skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, there is overwhelming demand for what the government calls "cyber security". As a developer it is easy to get good at your craft by practicing and learning, how in the world is a security specialist able to practice without asking for permission or already having a job? A home lab setup? A college degree and formal education? I'm curious how people actually evaluate this career choice.
I specifically used NK as an example because it is already doing ransomware attacks (though not on the same scale) and while perhaps it might technically/legally be treated as "declaration of war", it is obviously not being treated that way. This would not be a novel thing, this be more of the same, just a bit larger target and larger impact. You could also look at all the other cases of state-sponsored malware causing damage; while technically those might be considered as an act of war, the precedent is that none of the cases have ever been treated by the victimized countries as such in practice. E.g. perhaps Iran complained about Stuxnet diplomatically, but it's not something that escalated to "kinetic action".

And even if it would, so what? It's not like USA is lacking some casus belli to attack NK; the major factors of whether some military action is worthwhile or not would stay the same after such a hack. This would work to deter Russia, who wants to be integrated in trade, but countries which already are isolated and/or already treated as hostile (for example, Iran) wouldn't care; if USA wanted a war there, then refraining from such a hack would not prevent it, and if USA doesn't consider a war there as profitable, then doing some hacks would not be treated as a larger threat than e.g. nuclear weapons development, so it wouldn't even be a significant escalation in the current bad relationships.
The pigeonhole principle forbids it, since the hash itself is an ASCII message under 1KB long. Even within your message constraints, the message can contain contain any possible hash, and more besides. Therefore there are more valid messages than hashes.
My time in highschool was wasted. Kudos to these amazing kids.
I think that Venn diagram may have shifted a fair amount lately, partly because of increasing skepticism towards the government on the political right. When the government begins to portray you as the enemy, it makes you think twice about its depiction of others.
Git was not intended (AFAIK) to be cryptographically secure. Being unsuitable for crypto != being unsuitable for other uses.
All things they consider risks are definitely possible and for some of them if regulators or mobs push for them plausible. It's not like there aren't e.g. blacklists already.
I really appreciate your comment. Of that list, Vivaldi seemed like the best option for me (even If proprietary...), but on mobile I noticed page loading lag that happened with Firefox on Android in the early days. So I'm still searching... :/
If I'm not mistaken, part of Star Trek: Into Darkness was filmed at a fusion research center. They used it as the backdrop for engineering/warp core. Just slap on a few starfleet decals and you're good to go!
I remember back in high school we had this computer lab that was all locked down. Didn't allow opening the CD-ROM drives, only allowed certain educational websites, etc. I put a little remote access app on my share drive as a way to open my own CD drive, mostly just to see if I could do it. The school's computer guy came and found me and was like "hey, a file pinged as malware, what's up with that" and we had a fun discussion about it and I deleted it and we moved on with our lives. I didn't think about it again. Years later, I looked back with horror at how badly that could have gone for me.
> Almost all of the Organizations in the "Terror" category seem to be Islamic.

Would you rather they put Navalny on the terror list? He was recently classified as a "terrorist" by the Russian prison authority. The list pretty much reflects US views, so I'm not that surprised.

https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-prison-changed-naval...
Yep Zotac cards come pre scalped by the oem
They don't legally need it, but such cases are pretty much dead in court without the victim's cooperation so the prosecution will almost always drop it.
Nothing,

Also, from the people at MIT: https://forum.azimuthproject.org/categories/mit-2020%3A-lect...

From my experience in the field,

Milewski is fine, but Fong/Spivak are the kind of people that usually overpromise/underdeliver, so this seems to me like someone's effort to attract grant money and not much more.
That looks like a sweet project. I'm happy to see web assembly being used in it too. I'll have to add it my long list of things I want to get around to tinkering with.
>So yes, the implications are pretty martial

The implications of these terms are spiritual, cosmogonic and social. I don't see what's martial about calling the big guy heavenly king or to wish "ten thousand years", all the more so that the later is a Chinese stock phrase and Japan imported their governance model part and parcel.

If the Australian army went to war at the cries of "Vegemite or death !", would you say Vegemite has martial implications ?
https://blockthreat.substack.com/ great security-oriented technical read
Not enough information here to really pass judgement, but multiple issues to consider: 1) 40C is easily the temperature products will see on a tarmac in Arizona while being shipped cross country. Unless they are working with enzymes with a higher temperature range, this would essentially require a cold chain and limit end-use environments which would be a nonstarter for most manufacturers/products. 2) Most plastics are melt processed (extruded/injection molded) at temperatures high enough to denature enzymes/proteins, I do not see an indication that they are working with a heat stable enzyme, which suggests they are relying on manufacturing methods that are likely to be less economically viable. 3) Enzymes are expensive! Unless they are working with (or are plausibly developing) a cost effective solution, I wouldn't be surprised if their material is orders of magnitude more expensive than commodity packaging plastics.
"Paragraph" is highly optimistic. IIRC, each English character has about 1 bit of entropy.
Slowing of progress in Science and Technology results from

1. Slowing of scientific processes

Article is correct that high-quality science is still
being performed. Because of increasing noise caused by
enormous size, ground-breaking work is increasingly
ignored

2. Slowing of transfer of science to technology

In fields like Computer Science, a huge gap has opened
between fundamental work and the short-term development
horizons of companies.

3. Slowing of development of technology

Fundamental development can require Apollo-scale projects.
For example,
* resilience against cyberattacks based on the Actors
Abstraction and proving systems properties by
Event Induction
* Intelligent Systems using electronic glasses and
Active Ontologies
I don't know anything about this, but contamination seems plausible, as you say, and it would probably make sense for California to update its regulations to make sure the crops grown with this water are safe for consumption.

I think this is a pretty unusual situation. As far as I know, most spent frack fluid is reused in oilfield operations or disposed of in deep disposal wells.
I know somebody - I think they post here, hi! - who ended up in "weekend jail" with a conviction for sharing a school's WiFi password without permission. I also once got reprimanded for writing a blog post not too dissimilar to this one at a less sympathetic school. I also remember the joy of hiding a server in the ceiling of our school so we could play UT2K3 on the library computers before that exploded similarly. Adults are so boring.
> Isn't it still the case mathematically that 3 layers can do theoretically anything?

What do you (and parent) mean by "do"? Inference, or training, or both?
I think it was this one:

http://cydia.saurik.com/package/com.airserverapp/
Of course it has its own website ;)
Those surpluses are mostly exported, and besides that you're missing the forest for the trees. Individual action, even if completely efficient and pervasive, would not be enough to fix this problem.
That's a valid URL, AFAICT.

https://www.paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
The development team doesn't have the power to decide the future direction. If they release a highly controversial change, no one is obligated to use their code. They could continue using an old version, or switch to an alternative node implementation led by different developers.

Every change to the network is a complex dance between the power of the developers, the miners, the exchanges and services, and the actual coin holders. If any significant segment of these forces don't agree with the direction, then the default is to change nothing and maintain the status quo.

This is what makes it neutral. No major changes to the network can happen without supermajority support among all players, otherwise you risk severely fracturing the network, which is bad for everyone.
I agree with this. I think there's also a great parallel analogy in the recent past:

In the 1960's we were at the top of the curve for transportation technology, with space travel happening for the first time. In one lifetime people had gone from steam trains + horses to jet aircraft and humans landing on the moon. So if you look at the narratives of the time, it was that we would soon have flying cars, moon colonies, the future would be "the Jetsons." Meanwhile people did not anticipate the telecommunication and computing revolutions that were just over the horizon. Watch 2001 and one of the characters takes a commercial flight to the moon on a Pan-Am spaceship, but then makes a (video) phone call from a pay phone booth on the ship. WOW!

I think today we are in the same space on the computer revolution. Our sci-fi stores today tend toward either magical or dystopian AI, androids, etc. Ready Player One, etc. But really, the next great surge is biotech. What if we could develop biological products in the same way we develop electronic products? Who can even imagine what good and bad things that would bring about, and how profoundly the world around us could change?

I think there's a great chance that young adults today will have a life experience much like people born around 1900 did - that someday our grandchildren will ask us what life was like and our childhood without (biotech revolution) will sound as impossibly antiquated to them as life without cell phones and the internet sounds to children today.
Some projects avoid upgrading contracts at all. They deploy a new version, create a new UI and point this new UI to new contracts. Uniswap V2 vs Uniswap V3. This way users are actively opting into new set of contracts.
What speed in miles would you think is Apr. Because 50km/h give you pretty good relation time. The trick is not to get in a crash from the start
Medium has a lot of dark patterns by now - like seriously they expect me to pay perpetually to read somebody’s random rants?
Needing to login or register just read something etc
I’ve moved my blog off Medium a long time ago to ensure the content stays in the open for free
The moment a small group of people bailed out their friends' DAO, Ethereum lost all credibility. I am referring to: https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao#sec...

Since then Eth has proved to be a successful investment, so this is not a commentary on the performance of this digital asset. But rather a comment on the false immutable, decentralized claims of this blockchain.
That said, maybe we should lighten up on minors performing harmless/non-destructive pranks.

Not everything warrants felony charges for kids.
I have things sending emails to myself, but sometimes I just want to mute them for a while.

With this, I'd create a new bot for each project. Then I could manage the mute on each project individually with ease. Cool!
Seems to me that it would depend on the details. If the store just happens to be cooled because the pipes run closely by the store, then I'd say it's on the brewery to insulate the pipes. If the store rigged up something specifically to dump their heat into the pipes, then surely the legality would depend on how the property rights work for pipes running through the ground.
Wait, what? Coal plants operate with an upper temperature of under 600C, and they approach 40% efficiency. Why do you say it's only 20%?

Either way, it sounds as if a coal plant without the furnace wouldn't be able to compete with "conventional electricity". What is "conventional electricity" then? Open cycle gas turbines? Are they that much cheaper, even including fuel cost?
Anyone in the field will tell you that this is an absolute disaster of a post because it sends the signal to other young aspiring cybersecurity professionals that this is OK, and the school will laugh it off, and you'll be seen as an adorable Matthew Broderick type Wargames character. I can't overemphasize how far this is from the truth in 2021.

Or maybe it will shame other IT departments into not having a stick up their butt. Especially if there is already a culture of overlooking minor criminal activity in the name of harmless pranks.
For me personally, I found that they help reduce the noise in the code.

I also noticed that it makes it a bit easier to "read" the code (not just visually, but "semantically" if that makes sense). As in, I think I have to spend less time "parsing" ≤ than =<, but I don't have a way of really "proving" it.

However, I am mildly dyslexic, so that might play a role in it.
Decommissioning costs are huge and were kicked into the long grass in the UK instead of being factored in at the start like here in Canada.
When people say to not rely too much on proprietary software, this is why. "Oh, flash will be around forever! There's nothing to worry about". Same could be said about so many other things.
Lol what’s wrong with walking next to an open field?
Git is designed around content-addressed storage and while you can cater for hash migrations, it gets pretty messy design-wise. Gits core data structures were also designed really quickly to patch a very urgent need of the kernel hackers. I doubt it has anything to do with being in love passing 20 byte strings on the stack. The fine git folks have produced a rather detailed document about the hash migration (https://git-scm.com/docs/hash-function-transition/) and it is not particularly simple to do this.
> I do wonder if they could've secured themselves with VPN and "untraceable" anonymous emails (e.g. asking for a guarantee that they won't be sued/charged), although the teenage bragging rights would've been too tempting.

If you read TFA, that is effectively what happened. Even with the guarantee, only one of them revealed themselves.
>some of the claims made by those who believe that hypothesis (Abrahamic religions) are demonstrably false.

What would be an example of one of those claims? We tried Creationism but it turns out one can't really demonstrate that it's false.
I just hope the author, at least, applied to MIT. He would fit right in.

http://hacks.mit.edu/.
Sure, but that has literally no impact on the incentives that created this problem in the first place. It's not related to volume or frequency, and if anything less frequent and smaller shipments might exacerbate this issue in the current system. Supply chains are counter-intuitive like that sometimes.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23584990/what-data-is-be... says git signing just signs the commit hash (plus metadata: committer, commit message, etc).
US has just started on that path with the passage of laws incentivizing you monetarily to turn in your neighbor for undesirable behavior.
Just looked into this with CheerpX. You need the CheerpX license (15k/yr) and Flash license (25-50k/yr).
This is what made it a funny thought experiement to me. I was doing some space related stuff a while back and when you're dealing with something as small as 100mb, and you add the constraint of up to a light-year or more of latency, which makes error correction immensely costly, having a quantum processor reciever find the collision of a unique hash could be faster than transmitting the data with errors.

There's probably a distance where the latency in light years is longer than it takes for a quantum processor with some shortcuts to exhaust the search space for the collision on the hash - and potential hashing algorithms that contain information and hints about a hyperplane that generates the original data over the field of possibilities. To a quantum computer with sufficient qbits at a long enough latency distance away, the 32-bit hash of a 2048bit RSA key may "arrive" faster than transmitting the whole key.

It feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of something in communication theory, but this was the thinking that prompted it.
Sort of. Most ham radio equipment bigger than a handheld (ham's call them HTs) use 12V DC. So in a hurricane you could literally rip a battery out of a car and power your radio for a few hours, maybe even days if you are careful. This leads to wide compatibility for power sources across a large majority of ham radio equipment.

12V DC is easy to build yourself and is a world wide standard for many things, including amateur radio. There's tons of videos on how to build a 12v battery pack out of commodity batteries for whatever chemistry you are interested in, (LIPO, lead acid, and lithium are common).

It's also popular target for portable solar arrays. You could buy something the size of a picnic blanket and rolls up. Add the solar that outputs 12 dc to a build a 12v battery pack (18650s and 21600s are common) and be able to be on the radio for hours a day, even in pretty challenging conditions.

Generally running a ham radio off of whatever you can find around is much easier than normal equipment because most consumer electronics expect AC (which is harder from batteries, requiring an inverter) of a certain voltage (depending on use case and country) or they have a power cube that has a custom voltage and amperage requirements that changes for each piece of consumer equipment.

USB is helping in this area, it's increasingly common and finding battery packs or solar cells that output USB compatible power is getting easier. But even today there's many logistical challenges, things like connectors (Microusb, mini-usb, usb-c), smarts (usb master, usb client, usb2go, etc), power limitations (different cables and power cubes have different max power), physical connector issues (like say Apple's phones), and various non standard additions to get more than 5V @ 1 amp over a "USB" cable. Wireless charging for phones is a morass of compatibility issues and the "USB" supplies for the chargers often use proprietary signaling, and despite the usb connector use non standard protocols and voltages.

USB is generally more fragile and less flexible than 12v DC. It's much easier for instance to run 4 radios off a single 12V supply than it is to run 4 usb devices off a single USB power source. USB is also trickier, you need for instance some smarts to connect a USB device to a car's 12v battery, granted those parts are common.
Is there even a statute of limitations for this kind of thing? Seems way better to just never admit to it at all.
If you want to study category theory with people online, I recommend the Zulip Channel: https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/
(you can DM me for an invite). Still, I don't understand how this is in anyway related to "saving the planet". It seems chemistry, material science or mechanical engineering would be much more promising directions..
No Antifa? Why, of course not. What's a few dead people and billions of dollars in damage between friends.
This is the company that blocked Ninite from having automated Flash installs, so… more of the same from Adobe ?
Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build a better data science notebook
Google Maps has the same issue. Their trick is to pass a ton of the data as protobuf, then decrypt it in WASM and load it into WebGL to render and interact with.

Whilst all a massive pain, you can still scrape it with raw obj dumps from the GPU. So it's always a & game.
There's an entire microgenre of ‘national socialist black metal’.
As a thought exercise, I thought about how I would architect a web application as a 1 man show with a relatively small amount of users.

I tried to optimize for cost and very little devops at all. I still mull about it but so far, here is what my architecture would look like.

- no servers to manage
- static website hosted on CDN, and even dynamic user-specific pages would be built statically every 8 minutes
- all writes go to an SQS queue
- every 8 minutes, a lambda is spun up to batch read the SQS queue and all writes go through a single writer process that writes to a SQLite file on EFS
- every 8 minutes, a new static version of the site is built using the above hopefully updated SQLite file

The one thing I hate about this is that I can't in good conscious say to the user that their write request succeeded b/c no state has actually changed on the backend yet. but I might be okay with this tradeoff and just simply showing only them their most recent write.

The other tradeoff is when things go wrong, it'll probably go terribly wrong.
The generator guy simply got robbed by the guys with guns in the state. He was doing a public service my moving essential equipment to a place it was needed and was charging a fee.
True decentralization means that every end user can choose which version of the software they want to run and how the software runs. This is only possible if they can run the software on their own hardware, in the event that they don't agree with the remote service provider.

That's why general purpose blockchains like Ethereum are doomed to fail. They can never be both competitive with centralized trust-based services and lightweight enough to be run by end users.
> benefits of a statically typed language on a large team

I mean yeah, sure, if you have to work on a large team in the browser/node you're going to have to make tradeoffs for that, and using TS seems like it'll help everyone go home at 5. I don't think I'm missing the forest for the trees, we're talking past each-other.

To illustrate a bit further, while I like Rust a lot, (the problems it tackles are MUCH more real than the ones TS does) and I put in the effort to learn and use it on a few personal projects I still find myself reaching for C almost universally these days. Even in the case of Rust's very useful tradeoffs I feel like they cost too much of my freedom, and TS' guarantees are much more surface level for a similar cost.
I was surprise that no one suggested truncating SHA-256 to 160 bits (same as for SHA2-256/224, or SHA2-512/256). The attacks on SHA-1 are not directly based on the length of the hash, they are based on weaknesses in the algorithm.

Even attacking SHA2-256/128 would be quite difficult as I understand it, even though it's the same length as MD5.

Truncated hashes also of course have the great property that they mitigate the length extension in Merkle-Damgard
Proposing nationalization is akin to blasphemy nowadays - way outside of Overton window. But I haven't really heard any good arguments or benefits of electricity production and distribution being private.

On the other hand, there are a lot of good arguments in favor of state ownership - matter of national security, need for redundancy instead of efficiency, it's a commodity and a basic necessity, low margins, large scale leads to financing issues for corporations, chicken-egg problems that state is better at dealing with, the domain is primarily about engineering challenges with branding and management having very limited impact, simple supply chains, cost-cutting may lead to disastrous consequences, etc...
Yes, just like you can create an intentional collision, and also have the counterfeit be a PDF. [https://shattered.io/]
He had already graduated, so expulsion wasn't an option.