skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me neither. I switched out my trusty old Microtik AC router for a combination of a Unifi AP AC Pro and UniFi Security Gateway in order to get a bit more distance, and performance and reliability has been shoddy.

I eventually got a TP-Link WiFi 6 AX3000, and it's been super solid, significantly faster, and required almost zero manual setup. The Unifi itself required a PoE adapter and a router, and of course needs the controller application to do anything.

(The controller app with its easily-corrupted and hard-to-upgrade MongoDB database is perhaps the worst part of it. My two devices occasionally required re-"adopting" for no discernible reason. I was unable to upgrade the controller at one point because apparently (?) they stopped bundling MongoDB, and the controller refused to use the version I installed manually. Of course, this breakage happened after the software updated, so the only way to fix it was by restoring the old version and database files from backups.)

Maybe Ubiquiti products make more sense when you need dozens of access points across a big building, but definitely not in a small city apartment.
I don't get that. As opposed to what? Displaying an unfamiliar window what gets in the way and is confusing?
It is a tricky tradeoff for startups. On the one hand, a startup has very limited resources and so has to focus on the business. On the other hand, a startup has to experiment to find the business. I don't think there's an easy answer.

In our case, the control plane data store really should be as boring as possible. It was real stretch using anything other than MySQL. We tried to lay out the arguments in the post, but the most compelling was we had lots of unit tests that spun up a DB and shut it down quickly. Maybe a hundred tests whose total execution time was 1.5s. The "boring" options made that surprisingly difficult.

(Tailscaler and blog post co-author)
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Awesome! Glad it has worked out for you. I still feel like I might go back into management someday, but it will need to be an ideal situation.
This has been a long comment chain to say American governments bought computers to use them for their work.
No new developer already has a reputation score. Why should they? Is there something unfair about warning users that uncommonly downloaded software is more likely to contain malware?

If anything, the problem is that even software with an EV certificate should be subject to the warning (like how SmartScreen worked in the past).
>"Social behaviors" are not what slows down Rt when you get to 60% of the entire human population infected; the number of targets gradually diminishes, slowing the spread.

Or the virus mutates, and off you go on another round. We have a couple of corona viruses that are already endemic in the human population, what makes you think this one will just die out naturally?
> Why is this hard to believe?

That's the core of what the article is about; it's hard to believe based on comparing testing and hospitalization numbers.

> "Social behaviors" are not what slows down Rt ... the number of targets gradually diminishes

Those aren't mutually exclusive, and it is possible to change social behaviors fast enough that it happens before you reach a threshold where you get significant slowing due to reduction in available "targets".
I don’t really know. I have a few ideas though based on my experience.

Our friends and extended family disappeared as soon as our daughter was born. I don’t know if it’s American culture or what, but people get extremely uncomfortable around people who are mourning or going through trials in their lives. People sort of blank out then don’t hang out with you anymore, or even invite you to things. After all, you’re going through a lot, we’ll just give you plenty of space.

The hospitals do their absolute best to isolate you too, unless you wanna go talk to the psychiatrist and get some medication. Groups would come to volunteer and make food for the parents of the patients (Taco Tuesday every day, it was kind of awful), and they’d laugh and joke around and high five each other for being so great volunteering (or at least that’s how it felt), while interacting with us people eating as much as possible. Somehow it made me feel worse.

My wife got “tattled on” a few times by medical staff when she’d cry, such as when they said our daughter was terminal. It was infuriating that perfectly healthy grief gets you immediately referred to a psychiatrist.

Honestly being at work was nice because I could do normal stuff and have normal social interactions. At the hospital they constantly cycle the staff through, so you don’t have the same doctor more than two weeks, or the same nurse more than a couple days. I guess the trauma of being around dying babies is just too much.

With a couple of notable exceptions on my wife’s side of the family, we felt completely isolated and alone. I can’t say for sure but I think having a strong network of people who actually gave a shit (or even acted like they do) would have done wonders for my mental health. Then again I have a sneaking suspicion that would solve most mental health issues for a lot of people.

The whole ordeal has made me much more distant from my brothers and sisters and mother, unfortunately.
In literally every protracted discussion I've had about FTL since before I got my physics degree, someone has brought up the "science doesn't know everything yet" angle. Here's the thing: science is never done, it will never know for finally and for certain. And yet two of my objections will remain unaddressed:

1) FTL implies CTCs, that means paradoxes. How are those going to be resolved? Because the Cosmic Censor stuff never quite makes sense -- exactly what mechanism is going to forbid you from opening the message that says, "Do not send this message back in time?"

2) Again allowing for FTL ... where are the self-replicating machines spreading across the cosmos? Pop to another star system, pop to another galaxy, or even a local cluster. They should have already been there. The universe is vast. Most species will realize that this is a terrible ass idea, but there's always a lunatic in a large enough crowd, and it'll be a pretty large crowd.

Nobody ever deals with these points. People want FTL to be true because, well, Star Trek (or Star Wars, or Farscape, take your pick). It's a bit dull, plodding along at some small fraction of c, but the universe doesn't have to be exciting for us. And I'm not going to bet otherwise.
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Yeah, the best classes I've attended began with you reading material (textbook or papers) before lecture, then revisiting that content during lecture. Ideally the prof devises a lecture agenda where discussion revolves around subtleties in the material, both clarifying Q&A and implications and exceptions and to the material. Appreciating the context and relevance of your research-based material adds a lot to appreciating how it changed the status quo.
Yes! There is already such a thing for a bank in the UK:

https://saveourbank.coop/

A large enough group of people directly switching as members and influencing others to do the same can work to keep a company in line. It'd be unique and awesome.
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> The few fpgas which have open source tool chains are unsuitable because they are all flash based AFAIK...

Not true at all. The flagship open-source FPGAs are the Lattice iCE40 series, which are SRAM-based. There's also been significant work towards open-source toolchains for Xilinx FPGAs, which are also SRAM-based.

The real limitation is in capabilities. The iCE40 series is composed of relatively small FPGAs which wouldn't be particularly useful for this type of application.
I think the “build sustainable business” crowd should understand that part of what they imply is “don’t employ lots of people.” Layoffs reframe that idea in an interesting way: not employing lots of people also means not offering a job someone might want.
It also doesn't change the fact that smaller devices are harder to put wires on - but they're both polynomial scaling factors that other polynomial scaling paradigms could cancel out.
>It’s probably confusing because it seems absurd, in how many western democracies is it legal to discriminate based on race?

In how many is it not? Not sarcasm at all, I haven't studied law much outside of the US and I'm genuinely curious where you have in mind that you or I could look at our investment portfolio and go "I think re-weighting to have some more minority managed companies would yield improved gains" and that would be illegal. I doubt it'd actually be a good investment strategy sure, but a crime?

Public accommodations law and protections for employment and so on are all quite common, but in what western democracies are you required by law to donate or invest money with the same restrictions government would face? Not saying they aren't out there or that I can't imagine some reasoning that would lead to such laws, just wondering where and how that's worked out.
Mediatek has 31% market share of the smartphone SOC market, and Qualcomm 29%.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/mediatek-biggest-smartp...
Ok, I totally missed that nuance—sorry, and thanks for the clarification. I'll take the [dupe] marker off the top and remove the downweight.

Do you know if what https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25711941 says is true, that they do this every election? That seems relevant if so, and the comment sounds credible.
Isn't Vitess all about sharding and autoscaling mysql instances with containers and kubernetes?
Optical Tweezers. Basically people use lasers to move microscopic particles around. Lasers can also levitate things.
Here's a really interesting video on this topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq7GaO8iqu8
It's something up in the sky, that you can't identify. I've seen plenty, and if you've ever seen something flying that you can't identify then you've seen them too.

I kind of wish Unidentified Flying Object hadn't been conflated with space aliens.
Because the legal system is designed and run by people in power and people in power aren't interested in prosecuting their own crimes.
> In the US, they created this backdoor "Opt" work visa (which they're desperately trying to expand) that allows hundreds of thousands of foreign students to stay in the US once studies are finished and compete for jobs. Oh, and they don't pay various retirement taxes, so companies get an immediate 15% incentive to hire them over American students.

First, OPT is not a visa. Optional Practical Training participants are mostly F-1 visa holders. Per IRS rules[1], the social security tax exemption "does not apply to F-1,J-1,M-1, or Q-1/Q-2 nonimmigrants who become resident aliens." And per IRS rules [2], you are considered a resident aliens if you pass the Substantial Presence Test [3], which states, "31 days during the current year, and 183 days during the 3-year period that includes the current year and the 2 years immediately before that." Now how many students can get an OPT job and still fail this test?

The US immigration policy is not perfect and has holes. But attracting foreign talents to stay and work in the US is the baby, not the bath water.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
[2] https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/dete...
[3] https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/subs...
With the time thing, that would suggest that these events are uncommon. In that case it would be reasonable that the gov doesn't know what's going on either and that these visitors aren't here for the long hull. Of course, assuming these are visitors and not natural or man made phenomena. But I'll wait for the cell phone events. You suggest it should happen within my lifetime.

As was posted in another comment I'm going to post this video. And don't dare claim someone hasn't looked up the links and articles just because they don't agree with you. Do it if they demonstrate that they didn't (there's a big difference and the former is going to piss someone off and is against HN's good faith rules).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le7Fqbsrrm8
> If it appears on a resume, it’s done for notoriety.

There might be such people, but I doubt such projects would be very successful or notorious. Being able to put something on CV does not provide that long lasting gratification needed to develop/maintain software in the long run. If it's about your CV only, then there are probably more effective ways to achieve better returns.

(In my case I don't put my F/OSS on my CV and I don't think I'm "extreme minority")
> Netflix's product is the opposite of a feature. A feature is reproducible, which Netflix's media is not, and they are the only place to get it.

Apple, Google and Microsoft have shown they want to compete directly in streamed video market (and similarly the online music market.)

They might not have successfully competed against Netflix yet, but I have no reason to believe that one of them couldn’t come up with a better product with better platform integration, and Netflix becomes another Hulu in the middle runners.
I was impressed with wsl recently. I had to compile a distribution for an embedded linux board we're going to use. And under wsl it just worked.
> I don't get why companies would pay for this sort of data.

Knowing when someone is pregnant or trying to get pregnant seem like premium moments. Lots of money in fertility treatments and related services. Lots more money in maternity products and new baby products.
There's no need to "trick" you. You said it on your own:

> I'm gonna punch them for it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25753591
It should be like an uploaders union for YouTube or something really. I think that type of organizing has been attempted but they are too big and too global to even care if a even all the big stars in one country band together.
This feels like it needs a graph to explain what went where.
This post illustrates the difference between persistence and a database.

If you are expecting to simply persist one instance of one application's state across different runs and failures, a database can be frustrating.

But if you want to manage your data across different versions of an app, different apps accessing the same data, or concurrent access, then a database will save you a lot of headaches.

The trick is knowing which one you want. Persistence is tempting, so a lot of people fool themselves into going that direction, and it can be pretty painful.

I like to say that rollback is the killer feature of SQL. A single request fails (e.g. unique violation), and the overall app keeps going, handling other requests. You application code can be pretty bad, and you can still have a good service. That's why PHP was awesome despite being bad -- SQL made it good (except for all the security pitfalls of PHP, which the DB couldn't help with).
I'm not talking about dying out entirely, I'm talking about an end to exponential growth.
CEO of crypto company claiming their product is secure isn't super meaningful. It might be true, but they would probably say that regardless.

That said, side channels may not be that relavant if you're starting from a place of having to guess the key. Usually that's more about leaking secrets, not bypassing the encryption from a cold start state.
Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all–they form a distinct lineage with jackals
Why doesn't Europe simply... compete?

Buy tech instead of offering endless (paperwork intensive) subsidies. Harmonize markets so you can just sell everywhere without having to fund the local civil servant union by filling the new-and-special-snowflake paperwork for every country you want to sell to.
Even if they don't believe in abolishing the age of consent laws like Michel Foucault did, they still believe that children actually can consent. Pat Califia makes this argument explicitly.

They believe that "normal" sexual ethic is imposed on children by oppressive power structures (enforced by parents). So they believe that they're liberating children by exposing them to queerness. They don't see it as peer pressure or coercion because they see sex as something similar to choosing between ice cream or cookies, which a child is capable of.

Gayle Rubin also defended NAMBLA quite clearly.

Many examples of this stuff.
The Russet Burbank potato is 70% of the US market. A blight of this cultivar would be devastating.
Dropbox solved a problem that we all had 10 years ago.

Today, for new users, it isn’t much of a problem because every platform (Windows, Android, Mac, Adobe, etc.) gives you free or integrated cloud storage. Many have multi-platform clients.

There is just no growth path left for their original product. It’s not a solution to a problem that new users have.

I still use Dropbox occasionally, but now iCloud handles 99% of what Dropbox did for me. I didn’t even choose to use iCloud. It was just there one day.
So what happens when the computer fails in the middle of a long write to disk?
Sure.

Domains are really close to 0 support. Can you email support questions when Dropbox starts acting weird? For $10-$20 a year, one support ticket makes the customer unprofitable for the entire year.

Real thin margins, seems gross to try and build a business on the $1-$2 a month thing. I wouldn’t.

Works for a Titans like apple and google because they are making money in other ways..
The way I used FAANG wasn't very precise. It is possible that Netflix will become a feature of Google, Amazon, or Disney.

I was referring to the concept of "bundling and unbundling" [1] which is beneficial to the big rich companies. The big players have the money and the control over the eco-system (files, documents, events) which gives them the advantage to go against smaller products and make them features.

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/9/21/atomisatio...
I'm not especially "intune with Europe", and that conflict ended when I was a small child, but I knew the violence extended to civilians. Not sure why you assume people wouldn't know that.
PC Engines makes a long-term series of pretty open router boards that works with vanilla Debian, current iteration is APU2: https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

It is pricier than low-end router, but they are high performance and are much easier to use.
Is it?

The dead cannot feel joy, love, pain, or sadness. They cannot perceive anything, nor can the be aware of anything; one second in time is exactly the same as a billion years to the dead. And you cannot do anything to the dead that would change that.

Barring the possibility of an afterlife, if nothing can affect the dead, and the dead are unaware of everything, what could possibly be the dead's problem?

The living on the other hand? They would be the one that would perceive the dead's absence, and mourn it. They are the ones that have to deal with the uncertainty of what death is. Or the questions of why someone would prefer death.

But there in lies the key point; someone has to perceive the death of a peer to mourn it. Let's say for a moment that there is only one person in the universe and he dies. Who mourns for him? Like wise, if someone exists, and no one else is aware, who mourns for him after he dies? In either case, he cannot mourn for himself.

So really... is being dead a problem for the dead? Or is it more the concern of those still alive?
>A good one is where, say you are checking in on a civilization to see whether it's about to become space faring, and given the amount of energy required for it, the tech is dangerous to any other civilization these recent space arrivers might find. The question is whether they're going to pose a threat to the regional galactic order, and if they haven't got their cultural act together, do you let them?

Seems a strange position to take. Look at our own case. Do we evaluate "un-contacted/lost" tribes in the Amazon to see if they may pose a risk to the current Global Order? No, because that would be absurd. They are so far behind technologically that they pose about as much of a threat as a troop of chimps do. For galactic scale civilizations the difference in capabilities is probably at least as extreme as that.
I understand. But given the product features compared to the rest of the industry, Tailscale brings no real value compared to Zero-tier hen it comes to meshes, it's not zerotrust like Cloudflare, Twingate, and many others, it claims to be open source while only the client is and it cannot be used without their closed source control plane where most of the feature are behind paywall, it's way more expensive than reputable offerings like Citrix, Cloudflare and others. Their security is very dubious to me (they can in fact inject their own public keys to connect to clients machines and there is no way but to trust their word that they won't). I mean, what's the innovation compared to the industry in order to get that systemically excessive coverage here?
You can look at the following parameters that are critical for the health of democracies: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture.

And consider how moderation of hate speech affects these parameters. Evaluating these on an example of presidential debates of 2020 might be a good option. As there is a contrast between the first debate, that included no moderation and a second debate, that included some.
Why doesn't Canada simply... compete?

Honestly, bragging your engineers are worth 50K less while pitching for HQ2 won't stop their brain drain.
Figma has shown if you want perf, you write it in C++ and distribute as web assembly and still stay in the browser.
> IMO, The fact that it's only 38x the minimum is MIND BLOWING.

It's like if someone made a car that drives at 1/38th the light speed.
I would guess that the average American (I really mean average here, not average among HN posters) will have heard of nothing on that list, but also not heard of any US political violence in that time period.
Interesting, I need to look into it.

ARM64 is nice too, but for me not applicable. I won't dare to produce builds which I can't test ...
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This can partly be self-selection. I knew someone who chose to work at Huawei because they were learning Chinese and considered moving to China. Someone like that is a lot more likely to want to work for Huawei than someone who intends to stay right where they are and learn no Chinese.
"Dropbox is a feature not a product."

Where this does ring true is Dropbox versus not OneDrive on it's own, but OneDrive as it comes bundled with O365. Many F500 type companies pretty much MUST have O365.

Then, if you have O365, you have OneDrive. And the question then isn't whether Dropbox is better. It's whether OneDrive is "good enough" to suffice, despite it being not as good as Dropbox. And the decision maker doesn't care if it's not good enough for some smallish subset of employees that need a Linux client, etc. They care whether it's good enough for most.
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I don't think these are dumb questions at all

They're not, but they're also somewhat orthogonal to "UFO culture." You're describing a philosophical/sociopolitical discussion that isn't really informed by a blip on a grainy video frame.

The question that's more relevant to UFOs, in my opinion, is "Why would these aliens, with their unimaginably superior technology, travel all the way here and reveal themselves in such asinine ways?" Did they intend to come all this way to do some cryptic and spooky display for a small number of people? Did they simply slip up and briefly drop their cover?

I just don't see it. I fully believe that, if there were aliens out there with such capabilities, and they came to earth, they would either conceal themselves fully or reveal themselves intentionally (and not just to a handful of people in a remote area).