skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the mid 90s I was trying to figure out how I could play quake on my local lan as well as with friends on the (young at the time) internet.

The only thing out there that would support it was this software called WinGate that did a thing called socks proxy.

The problem was that WinGate cost over two hundred dollars, which I couldn't afford and I refused to pirate it.

I was reading a book about the internals of the IP protocol and I had an idea...

What if I took the traffic that was addressed to an external IP address and assigned it to a high port number, specific to each computer. When I got network packets back on that high number port, I could rewrite the IP packet to deliver it to the originating computer.

I coded up a minimal little working example in C.

What I didn't realize at the time was that I'd basically (re) invented NAT.

I never ended up developing into a robust solution because it was around then that the Linux kernel added "ip masquerading" with a custom kernel compilation flag, which did the same thing but better.

Still, was a cool hack.
Yeah, I agree and it's how I've seen people react to my resume with a nominal "step down."
In my teens, we would swap Commodore 64 games with each other. One day, I discovered that I can use a hex editor to change some stings in the games, writing my name or other silly messages in the games before passing them on, to surprise my peers!
It's worth noting that "engineer" itself is a bit of title inflation. "Software engineer" was supposed to involve training people to apply engineering methodologies to software development. Today it's just a fancy term for "programmer".
It actually might be regulation that kills crypto because once you take out the high risk, you take out the high reward as well, and people are only in crypto for the high rewards
Maybe I missed something. Because I see it simple: Life happens - one founder can die/disappear suddenly and then what? This is why you should have more than one backup drive, more than one device with your crypto-keys, more than one email account, ...
(And this is without being a team player or not)
I don't buy this 'bitcoin saves you from tyranny' argument. Tyrannical governments are able to threaten your physical security. All the tokens in the world are no good if they've imprisoned you. As this Sam character has just learned, the hard way.
Same happened to me!
I also insist on pretending nobody has ever started using an existing term to mean something new since I was in middle school.
I think of the transition from capitalism to socialism as similar to the transition from feudalism to capitalism. If you offered someone with a basic education and a decent job the opportunity to take a land tenancy as a serf under you, they would refuse.

Ownership of private property extends to a larger and larger population with each upheaval of the world's economic systems. The end result is socialism, where private property is owned by everyone, and is thus public. Why would I give you private ownership of what is, under socialism, partly my land?

I think the more credible critique of anarchy is that it is too hopelessly idealistic to occur any time soon.
You are at mercy of the whims of your local government. You don't like it? Then fight to join the local government.
I don’t think you really get donations on YouTube? And her whole stream is very interaction based, there have even been multiple parties where local (= Australian) viewers were visiting and the whole event being livestreamed.
You may be a slave to Apple, but I already own viable open source alternatives to every one of their products with the exception of headphones (my Sony MDR-7506 is close enough as far as I'm concerned).

I invest all the maintenance savings into my ArchLinux daily driver (it used to be Gentoo but ain't no one got time for that). Replacing everything Apple with RaspberryPis and Samsung/PinePhones would take a couple of weekends, but that's a small price to pay for freedom.
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Prefer remote but willing to relocate. Ideally, a role that supports learning and growth, starts small and scales up.
I think the setup fiddling is similar in a case where you're coming to a Java shop / project vs coming to a Clojure shop / project. It's not as frictionless as eg Ruby or Python but it's still pretty straightforward.
45 years ago, when microcomputers were first starting to be introduced into the classroom, they were hailed as a panacea for educators. The thought was that computer-based training (CBT) was going to help alleviate the teacher-to-student ratio by letting kids sit in front of a computer and learn on their own.

Guess how well that turned out?
https://www.tesla.com/en_au/support/infotainment

> Yes. We offer an additional Radio Upgrade, including the installation of a compatible radio tuner and antennas, that allows customers to retain access to FM radio and DAB radio. It is not possible to retain access to AM radio.
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Things like this make me happy to be alive now.
According to the current FTX CEO, in a statement to the House Financial Services Committee:

> ... FTX US was not operated independently of FTX.com.
I can't help with the phone/lockout issue, but I can help (through ArchiveTeam https://archiveteam.org/) with saving the content of your sites to archive.org. I started with doreenmichele.blogspot.com (mentioned elsewhere in the thread), if there are any other sites that need saving, you can reply here or join the ArchiveTeam chat and I/we will get them uploaded.
Why all this recent Elon Musk hate… let’s not forget how we all really liked him just last year.
Well, they can operate on just DD, so they can start from no 3He and make 3He.

This video of a presentation by Helion's Kirtley at Princeton has a slide where the reactivity vs. energy loss is shown for a DD system at beta=1. That system will make 3He directly, and also make tritium by two modes (directly from DD, and by capture of neutrons on 6Li in a blanket.) The net result would be production of 1.5 3He nuclei per DD fusion, on average. It takes a while for some of those 3He to be produced though, as the tritium has to decay (halflife of 12 years.)

https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/JPP08December2022_D...
In my experience, if you want _the_ best price-performance ratio for ML jobs, your best bet is CoreWeave. They have great GPU availability and it's a lot easier to scale up/down very quickly than on the popular clouds. I would really be surprised if anyone else out there is offering a better price point for these types of workloads..
Same as any other business: give the people what they want, ideally something no one else is giving them.

Otherwise, just do it for yourself, go hard, go deep, and hope for the best.
Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to a new one: being millionaires
That’s who the article is (partially) about, not this sub-thread of mine.
So the killer app for crypto is....not getting ripped off via crypto?
What bugs me the most is that when you talk about engineering or even search for anything engineering-related all that ever shows up is software engineering. It's become much harder to find information about more classical engineering subjects.
> disagree, commit, disagree

the link is broken for me.
That's not what I meant by private property. Buying food on a black market is what I'd describe as personal property. By private property I'm referring to the private ownership of things which are used to provide a collective benefit, i.e., a factory, or an apartment complex.

May I ask how much familiarity you have with anarchist theory outside of anarchocapitalism?
I mean, mostly it works out. Most days she loves streaming. It’s when her diseases flare up that it’s an issue.
> Booting a RAID array with a failed disk is a bad idea

Booting a RAID array with a failed disk is absolutely fine idea.

How else I get access to the tools to identify the bad drive and resilver RAID on a replacement, be it in the same bay or not?
Ah ok, I see. I did not understand you correctly and I fully agree with you. Thanks for clarifying.
That's just my point: it has changed.
Do you mean to use message passing in order to describe behavior between actors/agents/participants?

Or maybe you mean teaching the actual communication protocols like HTTP,FTP,SMTP,etc.?
A professional engineer is a protected term. Stop calling yourself that if you aren't qualified as one. You are breaking the law.
The transit strikes where they operate lines without collecting fares are a good example of this.
Yes, by luxury I mean price points.
Do your thing, use your free time and don't expect anything.
We lost Julie Cruise earlier in the year, too. It's almost too much.
My phone is still bricked from the onboarding process at Google years ago, and I had to show up in person to get my W2 after I left. Hopefully somebody here can help, but short of a road trip or fixing the device (can often be <$40 to some kid in your hometown, not necessarily a deal breaker), I'd personally start executing Plan B.
This has happened to me at least twice and it’s taken too long to realise each time. Further, even if you think you’ve cleaned it, it can need more. I’ve had to scrape away at it before it will charge, and even then sometimes only at an angle or with a book resting on the cable/connection. Given it’s not OP’s issue, hopefully these posts help someone else.
Have you considered your neighbors' freedom at all?
Unless you want to reboot the server this shouldn't affect you in any way.
The definition of Edge is still unclear. To me, edge is the compute resources connecting to IoT devices. To others, edge is CDN. We really need to sort this out.
People like you are the reason why I have to spend an extra 3 hours traveling to get a connecting flight that saves $30, despite the fact that everyone, from my manager on up would agree that my time is worth far more than $10/hour. But our travel policy is that you have to book a flight within X percent of the lowest fare, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Gitlab is just asking people to use a little bit of common sense.
That's true. Most ML algorithms have the iterate-until-converge pattern. How about some tasks like hyper parameter tuning or trying out different algorithms against the same data set? Those can be run in parallel.

ML research should aim to produce more parallel algorithms.
I use Obsidian and I also gave notion a try.

The good thing about notion is that yiu can access your notes on your phone, tablet, ... . However, the user experience is so bad. Notion has very slow UI and it hasn't got any better for a couple of month.

Now, I am back to obsidian and sync my files to Proton Drive. This isn't comfortable though because proton Drive has no sync features yet, but it's good enough for me. Most of my work is done on my laptop anyway.
The system stays up just fine. You just can't reboot it without fixing/ignoring the problem. I think that's fair.
You didn't use the words Lecturer or Senior Lecturer there at all. They're terms used in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. There's another fine British/Imperial academic title: Reader. I never quite worked out what it meant. Most of the professors told me it meant "not to be trusted" but they would say that.

Emeritus and Adjunct are a bit like "executive producer" in "State and Maine" grace-titles handed out to keep people happy. Emeritus get use of a room and access to the coffee machine.
What's her name? I'd be curious to check out her stream
This blows my mind, that there exists this standard high horsepower generic motor used in a ton of applications. I am going to start seeing the D-77 everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traction_motor#Power_control

I like how they use a bank of resistors as the transmission, but they are just dumping the difference in heat. Has an electropunk quality to it. I wonder if you could use a retroencabulator to control an A77, they are AC afterall.

OMG, 11k NM of torque. It weighs 2500 kg! You could power one with an electric car battery, probably 2-4 to reach full 350kW.

Could you imagine a robot arm made out of these as servo motors?

http://www.americantraction.com/download/360 (warning this will download a pdf)
Yes that was basically the point CoffeeZilla made during his notorious SBF interview

https://youtu.be/4o_jPzBZSIo
It reminds me of Newspeak, from Orwell's 1984. Leaders, especially of bureaucracies, perennially hope to shape belief by just renaming things.

I've been to Wal-Mart or Target or any number of places, where I have read a sign or overheard a prerecorded announcement referring to the workers as "team members", "associates", "specialists", "customer advocates", and so on. The illusion dissipates instantaneously. I immediately see it as pretentious, and the reflex is to cringe. I suspect that most employees roll their eyes at it too.

I don't believe that the executives who came up with these fancy names are fooled by them either --- and that's part of the problem, it's condescending. The executive thinks, "I see right through these words, into the real thing, but my employees and customers are stupider than me, and I believe these names can sway their thinking."

Another problem is that it is just like inflation, in that it doesn't stop spiraling upward. I believe that the word "employee" was once a fancy replacement for something plainer, like "worker". But H.R. told me, when I was making an app for them, that it's a dirty word: We don't "employ" people. That makes it sound like we are using them. (Well, you are, but they know you are, and after all you are paying them. It was all agreed upon at the outset. Also it's not so bad. Everyone wants, in the end, to be "useful".) But no, now they are called "associates". It won't end. There is even a chance that it will go in circles. I would not be surprised if some years later, a new executive arrives, says "associate" is too loose: "They aren't merely associated with us in some tangential way. We need them and employ them for our success. Let us call them 'employees'."
True. But again, Assange isn't without a voice and some level of due process.

Compare that to being vanished, and/or having your family roped in.
Sorry, do you mean just sms 2fa or totp too? If you meant totp too, how so?
XFS is the best filesystem for people who don't want to deal with filesystems. Btrfs is there for the rest of us.
Why does the law of diminishing returns apply? A lot of things aren’t diminishing returns.
Not seeing this behavior myself.
I missed a step in your logic from "culture fit" to "common sense".

I certainly know that "reasonable expense" is a cultural issue, and strongly related to family wealth.

Someone coming from a working-class single parent family making $40K/year has a different idea of what "reasonable" means than someone from a professional class family with two working parents making $350K/year.

Just because these two employees now make the same money working the same job position for the same company doesn't mean they both automatically have the same idea of what's "reasonable."

For example, is it reasonable to get room service while at a hotel on company business? As someone from a $40K/year family, I never considered it until my boss mentioned it.

So yes, it's a cultural mismatch. But the conclusion shouldn't be that I wasn't a cultural fit (because I came from a working class culture), nor that I didn't have common sense, but rather that a company's specific corporate culture needs to be learned, and explicit communications may help.
I wish I could remember more specific details and terminology, but 10-15 years ago a friend working at an economic development agency asked me to look over a patent invention submitted by some Los Alamos researchers. I was in no way properly qualified to understand the physics, but it nominally involved a faster than light component, and he thought he'd run it past me to reduce the chance he looked foolish when putting it to more qualified people.

The patent was based on research analyzing the propagation of wavefronts on neutron stars[1]. I forget the term(s), but the critical aspect related to features which travel along the wavefront faster than light. This feature couldn't actually be used to communicate faster than light, obviously, however the patent claimed to be able to use it to defeat active radar jamming--more specifically, radar deception. Because this controllable wavefront feature (modulation? polarization?) could be FTL, and the waves themselves light-speed, it was thus intrinsically impossible to fake a correct return signature.

From a lay geek's perspective, I told my friend that AFAICT this aspect of the invention seemed not obviously flawed: it was FTL only in the sense that you could swing a flashlight across the moon and the apparent motion of the reflected beam could be faster than light. Normally such a phenomenon is merely a curiosity, but apparently the inventors had put it to some practical use, at least in theory.

[1] IIRC, either physical or magnetic waves generated by starquakes.
Yes but it improves the odds of escaping with your livelihood.

Good luck getting your assets out of the legacy financial system. It's much harder than memorizing a seed phrase or transporting minuscule hardware.
Bullet Journal.
The Rise and Fall of the General Electric Coporation Computer Department (1995) [pdf]
Meh, it worked at Google for a really long time, and only broke down around 50,000 employees. "Spend money like it's your own" was literally in the T&E policy and people understood it to mean "be reasonable, but also don't be miserable."

I agree some amount of clear rules is good and keeps you from guessing, but the article says that the policy goes on to cover those, so what's the problem?

Not every employee-employer relationship is adversarial, no matter how much HN wants to believe it is. (Although, I grant you, beyond a certain size it tends to become adversarial.)
I believe the keyword though is "knowingly" which is really hard to prove
Found a vulnerability in Mongo Labs auth (hosted mongodb instances) immediately reported it and got $1000 in credits. Never used them either.
From my understanding the model in the linked video only stylizes existing meshes from text.

There’s plenty of papers that have tried text -> 3D model generation using photogrammetric-esque methods similar to what the parent comment suggested - the two minute papers video on one example is here.

https://youtu.be/L3G0dx1Q0R8

Outside of cherry-picked examples this style of model tends to suffer from what people are calling the “Janus Problem” - the easiest way for it to satisfy the loss is to simply make the object look like the input prompt from as many angles as possible. So if you enter “a rubber duck”, it tends to generate yellow blobs with multiple head-like appendages sprouting off from it.

Google’s paper that tried this approach using Imagen as the text->image generator had great results, but they might be cherry-picked. Someone replicated it with stable diffusion as the text->image backend - still major Janus problems.
i just told this story earlier today on HN! It's something I did just in the past few days, but it is quite satisfying.

My site has recently been the target of some extremely aggressive "card testers" (criminals who have huge lists of stolen credit cards; they use bots to stuff small donations into donation forms to test which cards are still working). At first I just blocked the offending IPs, but they kept finding new IPs, creating a lot of annoying work for me. So I pivoted--instead of blocking their IPs, I started feeding them randomly generated false responses with a statistically accurate "success" rate. They are trying to build a list of working cards, and getting absolute garbage results.

It is still ongoing, but so far they have run ~50k card tests in over a week, and 99.9% of the data they have collected from us looks legit, but it is totally bogus. It pleases me to know that I am polluting their data, and ultimately wasting a lot of their time and effort. Consume excrement, evil-doers!
You would give private ownership because of the same reason anything happens under capitalism. Because you are compensated what you think is a fair price.

There are lots of critiques of anarchy. This isn't my only one or my best one. I am only pointing out that anarchism and private property and trade are fully compatible.

Democracies often protect free speech, but a democracy without free speech protection is completely conceivable. This is concept I am trying to explain.
That's not how ML works. Trained properly, it could never mistake an eye for a mounted camera. Also, you missed the descriptor, "accurate."

Get in on it early. Everyone will be wearing one of these.
A few jobs ago I was working on printer firmware. There was some bug where after so many pages were printed the colors would start to band. Anyways, the fix ended up changing a == to a <=. I looked up an ascii table and it was literally a 1-bit change. I like to brag about that one on occasion but it also put things into perspective how the difference between something working or not can literally come down to a single bit.
If I understand correctly the article says it only targets fixed objects. Is the maneuverability required to hit moving or evading targets presently impractical at those speeds?
The folks who don't make it are an interesting group on their own. Something like 95% of streamers have under five viewers, and the majority of those have exactly zero viewers. Thinking about all those thousands of people broadcasting day in and out to exactly nobody is kind of fascinating. It's not like broadcasting on a ham radio or shouting into the aether or blogging on a little independent site thinking that maybe somebody might be reading it. They know that exactly zero people see it. And they do it for months and months.

There are some interesting articles out there that look at the motivations and experiences of the zero viewer streamers: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers...

There are also some websites that send you to streams that nobody is watching: https://nobody.live

Anyway, not really your point, but a fascinating group of people to think about.