skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone curious about potential open-source migration options given the prospect of uncertainty around VMware pricing and support:

- xcp-ng[1] is a support-available fork of XenServer. Migration[2] can be performed using export to OVA format and subsequent import into the built-in Xen-Orchestra interface.

- proxmox-ve[3] provides a management UI for Linux Virtual Machine (LVM) and Linux Containers (LXC) hosts and provides various vendor migration guides[4]. Both commercial and community support[5] is available.

- The Xen Hypervisor[6] is capable of hosting x86 and ARM virtual hosts, and their project provides a VMware migration guide[7]

[1] - https://xcp-ng.com/

[2] - https://xcp-ng.org/docs/migratetoxcpng.html#from-vmware

[3] - https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve

[4] - https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox...

[5] - https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve/support

[6] - https://xenproject.org/developers/teams/xen-hypervisor/

[7] - https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Migration_from_VMware
Clearly there are businesses that serve millions or billions of users, and have a serious need for engineers with experience with the tools to do so. Engineers seeking those jobs are then motivated to use those tools to engineer systems serving orders of magnitude fewer customers simply so they can claim that experience.
Go vs Python comparision is really useless because of very different approaches and tools. Looks like “Why we switched from screwdriver to hammer”.
This was 100% true for that startup I worked for as a side job. They would have been so much better off just building a standard java, PHP or .NET back end and calling it a day.

The head engineer (who had known the guy funding the thing since childhood) had no clue how node, stateless architecture, or asynchronous code worked. He had somehow figured out how to get access to one particular worker of a node instance, through some internal ID or something, and used that to make stateful exchanges where one worker in some microservice was pinned to another. Which goes against everything node and microservices is about.

I tried to talk some sense into them but they didn’t want to hear it. So for the last six months I just did my part and drained the big guy’s money like everyone else. I hate doing that - way more stressful than working your ass off.
Am I the only one sensing sarcasm in this?
Apple Removes Flag Icons in Monterey 12.4
For those of you who enjoyed having a flag icon on your menu bar by using the keyboard input work-around, Apple has replaced the beautiful flag icons with two-letter icons. This makes the Mac less fun, less colorful, and less enjoyable to use. For true international users (not those of us just using it to display something pretty) it'll be harder to tell what language you are using because flags are easier to identify than gray text. Bad UI move Apple.
The first of that kind of shooting that I know of was in the 60s in the University of Texas. Before that there was a school massacre in the 20s but they used a bomb.
Many people in the Twitter thread seem confused about the meme. I think it's a great meme. Let me attempt to explain.

It's a criticism of slacktivism, ignorance, and virtue signaling. The grey character in the center is an NPC (Non-Player Character), long used by both political spheres to represent someone who thinks so little they are "not human".

I've met people who support the CURRENT THING. I talked to this woman who was flying a Ukrainian flag in front of her house. The conversation went something like this:

Why is Putin attacking Ukraine? - I don't know.
How is the war going? Who is winning? - I don't know.
Have you donated to any charities to help Ukrainians? - No.
Have you thought about donating? Calling Congress? Taking refugees even? - No, no, no.
Why are you flying a Ukrainian flag? - FUCK WAR FUCK PUTIN SLAVA UKRAINE SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!!1!

The implication, of course, is that it doesn't matter what CURRENT THING is, this woman will probably support it.

The best part is the response of the left. I saw that someone replaced all the flags and symbols with Qanon and MAGA. Both those ideas are worth criticizing, but it doesn't make sense with the format, and that indicates a complete lack of understanding on the parts of the people posting it. People are also saying it's a "pro-Putin" meme, again indicating total misunderstanding. A self-fulfilling prophecy, really.
Perl doesn't need an ecosystem any more than the Almquist shell does. It's just a nice tool that's omnipresent on UNIX systems. It's definitely going to be useful for shell scripters for a very long time.
Does that mean you lost support or gained support?
That will get turned back on automatically in an "update".

Same thing happened to me multiple times across multiple platforms: SendGrid, Mandrill, MailJet, MailGun. I always turn off the tracking (enabled by default on all of them), but magically its back on a few weeks/months later. I've given up finding a solution and just revisit my settings every few months to check on it.
I regret spending 5 minutes of my life thinking it's a real game
> Choosing to buy a gun should be thought of as one of the stupidest decisions the average person can make.

Yeah, we're not at that point. We aren't remotely close. Recently polling shows the country split almost 50/50 on support for stricter gun laws [0]. If we ever do reach the point where popular sentiment reflects your quote then you've _already_ won, and changing laws to ban guns isn't much more than an afterthought.

If somehow you managed to push through a gun ban before the country has changed, you're going to see a revolt. What do you do when police departments refuse to enforce the law? Probably entire state governments as well? Are you going to send in the army to go door to door confiscating guns? Assuming that the soldiers are willing to follow orders...

Barring a major flip in US culture - which doesn't appear to be remotely likely in the near future - the only possible outcome of a ban on guns is civil war. That isn't dramatic right wing propaganda. The right to bear arms is enshrined in the US constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court. You may not like the fact that it is, and you may not think that it should be _but it is_. If we reach the point where constitutional rights are meaningless then the entire US system of government has failed, and its demise won't be a pretty thing. I hope you're smart enough to realize that a US civil war in the modern era would be incredibly bad for everyone and would probably result in the deaths of millions.

0: https://news.gallup.com/poll/357317/stricter-gun-laws-less-p...
Laptops and workstations. We use Workspace ONE.
I worked at a startup in California that was run by a guy who had an interest in hypnosis. Unlike the title here, this man found hypnosis as related to circus, carnival, party and trade show contexts, where the point of the action is to make a show, puzzle everyone and lead the audience. Specifically, sleight of hand magic tricks, purchased show business magic tricks, and word sequences used to con and fool the others, were exactly the point. As it turns out, this guy and his buddy were explicitly committed to con and mental tricks to gain powers over others, for money, attention or perhaps sexual situations, for fun and profit. They did not admit this to anyone out loud, because that would give away the trick. They were aware of hypnotic states, drugs that change consciousness, ritual and music that can change consciousness. They travelled to gatherings of performance magicians in Las Vegas or "The Castle" in Los Angeles once in a while, and spoke highly of stage magicians and their antics.
That's really interesting. So a company would hire Crowdstrike/VMWare, and say "here's all these endpoints, make sure they are secure"? And then CS/VM would provide the service to manage the assets and their connectivity? Ka-ching. I would not want to spin up an IT team to do all of this if I could hire some experts with concentrated knowledge.
Small companies will fail and vanish.
Large companies will layoff employees and reinvest in technology to leverage the ones that remain.
B2B software companies would do well to retain existing developers and grow their teams if possible to meet scaling demand and cover feature gaps in existing product lines as part of normal business.

One part of the dynamic, simplified: big companies can show quickest cost savings by laying off employees; this satisfies anxious shareholders during the bumpy times by suggesting that management is wiling to make "hard decisions." Such companies cannot quickly re-tool their technology stacks nor renegotiate 3-year software contracts. B2B companies tend to do very well as long as they are not solely focused on their startup/growth/pre-IPO customers, who get hit hard.

Here are some arguments for post-downturn tech growth:
1981 and the use of the PC + Lotus/WordPerfect/BASIC for efficient local compute
1990 and the surge of the LAN to replace centralized IT
2001 and the swell of SaaS
2008 and the swell of cloud
2022 and the .....
Honey, I Shrunk the Tokamak
This tiny fusion reactor is made out of commercially available parts
Nuclear startup Avalanche Energy has modest funding, a skeleton crew, a pocket-sized prototype — and grand ambitions.
unsure if this is correction on bad investments, or punishing innovation.
Multi-GPU on Raw PyTorch with Hugging Face's Accelerate Library
Who is the ruling class in non-capitalist countries?
for poor hardware a face generator with a set of mouth and eye states seems a good failback. It would be a huge difference if both hw and bw are bad.
I wonder if anyone here has a good mental model of a calendar?

I find I keep getting dates wrong when I book stuff. I recently booked a flight on the wrong date on Google Flights and booked a train ticket on the wrong date in Europe.

Part of it is due to poorly designed UIs on mobile. Then there’s just me not having a good sense of today’s date and day of week (I often don’t know what day of week it is). So unless I really slow down and double check, I keep making mistakes when it comes to dates.

I wonder if I just have a poor mental model of time and dates, or maybe I’m just not super aware.
I have one of these. Registered for the recall very early on. Once in a while I get an email saying "we're working with the FDA to see you get the very best care!"

According to my sleep specialist, they're most concerned about cleaning products degrading the foam. I haven't use them, so the Drs. recommendation was to continue to use the machine. Risk/benefit and all that.
> My use case would be...

Got it! I'm gonna duck out right after this comment (this thread is too much fun) but now I fully see the problem, and need to ponder what an ideal solution would look like.

If you always have a smart phone on you, that can be leveraged perhaps...

(Presuming that the iCloud email service uses the second-level domain "icloud" under the top-level domain "com", you'll know if/when someday I think of something else)
You'll need an active infrared solution to handle that.

https://hackaday.com/2020/02/28/using-ir-leds-to-hide-in-pla...
Switching Your Search Engine
Semantics aside, is it accurate to say that schemes where the capability is represented as a signed token require care and diligence to mitigate leaks, and schemes where the capability is represented as a table entry (mapping a user/process to a permission) don't require any meaningful care/diligence?
The Birth of ZFS (2015)
Leaving aside the gun logistics, there is a cultural baggage at work that seems to exacerbate cases of anti-social loner teenagers intent on punishing their world. Perhaps of grit, hostility to communal aid or social services, on the conceit that it exudes strength. Access to mental health services is nice but in and of itself may not even capture all the societal symptoms where it's needed. Ground-up grass-roots effort to change culture itself may be required. There is a generational cycle of negative experience and neglect among some youth. Existing structures are not enough. That may not be a satisfying, clear-cut avenue to explore but there is clearly room for improvement and it could garner bipartisan effort.

The alternative is to restrict access to concealable firearms, and going anywhere near this is politically unviable. Gun policy is used as a political football (so it doesn't even matter if more than 50% of Republican voters support better regulation), it leads us back here. That being said, as far as school shootings by teenagers are concerned, restriction of concealed arms probably works: it matters not that criminals don't acquire their guns legally, teenage shooters aren't career criminals, they just use their dad's gun, or in this case, buy it legally. And unless gun control translates to "asshole dad doesn't have a handgun", it won't mean anything. Gun advocates are leery that concessions would lead the conversation next to bans, probably correctly.

If you want change as soon as possible, take the first path. Otherwise, change the fabric of politics in America. Get rid of the PACs and SuperPACs.
Why is it a collection of physical controls literally in front of you all the time while in the driver's seat somehow impossible to remember but a collection of physical controls further away from you easier to remember? I would think the controls you're literally holding constantly would be easier to remember than the controls further away and farther from your normal vision when driving.

Why would you have to look down at the wheel but not the dashboard?
How I capture, encode, and embed screen recordings for the web
Don't write articles about or cover this person. He's super-clueless. Giving him attention will make you stupider.

Also, if he did this, he should be fired out of a cannon. Into the sun.

Oh look, he got fired from Facebook for "misogyny".
Yeah the term mental models is being misused these days. Each of us build thousands of mental models in our head, and what the list in the article contain are, principles or lenses.

I wrote about this in https://smarter.blog/mental-models/.
They are almost certainly talking about Airwatch, which is a mobile device management solution (allows an employer to set restrictions on BYoD endpoints.) It might be a reference to Carbon Black, which is kind of like an antivirus client with some forensics capabilities added in.
> In particular kids should definitely be safer from gun violence than a police officer. That seems like a reasonable goal?

No…? Why would comparing vastly different groups be “reasonable”?

Also, they are on a per capita basis: there’s a lot more school children than police officers.

By about two orders of magnitude (50M children to 600k officers).
Working in a Data Center, we provide various services, including Dedicated Cloud and Shared Cloud. We also evaluated OpenStack years ago... yes, we came to the same conclusion and just use VMWare.
Huh neat thanks. Wish you could do the same for lists too. Lists are nice ways to follow people you don't always want to see but still want easy access to.
Here’s a larger list of the key takeaways, https://www.theviolenceproject.org/mass-shooter-database-3/k....

For me, the most surprising takeaway was how many shooters exhibit signs of trouble prior to the shooting and how difficult it is for teachers and law enforcement to do something about it.
I have not found working on the wrong things to be problematic so long as you take the time to eliminate the wrong things once they have established themselves as being wrong.

Not taking time is, at heart, where tech debt is born. That can manifest debt across all areas of the development process. Pressure to not take time can certainly come from management, but I have also witnessed on numerous occasions the reverse, where management asks developers to slow down and take the time to do the work well; sometimes to no avail.

Either way, your underlying thesis is quite true that given the perfect system an imperfect team will quickly reintroduce said problems into the system. This is why many software companies have become hyper-picky (even before the tech crash) about hiring. They want to try and avoid building a team that wants to shortcut that time.
The fat bosses above me get more cred by buying something expensive and ha ing everything outsourced, than doing something brilliant and inventing the future. This is the reason for it. I'm this way the fat bosses are left alone and can go home to their families, go on holidays, cabins and whatnot with not a gram of risk and uncertainty.
So for about $26 - you could extract enough water to water a fruit tree indefinitely.

Doesn't seem like this would be used for agriculture at scale - but it sure could beat digging a well to get water for a house.
endpoint being employee devices, probably (via vmware's workspace one product)
That instrument always makes me think of this scene from Hero with Jet Li & Donnie Yen:

https://youtu.be/AeeoEpmyb2Y
> Despite the fact that there is no direct evidence of who was responsible for the crash or if it was in fact intentional, it is clear that someone made a killing when it happened, while ordinary traders and retail investors suffered losses that were extremely severe.

Yes, perhaps someone did. Someone smart, with enough resources and patience. Someone with imagination who thought through possible scenarios.

It happens every day. Caveat emptor is the first rule of financial markets.... The is not a charity..
EDIT: Chezmoi will do all this. https://www.chezmoi.io/quick-start/

Somewhat related question:

Can GNU stow do this, and if not, can anyone recommend a package/app to do it? I want to have a config file with a list of source files and where I want them symlinked. Then have a tool that maintains those links. Example:

# SOURCE # DESTINATION
zsh/zshenv ~/.zshenv
zsh/zshrc ~/.zshrc
gitconfig ~/.gitconfig

From my reading of GNU stow, it operates on full directories and relies on having the files already named correctly.
Given that he's admitting to purposely violating hiring laws, can he be sued by Google after the fact for this?
Yes, this is one of the best decision I made quite a while back. I'm usually asked for ideas and advices on how to setup computers, both technical and non-technical friends and families. I have always suggested putting a little more effort in learning the defaults and getting used to it.

I have even written a short essay, as I found myself repeating the same suggestions many a times. https://notes.oinam.com/digital/apple/
>> It is my opinion that if someone murders another person for most of the common reasons (robbery, relatively minor interpersonal disputes, nonsensical rage, etc...) something is wrong with the murderer.

This seems like wishful thinking - You are making some assumptions about the nature of human kind (that murderous behaviors are not part of it) and then you work backward to classify someone who has commited murder as not healthy.

The safer assumption would be to give some credit to social norms, and be grateful that murdering each other is mostly out of fashion (when did we last witnessed real duel to death?)
I have been using this for years and I think it meets your needs. Only problem is that it is paper. I am also a fan of the compact calendar for high level events / sprints / vacation tracking.

https://davidseah.com/node/the-emergent-task-planner/

https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/
Presuming for a moment that you’re under 40 for the sake of conversation:

Have you ever considered the other way around? That is, “What changes with age that would make someone over 40 prefer outsourcing a problem to an enterprise?”

It’s possible that this trend is a result of a different perspective.
usually cell and mobile device but can also include computers. Being able to push out software, policy updates, provisioning and remote wiping of devices.
Ok, this is obviously a very shallow reading, but I can see myself coming back to it in moments of need to find new perspectives.
My team struggled with screwdriver for years before finally biting the bullet and switching to hammer. The first few days were tough, but after we learned the biggest pitfalls (hello bruised thumb gang) our productivity skyrocketed!
The most important mental model of all: recognizing the boundaries of these models. It's just as important to know when a mental model is not appropriate or applicable as it is to apply the mental model.
That's an amazing idea. I had no idea. I'm going to do this. Thank you!
One thing you are paying for is maturity (in both software and the engineers) and predictable behavior. When you need to run a business sometimes (almost all the time) it's easier to pay people to get out of your way so you can execute. Execution is everything in running a successful and profitable business. Don't be penny foolish.
VMware purchased Airwatch, perhaps the premiere mobile device management suite.
Agreed. It's VHS trumping Betamax all over again. Few things irk me more than Pythonistas crowing over their world dominance but if you look at the top 3 languages - Python, JS & Java - it's clear that language design counts for nothing.
> but needs software to run its business

In this case, they have no need for VMWare or Oracle.

Actually, the parent comment is on to something. "Brand name" enterprise software is a buoy that certain types of careerists handcuff themselves to, which allows them to float through their careers fairly unchallenged.

At one point in time, IBM had this market position. Then Microsoft, Oracle, and now Amazon and Google.
I liked that too and was hoping to find a link to a PDF. The URLs on the page are colored so similarly to the text I could barely tell when there were links. Does anyone happen to know if that sheet is available anywhere?
The What and Why of Programmable Proxies
Please don't waste everyone's time by asking questions if you're going to summarily dismiss any response you don't like.
I'd love to read an objective comparison between Go and C#/NET6 wrt to building services.
> There's never going to be useful progress here until America unsticks from the idea that the right to arm yourself belongs in the same category as the right to free speech or due process.

America also needs a comprehensive media safety law that bans dissemination of reports of things like school attacks outside of the affected communities. All the nationwide media coverage does is inspire copycat mayhem.
lendal my bad
The VMWare market cap in 2016 was ~$32B, of course there's no objective way to answer your question definitely as yes or no but I'd say that VMWare was already at that point more than comfortably a more or less de-facto standard for virtualization.
the answer is no probably not. VC for tech startup exist because of economy of scale of tech and is ruled by power law. one winner that returns 100x is much more important than a handful that return 2x.

to be clear most VC funds are not actually able to do that.
Normal distribution is not the same as uniform distribution. I edited in a normal distribution sampler in your codepen example.

https://pastebin.com/raw/CP4yNRE9
Largest Steam Locomotive 'Big Boy No. 4014' Returns to the Tracks