skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a user, I like that my router doesn't need to alter my traffic mid transit to connect to outside networks.

With attacks like NAT slipstreaming your devices are already globally reachable in any real network anyway. That, or FTP/SIP doesn't work, because ALG exploitation can be mitigated by just disabling those protocols.

Just ask the average gamer behind CGNAT how they feel about the security NAT provides them (and what kind of NAT they need), or your average network application developer about the joys of setting up handshake servers to punch holes through NATs.

The curse that is NAT has led to ridiculous workarounds like Nintendo telling people to put their Nintendo Switch in the DMZ if multiplayer doesn't work.
Perhapse so, but i think psycologically, having your devices ’hide’ behind a NAT feels a lot more safe than having them out in the wild with only some firewall rules to protect them.

Secondarily, to many users both ipv6 routing and NAT are both incomprehensible. I think most home/sme IT admin people who have to maintain everything in their home/company are not in a position to learn everything about ipv6. Having a solution like NAT where you just cant connect from the outside (unless forwarded) really simplifies many things.

Many people are not in a position where they can understand networking fully.
A lot of the HN top stories seem to be behind paywalls right now. Are shills posting these things to HN to drive revenue to the publisher?
Toward that end, CJDNS has been most interesting use of IPv6 I have seen to date.
Some banks dont pay out when money has been taken from your account fraudulently, so no, not another reason to keep money at your bank.
postman, another shit product.
I'm using YouTube Premium, Netflix and Apple TV+, there's no ads on these services.
Don't forget the way revising changes is not a first class thing or tracking comments. Gerrit is so much better
Probably MUDWTR
If I'm going to sell my car, I'll research what similar cars are selling at. Is that collusion?
Bandwidth, electricity, attention ... who pays?

Grandma says, "gimme back my 1200 baud modem"
Let's rephrase that:

All the commercial streaming boxes suck now

As mentioned elsewhere a single board computer like a Raspberry Pi running LibreElec + Kodi still works fine. Jellyfin is another good alternative.

It was clear from the outset that commercial streaming things would eventually turn into steaming piles of muck since that is the way all such things go. The same is true for "smart" televisions (and most other commercial "smart" things) as there is always the urge to "monetize" that extra channel which has been opened to the customer, to "partner" with "affiliates" to deliver "added value", to... turn everything into shit.

Run your own things instead using free software on your own hardware without ties to some data-leaching mother ship somewhere out on the 'net.
Sounds way overbroad to me.
Same with statuspage
'dashing the country's aspirations' - foolish hyperbole. Tests sometimes fail, and SapceX deal with that on the regular.
My personal opinion, after over a decade of remote work, is that the tools we have available to us to accomplish remote work are low-fidelity solutions to a high-fidelity problem.

I think juniors and, to some extent all technical new hires, are really vulnerable to the problems presented by remote work and these shitty tools we use like Slack, Confluence, Zoom, or God help you if you're in an org using Teams.

You need mentors and folks to on-board you who have a high EQ and can empathize with the position of the mentee/new-hire. That's hard.
I don’t see any ads on my Apple TV
Collusion isn't a criminal offense.
It makes sense they’d want to support the service with ads, but it feels especially jarring to have a simple interface for simple tasks unpredictably and inconsistently interrupted with ads. I think especially because it tends to be a device we use for multitasking while cooking, cleaning, cuddling, etc. but also just because of the inconsistency. It’s like if your toaster or C compiler occasionally asked if you knew it could cook bagels or give warnings for unused variables, when you’re just trying to make breakfast or get your code to compile before a meeting.
Everyone moved up a pin, and the lowest ranked company got a bootcamp grad. Now everyone moved down a pin, and the bootcamp grad wont get a job. That is roughly how this works, not as clean but the end result isn't far off.
I'm using torrents and mpv, there's no ads on these services :sunglasses:
Yes the offers going around in the last few years for developers has been bullshit. It forced a lot of smaller shops to overpay to retain engineers, because of bullshit VC money backed competition. Then the VC money washes away and suddenly the market crashes... This isn't a good way to operate as an industry, and all that money produced what in terms of actual innovation?
you mean made $5b on $27b in revenue?
> human reviews rather than an AI output

AI will very soon be perfectly capable of generating human sounding reviews. It just needs to "dumb down" the tone a bit to be believable.
It's pretty embarrassing that people blame Apple for their own acceptance of censorship.

Delete your Apple ID. Opt out.
not supposedly, it is.
I have no idea what financial statement you’re looking at but this is not remotely correct.
YouTube's monetization and algorithms incentivized content to be bloated with fluff like long intros, outros, intermissions, shoutouts, life updates, sponsorships, etc. Basically content that added no value to the user and only exists to make the video long enough to qualify for more ad pods. A 10 minute video would often only have 2 minutes of relevant content.

TikTok encourages the opposite: so content creators cram in as much information as possible, often speeding up music and talking. Sometimes with supercuts to even minimize the natural pauses between words. The same 2 minutes of content gets sped up and cut down to 30s and shares more similarities with a lightning talk and slide deck than a video.
way ahead of what? not github/lab
I wanted to try the Apple TV, but the interface was riddled with ads. Same issue with Roku.
Shivaji sacked the city of Surat twice. I'm pretty sure you'll find plenty of stuff named after him in and around Surat.

Oh, and the same Shivaji allied with the Muslim Qutub Shah of Golkonda to defend the Deccan homeland from the Northern invaders.
I am woefully ignorant of the field of techno-thrillers, so I defer to your knowledge.

While I did read the book back in the mid-1990s, my memory now of the caterpillar drive was the magnetohydrodynamic drive of the movie, which doesn't work like the movie suggested. Wikipedia tells me the book described "a pump-jet of the so-called "tunnel drive" type", so I fully withdraw my attempt at drawing a parallel.
yes we could go on.
emacs has org-jira, which is how I interact with jira. As you can imagine it’s incredibly fast.
Arrow is meant as the “in-memory” dual to Parquet, which is meant as the “on disk serialisation format”.

Many parquet supporting libs will load Parquet files into an Arrow structure in memory for example.
Unlike Facebook, Sony is a hardware company that basically makes everything. If Sony wants to spit out the best VR headset they can just call up their display division, camera division, sensors division, design division and put into a single device the bleeding edge and expertise of each one of them.
Facebook on the other hand is left to toy with less stellar and more commercial offerings and does not have the history of hardware manufacturing experience to offer something exceptional.
A wired VR device that can offload processing to a gaming machine is better than a wireless one? I'm shocked!
> If we define humans as having a sufficiently sophisticated language

That would be hard to object to.

> and using a term to reference one's entire species is characteristic of that

But this is easy to object to. People can easily do without a term for the species; it's more common to use tribal names, so that a contrast is drawn between different groups of humans (as opposed to between humans and animals, or humans and gods).

Terms for humans as a species come along pretty quickly, but they're not universal.
The Chinese would have to pull off the most difficult military operation in the books (i.e., a contested amphibious landing into heavily defended shores), with a force that has never conducted a major operation of any kind, while using uncle's modifed freighter and dad's fishing vessel in place of built for purpose amphibious assault vessels. All in a sector who's commander has turned over 4-5 times (I forget the exact count at this point) in the past 24 months. It would take the miracle of a lifetime for the Chinese to be able to land such a force let alone sustain such an effort if Taiwan is paying any attention at all. I don't know of any successful amphibious landing in circumstances anywhere near that challenging. Unless China can catch Taiwan asleep at the switch, their loses would be catastrophic.

Blockade favors the west because they only need enough mass for denial of area operations. That center of mass is growing as we speak with Japan arming up and larger US forces in the Philippines and Japan. This includes new Marine litorral forces built specifically for the Asian theater and the new breed of warfare we're seeing in some of the Russian/Ukraine War. China imports most of it's food and oil. It is difficult to see how their economy can sustain a blockade and sanctions, especially considering their debt crisis that will take 10 years or more to unwind the way China is currently handling things. In a prolonged comflict, their losses would be horrendous in both human, material, and capital terms.

Mass drone attacks are whiteboard fantasies with present day capabilities. Why even bring them up? I would point out that Taiwan also has plenty air, surface, and anti-ship missles. This includes long range, supersonic surface to surface cruise missles. While traditionally Taiwan has opted for for area denial operations that makes them a very unappealing target, they now have the ability to strike China's mainland at will, and there is little China can do about it.

The way Ukraine (and the West) is taking it to Russia I would imagine would give Xi pause. I would think twice if I were him, assuming the west maintains their support. From a geopolitical perspective, after Russia, China is the biggest potential loser in the Ukrainian War. The west and partners in the East are revving up their defense industrial capacity and arming up in a big way. If the Ukrainian war keeps going the way it is, the Russians will be far less help if they're able to provide any significant help at all. China can't take on the entire free world by themselves without major help.
All of those people want to move their money offshore. No one with money wants it within reach of the CCP. Heck even Xi has moved his money offshore.
Yeah the domestic variety, dont rinse the cleaning chemicals off the dishes properly, so they always stink of gunk after they have been cleaned.

I think it would be healthier to employer someone to wash and rinse dishes properly, like a servant.
I oversee multiple teams and have one R&D team that I built. Hired every person. They are all far better coders than I. But I’m the outward face negotiating for resources. And my team using Jira helps me get them resources. I use Jira with them. I’m also pulling tasks across the board. The brutal reality is it’s my reputation that brings in money and resources. I need to effectively estimate what we can do. And Jira really helps with that.

The other teams I oversee use project management tooling too. And I see them. I’m here to tell you there are SOTA companies, led by engineers, that use Gantt charts.

I used to think the anti-Jira, anti-management crowd was inherently right. Now I’m quite a bit more skeptical of those views.
It was amazing. Google fucked it over when they forced Nvidia to “update” the interface with advertisements.

There are third party launchers, but they’re not as smooth.
I disagree with the implicit assumption that llms can’t be gamed. There’s simply too much money to be made for that to remain true.
I'm trying to build a set of libraries and clients for Microsoft Teams too:
https://github.com/fossteams

I'm looking for contributors: if you too hate Teams' performance, this can be a good starting point (:
I personally don’t want to use a domain name for everything. I want all my identities to be unique, I want an infinite number of them, that I can change between multiple ones per service and that they’re not connected to each other unless I specifically say so, and they should be fully free and permission less for me to create.

Public/private keys have or enable all those properties.

While there a many problems with how domains work today as a public goods system, domain names as identities is infinitely better than what we have now, but I think we can have it much better and domain names are one step in that self-sovereign ownership.
But my internal network structure will still be exposed.
The Two-nation Theory is a joke and the world's been laughing since 1971.
Why would someone quit in this scenario when they can just as easily get paid multiple months of severance with benefits?
Interesting to hear that floppies now get three uses before they die. I had the feeling they were getting worse and that confirms it.
It does hurt the proud IT worker in me, the knowledge that half of us can be thrown away and almost nobody notices.

Perhaps the takeaway is that we should get our shit together. The opposite of r/antiwork.
I wonder if there's a way to train a LLM while it has access to such tools.
It only really works for exact matches. If I have a general idea of what I'm looking for, I can usually hunt it down with google. Discord will give me too many results or no results, which sucks.

I like discord - It makes up a very significant (honestly, majority) portion of my social life. But it's not good for any kind of real information storage (FAQ, guides, expert answers and so on) compared to a forum.
And one that generates revenue for the FT too!
Sure, it's not github, I wasn't claiming that.

But it's good to have competition. Can you imagine if there was only one cell phone provider? Even a subpar competitor in the space can prevent people from being held captive. If bitbucket didn't exist, Microsoft might start charging users per repo for all we know
What? Why? Volume of revenue is not a reason to break up a company.
You could still route within the /64, couldn't you? With a smaller subnet SLAAC wouldn't work, but you could DHCPv6 addresses still. There is also an RFC somewhere for sharing a single /64, intended for mobile hotspots.
Pidgin still has a ton of modern messaging platform plugins:

https://pidgin.im/plugins/

OTR is sadly fairly dead; broken encryption, OTRv4 isn't out of beta yet.
> In India, a lot of 'modern' liberal historians promote hating [their] own culture, history and [roots,] denigrating Hinduism and its scriptures as [the] origin of all things bad

Change "Hinduism" into some other word and you have a pretty general description of liberal historians in most Western countries.

This might be an imperialist perspective, but I'm guessing India imported this cultural tradition from them. :/
For a better explanation from someone more eloquent than myself: https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS...
I love old rare books. There are so many that have never translated from Latin. It’s a different arena.
Yes. But also I think there is certain amount of selection for mice that will behave and cooperate with lab protocols. Meaning, mice strains, that for instance, aggressively destroy stuff, or sleep too much will not be used.
I've fallen deeper and deeper into the nostalgia of retro computing YouTube channels. They're amazing (and make YouTube tolerable). They have all kinds of interesting devices and adapters to make SD cards appear as SCSI HDs for old Macs (or whatever), I think even floppies and such going as far back as the Apple II.

One of my favorite things is when they bolt on a HDD sound simulator that provides all of the conveniences of the SD card emulators while still providing something approximating that "HDD sound" we all remember[0].

Not quite the floppy "ca-chunk" and feel of (relatively) muscling the eject button but in the same vein.

[0] - https://hackaday.com/2022/09/26/tiny-dongle-brings-the-hard-...
Wow, I literally got the cheapest dishwasher at Costco.com and it has this feature. I bought my dishwasher within the last year.
Well, that's why they wanted to study it.
The Destruction of Nalanda, as chronicled in the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri by the Persian historian Minhaj-i-Siraj written a couple of decades after Bhaktiyar Khilji's death [1]:

"There were two brothers of Farghanah, men of learning, one Nizam-ud-Din, the other Samsam-ud-Din [by name], in the service of Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar; and the author of this book met with Sam-sim-ud-Din at Lakhanawati in the year 641 H., and this account is from him.

These two wise brothers were soldiers among that band of holy warriors when they reached the gateway of the fortress and began the attack, at which time Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar, by the force of his intrepidity, threw himself into the postern of the gateway of the place, and they captured the fortress, and acquired great booty.

The greater number of the inhabitants of that place were Brahmans, and the whole of those Brahmans had their heads shaven; and they were all slain.

There were a great number of books there; and, when all these books came under the observation of the Musalmans, they summoned a number of Hindus that they might give them information respecting the import of those books; but the whole of the Hindus had been killed.

On becoming acquainted [with the contents of those books], it was found that the whole of that fortress and city was a college, and in the Hindu tongue, they call a college Bihar.

When that victory was effected, Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar returned with great booty, and came to the presence of the beneficent Sultan, Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak, and received great honour and distinction."

1. https://archive.org/details/tabaqat-i-nasiri-volume-1/page/5...
"what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens's_razor
Note that to counteract a 75% drop, you need to grow by +300%.
I've noticed more uncertainty, less comradery, a general malaise, lack of motivation and a lot less trust in the organization. A very very different feeling to a year ago.
Firstly, cognitive dissonance is not really being used well here and I don't like it being so trivialized. What OP feels is more guilt and confusion that his friend is worse paid than him and yet has to work harder. Cognitive dissonance is holding two conflicting beliefs at the same time in a way that creates a mental toll. What happens in abusive relationships or example when a person is told "i love you" while being hurt. Or when your gut feeling tells you something wrong is happening, but you're told everything is right. Cognitive dissonance feels almost like physical pain.

And about your comment:

SW aren't well paid because of how much money they generate or how hard they are to replace.

1- I'm not sure why you say this but SW are not that difficult to replace. There's plenty of SW around for everyone.

2- What actually determines the fact that SW are so well paid is just luck and time. What do I mean by this?

2.1 The profit margins in software services are the biggest. An easy example is Amazon. Initially a simple bookstore. Then a e-commerce shop. This is what Amazon is. And yet their margins for this is about 1% and for their cloud services is about 40%. Amazon CAN afford to pay SW well not because it generates more money, but because it has huge profit margins. And why is that?

2.2 Because it just so happens tech is VERY NEW and has changed everything far too fast for the market to adapt. Consumer physical products have been manufactured and sold for decades. Agriculture is a much more essential service than SW and it's some of the worst paid industry. Their profit margins are close to zero. All the money that could be extract has been, capitalism has done a good job of making it cheap for consumers. But tech? The world of mega corporations, monopolies and duopolies, there is often no such thing.

It's not about value to the world SW provide, money SW generate or hard to replace. If you really want to talk about value to the world there are many other careers that do. SW isn't one of them. SW are just well paid, due to luck, timing of being born right now, and the fact market is very new and hasn't adapted yet, that's it. Enjoy.
I just went and rewatched Star Trek TNG in the 1080p version. It is not upscaled, but scanned from the original film. It looks fantastic, but a lot of the special effects really stand out. The star fields when looking out windows have a totally different look it's almost like you can tell there is just a wall behind the glass with a bunch of lights stuck on it. And the painted landscapes similar to the original series are really given away. I bet some people hate the 1080p and some people now hate the original SD version. But I am glad both exist.
Can you elaborate on how Jira helps you estimate?
Is it information or inspiration, a la Pinterest? I get some cooking youtubers can be long winded like cooking blogs of before, but I feel like you find people you like, and can way easier scrub the video to important parts on YT.

And I get us on HN are a particular cohort, but is there really as much depth of information? Literally had to help a family member fix their jeep over the holidays and "replace fuel pump jeep Cherokee 1998" is just not something I think Tiktok would be good at. Idk I should try and install it sometime i guess.

And then also, at least i've noticed on Instagram (and occasionally FB), that like sometimes I see something. Forget about it, click elsewhere, and then cant go back to find it again? Vs /feed/history and even browser history on Youtube?

Edit: Is this normal? I cant even search for videos on tiktok.com without an account?
Six months ago they announced plans to grow their headcount in India by 1500 before end-2024.

Their worldwide headcount growth since 2019 [0] does feel, in retrospect at least, untenable - year on year - 3600, 4900, 6400, 8800. Arguably this fits into the same 'correction' category as other big players in recent months.

Reading the potted history [1] of acquisitions / sell-offs is a trip down memory lane. It feels like even their big-name acquisitions are still not terribly well integrated -- and combined with their famous lack of a 'traditional sales team', it does invite some obvious, if churlish questions.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1276817/atlassian-number...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlassian#Acquisitions_and_pro...
Looks like OMEMO support hasn't landed either https://issues.imfreedom.org/issue/PIDGIN-16801 The Pidgin/libpurple team has a lot to handle as all of these proprietary chat options are constantly moving targets and trying to maintain feature parity on all of them. At least the FOSS options have publicly-documented specs and aren't actively hostile towards reverse engineering.
I'm not sure if you are sarcastically referencing online recipes nowadays, or are serious...
How? I’m an owner.
Ofcourse millions of Sanskrit manuscript were produced in fictional Gurukuls by fictional characters who never existed.

> The so called "Gurukul" has never been found at any archaeological site.

Chariot were
considered fiction until they were not[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakhigarhi&ved=2ahUKEwjwktvM...
No, it fosters a less safe experience, when the behavior is hidden. For someone willing to spend just about 30 minutes, it isn't hard to have a script log in to your own account to record messages without anyone noticing.