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Ask HN: Virtualization / VPN Options on Apple Silicon
Long story short, for work, I need to connect to a cisco VPN that doesn't allow any outside access to the internet, in order to access certain company resources. This is due to FEDRAMP regulations, apparently. To accomplish this, they have us use a VM to access those resources so we can use the host machine to access the rest of the internet.

Unfortunately due to some uninformed decisions, they assigned me an M1 mac to do my work, but as I have discovered, apple silicon has very poor virtualization options. You can run a tech preview version of windows 11, but it does not support signing into work accounts. You can run another instance of macos with parallels or UTM or vmware preview, but it's a mess -- there's no way to copy/paste between host and vm, and generally a bunch of other issues as a result of the lack of support for any host/guest tools.

I have tried many different options and come up short, so I thought the HN community might have an idea. I am able to connect to the VPN from my host machine, but that is prohibitive since I would basically have to connect/disconnect every time I want to access resources on the outside net.

Perhaps there is an option that does not require a whole VM, but I am not well versed enough in networking to know what that may be.

Perhaps my only option is going back to an Intel mac.
Another big parameter is how many people are in the on-call rotation.

If the rotation is spread only on 2 or 3 Ops in the team, well, being on-call every other week, even on reliable systems, can really suck (given you must always make yourself available).

Things can get even worse in periods with a lot of PTOs like Summer or Christmas. During these periods, if the team is small, being on-call 2 or 3 weeks in a row is not uncommon.
The only thing that can’t be easily substituted with fairly common tools is the spot welder.

I’ve thought about making one from an old transformer (or was it a microwave oven?), but didn’t pursue it. I only had a few AKs, and have mostly abandoned the platform since the dirt cheap ammo for it has dried up. It’s easier and more practical for me to reload for NATO cartridges.
One aspect of context switching I struggle with is that often a task requires short periods of forced inactivity, like waiting for a script or query to finish. Often times it’s in the scale of 1-2 minutes. It feels long enough that I don’t want to sit there staring at a progress bar, but switching to another task momentarily definitely can cause a loss of focus.

The solution is probably something along the lines of: become more comfortable sitting and reflecting on the current task. Find ways to remain engaged with the current task during the waiting period (reviewing the code, adding more comments, fleshing out next steps, etc.). Don’t give in to a perception of “justified” context switching.
Cool! Have you ever looked into creating a Safari version? If so, any thoughts on whether Apple's Safari extensions mechanisms would work for Rewind?
You should check python-on-guile. It compiles Python to (unidiomatic) Scheme. The resulting code uses delimited continuations and mutation EVERYWHERE, and still manages to beat python on all my old project Euler solutions.
Just for future reference, the proper spelling is “C’est la vie” (French)
I thought FLoC was Google's Federated Labeling of Cohorts? This is too much acronym overloading for me.

I wonder which came first.
What's better for showing off your SaaS products: Hacker News or ProductHunt?
I know 9/10 people will come into this discussion and tell me it's better to use both. But I feel like the HN and PH communities are polar opposites. PH seems to be the warm, comfortable and nice community that usually says positive things about your launch whereas on the flip-side, the HN community (especially Show HN) seems like hungry piranhas who are always ready to criticize your life-work. I can see how it's better to launch on both platforms (since you'll probably get more views), but then which community gives better feedback? One can be demotivating and harsh, the other can be 'nicer' but also possibly delaying for a pivot.

I need answers!!
funny enough it was Apple that stopped you from running software because their server was down
If it doesn't already exist, there should be a couple of "archival libraries" that hold on to a couple copies each of weeded materials, and make them available to the general public through ILL.

I might be weird, but I find "out of date" stuff to be pretty interesting, and I'd honestly prefer to browse a collection of that than stuff that's scrupulously "up to date."
Jumping Spiders Display REM-Like Sleep Behavior, Suggesting Spiders Dream
But that's not something you'd expect a non-resident to know. Making account opening criteria transparent wouldn't hurt anything and would save everyone time.
Within the realm of the blockchain, yes. But regulators do much of their work in meatspace. Smart contacts won’t protect you from information gathered elsewhere.
I see PG's quote as true, but hard to swallow.

The truth is you do have to be the right kind of person to be successful (in this context, successful at startups). A person born with severe retardation or another mental incapacity is not the right kind of person to be successful at startups.

The right kind of person has the genetic makeup, personality type, upbringing and/or access to resources to become successful. Not everyone has this and that's okay. And also, you (usually) don't know if you're the right kind of person until you try. So if you want to, try and keep trying until you don't want to anymore.
Even in the US, only 5% of trips are longer than 30 miles. 60% were 5 or less. For the ~50% of households with more than one car, one of them could easily be electric.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1042-augu....
I am personally bearish on this assumption unless a few hurdles are reached. Being a software engineer involves a lot of translation of intent from a required feature into an efficient and maintainable implementation.

In a good number of cases it is more difficult to communicate what needs to be built rather than actually building the end product.

The recent work with DALL-E 2 echos a similar problem, coming up with a descriptive prompt can be difficult to do and needs fine tuning to be done. Not unlike trying to communicate with a graphic designer your expected intentions and giving similar works to draw from.
Man fools security to backstage by changing band's Wikipedia page (2015)
Again, mastering choices differ between distribution media, that's obvious.

When you say 'mastering always has a better dynamic range', did you mean CD quality PCM has a better dynamic range?
> […] Airfoil software does all this & more […]

Not quite; Airfoil Satellite does not implement an AirPlay 2 receiver which is what this is all about. See https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/25/current-notes-on-a... :

> Can Airfoil Satellite receive AirPlay 2 audio? Airfoil Satellite receives audio via the AirPlay 1 protocol. Because of this, it can’t currently be part of a multi-speaker group receiving audio from iOS.

Still a great piece of software (that I also can recommend).
It's hard to keep an optimistic and creative imagination when the status quo is as bad as it is, but don't let the present malaise limit your horizons. There is more than one way out.
One storage media topic I would like to hear more about is whether the stagnation in optical disc technology reflects a natural limit of the concept or a victim of market forces moving the most profitable use cases towards streaming.
How Safe Is Your Fiber Network?
Last I checked, you could mostly find references to ECM in reference to the FGC-9.

I played with when it was first published, and successfully made a rifled barrel blank. I’ll probably do it again at some point, to comply with the NFA for some other projects I have in my backlog - smoothbore pistols are considered “Any Other Weapons”, but even rudimentary rifling is enough to make it “just a pistol”.
Nobody knew, there were very few voices asking questions about theranos (like dr. Ioannidis) but their shenanigans were unknown until Carreyou publicized them
They also sometimes say opposite things, so in case you were going to say "just listen to them all", it's a little bit harder than that.
Have you applied the same statistical rigor to the evidence that improved child care, healthcare+diet, and k-12 education improve intelligence and educational attainment leads to intelligence increases as you do for genetic arguments?
> Here it's used as a story to provide motivation as to why someone could potentially need to build their own software stack.

I dunno: sounds like it failed.
That would be an interesting test to do internationally.
> Somewhere on the internet is a forum post where someone took a shovel and made all the necessary parts for a functional AK

I was “there” for that thread, but don’t have a link handy. The title was “shit shovel AK”, I think. Here’s a link showing it:

https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2012/11/27/shit-shovel-ak-...
One of the things I like about the opportunity in 3D printing is the potential to move manufacturing closer to the source of sale. From an environmental perspective, I believe this is a big win, as well as JIT manufacturing.

I'm not suggesting everyone will have a 3D printer, but if we can localize the printing, you can get your same day delivery without warehousing, etc.
But how do you get the strong army without being developed first?

(I agree that once you already have a strong army, you can leverage it to get even more advantages.)
> companion technology to git for caching large media assets ("blob hub?") or
There is Amazon S3 or any other cloud storage.

> tracking historical build output ("release hub?")

There are OCI artifact registries.

For me, there is rather issue that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Seems silly. How long of a trip do you think you'll need to take where driving extra distance to the local battery/trailer repo, hooking up the hitch, and the power cables ... for your make/model... waiting in line/signing paperwork. Of course you have to drive extra and more time for dropping it off.

I drove nearly half way across the USA (1200 miles) in an EV, it's just not a big deal. Sure it took 21 hours instead of 19 or some such, not a big deal unless you do it often. I save many more hours with avoiding trips to the gas station, smog testing, oil changes, and related.
Replaceable wear parts cost extra money, and consume extra resources (which cost is a great proxy for). Many consumer products will never be used enough to make user-replace-ability cost effective or an effective use of resources. If you want to find evidence of this, look at all the computer and other consumer grade that is thrown away with no failed wear items (thrown out due to changes in preferences, obsolescence, or poor maintenance).
The implementation I’ve seen only stores a hash based on the image analysis
> The quantification of intelligence is notoriously confounded by socioeconomic factors. I do not think talking about predicting a feature makes sense while we are currently unable to describe it well.

If we are doing this selection of IVF embryos it is feasible to control for these confounding factors.

> IMO dedicating funding to improving child care, healthcare+diet, and k-12 education will have a much greater impact on increasing a society's measures of intelligence and educational attainment. There's much stronger evidence that these factors are associated with improved outcomes. But, the work isn't "sexy" and doesn't come with a sci-fi flair.

Source? Isn't intelligence in adulthood more correlated with your parents than any of these environmental factors? That was at least what I had recalled from twin adoption studies.
I just rebuilt a lithium ion pack on my parents dustbuster (handheld cordless vacuum), they loved that thing but it was down to only a few minutes of battery life. Black & Decker refuses to sell replacement packs, and once you open one of the packs up it's easy to see why. All the brains of the vac are on the controller board on the battery pack. The rest is really just plastic, a switch, and a motor. My guess is the replacement cost of a pack would be about the same as a whole new unit, so they just don't make them for it.

I bought a cheap spot welder ago on Amazon some years ago for re-celling packs. I bought the highest rated high output Molicel 18650's and it took about 5 minutes to spot weld them in with some nickel. Vac is now better than new, runs for a half hour or more on a charge. Probably will be good for years unless something else breaks in it.
Time is only money if you someone will pay you for your time. If that’s not true, then it’s just a good excuse to spend your money when you could (in some cases should) be spending your time.
To speak meaningfully about art
> That extra strength/endurance translates into my ability to walk around cities and other locations I visit.

But you're the weekend exerciser. The question is whether there'd be any use to matching the strength/endurance of those other people around you.
I'm Australian.

I think our government protects us precisely the bare minimum needed to avoid a general riot, and no more.

100% most definitely they don't protect us in any way wrt data privacy, but that's only because the average person thinks they "have nothing to hide" so they can get away with it due to general apathy/ignorance.

The only place I do feel they protect us is in consumer protections, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were plans underway to change those.
Recovery time is king.
There is another layer here, which is how much you increase the "luck surface" by doing certain things. Is it 10%, so you move from 1% probability to have "success" to 1.1%? Or 50% from 30 to 45%?

Increasing the luck surface sounds smart and insightful and I have been guilty to use the term quite nonchalantly myself, but without quantification and direction of the luck-surface actions, it means very little.

In the specific case discussed, apart from the "building a company" part which is admirable but kinda to be taken for granted when selling services, it sounds like walking increased their luck surface. Had he taken a Uber or gone to a different store, maybe the company won't be here (guessing). I continue to call it luck.
> Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad?

Well they're bad at not looking like AI generated art. It's impressive, but I've yet to come across an example that doesn't look like AI generated art. A few seconds of surface level inspection and you can see the weird AI psychodelic circling effect (no idea what the technical name is - eye-ball-ification?)
There is a question unasked in all replies here:

Is GitHub sanctioning just the accounts that they consider to be directly associated with the sanctioned organization, or, are they also sanctioning the upload of that open source code by unassociated third parties?
The reason it's focused so much is that art has incredibly low stakes... and people don't want AI making any seemingly important decisions...
FYI my ~9y/o marantz is also hardwired, but I cannot get airplay to work unless I explicitly go to Net/USB and even then it's the same 2-3 attempt (switching inputs) to get the device to appear on the airplay list. After that it's flawless, but the UX pretty much means I'm the only one airplaying to that device. I have since upgraded 3 years ago to a newer slimline model and that has no problem being found regardless of the input used and regardless of wifi/ethernet.

My friend with a ~5 year old denon also has no problem. So possible this is a discontinued firmware issue. YMMV
Fascinating. I'd never heard of trypophobia before reading this post this morning... right after which I walked into an art exhibit and saw this amazing painting by Alfredo Arreguín...

https://ibb.co/GQrrxNY
Is iOS via the iPhone Simulator?
> they can’t(?) blacklist people from using the tokens that come out the other end.

why not?
Online DALL-E generators often are deliberately prevented from producing good faces, because of the potential for abuse.
Strength helps too. One of my few regrets of my youth is neglecting my upper body strength. It's harder to get at 58 what you could've gotten at 20.
Being the weekend exerciser means that I'm able to keep up with the athletes when they want to walk to the next restaurant / location... rather than taking an Uber with the non-exercisers.

I'm not strong enough to beat the athletes in a footrace. But they're not racing me, they're just walking at their normal pace / jogging pace to make travel a bit quicker.

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Being the weekend-exerciser means that I can lift one of my nieces and throw her around safely as I play with her. (Ex: pick her up, throw her onto the monkey bars at the playground and whatnot).

But I'm not as strong as the athlete who can lift _TWO_ of my nieces (one in each hand) and toss them both around safely and at the same time. As such, my nieces swarm the athlete of the group and ask to be picked up / moved around / etc. etc when we go to playgrounds. Because having fun with her sister is twice the fun.

You know, little things that stronger people can do that weaker people cannot do.
I suspect that was a mistype based on their other post, it was probably meant to be "nurture"?
That wasn't your comment you said the nordic countries discovered more periodic elements the US. My response was going to be since your grouping the nordic countries the the uk and us would also have to be group because of historic relation between the uk and us specifically the us is some degree was a colony of the uk. With that being said the two combined have discovered 45 elements almost split evenly between the two in comparison to the nordics 25. Also its not a chicken and egg problem unix came to fruition without linux, but linux would never have existed without unix especially if Linus Torvalds had never came in contact with unix at university. Linus Torvalds thesis goes in detail about relation between the two.
BMD has made production-grade video equipment affordable to the masses. They're kind of the Behringer of the video world, with the difference obviously being that BMD doesn't knock off designs from others and uses high quality components.

Only gripe I have with BMD is that you need a separate piece of utility software for each and every component and it's not entirely obvious if there are firmware updates for a specific device available.
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More than 16k software engineering jobs and you can search by the technologies you want to work with, locations you want to work at, and many other filters.
This course is great. I took it in person a few years ago, and I’ve since recommended it to quite a few people who got noticeably better at technical writing afterwards. There is not any great eye-opening insight in the course, it’s mostly good practices you already knew anyway, but it’s very useful to be reminded of them, and have them spelled out clearly in one place.
> Printing small arms on the fly would be a sure fire way to lose a campaign.

Mostly, yes - but I could see a place for it in an insurgency, where having a weapon is a liability an individual wouldn’t want, unless it’s in active use at the time.

Things are changing quickly, though:

> You can't 3D print your ammo.

True - but there are active projects out there to address this, and they’re getting better all the time. I think you’ll see viable 3D-printed cartridges soon, with chemical components made from accessible ingredients.

> There's also a lot of stuff like springs you can't 3D print.

You can print forms and jigs that make creating springs of the correct dimensions much easier, though. Spring steel wire isn’t in short supply anywhere.
I think your use of birth is the hangup. It's not who you're born to, it's how you're raised

>I'm saying the only traits that rich people have "that seriously help them maintain and acquire wealth" is that they almost exclusively tend to be born to rich people. That's it. That's the trait.

This is saying that self control and delayed gratification isn't a trait. It's saying that financial literacy isn't a trait.

At best it's a gross oversimplification that ignores the fact that a huge number of poor people have acquired these traits
I'm not alone!
The explosion of credit cards over the last 25 years reminds me of an article I once read about the psychology of casinos, in particular the mental detachment of money. Basically, casinos figured out a long time ago that a person will gamble a lot more in chips than actual cash, because cash is emotionally connected to food, rent, clothes, etc., whereas chips are detached from that emotional connection, and thus casino customers are more inclined to gamble more with chips than actual cash.

I'm probably being Captain Obvious, but seems to me the credit card industry took this psychology and ran with it, essentially creating the modern consumer experience, which is basically this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=64&v=EAyJmIXcyMg
In my experience, they don't even follow the handbook, but rather the management's decisions about which parts of "agile" we want (Jira tickets, daily meetings) and which parts can be ignored (retrospective, having no long-term deadlines).
Attempts to have some alernative syntax for Lisp go back to the orignal Lisp project. In addition to the abandoned M-expressions, there is a reason why the updated version of Lisp was Lisp 1.5.

There was a Lisp 2 in the 1960's: a project which added Algol-like syntax and semantics on top of Lisp, with faster numeric processing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISP_2

In the 1970's, there was CGOL, which the Wikipedia article says "may be regarded as a more successful incarnation of some of the essential ideas behind the earlier LISP 2 project".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGOL

Fast forwarding to modern times, in addition to Wisp and the SRFI, there are also David Wheeler's Sweet Expressions and other things of that ilk.
Though couldn’t a teenager (older than 14, but still) understand the value that deferring paying for something is useful in context to a part time job? I would only get paid at certain days, and knowing generally what I’ll get at the end of the month after tips and hours, I could budget for that number rather than what I have in the moment.
Prevalence, age of decision, and warmth judgements of childfree adults
And that doesn't even consider the effects of jitter of the word clock that cannot exist if everything stays in the analog domain.

There are costs associated with digital that, like with analog, must be managed.
Heh, I was in an incubator in 2012, ten years ago! Where they managed to do this with IOS apps:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121203101645/https://www.kickf...
Shame there’s nothing similar for video airplay. I needed to add airplay to an old/cheap dumb tv just for apple fitness in my partner’s workout room, and the only cost-sensible thing was an ad-infested roku device.
Server-to-client, yes. The moment you write a little chat app that sends every line you type as separate POSTs -- which can be reordered -- you get to keep both pieces.

I wish browsers would support streaming request bodies in the fetch API. That would obsolete WebSockets practically immediately.
Always be launching and sharing, it is not a one time event or limited to these 2 platforms. Twitter is a place where people discover new tools as well. Reddit, slack, discord, and many other places are valuable too.

You're always going to have haters whatever you build. What is key is to not become emotionally attached to your idea that you feel personally slighted when someone says something you don't like
Sure. For the vast majority of daily use EVs are fine. There are corner cases, but I can always just rent an ICE if that's a better fit.
I’m ready for a comeback of CRTs in the form of a crazy double electron gun hologram display. Bring it on