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If anything, losing superconductivity will cause less current to flow, since the resistance will increase greatly, and a massive amount of heat will be created.
What sharp edges are you referring to?

I find that with new tech, I'm more interested in what it can't do rather than what it can.
After absorbing what the researchers did, I believe it's time to skip right over the second part and just concentrate on why so many critical systems are run on unforked Linux.
Posting the archive.org link as the direct link appears to have been taken down.
"Technical Account Manager". An official point of contact for a customer with a vendor, often responsible for some amount of tech support as well as customer-relation management.
Hopefully independent repairmen like Louis Rossmann (who also support Right to Repair) will benefit from leaks.
thx troy. but the 109$ fine is not imposed by regulations. its imposed by 3rd party e-filing agent that on IRS page claims that he is free e-filling agent for taxpayers and benefits from free advertising by being redirected to from IRS page itself. And infinite supply of scared IRS taxpayers due to hefty IRS fines. But in reality they are not free and ask 109$ for federal tax return from taxpayer having income less than 72k. Which according to IRS page they shouldn't.
At least one of Wang’s patches has been double reviewed and the reversion NACK’d - in other words it was a good patch.
There is no reason to under report, because the government provides funds for everything. They may over report it, rather than under report it.
Nah he's just bulking. It's all muscle under there.
> at the end of the day you're coercing C# to do something it was not designed to do

Hmm, not sure I can agree with this statement, as I don't see what would make C# itself unsuitable here.

> For mobile I am convinced that PWA/hybrid mobile is the correct choice 95% of the time

But this I fully agree with :)

While the Xamarin Forms projects I've worked on turned out well, I feel like the whole experience of developing, experimenting, building, debugging and testing would all have been so much easier with a PWA. A PWA would also make it much easier to build what your UI designer really wants, instead of having to compromise all the time with what is readily available - having CSS at your fingertips makes all the difference.
Without any consequences? (Including hidden ones)
Not surprising. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/12/india-thousands-joi...
That reminds me the project which does exactly the same but in reverse: uses RDP Windows server and Linux acts as client, and then integrates everything like app menus, shortcuts, FS even I think.
https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps
You're still in a better position with open source. The same thing happens in closed source companies.

See: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-siliconvalle...

"As U.S. intelligence agencies accelerate efforts to acquire new technology and fund research on cybersecurity, they have invested in start-up companies, encouraged firms to put more military and intelligence veterans on company boards, and nurtured a broad network of personal relationships with top technology executives."

Foreign countries do the same thing. There are numerous public accounts of Chinese nationals or folks with vulnerable family in China engaging in espionage.
Oh come on. Obviously people aren't clamoring for bringing back asbestos or dumping sewage into the street.

Regulations are written for a wide range of reasons- legitimate safety issues, quality of life concerns, propping up values, funneling money to groups favored by the politicians or bureaucrats crafting the rules, political grandstanding against imaginary problems, particular rules favored by coordinated special interest groups, etc.

I once lived in an area where several suburbs all met, you could drive a few blocks and cross imaginary lines separating different legal cities. They had different regulations for minimum lot size, how close structures could be to the property lines, how trees on the property needed to be handled, whether you could put two separate structures on one property, etc. Obviously none of these things impacted safety, but did impact density, home prices, etc.
Anecdotally, I've seen apparent fanfare and demand for DirectX for WSL that Microsoft recently built so I'm skeptical of this.
15kW is a ton of power, which needs its heat dissipated. That's like 50-100 GPUs packed together. Does water cooling even suffice for that?
There are people who have tried to investigate this thoroughly. My understanding is that there is a direct correlation between your actions an the supply.

> "If someone gives up 1 lb of chicken, total consumption falls by 0.76lb in expectation."

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fZp6Fpowmd5a8Lu2w/...

Directly: https://reducing-suffering.org/comments-on-compassion-by-the...

The mechanism is simple: if the stores are 100% responsive to your demand, your purchase directly affects supply. If they are not 100% perfect, they still have a mechanism through which they buy in bulk. So, roughly speaking, you might have a 1% chance of triggering a batch order for an extra 100 lbs when you purchase 1 lb of meat. And the same goes up the supply chain.
Their action needs to be reported to the FBI.
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/forensics-software-and-ora... ?
I wonder why they didn't just ask in advance. Something like 'we would like to test your review process over the next 6 months and will inform you before a critical patch hits the users', might have been a win-win scenario.
They've done a couple things you could file under extend. But running Linux GUI programs is not extending, it's catching up.
> If everyone [outside of the mob] were to unite at once

That's basically how the mafia works
27 unarmed black men were shot by police in the US 2020. Most liberals think the number is 1,000+, and a large portion think it's 10,000+ [1]. Maybe you should factor this in to your analysis?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/lq7kvq/a_recent_...
I'm not convinced. Yes, there's a use after free (since fixed), but it's there before the patch too.
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that link says that "always allow" doesn't exist (needs to be reinstated)
I would feel that I'm wasting time that I could be using to find out why Boeing makes this possible (or any other corporate or government body with a critical system).
> In r2t2, I use a single-tone encoding, since the buzzer can emit just a single frequency.

That's not wrong, but also not the whole truth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_speaker#Pulse-width_modul...
Fitting name.

Black-bag the opposition politican, and then black-bag her phone.
Android has a (functioning?) always allow setting.
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>employee forgetting the nature of the relationship in the heat of the moment

Curious to learn others' experiences, but I've never seen this in my career, ever. I've seen _peers_ yell at each other, but never seen an employee slip "out of character" with their superiors, at least publicly. And if it isn't happening publicly, there's no psychological safety, is there?

Most people (including myself) have been conditioned to bring their "work self" to work, not their "true self". As such, there's very little chance of "forgetting the nature of the relationship" even in heated moments.
Repeated incidents of malware doesn't seem to have hurt them much yet so until it does, don't expect them to look too closely at apps in their store.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/31/apple-notarized-mac-malwar...
Read into the socat diffie-hellman backdoor, I found it fascinating at the time.
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What do you do that fs performance is your primary/a major concern in choosing an OS (esp. among the major ones)? I don't mean to sound snarky, I'm curious. For all I know it should matter to me more!
On what do you base that opinion? To hear the Chinese government you'd think Belt-and-Road is next to perfection in terms of infrastructure, while oppositional organizations tend to portray it as a relatively hastily rolled out, poorly constructed shambles. The truth is likely in between. And regardless, you still have to show how that might cleave petro from USD.
Thanks for this detailed reply. The dots are starting to connect. Will definitely dig into this rabbit hole. But it does make me wonder whether the English translations are doing the work justice. Like watching a dubbed series misses a lot of depth because the words and their meaning don't map exactly from one language to another. All we get are close enough translations.
While the very least they could do in response to their ban, even this response feels a bit wishy-washy. I'll be quite concerned about the "if needed" in their statement doing quite a lot of work. And given the "as soon as practical" in the end I won't be surprised if they just wait and do nothing.

Hopefully they prove my fears unjustified.
Count me among people that bought a house in 2020 (late December) partially because of the "practically free" cost of borrowed money due to low interest rates.
Welldone-software/why-did-you-render: why-did-you-render
I haven't tried this yet, but would something like this https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/03/11/projector-is-out/ help out?
We've changed the title to that of the article now. Submitted title was "Wearing two face masks can nearly double the filtering out SARS-CoV2 particles", which broke the site rules: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Submitters: please don't do that. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
>All of them

Really? Why are y'all working on FLoC then? :-)
Let me play devil's advocate here. Such pen-testing is absolutely essential to the safety of our tech ecosystem. Countries like Russia, China and USA are without a doubt, doing exactly the same thing that this UMN professor is doing. Except that instead of writing a paper about it, they are going to abuse the vulnerabilities for their own nefarious purposes.

Conducting such pen-tests, and then publishing the results openly, helps raise awareness about the need to assume-bad-faith in all OSS contributions. If some random grad student was able to successfully inject 4 vulnerabilities before finally getting caught, I shudder to think how many vulnerabilities were successfully injected, and hidden, by various nation-states. In order to better protect ourselves from cyberwarfare, we need to be far more vigilant in maintaining OSS.

Ideally, such research projects should gain prior approval from the project maintainers. But even though they didn't, this paper is still a net-positive contribution to society, by highlighting the need to take security more seriously when accepting OSS patches.
Superb. WSL goes from strength to strength.
Any ideas around what could be leveraged here with docker? I'm thinking it would be great to have all dev tooling + IDE bundled into containers for quickly switching projects/ getting devs up to and running fast.
> not much energy is wasted

There are two situations:

1. Current solar and wind generation that wastes energy (known as "curtailment"). In Texas, about 17% of wind energy is curtailed. In California, about 25% of solar energy is curtailed. https://slate.com/business/2016/07/how-energy-waste-in-solar... https://www.caiso.com/documents/curtailmentfastfacts.pdf

2. Potential renewable energy production that doesn't happen because of cost effectiveness in areas where curtailment would be high. In places that are poorly connected to agacent energy grids, curtailment might be quite a bit higher than existing production, especially if the goal is to power a larger fraction of an area's electricity with solar and wind. It wouldn't be unreasonable to imagine renewable power production with 50% curtailment.

Another example of wasted energy is natural gas flare offs. People are starting to utilize these for bitcoin mining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkeZVcGsva8

> I can't see use case where miner will be I am only making money for 2 hours a day

Well, it wouldn't be for just 2 hours a day. 25% curtailment simply mean that only 1/4th of the day has usable excess energy. It could mean 26% excess energy for 23 hours a day, or it could mean 85% excess energy for 1 hour a day. If you have a location with 25% excess energy, you could be running on excess energy for the majority of the day. Also, power storage could help a lot. There are types of power storage that do very well for short period of time, but poorly for long periods of time. So by storing some of that energy for an hour or two, you can use that energy to mine when there is 0% excess but no extra energy is needed by the grid. Electric generation isn't as simple as people think.
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I'm in the process of moving (new job), and so I'm looking for houses. There are 1000sqf houses that aren't trashed for $100,000. I'm expecting to spend $500,000 for a 2500sqft house anyway, and only part of that is houses close to work are bigger. (there was a 1200sq ft house near work for $250k - not that I would have bought something that small)
Ocean wildlife stock has dropped dramatically in the last 100 years and continues to drop as we scrape everything we can out of it. The future looks bleak in this regard.
"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Complaining doesn't help when your data has already been bought and sold by ten different brokers.
He was one block away from Garden Creamery and across the street from Smittens. The article mentions that a competing shop was the first one to object, but that didn't work. I wouldn't be surprised if the same people were "motivating" the city to be strict with permits the whole time.
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Sick paywall
The woke people like to use stronger terms:

slightly impolite => harming a person

rejecting nonsensical PRs => missing stair

having heterodox opinions => harming the community

being friendly first but firm on another occasion => gaslighting

So the original somewhat elaborate and sinister process of actual gaslighting has lost its original meaning.

Now it means that by being friendly once but not always you have betrayed the trust and psychological safety of the woke person.

You are therefore an evil manipulator on the same level as the villain in the movie Gaslight!
Now I know what was our key startup hub.

So far no-one is arrested, they simply denied to lease the office space. Hopefully it will stop at that.

Probably other IT people who joined the "Coordination Council" will face consequences too.
Dude you're barking up the wrong tree, Hacker News is completely lost. Real hackers with the old spirit of questioning authority instead of just believing whatever the government (or anonymous people on Wikipedia) tells them are not welcome on this site.

Conservative engineers need to start banding together and building companies, and we should explicitly exclude Woke people and others that insist on bringing politics into our profession.
Speculation: new and improved! Operators are standing by (to unplug you from the Matrix).

The simulation hypothesis is like the cosmological argument or intelligent design; it's an unprovable belief attempting to explain first cause. And the first and last attempt to stretch themselves thin over life and consciousness too. Ultimately, I think all 3 trip and fall flat on their faces onto Occam's razor until evidence or an experiment can be constructed to prove or explain such an unprovable (it seems impossible a priori). "Prove god exists." lol :)

PS: The moon is made of cheese too. Ssssh.
You only need to trust one of them, or trust that they would not all conspire to steal the election the same way. Not too hard, compared to a piece of software that has a much less reliable supply chain.
Even their choice of wording ("We are very sorry to hear this concern.") is the blend of word fuckery that conveys the idea they care nothing about what they did or why it negatively affected others.
>Yes, I know there are variants. But I've seen no science saying that it is likely or expected that the vaccine won't work against covid-19 variants.

Absolutely it is the case that even in the extremely limited time that Covid has existed it's already built tolerance to some vaccine mechanisims - for example the Novavax vaccine is something like 89% effective normally, but drops to 50% effective against variant B.1.351. [1] Any vaccine that relies on the covid-19 spike protein (all of them) is best case less effective and worst case useless if a small change to that spike protein is made. In a long enough timeline such a random mutation will happen. Most of them will not result in viable viruses but eventually one of them will. It's just a matter of statistics.

>"Infectious disease expert Dr. Lisa Barrett told CTV News Channel on Sunday that viruses often mutate, but some viruses do it more than others.

This language is a little bit weasley in that it implies that COVID-19 varies at a relatively slow rate. This is a widespread but incorrect assumption. Covid-19 mutates at a rate of ~10^-3 nucleotide substitutions per site per year, which is comparable to ebola or other RNA viruses [0]

>We now have the best evidence yet that everyone develops long-term coronavirus immunity after infection — and it's not just about antibodies"

This is saying that after you get the virus and your antibodies fade you have some residual resistance in the form of T-cells that stay in your immune system. Those T-cells are virus-specific. T-cells have all kinds of different mechanisms to detect infected cells in your body but, for example, it can detect viral peptides emitted by the cell. Where do viral peptides come from? The virus protein spike! The same thing that, when mutated, reduces or eliminates vaccine effectiveness.

As far as whether this is current happening and what it means- researchers have modified other viruses to use the COVID-19 protein spike and then gave the virus suitable conditions to replicate and mutate. The result was a covid-19 spike protein that had resistance to both monoclonal antibodies and antibodies taken from patients[2].This isn't some academic exercise, this is something that is literally happening in the real world right now.

Even worse on further inspection those same researchers realized these spike protein modifications were *already present* in the wild, they just weren't present in large numbers yet.

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n771#xref-ref-8-1

[1] https://www.advisory.com/en/daily-briefing/2021/04/16/varian...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02544-6
I've read about NixOS here on HN which aims to do something similar.

Does your approach with using docker heavily have some disadvantages you experienced? Just curious, it sounds interesting...
same in germany. fortunately there are services like digitalcourage where you send your card and get another random
back - easy to deflect the legal issues you‘ll be confronted with because it’s not illegal to exchange.
There was a vulnerability in this technique that was fixed in iOS 11: https://labs.f-secure.com/advisories/apple-ios-host-pairing-.... If someone found another vulnerability and shared it with Cellebrite, then it doesn't work. If they haven't, then it still does.
> because any blog post or tutorial will reference one or the other

Or neither, if it was written before Core (in which case it's Framework).
For one thing, it could otherwise waste a lot of time for the poor white hat hacker who tries to figure out why this oddly formatted file suddenly exists in the app data.

And it doesn't destroy the credibility of the tool to silently mess with its data. People have to know it's happening.
> How many line engineers at Google

And this is engineers at Google we're talking about: usually people with advanced degrees from hard-to-get-into colleges and years of experience along with very specialized knowledge. In other words, very hard to replace people. How must more difficult must it be for people who could be replaced tomorrow?
Not all vulnerabilities are equal, and engineering resources are finite.

Isn't analyzing severity one of the most interesting, and critical, parts of discussing a potential vulnerability?
Reminds me of slow scan tv from the HAM radio days! Cool project.
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Bitcoin stands to be one of the most useful pieces of technology since the internet. It has the potential to take the power to abuse money out of the hands of governments and central banks. The inquality caused by central banks in this world is attrocioius - a tragedy of epic proportions. Bitcoin can prevent this from happening again. But right.. maybe the search for aliens is more important.. how could I have been so short sighted.
Susan Wojcicki started out as a marketing manager, not an engineer. By contrast Mary Barra, the CEO of GM, started out as an assembly line worker and moved up through engineering positions into management. I think people have some pretty backwards assumptions about tech vs traditional industry.
Just to precise, "tree-roting" is incredibly slow, and the tree mainly turns into other living forms (thus, also sequestered carbon) rather than in carbon dioxide (one part does, but far from 100%).

It's like when you eat, you do not turn your food in pure gas, do you? And then the excreted/remaining mass will be buried etc (and will partly be turned into earthworms, nematodes, bacteria, moss, fungi, etc).
Note the difference between "I could not find any bugs" and "I proved there are no bugs". I would assume only the latter are hired. Yet, program proving as in formal verification is a very academic specialisation. The reluctance to hire these people seems partly a) unawareness these methods exist and b) capability to evaluate whether someone knows enough. To my anecdotal experience founders of DeFi applications are not that tech savvy, so instead of trying to understand Solidity (untrivial) they instead place bug bounties or hire a special firm to give a stamp of approval for a product launch.
All for it!
Isn't the point that the smart contract is self-executing? The fact that third parties can meddle with it if it's poorly implemented is somewhat orthogonal.

Most contract disputes are about disagreements between the parties, not about how the contract just became impossible because a cat burglar stole the property that was the subject matter of the contract.