skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My knowledge of their product line is pretty out of date now, but in another life I spent a few years setting up networks in hotels and condo buildings with Mikrotik gear.

Their software has the occasional wart if you're more used to enterprise gear like Cisco, but is generally decent and reliable. (The kinds of issues I'm talking about are like... it was really roundabout and difficult to get a single port with both VLAN tagged as well as untagged traffic flowing through it.)

I'm honestly always surprised their equipment isn't more well-known and popular in the tech crowd. While they've got some turnkey stuff, they also sell (or at least sold) devices that were pretty simply a handful of ethernet ports, a switch chip + CPU, and a mini-pcie port that you could add kinda whatever you wanted in to (they sell modules for 802.11, 3G/LTE, LoRA, etc). For a lot of models they'll also just sell you a bare board. Basically everything comes with a full software license (only real limit is max 200 vpn tunnels, max 200 hotspot users). They sell replacement parts down to bare boards to replace PSUs and things. Basically everything is powerable over PoE, most stuff has a SFP port, etc. Some of the models have had GPIO pins, and on basically all of them all the LEDs can be reprogrammed and are user-controllable. They've got equipment as cheap as $40. A lot of it is actually supported by OpenWRT.

Without having used it, if you just want something with wifi and more similar to a consumer router, looks like their hAP AC3 for $99 or something is probably decent. You're not losing anything buying the home gear, it's still licensed to the same level as all the other gear. Otherwise if you just need a router you can basically just start at the cheap end of their routers and look through the test results for something with acceptable performance for you.

Personally, I've been using a RB2011 for almost a decade as either a router or core switch and it's been great. Though the highest my connection speed's been throughout is probably 100mbps. These day's it's relegated to switching, and handles my setup where I've got all my PoE IP cams on one VLAN, main network on another, trunk running to my server where I've got the DVR and all my other stuff running, etc, etc. Hasn't had a single hiccup.
> I wasn't aware that VS Code was "proprietary malware"?

I'm sorry to see you are discovering this. VS Code is under this proprietary license [1]. As for the malware part:

> Data Collection. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. You may opt-out of many of these scenarios, but not all, as described in the product documentation located at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di.... There may also be some features in the software that may enable you and Microsoft to collect data from users of your applications.

(emphasis mine).

Indeed you can rebuild your copy or get Codium without the telemetry under the MIT license, and the software is really good, but it is a crippled version and does not make VS Code free software.

(edit: it's not pure / pointless theory! I'm sure there is an agenda behind VS Code not being really free. I would not be surprised if more and more "convenient" or important features were released as proprietary, and they also control the extension center (the market place), which is one of the main reasons Theia [5] exists. Beware not to lock yourself down in this ecosystem too much.)

> Just because the OS itself isn't open source[a] doesn't mean that Microsoft doesn't open source a whole crap ton of stuff

Microsoft is huge. The ratio between their proprietary code and the code that they open source is probably tiny. More importantly, they only release developer-related things, never things that target end users, except their telemetry-riddled Calculator [3].

> It is open source.[2] (ahem source available (sorry, FSF))

Hum. The reference for Open Source is the Open Source Initiative, not the FSF [2]. The FSF defines Free Software. These are almost equivalent things but still have two separate definitions.

Microsoft is not an open source software company. They just happen to be a huge software company and every huge software company open source a lot of code when it is strategic. I'm not judging, it's a fact. I'm happy to use some of their quality open source software targeted to the developer community like TypeScript, but an Open Source company would release their important code and be based on a business model around this.

And, no, we can't even really call Windows a source-available software. They share its source code to big entities so they can audit it, probably under NDA, and not everybody can access it. Actually you can find leaked code, but it is just this: leaked code. Mapbox-gl-js is a source-available software which is not open source (anymore) [4].

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/License/
[2] https://opensource.org/osd
[3] https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/
[4] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
[5] https://theia-ide.org/
What I want is something like Tesla's underbody radar for every vehicle, makes overtaking extremely safe.
Looks great but ditto, never have my laptop in the kitchen, always have the iPad.
You can just control it through your phone :)
Yes. I remember reading of some minor Federal official around 2000 who discovered that his office still had a 48-star flag.
I don't think the Leviathan is taught for the conclusions; it's taught because it established the modern framework for political science discourse; the terms of debate, so to speak. While the debate is far more sophisticated today, the emphasis on security, conflict, selfishness, and property is as strong as ever. That itself is somewhat unfortunate, but on the plus side on the list of most assigned at Ivy Leagues is #2 Imagined Communities, and #3 Republic.

Regarding Imagined Communities, I can't think of any better text for introducing alternative dimensions for understanding political systems. It's not critical, but constructive; not abstract, but concrete; not idealistic, radical, or predictive, but powerfully descriptive. You have to teach Hobbes because without it, it's not possible (or at least not easy) to orient oneself in the sea of modern Western political philosophy. Imagined Communities is just smart and an unsung seminal piece of political science literature. I had no idea it had become so popular.
It's a shame they're not doing something more wholesome, but learning what value humans place on items and demanding better rewards for them does show an astounding level of intelligence and planning
> everybody just takes their word that they have the cash backing up the 1:1 ratio

Most people dont care if they have full reserve. I dont care if there is full reserve at my bank. I care that there is enough reserves.
Napkin Problem 14: Using checksums to verify syncing 100M database records
> We could probably eliminate those services and self-run, but it would be an extremely unwise usage of company time and money.

Unless $EMPLOYER was Parler ...
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I'd suggest creating and linking to a page with a simple description of the project, some screenshots of what the UI looks like, and little descriptions of its features. What is the command-line UI, what does the GUI look like, does it integrate with the OS in any way, how is it different feature-wise from something like Pendulums [1] - these would all be good questions to answer in the project intro page.

[1] https://app.pendulums.io/
But don’t the Aussies make cows fart better now
I think it would be too subtle for people to notice, and therefore wouldn't be a statement
all the things you mention are regulated. At least known criminals usually are drug tested and so on, it's not perfect but there are rules and ways to reduce harm. In most countries if you have a criminal record you can't get a gun, someone who sells on the dark web can't even do a minimal amount of due diligence.

Of course you can say well screw it I don't like the rules I'm just going to sell it anyway but then really you can't be surprised if the gov. brings the hammer down on you.

I think Ross Ulbricht's sentence is too high, I'm generally not a fan of lifelong imprisonment, but he engaged in lawlessness and crime on a very large scale and that deserves punishment. If people aren't punished for breaking the rules tomorrow someone will break laws that you actually think are valuable.
You take shortcuts. Saying you’ll fix it later. Which never happens because you’re busy on the next feature that is riddled with the next set of shortcuts.

It happens.
Parler used AWS and AWS is always happy to serve any request without problems and notify you about it hours later if you decided to create usage alerts.
I'm looking for flags with an embedded 2D barcode. By the way it turns out that the Data Matrix code for "US" takes 10 by 10 pixels and only has 52 black pixels...
Everyone has heard of Sherlock Holmes, but probably fewer (in the US) have ever heard of Father Brown. It’s a great series (from the BBC?) that I recommend to anyone looking for a nice calm detective series.
Yes, I get that. And in every car I've seen with it, I could turn that automatic behaviour off. (Apart from hybrids, where that's the whole point of having a hybrid)
> I don't think it's wrong to say that "boneheaded management cutting corners" by prioritizing the needs of other internal teams over the needs of the user is in some sense them "wanting to own your Mac". Although that is a dramatic way to describe it.

It’s beyond dramatic. It’s absurd. I’ve worked on so many projects and deadlines that have had to make such decisions, even decisions that eventually fell to me. In numerous cases I could cast aspersions on some of the management motivations, but even so I couldn’t describe it as them trying to own the product they’d sold to customers. In most cases it was a balance of market pressure and resources. In the cases where I’ve had to make those calls, it’s been balancing market pressure specifically so I had more room to satisfy users.

I don’t think Apple engineers are immune to this. They have to ship big things on a tight deadline. When they can’t satisfy everyone they have to make choices. Sometimes they don’t make the best choices.

Hopefully you don’t have these weights in your job. But lots of us do.
Its only 60 votes if senators insist on pretending its 60 votes. Its 50+1 votes if senators actually want to do something.
The Democrats should turn every major city into states of 1 million people each (bigger than the lowest-population rural states) to balance the Senate between urban and rural interests.
It’s based on value but if my value is X and there are many developers who can do my job for my salary Y then it’s not X but Y that’s the pay.

There is a scarcity of talent here too but in order to take advantage of it you typically have to actively seek higher pay. I just don’t want to switch jobs, it’s not that I don’t want higher pay.
Yes, that is interesting! I wonder if there was anything extra they did, or what apps they actually ran.

I did try this, when Catalina first came out. But maybe I gave up too quickly (It was a "there is no way this will actually work" type of thing), or maybe I tried the wrong app...
How to Use a Restaurant Bot to Engage with Customers?
Anyone know if this project is hiring software engineers in America?
I bet you've never left your own country for more than a week to visit Mexico.... you're all theory and it's all nonsense.
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Hard enough to control this stuff in a moving car, let alone in zero g and a hard vacuum.

(you know, it could be because touch sensors don't work with space gloves)
Don’t forget the 10.25% sales tax. This puts the combined marginal tax rate at 59.85%. (24 + 9.3 + 7.65 + 7.65 + 1 + 10.25)
At the very top of the parent orgs’ parent org is Warren Buffett, so I guess it’s him!
You have very thoughtful questions: Nobody has complained - though if they used the issue tracker, we all would find it meta-amusing.

In my opinion, the issue system needs to be used all the time for everything - so that nobody feels that thyr're the only squeaky wheel.

It does require trust however. We have been known to punt an issue to let us all collect our thoughts.

I know the system keeps me from micro-managing, keeps one of my guys from just complaining (we ask for a potential solution), and keeps another employee from feeling un-empowered.

The only bad second-order effect I've seen is sometimes people wait to fix simple problems - they tend to it in the system instead of just fixing it.

But... Usually I'm wrong, the issue usually is deeper upon reflection.
> emotionally invested in the thing you spend 20% of your time

I tried this many times early in my career and it was a mistake. I didn’t find there to ever be any payoff. And when things went badly I didn’t have a shield to keep it from overflowing the rest of my life. I can still enjoy my workmates even if in my heart I know work is bs we all have to do to survive. I still find enjoyment in the craft of programming too.

> but what the hell are you living for?

Good question, B2B SaaS or spending the days wandering in the woods with my kids?
>I didn't clothe myself or put food in my own mouth or take myself to school or buy myself books.

Because you had good parents. And we need to encourage more people to be good parents, rather than punishing the kids that happened to have one. To put it into perspective, genetically, we are still very much close to the stone age people. The only reason our lifestyle is much better than theirs is the knowledge and habits that get passed from generation to generation. If you eliminate that, we're back into caves.

>I didn't choose to be visibly the same as those in power around me.

This can be nicely solved by decentralization. Have multiple different sources of power, let people live near those who they like and trade with others. But instead we are headed towards a dystopian central authority that gets to split people into first-class and second-class citizens.
The upgrade loses functions though - satellite antenna + radio.
Hi, dev here too working on my own side project, also an introvert, and English isn't my first language.

You got a point, sales is a transferrable skill after all.

But I think your sticking point is getting caught up in perfecting your pitch instead of actually getting infront of your target customers, trying to onboard them, letting it play out, and calibrating your product and onboarding process rightafter.

My gut tells me it's a bit of anxiety in a way that it's blurry on how you should onboard your first few customers (which is a nerve-racking thing tbh as it varies on whatever type of biz you're looking into).

Do you really need to take a 50% pay cut to figure it out? Maybe some reading could help, as a lot of founders have probably experienced this already..

- https://stripe.com/atlas/guides

- https://www.ycombinator.com/library

- https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

- https://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics-2/
Of course nobody is immune. I believe it takes active work from the users of any vendor's software to disincentivize similar user hostile "improvements". That is just the way that business works in a human society.
Since it's the person you would replace which decides your faith. So yes, it would be better, and most I know would probably like to, but won't be allowed in any way to "meddle with management business".
We are in an internet revolution which seems at least 10 times faster than the industrial revolution so something will be happening.

I think people tend to forget the quantity, rough figures -

IMDb "Top 250" (Sorted by Year Descending) https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?groups=top_250&sort=year,...

2011-2020 - 47

2001-2010 - 47

1991-2000 - 44

1981-1990 - 27

1971-1980 - 21

1961-1970 - 16

sequel/remakes/second in franchises
~9 2011-2020, ~7 2001-2010, ~3 1991-2000
Every time they said that in the article, I was thinking the same thing.
I am the only one who wants interface to the car comparable to the race cars? More knobs and dials instead of fancy touchscreens! Unless the car is really self driving and I don’t need to look at the road. 99,9% of the time I drive on familiar routes. On the highway I need a device that shows traffic jams ahead, not a fancy navigation.

Edit: typos.
Switching jobs I’d be doing the same thing more than if staying. That’s the thing. I have even switched occasionally but switched back out of boredom. I tried.
I’m in a position where the job is interesting (I find most work isn’t - I’d never want to work in a place making some Crud app or web service).
Only simple majority is needed for admission, not 60 [0]. Admitting DC as state would also only require simple majority since constitution does not explicitly mention DC only “federal district.” DC was made a federal district by an act of Congress and a simple majority can reverse that [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission_to_the_Union

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statehood_movement_in_the_Di...
Is there not any wisdom to giving rural areas a counterweight to heavily populated urban areas?
I talk to others who work at big tech firms.

That survey probably also includes such stars as tata, infosys, random IT firms and places you wouldn't call SV style software. Yes, you shouldn't move from europe to work at such places. What everyone is implying is working in SV or FANG tier places.
> Just today, Azure's support system can't handle (among many things) the outlandish characters of "<" or ">". Which is great fun, since it's not like anyone would file a highly-technical support request with Azure… right?

Someone in Azure is definitely using the Windows reserved characters for filenames.
Open Charge Point Protocol migration from 1.6 to 2.0.1
Android SDKs themselves can be leaky and are incredibly widespread, this is a clear flaw in mobile appsec and not that well known.

That said basically everything benefits from the sun shining in on it. F-Droid alerts you to anything dodgy under the hood, has reproducible builds[1] and in general has none of the complete shitshow that is playstore.

In my 5EYES country Google's playstore has to secretly insert malware if the government wants it and there's no way for the end user to tell if that's the case.

Tell me a common use for a mobile app and we can compare what is available on both play store and f-droid.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
This is a post where the parent has already taken a very strong position/view, and is thinly veiling it in the form of a question (and not veiled very well either).

Is there a way to report these types of posts? Or better yet, to have HN remove all this incessant political commentary.

Perhaps I'll take the time to finally work on that custom Chrome extension project I've been meaning to tackle..
DC statehood passed the House last year, though nobody expected it to pass a Republican-controlled Senate. I think especially now that we've seen confusion about the chain of command of the DC National Guard, I'd bet that DC gets statehood before Puerto Rico.

(The bill proposes that a small federal district - basically just the contiguous territory of the White House, Congress, Supreme Court, and other federal buildings - be carved out of DC and become the actual capital, and the remainder of DC become a new state.)
Nice insight...
This is good; it works correctly whether CSS is enabled or disabled, doesn't use JavaScripts, and is using HTML properly.

(Some of the things that won't work are due to problems with HTML and CSS in general. Lynx supports the foot note command in HTML, but that might not be in anything else, maybe.)
This is 13 months old.
that's exactly how it works.

just change the loglevel from debug to error, tesla.
A favourite technique of one of my colleague's was just to mash the keyboard randomly to see if the app breaks.

It's very crude and not at all foolproof. For the lack of sophistication it's shockingly effective at highlighting a huge amount of assumptions we make about how software is / can be used.
And FM!
Can we please move on from the assertion and justification of the very real censorship push on the grounds that "they all deserved it" by claiming that all the people deplatformed were "telling the other person you're going to murder them for disagreeing with you"?

This is an intellectually dishonest take at best. I won't speculate on the other end of the spectrum.

I for one am disgusted at how servile about censorship readers of HN have been lately just because it was their percieved enemy who was being attacked, without understanding that this will be applied to $notenemy later. I've frequently complained about the state of "too many MBAs and not enough hackers" here but fuck the last few months really brought that out. Starting to wish I knew if there is a hn where the more anti-authoritarian types hung out.
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Anytime I read about a male being scared of patriarchy talk, I automatically assume you are a very fragile beta who needs coddling. Grow a pair.
I don't think so - it runs counter to "one person, one vote." What's the argument you see for it?

I think there's a lot of wisdom in protecting the rights of various minorities of all sorts of types, but a) that's a general problem we should solve, and I don't see why urban/rural is a special case b) that's generally solved by either adding supermajority requirements or adding structural protections for certain groups, not by weighting people's votes and flipping who's the majority and who's the minority.
I totally agree with you. I started learning Python about 14-15 years ago before its current popularity and its seemed to have a focus on clarity and ease of getting started. The Elixir docs less so but still ok. Ecto docs was where it started to really annoy me though.

However, after a year of developing and learning elixir I am dropping it. Just did not like it in the end, I prefer other languages and everything I like about Elixir was basically Erlang.
Good questions; I don't have good answers! Various people have taken a stab at it, suffered 90%-done syndrome, and, yeah. As for myself, I have 70 ttc pings (52.5 hours of work) pretty much exclusively on project management type stuff, like trying out people's betas or refining the rules of the offer or other writing. I suppose I'd count writing this comment if TagTime pinged me right now... (it didn't).
Wow I worked at Oculus and the ratio was at least 30/40, if not higher.
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>I live in Florida. Is it fair for voters in New York to dictate how I live my life? Likewise, is it fair for any New Yorker to be affected in any way by the votes of someone who lives in Florida? Isn’t this “spooky action at a distance” the very definition of tyranny?

How much is your daily life affected by Federal law?

I really only run into it when I go to an airport or a post office.

I'm not being snarky here. The vast majority of laws that affect us directly are state and local laws.

Federal law rarely intrudes on everyday life, in my experience.
Happy 10th Birthday, NuGet
In many developed countries, 42% tax would cover healthcare, a pension you can actually live off of, and fully-paid education for all of your children. Californians get none of those things, and I don't really understand what it is that they get over (e.g.) Washingtonians for the extra ~30% in taxes.
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See above. My 2014 has 345k on it, original battery, and still gets 210mi per charge.

It is by no means the highest-mileage Tesla on the road.
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