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> What I don’t personally get with Azure is why the “default” settings for enterprise isn’t that everything is not on the internet. Then when you need to do something on the internet, you’d need to open up.

Because every major cloud provider made the mistake of using IPv4 networking for backwards compatibility with their customer's software from the 1990s.[1]

What they should have done is used IPv6 by default, and provided each customer subscription/account with a /56 in each region sharing a common prefix, e.g.: /48.

All of the private networking complexity just evaporates and turns into trivial firewall rules.

The "allow our vnets only" rule becomes a single /48 subnet allow rule. Want to trust a foreign tenant? Add their single /48 prefix and done! No NAT!

Service Endpoints and Private Endpoints are required only because IPv6 RFC1918 private ranges are too small, and hence overlap between customers. Remove the overlap and you remove the need for any kind of tunnelling or SDN magic.

No more split DNS either: the AAAA records are always the same for every name, whether "inside" or "outside" the network. At most, you might need "private records" that resolve only if the request query comes from the customer's /48 prefix.

And on and on...

IPv4 ought to have been an optional compatibility add-on, a side show to secure-by-default IPv6.

[1] Sadly, there's still software being written today that doesn't work with IPv6.
Seems like sensible solution would be to deprecate the .mil domain. And move it to something like mil.us.

Or other less likely domain to be a typo.
Clearing up FUD surrounding Red Hat's actions
It's not code, that's also a discussion about a license not used here.
Most of these subjects are not especially well-taught in college CS courses. You're in a golden age for being able to learn whatever you like: you can start by plugging keywords into YouTube and looking for popular video explanations of how to solve problems in that field, including screen sharing of live tutorials.

I especially don't think anyone gets expert-level knowledge of databases and machine learning and operating systems from their CS degree.

Consider the possibility that you're actually averagely prepared for a graduate, and this is the part where you mainly need to decide which disciplines actually interest you.

G'luck!
IIUC they're looking at ceramics.

Honest question: can there be ceramic fluids?
‘Journalist’ should be a profession like ‘medical doctor’ or ’structural engineer’ or ‘electrician’ or ‘architect’. Anyone can still write anything and publish it wherever they want. But the words ‘News’ and ‘Journalist’ become legally protected. If you want to claim that what you have written is ‘News’ and that you are a ‘Journalist’ you have to be registered with a professional body and you have to sign every article that you write and claim as ‘news’. This signature is like a checksum that can be verified to check that a story hasn’t been changed and that the person who wrote it takes responsibility for it. You submit this to a register kept by your professional body. Mistakes and retractions are also kept on file there. If you make a lot of mistakes or consistently ignore standard practices like not using multiple sources or verifiable sources you will loose your right to claim to be a ‘Journalist’ and all your past articles would be called into question. You can still say or write whatever you want but you lose the right to call it news and claim you are a journalist. I think something like that would protect freedom of speech but also give a sense of responsibility to the profession. A bad doctor can accidentally kill a good few people over thier career but a bad journalist can incite war or unrest that could potentially kill many more people. E.g. WMDs in Iraq that didn’t exist.
> I’ve come to believe that science and logic really doesn’t hold much sway in society at all

Not directly. It's not like our politicians are having better discussions than the Ancient Greeks. We have satellites though, so that's cool.

Math, science, all that, they don't have much power just through words. They need an avenue like technology to get leverage. Cure polio or make a billion dollars trading securities. Then you have some sway.
It is. I think people are perhaps leaping to the usual discussions when models are called "open source" but here it seems they've called it free. Wasn't the whole foundational part of the open source discussion about distinguishing open and free?

Edit - someone will no doubt bring up "open access" as a term. This is a common term for academic work and the license here easily meets the criteria usually applied. Open access is not the same as open source.
Still they could easily setup entities there and have some staff. It would not be that big of an investment for platforms of that size.
Here's a practical solution: put it in the second parking lot. The nuclear waste that a nuclear plant generates over its lifetime likely won't even fill up that same plant's parking lot. And some of that waste could also be reused at a later time.

Something else to consider is that the stuff with the highest radioactivity is usually the shortest. At this stage having a robust forever-lasting solution for nuclear waste is not a larger priority.

There are places in the world where you can just find uranium rocks lying on the ground.
I was recently shocked to discover media attachments sent on Signal are uploaded to either Google Cloud Storage or some other service sitting behind CloudFlare. The recipient device(s) fetch the uploaded keys to access the images. The net effect is that there is almost certainly a log file somewhere that correlates the IP addresses/user agents of conversation participants for a very large subset of all Signal users

The point is mostly there are plenty of security issues with existing systems that probably aren't easily fixed with another layer of crypto woowoo, and it makes me uncomfortable that crypto is used to justify marketing these systems as secure. How do you explain to a user that the JPEG compression implementation on their particular phone with their particular photograph has a unique on-the-wire transfer size that may already be enough to correlate them with their recipient? etc
> some smart people roam, touching their meat (like, eating LESS of it, not quitting altogether) will make them into incoherent angry (I guess) men

Not so smart then.

> The only way will be if governments decide to step in

That's why more people vegan == more pressure for governments not to ignore the issue.
> You can get device manifests before the gear even ships, including MAC addresses, serials, out of band NIC MAC, etc.

That does sound pretty useful.

So for yourselves, you rack them then run hardware qualification tests?
We also may stop it altogether, kangaroo included and gain:

- those 4.4% co2e difference, which is quite consequent

- freshwater savings

- land savings (especially forest)

- the ability to feel morally good when looking and thinking about the food we eat
Then it's our job to:

- lower the bar by improving the software

- supporting those that want to try but still are struggling to migrate

- actively rejecting participation in the legacy networks to reduce the value of that network (https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...)
Because when you own the land you can just tax the serfs who do that work. Rentierism is the ultimate goal of capitalism.
Huh. I wonder if other sorts of fly are amenable to the clapping trick.

I shall have to experiment.
I'd say the same thing but s/video explanations/lecture slides/
I remember working in 2010 with Tata consultancy services as BofA as customer, they would make the service provider go through these hoops. The employees of TCS would connect over teamviewer into a VDI that would have access to the actual server where they would code. It used to be a hub model i.e. the VDI was somewhere is east or west cost and employees were in india, experience was crappy as the customer was getting billed per hour, no one cared.
Most recent example I think was .eu and UK leaving European Union... And that was orderly process. ccTLDs are entirely fine if you live or your business operates in the country in question. Outside that it is entirely up to them to do what they want.
I guess it is better than having a bi-pedal drone ordering to lay down weapons without much inteligence to even break count down.
And was added to avoid the chaos and instability of the Third and Fourth Republics which were parliamentary but had big difficulties establishing lasting consensus, and thus had most governments lasting barely a few months.
I have gotten blåbär (bilberries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_myrtillus) at markets in Sweden. You can get frozen, picked-from-the-forest blåbär at e.g. Coop or Ica. There are also products in Sweden that list Vaccinium myrtillus rather than American blueberries as the ingredient, though they are not as noticeably better than blueberries when all sugared up and as just one of many ingredients.

There was an airline that serves or at least used to serve blåbär juice in-flight in or to/from Sweden. I don't remember if it was like SAS or BRA, but one of them did. Kind of an expensive way to get a taste.

Usually I just go to the forest myself. The wikipedia article says that they grow in quite a number of places around the world. In northern Sweden, they are everywhere, and you have the absolute right to harvest them for personal use, AFAIK.
This was an amazing read. As someone who spent a long time hacking 68k Macs, I laughed out loud when I came to “Moving or substantially altering this code in ResEdit has side effects, usually explosive ones”.
A glass I was drinking hard cider from left out with a splash still in the bottom seems to reliably acquire corpses overnight.
Many alternative refrigerants are combustible. That's not a big problem for stationary use, but in vehicles it is.

It is confusing that the article mentions buildings and not vehicles though.
How do you define an inner monologue? Thinking in sentences? An inner voice in your mind’s ear? A narrator that comments on actions?

On average, aphantasics report a reduced imagery in all other sensory modalities [1]. About 26 % report a complete lack of multi-sensory imagery (total aphantasia).

I have total aphantasia, but my inner experience is worded thinking [2], which Hurlburt defines as follows: “Worded thinking is the experience of thinking in particular distinct words, but those words are not being (innerly or externally) spoken, heard, seen, or voiced in any other way.” [2]

For me, this is an inner monologue, but it’s just silent.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-cognitive-profile-of...
[2] https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/codebook.html#target4
I was pretty excited but then saw it was apple-only. I don't see support for TPM 2.0 coming soon, but instead things like smart cards.
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Sure ... but without a significant portion of people in the population being vegans it's a political suicide to even suggest that.

It has to start in our own kitchens.
I’m sure you’ll be fine. Both the Sarracenia and Venus Fly Trap I own have lasted years and flowered every year, although with the VFT you have to cut off the flowers or they use up too much energy.

I put the VFT outside once for it to snack and it ate a slug. Would have loved to see the look on the slugs face when the plant bit back.

Mine even survive on tap water which goes against advice, but I guess Scotlands tap water is different from most places. Just keep them in an inch of water the whole time, easiest plants ever.
Lol I’m probably a XIXth century time traveler regarding your scale. Not feeling unhappy, comme join me in the past guys!
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft Agree to AI Safeguards Set by the White House
I've seen both.

You've discovered network effects in the the wild!
Screw them

If they are there to watch you burn it's because they fear failing so bad they want to reinforce their world view or control their surroundings such that no one around them attempts anything they can fail at.

Unironically they are failing at those things because they don't work. Now get this, if you go off and do something right... They have failed again.

99% of people want you to suffer and fail at everything you do. The trick is realizing they don't matter whatsoever no matter who they are.
Reading the title I thought this was about owning your hardware (as opposed to the Apple approach where they effectively own your hardware).
Just a guess: heroku-like hosting for js apps/backends with a focus on performance, using bun under the hood
Specially when we check what they have contributed to upstream.
The person in the center is Peter Hoddie.
Haha I was watching some of him on YouTube yesterday and he has some quite interesting views and choices of topics but I was thinking the whole time, "something about his style is really grating"
cppreference can be downloaded and used locally.

godbolt would be a weird choice to whitelist if you go through the trouble of airgapping in the first place. All it takes is one accidental copy&paste of a sensitive code snippet and it's there for the world to see with no undo.
It is noy just the DDL of the primary table that needs to care about it, but also all foreign keys, DML, queries, APIs accessing the data, etc. Storing that UUIDv7 is likely going to be cheaper than pushing the cost of keeping a composite identity onto other components and systems that work with that data.
Yeah it is indeed frustrating when people talk like if GPS satellites "know where you are", yet that's a common misconception.

It's not really that hard to explain how GPS works at a high level and it can be taught in schools.

You first have to start with triangulation on 2d maps by measuring the direction (on a compass) you see 2 or more reference points (e.g. lighthouses).

Then you hand-wavely describe that the same thing can be done in 3d and with moving "lighthouses in orbit" and that the trick has to do with knowing exactly where the satellite is right now (and you can compute that by knowing precise timing and each satellite orbit parameters)

Then you emphasize the fact that the satellites don't know anything about you, not unlike lighthouses don't know anything about who's looking at them from far away
We should send people like you together with phone sanitizers to search for a new planet.

You'll go first, the scientists will go in a second ship.
The flip side of this is that you can ease the paranoia on the coding machines. You should probably be ready for 5% of them being compromised at any given time.
“Oh no my CPU got dementia”
If you're referring to the period at the end of the sentence, I don't like that rule either.

Seems more natural to have the period after the closing quote, at least in cases like this sentence of yours from above:

>I can't imagine someone named their language "of", "programming", or "in".

But I think there may be cases where period inside and before closing quote may seem better, e.g. if quoting what someone said, like a quoted sentence inside another sentence.

But I'm not an English grammar expert.
Ask HN: How does Nuitka (Python compiler) work?
Hi HN,

Has anyone explored Nuitka [1] and developed understanding from a blank slate?

Is there any toy version of this, so that one can start playing with the language translation concepts?

Is there any underlying theory/inspiration upon which this project is built?

Are there any similar projects, in say other languages?

[1] https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka
There is just one updated version, and 2014 was more than just a few years.

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Marshall-Kirk-McKusick/dp/0321968...
I've worked at a lot of large tech companies.

At one the sales in our division fell and we were losing money so there were layoffs, more people left, and eventually they shut the division down. That wasn't fun but people understood.

At another we had increasing sales, were profitable, but they laid off people, and then sold our division. The reason was that our return on investment was 11% while other divisions were 25% or even 40%. We made something much more specialized but lower volume and harder to sell. It was frustrating knowing that the company is making money but it's not enough money for them to care about.
They should open a website where I can reserve my first $500 worth of employee-owned beer. Shut up and take my money!
Yup. Change your title to Senior Manager and be done with it. I don’t know why you would stick with VP of Engineering when everyone including yourself knew it was BS. There’s no shame in correcting the title.
I always think of Carl Sagan’s 1985 Senate hearing address[1] as a pivotal missed opportunity, too.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/11/us/action-is-urged-to-ave...
If you consider that mathematical ideas are discovered rather than invented, then the whole point becomes moot. Sure, we may not be smart enough to discover all of it, but we can be pretty certain there is still mathematics beyond our ability to understand it. As an analogy, we'll never be able to look at or visit beyond our cosmic horizon, but it's certain there are stars and galaxies out there.
With a lot of systems, the business system design is complex enough in the first place that if you add a distributed system design to it as well you just end up with a colossal mess. And worse still you can't even see a lot of the complexity easily as it's hidden in how the distributed system is configured.

A normal system design, derisively called a monolith by some, is much clearer and explicit. It's less code. It's more reliable, less brittle. It comes with less footguns.

Distributed systems are not a better technology, like weaving looms were, they are simply an alternative design that is presently overused by incompetent software architects.

So it's not a luddite movement, it's an anti-complexity-for-the-sake-of-complexity movement. Try to not call us luddites again. Personally I view people that advocate for such designs by default as incompetent and that they should never be let anywhere near system design as they clearly don't understand the costs.

Simpler is almost always better, and there needs to be extremely good reasons to switch to incredibly costly distributed design patterns.
> Enjoy living now that you still can.

Here, repaired it for you.
To try and understand it I just skipped through this lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4NAEPZrbg

To a layman like me, the most interesting bits start at: 6:14 and 37:36. If you're interested in the materials (they're perovskite crystals) it's at 22:45.

My explanation as a total layman: There are materials that when you apply an electric field to them they almost immediately heat up. Then as you keep the field on them they cool down again naturally, and if you then remove the electric field they cool down quickly. So you with electric fields you can make the material do a pretty wild temperature swing.

Then the next trick is to extract that temperature differential from the device. You could imagine a container with a fluid and the device in the middle, a hot side on the right and a cold side on the left. As you push fluid to the right you heat up the device, and as you push fluid to the left you cool down the device. This will over time sort of ratchet the both sides to greater extremes. Even simpler they also made a "slapper" which simply puts the device on a little motor actuated arm, and it slaps the device to a load whenever its cool, and then to another load when it's hot.

Other (to me) cool detail is that they got Murata to manufacture these devices as MLC's, so it's just your typical Murata MLC capacitors but with these electrocaloric material layers.

edit: also at 44:00 he shows a slide comparing this technology to others, and it shows that even though it's more efficient than vapor compression it's less efficient than acoustic, although they're both very efficient. So I guess the big question is going to be is if this is going to be more practical/economical. From what I've heard there's a bunch of companies already moving forward with manufacturing thermo acoustic heat pumps so those are definitely further along.
People don't dream about burning more oil, they dream about the quality of life that this process affords us. Things like uninterrupted power, (uninterrupted) running water, cleaner water, the internet, cheap food, enough food (fertilizers/Haber-Bosch process), accessible transportation, economies of scale etc. While few of these things require fossil fuels, fossil fuels are nevertheless the reason why these things are abundant and accessible.

People dream about living a good life. Our fossil fuel consumption has afforded this to many. That is why it's difficult to change. Companies don't make stuff for fun, they do it because there's consumer demand for it.
I think it’s just all just a replacement for religion. For some reason everyone longs for meaning.
It mostly doesn’t from what I saw in SF (for single family homes anyway). One issue: Prop 13 means it’s hard to compete as a new purchaser vs. someone that purchased many years ago. For instance, my neighbor rented her ground floor out. Because she had lived there for 40+ years her property taxes were ~$1000/year. Recently sold houses in that area had property taxes of 15-20 times that amount.
Sure, but I was just responding to "Generally the output of a machine is not copyrightable", which seemed obviously wrong to me...

But on reflection, you are totally right, I was just getting mixed up on the distinction between copies and the creative works themselves. Machine output of something is generally just a copy of something. Whatever it is a copy of may be a copyrightable work, and if so, whoever came up with that original work has the right to all the copies output by machines (or copies generated by hand-tracing, or whatever).

Anyway, on LLMs... Even if we assume LLM weights are just copies (machine outputs) of whatever inputs they were trained on, then I assume I would automatically own the exclusive right to restrict the distribution of weights of a 'Me' chatbot trained exclusively on my own writings. But what if someone else comes along and writes a load of bespoke code specifically to generate improved weights for this same model, so the resultant chatbot works much better in conversation (still with my tone of voice, but with better performance and better interpretation of questions)? Is that programmer not adding some creative value, such that we might both have a right to restrict distribution of those improved weights? (NB. it's common for an item to be a 'copy' of multiple original works, e.g. copies of Jimi Hendrix's cover of Bob Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower'.)
What's a BofA? What's a VDI? I feel like Hacker News is filled with acronyms that take some effort to parse.
Weird that that's your default ...

What if, you know, you're not planning a murder/bombing/atrocity/etc., like, erm, you know, normal people.

I get it ... nothing to hide, nothing to worry about, right?
I found it funny that it's almost entirely gay art, but upon reflection there aren't that many female characters, two I can remember.

Nevertheless, a cute window into what is actually going on in the minds of the creative people behind "IPs" that are now firmly corporate controlled, image controlled, etc.