skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed that, but it lists only 37 plugins, not 200+, as advertized here: https://steampipe.io/ I figured the remaining 163+ might be built in, instead of being supplied as plugins.
https://beepb00p.xyz/sad-infra.html

This one had some impact on me because it revived the importance of taking ownership not only on my personal data, but the infrastructure which generates it, processes and stores it; and that the same infrastructure should be well thought of by me through a tinkering process which adds value to itself and to data the more I invest time on it.

I felt very motivated to rethink my workflows, my opsec and the way I store any data, not only new data I create, but general content that find around the Internet and that I think could be of any use in the future.

An honorable mention would be this one: https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm... which helped me look at how the web has been evolving from a different angle and, of course, triggered me to change some of my behaviors regarding privacy and the use of big tech derived products.
Stop polluting the cities and atmosphere and then it'll be none of our business
Chips are small, don't age fast. Make sense as an exception to the rule.
Robustness isn't incompatible with capitalism, it's incompatible with any system where the government is willing to swoop in and bail out companies that fail. Companies that plan around failures/shortages/disruptions lose the ability to profit from their planning, while those that didn't plan ahead get showered with free money or cheap loans.
Clever. I'll never actually use it though.

The future is better remote working practices, not skeumorphic remote tools that recreate (poorly) an office environment.
Because Apple does not currently have code for scanning local devices for illegal images, and would have to implement it, which is a much higher bar than having already implemented it and just needing to add a few hashes to a database.
Yeah, this also makes no sense to me:

> The Covid pandemic boosted demand for appliances that use chips, such as phones, TVs and games consoles.

SOCs in phones and game consoles are produced on very different processes than chips used in cars, no? Cars don't need the smallest dies or most energy-efficient chips. These industries are not competing for the same capacity. Or am I missing something?
IP blocked for non-residential areas eq. VPN/datacenters are blocked by loginwall. This is super stupid idea to fight with web scrappers.

The issue with web-scrappers comes from API limits: none wanted to parse twitter web if you can get everything from API for a reasonable price.

I don't think API access brings lots of money 5% increase in profit costs customer experience on mobile.
After playing with it for a bit, the two finger swipe and click feels pretty intuitive.

But the 'rock on' thumb swipe still feels a little uncomfortable. Especially when I get used to gesturing with my right hand, and then I have to carry my arm over my body to get to the Mute/UnMute.

Have you considered just pulling in some American sign language? The controls (mute, tile, etc.) could even have a depection of the hand symbol.
Have any wireless providers verified that Firmware/OS/App updates can't be pushed via OTA to those devices? Asking because to my knowledge no such verification has been attempted. Background: I used to push firmware updates to phones in the 90's on a GSM network. The only reason we didn't do this globally was risk of customer support issues.
Harbormaster doesn't do anything you can't otherwise do, it just makes stuff easy for you.
It is probably possible but would require complex mechanical solutions to meet modern efficiency and emissions requirements that would likely be far less reliable.
The difference being that lots of people want to keep those inflated housing prices high (nimbyism), whereas nearly everyone wants car prices to go back to normal.
That's a completely different question, well worth to be debated.

My point is that currently, we don't have anything like a national ID.
"Uniformly awful clickbait garbage" has its own kind of potency. When it's trying to pad your feed, Facebook might not know that "give yourself one point for each one of these you've done" has any specific relevance to you, but it does know that a lot of people seem to engage with it and you're a person. It's basically guessing when it's out of ideas. To infer any kind of malice, you'd have to define some sort of threshold for how much "uniformly awful clickbait garbage" you would expect to see just because of this guessing, and observe that the threshold is being exceeded. Have you done that?
This would be so cool for cake decorations!
You don't believe that an individual who robs the country of taxes on 300m of assets isn't abusing the other citizens of the society? Are you against prosecuting money launderers for some libertine reason?

The guy who ran Helix facilitated hundreds of millions in illegal commerce of the highest order - he's no different than a shady bank that allowed criminals to launder money. I know, I used it many times.
RSAs, ISOs, NSOs, & RSUs: Understanding Startup Equity and Taxes
Concrete example: Many people (about 1 in 400*) have BRAC1 or BRAC2 genetic markers that leave them with higher likelihood to develop certain cancers. I don't see that as justification for eliminating those gene lines from the human genetic diversity.

We did prenatal testing. We didn't do it for no reason and there were test outcomes that would have led us to terminate the pregnancy. Elevated risk of breast cancer would not be among them.

* - Among Ashkenazi, the rate is about 10 times higher.
Is there an offline mode? Git's non-centralized nature doesn't come into play for me often, but when it does I really appreciate it, like coding on a plane.
Some organizations won't let it be used, as it shows up in the databases as a voip number (even if it was a ported cell phone number). It's hit or miss
Good lord why is there a 5 line gap between each sentences
modern car entertainment systems often use some of the same parts as tvs/game systems/pcs etc

perhaps the engine ECU is not the chip that is in low supply
What else am I going to drink with pizza?
I think I've been adjusting my life style to that idea for a couple months now. Being alone without friends for a few years makes working much more fun then I remember. Great article.
The world can collaborate on not firing upon each other with nuclear weapons. Our "great" sociopathic leaders - worry greatly - at least for their own asses. Which means, collaboration is possible, its just not desired by all those deranged minds in power.
For one, I don't think humanity has developed thinking/communication styles and models that are sophisticated enough to engage in sufficiently cooperative behavior at scale.

For two:

> But I don’t know the answers.

Very few people are able to do what you just did: realize that they do not actually know something (see: politics, covid, any culture war topic, etc). This is actually a sophisticated skill, and to say that we do not teach it would be a massive understatement.

> Maybe the hope is that future generations are smarter and more empathetic than us.

My concern is that even if they are much smarter at what we teach, if we're not teaching the skills that are needed (which may not be definitively known yet), we would still fail.

It seems entirely possible to me that humanity is a dead species walking, but we are simply not able to properly and broadly conceptualize that to the degree necessary to wake up and change course.
It is different to keep large inventory of everything because you are inefficient and can't function without it and different to decide to stockpile specific parts because of perceived potential risks while being efficient with everything else.
This is exactly how I deployed my last few projects, and it works great!

The only things I'd change are switching to Caddy instead of Traefik (because Traefik 2.x config is just so bewilderingly complex!), and I'm not convinced Portainer is really adding any value.

Appreciate you sharing your setup script too.
Man if only we had a politician who would make Chinese accountability a major part of their platform, I'm sure HN would line up behind such a person...
>and might be more reliable in general

Cars in, say, the 1960s were not "more reliable in general." It's not all semiconductor-related of course--they also rusted out quickly in areas that got snow--but 5 years/50K miles is about what you were looking at for vehicle lifetime. Also much lower fuel efficiency, to say nothing of lack of what we'd consider routine safety features today.
Addendum: I still use Monzo in the US. Call the cops. I don’t care.
Both phones have their modems separated from the OS with USB/M.2 interfaces. Also, they have kill switches. Pinephone's modem even runs Linux: https://linuxsmartphones.com/hackers-develop-open-source-fir....
A script could already bypass DNS by connecting directly to an IP address which could have been either hard coded or come from an API, for example. You could also send it all the other records via some API too. This just means people don't have to implement the service themselves.
Please, God, Give Me a Gaming Metaverse
A gaming metaverse presents the opportunity for the realisation of an entirely virtual world online. Some of us dream of such a world. Nicolas Ng is one of these people.
Read his latest article on why he wants an entirely virtual online gaming metaverse realised.
Thanks for sharing that. I didn't know the concept of entropic security until now.
Holy shit, do you think developers are the only people who deserve to consume information?

Yes, he could have told the story in one paragraph. Would it be as entertaining? Debatable. Would it be as accessible to the non-tech crowd? Definitely not. I can send these tweets to my non-techie girlfriend, and she'll understand and enjoy them. Your paragraph wouldn't cut it.

This smacks of the whole "A monad is just an endofunctor in the category of monoids, what's the problem?" joke, but instead of category theorists being condescending, it's just developers being condescending.
Not really a great time for anyone really, at least from the vantage point you're referring to.
I think positional audio is a big one, so is the sense of presence and shared space VR brings. I don't think this has any chance of taking off before these headset include eye and face tracking so those cartoon avatars can have realistic human expressions.
Nitter is wonderful, but has limitations:

- It still tends to include too much per-tweet overhead in presentation.

- It limits the length of the full thread presented.

- Individual nodes frequently go down and/or are rate-limited by Twitter. (I'm on about my 3rd principle instance at this point. It's begun timing out / getting rate-limited in the past week.)

Threadreader solves all of these issues for long Twitter threads, and is the preferred option in this case IMO.
They certainly overlap. SoCs aren't the only chips in game consoles or other devices, different kinds of chip production have shared supply chains that themselves are struggling, SoCs used in cars aren't necessarily that different from the ones in other appliances (e.g. NVidia Tegra X1 is used both in the Nintendo Switch and some cars, and probably a pile of other things) ...
You can't even read a thread on Twitter without working around their constant badgering for you to sign up.

The web interface is absolutely horrendous on desktop and on my phone.
As I understood that is that the fox is looking for the longest path (e.g. distance defined by breadth-first search) and longest paths are usually the ones that lead you to treasure because treasure is hidden deep within levels
Seems similar to gravity compressing spacetime causing matter to pathfind towards itself. Treasure compresses navmesh causing a kind of gravity for the Fox AI pathfinding.

So in a way spacetime could be thought of as a navmesh that the simulation for the universe uses to path objects.
The Founder vs. Hired Executive Gap
This reporter reached out to Richard and got his comments on how well each chapter holds up today:

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2021/08/richard-bartle-designing-v...
Were manufacturers stockpiling what was unnecessary before lean manufacturing? It's an absurd notion that anybody would stockpile things without consideration of inventory costs.
You can build a parser around regexes though, where most of the code is regexes and then you have a little bit of code to deal with the irregularity. For instance consider arithmethic expressions consisting of constants, -, +, *, /, and parentheses. You could evaluate that using something like (expression to parse a numeral is left as exercise to reader).

while expression is not a numeral
replace all "\((NUMERAL)\)" with first group
if find first "(NUMERAL)([*/])(NUMERAL)"
replace with result
else if find first "(NUMERAL)([+-])(NUMERAL)"
replace with result
>>The decision itself must be objective, so you need to rely on a scoring system that might later on be attacked in court...

Yup, the current Besos/Blue Origin lawsuit against the US Gov/NASA selecting SpaceX for a lunar mission is a great current example.
Prediction Markets Meet Brainstorming
I am a strong believer in the Wisdom of the crowd, and I have been part of good Brainstorming sessions.

I can't but wonder why there is nothing that combines both.

Imagine - for the lack of better term - a social network where someone initiates a query and then everyone else brainstorms around it, pivoting, paralleling, deconstructing, constructive critics... the idea would then be refined and - along the way - additional germinal ideas generated.

Anyone wants to chime in?
All new cars in the EU need to have an automatic emergency call system since 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall

That would be hard to pull off without chips. Although I guess you could keep it completely isolated from the rest of the car.
>One big advantage of low inventories is you do not have to fix or trash lots of parts if they were made out of spec

Instead you either stop/slow production or shove them in your products and hope for the best.
I don't believe it has to, some kind of bucket-optimisation (multiple elements per allocation, instead of one element per allocation) should also meet all constraints the standard sets for this type.

And I don't like it when people use ridiculous hyperbole to describe what is in reality barely perceptible overhead, so it would be good if the person I originally responded to came out and defended his POV. Hopefully using actual numbers instead of agitated handwaving and screaming...
Interesting chart, but there is slight mistake. Not all of the countries in the chart are members of the OECD. Full list here:

https://www.oecd.org/about/document/ratification-oecd-conven...
> To avoid the chlorine, fluoride, and other additives found in modern tap water

You should be able to get a water report from your municipality, listing any treatments they perform. Chlorine and similar can be removed with Campden tablets, available at your homebrew store. I've never heard of fluoride causing a change in a fermented product. I know plenty of breweries that just use fluoridated city water.

Note the special lid on that mason jar for allowing off-gassing. Fermenting in a mason jar with a standard lid is a recipe for exploding glass.

I'm not sure what to make of the fermentation time here. Meads are usually fermented longer, older recipes tend to have very short fermentation times. Especially older, low gravity recipes.

If you don't want to play the guessing game on fermentation time, buy a hydrometer or refractometer.
Show HN: Serverful – deploy stateful containers like serverless functions
(The author is Shane from the StuffMadeHere youtube channel)
I use skype-in (skype with a landline number) that can do SMS. The only site I have found that was able to send SMS to it was LinkedIn. All the banks block it. All eCommerce sites block it that I have tried.
I use CapRover and it mostly works.

My biggest complaint would be the downtime when the docker script runs after each deployment.
I know the article is intentionally provocative and over the top to provoke a reaction... whether it's a healthy reflection on your attitude to success or crippling self-loathing probably depends on the reader.

Also, there are undeniably some hard truths hidden in there. However, my experience in almost 20 years in the tech/software/product industry often paints a different picture. Yes, our brains keep us from changing and evolving and yes, obviously you need skills to be successful in life and your career. But in my industry in particular, hard and soft skills are not the dominant factor that keeps individuals from succeeding or progressing. I'm lucky enough to work with an abundance of talent and skill, and yet, one of the major factors of dissatisfaction is lack of "progression". One of the main factors is self-confidence and in the more severe cases even mental health issues. Some of the most skilled and knowledgeable engineers I worked with struggled to realise their potential because of it. If the leaders in your organisation think they can just shout at them to "learn self-confidence as a skill" and get over it you're going to have a bad time. It will attract a certain type and employee that thrives in that environment and disengage everyone else. Wasting talent, wasting skills and ultimately a lot of money.
Creating an environment and learning how to tease the potential out of skilled and talented individuals is not a "hippie/hipster" thing to do, it is good for business.
Relevant to this I recently asked on Twitter: “I wonder if Facebook is dogfooding the metaverse. Are they holding many meetings in VR? The Oculus Quest is a great device but I want to use it about as much as I use rollercoasters, not as much as I use YouTube.”

And the lead of the Reality Platform team at Facebook said “I did ~3 meetings in VR” https://twitter.com/marklucovsky/status/1424050798342807554?...
It is possible, but the cars will be taxed into oblivion, because of push to electric cars. This is nothing new in finland because nobody there buys new car anyways, and continues to recycle existing old cars. Though that will also soon become impossible due to rising taxes to get rid of the old cars. I'm not sure which here is supposed to be more eco-friendly in the long run, but I suppose if you make people impossible to own anything that'll eventually win?
You cannot build a modern car engine without chips, let alone a car. Also, no way to hit safety requirements without chips (air bag deployment for example).
That's not really the usual concept of "inflation". Every commodity fluctuates in price. Inflation is when the price of a unit of money falls. Conceptually, it's very easy to distinguish "cars cost more dollars because cars are more expensive" from "cars cost more dollars because dollars are cheaper". In practice, it's difficult to measure the value of a dollar. But in general, inflation looks more like the price of everything going up, and less like the price of cars going up.

(Currently, a lot of different prices are going up, and current inflation is high. But you can't just point to Toyota raising prices and say "See? This is what inflation looks like!" That is what inflation looks like, but it's also what not-inflation looks like.)
Hello HN! I'm the founder of Serverful (https://serverful.io).

Serverful provides experience similar to serverless.com - but for containers

Lambdas are great (and they support container images too), but for some types of workloads it is more practical to run a container with provisioned compute capacity. For example, anything stateful, or things that require low latency, or server-side rendering, or consistently high loads.

If you are using something like Serverless Framework then up until this point there was no need to think of infrastructure at all. The framework took care of it. But now that you need to run a container you have to go a few levels down and deal with networking, permissions etc, either in AWS UI or with Terraform / CloudFormation / etc.

Serverful fixes that - simply connect your repository and it gets deployed, just like with serverless.com. Under the hood it creates an ECS Fargate cluster (or K8S), configures networking, CloudWatch, etc. You can also deploy databases and static webapps.

Would love to hear your feedback!
If you have a taste for irony, my company makes critical components for semiconductor equipment. If we can't ship, equipment companies can't ship new equipment. If they can't ship, semiconductor fabs can't increase capacity to meet the demand and solve the shortage.

We went line down last week due to shortage of a chip for our component.

In reality, the shortage is somewhat self-inflicted, like toilet paper a year ago, but for whatever combination of real demand + hoarding, we can't get chips.
Presumably they are building cars but leave entire modules out, and then fit them later as supply arrives. Has some benefits over stopping production, if you can afford to have a stockpile of cars around.
I wonder if there isn't already a team at SpaceX or something working on a few moonshot solutions.
People living in arctic areas with multi-month polar night generally already have some other heating energy source, as it gets a bit chilly. But in the summer they can have 24/7 solar energy!

There's not many people living in these areas though like the sibling comment points out.
Ugh... in one of the these threads on HN someone said a manufacturer was doing that, or at least openly speculating about it, offering a low tech model. I think it was in France but my memory is fuzzy.
Spend 5K on a really nice commuter electric bicycle. You'll be doing a solid for the Environment and you'll have an EV that makes you fitter.
> No one is going to throw away a memory region after allocation without writing something into it, after all, why else will they allocate in the first place?

Hah! Just try running a server with vm.overcommit_memory=2.
I’d say it was @paulg’s Beating the Averages. It led me to introduce a friend of mine to Zope, and to another friend (who introduced me to Zope years before). This led the first friend’s company to shift focus and become a key player in the CMS space with Plone (which is built on Zope), with many government portals and a large contribution to open source software. Along with the second friend they were instrumental in the creation of the Brazilian Python (Zope is written in Python) user association, of which I am also a founder. Without it, we wouldn’t have the yearly PythonBrasil conferences that introduce so many professionals to the language and foster a welcoming and inclusive community.

For me, personally, it was the third time I was smacked in the head with that qualitative productivity jump based on superior technology before I could articulate it in words. First was with Cincom’s Mantis, then Dataflex 2 (3 was crap), and then with Zope.
These things must come out of a generator somewhere, they're all written in the same style, but people upvote for the clickbait headline.
This seems like the fundamentally don't understand the challenges of working remote & not being collocated with colleagues.

I don't need to see a 3D avatar of colleagues. I don't need to see that avatar stand up and walk around.

Mainly what I'm missing is being able to better see those subtle emotional cues & the ability to build deeper relationships. Both of which I think our brains & office norms are catching up to after 18 months of zoom meetings.
> the field's medals, including the Fields Medal

I see what you did there ;)
Of course, you need some electronics. Let's rephrase: which cars from western mainstream manufacturers are currently the "lowest tech"? No infotainment, no digital dash, no touch-sensitive anything, as few sensors as is viable to still be road legal?

And a related question: modern cars are full of tech because that's what market demands. Can we expect the trend to reverse at some point?