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> Add to that the general lack of education around cyber security, hardly any mainstream CS course teaches cyber security as a mandatory course. We have CS Phds engineers who are experts in their domains but struggle to understand basic security concepts. We need to educate engineers to care about security of their code and systems just like they care about performance, reliability, maintainability etc.

Here's the issue: cyber security is seen as a cost center. As long as it's viewed a cost center good CS programs won't care for it. Which means right now it's relegated to certificates and extension schools... we all know what that means.

If companies/governments start caring for cybersecurity, ie, create a prestigious and visible organization that directly reports to the White House for instance, then you'll see the good CS degrees adding more of it to their curriculum.

> The problem is further exacerbated by a class of people who received their MBAs and think they know it all. Just yesterday, a lead product manager was arguing with security folks about why his service needs to be patched for log4j vuln if its not internet facing. He had trouble fathoming that even though his service is not internet facing, it processes and logs user controlled data.

I remember being in a room like that. At one point several people were arguing and the lead engineer just tapped his brass rat on the table to get everyone's attention. I remember the PM was furious but what was he going to do? They don't sell those at the gift shop...

Truth is, PM orgs need to exist in a parallel way to engineering orgs. PMs managing engineers is a red flag, and a true tech company should ideally have engineers all the way to the CEO position. So if there's security work and engineering deems it necessary, it's done no matter what some non-technical employee thinks.

Engineers could honestly take a page from MDs here. Opinions of non-MDs are basically regarded as irrelevant...
> The difference, if you can't register, is the the latter nation has the civilized means for progressing its justice through political means.

I guess that's why they called it the Civil War?
I'm currently living in Japan, so I asked around... and yes, it's exactly how you described.
I am probably going back to lukering to be honest.
I post in good faith, although sometimes I make stupid jokes and probably deserve the responses. But, it sucks when you put time into a comment and it gets trashed to hell with no responses telling you why.
>You may not understand the forces that have led society to be organized the way that it is, but you should respect that sometimes the order of things reflects knowledge you may not have

sounds like Chesterton's fence to some degree

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence

>In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.
Can't speak for the US, but e.g. generally Norwegian teachers aren't allowed to wear masks at work. Unless things have happened behind the scenes that I'm not aware of, this is under threat of being fired, although I doubt anyone has actually been fired over it.

Surely there must be other professions with similar rules, or cultural quirks to the same effect.
> Modern capitalism

lol, the qualifier deserves highlighting here: crony capitalism. What mechanism is being wielded here? It certainly isn't the AAPL private military.
It boils down to: 'environmental'/game officers have sometimes very shocking levels of power because of the nature of their job, but the article is correct that the supreme court has been steadily eroding our privacy rights for the better part of at least half a century.

The game warden probably doesn't give a shit about your weed (unless you were high/drunk while carrying/using a firearm); he cares about whether you shot a deer when you weren't supposed to. Game is a public resource and we're sufficiently populated these days, and weapons sufficiently advanced, that unchecked hunting can decimate wildlife populations.

What bothers me more is that a massive portion of the US population falls under the zone wherein Customs and Border Protection can do almost whatever they want. It's something like 100 miles from the border.

Imagine driving down a street in NYC and a customs agent pops out of nowhere, stops you, disassembles most of your car's interior, demands the password to your phone and computer under threat of jailing, and then heads off with your phone, laptop, any papers you had, and the $6,000 in cash you were carrying to buy a used car. 100% legal, as far as the supreme court is concerned.

I wonder if any justices have realized that their courthouse and homes are within that same zone they think the constitution doesn't apply.
> Ruby does.

Definitely not. Especially because early Ruby implementations brought huge overhead when exceptions were used, you were strongly advised to only use exceptions for actual exceptions. Ruby was one of the first languages that really started pushing the idea that exceptions should be reserved for exceptions, even if was just for technical reasons.

Those overhead problems have been addressed and are no longer a problem, but the sentiment has continued to ring true. I agree that doesn't stop people from trying to overload them, as I said earlier. But idiomatic? Not at all.
+1 for pipewire

it's a monument on how things should be done, without breaking anyone's workflow.

edit: I really want to use Wayland, it is so much better for so many things, it looks better, font rendering is better, scaling is better, but it introduces new bugs that really are a no-go in my day to day usage, for example sometimes copy&paste shortcuts don't work.

I'm sure it's the fact that I use KDE and support is not top notch, but I have no such problems on X.org.

I would really love to see Wayland succeed, but how long is it gonna take?
I won't deny that this is good news, but considering Omicron is much more transmissible than other variants (I've seen numbers saying 4x more transmissible, though I don't have a source right now), wouldn't that still mean higher hospitalizations and healthcare overwhelm?
This user is pasting this one study all over this thread, and now has mockery and belittlement. He's likely an astroturf troll.
Maybe they're aware of the supply chain interdiction and willing or motivated to let it continue. You'd think that the integrity of their product would be paramount concern. But how might their attitude change if a state decided to intervene? Or what if they have short-sighted leadership making the best decisions for them individually?
I would love to use this style but I find myself reverting back to the match syntax.

match may_fail_who_knows() {
Ok(success) => {
do_something_with_success(success)?
},
Err(failed) => {
some_error_processing(failed)
}
}

As `do_something_with_success` in a closure can't early return from the function (since it's in a closure), which makes sense, but just annoying to read nested results.
It may be that single click in the bottom center of your touch pad is interpreted as middle click. I have a touch pad that does this, but it's a feature to me, so I never looked into how to disable it.

If the mechanical pressure necessary to click is too much, that's a hardware issue, so not much you can do there. I worked around it by enabling tap-to-click, which works fine for me, but I tend to keep my palms away from the track pad while typing.
This part sort of looks like a real life SCP-style [0] anti-meme:

Even more interesting are plans that work best if you yourself don’t understand them. For these, your best hope is that you inherit a culture that’s figured them out for you (and also forgotten about the reasons for you) so you can get the benefits just by going with the flow.

[0] https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
People might be less open to questioning certain things, because those things work well for them, and they work well because they aren't questioned. There is an adverse selection for questioning them.

For example, let's say everyone in your society has an arranged marriage. The marriages produce children who then get arranged marriages themselves. This keeps the society going by providing a steady supply of new people. If someone starts to question it, they don't get an arranged marriage, and don't have any children. The questioner does not get promulgated.

(Note this is not an argument for or against arranged marriage. There are obviously many ways to arrange society and raise children.)
Warrantless spying should be illegal full stop. Let alone installing equipment on someone's land or cutting down their trees. I hope the government agency responsible for this is soundly reprimanded in court.
I use a lot of U.S. government data sources (EPA climate data; BLS employment statistics; etc.). I also use a fair amount of international greenhouse gas emissions data, such as from the UNFCCC greenhouse gas inventory datasets.

Pain points: data disappearing, moving, or being updated without notice and without indication of a change. Numbers from the same API endpoints or URL changing unexpectedly and without explanation can be an unwelcome surprise.

I use bit.io (https://bit.io -- I work there) to deal with these problems. It's an online PostgreSQL database; very easy to use with e.g. psycopg2/SQLalchemy in Python or DBI+dbplyr in R. Before any analysis, I copy the necessary data over to a repo/schema in bit.io, fill in the documentation with the dates on which I obtained the data, and use that as the source of "ground truth" for the analysis.
Rust is very low level. When I looked at Go (I haven't really learned it beside some simple things), it seemed the most Ada like of languages I've looked at. I'm not sure how safe it is, but considering some of these govt. projects were moving to c++ from Ada, it might be reliable enough.

> the space station was done in long, sleepless 'power-coding' binges

Yikes.

I grew to appreciate Ada. We would disable the interupts on some cpus and the software had to be reliable as if the code crashed or got stuck, you were rebooting the machine.
Annoyingly, it had better public transit than the majority of the US does!
Lockdowns are certainly a prolonging step.

But prolonging the inevitable is still useful, in that it slows down the number of hospitalizations on your march towards the inevitable.

Most hospital systems in the USA are stressed to severe levels. We had a nursing shortage before COVID19 even began, and the increased workload from COVID19 is clearly causing problems.

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Slowing things down gives more time for the old patients to leave the hospital, meaning doctors/nurses won't have to work as hard.
Bitcoin millionaire who retired at 35 complains that being rich is 'boring'
No. Someone needs to come up with a compelling reason to change our practices first.
Not mentioned yet is http://elitetrader.com. There is a lot of crap but if you spend enough time to learn which posters are legit then you can really learn a lot. There is also like 20 years of history to look up in the forums if you are inclined.
The church got way too political so you went from agnostic to atheist? How did your perception of the church resolve that ambiguity for you?
Demanding one-on-one meetings with senators? Seems like a failed power play.
> It is probably better for all of us to link every tornado and hurricane to climate change in a neat little story

And then when someone points out that the number of severe tornados per year was larger a couple of decades ago ....

Thanks to improvements in monitoring equipment, we know about tornados and hurricanes now that we wouldn't have recorded before.
Every Option Is on the Table: US Prepping Libya-Style Intervention in Ethiopia
> In dune there is a story part were the ruler knows what he needs to do but also realizes that he is not strong enough and knows that his son has to fullfil it (I forgot what it is about)

I think you're referring to the Golden Path [0]

[0] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/The_Golden_Path
XFCE still has that in it, and there are DE that are pick and choose, but I find it hilarious that having useful features means Unix philosophy is being violated and its and its bad that it has functionality that users enjoy.
Pico CSS Framework
What exactly is nonsense?
I think history has shown one should get jumpy about anyone who throws around “The people’s $x”.
This argument has never really held water; Volvo and Subaru both use vision only ADAS on various models, and did it long before Tesla too. Vision based ADAS only became a "problem" in the eyes of some when Tesla adopted it...

> https://www.subaru.com/engineering/eyesight.html
You are definitely experiencing things differently from me. There is no question or ambiguity for me that I am 'seeing' something in my mind. It is nearly as close to seeing as I do with my eyes; there is no way that if you had this sense you would be unaware of it. I am not seeing the blackness of my eyelids at all. I'm completely unaware of the blackness. I'm seeing something as though it were in my vision. I can rotate it around and view it from any angle. It's as though the vision processor gets unplugged from the eyes and gets plugged into some part of the brain; different input source, but the output, that of experiencing sight, is nearly the same.

I expect that the clarity of this sense varies on a spectrum, with some people low enough that they don't have it at all, and others kind of having it but not very clear. I expect that the latter group are the ones commenting things like "I'm not sure if I count or not." But from what I can tell, I'm toward the higher end of clarity, and the sense is by no means uncertain.
This is keyword stuffing, a very old SEO technique which is obsolete. In fact such behavior works against you these days.
IDA license has always been a joke.

Long live Ghidra!
I know I've seen #2 previously but lost it.

Thank you!
Transcribing large audio files with wav2vec
I was doing some thinking on the whole "third place"[0] problem today, and reading this I wonder if it's possible we have it backwards. Maybe people don't go to church because they no longer have the time (or the need) for the third place, as opposed to people no longer having a third place because of not going to church (or a bar, bowling alley, whatever). Maybe it's a privilege and not a need as people thought about it pre-Internet, and since you can see people any time you want from home, you don't have the incentive to go see them live.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Coincast Wants to Make Crypto as Easy as Texting
Tell me you don't understand technology without telling me....
> “X is bad for reasons A, B, C that would also apply if it were not China doing X”

Reasons A, B, and C can (and should) acknowledge the beneficiary of the thing that is being done.

If the beneficiary is power-hungry and genocidal, that is a valid reason for "thing" to be a bad idea.

Similarly, it's better for, let's say, Norway to become a nuclear power than for North Korea to become a nuclear power.

The accumulation of military power by a non-aggressive democracy is less dangerous than by an authoritarian regime that has shown recent interest in conquest.
I would say that they have pushed it into the category of a digital art installation by allowing pieces to be published automatically, and then sharing it and getting you (and others) to comment on it.
But if you've already gotten the shot, you're protected from the disease. So, what is someone else not getting the shot going to do to you?
what's not sane about go generate? could you elaborate
I'm not so sure it works like it is explained in the article, or maybe I missed something.

When using Gnome + Xorg + proprietary Nvidia driver with multiple monitors, with different refresh rates (144 and 60), they do not limit both to 60. Each monitor has different refresh rate and it is clearly visible that 144hz monitor is running correctly.

And while Gnome is obviously running the compositor, I can turn off vsync for fullscreen game and remove fps limit and it does seem like it's not using vsync. Maybe I just don't notice it with my monitor and games anymore, but it certainly doesn't feel like I'm locked in and delayed with vsync.

I read that Nvidia is adding some Wayland and Xwayland support for their proprietary driver but I haven't tested it yet. I wonder if I'll notice any difference there.
> "An anthropologist would see no difference in type between Pentecostalism and this new form of antiracism."

"Tell me you're racist without saying you're racist."
I dunno, as a typo, I think no matter which side you stand that’d be a funny typo. I know I laughed just thinking it.
I don't know if everyone will consider this art, but I built out a version of the Game of Life that incorporates color and comes up with some fascinating patterns. I added a bunch of variants as well.

https://life.tedivm.com/

https://github.com/tedivm/game_of_life_populations#modes
> I’m not talking about forcing anyone to do anything.

What's your plan for folks who refuse to pay the carbon tax?

Remember, Eric Garner was killed as part of enforcing NYC's cigarette tax. (He was selling "loosies".)
A lot of these people have a traditional mishmash of religious beliefs, spiritual kookiness, beliefs in aliens, and other conspiracy theories... they are not all educated atheists drunk on Woke koolaid.
The assumption is that empathy is a priori. That's a phenomological sense, an alternative to "I think therefore I am." One step below that is "I feel, therefore I am," which applies to all sentient beings with the capacity for feelings.
I've been a sponsor of this project on Github for $5/month. That said, I'm more of a consumer rather than a developer. I know my trackpad on Linux seems to sux, and I can't see how anything gets better for consumers on Linux without us paying for work like this. I'm curious for feedback -- is this team making good progress, did you install the code, etc?

Should I double my sponsorship of this project?
"Without life, one cannot grow," sayeth the generator.
One of the most interesting podcasts I've listened to this year discussed the roots of meaning, significance, and religious experience in our current culture. Where does meaning come from? How do our brains create meaning? Or is meaning revealed to us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCvQsqSCWjA
And publish, and a setup to host them.

good observation?
Yeah, no.

IMHO A great, original idea, with adequate execution, is far, far, more valuable than a ho-hum idea executed perfectly. Just like a sputtering unreliable automobile is far more valuable than the finest horse and carriage, because it embodies future potential.

Of course VC's don't want to pay for great ideas, and want you to believe that all the value is in the execution that they enable.
> Religion didn't disappear, it merely changed shaped. Many replaced it with the new religion of Wokeism.

People are not replacing god with cancelling people on Twitter. Those things are completely unrelated.
> Game is a public resource and we're sufficiently populated these days, and weapons sufficiently advanced, that unchecked hunting can decimate wildlife populations.

Sure, but that was true thousands of years ago too. It doesn't take much.

If you're willing to draw the obvious conclusion from the fact that mass extinction of large animals has occurred every time humans were introduced somewhere, it's always been true.
I don’t know. Religion isn’t always logical. But if I had to guess I’d say Abrahamic religious belief is based on trusting spiritual authorities. When that trust is killed, I suppose it undermines one’s faith?
* I meant Laplace Transform, not Laplacian. Different things (and I can't edit anymore).
> What bothers me more is that a massive portion of the US population falls under the zone wherein Customs and Border Protection can do almost whatever they want. It's something like 100 miles from the border.

I definitely agree that this 100-mile reach is egregious overreach, but have there ever been any cases of this being actually abused, such as in the scenario you describe? Or for instance, have CBP agents ever busted into someone's home?
Doesn't “not approved yet” fall into the opposite trap since it has the connotation that it's somehow justified / natural?

I think that it subtly masks the responsibility of our bureaucratic system. It is literally killing people by preventing them from having access to a potentially effective treatment (that would be accessible if not for this legislation / bureaucratic burden).

Due to this I think that “banned for now” is more appropriate. It highlights the fact that our legislative framework bans medicine by default (it could allow them by default in another world, and then selectively ban medicines that prove dangerous / ineffective).
I understand your point and agree with you philosophically. But I disagree fundamentally that it’s always a just a matter of fact that test coverage can never be 100%. There’s more to it in many cases. And human factors in design is a huge focus in aerospace (I wouldn’t be surprised if the formal discipline originated there). Aerospace is highly process driven to avoid these issues.

Those issues were caught by luck, due to the way follow on testing was conducted after the timer failure. The result indicated they were not adequately tested previously.

I get that not everything can be tested. But those unknown errors that go untested should be relegated to those low probability events. Neither of the examples I gave fall in that category. Hell, NASA even requires testing for random bit flips due to radiation, there’s no excuse to let a valve command mapping error slip through the cracks.
Here's your regular reminder that this survey is a massively trailing indicator, meaning the events that led to this measurement have been decades in the making.

I often tell people that in my grandparents' generation, people sent their kids to Catholic school because they wanted to reinforce the faith they were being exposed to at home. In my parents' generation, people sent their kids to Catholic school to fill in for the faith they were not being exposed to at home. And in my generation, people send their kids to Catholic school because the uniforms are cute.

I jest, I jest, but this trend is being shaped by decades of changes in America's religious landscape. Just because the survey percentages have climbed significantly over the past 20 years doesn't necessarily mean that there is a recent impetus.

I knew that this result was coming 30 years ago, when I noticed that relatively few of my classmates were in the pews on Sundays, because their parents weren't regular churchgoers. Now they're adults, and most are Nones.

I guess if there's any silver lining, as someone who is still active in my faith, it's that as the numbers have dwindled, the people who have stuck around tend to be more engaged and more vibrant. Our parish started a Whole Family Religious Education Program, and unlike the CCD days when I was a kid, there are a nice group of parents who signed up and really want to learn more about their faith.