skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rebuild sounds like a fun project involving some online service that detects a song based on a snippet. This was probably not available when 100 gigabytes was very impressive, though.
> 2022 a year of Linux desktop

Has anything at all changed in desktop Linux space in past ~10 year to make it more user-friendly to "non-geeks"? I'm using desktop Linux and nothing comes to mind.

> Dynamic typing becomes niche technology choice

I wish!

> Russia invades a country without admitting that

Hmm, I am from that "country" and I think Russia is quite past "Little green men" stage.

At the moment they intend to instigate some thinly veiled provocation (read their statements about "it is actually Ukraine who is planning the offensive!" and "undercover American soldiers are preparing to use chemical weapons in Donbass") and go in with official "peacekeeping" mission in order to protect Russian-speaking people of Lugansk/Donetsk from bloodthirsty Ukrainian nazis. Plan B (if no good opportunity for provocation arises) is to just declare that West has crossed their "red lines" and forced their hand to invade in order to protect their security.

> Windows 11 becomes even more user hostile and less 'Pro'

Already happened?

> Laws around refugees become more strict internationally

Ditto.
- Omicron will create natural immunity to COVID and lead to the end of travel restrictions by the end of the year.

- Russia will dispute eastern Ukraine, and cut gas supplies to Europe leading to extremely high energy prices in Europe and increasing the gap between living standards in the US and EU.

- Le Pen will narrowly lose to Macron in the second round of the French election, but the Zemmour + Le Pen total will be a majority.

- The Swedish Democrats will enter government in Sweden with the Moderates. But little will change in practice.

- The Republicans will win in the mid-term elections due to growing economic concerns.
(Second) December 2021 Quicklisp dist update now available
Arm in windows laptops picks up.

The graphics card bubble pops as eth implements pos.

Tiktok announces record ipo in the us.
In my experience as a moderator of several subs, Reddit actively blocks zerohedge links, they'll appear in our moderator queues and even if you manually approve them they just sit there in the queue, the only option that works is to remove them or mark them as spam.

They do some others too but zerohedge is the one I see every few days in /r/silverbugs and /r/prepperintel, and the only one I can remember by name.
The business-level API prediction is an interesting one. Any examples of this right now? Chat and payments are fairly obvious, but what would an inventory management API look like?
Acorn to ARM.
Ah, now you could build that CPU up to a point where it could emulate a eurorack synthesizer. Which you could then use to emulate a CPU.

Maybe I should finally read GEB...
Very happy with my mirrorless Fuji X-E3 with a f1.4 lens, although it was ridiculously expensive (about $2000 new altogether). It has a Sony sensor.
Oh, not saying you're wrong at all (Spanian springs to mind as an Aussie example!). Just think it's deeper than algorithms is all.
People don't ditch their cars in the Netherlands though, they just use it for inter-city transportation. Transport within a town (e.g. the one I grew up in, with a population in the order of 25.000 people) is overwhelmingly (but not exclusively) by bicycle or foot though.

What will be harder to replicate in Sweden is what's starting to happen now in the Netherlands, which is that electric bicycles are also starting to be used from inter-city transportation more and more often, and infrastructure being designed around that.
What was the impact on your credit score? I imagine that had an effect on other parts of your life no?
I've heard similar stories many times, where someone discovers a gap in the market through an actual need that they have while trying to do something else.

Like the Kitopi Cloud Kitchen. The story I heard is that the guy already had a successful sweet business, and got the idea to have little mini distribution kitchens for it, instead of opening a new business everytime he wanted to extend his reach. Then decided to make that idea a whole business model.
Phrased differently, the scientific process is about the multi-generational accumulation of empirical mastery. The details by which humans have achieved mastery is a complicated story.
In this case it makes sense but in general you have to also ask about the environment. Was money cheap in that era? Was there a favourable media environment for that type of business? Was politics favourable? Etc.
Consume less = exclude myself from certain kinds of social relationships with other people, show less appreciation to the labor of inventors, engineers and people who make stuff with their hands (appreciation in action, not just in words)?

Everyone is entitled to live the way they prefer (within certain limits), of course! :) But I would want to “consume better” instead of “consuming less”.

Consume things made sustainably, buy quality products made by small/family businesses, purchase more services rather than goods, avoid consuming things made by big corporations under regimes that go against the values I believe in, support technologies that move humanity closer to the future that appears to be “a better future”, etc.. I hope that this does not sound too contrarian and does not offend anybody! Peace and happy New Year to everyone!
Is checkpointing really that common anymore. When I talked to my local HPC admins they gave me the impression that nobody does it anymore
Why not?

It was a completely random prediction, so a completely random country is a good match.
I don't disagree with your point but how a prosecutor must be selected then? If someone is not chosen by a public and popular vote, it must be chosen differently. Any mechanism of choice will have an inherent bias.

For example, you could decide that a prosecutor is the best at knowing the law, so let's have a law exam where the one with the best score is named prosecutor. However, being a good prosecutor can't always be reduced to a technical know-how. And those good at laws might be those who were able to pay to go to the best universities, buy the textbooks, be allowed to study for years without working, etc. So you also have a bias on wealthy families.

I don't think that the problem of allocation of power in our modern societies is a solved problem...
I don't think OVH offers any dedicated servers without ECC. Their cheaper offspring, Kimsufi (now a separate company since quite a few years) may, although I'm not sure.

Even the cheapest OVH dedicated server, starting at about 50 EUR / month, has 16 GB of RAM and it's ECC.
NPS = Net Promoter Score

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_promoter_score
I picked up that habit back in the day when I was working with Citrix since back then the first Ctrl-c normally wouldn’t take. Still doing it to this day out of muscle memory.
You are missing the point. Putin and his cronies will find ways to do their criminal business with or without cryptocurrencies. His opponents have little other choice BUT cryptocurrencies to fund their operations.
I don't really know much about web3 or what it will happen in the future, but these same debates happened ith other techs before which are now mainstream in a similar fashion as this here.

People like pointing out echo chambers all around while they are also in one.

Remember all the feathers ruffled with cloud computing? It just servers in a data center! Serverless? There are still servers! web2.0 s just ajax requests!

If people dump money into it, then something is likely to come out whether is better or not than what it was before. Maybe is worse, or maybe something will be built on top of it that will be better or some othere political event might make it relevant. Who knows
Babashka Book
I never did this but I think for maximum success move to the best city in the world for your career. I think even in 50 years this will be true. Will it be San Fransisco? Probably but maybe not. But the advice stands.
So you are saying the Fed won't raise interest rates next year? That would be quite surprising since they have already announced several planned hikes.
Having watched a few of the sessions held by congress questioning social media CEOs and the like, I think this story is quite plausible.

In between the grandstanding some of the politicians asked such odd questions, I think an introduction to digital safety should be a requisite course for all public servants along side antidiscrimination and inclusivity.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is someone already in jail who has been charged and convicted to a similar action.

Here is a Canadian example of a similar event.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/covid-19-records-w...
What value do you think people see in Dogecoin, for example?
> The city centre hardly has supermarkets

As far as I can see there are lots of supermarkets in the city centre of Utrecht though: https://www.qwant.com/maps/places/?type=supermarket#map=14.3...

I wouldn't go there by car probably, but I do most of my groceries by bike or walking anyway.
I briefly ran a home server on desktop grade hardware. Ryzen 5 with 2 hard drives. The thing was pulling a constant 70w while basically idle. Insanely inefficient compared to adding an extra user to an existing app/service.
>reframe the question to "why do the founders retain so much equity?"

The founders can only retain as much equity as the marketplace allows. Each side has a threshold to do a business transaction.

>Why dont seed fund demand 16% instead of 8%? Why doesn't the 6th employee demand 5% instead of 3%?

The parties can demand any percentage they want but the ultimate resolution is will the other side agree to it? In other words, the question is, "Why do angels _agree_ to 8% instead of 16%"? Because an offer requiring 16% would be rejected by the founder and lose to other angels only requesting 8%.

E.g., back in 1999 during the dot-com craze, VC Sequoia Capital offered MP3.com (founder Michael Robertson) $10 million for 45% of the company. He said no deal. They later negotiated it down to 20% ... which is in the more reasonable ~15% to ~20% range of other VC deals.

Lesson: Demanding a high 45% so that the founder only retains 55% instead of 80% doesn't automatically mean the founder will say "yes" to the reduced equity. People can still voluntarily choose not to do business with you at all. All "demands" are competing in the marketplace. Can an employee demand a higher 10% equity? Sure. Whether the founders _agree_ to it depends on the marketplace and the employee's particular leverage (e.g. a very rare skill).
Same here. It's amazing how many services you can easily host if they are on PHP and low traffic.

The beauty of PHP is that more services consume no additional resources until they are used. This lets you run many many services without worrying about resource usage. In stark contrast to running everything in containers where you have at least a process per idle service.
You can also buy a $50 Android without.

What's your point?
Happy New Year everyone!

2022 is when I'll be trying my hand at bootstrapping and also working on my reoccurring back pain.
I run a small business, and know others who do the same.
Honestly, I think pivoting is the norm rather than the exception.

Many of the people I know started in a similar place, but their businesses evolved into all kinds of weird and wacky enterprises.
I'm not an expert on this, but there's standardized product identification (e.g. UPC-A, the standard barcodes are based on) and associated formats for tracking that let e.g. supermarkets, logistics and vendors integrate their data (though as always standard adherence is not as clean as it could be)
> the gap between living standards in the US and EU

Do you have any supporting evidence for this gap beyond GDP?
Have you tried getting a US address with a mail scanning service? Is that accepted by banks?
Thanks; I think that's core to the problem of us not finding a solution: we are biased to think about complex and fancy ones.

My comment intent was absolutely serious and a humbling attempt to study the problem without bias.

(but as others have said in the comments here, I also do not think that a casual discussion on HN is as good as the studies done so far)
Honestly, the existence of the universe is meaningless to me if my consciousness is to somehow irreversibly disappear from it in the future. I find this whole idea of eventual mandatory death extremely cruel, and those who romanticize it cringey. So many people hurry to live their lives because "life is short". So many people make so many irrational, bad decisions for the same reason. And so many people accept this as some kind of immutable fact.

I'm looking forward to all that life extension/rejuvenation research that's gaining momentum right now. I don't want to die. Ever. I wish I could contribute to it, but my skill set isn't very fitting for this purpose. I doubt any one of the companies doing this kind of research needs a screaming fast android app or a java backend.
You seem to be a bit obsessed with points. Ok, I'll elaborate.

1. The original message wasn't missing a point about complex rules harming small players. It was just stating that ANY shit done to IP laws is done on the pretence of helping the small players, but instead benefitting the big ones. This was a typical strawman argument on your part.

2. The point you say I disagreed with in the subsequent message is literally the point I agreed with.

Total points score: 2-0 in my favour. Better luck next year, have a nice 2022. ;)
LOL is that default picture of Yung Lean? That's quite funny.
“Plausible” is exactly where misinformation and fake news thrives.

It’s news if he’s actually charged, it’s much less news if a frustrated governor blows off steam about it.

This is, so far, nothing more than the latter.
This is _very_ close to my exact setup. Though, I never used portainer (just manage a big docker-compose file) is it worth it?
I have three.

1. Spend more time with my family. I have a 1 year old daughter, and boy the time flies watching her grow. I’m slowing down my career and investing in her.

2. Becoming healthy by continued devotion to eating for fuel, being mindful of my activity level and enjoying this beautiful world we all inhabit.

3. Showing gratitude and love for my fellow humans.

Have a Happy New Year all, I hope you make it happen this year!
Of course the actual solution is to get rid of US citizenship. In the meantime for things like stocks, can you use a mailbox address or get someone to let you use their address? You’d need some sort of documents to be linked to the address for manual verification if denied automatic acceptance by any platform.

It’s annoying but possible. If you don’t have any one you can try this with in the US, it’s a long shot, but m I wouldn’t mind helping out. You can see my bio on HN and from there you can see I use my real identity. To help with initial trust.
They don't according to you and the author, but others think it does have value, which makes your point moot also.
- The current Covid wave is its largest over the entire pandemic. Things settle down during the late Spring/ early Summer. Two more, less severe waves in the fall and winter.

- The timing of Covid waves has impact on the US election. If things are under control, more members of the majority party at the given governmental level who can state their policies are working will win. If things aren't under control, there will be more upsets.

- Prosecutors charge Trump with crimes, likely with politically motivated timing. The result is a clusterfuck with people only digging into their current beliefs more.

- SpaceX's starship will have an orbital launch attempt within 3 weeks of FAA approval. The first three orbital attempts will have significant time between them, subsequent attempts will happen faster. Cargo will fly on Starship (likely Starlink, possibly others) while reentry and landing cause the majority of vehicles to be lost.

- I'd say less than 50%, but much higher than prior years: A major country (eg, India, Russia, Australia, a EU member) tries its luck pushing a major US tech company (Google, Amazon, Meta) too far with control, taxing, or fines, resulting in an interference of service.

- I personally have a better year than 2020 or 2021.

- We seem overdue for a cute cat or dog to become viral.

- Waymo expands service to another city. Tesla self driving continues to fail to materialize anything close to "full self driving".

- mRNA vaccine for something that isn't covid-19 is approved by the FDA.
My goal is find a financially stable way to continue paying for my in-law's cancer treatment.
Since the start of 2020 the cost of treatment has eclipsed the combined income of my spouse and I. We're need to find a way to continue paying in the long-term without going further into debt.
Chemo medication is so expensive and in this part of the world local health insurance doesn't help with these costs.
Craig Murray only just got out of prison for court reporting while not part of the proper crowd, so is it really that different over there?
Were other recent fires in the Taiga widespread enough to limit the spread of fires in the next few years?
N99/FFP3 masks usually have valves, making it them inappropriate for covid. And in the end, fit is more important than the filtration rate. The 95% rate of N95 is actually a minimum, it is likely much higher for actual virus-containing aerosols, but if air leaks from the sides, it becomes much lower.

If you think you need better than N95, you will probably want a full face mask with HEPA filters.
Oh, there is a lot.

For one, memristors offer a chance of building truly 3d, dense, power efficient structures.

I worked at Intel and I had a lot of interesting discussions on how a 3d processor would look like with memristors. Everyone agreed if it can be made to work we would jump ahead of Moore's law by several orders of magnitude.

Memristors can act as both memory and energy circuitry. Not only that, but they are very simple (and thus can be printed very densely) and yet at the same time can be very easily programmable (just put a little bit more current to change the state). They are persistent -- once programmed can remember the state for very long time (potentially centuries -- depending on the exact process and composition). And because they are just resistors at low currents, they can be red extremely fast and extremely efficiently.

Because of how little energy it uses (it only really uses energy when memristor needs to be programmed), they can be stacked in three dimensions without any limits other than our printing technology.
Web3 is just an excuse to still shilling crypto while using it as a payment system has not taken off. They need to hype the next empty buzzwords to keep parade going.
Nothing to be sorry about, but thanks for the well wishes.
Ex-Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to Work for Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel
I'm doing something similar though I've opted specifically to _do_ use Kubernetes via k0s [0]. It works wonderfully well and allows me to use most things that are available in the k8s ecosystem like cert-manager [1] and external-dns [2]. All configuration is stored in Git and the server itself is basically disposable as it only runs k0s and some very basic stuff like iptables rules.

I see this sentiment quite a lot that k8s is too complex for small scale setups, but in my experience it scales down very well to small setups. Granted, you do have to know how to work with k8s, but once you learn that you can apply that knowledge to many different kinds of setups like k0s, bare metal, EKS/AKS etc.

[0] https://k0sproject.io/

[1] https://cert-manager.io/

[2] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Ugh, winter is terrible, and I wouldn't do a 40m walk for transportation in winter (though I wouldn't quite feel up for that in summer either). And yes, I do dress well. That said, every day errands are usually no more than a 10-minute walk, which is fine.

Also, 40m by bicycle is fine too, since you get warm when cycling. Though technically I guess that counts as private vehicle.
Happy new year, HN.

I'm a huge believer in CGP Grey's thematic year system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE) in place of resolutions. After outstanding successes two years in a row with the system (first year with my physical health, second year with my work and finances), I'm doing a "year of relationships" where my focus will be general social and romantic recoveries. Especially since, in the last two years, this is what has suffered the most for many including myself.

I posted on Tildes about this, in fact: https://tildes.net/~talk/zsh/your_theme_for_2022
Exactly human health is at stake, so we should let the efficiency of a proper free-market take care of it.

Have you ever received health-care in Europe? I have, Italy. It takes a painfully long time to get an appointment and the quality of care is not close to on par with that received in the US unless you opt for private care anyway.
Another useful feature, interesting article to look how it works under the hood.

And again, i wonder how a tiny team can push such great and useful features into such amazing UI. And then I'm looking at other alternatives, from naked WhatsApp over laggy wechat to horrible UX in signal.

What's the reason for telegram amazing performance and features?
To be fair, Elon took over as CEO in 2008. Hardly a favourable environment for risky endeavours or capitalists in general.
- I will completely burnout at my job. In the past 6 months alone I've done 400 hours of overtime and after 15 and a half years of the same job it might be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

- The NFT I made of the only known recording of my father's voice will remain unpurchased because I set a bonkers price (31.12 ETH, he died 3/11/98 which got rounded up by Rarible from 31.198), mostly having created it as a silly birthday gift to myself.

- Lots more inflation, largely due to supply chain issues.

- Employers continuing to struggle with employee retention, and filling empty positions.

- More Web 3.0 nonsense, with (hopefully) the bubble bursting and people coming back to their senses.

- Yet another 12341325 crypto currencies no one but pump and dumpers care about.

- Betty White celebrates yet another birthday, Ryan Reynolds still smitten.

- Used car prices continue to soar due to chip shortages for new production vehicles.

- Housing prices freefall most, or all and-then-some, of the gains from the past year-ish as people largely stop buying due to significantly higher grocery/other consumable bills.
>The Mac has existed for 37 years and the iPhone for 15 of those

So iPhone is closed for 15 years already and thus "the future is doom and gloom" is happening for 15 years already. The more important question is what will be next.

>You really need to find an argument other than an unqualified "the future is doom and gloom" when after all this time that future hasn't come and the platform remains open.

Argument can be qualified or unqualified depending on the topic. It is unclear which topic assumed here.
There is nothing illegal about reading what was sent to you though.
Raid-1 is doing exactly what you recommend without any effort. A perfect replica of the disk. And if the other one dies, who cares, the beauty of raid-1 is you don‘t need the other one to have a full copy.
Curious what service management are you using for all of these docker run commands, systemd? I see you mention that you might consider Prometheus at some point, is there any process monitoring if one of your services crash?
After reading that, perhaps they should rename Mensa to the Dunning-Kruger society.

Sure we have slices of brain function and broad regions of normal function to brain area mapping but we had those in 1918 thanks to the increasingly brutal machines of war.

Nobody is going to seriously sign up for some hokey brain machine interface that is a glorified keyboard. Let Elon do it first if its such a spiffing idea.