skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Like WoT, desperately in need of a fan edit to do what his editors wouldn't.
This seems like an ideal thing to integrate with Apprise https://github.com/caronc/apprise
To me and I assume most Westerners it looks like an egregious excess while poverty is rampant. At least space projects produce trickle-down technology, but this is just busy-work.
It's a tradeoff. There have been cases where an immutable contract was hacked, but there have also been cases where an admin key was compromised resulting in loss of funds. Users also have to consider the possibility that the admin is corrupt.
I have to agree with the judge here. The issue is not criminal theft here per the letter of the law. A lot of things that may seem like criminal theft to untrained eyes are not considered theft in the eyes of the law. For example, joyriding usually have to be added as a separate crime to criminal codes because they would not fall under the definition of theft in most jurisdictions.

That being said, the neighbour definitely has a civil case here and it should be easy to win that one.
The brand guidelines for my three sided cards say version 2 and at least an inch on the side. These scan great. If you can tolerate a db lookup in the server version 2 is all you need.
Competition Is for Losers (2014)
> But putting a kid in jail/having a criminal record seems way to excessive to me.

It absolutely is. Society is clearly harmed by laws like the CFAA.

LEO do like overly broad laws though. There's nothing better to ruin the lives of people that cops don't like.
In addition to the attack described in a sibling comment, when a hashing algorithm has been broken in some way, it is safe to assume that other more advanced collision attacks will be soon discovered.
I respect that!

I think your mum was wrong though; ultimately you can't control your reputation, but your self-respect is under your control.
Intel Tiger Lake Performance Across Five Autumn 2021 Linux Distributions
Then they complained they could not make a profit.

Should have thought of that when bidding.
If you don't like Newpipe you can use Youtube Vanced which is basically a pwned version of the native Youtube app. I've had some stutters with Newpipe but overall I like it.

Osmand really isn't bad, sure it's a little bit slower to render but we're talking maybe 500-1000ms on a Pixel 3a.

Regarding F-Droid you're right it is quite buggy, but thankfully once you've got the apps you want you don't really need to use it except to update.
not quite yet ;)

ps some of the google cloud next announcements today around appsheet, appscript, looker, ai vertex notebooks, and "no-code" solutions are starting to look really sophisticated!
This is a really awesome visualisation. Really shows at a glance the climate of each location.
> SHA-1 will still work fine for the purpose of git. It is just no longer considered secure for cryptographic operations, such as digital signature, that doesn't mean that you can't use it for other purposes, like git does. Using it is still fine and will ever be fine.

This suggests git does not rely on its hash for security properties, which seems false? What is the purpose of pinning revisions or signing git tags?
Area increases as a square of diameter, and the square root of 1000 is 31, so 1/30th as thick seems about right.

Current state of the art battery packs run at 800V. Making a 10kV pack would be difficult. 10MW is about the size of the largest wind turbines so maybe a wind turbine engineer could help you.
Author here.

I would have fleshed this out more if I knew this was going to reach the front page. Yes, many smart contracts are deployed with distributed upgrade mechanisms, and I mention them briefly at the end of the post. I mostly wrote this to start a conversation with friends about a) how many internet services can be practically operated with the friction that such upgrade mechanisms create, and b) the potential to use the blockchain only for the voting protocol, then to sign and deploy the service on a traditional cloud.
I guess it'd be OK as long as everyone always accompanied such lines with a comment, with at least one line per symbol or character it's identifying & explaining. As all but the most trivial regexes warrant.
The supply of bitcoins can be inflated in the same way that the supply of dollars is inflated, namely by fractional reserve banking. In fact the amount of dollars created by the federal reserve is a small proportion of the total dollars in circulation. The other thing is that the quantity of money, which is one of the key variables influencing the price level, does not remain constant even if the supply of money does, because of trade imbalances. For example, any trade deficit is necessarily offset by an outflow of money, thus reducing the quantity of money in the economy. Therefore if you think that the adoption of bitcoin as currency would prevent your cash balances from losing value in any way, shape or form you're completely wrong.
First drug for dengue, an excruciating disease, may be on the horizon
Consider when a terrorist drove a truck into a Christmas market:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Christmas%20market%20k...

Most headlines were like "Lorry kills 12 at Christmas Market", like there was a killer truck on the loose.

Here's an alternate framing of an article where a car is a fatal weapon:

"Driver plows car into pedestrians at German bus stop, killing one"
https://www.dw.com/en/driver-plows-car-into-pedestrians-at-g...
The lead clarifies that "no assumptions should be made at this point".

It's factual that a man drove a truck into a Christmas market and another person drove into a pedestrian at a bus stop. That can be reported without an assumption of guilt without re-framing the story as if the cars drove themselves.
Let’s not forget TERREG, which already makes it illegal in practical terms for individuals to have an open forum or blog in Europe

> The EU just passed TERREG yesterday without a vote that requires anyone running a website with user generated content (a blog with comments, a forum etc.) and if they have significant EU user base to establish legal presence in the EU and have an officer responsible for deleting content with 1 hr SLA. That's out of reach for most of people. You cannot even block your site for EU traffic, because EU users can use VPN.

[…]

> On 12 September 2018, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online, which included:

>The one-hour rule: a legally binding one-hour deadline for content to be removed following a removal order from national competent authorities;
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Similar story: the dean of my "high school" [1] asked me to create our school website. Another student apparently poked around on a network drive and found an SQL dump of all the students' network username/passwords. I brought this file to the dean, told them it was available on a shared drive (so they could remove it), and asked if they'd like me to use it -- since I already had it -- to enable all the students to log in to the school website with their existing network usernames/passwords. They said that was a great idea and gave me the OK.

A week later, police escorted me from my dorm and both I and the other student were eventually expelled and threatened with harsh legal action, which never came.

[1] The "high school" was an early-entrance-to-college program where we started college at 16, lived on campus, took the normal freshman/sophomore college courses, and eventually received a high school diploma and an Associate of Science when we graduated at 18. The website was for the school I attended, but the SQL dump included all of the university students as well. The school has since shut down.
Imagine how many transformers you are talking about replacing. You'd also have to redo everyone's electrical panel.

It is substantially easier to run additional customer connections for those edge cases where an existing 200A residential service will not suffice.
That's part of the problem though: there is nobody keeping track of left wing terrorist groups in the US. We only have a clear picture of the PNWYLF and JBGC because they went around bombing and shooting people all last summer. To say the problem is limited to just a few groups is difficult, because A.) they are numerous with varying objectives, and B.) we just don't know how deep the rabbit hole goes.
thank you! on a quick look, that seems straight to the point, for someone who had calculus and linear algebra in 2006.
Option 4, use a mixture of modern nuclear and renewables. Power prices go up slightly, environmental footprint goes down a lot.
Imagine a programming language where changing a few instructions gives you anything from a bacteria to an elephant to a vaccine.

This is a form of programming that makes what we currently do look like bashing rocks together.
> Of course, the consequences of climate change are billions cast into abject poverty

That may be true, but I was referring to the effects of switching to renewables too early. Since given our technology, the cost per MW is higher from renewables, switching to renewables (as a society) has massive costs. If we rise the price of the MW a 10%, that's a +10% on every MW from now until we find something better. That could be a long time, which means the impact of these costs could be gigantic. As I've commented elsewhere in this article, a 0.75% reduction on GDP over 100 years is equivalent to losing more than the entire (current) annual GDP, that's not nothing! Growth is how we've managed to move millions out of poverty, we should think it through before sacrificing growth.
I'm all for the idea of a long range, decentralized, encrypted mesh net. I've read a fair number of papers proposing and analyzing different approaches to make this happen.

Unfortunately, unlike the internet, or a local mesh network the total collective bandwidth isn't there. If it worked people would try to do full duplex audio with loved ones, file sharing, monitoring GPS coordinates of fleets of vehicles, internet gateways, and a zillion other bandwidth intensive things.

Bandwidth is so low, that even sending bytes is rare, encoding that average a few bits per character are common. Such encodings try to minimize the bits by using less bits for more common english characters, so they often are measured in words per minute instead of bits or bytes.

There was exist various hybrid solutions like APRS (which can use ham + internet), winmail (ham + internet email), various digital radio protocols (ham to tower, which has an internet connection). But a pure radio mesh net just doesn't seem practical.
it might be bad for optical telescopes, but not radio telescopes fortunately

I think it's more about sky coverage - which parts of the sky can be viewed from which telescopes at any given moment. that would require international collaboration
29 years may seem like a good record, but by the Doomsday Argument[0] we shouldn't necessarily assume that this lull will last more than another 29 years.

Also, I think your choice of time frame is a little strange. It's true that the last US nuclear test was 1992, but North Korea as recently as 2017 tested a hydrogen bomb[1]. I don't know if by "on the planet" you mean "above ground", but the 1992 US test occurred in a tunnel.[2]

Anyway, when the stakes are "billions of people are killed by radiation and famine", I think it's fair to want greater guarantees than "no nuclear detonation in the past 4 years". Similarly, "nuclear weapons haven't been used to kill people in the past 76 years" isn't much more comforting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_North_Korean_nuclear_test

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Julin
Every speeding ticket that I’ve gotten in the US was issued on a controlled access road with a speed limit of at least 55mph. None were for as much as 20 over. Most were from pack travel where deciding to travel at the posted limit would result in far more passing and aggregate risk to roadway users.

I do believe all of those are minor infractions (and of course they were inconsequential, except for the delay and expense [if convicted] of the ticket). Revenue enforcement here is mostly done on controlled access highways; it’s shooting fish in a barrel.
Ask HN: Any Mail-to-Blog Services?
In the past, I used Posterous. I just wrote an email to myblog@posterous.com and the email would be posted to my blog. The email could contain images and videos as attachments, and the blog service would post them too.

Posterous is long gone unfortunately. Does anyone know a (simple) blog website that offers the same feature?

Thanks!
FreeBSD has jails, Firejail is a sandbox that uses features that are native to the Linux kernel.
Developers can carry the practice into a company if they aren't careful.

At my last job, some of the senior/architect developers had baked in code that would email them with various application statuses. They pointed the logs at their main email addresses for maximum visibility. But what ended up happening is that they let their inboxes get so flooded with email that they simply never bothered to check their email again, including any work-related messages. So to solve that problem, a couple of them just set up keyword filters to auto-forward inbox messages to yet another service that they would check on.

Even now, there's some legacy system that emails all of the developers with some error messages. I think only two out of our 20+ development team even knows what they're for.

Further, if you flood your email server, you can miss logs. And if you hand your project off to someone else, you'd have to figure out if you also want to hand over your email account, or if you want to point the logs to their email account.

tl;dr: email is the wrong solution for logging
oh come on the FBI is absurdly left wing and political right now
Primate Memory
Internet Archive's Wayforward Machine
I'm dreading the one about professor fergusson "professor lockdown" in the UK... him getting caught having a fling during the first UK lockdown breaking the new laws probably will help us not have to suffer through that BBC special...
Yes, even including Chernobyl and all the other accidents, nuclear power causes less deaths per GWh and less environmental damage than coal (which is the type of electricity used to fill in the gaps when e.g. Germany stopped it's nuclear plants). If you're worried about the habitable land, Hydro power is relatively "green", but each major hydro plant wrecks habitability and ecosystems in an area that's smaller than but comparable on scale with the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Like, this is a reasonable question to ask, but it has been asked and analyzed a lot and the practical answer to it is overwhelmingly against fossil fuels, it's not even close. Coal causes far more cancer than radioactive disasters, but we simply aren't (yet?) holding them accountable for this damage.
Id actually wonder if criminal history matters when you have skills like this that are very much in demand.

If this went to court, the charges of malicious intent would likely not stick, so jailtime could likely be avoided in leu of fine/community service.

Competent tech companies will not give a shit about criminal record of this nature.

Expulsion from school is pretty much irrelevant, especially for CS careers. You can get a GED, find any college with CS program that will take your money, spend a year having fun, apply for an internship at a tech company, do a good job to be offered a return, talk to HR to go directly into entry level role, and you are set (have personally seen 2 cases of this happening with an intern).

The most functionally harmful thing would be monetary cost, which is still inconsequential considering the salary this guy would make.
They most likely meant economics as in the numbers game rather than in the original sense.
> You know that plenty of software out there that interfaces with git expecting that the commit hash will be unique

You also know that plenty of software out there that interfaces with git has hardcoded assumptions (like, for example, the assumption that the commit hash will be exactly 40 characters long). Some tools parse the output of git log and other commit-bearing commands to make decisions. Will changing git to SHA-256 create new unforeseen security risks due to breakage of those tools (for example, by only grabbing the first 40 characters of a SHA-256 digest instead of all 64 or by just outright crashing)? Maybe, maybe not.

IMO I think you would create more security risks with the git integration breakage that would accompany migrating to sha256 vs. staying with sha1.

At this point it's almost like you want a new tool/new command. `git` vs. `git2`. New projects use git2, existing projects use git (or something like that). Otherwise confusion and backwards-compatibility breakage will abound.
This guy has such a rudimentary understanding that he can't point to real examples of Ethereum applications that support his point. Most smart contracts are immutable and non-upgradeable, which nullifies this entire blog post. Many protocols are also moving to DAO governance for even further decentralization of power. This reflects a highly pervasive issue as people with a somewhat technical background but no experience with crypto networks and applications think they are qualified to give opinions on whether the protocols will make it or not.
Apple IIe gang over here. Don't bend my floppy!
> If an owner of a smart contract publishes a new change, nodes will mindlessly run it.

This is only true if the contract specifically allows that, right? And that's disclosed in the contract itself. So if you don't want that, don't use that contract.
Monorepos and Forced Migrations
Indeed. From our first world perspective, we don't understand the humanitarian life raft that crypto can be.

Lebanon is currently facing extremely high inflation whilst at the same time, governments close banks. Imagine that, your life savings being decimated whilst you're locked out of accessing it.

With a proper setup, crypto could be a solution. Access to it can't be realistically blocked and it is unconfiscatable. Furthermore, it can be used by those that are unbanked, all it takes is a smartphone.

Another story is from a guy whom recently fled from Venezuela to Colombia, and blogged about his experience. On his journey, he was shaken down by police officers, local tribes, traffickers, basically everybody.

Here too crypto could have played a humanitarian role.
Wow that's terrifying, I'm from the EU and did 1000x worse stuff than that, never suffered any consequence, which is not right, but teenagers going to prison for hacking pranks it's really fucked up.
Stacking Our Way to More General Robots
The core map code is slow, why doesn’t the map code optimize its runtime by using threads? Then the main thread canvas just renders the current state? That’s how you solve the problem, not by creating an entire new canvas to solve the crappy map code. You’re right, people have solved these problems with threads, but on a much better way. Google needs to stop reinventing the wheel and fix their problems.
> This kid is very very lucky.

No, he is just smart. He did it anonymously. He knows how to cover his a$$.

> it sends the signal to other young aspiring cybersecurity professionals that this is OK

The post literally has a whole section dedicated to explaining that this is not OK, but whatever.
Nitpick: Changing the temperature unit does not automatically update the help modal (elsewhere is fine); it seems that a particular language is always associated with a particular unit.
perhaps, which vax program, which set? In any case, it's irrelevant - the article is arguing that previously infected ppl should not have to get the vax, and I've seen nothing indicating anything other than infection+vax is equal or greater than either option, and the infection immunity is highly variable in both strength and duration/decay. This matches the obviously wildly uncontrolled and highly variable factors in infection, including initial exposure load, viral strain, infected viral load, infection response & duration, etc. , vs a controlled standard dose of a highly tested vaccine.

Frankly, as an employer, if anyone brought this to me trying to 'educate' me as to policy, they'd be doing themselves a disservice. The last thing any employer is going to want to do is setup some kind of parallel program to exempt previously infected people, checking another set of tests (how do we know you've been infected, was it with a strain that gives immunity to the current wild types?, how does that affect current immune response 8 months on?, etc.etc.etc.,). are you volunteering to run this program in YOUR spare time, and put yourself at personal legal risk? I thought not.

Moreover it mostly shows that you want to spend a lot of effort to make some kind of performative 'I don't trust the authorities' virtue signaling, while avoiding a safe, effective, convenient, and FREE public health measure whilst being happy to freeload off both the herd immunity created by the smarter people and freeload off of the full healthcare system that will still treat you when your method fails - and at vastly greater expense than a couple of $20 shots. If you're that interested in freeloading off of everyone else, why won't you be freeloading off of this company too?
GP isn't validating over criminalization. GP is trying to steer people clear of catching charges. The end results for both is, "Don't hack your school district for a prank," but the context of the two are very different. Students' minds are still developing. You can tell them not to respect Draconian laws surrounding hacking, but do the students understand what's at stake?

Yes, students get in trouble all the time, but most of the consequences for their stupidity are slaps on the hand. Lunch in a classroom, a parent-teacher conference, after school detention, in-school suspension, getting grounded - none of these things carry civil or criminal charges that are a matter of record. What should be a harmless prank can turn into a life altering civil and criminal charges. With high school kids, things quickly go from, "I hacked the school network to do a Rick Roll; they laughed and sent me on my way," all the way to, "I gave my friend the exploit to do something similar; I didn't know he was going to change everyone's grades to 69%."

Further, I would not want to teach in a district where students doing digital pranks is the norm. I volunteer at a high school. Unchecked digital pranks would quickly turn into a constant stream of disruptions. Everyone would think that their prank is better than the last.
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