skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just thinking about the importance of the WRT54G in the last days while selecting a new wireless access point. I ordered an Ubiquiti UAC-AP-LITE, based on the price and clean hardware design. I was torn on firmware- Unifi, or flash OpenWRT? The day my package arrives the news of the Ubiquiti breach emerges. OpenWRT it is! Some things never change.

A lot of what I learned about networking I owe to the coolness/fun factor of installing OpenWRT on WRT54G units when I was a teenager.
I found this quote from the article a bit confusing: "wiping out parts of the economy where women dominate: retail businesses, restaurants and health care."

Specifically the claim that the health care industry was wiped out. Am I missing something? Anecdotally, I have friends who became travelling nurses during the pandemic, going from hotspot to hotspot under contract making SV software engineer money. ACA enrollments appear way up this year and insurance carriers all appear to be doing well. Hospital staff are definitely being stretched but hourly workers are looking at more money as a result. I know initially hospitals cleared most elective surgeries, leaving surgeons + their support staff in a pickle, but all the surgeons I know are back to business as usual on both the east and west coast. I suppose admin staff who'd otherwise be sitting at the desk answering phones for more typical primary care operations might've been squeezed as well, but I've been making ophthalmologist, dentist, GP appointments throughout the past year talking to humans so that doesn't seem to match either.
You might want to check around, 3D printers might be more available than you think. Before COVID, our library was doing 3D prints priced by the weight of the object. You'd send them a model and a week or three later you could go pick up the part.

You might also have friends who have a 3D printer and are happy to print something out for you. A good 3D printer can be had for $200 now, so they're pretty accessible.

I got my son one for his birthday last year, and now I don't know how we "lived without one". :-)
Is no one going to talk about how Drake posted this article? /s
We Don't Need Data Scientists, We Need Data Engineers
No, it really doesn’t at all. Many “right wing” parties in Europe have social policies that Americans would consider far left socialist. Different countries have different political situations and there is no such thing as a universal political left-right continuum.
It’s nice to hear that others have this strategy too. I’ve never used the downvote on HN (unless I bumped the teeny tiny arrow accidentally on my iPad while trying to upvote), and the main reason is because receiving downvotes feels so harsh to me, and upvoting good things mostly has the same overall effect on the order of the conversation. It made me see clearly the good reasons why downvoting privileges are withheld from new accounts, that period did help me learn how to be more positive and constructive in my comments.

But - lately I’ve been second guessing myself and wondering whether there’s any virtue in continuing to not use this feature, which is sometimes useful. There are a minority of comments that should be downvoted and I agree with downvotes they receive even if I don’t hand any out.

One reason I’ve been questioning my personal policy is because I’ve recognized that - in the spirit of the article here - that downvotes on HN are given for a wide variety of legitimate reasons that don’t necessarily amount to disagreement. Sometimes comments are very off-topic, sometimes they make assumptions, sometimes they’re polite and nice but factually wrong, sometimes they’re jokes that aren’t funny. I’ve started to view downvotes as being symmetric to upvotes, and I give upvotes liberally and for a huge number of reasons. There’s nothing really wrong with downvotes being seen in the same light... other than negative feelings it might cause and the times it leads to destructive responses rather than constructive responses.

I’d love to hear what others thing, should I start using downvotes now, or continue to abstain?
> Google can choose what is served from their index, end of story

And the people can demand that google be broken up into bite sized pieces to promote competition - as we are currently seeing in the DOJ case against google
I believe the US requires stronger safeguards. The temptations to abuse power so great, the feeling that it is necessary to steer the world in the "right" direction by holding onto office so immense, that any centralized election system will be abused.

The decentralized election system of the US is extremely resilient to tampering from the top. I personally believe the decentralized nature of the US election system is vital to its democracy. Think of the decentralized election system as a check and balance on power rather than a fair count of each person's vote. That said, I think the US needs to do away with the electoral college middlemen and replace it with a direct vote tallied by each county that is reported by each State. The US also needs to make gerrymandering illegal
That's only one example and the issue was closed specifically because it conflicts with their UX designs created by a professional designer: https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/tree/mast...

As a point of comparison, you may want to look through all the other merge requests that actually do get accepted, the majority of them do: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests?sta...
If its success has kept uncountable, "segmented" garbage devices from ever entering the market, I'd say WRT has been even better for the consumers than you think.
I liked the article, and didn’t read it as super elitist. The ad at the bottom seemed pretty separate from the content to me.

I do see how it could be read as superior if you really try (because he’s juxtaposing fortunate elites with suffering average people), but my main takeaway was the clear thinking on the parallels between fast food and fast news, and the constructive suggestion that the same solutions might apply.
GitHub Actions with R for Data Science (Video Tutorial)
Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia, Founded by Ex-Apple Chip Designers, for $1.4B
How many ARM microcontrollers are low volume? Pretty much all of the examples I can think of are incredibly high volume. STM32, SAMD21/51, i.MX, etc.

WD said they were finishing taping out their first production design about a year and a half ago, so I assume they have started shipping them at this point, but it's hard to find info.
I agree completely. I think history (at least, the past 150 years) has shown this clearly. I've come to see an economy of corporations as a stew that tends to "clump up" and needs to be periodically "stirred" as part of the natural course of its development.
First movers tend to have an advantage. That’s rarely permanent so getting concerned and trying to preemptively regulate is just bound to create more problems than it solves.

If Facebook/Google went away from Europe tomorrow, Europe would adapt around their absence just as they adapted to their presence, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t hurt and hurt actual people. You don’t need state monopolies, you just need to let hungry entrepreneurs continue to look for opportunities just as Facebook and Google did at one point in their existence and exploit those opportunities.
You should give Windows Subsystem for Linux a try. It's what I'd choose in your scenario.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/ove...
Some bit of non-dead mushroom survived his amateur purification process.
This doesn’t work. What about stuff I am retweeting for example? Should I be responsible on that? As I am somehow promoting

If not, then we will have some ‘promoting’ big accounts instead of twitter or facebook, we will be back to square one.
It's gradually becoming a ghetto. They do somethings well, and at one time it was a much better experience than Windows, but I don't think I would say that today. When I replace my Macbook Air, it will probably be with a Windows or Linux device.
That's true and works well for them but on top of that they're also selling to a different market which the other consoles effectively don't serve - there is much more switch content targeted at/suitable for younger players than the other consoles.
More important than revenue growth is the expected margins after the growth slows down.

What Dropbox is selling is something that will be bulk commodity. They will never be able to settle and get good revenue.
> there's no, say, "fivefold repetition" draw that could be enforced despite the players' will

There is exactly such a rule. See the FIDE Laws of Chess [0], rule 9.6.1.

[0] https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012018
https://www.linksys.com/us/p/P-WRT3200ACM/

I had to look because I was wondering "Do they really charge $1000 for a consumer router + AP?" The answer is no.

$250 vs the $200 of the WRT54G in its heyday doesn't seem so bad for 15 years of inflation
Should have just drank the tea... Or if he absolutely must inject a psychedelic, then DMT.
I don’t think the anticompetitive thing really holds water: Parler is in no way a competitor to Alphabet’s companies, or Amazon, and not really a competitor to Facebook (whereas I could say it was a serious competitor to Twitter). So it’s hard to see what the economic or market benefits of the horizontal conduct would be. Amazon, Facebook, and Google have defensible reasons to block Parler that has nothing to do with their bottom line. For example, Parler’s irresponsible refusal to moderate violence if it’s ‘political’ poses a serious threat to these companies’ workers and leadership [1].

I also find the whole idea that there was collusion to be a claim without evidence or plausibility: Parler was correctly associated with the Capitol Hill riot and had been deliberately stoking far-right aggression for years - it was Parler’s business model. It makes far more sense to me that Big Tech leadership all decided to ban Parler independently because they read the news last week.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/13491723205947...
This is just false, as has been repeatedly examined in various courts. If you have non-debunked evidence to the contrary, when everyone else has gone looking and found nothing, perhaps you ought to present it?
Hmm, there was a sci-fi book about this where a billion years into the future plants have developed sentience and humans are given intelligence by symbiotic fungi. Found it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hothouse_(novel)
It is not just what the bank wants and pushes on its clients, because f them. At least in EU, they are pushed into it by PSD2 ("Payment Services Directive 2"). Even if you are happy with accessing the bank via browser on the computer, you are going to need the second factor for auth, and SMS isn't going to be it.

Because it is pushed centrally, banks do not have a choice. Hence, you as a customer, won't have a choice either, unless you consider not using the bank online at all as a choice.
because working through the absolute trash fire that has been closed source merchant silicon SDKs was/is a competitive advantage.

things like P4 will move the competitive advantages farther up the stack where they belong
Lustre is all about performance, at the cost of being split across multiple distributed systems. So there are opportunities to have different components get out of sync - the metadata servers are usually the weak link. And the more moving parts the harder it is to debug when something goes wrong.
It is an interesting model, and developers seem to like it. TimeTagger is the successor to a similar product that is not open source, which I've posted about here, but never quite got a response like this :)

I love open source and maintain several open source projects. By making TimeTagger open source, I was hoping to find a niche of "tech" users. And if it fails, at least the code can be useful to someone else.
But is there evidence that censoring conspiratorial opinions does anything other than strengthen them?

On other platforms they get orders of magnitude more interest because they were censored, and more people move to other platforms.
I did not notice my worsening mental health, and got hit hard by OCD
I'd like an option to pay for prioritization, or pay outright for fixes. "Pay $100 to raise the priority of this issue X points" or something like that. Wouldn't be that hard to sell to my management when we're running up against a bug that affects us directly but perhaps doesn't have a huge impact on the community at large.
I cannot believe nobody has said "I'm still using them" yet. I have two of them still happily moving packets the same they did back in mid 2000.
> But North American companies in my experience also give you more freedom and resources and scope to work on your ideas, and better work-life balance while you do it

Any source on that? That's literally the first time i'm hearing anyone say North American companies provide better work-life balance than European ones. OECD average work week disagrees with you, i'm not aware of other sources on the subject.
I think that the site is a nice idea in theory, but it's another technological solution for a social (interpersonal) problem, and I see two major aspects of it.

1. The people who would rely on this site should really consider upping their reading and social skills to determine if they should even consider expending the effort to respond in the first place. If it's deemed worth it to respond, get a feel for the language the question-asker is using to see if it's someone with vast dev experience but new to a certain system, someone with mid-level or just enough experience, etc., before one types out a response. This could be its own article, but this is a huge problem.

2. There are a lot of people who simply do not care that HackerNews/StackOverflow/etc. are communities and are just looking for answers to their questions. I've come to see that people can make all sorts of guides and resources like https://xyproblem.info/ and community-specific resources like for IRCs, Discord channels, etc. but there are simply people who, while they aren't vindictive, don't give a shit about a given community's etiquette. The people who care enough will at least scan these guides and try their best.

My biggest concern is that both of these aspects overlap and if this was actively used, there'd be situations where:

- Experts/those knowledgeable in a certain domain but lacking in social acumen will lazily link these answers to people who are new but who have at least scanned community guides and have tried their best to create a post, leaving the new user feeling like they're simply being turned away

- The same group noted above will perform the same deal with someone who doesn't care about the given community and just wants an answer, inciting this individual's vitriol and perpetuating the cycle of apathetic or "control freak" experts and outsider chumps expecting free work for no effort

Solving the StackOverflow empty downvote problem is hard, but simply adding a hyperlink to someone else's pre-written words as a SO comment is not the right move.
I would posit that deeper psychological issues are what lead someone to workaholism (as a maladaptive coping mechanism). I believe it is a symptom of a larger issue which is what ultimately leads to the problems with mental and physical health.
The following suggests a technical solution and expresses no opinion on the policy issues of supporting the Mac App Store:

Jason implies that Mac apps that use the Network Extension can only be distributed through the App Store, but this appears to be a misunderstanding. This page at Apple purports to document a way to build an app for distribution outside the App Store:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/en...

Perhaps this would allow WireGuard to support the Mac more easily without having to rely on the App Store. (It still requires an Apple Developer account, but that's already a requirement for the App Store.)
OpenGL 2D Facade (19): Test Content – Design Patterns and Video Games
Even if dormant tardigrades were delivered to the lunar surface, they wouldn't be viable after a short time. Between being frozen to less than -200F at night, to roasted at 200F during the day, and irradiated with all kinds of hard cosmic radiation, any DNA present would be destroyed fairly quickly.

It's surprising to me that tardigrades can survive even a brief exposure to space.
While it's true that French labor laws are expensive and constraining, the same is true of German laws.
If you authenticate with <mortgage broker> via Plaid, then the broker pays plaid money and the broker gets your bank information. So I suppose in a sense that's "selling your data," but I don't think that's what people are concerned about: You explicitly sign into the mortgage broker to give them data!

What Plaid has said on record they DON'T do is take that data they provided to the broker, bundle it up, and then sell it to marketing firms or hedge funds or other random third parties for which the user didn't explicitly ask their data to be shared.

See: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/lawsuit-against-plaid-he...

“Plaid does not sell and has never sold consumers’ personal information or data. Consumer data is obtained and used with consumer consent. Plaid believes strongly that consumers should have permission-based access to and control over their financial data, and embodies these principles in its practices."

That's pretty strong language.
One of the traps of minimum wage jobs is that they take up so much energy and time that it makes it difficult to go do things which improve your life (especially if you have a young family). Additionally, many give you unpredictable, inflexible and difficult hours which furthers the difficulty of improving your situation.
Court Confirms $1B Piracy Damages Verdict Against Cox
I don't think Apple cares very much about personal VPNs, only corporate ones.

The number of people who gate a mac purchase on the capability to speak WireGuard is tiny.

I now only connect my macs and ios devices to the internet via external VPN router/firewalls on which I have root; I can no longer invest the time to hack macOS sufficiently to permit me to ensure that no unauthorized traffic is leaving it.

This means none of my iPads or iPhones have SIMs in them any longer, as I take this approach even when mobile (gl.inet makes a travel VPN router with an LTE interface that runs OpenWRT).
Tons of airbnb alternatives. For example hotels, VRBO, etc. I don't know if they're all doing the same thing, but if they are, maybe it's just a good idea?
Ask HN: Favorite podcast episode of all time
There are simply too many podcasts these days and not enough time in the day. I would like to create a curated playlist of single podcast episodes. Please share with me what you consider to be your favorites. Any genre will do. Any emotion arising after listening will do. All that matters is that I optimize the little time I have and fill my ears with amazing single podcast episodes.
Why isn't that consistent with the meaning of assembly?
Wonder if there's a chance some of the router projects and Pine64 could collaborate somehow to make a fully open router. Pine64 seems to be quickly developing some production chops and the various router projects also seem to be doing great work.
Ask HN: So Censorship is ok in post 2021?
It feels like yesterday that freedom of speech was treated as one of the great traits of our culture and specifically the internet. Internet allowed you to speak your mind and find people who thought like you and escape status quo. With few extreme exceptions, you could discuss things no matter how controversial. But that is apparently no more the case...

For me, it noticeably started with Youtube and Reddit. Extreme censorship in the name of copyright or 'toxicity'.

Companies used to do press release if they would ban something off their platform justifying with proof. But now, say a word that may make any advertiser unhappy and get deplatformed in an instant (cue: twitch). Infact, have some figurative association with someone unpopular and get banned, for no fault of your own.

So much for "I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It."

And very much of the following situation...

First they came for ...Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

For all the 'future' talk YC does, build the future you want to be in, YC companies are sure normalizing censorship. Both twitch and reddit ban as much as possible. Is that the future they wanted?

- Not impartial anymore. Mob mentality.

- They don't care about freedom of speech, especially if it's remotely negative toward bottom line (i.e. can't get ads on it)

Old internet is dead, Welcome to facist family friendly lobbyists approved programming for your minds.

Previous thread that was flagged for no reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25742866
it is much better than using profiles
I actually have been trying this recently! I've been using VS Code via SSH into a WSL2 container running on my windows box and it's been going surprisingly well.... but that was after a moderate amount of effort to get WSL2 working to begin with, which was partially complicated by my past efforts of getting WSL1 to do similar behavior. I'm also not 100% confident NewCorp's IT would be kosher with me spooling that up. I could be wrong, but it seemed easier to go with the lower-number-of-abstractions-to-get-an-acceptable-experience via mac at the time.

Though who knows! Maybe I'll change my mind and get a new machine :)
Some negative reviews are good for you
Thanks for the reply!

I'm intrigued by the Guest option. Do you think it's a good way to communicate with the clients during longer projects?
Typical case of inverting cause and effect.
Box seems to be taking some of the enterprise market share.
There are toastmasters in the UK too
Nice - was looking to hand crank something using VMs over Christmas. This seems easier. Maybe not with my usual Azure though? https://developers.eventstore.com/cloud/provision/azure/cons.... AWS for me I think.
No, this is the paradigm when there’s an armed crowd attacking the Capitol and making plans for further attacks, encouraged by the President and a big chunk of Congress. That is not a “protest”. And history is indeed replete with how that scenario plays out.

If the “left side of the spectrum” does any of that, feel free to cancel their credit cards too.
The type of questions in the application questionnaire ("Click to Apply") is encouraging -- it makes me think they anticipate some real professional interest in this.
Social media use has specific positive and negative effects on well-being
>>>*Shell Companies*

Panama Papers is the most unreported, under-investigated scandal of the century
> The GP explicitly mentioned "Linked Lists" and "Trees".

And graphs.

> You don't need to be writing your own linked-list or (basic) tree from scratch.

Trees are rarely useful in and of themselves, what's useful is the data structures you're building out of them. And that, in turns, informs a significant number of properties of the tree you'll be using as well as the operations to perform. The stdlib providing "a basic tree" and essentially telling users to get bent would be worse than useless, it would be actively insulting.

Even for the humble "linked list" there are half a dozen possibilities: singly linked? Immutable? Doubly-linked? Circular? Array-of-nodes?
In France they shot themselves in the foot because of, as often, grand principles:

The government wanted to make foreign students (outside of EEA) in universities pay significant tuition fees but that was shot down as unconstitutional because the constitution states that public education has to be free for everyone and anyone...
Because it is not the DC government making the call. DC officials asked people not to go. Airbnb is the one blocking reservations and it made the decision to do so. It was not because of a government edict.