skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the best things I’ve done recently has been using huggin.

In terms of news I have a bunch of RSS feeds for my industry and use huginn to do two things:

1. Filter them, to increase signal:noise
2. Set a schedule so that I get a “morning briefing” with industry news.

This way I’m not inundated throughout the day.

I do the same thing with hn and other personally interesting sources, but have those delivered Friday afternoon

I still skim hn (why I’m here now) but mostly looking to see if there is anything I want to comment on. If I see a neat headline I know I can read the details later.

I also read the economist (a weekly) and listen to and read books to stay more generally aware of the world

Getting away from a continuous feed has been really great
Pi-KVM – Open and Cheap DIY IP-KVM on Raspberry Pi
But clearly just being status-quo isn't conservatism, at least if you think limited government is a fundamental aspect of conservatism, in which case that doesn't qualify really anyone in recent history.

Biden's spending plan of trillions of dollars isn't progressive? Give me a break.
The beginning of the failed neoliberal politics.
Hi. "Top developer" (if that can be really quantified in the way you mean, I almost certainly qualify) here.

What keeps me from returning to the medical space is not trusting other people to take privacy and data security (not HIPAA and definitely not HIPPA) seriously enough. I don't feel sufficiently aligned with the decisions of any medical company I've worked for to compromise my ethics for them.

The asks HIPAA makes are minimal, largely reasonable where they exist, and are more about responsibility and management than anything a "top developer" has to care about.
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It means that there is genuine disagreement within the party about how best to handle it. Some call for radical change; others prefer a more incremental approach. The disagreement is real and substantial, and there are genuine unknowns and risks.

And that leads to real political risks: no matter what they will be tarred with the brush of their most radical element, while the radicals feel that they aren't being listened to. As a sibling comment to yours put it, the party is "largely funded by the same people" as their opponents.

So they're unable to put forward a radical program, and seem to get little traction on incremental changes. That, I believe, manifests as what the OP thinks of as "unable to focus".
PM for DO Kubernetes here. My views are biased.

This is an insightful article. A learning for me was how the author managed to switch multiple cloud providers even while being a one man SAAS.

Kubernetes is overwhelming because of 2 things: Overload of terminology, and Distributed systems day 2 operations.

Author succeeds so well because he has a starter stack (install, CI pipeline, secure, monitor, scale) maintained as code, and it works every time.

For someone starting new, the learning curve is high. Bootstrapping is easy, but day 2 on kubernetes is hard. Benefits outweigh is learning curve imho.

Specific to DigitalOcean kubernetes API server issues, we have rolled out some resource provisioning improvements for newly created clusters very recently. Also making ongoing improvements to backend monitoring.
>It's like claiming "it's unwise to brush aside any argument that reading HN makes your skin turn green", it's entirely baseless; I don't understand why the burden of proof should rest on me.

I agree, which is why I have provided several resources to engage with the philosophical (and by following references, psychological and sociological) literature on the topic of the intersection between violent video games, morality, and (more dubiously and controversially) real world behavior here[0]. The arguments go for and against, but no author to my knowledge has argued that video games and their players do not at least qualify for moral consideration. Furthermore, these arguments are sometimes agnostic regarding major meta-ethical positions. Is this the kind of base for the argument you're looking for?

>For example, I personally hold the view that lotteries and similar games are unethical, but is it really fair of me to cast those who play such games as "objectively immoral"?

There's some concept shuffling here which does not accurately get to the heart of morality and moral resposibility. The word 'morality' is generally used in a normative sense (consider war, vegetarianism, killing, advertising, the environment, etc. as topics we frequently speak of in the normative sense), but your usage of the concept in describing lotteries as unethical targets the descriptive sense - a code accepted by an individual or a community[1].

The normative sense, which I believe the article and GP targets, concerns a code that would be accepted and followed by all rational people given access to moral facts (and processes of deliberation). Those facts may be deducible a priori (but need not be). This is the same sense in which someone might say "you should not do X".

Moral judgements may also imply moral responsibility - not only should you "not do X" as a rational person, but you are in some way responsible if you do do X. Moral responsibility pertaining to both meanings of morality is widely (but not unanimously) accepted by philosophers.

Building on moral responsibility, we finally reach moral blameworthiness, which allows us to "cast those who play games" one way or the other, or reserve judgement.

There are quate a few steps between [deducing that some video games, and indeed playing them, is morally significant] to [casting someone as 'objectively immoral']. Ask, however, that if there is an argument showing that torture is wrong, would we be justified in labelling a torturer with full mental and rational capacity and access to moral facts to be "objectively immoral"? If so, why wouldn't we be able to say the same if the papers I have cited make convincing arguments about video games and players of video games?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25187823

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/
A part time carpenter is still a carpenter. Evans claim wasn’t that Murdoch is an amateur. His claim was that Murdoch was categorically not involved with VC.
I have used https://calculator.aws/ in the past, but to be honest it's difficult to account for the egress costs/networking fees using their calculator. Simple things like networking between Availability Zones/Regions can really creep up in your monthly bills if you don't watch out.

I do track my expenses on a sheet manually, using a ballpark figure. At the end of the month I compare it with my AWS bill. If something seems off, I investigate it further. But I don't try to predict exact figures, more like expected ranges.

I do miss the fixed-cost nature of DigitalOcean/Linode. I didn't have to worry about sudden charges, you pay $20/mo per node and that's it. Lots of bandwidth included.

But for the most part it's fine, as long no bot starts bombarding your services with useless requests, egress costs tend to scale with revenue in my case, as my product's pricing is based on usage.

I also have Cloudflare in front of my AWS stack, it has blocked a few small attacks already, but nothing serious yet.
To the haters— low-barrier-to-entry tinkering is the sort of thing the raspberry pi is built for. As a semi-practical example use case my raspberry pi 3b runs shairport and pihole in separate docker containers which has been a breeze to configure and has no noticeable slowness. Just being able to try new containers and services without having to worry about messing up your root environment (which would take re imaging the sd card among other things) makes it worth doing for my use. I think if you’re comparing it to a production workload you’re in the wrong ballpark.
> we could see energy prices decline at a rate reminiscent of Moore's law.

Please do not base your vision of the future on exponentially-growing energy consumption
Monopolies (or even high concentrations) of power are bad, whether that's financial or legal or whatever. However, democratization can redistribute that power back amongst the people. The goal should be to work towards nearly even power, which prevents the abuses in power. If the government was controlled by the people, its "monopoly" wouldn't really be one, because it couldn't be abused by those who wield power within it.
Tim Draper is a VC and invested in Theranos.
So many aspects of our lives can potentially be linked back to the economy. Not really trying to make the argument that it is directly related, but income and obesity are highly correlated. Cheap calories often are bad calories. If going off the gold standard impacted the distribution of wealth. It might be plausible that could impact obesity.

* again, not aruging for or against the correlation. Just pointing out that it is hardly laughable.
London didn't vote for Brexit (especially not The City) and a lot of founders and employees wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the EU.
I also published a video on the project (for those who are more visually-inclined): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fcbP7lEdzY
none of those people are economists, and that is in no meaningful way a statement on bretton woods
'Smart' doorbells for sale on Amazon came stocked with security vulnerabilities
> our currency is being debased at a rate we have never seen.

Looks at $1 gasoline. Looks at $2 eggs. Looks at $3 gallon of milk. Debased. Sure thing. (Maybe gasoline is an unfair example, but essential good prices are largely unchanged in the last decade. The point stands)
It was created by a business with an obvious agenda (and therefore an obvious conclusion they'd like you to draw).
You can make coal from biomass, mainly wood (I'm not sure if some other plants could be used), but I guess it is antieconomical if you need lots of coal for high furnaces to make iron and/or steel.
I am not a fan of Youtube's recommendation system either. I think it favors too much "more of the stuff you recently viewed". Sometimes I watch 4-5 videos on a subject, then I move on but my feed keeps contaminated suggesting more about those things over and over again.

Youtube should really trying recommending stuff that's not "exactly the same as you saw, but from a different channel".

Also, for some weird reason (and partially contradicting what I said above) Youtube has been insisting in suggesting Jiu Jitsu videos to me for a very long time. Sometimes I watch MMA-related or Muay Thai-related stuff, but never Jiu Jitsu stuff. And it insists on always showing me Jiu Jitsu stuff.
Thank you for explaining the use case to me.
well when you are service that has to rely on them to renew your site every 90 days, the data alone from different site is worth money.

“ The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.” ~The Economist, May 6, 2017
Having implemented a threaded Forth with WASM, the most annoying problem is that WASM doesn't support jumps to arbitrary memory locations. You can either call functions (and you don't have access to the call stack), jump backward to a previously defined block entry point or jump forward to the end of a previously defined block. Threading then requires a double indirection in the core loop, and you have to use an explicit IP "register" in a global variable.
Hahahaha what is this, a hit piece from 2007?
I find the great decoupling fascinating and I don't think it gets enough study. There are a couple other things that I think contributed:

The massive increase of women joining the labor market in the US just after 1970 largely as a consequence of the widespread adoption of oral contraceptives in the young population. [1]

The People's Republic Of China was formally admitted to the UN in 1971, and following that in 1972 Nixon visited - effectively opening China as an actual labor market.

Edit: I think one of the major takeaways should be that, changes in worldwide monetary policy allowed for pent up demand for globalization to be realized and that accelerated shifts from onshore to offshore manufacturing. Basically it allowed the US to stop building, and start buying.

[1] https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/2624453/Goldin_P...
I'd be interested if one of the various hacks for PCIe (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/10/giving-the-pi-4-pci-express/) to plug it in natively would work and, if yes, at what speed.
Those are investors, not economists.

Also: the Forbes article about Buffett buying one gold-related stock notes that: "Mr. Buffett is not a fan of gold as an investment. " (Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertberger/2020/08/28/warren-... )
Exactly what happened during the 2008 crisis. Bankers got bailed out and everyone else got screwed. It's almost guaranteed that the Biden administration will take the same tact.
Essentially, this website wants to make you believe that going off the gold standard (which only existed on paper at the time) is the root cause of all the bad things in the world. All documented by cherry-picked numbers and shoehorned graphs.
And now we are supposed to buy Bitcoin to make everything better.

It is crazy that this wacky stuff is upvoted on HN.
Before kids I would semi-frequently fall asleep while taxiing and wake up when landing. It almost felt magical when that happened, like travel was instantaneous.
Also the blobbackup subreddit is a good place go for updates, release notes, discussion, etc [1]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlobBackup
Plus no wildcard support (which Let's Encrypt provides).

They say "No REST API access" - but presumably ACME does work?
I see this quite a bit. I also see a lot of people waiting around until the next Zoom call to present issues that should and could have been dealt with over Slack/Email when they first arose. I'm not sure if it's a matter of people wanting brownie points for speaking or if there is an intention to avoid owning such issues by blurting about them in a time constrained meeting where there isn't an opportunity to discuss details, impact, and next steps.
>>>What the Germans and Japanese did was of a scale and brutality that had not been inflicted in 'civilized' warfare for centuries.

Doesn't that boil down to skewed perceptions re: the nature of war as much as anything? That's a question for HN writ large, not you specifically, as I think you capture understanding of that with your quotation marks. WW2's death toll was in the same order of magnitude as WW1's, which should have already shattered misconceptions of clean wars. However, I think WW1 had a higher ratio of combatant casualties vis-a-vis noncombatants. WW2 being a "regression to the mean" so to speak with regards to brutalizing civilians, combined with the growth of media dissemination, may be why it's made such a socio-psychological mark.

>>>And neo-nazis are a thing now, and they're not nice.

Communists are a thing, and they're not nice. There's a lot of reasons we never had mass-market video games singing the praises of Konstantin Rokossovsky (the only Soviet war hero I can think of as photogenic as Rommel), and the virtuousness of the ideology and/or its adherents isn't the deciding factor IMO. We also don't spend anywhere near as much time and energy, as a society, highlighting the sole modern ideology with the dubious distinction of a larger 8-figure excess death count than national socialism/fascism. But I digress...

Agreed that the time scale of Romans vs Germans is an issue. I don't know how we can consistently get people to "zoom out" and look at things with a larger, multi-generational timescale in mind and see that the things they are taking exception to are closer to "business as usual" than they realize.
Same. I got a lot of stress from worrying about patient safety, but HIPAA was always just another set of requirements to meet.
https://github.com/feross/safe-buffer

Looks like one of those "utility" modules that get used in a project because there's no proper standard library for node.js

At least it's better than the infamous "left-pad" module, which was just a single function
The challenge is that the most valuable parts of a Tesla, the battery pack and motors, have their own traceable electronic IDs. In the case of the Tesla Model 3/Y, the motors won't work without the VCSEC, the security controller from the car, which also needs an unlock sequence to activate. AFAIK separating the VCSEC from the motors is still an open research problem, as is unlocking the VCSEC without a key card.

As for the battery, that also is traceable and necessarily so if the new operator wishes to use a Supercharger. A Tesla that can't supercharge is much less valuable than a Tesla that can, so that would be pretty hard to hide from the end user. A stolen battery ends up being a con job on the end buyer.
It cares very much about the difference, because it lets you set both separately.
Ok, in the context of your original question, it looks you were wondering if it's possibile to 'render' SCORM data within play.presenta? If those data are HTML files it's quite possible, otherwise if that data need to be interpreted, it's another story
It still falls under the title - "WTF happened in 1971?" Also, you can clearly see that obesity is a modern problem and I think it is related to a certain kind of apathy that has happened and likely related to income stagnation, as well as drug and alcohol use.
You can do that, but you will only get some of the features (a distributed backup system with an undo function). The most important one IMO is merging and that does not work on arbitrary formats serialized to text. E.g. let two 3D artists fork a blender 3D file in GIT, both do changes and commit them. Until here everything seems fine, now they want to merge their changes ... and suddenly everything falls apart.

Edit: To clarify, if you don't need merging than you also don't need distributed VCS and centralized VCS will be sufficient. That is why I explicitly talked about distributed VCS.
The book Winner Take All Politics claims it’s due to rule changes within political parties such as the presidential primaries, giving far more importance to high earners and shareholders.
A handful of "too big to fail" companies will get freshly printed bailout money, while the small business owners destroyed by COVID lockdowns will be told to go work minimum wage at Walmart, that was exempt from lockdowns from day one.

And for the rest of us, well, wages won't go up to match the freshly created dollars, but prices will.
This was something I wrote at the time. https://www.cnet.com/news/linux-to-gplv3-a-practical-matter-... (Unfortunately, the original article referenced seems to be lost to the mists of time.)

The theory I guess is that, even absent a contributor license agreement, contributors to the kernel are effectively contributing to a collective work and that the project as a whole could make changes even if individual contributors did not agree.
WSJ reporter: Beijing appears to be blowing coronavirus vaccine race
Not really an issue. Knowledge steadily accumulates over time.

The key foundations of human intelligence and ingenuity will always remains regardless of whether or not fossil fuels exist for us to exploit. Non-renewable resources only served to speed up our industrialization.
If you can manage to make mirrors (maybe even using rotating mercury) using wood for your initial heat source you might be able to use solar thermal for metallurgy.
Would be interesting to look at this from a global perspective.
What about income relative to GDP, and income equality for all people on earth?

Could it be that globalisation has benefited other people than US citizens since 1971?
If you exclude all the dumb VC investments after the fact then sure the industry looks awesome. The problem is making distinctions beforehand. Exclude non investment fund VC’s and you exclude most of the best investments and keep a lot of cruft. Net result professional VC’s under preform the market.

Include non professional investors and you get successes like George Forman and a ton of far less successful athletes etc. which on net also under preform the market.
Sometimes good things happen for bad reasons
Pandemic Crowds Bring ‘Rivergeddon’ to Montana’s Rivers
Thanks. I prefer the Nixon dollar float theory. The OPEC oil crisis was only 6 months. And as you say, oil prices in general have not had a clear trend. So those don't seem related to what is being presented on WTF Happened in 1971.

When the government can print money willy-nilly, it can finance any boondoggle it wants to. This free money would pull qualified people away from more productive endeavors. It makes sense that this trend would, over time, impoverish society and enrich those in Washington's orbit.
I highly recommend https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-fut... (or read https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii119/articles/aaron-benana...)

It's a solid back-to-the-basics refresher. Without making causal guesses, the stats clearly show that demand stopped absorbing increasing supply, the Keynesian feedback loop was broken, and everything went to shit since.

The causes seem numerous and intricate but a few observations:

- As pointed out in https://phenomenalworld.org/interviews/trade-wars-are-class-..., everyone trying to be exporters in general leads to a glut. Here is sort of the origins of that, with the US "overproducing" as it exports to a post-WWII destroyed world, then Japan and Germany coming back to try to export more, and then everyone else thereafter.

- From the perspective That 1930-1970 is the anomaly, cycles of destruction and rebuilding are a hack to help create enough labor scarcity for society to function better.

- We'd be better of making labor scare and compelling investment in physical capital by shrinking the workday than starting world wars!!
I'd say it's a correlation.
Lennart Poettering Wants to Bring Linux Home Directories into the 21st Century
They added 32 bit x86 support to Rosetta apparently just to get CrossOver to work. This could be a reason for them to never remove Rosetta. Maybe they'll just remove the x86 userland.
I think GP is talking about severity of symptoms if you get COVID, rather than your chance of getting it at all.
> So ironically the backwards compatibility MS offers it users come at the expense of backwards compatibility for developer skills.

im not sure this follows necessarily: whats to prevent ms from say, writing a wrapper that packages up said legacy apps and supplies the libraries they need, so they can keep running and ms can still dump thier old frameworks and stop supportimg them in newer os's?

basically, what im saying is, for legacy apps, they can be "bottled up" and still run on newer systems without harming developer compatibility and modernizing (wine proves this imo)

but maybe im missing some important detail...
> I don't want to deal with any sort of migration / funky re-install, personally.

Isn't the benefit of Homebrew that it all goes into /usr/local and it can just blow everything away if necessary? You could run `brew leaves` to see what packages you have, uninstall everything, and reinstall. Easier than keeping track of what you've manually installed where.
Good to know. I qualified my statement because it had been a while since I reviewed HDMI specs.

Thanks for the quickie update.
It probably varies greatly based on whether you're sitting on the ground firing SAMs based on RADAR returns or looking out the canopy of a pointy-nosed jet. Although if you're that close to a fat target, you've probably basically won the engagement.
> When the lights turn off, most people seem to have no issue falling asleep and then wake up several hours later.

I have a feeling they're all struggling to sleep or sleeping poorly.
Vitamin K2 is critical to bone health and most/best forms of it (MK-4) are found in organ meat and fermented dairy.

There are supplements derived from natto that are vegan friendly, but in the less desirable MK-7 form.