skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agreed, for the sake of humanity we should strive to make self-hosting as easy and as seamless as possible.

But why stop at self-hosting? Beyond self-hosting, it could be extended to local-first paradigm meaning that there's a choice to have a scalable on demand auxiliary cloud based for handling bursty access demands if you need it. In addition, you can have extra backup for the peace of mind.

I'm currently working on realiable solutions (physical wireless and application layers) to extend the local-first system to be automatically secured even you have intermittent Internet outage unlike TailScale and ZeroTier [2]. This system will be invaluable where Internet connection is not reliable due to weather, harsh environment, war, unreliable power provider or lousy ISPs [3].

[1] Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud:

https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/local-first.pdf

[2] Internet outage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_outage

[3] NIST Helps Next-Generation Cell Technology See Past the Greenery:

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/01/nist-helps-nex...
That's fascinating.

I do have plans to add context to one's timeline; for example, to optionally overlay the weather on that day, or major world or local events. That might be helpful in understanding your own timeline entries in hindsight.

So the life choices thing is interesting. You're talking about divergence points, or nexus events (there are different terms in different literature/cinema), and charting your world lines, basically. (Some Loki and Steins;Gate would be recommended watching.) I am not sure how to do that, but would like to figure that out...
For old-school mod_perl apps setting MaxRequestsPerChild was often a much better ROI than actually finding and fixing the leaks.

Speaking as somebody who's done over a decade of large scale OO applications perl and is actually really good at finding and fixing the leaks, this has often been intellectually aggravating but every time I've set that option instead I rewarded myself with a glass of bourbon for picking the pragmatic choice and then went back to adding (non-leaky) features that were far more useful to the company in question than cleaning up the older code would've been.
> At an address listed in the leaked materials as the teen’s home near Oxford, a woman who identified herself as the boy’s mother talked with a Bloomberg reporter for about 10 minutes through a doorbell intercom system. The home is a modest terraced house on a quiet side street about five miles from Oxford University.

> The woman said she was unaware of the allegations against her son or the leaked materials. She said she was disturbed that videos and pictures of her home and the teen’s father’s home were included. The mother said the teenager lives at that address and had been harassed by others, but many of the other leaked details couldn’t be confirmed.

> She declined to discuss her son in any way or make him available for an interview, and said the issue was a matter for law enforcement and that she was contacting the police.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-23/teen-susp...
The post recommends SaaS / IaaS in place of VPS.

"It's 2022, and I'm here to tell you, that deploying stuff online purely using SaaS / IaaS offerings is an option, and it's often the quickest, the cheapest, and the best-quality option (although can't you only ever pick two of those? hahaha), and it quite possibly should be your go-to option."
Yes, silicon is still the majority[1], and it really just boils down to all-in cost. In watts per dollar thin-film ends up being reasonably competitive with silicon, but only because it's manufactured in the US which has steep import tariffs on foreign PV modules.

[1]https://www.usa-cdte.org/
This is a great blog post on how to do this on nix, https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings .

My Nix machine is stateless apart from a few directories such as home that I want to remain across reboots. When I shutdown/restart the server anything not in a mount I’ve explicitly configured to be persisted, gets erased.

The initial setup was a bit of work but the end result works flawlessly.
We're getting way off-topic here; are you actually interested in my perspective, or just looking to start an argument?
I think in this context building a computer from individual transistors and copper wire is the same as “invent the universe” for the purposes of the expression.
A method for replacing Python tuple entries
Funny to see people talking about the case.

I thought it was interesting that the 9th circuit made so many mistakes that they had to append the ruling. The fact that they got the defendants wrong is quite strange to me. The Graph Foundation was not part of the case any longer. They joined the case but then settled. The injunction itself that

Neo4j was very sloppy when adding the commons clause into the AGPL. They literally added the commons clause to the AGPL, leaving in the preamble and all, and call it the ‘Sweden License’. (Virtual name)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j/neo4j/3.4.18/enterpr...

This ‘sweden license’ literally states it is a ‘free, copyleft license.’

copyleft = opensource according to Philip Rathle, Vice President of Products at Neo4j Inc. (6-ER-1368 ¶¶ 10-11 of appeal except of records).

Therefore according to Neo4j - it is free and open source.

Neo4j says their 'Sweden License' (AGPL + Commons) is both open source and not open source at the same time.

I call this: 'Schrödinger's Sweden License'

Keep an eye on the case - it is now in the second phase of the case where everyone will learn about Neo4j’s behavior. It would make a good Netflix mini series.
Sure Spotify can do it and people will pay through whatever system.
The PowerPC Compiler Writer’s Guide [pdf]
The Origin and Evolution of Baby Carrots (2019)
Your opinion is on the extreme end, but I overall appreciate the sentiment that society is about as stupid as we allow it to be.

Sure, there's a midpoint where we would ideally want as many people to be able to use a technology as possible, which means making things easier, but we underestimate the capability of most users and dumb things down so far that those users not only believe that X technology is too hard but believe themselves to be too stupid to do anything that requires even the faintest amount of know-how.

I do think we've gone way too far in the direction of acting like everyone, except we archmages on HN, have the intelligence of toddlers and can't figure out anything for themselves. Everything becomes so easy, but at the tradeoff of everyone being dependent on the centralization.

The incentive has to be there, though. Convincing people to self-host is like telling them to eat more broccoli. Just because it's good for them doesn't mean they're going to do it, and companies of nearly any size certainly won't choose to make things hard on their users.
Functional Queues
There are some "solutions" to the third, but they're all just workarounds to what is a very hard limitation that I don't think we should expect to ever be fixed. I think games just need to design around it.

Putting a small mat on the ground gives you a reference to where you are in your room, if need be maybe you just make sure you never stray from the mat. One of the reasons I got an "inside out" style headset is so I don't have to worry about all the cables and base stations, with the tradeoff that the hand tracking isn't quite as robust. Much less faffing about.
> I can't figure out if all of Wikipedia is in the removed set

Turns out it was filtered out by mistake, back now!
How exactly? Care to explain how my comment violates the HN guidelines?
There is still some work there for the use cases he's mentioned (git hosts, backups, web servers). Rotating https certs, adding mutable volumes for backups, ssh (you say you don't need it, but it's pretty useful if you're running a git server), and so on. So, yes, they can do much of what you're describing, but it doesn't always work out of the box...there's work involved.
> Wasmer could have still tried to submit further evidence

“Tried” is the operative word here though, no? What possible evidence could convince the USPTO to let a company trademark a name already in use for the same thing?
I guess I’m assuming at least some things are on a private network, in which case things are much more complicated.
Thanks! I tried to google it but must have done a terrible job.
He's still on YouTube btw, so still making money off the YouTube platform and gaining listeners/distribution from there.

Also, there's far worse people than Joe Rogan who make a full living off YouTube, so yeah just completely ideologically inconsistent if someone is going to reject Spotify because of Rogan and still use YouTube.
Will your system be robust to changes in solar farm design? Like if the industry goes towards the Erthos model of installing panels on the ground without racking or trackers?
It's not a silly response.

"It's much easier not to switch" is just a peculiar way to spell "I don't care enough to switch" in this case.

If someone doesn't care enough to do something as easy as switch music streaming services, do they actually care?
> Then it will be harder for you to shift to another service, compared to switching your VPS server.

No way. I can move a folder of files to anywhere quite confidently. Even a VPS.

But I have no idea what I would do if I needed to move my VPS. I’d probably have to start over from scratch.
More likely just bureaucracy. All the agreements I've been involved with negotiating were worded to cover disclosure to contractors, third party security review, etc, provided such parties were covered transitively by the same disclosure restrictions as the licensee.
I have a home server. It runs on a 2013/14 HP Pavillion laptop. I am indeed a linux user. I currently have arch linux installed on it. I run a blog at [0] and use a dynamic dns provider.

I must say, it has not been easy at all. I learned a lot of things. I did not attend any school lectures to learn this. I am still in high school, but thanks to the beauty of the internet and a ton of effort I was able to get a static blog working, learned a lot about free software, how sometimes just using certain web servers is just too complex.

The main web server is at [0]. It runs on my home internet connection. Thankfully they do allow for port forwarding. But it's certainly a good exercise to understand how much
we give for granted to giant and sometimes small corporations.

I've learned to write and express my feelings among lots of other technical knowledge.

references

[0] https://blog.trevcan.duckdns.org/

[1] https://trevcan.duckdns.org/
Author here. I never needed a VPS for the bandwidth. But I did need it for dynamic www hosting (mainly powered by Gunicorn + PostgreSQL). SaaS / PaaS alternatives (e.g. Heroku - which I've used occasionally), or IaaS alternatives (e.g. in Amazon land, RDS / ECS / S3), in that space, are generally more expensive.

Now that my sites are "static" (the inverted commas are because there's still actually dynamic functionality, powered by serverless functions), I can host them on a number of different SaaS / PaaS providers, that have fairly generous free plans.
Pour one out for Lusitania.
A dollar spent on renewables is still better spent on generating capacity, most places, even if peak power is given away part of every day.

Storage cost is falling even faster than solar ever did, so waiting until next year gets you more storage for the price. Also, transmission to local storage is low-loss, so you don't strictly need to be responsible for both. Finally, demand for peak generation will only increase as synthesis (H2, NH3, etc.) capacity comes online. Stockpiled H2 and NH3 will prove entirely adequate as bulk storage despite their low round-trip efficiency, given just a few hours of a better alternative, and anyway that efficiency will only ever improve.

The main attraction of H2 and NH3 storage, despite current lossiness, is that the equipment can operate even after the tanks are full, because there will be unlimited demand for both, for a long time. That is, anytime you are not actually drawing down stored energy, the expensive synthesis equipment can be producing to sell, producing revenue. Similarly for liquified air (N2, really).
Wait what? By "full scale real train cars", do you mean he has an actual railroad? Or are the cars just stabled/plinthed somewhere?
Agreed. We need a Netlify for Gemini.
Looks like a Tandy 1000 SX.
This does not sound very scientific at all.
I would still rather that The Google not get one cent, considering the transaction otherwise didn't need them at all, and the benefit to their involvement is rather dubious considering that all of my subscriptions may one day be inaccessible because The Google decides my account thinks wrong and closes it with no recourse.
Novartis receives FDA approval for novel radioligand therapy drug
I think I want a list of all humans on earth and a history of their opinions on everything, stack ranked per subject by a democratic/PageRank rating of their expertise in that subject. Then I want an interface for filtering subjects as well as seeing rankings after filtering voters.
Developers already pay Apple $100 a year to publish apps on the App Store. Google charges a fee for access to the Play Store, as well.
I could have sworn there was an actual .scifi TLD but I guess not. One day I'm sure they'll add it to the endless list of niche TLDs for a buck
> Is there any way that I could "come to believe in God" in time?

The door is always open. Please check out: https://www.provingislam.com/
Definitely not a requirement in the US but may be in the UK.
What do you suggest as a maintainable distro?
It's a matter of proof and evidence, not culture at the end of the day :)

https://www.provingislam.com/
> Iran, Russia, and China have very old societies with long histories. They, among others, have their own written histories. There is nothing significant preventing western citizens from researching history books written elsewhere.

Their long histories are besides the point. How many Americans recognize Kim Kardashian? Now tell us how many could recognize where Iran is on a map.

The average American doesn’t know Noam Chomsky. The average US middle school or high school textbook gives a distorted perspective of history. The US “founding fathers” are portrayed as being all wise and noble, but I digress.

> There is plenty of media content which is extremely critical of US.

The media content is critical of the other political party. In international matters, they’ve generally presented Russia, China, and other non-European or NATO countries as corrupt, threatening, etc.

In international matters, the US media has not only supported but practically cheerlead American war efforts. During the second Iraq War, CNN, ABC news, Fox, etc had correspondents “embedded” with the US military, purposely creating this fictitious narrative that Iraqis were viewing Americans as liberators.

Meanwhile, American troops were rounding up civilians, forcing entry into their homes and searching house by house for hidden ammunitions and the so called “weapons of mass destruction”. Innocent Iraqis were murdered in cold blood for shooting at the invaders. Ya know, the same thing that Russians are doing now in Ukraine where we’re now calling them war criminals.
> Imagine a world with no cash. Now the payment card companies decide they want 30% of all transactions. You think that would be reasonable?

I don't really care for this attempt at analogy. The cut that Apple or Google takes is more similar to the price manufacturers pay for shelf space in a retail store. I'm guessing that in many instances these kinds of charges amount to far more than the 2-3% a card processor takes. And frankly, 2-3% is already ridiculous.
> What possible evidence could convince the USPTO to let a company trademark a name already in use for the same thing by a company that is not its original creator?

Not sure, as we didn't tried to pursue further. Perhaps there was a way to get the trademark, or perhaps there wasn't (no idea, really... and I guess we will never know! although a negative answer is the most probable one).

But there are other examples such as Javascript owned by Oracle, where they didn't create the technology but they owned the trademark, so it's definitely possible [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344049
Most people would say that reducing the threshold to discover security bugs is a good thing.
> it's great that you know 96 is 9 added to itself 6 times

For a while I tried to figure out what the joke was here, and then I realised all that's going on is HN emphasis asterisks

Anyway, no, it's well known that mathematicians are often terrible at this sort of "basic arithmetic". There are a bunch of mathematical disciplines where arithmetic is utterly irrelevant, but even in the disciplines where it seems like it ought to be important if you're an actual mathematician you don't care anyway. That's just mechanical stuff, use a calculator, we're busy doing mathematics.

It's a nice party trick (but you'll need to go a lot higher than 9 x 6 to impress anybody), and there are mathematicians who are good at arithmetic, but I assure you that by the time I gave up mathematics (just below degree level) there was no use for times tables, which I had never memorised, what was an obstacle was all the bloody integration. Pure, Mechanics, even the Statistics had integration in it by the time I was eighteen.
It is the responsibility of government to set the environment in which businesses can operate (since businesses are meant to operate towards maximum profitability.) I don’t understand people who don’t see a healthy role for regulations in a market economy.
Yeah, that I like much more. Being able to fix the problems now while doing some minimal planning seems to be a better strategy if we're optimizing for mental health (and we really should).
Yep, I like that point of view as well. I guess we should all work on removing anxiety from our brains as much as we can.
> Trump, COVID, Russia have erased years of investment gains.

I'm sorry, what asset classes did you invest in? Because Trump and the Covid stimulus were both very beneficial for my investments. Sure, the market has taken a beating of late but it most definitely has not erased years of gains.
That's not 30% unless you repay real quick, if you paid it at the end of 5 years in a single payment that's 8.5%, 1.085^5 = 1.50.

In straight amortization using $30k tuition, $45k repayment, over 60 months is $750/mo which works out to 17.25% rate.

It isn't a great deal but it's not terrible vs. other low recourse private loan options.
That's great. Thank you for you comment. Just a few weeks ago I asked [0] why there is no company trying to offer whole packages of open source solutions. There were some comments, but I think this is the closest to what I have in mind.

Personally, I am trying to turn communick into a custom-hosting service focused on messaging/social media platforms. One of the challenges is exactly related to setup things in a way where I can isolate customers in my infra while trying to use economies of scale to keep the costs low.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30495634

[1]: https://communick.com
Over the pandemic, as an ideological mission against surveillance capitalism, I went about as far as my technical skills could take me: self-hosting open source everything on a VPS, eliminating all FAANG software, Linux desktop, custom ROM on my Android. At the beginning, the amount of control I had over my data and my software was exhilarating. I learned a lot, and some of the changes will become permanent. But after about six months, I didn't have the free time any more to maintain all of that. I decided to switch to Apple's ecosystem and trust them to handle things for me. Yeah, I'm ideologically against some of their recent privacy and security moves. But at least they're not wholesale selling my data and attention to advertisers. I never did manage to find a suitable replacement for Google Maps, though I gave Organic Maps and OSMand a fair try. I tried ProtonMail and eventually switched to Fastmail. Still using Nextcloud for files, calendar and photos, but I'll probably switch to iCloud and/or Fastmail's options for those.
There is also Cloudways[1] for managed hosting.

[1]: https://www.cloudways.com/en/
Sealed, confidential IBM files from age-discrimination case surface in public
No. I'm saying you shouldn't deceptively use people for your personal benefit by interrupting whatever they're doing with a pretextual request as a form of therapy for yourself.

I hear you--I dealt with social anxiety severely for many years and still do to a lesser extent. But nothing about this justifies cynically exploiting people under false pretenses for selfish ends.

If you want to talk to strangers, great! Just don't deceive them for selfish ends.
Holy shit that’s the most emotional story I’ve read on HN. My wife and I are in tears over here.
According to an economist piece from last year, both the US and UK have made it a policy of only allowing housing prices to drop when it’s essential and then only temporarily. This isn’t a sustainable method but unlike on the continent (Europe) having a house is an important cultural symbol (to Americans at least) and voters have come to see any decline as proof of poor leadership and it tends to result in bringing the opposition to power.

At some point we will have to allow housing to correct. It’s up there with social security running at a loss as problems we leaving for the next generation.
You know there was a time when I never knew what happened to old used tires. Imagine my privilege when I was shocked to learn that people can be so fuckin poor that they buy my shitty old used tires that are clearly unsafe. I always though the tires would just get shredded into rubber or something and recycled for other purposes.
I wasn't giving you advice, and I still maintain that it is the superior method.

You can sear however and as much as you want to. The point is that your searing isn't limited and compromised for the inside of the steak. You're doing the inside and the outside in two separate steps, and you can get the perfect cooking you want on both, instead of trying to balance things.

That's also how the reverse sear method works, but sous-vide is more reliable and low effort. You can actually leave it in the water bath for longer without worrying about over cooking. There's a reason most restaurants use the sous-vide method, they leave it in there and quickly sear to perfection when the order comes in.

There is no science to backup the fact that a "temperature gradient" is better. Medium-rare steak is objectively better than well done steak, and a "gradient" is basically part of your steak being "well-done" for the sake of the inside not being "rare".
I want the ability to filter aggregated news. News.google aggregates highly biased and paywalled news in my region, I haven’t yet figured out how to filter irrelevant news like recaps on popular reality tv shows.

I also hate whatever that tech is that wraps the real page in their bloatware.

But most of all, I want to disable auto play videos.
De Anza was great. When I went, it cost $6 per unit. I took waaaay more credits than I was able to transfer, but I learned soooo much.

Adjusted for inflation, it should be $13 now. That fact that the price of college has outpaced inflation by so much is positively criminal. Kids these days are getting screwed sideways.
> in fact Russia wasn't even the last to leave the USSR (Kazakhstan seceded 4 days after Russia did)

well, then Kazakhstan should get the permanent seat, that's still better than the current situation
Which makes the whole point of the post I just read moot. I just switch one company that controls my stuff to another company that controls my stuff.
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