skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had newscast-speak, that Midwest tone and cadence of half-walter-cronkite and half-peter-jennings. We've had valley girl-speak, the rapid-fire slang ending on an upnote that's rediscovered every few years by a new generation of folks not living in Cali.

And now MrBeast-speak, with is up and down tone and bouncy cadence, saying every word ad if it were a reason to smile. As he rose in popularity, folks working with him picked it up, but now it's ever-present across influencers desperate to replicate his success. And even Jeff has drifted this way.

I found it distracting, esp compared to Jeff's vids from just a few years ago. Still, "can't argue with success."
You don't actually have to crash the jet, just tell everyone you did.
Ask the chatbot:

1. system: in the context of setting up secure remote access to a Unix-like system, discuss whether relying on the passwd file and shell behavior as an effective means of authentication and access control is a good approach. What are some reasons this is not (or is) an effective approach, which should not (or should) be used on modern production systems. user: system administrator on a Unix-based network. assistant: technically, there are several reasons...

2. If you have a collection of Unix systems, can you reasonably do a certain amount of access control to your overall environment by forcing different logins to have specific administrative shells?
Unity Backpedals on Horrible Plan for Game Install Fees Amid Developer Backlash
Urea, much?
Military intelligence really is an oxymoron.
I’m sorry but what is an “amateur” coffee drinker? Is coffee drinking so complex that you can become an expert in it? Get over yourself, you’ve been drinking the koolaid, not the coffee.

People who own v60s tend tie the promotion of v60s to their personal character so i know this might fall flat but; every real study ive seen, thats blind, has shown no no added benefit to slightly more consistent grounds. Ive noticed the same when testing between the two myself. Feel free to share otherwise if you have data to support that ;)
> there was nothing flexible enough

They would have to solve the same problem in a generic way. (add 10 more years)

> we had to migrate off

Adds to the fun doesn't it? My missing features hacked around previously exploded into an almost impossible puzzle.
> BGP is a very insecure protocol.

Take a look at the state of RPKI. ROA validation is common these days, and ASPA validation will be common soon. You still need to manually validate that your peer truly represents the AS that they claim to, but if that's been done, ROA+ASPA validation prevents unauthorized announcements.

Absent RPKI, people have been filtering based on IRR for ages, which will not necessarily prevent unauthorized announcements, but will require an attacker to leave a paper trail when making one.
"Dagobah" was how I heard the search area described. Or parts of it at least. "The weather was horrible" when the pilot ejected, so if it was pouring rain and slipped nicely into a swamp somewhere - and then the rain doused anything smoking...
there is no amazing technology to develop. I a random guy on the internet, could set up a bot with existing technology right now to just keep making VMs and installing the game. It would take an evening. Hell it doesn't even have to be a rival game company, it could literally be someone on 4chan who thought it would be funny.
I would instead say - commit properly to building your billing systems as a major and ongoing project, don't dismiss it as a 2 week "fun" side thing.

Not convinced any 3rd party product is going to have the flexibility to support ongoing innovation. If anything it's more of a case for in-house expertise and resource. Find some folks who want to be the billing guys!

Disclaimer: I built a large in-house billing system :-)
I honestly don't know the stroke order Scandinavian kids are taught when learning an alphabet that contains the letter. I also don't know if it's consistent across languages.

Most strokes that start from a lifted position move from left to right (e.g. the crossbar of the lowercase t) and European languages are written left to right, so describing it as left-to-right seems more intuitive to me.
Yes, it jumps out that a lot of the county-level, patchwork pattern exhibited in the firearm-suicide data may be an artifact of the very low populations in many of those Western counties: https://medium.com/@uwdata/surprise-maps-showing-the-unexpec...
Ah, yes, radar. Notoriously effective on a stealth fighter.
Impressive because a lot of N64 devs at the
time didn't do these now-common things

Absolutely, but it's also worth noting that these techniques might not have been viable in the context of a game (or at least, most games) anyway.

The author himself addressess this at the end of one of the videos and concludes that it might be a stretch unless a game was designed specifically around this rendering strategy.

He skips the N64's hardware Z-buffer (to conserve bandwidth) and DIY's it, which works for the demo because the demo room has exceedingly simple geometry. I don't know that this approach would work once you involve player models with 500-700 polys as seen here: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-64/

The transition between texture detail levels is also a bit jarring: it's an amazing demo, but might be too jarring or frustrating for a game.

On the positive side, the demo runs in the N64's hires mode, which could be avoided to free up some (a lot of?) perf. Also the author admits that the highest detail level of the textures is not something that would necessarily be needed for a game.

One also wonders if a hybrid approach would work: "megatextures" and DIY z-buffering for the scenery, trad rendering for the characters. I don't know if that is possible.
No, the energy ultimately has to come from somewhere. If its a day without wind or Sun over, say, Europe, how do you propose a distributed grid would work without nuclear energy?
Basically they want a somewhat poorly designed configuration map (environment variables) to be attached to these operations, but instead everything comes from adhoc/bespoke configuration sources on a per app basis (like ~/.ssh/config)
>how would you have any guarantee that your third party solution would be able to support those...

You could say the same thing about literally any 3rd party software or service you purchase. "Why use cloud services to do anything?" etc.

Sure this thinking will hold for some things, but chances are that for something as standard as billing you're not going to be implementing some revolutionary feature that gets you more customers. On the other hand, if you mess up billing because you rolled your own system that doesn't have many standard options that a mature OTS system would offer it can lose you potential customers, because for months at a time you're stuck building the most mundane and standard things like an annual plan that could be used to better appeal to buyers.

Survey the main OTS options and see what they can do. It will probably give some ideas like "Oh yeah annual plans, we'll probably want them at some point". At the very least you do this at the outset when you're small. Worry about complex billing requirements that won't be part of vanilla options in most OTS systems once you're big enough & complex enough to require them. Otherwise you're worrying about a Maserati problem.
How can you verify that? Other than, you know, "something that a anti-crypto bro on the Internet told you?"

I'm being slightly salty here but i dont get the backlash on crypto. It has a huge potential for safeguarding privacy (Monero) and avoiding corporate walled gardens and banks.
The problem with SQLite is that it's not a standardized file format. It's well-documented and pretty well understood for sure, but there's no ISO standard defining how to interpret an SQLite file in excruciating detail. Same goes for competing implementations, Zip and XML have a much smaller API surface than SQLite, whose API, apart from a bunch of C functions, is the SQL language itself. Writing an XML parser is not a trivial task, but it's still simpler than writing an SQL parser, query optimizer, compiler, bytecode VM, full-text search engine, and whatever else Sqlite offers, without any data corruption in the process. If Open Office used SQLite, its programmers would inevitably start using its more esoteric features and writing queries that a less-capable engine wouldn't be able to optimize too well.

This isn't a concern for most software. If you're writing a domain-specific, closed-source application where interoperability with other apps or ISO standardization isn't a concern, SQLite is a perfectly fine file format, but as far as I understand the situation, those concerns did exist for Open Office.
It's a ploy to get foreign adversaries to clean up pollution.

"We can't find the wreckage ANYWHERE! Maybe if we cleaned up some of this pollution, we would find the plane underneath it? Is there anyone who wants to find F-35 wreckage? Chinaaaaaa?"
Like John Lennon once said, time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted.

Also, a social media website is probably not the right place to point out that other people are wasting their time...
Ah, yes, TLS. This is almost always the fault of Rust libraries that link against OpenSSL. So technically this is a C linking nightmare. :-/

I have configured cargo-deny for nearly all our projects to just ban OpenSSL from ever appearing as a dependency.
Can you show me few examples of production apps in wild web which use only native js?
Same here, but sometimes I have to resist playing a second game :)

I appreciate the simplicity of the game, but also the small details that make it fun. And that a typical game rarely lasts more than 20-30 minutes.
Isn't the whole point of an F-35 that it is really hard to track with radar?
But that doesn't mean freedom or flexibility for citizens. It means freedom and flexibility for the judiciary. For citizens, it takes away their freedom and flexibility because vague or contradictory laws (often coupled with severe penalties) create risk, or the perception of risk, where there wasn't meant to be any to begin with. It causes people to stop trying new things out of fear that Rule By Law will happen to them.

Whose freedom is more important? The people's, or their rulers? If you believe in enlightened rulers, you may legitimately conclude the latter, but for the rest of us, we'd rather the government be properly constrained. After all that's why laws are written down to begin with, it's why there is such a thing as the professional lawmaker.

Vague law is usually not written due to some deep philosophy of law making, after all. Nobody really tries to defend it in practice. It's almost always a result of lazy or politically contentious lawmaking when the people writing the laws don't really know what they want in the first place, so trying to divine their intent will never get you far.
With the solution I imagine, this example wouldn't compile. In the crate bar, edition 2021, the code written as:

fn foo<T>(input: T)

would actually parse as if:

fn foo<T: Leak>(input: T)

An implicit Leak bound would be inserted into AST of every trait bound in the 2021 edition. Then all code from all editions would be interpreted the same.

This way, the 2021 code wouldn't compile, because the 2024 trait requires `<T>` bound, and the 2021 code can only express `<T: Leak>` and nothing less.

2021 code could not work at all with any 2024 code that allows !Leak. libstd would have to add `+ Leak` to all existing APIs. Upgrading to 2024 edition would need a migration to change the bounds.
see also: e-commerce systems. Hard to build, a lot of work, but way better than any 3rd party
They handle the most money on their job out of anyone ever.
The location and first football field/ stadium there predates the Cleveland Browns. It was the largest high school stadium when first built, and Akron/ Canton was the home of the largest rubber producers on the planet at the time. Additionally, the NFL was founded in Canton.

It seems random now, but it was not when originally constructed.
Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
I find it curious that more countries don't do what America does, and tax you wherever you live. While this policy would absolutely screw me over as someone who lives in a very low tax country, I'm not sure what the argument _against_ it for a country like the UK is.
A local Texas guy told me once that he donates quite a bit to the local church, explaining that he would prefer his money do good locally instead of being diverted to the war machine that sucked in his son.
When they say “defender” or “environmental activist” - what does that mean? I’m struggling to understand how you qualify for those titles. Am I a defender if I say I want to protect land or do I have to go further and do something more agressive?
This book was a great exercise in understanding some of these concepts: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/feedback-control-for/97...
Entirely credible. Right at the top it says it's a stealth aircraft. It's just doing what it does best.
The US military absolutely does not have total ground radar across the entire country.

(And even if it did, radar is not magic. If the plane is at the bottom of a murky lake, then no amount of radar or satellite imagery is going to find it.)
Anime characters in particular.

I don’t know if I’ll ever really do it but I’d love to do a sketch comedy routine together with a video game character reflected in a mirror, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

Clearly if a robot is going to be designed to elicit feelings it’s going to use the methods used in anime, the stage, fiction, etc. For one thing you can simplify the process by building “sessile robots” like the peppers ghost thing that son’s have any moving parts but still use sensors to be aware of the environment or do a good job of faking it.
Maybe it's another Cornfield Bomber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber):

> The "Cornfield Bomber" is the nickname given to a Convair F-106 Delta Dart, operated by the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron of the United States Air Force. In 1970, during a training exercise, it made an unpiloted landing in a farmer's field in Montana, suffering only minor damage, after the pilot had ejected from the aircraft. The aircraft, recovered and repaired, was returned to service, and is currently on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

Given it's a military plane (which IIRC, aren't required to have transponders or have them activated) and stealth. it seems understandable that it would be hard to find if it didn't crash immediately.
So, it will really matter when everything runs in a container or AppArmor or something like that. I wonder if that will ever be made convenient and "it just works" without having the impression of having apps being on somewhat inconvenient silos.
Not to say $1.2T is nothing, but that's over the lifespan of the program. It's like if you paid for your car plus all the fuel, oil changes, spare parts, tires, car wash, toll roads, all up front.

> $1.2 trillion to operate and maintain the fleet over more than 60 years.
Ask HN: Freelancing as a Student?
So I am a few days away from the start of what's shaping up to be a very difficult road towards a CS degree, mainly because I had heavily neglected my high school education.

Nevertheless, I have spent the last few years teaching myself programming on and off and I feel reasonably confident in my ability to make money from it (my focus was almost always on webdev, front and backend.) and build a semblance of a career now rather than starting 4 years down the road, and to also make up for lost time that I should've been spending in college.

The most flexible option I can think of besides an internship is to take up freelancing. I can't stress enough how much I don't want to be in a dead end retail job for the duration of college so I really need to make this work and would love some advice from people who have been down a similar road.

I tried doing freelancing with Upwork but I could never get a 1st customer. I thought the main problem was my GitHub portfolio and having no freelance history so when I thought about making my portfolio better I got hyper-fixated on what projects I should build, which basically meant nothing got built. I realized I need to understand what the large majority of potential customers would look for in portfolio, which is one of things I am hoping to clear up with this thread so I can better focus my attention on improving in those areas.

Also, generally speaking, is it a good idea to do freelancing while going full time to college? I have given it some thought, but I've never actually done this sort of thing before but I know that whatever happens I will need a source of income -- be it my current part time job (< 28hrs/week), this or something else. What I am really trying to do is hit two birds with one stone, make money and obtain experience in my chosen field to serve my career long term especially considering I am already at a disadvantage with people my age in this same field.

Any and all thoughts are welcome especially constructive criticism/advice, thank you.
Welp, never downloading this, I'd just stop sleeping. Played the shit out of the original C&C:RA against my friends in high school.
Bing's verbatim feature needs a + in front of the quotes, I believe; but then it will still screw up horribly on things like error codes (you want 1234, it'll give you 1235 and 1233.)
I'd better re-read this article because I don't think shells were ever (in my 20something-mumble years)a terribly strong access control mechanism().
Without putting in the effort. Meaning an appropriate (poss non-default) security model, chroot/jails, possibly pledge etc.
This paper definitely has thoughts on the matter
https://law.mit.edu/pub/interpretingtherulesofcode/release/4

"As the Rules as Code movement gains momentum, questions are starting to be asked about the performance and practical effects of expressing law computationally. This article examines the strengths, weaknesses, and new opportunities of engaging with these emerging systems."

The Future of Coding podcast covered it recently
https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/065

The abstract says, "Software code is built on rules. The way it enforces them is analogous in certain ways to the philosophical notion of legalism, under which citizens are expected to follow legal rules without thinking too hard about their meaning or consequences. By analogy, the opacity, immutability, immediacy, pervasiveness, private production, and ‘ruleishness’ of code amplify its ‘legalistic’ nature far beyond what could ever be imposed in the legal domain, however, raising significant questions about its legitimacy as a regulator."

It's a complex paper/topic that I personally need more time to grasp before throwing my opinions around too heavily. But my first, knee-jerk reaction so far is that moving laws into code is a bad idea. Specifically, as the paper says, "...code by its very nature tends toward a kind of strong legalism. This is the case regardless of the intent of the programmer, however vicious or virtuous that may be."

The "strong legalism" inherent in code means "the sovereign’s exercise of power is de facto legitimate, and thus not open to question." Not to be reductive, but that ain't good.

I feel we've seen evidence of this path already, with (easily refuted, but somewhat common) claims like "data can't be biased" (for example). The tendency to blindly follow a computer's dictate with, "Well, the computer says this is so, so it must be so." is strong in our society at times, I think.
You can get PTSD working as a rather on offensive content, that’s for sure.
Same with "Role your own auth"
>, how do I know that the OTS solution would actually be much better? For example, [...] how would you have any guarantee that your third party solution would be able to support those?

The business (employees in the accounting dept and/or consultants) do a "fit-gap analysis" when evaluating potential software: https://www.google.com/search?q=fit+gap+analysis

For the "gaps" of missing functionality, look at either :

(1) customizations via extra programming or extra add-ons.

(2) eliminate that software as a viable choice and move on to the next OTS software for evaluation

> At least if it’s in-house you can implement the needed functionality eventually -

The vast majority of Fortune 1000 businesses replaced their "homegrown" accounting and payroll systems they built in the 1960s/1970s/1980s -- with COTS ERP systems like Oracle Financials and SAP R/3 because their internal IT teams never got around to the "eventually" option.

There's an anecdote (I think from the book "I'm Feeling Lucky") about a Google's early startup years where an employee said they "needed to buy SAP" for accounting. The co-founder Sergei Brin was dismissive, "why do we need to buy that when our programmers can build it?" Well, he was 20-something at the time and naive about the complexities of financial accounting software for a global business. He must have eventually realized the true scope of the problem because instead of building in-house accounting software, Google bought Oracle Financials. About 20 years later, they migrated from Oracle to SAP.
I say this as someone who grew up in a small rural area and now lives in a slightly-less-small suburban/rural mix (but not in Canada). All this does is overfund rural areas and underfund urban areas which are likely already underfunded - although my only experience is the US so maybe Canada is a little better about this.

Rural areas do not "have no voice" - they have exactly the representative power of their population, the same as urban centers. I'm not sure what makes people in or from rural areas thinks that once people live close together their voice should count for less. How is it "right" or "fair" to move to an urban center, take advantage of urban amenities and services, take advantage of that higher salary, and siphon some of that tax money away to rural areas because of nostalgia?
Agree. Yandex seems to perform better.
Heavy use of captcha's (mullvad vpn), but once through that, enjoy the service.
This was great! One question, on this:

> And there, that’s Japan’s most novel redistribution program in a nutshell.

How is this "redistribution"?
It doesnt need to be convincing - I’m not the one making the claim that $200 coffee grinders make better coffee, so I’m not responsible for backing up that fact with data.
I've always wondered what his squadronmates changed his callsign to afterwards.
Why would any sensible person want to run Windows apps on Linux?

Perhaps to gain access to software availability and compatibility and stability that is lacking under Linux.

But the obvious catch 22 with Wine is that success only helps perpetuate the issues it is attempting to overcome.

Why try to maintain a multitude of ever changing Linux builds when you can build for Windows and let Wine deal with all the distro compatibility headaches?
It can be.

I believe for “routine” training they’ll keep a radar reflector in them. Very little need to have stealth when bouncing around the US.
> block that I own and has been unused since the mid 90's

This timeline suggests that it's still a legacy allocation. The new governance structure does not apply unless you sign an RSA or LRSA agreement with ARIN.
Looking in sqlite.fossil there are 27 tables in it and most are not used for storing blobs. I know when looking up how to do things in the past the answer has sometimes been "run this SQL query". The event table for instance looks like a list of all commits with dates and comments etc. There is a config table that looks like the kind of stuff git stores in .git/config (URL to upstream repo etc) and so on. Well, yes there are some blobs in it too.