skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unprecendent gap between the economic fundamentals and their financial representations.

The fundamental fundamental is the house always wins, and the leaders of the US have indicated they will do whatever it takes to maintain broad market asset prices.
Preparing for a crash is easy if you don't care when it is: sell everything and sit on the cash (or better still gold).

Of course, if you do that you'll lose out on more from missed opportunities than you save from missed crashes. Soneone who did that in 2008 would be perfectly safe right now. They'd have missed out on quadrupling their money. But they'd be perfectly prepared.

So you can do as suits you. But the best strategy is to have a mix of bonds and stock. Never more than 70% bonds (as risk goes UP past roughly that point). The more you are able to deal with big movements (up or down), the more stock.

This is what Warren Buffet and others have endorsed for normal every day humans like us. The mathematics backs it up.
> It's not like $1MM in retirement money means "set for life" anymore.

It absolutely does, unless you are planning on living in a mansion eating nothing but caviar.
oh you're that guy who got mad when I called you an asshole for being an asshole! I remember now!
The explicit calls to specific acts of extreme violence against specific people would be chargeable as illegal incitement if shouted on a street corner.
I think when one side, and one side ONLY, sends armed militia with pipe bombs to storm the capitol, then yes, you can associate violence and death much more with one side than the other.
This is a very old document, probably written in the mid '90s. Historical interest only.
As many have said, LowEndBox is a great resource. However it's not as updated as frequently as it used to be. The forums however are still very active: https://www.lowendtalk.com/

https://www.serverhunter.com/ is a solid site for searching for providers, much easier than using LEB.

BuyVM https://buyvm.net/ are my go to provider. Been using them for years and they are probably one of (if not the highest) ranked providers on LEB/LET. The recently upgraded all their nodes to Ryzen 3900X's and NVME SSD's.

Their block storage is stupid cheap at like $5 per 1tb - https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/
If you add Pinterest to your blocklist [1], does that count as better results? That said, we have our own index of websites posted on HN and other interesting communities. It will add filters like size and "privacy rank". Unfortunately it's not possible to experiment with it in production yet.

[1] https://okeano.com/blocklist
I have a pretty simple rule for evaluating articles: if not indicated otherwise I assume they stand on their own and that the article writer means what they say. It's on them to communicate any circumstances that are required to be able to read the article, at a minimum a link should be provided to such context if it is available.

Just read this thread and see how many people are wrong-footed by the article.
I absolutely love the simplicity of Scuttlebutt, but the APIs and (dev)user extensibility are anything but, imo. I hope for continued work there.

As an example, i wanted to write an application on top of SSB. I found it difficult to determine _how_ to achieve this though. Conceptually the appendlog is stupid simple, but SSB still has meaningful complexity in the secure handshake implementation. While they do have libs, it mostly seemed JavaScript (NodeJS) was the only meaningfully complete lib to use (where as i am on Rust). I also found it difficult to determine what the network would accept. If i write an app and start pushing blobs onto the network, will they reject it because they're not of the same type? What if my data is too big? Am i abusing the net?

I also had difficulty conceptualizing how to write app data in SSB. It felt like i needed to abandon SQL or common application interfaces for data. Having to reinvent wheels in the application code because SSB-data is mostly (i think?) a JSON blob store felt bad.

Shared identities also proved to be a bit of a blocker. Since the app i was writing wanted multiple devices to author data the notion of a device identity came up, and at the time that didn't seem well (or at all) supported. I didn't want to invent my own mechanism that would later seem invalid to the community.

For now i decided to hold off and implement my own SSB friendly data storage mechanism. Since i know the data layer of SSB is simple, and SSB folks have proven it can handle Git fine (they distribute their source in SSB iirc). I imagine my own data later will plug into SSB without issue.

These aren't critiques of SSB exactly, just highlighting some areas (for anyone interested) where SSB is currently weak in my mind. I love SSB. Even if i end up using an entirely different p2p tech stack than SSB, it has changed my way of thinking on this. What SSB does right is everything that i dislike about IPFS. SSB is small, simple tooling. It feels like Git. Not some huge complex network of IPFS nodes, but 2 people, 3 people. It can work over P2P, email, floppy disk. It can be more, but it also can be less. And that's something more projects could adopt.
> "Trump supporters don’t support free speech or freedom of expression as a concept to be applied to everyone. They just want to have free speech themselves and for everyone else to shut up."

I think that is most people, especially when they are emotional.
There are two insights that helped me do well in that regard

— 80% of the work is done in the kitchen. Getting your nutrition right is far more important than anything else.

— Integrating physical activity in your life through low friction means. The main roadblock here is the psychological burden of exercising regularly when you don't want to. Hence the more of that burden you offload by integrating it as a habit, the easier it will be. Most of your efforts are to be directed towards making physical activity as friction free as possible

These in turn have their own corollaries

— Thinking in terms of specific diets invites failure as opposed to thinking in terms of lifestyle and changing your relationship to food

— Separating exercise as this high-priority activity that you have to do is an invitation to failure as well, as it increases the psychological burden and unconscious resentment. It's far easier to rediscover the inherent pleasure of physical activity as you sense your strength build and your muscles and heart activate.
Proof of work makes this expensive.
If I was an evil authoritarian leader secretly steralising women then I'd not tweet anything and tell all my other minions to not tweet anything that would raise questions.

But irrespective of what I would do myself, this tweet does neither prove for or against such actions and therefore it's not Twitter's role to silence it. Let our governments and independent investigative journalists do their work and give us a counter view if they disagree with that tweet. There was no need for Twitter to get involved. I think they did that to balance their editorial decision on Trump and to please both, the democratic party as well as the republican because social media companies fear that new legislation could harm them and so they try to appeal to everyone now.
Sure, from a moral standpoint the Romans or Mongols would probably have zero qualms with using biological weapons, nukes, enslaving the conquered populace, etc. These are obviously all totally taboo today.

If you read about the Mongol siege of Kyiv, or the Romans destroying and salting Carthage, they are way beyond anything considered acceptable today.
I am an American expat who has been living in Thailand since Trump was elected.

I can forgive uncertainty about covid until March, despite my part of the world taking it very seriously. After that point I think America as a whole, and the Trump administration in particular really shit the bed. We have been wearing masks here on a mandatory basis since February, and have arguably handled covid better than any nation besides New Zealand.
Good discussion also benefits from pithy remarks, and suffers from bloviating.
I had a conversation with a friend about this, I asked him what Parler is like and on a scale of 1-10 how extreme it was. He said it depended and that there was some perfectly normal content but that the number of clicks to get to a more radical place and thus start to see the extreme side and potentially be radicalized was much shorter than say Reddit. His supporting evidence that one of the first suggested places to follow you see when you signup is the OANN.

I'm not personally comfortable with the easy bake radicalizing from that so to speak and is what pushed me over the edge in being okay with the ban. We wouldn't tolerate a place where it was easy to breed other types of extremism why is this any different was my thought.
It's absolutely astounding to me how many folks blindly sign legal documents. Especially employment related. Whenever I've pushed back on an employment contract, NDA, or similar it's always met with sudden confusion - as though this has never happened before. In fairness, it's almost never met with negatively. But it shows that no one else has ever bothered to question it. And when I talk to colleagues I definitely get the sense that no one ever really reads these things or questions them.
See also Samuel P. Huntington:

> American history is driven by periodic moments of moral convulsion. The late Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington noticed that these convulsions seem to hit the United States every 60 years or so: the Revolutionary period of the 1760s and ’70s; the Jacksonian uprising of the 1820s and ’30s; the Progressive Era, which began in the 1890s; and the social-protest movements of the 1960s and early ’70s.

> These moments share certain features. People feel disgusted by the state of society. Trust in institutions plummets. Moral indignation is widespread. Contempt for established power is intense.

> A highly moralistic generation appears on the scene. It uses new modes of communication to seize control of the national conversation. Groups formerly outside of power rise up and take over the system. These are moments of agitation and excitement, frenzy and accusation, mobilization and passion.

> In 1981, Huntington predicted that the next moral convulsion would hit America around the second or third decade of the 21st century—that is, right about now. And, of course, he was correct.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington
That is a very good question. Many people would like to know.
Why don't you ask him? hn@ycombinator.com
Just dont have some bad actors in otherwise a peaceful demonstration bro
Ask HN: Best alternative to Alexa?
I've dabbled with HomeAssistant and other components but I'm looking for a ready made product that I can just plug in without the creepiness of Amazon or Google.
The post by the Chinese embassy is not advocating for forced sterilization. Rather, it is disputing the claim that forced sterilization is happening and saying the decline in birth rate is due to choice by the Uyghur women.

Twitter's decision therefore takes a stand on what the "truth" is.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think a vast majority of that money went to building bicycle and traffic infrastructure. We did not put it in the savings like Norway did.

We'll see soon how we will manage without that income - if they do actually shut down the fields.
Actually what happened is the president tried to hold a rally, and because it turned violent, Democrat-controlled BigTech used that as an excuse to purge their political adversaries from social media and even shut down social media websites they don't like.

It's absolutely sickening to see Democrats willingly giving up their free speech rights, just because they're angry with one man. You can't just shut down entire segments of the telecommunications infrastructure as a way to wage your political battles. That's a childish abuse of power, and everyone who isn't outraged by it should be ashamed of themselves and frankly grow up.
I am gonna be fired soon, techlead does not wants me to do things
I am sure i am going to be fired soon. Teamlead does not wants to give me any tasks to do, probably woried i will break things.
I spend few first months mostly writing tests, but coverage plan got achieved so there is no need to do that, at least in my opinion,
as >50% coverage is causing code to be more difficult to mantain, its like you get "concreted" under flaky automated tests, that fails after
every little change. So i tried to change strategy and "refactor" - means rewriting old very long methods in bunch of several shorter
methods, changing long method signatures into parameter objects etc. Techlead is talking constantly about rewriting monolith into
microservices, so i can try to do that, and i also try to learn docker, so deployment will be easier for new workers. Anyway its all
on my own accord, techlead does not want to talk with me, and does not expect me to do anything, so i dont feel motivated. Every weekend
i say to myself - "i will learn microservices and docker so i will know what i am doing" - but it always ends on procrastinating and
i spend those 2 days just browsing internet minlessly and watching movies. I hate myself and job, i started drinking to cope.
I am not gonna leave myself because i wont get new job any time soon. I spend few years unemployed and i was employed in this company only for
4 months. But i just want to be fired so i have free time to write my bachelor thesis and end my study, i need some soulsearching,
because i dont even know if i still enjoy programming
Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts regarding antifa’s actions in Portland and the BLM protests earlier in the year? Would you have any problem with AWS hosting their services and helping them organize?

I’m asking this question in good faith because I’m having a hard time separating the protest on Jan 6th from basically any other protest I saw last summer, including in DC.
Let me pose the question to you again: do you believe fascists/segregationists/etc should be able to insert their platform into school curricula? Because again, that is the logical extreme of what you’re proposing. Or is that an acceptable form of viewpoint discrimination?
That doesn't answer the question. Moreover, the underlying problem with your argument is that "overreact" is entirely subjective. Everyone would agree that overreactions are bad, but the proponents of action would say it's not an overreaction and the opponents would say it is. The argument doesn't advance at all.
Declarative Docker Container Service in NixOS (2020)
Have there been any breakthroughs recently? Or just sharing to share?
I’m 31 years old and have been using Linux most of my life. A few of my friends and people at work do too, but this is the first time I’ve heard /etc pronounced as etsy. It’s always been “etcetera” for me. This led me to look up the history of that directory:
“ But people encountered a situation to keep some files which can be a config file or a data file or a socket file or some other files. So they implemented a folder to keep all these files in it and they named it as /etc(As said earlier etcetera). As time passed the meaning of this folder has changed but not the name “etc”. Now /etc folder means a central location for all your configuration files are located and this can be treated as nerve centre of your Linux/Unix machine.”
(from https://www.linuxnix.com/linux-directory-structure-explained... )

If that’s truly the case, I’m curious how it got from “etcetera” to “etsy”
"2) The police purposefully stood down and allowed this to happen while doing the minimum to make it seem like they tried."

seems likely that the trumpers gave that order so their mob could get in
"Why Planting Trees Won't Save Us"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/tree...
Wikipedia is a treasure. Everyone wants free access to information, well here it is. Put your money where your mouth is and donate.
Can you see what IPs are watching what videos, as with bittorrent?
Planting Trees Won't Save Us
I've been saying the same, but sometimes I doubt something like that could be implemented. "Based on proven science" doesn't work for most things social.

How do you teach someone to self-analyze and understand where their problems are actually coming from? To question their own conclusions and rethink what they know?

Still, it's possible to improve the current education system, by a lot. The current "learn this, don't ask why" doesn't work, and to make it worse, parents can be just as uninformed and stubborn as their kids, so they'll come to school raising hell over their lil' precious' bad grades.
It is most obviously a joke.
Free speech is generally considered to be the ability to say things without government censorship, imprisonment, physical harm, etc. The type of thing the US first amendment is meant to protect.

What right wingers often seem to want is "consequence free speech", where they are protected not just from the above, but from any negative responses or criticisms.
Oh I loved visiting your city in the summer, hope to have a chance to visit again in winter!!
> big tech takes even moderate voices down

Can you cite some "moderate voices" that have been taken down by big tech? They're all still up as far as I can see. Trump incited an attack on congress. He got banned. Parler deliberately cultivated an extreme community of violent rhetoric (they really did, have you looked at that site?). They got banned. Who else? Seems like only people reasonably identifiable as extremists are affected.

I remain horrified at the right wing community's ability to rationalize violence. The President directed an attack on Congress last Wednesday to prevent his opponent's certification. And... what people really want to talk about is Parler losing their hosting?

(Edit to note that you refused to answer the question and jumped off on a WHATABOUTBLM?! tangent instead. In fact, contra your hyperbole, no moderate right wing voices have been censored or silenced.)
Well, the love of money is the root of all of evil...
Samuel Huntington observed 'convulsions' every 60 years in American history:

> American history is driven by periodic moments of moral convulsion. The late Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington noticed that these convulsions seem to hit the United States every 60 years or so: the Revolutionary period of the 1760s and ’70s; the Jacksonian uprising of the 1820s and ’30s; the Progressive Era, which began in the 1890s; and the social-protest movements of the 1960s and early ’70s.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing...

The 2020s was about when the US was 'due' for something to happen, so the next decade or so will apparently be a bit of a ride.
> Don't you dare equate BLM with the Right.

I didn't. You did.

I specifically said Portland, and yes, many of the people there involved were acting under the pretense of BLM but imo it was mostly just black bloc antifa being antifa. Portland antifa groups have a known and consistent history of this behavior, they've exploited BLM to amplify their attacks and they've used the support they received for doing so to embolden their actions.

They have literally stalked and murdered trump supporters in the street, they have shot people, and they have blinded and maimed anyone that gets in their way.
> it seems to me that this is diplomatic matters and should be handled by the government

You'd obviously see similar arguments about keeping Trump's account. What if the leader of a country calls for violence? Keep it because diplomacy?

As someone else mentioned and I now agree with, Twitter isn't an arm of the government. It's a U.S. company that has rules. Government officials can use any platform they want to get their message out. Companies can mostly do whatever they want with their own platforms.
I'm surprised Matrix is on the front page as much as it is. I mean, it's cool tech, and I use it myself, but it really seems like it's up there every other day.

Is there an update that warrants this new post?
Lifting developers’ productivity on Kubernetes with BuildKit CLI for kubectl
not at all - doesn't YikYak rely on a central server?
Contabo are quite cheap, but BuyVM's storage slabs at $5/month for 1tb seem cheaper and probably have better performance: https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/
Source, for anyone interested: http://nietzsche.holtof.com/reader/friedrich-nietzsche/human...
You're arguing semantics. If Yelp reduces the choices for you down to a ranked list, it introduces a huge amount of bias in your decision. And if you use it relatively deterministically, you've consequentially changed your behavior in a way such that an outside observer will eventually be able to predict your behavior with high probability, if they understand what Yelp is showing you. In that sense, "telling you" starts to be a sane thing to think, even if it's not literally telling you the exact singular place to go.
> I'm old enough to remember when the government made it illegal to mention homosexuality in schools.

Even today, there are teachers who spout that homosexuality is somehow a bad thing.

Controversial topics will take time to reach mainstream agreement, no matter how you shape the spread of information. The question is how to do it in a way such that society is not disrupted by a strong opinion.
Think of it this way, if 4chan wasn’t a website, no one would allow it to exist.

Web technology has a certain responsibility, so I think all the alternative communication tech is in response to the theme of this week.
It's common for one person to have multiple feeds/identities, so this is less of a problem than you might expect.

There's no structured way to indicate that 2 feeds are the same person (aka #sameAs), but you can easily link to the other feed and just say “this is also me” (because your audience is a bunch of humans that mostly pass the Turing test).

Because of this, we get the bonus feature that you can easily follow a different set of feeds on different devices — e.g. perhaps on your phone you want feeds you're less likely to reply to, because you prefer typing on a physical keyboard.
My main point is that Mastodon survived the ordeal.
Japan finds new Covid strain, distinct from UK and Africa types
I suppose it's safe to assume a horrific atomic accident is on the horizon?
Okeano – A search engine that cleans the ocean and respects your privacy
“Nazi” is a racial slur for a white person that doesn’t hate themselves or their ancestors.
I believe this might be happening in STEM fields in north america (maybe other places too).

There's so much opportunity for smart people to make a lot of money working in tech that it makes other engineering disciplines (mechanical, nuclear, etc.) or research seem unattractive.
It's not Twitter's fault that they are your only source of information. You can go elsewhere, they are a private company and owe you jack-shit.
I know this isn't a popular opinion, but for the sake of sharing:

I'm of the belief that any coercion with the intent to disuade women from having any (or more) kids is ethically wrong, (except for some very very limited cases). Govt really shouldn't have a heavy influence on what is a family decision.

While I'm all for educating poor areas in order to increase quality of life... if one of the stated goals of that education is to reduce the number of that populations offspring, then there are some tough ethical questions about such a program that need to be answered.

And that's before you even get into the "targeted minority" aspects.

And yes, I get that one easy way to "improve quality of life" is to have fewer kids (I personally disagree), and I get that educated couples often have fewer kids...

but if that's where the bulk of the QoL bump is coming from... Then that's just straight up population control going by an alias with better branding.