skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk to your manager about your concerns and ask them what their expectations are for your performance. For the 6 months to a year the expectations are honestly pretty low. In the very unlikely case they aren't happy with how you're doing then at least you'll know and have a better idea on what to improve.
Blurbs: Sex Robot “Racks” Up Tinder Matches, Cyber Crime Has Fallen? And More [pdf]
This reminds me of http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/ . I wonder how long the 600 mAh battery lasts...
> The differences aren’t going to be that they type 1200 wpm

yeah. Jeff and Sanjay (of Google) are famous for pair programming. I've never seen them (or anyone) do it but can you imagine how slow it is?

OTOH, I have witnessed Craig Silverstein (1st google employee, not as well recognized as Jeff and Sanjay I think) typing and OMG the thoughts just flow from his brain to the screen. That must be a boost. I personally find that the expression of the thought into code is soooo slow and limiting. I feel like I could be a 10x engineer if I had 2 transcribers that were very good technical typists, like a steno recorder.
Divorce is an option.

Legally divorce then cut a new will to leave 100% to the wife before you start your treatment. That way she's only out half at most if the medical debts take everything.

You'd have to be careful to not treat any money or assets as communal but so long as you go through the motions there's not much anyone can do.
Let's drift into some wild speculation here.

Suppose this was a malicious attack, and PRC intelligence within SuperMicro and perhaps even Apple are responsible for these machines getting shipped and installed by Apple. Let's further suppose that the plot was uncovered by US counterintelligence.

Why the heck would US counterintelligence operate inside of Apple, discover security vulnerabilities that affect Apple in particular, hide this discovery from Apple's senior management, and then go on to leak it to Bloomberg while continuing to cover it up on the inside of Apple?

There is a reasonable-ish explanation for this. US counterintelligence usually falls under the purview of the FBI, and the FBI has had a couple public spats with Tim Cook over the years. Given Apple's commitment to user privacy, it's reasonable to presume that Tim Cook would not knowingly allow the FBI to infiltrate Apple. It's also reasonable to assume that, given any number of motives both virtuous and vicious, the FBI would have a vested interest in infiltrating Apple. In this scenario, notifying Apple management about these issues would risk revealing sources and methods.

At this point, the only remaining question is: why wouldn't the moles just quietly inform Apple management about the issue? Clearly, Apple personnel who are in the business of receiving and installing server hardware would have a defensible cover for poking around and raising questions about weird chips that mysteriously appeared on the hardware. There are possible explanations for this, but at that point we're just compounding conspiracy theories on conspiracy theories.
And at the end - don't think you don't have experience in selling, you already do that when you communicate. Genius.
This is super-compelling.... if you can add a lightweight ATS on the other side.

It is very hard for recruiters to remember all the people that they have interviewed. But if you give them that functionality, you have the potential to kill all the ATS out there by going from the interviewee side of things.

Kind of like Github for interviews!
> At the same time, for a body of scientists, they seem pretty uninterested in finding the truth.

There's no reason anyone who believes the accepted truth is wrong can't go do some research to prove otherwise. (Like Schliemann did.)

Expecting others to be obliged to investigate one's own crackpot theories isn't fair. Their reluctance to do so is not evidence of a conspiracy against the truth.

For example, in the 1970's a popular theory was that 100 mpg carburetors existed, and a vast conspiracy by Big Oil was suppressing all information about them. The proof of this conspiracy was, naturally, nobody was able to find any evidence of such carburetors.
I personally really liked how the PoC went – I plan on doing a full write up in the next couple of days, which will outline what I did, start to finish.

Here is an example of the sticker/skin and the finish. Excuse the slightly 'off' cut on the corner – I'm looking to produce a highly accurate template for each of the various models. https://imgur.com/FfQ3XQs
He literally says, "Although the exact identity of the producers of the burrows is yet unknown, the dimensions and morphology point to ground sloths and giant armadillos." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10420940.2016.1... That is exactly "Looks like Y, must be made by Y."

I'm not saying it's a bad heuristic. It's fine for coming up with ideas. But they apparently haven't yet found bones or fossilized poop or other signs of habitation by giant fauna.
but geoftt has to prove that the comments have caused harm.
True enough, but I personally hit bandwidth limits on occasion for my most heavy processing jobs (data analysis, wouldn't be surprised if the same applied to people doing media editing or working with databases).

Threadripper or cheap EPYC are looking quite attractive to me because of the high bandwidth per core and price-point. I just wish Intel would also compute on this point.
Same reason for preserving any other thing in nature. It's interesting enough that some might say that the heaviest known organism is a natural treasure, just like the tallest Redwood, or the oldest Joshua Tree, or Bald Eagles, or entire national parks and forests. Even conservation done in the name of something as practical as ecological sustainability ultimately boils down to preserving a slice of nature that we collectively treasure and value.

We kill groves of trees all the time and most of us never think about. It's the nature of our modern society. This mass of trees has a name though. We kill it, and present and future generations won't have another Pando to enjoy.

Personally, I don't like the part of me that says we should kill natural treasures to preserve the economic interests of ranchers, but that's just who I am. It's up to us as a society to decide what kind of creature we want to be and what we want to be driven by.
But that doesn't address the point. If we take two people, and one person is better at everything we can measure, the conclusion cannot logically be that the person who is worse at everything "must be good at something we aren't measuring". There's absolutely no data to support that conclusion, because the conclusion is literally based upon the idea that there is missing data. That's bad logic.
What would healthcare-centric revolt look like? You would need to apply pressure to specific congressional representatives, who support a specific ideology and don't believe in universal healthcare (A Crowdpac campaign has funded close to $4 million dollars to challenge Susan Collins when she's up for reelection due to her supreme court vote; that most likely won't scale). I could of course see rouge elements of such a movement using violence (not condoned!), but there has to be something legal that puts fear into Congress to act.
Also particularly the fact that Factorio runs a complex sim in "real-time" which means it has something like 17 or 33 ms to calculate every tick.

Games like X-COM have the luxury of only having to advance the simulation every so often. The rest is just rendering the game's view.
The Gnome Infrastructure Is Moving to Openshift
Although I'm sure we're heading in this direction eventually, it'll be interesting to see what kinds of protections this system and others like it have from "misbehaving" cars.

I imagine a "always try to give me the green light" patch will be created almost immediately after this system starts being used in public.
I really have little doubt that the Chinese are integrating their spy chips into computer hardware going to the big four or even the pentagon. It's probably how they stole the designs to the f-35[you know that plane that costs over a trillion dollars to develop]. It would catastrophic if apple knew or even acknowledges the possibility of the Chinese having a backdoor into their servers and would result in massive shift in policy[+profit].

The NSA has been known to intercept electronics in shipping and putting in their own specialized pcb board replacements with microphones, cameras, etc. and are _very_ hard to detect. Hell the Russian even went back to typewriters for security purposes[0]. It would be foolish to think that the Chinese/Russians aren't doing the same thing to us.

[0]:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/101...
California Is Full of Rude Assholes
California is full of rude people who will make fun of your face for no reason. A woman in a black shirt is mocking a few people in California.
It's worth noting this is largely a paper launch thus far:

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/9pidjh/any_9900k_ama...

The October 19th date that everyone was given thus far seems to be a fantasy. The new processors aren't in stock anywhere, and as of yesterday every single retailer said they were shipping today. After waiting weeks for the 19th to arrive, it's rather infuriating.
That seems both like an interesting and a very scary way of exploring your system. If you're careful, by checking manpages if present and running with the normal --help flags before trying anything else, you're probably fine; but it seems dodgy nonetheless :p

I wager you didn't know about text-based browsers like lynx? I'd say that would have been a solution to your predicament.
Unless there are moles on both sides inside of Apple, and the PRC-malicious-chip-installation moles managed to destroy evidence and silence witnesses. That sounds vaguely fantastic, but "PRC installing malicious chips on server motherboards and Anonymous Sources discovering those chips and leaking news to Bloomberg" is already well into spy vs. spy territory.
I meant when he left the team.

But yea, now he's doing cloud stuff. I'm pretty sure it's no coincidence that that is now their best performing product line either. Satya can thank him for his promotion to CEO.
> I'm not saying it's a bad heuristic. It's fine for coming up with ideas. But they apparently haven't yet found bones or fossilized poop or other signs of habitation by giant fauna.

Technically, finding that where you'd expect to find it were they the diggers is still “Looks like Y, must be Y”.

Fundamentally, that's the only way to draw conclusions about a process you aren't directly observing.

Heck, even conclusions from direct observation are quite literally “Looks like Y, must be Y”.
I mean, other than not being able to communicate with her children or fellow Canadians.
Cities Skylines crawls to a halt in big cities.
> US style greeters at the door

don't worry, everyone hates that. i mentally flip them the bird.
Seems impressive, is this more accurate than the standard?
Great idea. I am jealous. I thought of this exact same thing. The issue is: how to make money? It is difficult to charge the broke job seeker [ironically, it wont be the guy flush with offers using this app - it will be the guy struggling]. On the other hand, it is difficult to charge the recruiters unless you have the linkedin type volume. Even if you do, recruiters wont like the quality since these interviewees are struggling so hard they need an app to track failed interviews.
Will There Be a Ban on Killer Robots?
Chemists find a recipe that may have jump-started life on Earth
US charges Russian for conspiracy to interfere in 2018 election
> I would expect that if it's fabricated, Bloomberg will have to face a slew of defamation suits from the named companies.

I'm not sure defamation is the right word here—"X was attacked by a foreign government" isn't defamation.
Vivaldi 2.0 review: The modern Web browser does not have to be so bland
>Paranoid response: if such a versioning ledger were to exist, how could you trust it?

Blockchain to the rescue (for real this time, I think, I'm not an expert or a blockchain fanboy). A publicly ledger that anyone can verify hasn't been tampered with is the whole point.
Computational Propaganda
> would most likely be praised for finding it. It is a huge discovery.

Seriously, history, recent and otherwise, is littered w/the ghosts and carcasses of employees who were anything but rewarded for identifying problems great and small.

Oftentimes the safest thing to do is to pretend that one saw/heard/knows nothing while hoping that someone else has the steel to sound the alarm.

And for this sort of situation, there's too much at stake and are too many known and unknown stakeholders involved to blindly believe that this would be an exception to what I wrote above.

On a separate but related note, for those playing the "conspiracy theory" game:
- On October 4th, Bloomberg releases The Big Hack story; and
- On the same day, VP Pence gives a speech at the Hudson Institute about...? China being a bad actor which indulges in all sorts of behavior (that the United States would never ever engage in or condone).[1]

Factor in the "trade war" and long-ongoing attempts to 'encourage' companies to rethink their supply chains/ relocate production...

[1] https://www.hudson.org/events/1610-vice-president-mike-pence...
But the OS? Ubuntu & Elemetary font rendering feel like thorns in my eyes.

Windows is OK, but then you have to have a VM for any dev work.
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You don't think you're guilty of adhom yourself, with your "they're all lying" claim?

And, really,it doesn't matter what they tell me or you. It matters what they tell crime survey statisticians. Have you _ever_ bothered to look up your country's crime survey stats?
Everything I've seen indicates DDR5 is behind schedule, seems like it's going to be 3 years at least before it reaches high end parts, which means it could well be 4 or more before it helps the 2 channel parts.
A big factor here seems to be lifetime limits to benefits:

> Financial toxicity led Fumiko Chino to co-write a research letter in JAMA Oncology last November. After her husband surpassed his insurance policy's $500,000 lifetime limit, Chino drained her savings to pay for his treatment. When he died, she was left hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

However, these limits were outlawed by the Affordable Care Act, even for grandfathered plans:

https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/benefit-limits/...
Insurance is a legalized scam and it’s a shame it’s been made mandatory for everyone. Literally just a middleman now that does nothing except steal money from both sides.

Edit: wow yall are incredibly divided on this comment. I'd love to see the internal statistics on the upvote/downvotes this got, but it seems like it's something like -12 and +12
They're not doing it to protect Apple, they're doing it to protect their sources and methods within Apple. Tim Cook isn't a huge friend of the FBI (http://time.com/4262480/tim-cook-apple-fbi-2/) so if the FBI has a counterintelligence op embedded within Apple, they're going to want to hide it from Cook.
> someone in the design lab (not in production) downloaded infected firmware from SM's support site

Other than the claim that the infected firmware is "still hosted there" (which beggars belief) that sounds more like an engineer was spearphished and fooled into downloading firmware from what he believed to be the SM support site.
Yeah, he wrote that after he realized that the microservice movement he spawned had gone nuts.
Hilariously true. Nothing worse than hearing “people” on 80m. It’s like a pub night full of racist, sexist old farts. I’m in the UK so this spans Europe as well. It’s not just a US thing.

There’s less trash on 40/20m I find.

I stick to CW, FT8, WSPR. Not enough bandwidth for an opinion :)

On a positive note, nice to see lots of hams in here.
Well those stats don't really highlight most real-world performance differences. If your expectation is that performance is tied to clock speed and you wanted to see 8 Ghz by now, then sure that's a disappointment, that's not reality though.

And besides what we're seeing now and why CPU's are viable for much longer is they got extremely powerful and user demands for more power win general computing kind of tapered off. I mean nowadays you can run multiple programs, a browser with dozens of tabs, multiple other utilities and background task pretty easily. You can run way more stuff then a person can reasonably multi-task. You have to get into some pretty specific workloads to really utilize all the power a modern CPU has and be wanting more.

And yeah the performance difference between generations has been pretty meager, but over 5, 6, 7 generations those modest improvements do add up. Going form a 2600k to a 8700k or 9700k is a big leap. But if you're not desperate for a lot more power you just might not care about 50% more performance.
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It could be. Particularly of the foreign government, but also of the supposed target especially if security of the kind that was claimed to be compromised is key to their business reputation.
IMO the only intelligence info the press should really try to protect is foreign sources and methods. People could die--either sources directly, if they are exposed, or victims of future attacks that could have been prevented if the source/method had not been burned.

But intelligence info it absolutely makes sense for the press to cover, is evidence of foreign intelligence activities that were domestically discovered.

In this case, the "source" of the discovery would presumably some employee of Apple or Amazon, and their "method" of discovery would be inspecting their own systems. While I can understand why the govt might want to keep that classified, I think it's well within the realm of what citizens would like to know, without obvious and direct risk to lives.
The reservoir can compute non-linear functions of the input over time. So, with a reservoir, you can train a linear projection of the reservoir state that responds non-linearly to the input. Without the reservoir, the output projection can only be linearly related to the input.
The solution isn't too just give away housing for free, it's too remove government obstruction of housing construction and let the market correct itself.
> we mean numbers that can only we represented as compositions of periodic digits, or worse, transcendental numbers which lack even periodicity

Every number that has periodicity in its decimals is rational... √2 doesn't have periodic decimals.

Transcendental numbers are non algebraic numbers, ie. they are not the root of any non zero polynomial with rational coefficient. √2 is algebraic
> The design goal was to reduce accidental errors in code, particularly by the incautious and by learners

No, it really isn't. The whole point of a unique pointer is to ensure that the pointer is in fact unique. Thus, std::unique_ptr is specifically designed to disallow any form of copying.
I agree that Threadripper / EPYC look good on that.

Intel's main price/performance competition are Dual Xeon Silvers. Its not talked about very much, but 2x Silver 4114 (https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Xeon-4114-Deca-core-Processor/d...) isn't really that bad. 10-cores x2 == 20 cores at $1500 total.

That's 12-memory channels too (6-channels per socket). You'd have to buy an expensive dual-socket motherboard, but its relatively high-end / server-class for a reason.

Xeon Gold and Xeon Platinum are just WTF with the pricing though. I guess those are for people who stopped caring about price/performance.

AMD EPYC still seems better on a price/performance front than Dual Xeon Silvers, if only because you can get a single-socket EPYC with 8-channel RAM. But Xeon Silvers aren't really that far away.
Yeah, the study appears to be looking at 2000–2012. The lifetime limit ban started on March 23rd 2010, according to this Vox article:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/15/14563182/o...

Thanks Obama.
Is China civilized? Cuz it definitely happens there. I've heard a doctor ask a family how much money they've got in the bank, and took it all to keep a dying uncle on life support for another month. A crime.
CPU speed improvements have slowed down compared to the early 00s, but there's still a big difference in performance between 2011 and today.

On CPU Benchmark the i7-2600K scores an 8449 [1], while the i7-8700K scores a 15970 [2]. The i7-8700K is the predecessor to the i7-9700K reviewed in the article.

[1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600K...

[2] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-8700K...
Facebook tool makes UK political ads 'transparent'
Still rocking my LGA1366 Motherboard from 2008 with a Xeon X5675 @ 4.0ghz that I "upgraded" from an I7920 for $90 on ebay , 16GB of RAM, SSD, and an nvidia 1070 as the gaming PC. Handles everything at 2560x1600 60fps+ ultra quality(AA generally not necessary). Really don't quite understand the need to go crazy on computer hardware these days. Upgrading your GPU every 2-3 years seems plenty.
> This idea that Tim Cook / Apple PR must know everything that's going on at Apple is kinda ridiculous.

He doesn't have to know everything, but he sure as hell would know "a foreign government is implanting spy chips into the hardware that is being sold to us".
I think to give you perspective against previous HEDT Intel chips that had more than 4 cores.
Anyone know what to Google to see what the insides of those buildings looked like? They look interesting.
> I’m not a collaborator; I’m a recluse.

> What do I do? How do I get better?

What is this "better" you speak of? Sounds like you know yourself well enough. Get a different job. Bigco is not for you. Even once you get familiar with the environment (it will take time, just don't stress about it) and can concentrate on doing your job and not HOW to do your job (if that makes sense), you will still fail at bigco and FA*G (I don't include N). With your personality makeup you are not going to be successful at performance review.

I would even say put in a year to not be a hopper, but it doesn't sound like you will do well and 1 year doesn't look good either. With just 1 month you can easily just not put it on your resume at all.

The other commentors are replying as if you are they. But you are you. Know thyself.

If you were first year out of school I might answer differently but you are old and experienced enough to know what works for you. If at this age you don't even know how to approach being a social animal ... work the way that makes the most of your own skills and personality.

This doesn't sound like normal first month anxiety to me.
I don't get the logic: if you do it, you are a terrible person. If we do it, we are fighting for freedom or some such.

If you use the term "whataboutism", you are either ignorant or a shill.
> If the story is true, it's a MAJOR breach of classified information from US intelligence operations; operations which I assume (without evidence to the contrary) are operating in good faith -- in the interest of the US and its citizens. Breaching classified information of such ongoing investigations to trace supply chains of spy chips could very well compromise those investigations (which would be irresponsible to risk).

Unless those counterintelligence operations were, by intention and policy, the original source of the story in the first place. I could easily imagine an FBI agent essentially telling Bloomberg, "Hey, we discovered this security vulnerability, but the only sustainable solution is to convince the tech industry to move hardware manufacturing out of PRC control--we'll feed you the story but don't say it came from us."