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Ask HN: Home Wifi Routers
After spending a few hours resetting my Virgin Media router to find out I cannot change the DNS servers, I've decided it's time to invest in some new hardware.

Can anyone recommend a good wifi router that has good wi-fi coverage but also a good admin experience, i.e. for setting up dns/dhcp/routing (Ideally if I can make a few devices not have internet access but be on the LAN that would be perfect)

Thanks
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we, at rebuy, built this little thing to run kubernetes on just one node: https://github.com/rebuy-de/terraform-aws-coreos-k8s-single-...
my colleague and i mainly use it to run our private hobby-projects.
Goes the other way, lots of people reported that their oddity finally found other similar people to share it to.

I don't think internet really made a difference about group size. Even a large town (-pole) would make your life minuscule, and I have to live in a small place to see how much it affects life (peacefulness or not, efficiency, calmness)
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My tutor at university understood this very well. In my first week he told my tutor group "At school you were all the best, now it is likely that half of you are below average".

Another thing I noticed at university was "improvers syndrome". When I took up some new sport or hobby, I always thought I wasn't progressing very well, because I was comparing myself to the people around me who were all improving too. It was only at the start of a new year when lots of newbies arrived that I realised how much I had progressed.
Warren Buffett is an interesting example of specialized genius. He has a gifted memory and based on what has been described about him in several books, from birth he was of a certain emotional tilt that would serve him very well in consistently not making investment decisions based on emotion across decades. Buffett is an investment/financial genius, whose quite abnormal birth traits were a prerequisite to his extreme success in the investment world.

I favor the notion that genius potential is a combination of specific narrow traits, such that if you swap any of them out, you're very likely to lose the genius outcome (rather than the pop caricature that genius is mentally broad; ie if someone says: he/she is a genius! - the only proper response is: in what narrow regard?). The popular successful genius outcome then further requires a number of external environmental factors, such as luck (where you were born, who your parents were, who you went to school with, who your friends were, what time in history you were born, all the way down to the tiniest of minutia).
Why distributed systems are hard? Because of many actors and communications overhead.

Big companies are slow for the same reason.
The list of things mentioned in the article to do and learn for a simple, personal project with k8s is absolutely staggering, in my opinion.

Having used it, there's a sizeable amount of further work needed which the article doesn't mention (e.g. learning how to use the pretty confusing google interface, finding the right logs and using their tools). So the overhead is really huge.

Furthermore, the whole system is slow. Want to run a SQL query against your postgres? You need to use a google cloud command that changes the firewall and ssh's you in on the machine... and this takes a couple of minutes, just enough to make me desist unless I _really_ need to run that query. Abysmal.

Finally, and this is a pet peeve against many advocacy blog posts, they just show you the happy path! Sure, _in the best of cases_ you just edit a file. In a more realistic case, you'll be stuck with a remote management system which is incredibly rich but also a really steep learning curve. Your setup is not performant? Good luck. Need to tweak or fine tune? Again, best of luck.

We've tried to adopt k8s 3-4 times at work and every single time productivity dropped significantly without having significant benefits over normal provisioning of machines. {Edit: this does not mean k8s is bad, but rather that we are probably not the right use case for it!}

...which in turn is usually significantly slower than building your own home server (but that's another story!)
A good bike will generally have quality components that last for a long time, and can eventually be repaired or replaced.
We've limited to Google login indeed as it was the first version of the app and we wanted to make it easy for as many users to sign up and get started on Station. We will very soon release a username/password login which will answer your concern.

Yes I think see which app you are referring to, it's Fluid app (and there's been others of the same type since then). It was one of our inspirations in fact. I think that type of app is useful if what you are looking for is to turn a few specific websites into native apps in your dock (Github is a good example). But it does not make it easier to switch between those apps, essentially it just encapsulates a webview into an OS window. What we want to do is go much further and add extra functionalities that make it feel like you are really consuming a native app (ex: searching for information across all your apps, quickly accessing various parts of this app, giving an overview of notifications from all your apps, etc.).

Checked your link, it's really interesting actually. It really goes along the line of how we think about Station. When you say Google Doc is not something that works well as a tab, I think it's true for a lot of SaaS applications. They've leveraged the browser to work because it guaranteed massive adoption and instantly worked cross platform, however browsers were built to - as its name indicates - browse the web, mostly reading content. If you can offer a tailored experience for each doc, chat, note taking app, etc. that you use on a daily basis, I think there is no reason why you wouldn't switch from the browse. To use another analogy: the same way you prefer to use the Gmail app on your smartphone than go on gmail.com on your mobile browser.
What happens to that code once the company disappears?
To Europe? The kits come from Europe!
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Docker ships with swarm, and swarm + a compose file does everything you just described.

Swarm is such a pleasant and easy alternative that comes out of the box with Docker, does 90% of what Kubernetes does, and does 100% of what anyone with less than 50 servers needs. The learning curve is also an order of magnitude easier.
For now we've limited to Google accounts indeed but we will soon release the option to login with username & password. We do say corporate accounts because we see Station as a work environment and therefore think it's best if you can connect your work account to then use it to login to other work apps (assuming they use Google login). However you can use your personal Gmail account, it works just as well.
Your company may require login via Google.
Why would you want to be able to access your personal projects from your phone? What context requires this over waiting and solving the problem at home?

What about work life balance? (yes, it's a personal project, but still)
Yes, this is the answer: the feeling that you're not good enough comes from individualism: focusing on yourself.

If instead you find a community and act altruistically for its greater good, you'll find ways to help and feel achievement that way.

Another comment also said that with parenthood these feelings fade, because the needs of the family emerge.
I'm no expert, but you're calling SoftBank money Chinese - aren't they a Japanese firm mostly funded by Saudi oil money?
Also reminds me of the idea of fixed vs growth mindsets.

> Suddenly, his math skills were only mediocre compared to his new peers. He became depressed after this.

With a fixed mindset, you think your ability is static and so it can get you down when you stop being at the top.

With the growth mindset you know that your ability is not static and can get better with effort. Think of the opportunity he had to learn from his new peers.

Hopefully he got over the depression.
> Kubernetes, right now, supports some workloads really really well, like stateless workloads that are CPU intensive that can be easily scaled horizontally, with easy to understand patterns that we currently put behind load balancers.

> Other workloads, Kubernetes just doesn’t support well and likely will not support well in the near future because it’s really hard to do. It’s not magic, as some of the hype surrounding it would have you believe.

https://gravitational.com/blog/running-postgresql-on-kuberne...
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I think everyone is in agreement that we'd like the good parts of Elon Musk without any of the parts that have got him into trouble recently, but that's kind of a difficult ask. It also seems a lot less rude than confronting a CEO of a declining company with the question "Why are you so good at deflecting bad media and so bad at innovating?"

Please let me know if you can find any perfectly behaved geniuses with a track record of pioneering multiple world-changing companies/technologies.
I'm all for this...but can we just ban telemarketing entirely? Why is that even allowed? I've always thought that the law should be written such that telemarketing is legal, but if you engage in it, it is no longer illegal to murder you. You can do it, but you lose your murder protection.
I actually am the OP, and I just wanted to say that while I suspect we disagree on some fundamentals... I am extremely impressed by the quality, tone and effort to link to research evidenced in your two replies.

As you deduced, I missed your initial reply because we both posted at the same time.

For what it's worth, I'm also in Canada and my best friend is a Christian. She was not born into it and has always been really great about being willing to admit when she doesn't know the answers to something. This has, in turn, inspired me to be less of a judgemental asshole.

Don't get me wrong: I still have a really hard time with the idea that intelligent people can justify worshipping malevolent invisible sky wizards. And a lot of my bias against religious influence in modern society comes from the organizations themselves, and not their members. Evil priests, etc are over-staying their welcome.

However, I am heartened to know that research suggests religious people are less likely to be criminals. Happy to acknowledge that I learned something. I do wonder if causation/correlation are skewed, here... as in, would those people still be good if they'd grown up in secular families?

Anyhow... great chat. Feel free to update if you think of anything else.
Thanks! Yes a lot of users tell us the exact same thing. It's not always easy to understand what it does until you've tried it. That means we also need to improve the way we communicate around the product and make the value prop clearer. A new version of the website is coming soon!
I... really want to read this article but I'm all kinda nervous about read it on my lunch break at work.

You could put this at equal top if not absolute least likely article I'd have ever expected to have read on HN.

To be continued.
Would you look at that. I've actually been using uBlock since forever, but had no idea it could do that. Oh well, I guess sometimes you just can't see the forest for trees.
What if all 3 nodes get killed at the same time? Can you use the always free instance + 2 preemptible instances?
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Helm + Kustomize [0] to add in whatever wasn't in the helm template works pretty well IMO. Kustomize is pretty new and not the most user friendly though.

0: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize
Íñigo Quílez's (Shadertoy's creator) articles should be a start point.

http://iquilezles.org/www/index.htm

He's got a YouTube channel with step by step explanations too.
I haven't in a little while personally but some of our team members use Firefox and so far we never had any issues. Did you spot anything?
When Jobs left Apple, he was 30; when he returned, he was 42. Musk is 47. If he needs time away from Tesla to ’grow up’, he better do it fast.
I think what the parent meant is "how does archive.org pay their bills?".
> Innovation cycles have become much shorter.

Yes, but you need to build up a world-wide customer support network that is willing to learn these new innovations that fast at a modest rate.

If Tesla would stay in the performance car segment, then the company doesn't need to scale the customer service that much. If you smash a bit your McLaren, you accept that only a handful of companies can fix it. But when you want to roll out and dominate the average joe market with the Model 3, you need to be able to sell it with a moderate maintenance cost. That can only happen if the local car mechanics are able to fix it, but this unlikely happen if every new model comes with radical changes.
Why did the article claim that "Free and Open Source Silicon" is a threat to ARM?

Thinking further, we already have RISC V up and running, but doesn't it really impact traditional chip OGs like ARM and Intel?
> When presented with different ways to sign on to sites, you can choose Google or Microsoft instead of Facebook.

> Yes, it’s possible those companies could be hacked one day, too. After all, Yahoo was hacked, as was LinkedIn, as was Equifax. But at this moment, a sign-on service by Google or Microsoft has one big advantage over Facebook’s: Those companies did not lose control of 50 million people’s accounts, and Facebook did.

This argument recommending Google or Microsoft is bad because it rests on the fact that there was a breach on Facebook.

Centralized authentication mechanisms are bad because they magnify the issues when breaches happen. At the same time, relying on each site/service to implement authentication securely and also maintain it securely is a huge task — something I believe the vast majority of SaaS platforms don’t focus on.

Just like it’s a good idea to use different passwords on different systems, one should avoid using centralized authentication systems like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. This comes at the cost of convenience though, because you can take this to the extreme of having unique login credentials (user/password) for each service. Using a password manager helps on this front to keep it easier to follow such an approach.

This is a serious topic that more people should be educated about.
It's so creepy that there is a Twitter account out there which has publicly confessed to be intentionally spreading hostile news for the purpose of feeding confirmation bias as a social media experiment and that the stories they are pushing are turning out to manipulate the news cycle to the extent that it does. It's actually disgusting, how successful they are.

The entire movement is so suspect when you look at its loudest people. A bunch of Twitter accounts, many of them intentionally anonymized with troll names, and photoshopped images of Elon Musk as their profile picture. Hundreds upon hundreds of retweets of each other. Then mocking nearly every Musk twitter post with whataboutisms to drag audience to their filter bubble.

Here is raw data about Tesla sales compared to the sales of every other electric vehicle manufacturer for the last several years:

- https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
Love the reflection of the flash on the ground in the second picture. It took me a while to figure this out.
>>Has Apple ever had a head start on any industry ?

No, and that is also why the iPhone is so expensive.

Almost everything in the iPhone has Apple paying some licensing fees to Qualcomm.

Late entry is not free.
That would be a pyrrhic victory at best. True ownership of comsumer devices is de facto a thing of the distant past. If you degraded sales to rentals by law, manufacturers would immediately try to jump onto that train and come up with ways to extract even more momey from customers. How would you feel for having to pay your CPU manufacturer for the actual CPU time spent on your personal desktop computer at home? Of course, each core counts separately. Can't have you pay less for running properly paralellized programs, now can we?
i have a paperless filing system that i frequently access from the office for things like scans of bills that aren’t yet electronic, etc. it’s fantastic to be able to access it all (via VPN; never direct) wherever i like
> Going back to your claim, I dont think a current price of $300 per share is bargain.

Just to drive the point home: what's Tesla's dividend per share?
Generally, cpus (especially modern xeons) run quite a few instructions every cycle.
Evidence, no. I haven't done that particular research.

However, I do spend a lot of time in conversation with my best friend - who is a late-convert Christian - about the distressingly common phenomena of people who call themselves Christians because it flatters them, but don't actually participate or behave in the way they are supposed to.

You know, like the POTUS.

I do happen to believe that religious people shouldn't assume that they act better than non-religious people. We all have to draw personal lines somewhere.
Docker started supporting local k8s as a swarm alternative, I think from last month's release.
What an entitled attitude to throw at one of mankind's greatest digital resource, without even researching the subject. And you have the balls to ask "When did HN turn into Reddit?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18092654) ...
In A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin (different one, but still something of a jerk), the rich daughter of a Newspaper magnate who has needed glasses since she was a child gets an eye exam and is declared to have perfect vision and not in need of glasses. Her father says to bill him for one pair of perfect glasses that will never break.
Sure but the context is personal projects or portfolio/small business sites. A VPS on a discount provider such as Hetzner or OVH costs around 3-4 USD/EUR per month. A redundant VPS (two VPS and Ceph) costs 10 EUR on OVH. Not to speak about the complexity of setting up and running k8s. You'll be needing a second k8s development/testing environment for staging as well. So, no, I don't think k8s makes sense economically.
Personal preferences, mainly. I don’t like the fact that I have to go to the Settings app to clear browsing history, for one.
Is the middle class currently growing, shrinking, or neither?
You can set GKE up to use multiple groups of nodes, yes. In this case you'd want to configure one group with a single non-preemptible micro node, and a second with two preemptible micro nodes. It's not something I'd really worry about for a hobby project though.
Thanks for this. It sounds like a good reason to read Outliers. I've seen it recommended a lot but haven't wanted to read it because I really struggled to get anything out of The Tipping Point (I thought it was a cliched version of the non-fiction category: a couple of ideas repeated over and over, full of anecdotes and trying to connect unrelated things… completely unscientific).
Have you seen Dokku? https://github.com/dokku/dokku

Might be something like what you're after.
In the sense that we do not handle classic browsing tasks: searching on Google and read articles across tabs. Our users do not stop using the browser when they start using Station, they use both in combination: the browser for browsing & Station for their apps.

We are building a platform for you to access all your web applications. Ultimately what we aim to build is closer to an operating system for all your apps than a traditional web browser.
I'm talking more about as a hobby. In a weekend you can write a useful script or website with a fairly low level of skills.
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I would avoid Dale Carnegie. It might have been valuable in the past, but right now to me it reads just like a bunch of out of time platituteds.
Also, as a freelancer in Germany, I can tell you that those guidelines mostly apply to the American way of doing business--which definitely isn't the worldwide standard of dealing with business owners and managers.
>>I'm a bit skeptical whether Tesla will survive a behemoth like Volkswagen shifting gear towards main focus on electric vehicles.

Its more like the other way. Imagine a behemoth having to toss out all that IP, know how, patents, manufacturing, factories, assets, product lines and what not all to compete with a start up.

Why do you think Microsoft can't compete with Android? Doing so requires tearing the Windows Operating system and there by the whole company.

Imagine somebody like Volkswagen being made to do that.
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It’s a bad thing that Apple doesn’t allow older versions to be downloaded. Firefox Focus was there before iOS 11 too, though it’s not as feature rich as the latest one. If you had downloaded it on iOS 10, you could still continue to use it or redownload that version.
I guess they do not mind but looking at the growth graph at the bottom seems like basecamp is plateauing.
See: Visual Programming - Why it’s a Bad Idea
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Hey Jeremy, are you going to be recommending GCP/AWS hosted fastai as the best way to get started now over Paperspace etc?
Yeah, the shorty meme brigade with their 'short air force' patch meme campaign convincing the New York Times to run a ridiculous story about cars parked in a parking lot is also very interesting.

We live in a post-IRA revelation world.
There are a few successful examples of graphical programming languages used by engineers and scientists everyday. Simulink and Labview are what I'm thinking of, there may be a few other similar ones I don't know about.

I actually don't like using these tools too much personally, and yes I suppose they are relatively niche. But there are some people that swear by them, and they really are powerful and useful in their problem domains.
I think part of the answer might be that Germans invest much less than most other nationalities. They do save, but in times of practically non-existent interest rates, that does not get you very far.
Is it really so? They are not the only one, nor were they the first either, really. Yes, in some areas they were first on the market.

Many of the major ("old, boring") car manufacturers are growing on the EV segment and will overtake Tesla soon if not already there. For example, BMW i3 has sold around 100k units now, about a third of Teslas. Overall the market is dominated by the Chinese manufacturers.

Tesla got where they are because of the media skills and connections of Mr. Musk and the media amplification that follows. With Mr. Musk gone I see rather dire times for Tesla as a company, regardless of whether the company is sold to someone or not.

Full disclosure: have never driven a Tesla but have seen it zoom to a tiny dot in the horizon in a really short time when the traffic lights turned green.
Given that Unity uses different conventions for property names and magical function names with reflection for events, that is a dialect to me, as it is not how C# is used by regular developers.

Actually there are occasional questions on C# forums caused by people learning C# via Unity and then facing issues when using pure .NET.

Then there is the new HPC# for the new ECS and Job systems, which subsets C#.

As for Mono being already in 1.0, OS X only version, I am unsure about it, but the old blog was taken down. So I take your word for it.