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> Universities have an opportunity and an obligation to train polymaths. The opportunity comes from the emergence of new foundations that unify fields. The obligation arises because humanity’s pressing problems are not neatly confined within academic disciplines. However, the divisive organizations of academic departments and curricula make it hard for faculty and students to understand systemic problems such as climate change, biological diversity, sustainability, and poverty.
Universities might be judged harshly in future for promoting specialization and a cult of expertise
when they could have been training new generations of scholars to understand systems as systems.

I absolutely love the general idea the essay promotes - it is completely in line with my opinions in what academia should be.

Unfortunately, the author chooses to ignore the elephant in the room: who is going to pay for it? Students are already saddling themselves with six figures of debt in the US, in Germany it's at least tens of thousands of euros to cover costs of living, and that doesn't allow for "unproductivity" aka learning stuff not relevant to one's degree that isn't mandatory - and even worse, at least in Germany you have to finish your degree in a specified time or you'll get forcibly kicked out. Society doesn't give a fuck either, education budgets have been slashed for decades now, partially causing the debt issue in the US as well as the very rigorous rules in Europe. And that's noticeable in all the "liberal arts" and other non-STEM degree programs as well - a degree in these courses doesn't result in high-paying jobs, which means they're mostly rich/affluent kids that can afford it, and some of them like Slavic studies have barely any students left at all (which explains both the quality of online discussions regarding anything Eastern European and the quality of Western politics regarding these countries - the reactions to the Russian invasion were so shameful because there were barely any qualified experts to guide politicians!).

And to make it worse than it already is, there is a second even larger elephant in the room: the purpose of academia has been completely perverted over the last decades, ever since the "push for education". Many universities these days are effectively reduced to being degree mills. Employers don't care about degrees, they care about universities weeding out undesirable employee candidates (the poor, the disabled, students with mental health issues etc pp - there's been many studies done on social strata and academic achievements) so they don't violate anti-discrimination laws or risk "duds". Capitalism has perverted and weaponized academia.

(I could go off on a tangentially related issue - who is funding academia in the first place, "chasing grants" taking away research and education time, Germany and its infamous job insecurity for anyone employed in academia and not on a tenure/professorship track, but the comment is long and rant-y enough as it is...)
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The comment you are replying to states that some of the rioters had assistance entering and being led through the building - this has been shown on video multiple times. Others forcibly entering does not preclude that occurrence.
i wonder how much of it is just that: "encouraging you that you can do anything" / abundance mindset.

I got into self-help and polymathy at a younger age and it quite literally pulled me out of poverty because I believed that I could.

Now that I'm older, I realise and understand that I'm actually not the best at everything, but I can do a little bit of everything to a sound standard, and that most other people can once they give it a little try and work through the beginner mistakes.

Some people have a real geniune fear of either: 1. Mistakes and being wrong, or 2. Learning, and having to understand something that is different to what they know currently.

I deal with people in camps 1 & 2 every day, so I'd love to find a way to help them overcome both.
I have used https://pipe.pico.sh/ for this. pico.sh also has a bunch of other SSH-accessible services, e.g. pastes, and paid (or free if self-hosted) port tunneling.
That’s disaster prep. It’s rational. Preparing for society’s collapse is not. (If you want to prepare for society’s collapse, what this article’s protagonist trains for is closer to what you want to master than kitting out a glorified man cave.)
This license is called a Fair-Source License https://fair.io/
My Scarborough elementary school in the early/mid 1990s must have been an exception.

Each classroom had a IIe, some with green screens and some with colour monitors. All outfitted with a well-rounded collection of educational game 5 1/4” floppies.

We also had a networked Mac Plus computer lab with a couple of Performas at the “head” of the table.
Technically not related to Solaris, since Solaris x86 existed and you wouldn't need it there, but yes, this was used on Sparc and any other CPU unable to run the card BIOS (including 64-bit x86 Linux, since virtual 8086 mode goes away when you're on long mode)
If you haven’t already, look at any other coup attempt from Turkey to Russia and you’ll find the answer fairly easily.
rem looks very intriguing, I'll give it a try, cross platform would be even better ofc. You're doing it without funding?

I wish the LLMs were tuned into the open source landscape more, so when someone has an idea for a POC and asks the bot to write it for them, it would go clippy mode and say "it looks like you're trying to build an open source rewrite of Rewind, would you like to clone the rem repo and contribute to that instead?" lol
There is also waybox

https://github.com/wizbright/waybox

Glad these 2 projects exist since I would want fvwm (prefered) or a fluxbox clone under wayland when I am forced to move
You a seem to be misunderstanding if not misrepresenting my point. I applaud the FOSS community for these licenses. I use them myself. And I don't expect any payment. And it's fine that if anybody invests a lot of expertise and time to build a complicated product to commercialize it. Even better if they contribute back in one way or another.

This is about a green kid coming along and quickly churning out lots of half-baked solutions, asking for frankly quite a lot of money for those, apparently without acknowledging the giants on whose shoulder they are standing. Legally they have the right to do so, sure. But we as a community can give push back in that that's not how things will work in the long run. I encourage you to check out his personal home page, you'll see what I mean. (And again, I generally applaud the enthusiasm. But those things would better be suited as portfolio-building personal OSS projects on github rather than trying to squeeze the dollars.)

There is a difference between legitimate business interests after large investments, and freeloaders.
Anybody knows if MacOS / iOS uses something similar to io_uring?
Usually when evaluating markets you consider how much money the relevant participants have, not just how many of them are.

For example China has 1bn+ people, but Canada probably shouldn't sign a free trade deal with them.
His views aren’t particularly clear, but the would-be Trump assassin does seem to have been a right-wing nutjob. I don’t see why being a right-wing nutjob would require being a Trump supporter, it just happens that most of them are at the moment.
> that I'll get consistent Apple experience that is same across all of my devices.

a buggy shitty mess? count me in!

Things aren't even consistent across mac os updates. I think it's much preferable to keep a phone a phone, and the computer a computer.

I only want a macbook because of the hardware. I'd give anything for them to fix the software. but it is what it is.
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Haha, yes, the README was generated and no, it was not a conscious choice. However I'm happy with the result.
"I would like to subscribe to your newsletter"

But, in seriousness, if you don't mind pointing to your GH fork that'd be awesome, in case I miss the show hn

My wishlist, as soon as I work up the nerve to build and flash my own image, is:

- recognize lane change blinkers and decelerate (since currently it only decelerates once the car has intruded into the lane). I am aware of the innumerable edge cases about this, but it still seems like it should be a pretty safe (and polite!) change to make

- recognize multiple brakelights and lay off the accelerator; I believe it currently uses the radar from the car immediately ahead but if 75% of the other cars have their brakelights on and the car in front is just lazy or driving aggressively, there's no reason for the Comma to cause me to further that chain

really nice to haves:

- have it recognize speed limit signs and adjust the cruise accordingly

this change is related to my desire for it to decelerate on exit ramps versus screaming into them at 65mph and then whining because the curve is too sharp for its speed. If it recognized the "recommended speed limit" sign on the exit ramp then we'd all get what we wanted, and if the exit ramp was going into a new highway no driver action would be required (versus exiting into a stop sign intersection)

- have it recognize stop signs (and yellow or red lights would be awesome). I don't need it to detect traffic or whatever, but I also don't enjoy it screaming at stop signs and red lights at full velocity causing me to have to take further action

- I need to investigate whether the Comma is bright enough to know I have an electric car and to merely let off on the accelerator versus applying the brake. My car also has multiple levels of regenerative braking, so I'd be open to it taking that into consideration but for me personally I always run in the highest level of regen because that's how my BMW i3 drove and I got used to it
In the US police and prisons are directly derived from slave patrols. This is history and factual.

In prison and jail inmates work for rates like $.25 an hour. Many places in the south prison inmates are contracted out to work minimum wage jobs and denied parole.

Recidivism rates for people incarcerated more than 6 months is something like 66% for one year post release.

There are private prisons that benefit from more prisoners. In many places the jail or prison is the largest and best employer.

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You can go on forever. It's maybe getting better in some places, but not where they used to have slavery.
>> more varied culture enriches

> Except it doesn't

I'm sorry to hear that you personally don't like the richness that other cultures add, but on the plus side, I do! :)

> Varied culture divides. It creates "us" and "them" groups, this is baked into our tribal psyche as humans

It takes someone seeking to divide, to divide. Embracing your culture and a part of your identity doesn't inherently divide anything. Ironically, the division often happens when someone says 'THEY embrace a culture I don't embrace, that must mean THEY are dividing us".

I recently went to an Ethiopian restaurant, enjoyed it, chatted with the owners, and didn't feel like they were dividing themselves from me, despite them embracing their culture. It'd be a shame for most restaurants to shut down because they embrace a culture that you don't embrace.

Have you considered the possibility that you are the one dividing people based on the components of their identity and culture and deciding which components are okay for them to have (because they match yours) and which aren't? Removing all culture but yours would be pretty boring (nothing personal, this goes for any monoculture).
Interesting ideas! Seems worth exploring for sure.
Do you have experience reverse engineering? If not, LLMs are not going to help much. LLMs are useful for aiding the analysis but they don’t do the analysis.
Woah, I lived 3 blocks from there. I thought it was alright. We called it "fake starbucks."
The UK were just being difficult and asking for things they knew they couldn't have. Like to join the single market for services but not for products. That breaks one of the most fundamental values of the EU. This is what made Brexit negotiations so difficult. And of course there was the northern Ireland issue with which they didn't even know what to do themselves.

Also, them constantly replacing their negotiatiors didn't help. But at least they're out now.
How do the automated builds work? When I tried this five years ago a hardware dongle needed to be connected to the build machine.
Naming Is Hard: Let's Do Better
You can only really do that by forking though, so it's probably not going to happen. That said, the unspoken part of that is that it supports Wayland protocols for the features that would be provided by dbus/swaysock/etc. so you can just use "stock" tools like wlr-randr and sfwbar to manage outputs or provide a task switcher. Some of these protocols are still wlroots extensions (though that doesn't mean you won't find them supported elsewhere) but increasingly those are being replaced with standard protocols (with the caveat that GNOME Mutter will probably never implement any of them, but I'm not sure if anyone cares; GNOME is probably going to wind up just being it's own thing that is technically Wayland but not how anyone else does it.)

(P.S.: I suspect Swaysock might've never existed if it were not for the fact that Sway is more or less a direct recreation of i3wm as a Wayland compositor; it is the equivalent of i3 IPC. You can and should just use Wayland protocols even in Sway where possible.)
There is so much pressure to be a specialist in today's corporate world. Specialists are like cogs in a machine - they can be swapped in and out with relative ease, compared to a generalist part/employee that does a lot of undefined, important tasks. Specialists are like puzzle pieces of a very precise shape, while generalists are like natural materials with no two sharing the same shape.

Tech companies consider their brain trusts like they consider their machines - a conglomeration of specialized systems with specific tasks and roles. They want us all to be square pegs that fit into their square holes. I find myself frustrated with this method of work, especially when mentors and managers suggest that we all should give in to this specialist mindset and train up in one specific area, to the detriment of other fields.

The world is endlessly fascinating and I want to learn about it all. I want to live in different places, learn different skills, have different chapters in my life with different focuses. I can't bear the thought that 10 years from now, my mind might be exactly the same as it is today, with no growth and no difference in thinking. I think a great way to avoid that stagnation is to think different thoughts, to change one's mind frequently, and to not get sucked into shortcuts for thinking.

One common shortcut prevalent in Western society currently is that profitability is a direct proxy for value, and that we must constantly maximize value/profitability. "Hustle culture" is a great example of this - is there something you enjoy in your life? Monetize it! Don't consider the fact that the pursuit of money might actually destroy your love of the hobby. It's happened to me before, and I'm very cautious now of letting this exchange of joy for money happen to my other hobbies as well.
What!?! Why did they do that? Absolutely bonkers.
reason for why Europeans are "against anglophones" as parent claims is likely that native english speakers tend to be only that. (not speaking anything else while for the rest of us being "anglophone" barely registers as a "skill" ...)
I do wonder in today’s landscape of single board computers what the right bit width is. A 64-bit system with like 1-2GB or RAM doesn’t make a ton of sense since your program size and data structure size grows by quite a bit but you don’t need it to since you don’t get to have more than 4GB of RAM. On the other hand there you do have SBCs with 8-16GBs of RAM but that’s a far cry from needing full 64 bits. Would an optimal bit width be 48 bits? 40?
I'm worried a move to bluetooth will lead to a mess of propritary protocols that stops devices from one manufacturer working with another
I see another person posted a credible source, so I won’t he redundant, but I do want to respond to ask why you elected to comment asking for a source - this story is very easily googlable.
It's useful to me in that you've identified an interesting niche! I like the idea! As for the implementation, eh, I'd probably rather code my own so it can be in bash or c++ ;-)

It's also useful to me in that it's a solid example of what can be done with LLMs these days, wow!

Also, tangentially, a long long time ago I had a similar system set up, except for packets, not screencaps or audio. A 24h ringbuffer on my router to log _everything_ was a cool-to-have that made debugging network issues easier.
Pro Publica is probably the most outstanding investigative journalist collective in the USA currently, unafraid to step on MAGA and militia toes despite their constant threats against journalistic freedom.
Nothing quite as disappointing as traveling to a new city for 6 am shift and finding out that there is not a single coffee shop open at that time
I find the Everdeck[0] to the the most elegant and interesting implementation of the super-deck concept. The sreator has explored and taken ideas from many other deck systems[1].

[0] https://thewrongtools.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/the-everdeck/
[1] https://thewrongtools.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/features-of-f...
Cool. A quarter of a century ago a friend of mine worked on this and you can still see his name in some copyright notices (Alistair Riddoch)

Most recently Al was learning Rust because he needs that for his current role, it might be fun to see whether you can write an ELKS target for Rust.
If I read this piece correctly, is that going forward the suppliers are going to develop their own protocols. They find Bluetooth development to onerous.
I think that you have read me to be saying the opposite of what I meant in both of these cases. Possibly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42595851 will clarify.
What better way to kick off the new year than to learn something new!

So far in the Windows Kernel Exploitation series we have exploited a Stack Overflow and Use-After-Free vulnerability. This week we’ll be learning about a new bug class the “Write-What-Where” vulnerability.

Unlike the previous tutorials, this week I’ll be releasing both the introduction and modern approach. This means we’ll be starting the tutorial with Windows 7 (x86) and ending with Windows 11 (x64)!
I have to admit I kind of inflicted this on my own child. She has her paper diaries, which are sacred, not to be touched, and a box for putting any artifacts she doesn't want me to see. But for any interaction with electronic devices, the rule is "don't do anything you don't want your parents to see. Just assume we can."

But the thing is, her permanent record exists, and I do not control it, so inhibiting her from entering things into it is somewhat called for.
Sea-Level Rise Coastal Groundwater Impacts on Municipal Infrastructure (2024)
The problem isn’t that the demand isn’t there or that the wage costs are too high. The main problems are high real estate costs and local regulations that prevent you from running a 24x7 cafe.
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Sure, but you are describing something that is not an engineering problem, and part of my point is that this has consequences for the business as well.

We're really talking about how the roles are divided in teams within an org, and increasingly engineers are having to worry about non-engineering tasks and I have experienced this causing a lot of issues in the long run for the business.

I'm basically saying that if you make the roles wear too many hats then they can't be experts in their domain and this has consequences sooner or later. One of the ways companies dilute the roles is by telling them to "create impact", instead of say create systems with no bugs and that can be iterated upon quickly.
The post's arguments can basically be summed up in three categories:

1) "Doing this wouldn't be technically feasible or would require a technical effort wildly out of proportion"

2) "There are lots of psychological biases that lead people to believe something like this happened even if it didn't actually happen"

3) "Apple is such a nice and honest company, they would never do such a thing..."

As for 1), there is enough technical discussion in this thread to disprove that point. But just as a reminder: Google build an always-on song recognition service into android, free of charge, without any obvious monetization, just because they can. OpenAI released Whisper last year as open source, a highly precise audio transcription model. By now lots of variants for on-device use exist.

All that tech doesn't just exist, it's not even seen as a moat. It's already being commodified.

As for 2), yes of course cognitive biases are always a thing. The problem is that you cannot use them to disprove something. They constitute an absence of evidence, not evidence of absence.

As for 3), yeah no comment here. Except maybe, remember Snowden. "No one would do such a thing" has already been spectacularly wrong in the past.
The difference between now and 30+ years ago is, you will be caught very quickly.
If he does follow up with releasing incriminating files then that's not nothing. We'll see. I have hopes that he wasn't lying, I like nothing more than seeing traitors and treasonous cowards exposed to the light. I try to always stay centered and skeptical, but it would be a great reveal to expose these militia cowards skulking around the country.
Close but not quite correct. Saffron comes from a specific Crocus plant named Crocus Sativus aka Autumn Crocus (because it blooms in Autumn). It’s easily mistaken with the other Crocus flowers. They require different climates.
I can’t be sure (don’t live in US) but I would be surprised if they sell Saffron flowers in such stores as it wouldn’t make much sense for gardening, especially if want to have spring flowers.
Do you receive financial remuneration for your services as an engineer? Then I'd say you're engaging in an ongoing business transaction. As such, the parties to the contract this is happening under will each evaluate whether continuing the existing business relationship is worthwhile.

You may think that this kind of deliberation is outside of the context of what being an engineer is, but it's certainly not outside of the context of what being an employee is. If you wish to be an engineer and not be saddled with business stuff, don't demand compensation, or only token compensation, which is what I alluded to at the end of my last post. In the context of business, all parties need to constantly prove that what they're providing is worth more than what they're asking for.

You can work at a company that asks for "impact", and be given a degree of agency for determining which problems are worth solving, and solve them, hopefully leading to increased revenue, reduced costs, or reduced risks. Or, you can not do that, do whatever Jira asks you to do next, and have no case as to why the company should give you more money or indeed continue to employ you in favor of another engineer who can demonstrate more of an "impact".
Good luck. If that's how you're approaching it, you're going to need it.
They are making a special case by mentioning that it was a cyber truck.

Normally they don’t mention the make/model other than in passing.

This time they not only mentioned it, it became their headline, and they claimed it exploded when it didn’t, which is outright misinformation.
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