skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The consulting firm’s sway at ICE grew to the point that McKinsey’s staff even ghostwrote a government contracting document that defined the consulting team’s own responsibilities and justified the firm’s retention, a contract extension worth $2.2 million. “Can they do that?” an ICE official wrote to a contracting officer in May 2017.

Nope. This is illegal under the FAR. If they're doing it, they should be barred from Federal contracting.

For what it's worth, I think this author gives the GSA a bad wrap based on the analysis of one individual. GSA has to do a LOT of work to award and manage a large number of contract vehicles that allow everyone in government to purchase goods and services at negotiated rates (which also saves them hundreds of thousands on hiring their own contract staff). The fact that the funding fee incentivizes GSA to help people spend more money is not necessarily a perverse incentive - it gives them the incentive to ensure their contract vehicles are effective vs. a normal procurement.
Deep Learning outperforms Mathematica on symbolic integration and solving ODEs
It wouldn't make sense though, because economies of scale are enterprise-wide not industry-wide.
I just can't understand how this attack can be implemented in real world, it not only needs having an adjacent network access to the VPN client but most importantly knowing the destination of a currently open TCP connection encrypted by the VPN and then guessing the right sequence numbers. Since most TCP connections are also carrying TLS these days, this attack is pretty useless in the vast majority of real world situations I can think of.
Raw material prices have declined pretty dramatically in the last 18-24 months (cobalt, lithium,etc).
You still have to get lithium?
That seems kind of expensive still. Grid power is around 7 cents / kwh for comparison so you need over 3,000 hours of usage to break even on a depreciating battery. Or for comparison, new 18650 cells are around $2 each in bulk, so you could get almost the same kwh storage (probably 5% less) for the same price, with a lot more cycles left.
They CRISPR'd to cut out the correct spot, but instead of filling the gap with Delta32, which is known to help with HIV immunity, they replaced it with... random data it sounds like.

In other words, it sounds like every cell might have gotten it's own randomly selected garbage data... They seem to say only a single cell they measured got the correct mutation.
I cut out the middleman and just pay people to comment for me entirely. This one cost me $34, one dollar per word. But punctuation is free so it is not a bad deal.
The HC1 is great, and I had one, but the problem I had with it was that it doesn't really have any good support for RAID (since it only has one SATA port), making it a little unfit for a real NAS. I ended up having to plug in hard drives via USB, and at that point, you're better off buying the ODroic XU4 (or a newer board like the ODroid N2 or the Nvidia Jetson Nano) due to it having USB3.0 built in.

When I was using it, I ended up not using the built-in SATA port and instead just using it as yet-another-node in my cluster of ODroid XU4s
Notably Halo 4 used Orleans in its backend: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...
If you want to play god, you have to take it all the way ie. be prepared to sterilize or kill your creations.
Isn't this potentially beneficial for those countries?

- The language barrier creates a distinct market for products and services -> good for local companies.

- The language barrier creates a distinct market for media and entertainment -> good for local culture.

- Can't read US media directly -> slightly more political independence.

- People can't speak English -> slightly less brain drain (alas, most educated people learn English anyway, but not all).
Some of the reasons:

You're probably coming out of an environment where you spent lots of time with lots of different people. Played sports with them, partied with them, studied with them, etc. Now you're going to spend your days in a possibly cramped apartment communicating over chat.

You're less likely to have the discipline or the experience to work on your own.

You may not have much of a separate social group where you're now living.

Obviously, everyone is a bit different. But I know I'm pretty happy to sit at home these days. I'm sure I would have hated it when I was starting out--and wouldn't have been nearly as effective.
I dont think the comparison is to ICE but to a car on a rail/line that doesnt need to carry its energy at all (or only a small battery for the last 30 miles.)
Yes, I just commented on this above. Maybe this happens in Germany or Finland. The idea of a McDonald's manager (at least in the US) paying for an employee's taxi to get to work is laughable and simply unheard of.
Guessing because when they were new, the range was marginal for a lot of uses (80ish miles), and uses drop off rapidly with even minor battery losses (when 40 miles each way drops to 25), your circle gets a lot smaller.
It's interesting how this is still a major issue today, Last month I learned about the Matlab AMD crippling issue. With the workaround AMD performance on a 3960x increased by 30%.

"[...] the Intel MKL uses a discriminative CPU Dispatcher that does not use efficient codepath according to SIMD support by the CPU, but based on the result of a vendor string query. If the CPU is from AMD, the MKL does not use SSE3-SSE4 or AVX1/2 extensions but falls back to SSE1 no matter whether the AMD CPU supports more efficient SIMD extensions like AVX2 or not."

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/302650-how-to-bypass-m...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/e24jqp/extremetech_how...
Saudi Aramco to Raise $25.6B in Biggest IPO Ever
I commuted for almost 20 years in the NY Metro area. My journey, on one of the least reliable mass transit lines, took 4 hours from my day... if it was on time. I was well-paid and lived in a nice home, in a great neighborhood. The real problem with this commute is it takes over your life. During the work week, there is no me time, no time for fun or hobbies. I would sandwich in workouts and some downtime to unwind daily, but I was deeply sleep-deprived. Sure, I slept on the train and meditated, but the lack of reliable transportation on a daily basis really retarded any progress on those fronts. And that impaired my ability to fully enjoy my family, actively participate in my kids' upbringing and to genuinely enjoy life. I kind of had it all, yet, that darn commute raised my stress levels so high, it was ruining every aspect of life. I drank more than I wanted, and endured marital discord.

Moral of the story is look at your commute as the top factor determining your quality of life. Think well and hard about that extra 30-60-90 minutes because it means a bigger house and backyard.
Some of the middle class teenage kids I know would love to have service or manual jobs - earn some cash around school and over the holidays - but those jobs are now occupied by grown adults. It is scary, but not because middle class teenagers miss out on them.
...well the scope of each team for which this "all-on-site or all-remote" principle holds is debatable (i.e. if we're speaking of a project team, department, set of people working on a given product or module within a system, etc). But the principle, I think, is still a valid one.
The later part isn't guaranteed, in fact unskilled labor lost to automation (jobs requiring high school education) has only been getting worse and worse over time. What happened to the days when you could get a middle class lifestyle with a high school degree with a factory job?
That's not how it looks to me on GNU/Linux: https://i.imgur.com/dHzUi8F.png
Thing is, reviews from clients don’t really apply here. You can be a very bad lawyer with very happy clients. You can also be a great lawyer on a bad case and wind up having a pissed off client who finds it more convenient to blame the lawyer than accept reality. Only a peer expert would be able to determine that you’re incompetent. For the software devs here, ask yourself how a non-technical person could find a great software developer to hire, it’s an analogous problem.
This idea that a well ordered family can lead to a well ordered state is a very old one.

Arius Didymus: "A primary kind of association is the legal union of a man and woman for begetting children and for sharing life... just as the household yields for the city the seeds of its formation, thus it yields the constitution."
Laptop batteries can still be premium item. Especially Dell. If you don't buy a business class laptop, it's very likely you cannot order the battery online. You have to call dell support. Dell support is an India call center that will ask for $70 for a shipping label so you can send the machine in to get diagnosed, even if the bios is saying battery health is poor and you don't need a diagnosis. They refuse to just sell you a new battery from the phone or online. They refuse to give you a cost estimate because they want you to have sunk cost before they give an expensive quote. You send in the machine and it's $60 for battery and $80 for servicing. Aliexpress has the batteries for $20 but there's horror stories about exploding batteries. You can easily pay $200/yr if you want to keep your machines at 50% charge or better. Be sure to see how easy it is to switch a battery before buying a new laptop.
The term “real-time” generally has a different meaning in the context of web development than in the context of systems programming. A lot of people in these comments seem to be making fun of the author for using the term in a different context than they’re used to.
Did the internet actually eradicate boredom or did it just eradicate focus?
I don't know how much it adds, but the Tesla model S module has to have rigidity for the car and some puncture resistance etc. that might not be needed in a power application right? It also may need to have a much higher peak discharge and charging rate and cooling to accommodate that.
Author's original tweet: https://twitter.com/GuillaumeLample/status/12021789560630640...

> Although neural networks struggle on simple arithmetic tasks such as addition and multiplication, we show that transformers perform surprisingly well on difficult mathematical problems such as function integration and differential equations.
> We define a general framework to adapt seq2seq models to various mathematical problems, and present different techniques to generate arbitrarily large datasets of functions with their integrals, and differential equations with their solutions.
> On samples of randomly generated functions, we show that transformers achieve state-of-the-art performance and outperform computer algebra systems such as Mathematica.
> We show that beam search can generate alternative solutions for a differential equation, all equivalent, but written in very different ways. The model was never trained to do this, but managed to figure out that different expressions correspond to the same mathematical object
> We also observe that a transformer trained on functions that SymPy can integrate, is able at test time to integrate functions that SymPy is not able to integrate, i.e. the model was able to generalize beyond the set of functions integrable by SymPy.
> A purely neural approach is not sufficient, since it still requires a symbolic framework to check generated hypotheses. Yet, our models perform best on very long inputs, where computer algebra systems struggle. Symbolic computation may benefit from hybrid approaches.
Amazon Targets Xeon and Epyc with New Graviton2 Chips
I was about to call you out on this, but decided to check first. The starting salary in McDonalds is less than $2/hour. WTF
I never get why cell phones don’t have the indicator light that tells you the camera is on. Ideally this light would be physically linked to the power going to the camera and the light would be impossible to disable without physically altering the device.
I’d like the same for the microphone.
I think location based stuff is a little more instantaneous in turn harder to accomplish but generally speaking more indicators that cannot be disabled with software tightly coupled with sensors potentially violating our privacy.
>I often work with people who have never worked such jobs. They're upset that they're 'overworked' and spend their time in the fancy break room with all the perks. Many I suspect have no clue.

Not that it's a realistic idea but damn if everyone had experiencing working in the demanding, underpaid, crappy jobs in the service industry, we might be more empathetic and better off as a whole.
>If you're poor and don't take the $1000, you are the same and everyone else is $1000 richer. This makes you effectively $1000 poorer

$1000 poorer relative to other person but not actually poorer in terms of my purchasing power.
More to the point, atheism and anti-intellectualism are effectively one in the same, as he defines anti-intellectualism as anything that deviates from a 1932 view of Christian morality.
There's what, 20 or 30 years worth of games now, and some of them are still great (e.g. Half Life: Opposing Force). 9 years is nothing. It's even more true for music (luckily that's generally not hobbled by DRM though).
My local supermarket is a marketplace for lots of brands. They heavily promote their own generic brands. What kind of punishment should they get from the government?
That's not true anymore, the new nimh cells like Panasonic eneloops can sit on a shelf for 10+ years and have most of their charge left (70% after 10 years according to their packaging).
> A more charitable take on machine learning: you decide that your criterion is predictive accuracy, and you evaluate it on a holdout set (or you cross-validate).

I'm doing a PhD in machine learning, so I quite realize. But it's Bayesian machine learning!
Thanks, what I'm not quite getting is that the other contractors are listed. What seems to get lost is that the GSA doesn't select the contractors, they just list them.

The connecting dot that's missing is why agencies choose the more expensive option when it benefits the GSA, not the agency using their schedule.

For the perverse IFF incentive structure logic to hold true, it seems like GSA would be incentivized to approve rate increases across the board. Why just McKinsey?

In other words, the GSA sets the contract but not the order. If there are cheaper contracts available in place on the GSA schedule, I would think agencies are incentivized to choose the lower bid.

edit: mistakenly stated "agencies" instead of "contractors" regarding what gets listed
So... "big tech" is bad because spying on users is scummy behavior, but please do pay us to help you spy on your users.

Also, we'll provide you with tools to spy on your users, but it's software as a service and everything important happens on our servers, where we get to keep all the logs we show you, of the events that we capture from your website.

So, yes, we'll be intercepting that data, and we'll know things the same way other companies do, by being a fly on the wall, but it's totally cool. We're on your side. Trust us. We're different.
I've been using Fathom for about a little over a month now and I love it. I researched the privacy-focused analytics products out there and it came out on top: https://dev.to/hmhrex/a-comparison-of-the-top-3-privacy-focu...
The key to having a political divide is to avoid paying attention to reality, such as dismissing the gambling industry as “a video game”.

Once you have experience with capitalism in the real world you will find that “corporations suck” and “governments suck” are not two sides of a political divide but simply two versions of the same problem: power corrupts, and anyone granted power needs regulation and oversight.
The parent commenter definitely understands what DNSSEC is.

His point is that DNSSEC doesn't work the way you appear to think it does. Conceptually, it's meant to prove that a DNS record in a response is actually a record created by the owner of the zone. But in practice, the cryptographic signature isn't valuable to stub resolvers on the end system; instead, end systems trust their "DNS servers" (their resolving cache server) to perform DNSSEC validation for them. The success of that validation is conveyed in a single "AD" bit in the header of the DNS response.

Since this attack happens from a vantage point in between the end system and the resolving cache, DNSSEC isn't in play; the attacker will simply set the AD bit in their responses.
Man arrested in Russia for building a fake border and charging $11K to cross it
Monads seem to be useful for ansync code and error handling. I hate that monads get all the press when ADTs are the real winner when it comes to FP.
So true.

Honestly, I only made it out (I was probabbly not going to make it through college due to all the work and my own personality when I was young was NOT ready for college) because I got lucky, had some mild technical skills and the .com era came along and companies wanted warm bodies.

I picked some aged old company and they hired me. That company stuck around for a long enough time to establish a career.

Working pizza ... could easily have kept me down due to that and other challenges.
He’s not motivated by money but by something no one else can offer: knowing secrets.
This is exactly how I felt. Scrolled up and down 3x wondering where the pricing was hidden.
For distracted/technologically impaired driving, which in my mind is using technology in some empirically-defined unsafe manner. How we would determine that threshold is something we as a society would have to determine, but I would hope that we would use evidence-based processes to make that determination.
Full title: A man arrested in Russia is accused of building a fake border with Finland 15 miles from the real one and charging migrants $11,000 to cross it

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-finland-fake-border-c...
- the Apple ][ font, I sometimes use it in Terminal as it is compact and retro.

https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/apple2.shtml
Will always be grateful my professors chose C++ as the introductory language. It had the downside of acting as a kind of filter for first-year CS students who had never written code before (which might be a counterargument to choosing a higher level language such as Python). But I think starting with a low-level language is critical for understanding fundamental CS concepts like how memory is allocated, stack vs heap memory, etc.
How about third party repair people like louis rossman? They will probably do it for the proper price and not give you bullshit.
I'm honestly not sure if they're entitled to fairness. Sure, I guess they choose to use Amazon so they could just as well choose not to. But Amazon's massive market presence means that small sellers could take a huge hit by not being a part of it. Sometimes their livelihood depends on their Amazon sales.

But now that I brought it up, I feel like that's a different issue than what's being mentioned in the article: Amazon gadgets getting promoted on Cyber Monday. By itself, the whole issue the article gets after doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
Buying Kirkland on Amazon, means someone walked into a costco, bought it, and resold it. From both a cost effective and auditing a warranty trail standpoint, that sucks. Incentivizing people to stock their homes full of costco products to resell is a market failure, we shouldnt encourage that behavior, but instead address the market failure. You can buy costco products at costco.com without a membership.
Extreme Leadership is interesting if contrived. It clearly hones in on 2 qualities of leadership often overlooked: 1. Clear communication of desires and expectations, 2. Ownership of results, not of success. The stories will feel contrived to anyone who has read similar books as they seem constructed to prove a point instead of lived in.
"In the past"? I can reproduce this on my daily driver today.

Why do I need to change my workflow because Firefox got worse at what I've used it for for years? If I have to change the way I work, why not change browsers too? If there's a tab limit beyond which Firefox can't effectively control itself, why is that not a hard coded limit?
Gas hobs are kinda nice. Direct induction is good enough, but I will miss gas burners for some cooking.

On the other hand Gas ovens are crazy nonsense. The electric oven was already the obviously superior choice last century and they've only continued to get better.
It seems to a heavy-handed solution to a traditionally simple problem. The easiest example of this would be some thing like Notepad++. When I fire it up it tells me there's an update and if I say "yes" to installing it I can go have a cup of coffee and it is done when I get back.

Toolbox has always sounded interesting but then you have stuff like this:

"Why can’t I update a tool via the Toolbox App?
If you are planning to use the Toolbox App, we recommend uninstalling all previously installed JetBrains tools and re-installing them again through the Toolbox App. Your settings will not be affected."

and

"Is there a way to reduce the Toolbox App’s disk space usage?
The app keeps a previously installed version of each tool to enable instant rollback. You can delete them to save space: please use Keep only the latest version setting in the app’s settings. Note that you’ll lose the ability to instantly roll back to a previous version, though."

There's more in the FAQ.

I might try it, but it sure feels like using a sledge-hammer to solve a problem that could have been done with a single "Install Update" button for each IDE.

In other words, offer the simple "Notepad++ style" option and if someone wants the entire aircraft carrier solution they can use Toolbox.

In general terms, I go for less complexity and less stuff to setup whenever possible. I love the JetBrains tools and have been a happy user and subscriber almost since they came out, they just lack a nice, simple and friction-free updater, that's all.
Or you know, set them free...
Is having a conversation with someone in the car any different than having one over the phone?

I don't see anyone advocating for a ban on conversation in cars.
Easy, McKinsey and their ilk give zero shits about office political stuff, just the principal paying the bill.

In some orgs, people working in the org cannot defy certain non-cooperative people. The consultants can come in, demand the data they need, and immediately escalate to the principal.
In your example, the traffic that goes to Alice is intended for Alice, because the initiators of that traffic have chosen to use the new database to direct traffic.

But also note that per my description, Alice can't just register a domain that Bob has already registered at the legacy registry. Rather, the conflict in your example can only happen if Alice is registered at the legacy registry and Mozilla, lets her registration lapse at the legacy, and then Bob comes along and attempts to lay technical claim to the name because it is not registered at the legacy.
AFAIK free version didn't allow any granularity to disable web protection.
I guess it doesn't change the value proposition much, but the whole "23 year old recent college grad" thing is a little overblown. Sure, a college grad like that might land somewhere with a title of "Business Analyst", but the higher the consulting contract the more likely it's some "distinguished" or at least older person with a shoe shine and 30 years of absorbing all of the management buzzword trends.

I just had a round of them come through where I work, and 3 of the 4 met this description. The 4th was the younger "college grad" and they made him actually click the power point slides forward.
Ignobel material
I sometimes ride 100+ miles a week, so me moving out of the Bay Area probably extended my lifespan by a good 5-10 years.

Seriously the drivers in that area are so terrible, with Uber drivers taking it a step higher. For the average cyclist, it’s a matter of when, not if they will get hit.