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The fact is: It's not our money.

Oh for sure, I can spend millions of dollars just by saying I believe it will deliver tens more to the company. If I'm right, I'll get a fat bonus, and if I'm wrong (too much), they'll fire me.

But If I say we need to send millions of dollars or else we'll run into an amorphous risk that might make us look bad, how possibly can the board evaluate my claim?

Or put another way, if I said I had a tiger-detecting t-shirt that made noise when a tiger about to strike, would you believe me?

It is really hard to invest in something that benefits anyone other than the company, and harder still if it benefits someone else more. Basically it needs to be your money, or clearly cost-of-sales to make that kind of decision, so while I think I can empathise with the rant, I'm not sure what I (or any executive, really) could do about it.
Despite everything, even NSA is an avid user of Linux for their critical systems. That says a lot.
This is funny, but not at all a good analogy. There's obviously not remotely as much public interest or value in testing the security of this professor's private home to justify invading his privacy for the public interest. On the other hand, if he kept dangerous things at home (say, BSL-4 material), then his house would need 24/7 security and you'd probably be able to justify testing it regularly for the public's sake. So the argument here comes down to which extreme you believe the Linux kernel is closer to.
>Your message would push maintainers to put even more focus on the patches, thus invalidating the experiment.

The Tuskegee Study wouldn't have happened if its participants were voluntarily, and it's effects still haunt the scientific community today. The attitude of "science by any means, including by harming other people" is reprehensible and has lasting consequences for the entire scientific community.

However, unlike the Tuskegee Study, it's totally possible to have done this ethically by contacting the leadership of the Linux project and having them announce to maintainers that anonymous researchers may experiment with the contribution process, and allowing them to opt out if they do not consent, and to ensure that harmful commits never reach stable from these researchers.

The researchers chose to instead lie to the Linux project and introduce vulnerabilities to stable trees, and this is why their research is particularly deplorable - their ethical transgressions and possibly lies made to their IRB were not done out of any necessity for empirical integrity, but rather seemingly out of convenience or recklessness.

And now the next group of researchers will have a harder time as they may be banned and every maintainer now more closely monitors academics investigating open source security :)
The league below the Premier League is even more competitive, there are 24 closely matched sides trying to gain promotion.
How would you catch those?
They probably think of it as "something you have" as in TOTP, without considering or caring that it's pretty easy for other people to "have" it too.
OMG. Indeed, the download module was broken. We've fixed that. Many thanks.
Interestingly, non-profits tend to have the same problem with general fund funding. People will donate food or buildings (which is great), but it is actually hard to get money to pay the utilities. In-kind on grants helps but is often shrunk for reasons of "getting more money to do the objective".

Paying technical debt or utilities is not sexy and a lot of people want their name attached to cool new things not keeping the lights on.
There is probably some explanation, but I don’t think the etymology is any more transparent to native speakers than it is to you. It’s just one of those words whose meaning has drifted over time.
I used to be very much of the same opinion. But increasingly I find the Daily Mail to be the only place to turn for a sensible reaction to woke hysteria – like the supposed "rape culture" in schools, and the recent walkouts over the flying of the Union Jack at the Pimlico Academy.
No it's not. Even if they fixed all the bugs which I doubt the API design is bad.
Many shops working on Windows desktop apps are stuck at WPF due to Windows 7 support.
> Applied strictly, wouldn’t every single A/B test done by a product team be considered unethical?

Assuming this isn't being asked as a rhetorical question, I think that's exactly what turned the now infamous Facebook A/B test into a perceived unethical mass manipulation of human emotions. A lot of folks are now justifiably upset and skeptical of Facebook (and big tech) as a result.

So to answer your question: yes, if that test moves into territory that would feel like manipulation once the subject is aware of it. Maybe especially so because users are conceivably making a /choice/ to use said product and may switch to an alternative (or simply divest) if trust is lost.
I get where you're coming from, but I disagree. They actually prey on seemingly small changes that have large "unintended"/non-obvious side-effects. I argue that finding such situations is much much harder in Rust than in C. Is it impossible? Probably not (especially not in unsafe code), but I do believe it limits the attack surface quite a lot. Rust is not a definitive solution, but it can be a (big) part of the solution.
First, let me just say that it never even occurred to me that my iPhone volume would control the TV so I just never even tried it. I would have expected volume buttons to appear in the remote app.

That said, I just tried it and it does not seem to work for me in my setup. I just have a Samsung TV with the Apple TV connected. No other "AV system". The volume buttons do not seem to do anything with the TV. Now that I know it works in some situations I will start digging around.

The Apple TV remote controls the volume of the TV fine but I seem to recall that I programmed it for the power and volume of my TV when I set it up.
Literally nothing. Instead of actual actions to improve the process it's only feel-good actions without any actual benefit to the kernel's security.
I think their point is that if you have a convergent sequence of fractions, you can drop some finite number of them from the start and still converge to the same real number. In some sense, the rest of the sequence already contains all of the information, so early terms are redundant.

With the decimal and continued fraction representations, that's not true. The later parts of the representations only describe refinements on the earlier parts; they don't themselves contain the earlier parts.
I remember this too but we stuck to Mumble because it was lighter on system resources
Crap. I'm all raved up with no music to dance to.
But they also modified the mRNA structure to make it more durable (but still on the order of days/weeks).
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Nothing. However if they can't claim ownership of the drama they have caused it's not useful for research that's publishable so it does nix these idiots from causing further drama while working at this institution. For now.
A lot of people seem to consider this meaningless and a waste of time. If we disregard the the problems with the patches reaching stable branches for a second (which clearly is problematic), what is the difference between this and companies conducting red team exercises? It seems to me a potentially real and dangerous attack vector has been put under the spotlight here. Increasing awareness around this can't be all bad, particularly in a time where state sponsored cyber attacks are getting ever more severe.
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I died.
As of 2 years ago (pre-COVID), no. You needed a passport, and that's it. I doubt things have changed materially since then.

Some people require permission to leave (e.g. certain party members/SOE managers/etc), and I'm sure a lot of others are on government watchlists and will be stopped at the airport.

But it's patently absurd to take that and infer that every single overseas Chinese student was only allowed to leave if they spy/sabotage the West.
If they're public IRC channels, do you mind mentioning them here? I'm trying to find the remnant. :)
IMNAL. In addition to possibly cause the research paper retracted due to the ethical violation, I think there are potentially civil or even criminal liability here. The US law on hacking is known to be quite vague (see Aaron Swartz’s case for example)
If the IRB is any good the professor doesn't get that. Universities are publish or perish, and the IRB should force the withdrawal of all papers they submitted. This is might be enough to fire the professor with cause - including remove any tenure protection they might have - which means they get a bad reference.

I hope we hear from the IRB in about a year stating exactly what happened. Real investigations of bad conduct should take time to complete correctly and I want them to do their job correctly so I'll give them that time. (there is the possibility that these are good faith patches and someone in the linux community just hates this person - seems unlikely but until a proper independent investigation is done I'll leave that open.)
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I did not indicate your worth, or lack of worth, to the Chinese state.

Instead, I stated that people are not granted exit VISAs, or passports, if not deemed worthy of one. It seems as if you are attempting to twist my words a bit here.
The label is used as a parallel to the "executive functions" of the brain. This layer control the behavior of the overall organism: it selects goals, and monitors behaviors required to attain those goals. This describes the intended role of (upper) management inside a complex interdependent organism that is a business with 1,000+ independent brains working on it.
Ah, you are missing the key thought that they do the execution by getting all the cogs in the machine to move.
Having UEFA people talk about how unethical, greedy and acting against football fans the new league is was almost as cringy as the YouTube CEO awarding herself a free speech price.
Private run corporations tend to add a lot of value to society. Private run football clubs not so much, people prefer their amateur run clubs. You could say the first sentence isn't true, but that is what people think and why they voted like this.
The facts are easy to check.

The DM regularly loses libel cases for publishing fake smears about various victims. But apparently it considers these losses a cost of doing business.

It has been called out for its racism on numerous occasions.

It's notorious for wildly exaggerated tabloid abuse of legitimate refugees and immigrants.

It called judges who forced proper constitutional proceedings during Brexit "enemies of the people" - sparking a record number of complaints to the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

Its comments section is a cesspit of race hate and petty ignorance.

It literally supported Hitler before war was declared.

There isn't a rational case to be made for not disapproving of it morally.
And is overrun with spammy ads. Yuck.
Yeah, I think this is more about power. Sky News has put this on its front page. Wonder if that's because they've invested heavily in the existing setup?

I'm not sure a super league isn't a good idea. At the moment the top six or so teams in the Premiership are more or less unbeatable by those beneath them. I'd like to see more games where they play other great teams in Europe, and fewer of them beating Middlesbrough or whatever. (Or Norwich, my local team that just got promoted.)
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It's quite a number of people, not just a few wealthy people. The few wealthy investors are buying up huge tracts of land, but the people who actually move here are large in number as well as income. Again, the average income in the area for a family of 4 is around 55k. It doesn't take much money to upset that system. And it would be different if the folks moving here actually spent money in the local economy, or integrated into the community at all. They do neither of those things.

Also -

>What local and state policies might be inhibiting this and harming these communities?

Literally none. There are no housing policies regarding number or type of dwellings. There is no zoning, zoning restrictions, or any other type of restriction. It's very rural. Those things don't exist. There are no home inspections, there is no building code you must follow to get a mortgage approved or anything like that. In essence - if you can build it, you can live in it or rent it to someone.

I have no idea why people keep coming back to local and state policies. They don't exist.
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This is a such an understated problem with non-profits and charities. In the UK (not sure about other countries) it's pretty common for people to give money to a charity which is ring-fenced for a particular thing. Legally the charity then can't use that money for anything else. No one wants to fund the general running of a charity, they'd rather fund a specific event or programme. That causes so much overhead on accounting to ensure those funds go to the right projects and figuring out how to pay the water and electric bills. People don't realise that it actually costs more money on accounting to give ring-fenced money like that. I imagine similar is true towards things like the linux kernel with development efforts.
> Don't forget to grab a programmer. I use a HiLetgo USBTiny programmer.

Hmm… I’m pretty inexperienced with Arduino (or indeed any microcontroller), so I have no idea what you’re talking about here. What’s a ‘programmer’?

> arduino-forth.com

Thanks for the link! Added to my reading list.
You are being deliberately imprecise to make them seem equivalent. While some clubs are indeed corporations (with shares) they are mostly treated as associations, whose goal it is to advance the sport competitively, win the various competitions and deliver good entertainment. The primary goal of corporations is realizing good returns for investors.
IRB (as in Institutional Review Board) is a local (as in each research institution has one) regulatory board that ensures that any research conducted by people employed by the institution follows the federal government's common rule for human subject research. Most institutions receiving federal funding for research activities have to show that the funded work follows common rule guidelines for interaction with human subjects.

It is unlikely that a business conducting A/B testing or a parent interacting with their children are receiving federal funds to support it. Therefore, their work is not subject to IRB review.

Instead, if you are a researcher who is funded by federal funds (even if you are doing work on your own children), you have to receive IRB approval for any work involving human interaction before you start conducting it.
Can they really call it cross platform when Linux isn't officially supported?
The maintainers are the process, as they are reviewing it, so it's absoutely attacking the maintainers.
> it's not aimed at your level of readership

The reading level is no problem. My concern isn’t the press ELI5-ing 3D printers as being “like Star Trek style replicators”. Make everything as easy to read and understand as possible!

My first concern is when things are invented whole-cloth, or misrepresented badly enough they might as well be, and when corrections are either not forthcoming or only happen after legal action: https://listverse.com/2015/06/23/10-egregiously-false-storie...

My second concern is when the publication contradicts itself, which DM is famous for with regard to what causes and cures cancer: https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/

I am far from the only one to feel justified in being so dismissive of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reliabl...

> Personally I'd give it a miss and keep to the more subtle works of fiction in the upmarket section of the press.

Thinking of Trek-tech and upmarket publications, I have had a similar attitude towards New Scientist ever since the EM drive was on the front cover.

This problem isn’t just a Daily Mail problem, but the story this thread is attached to is about the DM, so they’re the ones I’m focusing my criticism on.
GKH, in that email thread, did find commits that made it to production; most likely the authors just weren't following up very closely.
> It shows there is a problem with the review process if it is not catching 100% of this garbage.

It shows nothing of the sort. No review process is 100% foolproof, and opensource means that everything can be audited if it is important to you.

The other option is closed source everything and I can guarentee that review processes let stuff through, even if its only "to meet deadlines" and you will unlikely be able to audit it.
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> Seriously - you want to risk hot war between Europe and Russia with millions in collateral losses because Lukashenko

You have to understand, the risk of hot war between Europe, and Russia has nothing to do with Lukashenko, Yanokovac or any of those pissants. It's completely not important, what's important is a power crazed mafia guy sitting in Kremlin fortress, and starting West every day, and night.

You can pretty much erase anything standing in between Europe, and Russia on the map, and you will still have the same problem.
It wasn't intended to be serious. But on the other hand, he has now quite openly and publicly declared himself to be part of a group of people who mess around with security related things as a "test".

He shouldn't be surprised if it has some unexpected consequences to his own personal security, like some unknown third parties porting away his phone number(s) as a social engineering test, pen testing his office, or similar.
I love clubs, but hate it when I smell like a ash tray afterwards, despite not smoking.

Another theory about the changing for more aggressive beats: maybe the dj's themself were affected and got angry having to wait for their next cigarette?
What's the recourse for them though? Just beg to have the decision reversed?
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It’s the difference between a sport and something designed to look like a sport but in reality is just entertainment
"Imperial" - the best boardgame of all, in my opinion[1]- largely circumvents having a comeback mechanism by making the game scores being a dynamic result of all player interactions until the very end. You typically only know for sure whos about to win in the last round but (very importantly) it does not feel random at all (there is virtually no luck, no dice, no card decks)

In short, its a light wargame in which the players control the nations - but they are not the nations. They are investors who buy bonds in the nations and the player with most investments controls (governs) that nation. Controls shift during the game and war is _not_ the objective. Profiting from your nation(s) is.

Do check it out. The game is well reviewe and still critically underrated

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24181/imperial
The point is to make it very obviously not worth it to conduct this kind of unethical research. I don't think UMN is going to be eager to have this kind of attention again. People could always submit bogus patches from random email addresses - this removes the ability to do it under the auspices of a university.
Uhhh, I just read the paper, I stopped reading when I read what I pasted below. You attempt to introduce severe security bugs into the kernel and this is your solution?

To mitigate the risks, we make several suggestions. First, OSS projects would be suggested to update the code of conduct by adding a code like "By submitting the patch, I agree to not intend to introduce bugs."
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Thanks for this perspective. I've always thought the whole "yay! let's do quantum programming!" was a bit strange. IIRC we can't really do "real" quantum computation with anything more than a few bits because people can't do QEC to correct for the noise. D-Wave's systems aren't even "real" QCs AFAIK.

From a very amateur perspective, it looked like Gil Kalai was arguing that physical realizations would not be impossible, but work at UIST and Google's "quantum supremacy" result, somehow have proved him wrong ?

Can you say a bit more on the state of QEC ? Thanks.

P.S: The hype of CS these days is really getting tiring; the ridiculuous expectations around "quantum-deeplearning-crypto-neuron-RL" will hopefully not cause another AI winter.
> Or does this refer to something else, besides safety checks?

I think it largely refers to the Spectre + Meltdown class of attacks, which caused the kernel to introduce a whole class of fixes (retpolines, etc.).
It should be for all science done for the sake of science, not just medical work. When I did experiments that just involved people playing an existing video game I still had to get approval from IRB and warn people of all the risks that playing a game is associated with (like RSI, despite the gameplay lasting < 15 minutes).

Researchers at a company could arguably be deemed as engaging in unethical research and barred from contributing to the scientific community due to unethical behavior. Even doing experiments on your kids may be deemed crossing the line.

The question I have is when does it apply. If you research on your own kids but never publish, is it okay? Does the act of attempting to publish results retroactively make an experiment unethical? I'm not certain these things have been worked out because of how rare people try to publish anything that wasn't part of an official experiment.
I don't think I understand that analogy in terms of kernel code, can you give an example of what seat belts and bullet proof glass are in this context? Does that mean that previously in places where they only had CRCs, they added firewalling and cryptographic signing?
beautifully put
In Germany the last two Teams are automatically relegated to the lower league while the third to last team of the higher and the third to the top team of the lower league fight it out in a two match decision.
The relegated Teams usually are in big trouble financially as they have to balance their budgets while loosing a lot of income. If they renegotiate salaries with their players successfully and can increase contributions from their supporters to make up for the loss of TV Money they are in a good position to fight for promotion in the coming year. There are ample examples of Teams getting handed down from league to lower league down to the amateur leagues and never making it back to professional sports. Thats part of the excitement that keeps fans glued to their screens.
Club != Owners.

The club is the people, the owners own the shares of the company.

Your comment frames the situation as a "League Owner" vs "Club Owner" power struggle. That struggle is real, but it ignores the critical aspect that makes European football appealing: European football is about the clubs, the communities they represent, and cultural rivalry between communities.

In essence Man City is Man City because they are not Bolton, not because Malaysians want to watch them.

Reason European clubs are good is that they're intertwined with society. European football became big business, but that's not where it came from, nor what it is.
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