Again, anything that an open source team has access to a closed source team has access to as well. Presumably the closed source team also fuzzed their application as well. So again Open and Closed Source is a wash from the perspective of a fuzzer, but the malicious actor has a fuzzer and source access.
So the closed source is at worst equally vulnerable and at best slightly less vulnerable.
Their model might be trained to specifically to their noise generation.
They definitely trained the model to various types of noises. The whole point of the paper is that it can learn to denoise extremely diverse noise types from Gaussian to Monte Carlo to MRI read noise to text overlays.
Yeah I call it "new phone syndrome". Every time someone gets a phone they complain about battery life because they are installing a bunch of apps and updates, using it more because there are new features, testing the camera, downloading all of their notebooks, offline playlists and photo gallery thumbnails...
Every new phone I've gotten has terrible battery life for the first week or two as each app definitely has to cache data.
However, the bad guys still take the trouble to disassemble the code and find its vulnerabilities.
I would flip it. The bad guys have a huge incentive to invest the time and effort to audit code for security bugs. However rarely do open source or closed source projects have a large incentive.
From a blank slate both Open and Closed source applications are at a disadvantage. Some closed source applications have an incentive to have lots of eyes audit the code. Some open source applications have an incentive to have lots of eyes audit the code.
So I would call the "Eyes" argument a wash between open and closed source. They both have equal incentive and therefore in practice probably equal amount of eyes.
But open source does lose out because security through obscurity might be lousy but it's not imaginary. It does offer an impediment to finding bugs. It is much harder to audit disassembled code than the human source.
So if eyes is a wash but malicious actors have it easier with Open Source I would argue that Open Source is actually more vulnerable because the only real variable that changes between Open and Closed source is the cost to malicious actors.
if anything, this will drive UP the value of existing homes since they aren't subject to this new requirement.
FFS, installing a home charger costs about $250 in parts including the plug. It's about $50 in parts if you just want to install a high amp circuit 20 feet from the circuit breaker.
It's a few hundred extra bucks to have an electrician and install it once your house is prebuilt. This will drive down the price if anything of existing homes since a new home will include a charger that cost the developer maybe $300 (on top of $700,000) but an existing home will cost $800 for an electrician to come out for 3 hours and run cable through a finished wall.
Or, we find an energy storage mechanism that doesn't use a high voltage charger.
Ohm's law isn't changing any time in the next century. If you want lots of current (120kw+) into a storage device it either needs to be very high amperage (low resistance giant fat cables or room temperature super conductors) or high voltage or both.
Tesla Superchargers are high voltage and high amperage (480v and 250A).
If the UK's power mains are 230v and that's a constant that isn't going to change any time soon. So all that this law requires is that a high amperage cable be run from the circuit breaker to a place in the garage where an adapter can be wired up.
Adding an extra 30A circuit is around $50 in parts. The expensive part is just running cable in a home with drywall and studs. It only takes a minute to run the cable while the house is under construction.
I can't believe I'm still surprised at how many Slashdot readers are essentially Luddites. "News for Nerds (who believe their experiences writing PASCAL accounting software makes them experts on modern safety critical computer systems)".
It's like every other comment is always "Never connect a computer to the internet even if it's a web service!" "If it's not mechanical, I don't trust it!" "Automation will be the death of us!"
It's like most of Slashdot fought a war against the Cylons in a past life.
Episodes 1-3 were terrible... but they were a really good story. Let me pitch this prequel trilogy to you.
The Jedi are an ancient order but after thousands of years they've become corrupt and disconnected from the lives of ordinary people. The galaxy is in decay. If you live outside of the core worlds you are vulnerable to child trafficking and slavery. Worlds are owned and run by crime lords, while the decadent core worlds turn a blind eye and squabble over tariffs and trade disputes.
Anakin Skywalker is born into slavery and aspires to be a Jedi thinking that he can change the galaxy, free all of the slaves and bring justice to the Galaxy. He finds though that the Jedi have no interest in making the Galaxy better but are only concerned with meditating while the the Galaxy burn around them.
Believing that bureaucratic dithering and inaction generation after generation is tantamount to complicity in the atrocities taking place across the Galaxy Anakin joins the political party of a new Chancellor promising to finally use the power, military and authority of the Republic to bring law and order to the outer worlds. The new Chancellor also tells Anakin that the Jedi are ideologically withholding much of their potential.
When the Jedi discover that the Chancellor is in fact a Sith Lord they begin a military coup to remove him from office. Anakin, believing that the Jedi are acting in a partisan fashion against someone who just threatens their authority, defens the chancellor and strikes back against the Jedi order which he perceives as treasonous and undemocratic.
Anakin embraces the dark side and attempts to build a military empire to bring peace, freedom and stability to the galaxy by force. Clean up the outer worlds. Purge undesirable murderous elements and unite the whole galaxy in a unified government. He choose the name Darth Vader. ---
It's a great story! They're just terrible movies. On its surface you can see how an amazing story could be told but it would have needed to be told from Anakin's perspective. Instead we see the story from Obi Wan's perspective and isn't at all charitable to the person whose arc we really needed to sympathize with: Anakin.
Also Episode I was useless. Again it should have been told from Anakin's perspective not Obi Wan's from almost the start. It would have been nice to start with Obi Wan's perspective, but then when he meets Anakin see him have his own crisis of faith in the Jedi as he meets this young slave and questions his own place in the world. Then we could have focused on Anakin and the corruption of the Jedi\Republic. Then when we hit Episode 3 at the very end had a good Malcolm X vs MLK.
In other words, the prequels should have been what Black Panther was only even more sympathetic to Killmonger's perspective.
Diversity is synonymous with quality when bias excludes entrants. Take women in the work force. Assuming men and women are relatively equal then picking the top 1% of N samples will produce an inferior team than the top 0.5% of 2N samples.
Inclusivity means you can be more picky in the quality of your selection. If only an arbitrarily narrow cross section of the population is participating in a contest of ideas then you can be certain that you're not getting the best ideas.
Great idea. And we'll just increase the tunnel diameter from 14ft to 21 feet. What's that tunneling complexity increases exponentially based on diameter?
A huge innovation would be hardware raytracing. Global illumination, raytraced shadows and better reflections would not be creepy at all. In fact it can help with stylized graphics. Better Sub Surface Scattering makes things look softer and friendlier not creepy robot plastic-y.
Elon got it wrong, self driving is a separate problem and you can't get there incrementally by increasing the level of autonomy
And Elon claims he has statistics that incremental autonomy improves safety in spite of the failures. The fact is that we don't know. We just have anecdotes.
Xbox Two Mini - 4k HDR media playback. Equivalent to Xbox One S performance. Xbox Two - 4k Games and Media. Equivalent to Xbox One X 1080p Quality but in 4k. 90fps VR. Xbox Two X - 4k Games and Media. Hardware raytracing.
why I should thrown down another $500 on a Xbox in 2020 after I just wasted $500 on one in 2017 and could just buy a PS5 and PC instead?
I have a gaming PC and an Xbox One X attached to my TV. An Xbox is still a driver free experience that "just works". And $500 for a gaming PC is cheap. It also works well with a TV remote for streaming 4k HDR Surround sound reliably. Windows Apps aren't nearly as consistent in framerate and HDR output or surround sound.
Also why would Microsoft care? You either buy a Windows PC or a Windows Xbox. They get your money either way.
The article addresses this. P53 is like the ECC of the DNA. It detects errors and then either self destructs the cell or fixes the 'damage'. The concern is that CRISPR weakens the p53 response and therefore the natural Error Correction processes of the cells which normally terminate tumorous dna damage.
However, the cancer treatments using CRISPR (and several other CRISPR therapies) don't rely on p53
CRISPR-based editing of T cells to treat cancer, as scientists at the University of Pennsylvania are studying in a clinical trial, should also not have a p53 problem. Nor should any therapy developed with CRISPR base editing, which does not make the double-stranded breaks that trigger p53.
Imagine coding under pressure and then the CEO sets up camp in your office...
If he's committing bug fixes and answering questions immediately great. The worst is when you're trying to fix something but you can't get a decision made for 8 hours.
The bigger issue is that all you're really testing is multi-platform optimization.
Very similar programs on the benchmark list perform exactly opposite of one another on two different OSes. It's almost as if the test is just determining whose cross platform port is best optimized for each platform.
The real take-away from the test is that PHP isn't very well optimized for Windows while Python is.
Latest estimated date for SpaceX's first NASA manned test flight is January 2019.
Makes sense that SpaceX won't fly private passengers on Dragon 2 in 2018 before NASA approves the vehicle for flight and sends up their own test astronauts.
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Microsoft has a massive financial disincentive to monetize the small edge revenue possible vs the huge cost of people ditching Windows.
Again, anything that an open source team has access to a closed source team has access to as well. Presumably the closed source team also fuzzed their application as well. So again Open and Closed Source is a wash from the perspective of a fuzzer, but the malicious actor has a fuzzer and source access.
So the closed source is at worst equally vulnerable and at best slightly less vulnerable.
Their model might be trained to specifically to their noise generation.
They definitely trained the model to various types of noises. The whole point of the paper is that it can learn to denoise extremely diverse noise types from Gaussian to Monte Carlo to MRI read noise to text overlays.
Maybe read the paper in the link? They provide before and after examples.
Yeah I call it "new phone syndrome". Every time someone gets a phone they complain about battery life because they are installing a bunch of apps and updates, using it more because there are new features, testing the camera, downloading all of their notebooks, offline playlists and photo gallery thumbnails...
Every new phone I've gotten has terrible battery life for the first week or two as each app definitely has to cache data.
However, the bad guys still take the trouble to disassemble the code and find its vulnerabilities.
I would flip it. The bad guys have a huge incentive to invest the time and effort to audit code for security bugs. However rarely do open source or closed source projects have a large incentive.
From a blank slate both Open and Closed source applications are at a disadvantage. Some closed source applications have an incentive to have lots of eyes audit the code. Some open source applications have an incentive to have lots of eyes audit the code.
So I would call the "Eyes" argument a wash between open and closed source. They both have equal incentive and therefore in practice probably equal amount of eyes.
But open source does lose out because security through obscurity might be lousy but it's not imaginary. It does offer an impediment to finding bugs. It is much harder to audit disassembled code than the human source.
So if eyes is a wash but malicious actors have it easier with Open Source I would argue that Open Source is actually more vulnerable because the only real variable that changes between Open and Closed source is the cost to malicious actors.
There are multiple technical standards. But in Europe, the government mandated Type 2.
https://www.autoblog.com/2013/...
if anything, this will drive UP the value of existing homes since they aren't subject to this new requirement.
FFS, installing a home charger costs about $250 in parts including the plug. It's about $50 in parts if you just want to install a high amp circuit 20 feet from the circuit breaker.
It's a few hundred extra bucks to have an electrician and install it once your house is prebuilt. This will drive down the price if anything of existing homes since a new home will include a charger that cost the developer maybe $300 (on top of $700,000) but an existing home will cost $800 for an electrician to come out for 3 hours and run cable through a finished wall.
Or, we find an energy storage mechanism that doesn't use a high voltage charger.
Ohm's law isn't changing any time in the next century. If you want lots of current (120kw+) into a storage device it either needs to be very high amperage (low resistance giant fat cables or room temperature super conductors) or high voltage or both.
Tesla Superchargers are high voltage and high amperage (480v and 250A).
If the UK's power mains are 230v and that's a constant that isn't going to change any time soon. So all that this law requires is that a high amperage cable be run from the circuit breaker to a place in the garage where an adapter can be wired up.
Adding an extra 30A circuit is around $50 in parts. The expensive part is just running cable in a home with drywall and studs. It only takes a minute to run the cable while the house is under construction.
If only there was a continent wide standard...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I can't believe I'm still surprised at how many Slashdot readers are essentially Luddites. "News for Nerds (who believe their experiences writing PASCAL accounting software makes them experts on modern safety critical computer systems)".
It's like every other comment is always "Never connect a computer to the internet even if it's a web service!" "If it's not mechanical, I don't trust it!" "Automation will be the death of us!"
It's like most of Slashdot fought a war against the Cylons in a past life.
Because I can listen to nearly every song ever made in any room in my house.
Episodes 1-3 were terrible... but they were a really good story. Let me pitch this prequel trilogy to you.
The Jedi are an ancient order but after thousands of years they've become corrupt and disconnected from the lives of ordinary people. The galaxy is in decay. If you live outside of the core worlds you are vulnerable to child trafficking and slavery. Worlds are owned and run by crime lords, while the decadent core worlds turn a blind eye and squabble over tariffs and trade disputes.
Anakin Skywalker is born into slavery and aspires to be a Jedi thinking that he can change the galaxy, free all of the slaves and bring justice to the Galaxy. He finds though that the Jedi have no interest in making the Galaxy better but are only concerned with meditating while the the Galaxy burn around them.
Believing that bureaucratic dithering and inaction generation after generation is tantamount to complicity in the atrocities taking place across the Galaxy Anakin joins the political party of a new Chancellor promising to finally use the power, military and authority of the Republic to bring law and order to the outer worlds. The new Chancellor also tells Anakin that the Jedi are ideologically withholding much of their potential.
When the Jedi discover that the Chancellor is in fact a Sith Lord they begin a military coup to remove him from office. Anakin, believing that the Jedi are acting in a partisan fashion against someone who just threatens their authority, defens the chancellor and strikes back against the Jedi order which he perceives as treasonous and undemocratic.
Anakin embraces the dark side and attempts to build a military empire to bring peace, freedom and stability to the galaxy by force. Clean up the outer worlds. Purge undesirable murderous elements and unite the whole galaxy in a unified government. He choose the name Darth Vader.
---
It's a great story! They're just terrible movies. On its surface you can see how an amazing story could be told but it would have needed to be told from Anakin's perspective. Instead we see the story from Obi Wan's perspective and isn't at all charitable to the person whose arc we really needed to sympathize with: Anakin.
Also Episode I was useless. Again it should have been told from Anakin's perspective not Obi Wan's from almost the start. It would have been nice to start with Obi Wan's perspective, but then when he meets Anakin see him have his own crisis of faith in the Jedi as he meets this young slave and questions his own place in the world. Then we could have focused on Anakin and the corruption of the Jedi\Republic. Then when we hit Episode 3 at the very end had a good Malcolm X vs MLK.
In other words, the prequels should have been what Black Panther was only even more sympathetic to Killmonger's perspective.
2) And even with the 9% layoff they still have increased their payroll since January 1st.
Diversity is synonymous with quality when bias excludes entrants. Take women in the work force. Assuming men and women are relatively equal then picking the top 1% of N samples will produce an inferior team than the top 0.5% of 2N samples.
Inclusivity means you can be more picky in the quality of your selection. If only an arbitrarily narrow cross section of the population is participating in a contest of ideas then you can be certain that you're not getting the best ideas.
Not to mention LA is an oil and gas region so there is lots of tar and methane pockets to deal with.
Great idea. And we'll just increase the tunnel diameter from 14ft to 21 feet. What's that tunneling complexity increases exponentially based on diameter?
A huge innovation would be hardware raytracing. Global illumination, raytraced shadows and better reflections would not be creepy at all. In fact it can help with stylized graphics. Better Sub Surface Scattering makes things look softer and friendlier not creepy robot plastic-y.
Elon got it wrong, self driving is a separate problem and you can't get there incrementally by increasing the level of autonomy
And Elon claims he has statistics that incremental autonomy improves safety in spite of the failures. The fact is that we don't know. We just have anecdotes.
My prediction:
Xbox Two Mini - 4k HDR media playback. Equivalent to Xbox One S performance.
Xbox Two - 4k Games and Media. Equivalent to Xbox One X 1080p Quality but in 4k. 90fps VR.
Xbox Two X - 4k Games and Media. Hardware raytracing.
why I should thrown down another $500 on a Xbox in 2020 after I just wasted $500 on one in 2017 and could just buy a PS5 and PC instead?
I have a gaming PC and an Xbox One X attached to my TV. An Xbox is still a driver free experience that "just works". And $500 for a gaming PC is cheap. It also works well with a TV remote for streaming 4k HDR Surround sound reliably. Windows Apps aren't nearly as consistent in framerate and HDR output or surround sound.
Also why would Microsoft care? You either buy a Windows PC or a Windows Xbox. They get your money either way.
The article addresses this. P53 is like the ECC of the DNA. It detects errors and then either self destructs the cell or fixes the 'damage'. The concern is that CRISPR weakens the p53 response and therefore the natural Error Correction processes of the cells which normally terminate tumorous dna damage.
However, the cancer treatments using CRISPR (and several other CRISPR therapies) don't rely on p53
CRISPR-based editing of T cells to treat cancer, as scientists at the University of Pennsylvania are studying in a clinical trial, should also not have a p53 problem. Nor should any therapy developed with CRISPR base editing, which does not make the double-stranded breaks that trigger p53.
Imagine coding under pressure and then the CEO sets up camp in your office...
If he's committing bug fixes and answering questions immediately great. The worst is when you're trying to fix something but you can't get a decision made for 8 hours.
The bigger issue is that all you're really testing is multi-platform optimization.
Very similar programs on the benchmark list perform exactly opposite of one another on two different OSes. It's almost as if the test is just determining whose cross platform port is best optimized for each platform.
The real take-away from the test is that PHP isn't very well optimized for Windows while Python is.
Latest estimated date for SpaceX's first NASA manned test flight is January 2019.
Makes sense that SpaceX won't fly private passengers on Dragon 2 in 2018 before NASA approves the vehicle for flight and sends up their own test astronauts.