skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For background, I don't have serious experience with this. I've worked with businesses that moved containers, I've talked about getting containers for my own stuff, and priced things out from that angle, and found the whole thing too expensive, even if you have places to put the containers where people won't complain.

I do, however, think container aesthetics are pleasing and find the idea of a container house (or modular workshops) to be pretty cool.

Container houses generally require effort that make them less cheap than things built specifically to be housing, unless you can somehow dodge zoning because you are in a 'container house'

If you've ever spent any time in a container during the day, you know that being in an un-insulated steel can when said can is in the sun is not a generally pleasant experience.

Building a small structure to reasonable durability standards is actually pretty cheap; I bet you could do a wooden shed of the interior size of a cargo container for less than the market value of said container, most places in the world, assuming the zoning restrictions weren't different for the container vs. the shed.

If you need your house to move and you are willing to accept the space limitations, it might make sense to build in a cargo container... but if you are willing to give up the mobility, you can usually get a better or cheaper living structure.

Even then, I'd question it. I mean, unquestionably, it would be damn cool, but by the time you made it livable, I don't know if it wouldn't be cheaper to just buy a used camper trailer.

My experience trying to get cargo containers moved is that most of the services for doing so are not designed for not-very-often one-off moves; I think getting someone to move your fifth wheel trailer would probably be cheaper than getting a cargo container of similar size moved, assuming you are on the same continent.

The exception, of course, is if you live in a place where cargo containers have a very low market value, and where the cargo containers are where they need to be (or the equipment required to move them is cheap)

Another issue I ran into when exploring this is that... well, you really want to clean these things out. A cheap, used cargo container needs some serious work just to get the ickies cleared out.
IRIX had a userland interface for PCI access: pciba(7)

I don’t know of anything that used it, but I’m sure there were custom PCI cards for data acquisition, hardware control, etc etc. that used it.

http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/irix/man7/pciba.7.html
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I've moved to Hetzner from DO as well. It's cheaper than digital ocean.

However,

- They have two data center locations, both in Germany, which might be good or bad depending on how view the laws.

- Their web interface looks good too, but doesn't have the features that DO provides.

- Depending on what option you pick, some have commodity hardware (No ECC RAM, i7 processors instead of server hardware).

- [Rumor]I've heard that they are very hands off, and will take down your instance much more aggressively. As someone on reddit put it, "If Disney was a cloud provider, anything Disney won't be comfortable to host, Hetzner won't."
I think the moral of this story is that Apple's hardware was _too_ good 10 years ago -- you could upgrade it almost indefinitely. The soldered components these days definitely make more sense to drive new sales.
> That is the whole point of socialized medicine. The point of insurance is that you pay slightly more than the expected value of your claims. So if you know you need $5000 worth of medical treatment for asthma, your insurance premium should be definitely more than $5000.

How does that make sense? If I knew I needed $5000 worth of medical treatment for asthma, and I pay an appropriate premium based on that, but then I get cancer..... well then someone else is going to have to pay for that, because my premiums certainly won't cover the cost of cancer treatment.
it's a pretty bad idea because 6 mil plastic has a better R value, or insulation value, then these shipping containers. You can't get around that problem easily without spending more then you would on a regular structure.
Some form of analytics that can report each downstream access.
My concern is this would be a great vector for some form of State-sponsored deployment of a sneaky rootkit which is then embedded in everyone's GPU.

That said, I'd much prefer to see GPU cycles (and power usage) going towards scientific endeavors rather than the current crypto-mining boom.
My long-term plan is to get something like a million dollars in retirement accounts and a home and retire in Texas, where your retirement accounts have unlimited protection against creditors. If any random incident can bankrupt you, then your best bet is to ensure that you cannot be forced into bankruptcy.
Every health care system rations care since no current system has enough resources to care for everyone without some form of waiting. The U.S. health care system rations care in the most immoral way of the advanced nations. A person should not profit by denying care to someone else.

As a nation we should try optimizing for a more moral, just system. As I see it that would be something like Medicare for all but I'm open to suggestions/solutions.
> This is the whole point of health insurance!

This is a serious misunderstanding of what insurance is. Insurance is a net benefit for society because it linearizes individual risk curves even if you have to pay in proportionally to your expected costs, not because it makes less risky people subsidize more risky people. Perhaps you should avoid calling people “stupid” for misunderstanding insurance.
iPhone protected you from Facebook call scraping. Android, not so much
I am confident that facebook makes much more money on the ads it shows me than what is any reasonable margin on the actual cost of serving me the pages and storing my status updates. So in this case this guaranteed cost plus is much less than what facebook currently does.
A link[1] to the actual research says "Treatment of mice with the NAD+ booster nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) improves blood flow and increases endurance in elderly mice by promoting SIRT1-dependent increases in capillary density, an effect augmented by exercise or increasing the levels of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a DR mimetic and regulator of endothelial NAD+ levels."

[1] http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)30152-1
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It's so damn exciting to see the world unfold as I had hoped. The hard part is that you have to wait for the pressure to build and society as a whole to catch up.

Watching first-generation social internet services like Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter has been fascinating and I cannot wait to see the next generation.

Everyone on HN should be focused on building the replacements for these early attempts.
From the article:

"The new study, in Cell, found that boosting mice’s levels of the naturally occurring molecule NMN, which humans also have, increased levels of another called NAD+."

NMN is nicotinamide mononucleotide, available on Amazon.
I'm not even talking about that - parent comment talks about requirements that are literally impossible to comply with, and I talk about laws that are put into place after a tax year ends and apply retroactively, and official documents that contradict one another and the inability to get an official explanation from the government prior to the filing deadline. How is any of that even remotely "losing track of my records"?

edit: Let me be even more detailed. I had to have my accountant rework my taxes 3 times. Once because of a retroactive law change after the end of the tax year. Once because of the inconsistency I discovered in official documents. And once because ETrade's documents and my employer's conflicted. Both of the latter were prepared by professionals. That's pretty typical of my filings. If it's so complex that all of that is fairly routine, that IS the government's problem. I have no problem keeping track of my own records; in fact my own record keeping and fastidiousness led to the discovery of all 3 of those problems.
If you're comfortable with React, it's not a bad choice to use for templating. IMO, a better choice than SSR is using something like https://github.com/nozzle/react-static or https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby to use React to build your static site.
The known cost isn't really insurable. A premium based on expected costs would include the full amount of the known future costs and also some amount for less predictable costs.
I think it's a great thing that people are trying different approaches.

One factor is that a technology on its own doesn't create its success, but it's also dependent on the sociological environment the technology is born into.

This is why we see many technologies get hyped up and die off, just to come back decades later to succeed. The success depends heavily on the context.

That said, just like gtrubetskoy said below, proof of work was the solution that came after and solved all the seemingly impossible problems in an elegant manner.

The reason I'm skeptical about most "proof of stake" fanboys is that they are not even aware of all this history, and they also fail to realize the elegance of proof of work.

If you think about it, "proof of stake" is a very natural and even an obvious idea. I'm not saying the researchers who came up with proof of stake concept didn't achieve much, I'm saying the "proof of work" is almost like an alchemy compared to "proof of stake" because proof of stake is purely a system based on social factors ("let's vote to make decisions!") whereas proof of work is something not one person can easily wrap their head around.

And the craziest part is that this system has worked for a decade now. The only reason we know this works is because it's worked for a decade. I'm pretty sure Satoshi Nakamoto himself had no idea if it would work when he invented the scheme.

Overall I do think that proof of work is beautiful piece of technology that most people don't appreciate enough.

I run into many people just getting into "crypto" outright criticizing proof of work and not even understanding how it actually works, which is a pity because in their mind, proof of work is some stupid scheme that's like a crappy MVP with all the shitty problems like global warming, etc., while "proof of stake" is the clear future, and with a closed mindset like that you can't create a true solution IMO.
Probably a pre-emptive move triggered by FOSTA and that other one that starts with S who's name I forgot.
My 5 day stint in the mental hospital was billed at $14,000. With my gold plated health insurance plan, it was still $3k.
You’d pay the 99% chance of asthma * $5,000 + 1% chance of cancer * $50,000 (or whatever the probability you get cancer * the estimate of cancer treatment costs).

If you do get cancer, the other 99% of folks who didn’t get it are covering your costs.
Ultimately, there is no point to insurance beyond generating profit for someone.
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Whew, finally a comment with some actual details on how this might all work and be useful.

How do I delete data in this scheme? Maybe by signing each data "node" with a separate key, which can then be shredded if I want? Where would those keys be stored?
He doesn’t even upgrade the CPU or the old SSD, he just adds a pair of AMD video cards.

I’d like to see how an old Pro with those upgrades compares to a trashcan pro, as well as a cost comparison.
The compound in question is nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN).

Back in 2016, Keio university in Japan started a human study on its effects on aging: https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/press-releases/2016/Dec/27/49-1931...

I haven't heard anything since about what happened to the study.
How on earth is blockchain going help? Seriously! There is no conceptual situation, in theory or practice, that blockchain will improve upon Facebook situation.

Generally speaking, Facebook is bad for about 5 reasons:
1. Privacy: unexpected people see your data (legally).
2. Right-to-be-forgotten: your data sticks around longer than expected.
3. Data Security: your data is stolen from your data keeper.
4. Cyberbully: Unwanted data surfaces without your control
5. Fake news: wrong information is fed to you.

How do blockchains help with ANY of these? 2. is certainly getting WORSE, since blockchains never forget. 1. is probably getting WORSE, because most blockchains are public. 3. is getting SO MUCH WORSE, because so many other people will now store data, and compromises in any of them will expose everything (think African Prince scam). 4. will become impossible to solve, because the data is going to be public and cannot be deleted, and because all of those anonymous mechanism will ensure that the culprit is impossible to track. 5. won't be impacted.

So, tell me, how the hell do blockchains help? Seriously.

Look, I know blockchain is a cool idea (yay! no need for central database!). However, central database can help in many situation, especially in anything involves history, limit of access, and regulation.
I tried to install Linux on a Mac Pro that looked like the one in the article. It turns out that it didn't support booting from USB. I didn't have any blank CDs nor a CD burner (does anyone?) so I gave up and it sat in a corner.
Your EV from holding a car insurance plan is slightly lower than if you’d put that money in bonds. The benefit is that you can spread your risk across multiple parties. It’s entirely different from medical insurance, where your EV depends strongly on individual circumstances (and can be very negative). Medical insurance providers aren’t allowed to give accurate pricing, so you basically end up with a really complicated subsidy program.
Reminds me of the recent article about people sourcing food from landfill.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-42990661/how-meat-is...
I'm in the same boat. My daily driver is a 2008 Macbook that I added another 2gb of ram and a SSD to - works great! I highly recommend opening it up and cleaning out the fan if you haven't, that made a huge difference in how often the fan spins up.
I think that future (social) data-mining startups will need to address these things in order to be regulatory agnostic (on top of the general product/market fit):

- solving the decentralized infrastructure: as nodes get taken offline, they can replace themselves, and service is still usable

- solving payments for services to third parties that aren't directly the users: cannot rely on traditional payments infrastructure, since that is easily co-opted by regulatory bodies and be used agaisnt the developers/owners of such services since those have traditionally tied ones identity to such payment information.
You can use other kinds of authority and power to censor. "No platform" is a form of mob censorship.

Though I agree that critical analysis and censorship are two different things.
I really don’t care if building codes, automotive safety regulations, and standards of medical care make it hard on new businesses. My priorities are not dying in a car crash, my home not falling on my head, and avoiding incompetent doctors. Regulation on tobacco may have helped incumbents stay incumbent, but it also led to record judgements against the, and the rapid decline of their industry in the developed world. That it’s harder for a tobacco startup to get off the ground is a bonus.
Yeah, but if the entire history (some large part) is available, then it is in the interests of advertisers to run their algorithm against that. It's not informative. Needless to say, there is a lot of work being done in academia on the problem of making AI decisions comprehensible to humans. It is not clear yet AFAIK whether any ML techniques (even the most prominent approaches) are ever going to be susceptible to a simple explanation.
I thought this website was titled Hacker News. :-)

I sure like my iMac with 8TB extra storage not to waste additional space on my desk and be connected via a fast and reliable SATA bus as opposed to USB-3 or super expensive Thunderbolt.
> The motivation is that @stapelberg spends way more time on C software and their various issues than he would like. Hence, he is going Go-only where feasible.

This is so cool! I’m very happy to learn an effort like this exists, and looking forward to perusing the code for it... in Go (a language I really enjoy reading).
There are different levels of hazard. Reprocessing electronics is not as bad as finding electronics amongst used hypodermics and discarded rat poison.

What do you think AT&T did with the Original iPhone?
While we're remembering, let's also remember that one of the major benefits of shipping containers was preventing losses to theft by longshoremen.
1. Client creates a custom label and we store it in s3
2. They select x inventory items + click print
3. We retrieve and send the label file + inventory data to a service that interpolates the data into each template, renders to pdf, merges them, and forwards it to our printing service.

We certainly could do the work on the client, but they're making this request in a context where neither the label nor the libraries need to be loaded; in fact, in our server-side implementation, it could be done with a single api call. Doing it all client side would strongly couple the client to the technology.

Also, we re-used this api in two applications, one of which never loaded the editor (along with its dependencies).

TLDR; a weird hack was better than violating separation of conerns.
If I have a cold shower just before bed, my feet get cold and don't warm up.
It might just be because I some how wound up with a dozen TinyLetter subscriptions and now they're all moving to Substack but I think Substack is more or less this.
ACA is horrendous, unless you're receiving a government subsidy. I'm self-employed and we have one option of insurance provider, and the cheapest plan for my family last year was $18,000 a year with a huge deductible. That's after tax, out of pocket, for a healthy family with no pre-existing. Like all self-employed people I know (who aren't getting government subsidy), I moved my family to Christian Medishare, which is basically catastrophic coverage for about $3,000 year that was grandfathered in when Obamacare was passed. However it isn't truly insurance, it isn't regulated for soundness. I'm seriously considering returning to wage employment for health care benefits.
There's a couple youtube channels of Go game commentary and strategy lectures that does something similar for me.
Do you owe taxes on unclaimed coin forks? I'd wager no but considering how complex taxation in general has turned out to be with cryptocurrencies...
I don't know if this is relevant to your plan but you are aware that Texas has like the 3rd worst healthcare system in the country and maternal and infant death rates on par with most 3rd world countries, right? Good luck, don't get sick.
Shouldn't he have posted this directly on Facebook?
Note - I just came across this today when looking into open source and decentralized social media platforms. This one seems far more impressive than Diaspora* , and the monetization angle may help it with growth to have a chance of fighting Facebook and its network effects. But I am still trying to clarify what "Community Owned" means - the link just goes to a crowdfunding page. Though they do say "Anyone can set up a node and we will have more federation services for cross-communication soon enough." in the comments.
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maybe you should avoid calling Paul Ryan "people"
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It's NMN (NICOTINAMIDE MONONUCLEOTIDE) and sold through everyone including Wal-Mart and Amazon. Whether it works... on humans? I don't know and I'm not aware of any (completed) human studies.
Many (most?) of these “losses” for Medicare and Medicare claims is due to administrative bloat at hospitals. If the fixed that, then the amount of money they receive from these types of claims would be less of an issue, imho.

US healthcare (and education as well) are massively bloated with an abundance of low value-add administrators. These bubbles need to burst.
A crawler has no way of knowing whether or not I visited a site. A crawler doesn't have access to cookie data or HTTP access logs. So no we are not "back where we started with Facebook."
Not really. Cats do "spaz out" episodically but a typical human with the same amount of exercise would probably be a flabby sack of fat with cardiovascular issues. The activity isn't predictive of the rate of muscle atrophy to the same degree across species, because loss of muscle is mediated by a specific, variably effective biochemical cascade and is not a consequence of inactivity per se. Similarly, loss of memories or cognitive skills is an active process that may have negligible speed even without much utilization.

But I'm nitpicking.
As with all things healthcare, yes and no.

Private, for profit insurance is almost certainly always evil. Their margins are dictated by how much they can delay or avoid coverage. That pretty much defines evil.

Medicare is why hospitals exist, period. Private insurers make it as difficult as possible to stay in a hospital, because they are more expensive and usually result in worse outcomes.

Reimbursement rates are being squeezed because there is a glut of hospital beds. As a result, hospitals, designed to operate with higher overheads, are losing money.

There’s a whole web of bullshit where the lack of universal coverage and rational allocation of resources results in strange behaviors.
I think we are currently beyond the point where most people actually can choose whether or not to use some services. So I think it would be appropriate to have the option to pay for these services while keeping the privacy.
People have a right to free expression, they don’t have a right to have thst expression amplified by third parties. I’ve noticed that when an emotive word is overused, often with a new word in front of it, it’s bullshit. “Mob censorship” “white genocide” and so on for some glaring examples, might as well have the first words replaced by “Not really.”

Co-opting words with strong emotional valence for the sake of an appeal to emotion is petty, and speaks to the weakness of the underlying argument.
My take away from Flat Earthers is how much I rely on third parties as a source of truth. Or perhaps I should say “truth”. Probably a mixture of both.

Similar to what he said about the Earth being frisbee-shaped, I believe the Earth is round, but I know I don’t have personally-acquired observation that my belief is fact.
The rate of increase for health insurance prices went down after the ACA was enacted. The motivation for enacting the ACA was, in large part, the untenable increase in insurance prices in the 10 years leading up to it.

People have a bad habit of blaming the ACA for insurance prices. The ACA failed at its goal of making individual health insurance affordable, that is true. But it didn't cause that problem, and it did something extremely important to mitigate it.
"It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it."

-Upton Sinclair
The argument against this is that greening will stop at some point while temperature rise is exponential and greening is already in the models.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/21...
I live in LA, and I wonder often about the future of housing for this city.

With the population doubling by 2050, something needs to be done. A few ideas could help:

- Self driving cars (live in Palmdale)
- Tiny Homes/ADU's
- Rezone parking lots (significant portion of LA)
No banking backdoor either, Sanity won out!

See below if you haven't come across this
https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/tls-1-3-banking-industry-wo...
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rhrd-tls-tls13-visibility-...
But we have solutions for cheap housing already. The housing problem doesn't come down to the cost of building houses, it comes down to the acceptance that we need them.