skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My brother-in-law was ill-prepared for technical coursework because he had no choice but to attend a shitty (undemanding, backwoods, rubber-stamp) high school in Minnesota. He got talked into vo-tech training for transmission repair.

Years later, his weaknesses were evaluated at a Community College. He went to work on a one-year remedial skills plan. Then he was admitted to a state University. Four years later got a chemistry degree with honors. IMO it's likely he'd have succeeded at MIT as well. The man was a born techie.

Moral: shitty schools are everybody's loss. And we've continued to lose a lot because some of them are designed that way. Slyly, deliberately, officially sanctioned sly.
Or just renewables with storage? Why must the alternative always be fossil fuels?
"Space circle" could describe pretty much everything and anything outside the atmosphere, no? "Sphere" was probably too technical.
and no GPL... which google is very hostile to GPL so that alone would be a reason to replace Linux

Personally I think they have grander visions than just Android.
What you're looking for is Windows LTSC.
That might be true for what your direct boss writes on your annual performance review but what do his peers and his bosses think? What do other potential collaborators, bosses, and investors in your local area or your industry think?

I think engineers can become obsessed with MinMaxing the wrong, purely local optimum without thinking: "what work-adjacent things might lead to a CTO role in five years?" and this is often quite a different question than "what makes Mr Shankly happy in this quarter's performance review?". Yeah, if your immediate boss thinks you're useless and sacks you then your overall profile might not help much but being an invisible cog in the their team will only improve the esteem that they hold you in and not your larger professional reputation.

Did "the bosses" reach their own positions by closing the most tickets every month? I kind of doubt it and it is worth distinguishing what makes you useful to them vs puts you on the path to join them. If that seems overly careerist, well fire up Jira and get another bug sorted after dinner.
Maybe not "organized crime", but the Lincoln Park Pirates in Chicago [1] were well known shady characters as long as 60 years ago, there is even a song about them (Steve Goodman). I know; one New Year's Eve a long time ago my car was towed and held for a ridiculous ransom.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Towing_Service
It’s the other way around.. a company act as a legal person.
Companies are people. (natural person vs legal person in Dutch)
you optimise what you have left when you have nothing else to do.

there is no exploring left in runescape, for the most part - virtually every corner and easter egg is effectively documented or reverse engineered in some way.
"In recent years, the volume of creators has skyrocketed. In just 2020 and 2021, the number leapt by 48% and growth isn’t slowing down. With a glut of incoming talent, incumbent creatives are feeling the squeeze."

That number seemed... odd to me, but I think he's citing this from Stripe, which I guess make sense?

https://stripe.com/blog/creator-economy

"In aggregating monetization across these 50 platforms, we’ve found that creators will soon pass more than $10 billion in aggregate earnings. While 2020 saw a jump in new creators, it wasn’t a one-time spike. A year later, creators are still coming online at a record clip: the number of creators is up a whopping 48% year-over-year. In total, these platforms have onboarded 668,000 creators."
I have no idea whether that will work, but it sounds like you might paint yourself into a corner, so I'd suggest to read about how others maintain geometric robustness. I know this is a tough problem, that's why I asked if this could be done in a separate library, so others can benefit from the work.

Another direction you could take is to define just the API, and use the opencascade kernel (like FreeCAD) until the rest of your code is ready.
I was trying to browse GH enterprise docs ahead of a call with github regarding migrating from Teams to Enterprise server (because of this exact availability crisis) and their pages went down, taking the enterprise docs with it.

Props to the employees at Github who were able to temper an angry customer, but the engineers need to step up too.

Some days I think strongly about throwing away all my computers and getting into welding or ditch digging.
Funny that you bring up Europe. As far as I know European countries don’t rely on extracurriculars and other nebulous measures as much as US colleges do.
As a happy user, I can highly recommend trying Tailscale. https://tailscale.com/kb/1086/tailscale-vs-wireguard/
Quibbling a bit with the details here.

> This is not at all specific to ESXi... you can do PCIe and USB passthrough with qemu running on Linux.

This is true.

> The operating system doesn't get in the way.

This isn't, really, at least not qemu does quite a bit of fiddling under the hoot -- without VFIO or legacy KVM pass-through, the operating system very much gets in the way. Linux now provides facilities that allow qemu to pass through devices -- that is, it provides the APIs necessary to move it back out of the way.

I don't know to what extent ESXi looks like pure-kernel setup of passthrough vruss KVM_ASSIGN_DEVICE versus VFIO -- that would be quite interesting.
I mean, we've been hearing crisis warnings for decades. When I was a kid, it was acid rain, then styrofoam cups, smog, leaded gasoline, ozone holes. Each, it was promised, would surely destroy the environment for good. And when one didn't cause Armageddon, the next one would definitely destroy the environment any day now. Today, it's climate change, next decade maybe something else. It's the same song, just a different verse. Somehow, my generation mostly escaped the pessimism the next ones somehow got. Not sure what changed--maybe the persuasion tactics are more mature and effective these days, or they're just starting kids on it younger, I don't know.
awesome :) keep up the good work
Vanilla WireGuard is not hard to use at all, it's by far the easiest to configure VPN software.

Some routers have it built in, and some have packages to install it, and the official GUI clients work well: https://www.wireguard.com/install/

If you can't run it on your router, you can just set it up on a linux VM and forward a port as necessary.

The configuration file is quite simple once you get the hang of it, you've basically just got:

1. a public/private key that you exchange between connected machines

2. the address of the tunnel, locally

3. the address/port to get to the other end

4. what traffic you want to send over the tunnel
Yeah, a lot of tests like that are actually testing for memorization, and not problem solving ability.
a crs326 is a layer 2 switch - not comparable with a router. you could categorize it as more like a cisco 3750G from ten years ago in capability of 24 ports of copper gigabit in one place.

any mikrotik CRS series has very limited routing/layer 3 ability compared to a CCR series. Different things for different purposes.

look at the logical block diagrams mikrotik provides of their crs series equipment. it's all a bunch of ethernet switch chips in a few blocks of 8 ports and then something like a single 1GbE link to the CPU. the moment you start telling it to do layer 3 things its capability is very limited.

https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/CRS326_180248.png
No, I didn't say anything even a lightyear close to that.
I found the state of their documentation absolutely unacceptable. They also do blatantly misleading advertising stuff. They’ve got a huge list of “supported features” which either was once true or is an intentional misrepresentation. And they boast a “slack community with 10k+ users!” Although that may be technically true, in reality there are probably less than a dozen active users.
Oh, that's interesting, I always thought of that 432 as the 'ADA' chip, I never realized that the Lisp machine was an input to it. Makes me wonder if it would have been any good at running a slightly hardware accelerated Lisp.
You might want to look into Tailscale if you're just starting out. Configure a small VM to act as a Tailscale subnet router for whatever network your macOS VMs are on, after which you will be ready to access them remotely from the coffee shop. If you prefer to have access to ESXi from a separate VLAN/network, then get the Pro plan and setup a 2nd subnet router for your hypervisor, NAS, etc.
Why is MIT Admissions on a domain other than MIT.edu?
The two reactions to shortages:

* I should buy out the store because I might not be able to later.

* I should buy only what I absolutely need so that other people can have some.

Toilet paper was sold out for about a month around here before stores started to ration. Had we not had new pack with a Costco trip right before the panic it probably would have been an option for us as well.
Slightly related to this, I can't understand why Github doesn't offer a "read-only" mode for issues. Once a repo is archived or issues are disabled, all issues are then unavailable. This is super annoying as it causes many broken links.
I have mixed experiences with UBNT polish. It looks good on screenshots, it allows to set up simple things, but there it ends. It is often inpractical, shows nonsense data (basically anything dashboard is just random, useless data with zero relevance) and if you want something slightly unexpected (like ipsec tunnels defined by hostnames and not by ip addresses), you are either stuck with json (on older models with config.gateway.json) or it is straight impossible.

RouterOS did have a learning curve, and there are some unexpected bugs, but compared to UBNT, I like it much more. Yes, it has more knobs, and they generally allow configuring that needs to be done.
I have respect for Andrew Gelman, but this is a bad take.

1. This is presented as humans hard coding answers to the prompts. No way is that the full picture. If you try out his prompts the responses are fairly invariant to paraphrases. Hard coded answers don't scale like that.

2. What is actually happening is far more interesting and useful. I believe that OpenAI are using the InstructGPT algo (RL on top of the trained model) to improve the general model based on human preferences.

3. 40 people is a very poor army.
The republicans for some reason really really hate the USPS. They've been looking to privatize it for decades now
Every company I've ever worked at had roughly 50/50 amazing and terrible code. The larger a codebase at a company gets the more likely that there will be code in there that is _just_ good enough and no more. Polish and other elements of excellent code cost money and time to produce. It doesn't always make sense to invest the necessary money and time into it. Sometimes quick and dirty is literally the correct decision to make from a business standpoint.
"Secure," "robust," "high-assurance," etc. are not standard terms with a single agreed upon definition. Like just about anything that concerns computer security, their definitions depend on threat models and maybe a domain-specific specification.

I don't particularly care whether a particular flavor of Rust (or C, for that matter) brands itself as "high-assurance," as long as it is not dishonestly claiming compliance with a particular domain's assurance or robustness requirements.
> Have look at Mikrotik CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS (1G-12S+2XS means 1x1Gbps RJ45, 12xSFP+, 2xSFP28) or CCR2116-12G-4S+

Both of these look fantastic. The second one, with the four SFP+ ports, looks like an almost drop-in replacement for the Infinity, particularly with its 16GB of RAM. (We use soft-reconfiguration inbound which bloats the amount of RAM needed for the tables.)

> However, neither of them will route 80 Gbps full duplex.

That's actually fine, at least for our needs. We only have 50Gbps of connectivity between peer, IXP, and transit links and today's 30Gbps is high because of end-of-month activities. We got the Infinity largely because it was the only EdgeRouter that could do what we needed. Like the gap between EdgeRouter Infinity and "every other router that can do what it does," there's a rather large gap in Ubiquiti's EdgeRouter line. The next one down in the list is the EdgeRouter-12 that is a small fraction of the capability of the Infinity.

> another thing on Mikrotik naming conventions: CRS = switches; CCR = routers

That's good to know. I hadn't started down the Mikrotik path yet but I'll give it a look. We have a leaf router at a small office where we experiment and maybe I can put one in there to start.

Thanks for all of the information!
This is very relatable to me. Since you’re using the past tense, would you be happy to share what helped you get out of that mindset?
Hey, they are already reading / writing / modifying recipes..
I tried looking this up and can't find anything that supports this. Do you have more info?
Yea. That what he says.
Tell that to librarians before the internet.
This article was half-discussed in another related HN discussion today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30812746 - Re-Reading Tanenbaum’s Critique of RPC 30 Years Later by John Day (2018)

However, most of the comments were not about Tanenbaum's original paper so I felt this was worth submitting on its own. One prior discussion on the paper proper found via the past link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10029202 - Aug 9, 2015 (13 comments)
Yeah that's true, that happens when trust in the government has been lost, or when trying to avoid taxes. But there's an important distinction there. People use alternative currencies when the government is incapable of punishing them for doing so, and when the local currency is inconvenient to use, such as during hyper inflation. It has nothing to do with whether they believe it has value or not.
Is there a discord server or where does community gathers? This projects seems really cool and I would like to contribute.
To be fair, those "ducks-in-a-row" questions are NOT easy to answer and it's easy for someone to fool themselves with a BS answer. Moreover, there are plenty of ridiculous ideas that someone would never think anybody would "pay for" that make tons of money in spite of themselves.

In the end it's all about taking calculated risks. Should the OP have learned more about the market he was trying to operate in AT SOME POINT before quitting his day job, hiring five "contractors" and writing 200000 lines of code in 9 months? Sure. Was it a worthwhile experience that gave him more wisdom? Hard to say. To be honest I am surprised he only blew 40K, it could have been a lot worse.
It’s not perfect, and importantly doesn’t claim to be. It’s something in the absence of other ways of estimation. Use whatever works best for your team.

Nit: It’s not “outsourcing” in any meaningful definition of the term to have the team responsible for executing a task come up with estimates.
For context I graduated high school in the late nighties (I took the paper/scantron test).

At the time, the SAT was purported to provide a score that predict ability to perform academically at higher learning institutions.

Along with other factors such as GPA, and participation in extra curricular activities, a school could reasonably determine how well a student would do.

In practice, the normal distribution for scores correlated with the distribution of college performance. It was a reasonable predictor of success, but it did penalize students from certain backgrounds.

Because the test was devised by psychologists and statisticians, uncovering the pattern to the types of questions and the expected answered allowed test prep people to devise tricks to improve scores beyond the expected deviation.
A more charitable explanation: the title length limit of 80 characters makes it difficult to keep all of the important information in the HN title.

No doubt that news publications absolutely do sometimes intentionally bury the lede and leave important information out of the original title, but I don’t think HN users are all optimizing just to hit the frontpage.
Well redshift alone explains the paradox. You don't even need to accept the big bang theory. You can just say "stars that are further away are more redshifted" and that alone explains this. Which we know is true. That's not a hypothesis, redshift can be observed directly. And that fact alone explains the apparent paradox. The most distant stars are redshifted away.

To quote the above article

>The redshift hypothesised in the Big Bang model would by itself explain the darkness of the night sky even if the universe were infinitely old.

Redshift is what explains this. There could be different explanations for the redshift but redshift is 100% an observed phenomena.
I love the name but the site's content never really did it for me. For me, J. Kenji López-Alt's work successfully carries out this spirit.
Well, Windows NT was that.

It was even on the verge of being a microkernel and it could run a super light weight virtualization (for the lack of a better word) system: OS personas.

It would be interesting to get Windows NT NextGen, true.
Yes I think I now largely agree with you. Most humans do mundane work and solve trivial problems. It's how the system keeps working though. If that stopped we'd be too busy sifting through the wreckage to produce the few exceptions where most of our value (not necessarily monetary) comes from.
So was Crazy Earnie's Emporium [0] from Brave Little Toaster!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glJgOtyM8k
Would be nice to have kid-safe option of results...
Proving what needs to be proven is the role of the prototype. That can also be an important step on your journey, but the MVP is about building a product that is considered viable. Literally. If you don't yet know what is viable in the market, how could you even begin to build something that is viable? You don't yet know what viable means.
This is right, but it's also clear why this happens: a lot of the best known success stories from a decade or two ago were "if you build it they will come and you will one day figure out how to make money from that". Google, Facebook, Instagram. It takes awhile for the conventional wisdom borne of a mythology like that to shift. Heck, we're probably in the process of shifting it too far; we may well be lamenting a decade from now that nobody is doing anything besides B2B because it's too hard to find customers who want to pay for things outside that space.
You could. You can just phone it in at work too, but most people don't. Sports are a place where kids figure out who they are. Not the only place, but an important one to many.

My son is 11 and loves baseball, I've coached a few times as well and it's been a great shared experience. There are definitely kids in Little League / Cal Ripkin who are there because mom & dad said so. But... I've gotten to see my son and a few of his teammates build friendships and mentor relationships with the kids ahead of and behind him that are difficult to do in a school setting.

It's a big deal. When a ten year old stops and is there to help teach an eight year old how to do something, etc those are valuable skills/processes/habits to build. They learn to lose and how to practice.

Part of the "package" a student brings to an application is how they apply those experiences. You can send a laundry list of things, or use your essay/interview to tie it together.
No need. Just attribute an unmeasurable quality such as creativity to your racial group.
I unexpectedly found myself in the "successful creator" bucket since a few months ago so I might be able to speak to this. I write the top paid technology newsletter on Substack, bringing in enough to pursue this writing - or, as many call it "creating" - full-time.

Despite being considered a successful creator, I don’t think that “creator” is a real thing - at least not a category anyone can, or should aim for.

Being a creator means the content that you create gets significant enough attention. What you do with this attention is what really matters. To be a successful creator and not burn out, you need to build a one-person business that is both profitable, and sustainable. Doing this is much harder to do than most people realize. It's something that is hard to just "wing it". At the same time, winging it is exactly the strategy that most creators are following.

The reality is that most creators don't think of what they do from a business, or sustainability side. No one is telling people who accidentally became successful creators to think of this as a business, or side business. I'm not surprised so many creators end up burnt out, or surprised that on a crowded market with no real differentiation or long-term strategy, they start losing attention they once had.

What helped me is how I had been planning to start a company for some time. I did the studying and research on what it takes to run a business. I'm still doing what I was preparing to do so: but instead of running a venture-funded startup, I'm doing a bootstrapped, one-person business. One that many people refer to as being a creator.
Markets can behave in ways that are either competitive (my tomatoes are better than your tomatoes) or co-operative (my tomatoes are a perfect complement to your cheese). And sometimes they morph from one mode into the other.
Shemnue, anyone? I still have nightmares of the forklift simulator.
That's definitely one way to do it. Our approach is not to literally run a concierge search engine, but rather build up intuitions on how humans effectively find knowledge on the Web and then build tools to make that easier.

Is that the end-game of the startup you mentioned?
> I still talk to people and so I hear about stray stories. I do find it interesting that I have yet to have anyone bring up the Ukraine situation. At all.

Could be your own bubble. Most everyone in my circle has brought it up. Many of us brought it up because we know people who are from Ukraine or have lived there extensively. I live and work in SV. Lots of Ukrainians work and live here.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. GP writes:

> There is a small, but well-organized and vocal subset of the population that hates the idea of excellence and differentiation.

I don't see how that applies to my comment above, and I don't see how saying:

> They are trying to compress aptitude into a single Boolean variable, you are either admitted or not. That’s it.

is doing anything other than backing up what I said. At the point where you are dividing a subset of the population into binary "in or out" groups, you are in fact advocating for homogenization, for less differentiation between students, and for fewer levels/categories of excellence or exceptionalism.

I'm not here to tell you that's wrong, you do whatever you want. MIT is trying to decide who gets into their specific college, fine. But if you're arguing that the point of SATs is to make a binary determination about students, then it's just strictly inaccurate to say that it's the SAT critics who are all trying to cut down tall poppies.
I use acme as a personal wiki where I can store useful playbooks (executables from there). From sqls to kubectl commands. Just a big wiki with the unix at the mouse.
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Massive expansions of electricity transmission, and huge energy storage projects - several hundred times the size of what we have currently - cannot just be hand-waved away "boring things we know how to do". Hydroelectric storage is geographically limited, which leaves large areas without a storage solution. The strong preference for nuclear is because it avoid these difficulties which are typically ignored when renewable plans for decarbonization are proposed.