skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the vapid, self-serving farewell letters you would find on fuckedcompany.com during the dotcom implosion.

ISAs failed because they are a stupid idea that rips off consumers. Most people smart enough to qualify are suave enough to notice this. These exist to take advantage of naive people.

Investors with money like to keep it, and there’s so much risk involved in the process they need to rip you off to make a margin. So they sell you dreams and deliver a worthless product, financed with a novel predatory financing scheme.

(This isn’t a new scam either - certification mills used to do this with CCNA and MCSE certs years ago, except they usually targeted federal funds for displaced workers instead of the convoluted modern bond indenture model)

I do volunteer mentoring as a service project type of thing, and one of the kids I worked with was attracted to one of these. I refocused him to a community college program where for ~$8,000 he has an associates degree and superior skillset. He got a great job and is positioned to further his education if he decides to do so.

The gross promotion of these schemes really affected my view of some of the tech luminaries who shamelessly pumped it.
> linux support

What distro are you using that doesn't have a proper package manager? Brew exists precisely because this has been standard for years/decades on linux but OSX hasn't had anything built in.
I dated a girl at GitHub for awhile last year who said they weren’t even completely off of AWS yet and she liked how they didn’t seem like working for Microsoft. Maybe this has changed though.
Any story has an implicit assumption about the kinds and levels of absurdity you can expect. People get weirded out when you violate those expectations. Marvel, by virtue of their source material if nothing else, has set a much higher baseline of goofiness for their movies than most others. Whereas we all sort of know Dune was meant to be Serious Scifi. And I guess people who decide they like the Lynch adaptation have re-calibrated their expectations, and found the movie internally consistent on some level. It's all about audience expectations (and sometimes Hollywood ignorance/laziness, I guess).
Love the idea. The first few things I searched had very few results, and when I got into more 'mainstream' topics, I was surprised to still see Quora et al in the results (I get a "7" flag on my uBlock icon when I visit I Quora page so I'm not quite sure how that ties in the with '5' threshold mentioned on the homepage).
You can't legally take motorcycles to some of the places you can take an ebike, at least in my jurisdiction.

I imagine motorcycles also have more overhead (in terms of both time and money) when it comes to registration, licensing, insurance, maintenance, etc.
What exactly is self-hosting? Are you just running services in isolation?

Updates come from a central place, I guess. With some appliances, there is integrated federation, "cloud" access? Those can still comprise you.

Do you share hosting with your family and friends?
Are they still "self-hosted", or are you their provider?
OpenVINO 2022.1
First page results are interesting, paging to the second page gives me a:

"A query would help :-)"

One thing I noticed playing with Teclis is that it gives useful results for 'A vs B' queries. I don't know a single other search engine that still delivers remotely useful results for this type of query.
I think you’re mistaken - why would Google have agreed to this if they gave up their cut of the subscription revenue? They’re surely making some money on the backed still, possibly just 3% less than they were (to account for Spotify’s processor fees).
The blood libel is a frequent allusion.
I had forgotten about that, thanks!
Flip-side:

I self-hosted my blog and email for over 10 years, everything automated - first with Perl and Bash scripts, then much later with Ansible. It was beautiful. But last year I moved to S3/CloudFront via CloudFormation for my blog and Migadu for email. It's even more beautiful because it's now somebody else's problem and also a hell of a lot cheaper.
It hasn't worked for years.
Absolutely. I want 100% of the money to go to Spotify and I want a centralized one-click cancel, that looks the same for all subscriptions.

That's an unlikely combination. So the viable alternative is a middle ground. A central app store and subscription management takes a cut/adds a tax. I'm ready to pay say 1% or 2% for that service.
+1 for having kids at a younger age. My dad was 44 when I was born and he died when I was 16 -- that sucked a lot. I think you should have a fair idea you'll live long enough to see your kid "launched" into the world -- say 25 years old at a minimum. If you won't live that long, don't have kids.
Black Rock City's DPW for solar is a really interesting idea! Temporary housing is definitely used at times for more remote projects, but it's more expensive than just booking out all the local hotels (of course, once you've saturated hotel rooms you might not have the option).

Fortunately the labor needs are typically predictable, with each step you mentioned happening in parallel across a site spanning 100's or 1000's of acres. One of the main reasons that larger sites are particularly appealing for us is that the work done by our robots is continuously in demand somewhere, as opposed to a small site which might move in more discrete stages and have the rapidly changing needs you mentioned.
That's the thing, most of these questions have been answered or at least heavily explored. Atheism is relatively new to the philosophical space, so I've found most arguments and thought exploration is based on ancient religions. After all, these same people founded most branches of science and math.
>I wonder if crypto users are basically more primed to expect fees and crypto exchanges are better at making users forget about it with clever UX?

That's pretty much what it is. No one knows the actual spot price of the coin they are buying. They just say "give me $5 of shitcoin" and whatever number of coins is spat out is fine.
The problem here depends on what "it" she believe was the it that was worth, isn't it?
If she believed their death is worth, like the linked video title suggest, finding Iraq's non existent WMDs, than yes. But if she believed that the alternative is a much worse state with a lot more bodies and suffering then it is a defensible moral choice.

And it is not like she was standing behind what she said - she said she fell into a trap[0]. Compare to Truman, who approved the actual Hiroshima, and "never lost any sleep over that decision.” [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright#Sanctions_a...

[1] https://apjjf.org/-Peter-J.-Kuznick/2479/article.html
>I understand those documentations are not for laypeople for me. However it is annoying when people out there kept pushing the self-hosting for beginners narrative without providing the necessary tools for laypeople to keep themselves secured and reliable.

And that, in a nutshell, is the problem.

A few clicks, a configuration form and integrated tools to set up external dependencies (i.e., LetsEncrypt certs), et voila! You're running a self-hosted application.

AFAICT, this is more about developers not creating the packaging/configuration/management tools necessary for effective use by non-technical users.

Sure, I can write a sql query to modify the schema of an applications' database, but my highly educated and intelligent physician brother would just throw up his hands in disgust.

Make self hosting easy and people will use it. And Docker-compose isn't "easy" for a lay person.
Don't hurt yourself. I lost nearly my entire 30s to spine problems. I couldn't touch my own feet for two years. I had to change careers (luckily, into software, which doesn't require great orthopedic health and has boomed). I'm very lucky my wife is still with me because I was miserable to be around for a long time, constantly in pain and angry and frustrated. I wasn't able to have kids and am trying to adopt now, figuring the risk isn't worth it to go biological since my wife is also in her 40s.

I don't know what actionable advice is really there, but I ignored a lot that I didn't have to and acted invincible when I wasn't. I'm a very athletic person, played sports my whole life, joined the Army. There are a lot of things I could have stopped doing, risks I didn't need to take. I'm lucky as hell that years of surgery and physical therapy and finally listening to doctors eventually brought me much of the way back, but 30s are, or at least should be, peak years. Losing them like that really leaves a hole.
"In 2011, Money magazine placed Danville as the fourth-best place to retire in the United States."[1]

What can I say - it's hard to argue with that!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danville%2C_Kentucky
While PCA can be useful for some classification problems, it is intended to be a dimensionality reduction technique, not a classification technique.
I am with you. I think the future is something like Umbrel[1].

Because frankly, I would rather have the server running on a little device in my home than having to mess around with things like SSH and a VPS. An app that is running on a little computer in my house is both more understandable and easier for me to maintain.

[1]: https://getumbrel.com/
Last time I checked (admittedly a long time on Apple, as a developer, I couldn't refund and cancel a subscription for my customers. They have to go through Apple to do that. Not a great experience.
It's the type of thing only a doctor can say.

I mentioned it off-hand to an ex-girlfriend and was called a sexist (not in an angry/confrontational way, but pretty much dismissed equally off-hand).
Abel Prize for 2022 Goes to New York Mathematician
Waiting is not bad, most child abuse cases come from people who shouldn't have had kids in the first place. The worst case if you wait is that you'll have to adopt kids, which is arguably way more humane than introducing another hungry soul into the world.
Mostly just faint hope that Planet 9 both exists and is a primordial black hole.
> This is not some UCI conspiracy to prevent progress.

Actually, it is a UCI conspiracy to prevent progress, full stop. The UCI didn't just ban recumbents, thus dooming them to the nerd crowd. They also banned small-wheel bikes. You might be aware that the primary speed records not held by recumbents are held by Moultons, which have a wheel diameter about half that of the standard wheels, plus a tight suspension. Why don't people ride small wheels? Because racers don't, making it hard to market them. And racers don't because UCI banned them expressly to keep Moultons out of races.

The UCI tried (and failed due to safety uproar) to ban disc brakes. It banned the superman position. It banned fairings. It has a long history of banning solid, well considered and superior designs and technologies, and as a result effectively eliminating them from the mainstream market.

I hate conspiracy theories: but this one is entirely with merit.
I'm surprised that nintendo maintains their own OS for the switch console too, instead of using linux or other unix derivative : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar...
Temporarily to get users to switch, or permanently if they can determine how to monetize the user's information (what you didn't read the whole EULA?)
Got some potassium iodine for my kids and got supplies to ground my car... that's about it.
I grew up Mormon, explored Taoism and Buddhism, but never felt "at home". I considered myself an atheist for many years after that, but never really gave up hope that I could find a spiritual path. My family was on the brink of falling apart at one point, and I had started listening to Jordan Peterson's lectures on the Bible. That led me to the work of Jonathan Pageau. Once I started to understand what he was actually talking about (by learning more about the traditional pre-Enlightenment worldview), I thought "what do I have to lose?" and went to a local Orthodox church. I began meeting with the priest, and it's now the foundation for my life, and it's a part of my life every day, and affects every decision I make.
In Switzerland (formerly preper heaven, the government would even pay on your foundation if you put in a shelter) it used to be normal for everyone to have a specific amount of supplies in case of an emergency. From Iodine pills to water. This fits together with the bomb shelters that every one has access to.

Now a days many are completely oblivious and have no clue although the government provides a handy guide to what you should keep [1] . Most have iodine pills at home as they are sent in the mail if you are close enough to a nuclear reactor. Everyone else can get them for free at the pharmacy.

In fact many don't know where their bomb shelter is, if it's not part of their home. Every home used to have a yellow plak which stated where the shelter is but because people are very mobile today the government will inform the public where they should shelter when an incident occurs. Also many of the bomb shelters are now used for other things such as storage. I remember as a kid when we bribed the inspector to come back later so we could clean out the shelter for inspection so we would not be fined. The shelters have active air filters and other requirements that were regularly inspected. At least you can now use them for storage and other things as long as you can clean it out in 24-48 hours.

Sirens are tested once a year and usually will freakout tourists which is entertaining to watch.

For anyone visiting or living in Switzerland I highly recommend downloading the Alert Swiss app [2] which will let you know what is going on like if you should close windows because of a chemical fire or if there is a siren test.

[1] https://www.bwl.admin.ch/bwl/en/home/themen/notvorrat.html

[2] https://www.alert.swiss/
I had the same opportunity. I picked Boston, MA. It's a pretty good city, but I likely wouldn't choose it again if I went back 5 years. I'd likely choose NYC. Either way, I don't know how to make an informed choice here, picking a city to live has always been unclear to me.
Maybe it's worth it for no-hassle cancelling though. While 30% is steep, and you should check website pricing vs Apple in-app pricing for something you end up keeping, being able to cancel from a predictable UI is worth something compared to phone, mail in or in-person-only cancellation policies.
> This is why I use cash as much as possible - to delay that day.

A big thing discouraging me from using cash is how suspicious people are of you when you pay in cash. I've definitely gotten weird looks from cashiers when doing so, especially when you pay in larger bills (like $100).
Did Lambda fold or just rebrand?
Strap up friendo!
> You can play that video over and over, but the sanctions were imposed as a response to an evil act (invasion of a neighboring country)

Should half a million Americans die for each US invasion? If I said it's worth it does that make it OK?

> When a dictator does an evil act, they cannot hide behind consequences to their people

A dictator, by definition, is not representative of a "people." There is no "their people" in this case.

> Also, the result that led to that comment was retracted

So the fact that she said it was worth it -- explicit support for it -- doesn't matter because the data might have been wrong? If I was told half a million Jews were killed yesterday and in my position as representative to the UN said it was "worth it" am I absolved if it turned out to be fake news?

> Hussein killed tens of thousands of Iraqis with chemical weapons over his time in power

This never actually happened. It was just about 2000 people. From what we've learned in this discussion I guess that absolves Saddam for thinking it was worth it to crush the Kurdish uprisings.

Great chatting. I won't be participating any further though.
Quit looking over your shoulder at the startup blog posts. Go outside. Take a walk. Call your parents. Learn to cook.

Success will come if you're a decent human being (and most of us truly are). It just may come when it's least expected, and from a completely different direction.

Oh, and 401k compounding works like a champ.
I don't know much about things, but I was immediately left with the feeling that this was a Google action performed vis a vis antitrust. Whether to strengthen a case against Apple or weaken one against them or some other ball game entirely, I have no clue.
I used it before, but it needs a bank account as far as I know. Right now I'm in Colombia, and most of the people here don't have a bank account, because they know people who were burned by huge late fees.

When I was in Costa Rica a person asked me if I know a bank that doesn't take his money away, because sometimes money just disappears from the bank accounts.

With Bitcoin you can get hacked, you can lose your password, but at least you can really own it, and no bank can just randomly take away your money.

Just a few weeks ago Russia did the same thing for international accounts of people there, which is in the news, but it's happening in lots of 3rd world countries every day.
There are numerous projects which have attempted to create this.

https://sandstorm.io/ was the biggest one but as far as I can tell its largely unmaintained and most of the apps are outdated

https://yunohost.org/ probably has the best "just works" experience but I didn't like that it wasn't using any kind of containerization which has caused them issues with shared libraries like PHP being difficult to update. As well as security concerns about one insecure app giving access to the whole server.

Ultimately the problem is just extremely difficult / high maintenance. And no one wants to pay for this work.
the part that matters is that everyone has access to it, not that someone who isn't you is making money with it.
VkFramebuffer is gone in future versions or vulkan? By what was it replaced? (I am being lazy here, asking instead of going to read the latest specs). I coded my everyday video player using vulkan (very conservative), I would move my code to this new thingy once it's in mesa. What I liked with vulkan, on the main thread of my video player, I just post vulkan non-blocking commands, I don't even need a video thread! I can even use the main thread to mix fast enough the audio data!

NIR is a sweet spot for me (lean C89 code with benign bits of c99/c11), even though I would like a configure "switch" to remove all non-breaking algebraic optimizations from the vulkan drivers (I used to do that myself for a good while, near 0 performance impact) since it is redondant because those should be directly done in spir-v code.

Since I am an AMD user (I play video games, now all the ones I play have a vulkan backend), even if I really dislike a bloody lot c++, I am grateful to valve for ACO (because llvm is beyond toxic, even from a c++ point of view). But I wish ACO would manage to add the possibility for hand-coded assembly shaders (AMDGPU ISA is public and really ez to code), just need a few relocation types (writing an assembler should not be a nightmare like with hw architectures using bazillions of relocation types).
> Imagine a world with no cash.

I'm in :)
A terrifying rabbit hole if ever there was one.

> instead of wondering where I should put a cymbal, I’m thinking: ‘Does that tree work there? Is that house too close to the railway line?’ It ticks exactly the same boxes.”

These pursuits seem very dangerous for some technically minded people. I built a system for monitoring the levels in our water tanks. Crappy solutions are available for a few bucks, but they didn't suit me. It grew into a multi-user cloud based system that took perhaps a year or so part time to complete. It does its job perfectly but there's no way I can justify that time (and I knew it at the time). I just had no choice but to do it to a high standard.
"Between 1967 and 1973, the Chagossians..." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians). That's the colonial era? They are plenty of Chagossians alive today that were evicted.
I’m very gently getting some stuff prepared. Just picked up a tiny battery-powered radio (AM/FM/SW/NOAA Weather/aviation), likely gonna start building a small emergency bag over the coming weeks. I live in an earthquake-prone area, so being prepared for those is my more long-term use.
There's an inherent trade-off between decentralisation and computing price+performance, so it's likely that centralised exchanges will continue to be cheaper and faster for higher-frequency activities such as day trading, transaction processing, etc. Their utility for speculation decreases with harsher KYC/AML/accredited investor regulation, so it doesn't make sense for them to support that.
The 'political reasons' in question were the unprovoked attack on a sovereign state. The responses were, again, approved through the global legal framework we have for adjudicating such matters - one that typically has so many checks it's almost never used. None of this can be said of either terrorism or the responses to that so I don't really follow this analogy at all.
AARP-backed social network looks to lure older users from Facebook
CreateBetter.xyz is a database of hundreds curated resources to help creative entrepreneurs, SMBs and startups create better digital products in less time.
Does this also exclude wikipedia? One of the first queries I usually try on search is literally "test", and I usually expect a wikipedia article for testing (either as an assessment or a scientific test or a programatic test) on page 1 or 2, but here there was none.
Australia’s public universities (that is most of them) basically operate on a subsidised ISA built into the tax system called HECS. It’s been going for almost 30 years and was started to double the rate of higher education participation, which was happened.
There are huge problems with the Australian university system, but I’d say HECS is one of the lesser problems.
GPU Audio, Wants to Turn Your Graphic Card into a Powerful Audio DSP
> I used it before, but it needs a bank account as far as I know.

Wise Multi-Currency does not, to my knowledge - it is a bank account and provides you banking details in many jurisdictions. The fact your bank charged you late fees isn't a reason not to have a bank, IMO, but to each their own.

> With Bitcoin you can get hacked, you can lose your password, but at least you can really own it, and no bank can just randomly take away your money.

Lots of people get their crypto seized by the government, all the time. At one point the biggest single Bitcoin wallet holders were the FBI and the Bulgarian FBI. It's time to let that narrative go.
I just created a second user on my MacBook, enabled the built-in VNC server, switched back to the first user, and was able to access the second user's desktop remotely with a VNC client on Windows while the MacBook itself displayed the first user's desktop.
This hour-long interview [1] from 2020 provides a personal look back on her life.

[1]: https://tim.blog/2020/05/27/secretary-madeleine-albright/
This is how the example chart on their homepage looks on my machine: https://i.imgur.com/al67CoQ.png - ugly font, labels crossing their boxes.

I think they're sending me an SVG that my browser renders poorly, but that's a horrible first impression.

That said, the tool itself looks pretty solid, much better than the only other open source alternative I know (dia). Like many open source tools the UI design looks a bit old and it's chock full of advanced features that make the basic ones hard to find/use, but it's certainly usable.

And it's browser based, which means it runs anywhere, including Chromebooks.
Diversity Smokescreen
It's not as easy as "just run the docker image". Maybe it is if you just want to run a single one. But as soon as you want to run multiple it becomes a very complex job of configuring nginx and lets encrypt. It took me several hours to work out how to host nextcloud and get the nginx config working.