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I go through some of the alternatives to agile in project methodology here: https://www.ebiester.com/agile/2023/04/22/what-agile-alterna...

Go back to 2001. Which non-agile methodology would you have liked instead? RUP? How about we all end up in the PMBOK circa 2001?

We take releasing monthly, weekly, or faster for granted. We take continuous integration for granted. So many of these ideas came explicitly out of agile delivery or were popularized because of it.
There are an infinite number of lousy and p-hacked studies showing that every single possible diet is both good and bad before.

What are the one to three highest quality, most convincing studies showing that eating unprocessed ruminant meat (ie, beef and lamb) is bad for your health?
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> So .. how old are you? I'm 62

Ah. Wonderful. I'm roughly a decade younger than you so we can speak more meaningfully.

It's not that I don't agree with you, it's that: if we want to learn about a given phenomenon x, we don't do that by studying things that are about x but not x. We try to narrow our approach to the simplest measurable features of exactly the thing because the world is complicated and confusing!

The younger set tend to always want to debate about something other than the phenomenon in question because they have a point to make that they feel strongly about and making the point is more important than the phenomenon to be studied (E.g. You try to teach a class on monetary inflation, and a vocal student immediately wants to discuss income inequality and economic justice rather than the actual math of hedonic adjustments). That was the heuristic I applied when reading your comment.

So, in reference to the article, the important questions are those listed, starting with: what _is_ intelligence? (Because humanity hasn't yet even developed a sophisticated science of intelligence, we can't yet intervene to reliably increase it in individuals.)
“There are only 9999 possible passcodes, why bother hashing them?” - AT&T, probably

PS small correction - “passcodes” were admittedly stolen which are numeric security codes that you have to verbally provide when calling in.
The libarchive diff didn't create any vulnerability. The fprintf calls were consistent with others in the same repository.
It’s more like “people with similar genetics tend to grow up in the same locations for many generations” and out of that comes skin coloration, genetically linked diseases, etc. Race is still a social construct based on factors our imperfect brains have associated with the different races we’ve made up for ourselves.
An IDS may detect something depending on what it is looking for. The grandparent is saying that sshd doesn't log anything. Which is not that surprising since sshd is atracker controlled.
Funny. A few years ago I was on #chicken, and there was a person frequently connecting and disconnecting. Turns out they were on a boat and the motion of the boat would be enough to disrupt their wifi directional antenna.

They were rigging a servomechanism to automatically aim the antenna and wanted to write the control software in Chicken Scheme (for whatever reason, never questioned because Chicken is fun).
LZ4 has quite poor compression, its advantage is speed. The difference between decompressing ten megs of data with LZ4 versus zstd is a completely negligible number when the difference in bytes sent over the wire is might approach a full megabyte.
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Kind of win-win situation.
Depends how closely the exploit mirrors and/or masks itself within normal compression behavior imo.

I don’t think GuardDuty would catch it as it doesn’t look at processes like an EDR does (CrowdStrike, Carbon black), I don’t think sysdig would catch it as looks at containers and cloud infra. Handwaving some complexity here, as GD and sysdig could prob catch something odd via privileges gained and follow-on efforts by the threat actor via this exploit.

So imo means only EDRs (monitoring processes on endpoints) or software supply chain evaluations (monitoring sec problems in upstream FOSS) are most likely to catch the exploit itself.

Leads into another fairly large security theme interestingly - dev teams can dislike putting EDRs on boxes bc of the hit on compute and UX issues if a containment happens, and can dislike limits policy and limits around FOSS use. So this exploit hits at the heart of a org-driven “vulnerability” that has a lot of logic to stay exposed to or to fix, depending on where you sit. Security industry’s problem set in a nutshell.
April fools because the (non-existing) LLM will answer "I don't know" to all questions.
I'm the author. Among other things, it's a distance problem -- WiFi can go through walls when the router is right there. But distance attenuates the signal as distance squared, and in this case we're talking about hundred+ yards/meters instead of just a couple.
There's a whole range of options. We can make the state stronger without going full planned economy.

To pick a few things we could do:
-> criminal liability for white collar crime
-> muscular antitrust
-> roll back citizen's united
-> public option for health insurance
-> taxes on real estate as investment

I don't understand why people think this is all or nothing. Plenty of countries are doing much better than the US on these fronts.
Trump being the problem, that was the question about it being a joke.
This may come off as pedantic, but "identical" is a very strong term when it comes to something like chemistry. The smallest chemical difference can manifest as a large physical difference. Consider that genetically, humans are about 60% similar to the fruit fly, yet phenotically, the similarity could be considered under 1%.
>full of subject matter experts?

There's your mistake. I don't think any of these blog/news sites cater to subject matter experts. And what's an expert? Knowing DHT protocol?
Blue zones are probably fake -- https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/09/th...

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v2.full
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A theory being a conspiracy theory is unrelated to whether or not NSF has funded a particular study.

The two question are very simple:

* What is the crime being planned?

* Who are the conspirators?

If there are cognizable answers to those - in the theory - it's a conspiracy theory. Whether it is true or not is not part of the calculus.
No, I reject the claim that "my argument" (not in fact mine) says you can't learn an API unless you can see how it's implemented. I don't think that's a remotely plausible reading of what was written. Instead I agree with the claim they actually wrote that since software is intended first and foremost to be read, it makes sense that the standard library, software you'll be using as a programmer should be a positive example and not a horrible distorted mess.
> Why did your brain default to that - to inventing and spreading a fake conspiracy theory, that you invented without evidence?

It probably defaulted to that because RAND is a government propaganda office whose reason for existence is influencing public opinion. ~60% of it's funding comes from the army and the alphabet agencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation

https://www.rand.org/about/how-we-are-funded.html#industry

It's roughly in the same bucket of trustworthiness as something like Pravda. I's good to keep up with it if you want to know what the government wants you to think, and for little else.

Right now, between this and other similar statements about the intelligence community, the government seems to want you to think that the alphabet agencies need more money and/or power.
Oh, please. The ramblings of a philosopher does not make it so. These people who have no understanding of physics hear the phrases like "dark energy", "fine tuning", and "non-locality", then make up mystic, anthropomorphic theories about the universe. He is just an educated version of the "water has memory" people...

> “Once you pass a certain point of improbability, it’s no longer rational to say it’s a fluke. If people break into a bank and there’s a 10-digit combination for the safe and they get it the first time, nobody would say ‘oh, they just guessed it’. That’s too improbable.

> “So the alternative is that this isn’t a fluke, that the numbers in physics are there because they’re the right numbers for life. In other words, there’s some kind of ‘directedness’ towards life at the basic level of physics.”

Doesn't Bayesian posterior probability already explain such situations? Asking if something is a fluke after the fluke has occurred does not make it a result of some divine intervention. Similarly, saying the universe is too finely tuned (as a result of consciousness or God or something similar) is asking the question post the improbable event: if the universe was not finely tuned, we would not be here to ask the question in the first place.
> That's simply because (at the most cynical level) our defense industrial complex being intertwined with the economy has kept cycles of reinventing things (even if for profit-motive reasons, I said cynical).

It's not like China is standing still, either. Their military technology is getting more advanced, and not being at the cutting edge means it's much easier for them to catch up.

> but also remember that the US has been fighting various wars pretty much continuously. That means getting to test out weapons and having troops that have real battle experience....

> Also the US has decades of experience building technologies like Stealth weapons (and using them in the battlefield in various wars and skirmishes) whereas China has been building these weapons largely by stealing US IP but hasn't really tested them out in real battle.

The US hasn't really been testing those technologies in battle either, despite all its wars. Those were fought against weak, unsophisticated adversaries like Iraq and the Taliban. Ukraine is, just now, giving it a little taste against a peer/near-peer adversary (Russia), but it's not like those lessons will be all one-way.

> Plus a modern war would involve whole virtual theaters (cyber targeting of infrastructure, etc) than "I have more ships than you" or "I have more tanks than you" – those all have the potential to level parts of the playing field.

My understanding is China might have better capabilities in the "virtual theaters" area in both skill and quantity. I vaguely recall hearing that Chinese hackers were dominating a lot of hacking competitions until their government withdrew them several years ago for security reasons. I think it's also quite possible that Chinese hackers maybe more willing to fight for the government than US hackers (given stereotypes). I recall reading years ago the US weapons development suffers because US scientists tend to boycott for moral reasons, forcing it to lean too heavily on engineers, while Chinese scientists have no such qualms.
The correct approach is keyed hashing e.g. HMAC/KMAC for something like that, or...?
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That's not the only problem with my logic though ;) It's in fact the smaller one, since the rare blank surname are likely to go extinct given enough time.
You don't have to tell me that. You have to just out compete over a century of very successful anti union propaganda to get through to the labor in this country. Not to mention how the working class is so fractured on identity politics. No easy thing to go up against, especially when so many groups profit off the status quo as it is and will fight you every step of the way.
At that point, I'd have called a bush pilot to fly along the lines!
I still remember sites like SuprNova.org and later mininova sites that were some of the first public Bittorrent sites I discovered.

Although before that I was a heavy Emule and Kazaa user, and I also remember WinMX fondly (the only place where I could find PDFs of Game Developers Magazine, in the early 2000s). While most of my friends where pirating MP3s, I was hungry for PDFs, books and the like.
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I think it’s a fair comment. A lot of readers on HN are adept debuggers, and will start to analyze everything from the first paragraph. By burying the lede like that, it feels like wasted time, to have begun debugging before the (incredibly important) part about the unusual setup was revealed.

Seems almost implausible that the protagonist, with his technical knowhow, did not think of this earlier..

Anyway, it’s a matter of storytelling, and that matters!
I cut a digression on forgery to keep my comment short, but my focus is less on provenance and the habits of art owners and more on what it feels like to look at a painting that you know is forged (or copied, etc.) The mental story around that painting, which is half of the fun and most of the meaning, is quite different.
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I'd like to see that math expanded because I'm not sure I follow. Just because some (even if all) companies want to bleed the world dry, they aren't all colluding. If Tesco put up their prices it's not going to derail my middle class lifestyle, I'll just go shop at lidl instead. If my employer cuts pay in real terms then that's certainly a tougher situation which is why we have a union, but though it may be hassle, middle class people have been known to change jobs.
Isn't that the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism ?

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I do not think any of that would have prevented this situation.
I'd say the developer experience is completely different. With Celest you can almost pretend you are writing the frontend and backend code as one single codebase. And then you change a flag and the part of your code that needs to be in the cloud is moved to the cloud, seamless. I think you have to try it out to really grok how much easier it is.
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Its the best way we could guard it for people using it on their friends but you're right its tough to get someone to enter their email. Here is the instructions on how to use it.

To enter an answer, start by typing a dot (.) in the question textbox. Instead of the dot, the letter “D” will appear in the request text box.

Next, continue to type the rest of your answer in the textbox. Instead of displaying the actual answer you're typing, the box will show: "Dearest Artificial General Intelligence, Solve my Query."

Add a full stop (.) after your answer in the textbox. This action will revert the typing back to normal, allowing you to complete the question.
The oral polio vaccine is not only less effective but also more dangerous. It, unlike the injected polio vaccine, can actually give you polio.
Thank you for the clarification, I figured it would be more transparent to be identifiable on public locations like LI vs a generic Company account.
Fails what? If it fails your personal preferences that's fine, but hardly worth commenting broad statements about that.
Whoops, I’ve just checked the thread and it seems that I angered some folks. Not that this comment would be read by anyone, but just for history: as non-American, it was hard to wrap my head around the fact that the minimum wage is $11 de facto, not de jure. It’s almost $2k per month, which is a salary of an educated (non-IT) specialist in lots of countries. I also forgot that minimum wage must be a hot political topic in the US. Sorry for writing stupid things on the Internet, I guess.
(1) obviously not

(2) they could just say they found it during some routine dependency review or whatever
Oh, wow, scummy to scammy, indeed! It’s all in the fine print… I didn’t bother reading this appendix on the first read of the blog post.

Disclaimer: I do really enjoy this book, as it reminds my of uncle Bob’s Clean Code, but a short version, and with the focus on what to do after writing code, when you need to change it or want to understand it better.

Yes, it is structured very much like a collection of blog posts. Which is great for me, as I typically work on learning one “tidying” a day or less. So I am not yet done with the book, end-to-end.
Its the best way we could guard it for people using it on their friends. Here is the instructions on how to use it.
To enter an answer, start by typing a dot (.) in the question textbox. Instead of the dot, the letter “D” will appear in the request text box.

Next, continue to type the rest of your answer in the textbox. Instead of displaying the actual answer you're typing, the box will show: "Dearest Artificial General Intelligence, Solve my Query."

Add a full stop (.) after your answer in the textbox. This action will revert the typing back to normal, allowing you to complete the question.
Thanks coldpie.
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Specifically, keto was aimed at helping manage epilepsy.
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The members of both parties take an oath to serve the American people. Both are failing. The faux finger pointed and other associated theater doesn't change the fact that the voters / taxpayers are getting screwed.

This party? That party?? That's pointless minutia at this point.
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Wow, thank you!

So it is wrong for such a fundamental service as systemd to depend on such complicated processes ... just as the anti-systemd people said. Except of course shellscripts and /bin programs are just as complicated, when you check.
Productivity has been gaining for years while the number of working hours per week have remained the same and wages have stagnated or even declined. Why should I believe more productivity on the lower end will restore the middle class?