skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of my services are at home in a dedicated lan but I still have one vps server that is used as a reverse proxy and which forward everything via a tunnel.

The OS itself doesn't need much maintenance. I have set up auto updates and auto reboot on a regular basis. And you know what? Distros do their job very well and it just works. We are talking home service, I can deal with (less than) 5 minutes of downtime once in a week. I use rhel derivated distro which means major disruptive upgrade are only dealt with once every n years. I may choose an immutable distro in the future when support ends though.

Rotating https certs? Certbot makes automatic rotation easy.

ssh? What is the deal? You set it up basically once. Add a bit of port knocking if you want more silent logs.

To add a bit of security, set up crowdsec, fail2ban. Again, these tools do not require a lot of maintenance.

Most of the burden of maintenance comes from the management of the apps/services you want to have live. PaaS won't really help you much with that. SaaS tend to be expensive or lock you, they help if the service you want to maintain is complex. I don't think that is the case for the services described in the OP: static websites, git and backups.

There are traps though. For example should you run containers to easily maintain certain services or use the distro packages? You can argue that containers whom upstream project provide image for allows you to easily upgrade any service. I can switch from any postgresql version in a snap for instance. However while it is easy to track and set up auto update a major version using a tag, you might want to be more cautious with major versions bumps. And this keeping informed with the various upstream project, know when and why to do major upgrade, what are the impact and potentially maintenance task of any major release upgrade. This is the hardest part. Sometimes it might be best forgetting about using upstream container for some services and sticking to the version supported by your long term maintenance distro that does the job of backporting any security patch to have that peace of mind. You can still run it as a container, but using the distro packages. That is what I do for databases for example.
We have just finished a study.
The publication still needs some time.
But I can already say in advance that 25% of the subjects get great benefits in the method.

My finding before the study was that 10% of all readers gain an advantage in Bionic Reading.
And 10% is already very much...I find
I've been using this for 10 years. It's a fantastic piece of software and allows me to continue to use a Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV without any issues! My APS films are still scannable! Woop woop!
The financing can be complex, but broadly there are a few things that enable modern American orchestras to survive.

1. Benefactors who give money to the orchestra, rent boxes, etc.
2. Popular (non classical) concerts which have a possibly larger crowd and varied material. Harry Potter with orchestral accompaniment? Tenacious D with orchestral accompaniment? The musicians hate it, it pays the bills.
3. A mostly part time staff. Most orchestral musicians will play in many orchestras, teach, etc.

They made a loss on your concert. But they knew they would.
The issue with the world view that "a job is an exchange of services" is that it is unsustainable. The sheer time magnitude of work - 40 hours a week + commute for many decades dictates that it is a very significant portion of your life. On top of that on a day-to-day basis the timeslot itself between 9/5 is the best part of the day for the vast majority of people.

Seems like in order to have a deeply fulfilling life you need to have a job that you like and find it deeply meaningful. There is just no way around it, it is too much.
Another practical and time tested guide to happiness and the art of being for the rest of us:

https://i.imgur.com/lKwnHKd.jpg
Explicitly: it's a commentary over Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.
NATO were not the instigators there, not by a long shot. It was overreach, sure, but I fail to see the equivelancy. NATO didn't invade any country and didn't seize any territories.

Being a citizen of an eastern european country that joined NATO, I can promise you that my and other countries like mine are free-er to do what they please than they would be if they hadn't joined NATO.

Please, anyone reading the comments of the person above, don't be fooled, this is Russian propaganda, whether the person above is acting in good faith is irrelevant.
It’s a pointless argument because the only way to prove that lockdown resulted in more deaths is to spin up a parallel universe and see how many more people would have died if we didn’t go into lockdown.

Since we cannot do that you are all comparing the COVID deaths despite lockdown (which is still an order of magnitude higher then any of the estimates provided for deaths resulting from the lockdown). So you’re not making a like for like comparison.

And since you raise the point that precision is often as important as accuracy, it should be noted that those MacMillan figures are due to COVID as a wider concern, not lockdown in isolation. Hospitals were already cancelling appointments even before lockdown happened because of staffing issues. This would only have been a bigger problem if we hadn’t gone into lockdown (remember that the U.K. only went into lockdown to slow the burden on the NHS). So you cannot really use that estimated figure in its entirety given it wasn’t solely contributed to by the lockdown. And in fact if we hadn’t gone in lockdown the NHS might have been further overwhelmed resulting in even worse care for cancer patients. Once again, we can only prove your figures here by spinning up a parallel universe.
Looking at high revenue western internet companies founded around 2000 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_compa...

Google: 1998, Salesforce 1999, Overstock 1999,, Bet365 2000, Grubhub 2001, Etsy 2002, Logmein 2003, Shopify 2004

Nothing around 1990. Amazon, Ebay, Expedia etc in the mid 90s sure.

1998 and 1999 did better than 2000, but from 1990-1995 there are 9 on the list, from 2000-2005 there are 19 on the list, from 2010-2015 there are 14.

Starting in 2000 put you in a great position to capitalise on the real growth of the internet when mobile devices came on.
This is an untapped resource that should see the light of day...

From wikipedia's energy density page:

material specific energy w*h/kg
----------- ----------------------
uranium 22,394,000,000
...
diesel fuel 12,666
Their mission isn’t to build a web browser, which is what I think you are insinuating.
The universe's background starlight is twice as bright as expected
https://gridwatch.org.uk/

currently 0.63 GW.

That's interesting that they disagree. Gridwatch has been around a while but I'll have a look.

edit: yep, electricitymap's free figures are not even close to live.
You're also not hosting any parties if you rent your home. But mainly that's because your pedantry will not be entertaining enough to keep any guests. Others however will realize that hosting your own services on a generic VPS or dedicated server gives you much more freedom than a you-are-the-product service that does anything legally possible and then some to lock you in. Sure, hosting on your own hardware in a place you control has advantages, but as you said it is also significantly more difficult so that is no excuse to dismiss other options.
Good marketing (vs bad one)
And it's fine to leave them there for years. It's still possible to solve them when actually needed.

I've recently thanked myself for a TODO note: "oh, that not done... because that's not done [yet]! [conscientiously, deliberately]"
Nintendo is a public company. They are sort of supposed to look out for the shareholder, you know?

Many of their new games are still good.

And, of course, there's plenty of competition in both hardware capable of running games and in games themselves, so it's not like Nintendo has a monopoly. (And it's pretty well known up-front to customers that Nintendo likes to keep a tight grip. So it's not like people don't know what's coming.)
Metaphors Mold Minds
Unless you live in a country like The Netherlands, where the first three IVF procedures are, in fact, free. I won't disagree with you on the roller coaster of emotions, though.
I like this. I've always had to force jumping down line by line to pick up words if I was trying to speed read, but with the extra highlighting I'm picking them out and jumping almost effortlessly. It's pretty neat.

I'm honestly wondering if this would make me lazy for reading non explicitly partway bolded text.
That's interesting and I guess it would have worked. Unfortunately the reality is that nobody assign people to tasks in purely community driven open source projects like emacs. People do the task they are interested in.

At this point I guess it is more likely for elisp to slowly mutate into CL than emacs getting scheme support.

I know very little of the lisp ecosystem (I barely can write some elisp) so I don't know what are the pros and cons of scheme vs CL.
Start a new venture. It takes literally pennies to serve a web app on something like AWS Lambda. You don't even need to pay a server. Invest some few hundred dollars on YouTube ads, targeting channels your audience watches. Learn how to craft effective ad videos with this course [1]. It's a lot of work, but I don't think we can excuse it on top of "I'm underprivileged". You can choose not to do this work. But it's your choice.

[1] https://www.udemy.com/course/youtube-google-ads-marketing-an...
> Arrow’s theorem demonstrated with mathematical rigor that what many people seemed to want - a reliable “democratic” procedure for aggregating coherent individual preferences to arrive at a coherent collective choice - was simply, logically, unattainable.

To understand how reasonable "what many people seemed to want" is, we need to be clear about what is meant by "a coherent collective choice".

For example, in the case of a simple yes/no question in a referendum, where all voters are perfectly informed and the consequences of both outcomes are well known, Arrow's theorem has nothing to say. Similarly, if the goal of an election is to reduce the scale of a political problem down from millions of voters to dozens of politicians, Arrow's theorem doesn't preclude that.

What is precluded is the idea of reducing the complexities of millions of people's competing and contradictory preferences down into a single set of answers to all questions, or, more conventionally, choosing (in the general case) a single winner of an election who has the support of a majority of voters.

That is not an unreasonable thing for many people to seem to want, and the world might be better if there were a simple way of achieving it, but societies can still build systems that are very close to the ideal of democracy despite these mathematical limitations.
Its Always Sunny in AWS us-east-1: The gang does business continuity
It looks like electricitymap is showing "estimated" data for the UK. It's fairly calm at the moment, and it probably doesn't take weather into account when estimating.
> You only need the Pro if you have some very parallizable workloads (large compilations, or heavily threaded long-running stuff), or you need ram > 16GB.

Or you want a large screen, or IO, or more than one external display, …

There’s a billion reasons to want/need the pro (unlike the max).
You would need stuff that steals the hydrogen away from the oxygen, or the oxygen away from the hydrogen. It probably involves fluorine or sodium.
Not really, I’m too young. It’s probably hard to gauge based on the explosion of the internet, it wasn’t too long ago that we all believed in heresay
The app itself is not ARM specific, but the base Docker image and its dependencies (Debian + libraries + nodejs binaries...) are platform specific, so they can't build that image on a different platform than their target.

See that, for the same tag (version) you have images with different hashes (hence content) for different architectures:

https://hub.docker.com/_/node?tab=tags
>>then push you out the door and tell you to find an AA group.

What is it exactly you want the hospital to do if your friend won't stop drinking?
Doesn't change anything that's just a sorry excuse for cowardly corrupt warmongers. They clearly knew what the executive branch would do.

More generally, that would be a dereliction of duty too. The entire point of these checks and balances is so that an individual branch does not need to be trusted to make a wise choice.
I use Vuescan with my Dimage Scan Dual IV! It works a dream. Software is much better than the Konica Minolta software. Also, works in modern Windows and Mac OSes.
> never get it confused with your own mission or "dream".

I would hesitate to use the word “never,” there.

It’s kind of amazing, when a job becomes a vocation and a calling.

These days, that kind of describes where I’m at. I don’t get paid a dime, and work harder (and more productively) than I ever have. I’m doing work I never dared to dream of.

I had to be forced into this position. Long, sad story. Get your hanky. TL;DR, no one wants to play with someone over 50, that used to be a manager.

But the last few years have convinced me that you couldn’t drag me back into the rat race with a locomotive. I’m almost deliriously happy.

I’m extremely fortunate, in having built up enough to get to this point, and also, in learning to live humbly enough to have my needs met.

I wish the OP well.

Happiness is something that has no price tag, and is often found serendipitously. For some of us, we are only truly happy, when we are working.
Does libreWolf work with your company accounts?
Except that GIF is not a personal name, and all those meme GIFs won't be mad if we call them "jifs" or "gifs".

Names for things get lives of their own.

Similarly, I don't think it merits looking at similar words for the "proper" pronounciation. If anything, it makes sense to look at expanded acronym (Graphics Interchange Format) which still points at the hard G (unless it's Jraphics Interchange Format :)). But hearing it from whoever coined the term is definitely similarly applicable.

Still, I would reiterate, names for things that get wide adoption get their own lives, and we'd face an uphill battle to stop people from using them how they want. As long as we can understand each other, we are golden. And when we can't, it's not that hard to get back on the same page.
Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
That's like saying money spent fighting arson is well invested because you have extinguish accidental fires sometimes anyway.
If you don't want your deployments to be even more complex, yes, they probably have to, especially at scale.
But Bionic Reading actually supports many people who have dyslexia.

However, not in the form of a font, but in the way of highlighting within the text.

A big advantage of Bionic Reading is that the reading setting can be adjusted individually by each reader.
In other words, individual.
> Brendan Eich was certainly successful at sabotaging Mozilla by turning homophobes and GamerGate trolls against his former employer, and making himself a poster child of the Alt-Right

I'm pretty sure he just sabotaged himself. He was a decent CEO but his ideals didn't fit the company, so there was backlash, drama and he resigned. Mozilla didn't suffer permanent damage from Eich's tenure.

The current management though, they're actually ruining Mozilla and driving it off a cliff.
Ask HN: Uptick in spam based on GitHub activity
Has anyone else seen a recent uptick in unsolicited email based on GitHub starring activity? There was a post recently here about Browserless doing this and I recently was added to some marketing list with no unsubscribe link from a local crypto startup which mentioned a repo I'd starred that wasn't even there's. Is this some new growth hacking thing people have been told to do? What can we do to prevent this?
You should see how little those solar panels generate at night!
> For me, using containerized apps, having external backups of the DB, means I can reboot the app fast in a clean state

That of course applies if the attacker only makes it into the containerized app itself, but (assuming docker is used for containerization) Docker has had it's share of 10.0 CVEs [1], and almost every other containerization platform out there has as well. Can you really trust a machine once it has been broken into ?

Then of course there's the whole thing about the data. Nobody cares about the application or the infrastructure. If a sysadm is running the show, chances are that the server will be sitting on a DMZ network with firewall rules in place, so hopefully the network integrity is still in place. Your data however may not be, so you need backups.

Depending on how you do backups, chances are that you're using push backups, which means that somewhere on your server resides credentials that can at least alter your backup, meaning if an attacker makes it into your server neither your data or backups are safe.

> Apart from some limited cases, I think it's cheaper to have your own servers if you don't have to pay much for their administration.

If all you're hosting is small web sites or apps, some of the major cloud providers has your back for free. Azure allows 10 million hits on their Azure functions per month for free, as well as free static websites. Oracle Cloud gives you 4 ARM cores and 24GB RAM for free to use in any configuration from a 4 core VPS to 4 one core VPS', as well as a lot of other stuff including 50 IPSec connections.

There is literally no reason to run and expose any infrastructure from home anymore, especially not if it's "personal infrastructure".

> And I hate not owning my data, my apps, having to depend on a third party.

Define owning. Your data might live on a server, but if you create backups at home or somewhere else, does that not constitute ownership of the data ?

As for depending on a third party, i'd wager that your data is much safer in a professional data center with redundant internet connections, redundant power supplies, redundant hardware, geographical redundancy, fire/flood protection, physical security and 24/7 monitoring than any setup you might have made at home, or if not, you're paying way more than you need to for your home setup.

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...
Another question to ask is - could the $20K raise be attributed solely to the bootcamp or was it her dedication and preparation over 6 months that got her the job? Could she have done it on her own?
As someone born in eastern EU country. I am well familiar with orthodox, so I really don't see what's good about it. In our countries the priests are one of the most corrupted individuals who are always fat (as opposed to generally skinny population of poor people that can't afford much food) and always drive the nicest cars. How spiritual they are is arguable. They don't pay taxes, still are allowed to have wives and families and their working hours is way less than 40/w. If that's the life you are going for, then being and orthodox priest is the way to go.
Because I don’t run macOS or Windows as my primary OS.
>Consider that in order to smother a fire - to form an actual barrier between fuel and oxygen - water would have to remain liquid

Why? Steam can still displace oxygen. We smother fires with inert gases all the time.
Hey Folks, we recently ran a Product Hunt launch and thought we’d share some of the key things we believe made our campaign so successful
It's because him having a "pro vax" person on is incidental, whereas the "anti vax" person is invited because they're anti vax. And you shouldn't be platforming people who spew nothing but falsehoods.

But if you need another example, I'd love to see a single person who stops Rogans randomly inserted anti-trans rants he manages to somehow have on every episode, even if it is not topical. Aside from the fact he had a lot of "anti trans" people on (Debora Soh, Abigail Shrier, Jordan Peterson, Blair White... I mean the list is essentially endless) and not one person who is invited because they're pro trans.

At this point I'm really curious who makes most of the booking decisions for the show. They seem to maximize for right-leaning outrage culture / reactionaries, comedians and some people with very milquetoast politics. I can only remember Bernie as a big left voice on the JRE.
I recall seeing a study in the 2000’s stating that there wasn’t even enough nuclear material necessary to fulfil the world’s energy needs, assuming that it could be swapped out 1:1 overnight.

I don’t know if that’s still the case. At any rate, it’s a poor argument against it, as it will always be just one part of the broader energy picture, along with renewables, and (almost certainly) fossil fuels
Reading the end of this story made me really happy. I've had a HN account since 2016 and have never commented, until now :)
P values are, effectively, the probability of a result occurring because of a process. These p values are overwhelming evidence that the result did not occur because of the process described in the study.

That does not mean fraud (although, I stress, in this case I can see why it is probably fraud). For example, maybe the study is done in some sort of hospital with some sort of patient scheduling system and the front desk is playing a funny joke on the doctors in this study. It is quite common for experimenters to not be as much in control of their environment as a paper suggests - that would be an honest reason for why the data is weird.

In a more plausible example - I don't know how "matching" works, but maybe the patients were matched, the report writer didn't know that and the sentence slipped through proofreading. Unlikely, but certainly possible. That mistake would happen in the wild from time to time.

You don't need much imagination to find examples other than fraud. Although it does take a little imagination, which is concerning. But, frankly, there should almost always be an attempt at dialog with someone before accusing them publicly of being a fraud. Unless they're going to shoot you or something extreme.
I am very happy to hear that.
I don't think you will have problems if you can't apply BR. But you will probably find that the "reading pull" is less strong without Bionic Reading.
You can use youtube-dl to download the transcript of a video alone; the comments are maybe not so easy - possibly you need a headless browser for it.
I did, and that's why the Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV is a great scanner as it automatically winds through the APS films scanning each film. Vuescan was a life saver to be able to continue using my scanner!
I have been focusing on film-based photography for 15+ years - mostly printing in the darkroom, but also often scanning - and can wholeheartedly recommend Vuescan on Linux.

About 6 years ago, however, I switched exclusively to the open-source XSane [1] and it operates my old scanner(s) beautifully, with all features including the transparency unit.

Try it out if you don't have a highly unusual scanner with driver issues. My workflow involves:

1. XSane for scanning (to 16bit TIFF)

2. exiftool [2] to tag my images with full metadata from my notes: camera, lens, aperture, film, datetime etc just like your digital camera would

3. Darktable [3] to manage my library, cropping, sharpening, adjustments, and tagging

It's a little bit of work - but nowhere near as much as taking and processing 4x5in photographs, and the "digital end results" are very satisfactory.

If I may, an example image:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dawidloubser/35944112383

[1] http://www.sane-project.org/
[2] https://exiftool.org/
[3] https://www.darktable.org/