skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These recent posts about Ubiquiti have made me look again at MikroTik. Their hardware is more affordable than I had remembered. Is there any good intro to their hardware - there are certainly a lot more options than you get with Ubiquiti.

Even before now there are some limitations with UniFi that have annoyed me. Setting up more complex DNS and firewall rules requires editing the JSON config. IPv6 tunnelling isn’t well supported. The stats in the controller, whilst neat, aren’t very useful because they have to be manually reset to zero.
It's more like Volkswagen's attempt to get rid of the bad PR from the emission cheat scandal.
Without that electronic cars wouldn't be on VW's agenda.
"Why the last remaining flappers turn their noses up at cryptocurrencies."
Far right is a codeword for wrongthink. Is left-side misinformation a concept in the mind's of the authors? I wonder how they identify it.
Virgin Galactic unveils ‘VSS Imagine,' its next-generation spaceship
I can see orgs like this making social media accounts just to claim the space/username and prevent squatters or false messaging.

As for why would e.g. US Strategic Command ever need to actually post something? I'm at a loss to be honest.
let's hear it
Putin's medical issues are unconfirmed and even with them, he may not resign for another decade plus. I remember recently how western media had all but confirmed Kim Jong-Un was dead and it was being kept secrey.
No, a local controller that you run on a machine inside your LAN.
yep. decentralization is a mirage. power (as leverage, wealth, or influence) that is evenly distributed such that there is no center of mass in the group which shares it, ceases to be power at all.
Nice to see research coming out of UGA showing up here on HN. Go Dawgs.
Tesla mentioned similar in their battery presser a few months ago. One question that I have with the whole concept is if a "structural battery" means you have to throw out the whole car once the battery is EOL. I would hope Tesla is better than this, but could totally see this happening, since it's the model many laptop manufacturers are going for and it generally benefits them to push consumers to refresh laptops/cars more frequently.
The root account credentials should be used to create a privileged IAM user and then physically locked away in a box after setting up a hardware MFA device (plus a backup MFA) for the root account: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practi...

The privileged IAM user should then be used to administer other IAM users and roles. All IAM users should be required to have hardware security keys like Yubikey.
However a statement released in India by the company refuted any such data breach - https://blog.mobikwik.com/message-from-the-company/
I don't think a state actor would've tried to extort bitcoin, but who knows…
Time to post my favorite downvote farming comment!

What is "far right"? Is there "near right"? "middle-reach right"? 'Far right' is just a BS title used to 'adjust' the perception of people that anyone not left wing is crazy extremist nutjob.
>>how, for example, are you talking about the concept of a dominant 7th chord? Or a ii-V-I?

I mean, exactly like that :).

You don't need sheet music specifically to talk about notes and chords and scales and modes. It's just an ingrained unquestioned assumption that we do. And personally, I found it getting in the way of music theory.

There are 12 notes in Western equal temperament and you can wonderfully beautifully transpose and move things back and forth; sheet music locks you into a seeming 7 notes on a seemingly privileged scale, and makes it far far harder to develop an intuitive understanding between notes, intervals, chords, etc. I find most of my music teachers learned these things by rote, unfortunately, rather than method or relationships :-/
relevant:
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I haven't read it and am no expert, but from the summary it seems like Huizinga believes that the increasingly elaborate customs of the aristocracy in the late Middle Ages was a coping mechanism to deal with the intense violence of the period.

Cantor says almost the opposite, that they developed these customs as a marker of their high status and a way to exclude others after they had outlived their original role as the fighting class once cavalry charges were no longer a dominant tactic. This is one of the rare moments in Civilization where the specifics of weapons and warfare are discussed, anyone looking for information on crossbows and lances will be dissappointed.
Read some Feynman and I think it'll open your eyes. You could certainly engage with the fatalist nature of some of his writing, but it basically means we're always on an iterative journey of refining our position. The way I read it is that "science" is not a thing to believe in, it's merely a practice or process. You either believe the scrupulousness with the data we have today or you can guess about what will be next, but that doesn't really invalidate today's stance until it does.

Thoroughly confused? Welcome to science.
If affection is given during the meltdowns, it is reenforcing the behavior.

Maybe get an erotic massage every now and then?
I'm sure you can also find plenty of articles about how the Earth is flat. I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make.
I just wanted to say next.js was the first frontend framework I learnt, It just keeps getting better.
This boggles me when I see this option in any password manager (and I think every single one has this 'option').

Why do password managers let people store TOTP next to the password, this completely invalidates the 2FA of TOTP if your password manager get broken into.
My Audi dealer has the e-tron.
More context: https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/commit/27fce189cd1cd...
Kinda funny that people think he makes the world a better place but all his earnings are someone else loses and there is no was to know how much of these loses comes form people who dont need it. Most of it probably came form taking a cut out of someone else profits because long time the marks only go up so by beating other players his assets went up more.
He may got it form "the rich" or maybe from a retirement fund who knows.
we can send any petitions to hn@ycombinator.com

it helps to include a subject and a link to the submission.
It astounds me how people who are otherwise intelligent and who understand the scientific method don't believe in anthropogenic climate change. It doesn't fill me with a lot of hope for the future, since we can't begin to work on this problem at the scale we need if so many of us don't think there even is a problem to begin with.
> telling on them only works if you can ensure they all get burned down to the ground as a result.

Isn't that assuming you have to out yourself to identify others? That seems like something a company could coordinate well such that there was little or no indication of where it came from (a source identifying one or two bad actors and calling for industry wide testing would serve their interests without specifically outing them). And I'm not sure why they need to get burned down to the ground. It's about removing the advantages they've gained through cheating, and possibly applying a social penalty if it was bad enough, not ensuring they are destroyed.

> If some survive, you'll now be competing with them as an actor nobody trusts, and nobody wants to deal with.

Eh, even if it did come out that your company was responsible for outing others, this is business where past behavior has less sway, and knowing the other party will follow the rules is hardly a disqualifying factor as long as you don't do something with them that isn't following the rules. It's not like competitors are commonly giving ammunition to each other with the understanding it won't be used. And if they aren't working with you because they can't without exposing more cheating... well then that's a problem they should be trying to fix already, given the new realities.

I think in any well functioning market this all works out normally. The automotive market doesn't seem to be a well functioning one though.
> It already is. CSS "px" doesn't refer to physical pixels at all, they're called logical pixels. Which on old screens at 100% zoom may map 1:1, but these days are more likely to map 2:1 or even 3:1, and with OS and browser zoom levels may be things like 1.666:1 or 2.5:1.

Yeah it's a nightmare if you're doing pixel-art-y games in the browsers, there's last time I checked no way in general to get access to physical pixels anymore, which makes integer-multiple upscaling AFAIK impossible in general. Hurrah. [ disclaimer: The browser rendering stack is complicated enough that I might be wrong. ]
Building the Future of Productivity – Through Notifications
Wasn't really a "cloud" hack so much as a hack of a root user. How they accessed that root user's credentials is not detailed. Phishing? Hardware hack? Dumb root user and it was possible to guess his/her credentials? Could even be, that particular root user was in on it with them for all we know?

In any case, this sort of a hack of any other company's root users would result in the same spectacularly catastrophic pwnage. That your root users have root access on your own machines won't help you.

What they need is to structure their security properly. I'm not sure why this user needed root access to everything globally for instance? That seems wrong to me at first blush, but it could be a matter of me not understanding their business model.
Yes, correct, I should have been more specific.

The resolution of the webpage as reported by the webpage, even if it doesn't line up with the literal number of pixels in a screen, should not be used for font sizing in most scenarios.
A touch interface in a car is nice for reaching all kinds of weird settings and hopefully make good ux for maps and stuff. But for direct control it sucks. The car I'm driving now I have no way to adjust the AC without multiple screen touches (switch to AC screen, wait, click the small - button multiple times to decrease temperature, click + button multiple times to increase fan speed).

I'm all for nice touch screens, just keep some knobs as well.
If you check out the relevant git repo you can see in the commit log that there's this giant commit message: https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/commit/27fce189cd1cd...
It's just a "z" with a ton of combining diacritics. Which is entirely irrelevant. x-height is a dimension of the font, it's nothing to do with an individual character. (In most Latin fonts, it'll match the height of the "x" glyph, but that's not a hard and fast rule.)
The author seems to be using the web notion of CSS pixels (which take PPI into account) without qualifying it. This is understandably pretty confusing to anyone who has used pixels in, well, any other context.
They are triple the cost of the UniFi stuff. So not really a drop in replacement.
The hardware is very cheap and the market for their products is thriving. In fact it's possible to put custom software on it actually without using their cloud.

> if you did nothing but read about them on HN, Reddit, et al, you would think they're filing for bankruptcy tomorrow, set orphanages on fire, kill puppies, etc.

I need to check these posts ;)
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I don't know about REBOL, but I did program TCL extensively in my graduate school years. I agree TCL has a lot of similarity in term of treating code as data like in Lisp, but I do not think it has such an emphasis on data oriented programming like in Clojure. That's just not true.
> I, Leah Rowe, have re-taken full control of the Libreboot project after 4 years delay in bringing out a new release. [...] The people working on it kept adding too many new features without fixing fundamental issues. I have revoked all of their access to project infrastructure; Libreboot is now lead by me. I have a completely different idea for how to run the project and what a coreboot distro should be.

- https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot202104xx.html
I don't think there are any easy answers.

If you don't filter, best case scenario your SNR is going to be too low. There's also a pretty good chance that you will end up with a GIGO situation because all you hear about is whatever cable news, Cambridge Analytica, and Amazon's twitter astroturfing squad are pushing today.

If you do filter, you're correct that it opens the door to all kinds of biases.
You genuinely thought I was suggesting articles of that caliber?
"If someone eats unrefrigerated pizza ten times without any Adverse Events, then in fact that's an experiment providing (admittedly crude) scientific data that, in fact, the chance of an Adverse Event is no worse than ~10%."

Is that a statistically valid sample?

Let's say the "chance of an Adverse Event" is 0.000001%; literally 1 in a million. There are about 330,000,000 people in the US, all eating leftover, unrefrigerated pizza every morning. That means roughly 330 people get sick every day. If I've got the numbers right, ~0.3% of those who get sick are hospitalized. That is about 0.88/day, or ~6/week. 2.3% of those die, or about 7/year. Sounds perfectly acceptable to me (although those numbers are based on the current USDA regime, not the "try it a few times and if you don't die, you're good to go" approach).

"quick, dirty, wrong calculation because the exact value doesn't matter here"

It kinda does.
If they would have stayed with the on-premise model, this would have never happened.
This thread started with a heartfelt plea from 9th grade civics about how America is an Accountable Democracy, though.
Feel like shit, just want him back.
> Does anyone have a decent WAP where I can use PoE

There are PoE devices with OpenWRT support[1] and should be possible to enable 802.11r if they have the support. They can be managed locally even with self-signed certificate.

[1] https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_poe-powered
Can I ditch uploadcare and use supabase storage when "CDN integration" and "Auto transformation & optimisation" are ready? Or does is not compare?
That depends who you ask, but there are two types of trolls. The first, as you describe, basically extort small settlements out of companies using garbage patents--the classic example being the guys who sued small businesses for using a fax machine.

The second are non-practicing entities that buy at least half-way decent portfolios for cheap and then sue big businesses for big settlements or big jury verdicts. Their lawyers can be very good.
Are you sure that trend is towards more tolerance? New generations have less sex, are more conservative... And governments are less and less tolerant to anything "disrespectful".
Gorgeous. The button and the explanation.
Running new applications on old glibc
That doesn’t solve the need of: “I have two different fonts and want to display them having the same size”. And also “I want to center a piece of text inside a box”. Both of which are basically impossible these days without special casing for each font.
The goal post was moved when you shifted the discussion from real life to sci-fi...
Carbon electrode is resilient, you could get away with refurbishing the anode in a process similar to painting or soundproofing the car.
> Do you really see a clear cap-height (and baseline, to measure it from) here?

I absolutely do. Do you... not? You can do a quick web search for "Arabic type anatomy" that will make it crystal clear for you.

I mean it obviously has nothing to do with "capital" letters (so a more inclusive term would be better, probably), but there are clear upper and lower "bounds" beyond which ascenders/descenders poke out.

The relative sizing of fonts (and line heights) across languages is a separate issue, and is complex. But it's a disaster in interfaces today, where e.g. traditional Chinese characters sized to cap height become virtually illegible they're so small.
It still checks for firmware updates, right?
> I imagine the developer pool is much smaller but the candidates are higher quality

People always say this about their favorite niche language and it always feels a little too self serving with little evidence to back it up. Learning languages is relatively simple and enjoyable, especially when the overwhelming majority of those people never end up working on difficult problems in said language. I think it often gives a false sense of superiority as well.
AWS root user accounts are kind of an achillis heel in every enterprise setup using AWS. What you typically do is MFA (bare minimum) + sharded secrets. This means you need multiple people to use the root user account. You can also hook in additional audit controls eg by automating cloud watch and sending notifications about any root user login. Alternative is that you throw away the password and vow to never use it, or set up an account recovery process (all of this may not be a great idea as it can fail when you need it most).

The situation is somewhat more relaxed with GCP Billing Accounts and Azure EA Accounts, though they have better separation of concerns than AWS (billing vs. workload access). Nonetheless, never give these passwords to finance department lest they store it in an excel sheet on a SharePoint. Access to these credentials allows anyone to suspend billing for an entire enterprise... not sure what controls the providers have in place to verify any of this before initiating automated shutdown of all workloads.
This is a lot harder to do if you have lots of AWS accounts and create new ones over time on-demand (e.g. AWS account per team).
See a couple's therapist. Also, check out the Gottman Institute[1].

[1]https://www.gottman.com/
Legal isn't there to make sure the company complies with the laws. Legal is there to advise on and minimize legal risk.

"It's not like we're building bridges or something." -- any legal department when faced with engineers' ethical duty to report a hack.
This is far right: a national newscaster agreeing with a guest that the Republican Party will pick an actual fascist in 10-20 years: https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1375251130586963968. This is exactly the type of content that gets shared on Facebook and spreads as the article describes.
Yes, it looks better, but (at least for me) it's missing the chart.
Actual answer for GP: no, it's not CC0.
Since tar is a streaming format originally intended for tape and compression is done via external programs against the full archive, it's a little difficult to look inside the archive if it's compressed. Other formats accomplish this by compressing individual archive members inline with building the archive then building a TOC that's not compressed. That's all implementation details.

As a user, I can use tar and an outside compression tool together in one command to see the file list.

tar -Jtf foo.tar.bzip
tar -xtf example.tar.gz
tar -I /usr/bin/mydecompressor -tf somethingelse.tar.myc

So unless there's some huge, huge archive out there that takes forever to decompress and read it's not really an issue for the user.
China Is 20th Century
I hear you. I just think it's important for my kids to be in contact with the culture, such as it is. I don't envy them having to grapple with the concerns you mentioned. I agree that DARE (which had its share of issues) was a lot less questionable than the current social agenda.

Schools are always mouthpieces. Where I grew up in the 90s in Southern California, the public high school I went to was proud of the fact that they'd figured out a way to have a school-funded evangelical christian club that met weekly on campus (and had hundreds of members). My English teacher taught a class called "Bible as Literature" which was overtly religious even thought it wasn't supposed to be, and she was well-known to be a born-again christian. The P.E. teacher at my public middle school used to make us all stand on our numbers while he told us stories about how Jesus got him through his time in the Marines.

None of this is great, but it's just the way life is, and I believe it's important for my kids to understand, in context provided by my wife and I, how society all fits together. School is an important part of that, in my opinion.
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The RPi seems to intentionally lag around 5 years behind the Arm roadmap so maybe the RPi 7 will have Armv9 in 2027.

I don't intend this as a criticism, just a fact. Newer cores cost more so RPi has to use older technology to meet its price target.
LOTO!

Secure that energy then do what needs done.
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I'm fascinated by the assumption by many in this thread that eating pizza left out overnight is common. I've never done it, and I went to college. We had refrigerators. I mean, if you have a refrigerator why not put the pizza in there?
I do find the messaging to be confusing, because what would you think I meant if I talked about the runtime of Elixir or Scala?

This is the marketing line on the front page of the Deno project:

> A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

They are using the same term "runtime" to describe JS as well as TS. All replies here by Deno team members use the language "Typescript support" but nobody here is saying TypeScript runtime.
My stance is that diesels should only be permitted if they satisfy the EPA 2008 diesel PM standards or better. No older engines should be permitted unless they are retrofitted to comply with the standard and pass regular state tests. We could have a "cash for clunkers" type program to incentivize them to be lawfully scrapped.

I appreciate that you are as annoyed as the rest of us at the coal rollers. I think we need much more aggressive fines and impounds for those, too.
How much can 2 Clojure developers do together? Is it more or less than what one can do alone?
You can partially defeat this by allowing people to change votes. Then everyone has something that "proves" they at some point voted pro-company but they could have changed it later.
Thats the context I was missing. Thanks.
> Yep lack of crypto makes it dog slow for so many things. Including running a little Monero node or whatever.

Good.

The last thing we need is profit mad crypto miners buying up every single Pi and we end up with shortages and insane prices just like with gaming GPUs.
Google's Area 120 launches Stack, a scanner app that uses AI to understand docs
"Investors have a fiduciary duty to maximise returns to their clients" - I believe this is based on a 1980s Supreme Court case in which shareholders and/or stakeholders sought to have other goals made legitimate in balance with profit maximization, but the Supreme Court shot it down and made it explicit that profit maximization may be pursued to the exclusion of other stakeholder goals.
I am 100% not surprised. I spent a year working for Ubiquiti, running the Network Controller team.

Trust me, this whistle-blower "Adam" (I have a few suspicions of who it actually is), toned it down.

The reality is much much worse.
It really doesn't get worse than this. But isn't Ubiquiti more of a prosumer company, like MikroTik? MikroTik does get a lot of heat when they have a security vulnerability and get downranked for it as if it were far, far away from Ubiquiti's security profile (something like "US vs. some east EU country"), but this event tells a lot about Ubiquiti's upper management and their internal security practices.
slight tangent to the article, but cybernetics applies much more broadly than just the brain and the machine, and causal loops are the fundamental mechanism behind emergence in general. Cybernetics isn't just a mathematical field, it's a metaphysic, especially when combined with systems theory for understanding how said emergence plays out on a higher level.