skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reference, I've never seen the built-in Windows VPN protocols exceed ~70 Mbps in any scenario. Maybe it's possible with a crossover cable between two Mellanox 100 Gbps NICs, using water-cooled and overclocked CPUs, but not over ordinary networks with ordinary servers.

I have gigabit wired Internet to a site with gigabit Internet. Typical performance of SSTP or IKEv2 is 15-30 Mbps. That's 1.5% to 3% max utilisation of the available bandwidth, which is just... sad.

It's not the specific site either, other vendor VPNs can easily achieve > 300 Mbps over the same path.

It's a year and a half into the pandemic, there are record numbers of people working from home, and Microsoft is the world's second biggest company right now.

Meanwhile, volunteers put together a protocol in their spare time that is not only more secure but can also easily do 7.5 Gbps!

That needs to be repeated: At least ONE HUNDRED TIMES faster than the "best" Microsoft can offer to their hundreds of millions of enterprise customers that are working from home.

Someone from Microsoft's networking team needs to read this, and then watch Casey Muratori's rant about Microsoft's poor track record with performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dKzubvpKE
> Since I see you post to COVID questions often, what would you consider to be "more risky?" It is clear teens are on the low end of personal risk from COVID, but they also put others at increased risk of complications, such as their parents, in addition to their own mild risks.

This depends so heavily on personal circumstance that all I can say is "consult with your doctor". There are kids for whom the tradeoff is obviously in favor of getting the vaccine, and others for whom it isn't.

From a high-level perspective, I tend to agree with the logic outlined here (same link as in previous comment):

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/93340
The fact that it didn't happen anywhere else.
>On the other hand, some probing may be so subtle that it takes an expert to see it.

But it underwhelms the fans, and bores the team-neutral audience, because unless they read the game at that level of nuance - that the team is just passing it around the box.

I think maybe Cruyff had a point when the article mentions:

Unfortunately, I abandoned the book after a long paragraph on page 89 in which Cruyff explains why, in his opinion, the most important thing in football is not victory, but entertaining the crowd.

My personal opinion that the refereeing has been woefully inadequate and getting worse, and VAR which was an attempt to improve things has actually made things worse. Does the sport even matter when one mistake by an official drastically changes the outcome. High scoring sports like basketball mitigate this issue most of the time because the better team is likely to win by more than 1 or 2 points.

I'm boycotting football until after the next World Cup, but it was nice to hear that the Euro finals was one of the best refereed matches in a long time. Pity the ref. himself retired afterwards.
You actually make my point; you're describing something much easier to track, a website purchase. The effort is much lower, you can literally just refund the money, which is a normal part of business operations, so yes, of course i would expect them to.

Would I expect them to find someone who was erroneously charged too much in person, who paid in cash? No, because the effort would be so large.

In terms of contacting customer service, sure. If there's a nice easy way to do so via the internet. If it's, for instance, a phone tree, that after 5 minutes I still haven't gotten a human? Nope. Or if they ask me to do literally anything beyond hand it over to a courier (for, again, the "they shipped me too much"? Nope.
On paper, I'm younger than most of these but I've lived in a closed-in country under an authoritarian regime that actively blocked technology from getting in as it saw free information as a threat to its survival. When I used the internet for the first time, it was already the era of messengers and mmos. It took several years until I saw the first Nokia mobile phone, they already had a color display one out at the time so it was marvelous. Computers were seen as a luxury, classified the same as typewriters and/or game consoles so very few people understood what they were and fewer had one that's usually a decade or two old.

I've experienced most of what this blog post describes despite the fact it was after 2000! and when change came it was abrupt and violent, almost like being surrounded by a technological theme-park all of a sudden. It was at times funny to see how some people who have never owned anything more advanced than a CRT tv try to figure out how to use a smart phone, I distinctly remember this one older guy who hit the breaks in the middle of the road then pulled over and got out of his car to receive what must have been one of the first mobile phone calls of his life.
React does not seem like a good fit for doing any of these things. Aside from keyboard navigation, which works just fine as far as I’ve seen.

I dunno, every time I see someone hating React they’ve been kind of stuck in doing things the jQuery way, and their components become this horrible frankenstein of modifying HTML both through React and directly.
> Brilliance and creativity do seem to offer some protection against blankfacedness—possibly because the smarter you are, the harder it is to justify idiotic rules to yourself—but even there, the protection is far from complete.

Brilliance and creativity correlate with nonconformity, but general intelligence probably doesn’t [0]. At least, in my experience, many people apply their (higher than average) intelligence primarily to ‘hoop-jumping’—complying assiduously with the norms of the system. When people with less general intelligence are sticklers for the rules, it’s usually because they aren’t empowered to make an exception: a fast-food worker won’t give out extra sauce packets because consultants with Ivy League degrees calculated logistics and revenue projections that can’t tolerate the slippage.

Given that smarter people can justify anything more easily, it stands to reason that idiotic rules would be more easily justified as one gets smarter.

[0] terms defined by one's propensity to obtain useful answers to important questions (brilliance), high scores on hard tests (intelligence), and surprising solutions for typical problems (creativity).
> I was under the impression viruses became less lethal because if they became more, they'd kill off their hosts and be less likely to spread.

Only if the lethality is negatively impacting their fitness. If it can spread to another host quickly, who cares if the previous host dies. There's no selective pressure against it.

Which is why Delta is scary. Not just because of the higher viral load, but new strains could be more lethal and still not be selected against.
That's a silly strawman argument; no one is seriously asking for this.
First we need to decide how intelligent are the dolphins, then let us look at the stars.

Every single life form on Earth today had exactly the same time to do its evolution in. Us, bats, dolphins, tapeworms, birch trees, amoeba, mushrooms, all of that had exactly the same chance(s) in the same time span.

And we don't even know if and how mushrooms and trees communicate, let alone if they "think", for our near-sighted definition of thoughts. We don't even know what to make of birds, e.g. crows, with respect to the size of their brains and what they can do.

Is our planet, taken as a whole, alive, in some form of the Gaia hypothesis? The correct answers as of this time are either "we don't know" or "it depends on the definition of alive."

That Star Trek trope of "everything in the Universe is just like us with different faces" really needs to be put to rest.

Even H.R. Giger was boring and unimaginative with regards to how he envisioned the Alien. That's clearly a creature influenced by Earth-ism - a quadruped, with a single head and mouth and a flexible spine and claws, it's basically a weird cat.
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From what I read there’s an enterprise Oculus Quest 2 model that is more expensive but doesn’t require a Facebook account.
Not even a consideration of svelte?
Well since Israel is always touted as most moral army, and beacon of democracy (recently it is now being touted as Jewish democracy) in the middle east amidst Western sponsored dictators. It is wrong from moral point of view. If shooting children (about 7 in last 3 or 4 weeks, check out https://www.btselem.org/ not a Palestinian website) and uprooting trees does not bother them, I doubt this will bother Israeli leadership or their mouth pieces. Issue is that it is not sustainable.Yes, you can buy these dictators and appease them, but tell your masses they hate our freedoms than that issue is not something you should close your eyes too. It is an undeniable fact that, Israel and sponsorship of these dictators is the single reason 9/11 happened. I hope this explanation can register with you.
VR is more widespread than it would have been had FB stayed away and not subsidized it. They make up over 50% of VR hardware on steam now.[1]

[1]https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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> not being able to get the ball back is an absolutely massive disadvantage for an opponent that needs to score

That depends heavily on who you're playing. There's no such thing as possessing the ball for the entire game. A team with a strong counterattack only needs one pass to be off the mark to score.
Long Covid. It's not just death and hospitalisations. From The Lancet:

"Patients with Long COVID report prolonged, multisystem involvement and significant disability. By seven months, many patients have not yet recovered (mainly from systemic and neurological/cognitive symptoms), have not returned to previous levels of work, and continue to experience significant symptom burden."

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Frankly we don't really know how bad the long term effects will be for even those with "mild" illness.
Smoke smells different on a plane, for some reason.
> You say that, but ISIS propaganda has been soundly defeated outside of fringe sites like GETTR.

Really? It took me approximately 15 seconds to find and red ISIS's magazine Dabiq (and not on GETTR, which I had previously not heard of).
I really like this example. If it's not worth the effort to re-write on a Post-it, it's probably not worth doing.
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Related to this: it worries me that on vacation it seems my relationship with sight seeing is mainly through the phone's camera. I'm constantly seeing opportunities to take pretty snapshots, I worry that people "get in the way", I wonder about the sun messing with my photo...

...and in the end I forget to enjoy the view. Before digital cameras and mobile phones, I would just marvel at the view and enjoy it. Now I only really see it when I'm back home, flipping through digital photos (and sometimes not even that, how many photos we take that we never look at again?).
There's a wealth of information out there, even scientific papers. Additionally there are thousands of anecdotal reports on vegan forums.

Like I said, just google it. Well documented phenomenon
I expect you're right. They would be aligned with a political (or possibly religious) cause.
It depends. If you have a good few textual exchanges that show you to be engaging, they may forgo some facial appearance shortcomings. So if the other person engages with good looking ones but those disappoint in their conversation but you do well in conversation, getting your foot in the door with the good photo of yourself could make the difference.

Sometimes people with good looks fail to cultivate other aspects of their person. An average looking person can take advantage of that by developing these other areas. But... you need that first opportunity.
I don't believe this is true.

Undertaking the risk of exploration has -- I would venture to say -- almost always had some economic, political, or military motive. Someone had to see some potential gain for the risk they were undertaking.

To be clear, I'm not frustrated at Elon for spending his money like this. I mean, if it were his money, because it's not. He's spending his investors' money, which he raises for himself by selling these ideas. I'm less excited by my government spending money on this, but, yes, it's not really that much.

What frustrated me more were the comments that appeared to be divorced from reality about what space exploration will bring.
The lateral flow tests results can be self-reported according to the NHS website, so you can't definitely draw conclusions from that data.
It takes like forever to load, but my guess it's a problem with figma.

I'm not sure what is the idea. Is it like a Trello clone? Something more like a calendar? Can I add boards/cards to a "desktop" to order them in a way I like? Can I change the background?

I tried it, and it looks like a tutorial or a walkthrough, not an app. For a "Show HN" it's important that it is at least a somewhat working prototype. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

In general, it's very difficult to get traction here unless it's a somewhat working prototype. Are you planning to write it?

And as a side note, the title of the submission should be more descriptive. For a working app I'd like "Show HN: Timelyst - Tame the time"
> Also, uh, why don't we just fix Earth? Oh, that's not sexy? No, of course not, because real problems are always more complicated than simple, inspirational ideas or a colony run by a dictator.

Go ahead and start "fixing earth" then, you're free to do so if you think it is "sexy". Meanwhile others will work on launching rockets, a task they seem to be quite adept at. Also, drop the nonsensical references to a "colony run by a dictator" or at least explain what made you write that piece of prose.

Humankind needs a frontier to strive towards, this has always been the case and will probably remain so. There used to be many frontiers but technology has developed as such a rapid pace that they're starting to become quite rare. A fully reusable space launch system has the potential to open up space exploration to a far larger extent than the current - soon to be previous - generation of expendable launch vehicles did. This is a good thing since it gives people something positive to look forward to instead of all the negatives which are being pumped in their heads by the media, politicians and, yes, by individuals like you who deal in negatives like "wiped ourselves out on Earth", "a colony run by a dictator", "There is literally no. point. at. all".

As said, feel free to "fix the Earth" but may I suggest framing this in a more positive and inspiring way? If you hit the right tone - yes, tone is important - you might inspire others who might inspire even more people. You may be able to open a new frontier that way, just like people like Musk do by working on reusable launch systems. Negativity and sour grapes do not inspire others, people who want that can simply watch a political debate.
We have to err on the side of saving lives, not speculation. Over 2 billion humans have been vaccinated so far, and rising.

What's the worst case scenario here?
Neither, the term refers to the belief that the US is somehow inherently different from other nations, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

Saying that something "could only happen in America" (usually) indicates a view that America is somehow unique (as in the American exceptionalist view).

I'm not saying that America hasn't done great things, or that Americans shouldn't believe they have done great things. It's just that no country is unique in this manner, and Americans seem to often say they are in ways that I rarely see other countries do.
I don't know about you, but "week is greater than 2180" sounds more natural than "2180 is less than week"
FB had an internal help system called "Oops". It was meant for employees to get help for friends they knew in real life. It was discontinued not long ago (EDIT: maybe not according to a child comment). There were just too many requests for help.

Facebook has a corporate structure that simply will not prioritize any effort longer than 6 months unless a senior company executive (Mark, Sheryl) supports it. Even if it affects the bottom line - and there were plenty of examples where large customers could not spend significantly more money with Facebook because of software bugs - they won't do anything about it.
Oops, indeed I did. Replied to the right one!
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Aren't they the ones dehumanizing people in the first place by choosing to follow rules instead of listening to fellow human beings?
"I'm still surprised they moved to this orbital fly so quickly without doing more tests."

I'll bet they're going to remove all 29 of these engines and re-attach them again later. I would expect they want much more testing than they've done to date (for example, pressure testing the tanks -- they have not done that with this booster, BN4, according to Reddit).
Alternately, the dependency can start its own supervision tree with any global processes/tables hanging off it from the beginning; and then export a Mod:start_link/1 function which clients will call, which will 1. start a child tree owned/managed by the dep's supervision tree; but which then 2. links that child subtree's root into the caller as well.

Such deps are integrated, by adding a stub GenServer that calls Mod:start_link/1 in its init/2 callback; and then adding a child-spec for that stub GenServer in your client app's supervision hierarchy.

The ssh daemon module in the stdlib works this way. Most connection-pooler abstractions (e.g. pg2, gproc) do as well.
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> Because if you don't, someone who does is going to invade for energy and resources. Therefore, refusing to expand is a slow form of suicide, unless you can be somehow certain there's no entity like that in the potentially accessible space.

I've heard that described as "where are the supernova defense systems?" Of course, I'm not aware of any explanations for why it's physically impossible to have a relatively small system sufficiently "hardened" to survive a supernova, or perhaps a way to defend oneself (including hiding) that doesn't require stasis.
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That was refreshing to read. Though I'd disagree on the non- existent surveillance, depending on the location. Maybe a bad example because movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anderson_Tapes from 1971, but some have a core of truth in them. In case you havn't seen it, I'd recommend to do so.

Also regarding the news being 'non-breaking':

Uhm... Watergate? Kennedy? Maybe Apollo? And so on...
Could a pegasus infection be detected with something like Litte Snitch or Lulu for iphones, in my mind, it'd be suspicious if some application was sending gigabytes of data over the wire
The original MS product called "surface" was a big table computer with a touch screen costing around $8K.
At the time leap seconds were introduced, it was much rarer for anyone to be able to tell (much less care) that someone on a another continent had a clock a few seconds off from theirs (and those who cared most were probably astronomers, which is why we ended up with leap seconds). There's a reasonable argument that the number of bugs (and extra work for programmers) now caused by them is enough that we should just stop adding them (and perhaps change time zones every few millennia).

Of course, the 'correct' way to fix it would be to use TAI rather than UTC just about everywhere, but that change would be hard to implement compared to just not adding more leap seconds.
You would think we barter and haggle for unproductive hours for the goods and services we need.

90% of what I buy at a store I walk in, grab what I need, go to self check out and swipe my credit card.

Our society has such a strange obsession with new technology that does exactly the same thing as old technology but with additional benefits for someone that isn't you.
I would say there’s at least an element of consent in hidden fees, as in “whoops I lied about the price, are you sure you want this?”. The rip-off in online purchases I would like to see regulated are auto-renewing subscriptions.
Huh. They're still deciding on whether to use Vue 2 or Vue 3... To me that's a definitive sign that Vue chasing after React's insane hooks system was a bad idea. I hope they figure out how to heal the rift before it's too late before we get another Python 2/3 situation.