skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He can’t do it today. The sheer size of the ecosystem and layers of real world assets that are (supposedly) tied to it would make any such rollback all but impossible.

But it being possible is still a non-zero risk.
> Truncated hashes also of course have the great property that they mitigate the length extension in Merkle-Damgard

To be fair, this is totally irrelevant to git, since the attacker knows the whole message and can just recompute the extra bits themselves. That said:

> 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.

Very seconded. You could even shove the extra 96 bits in a optional metadata field and have new versions of git throw up a giant air-raid-siren-level error if they don't match (since that will never happen by accident[0]) and still have the full 256-bit-hash worth of security for most purposes. Git already allows (arguably encourages) people to truncate hashes to 28 bits or so at the UI level, so there's precendent for that already.

0: You do not have anywhere near 2^80 commits in the world, much less in the same repo.
I read quite a lot of smart contract code, both on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. It seems to more common on BSC the deployment using the upgradable proxy pattern. This is probably because is more attractive to incoming devs (lower fees, faster) and this seem to be encouraged in tutorials and such.

Upgradeble proxy contracts with an active admin completely change the premise of a decentralized service. At that point it's just using the blockchain as a database, which is the worst choice of db for a centralized service
As an Aussie as well, I think not knowing about something is often aligned with people also just not caring. This goes for most things technology really, most people don't care until it impacts them.

We all have only a finite amount of things we can care about in a day and for many Aussies, laws, especially laws around the use of technology aren't front of mind for the average Australian. But as time goes on and these laws actually start to impact us, then you will see people caring.
I'm not trying to claim this is practical with current technology.
Both ArcGIS Platform and Mapbox make this quite easy. Not fully open, but you get what you pay for. ArcGIS at least makes data import and export easy, and comes with a generous free tier
what happens to Njalla?
With a circular list, you don't even need the extra pointers.
they do whois data checks IIRC
Well, damn.

And here I'd thought the premise of _Donnie Darko_ was unrealistic, but here it is, with a meteorite instead of a jet engine, no less.

Someone better at stats than I am: What is the probability of getting hit in the face by a meteorite while you sleep?

Aspiring screenwriter's gotta know
The iron ring has no legal significance. That's handled by whoever the licensing body for that region is. The iron ring is a purely symbolic ceremony about taking your work seriously.

Do you want to set up a licensing body for computer engineers, outside of which practice would be illegal? That's how civil engineers are held accountable - not by the iron ring.
> If you're worried about cosmic rays mutating your actor state randomly

I'm more worried about other pieces of code mutating the state "randomly"

> the same would be true of that other process mutating the state of your database

The difference with a database is that all of its data ("state") is always public. An OOP service, at least, usually holds some hidden state that may change its behavior but can't be inspected from the outside, which makes its behavior nondeterministic (modulo explicitly-documented contracts). If you're saying Actors (in Orleans or otherwise) don't generally have state that's inaccessible from the outside, then that seems like a reasonable mitigation for this problem
The global supply chain nightmare is about to get worse
Redux. Understanding the General Idea
> What they did was wrong.

It was certainly against the rules. I'm not so sure it was wrong.
I largely agree with your points, it's difficult to build truly decentralized apps, since most people don't run a local node. But at least you could build an interface that falls back on the different possible providers, including a local node if it is there. So if someone really wanted to access the Blockchain, they could - regardless of centralized web3 providers.

Also, I think OpenSea does post all orders public: https://etherscan.io/address/0x7be8076f4ea4a4ad08075c2508e48...
First time I've ever heard this claim about horse naysayers. Do you have citations?

Interesting off-topic: according to Vaclav Smil, the number of horses in the USA peaked in the 1930s. In Europe, later still. David Edgerton's book The Shock of the Old talks about horses as well, among other "outdated" technologies.
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Having been a bit closer to the action (through secondhand reports from colleagues), it was not at all uncommon for Steve to propose detailed technical solutions, but (1) many of them were no good (2) his teams got pretty good at working around him on such matters and (3) I think over time he developed the good sense to trust his lieutenants on matters like this instead of being overly insistent on seeing his bad ideas implemented.

In contrast, in UX/Design, Steve generally had very astute insights, knew so, and it was much harder to get him to change his mind.

For a publicly documented example of a bad technical decision by young Steve that the team simply worked around for a while until he changed his mind, see: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 71 vulnerabilities, four zero-days squashed
Yep. I can easily punch through a wall.

A pillow, not so much.
if only we knew humans didn't like being told what to do
It performs worse than my 10 year old iPhone 4S. It really shouldn't have to.
> What are examples of this?

Ever tried to express even the smallest amount of criticism? People you know in real life will rip you apart and call you very horrible things.

The gaslighting and level of sanctimonious nonsense has been out of this world.

I’ve been called “dangerous” for merely posting screenshots of public health department data.

People are nuts!
> contraband
Some people don’t like the narc dogs.
Intent separates murder from manslaughter in most states in thr USA, so yeah, a death from a prank is tangible different.
> We're talking about an individual making their own health choice.

And businesses making their own employment choices.

> new biosecurity state.

Vaccine mandates are nothing new - I was required to get vaccinated to go to my public school.

> I don't see it as moral relativism.

You literally said the "best" choice is relative. Your entire stance is deeply relativistic at its core.

> And no journalist is calling him out on this obvious lie.

I don't see the relevance of what Biden says to my point at all, seems like a jump in logic. And:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/22/joe-biden/...
It helps to consider the context of finance as glue that helps make the real economy move by reducing fraud. Deciding to use a crypto solution is like deciding to use double-entry accounting: it creates a quick and reliable record of transactions in a certain context, this context being one of consent. Putting consent mechanisms on-chain gives many of the benefits of a trusted third party without designation of an actual fallable, corruptable person or institution. That allows the surrounding regulatory framework to be streamlined and take on more and smaller cases with a lower footprint. But there is a chicken and egg scenario there since the norms have to shift towards these solutions before they gain all the desired efficiencies.

That said, I was paid in crypto the other day through a DAO. I was told how to submit a proposal to be paid, and then the funds were released through a vote within hours. It was transparent and the only hiccup was in needing a 70 cent bond fee to submit the proposal - it wasn't "controlled" in the usual sense of assigning a person to handle funds. So I already see some benefit in organizational structure.
google employed the folks who wrote the git clients and it was always technically possible to have implemented the monorepo with a git client, but one of the developers (the author of jgit) was opposed to this and prevented it from happening (mainly because his requests for headcount were always denied).

As the ex-maintainer of numpy and scipy third_party at google, I really appreciated the one-version-policy. It was the only way to sanely handle upgrades of thousands of different codes (and google has thousands of different codes that depend on numpy). It certainly helped us managed the complexity associated with mixing various versions of numerical libraries.
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In my case, it wasn't MDD. I was tasked by my manager to take a look into this whole SIP thing. So I started reading up on it and writing code in Lua (using LPEG) as an exploratory project [1]. Unbeknownst to me, my prototype was put into production by said manager.

Sigh.

I'm still the only person who really knows Lua at the company.

[1] I used Lua to write the testing programs for the product.
Biden signs school cybersecurity act into law
Both judges are correct. The brewery needs a better lawyer. By the legal definition of “theft”, this ain’t it. They should sue for tortious interference (or whatever the equivalent under German law).
I hope we could agree though, that the cost of switching to renewables too early is negligible compared to the cost of switching too late. If that can be agreed on by all, the relevant questions are
1) when do we think it would be too late?
2) how certain are we of that date?
3) how long will it take to switch to renewables? and
4) How certain are we of that date?

I don't disagree with your basic premise. Personally I think the answer to 1) is 140 years, so no reason to panic or dawdle. But it's important to remember that the more the economy grows before the switch to renewables is complete, the harder it becomes to make the switch. And, a better invention in renewables without the energy to scale it up won't do us much good, a significant part of our nonrenewables needs to be invested in renewables or the next 140 years of invention won't be much use.
> What are your sources?

Electricity generation and health

The Lancet, Volume 370, Issue 9591, 15–21 September 2007, Pages 979-990
It would have been falling at terminal velocity at that point, which would have been subsonic (200 to 400 mph)

https://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/faqf/#12
Zero-day hunters seek laws to prevent vendors suing them
You don't have to buy it, that's what moral relativism implies.

Ultimately I think you're arguing that the greater public good invalidates personal freedom and body autonomy. I disagree with you, as many others would as well.
I'm a ham radio operator as well. There's still areas that are highly technical and innovative.

SDR is continuing to progress, antenna design, digital modes, talking to satellites, design/launching of satellites, etc. I find it kind of crazy that a Pi+SDR could track any airplane nearby and contribute to a global map of plane tracking, all for $100 ish.

One cool project I saw was using starlink sats and a SDR to figure out your physical location, just like GPS. Seems innovative to me.

One thing I've been following is js8call. It allows for keyboard to keyboard communications at 20dB or so BELOW the noise floor (-24dB theoretical), so you can reach a fair chunk of the planet on just a few watts. Even some real world conditions where your transmission gets to destination via more than one path (i.e. east and west). This also allows things like multi-hop communications, store and forward, and other tricks to make the most of poor propagation conditions. Seems almost science fiction.

Sure, adoption of some new technologies is crazy slow, like USB instead of serial connections. But things do seem to be improving, it's becoming more common to put a smarts inside a radio instead of externally connected. This allows for cheaper, smaller, but still advanced communications. Like say setting up a radio, battery, and solar panel to help with propagation for an entire continent for just $200 or so, without having to bolt on a raspberry Pi.

So sure, you can buy a nice rig+antenna, learn nothing except what the license test requires, and just use it as a fancy voice chat. But if you want to push the boundaries there's quite a few areas to explore.
Yes, but not as easy a defense as in the US. Since Ridgeway v The Queen ('95).

However, entrapment as a legal defense is less an overall a defense and rather a reason to exclude a particular piece of evidence from the case. There will also likely be no punishment for those who attempted the entrapment, even if the evidence ends up being excluded.

Australia does have other mechanisms by which something similar may sometimes be used, such as conflict of interest (such as in the Lawyer X trials) are more appropriate defenses, where the US may simply use entrapment.
Monday this week (October 11 2021), the Australian public broadcaster ABC (similar to BBC in the UK) program "Media Watch" aired a small segment relevant to this discussion.

Media Watch noted that this week, News Corporation newspapers across Australia (part of the Murdoch media empire, which also spans the US and UK) featured front covers embracing action towards climate change - for one of the first times ever [1]. Aside from the obvious shamble of so many papers sharing identical nearly content directed from a central source, this marks a radical shift in NewsCorp's commentary on climate change policy, and it's relationship to the Australian economy and people.

The fact that Google, one of the few larger players than NewsCorp in the advertising space, should be undertaking this kind of position perhaps shows that global risk assessment of climate change is starting to infiltrate large corporations, financial institutions and investors in a much more impactful way than previously.

Which is late, but great.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/keUz54x (Screenshot from the episode)
Why would anybody get vaccinated if they have to continue wearing masks? How does that make any sense at all? It ain’t republicans pushing that kind of nonsense.

And what does “take this serious” actually mean? This is a values thing. A lot of people justifiably get upset that the government wants them to put their entire life on hold indefinitely for a virus they aren’t concerned with. Life isn’t meant to survive. It’s meant to be lived. Life is very short and so far a non trivial amount of it has been spent on this. There is way more to life than a myopic fixation on exactly one single illness.
> It’s also discussed in the thread that other major retailer worldwide do the same thing

There are other evil people out there so this is ok? Is that your argument?

> There are evil people intentionally choosing to throw the food away deriving happiness from others’ hunger

What are they, if not evil, because that's exactly what they're doing... throwing good food away while people in the neighbourhood go hungry.

> Or you can investigate the issue and determine that there is a good reason

But I have investigated the reason, and it isn't a good one. This food is thrown out BEFORE expiry date. This means that at the moment of destruction, it was completely legal to sell the food. If it was legal to sell, it was legal to give away. And I'm not saying that they should let dumpster divers just come and take what they want. I'm saying that there are organisations (soup kitchens, etc) that you can have legal agreements with that leave Amazon free of liability, just as if they'd be free of liability if they sold the food.

To not do this is evil.

> Retail businesses operate on razor thin margins where a few missteps would kill them

Selling food before it's best-before/expiry date is legal and is the core function of every retail business. They could sell this food for a $0.01 to a food kitchen and it would be no more a misstep or risk than if they sold it to any other customer.

> it is pretty naive to think the professionals in that business do not know how to run their own business

I said nothing of the sort. They know exactly how to run their own business. But they're evil people who are letting starving people suffer while they throw out perfectly good, FDA approved, non-expired, healthy food.
You're spreading YET MORE misinformation and you're trying to fool Americans into believing a history that doesn't exist! They're not buying it, and all you're doing is breeding further distrust.
There's a difference between "not killing them" and "protecting them".

Especially during this pandemic when so much low-hanging fruit has been intentionally left on the table--for instance, if "protecting people" was ever a goal, why has there been literally zero focus on vitamin D deficiency in the general population? This is simple, cheap, efficient, and a potent inhibitor of sars-cov-2, and yet the ruling class has seen to it that it has never been publicly pushed at all.

All of the ruling class's ideas happen to align with profit for pharmaceutical companies and greatly increased social control. Is that a coincidence?
I wouldn't even argue this is a loss of functionality- it's rather standard for data (especially when working with government systems, at least in the US) to be presented in all caps.
That helps at the expense of everything else now borked, but I wonder what is so hard about having a per app font setting ?
That's a cute story, but mostly, the WSJ is absolutely full of it.

Germany had 9 out of the ten last seasons net-dry. It lost 700,000 acres of forest in the last three years due to lack of water. Spruces in lower-lying regions are pretty much done for Shipping on the river Rhine had to be restricted due to low water.

Germany is mostly still OK - you see most of the effects in regions with sandy soils, where water isn't retained long enough. (E.g a lot of the eastern parts) And, like everywhere around climate change, the "consumer efforts" are mostly existing to distract from the major sources of problems. (For water, in Germany, that would be electricity generation and the need for coolant)

The "water masochism" is a deflection by politicians, rooted in a real problem.

You know the WSJ is lying when their sublede contains "criticized by some". It's the traditional unattributed quote that's mostly made up.
> displaying vector information

render to PNG and serve that.. you can even get the clicks and respond as you see fit with details, with some work
Even if you converted all the atmospheric CO2 to O2, oxygen levels will not increase by more than 1%. So where did the rest come from and go to?
Because it's not well supported on many devices
Possibly, but the rock also came to rest on the mattress and not underneath her basement so there’s a possibility that it was already sub-sonic and that the dog had a chance to hear it before it arrived.
Huh... dynamic lcd shading seems like a solvable problem.
One-off megaprojects are the opposite of economy of scale. Standardized production in large numbers allows you to amortize the costs of development and validation as well as maintain a healthy ecosystem of suppliers and employees who can compete for contracts.
> storage is so expensive that the LCOE for Solar/Wind + Storage blows us through the roof again!

Except it's not more expensive, and likely cheaper, than nuclear.

https://model.energy/
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Somewhat related, there was a thread that raised the issue on Reddit a little while ago. Mostly anecdotes/complaints, but some technical discussions too (with varying levels of accuracy).

https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/pp0kpg/why_are_the_...

I have no issues with my phone (until yesterday when I encountered some creased laminate), but it's new. The most obvious improvement to me is what the article pointed out - use more of the paper you're printing on! Make it bigger. Worst case, we all get to stand back a little.
Hey! What was on my interview with a FAANG company. How did you know?
This is usually the real answer to why things aren't open-sourced when they become deprecated.

The source code does sometimes "accidentally" leak, though.
"The only good bug is a dead bug" - Starship Troopers
This NASA document explains very nicely how a series of thin shields can provide more protection than one much thicker shield layer. Of course, the velocity is much lower once in the atmosphere.

https://hvit.jsc.nasa.gov/shield-development/
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Google SREs definitely have that stick.
Assuming meteors can have any initial size, speed, and entry angle, there must be some sets of those initial values such that a remaining meteorite of the size seen in these photos could go through a roof and land on a bed. It doesn't seem possible that there would be any step function where if it doesn't burn up completely and can make it through a roof it must be going fast enough to also go through a pillow.
When the message was "masks don't work for the public", it was translated to "well they work, but not for you" and thus to "grab as many masks as you can before you are relegated to the no-mask-for-you public bin".

The messaging was crude, obvious, untrue, and ultimately self-defeating. It only takes a small minority of people to buy up everything, especially small, cheap, lightweight objects sold in quantity packaging.
Bidets also sold out pretty quickly, along with exercise equipment, hair clippers, and so on.
Looks like there were many sightings of this event: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/imo_view/event/2021/6241

And her report: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/report/2455...

"This fireball hit and entered my house"
mining bitcoin on one GPU is uneconomical, so mining bitcoin an a large number of them is... also.
> And businesses making their own employment choices.

Does this include a federal government vaccine mandate?

> Vaccine mandates are nothing new - I was required to get vaccinated to go to my public school.

An appeal to tradition/authority doesn't make it any more tenable. The anti-mandate position is precisely (at least in part) that they should have autonomy over their own body.

> You literally said the "best" choice is relative. Your entire stance is deeply relativistic at its core.

You're having a discussion with two different people. The comment you're responding to was not me. We are making different points.
My pinephone has multiboot to several different Linux and Android varieties.
The mininum viable Qplasma would be in the neighborhood of 100.[1] Fusion may get competitive for electricity generation with a Qtotal > 500.[2]

1. Sabine Hossenfelder, How Close Is Nuclear Fusion?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY&t=8s

2. Nicholas Hawker, A simplified economic model for inertial fusion, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33040650/
NFTs are neither a scam or a con. Words have meaning.

An NFT has a clearly listed price. Pay that price and you will own it. And you will get exactly what you paid for. That's not a scam. Nobody robbed you of your money, you willingly gave it, and you got the listed product, and not something else entirely.

A scenario that I would consider scammy is an NFT that is minted without permission from the original artist.
The EU vaccination certificate (which is shown as a QR code in e.g. restaurants or public events) is twice longer than your example (572 characters for me), but it includes all the data and a digital signature to allow offline verification of whether that certificate is valid.