skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still think this known military plasma laser tech is the highest likelihood of being the explanation:

"Researchers working with high-power laser weapons discovered that they could create a glowing ball of fire in the sky by crossing the beams of two powerful infrared lasers…By moving the laser beams around the sky, the researchers found they could shift the plasma ball back and forth at very high speed…. At night, they demonstrated their skills, flying their glowing creations in formation high above the cold desert."

https://www.wired.com/2007/05/plasma-laser-uf/
To be honest, GitHub sites have been amazing for me. I just have a simple static website with personal information. HTML and CSS with minimal JS. Purchasing a shared webhost still means extra cost on top of domain registration. With GitHub, I just followed their instructions with my domain, and everything just worked. I'm also not paying anything per month or year besides domain registration which is really nice when you have to start budgeting tightly.

I don't know about docker and all of that, though.
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If anything, I would suggest looking to Microsoft Quickbasic for a model of how this can be potentially refined.

Quickbasic itself was a refined version of 1980s Basics, it removed line numbers in favor of optional line labels and featured structured programming constructs like the SUB/FUNCTION statements. The IDE was an early rich development environment akin to Eclipse or Netbeans, which would do realtime syntax checking and allow the user to navigate code semi-visually (by listing functions in a dialog).

All the while, Quickbasic had a "standard library" of sorts that made drawing graphics and playing (PC speaker) sounds relatively accessible for the beginner programmer.

It still had its rough edges (string manipulation was godawful), so a straight port of Quickbasic idioms probably isn't in order, but as far as refining Basic to be a bridge between beginner and advanced, I still feel like it never quite had a proper successor.
I've found a combination of keeping a journal, having self-compassion, and having something to prove to be the key to sticking with a self-study regimen.

Journaling helps document progress and provides notes that you can transcribe to a spaced repetition system (i.e. flashcards) for long term retention.

Self-compassion is key for picking yourself up after you feel overwhelmed by a topic and quit for the day, which will happen. You have to not be so hard on yourself and understand that there will be good days and bad so that you can build the long term stamina needed to see the project through.

Having something to prove (i.e. I'm a business guy but I can learn coding too; I know I'm smart enough to score high on the GMAT/LSAT whatever and get into the school of my dreams, etc etc) is often what motivates me the most. It gives you that "why" that you need to keep yourself focused on finishing in the face of so many distractions until the project is done.
No, they are not arguing that. I can tell because their post says something else, and because that would be stupid.
Unfortunate date.
A 5GB limit, and the $6/month (?!?!) has a 10GB limit??????
That’s an interesting though. Serious question: how do you quantify inequalities that represents a systemic risk versus ones that do not?

I ask because perfectly equal wealth distribution or maybe even desirable (see many attempts at communism ending badly). Further, there are parts of the world where people have very different cultures and “standards of living” and are happy, which is not dangerous even as it is not “equal.”

So how do you best quantify and anticipate which “infrastructure differences” are fine and maybe even locally optimal, versus which ones are going to lead to harm?
So whats the point of rewriting coreutils in rust? If you’re passing attacker controlled inputs into grep you’re probably doing something wrong anyway.

It doesn’t seem like there’s much to be gained here. Network facing software is where the big wins are.
no what I meant is that during the process of grinding up the rock they mixed in the organic matter from the surface of the rock into the dust itself, the bacteria lived off that substance.
Yeah but...but... that would just get the job done. Nothing to write about, nothing to whine about, no weird dependencies being pulled, nothing to hand-wave, nothing to yell and humblebrag about. No theatre.

You are right, this IS madness.
Such ecosystems come with incredible costs. For instance, rust cannot even compile itself on i386 at present time because it exhausts the address space.

Is this true anymore or just a history note?
That's true of everybody who's passed econ-101, of course.
How about binary patching your container? - pretty sure I've seen this done somewhere but can't find the link to it.
> (looking at you mailbox.org)

It's been few years. I am on Mailbox's 12 Euro/year plan which has "forum" only support (I am not sure it changed after I became a customer). My emails suddenly stopped working once and I received email response after a week (which just had an irrelevant link). I had reset the mail setup by then after backing up email from local client. I replied to the email asking what went wrong and never received a reply. They seem very aloof and high-handed about customer support if I may say so.

I am looking at moving my mail provider. I have stopped using @mailbox.org mail for online a/c signups etc (which I did a lot earlier) and have started removing it from wherever it is used already.

Is Migadu stable and been around? How's their service and privacy track record? Did you evaluate any other provider in Euro 12-20/year budget range? My email usage is extremely low volume.
>Yes I know about comingling, but Amazon does not comingle their own interventory with 3rd-party sellers. (Apparently they may have in the past but do not anymore.)

Source?

Edit: This page from Amazon does not state shipped and sold by Amazon is excluded from commingling.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/200141480?...
Swarmkit is the code that runs "Docker Swarm", it is vendored in to build it. I don't think anyone really uses Classic Swarm any more, and it was a precursor.
A more current article/new video is: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-04-28/navy-declas...

And an even better article I read a few days ago (now cannot find the link) where the Navy says that "To the Stars" "Academy of Arts and Sciences" fronted by Blink 182 ex Tom DeLozenge should not have released the videos before because they had not been properly cleared for public release at that time. But now they have been. Officially unclassified and released.

Also, predicting HN comments before reading them:

> this still doesn't prove it's not an above TS ECI SAP

> this is clearly a disinformation campaign to hide our own advanced tech

> these are obviously Chinese drones. But the Russians are probably involved

> ahahaha, the whack jobs talking about aliens, reminds me of crazy conspiracy theorists, ahahah, they all talk the same, you can tell them from how they used concise sentences that they must be crazy and wrong

> I agree with the mainstream consensus. Tell me what to think, I will not say 'it's aliens' until the government tells me its OK to say that

> I sleep better knowing this is OUR tech

> BUT, if it IS aliens, they are clearly here to destroy us, so we need to prepare for war.

OMG, I checked the comments and I see it's worse. People are still claiming that "the analysis" confirms these are clearly weather balloons, or "visual artifacts". This is not 1947 people

predicting this will vanish from the front page in 3...2...1... Now let's all go back to worrying about the pandemic or idolizing the new shiny
I don’t think Linux or bsd will ever be rewritten in rust nor should they. I do think eventually there will be an os written in rust that surpasses them in popularity, but probably on the time frame of decades.
Throw in those, + fd[0] and rg[1]

0: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

1: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
The gatekeeping is strongly implied by this statement:

> As a general trend the only things being written in these new languages are new web-facing applications, quite often proprietory or customized to narrow roles. Not Unix parts.

Which I read in the tone of "go play with your toy language somewhere else, and let the real programmers program with real languages. Additionally, there's the allusions to the fact that the ls/grep-replacements in Haskell aren't POSIX-compliant, which I again read in the tone of "they can't be taken as serious replacement efforts."
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Misleading title. Youtube actually terminated the man's account.
There where two pilots and two feeds that displayed the same image, so the only other conclusion is that both the pilots had a hot pixel on the exact same corresponding location.
> Most of my security is based on OpenPGP keys stored on a Yubikey. In case the first one is broken/lost I've got another one. If both are lost there is a master copy on an offline computer that can be used to provision more Yubikeys.

- https://blog.eleven-labs.com/en/openpgp-secret-keys-yubikey-...

Sounds like a good start, I'm going to have to do much more reading on this, I use my YubiKey just as a browser 2nd factor for a few 2FA apps.

In general I'm not sure how the YubiKey stores keys and till now I had no idea you can backup YubiKey

> The key unlocks access to passwords stored in pass. Because pass is based on git and gpg can be used to access SSH then the same yubikey is used to pull/push changes to pass and read encrypted passwords. On both the laptop and the phone (Password Store).

I'm not sure about storing the master keychein file in Git, but the workflow sounds interesting (I didn't fully understand the paragraph though).

> Data on the computer is LUKS-encrypted, unlocked by the Yubikey. Full backup of my laptop's SSD is done via btrfs send/receive to a raid1 array of 3 disks (raid1c3) on a regular intervals. A small subset if very important data (documents) is also backed up via restic to S3 and Backblaze.

This is next level and not of immediate interest to me. I was looking at something simpler like: https://cryptomator.org/
Note that the alternative is use the whole humanity as lab rats. Something like:

fake quote> We have the gut feeling that this drug is better. We got good results in animals models with a somewhat related illness. Let's try this new drug with everyone for a few years.

There are multiple phases of the trials. The first use a small number of people in case there is something very wrong. The last use more people, to try to detect subtle problems.
> A 12.3 megapixel Sony IMX477R sensor on the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera offers significantly more pixels than the 8-MP Pi Camera V2, the previous first-party module which will remain on sale. The camera is also much larger than previous models, measuring 38mm square, versus 24mm by 23mm for the V2.

> The reason for the size increase is due to an interchangeable C mount where compatible lenses (sold seperately) can be screwed into place. The included adapter will also enable CS lenses to be used with the camera.
That may be what happens most of the time, but not always

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/1918_spa...
It doesn’t work like that. I believe one should strive to make their content accessible to all possible viewers (it’s not like mobile Safari is niche), not simply throw their hands up in the air and blame it on the OS when some visually impaired are unable to access the content. iOS has the mechanisms to zoom, and websites by default will work with zoom. But this person has written just enough CSS to break native accessibility, but not enough to bring it back.

Reader mode is enabled for many websites, but not this one. Another case of someone writing just enough CSS to screw over their visually impaired viewers.
79 by my count, but I'd be happy to have someone correct me.

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/ef4d09ee3c067c280ba...

It looks to me like the only changes in that table since November 2017 are that `join` and `df` were moved from 'todo' to 'semi-done'.
"C.I.A. Admits Government Lied About U.F.O. Sightings" (1997)

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eBay did this to me.
A closer comparison - an average node folder weighs a lot more than an average Python virtualenv.
Leaking data is one of the issues with all those CRUD framework tutorials.

It is nice marketing: look how easy it is to output entities with our framework!

The problem is: you almost never want to output complete entities. You want to output data based on the user's role/rights and on the context.
I wish frameworks would put more focus on this.
People often mistake Rust's safety guarantees for a sandbox like JavaScript. "Safe" Rust code is still on the trusted side of the airtight hatchway[1], so hacks like that are a class of "arbitrary code execution leads to arbitrary code execution".

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...
Agree. I can't understand why anyone is still on windows or mac os. The world does not make sense.
This link says its permitted:

https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/16766513?hl=en
My espresso machine turns on my coffee grinder. No wifi/bluetooth/etc.

Just bad EMI immunity.
BSD does not use GNU coreutils. Is it really unexpected that the developer of a BSD project might have been unaware at the time of a project attempting to replace it, or simply found it incompatible with the stated requirements-- POSIX compliant base utilities. OpenBSD does not care about compatibility with GNU, for example longopts do not work for many utilities, with exceptions to permissive replacements to historically used GNU utilities (grep example).

It also does not address the concerns of higher build times compared the contemporary C counterparts, which also support far more platforms than Rust.

The use of cargo for example suggests that at least a few uu utilities makes network connections at build time to fetch dependencies!

For example something as simple as chown:

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/uu/chown...
I've spent a couple of weeks on Haskell and a couple of weeks on domain driven design and I felt like the latter made a larger impact on how I saw using code to model the domain.
I think it's OK for platforms to have principles and if those principles are going to yield anything of value you have to be fairly consistent and ruthless about them.

There was a little bit of editorializing there but if 'base builds base' is table stakes then start working on that coreutils project first.
Is it really a vacation if you have to pencil in fun time?
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My suggested explanation: Weekend staff don't have orders to modify cause of death on death certificates to reflect COVID-19.
It reminds me that we humans are capable of going to great lengths to resist change, even when it creates shitty outcomes.
Warren Buffett says Berkshire sold all its airline stocks due to the coronavirus
If it were political censorship, that might be something to discuss but infectious diseases can spread to people regardless of what their politics are. Reality trumps beliefs every time.
> Indeed. This is a pretty damning difference. The `target` string is being repeatedly UTF-8 decoded where as the same is not true in the Go version. The Go version even goes out of its way to do UTF-8 decoding exactly once for each of `source` and `target`, but then doesn't do the same for the Rust program.

I'm really not sure that's an issue, utf8 decoding is very, very cheap and it's iterating either way.

It would have to be benched, but I wouldn't be surprised if allocating the caches (at least one allocation per line of input) had way more overhead, especially given the inputs are so very short.

I'm not going to claim Rust's utf8 decoder is the fastest around, but it's very fast.
we live in the phase of the epidemic where alarmist news flourish

just as with any evolutionary process when the environment rewards a kind of behavior that behavior will become preponderant.

in this case even though it is far more likely that the virus would become less dangerous that idea gets less exposure, people will more likely read the scarier news.
If you can write C as well as the OpenBSD people, be my guest, keep writing C. It might take you like 20 years to get somewhere interesting.
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Had the same thought. Did this person consider using different software? Why hurt yourself like that?

Its no wonder that it will never be the year of the Linux Desktop.
I've heard about this from the Guix context: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/
This is (or something like it) is the most likely scenario based on what we know. I'm amazed at the number of people who fail to apply Occam's Razor in this case, especially when UFO sightings have been used as disinformation in the past.
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask was never supposed to exist
More and more it seems like the corporation/organization is taking the conceptual role of the state in the USA.
Indeed, it looks like doing the UTF-8 decoding up-front is exacerbating the performance difference in the allocator.

I think this is where the GP's first suggestion comes into play. If one were writing this code _and_ cared about performance, then you'd usually find a way to reuse allocations. I submitted a PR to demonstrate this: https://github.com/christianscott/levenshtein-distance-bench...
Use a proper client like Thunderbird with IMAP. You now have a full email backup on each of your devices :)
In my opinion, a hierarchical organization is the cause. In an organization, which have heavy middle and top management, is excess fat. You are paying them a lot more to "manage" the employees. This gives a lot more power to C-level executives.

It surprises me, why companies would deviate to organizing themselves as a hierarchy.
I've used f#. Type providers were really cool. And I like how terse it is but I feel like the gap is narrowing, and I couldn't ever use it on a real project. I'd feel guilty building a project for a client that is supportable by a tenth the number of developers without very good reason.
... and he's still in tech apparently, just not working for someone else
Suppose a nation state spend several trillion dollars on investigating every improbability to achieve science fiction like travel capacity & speed to eventually reach the conclusion we have reached global maximum of physics as it is.

What is the superior strategy to this nation state other than sending adversaries on a similar resource waisting wild goose chase?
> the gatekeeping implied here (it's not a serious language because it's not used to build an operating system) is really toxic.

He's not gatekeeping in that way by saying that Rust isn't used to create OS utilities (which as an aside is what he actually says. He doesn't say anything about building an OS) and therefore isn't a serious language and therefore shouldn't be included in OpenBSD*. He's saying it's not used for making OS utilities and therefore has no specific use in OpenBSD that requires it to be in the toolchain. Very different points with the latter being pretty reasonable, imo.
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That's exactly how I was doing it years ago: Hugo and script to upload to S3. Engineers like to overengineer stuff... get away from that habit folks.
I wonder what the chances of that are. Seriously.

I suppose there's a non-zero chance it's 2 instruments failing in precisely the same way in precisely the same spot at precisely the same time.

Stranger things have happened.
I have to admit I was slightly disappointed it wasn't that. But this is an interesting story too.
It’s not k8s api compatible - so no, not straight off.

You can use nomad to schedule pretty much any workload you’d like, including docker containers.

You could probably schedule a raw command that is “docker-compose”.
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Something tells me that if you are bent on using FOSS and/or care about privacy then Gmail isn't going work.

Can't argue that there must be easier ways to handle email.
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Optional technologies or services are optional until they aren't.

Dependencies create defacto requirements with the alternative of severe disadvantageous if opting out.

Corporations answer to shareholders, creditors, business partners, and management long before they do individual users. Who, in the case of Google aren't even direct customers (advertisers are). Representative governments answer, however imperfectly, to the governed.

Email self-provisioning has significant hurdles for even technically-competent individuals let alone the general public.

Your suggested alternatives ignore the problem and create more.
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Pretty much :)
I don't know how would I classify a short UUID, but they should follow the same precautions as if it was a password composed only of lowercase alphanumeric chars. The longer you can afford, the better.
It's cheap, but not _that_ cheap. It shouldn't be as cheap as just iterating over a sequence of 32-bit integers.

But yes, I did benchmark this, even after reusing allocations, and I can't tell a difference. The benchmark is fairly noisy.

I agree with your conclusion, especially after looking at the input[1]. The strings are so small that the overhead of caching the UTF-8 decoding is probably comparable to the cost of doing UTF-8 decoding.

[1] - https://github.com/christianscott/levenshtein-distance-bench...
The "on i386" part that you stripped out when quoting is actually the important bit. Rust does not care about having a self-hosting 32-bit x86 toolchain, while the lack of one is a deal-breaker for OpenBSD.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Not "cute" enough?

(More people complained about those charts than thought them cute.)
Given that it's almost impossible to do this with modern hardware I don't see what the distinction is?

I'm not aware of any way to make a modern x86 processor self-destruct. Apparently you can make an FPGA fry itself but even then not with good heat conduction away from it.
I use google sheets. I find it more easy that using complex todo lists.

- https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9310268#1.1

- https://medium.com/benjamin-dada/tutorial-how-to-build-your-...