skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article's stance on traceroute is heavy on cynicism but light on practical understanding. Dismissing traceroute outright because it doesn’t solve advanced networking issues is shortsighted. Traceroute wasn’t designed to tackle complex routing issues in BGP or MPLS-dominated environments. It originated in the ARPANET era as a tool for basic IP diagnostics, and while networking has evolved, it still holds practical value for pinpointing straightforward routing issues and helping teams communicate about network reachability.

Traceroute may not be perfect, but the idea that it’s “useless” or fundamentally flawed ignores the tool's actual purpose and its value in controlled network environments or simple troubleshooting scenarios. For instance, traceroute remains effective in diagnosing where an issue shifts from LAN to WAN, as a starting point to eliminate local network problems. In fact, as some commenters pointed out, traceroute often helps ISPs and network engineers by offering visual, actionable clues about where connections are failing or lagging. If you have a network you’re responsible for end-to-end, or you’re troubleshooting with other network teams, traceroute can save time and clarify if there’s an issue within your own network or further upstream.

As for claims that traceroute outputs are too "random" or unreliable to be useful, that’s only the case when people misuse it or fail to understand how it works. No seasoned engineer expects traceroute to provide flawless accuracy, but they know what patterns and data points to look for and how to combine it with other diagnostics. Calling it a "hack" overlooks the simple elegance of leveraging TTL Exceeded responses to map packet paths—a clever solution that’s worked for decades precisely because it provides unique visibility in a non-intrusive way.

The problem isn’t traceroute itself but rather how it’s used and interpreted. Sure, if you’re just firing off traceroute commands without an understanding of what the results mean, you’ll likely draw wrong conclusions. But for those with the knowledge to interpret it properly, it’s a simple, lightweight tool that often provides just enough to kick off troubleshooting.

Instead of writing off traceroute as useless, a more helpful approach would be to recognize its limits, use it within those bounds, and understand that while it won’t solve every networking mystery, it’s still valuable in the right contexts. No diagnostic tool is infallible, and the defeatist attitude of "it’s useless because it’s not perfect" is just unproductive. The goal isn’t to replace traceroute but to use it wisely alongside other tools to get a fuller picture—especially when alternatives aren’t widely implemented or easy to use.
Putting marks on the chip with high precision is much easier; that's done by the same kind of lithographic process that's used for building up all the other layers of the chip, which is generally via exposing a photosensitive layer of material with light through a mask, and they already have ways of keeping those mask layers in alignment.

But aligning multiple chips together is a different process, and while it sounds like they previously had ways to do this via simple optical inspection of those alignment marks, that's less accurate than a holographic alignment using a laser.
> The GOP ran on "this bitch hates America".

This is it. I think people are drastically overestimating the complexity of the average voter's decision-making. We vote based off "vibes" in America unfortunately. Which means good ol' fashioned sexism and racism is all you need.

Trump didn't get more people to vote for him than 2020. That's very telling and seems to be something people keep ignoring.

Take a look at the demographics of who didn't come out to vote.

I don't know how many more elections we need to accept the fact that a large chunk of this country straight up won't vote for someone that doesn't pass the "Hey, I'd have a beer with that dude" vibes check. It's depressing but the evidence is the evidence.
https://archive.ph/PunU1
Rhesus macaques have escaped from South Carolina's 'Monkey Farm'
I did not know mini fog machines were a thing until now - and now I want one! Do you have any references? I think apart from the see-through portion and some fan the windtunnel would be quite 3d-printable.
> "XMPP still largely resembles a synchronous protocol with limited support for rich media, which can’t realistically be deployed on mobile devices. If XMPP is so extensible, why haven’t those extensions quickly brought it up to speed with the modern world?"

So, it's not such a gem?
you invest in companies that would be biggest market cap in future.
Yes, it is TLS encrypted, but you can decrypt that. As far as I know, there isn't other encryption.
This is extraneous to your comment, but as someone who speaks some Japanese, if you ever want someone to practice English with, I am more than happy to lend a hand.
I was thinking the same thing, fully knowing pinewood derby is mostly concerned with friction and center of gravity.
Nobody's arguing words. You offered to show "dozens of examples right now, in the press" of Trump voters being called stupid. Apparently there are none.
Wow that's rude. Who is you, who are liberals, and outbursts suggests that the words that I as a liberal speak are dismissible as irrational, when they are not.

Please don't do that.

When Trump literally sexually abuses women, is convicted of it, repeatedly disparages the abused woman in public, And then I talk about it here on hacker News, how That an outburst?

Please, the truth and the facts and the logic are pretty clear. This trump guy is racist and transphobic and misogynistic based on his past behavior. Anybody who supports the guy is encouraging the system which they are now electing him to manage to be racist transphobic and misogynistic. It's pretty simple and transitive logic.
That's googleFI, cricket, and Mint; others paying for service on anothers infrastructure; an MVNO(mobile virtual network operator).

Laws already regulate that space; what's your point?
True! But the simple fact is that I do waste the majority of my time, by my own standards.
I upvoted for the great links, but I still don't think a static binary that will break in the future is meeting the expectations many have when static linking.
scheme I guess?
Innovative transistor for reconfigurable fuzzy logic hardware
Or there was ballot stuffing (https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_stuffing). If the counts are very different between mail voting and in-person voting, it could also be that the mail voting was actually correct, but the in-person voting was manipulated. One shouldn't be so naive an think, that this can only happen in Russia.
> A video of a random Trump supporter misunderstanding tarrifs is not a steelman argument against Trump supporters.

By way of background and disclosure, I got a PhD in economics at a point in life. This just means I've spent a bit of time thinking about tariffs and impact more than the average person. I understand the "theory" of tariffs and their impact, and the data has mostly supported the stylized facts that people point to for why they aren't good policy.

It's definitely true that tariffs aren't the first thing people think of in the morning (me included), and I consider it reasonable to say it is unfair to most people to expect, without some prompting first, a solid understanding that tariffs are a distortionary tax that the end buyer pays for. Higher tax means higher price. What concerns me is when I see people choosing to willfully ignore even a basic definition of something because of who said it, regardless of political affiliation. I strongly believe we can't operate on different facts, and should work to reduce jargon that confuse understanding.

> a particular brand of "dumb out of touch liberals" that is pervasive on social media.

I agree. I think this is an area where there is a lot of "both sides do this". Elitism is never a unifying attitude, nor are shibboleths generally.

> In the same way coastal liberals denying the assassination attempt and calling it a hoax is not a steelman argument against liberalism.

Yep. What chaos that event was. There are details both sides ignore that I call out only to acknowledge them, not agree with -- the shooter having strong affiliation with one party and weak affiliation with the other, the acknowledgement or ignoring of Trump's prior behavior and actions to influence opinion drawing from his entertainment background in WWE/The Apprentice -- but most of the speculation is crass and downplays the fact that someone tried to shoot a candidate for president. Speculate all you want about conspiracies on either side, it's not something that draws people together nor promotes liberalism.
I don't know what to tell you. No comments I can see in this discussion plausibly suggest that anyone here "seems totally fine with" sexually harassing women on a whim.
Google banned me from Google Voice
I don't know that it was ever "over complicated and hard to implement" (see my response to the thing you're quoting above, I think), at least, not any more so than any protocol, but I'm still not really sure what the specific complaints are when people mention this, maybe you could elaborate on what's hard to implement? Most people just grab an XMPP library and go, you don't normally have to implement XMPP itself to make a client (just like you don't implement HTTP when you want to make a request, you go snag a library that does this for you).
> having fresh herbs

That's true - there's nothing in the world that tastes like fresh-cut cilantro (definitely not day old cilantro). Unfortunately, it takes a lot of work to keep a cilantro plant from bolting.
People that overthrew the government were very much NATO proxies. Leading groups such as the Right Sector had open Nazi sympathies. Plenty of Ukranian refugees around me. They wouldnt fight for either Zelnski/NATO or Putin. They consider themselves lucky for escaping and say that majority of people there do not want to fight but are forced to. They are terified that Zelenski is lobbying western governmentsbto send these men back to Ukraine as cannon fodder. Why are so many Ukranians not as keen to fight as you apparently are?
Indeed. But the action of creating is a list is separate and indeed different from actionioning said list. Creating lists reduces my anxiety significantly...
> If I write `def foo(x):` versus `def foo(x: int) -> float:`, one is a restricted subset of the other, but both are the language's "real" semantics.

You either are performing some wordplay here or you don't understand but type hints are not part of the semantics at all: since they are not processed at all they do not affect the behavior of the function (that's what semantics means).

EDIT: according to the language spec and current implementation

`def foo(x: int) -> float`

and

`def foo(x: float) -> int`

are the same exact function
I once erected a tent on my lawn so I could practice erecting the tent. The neighbour beside me came out in a huff and demanded I take it down.

I don’t have a disdain for beautiful things and I wasn’t even planning on keeping the tent up. The demand for uniformity is what irks me.
Other operating systems… including what was running on the Mac in 1984?
XMPP was too open to be allowed to exist in any popular way. It's a miracle that SMTP still survives after so many attempts to "kill email" (Slack, etc.)
There is little-to-zero validation or uniqueness check currently, and there are near-zero verifiable data points. We can count envelopes/ballots and eyeball signatures, and there is batch-level attachment between the two. Everything else is “trust me bro”-level security, relying on the assumption of a non-existent high-security environment.

Papers referring to voter ID disenfranchisement rest almost entirely on address-field-correctness deficiency (people move), which is a minimal problem other fields requiring human resolution.

To nurture your aside: People who achieve things identify the factual and structural nature of problems. Articulation is a scale factor. Good luck!
Yes, the 50 state solution is inefficient. Your point?
XMPP was not a mobile friendly protocol for a while, had efficiently no security out of the box and lacked simplest things like image or other file transfers.
Speaking of which, they're just no better.

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

There's a postmortem update at the end of this post.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314
"It is considered democratic, for example, that state offices are filled by lot, and oligarchic that they are filled by election"
— Aristotle, Politics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
In the U.K. people used to go to a booth, but nowadays you just get a well lit white wall and take a selfie on your phone.
> A state is perfectly allowed to write and enforce any laws it deems fit, and if companies want to operate within those states, they need to follow those laws.

Or you can just leave. Google did it when China demanded unfair censorship and surveillance measures, Apple can too if they wanted to market themselves as a security defender that has an actual backbone. Right now Apple's whole security shtick feels like the theater you get out of Bitlocker or McAfee.

> do you honestly believe that a private enterprise is capable to withstanding that kind of pressure, while also remaining within the law?

No, I believe that a private enterprise claiming to respect privacy as, and I quote, a "human right" would be willing to stand up for the rights they believe in. Whether that means disclosing when things are backdoored, apologizing and preventing further backdoors, or outright open-sourcing your code, is up to Apple. They have communicated none of those things clearly or quickly which leads most people to (correctly) assume their obligation to the state supersedes their obligation to individual privacy.

> How is an organisation like Apple supposed to prove that the requests they received were unlawful [...] when entirely legal apparatus was used to essentially make it illegal to challenge the orders themselves.

By not automating the process? Let's break it down here - assuming Apple's PRISM compliance is real, we can assume the status-quo is Apple and the NSA both wanting to keep the surveillance quiet. Being sneaky with their backdoors is mutually beneficial and allows both of them to maintain plausible deniability when a national news story starts breaking.

The NSA has basically no leverage over Apple. The federal government could punish them punitively for refusing to disclose information in the name of national security, but unless they have dirt on Tim Cook the NSA is mostly relying on cooperation to get what they want. Apple on the other hand has everything to gain from proving their dedication to security and identifying illegal misconduct within their own services. When they don't identify these things and admit they were compelled to stay silent about blatant dragnet surveillance it reneges the faith they advertise to those of us in the security community.
And what do you need to run the inference of llama 3.1 405b?
So let me get this straight, not only does it not explain what it is, it's a bit of a puzzle to even get to the download links, and then it straight up downloads an .exe which you expect me to run on my computer?

Give me more info without me having to pry it out of you through finding your github which honestly isn't much more descriptive.
Unique memristor design with analog switching
A significant portion of the employee base is Chinese, and I can assure you a lot of them are less than thrilled by the rhetoric around China as the #1 enemy of the US. I worked there when Trump's first round of trade tariffs were being implemented, and we were busy relocating the our hardware manufacturing outside of China - it was a tense environment.

But I'd argue that anyone from pretty much anywhere in the Middle East, Asia, or Latin America has reasonable historical grounds to question if US intervention is in their future (whether clandestine or a full-blown invasion).
I'm amazed that anyone pays supermarket prices for fresh mint. You can't stop it from spreading, it's essentially a weed.
They must be completely toothless laws considering the amount of product placement that is easily visible. The only thing that will change is automating product placement in what used to look like organic conversation, including on HN.

Now I’ll go drink a nice, cold glass of tap water.
8.7k hours in an entire year.

So if you assume 8 hours sleeping, 8 hours working, and 8 hours of free-time per day, this means spending virtually every waking, non-working hour playing Battlezone 98 Redux for 3 years. Wow.
> Variation of the same question: Were there radio waves before there radios?

I'm not sure that is analogous. The chicken/egg question is about at what point we started identifying an egg as being a chicken egg as opposed to being an egg from another animal. In other words, did the first chicken egg come from a chicken (meaning the chicken came first), or from a proto-chicken (meaning the egg came first)?

A closer variation might be: Which came first, the radio broadcast or the radio broadcaster? Before the radio broadcast and radio broadcaster there was radio and people using radio, but they did not reach a wide public audience. At some point the early small-scale experimental radio use turned into broad utilization, but when and which was earlier on the timeline?
A long time ago (in the 2000s) I was interviewed by a guy who was the maintainer for notepad. It was a part time job. Now I’m sure there’s a whole team around it with multiple devs, a designer, a product manager, a program manager, and now with AI, legal has got to be involved.
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I get what they're going for but live music specifically is very much available nationwide (US). You can see a live musician any night of the week in almost any locale. Maybe you won't like what's playing, but it's out there.

Gig musicians at non-music venues are definitely fewer but a lot of musicians still make their most consistent living playing regular gigs at bars and coffee shops and such.
You can disable it. Settings > When Notepad starts > Start new session and discard unsaved changes
I live in a dense building and have never heard my neighbours music or their fucking.
That's how I learned the limits of hub cascades ;) Add collision domains on top and you are in not-funny-land.
Honestly, I find this a good thing. Painting, music, theater - they are all great hobbies. I personally really enjoy amateur performances, and seeing people enjoying their craft.

Turning a hobby into a profession? Very, very few people can do that. Of those that do, many find that it ruins their enjoyment of the activity.

tl;dr: Fewer professionals is a good thing.
Note that there's a companion address database by the DoT:

https://www.transportation.gov/gis/national-address-database
The norm for a bar in Japan is to be like Hooters?

Eh, what? This wasn't my experience at all. I didn't conduct a study, but I was in a good few bars over there, in three different cities. Can you elaborate on what you're referring to here?
Raising chickens IS doable though, and should be more accepted
I’ve hired cars in Austrailia without an IDP, just my British driving license.
That is the situation right now.

It's not necessarily going to be the situation forever.

Every demographic crisis involving low birthrates is an immigration melting pot waiting for the population to get desperate enough to change policies.
Although it's private so we can never be sure, their revenue seems to be in the ballpark of $100m with about 40% margin. So even if they save a million per year, it's not worth it, especially when it's a trade-off.
The thing that's important to remember is that for your dad, the weeks of setup was also play.
Just supposing that being a chariot driver was more dangerous and lethal than being a Gladiator.

The Isle of Man motorcycle races (with a death toll of 1-2% per year) are, both today, and historically, one of the most dangerous motor vehicle events in the world.

IoM takes both novices and veterans. Yet, they all sign up anyway. It's a thrilling spectacle to be sure.
>less people cooler and more they didn’t care

Not caring about what others think you look like is about as close as you can get to a definition of “cool”!

If you’re a young white male worried about being seen dancing because of a stereotype that’s a problem with you; dance is human heritage and everyone’s allowed to do it. I genuinely believe the whole “white people can’t dance!” thing is rooted in white people being self-conscious because they’ve been dancing to black music for the last 100 years instead of waltzing to the classics, not to mention the comparatively censorious attitude towards dance in White America versus Black America. Be the change etc. etc.
I don't think it's completely clear (to me) that quantum networking is an oxymoron. I would enthusiastically agree that its very complicated and the real world use cases are incredibly limited.

As far as your routing/switching qualms go I think they are mostly addressed by entanglement swapping? Person A and person B can each make an entangled pair and send me half, and I can (locally) do stuff which leads to the halves they keep at home becoming entangled. Then they can use teleportation or whatever to do whatever they want between themselves without me knowing anything about it.
My neighbour and I did this when we were about that age, and it was just as good as you imagined it to be! I think we managed to talk our parents into it because it would mean we were no longer tying up the phone line and racking up bills to play Doom.
The US set the precedent of changing borders with Kosovo. Russia just used skmething from their playbook. Russian government even said of US recognition of Kosovo that they are opening pandora's box.
Which interestingly is illegal in Montreal / Quebec in Canada. (Signs must contain French text and the French text must be no smaller than other languages.)
> It is patently false that the loss of sovereignty is fictional.

It is not "patently" false. That is an absolutist view of the type you are complaining about. UK law still had priority: demonstrated by the fact that the UK was able to withdraw from the agreement.

> This is still the very narrow-minded view that "we are correct they are wrong"

You seem outraged by this; why? Why shouldn't we think that we were correct and you were wrong? Presumably you thought you were right and we were wrong.

Anyway, the empirical evidence since suggests that we were correct and you were wrong. Most of the predictions made by Remainers turned out to be correct. Can you accept that?

> Effectively, "we" are smart and correct and "they" are stupid and racist

No one in this thread has claimed this. The official campaign never said this. You are attacking a strawman.
I'm always reminded of this xkcd comic about standards.

https://xkcd.com/927/
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why my code runs in exponential time.
It's almost like someone read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations!