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"Everyone" does not know that. Avoiding plain text passwords is the commonest method used on the Internet, but if you get in to mobile telecoms, you find shared secrets stored in hardware-secure write-only enclaves in clear text. This is actually done because in that specific environment it increases security. It's not a general solution of course, but "only store encrypted passwords" and "only store password hashes" don't always apply either.
Discussion (90 points, 2 days ago, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41661673
Out of curiosity, does the Chromebook have a connector for an external display?

But yes, trying to help someone with anything computer related when they're on a crappy laptop display is... trying.
Science, at its core, is supposed to be a method of systematically seeking truth through rigorous experimentation, observation, and reasoning. When intentional dishonesty enters the equation, it undermines the entire purpose of the scientific endeavor
So, you do understand, since you explained it yourself.

Your minor error is thinking that surveillance tech is expensive in 2020 onward.
Driving has a lot more visual/motion-based stimuli than a Mission Control terminal (assuming that's the setting they were testing with).
Which thing can you do that does not serve the purpose of generating desirable brain activity?
How is this done? I’d like to try it out
One person monitoring in the US: $30/hour

One person monitoring in the Philippines: $2/hour
> Indeed, in POSIX `time_t` can even be `float` or `double`[0]!

Standard C, yes. Newer POSIX (your link is to the 2004 version) requires time_t be an integer type: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sy...

> Though on all Unix, BSD, Linux, and any Unix-like systems thankfully `time_t` is always integral. It's really only size and signedness that one has to be careful with.
Thus one should always subtract only the smaller value from the larger, and cast the result to a signed integer. And one has to be careful with overflow. Fortunately `difftime()` exists in POSIX. And there's a reason that `difftime()` returns a `double`: to avoid having the caller have to deal with overflows.

> Basically working safely with `time_t` arithmetic is a real PITA.

Yes.
Perhaps we could learn more about space if we diverted a bit more money towards telescopes and probes and rovers and suchlike, and a little less money towards figuring out life-support for primates in LEO. But then I write this as someone who’s taxes do not go towards NASA, nor indeed towards any notable space exploration.
Plenty of non-public workers are still at the company. They're holding out for a big payout.
The F35 is not meant to be a dogfighter. If it has gotten shot such that the control screen in unusable, something else has gone wrong.
TL;DR: A retention policy is fine. A new retention policy the day you get a subpoena for your records is not.
If you project a line that crosses an aircraft instrument panel it's hard to imagine a line that didn't also go through pilot's body.
[ wasn't an operator or language construct but an external program similar or the same as test. ] was a final argument.

In today's world where bash is and does supplant POSIX for all intents and purposes, use [[ and (( because they're part of the interpreter and more flexible.
A cycle where issues remain unresolved
Generally, if the cockpit is getting hit with damage to the instruments, there is a very good chance the pilot has also been injured or killed, and doesn't care about the instruments anymore.

In old gun fights (which just don't happen anymore), shots were likely to come from behind (so, they intersect the pilot) or the top (so, through the canopy if they're hitting the instruments). This has to do with the orientation both planes are probably in if one is shooting at the other. Go back farther and you get shots from the front, not from fighters (head-ons are very difficult to pull off outside of videogames) but from bomber tail gunners - very old planes from WWII even had bulletproof glass in front of the pilot for this reason. If the F35 has gotten into a gunfight, the pilot has fucked up, it's not a dogfighter and wasn't designed to be one.

Even nowadays, if the missile or flak pops next to the cockpit and has managed to damage the instruments, there is a very strong chance the shrapnel has also hurt the pilot to the point that they're not flying home that day. This is the most likely way for the F-35 to be damaged in the modern era.

There are obviously scenarios where the instrument panel gets damaged but the pilot is okay, but it's such a low probability scenario that they likely deemed it to be less harmful than the benefit they foresee in a glass cockpit.
A 32" computer monitor is awful similar to a dumb TV from 20 years back. Projectors too.
Gen Z is the current generation that spends money on leisure activities.
I opened mine up and soldered the wifi antenna leads together, should stop that problem :)
If you built this out of AWS managed services what would you use?
to be fair isn't the purpose of the F35 fairly different since it's extremely reliant on stealth and beyond visual range engagements?;Instead of getting close enough to be gunned down, it is supposed to strike from so far away that the enemy wouldn't know it's there.
wow! what a timing! I started building Speedrun yesterday to accommodate my daily needs

https://toolkit.pavi2410.me/tools/speedrun

https://github.com/pavi2410/toolkit/issues/8
Modular synthesis usually has a lot of modulation capability though
At this point, it’s hard to see what Iran has to gain from actively participating in the wars in Lebanon or Gaza. They’ll just rattle their sabers and go back to funding Hamas and Hezbollah.
As the post describes, the problem is that on Gentoo you can’t really build everything then switch binaries for everything, or at least that’s not what happens when you update things the usual way.

Instead, dependencies are built and then installed, then dependents are built against the installed versions and then installed, etc. In the middle of this process, the system can technically be half-broken, because it could be attempting to run older dependents against newer dependencies. Usually this is not a real problem. Because of how pervasive time_t is, though, the half-broken state here is potentially very broken to the point that you may be unable to resume the update process if anything breaks for any reason.
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As we conquer one type of disease, others emerge more prominently
The failures of introducing test driven development (2014)
Many important software projects predate UNIX.
Perhaps you want to create a Git repository for one of them, with historically accurate commit timestamps?
Friedman's books are all great. All of them. But they don't work for everybody.

If you can be relaxed and think of the interaction as play, they're very good. If you're feeling more of a "serious business" mindset, it can be hard to get in the groove of his style.

There are a lot of jokes about food and encouragement to take breaks. If you can get into the learning as play mindset, I'd strongly encourage taking the recommended breaks. maybe grab a snack, but spend some time noodling around with the ideas in each section. I think that's the real point, food is a good excuse to pause and get your hands off the keyboard.

Racket should be easy to install. Big download button for a ton of platforms here - https://racket-lang.org

I believe HN still runs on the racket runtime. it may appear to be a toy, but thoughtful design can take you a long long way. it's well supported and a great way to get started.

If Friedman doesn't work out for you, the racket docs link to how to design programs - https://htdp.org/2024-8-20/Book/index.html Which is also pretty darn good.

The other classic is the wizard book - https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/index.xhtml the structure and interpretation of computer programs. This'll walk you up to and somewhat through compilation.

There are a ton of programming languages all with amazing assortments of features.

Scheme is much more "there's nothing left to take away". I think it's very much the undisputed champion in that regard. While still being able to ship software. Scheme may not be the optimal choice for all people in all situations (obviously). It's a spectacular place to start though. It may not turn out to be the language for you. That's totally fine! But it'll get you deep enough to figure out what you like and don't like. And, when it comes down to it, you can shape it into pretty much anything.

Yeah, I hope you enjoy the little schemer.
When you have reason to expect litigation you have to start excluding relevant docs from your normal retention policy.
I could not care less how it “looks”. I never promoted any of my work, regardless of its field, quality or scale—my OCD tells me that good work needs no promotion. But some people started to tell me that this approach might not be very healthy, especially in modern days with the amount of trash being generated every millisecond. So I started to _share_ it with other humans.
$2 per hour and monitoring 20 screens simultaneously.
Files2Prompt – VS Code Extension to copy files for LLM prompts
After findings myself manually copy/pasting lots of files in to LLM prompts (and not finding any tools that easily integrated into my workflow), I created this VS Code extension to simplify the process. Source code is at https://github.com/Thomas-McKanna/Files2Prompt.
At the time, I read the Apple deal as OA strategically finding an alternative to MS as the sugar-daddy, in terms of free cash flow and datacenter capabilities: it didn't need to be true, it just needed to be a compelling negotiation point with MS. The fact that Apple was outright investing in OA was in line with this view: if OA was just going to be some pluggable commodity, why invest in them? Apple doesn't do random VC for the hell of it.

So Apple withdrawing would seem to be bad news for OA, even if the rationale was something like "the valuation is now too high for our taste" rather than "we are losing faith in them as an organization" or "we think they are completely replaceable".
Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the App" (2011)
Can't speak for the F35, but for the fighter I work on we basically consider the pilot dead if you have shrapnel damage in the cockpit. For instance, the FCS is located behind the pilot. That being said, I would assume the F35 display being at least dual redundant (think two displays merged together, which can be done seamlessly) for flight safety reasons.
Yes, but at least the only person affected by that was yourself, and not millions of people.
Yeah it would be awesome to finally have accurate positioning in between highrises on the phone, gps sucks for that.
Yes, I know that was older POSIX. But we're talking about old code, the unstated context is portability over a long period of time, and I wanted to make a point :)

So use `difftime()`, don't assume signedness or size, but do assume that it's an integral type.
Git represents timestamps in ASCII strings, like "12345." Not time_t. (I am not sure if it even allows negative integers in this format.)
Is a doctor allowed to abandon their Hippocratic oath because they aged 15 years?
Wow, I was just looking how to benchmark a streaming JSON parser that I'm working on! I'm creating it specifically for performance-intensive situations with JSON strings sizes up to gigabytes, and I thought that I had to implement about half of the features you mention there, like parametrisation and automatic GC after every test.
Of course, I am now wondering why people are using /bin/[ in a shell script in 2024?
There absolutely will be problems with different Nix profiles that aren't updated together; for example, if you update some packages installed in your user's profile but not the running system profile. But this is common enough with other glibc ABI breakage that folks tend to update home and system profiles together, or know that they need to reboot.

Where it will be hell is running Nix-built packages on a non-NixOS system with non-ABI-compatible glibc. That is something that desperately needs fixing on the glibc side, mostly from the design of nss and networking, that prevent linking against glibc statically.
do you support running the benchmark in a web worker?
Anything here now seems like a waste of time, to be honest. And its not like I really care about these internet points (too oldschool maybe).
The terms "retro" and "vintage" are a sliding window. In 20 years, computers from the 1990's and 2000's will be retro. There's also practical matters like price, availability and size - older computers from the early 1970's tend to fill up entire rooms whereas from the 1980's onward fit on your desk.
Correction: replace "EU citizens" with "people in the Union". That's how GDPR describes the people it covers. It's where you are that matters for GDPR rather than citizenship.
I only clicked through the slides and didn't watch the video..but ugh all I see is scalar SIMD in the assembly output(the ss ending means scalar, it would be ps if it was vector)

And they are apparently relying on the compiler to generate it...just no.

Use intrinsics, it ant that hard.
I have been thinking of reusing/creating something like https://perf.rust-lang.org/ that lets you pick and compare specific hash/commit with all data from json format
> own a home and/or raise a family

Agreed. And any system that cannot furnish these human basics to
decent, honest, smart, hardworking people neither has nor deserves a
future. Any criminality people have ought to be directed at that
system rather than ones fellows.
node:crypto seems to be supported by Deno's compatibly layer
Sam Altman Emails Elon Musk
Use stunnel for non-interactive tunneling over TLS.

It is much more straightforward than ssh for this purpose, and works well with socket activation under systemd.

I use it with the systemd automounter to encrypt NFSv4, and I have found it to be quite reliable.
The whole point of contracts and licenses is to explicitly spell out what is allowed and expected. I mean, who is to say "how much" support is expected if it's not written down. Matt wanted 8%. Why not 15%, or 1%?

The idea that users of open source software "owe" something back to the original developers is revisionist history, and if you don't like how users are using your software, why did you open source it with a permissive license in the first place? There are plenty more restrictive licenses (e.g. GPL) that support a more "if you take you have to give" model. Saying "well, we wanted to open source it but not that kind of open source" is BS.
TikTok is good at personal content— short form videos that capture a slice of life for other real people. TikTok is a salon.

Little bits of entertainment — music, poetry, jokes/clowning, gossip, show and tell on all kinds of topics, musings about life and interpersonal relationships, practitioners demonstrating their craft.

It presents an interesting cross-section of news that's hard to get anywhere else. It's not great or even good at the normal news format but you can read about a riot and that the mayor called in the national guard in the paper, but the video of someone on their porch getting screamed at and having warning shots fired at them for not going indoors has an impact.
You can't claim something is a benefit for consumers if the consumers are not offered a competing product without the predatory features for more money. Let's put a 'dumb' TV on the market and regulate that 'smart' TV boxes have to say 'this is cheaper because we make most of our profit from it by screenshoting what you watch 100 times a second and selling it to the highest bidder' and see what the market thinks about it.
They should also not extend to works of fiction, or individual products. Preventing other companies from impersonating your company is one thing, but I don't care if six companies make a Thinginator-o-Matic 9000.
The golf, crafting, gardening, hunting, etc industries would question that framing.
One lunch. Let’s not exaggerate.
You would likely need to combine the RSS feed articles with data provided by a service that scrapes the website in order to identify where the article is placed at any one point. Sounds doable even if scraping is always fraught with numerous pitfalls. I haven't heard of any such solution, and building one is not on my todo-list, sorry.
Interesting quote from Altman given how the past year has gone:

> The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the distributed version of the future that seems the safest. More generally, safety should be a first-class requirement
I'd imagine the ejection system is going to be activated by traditional handles, and not a screen. Same with the basic flight controls; there's no reason to move to a touch screen throttle or flight stick.
yes, you can import mitata inside web worker and run it there, if you only need raw results you can even use lower level api https://github.com/evanwashere/mitata?tab=readme-ov-file#giv...
Ask HN: How are you using Advanced Voice Mode?
Would be curious to hear what people have come up with.
Inferno: Metal Shaders in SwiftUI
> The assumption you try to pass off without justification is that without the ban, nuclear would have triumphed

I never said that, I said I think economics have little to do with the downfall of nuclear power. At least in most european countries, nuclear was banned or phased out for other reasons.
Missing the point a little, tsunami's are not comparable to ocean waves. They ARE more like a huge, very fast, rising tide, modelling is not the same as a breaking ocean wave. This research impacts the modelling for ocean or coastal structures which have relied on the breaking wave dynamics for a particular depth and topology. The research shows that the maximum breaking wave height can be much greater than previously thought. So, the off-shore wind turbine which was believed safe because the expected max wave height will never manifest as a breaking wave in the depth of water it's sitting in may actually be in jeopardy.
No, don't do that.

You will understand why when you try this with /bin/sh on Debian/Ubuntu.

This incompatibility was introduced for reasons of speed and standards compliance.

There is a time and a place to rely on advanced shell features, but it should not be the default preference.
I'm building an app to focus on negatives about teams/orgs inside companies
Hey guys!

I'm excited to announce the MVP of TeamsToAvoid (https://teamstoavoid.web.app/), an app I've been working on that aims to shed light on toxic work environments at the team level. We've all heard horror stories about bad company cultures, but the truth is, your experience often depends on the specific team you're in. That's where TeamsToAvoid comes in.

Motivation to build something came after reading a letter from a mother who lost her daughter due to toxic work culture in E&Y. Link to story: https://www.reddit.com/r/CharteredAccountants/comments/1fj08...

Key features:

- Focus on negative reviews about specific teams/organizations within companies
- Thematic analysis to identify common issues within teams
- Anonymous Q&A with reviewers for deeper insights

Why TeamsToAvoid?

- Help job seekers avoid toxic team environments
- Encourage transparency in workplace cultures
- Empower employees to share their experiences

Provide a more nuanced view than general company ratings

I built this because I believe everyone deserves to know what they're getting into when joining a new team. Too often, people accept jobs only to find themselves in toxic situations that could have been avoided with better information.

The app is now live, and I'd love for you to check it out and share your thoughts. What features would you like to see? Also, would be great if you could share your story. Built this app during a weekend, so please don't roast me!

URL: https://teamstoavoid.web.app/
How it works: Sign up -> Verify Email Address -> Start writing a review/post and interact with other posts
>European astronauts will train inside the unique simulator and test equipment that will one day travel to the Moon -- including potentially on NASA's upcoming Artemis programme, which plans to send humans there on a mission in a few years.
How about we just stop allowing this and call it what it is - disabling functionality of my system without my explicit permission - and start charging these site operators with CFAA violations.
The assumption for this use was var was a valid single word but could conflict with switches to [ / test or it could be the empty string. If var was already guaranteed to be [^[:space:][:punct:][:cntrl:]]+, then x would also have been unnecessary too.
Yeah, many such ideas only work once you're past a certain number of people, given e.g. the fraction of people who play ping pong, you need a lot of people to reach the point where it's viable as a business. Cutting costs on the other side as described in this article is a great way to bring that threshold down though.
The problem here would be exactly the same regardless of what form this type took. The issue is fundamental to any low level language: the size of a type is a part of its public API (well, ABI), by definition. This is true in C++ with private fields as well, for example: if you add a private field to a class, or change the type of a private field with one of a different size, all code using that class has to be re-built. The only way to abstract this is to use types strictly through pointers, the way Java does.
> Matt isn’t obligated to be nice to dick heads.

Well, in some sense, he is, at least as it relates to his leadership of WordPress Foundation. As a charity with a mission to support the WordPress community, his actions over the past week look like a singular attack on the community in order to benefit the for-profit Automattic.

This comment on a previous post puts it better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41661086
NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They're AI, Not Human
I think this is actually superior to autossh. Doesn’t autossh not restart after crash/reboot?
Par for the course with MS isn't it?
Stabilise Video Using FFmpeg
Eh rent is cheaper in smaller cities, and more space is available for hosting multiple activities in one location.
I think it's unlikely. Humans (and all other life on Earth) evolved to live on Earth. I think it's very doubtful that humans can live long-term anywhere else.
While I think these venues are cool, they’re inherently VERY limited in maximum possible scale. They’re more of a competitor to bars like SPIN, rather than traditional table tennis venues - kinda like how Top Golf isn’t really trying to steal business from the local driving range.

As a tourist, I walked by North Station location in Boston, saw the price - $50/hr at any time I’d want to play - and noped out hard. Decided to spend the money on an Uber to Boston Table Tennis Club instead, and played for three hours with good coaching (shoutout to Coach Vincent for the warm welcome) and fun pickup games. Cost half the price in total, and I didn’t have to hunt for a decent partner either.

Economically, Pingpod will just never be a viable option compared to old school clubs, even if they slash their prices to a tenth of what they are now. Forever a novelty/tourist gimmick.