skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the shout-out! We’re trying to be like an “open-Heroku” - back when I worked on OpenStack it was called “the open cloud” and no one knew what we were on about - open stack was enterprise as enterprise gets!

Our goal is to make a Heroku-ish platform for getting an app online - but one that doesn’t hold you over a barrel later on. You can even host from a spare home server :)

(Disclosure: I’m the CTO)
I'm pretty sure everyone is aware of the motivation for the correction...
Good question. Mostly html templating since that is how it began. So you could argue improving that aspect would be a good idea. The major challenge for most is debugging because it is hard to separate the server from the PHP. I may toy around with Lua and see if that can be fixed.
I'd say that Svelte's are better, plus the tutorial teaches everything. The nice thing with Svelte is that there's not much to it and you can read the entire docs in a few hours.

https://svelte.dev/tutorial/basics
If you're gonna be all snooty about LNT going as far as admonishing cairns, then hiking trails are aren't LNT either.
I don't understand what is being used as the denominator to generate this 1/3 number in the headline. A quick search shows that the US MBS market is about $10.3 trillion in size [1] - the actual mortgage market is larger (what nostromo mentioned earlier). Putting some recent numbers [2] over the size of the MBS market would show that the Fed owns a little less than a 1/5 of all US MBS.

Also, he mentions that the Fed has been purchasing roughly $100 billion per month in MBS securities since April, but this leaves out the fact that a non-insignificant number of MBS in their holdings are either i) reaching maturity, or ii) being prepaid. The second issue is more prevalent now - with the low-rate environment that exists in the US many people are refinancing their mortgages to take advantage of lower rates, but in any case it isn't uncommon for mortgages to be paid off before their maturity date. I don't know what the net figures are, but what I'm trying to say is that purchases of MBS != growth of MBS holdings.

I seriously think this author has somehow conflated the size of the SOMA assets with the size of the MBS market - continuing growth of MBS at $100 billion for the rest of the year, leaving all else equal, will give us about $2.4 trillion of MBS over a denominator of $7.4 trillion - which would give us about 1/3.

[1]: https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/fixed-income-chart/
[2]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/
> The same is true for people not wearing face-diapers on public transport. I'm not saying ignore corona entirely, but on the other hand I'm shocked at how carelessly people act when their rights are violated and their governments oppress them.

What is the right that is being violated here? The right to put others in danger needlessly? You are free to choose to go and live in the mountains by yourself and not wear a mask, and the government won't stop you. Living in society comes with rules attached. Cherry-picking only the benefits of living in society but refusing the downsides doesn't work.
Would you use the phrase if there was a woman, especially an Asian woman present? If not, then that's your answer:

> “Opening the kimono” implies a coyness and sensuality that conjures up images of submissive Asian women reluctantly willing to show you their most vulnerable side. I understand why someone would use it just from the shock value alone. It took the wind out of me when I read it.

https://medium.com/@brunchandbudget/opening-the-kimono-on-op...
My civil engineer partner could speak to this in more detail, but it's a well-understood solvable problem. You seal the shaft wall as you dig past the water table. And some small amount of pumping is used as needed.
Does Lucet (https://www.fastly.com/blog/announcing-lucet-fastly-native-w...) meet those needs?
Ideologically, I agree.

Reality doesn't look too great though.

>I want to live in a world where we’re forced to teach our kids critical thinking skills than in a world that relies on controlling the flow of information.

Technology has evolved faster than our ability to create a society of critical thinkers.

>Let’s have articles about making critical thinking a required school class as is with English, math, US history, etc. Than Zuck is not blocking this or that.

Education seems to vary state by state, for example Texas elected to eliminate classes that teach critical thinking.

"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."[0]

So if Americans are generally lacking critical thinking skills, and for various reasons those skills will never be taught or learned, do you still want to let propaganda and fake news run unabated?

[0] https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2012/06/texas...
east of the mississippi there's precious little open/public land; a few places I like to camp around the VA/WV line are often just fire roads that were abandoned. They're now most popular with poachers and teens looking to party without fear of the cops being called, along with a few campers like me.

and since Covid, everyone seemingly got into the "original socially-distanced recreation", because now formerly rather low-traffic sites are packed, with all the trouble that brings.

trash is often everywhere. beer cans, broken glass, shotgun shells, and spent brass abound. Once just a month ago I came across a loaf of bread and a Hank Williams, Jr. album (as in vinyl), just sitting next to a fire ring. I think I've seen a dozen shoes left along camp sites in the past month.

I think somehow it got into the cultural mind that the woods are somehow maintained by a janitorial staff. i have no idea how it got so bad.
Remember that Google has to convince OEMs to get behind their experimental free OS instead of Windows. They can't say "hey, you can have the OS for free, but now you need to keep specialty embedded engineers on staff until we say it's okay to stop maintaining drivers, which will be never" when Microsoft will probably happily negotiate down the cost of a Windows license to near $0 and pick up the driver maintenance as well.

The question then is, why bother with OEMs? But it's necessary to drive adoption: nobody wants to get fired over their choice of laptop vendor, and nobody ever got fired for picking Dell / HP / Samsung. But if you pick the weird upstart OS and anything goes wrong, you'll be blamed. So the OEMs exist to attach their credentials to the transaction -- "we'll be happy to sell you whatever laptops you want; you can have our Windows laptops for $2000 each or Chromebooks for $200 each". Now you at least have some excuse if things go bad -- "HP misled me! But we saved $1800 per student" or whatever.

When taking on a huge established incumbent, price and technical merits are not enough, and you can't go it alone. I don't think I'm looking at things from a "10 foot engineer's view" when I say that it will be very difficult to take on a company with 80% market share and 40 years of industry experience with your new Linux thingie. The OEMs are crucial there -- they have sales contacts, they have a brand that people trust, and people need to gradually warm up to the fact that there's a new OS in town that might save them some money. The cost there is that OEMs don't always do everything you want -- they have their own business to run and don't really need you to stay alive.
Dare I say it can be both? Some things are "virtuous cycles." You get updates, and in your experience those updates add value, which increases your expectation of value should you stick with this phone and possibly replace it with another of the same brand.

That IS brand loyalty, generated by delivering value, not just fancy advertising. And conversely, the experience customers have with their phone gives them certain expectations should they buy the matching AirPods rather than Bose or even B&O.

When it turns out that the AirPods have special integration with their iPhone, it sets up positive expectations for buying an iPad. And on and on.

The value creates brand loyalty, and the brand loyalty leads consumers to buy more products from the same brand, which increases their value because of the integration within the ecosystem.

When the brand is actually delivering the value, it's a virtuous cycle: value -> brand loyalty -> more value -> more brand loyalty.
Even the darkest corner of the internet, 8chan, has more strict rules than that
Hey everyone, Eric Ries here. Happy to answer questions if you’d like to learn more about what we are building at LTSE
It's an inelegant solution, but the app uses a context icon in the taskbar and when you click on it a window appears that shows the stack in a table view. This is all being done using WinForms. I'm hoping to find a better implementation to be honest.
See my reply to jeffreyrogers: WWII reconstruction can't explain the 1990s and 2000s, which are far removed from that era, with the possible exception of German Reunification. The trends are consistent and robust across various periods.

Perhaps the other countries are more supply constrained than the U.S., especially post reconstruction. But that also refutes the insinuation that U.S. monetary policy is responsible for price inflation, and makes less credible the fears of some younger Americans that the bottom will fall out irreversibly the moment they make a home purchase.
If you want to play with your own GPT-2 API, I put this together and shared it on HN yesterday: https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex/tree/master/examples/py...

You can run that and deploy your own GPT-2 API locally, or in the cloud. I'd also recommend checking out Max Woolf's gpt-2-simple, which is a library that makes it really easy to fine tune GPT-2 with your own text (if you've played the free version of AI Dungeon, this is how they trained their model):

https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
Tesla Model 3 Pikes Peak resurrection and the final run
Currently, there is a clamping operation occurring on all topics in the US. Media clamps to the left or right extreme, and both extremes are completely nutty. Those extremes at least used to be vaguely rational, or at least they somewhat managed to balance one another out.
Close! We a fair bit further North. I would consider Gold Bridge the southern most parts of the Chilcotin, whereas we live more in the middle of Chilcotin. Without giving it away, if you look up Chilko Lake it is a reasonably short drive away.
Facebook has already taken strong action against people who believe you should not vaccinate your child.

It is almost impossible to find anti-vax groups on Facebook in their search feature. They won't surface them at all.

Even if you type in the direct phrase sometimes.

You have to have a direct link to the anti-vax group.

That is a form of censorship.
I can imagine these too, but some imaginary scenarios come too close to "24" TV series scenarios, i.e. completely unrealistic.

But I will give you that, even if you subscribe to the idea it came sometimes make some sense with extrajudicial killing, what we currently have is drone killings on a factory scale. It's disgusting.
I've been driving the same vehicle for 16 years and the only parts I've had to replace are the starter (< 3 months ago) and the battery (3 times in 16 years). You damn well better believe I have some brand loyalty.
Could it be this was the name inspiration for Mutt?
> Nothing in that statement can fairly be read as "there is no risk of human->human transmission of COVID-19".

So you'd like to be 'entitled to your own set of facts' about how to summarise that WHO post because I am a fallible human, correct?

Would you say that Facebook are composed of infallible humans who never misinterpret the results of dense scientific papers? Or can the human judgement they exercise on complex topics be mistaken?
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> might become necessary to wrap browsers in an isolating sandbox or VM just to be sure they can't touch things they're not supposed to.

Honestly I view this as a good idea regardless (it also helps contain exploits, in addition to official APIs). On Linux firejail is amazing for this (but also consider bubblewrap and others), and AFAIK sandboxie is a good choice on NT. No idea what sandboxing options are on Darwin - looks like it has something built in?
Considering the relative size of run of the mill systems:

1985, 512k ram, 1.2MB floppy drive, 20MB hard disk, 1.2kbps modem. ~1 MIPS.

2020, 8GB ram, 4.7GB DVD-R, 1TB storage, 50Mbps internet link. >2000 MIPS.
I have a question: what exactly is different? Wasn't clear in the blog post.

Do you prevent day-trading or something similar?
"I have roughly 2 tesco bags of Emulex FC 8Gbit cards and 1 tesco bag of QLogic."

Brilliant.
Funny, I know a guy doing just that, former roommate He was mostly writing code for things that handle municipal water supplies and other water monitoring stuff. He worked for a code shop that built the original system and after he left he kept doing maintenance work on the side until he went (mostly) full time at it.

OTOH, he's basically a one-man show, and has implied that if he had to scale -- e.g. add 3+ people -- then the $$$ wouldn't go as far. By himself it's a decent paycheck, though.

The problem is municipalities are all different, with different state/local requirements, and they often don't have the money or operational depth to support deeply customized software. I grew up near a park that had to shutdown for several months because they couldn't get enough funds together to have people mow the lawns; where would they find the money for custom code?
The old Dutch joint stock trading companies were required by their charters to liquidate and return all capital to investors every couple of years. That enforces strict discipline on management. However after a few decades of that owners began to trust managers enough that a permanently capitalized enterprise seemed more efficient.

The development of modern financial capitalism is important and fascinating. These structures that we take for granted -- tradeable claims on assets, separation of ownership and management, perpetual life corporations, etc. -- all came about to solve particular problems.

Personally I don't foresee the LTSE succeeding, but I'm happy to see people try to innovate.
My point is that true freedom of speech of already only partially possible on the platform owing to moderators selectively taking down millions of posts daily that violate the 'community guidelines'. Extending this to anti-vaccination rhetoric seems like a small expansion of existing policy, and addresses a problem causing real harm in society.

Cities are paying millions to stop outbreaks of previously defeated diseases like measles and counteract disinformation primarily being spread on social networks [1]. Should social networks not be somewhat culpable for their quantifiable externalities on society?

[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/09/us-measl...
Some of the problem with web UIs is poor discoverability of shortcuts. With some modest effort, you can create a web UI that is as easy to use for an expert as a mainframe form. It won't be exactly the same as a mainframe form (you could do that, but we're out of "modest effort" here), but it would be as easy to use. But there's no good story on how to discover the expert interface. For one thing, nobody even experts there to be an expert mode, so there's a vicious cycle in which it is never developed -> never used -> never developed etc.

But all the capabilities are there to turn a "down" cursor into going to the next form element down, or having CTRL- shortcuts for popular fields, etc. A nontrivial part of the problem is just that people don't even think about expert-mode users, let alone start trying to program for them. People see a web page and they are in a mindset of novice-mode UI, both developers and users.

A Web 1.0 interface with Javascript expert-mode shortcuts, and some selective pre-loading of things like form screens could probably just about match a mainframe UI on its own turf, then be able to extend it with modern touches. And while applying All The CSS could possibly slow it down again, the results could still be at least a bit prettier than a mainframe form.
Mac IIsi also had an easily over-clocked CPU (40 MHz crystal generating a 20MHz system clock could be easily swapped for a 50 MHz crystal [25 MHz system clock] with almost no downside).

I don't see this as foul play, though. They want to offer a range of price points and performance points across their product line to address the breadth of customers. That breadth of price point can easily be overall beneficial to customers. Then, engineers can go swap crystals if they want (I did it over my boss's objection, figuring I'd just buy a replacement if I botched it up.)
Do you mean to say my grandparents are purposely breaking the computer for more face time with the grandkids? I could see it, though this has only really been a necessity post-COVID, when it’d really be much better for them to not have a lot of physical interactions with those outside their local friend pod.
I had no idea this existed, thank you for sharing. As far as an investment of time goes, I just saw this as a challenge and I enjoyed working on it.
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This is generally a sleight of hand where one person's opinions are being referred to as 'facts' while the other's opinions are not. The rabbit hole here goes deeper than most people wish to believe because we're nested so deep into a particular dominant narrative.
Unfortunately, Heidl Energy is no more:
"Heindl Energy GmbH ran out of cash in 2020 and filed for insolvency. The patents and the engineering work has been sold to an interim investor, New Energy Let´s Go, who is now looking for a new strategic investor willing to continue the development with the goal of constructing a pilot project to prrof the concept."

from: https://heindl-energy.com/about-us/
> So you would say that the WHO should be 'entitled to their own set of facts', separate from that of the PRC, correct?

No, not really. "The WHO doesn't have reports of X" and "No one has reports of X" are separate (if related) facts.

> That would imply that "How do we determine the credibility of organizations?" is a sometimes-difficult exercise in human judgement, correct?

"Is this organization credible?" is an opinion, that you might back up with various facts.
How was Evan able to work on Vue while employed by Google? Didn't his contract have a clause in it (as I know most tech companies do) that more or less states: anything you make while working here is ours, regardless of wether you do it in your free time or not (especially an Angular competitor).
Emma Briant on Cambridge Analytica investigation: it seems shoved under carpet
Well, some people would like to sell us on the point that you can only form your character, be a good leader, a successful person, if you read $amount books, or at least "the right ones". Not everybody got the money or the time to do that.

And it's not about poor people or imitating their lifestyle, to suffer willingly or whatnot, but it's the "I'm better than you, because I read lot of books"-expression that more and more people communicate.

And in that case they are pretty similar to the over the top minimalists: "If you own more things than me, you are not enlightened enough." The same goes for some readers "If you haven't read this and that... better stop talking to me."

Maybe it's just my LinkedIn filter bubble, but the German tech/entrepreneur scene is filled with that. Everybody's writing a book and if you haven't read it, you're out of the game.
Random invisible divs aren't likely to defeat a moderately motivated scraper, though. Depending on what they're looking for, it could be as simple as getting the inner text of a sufficiently high-up element and matching a regex.

More complex scrape defeating measures I've seen are blobs of JS that need evaluating in order to generate URL parameters (all that needs doing is extract the JS and run it in a JS engine, if you don't want to drive a headless browser, with care of course!) or that need a captcha defeating (just buy some deathbycaptcha API calls).
Agreed. I liken it to curating a long lived social media identity. Stacking comments on top of each other, most devoid of depth and substance.

I guess everyone has it in their mind to fritter and waste time in their offhand ways, though.

Garbage is one thing. Stacking rocks was probably great fun to primitive human brains lacking experience with technology.

If the goal of hiking is shed today and connect to the past, simpler life, why bother being so distracted about stacks of rocks like you might have seen on human paths of travel hundreds of years ago?
It's more likely to me that Facebook recognizes that the anti-vaxx community is one of the most active and most engaged segment of their users. Suddenly banning the topic they care most about is going to trigger a mass exodus of some of their most valuable assets, while maintaining the status quo just causes a little bad publicity. I've yet to see any mass exits of users because FB isn't doing something about it, so that's the profitiable option for them.
> children are an a-priori good for society

Tell that to all the children born into poverty with parents who don't want them/are indifferent to them, and to the communities they inhabit who bear the fallout.
Wow, I didn't know they went bankrupt! Sad, thank you Heindl for paving the way forward. Innovation is truly a collaborative effort.
https://heindl-energy.com/about-us/
>> Small kids don't belong in hotels and restaurants

Uh, what???
I would never turn my lights on while trying to use the restroom at night. I explicitly don't want to turn them on because it wakes me up fully. As for your A/C suggestion, that's what thermostats are for. Those have been automated for years now.

I agree with the poster you're responding to. The only true automation that hasn't been done in the home are those that are unimportant. I certainly don't need Alexa to open my garage door, regulate the temperature of my house, and so forth. If I really really want to be able to turn lights on and off without walking over to the light switch, I've had options for that for over 20 years now.
There are a lot of countries that don't currently engage in genocide against ethnic minorities. Some are even named "China" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China
No, the guaranteed negative return is only if you expect rising inflation. Whether $1T in new money turns into inflation depends on what people choose to do with the new money. If they're all terrified about economic uncertainty, they won't spend the new money, and there won't be inflation.

But you're right insofar as the Fed is trying to change inflation expectations by printing money. But so far they've failed because no one believes they'll actually let inflation happen once the economy recovers. Hence Jerome Powell's recent statements about the Fed changing how it trades off inflation against economic growth. It's a way to more credibly commit to letting inflation actually happen.
I suppose there might be scenarios in which he'd recuse himself, or not care either way on an issue.
Fair point. Though in many large environments the number of people with access to the IPMI console is greater than the number of people with physical access who can swap out a CPU.

I'm just trying to speculate what might be driving demand for this type of feature, since TPMs already exist.
Absolutely this, I bet if you gave each parent a check for $10k (less than what we are spending per student) to spend on education as they see fit, we would have a very different (and more efficient) system.