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> Open source is a supply chain risk
Given the potential impact of OMIGOD, the million-dollar question is “How does an open source component with only 20 contributors on GitHub affect the security of large portions of Azure?” The ease of exploitation and the simplicity of the vulnerabilities makes us wonder if the OMI project is mature enough to be used so widely.

> Yet this scenario is more common than you might think and certainly not unique to Microsoft. One of the benefits of open source is that it’s easy for developers to grab code from different projects and mix it with other open source and proprietary software. As a result, bad open source code can wind up in an enormous range of products and services – inadvertently becoming a “single point of failure.”

The fear mongering about open source in the article seems misplaced.

Any software product could lead to the same thing, and OMI was used as a software product in this instance. I don't see how it being open source changes anything and the article doesn't address this, only goes on a tangent about how "open source code can end up in any software project".

It also leaded with a bit about supply chain attacks, in a way that seemed to imply, without explicitly stating, an intentional cause to this exploit existing.

> Because customers don’t know what franken-code is running in the background of the services they use, they remain at risk and unaware.

Wouldn't this be worse with closed source software thou?
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The voting age should probably be raised, not lowered. The fact that those polled here cannot function normally day to day in large numbers due to climate anxiety (per this article) suggests those in this age group are far too immature emotionally and mentally to make good choices. Obviously I am speculating, but I bet many of those polled would answer differently ten years from now, or if they were working, or had a family. That experience is necessary to find balance and completeness in their worldviews.
Yeah… for economists “productivity” is simply an aggregate quantity, kind of like “velocity of money”. It is doubtful one can say anything intelligent about “real” productivity of individual workers based on this number alone.
Throwaway to avoid telling on myself, but if you know the right folks and put in a little bit of effort up front, a mid-high FAANG-type role where you do next to nothing and still make big bucks is attainable. These companies are big, and have even bigger cracks to slip into (without being put into an Amazon PIP too).

Source: Friends with several folks who’ve made this work at MS and Goog.
The fact that climate change is a problem doesn't imply that there's a "right" climate. The rapid rate of change itself is the problem - and particularly the fact that that rate of change is faster than organisms and systems can adequately adapt to.

Atmospheric CO2 levels have previously, naturally, been higher than they are today. The most recent time that they were that high, the land on which most of our population's biggest cities were built was underwater. We could have just as easily built cities in an environment in which CO2 levels and temperatures were higher than they were in 1800, just by building farther back from today's coasts - but we didn't, so some cities will face massive costs to adapt, and others will simply go away.

All of that is literally true for cities, but it's also true by analogy for organisms and natural ecosystems. We can't quantify the full magnitude of climate change's impacts on those ecosystems, but there's wisdom in risk aversion when dealing with highly uncertain situations.
> Wet bulb temperatures of 35 degrees C in areas with billions of people

I had to look up what that meant ... With this kind of nonsense being pushed around and with more than two decades of constant scary tales, no wonder the kids are nervous.

I grew up without any air conditioning at all. Ever. In any building. Summer temperatures between 35 - 40 C with high humidity. I do not know what the "wet bulb" equivalent of that is, but it was warm, for sure. People will figure out how to deal with the weather.

One of the most fun tourist attractions of my childhood was swimming/free diving around two thousand year old ruins under water.

The changes of a bunch of self-interested central planners figuring out how to do what you want without killing you are nil.
Stop reading all the sensationalized news about it. Wasn’t south Florida supposed to flood already?
It's meaningless, unadjusted percentages of separate populations.

Idk if it's supposed to mislead or confuse, or if they're just idiots at the CDC that don't understand statistics.

They shouldn't be comparing percentages of the 3 populations, which is misleading based on different subset sizes.

They should be saying what percentage of each demographic has been vaccinated, which is what they insinuate.

They give 9.9% total and 14.6% last 14 days representative proportions for Black, who are 12.4 % of the US population.

And 61.6% total and 47.9% 14-day for White, who are 61.2% of the US.

These seem fairly even, but really 9.9/12.4 gives only 80% of black proportional makeup.

While White is 61.6/61.2= 101%

And it makes no sense to compare the 14 day subset percentage against either other number.
Government might not be the solution here. I look at electric cars and soon they will require less maintenance, less money for fuel and be cheaper than their ICE counterparts. If you build something that emits less CO2 and it is BETTER and CHEAPER than the competition it's game over. No one but hobbyists will look at ICE again.

This to me aligns with economic theory in practice more accurately than a carbon tax.
Well that's good that it can make container images. Sounds like the main advantage is it's faster to install packages in the container image. But I don't understand how this could prevent you from still needing a pipeline of scripts.

Installing packages is only a small part of building a typical container image, especially for custom apps being built to run in the cloud. Even if you have your dependencies, you need to compile, run tests, and potentially customize the files inside the container, typically using the programs already installed in the container.

So since you're already running a pipeline of scripts in a container right after installing package deps, I'm not sure why one would use Nix for this when Debian works just as well?
Who cares about Apple? They intentionally don't implement open standards to keep their users boxed in. While they have decent market share in a few select countries, they don't matter to most of the world...
> When a government gets in over their head bad things happen too, up to and including wars.

Do they? I havent looked in a while but my recollection (of south america in particular) is that the impact of government bond default is actually pretty low. A couple years without good international bond market access, higher premiums for a few years, maybe some wrangling with the IMF and surface level "restructuring." But sooner rather than later its back to issuance on the open market with willing buyers after those premiums.
Which period of the earth's lifetime would you like to go back to?
Really, don't bother https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/article-by-michael-sh...
> Reducing carbon emissions will make life worse for everyone who's already on the lower rungs of humanity. No realistic amount of resource redistribution is going to work here.

The people on the "lower rungs of humanity" emit an order of magnitude less carbon than everyone else, and should be the last to cut.
I’ll point out that it was frequently the boomer generation that thought of themselves as the ones who would make it right. That they understood what was wrong unlike their idiot and narrow minded elders. This idyllic view of themselves and their values has saturated pop music from the 60s and since. Not sure the current youth will escape the derision of their own youth when their eventual turn as elder arrives.
1) Doesn't grant political power
2) Doesn't enable transfer of wealth
I was struck by something else.

Who describes someone's family as their "entourage"?
Coal hasn't been economical for at least two years, in the sense that the capital cost of new PV is less than the operating cost of existing coal.

The problem is that developing countries like China and India are so desperately short of electricity (growth in demand is so high) that any new builds just add to existing production rather than replacing it. - Governments will prop up uneconomic generators to maintain total supply.

I don't know how to scale up PV and wind quickly enough to just replace coal in this situation.

Edit: the Chinese experiments with thorium molten salt and pebble-bed high temperature fission reactors are interesting here.

If they can easily swap out coal furnaces with nuclear reactors and retain the other 80% of the power stations, they'll get great benefits in air quality and and emissions while making use of of their investment in thermal generation.
I actually clicked the button - app annie quoted mid 5 digits per year
Nuclear and shale gas shill writes how technology will solve everything.
Because of graduated taxation and government benefits, many of those people making 5 figures receive free or subsidized healthcare and other benefits from the CA government while paying a much lower effective tax rate. Essentially CA is just taxing the middle class but instead of the middle class it's the upper middle class.

An actually effective tax would be a wealth tax with no exemptions for all the homeowners sitting on 1000% gains and angrily voting against all new development. Highly taxing high incomes in my opinion _reduces_ socioeconomic mobility, since the wealthy don't pay rents and therefore spend much less than high income earners who are not yet wealthy.
The existing species are lame compared to wooly mammoths and giant centipedes.
Those have a lower carbon impact than meat.
I can't see how someone posting their attitudes to climate change is "getting in the way." It's useful to know that people are starting to feel this way.

Maybe you could post your own attitudes and provide some justification for them instead? This may convince the other poster to change theirs. Currently your comment is pointless.
Some news is impossible to avoid.
I feel like people use this as an excuse to avoid making any inconvenient changes in their lifestyle, or rather to avoid considering making inconvenient changes to their lifestyle.

The problem with this is that it means not only are they not doing anything to help, they're much less likely to vote for people who would too because they're unwilling to accept inconveniences. Instead they'll vote for people who's policies would only inconvenience others, or make performative gestures while accomplishing nothing.

I'm afraid I have come to agree with others who believe this is a problem that society simple can't solve because it lacks any mechanism to make the necessary choices.
I’m not worried at all. Even if it turns out to be real and not just fun with statistics. People who say stuff like there’s no point in having children, the world is doomed, etc, need to get their head checked out. Or stop paying attention to social agenda advertising campaigns.
Do they or have they been conditiom by a school system to listen to a teacher. Does npr fill that role?
I didn't realize I was supposed to be playing for high score; I think I've dug into the truth a bit though.
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The vaccines didn't exist at that point; We didn't know how effective or safe they would turn out to be (at least in their first iteration), so obviously it would have been ridiculous to commit blindly to taking them.

Once trial results were released, we learned that they're highly effective and that risks of bad reactions are exceedingly rare (especially when compared to the effects of the virus itself).
I was sick earlier this year. A few weeks later I paid a pharmacy $20 or $25 to test my blood for antibodies. Strongly positive. Dr. agreed and wrote a letter with my facts.

I thought the process was straightforward, convenient, and cheap.
It’s needs to be a step further though. This wing is for COVID patients who couldn’t be vaccinated for legitimate health risks or for the vaccinated who still get COVID. Anyone who willingly skips the vaccination should not be eligible for COVID ER beds.
Nothing is wrong with the gig economy besides the general problem of health insurance being tied to your job.
Congratulations!

I can see over 1 million Ether burned by the end of the year at this rate!
Unrelated, but one thing I've been curious about for a while is: what useful treatments are actually available when you're hospitalized for COVID-19? Is there anything besides intravenous fluids/vitamins and oxygen that is regularly provided? From what I've read, it seems that most people that reach the critical level of needing a ventilator don't recover anyway. Does being hospitalized improve outcomes by a substantial margin? Could people just use oxygen at home?
When I was in elementary school (early 90's) we were taught that half of New York would be underwater by 2020. Obviously didn't happen. Stop reading the news, they're fear-mongers and outlandish predictions have been happening for decades.
Maybe this is type of interaction involved.

Formally, I was bit more active on Facebook. I still have an account (for Oculus, mostly) but I've scaled down my presence on Facebook a lot. I found signal to noise ratio not great on Facebook. There's maybe one in fifty or so post that worthwhile to look at.

I'm still fairly active on Twitter and Discord -- mainly because I'm so involved in VR stuff, and that's where a lot of people socialize and coordinate projects. (at least for Japanese people that I deal with a lot.)

Personally, I think this is more of the shift from contextual (WHO I am interacting with) to content based (WHAT I am interacting about), and I find latter more meaningful and productive. Last couple of years on Facebook really didn't provide much of value to my life. There are also bit of junks on Twitter, too, but they are generally short and I can skim things on Twitter and generally it's easy to pick out things that matter the most for me.

This also could be coming from that I'm following a lot more strangers (that share interesting things) on Twitter -- as opposed to subset of people I know on Facebook, too. Facebook I guess allows this to certain degrees ("following" someone without friending) but I don't think this is primary use case on Facebook, making it fairly useless.
With regard to this topic, where we're literally discussing lk race in an xray?
It will be endemic longer the more people (i.e. you) imply that there is nothing to be done. Edit: I don't mean to say that is what you meant, I just mean to say that the spread can be contained and the virus can be pushed out of whole regions before new variants arrive. It appears like you are saying that is impossible or not worth trying to attain.
I suppose those sensational stories/papers get more attention so that’s the short answer? I’m with you though. My personal life has not been affected at all (yet) so I am fortunate. But it’s not worth the stress, I mean the top comment is someone saying they are losing a lot of sleep over climate change. Like buddy get a grip.
They should be (anxious) and they're right (governments have failed them).

Unfortunately, we've spent the last few decades ignoring the science and telling people they are the ones that can fix this, by recycling or taking less car journeys or eating less meat.

And all of those things do help, but it's akin to fighting WW2 by asking everyone to write a strongly worded letter to Hitler.

Climate change is a massive global problem that cannot be solved by individual countries, let alone individual humans. And yet the leading countries (and to be fair, pretty much every other country) have done nothing meaningful about it.

I feel bad for anyone under 20.
Please don’t tell me they spent millions in govt contract money so some recent college grad can practice Plotly/Bokeh.
Not true, unless you are counting dead people, who last time I checked don't have any wealth.
Those are vegan products; I'd guess they have relatively low environmental impact aside from their plastic packaging.
Ok, but would you call them an idiot? That’s my point. Do you think calling them idiots makes them more or less likely to make the right choice?
I'm glad that social media wasn't around when I was growing up. If the media had the same chance to clickbait me into panic in my day, I'd have been genuinely scared to death about the ozone layer being depleted or acid rain making the planet unlivable by now, yet here we are.

It's easy to panic about hot-button issues such as climate change when the media clickbaits you into endless doom and gloom and refuses to report on the safety and efficiency innovations in nuclear energy and the fact that whatever climate change exists has already been a solved problem for decades.

The media is the cause of the biggest mental health crises on the planet. We're letting some of the most mediocre people drive society into ruin just to get people to sell a few extra ads.
Yeah, about that average. ... You do understand the difference between smoothed decadal or even centennial averages versus much more precise and frequent thermometer measurements, right?

Also, you do understand that the thermometer observations we have are highly selected based on where humans preferred to live, right?

I might do an update on this video, but here are the locations with thermometers that made it in to GHCNv3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h95uvT67bNg
It's commonly claimed that no one paid the 70% rate. But do you have any evidence that that is true? It feels like one of those "facts" that has no sourcing.
You can find info about it here - https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_fedsbalanc...

This is their balance sheet released on 9th Sep, 2021 - https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm
A business can always use more demand, even if all they use it for is raising prices.
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I don't understand; why would you post this? Do you think this will help the situation?
This is basically the same mechanic as some card-draw / reshuffle board games. You draw until you hit the bottom of the deck, reshuffle, etc. It is definitely a valuable tool in a game designer's toolkit.
The tug-of-war between different levels of government is healthy. We should be worried when people stop tugging because they are afraid.

The Federal Reserve System and the US Government can bring inflation down to acceptable levels. They will do it after the pandemic. Supply shortages are to be expected given the ongoing disruption to workforces around the world.

Some protests produce important progress for society. I think that most of the BLM protests did that.

USA is handling the pandemic quite well. Given the country's diversity and massive economic inequality, things worked out better than I expected. Most at-risk folks got vaccinated before the Delta variant hit.

The only troubling development is that a large portion of the U.S. population (including some of my family members) showed that they believe that democracy is not important for our country. Specifically, they continue to support politicians who acted against U.S. democracy. I think that most of these people are simply gullible. Many of them are recently-retired and increased their consumption of media. The media companies deftly manipulate them by triggering fear and turning it to anger. Fortunately, these folks still believe that courts are important and they trust the military. They vote, but don't fight. Things will calm down over the next 10 years as the population-age curve flattens.

Therefore, society is not crumbling. Laws can and will be changed. Society will progress. USA and our entire species have a bright future.
Yes, they looked interesting. RockPI also, (the vendor of the 4 port SATA controller HAT I am using) supports RockPI and I think FreeBSD works there too.
As already mentioned, the difference is that Windows is monopolized by a commercial company, is not open-sourced and does not accept outside contribution.

You may also be interested by MS Edge's decision to abandon their ChakraCore engine, which is similar to what I reasoned above [1]

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...
> Now let's look at the source for their graphic and look back further at earlier dates from the same source. [3] - kind of paints a different picture, no?

Yes, but not in the way you're portraying it. The big shift downwards comes in a major shift in strategy in dealing with forest fires in the early to mid 1900s; it doesn't tell you much about the climate at the time. https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service...

> In 1935, the Forest Service established the so-called 10 a.m. policy, which decreed that every fire should be suppressed by 10 a.m. the day following its initial report. Other federal land management agencies quickly followed suit and joined the campaign to eliminate fire from the landscape.
This comment thread has really dashed my hopes of ever having a well-informed economic discussion on HN. Seems like a large majority of commenters are stuck in the 19th century, and have no idea that we moved on from the labor theory of value. Perhaps modern economics education is to blame…?
I'm not assuming they share anything. I'm saying that the contrary has not been established. Whether or not I believe they are in the same category is distinct from the question of whether or not it has been proven that they are not.
South Florida floods constantly and the situation is getting worse year by year. Regular tides are now higher than ever and causing problems for residents. The creep is slow until it's not.
Congratulations, you paid for new motherboard and ram just to reach level of performance from 6 years ago. Used i7-4790 is ~$80, motherboard and DDR3 ram would cost 1/2 the new counterparts.
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Carbon taxes look like a useful tool; I wonder what the unforeseen drawbacks and consequences might be.

Will people redefine what carbon is; who will suffer, how many people will lose jobs due to electrification of many industries (auto MFG for one, the UFW, is concerned). What happens to the third world where they use charcoal for cooking?

I think there is much more to be thought out.
Nobody authoritative ever said they prevented transmission. Ever. They reduce transmission.

Even if you choose to ignore that, consider: Vaccinated people have shorter recovery times and are less likely to require hospitalization.

That results in a shorter time window for spreading the virus. Furthermore, if you can recover at home you are less likely to spread it to health care workers or other patients.
Except it simply won't happen because people will not stand for everything becoming more expensive and inconvenient. They will not vote for people who will enact these policies.
You say that, but you are probably pretty sure I am doing the thing you call "cognition", and I am pretty sure you are. Despite the fact that the only evidence we have for that is the essentially meaningless strings of text we've transmitted to each other.
My concern is that the verification will provide a false sense of security. This article, for example, seems to be arguing that the verification means there can’t be flaws. I think misunderstanding requirements is much more likely than they are making it seem.
I challenge you to provide proof of this statement outside a politically slanted source.