skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that individual vendors (MSTC, FireEye, Talos, etc.) name threat actors differently. If you're interested, I'd highly recommend this page by CrowdStrike: https://adversary.crowdstrike.com/en-US/

It's very interesting to see how humans naturally tend to craft identities for faceless, nameless adversaries, which I think is very interesting from a social standpoint. Also the artwork in the website above is just plain cool IMO :)

Although the vendors share information quite freely, I think there's hesitation on a vendor mutually adopting another vendor's threat actor name because it implies more substantive research on the latter's part, which is usually a no-no in a field like this. Ofc, I'm sure there are exceptions.

edit: I also wanted to give Thai CERT a shout out and add a link to https://www.thaicert.or.th/downloads/files/Threat_Group_Card... which is less flashy than the CrowdStrike compendium, but well-detailed
Does “listener” mean the same thing as REPL here? I’ve never that term in this context before.
I never really thought about it but this makes complete sense. Why charge people to get invested in your platform? I guess it stems from the fact that back in the olden days these certifications were for things like A+ or some other non vendor specific function. So the ROR was almost nil for the certificate providers. However, in the "cloud" world, the income from certs has got to be infantesimle compared to the reoccurring income from platform subscriptions.

Or maybe the exam price is there to cover the administration of the exams. I'm guessing proctoring the exams is not free so they pass the cost on to the applicants. Either way, I think it would be cost effective for these large cloud providers to offer exams for free and just eat the application cost. Or offer the first one free and charge some small amount for each additional one.
Wow, how did you end up starting with that?

I agree that it is great, but I can also imagine others having the complete opposite opinion. It's certainly a direction you don't expect the series to take, just from the first one or two :-)
Someone mounted a handgun to a drone a few years back as a DIY project. Honestly: this isn't a big deal - this is a remote control something with a firearm. About as dangerous as a Battlebot (those have had .22 firing guns put on them - not very effective against the armor on those robots).

The big deal here would be the deployment of autonomous target acquisition: contrary to popular belief nobody deploys video game style automated turrets, though interestingly the use of "loiter-capable" missiles has gone largely unremarked upon even though by definition these are autonomous robots which attack human-occupied targets without direction.
That's how many it takes to "represent" a neuron. But what does that mean and is it relevant? I haven't checked the original research, but if it means to model the results of a neuron, then it's not relevant (unless you're trying to do brain uploading). Two ANNs with different activation functions will need a lot of nodes to model a single node of the other network, but they have comparable computational power. We don't need to match the neurons to match the computational abilities.
I am really looking forward to being able to spend some time in forums and with friends over the coming months (and years given how often I talk about the things I like over and over again) and see how the feelings for the Dune(2021) film correspond to peoples feelings on which books are a part of the series.

I am waiting to see the film until this weekend, so I will have to take my own impressions as a baseline and look forward to discussions and arguments on Dune saving from a dreadfully boring winter.
I've been to a lot of interviews and this seems like terrible advice. Besides a few behavioral questions the vast majority of interviews are algorithm and data structures questions. Memorizing a bunch of obscure, unpopular object oriented jargon seems like a waste of time. Is this a php thing?
it is illegal
The first link has this text: "Today, we’re sharing the latest activity we’ve observed from the Russian nation-state actor Nobelium. This is the same actor behind the cyberattacks targeting SolarWinds customers in 2020 and which the U.S. government and others have identified as being part of Russia’s foreign intelligence service known as the SVR."
This is called DARPA in the US.
Cars, planes, and rockets all have optimal shapes for their environment, of course they're not going to change much once they get to that point.

Cars are still vastly different today than in the 80s in (at least) performance, efficiency, and safety.

Planes are also getting quite a bit better, although adoption of these planes is slow as most airlines want to get as much as they can out of the old fleet.[0]

SpaceX has been landing their rockets for several years now, and are about to take an even bigger step with Starship.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lapFQl6RezA
AFAIK the SolarWinds attack was found to be linked to the Russian government.
Maybe your car hasn't changed, but your cancer care sure as hell has. The medical and biological sciences are where a lot of innovation has taken place, and the pace of technological advancement in things like DNA sequencing (as one example) is breathtaking.
The Facebook papers: why Mark Zuckerberg won't be held accountable
>For better or worse; it's not obvious to me that it was a poor choice.

It wasn't a poor choice. It was the least common denominator, and what put it over the top was JSON instead of XML and using URLs for more than the address of the end point to send your RPC to. The problem with SOAP and other APIs of the era was everything was bespoke once you got past transport (and transport often was hard because different systems implemented transport differently). With REST, transport was settled, and at least the URL forced some kind of hierarchy, and you could reason that GET /user/settings would return a settings object for the user.
I read in Hacker's Delight a proof that e is the theoretically optimal base for computation. But since we lack the technology to make a base-e computer system, we have to settle for either binary, or base-3.

So you're probably onto something.
Have you read the news lately?

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-surprises-us-with-hypers...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58794094

China has becoming increasingly aggressive in both its rhetoric and actions towards Taiwan, and this comes only shortly after they clearly violated their 50 year agreement with Hong Kong. They are testing increasingly advanced weapons. That's just reality - nothing to do with Cold War thinking.

Maybe China decides not to build autonomous killer robots, but we absolutely can't be sure of that. If they do end up with that technology and we don't have it, it puts us at a huge military disadvantage against an increasingly aggressive superpower.

Making it illegal domestically makes no sense whatsoever if China develops the technology. The risk with autonomous killer robots is in their existence - if something goes wrong, they start deciding to kill the wrong people. If China has them and we don't, that doesn't reduce that risk at all.

But if China has them and we don't it, then we're at risk both of something going wrong with the robots and of China using them against us. At least if we develop our own, we can counter the latter threat.
In China they're probably saying right now: "As US continues its extraordinary military and technology spending, it's hard to imagine them drawing a line in the sand against using a technology that could give them military superiority…"
If you are considering trust as a binary state then it's exactly as trustworthy as the manifest file.

If you consider as a continuum then it's strictly more trustworthy than the manifest file.
The big problem is that there's a strong incentive to make UAVs autonomous as doing so would mitigate the risk from jamming to a control signal. Downside is that now we're putting control over weapons into the hands of a (likely) poorly understood amalgamation of algorithms. I'd see this happening with aerial UAVs before the robo-dog, however.
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All of that recent fight against FB is driven by them “not censoring enough” and it’s a call for decreasing privacy and increasing censorship.

Facebook polarizes people? Sure thing. But which media doesn’t? Aren’t CNN, FoxNews etc. doing the same? Society could use some whistleblowers from those companies as well ;)

I’m not excusing FB. I just say that we should be careful not to ally now with those who have no public interest in mind
Hmm... so many questions

1. Go binaries are bloated already. Do they plan to compress this (and other textual info, like full type names) in the binary?

2. I saw enough of build pipelines that do not clone repositories, but do a shallow copy for a tag, and have no .git folder. How much info will be added in this case?

3. Moreover, pretty much every serious build has source generation steps (protobuf, jooq, etc - you name it). If resulting executable will have a very particular info about these, the sheer amount of information added will probably make executables considerable larger.
I’m not holding out much hope, truth be told!
Until very recently I had no clue what "e" really stood for, though I was good at maths in college. I took it as the result of some complicated infinite series.

Until that is I came across this[1] wonderful article. That site is a treasure trove of very good insightful articles. Can't recommend enough.

[1] https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-guide-to-e...
They did a few days ago: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/10/24/new-act...
Thanks! We will add pricing as soon as we have it ready. We have changed the landing page to reflect that Kit55 is free for non professional users as well.
> It's more about the user experience and in Windows, it's horrible and user hostile.

How so?

From where i'm sat every application i want works and i can do all my business / leisure tasks with relative ease.

I actually don't know what i'd even want or need to improve my user experience with WIN10
I think white savior just means guy came from outside who has amazing abilities and lead the native.
Organizing codebase using templates in Golang
Oh, and since you are the only one mentioning it on this page, one of my pet peeve with the movie is: why so freaking many lasers? Two is two more than we should have seen, I think.

(the other pet peeve is that they don't draw blood every time we see a crysknife).
Why don't we force two factor auth for publishers?
Jeff and I have been working on this nonstop since January-February. Formal incorporation happened way way after the work started. This has been my full time (unpaid, volunteer, only) job since February, and I have burned down much of my savings in that time.
Just for the record, 100 is more than a 22% percent increase from 78.

If windows is 78% of Linux speed, then Linux is 28% faster than windows.
I find it very funny that you frame your opinion around those nefarious easterners dragging the reluctant do-gooders at the DoD and CIA into murder robots, when 60 years ago they were in an agrarian land revolt and the US was literally building rockets with atomic warheads on them.

And as if that's not enough, to post this opinion in the comments linking to an article about the US's murder robots...
I am very happy that 9/11 happened when drones and robots weren’t ready for military use. If they had been available I bet the administration back then would have deployed them to any country they may have perceived as a threat.

Wars are in a sense self regulating. When the human losses get too much, most politicians will reconsider. Happened in Vietnam and also in Afghanistan for the Russians and later the US .

With robots this may change. If you lose only robots it’s very tempting to keep wars going with horrendous results for the civilian population in the occupied country while the costs for the occupier are only financial .
Exactly, currencies have no cashflow. They can go up and down relative to many other things, but essentially their only value is if other people are willing to trade for other things with them.
I'm not sure what you mean by social issues exactly. I suspect the policies we're talking about are part of what they think they're addressing.
SpaceX aims to fix leaky toilets before astronauts blast off at weekend
The Austrian app is also satisfied.
Income tax was originally only applied to the wealthy. Now look where we are. Even if they do pass the bill with those limits it is only a matter of time until they lower it more and more and it applies to everyone.
I have always viewed local news as anemic. As a young child I found it super boring and would always look forward to national and international news. In my hometown, the last time our major news paper ran a good corruption story it got attacked by Carl Lindner and subsequently neutered. Fast forward a few decades and our city was found to be a hotbed of corruption, not by local journalism, but by the FBI. It was unchecked but could have easily been uncovered by decent journalism a lot sooner.
Convention, just like why nukes haven't been used as weapons in over 70 years in the real world. If your enemy does it to you, you'll do it to them.
Springer.com, Palgrave.com, and Apress.com are changing
Relevant recent comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29000086.
I think calling Peter Norvig "a Google executive" (yes, I know that's the title of the article being linked to) is a great disservice to him. Yes, he worked at Google for a time, but he wasn't some beancounter -- he's an extremely accomplished computer science researcher both in academia and industry.
The myth about vaccines equaling gene therapy has been debunked multiple times [1].

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-mrna-gene-id...
This is precisely the reason I am no longer a subscriber.
Nothing like some good ol' Comic Sans in the world's best IDE: Microsoft Word. Also all spaces are now Unicode spaces.
> eventually local book shops value won't be in selling books

You seem to forget about the public that wants (demands) a book retail warehouse. The median shopper does not exhaust the market.
With globalisation happening about the same time as coming off the gold standard I understand the conclusion.
There are two flaws in the logic leading there. First, globalisation is the result of the technonogy, particularly transportation and materials, available. Second, even with a gold standard the value of gold increases over time. A single unit of gold is able to buy more as the economy it represents grows. On the ground, with dollars pegged at an amount of gold, you would see this as prices decreasing as they were for the history of the US gold standard.
This is like saying because some people own the majority of printing presses, money is worthless.

Money has worth because people accept it in exchange for goods and services.

Bitcoin has worth because people accept it in exchange for goods and services.

It’s not the miners that create value, it’s the merchants. If miners start some fork they’ll leave the main blockchain, which will run fine without them. And they have absolutely no way of forcing anyone to use their fork. Only if the merchants start accepting coins from the forked blockchain will it become valuable. But that’s up to the merchants, not the miners.

There are problems with one miner controlling over 50% of the mining power. This is not such a problem.
One thing obvious is the breakdown between theory and experiment in physics.

Newton's great accomplishment was discovering a link between terrestrial and extraterrestrial physics.

Today on the large scale we see it takes multiple kinds of "dark matter" to explain the rotation of galaxies, structure of galaxy clusters, and cosmology. "Dark matter" evades any attempt to detect it on Earth.

Einstein's prediction of how light was bent in gravitational fields was tested by Sir Arthur Eddington in a few years. Last year observational evidence was found for a circa-1980 theory of black hole jets. Neutrino Oscillations were detected in 1998 and have been one of the few areas where particle accelerators get non-null results; the theory for that was developed in 1957 by an Italian physicist who defected to the Soviet Union. (No Nobel Prize!)

Since the gap between theory and confirmation of the theory could span a whole career, young physicists need to survive by pleasing their elders with fashionable theories for a decade without any feedback from the physical universe.

A strange counterexample was the 1980 rise of inflationary cosmology, where the problem and solution were discovered together. (Somehow nobody was bothered by the "Horizon Problem" until then.) It was Alan Guth's answer to survival in the physics hiring drought of his time.
I'm using just a rss reader. Did I miss functionality ?
They're using Matlab because it's well known within the target community. Also, Psychtoolbox has been around for a long time and has been subject to studies that look specifically at precision.
Google Open-Sources Scenic: A Jax Library for Sota Computer Vision Model
It's great to know its origin story, thank you!
So... Amazon is inventing Power Loaders from Alien? Neat!
Seeing how they are talking about unrealized gains, I wouldn't count on an exemption.
Show HN: What Does John Say?
I think that makes sense in an academic/theoretical setting. I think it would require a massive tax/policy overhaul to make it work in real life (which would be good but seems unlikely). We seem to tax just about every level of income, but then offer all sorts of credits, deductions, etc to promote some special interest. And the special interests (looking at your TurboTax) want to keep it complicated to make money off of it. Then we have all sorts of use based taxes like property, gas, sales, guns, alcohol, cigarettes, etc.

Probably the simplest way to assign ranges of income is to apply statistics to the unadjusted pretax income in the US. It would probably make sense to adjust it based on COL too. I'm not sure what numbers and adjustments the following distribution used. I did not expect to see 10% of households making over $200k. That seems insanely high to me, but maybe that's an effect of HCOL places like Silicon Valley and dual income families.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distri...
It makes the screen bigger... thats the reason. The menu bar no longer takes up ANY screen real estate.

They could have just not extended the screen and had a larger bezel. I don't see the issue.
‘It Did Circle the Globe’: US Confirms China’s Orbital Hypersonic Test
There's only so many ways to arrange a car.
>Yes! That the markdown sources should be the only source code for a series, and that Rust files, terminal sessions, even screenshots should be "build artifacts", that can all be produced from the markdown by my content pipeline.

Sounds like somebody's re-inventing literate programming.
Ironically, it was UK (former) intelligence, not Russians, that had the most impactful attempts at meddling with our 2016 elections.
See...Christopher Steele.
I very much doubt we'll see continued 10x parameter growth per year for too many more years, although in the short term GPT-4 will confirm that trend (100T params in a "few years"). Even if continued scaling of these models is deemed worthwhile, I doubt training hardware can keep up to keep the cost manageable. Even GPT-3's $6M training cost (& time) is significant. Does anyone have the stomach for $100M training costs, say? How many times are you willing to iterate that as you tweak the model?

GPT-3 is a very interesting line of research though, given the non-intuitive capabilities as this type of model is scaled up. It'll certainly be interesting to see what GPT-4 is capable of.

However, I doubt that these transformer architectures are capturing everything that the cortex is doing, and intelligence probably involves more than just the cortex anyway (hypothalamus, maybe cerebellum, etc). I expect in the next decade we'll see more research on elaborating these architectures, and making them more efficient, rather than just scaling them up much beyond the planned 100T GPT-4 type of size.

Maybe by the time we've figured out the architecture for intelligence the hardware will have caught up to make training and runtime costs more practical.
Was it the intention from the start or did Frank come up with it as he wrote more books?
There are probably 100 times more scientists doing research than in the 1920's and the technological means for research are incomparably more advanced, so in that regard we're definitely moving at a much faster pace.

Progress in fields like physics is definitely more incremental though as compared to e.g. the first half of the last century when the foundations of modern physics were laid (quantum mechanis, special and general relativity, quantum field theory, ...). Then again, there are many "small" cracks that start showing up in various theories (dark matter & dark energy being one), so I hope we'll soon discover something as groundbreaking as general relativity or quantum mechanics that explains some of them and makes the universe even more interesting.
I'm replying to:

> The oversimplification for me is not talking about PWM

Omitting PWM isn't very important IMO; showing diodes in parallel like this sounds like a critical omission.
I totally agree.

You are probably referring to the ads that can't be turned off or the very friendly Cortana that haunts every system like a ghost that no one invited nor needed. Or may be the unguessable updates that are almost always installing when you need your system the most. Those can't be it. It has to be the WinXP control panel that's now twice messed with and hidden under a completely unrelated settings app that also happens to not completely cover anything. If none of those features pull in users like flies to honey, I know the really friendly (naggy?) windows hello/signin at the startup who sells me harder than a user car salesman would. No one can resist the charm of random system.exe spiking the CPU whenever it wants may be running a crypto miner from MS or cracking passwords for NSA.
I honestly couldn't care any less about the notch and frankly I find it amazing that people care about it at all
There is a provision for private company equity (illiquid) that you pay an extra fee, on top of capital gains, upon disposition.
I smurfed what you smurfed there.
And the minor point that a not-insignificant percentage of games are Windows only still (steam is tryign!). As phones get better and better, PCs are for like typing papers and playing games... a word processor crossed with a nintendo..
I'd say there are more countries in the running for this than two. Possible options: China, US, Russia, Israel, North Korea and more
TLDR:
Benchmarks used:

- ParaView
- DaCapo Benchmark
- Renaissance
- TSCP
- LuxCoreRender
- dav1d
- SVT-AV1
- Stockfish
- libavif avifenc
- FLAC audio encoding
- IndigoBench
- Blender
- Appleseed
- WavPack Audio Encoding
- Git
- Chaos Group V-RAY

Clear linux is about 18% faster, other distros (Arch, Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10, Fedora Workstation 35) are 11% faster.
Bruno Pontecorvo
There are some interesting parallels, or common thread, in Czech culture:

- The word "robot" (with its modern meaning) comes from a Czech play

- Tradition of Czech animation

- Tradition of puppetry

All these are about "animating" in the classic sense of the word, to breathe life into something.
Willing to mingle with people very different from yourself is a very new phenomenon and certainly not widespread. It's nice that you can look past the differences.

> SARS2 is not a big threat to vaccinated people. Why the hysteria?

Even if we assume that it's not a threat to the vaccinated, it is still very much a threat to the non-vaccinated. All sorts of pandemic measures are designed to help society as a whole, not just the individual obeying the rules.