skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Schools need long term turnkey solutions that offer support

No they don't. Schools need affordable and generally available
software that kids can freely download, and which are flexible and
open enough to be tailored. It is ironic to label solutions that
basically lock-down and lock-in student's options as "turnkey". More
like "throw away the key"!

> someone who will pick up the phone when they call.

But no-one ever does. This harks back to the Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) FUD Microsoft were spewing in the early 00's. In 2022 we all
know exactly what big-tech customer support looks like even if you pay
dearly for it. Basically you're on your own, and good luck to you.

> Forcing folks to use niche software

Forcing anyone to use any software is wrong. Software should be a
choice in the same way that religion, diet, political affiliation
and our choice of friends. There is not only one way. Understanding
that there are choices - alternative ways of doing things - is
fundamental to innovation and should be taught to kids from a very
young age.

> they cannot just use whatever the rest of the world is using

That is a disingenuous generalisation. There is no "rest of the world".

> when they graduate.

One thing I've learned over many years of teaching tech, is that by
the time students graduate and get into a real job market the things
that were hot when they were freshmen have moved on. Google services
have been axed. Adobe versions and licenses have changed. Microsoft
applications moved into the cloud and radically changed their
interfaces. It is actually Free Open Source Software that retains
greater stability and offers greater career value longevity, even it
is is functionally poorer.

> Teachers, parents, students, etc would need to learn these new
programs that they haven't used before.

In tech, we all have to learn new things we haven't used before, all
the time. It's the nature of rapid progress. To infer that this is
somehow only true of open source software is wrong.

> I'm sure there will be a lot of school sysadmins reading this and
thinking "please just stay in your lane."

We have a massive problem with de-skilling of ICT admins at the
primary, secondary, and even higher-ed levels. I believe this is a
direct cause of poorer educational outcomes because the technical
support staff are unable to serve needs in a rapidly advancing world
that demands innovation and deeper skills than clicking boxes on a
webmin panel to choose some Windows options.
Our government collects a lot of taxes for helping people like you. I guess I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that that’s not working but do you have any insight into why none of the homeless assistance projects aren’t capable of bringing you back to a stable situation?
Saying that "he just wants to tell you about the silly flavor of lisp he invented" isn't exactly constructive either, especially when it's relevant.
I want to take a minute to appreciate and recognize the https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly#background section.

A lot of projects say "faster" without giving some hint of the things they did to achieve this. "A novel fork-less snapshotting algorithm", "each thread would manage its own slice of dictionary data", and "core hashtable structure" are all important information that other projects often leave out.
> If any science fiction author, famous or obscure, had submitted a story where the plot was "modern IT is a bunch of crap that organized crime exploits for extortion," it would have gotten nowhere

Has Kamp ever read any SciFi published after the '70s? That's a pretty common trope in cyberpunk and subsequent works. Heck, it's a staple of Mr. Robot, hardly a niche production.
Yes. The explanation “it was all made up by one or more writers” sufficiently covers not just the precognition, but also the hallucinations and even the existence of the oracle.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220530163626/https://www.latim...
Sure, we built it with "bells and whistles": Tools for visualization with native support for ClickHouse, lightweight ETL service, and many other things like backups, monitoring, and logs. We even support ClickHouse over S3 when data could be decoupled from computing to S3, giving a performance of Clickhouse and cost of S3 storage.
Imagine you are a plumber that needs to onboard new people at your work and they need to know how to do a plumbing thing. Turn over is pretty high and teaching each and everyone of them yourself takes a lot of time - so you make a video.
I just discovered Gemini a few days ago. I really was taken aback by the idea of no version number in the protocol. I kept reading, and tried out the 100ish line Python client, then the Lagrange client. It all gives me a nice fuzzy feeling.

I'm on a different quest, to create a Memex as originally envisioned. I'll likely set up my own capsule and blog about things there, in parallel with my old blogspot blog.
> LoL. LibreOffice Suite is terrible compared to MS Office. There’s simply nothing on par with Excel, PowerPoint, or Word. Also many are forced to use Outlook because of MS exchange.

You know, i'm not sure about that. For what i need it to do: text processing and the occasional bit of nicer layout/tables/images and so on, it's decent. The same goes for presentations and spreadsheets.

The problematic bit is that the rest of the world runs on MS Office file formats and you'll run into problems due to limited compatibility sooner or later. Then again, the formats themselves are Eldritch abominations, so that's to be expected, as the same happens with OpenDocument formats when opened in Microsoft software.

The most interesting set of problems i had were with Writer screwing up my bibliography, though most people prefer external software for that anyways: https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/libreoffice...

(that said, dear god did i hate the requirements for reference formatting in university, why couldn't we just put a link/reference and leave it at that)

As for the other alternatives: in my opinion, Inkscape has the worst UX of them all, though can still work okay in a limited set of circumstances.

Firefox seems like an okay browser, despite the inept management in the recent years.

Thunderbird is a pretty cool e-mail client, by the way. It even includes a feed reader!
It's pretty useless if they are pretty good if can't afford them afterwards

Like driving lessons in a Porsche
Maybe it's time to start putting the "Cloud" in orbit.
Latency maybe?
Doesn't it use the CPU core to put the data to memory though?
UK to grant visas to graduates from the best universities
I'm not very familiar with umatrix though none others come to mind, and in any case all requests to duckduckgo.com domains are anonymous by design since (as that article notes in more detail) we have our web servers and related applications set up to not log any IP addresses or other unique identifiers with requests. If you want to DM me on Twitter though I can look into it more.
quite a well known phenomenon in recruiter circles, can conduct first name searches for candidates in order to (generally) target an age cohort. Class dimension to this too - working class parents generally use names popular with upper class, upper class then moves to something else, in order to maintain status difference
Yes, but think about languages that don't have the concept of green, but only a shade of blue that we would call green.

This would not stop your ability to describe it, but would change how you relate it to other colors.
Let's get concrete! What is boring tech in the context of creating an SPA website?

A LAMP stack (seems too old and boring give that most SPAs want some form of real time updating)

React? Is that old and boring yet or new and unproven? React with what (since react is just a framework for DOM manipulation

Rails? Does that meet today's requirements? At the time it wasn't written for SPAs, was written for MPAs.
Optional implies that user do something very intentional to disable JS.

But there are some cases where things go south without user direct intervention. Just to name a few:

- some edge bug that will render your whole site as a gorgeous white page
- some browser extension that mess up with a site
- some network configuration/condition that prevent JS loading correctly (think of a broken DNS)
This goes far beyond a "working definition" in that it encompasses literally every game that unlocks content in any way. /Some/ distinction is needed to differentiate a "loot box" from every other game mechanic.

It would be like using "a metal object that can harm people" as a working definition of an assault weapon. If the definition also includes ladders, cars, and push-pins, it's far too broad to be useful in any discussion.
The first principle with money is to have one source of truth.

E.g. a single mainframe through which all transactions run in real time.

Anything else will be hacked because there's money as incentive.

This means accepting latency and rejected transactions.

There is no simplified version of this...that won't be robbed easily.

Good luck.
their = Nextcloud's.
Yes, I can confirm that Memcached can reach similar performance as DF. However, one of the goals of DF was to combine the performance of Memcached with versatility of Redis. I implemented an engine that provides atomicity guarantees for all its operations plus transparent snapshotting under write-heavy traffic and all this without reducing the performance compared to memcached.

Having said that, DF also has a novel caching algorithm that should provide better hit rate with less memory consumption.
That's the point everyone should consider in the Windows/Linux debate. Windows/Office is not the de facto standard because they are superior technology - they won because Microsoft produced good enough software, employed every business trick in the book while also pioneering some, and because they covered the bases OP pointed out. Service and user experience is not only a very important part to provide, but often the part that makes or breaks the product.

That said, what schools teach is just some legislation away. I believe regulation could make it happen even now, if the regulators wanted so. But, of course, regulators are people too and therefore, yet again, it's not up to the technology itself to be better.
They put all kinds of locks on the account but they never worked, my assumption was that people who worked at the provider (who could unlock anything) were the ones stealing it!
There is zero mechanism for average Russians to pressure their government, otherwise I suspect we would not have gotten into this situation in the first place.
I would say SANS but you can't afford it. Even blackhat briefs only cost more (they have trainings+defcon too). Beyond entry level stuff, either you need $3-8k/person or you stick with free videos and blogs that are nowhere near as good but still better than nothing.

I don't know what your title means, do you work with apps or secure the infrastructure apps talk to? If your focus is strictly on software/code security disregard my advice (although since you mentioned tryhackme, my opinion might still be relevant)
To me the focus on speed is a wash now. They’re all fast. I’d like to hear about easy cross-region replication and failover as well as effortless snapshot and restoring of backups.
It is clean (compared to what it was before) and reliable. Cheap was never a target. In fact, household prices are artificially and intentionally (as by design) kept high to promote conservation. Average day-ahead market prices at EPEX SPOT in 2021 were lower than prices for France.
I agree with the person above, too much hyperbole makes it easy to dismiss an argument.

We're already struggling against a mountain of industry funded FUD, the last thing we need is people stretching the truth in well meaning yet counterproductive ways.
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to speak frankly with the then CTO of the NYC department of education, and pitched them on the idea of replacing Windows with Linux, or at least MS Office with OpenOffice, touting both the Free-as-in-Speech and Free-as-in-Beer benefits, as well as the lower hardware costs.

What they told me was that similar pitches from vendors like RedHat were useful to them in that they invariably prompted Microsoft to offer a deal, IIRC, somewhere around 1$/month/computer (annually, about the cost of a new keyboard; which they had to buy a lot of), and that they had to replace the computer hardware often enough due to wear and tear (students are very hard on computers) that the hardware savings would be illusory.

If I were to try and make a similar pitch today I might try calculating in the cost of electricity, but there is simply no way Microsoft is going to let itself be undercut on price for the software per-se for those big marquee accounts.

Of course when taking competitive bids like that, you really should price in the eventual switching costs when comparing bids, but hardly anyone does that correctly in the public OR private sector, and sunk-cost fallacies tends to overwhelm the decision making process.
Progressive Enhancement will never not be relevant. If your web application doesn't work in Lynx over 56K dialup, then your application doesn't work. You can implement an app under these constraints if you use standard HTML forms and do all your processing server-side.
I rarely find any of those things. I mean, it does crash, but once every six months, which I don't see as constant.

Hehe, we are on the same boat about not using other browsers. I have been use firefox for the last 18 years, I will continue to do so.
As you point out, it creates masters of a single rabbit hole, with all it's false dens, escapes etc. Back in the craft days this was common, people would apprentice and down a hole they went. Then came bulk parallel education, where people emerged with credentials of their rabbit holes mastered. (read, write, math....) and people were hired as such and then began the meat and potatoes of their new job. It is much the same with degreed education, but with a lot more granularity that increased as your degrees grew - postdocs etc, papers published etc.
So we now enter the area of the internet autodidact - how to prove what you know? What if you always hated partial differential equations = never ever studied. Same with statistics or the analysis of a segment of DNA by modern voltage drop capillary methods - hated all those.
In effect how to you answer a job ad with granular evidence of what you can do?
Will this end up creating a number of brilliant people with holes in their CV?
How to ID these holes so you can autodidact what you lack and may hate = a hirable person with a CV some HR algorithm allows to deal with the AI that acts as the human screener so you get an interview?
There will also be cheat AI's that are tasked with getting your BS CV past these initial screens in the hope that your high level BS AI can get you hired - sight unseen? There are huge numbers of people with well documented, fully faked CV's already beating down HR doors in response to their ads in hopes of getting some sort of job.... doubt me? ask a few high tech HR people which face this thicket of false AND litigious applicants on a daily basis.
Dude, open an issue :)
I was waiting for someone to ask for that because I do not know anyone who uses it :)
Lots of comments on kids getting covid and it not being lethal. But it’s not as binary (life vs death). There are lots of reports of permanent lung scarring, reduced cognitive abilities, changes in breathing patterns, the list is long.

If you can avoid these things, it’s for the better.
I don't notice much swapping when running 'top'.
A nice platitude. What are you doing to achieve it? My guess is nothing, because you have bills to pay, like everyone else.

The reality is that if all those things were provided population would grow unchecked until resources ran out. It’s not sustainable.

On the other extreme, we can do a lot better than artificial scarcity.
Thank you for the kind words and feedback!

Access controls are in progress and will be released in June. We are building a tagging system for peers (endpoints) so that you could create peer groups and assign access rules to them. Check the mockups
https://github.com/netbirdio/dashboard/blob/main/media/taggi...

We will reduce ports for Management (merge gRPC with HTTP) so it will be just port 443.
AS for TURN and Signal, these are separate components and require open ports.
You could also use any public TURN server - your traffic will be p2p encrypted, just the IP of your peer will be exposed to that services. If it is not a concern, then it is a good option :)
People fall on hard times in Texas and Colorado and move to California.

Homelessness is a national problem that manifests itself in places where we take care of the homeless.
> If it’s about protecting children, it’s probably better they learn how gambling is a losing game when there isn’t much money on the line rather than when they’re older.

The same logic could be applied to alcohol consumption, but we still bar kids from buying alcohol. I think treating loot boxes as gambling strikes the right balance where they are not banned in general but also not actively being pushed on 12 year olds. The industry likes to claim that the primary driver of their loot box revenue is wealthy, adult "whales" so I don't see why they would be opposed to being classified as 18+ games - unless they're lying that is.
I would do a combination of making a lab environment for hands-on exploration and quality low cost training like from the BHIS folks at antisyphon training.
antisyphontraining.com
Exactly, the stack and infrastructure should be fairly boring - and - above all unsurprising. The exciting stuff should be in the actual application.
These are brokerage accounts. I think OP is asking for checking accounts.
Ah I thought you meant "viral" as in "popular". My mistake

> They are equally as ideological, but copyleft is definitely "louder" in a sense since it actually forces people to play along.

That's fair. I guess the ideology behind permissive licenses is to not force anybody to do anything
This is a very good framing of Heroku
And there was no audit trail for their actions? Wow.
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with Emacs being programmed in Lisp and it sure as hell isn't "a poor architectural decision"

I love Scheme and Lisp. I've probably written several million lines of code in both Scheme and Lisp and I've contributed code to several Lisp and Scheme compilers.

But languages are absolutely slow or fast! There are fast Schemes and Lisps and there are slow ones. Emacs has probably the slowest one by far. For example, Emacs still relies on dynamic binding after all of this time. That's a performance disaster.

There is simply no efficient implementation of Elisp possible as it stands and as it is used today. Even with JIT compiling Elisp performance is simply wretched.
I like the redis protocol compatibility and the HTTP compatibility, but from the initial skim through I guess you are using abseil-cpp and the home-grown helio (https://github.com/romange/helio) library.

Could you get me a one liner on the helio library is it used as a fiber wrapper around the io_uring facility in the kernel? Can it be used as a standalone library for implementing fibers in application code?

Also it seems that spinlock has become a defacto standard in the DB world today, thanks for not falling into the trap (because 90% of the users of any DB do not need spinlocks).

Another curious question would be - why not implement with seastar (since you're not speaking to disk often enough)?
Not really because businesses have to license it properly, and Adobe just lets go of the rest. Meanwhile piracy leads to great adoption.
I wonder if there are some folks within the city council or whatever governmental group that essentially allows people to camp / live in this area that want this to be a public eye sore to get public support to do something about it? Because if you take at face value what these folks say, they like the fact that the location is beautiful and it’s convenient for them in various ways. The same reasons members of the public would also enjoy coming to the same area but are not able to enjoy it because the area is an eye sore / does not feel safe. Caring about the homeless and allowing them to live in a gorgeous public park seems like really the only goal to allow it is to want to generate public discussion since it is so obviously unfair to people who live nearby, people who want to visit it and enjoy it, and businesses in the area that are impacted by the homeless needing bathrooms / leaving trash / causing problems (likely a small minority who cause problems but still the problems do exist let’s be real).
> scales linearly with # of cores you have in your cluster.

So if I have 1 machine and increase from 2 to 256 core the throughout will scale linearly without the SSD ever being a bottleneck?
Would that offer some consolation to the parent?
Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager
I work in the UK post compulsory sector (18+ basic skills teaching, aka adult education, mostly maths), so not the primary age focus of the OA. A few reflections after the organisations I work for pivoted at a month's notice to 100% online delivery:

Most of the students I see use their phones as the main Web access device (zoom online classes + video lessons + pdf files for documents and all). Touch screen/direct manipulation UI is were it seems to be at. Students like drawing on my slides. I work with a teacher who makes extensive use of Google's Jamboard (Please don't cancel this project!!!) to check understanding. Each student in an online class of 10 can have a copy of a problem on their own page in Jamboard and show their working.

One of my employers IT dept (Microsoft shop all through, 1500+ client PCs) was happy to make OpenOffice(*)/GIMP/Inkscape available on the network. Students discovered the packages themselves and some used them without realising that they could have their own copies at home for nowt.

The other employer has gone Microsoft 365 total with Teams and all. The Web based office applications allow students to produce basic docs and keep the resulting files in their online storage. Few problems so far. Some integration with Moodle for course pages.

A large College locally uses Google Education to provide similar facilities. Students who take courses from both institutions seem to work well with the two different systems. I think people in these days of mobile devices are less dependent on one UI.

Addressing the OA's main point: yes I think we could use more open source OS and applications in schools. Chromebooks are almost there when you think about it. BUT I suspect the future is Web apps. Contrast geogebra(1) with Logo(2) (and I think there is room for both)

(1) https://www.geogebra.org/calculator

(2) https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/logo_p...

Meta: I had to use
links -dump https://tdarb.org/posts/schools.txt | fmt | less

to read the OA. Lines just too long on graphical Web browser.
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the density of intelligent life cannot be bounded from below with only the one point of data that we have.
a counterpoint is that this example begs the question; it assumes a priori that “thinking about gears” is not a language itself.

which, who knows, it might be!
Have you done any research about the impacts of climate change? Complaining about the urgency of warnings only works if you're certain the urgency is unwarranted.
Author misses the point entirely. Almost nothing in the real world is engineered to prospect against motivated malicious actors.

Even security devices like locks and fences are trivially defeated with the right know how and tools.
If you use SSH ControlMaster sockets, it's not so bad in practice. It can be a pain at times, but I think the security is worth it.