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While I appreciate the need to curb potential cheating, and I've participated in a few (one at my alma mater, one at DefCon, if you want to count Build It Break It Fix It, and a couple others), I really personally don't like the format of CTFs. The chaos and rush of everything just turns it into an adrenaline frenzy (and people challenging rules) and not a skills or technical analysis, and that's not as fun or skills learning to me personally. It's kind of like cosplaying Elliot from Mr.Robot or something.

But to each his own, I guess, I'm getting older I guess and the lost hair and stress from my regular blue team infosec job is starting to catch up to me. I like the format of these OverTheWire Wargames a lot since you can do them at your own pace, not that I'd likely learn much from them (hey who knows! I'll try them anyway).

I also really enjoyed the NSA's codebreaker challenges (https://nsa-codebreaker.org/challenge), they give you 6 months just relied on the challenge being so insanely difficult that it would take a lot of technical skill to actually accomplish (though I think you have to have a .edu email to sign up). Heavily reliant on reverse engineering, memory tracing, debugger skills, disassembly, etc.
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None of this should be taken as an argument against fact-checking either in theory or in practice. There is no set of fact checking policies that will be free from errors. (Indeed nor are the journalists who write the articles infallible, as they would surely admit.)

What’s important is that the fact checkers accept corrections and recognize that they are fallible too.
For AVR specifically, no. The Embedded Book [0] (which uses the ARM-based Discovery board) is a great introduction.

I can envision a future where clean abstractions are written that can provide an Arduino-like experience in Rust, but we are still a long way from there.

You are making me want to write some Rust AVR tutorials. Once we get the latest compiler building AVR code again, that will be my next focus.

[0]: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/
China develops AI 'prosecutor' that can charge citizens with crimes
First, I want to say thank you to everyone who responded. I really liked what jameshush said about writing down my top values. After some thought, I think my top values are:

1. Kids - I will not do any job or business that will negatively impact our time.

2. Autonomy/freedom - In long run, I rather have more autonomy than money.

3. Money - This is not to say that money is not important to me but rather it is one of top 3 things I value. In short term, I need to optimize for money.

After thinking about my values and reading comments here, my plan is to combination of option A and C.

At my current company, I will start conversations with my management about moving up the ladder. And do whatever they suggest. This may take several months before they actually promote me to any leadership position, if they do. I have a lot of freedom at my current company, like I can run errands during day and catch up on work later etc. It is safe and there is possibility that in a couple of years, my salary can be close to FAANG engineers.

At the same time, I will do 30 mins of Leetcode/interview prep daily. This way if things don't workout, I will have something to fallback on. I will not stick with my company for vague promises of more money in future. If they don't offer me any concrete plan for my career progression, I will jump the boat as soon as I am ready for FAANG interviews.
While we're on topic, Egypt had Adham Sabry (I read all of them)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragol_Al_Mostaheel
A minute of silence for the poor LabVIEW developers please.
I think another rather critical point that is buried in the article is that Erikson *lied that the person writing the article* endorsed them as a behavioral scientist!

That makes everything else all the more poignant; Erikson apparently saw the author of the article as their *strongest likely supporter* which says so, so much about their degree of self delusion. The person that says Erikson is totally wrong and causing harm is seemingly about the only actual scientist Erikson knows... and Erikson continues to push their theory anyway.
I once worked at a company that mandated everybody do help desk one day a month for a similar reason. Everybody thought it was a good idea including me. There was a 5 month span when I was working 10-12h days (yes it was a startup and I was young and dumb) to get something shipped. By the 3rd time of having to take a day to work help desk I was furious that on the one hand I was expected to work myself bald to ship a product but on the other they felt it was a good use of my time to take a whole day off the project every month. After this and a couple other incidences we stopped requiring it. This is to say there are certainly some upsides but there are also morale downsides.
8% of a population owning a book is friggin huge, don't try to portray it as not.
I think it was also the timing that the books came out, and that they were more or less travel blogs with card games and shoot outs. To quote a post on a forum where they read every james bond novel, there was this interesting tidbit:

"[The books] serve as a looking glass into life in the 50s and 60s. The Bond series was a form of escapism for red-blooded British men still living under rationing until 1954. In a world where the average reader has probably never left smoggy England except for war service and is still living off of Spam and brown bread while puttering around in a used Morris, James Bond gets to travel to exotic locations from sea to shining sea, eating all the local cuisine that the audience may have never even heard of and driving rare sports cars in breakneck chases."

I always thought that was an interesting take. It might explain why a set of books that were not widely regarded as the most well written, with multiple pages dedicated simply to how certain drinks or food in a certain region are made and taste, took off precisely for the same reasons that it might be classically regarded as "bad".
I wish I could link to specific chapters. That's the thing about books vs articles, they tend to touch on a lot of subjects.

> It does not really address the more difficult segments.

Like what?
> It’s a liability to people operating nuclear power plants as they generally get paid by the market for generating power. When a grid adds solar or wind the wholesale price of electricity drops while those power plants costs stay the same. If it hypothetically costs you 10c/kWh of capacity averaged over the lifetime of the power plant your paying that money independently of how much you’re operating it. Workers showed up, equipment aged, and interest on your loan was due etc. Now actually generating electricity adds some small extra cost for the fuel etc so shutting down may actually save you money when the wholesale price falls low enough, but your losing money either way. The specifics do get complicated as a grid operator may have signed various contracts, but as the marginal costs for wind and solar are much lower than nuclear oversupply fucks nuclear in a pure market.

This is true, but here we're going back to square one [1]: wind and solar are only cheap because we don't count the externalities. Each time you build a wind farm, you hurt the viability of other electricity sources but at the same time, so you raise the price of all electricity on the market because you need these other sources to deal with intermittency anyway. But it is not counted as part of the cost of wind, even though it is directly linked to the amount of wind poer you have in your mix.

> Of course in France the government subsidizes the industry, so it’s not at the mercy of pure market forces.

No, no no and again no. You really need to stop believing in this bullshit and face the facts: France doesn't subsidize nuclear at all, it's completely the opposite: it has been a milking cow for decades. And for the past 10 years, because the EU wants to promote competition, EDF actually has to give away some of its nuclear electricity to its competitors because having a monopoly on such a money-making energy was considered unfair. (you definitely didn't look for ARENH as I advised you to do so yesterday, right?)

> As a pure economic question the cheapest option is to have some large scale energy storage. Unfortunately, once that’s on the table the capacity for steady state operation suddenly becomes vastly less useful. Which is the long way around to what I have been saying where nuclear can’t follow the grid and be economically viable close to 100%.

You don't really know what you're talking about. First of all, I don't think why you're obsessed by the idea of getting 100% nuclear, France shows that 70% is a good mix and I think everybody agrees that going higher would make little sense. But you can't run on 100% solar or wind either (you'd need at least to 2 weeks of storage if you wanted to to do, which is far out of reach) and in fact there isn't a single demonstrated example of a working grid with even “just” 70% solar/wind, and just going above 50% is going to be quadratically more expensive for each percent (the load factor decreases, and the need for storage quickly ramps up).
How can there be a replacement if we can't even acknowledge the problem. Did you see how many people disliked what I said? Should there be solutions awaiting people's recognition of the problem? I remember similar sentiment a decade ago when I was saying similar things about https.
Are the fact-checkers actually real people?

I'd imagine if Facebook wanted to clamp down on Coronavirus-related "misinformation", they'd do a sentiment analysis on any phrase with CDC, FDA, etc. and if the sentiment was negative or "bad", then it'd automatically get flagged.

If there is a human in the loop, I doubt they are reading the full article, or have any meaningful expertise. Probably just reading the headline, and clicking approve.
I second this, I'm still on free tier with a custom domain with a catch-all inbox. Looks like they offer their free tier up to 5 users.
A space shuttle is by definition a reusable spacecraft that carries people and cargo between Earth and space.

You mean the shuttle has been replaced by something newer and hence is an obsolete word?
https://teddit.net/r/spacex/comments/ncj4vz/we_are_the_space...
NASA Says Webb’s Excess Fuel Likely to Extend Its Lifetime Expectations
Internet fact checkers are merely enforcing their opinions over other opinions.

Facebook, for example, makes the claim that their fact checks are just opinion in trying to defend themselves in a lawsuit.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/13/facebook-bizarrely-claims-its-...
Yeah I am exactly at $150K.
It does appear that any half-assed study, done on the quick with obviously poor data, is trumpeted immediately as "trust the science!", but completely obvious facts, like that no one in Florida is wearing masks even in tight spaces (I'm in Florida now, and bars / restaurants / beaches / streets are packed with no-maskers), yet their covid rate is lower than New York, California, and Massachusetts which have very strict requirements. It's hard for me to trust any official statement on covid anymore.
I've seen multiple hit pieces to defame on "fact check" articles including on Reuters - which prior to that I thought was credible as a brand. These hit piece articles aren't balanced either and I even contacted a site once to ask for citations for their counter-claims - not to mention the other dishonest tactics to diminish someone's arguments/statements, where they didn't actually list any author, where they promised to respond within 48 business hours to all inquiries - but that was months ago and I haven't heard back. These are all for show but people trust them because they look good, just like poorly done science dressed up to look like it's science to the layperson - but then used as a primary citation by bad actors or incompetent ideologues who want to push a certain narrative or toe the line to not cause friction in their life. We need to figure out proper trust networks again, and how to teach/train everyone to be critical - and provide the time for this, and societally, culturally, make this process perhaps the sole thing we put on a pedestal - truth, the base or other side to coin of love.
"Serious" cyclists already own some kind of mid-to-high-end smartphone (because with billions of smartphones out there, the odds that serious cyclists don't own one are practically nil)

They probably already have "nice" bluetooth earbuds/headphones (whether AirPods, AfterShokz, or something else)

And they probably have a "good" smartwatch - Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, etc

Why would they also buy a "dedicated" cycling device?

That makes absolutely no sense to me

A bike-countable cell phone holder is under $20

Maybe there's a really good reason to have yet another dedicated device ... but I'm at a loss to figure out what it is :)
Hanania's assessment is dangerously misguided. Why? Because there is no universe in which China's actions the past 10 years cannot be viewed as serious threat to the sovereignty of its neighbors and US interests abroad and at home. Not that China's rise should (or can be) stopped, rather that a counterbalance is a must - and only a US led alliance can achieve this. Similarly, the objectives of the radical Islamists had to be opposed, and should've been addressed prior to 9/11. Several state actors were/are using sponsorship of terrorism as a means of advancing their agendas, and the US had to act (though Iraq I view as an epic failure).

But MOST importantly, is what the world would have looked like if the US had done nothing instead of engaging in the 'war on terror', the 'cold war', the Korean War, the war in Vietnam, Greneda, Panama, WWII, or WWI; and what the world would look like if the US disengaged from opposing Russia's ambitions in Europe & the Artic, or China's ambitions in the SCS.

US foreign policy is often poorly executed, totally subject to prevailing political winds, and is compromised by US business. I agree with all three of those points by Hanania. The problem is our expectations are too high given the limitations of a liberal democracy, short election cycles & the inescapable fact that the 'enemy' always gets a vote.
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"they ignored important factors like varying vaccination rates; and they counted outbreaks instead of cases."

As masks are supposed to lower outbreaks - focusing on outbreaks makes sense to me.
Are you looking specifically at AVR? ARM works out-of-the-box with stable Rust.

I can really recommend getting a micro:bit board and following the discovery book [1].

There are a few other books in the embedded Rust bookshelf [2].

Otherwise, I wrote a bunch of sensor drivers and simple examples for several boards: [3]

[1]: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/discovery/index.html

[2]: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/

[3]: https://github.com/eldruin/driver-examples
Sort of my point. It is shit but it is neccesary, any replacement is predicated on popular acceptance of the problem.
> But a 1,500-comment thread on Blind

Nothing good ever starts off that way. Astonishingly sociopathic website.

That said, I do think that the media are deliberately seeking out the weirdest and most unpleasant employee opinions; I can’t imagine most employees of the company have an issue with this. And it does seem to be something they did before; they just suspended it for a bit.
What input to their estimate process changed enough to warrant such a large shift in their numbers? Did they get new data, did their process change? Was this a mistake?

The answer is that the CDCs automated prediction algorithm called NowCast which takes their most recent genomeic sequencing data of Covid-19 strains and uses it to forceast out two weeks in the future has/had a bug in it. The estimates coming out of Nowcast did not pass a basic smell test comparison to the actual numbers or basic common sense. Nowcast estimates showed a sustained doubling rate of 36 hours which is B-movie sci-fi level infectious.
Hmm, maybe I should resubmit the claim! Would be great if I'm wrong–the form required a primary insurance declaration and I gave up at that point.

EDIT: Thanks argonaut, that worked and the claim was able to go through! Proof of Cunningham's Law.
Show HN: Kafka Test Helper 1.0.0 is out
Listing salary ranges in job postings will solve inequity issues as well as skipping Starbucks will solve one's savings issue.
Protonmail is a good option for a privacy focused group. Proton also has calendar, drive and vpn offerings.
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> Casting out at China is a very odd move to take, with no significant point of tension Taiwan aside

Highly debatable, and I would say not supported by the facts. Look at what their Merchant Marine fleet has done toward weaker powers such as the Philippines. If we don't check their behavior now, it will be more difficult to stop in the future.
Only if you disregard the importance of belief, meaning, individuation, dialog and their influence on other psychologists.
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I still use one. Granted it’s on a grandfathered google apps free account (or workspace now).

I see that as a net INCREASE in security. Google cannot now summarily shut down my access and rob me of accounts/emails. If they did so I could move my mail to a different service or just temporarily self host.

Mfa is still the same google auth as a gmail account. And the registrar (Hover) is MFA enabled as wel, using not only my primary account but a backup just in case.

Ultimately I have more control. And I’m not subject to having my account held hostage by a company with a history of pretty poor support responses that can’t be handled by algorithms.
I don't know, I think CDC may have diminished capacity in putting out good justification studies for it's recommendations/edicts. That should be called out with or without "bad intent". The crazy thing is that you will only find these bold call outs on political rags, why don't we see "moderate" media scrutinize the science behind the decisions affecting hundreds of millions?
I mainly have ATTinys and ESPs, both of which kinda-maybe work but are hard to get started with. I'll look at your examples, thank you!

I might also play with ARM a bit, I have a few black pills that hopefully will be easier to get started with, now that I think about it.
Very cool! A fairly popular terrain generation tool in gamedev which uses simulated erosion is World Creator: https://www.world-creator.com/

An additional (and tricky) requirement for procedural universe simulation games like Elite or No Man's Sky is that the terrain needs to be generated on the fly from a seed value, because there's not enough storage in the real world for pre-generated heightmaps in an infinite universe. Some additional notes how the presented algorithms deal with this requirement would be nice.
Does anyone know if kinopio data is end to end encrypted when you sign up for an account that syncs?
I think decades is pretty much par for the course.
DoorDash is a good idea in principle, but it's poorly executed. Among their competitors, Grubhub is superior in every way.

The reasons I dislike DoorDash and stopped using it:

- It has frequent outages.

- Has been the subject of controversies regarding tips.

- Does not have live customer support. They get back to you in 3 days.

Grubhub has none of the issues above, and they are always on top of orders.

Amazon Restaurants was another yet superior competitor to DoorDash but was discontinued as a service.

I have no affiliation to any of these companies, just talking from the perspective of a user.
I wrote about this 13 years ago: https://antipaucity.com/2008/06/18/whats-your-business-strat...

>There only seem to be about two strategies that work: you can try for growth (like most companies seem to do), or you can try for the niche that will consistently pay for your product.

Growth is fine

So is stability

Neither is bad

Neither is good
There is another, more fundamental lesson, that I learned during my (failed) PhD - make sure that the environment suits you. By this, I mean do some research beforehand about the supervisor and the alumni. If possible talk to one of the other PhD candidates in their department and find out if you are compatible with the working environment.

This could be hard to do such early in your life, as one does not have much experience. Usually it falls in one of two categories - either you are someone that can do the work but needs support and guidance, or you prefer working on your own, in which case a more hands-off supervisor would be OK.

If you are of the former type and find yourself working for a supervisor that doesn't offer much support, it will be very hard to finish anything, and most likely you will become demotivated and drop out. Likewise, if you want to try things on your own but your supervisor wants to dictate where to go next, there will be a lot of conflicts and even the possibility that they block the thesis until it is done their way.

Having other PhD colleagues around and bouncing ideas off of them is worth its weight in gold, make sure that there is at least one that is working on something similar as you are.
I don't remember ever being involved with embedded not using glibc if it was using any sort of Linux.
They appear to use ad tracking, i. e. this is a commercial operation and not an "educational" one
I mean it doesnt work at all, I just get a blank screen. I thought it might be uBlock Origin, but nothing was being blocked on that page. I am using Firefox Android 68.
Hi guys, I spent some of my time in order to understand how to make easier integration tests that involves Kafka. I hope that this library will help you in your project. I'm using it in another project and it looks quite useful.
I wait your comments.
>they struggle to hire people who can actually speak foreign languages

I was career Foreign Service. This observation is rather wide of the mark.

State's foreign language school is the best of its kind as it certainly needs to be - State requires all diplomats to achieve fluency in one foreign language or face termination. A two year, or more, intensive language assignment at State's Foreign Service Institute is mandatory for nearly all diplomats. As I mentioned, ALL diplomats are required to achieve fluency or they are terminated.

In fact, if you want to be paid while learning and achieving a language fluency, I can unreservedly recommend State.

edit: This "learn a language or get fired" applies only to career Foreign Service diplomats. Executive branch appointments via the spoils system (plum book) avoid such requirements.
One can make an argument like this about anything, and it’s just a defeatist attitude. Why bother to do anything then?

The reality is that security should be done in layers, and this is an important layer. The handwavy “and then it causes everyone to become incompetent” type of argument is really just nonsense that needs to go away.
Email is your proof of identity. It's absolutely critical.

Anyone with your email can not only impersonate you, but gain access to many of your online accounts.
I agree, and probably I may buy more coloring books if it weren’t for ddg. Although we have many and still my daughter wants a specific one with a unicorn and a princess and spends a lot of time picking one. The alternative to this is “take on from you coloring books you already have.” So I guess nobody is really losing anything in this case, except me, I pay for the toner in the printer as well as for the coloring books ;)