skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my main objection to this is choosing host machines that don't meet the criteria of anything like serious server-grade hardware.

if this is for a home lab where any one of the services run on it are not actually going to affect you if it goes belly up? or the whole host machine? sure, okay, but that's self hosting a home lab, not self-hosting actual infrastructure...

clearly the hardware shown in the image is meant to be small, not noisy, and not take up a lot of space, and operate in somebody's house.

but the people I know who seriously self host all their stuff have it on something like a few old Dell R620 1U servers with 1+1 dual hot swap power supplies, RAID-1 for the operating system boot, RAID-1 or RAID-6 (or something like mdadm raid6) for storage drives (again all hot swap capable), etc.

note that I am not talking about a lot of money here, you can buy the hardware I described in the preceding paragraph for $300 on eBay and then add your own choice of SSDs.

and not in a house, but in something like a small to medium sized ISP's colocation environment, with UPS, generator backed power, etc. also attached to network equipment and a DIA circuit that's considerably more serious than a tp-link unmanaged switch attached to a residential internet service.
A retreat would seem helpful :)
https://training.fema.gov/emiweb/is/icsresource/jobaids/

Here’s a good place to start
My wife is from the UK and I thought that was just a weird thing that she did. This is the first I've heard about this outside of seeing her do it.
> When USSR collapsed, top people in USA were shocked, dissapointed and unsure of the future. Fortunately terrorists popped up, so militay industrial complex got new easy lease on life by spinng them into existential threat pretty much the same way it did with USSR before.

Can you back that up with anything? The arms manufacturers were not fans of the War on Terror because it didn't require expensive weapons, and those expensive weapons programs were cut right and left and the defense budget was put on a diet.
I wonder if changing your keyboard to use lighter switches is another way to alleviate that
I find this to be a really ungenerous take.

Nobody is claiming that they live in a non-industrial society. They clearly live on a fibreglass sailing vessel and use electronic navigation aides. The "narrative", as you put it, is simply to use less, to "double your capacity by halving your consumption", to live life in a humble and sustainable way, and to do as much as you can with what you already have.

I found the entire website to have a dreamy and non-judgemental approach to everything, and I envy their lifestyle. They are just doing what they do, and documenting it so that others can learn with them, and maybe to encourage us to aspire to do a little better with our lives.

Maybe you could avoid judging them, in return?
You are correct. I tried DDG before but it just isn’t good enough. I have been trying the new you.com search engine for a couple of months and it is really good, more so if you are in tech and your searches are work related.
I mean, I would need an administrative panel to add or delete accounts in my domain, basically.
Our individual thresholds for quality differ, that's for sure, because my definition is "Was the object built well, considering it's constraints?" As an example,if something is made of plastic (or "polycarbonate"[1]), I expect it to flex to a degree, and it can still be very well made (e.g. old school Nokia phones had incredible build quality and industrial design)

1. I hate that plastic had to be re-branded in this manner because a small-but-vocal contingent decided it "feels cheap" on phones, or somehow lowers build-quality. This resulted in glass-backed phones which ironically had to be kept in plastic cases to take advantage of plastic's superior elasticity.
Hardly an attempt to sieze Russia.
Sure, but it could be done with less ill effects than not regulating it.

There already are specific regulations regarding fashion industry.
> With lazy loading?

AAA titles are already constrained by hard drive bandwidth, which is measured in Gbps on newer systems. They can’t keep all assets in memory. You’re going to have to have a top tier internet connection to get the same performance.

On top of that a browser thread can’t rely on having much more than half a gig of RAM assigned to it.
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Maybe I am missing something, but not seeing in what disagrees, also note OWD is per million.
Why is the Vancouver map listed as being from 2003?
I live out in the mid-West many years ago. It actually offers a lot of what people claim is missing on HN - affordable housing, low crime, good public schools, community, better work-life balance.

I’m assuming most people bitching about have never been there.
Imagine trying to figure out how to correctly say "Port Hueneme" if you're a random Soviet officer. Probably best they were phoneticized if only so other Soviets would have some idea of what you were talking about.

Also, I think we can feel somewhat confident that over the years the Soviets intended for special operations to take place on American soil. Few non-nuclear things screw with preparations for a deployment overseas more than transmission power lines for San Diego and/or Norfolk dropping, or an outbreak of a crop disease, or what have you. If you're feeling sporty, assassinate a few people (preferably false flag ops to stoke domestic divisions).
The only reason it’s not in China is because they don’t have ready access to the technology that allows for this. All the “fabulous” chip makers in Asia are all US allies.
> * B2B in a niche market

> * Some viral component so you do not have to spend money on ads for growth.

Indeed. For years our sales department was simply our customers. They'd call their friends and tell them they need to get our software, or when they switched jobs they'd work hard to get our software used at the new place.

Now we have a small but proper sales team. However word of mouth got us very, very far.

> * Sold as a subscription and only as a subscription.

This was a key point my boss realized early on as well. It's much easier for the accounting department to handle a fixed recurring cost, than a bi-annual huge expense or similar.

It also allows you to incorporate usage into the price, so the price scales with the customers' income, not unlike cloud offerings.

We have a small fixed monthly cost, and a variable cost (per invoice/order essentially). The variable price depends on volume, but it's very predicable and makes it so the customer doesn't have to worry too much if business is slow for a while.
> Why can't we live in a world where everyone wears heated clothes and we just leave the windows open (even in winter)?

If the goal is to keep the place warm, shouldn't the windows be closed?

(I'm from a tropical part of the world where there's no such thing as winter)
This made me recall Nick Lane's thoughts on anti-oxidants and how they interfere with stress signals sent by cell (which is not an obviously good thing): https://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/yes-life-in-the-fast-lane-k...
Did you ever try Colemak? I've been Colemak for probably 5 years now, I can't speak to pinkie specific pain but I get much less tired on long typing sessions. It's interesting to me how everyone seems to know of Dvorak over Colemak. But I never heard of BEAKL, thanks. For me the issue with Dvorak was that I wasn't ready to give up my function keys (control x, c).
> After reading the paper, I'm inclined to change the definition of UB in D to not mean it can be assumed to not happen and not be unintended.

What's the current definition of UB in D?
Tried getting one. Told me to fill up a survey. Closed.
Same as in C.
I see: You mean a target aimed at by NATO, not the USSR. Now it makes more sense.
Wow last winters peak prior to vaccines was brutal in daily deaths. So far it’s lower by orders of magnitude, hope it’s just not a factor of timing since deaths lag cases.
I've been coming to a similar conclusion.

Increasingly I've had to use `site:<domain name>` syntax with DDG, but DDG has clearly become significantly worse in recent months. This was confirmed by others in another HN thread recently. Even if I use the site-syntax or use quotes to specify exact match (which DDG used to honor), I'll often get nonsense results whereas Yandex somehow manages to find results that aren't on DDG or Google.

And yeah, I've been having to use search engines on specific sites like Wikipedia because I know there's gonna be less shenanigans.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm living in the past. Do normies actually use search engines anymore?
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A representative sample features the same external validity issues you have in many (any) experiments, including in the hard sciences. That's part of science, and it would be unfair to attribute it otherwise. One experiment won't do it.

As for your other point, I guess the issue the lack of a hypothesis regarding basic income. You can't test "basic income" as such, and with such unspecific setup you are sure to conflate rather than illuminate mechanisms of relevance.
In any case, it depends on your question whether you need to take income away from anyone.
Are you going to start by examining distributive effects? Really?
No physisict would test their airflow experiment on a flying rocket, while also trying to measure how he exhaust affects the wind in Costa Rica next week and saying 'something' about the future climate. They would start by putting their airflow gizmo into an isolated chamber - which is, afaik, more or less where UBI experiments are.
I'm always mystified by the animosity I see toward anything resembling decentralization on HN, despite the fact that it is a forum populated by Computer Scientists who are very well aware of the benefits of decentralization when it comes to computer systems.
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Can you give some examples? From what I see, most of the lack of supply is at the unskilled level.
20% comes off the top in the form of tips that never make it to the till. The other 5% is a fudge factor for the fact that you still need to pay something in wages.
because... MURICA fuck yeah!!
The crew here already bootstrapped to (small) revenue, which means revenue-based loans are possible (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revenuebased-financing....). I haven't been following this space recently, but it seems like there's now a big zoo of traditional lenders + upcoming tiny-vc's. IMO if you've reached something like 10K MRR but not enough of a userbase for crowdfunding, there's a world of options, the angel story may be the most friendly + not yet forcing you on the VC treadmill.

For pre-revenue... that's tougher. For a tech startup, consulting/services, SBIR, (lax) corporate day jobs, etc. all give ways to split between the startup and work without risking your nest egg. For b2b, I now like the model of well-paying design partners that you hustle to land before you take the full leap. But some people are rich, or comfortable with the risk/reward, or all sorts of other things, and go with personal guarantees. Pretty sure that's what I did with our first business credit card. In all cases, bravo to anyone who pushes to sustainable growth, it can be a life changer deal for both the company and the individuals, whatever financial path they pushed through.
That's of course possible, but not really the common case.
I'm starting to realize that every company I've worked for has had a real lack of technical leadership for one reason or another.

I think that's the part that is making me resentful of sales and business types, especially as I become more experienced and higher up in development.

People who make a lot more money than me coming with wish lists and deadlines, pitching buzzwords and pretending to technical knowledge they don't have.

It's extremely discouraging
If you will be tasked to take a compound or a country, you will write a perfect plan in minutes, of course.
An Air Force base hosting one of the nine major commands doesn’t seem like an obscure target…
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Apparently it's because the stock market is crashing too? At least that's one narrative I'm seeing to try to quell HODLers into not selling.
Organized courses cannot disappear, because 95% of kids will do nothing. Heck, even with organized courses, some 20% of the population does not complete high school and many others barely pass and show up.

I don't see it fundamentally changing for most people, but there will be improvements for the top performers who schools currently ignore and bore to death with convoy learning.
There's a good reason why most people who specialize in quantum gravity work in string theory: violating any axioms of string theory leads to theories which are self-evidently inconsistent with themselves and/or experiment. It's worth spending time trying to understand why, but unfortunately a lot of air is sucked out of the room by Woit's petulant negativity. It makes for fun podcasts but I'm glad researchers are willing to actually sit and think about the consequences of physics that doesn't match our intution, even when it's hard.

And indeed this quote misses the point. The point is that there aren't "additional" effective theories of gravity that are self-consistent but couldn't be explained by string theory. This isn't a smoking gun that string theory is correct, but if the opposite were true, it would have suggested that string theory was missing something.

So it's incorrect to conclude from this evidence that string theory is "consistent with everything"; it's merely consistent with the range of things that are consistent, and no more and no less. (Suspicious! But not conclusive.) One can complain that this isn't predictive, and indeed if you want to look for predictive power you look at other physical quantities. String theory makes very precise and unique predictions for the way that e.g. gravitons scatter off each other. The fact that humans don't (yet) have the ability to do such experiments is regrettable from a fundamental physics perspective, but it's a problem with humans, not string theory. So string theory continues to be a demonstrably self-consistent, (in principle) falsifiable, and stunningly beautiful theory--and dismissing it out of hand is a tragically common mistake.
works for me (But I use Fennec from F-Droid)
Much of this isn’t conspicuous consumption it’s a lack of reuse inside of developed nations. Low quality clothing is so cheap it’s hard to fathom, making buying new simply easier and just as affordable.

“In 2019, American families spent on average about 2% of their income on clothing.” It’s vastly more affordable than “In the 1950s, the average American family spent about 10% of its income on clothing, and that money bought them just a few sturdy garments a year.”

Thrift shops went from a way to save real money at the cost of time to a fashion statement.
Both things are true. The Soviets were very afraid of NATO because NATO was always richer and had more population and industry. So the Soviets wanted a lot of buffer. To have the front far away from Russia, and be able to fall back a long way before being forced to fight on Russian land. That is what the conquest of Eastern Europe was for.

The propping up of communist states worldwide was an attempt to not get surrounded by American client states / satellites / allies.

Look at China propping up North Korea. Why? Because they see South Korea as an American client state and they do not want to have a border with it.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay#Strategic_Air_Com... for what made Soviets think maybe NATO is serious about first strike.
I was happy to see that this project describes self-hosting in the fullest sense, from hardware on up.
> 1. People were stuck for more than 24 hours…

The car lost 25% of its charge over 12 hours. If you want to extrapolate to 24, I don’t think it would be that hard to hazard a guess?? If you want to extrapolate to 36, 48, or any number of hours you have the information there to do so.

Also - being frozen in place for 24 hours straight basically never happens to any car or driver. This is an unlikely event to worry about.

If you don’t want one, don’t buy one. I on the other hand wondered about exactly this issue so I find this a very useful piece.
The correct quote regarding the hinge is, "the hinge doesn't feel as strong". "as strong" doesn't mean it isn't strong. It means the original commenter doesn't think it is as strong as another hinge not that it isn't strong. Since there is no data regarding actual hinge performance this is a subjective and not an objective evaluation. Keyboard feel is also very subjective, so one person saying the keyboard is "mushy and creaky" holds no real value either.
U.S. companies are hiring Latin America’s tech talent
Yeah, Russians just want to return Russian Alaska, which is not a part of the USA.
So if your highest pricing tier on the website is $249 that means you've got circa 4,000 clients right? Or do you have one big client that owns you a little bit because they contribute such a large percentage of your revenue?

Not saying I don't believe the numbers, would just love to understand the makeup of your client base.
>I would think a lot of people benefit from the motivation for companies to geographically diversify.

Yes like I said there is the "in group". Is that "a lot" of people, I wouldn't say so. Namely the people who are employed or benefit financially from these orgs. If you are paying for the bloat via the government which is the customer of these defense orgs, it is effectively a tax on everyone else.
For those who aren't aware: Google is a lesser-known competitor of the recommended search engine DuckDuckGo.

You can Duck for 'google' to find out more about it.
Honestly? They should be spread out. There is no reason for FAANGS to be located in mega campuses in the Bay Area. Let people who eg graduate from Midwestern colleges have the option of working in the Midwest (or returning there), pay them equally well. This would create so much economic activity in areas that really need it instead of simply enriching the landlords in the Bay.
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I'm p sure my ad-blocker removes these results all.
I dont use google that often but never ever without ad-blocker. Whats the point of a page full or ads when I hardly ever search for anything I want to buy.
> as in most cases it is not expected behavior

Yeah, but the gotcha happens when it is expected behavior.
They don't respect robots.txt or have a way for websites to opt out. These might not be illegal but mighty rude.
I'm no optical engineer, but I suspect one issue with those types of plastic gratings is ensuring the flatness of the surface; its just a thin sheet of plastic so I'd expect it to buckle/wave around quite significantly. More serious gratings are solid chunks of glass instead.
I don't think so, we don't even produce vitamin B12. The "no free lunch" only applies to things we already produce, like we already produce dopamine so getting more will have consequences for healthy people or we would have evolved to produce more.
I absolutely care about migrating all my family members to another provider, which will involve somehow transferring GBs of existing emails. Not to mention paying individually for multiple accounts that will easily add up to hundreds of dollars a year.
Where does the power come from? Hydro on Great Lakes? Wind? Natural gas from fracking?
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Google is very far from a philanthropic organization, and these are not free accounts. They are free to the users and paid by the companies using Google Ads.
To bring it to the relevant topic of the day, I don't believe I will ever see the CDC issue a statement that "no level of exposure to the COVID-19 virus is safe", and recommend China level of quarantine.
Why would they? Few will stop using Google over that problem, and who's to say they aren't getting paid to keep Pinterest in the results?
> I would sit in the car like I was stuck in traffic the entire time, keeping the cabin warm enough not just for me but for theoretical passengers as well, and see how much the range dropped in that time.

While the idea to control for the passengers is obviously a good one, I feel like I need to point out that in many cases adding more human bodies to an enclosed space will actually reduce the energy needed to heat it.

The general internet factoid seems to indicate that humans radiate between 80W and 100W of heat, but those stats are all based on napkin math and don't seem to take into account the heat trapped by winter clothes, so I don't expect the real heat output to be quite so high in this circumstance.

Still, even taking half that number, a full car of four people would radiate about 160W-200W of heat just by existing in the closed space. You need more ventilation in the car as you add more people, but I would think you'd end up spending a lot less energy if you actually had real passengers.
If I'm making a $1m a year in revenue and the absolute worst you can call me is "rude" - I'm down.
You could give the cellphone company any damn address you want is the point. It proves nothing.
depending on how you define transaction, this doesn't seem possible?

my approach has been to make all operations idempotent and ensure they are all ran at least once.
Do they fail to understand or are they just unwilling to fight over it?

Plenty of decisions that I view as stupid I acquiesce to avoid having to fight.
I can pay for a search engine service if it blocks paywalls, bloated sites, fake bullshit clickbait contents. It’s time consuming to find what you’re looking for with Google. Unfortuanetely, there is no alternative.
Apparently this is still not fixed yet?

It's hard to tell what this is really about. Is it that systemd just assumes that it must have itself mounted the volume some daemon announced a dependency on (because who else would have?), so should unmount that when it thinks the daemon failed?

Is this because it has no way of recording whether the thing was already mounted when it started fooling with the daemon? Or, that it has no way to know that you wanted to keep it mounted, because you "failed" to turn on a service that depends on the thing remaining mounted?

And, why is behavior different in different distros? Which ones still have the bug (or lack a workaround), which don't?
It’s not a delusion. While it’s true that you can start a business anywhere, being in the vicinity of people who have a ton of experience is very useful. There’s a reason why people move to LA to make it in entertainment or to NYC to make it in finance.

That said, for a non startup technology job, yes, no reason to be in the Bay. That work can be done from anywhere.
Used to know a girl with about half of the skin of a darker color, from face to toes, burnt by a water bottle burst when she was little. Still I regularly fill them with boiling hot water. Same for everyone I know. Sometimes we're just that stupid...
gated results are clearly cloaking right? displaying different content for googlebot vs the search user?

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...
You won't be a good beta tester without providing feedback so good for them.
People used to say that about Idaho, now it’s half Californians. Maine was a backwater now it’s got some of the biggest population growth metros in the country. Florida used to be swamps now it’s growing like crazy. Things change, man. In fact the numbers show people are leaving California.
That's not prevented. Stars will be unobstructed on a cloudless night and further, are below visual magnitude of even the darkest night.
I have a user-agent switcher and switching to googlebot definitely puts you beyond many paywalls.