skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when Australia decided to require street addresses my grandmother decided to simply ignore it. I suppose this was the late 50s or early 60s. She continued to use her house name on all letters and official forms well into the late 1990s until she was old and decrepit enough to need to move into a home (she was in her late 90s herself). As far as I could tell everything continued to work fine, and I just sent letters to her at "Riccarton", Aldgate, SA.

Australia being Australia there are plenty of far more sketchy addresses in the more rural areas.
One of my favourite acknowledgements in a book is from "Proofs: A long-form mathematics textbook" by Jay Cummings[1]. Which as it sounds like is a maths textbook. Anyhow the acknowledgement reads:

"To my loving wife,
who read this entire book,
apart from the math parts."

[1] Which in my opinion is an excellent book if you want to learn how to read and do maths proofs btw.
> there's a 0% chance the Missouri state legislature passes a bill requiring earthquake proofing of buildings

Never been near New Madrid, Missouri. But given its "per capita income...was $22,046" in 2020 and "about 14.80% of families and 21.0% of the population were below the poverty line" [1], I wouldn't be surprised if you put the town in a room, explained the risks, and put forward 0% financing for earthquake proofing, most would reject the offer.

The money it would take to earthquake-proof New Madrid is almost certainly better spent on healthcare and education.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid,_Missouri#Demograph...
There is an interesting phenomenon where people desire to push their views on other people dont like it.

When this is the case I wonder if the level of governance selected is too high, and people could achieve their end goal with more local action.
No, Trump barks but does not bite. Foreign policy was basically the same and the opposite of what he tweeted.
Amusing how they assume that alien life has got to be just like us.

Besides, it's by no means clear that plate tectonics had anything to do with the emergence of life on Earth. Consider:

(1) CHON are four of the five most abundant elements in the Universe. (2) When these reactive elements are exposed to energy sources such as UV radiation or atmospheric lightning, they form monomers. (3) In an aqueous environment, which shields monomers from degradation via excess UV exposure, these monomers can concentrate, assemble, and order themselves, potentially on surfaces like drying clays or tars, to form polymers. (4) A subset of polymers can contain proto-genetic information and self-ordering and catalytic activity.

Basically what's required is something along the lines of tar struck by lightning. It could be that dry land is required, or something along the lines of a shallow pool, but permanent plate tectonics are not required for biogenesis in a general sense. Mars at some point had seas and weather, but it's not clear that it ever had plate tectonics.
Bio dev here, time to create a HN account I guess. Got a nod that someone posted about it here, which I would prefer to happen a few years from now given the early stage, but hey what can you do :)

I 100% agree with formatting and I've started fixing it, the leftovers were from some (misguided) experimenting.
sshuttle[0] is a great tool that turns a regular SSH connection into something that behaves more like a traditional VPN.

e.g. I can run "sshuttle -r myserver example.com", and when I next load example.com in my web browser (without any special configuration) it'll be routed via `myserver`.

[0] https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
That title really never came to fruition in the article. The article was fairly accurate, but focused much more on why jobs change and how to process it, and did not really address how to stay in a job once it outpaces you, nor the more important question of why you would want to in the first place.

I've found that career growth comes from playing with the concept of being a big fish in a small pond. Don't fret over how big you are, just keep moving to bigger ponds. Or if your pond is growing, stay there while it grows. At some point, you'll be in a bigger pond/company than you want to be in... that is the time to go become a bigger fish. Find the smallest pond you can and be bigger there.

Basically, Don't try to keep pace with a growing pond... just be yourself. Then deliberately shrink your pond when you want to grow. Having that attitude of just being yourself also resolves the change management described in the article.
Every day feels like prison

Dying from cancer makes me feel that way too: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=40970295 In my case, I can't really speak any more. Until mid-June I could eat pureed foods, and now I can't even do that.

You only live once. Make some changes. Deepen friendships. Focus on romantic partner. Life is not about you, it's about the people you're with and who are around you.
Tenstorrent Wormhole Dev Kits and Workstations
One of the major issues was that a VPN client requires additional configuration and software. Connectivity is the least of the problems they are trying to solve.
https://ibb.co/PTrk9M9

I am running chrome on win10, 1920x1080 res
Ask HN: Which K8 Ingress implementation do you use?
I've always used Ingress-NGINX, I'm curious to know which implementations are most used and why.

Same question on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1e66sb9/which_ingress_implementation_do_you_use/

Thank you!
The canal system in the UK is also fascinating now. Not much freight traffic but a large number of pleasure canal boats. I've been on a couple of holidays on these and it is a great way to see some nature. Also fascinating to manoeuvre the boats, especially when you don't have bow thrusters, and virtually no steering in reverse. They are long and thin, and turn around their centres rather than 'following the front wheels' like a car. And some of the canals are only a few feet (or less) wider than the boats.

The canal network is also widely used by walkers since the vast majority of canals have tow paths and riverside pubs.
even places like Christchurch are hampered by building codes that drive up building costs. It's a real thing
The old canal towpath is part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and just a few miles from my house. We hike and bike there frequently. The canal itself is mostly filled in with sediment and is little more than a damp trench punctuated with sections that are full of stagnant water (and some sections where the water flows). The various locks work like mile markers and are all still quite visible as they were renovated in concrete back in 1913 or so.

One near me, Ohio lock 31[1], has a frightening history of murder and danger. It was a very remote lock and bodies were dumped there as highwaymen operated with lethal intent. Now it is my turnaround point for hiking that stretch of the old towpath.

1 - https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/ohio/cleveland/lonesome-lock...
Apparently police never made mistakes before algorithms were introduced. Everybody knows that, silly!
Post-EV trucks
There are many canals like this in France and Europe: one huge engineering feat was for example the "Canal du Midi" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_du_Midi) + "Canal latéral à la Garonne" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Latéral_de_la_Garonne): which together connect the Atlantic ocean with the mediterranean in the south of France, without going around Spain or through some dangerous rivers. They were built in 16xx and 18xx!

And connecting these two was particularly difficult because they had to find a source of water big enough and high enough to provide water to both.
Jeez. Should they not expect each interview stage to at least whittle down 1 applicant for every 2 that reach that stage? That's 4096 people who got to interview.

Or I guess they decided on a "mixture of experts" and put everyone through to multiple "final round" from different domain experts? All of whom are somehow adding value?

I don't think I've ever said this before, but that sounds like a job for a management consultancy.
Really that quote is just asinine stupidity because literally anything undefined is harder to imagine than the end of the world with a side of throwing in of the usual socialist sophistry "everything I don't like is capitalism's fault!". It literally is "It is totally capitalism's fault that I am unable to come up with a better alternative to capitalism!" Never mind that they are the idiots who have spent lifetimes trying to solve economic problems using philosophical divorce-from-reality-is-an-intrinsic-virtue models and economic models that are so bad that they would have been laughed at as a joke by even bronze age merchants.

Divorce-from-reality-as-virtue was stupid back when Aristotle was using triangular models of falling objects and it even is stupider now.
I don't get how so many supposedly smart, educated people fall for things which are so obviously complete and utter bullshit.
What is missing in your life? Only you know the answer.

Where did you travel and what did you see? I was away in SEA for five years in my twenties and it changed me in very positive ways.

Ultimately, life and experiences are about people and interactions with them, so maybe something in there that you could optimize. Only thoughts tho, no concrete advice I can give.

I do think that figuring this out on your own is a fun little journey in of itself.
20 years ago!

You can browse my collection here: https://simonwillison.net/search/?type=blogmark - 7,248 and going strong.
> I still sometimes have to mentally translate divs into a table in my mind to picture what is happening

I still use tables (seriously).
So SWI appears to be more performant, it has an open license, so as per the GGP's claim regarding Scryer in the post above, it must not be ISO-compliant?
does she feel like dropping a frontend framework soon? modern webdev needs that sort of simplicity and focus on content.
uh is it ?
Doesn't america have an active super volcano?
Yup, grew up in East Syracuse about 2 miles from the Erie Canal. Rode my bike many hundreds of miles east and west as a kid.
By the power of drawing two lines, we see correlation is causation and you can’t argue otherwise:

interest rates go up, jobs go down. never a miscommunication. you can explain that.

That’s not how logic works. In fact, the data presented doesn’t really even support this conclusion. If interest rates are inversely correlated to tech jobs then why did tech jobs increase so dramatically while interest rates were static?
I think the use of IDEs really made this practice less simple. Terminal mode emacs and vi/m are simple with SSH, VSCode and other things start getting more complex.

I think the extensions to VSCode and others to run remotely with a browser are starting to bring some of this back into fashion.
> quit my soul crashing job, went to travel for extended period, moved to a different country, found a different job. It was fun while it lasted, but now I'm back to the same place I tried to escape back then, albeit in a different physical location and work place.

I did this, but in my 20s. Realized that wherever I went, I'd be there too. That realization shook me and I started to work to become more comfortable with who I was and what I wanted. Some of that was reading, a bit of therapy, but mostly just examining my desires and accepting them rather than thinking about what I "should want to do".

> Anyone been in similar situation and was able to escape?

I think you are asking about escaping the situation, but I think escaping the fantasy of a magically different life is a better goal. Things that I did that helped:

* trying new things that you dream of. If you think working on a farm is going to change your life, try it. If you think working in a different field will, try that. (I see you doing this to some extent with your business.)

* looking at your financial condition and seeing where it leaves you. Sometimes we stay in jobs because we feel we have to, but what steps can you take to not. There's some flexibility in software to go to 4 days a week or contract. Maybe that kind of job is a better fit for you. But check the finances first.

* pick big fun goals and treat the job as a means to that end. Could be more travel or other experiences.
> Gödel proved it isn't decidable.

He did no such thing. He proved undecidable problems exist in any system powerful enough to be useful. That doesn’t make those systems useless, though.
New CFD codes? Links?
> rudeness that gets big things done

I think this is a myth, that major accomplishments require running roughshod over people.

We also have a twisted idea of what "major accomplishments" are. Are Walmart and Amazon being supremely dominant in their industries, build on the back of wiping out much of small town America, and worker mistreatment, an "accomplishment"?
How much memory does employing the complete 128k window take, though? I've sadly noticed that it can take a significant amount of VRAM to use a larger context window.

edit: e.g. I wouldn't know the correct parameters for this calculator, but going from 8k window to 128k window goes from 1.5 GB to 23 GB: https://huggingface.co/spaces/NyxKrage/LLM-Model-VRAM-Calcul...
options if im not using langchain?
If nobody’s gonna see it to complain that I’m “doing it wrong” I’ll still just throw a center tag in from time to time.

Look, it works and lets me move on to stuff that matters.
Breaking Crypto with XBOW
How Many Elite Chess Players Cheat?
So? That just means the regulators are part of the decision. If the stakeholders (regulators plus utility managers) choose to, they can do this, and it is affordable. If it takes an act of legislature to make it work, whatever.

The point is there's no technological barrier, just made up paper barriers.
Ford and GM are not going to make the transition
Ah yes, the never ending reign of the boomers would be great. just great.

Though in seriousness, pretty amazing if this works in humans.
Peptide therapy seems huge lately.
I wish that SSH would be disaggregated further. SSH has become the suite du jour for file transfer, remote access, and a handful of other things. Unfortunately, simultaneously, innovations have been made in transport protocols and elsewhere in the stack that we're unable to take advantage of.

SFTP is a great example of a protocol which has a discrete server (look! There's sftp-server on your computer. Nothing prevents it from running over TLS, or a web socket). I wish that this was the way the entire suite worked. I wish the multiplexing, and underlying shell implementation was transport agnostic (perhaps relying on SOCK_STREAM, or SOCK_SEQPACKET semantics), and the authentication, encryption, etc was its own thing.
The language supports both (λ is just an alias... which I might remove)

Replaced the example with lambda - appreciate the feedback!
First, there's nothing wrong with what you're feeling. It's a signal, and it's great that you're giving it consideration.

It sounds like you're in need of a Purpose. Like many folks in modern times.

Casually and broadly speaking, I'd say you have a couple of paths forward. Neither is a short-term holistic solution. These paths aren't mutually exclusive either.

1. Focus on creating and solidifying a family

Many many people trudge through boring and uninspiring work, all for purpose of providing and protecting for a family. There's great motivation and satisfaction in this. Don't be afraid of traditional gender roles and arrangements, and take pride in this accomplishment. Find good role models and mentors for this early, to help understand how to think about these challenges and gain fulfillment from them.

2. Refactor and keep trying with clear short-term goals

Regarding your business(es). The majority of successfully independent people have tried numerous things before succeeding. Repeatedly I hear the successful people say to keep trying. It's hard.

So, keep trying. Maybe you need to diversify your efforts and try some different services, products, businesses. Whatever your focus, set some more specific and short-term goals. When you have clearer goals, and you focus on those goals (with action), then other things like the 9-5 lose attention and focus. You shift from ruminating on the frustrations and instead attend to the goals and the possible.

Good luck!
I don't see how this gets around a VPN? I still need a host in your example. That's what I'm paying a VPN for, a bunch of hosts around the world that are relatively fast.
Preview of eryph – we are building a new way to look at Hyper-V => loIaaS
Hello, everyone!
We're thrilled to announce that we're building something new (and no, it has nothing to do with AI!) for those still working with such unfamous things as VMs and IaaS.
It's an all-new way of thinking about Hyper-V, which means you can now work cloud-native even on your own desktop or in simple on-prem IT infrastructures! We call the concept local Infrastructure as a Service, or loIaaS.

Eryph is still in development, but we have an open waitlist for our first beta.

We’d love for you to take a look and let us know what you think!

Some insights why we created eryph:

Well, eryph was born around 2018 when we were building configuration automation tools for our customers (mostly in SAP environments). On the one hand, we had to build machines that were quite long-lived once set up, but while building and sometimes experimenting, we were looking for a way to speed up and standardize machine creation.

To manage our Hyper-V environment, we wrote some scripts to automatically provision machines and injecting configuration directly into vhdx files. For local testing, we used vagrant. When I stumbled upon cloud-init, I added a tool to build the cloud-init configuration via a config drive disk - but the whole solution was cumbersome and difficult to maintain. It just felt like a little too much "handwork", especially when it came to things like networking.

Then I tried OpenStack on Hyper-V - well, to make a long story short, it was the opposite problem - a highly complex solution that required a lot of resources to provide even the most basic services. I felt there was room for something in between - a way to manage VMs, storage, configuration and virtual networking like openstack, but with the simplicity of vagrant or just powershell commands. Something that could be used both locally and in the datacenter.

Eryph was designed to solve this problem - and now our machines are neither pets nor cattle. They are something in between, which is why we also gave them another name: catlets.

Best Regards,
Frank
Medcurity: Simplifying Healthcare Cybersecurity and Compliance
AI weapons seems like a bad bad idea.
> Mistral NeMo uses a new tokenizer, Tekken, based on Tiktoken, that was trained on over more than 100 languages, and compresses natural language text and source code more efficiently than the SentencePiece tokenizer used in previous Mistral models.

Does anyone have a good answer why everyone went back to SentencePiece in the first place? Byte-pair encoding (which is what tiktoken uses: https://github.com/openai/tiktoken) was shown to be a more efficient encoding as far back as GPT-2 in 2019.
You can also simply use `ssh -X`/`ssh -Y` and use your local X/Xwayland server for the remote app. This way you can start remote GUI apps like local ones from your shell.
As written here: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Mistral-NeMo-12B-Instruct

"It significantly outperforms existing models smaller or similar in size."
is a statement that goes in that direction and would allow the comparison of a 1.7T param model with a 7b one
We had the whole DCE Project Athena setup at my school.

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

Everything was encrypted through Kerberos and AFS. We had a mix of workstations running DEC Ultrix, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, IBM AIX, and Linux.

The computing center compiled every GNU utility and put those in the PATH first so the environment was basically the same and you rarely had to worry about what type of machine you were on. We could ask a student who worked in the computing center to compile some new X11 window manager and they would and install it for all the different architectures and using AFS @sys string it would transparently link to the specific binary for that platform so you didn't need to modify your PATH

We had Zephyr instant messaging and the .anyone file where you could put all your friends in a file and see who was logged in. We would send Zephyr messages on some broadcast groups and see who wanted to meet up for lunch. I made friends with people I didn't even know before through that.

This was all from 1993-97 and then I got a job and it was like the stone age with NFS / NIS groups and chmod permissions. We are now creating stuff like zephyr with Slack
Open Source Collective is consistently paying maintainers $1M a month
Beginners, especially younger ones, crave for guidance. But what they get is often loud marketing and cargo cult behavior. Now it seems to be even worse than when I was starting out. For example YT feeds get spammed with fearmongering and clickbait thumbnails. Apparently the attention of beginners is very valuable.

Don't other crafts and professions have a stronger focus on understanding fundamentals?

There's also much more useful information today than 20y ago though. Even though the signal to noise ratio seemingly gets smaller.
> The results suggest that the positive association between money and happiness continues far up the economic ladder, and that the magnitude of the differences can be substantial.

Sometimes I wonder if the folk wisdom that "money doesn't buy happiness" is an attempt by the poor to make themselves feel better about their own life situations.
Having a family is underrated IMO. Just gives you so much more perspective. And you can't know that until you do it.

Reminds me of this podcast on "Vampires, Life Choices, and Transformation": https://www.econtalk.org/l-a-paul-on-vampires-life-choices-a...
You forgot to zoom first.
That would be geopolitical suicide. Not even Trump is that stupid.

Ukraine is going to be fine. Taiwan is going to be fine.
> He is also a raging racist

This is not at all true. And I'll add that what the man is doing with Anduril -- single-handedly working to modernize defense development and procurement -- is downright heroic. And long overdue, to say the very least.

> Anduril tech is used for mass surveillance on US borders

It's a tool, and almost certainly a more humane tool than the alternatives.
I fixed it. Thanks a lot!
It only happens on the Demo page. Inside the circuit note, there is no such problem. I forgot to change the configuration on the Demo page.
Anyway, there is no such problem now. Thanks a lot!
This was in 2011, just after the Great Recession. It was a tougher labor market then. It was normal for low skill jobs to fire people on the spot for no show / no call. The labor market has changed in that sector since then.
That's one of the solutions I'm looking into. Right now I'm planning to publish the eBook through Ingram Spark. Other authors have done that and the eBook is still for sale on Amazon. You just can't take advantage of KDP Select, Kindle Unlimited, etc.

After this experience, even if KDP reinstated me now, I'd be terrified this could happen again at any time for any reason.
Would it be ok with you if i didn't take teenage rebelliousness seriously as well? And, in fact, if I considered it another strong piece of evidence that teenagers are in no position maturity-wise to predict large scale social trends a decade out?