skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the recommendation but that's kind of a gap from the EdgeRouter Infinity (ER-8-XG). The Infinity has 8x10Gbps SFP+ ports, a single copper 1Gbps port, 16GB of RAM, and a multi-core processor because it's designed as an inexpensive core router for a mid-sized network.

Where I work, we use one of them as our main router with multiple peering sessions and two transit uplinks. According to Cacti, right now we're pushing about 30Gbps through the router.

That's what I'm looking to eventually replace, if Ubiquiti doesn't start up with software updates to the EdgeRouter line again. But I think that's the problem: the EdgeRouter line is so amazingly inexpensive for all of the power you get, there's no financial incentive for Ubiquiti to invest in it and all of the players with the "proper" routers--the Junipers and Ciscos and the like--start at three times the price of an ER-8-XG.
> The redshift hypothesised in the Big Bang model [...]

Doesn't sound to me like it's more than a hypothesis, but I could be wrong.
> and you can't trust the network

Why is this a requirement? Not having a configured machine does not imply an untrusted network. Maybe all my computers recently and unexpectedly got wiped and I'm trying to rebuild my home network.
This is simply incorrect. 10Base-T is two pairs, one TX one RX. Source: am expert, have designed low level ethernet hardware.

It amazes me how much misinformation gets posted on HN with convincing authority.
I would heavily disagree. LoL now practically throws champions and skins at you now with some of their currency systems. I think the other thing is that you don't need all the champions unlocked to be good. You would probably do better by choosing a set couple of champs and getting good at those. Yes, meta's change, but that is on top of good mechanics. LoL is a lot of things, but I would strongly argue against pay to win.
But would you come up with the idea for Reddit if you approached it from an advertisement perspective? Probably not.
What do you mean by "whites". American "whites"? The last IQ report has many Asian countries at the top followed by "white" European countries. Whites and blacks are such generic terms. There are many different types of white, black, asian, etc peoples that have different cultures and phenotypes based on the region.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i...
wow if i search "dash favicon" it gives me the top voted SO post in a dropdown
Doomberg is saying similar things [1] with some pretty deep analysis behind it.

[1] https://doomberg.substack.com/p/farmers-on-the-brink

Doomberg is a cartoon green chicken with a quasi-anonymous group of heavy industrialist business consultants behind it. The content is pretty fantastic. Kind of strange, but, well, here we are.
They're going to judge you no matter what. I get constantly judged for not talking in meetings. I speak up on subjects/topics when I have something to contribute, which is fairly often. But it's like they expect me to be constantly talking.

So even if you're quiet or not asking questions, they'll hold it against you. Might as well speak up if you're being judged either way.
It's not popular to say, but maximizing accessibility (by minimizing up-front cost, in this case) has downsides: mechanics and business models end up needing to be shoehorned into the dominant economic model.

Touch controls and IAP impose serious constraints on the mobile game market still. There are some gems, but it seems like the golden age of gaming is occurring outside of mobile games.
Facebook is a private platform.
That does seem logical assuming farmers are acting perfectly rational. I wonder if that's the case though given how people have been responding to the events of the past two years.
On a related note, I predict Russia invades Ukraine
Where was this protective failsafe when the price of meat doubled over the past year?
Or they simply are unwilling to bear the risk. To them, it's a risk, the prices the know are the prices they expect and it would be a gamble to predict otherwise.

If there is anything I notice it is that people and are absolutely terrible at predicting future demand.
Mikrotik uses Annapurna ARM chips.
I don't agree.

The industry has begun splintering in the same manner as Hollywood. Disney releases popcorn-entertainment and makes money off merchandise. Indie studios are creating quality movies of a tier that we never used to see before. Lastly, have some quirky bigwigs (wes anderson, Edgar Wright) who reliably create highly-stylized memorable if familiar works.

Epic, EA and Ubisoft are the Disney equivalents. Nintendo, CDPR, Naughty Dog, Kojima, From Software are your quirky stylized studios. Then you have indie studios making games like Hades, CupHead and Hollow Knight that provide excellent & complete experiences at the fraction of the investment. You get to pick which one you want.

Microtransactions are mostly restricted to the big studios. Restricting core gameplay aspects via microtransactions or Pay-2-win setups are pretty scummy. But, MMORPGS had those problems in the late 90s. So, it isn't new by any means. In cases where smaller games have microtransactions, they tend to be limited and exclusively cosmetic. The fact that I have played hundreds of hours of Rocket league and Dota without spending a single dollar, is a testament to how secondary the cosmetics are to the core gameplay loop.

I actually wonder if systems built to exploit whales are unethical. In some sense, the poor get to enjoy polished games because the rich are willing to pay an exponentially greater sum to look pretty in game. I don't think that's entirely bad.

Now, I do dislike 'loot boxes' with a passion. They play with our 'monkey brain', forcing us to buy more before our consciousness is able to intervene. Younger kids are even more susceptible and it serves as a gateway into gambling addictions. This part of dota and rocket league is reprehensible.
'Maybe' is both a monad and a sum. A monadic and an algebraic type at the same time. I wonder if there is an interesting interaction between those.
There was a company in 1862 that used CO2 to make bread without yeast - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerated_Bread_Company

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/df/af/0e/f09d519... seems to be the patent for it
Neat concept but I wonder why the PCIe initialization delay can't be handled with an option ROM. I don't know that a fully fledged option ROM would add value but it seems like it could be a good workaround/hack to not require additional BIOS configuration or support a BIOS that doesn't allow configuration of a delay.

I've seen some option ROMs take 10 seconds or more depending on the card - hardware RAID controllers being a well known example.
> 'And once you reduce your life to a neo-liberal economic model, is when you will finally grow up and become an adult'

Case in point. You use quotes, and some of the words are the same, but what the author actually said and what you think the author said are just different things.

It's not even about giving the benefit of the doubt for something that was poorly worded. I just don't think you understand what was actually written.
The agricultural industry already relies heavily on government subsidies to survive. Trump paid $30 billion+ to farmers to make up for Chinese tariffs imposed during his trade war. It isn't as much at the mercy of market movements as people think.

It's also funny to see over the last few years how billionaire Silicon Valley VCs and programmers are declaring themselves the voice of middle America. Show me a report from the USDA or some economists over PG's anecdote about his "farmer friend".
Here's an article about this:

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2022/03/its-going-to-be-...
That's a good point. I hadn't realized the nuclear numbers included the supply chain; I thought it was just operational fatalities.

It would be interesting to see whether the number of deaths in wind and solar manufacturing are higher or lower than similar heavy industries and operations (e.g. linemanning, heavy fabrication). In any case, it all pales compared to the death and diminished quality of life that we just accept with coal and oil burning.
I’d expect subsidies to appear a thousand times over before price controls in the US.
I believe Google can make a system that is secure from outside adversaries, but I'm less trusting that they would make an OS that isn't riddled with hooks for Google surveillance.
Also missing the "Under Construction" gif!
It's heartbreaking to here, and to think of, including imaginging the child. FWIW, from some random person on the Internet with no expertise, and without knowing you at all ... one of the best things I've learned is to start with the relationship with yourself. Have compassion for and love yourself (in a healthy, not a narcisisstic way). That's a relationship you always will have, no matter what happens outside, and as it grows you can extend that love to others. Maybe that's helpful (and maybe you've already heard that!).
Watch older movies to see this in action. A older movie might say "The terrorists will get their hands on uranium!" and leave it at that, the audience understanding the implications. A movie from the early 2000's goes as far as "The terrorists will get uranium and make a bomb!", expecting less than the audiences from before. Now it's "The terrorists will get uranium, make a bomb, and blow up San Francisco, killing millions of people, including women and children!" and repeat that statement 4 - 5 times so that the lowest common denominator in the focus group gets it.
I hate when interviewers ask "Do you think X?" and the interviewee mildly agrees, and then it's framed as "X said Y".

PG is really, really good with words. There's no reason to put words in his mouth. This title leaves out the word "may" from the original question, as well.

He's not predicting food shortages, he's saying yes to someone asking if it "may" happen.
As far as extra-curricular activities go, like sports, etc., those aren't really the point. The point is for the candidate to demonstrate that they can accomplish significant things other than academics.

This can be anything. For me, I didn't do sports, or any school extracurriculars. What I did do was run a small business (paper route), used the money to fund my hotrodding efforts, was an Eagle scout (back in the days when that was something), etc.

Basically, you just gotta find something non-trivial to do that demonstrates motivation.
Because I might, in some conceivable future, wish to implement that obscure data structure the doubly-linked list.
The no-test policy is espoused by two groups who find themselves to be unlikely allies: naive progressives and actual racists.

The naive progressives think what you’d expect: “Minorities and poor people can’t possibly be expected to do well on anything objective, so it’s unfair to test them”. It is bigotry, but at least it’s well-meaning.

The actual racists are more cynical: “I don’t want Yale to be 67% Asian.” Obviously, this is even worse.
Love the idea. Why dont you talk to health insurances? At least in Europe this might work.
I think I saw this post a week already and tried it, because I would need it for many languages.

despite the assurance it would be easy, I could not manage at all. and I gave up eventually. will try again next month probably. contributing to llvm, gcc, gdb, valgrind or qemu was definitely easier.
I think it's a matter of differing interpretations. When I hear "you are a company of one, and it's your job to manage your labour in the market and your investments to get the returns you want", it sounds to me like the commenter is saying that you should view yourself as a company operating in the marketplace and act accordingly. How do companies act in the market? They optimise for profit, they interact transactionally as opposed to through social and communal relations, and they hire specialised labour (or in the analogy, develop specialised skills) to fulfill their fiduciary and legal requirements. Your interpretation may differ, but that's the nature of perspectives.
I think there's a yield curve based on the amount of fertilizer added to the crop. I saw on one video that a "normal" fertilizer application on his crop yields 2x the amount vs no fertilizer. The yield change is a non-linear curve based on the amount of fertilizer application.

So farmer will have to estimate what the price will be at the time of harvest and then optimize this curve.

(edit here's the video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mIBz5r29nw
Apologies, I can’t tell if you are being serious or satire.

I’m leaning towards satire but in case you are serious, IPv6 built-in encryption is IPsec using opportunistic encryption (which then relies on dnsec…), and it’s not built into all IPv6 endpoints. Nor easy to configure, debug or support.

WireGuard, OpenVPN, etc are easier for users to configure and set up than IPsec, and less chances of mismatched configs, unsupported cipher suites, etc.

As for NAT, that’s irrelevant to the reason for using a VPN. IPv6 has Unique Local Addresses (ULA), which can be routable across and organisation but not from the internet, and so you may want a VPN for access to those. You may also simply want to extend your IPv6 network to a remote location that doesn’t have native IPv4, or whose ISP doesn’t provide sufficient delegated subnet ranges for your requirements. The VPN could also be to provide access to an IPv4 network behind the IPv6 router. The list goes on…
Practice for sure. One thing I noticed with covid was just how out of practice I got. I felt vastly more critical of myself in social situations that would have been very normal pre covid (for example, being the first one to a social gathering and needing to make small talk with the host). Isolation really compounds awkwardness, since awkwardness (generally) leads to more isolation.

I think that social skills really are muscles that need to be developed and maintained. Have you ever tried brushing your teeth with the wrong hand? No amount of thinking and focus will get you the same fluidity as using your usual hand. Instead, you need to just suck for a while and practice until the muscles passively develop. Others have mentioned going to bars or the gym, but I'd also recommend joining a hiking group, a book club, or even attending a church that matches your beliefs. Basically, any sort of activity that has a somewhat consistent group of attendees and where the main focus of the event isn't talking. That way you can still feel successful even if you say very little, which can hopefully reduce the overanalyzing and self doubt that comes from awkwardness.
Photographs from Abandoned Fun Park Fyn in Denmark
In 2006, Fun Park Fyn closed from the owner going bankrupt. Fun Park Fyn is located on Fjellerupvej east of Billesbølle just north of Klokholm.
> People don't know what they want until they're told what they want.

That's not exactly true. This sentence only covers fro value generating products, not cost saving products.

It's easier to sell cost saving product, but the profit margins on those are much lower. As an example in the article - the product is a cost saving product, but the cost it saves is very small.(Finding the right headache medicine is once in a lifetime $1 investment for most, or even less)

When it comes to value generating products - that is where you need someone who can sell their own idea of value to the masses. That is where this sentence starts to make sense.
I'm definitely in the minority here, but I'd probably have paid up to $15/month for access to this. I care very strongly about picking something that will be maximally effective when buying OTC or talking to doctors about trying specific medication.

Is there any chance of the remaining data and possibly code being released/sold?
This is a low-content post.

A political activist/commentator anecdotally tells his Twitter followers that his family is cutting back their farming because of fertilizer and diesel costs, and then predicts a food shortage. PG then replies "Yes".
Repeat exercise, but with untrusted computer. [Y/N]

If you trust literally every component involved in the exchange, is rsh safe? [Y/N]
Depends on how the server was setup. Ubuntu has offered importing public keys from github for quite a while in its installer. If you're using terraform/ansible/some other IaC tool, adding a key is probably just 1-2 lines of code. Some OS, like Guix or NixOS, also allow you to define them in a config file. Worst case you can just do something like `curl -L github.com/username.keys >> .ssh/authorized_keys`.
>The supply issues certainly make it worse.

But here's where we disagree and I encourage you to answer this question:

Are cars/gas/consumer goods/food going up in price because consumers can afford to pay more for them (demand-side) or is it because we are making less of that stuff? I agree it's both, but it appears to be supply WAY more than demand (given how loose monetary policy has been for 20+ years and how unprecedented this supply shock is)
What's the use case for using your personal unix account on someone else's computer?
As a network engineer who’s worked on Cisco, Juniper, Foundry, Brocade, Extreme, HP, Dell, and even Netgear, let me assure you that while the urban legend is that “JunOS is IOS done right”, the reality is that they’re all terrible in their own ways.

JunOS is generally better than IOS(-XR), but it’s still got its sharp edges. VyOS / Vyatta are poor enough clones that they will bite and seriously suck to anyone who’s actually got real JunOS experience.

Let’s be real. The goal in improving network configuration standards is to suck less. That’s it. Everything in networks sucks. Anyone who tells you otherwise either lacks experience in general, lacks experience suffering at the bleeding edge, or lacks my cynicism and genuinely sees the world as a better place than I do (I envy them for any of the above)
The $250k to put a totally unqualified student through school would pay for a lot of test prep hours at some impoverished schools.

It would likely take about 10 contact hours (1h/week, 10 weeks), basically enough coaching so that the result is not artificially low through under-preparation.

Let’s say it costs $100/hr all-in to coach 10 kids. So for $1k you can get 10 applications from motivated, underprivileged kids whose SATs are representative of their ability.

For one $50k annual ride you could run this in 50 low income schools and get 500 underprivileged applicants and then actually admit some of them who might benefit.

Rather than refusing to test, and wasting those resources supporting some kid who obviously won’t hack it.
Ask HN: How are you solving internal integration?
Between microservices / lambdas / databases and streaming topics, there's a huge number of internal data sources we're stitching together.

OpenAPI etc help, but there's a discovery phase of tracking down the right sources, and building out the integration, which can be labor intensive, and repetitive as APIs gain consumers.

Worse, these tools can result in tight couplings between producer & consumer that make future changes hard.

Is this a problem that resonates at your orgs? How are you solving this issue?
I am so happy to see this.

I went to high school in a bit of a backwater in the US. People don’t really go to selective colleges or care much about applying. It was only doing very well on standardized tests and spending time on the internet looking for info about colleges that led me to believe I could go to one of these places. I got into several and attended one, and I believe it greatly positively changed my life. (For the record, I had more going for me than just tests, but having a more objective way to compare myself to people across the country was very helpful, since I could easily attribute things to my area being backwards).

Removing admission tests was a huge slap in the face to social mobility out of the middle class. To reiterate other commenters, admission tests are the hardest part of the process to game and the least biased towards things like having a tiger parent, while being the most predictive indicator of success in college. Wealthy and well connected people can easily game extracurriculars and essays, and HS grades are vastly inflated at this point across the country. That pretty much only leaves standardized tests for your average kid who isn’t being deliberately primed by their environment to stand out for selective college admissions.

I hope more colleges are brave enough to reinstitute standardized test requirements. I know they want to do “class building” by hitting minimum representations across many groups (including legacy, but I don’t think that’s as big at MIT), and not requiring test scores makes it easier, but for institutions to keep up high standards and continue to give opportunities to kids, I really think it’s most beneficial to require scores.
I read somewhere here and there, that companies making fertilizer produced much less since last year. This was due to the high(er) energy prices which didnt allow them to make profit; also due to how the contracts were structured, the price was fixed, so increasing price was not an option, but no-delivery due to high energy costs was somehow permitted.

Since way too little fertilizer was produced, nothing can be done currently, prices for retail fertilizers go up, but the shortage is real.

Take this post with a big grain of salt, I do not have solid sources.
Can you try to sum this up in a bulleted list? I think it would do everyone a favor including you. It's obvious from the article that you are very upset about this. I think if you took a deep breath and edited this for readability it would go further.

I just read it 4 times and I'm still confused.
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One way that rich parents can game SAT/ACT is through aggressive seeking of test accommodations for disabilities. There was common knowledge of up to 50% of test takers having extended time in some affluent private schools in the SF Bay Area prior to the Covid pause.
This is also part of the reason big fleet operators like SSH CAs, since they work for host keys and solve the key continuity problem.
with IPv6, one could also do MTU-path discovery. Which would automatically set the correct MTU based on a ICMP test between nodes and all endpoints.
Agreed! But, it's important not to confuse what's possible via 'human-in-the-loop' 'active-learning' with what's possible from an algorithm on a fixed training corpus.

Sometimes GPT-like models are portrayed as the latter – a highly automated, reproducible process – while this article makes a pretty strong case that the responses from OpenAI's public-facing interface get rapidly improved by a staff of dozens of contractors.

It's not surprising that a staff of 40 humans, given a few days time to consider & compose, can prepare human-quality answers to arbitrary questions!
I'm not sure I should care about PG's hot take. Get me an agricultural economist to explain why the market isn't pricing this in and providing the proper incentives to farmers across the world? Food prices will no doubt be higher, but outside of third world countries that can't afford the higher price (and thus will need to be helped with food aid), I can't see widespread shortages in the developed world.
Technically the packets don't get fragmented. It is the tunnel that fragments.

For example, in the bad old days, when there was still a lot of ATM, packets would routinely get transmitted in 48 byte pieces (with a 5 byte header). Nobody wondered whether this kind of fragmentation should honor the DF bit.

If I recall correctly, multi-link PPP could also split a packet in smaller pieces to transmit it over multiple links at the same time.

So for IPv6, anything that is 1280 octets or smaller needs to forwarded without triggering a packet too big ICMP. Otherwise the link violates the IPv6 standard.
Also see this documentary on Muntz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deFlB2G0mH8