPLE (iCloud).

Both denied by Apple in 2016, "Apple spokesperson has denied there was any security incident", but "miraculously" confirmed right now https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got..., admitting 2016 deny was a lie after all, but we arent lying this time, promise!

- CIA detected these attacks early and managed to inject itself into the data patch between hacked systems and China. Just imagine the power of welding such a tool. You have the ability to cut the hack at any moment you like, block certain information from leaking, INJECT your own misinformation, and most importantly you get to keep all the data being exfiltrated. Win win win win.

- and all of a sudden some stupid unpatriotic journalists spoil one of your biggest, most successful counter intelligence operations.
bold statement alert

if you don't know what your company is doing, and your intricate part in that dance, you are not really providing value to the company, or more importantly to yourself.

/bold statement

How can you make decisions if you don't understand the business impact? How do you know what if that optimization is worth the cost of implementation? If you don't know the impact of a product release on your customers, what are you really doing?

To say that as a tech person "I don't know the business side" you are being deliberately ignorant. "business" is simple[1]. You are being just as annoying at those useless managers who demand x feature yesterday and don't bother to think about the ramifications.

1)It really is, you are trying to make people give you cash for something. that might be things like food, or vapour (ie initial coin offerings). The mechanics are the same, monetary units in exchange for goods or services. To attach a special mystique to the process is to give power to charlatans. (see repacking of subprime debt)

TL;DR:

If you don't know what your buisness does, you are like the idiot manager dilbert.
Surely you make your own intellectual life and take it with you wherever you go? You will think more interesting thoughts in a terrible place. Most ideas that matter are born from adversity or quiet reflection. And depth requires a bit of focus. For accessible culture and sophistication the candidates are fairly obvious.

Nigeria is going to be interesting and is full of independent thinkers. And I've heard good things about Panama City. But both possibly pricey. Belfast is way cheap.
GDP is corrolated with distance from the equator where it's warmest. https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/03/20/why-is-there-s...
Uh. German (Bavarian) traffic police is well known for harassing Czech drivers. Exactly the sort of thing you might want this shortcut for.
Sure, but some cities are worse than others, and Brighton is particularly bad for pollution and drugs. But then my feeling is that SE UK in general is unpleasantly overcrowded. For example I don't bother trying to go anywhere on a bank holiday any longer because the roads will be miserable, and anywhere apart from obscure destinations will have hordes of daytrippers. Too many people with too much money and too little space.
I made the mistake of staying in a hotel in the Tenderloin district the first time I visited SF.

As a European who has visited many different countries on multiple continents (including time spent living in NY and London), I was truly shocked. It wasn't just the filth though - rather the shocking part is the contrast of such filth/destitution juxtaposed on a background of prosperity, and the way SFers almost nonchalantly accept it as 'normal'.
No idea, sorry. :)
Any child who's learned electricity in class knows that water and electricity don't mix.
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It wasn't just a police officer but an intelligence officer, the DGSI is not part of the police it is more like the CIA.
Some months ago the DGSI arrested a group of supposed terrorist and were surprised to find that they had a list with the name of all DGSI intelligence officers, perhaps it is linked to this rogue officer.
Any way, in times of GDPR you should have the right to download all the information the government has on you, including the information from the police, secret service and whatever shady organization the government runs.
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Having done a bunch of fuzzing myself, my guess would be Google is picking up their problems before they get to a release in the main, and most people don't discuss bugs they find in internal testing.
There a GDPR notification pending every time I login to Facebook. I don’t really care to deal with it, so now I can’t use Facebook or Messenger.
Perhaps that HN is a rather tech-focused community, and that the other story has more relevance to most users? Or perhaps that it's a more unique story, as depressing as that thought is.

My inner cynic believes OP meant to imply that HN values technology over human lives or something similarly disingenuous, but that might be uncharitable. It could just as easily be a reflexion on the frequency of stories in this vein, that they've become commonplace, or similar.
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It's worth looking into the idea that a lot of San Francisco's problems are connected to local court judges who appear to be very lenient on property crimes[1].

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Le...
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There is an example of running and sold CPUs: GreenArray's GA144.

http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB001-100...

To quote: "Up to 96 billion operations per second" and "instanteous power ranges from 14 microwatts to 650 milliwatts"

Let's say there will be ten times less IPS (addition has O(log(WordSize)) delay in average case, for GA144 word size is less than 32, thus 10 times the reduction; fastest operation for 2-in-1 self-sync encoding is inverse which is just lines swap and does not incur any computation whatsoever) and at max power. It would be 650mW lasting for 1/9.610^9 seconds, or 6.810^-11 Joules or 68pJ (picojoules).

https://www.ics.forth.gr/carv/greenvm/files/tr450.pdf - page 28 lists power consumption of different operations. Simple integer includes addition and 32-bit variant is in range 50-to-80pJ. If we take average, it will be 65pJ which is very close to my worst-case analysis for GA144.

This means, in my opinion, that self-synchronous CPU exemplified by GA144 has efficiency at least that of synchronous ARM CPU, with very efficient sleep mode entry/exit.
personally I just write the function call, wait for my IDE to complain that the function doesnt exist, press command enter to have it generated with a throw new NotImplementedException().

works well for me, gives me the illusion of a working api, and I get autocompletion.

This requires you to give your functions well thought out names though
Rest assured, Americans from 49 other states find it equally unsettling.
Thanks for the very thorough reply. I hadn't realized the exit would occur next Spring, which is around the time I plan to visit. I understand this can be tumultuous for residents, do you think it will also affect tourists?
Ha, good one! :D

Like saying "it just needs to work until Longhorn ships" ;)

In any case, JWST doesn't have UV capability, so it is not a straightforward replacement of what Hubble does. It just able to look at more distant objects because they've all been red shifted into the IR.
A euphemism some people use to partly blame the victim.
So basically, if you make more thank 50k euros per year, you start working for your own benefit around mid-june. Yeah ... pass.
Please don't. Delhi and NCR is overpopulated and is one of the most polluted cities in the world. The weather is just terrible. Very unsafe cities. Also one of the worst cities in India for women. And you would not be making anywhere close to what you make in SFO. There are good Universities when compared to other Indian universities but I don't think nobody calls Delhi an Intellectual city. Has nothing to justify moving from SFO unless you are a lot into Indian politics probably.
Slashdot is that way, buddy.
How does this work in practice though? I had a DigitalOcean droplet setup with OpenVPN and they contacted me pretty quickly (within a week) with a bunch of DMCA notices (due to torrenting). I can imagine that this would be quite a frequent occurrence as a VPN operator and not necessarily something I would like to be dealing with.
Because I think you're wrong about where the primary effects will be.

On edit, this isn't quite right: I think it's wrong to ignore either effect. People will be forced away from the coast because of rising sea levels and changes in weather patterns, and be forced further from the equator when climate shifts break existing local agriculture.
What an amazing misunderstanding of what today's establishment amounts to.
I taught high school freshmen using HtDP for three years and loved it. Definitely works for high schoolers!
Yes, I suspected you were a libertarian, and your comments prove that out. One sign is when you think your (misguided) beliefs trump an expert's knowledge.
The scale being claimed is a mere four factories, subcontractors of Supermicro's actual contractors, who were only used when demand exceeded those contractors' own capabilities.
Yeah, I was thinking of the "focus on my own intellectual pursuits" part of op's post. I imagined this to be something like writing open-source software, or doing math.
My girlfriend (completely out of the blue) asked me recently if I could teach her some programming. This looks fantastically simple, and I couldn't agree more that debuggers are vastly underrated when it comes to teaching beginners.

Thanks, I'll almost certainly be using this.
Have you considered publishing a manifesto about this.. "thought driven programming"? :)

antirez shared a successful methodology for programming. He gave that methodology a name. It is helpful to name something when communicating the idea to others.
This is just wrong, except for the politics part.
What you learn is mainly about engineering challenges of servicing satellites though, and if that's not a cost effective solution due to launch costs it does not seem that important.
> it’s a lot cheaper than what I’d imagined

That's mostly because so few people buy them. You are getting low hanging fruit prices; if we were offsetting a significant amount of world emissions, offset prices would be much higher.
But that's almost everywhere in Europe - salaries being a lot lower than in US, right?

PS. Based on my conversations with a friend who moved from Dallas to Amsterdam. He was in US just for ~3 years after completing his MS. He always wanted to work and live in EU for some years before returning home. He stayed in US for the loan.
With a taser, the entire idea is to electrocute the victim. I don't think it was the water that killed him.
I find the denials made by the companies involved to be substantive and credible. I'm inclined to believe them. Perhaps Bloomberg's reporters fell for a conspiracy theory this time.
The constitution is a document, not a branch of the government. Who amends the constitution? Who enforces the constitution? The answer to both of those is: Branches of government controlled by the same single party as the one in power right now.
Reading about some random startup on Tech Crunch during the "new social local native app a week" craze. Found ycombinator. And clicked around and found HN.
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> There are a bunch of things which makes this possible: Lisp compilers with various compile-time warnings, extensive runtime error handling facilities, object-oriented programming, good development environments, ...

I guess one issue might be that most developers that get introduced to Lisp, do so in primitive ways.

So they never get to learn about those toolings.

Even with Clojure, not everyone is willing to pay for Cursive.
> All police in the US are, of course, armed. There is also the very real prospect that they could face criminals who are, too.

While I doubt it is the sole issue, I wonder how much of the United States' absurd frequency of police killings is due to its massively pro-firearm policies and sentiment. Can police lethality be significantly reduced without fundamentally changing opinions on gun regulation?
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How were they going out of their way to avoid capitalism in this story?

They bought coffee on the international market but didn't have enough money to buy enough. Raising prices in local supermarkets wouldn't have helped much because internationally their currency was close to worthless.
I don't think this is necessarily true. CNNs can produce incredible results, see for example [0]. A snippet from the paper (their code is also available):

"""
Prompt: The Mage, the Warrior, and the Priest

Story: A light breeze swept the ground, and carried with
it still the distant scents of dust and time-worn stone. The Warrior led the way, heaving her mass of armour and muscle
over the uneven terrain. She soon crested the last of the
low embankments, which still bore the unmistakable fingerprints of haste and fear. She lifted herself up onto the top the rise, and looked out at the scene before her. [...]
"""

RNN/LSTM type models can also produce really coherent results on the scales shown in the blog.

Markov chains can be quite useful when you can manually create conditioning, but some of the key power of neural methods is learning to process conditioning and blend in ways that may not be obvious (or require significant domain expertise to grok) when handcrafting. YeGoblynQueenne below discusses a lot of the core issues for Markov chain based approaches.

In particular, plagiaristic sequences are incredibly common in Markovian generation, and though there are some papers on how to deal with this [1] it is not straightforward to decide what plagiarism really means in many contexts. This problem also arises in neural models, but isn't nearly as extreme due to the nature of both learning and the sampling process.

One huge bonus of Markov chains is that controlling exactly what you want or using hard rules is pretty easy, which is definitely NOT the case with neural generation...

This blog post is a really nice run through of how to get decent results from Markov chains, but don't discount neural methods either - they are getting better all the time, if you are willing to deal with the headaches.

[0] Hierarchical Neural Story Generation, https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04833

[1] Max Order http://www.flow-machines.com/maxorder/
completely different devices built for completely different purposes. there's nothing quite like the hubble.
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No. A Reuters headline, not borne out by what the article body then says nor by that statement, misleadingly states that they do.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18148811
I for one find myself very curious about this shower-driven programming.

It sounds similar to Rich Hickey's famous concept of hammock-driven development.
SF is as bad as I have seen, but many other US cities have scary homeless scenes. No other country in the world that I've been to have I seen this phenomenon. It's similar to no-go zones in American cities. Everyone just pretends it doesn't exist.
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The 80486 was state of the art in 1990 when the Hubble launched, as it was released in 1989.

Was it installed as a later update? The PowerPC G3 was released in Apple computers in 1997, just a few years later.
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Hardware attacks cannot be prevented by secure boot...
SF is just worse at running itself than NY, Tokyo, and every other major city in the world. If we could accept that, we could could learn from and copy them to fix the city.

YIMBY is too incremental— turn SoMa into mini-Manhattan to jump SF 100 years into the future!
I agree that this isn't a place to find a software job.
I interpreted op's "follow my own intellectual pursuits" as not working. If they are coming from the bay area as a software engineer then their savings will go a very long way here, but not so much in other big cities.
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The easiest thing we could do immediately is to produce fermented 100% bioethanol (petrol), retune cars, trucks and ships to burn it clean. (aircraft need more caloric fuel)
This only solves emissions and not completely.

Electric powered by uranium and renewables solves more and is also immediately feasible though expensive to build infrastructure for battery handling.

Second thing would be to disperse industry and farming more evenly so that we do not have to transport food long distances.
Remove energy intensive packaging (cans and bottles - use dispensers or foil), replace lighting with most efficient available.
Switch manufacturing to as much on demand as possible.
Before I begin again, I grant you that the length of my replies seem to imply that I care a lot. I don't, I just like to talk about semantics and when people raise new arguments, I like to explore the subject some more with a reply. For all I care you will write an article on 'boxer short driven programming' on how you sit around in your underwear programming and think everyone should do it.

"It's surprising how much objectionable you find in..."

It isn't much, it is just the one word that I find wrong. The comment you are responding to is an analysis of the effect of the chosen wording as demonstrated by @thachmai.

The semantics of the word 'driven' here ARE turning the given workflow into something that should be adhered to. If this weren't the case the word 'driven' would have no meaning and could thus be left out. Which would have been the better choice.

Furthermore, if you look at the article itself you can see that the whole tone is in line with my feeling about the title:

"The worst thing you can do is to interrupt what you are currently doing in order to fix the new problem. Instead just write freeMyObject() and don't care, but at the same time, open a different editor, and write:"

This doesn't come across as "Do you ever get distracted while programming by small pieces of irrelevant code? Try keeping a todo list to keep track of little cleanup so that you can come back to them later."

The author seems to think that you are a bad programmer if you don't take notes while programming and cleanup things you find along the way. @thachmai picked up on this and repeated this frame in his reply to my first comment. I got excited by this as it is exactly what I meant.

Words matter.
If true, the attack described by Bloomberg would mean the US fell victim to one of the most spectacular attack, if not the most spectacular attack, in history and at the hand of the Chinese.

It's equally credible that they would never want to acknowledge that.
Not shooting them on sight. At least that's what most of the rich people in SF complaining about homeless people seem to think.
I guess they could make an exception if booting up failed.
I expect it has, given the repository owner studies in France and is likely using French locale.
Raising children simply takes time and energy, and turns you away from other activities. If I had to take them to and back from daycare, to spend 3x the time needed for every activity because they're a very inefficient part of it, would I still have the willpower to cook everyday, to make my commute on bike, to live simply without much stuff or furniture, to do 2 hours of exercise daily (not much for the environment, but still keeps you in shape)...

Considering the situation of people that went that way, one can doubt it.
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Probably while doing a Google search on "opinion/editorials".

An article came up by George Will about the opioid epidemic. He comes across as highly judgemental, and commenters didn't fail to notice.
Let’s say all that is true, I more or less agree, but it’s where the two parties differ that still matter a lot. It’s nigilistic to say because they’re similar in many ways that they’re the same and it doesn’t matter, for many people, especially the less privileged (referencing the rapist child thieves comment) that it’s important to develop an opinion one way or the other.