skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree with this article, but ...

Small Web applications and sites are single tenant. That means that one server hosts one application that serves just one person: you.

I feel like people forgot that shared hosting exists (e.g. Dreamhost, or Nearly Free Speech).

One computer can serve tons of websites! It can serve multiple Hacker News spikes at once. And the site doesn't even need to be in a virtual machine or container.

This is how "LAMP" / PHP works! But these days it works with Python too. Either way it's perfect for static and JS-only sites.

A single computer is often more reliable than a cloud. The cloud has single points of failure that are less reliable than a commodity machine.

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I mentioned that here:

What's the Fastest Way To Get a Page on the Web?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254006

http://www.oilshell.org/share/question.html

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/12/backlog-assess.html#wha...

I think the problem is that shared hosting has a shell interface (this used to be a desirable feature!!). And many users no longer know shell. Hopefully we can make it easier to learn!
Yeah, what I really meant by "120 and similar” was >14 and mostly >28 is where the problem is, especially anything with 3 digits.
Athough I won't be using 5G until I get a new phone 3-4 years from now, I'm happy they did that. Big government can't control everything.
One interesting find from that search, here’s two videos of Holmes, in the first she fakes a creepy deep voice for the entirety of the interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YecjzEScXqU&t=105

In this video she is being interviewed on Mad Money, using her (assumed) actual voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGfaJZAdfNE&t=403

What a strange person.
I was going to suggest that too.
Aha, that makes sense - thanks for the detailed answer. I guess the same thing must afflict screenshots of machines I used, but none had the GUI of the Amiga so the effect is not so pronounced.
Fluorine never gonna give you up...
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I agree entirely. Let's make sure Fox News is required to broadcast anything AOC wants them to, and make sure they aren't allowed to provide any commentary or disagreement, right?
The Linux kernel already supports live-patching, but as I understand it, the patches themselves are hard to produce or can't be produced automatically, so to be able to produce them you need a team that understands the process, which limits the live patching to commercial distros that can afford a team for this.
The plot on Wikipedia looks to me like it has lots of variants with frequent branches coming off of each variant, except for Omicron, which went a great distance with no branches and then started branching rapidly again. This seems most consistent with a lab leak.
Like water, food, and electricity, electronics have become an integral part of life. Every single country that can afford to bootstrap their own semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure should be scrambling to do so.

This infrastructure doesn't have to be cutting edge. Even 90s-era tech should be enough to cover a country's basic needs in case of a global collapse or shortage.

It's insane for humanity to continue putting their eggs in one or two baskets.
New patent-free Covid vaccine developed as “gift to the world”
This is by the way but I love the phrase "upstart startup."
This is very inspiring. I'm so happy to learn that this sort of business model exists. I always thought it was either fail or make $1M a month, no in between.

Good job
probably hydrofluoric acid?

I worked at IGNS in NZ and they used it for dissolving rocks. Many warning signs.

[edit: to clarify I mean safety warning signs, not warning signs of being in contact with it. My assumption is excruciating agony which would be a good indicator :D]
Without looking more at the variants themselves and just going by the numbers in the post, it’s entirely plausible. It’s not likely, but plausible.

Mainly because we are talking rare events. If the level of success is 33/3.5 (9.42), we’d expect that 4 (or less) silent variants would happen with a probability of ~ 0.042 (Poisson X <= 4). So, a bit more than a 4% chance. But with millions of people infected, this ratio of S/NS variations would still happen at a pretty high absolute number.

Anytime you look at numbers like these, remember with a big denominator, even rare events are expected to happen.
You’re missing something.

The author is saying that there was a lab leak involving delta, not that delta originated via a lab leak.

The latter claim would indeed be a red flag, but the former is just describing a very well-documented event.
An interesting note from that article:

> NOTE: The Department has recently taken the position that a company that omits compensation by posting that a remote job is available for anyone in any location except for Coloradoans is not compliant with the Act.

So, you can't even explicitly exclude Colorado when advertising remote positions.

(I'm in Colorado and fully support this law and transparency in compensation)
She is in her late 30s, she was probably going to have a child either way, just good timing.
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Aren't wasp allergies usually to their venom, not to the wasps themselves?
Probably the same sentiment as many of the comments already present, but I haven't read all of them.

Don't people understand that the original Internet was/is built for exactly this(?); end to end connectivity between any two hosts. This is still mostly possible, but you do now have to get a public/routable ipv4 address. IPv6 gets back to the E2E ideal, without any overlay.

P2P systems from 20 years ago also solved this problem. For example hidden services on Tor, i2p, generic DHTs, etc.

Why people think we need to redo everything so that it works with JS and Blockchain boggles the mind. It's not corporate vs. individual as the seem to argue, it's just pro Blockchain, or pro Ethereum or something else.

This article seems to just be framing this same non-argument in a slightly different way. Get a static, public IP and run your microhttpd blog for pennies. Don't act like hosting it on an overcomplicated overengineed Blockchain network is going to decentalize the web. It's already decentralized, but nobody wants to go to your hidden service...
I was referring to single pallet prices (a very small quantity by modern standards) and from major reputable name brand manufacturers that have existed 10+ years... Yes there's lots of cheap panels available, but they're also scary if you've seen enough lamination and encapsulation failures.
Ask HN: I want to develop a Podcast app, where to start?
Hello HN, I want to write an app for listeners to listen to podcast on the go. I know there are many apps doing this. But I want to build a side project. Please help me get started. Where can I find the indexes of all the podcasts for my app? Can I use Apple podcasts index? Also how RSS feeds work for podcasts?
Thanks in advance.
What was the book about?
Ask HN: Monitor a Tennis Court from a Webpage
Hello HN.

I’d like to set up a webcam on a public tennis court so people can visit a URL and see if the court is occupied before heading there.

If you have ideas how this can be done relatively cheaply please lmk!

Some background info:

There is no power, so it has to be solar.

It’s outdoors, so weather resistant.

There js no wifi, so cell network.

Only needs to work 6am to 11pm.

Video feed is not needed, a snapshot every 5 minutes or so is sufficient.

Will be placed on top of a fence overlooking two courts.

Thanks in advance!
I do this all the time on Element.
Fission is expensive because it's complex and must be highly reliable.

Fusion will also be complex and must also be highly reliable -- not because of public safety, but because repairing a fusion reactor will be very difficult. It will be far too radioactive for contact maintenance.
It seems he does, otherwise he wouldn't have setup a message just for users from it. It sends a very clear message.
Ctrl-F "minutes" or "1 hour" :)
No. No no no no no.

This is not the solution to the problems we’re facing. While it’s nice to push people to run their own hardware and software, it does nothing to solve the problem of large corporations having large amounts of control and power with little regulation oversight.

We like to do this thing in tech where we try to solve all of our problems with engineering and software. What we’re encountering now is not something that can be solved with software: it’s a political and economic problem.

We have large corporations who have the power of small countries with little (if any) oversight on the stuff they build. Apple is attempting to scan users’ photos. Amazon is using software to exploit their workers and treat them like shit, and to stalk their users around the web into buying more shit. Facebook is giving teens eating disorders and trying to create a version of Instagram for children.

The problem we’re having now is fundamentally a political problem. We have to work together as a society, collectively instead of individually, to decide what the limits of these corporations should be. That happens through boring political processes and debates that nobody likes, which isn’t appealing to us programmers. But it’s the reality we face.

Individualistic ‘solutions’ like this only cause more harm because they don’t address the actual problems at hand. It’s like when Shell introduced the idea of the ‘carbon footprint’ to shift the conversation from us as a society holding corporations accountable to individuals being held accountable. The focus *must* be on political solutions to these problems, because there is no technical way this can be solved.
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Are there any public example of the claims you are making?
A big problem is that a lot of community content went behind Facebook. Instead of creating webpages or forums people started using Facebook pages and Facebook groups. This is the main reason I have been anti Facebook for over a decade. Not because of privacy reasons as many are but because I saw that Facebook will put the web behind it's closed doors. Even today some of the best reviews about any product or service are usually in enthusiast community forums. But a lot of that activity has gone behind closed doors of facebook and now reddit. Most of the current thriving forums are those that pre existed Facebook.
Even Windows XP is mentioned in the list. I know lot of computers are still on XP. :)
I’m in it for the money. After 20 some years in tech, I think I’ve got 4 years left in me of dealing with the pedantry required when working for someone else, particularly a corporation. Call it compartmentalization, apathy, professionalism, whatever, I don’t evaluate my 9-5 based on my happiness.
> I get it's hard to avoid sugar because it tastes so damn good, but let's not pretend it's "impossible to avoid".

Have you eaten sugar. Ever? Do you know any American, let's say over 10, that has never had any sugar, ever? Oh, perhaps it is impossible to avoid.

Don't like my semantic argument? It's at least more honest then your "oh just choose (and make your children choose) only good stuff, and avoid all the other stuff that companies spend billions marketing, problem solved!"
A person who thinks that animals are nothing more than colonies of abnormally cooperative eukaryotes may still dislike animal cruelty on the basis that anyone who is capable of it would be capable of cruelty to humans, or that practicing one prepares you for the other. I imagine the same argument could be made to apply to robots, even if you wanted to sidestep the machine consciousness question.

P.S. this argument is a very familiar one if you recognize it - if you have ever heard the advice not to date anyone who's mean to waiters, that's the same idea - that whatever causes cruelty, causes it against all targets.
Facebook for social/political reasons

Google, for SE reasons.

I’ve never had as many issues with F/OSS projects than I’ve had with Google’s open source projects. Whenever I need a bug fixed I tell my girlfriend “I’m about to be treated like I’m dumb in a bug tracker.” It’s usually basic functionality that was documented years ago but never actually functioned properly. The fix is usually done behind closed doors by a Google employee in 1-n months and tossed back over the wall. Very little space for a non-Googler to contribute and employee maintainers seem to leave often.

The documentation structure used across projects is non-sensical as well. No next/prev, just “related” links. They actually brag about the doc process in their software engineering book.
As a Brit, I'm glad I don't know who Rand Paul is.
I believe the mention of 83b election by the author is a red herring.

afaik 83b only applies to recently acquired stock, not options.
Bat and ksh here. Powershell a little, but I think there's some limited execute ability due to some security setting where I work (don't remember exactly). Still, I suck because I'm "slow".
This is one of those articles where the author claims to have experience in the area and then states something so wrong you have to wonder what else they're incorrect about.

"...although the word “fruit” is deceptive because figs are anatomically not really fruits but a cluster of hundreds of flowers enclosed in a smooth skin."

Figs are a fruit. It's basically the definition of a fruit. If you want to say figs aren't fruits because they're made up of multiple flowers, then what are mulberries? Pineapples? Breadfruit?
Reminds me of the water bottle from Palantir I have that seems very cursed.
If YouTube went away, then alternatives would suddenly get way more popular to fill the vacuum.
Since about 1/3 of the programming language shootout competitions seem to boil down to "which language can call gmp the fastest" Assembly might not add much. TFA is for a benchmark where the input size is too small.
I assume you could buy the stuff from the company's bankruptcy auction or when it gets auctioned off by the Feds like in the case of Martin Shkreli's exclusive Wu Tang album.
And somehow only the bad writers get through with that, because everybody conspires against the good writers? Give me a break.

It's also not even true anymore. Most of the things you listed you can get for free or almost nothing these days.

In threads like this, you should then also be able to point out the really good books that failed because they couldn't find a publisher? Where are they?
I agree with you from a moral perspective, and think that's far more important than the financial aspect. But she was convicted of other crimes.

Perhaps the judge can factor that kind of thing into the sentencing; I'm not sure.

In an ideal world (not that we live in anything resembling a perfect world) it seems to me that the harm you're talking about would be remedied in separate criminal and/or civil trials. Certainly, unless I'm mistaken, the victims of the fraudulent tests could still file civil suits.

I'm not a lawyer, in case it wasn't blindingly clear.
So you've used two tactics now: 1) try and smear people who make this statement by saying "bad people" use it too and now 2) saying that the statement is so "clear false" that it's not even worth trying to refute.

Color me skeptical.

And i would certainly refute that "conservatives are Nazis" is someone made that statement. It's pretty easily falsifiable.

Can you falsify the OP's statement?
> The entire world has been blanketed in Coronavirus and as far as I know Africa has seen a mix of action that has been different from how Western countries have experienced it. The rates of infection are different, the rates of vaccination are different. Two VOCs have come out of South Africa, but who's to say that an earlier version from 2020 wasn't bumping around the continent and returned to South Africa?

You're pointing out distinctions that do not make any relevant or substantial differences to the argument.

> Everyone likes to posit human intervention when we have very little information, especially people highly motivated to declare COVID-19 a lab leak for geopolitical reasons. Give the science time and we might start to fill in the gaps.

With lack of information, ideas that have the less assumptions and concepts tend to be true than their counterparts who require many possible sub-hypotheses and concepts. GoF happen and lab leaks happen and the genetic histogram and the genes makes make this hypothesis the more likely one. The opposite require many hypothetical actors (mouses, immunosuppressed patients, back and forth between geographically distant places and all the combinations thereof) to account for it "hiding" since spring 2020.

> especially people highly motivated to declare COVID-19 a lab leak for geopolitical reasons.

Nobody blamed nobody here. GoF research happens everywhere.

> Give the science time and we might start to fill in the gaps.

Science is not beholden to your worldview. Filling the gaps is part of the scientific method, by the way.
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Here’s to spending more time on things that matter in 2022. Great post.
> Why people think we need to redo everything so that it works with JS and Blockchain boggles the mind.

Is this redoing it? I don' get that impression. It seems ther're just making it easy, as easy as installing an app and signing up for Facebook.
It took 4 billion years to get to this point. Plenty of time.
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This is Intelligent Design dressed up in hand wavy math that builds on misrepresentation of cited studies and the fossil record. Read with a strong dose of skepticism.
Lactose turns into glucose and, with a little more processing, more glucose. Glucose is absolutely harmless. (Unless you have diabetes. A huge number of Americans have given themselves diabetes by taking in so much sugar: specifically, the fructose in sugar. That will go away, absent fructose.)

To be clear: table sugar is half fructose. Honey is half fructose. Any fruit juice or soda is about half fructose. Both are equally harmful.

There is no problem with the sugar in any amount of whole fruit (except grapes) -- the fiber slows absorption, and your gut bacteria get it. Your gut bacteria need to be fed, or they feed on you.
People say that. Then I get told stuff like "just build it the way I say" (and then they discover they're wrong 3 weeks later). And I get a bad rating.
Huh? Your logic makes zero sense. Why would a private GP even have the connections to the Health Authority? You claim it's because there is no "profit", I say because "that's not their job".
I don’t know if that follows. Google has been maximizing revenue at the expense of the search result quality.

An “objectively superior” search engine, from an end user’s perspective, might have to make engineering choices that come at the expense of ad revenue.

But we’re all just talking hypothesis, it’d be cool to see someone launch a startup to get some answers.
Maybe the fantasy world of the Witcher is less racially divided than our world (and also seemingly how you see the world too). Why does it need to be that the nilfgaardians have to be one skin color? Why can’t they be multicultural like the US?
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Recent Star Wars and Spider Man stories were just fan fiction with permission.

Star Wars borrowed from many sources. Some inspiration and some copying. Most were obscure to most of the audience.

They didn't say most new works would be commercial. But it's plausible fewer very expensive works could benefit less expensive works.
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I think you're leaving a few things off the list. Gasoline, steel, machine shops, chemical plants... by the time you added everything that could lead to crisis if it ran out or stopped working you'd be a proponent of the Juche Idea. ;)
You must be terrible at business. Your companies only make money while you're sleeping.
I haven't done anything quite that sophisticated! I have only "anecdata" to contribute.

We are basically on sand dunes here and our "soil" is what I call "dirty sand". I had a bunch of wood chips with some chicken manure and feathers in it and I spread that about six inches deep over a bare patch of sand. I added potatoes and kept it moist. Now, a year and a half later, there's a layer of rich living soil between the sand and the wood chips. There are lots of worms and other critters living in there, and I have plants growing well. It's January and I've got broccoli, blooming nasturtiums, fava beans, and potatoes of course, plus a lot of other things. Mushrooms appear regularly too. I don't add any fertilizer or anything.
Seems like the current labor market disagrees. Nobody wants to train.
It's not hard to invert the transaction, ask the billing service if an action can be done instead of bill upon completion. Done. This isn't that hard. If your credits won't make it to the end of the month, send out the email warnings to top up - which should be predictable unless there's a large spike hitting the account. If you prefer invoice billing because you never want your services going down, it's trivial to accommodate with this system design.

Sure, big warnings about data loss/services down in the event of zeroing out your credits.

Having such a safety net would really help the thousands of people who sign up for transient reasons. I don't recommend a noob set up an AWS account. I also don't let my kids play on the freeway.