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I've spent several thousand $ on Ubiquiti hardware. After a poor experience with their support team and shitacular integration between their ERX and UniFi products I'm looking to change vendors.

To be clear with my own experience:

- Ubiquiti requires an online login to use UniFi products (which you _should not_ encourage especially for home/prosumer use)

- UniFi does not integrate with the products that you might have purchased when you were less experienced or have less requirements. For example: I bought several EdgeRouter X products then moved on to UniFi products because I needed SFP+. UniFi management does not manage any EdgeRouter devices despite being manufactured by the same company, so I effectively have a dozen different network management pages to deal with.

- The web interface for UniFi is terrible; they've had a "new" UI and an "old" UI and support requires you to use the old UI to retrieve information to solve a lot of the problems. The "new" UI looks nice but often renders incorrectly (especially the network topology page).

- Support will sometimes ask you to SSH into your own devices to do certain steps that can't be done from their fancy UI.

- UniFi has several different settings pages all with overlapping and confusing terminologies instead of having an actual _unified_ settings page for all of the products being managed.

- I've also had trouble managing their updates insomuch as one device that they claim was bricked but in fact simply wasn't compatible (and wasn't _advertised_ as incompatible) with my network settings. They told me to RMA the item (at my own cost) and the replacement item had the exact same problem and required additional troubleshooting after I'd already spent money and time to return the item. After resolving that problem, with a USP-Plug, it ended up creating its own wifi network whose security can't be configured by me. I'm sure glad I don't have to deal with network audits...

I think Krebs is a scapegoat. That doesn't excuse any incorrect information he has on his blog. But Ubiquiti certainly isn't a bastion of good either.
Tax evasion is illegal and can get you thrown in jail. Tax avoidance is legal. And much everyone tries to avoid as much taxes as possible.
No one cares about holding big companies accountable in a real way.

There's internet arguments about everything, and there's usually a reason. Some people want it this way, others don't.

You won't believe how many people get paid to support/endorse/encourage X which is just fuel on the fire.

I don't really see change happening any time soon.
These types of attacks are extremely hard to defend against.

Considering the nature of the attacker (and the HN comments about the guy at the time of the attack) my take away of ubiquiti from this event and their response was positive. I also down ranked my expectation of Krebs’ accuracy.

It’s not personal - he writes lots of great stuff, but his response to being wrong in this case was worse than Ubiquiti’s response to the incident.
The presence or absence of a real-time clock doesn't significantly change the problem here.
Maybe http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
In FreeBSD, we're equally screwed on these architectures with no good source of random data and no ability to persist some entropy from a previous boot.
Even a stopped clock tells the right time, twice a day.
We, sphere.com, did this starting in 2006. After a year or so, we realized the only people using the service were looking to stroke their egos.

Ice rocket, and something else (I can’t remember the name) tried it at the same time and failed.

We pivoted, which ended up leading to some unspeakable horrors.

At any rate, good luck, hope it works better for you.
Striking similarity to the photograohy in this of HN item today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30818253
It's a symptom and not the problem itself.

100 years ago if you wanted to open a store all you needed was a building and a door. Now if you want to open a store, you need a parking lot bigger than the building itself to serve the same number of people.

You used to be able to house thousands of people in what is now a suburb that houses just a hundred.

It's a crippled land-use philosophy which forces a land shortage in any city more populated than a village.
> but doesn't make them use it efficiently

Of course it does. Gas prices greatly affect peoples' driving habits, for example. And their choice of car.

Fuel prices are the single biggest factor that drives new jetliner designs, for another.

> the rich can hold massive parties on their yachts

Yes, and how much does that contribute to overall CO2 emissions? 0.00001%? This is what I meant when government makes such decisions for political reasons, rather than pragmatic, efficient, or effective ones.
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When people lived less densely it was because the land was actively being used for production. So the land use was still dense, just not with people. The suburbs and small towns have lots of land with no use at all just yards. That is an inefficiency the market will resolve.
You know friend, I’m a native English speaker (and to make things worse, I’m Canadian) and I’d be proud if I write such a good summary.

You did great. This comment was a pleasure to read!
I also have to deal with the cost basis issue every year, and it’s the biggest headache in the entire process for me and my partner. I don’t understand why the brokerage can’t provide the correct basis directly — it would lead to way fewer mistakes and more accurate returns.
The entropy pool design protects against some attacks, but, critically, it actually makes this boot-time initial seeding problem harder because you need to gather a lot more total entropy (spread over all pools) before the initial pool has enough bits, vs a non-staggered design.
Wind and solar generated 10% of global electricity for the first time
Can I please keep all my Emacs workflow and packages but have something faster? Please?
I love this comment, straight bussin'.
Right? Especially when they still yet have an entire Imperium to push social pressure on the rest of us through.
It's kind of both. There's the existing behavior, and also it's also just sort of impossible to solve on some of these weird archs with nothing unpredictable going on.
Everything is vulnerable. The US has just been lucky its been fighting yokels who didn't get frequent shipments of modern weaponry.

If the USMC ever finds themselves in the situation of having to storm the beaches of Hainan may God help them. But then the US nor China are dumb enough to get dragged into a fight like that.
I'm not a web designer but I personally don't have any issue with "modern" UI design. It looks clean to me and I don't have any trouble distinguishing things. Just a data point.
I’m an attorney who has both filed a defamation case, and installed then junked Ubiquity routers and APs.

If the facts as alleged are true (as an attorney I usually assume they aren’t) then heck yes they should sue. This is the type of defamation case that actually doesn’t get dismissed. I.e. making specific, factually incorrect statements, directed at the business of the Plaintiff, for Defendant’s own commercial gain.

I hope Krebs has insurance.
Surprisingly (?) no! Only against a wasteful, overly complicated system, that's proven itself to be a haven of fraud and crime.
> Most parts of basically every part of Tokyo are quite grey and plain.

I couldn't agree less. Every alley and sidewalk in Tokyo was marvelous. But I'm accustomed to simple backpacks, possibly indistinguishable from the homeless when I travel, finding joy in the most simple things.
Open source software isn't a losing game..
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Standard deduction varies based on your filing status (single/married joint/married separate/etc). IRS will not know if that changed in the year.
A bit that I found particularly interesting is where it talks about what happened to krill (the whales food) when the whales disappeared. Krill didn't go up, as you'd expect from a normal prey-predator relationship but it went down, because absence of whales had an impact on other species (algae) which the krill depended on.

It is very difficult to know what the impacts of one or another species going away might be, nature is incredibly complex, and we are always playing catch up. Even though the whales numbers are going up, and I love that, I don't really take this as the good news I want them to be because I know we are causing so many changes that it's pretty much impossible to tell which species will survive these changes and which will not. And I guess a pessimist part of me thinks that none of the big animals will have it very easy, I just don't know if they are as adaptable as they will need to be.
This is a little more nuanced. A lot of that pay is in risky stock that may or may not turn out to be worthless when it vests. It’s also a very limited number of engineers in the grand scheme.
Yes, that works iff (1) you have writable media, (2) you can actually feed it to the kernel RNG (and have it credited) before anything critical blocks on RNG output, and (3) the seed isn't (intentionally or accidentally) predictable (e.g., cloning an existing filesystem image, or cloning a VM, or any other design where the same entropy file is reused by multiple instances).

The kernel has limited ability to protect against (3). Some forms of it can be prevented with the VM Generation Counter PCI device, which Linux recently added support for.
I found this video pretty mind-blowing in presenting the scale of the universe, especially through time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
I don't see how what you are saying makes any sense at all.

>1. Bad tenants will have no incentive not to harm the property and the neighborhood.

Of course they will: they may lose the security deposit, may be evicted, may be sued, and may even be arrested.

>2. Landlords will be forced to pay for insurance to cover all the bad things that tenants are now free to do.

They already pay for insurance.

>3. Rents will rise to cover the costs of the insurance. Conscientious tenants will be penalized.

Building more housing will make housing more expensive?

>4. Even otherwise conscientious tenants will start to cut corners since they are having to pay for the insurance anyway and it’s clearly unfair.

No, for the same reasons I gave before they still have an incentive to behave well.
Makes me think of what would be possible if we stopped reverse-brain-drained emerging countries like this..
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Friend?
Your proposal reduces the incentive to build more housing, so supply gets tighter and tighter.
> those with non-wage income

This is a lot of people now, thanks to the gig economy. Similarly, farmers plus people who work for tips (at employers that do not centralize tips).
That's exactly what a credit score is - only the defaults disappear after a certain number of years to give people another chance.
Sorry you're getting so downvoted. Not surprising on HN. Somehow super-anti crypto, even though people here seemingly understand technology.
and thats the problem. if you watch any of Louis Rossmans videos on NYC real estate he explains the Issue.

Buisness dump invested money into expensive building. If no one rents then it stays vacant.
Why vacant, isnt the landlord going to lose money? well yes but if he rents a lower amount then his valuation goes down and he is suddenly upside down on his loan. So he is compelled to not rent versus renting it.

Add to this governments make more tax yearly if its valued hire and now there is no incentive to fix this.
It’s too late. Citizens United means corporations and the ueber-wealthy can do whatever they want. McCain-Feingold represented actual progress in this area, and it’s gone now. We are going to witness heavy fascism in the US, and I wish I knew what to do about it. Other than somehow prevent Peter Thiel from escaping to New Zealand, since it’s partially his fault and he should have to reap what he sowed.

(Tangentially, Feingold was one of the smartest people in the Senate. Wisconsin voted him out in favor of Johnson, one of the stupidest people in the Senate — the only thing that keeps him from the top spot is just the fuckload of really dumb other Republican senators.)
"Advertiser friendliness" extends from sensibilities of what a liberal audience finds "obscene" and is private, yet far reaching, censorship.

JCS Criminal Psychology, an organization which posted FOIA'd police interrogation footage practically in full, being forced off of YouTube is a relatively wellknown non-political example of a victim of such censorship.
> that just happens to become highly desirable decades later

Why should people be forced to give up their homes just because someone else desires them?

By this logic, if newcomers seize granny’s house they should expect to immediately be forced out by the next group who has desire.

There is no coherent argument about fairness or luck here.

The only argument here is a new group of relatively rich people looking for a way to seize desirable properties for themselves without.

Why should a tech-bro who just sits at a keyboard all day be able to force out granny and grandpa who worked as a secretary and an auto-mechanic? Does the tech-bro ‘deserve’ it more?

If they succeed in forcing granny out it will be at least as unfair as it was before.
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Reddit bringing back r/place
If the whistle-blower acted in concert with even one other coworker, and made it clear to all that their actions were concerted, and the whistleblowing was itself legal (e.g. not divulging a trade secret for the sole purpose or harming the employer), then the refusal to hire such a worker could be a violation of 8(a)1 of the National Labor Relations Act.

But this would be hard to demonstrate in most circumstances.
Oops, yeah I meant to re-add that. Will get a recent posts page up soon.
Fucked is at the border, but there's no insulting going on here that is not my intention. The word is just used to illustrate a concept a little more violently. Strange is an insult, it was personally directed at me. While, technically it's not an insult... the intent is there and is detectable. I suggest you don't use it the next time you want a discussion to continue.

>Buying a share is not ripping someone off.

I never said buying a share is ripping someone off. I'm saying watching a share grow in value is ripping someone off.

Also I'm not talking about bidding. I'm talking about the intrinsic value of the share. There is value outside of bidding. The bidding correlates with the intrinsic value but is not a completely accurate reflection of it.

It's hard to describe what intrinsic value is. But the concept exists outside of this conversation. Look it up if you never heard of it.

So to bring it full circle. The worker contributes work that increases the value of the company which in turn increases intrinsic value of the share. The owner of the share benefits from this increase in value while contributing zero work on his end.

If you are rich enough, you don't even have to work anymore. Simply growing your money endlessly is enough. Nothing in the universe comes for free and such people don't have to work because that work is being done by others in their stead.

Over a long term horizon or even in the short term through dividends... massive intrinsic value can be extracted from these assets.
It's pretty obvious if you do your own taxes, even without fully understanding the tax code. The last few lines include "Add up [lines]; this is the total you owe for the year: ____" and "Add up [lines]; this is how much you already paid: ____".
Messaging apps may soon be forced to work together. It won’t be easy
No, that's wrong. There are actually a number of ways VM hosts can and do expose host entropy to guests. On x86, for example, they can allow the guest to use RDRAND/RDSEED. On anything with PCI devices, there's VirtIORNG: https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/VirtIORNG . VM hypervisors absolutely implement this service, or similar guest services, and hosting providers enable them.
Really interesting how well thought out something so seemingly simple is. Reminds me of a similar video on Aluminium cans.
There are so many investors who want to build apartments that most cities have laws to keep them out.
Serious question that I don't know the answer to: when and where, in the US, has rent control not been accompanied by constrained supply?

I'm not using your phrasing, "artificially constrained supply", because it seems like artificial could have a very squishy definition. A lot of economists these days are saying that rent control leads to lower supply, but they seem to mean it as more of a natural consequence (i.e. without necessarily needing the kind of NIMBYism and red tape that gets blamed for low supply in the largest cities with rent control).
Some of the elements that you've mentioned are subject to divestment as well. The Marine Corps is abandoning their long-trusted M777 howitzer in favor of HIMARs, which are self-propelled and purported to be more mobile than a M777. There is a fair amount of disagreement in the artillery community over this choice among the guys on the ground from what I understand. Many platforms used in the military and Marine Corps are inherently vulnerable to attack. The question you have to ask is whether you can take the budget that would be allocated to one platform and use it better elsewhere. As with many other things in life, this comes down to a constrained optimization problem with many different factors to consider.

Overall, an aggressor has to "find, fix, and finish" the enemy to complete the kill chain. My understanding is that the general idea is to invest in platforms can move quickly, continue to decentralize command, and adopt a new warfare doctrine for the "pacing threat" in the Pacific. If you're interested in learning about contemporary doctrine--particularly in the Marine Corps--I'd suggest you look into EABO, which is the war-fighting doctrine that's being proposed for conflicts in the Pacific.
The blogosphere was certainly very different in 2006 than it is now - perhaps it's worth another go?
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Quartz Structure
One thing I'd love to see, is a TUI editor that focuses on providing hooks for developers to build deeper integration with various frameworks into the editor and it's autocomplete.

This is something I've wanted back when I was doing professional PHP development, when life was still in black and white. I still reckon it would be useful today.

I started to build exactly that myself, in Nim, but got distracted building the editor itself and eventually moved on to other personal projects. Maybe I should revisit it.

An example, based on the current HN home page, would be htmx integration in HTML editing, that is aware of the rest of your project and how htmx works to give excellent, powerful autocomplete within your bindings. Maybe even have it be able to be aware of the backends route set!
> Krebs got the big story exactly right: Ubiquiti had a bad security problem and flubbed the handling of it.

This can be true while still being massively exposed to legal liability. The court of public opinion is one thing, the law is another.
Well, in that case you should read the comments of these first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27768934

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30719013
I was a Firefox user, but Firefox these days pushes all sorts of Firefox advertising. I want a blank page when I load my browser; don't do the Microsoft thing and change it to your ads. I don't care about your color schemes. I don't want your proprietary extensions added after I remove them.
sometimes i log out of my real name account to post some creative fiction or throwaway ideas, but i never cross a line: where someone might base a life decision on my lie
If they used a timestamp then all you really need is a couple random numbers to find the seed. Just keep guessing timestamps until you find a sequence that matches.
They're doing the research and publishing the results during the degree. That's part of the PHD.
This thing looks incredible! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ucIm6g9llg
> You should expect that the market would build enough units that there were about as many homes as applicants in the absence of regulation.

While I sympathize with the logic, there is no reason to expect that.
This will be my third Ludam Dare. So far each one has been an excuse for a few of my friends and I to “get together” via discord and build a game.

Each times it’s been an incredible amount of fun and I can’t wait to see what we come up with this time.
why does an account have to be open to analyze it? Surely me successfully paying every monthly payment and having money to spare to pay off the loan early would indicate that my risk as a borrower is lower than someone who can barely make payments? If we were talking years down the line it should weigh less than an open account but my score dropped instantly after closing out the loan.

Maybe there is a regulatory aspect I don't understand that restricts analysis of closed accounts or something. Barring that Occam's razor would suggest that it hurts your credit score because paying off a loan early deprives the lender of interest which makes you a less appealing candidate at a given rate. After all, credit scores are a product for lenders, if it didn't do this they might go to another bureau that does.

Fundamentally the opacity of it all is a problem in its own right. We don't have any real insight into how the calculations are made but they dictate huge amounts of our lives.
Have you seen Rognlie's addition to that book? https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/deciphering-the-fall...

It pairs nicely with Henry George's understanding of land, capital, and labour.
> So, considering the all the wars, regime change and bombardment that the US engaged in, every American company deserves to get hacked? And considering America is far more democratic than Russia, American citizens should be held more responsible for the actions of their government?

Is the US engaged in an UN-unsanctioned invasion of Ukraine at the moment?
Yes, the US might have engaged in similar behaviour in the past. That was wrong, and I don't disagree. Yes, we American citizens should be held more responsible for the atrocities our government has committed.

NONE of that justifies the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

> The parent already said:

And yet, they never called the invasion of Ukraine disgusting. Nor the bombing of civilian targets. Nor the forced relocation of thousands of refugees into Russia. Nor the 'double-tap' artillery strikes.

So damned straight it doesn't meet my standards for intensity of outrage. My outrage is that this war has claimed the lives of multiple family members of mine, on both sides. Don't you fucking DARE tell me what level of outrage is acceptable.
The value proposition is that RSUs goes up more than your 10% contribution, so using MSFT's stock price, $100k at the start of 2021 is worth some $150k by the end of it. Still not $10mm but better than $10k. The change in value is +$70k if you were at TSLA. This only works while the stock is going up though. If you were at FB, you'd be underwater so that $100k of RSUs is now only worth $80k, but at least RSUs mean you can still get $80k out of them if you had to liquidate (unlike options which have a strike price and can even be worth negative dollars, depending on your tax situation).

At a company of, say, 100,000 employees, how much my individual contribution will makes the stock price go up is debatable, but getting more of those RSUs will materially boost my TC, where at upper levels the majority of TC is stock-based.