skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're only tying up 10-20% of the price of the home, and doing so at a lower rate than you could ever get for any other purpose.

Also you need to factor in the rent trade off, which makes it an easy decision in some markets if you have the cash. I just bought a house last year and my mortgage+instance is 300$ less a month than the cheapest apartment I could find in the same city. 1200$ less than a comparably sized apartment.
Except that's not how you do it.

My go-to example for this is the Carry-skip Adder. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry-skip_adder)

Things are happening simultaneously in time and space. The ripples are happening while the skips are happening. The skips go stable because the ripple goes stable or the carry will skip so the ripple has "extra time" to go stable.

This is the simplest add faster than naive ripple carry. Note that it has no clocks. This is a purely combinatoric problem. And most "digital designers" will get it wrong.

Hardware design is NOT software design. Good digital designers are always thinking about how to interleave things in time and space like this.
I don't think they're suggesting to actually make those trades, but trying to show what the market thinks the probability of a sizeable crash is.
Which one of the two you are?
Did you stop reading?

Two paragraphs later:

> Since Covid tore through South and Southeast Asia last year, it has become harder to accept these theories. After all, the population of India is young, too (with a median age of 28), and temperatures in the country are also relatively high. But researchers have found that the Delta variant caused millions of deaths in India, far more than the 400,000 officially reported. And rates of infection with malaria and other coronaviruses are high in places, including India, that have also seen high Covid fatality rates.
>Hamster Burial Kits & 998 Other Business Ideas

>Ideas are a dime a dozen. The money is in the execution.

>Need proof? For Seth Godin's Alternative MBA program, this week the nine of us came up with 111 business ideas each. But ideas are only valuable when someone (like you) makes something happen.

>What follows are our 999 business ideas, free for the taking.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090305122833/https://www.sixmo...
>MLM salesmen exist, religious prostheletizers exist, weird people exist.

Those three groups contribute substantially to what people expect when they meet a stranger in public and adding more disingenuous possibilities would make it worse.
I am missing a lot of context.

What is the common goal here?

What was the selection process as to who can join?

How long is the agreement?
Humans did not evolve to ride bicycles (2017)
I think it’s potentially attractive to people for two reasons. One is that it’s “safer” than a traditional loan: if the education doesn’t work out and you don’t get a good job, well, you only have to pay a percentage of your income, so your low wage job is still okay. Or maybe it’s contingent on a certain type of job, so you don’t have to pay anything.

Second reason is that ostensibly, it aligns incentives. The education company only gets paid if you do, so they’re highly incentivized to provide effective education that actually lands you a good job.

But of course, there’s also downsides, as the twitter OP states.
Launching an actual war against Russia wouldn't be great for the least privileged either. Are there other options besides those two?
F1 driver Nico Rosberg.
He beat his teammate Lewis Hamilton (7 times F1 WDC) to the 2016 title.

It took a phenomenal effort on his part to achieve it in terms of training, focus, and mental toughness at the cost of his family life to do it - he announced his retirement 5 days after winning the title.

Lewis is still competing and so is Alonso and Vettel who have won multiple titles.
> I will be moving my KVM/LXD setup to Proxmox eventually

How come? I'm running proxmox currently but I'm considering just using a regular distro with lxd because I'm almost only using lxc containers...
I think containers and k8s start to make sense when you need to impose logical isolation on your flat topology networks, often for security but also for preventing everything becoming overly complex in their dependencies. But this IMO isn’t often a concern until your enterprise is very large and complex with some very crufty dependencies that you realize eventually you can never practically demise because you can’t even fully determine what all depends on it at any given time.

That said, I would prefer managing that stuff through SDNs rather than trying to make user space overly complex software replication of commodity capabilities. Or, just use a cloud provider to start managing the isolation for the parts that benefit for it. What really baffles me is the use of k8s in aws. Why?

BTW - congrats on effective use of Nix. I use it extensively at home for my home services. It’s got some weirdness to it for sure but it’s a heck of a lot better than almost anything I’ve ever seen to date. I can’t wait to see what evolves out of it.
Read this two times, but really couldn't understand why I'd want to do this, which practical problems this is going to solve. Must be getting old...
Make it not be from Microsoft.
This article starts out by assuming that understanding sequential programming is sufficient to understand hardware. Yes, Verilog is a simulation description language, and yes, it can be compiled to hardware. But it is a specific subset that translates to hardware, not the whole language. Large parts of Verilog/SystemVerilog exist to drive stimulus into the model hardware and to observe the results; those parts don't have any sensible mapping to hardware.

The problem with all these articles is that they start from wrong assumptions and keep going. In practice, industry has no problem using these languages to produce chips with billions of transistors that largely work the first time, with the expected performance and power. As others have mentioned, this industry is conservative, and if there isn't a problem to fix it will remain with the tried and tested.

(I'm one of the people named in the Verilog/SystemVerilog standards, worked with Phil Moorby and once upon a time was responsible for chunks of ncsim and vcs)
How often did that code run? Even with one player, that would be too high for a per-frame risk...
This sounds very cool, please submit a "Show HN" once the basics are working!
There's no getting around living under "authoritarian" control. You could categorize the forms of government as so:

- Monarchy/Dictatorship: Power in the hands of one, one person is authority

- Oligarchy/Republic: Power in the hands of a few, aristocrats are authority

- Democracy: Power in the hands of many, majority is authority

- Anarchy: Power in everyone's hands, everyone is authority (or no one is depending on how you look at it)

In reality, society only works when there's a power hierarchy; it's the natural order of things. The more power is equally distributed amongst people, the more dysfunctional/less orderly/more bureaucratic society becomes. When you're in complete Anarchy, might/ability is what ultimately determines the outcomes in conflicts, and those who wield it typically end up becoming the "authority". Hence, over time, Anarchy will naturally develop into the other more stable forms of government. Notice however, all forms of government have the following issue: when there's a conflict in wants between people, someone (ie authority) will have their way, someone won't. You can't get rid of this reality, no matter how you structure government, which is to say: oppression is unavoidable so long as there exists conflicts in what people want.

Thus, I honestly don't see why people think a dictatorship is necessarily more oppressive than other forms of government. Some people are quite happy with their dictators, even if there's other people living under the same dictator that aren't; but this is true of any form of government. And it's not hard to see why there can be people happy with their dictators, as dictatorships are highly efficient and effective at carrying out policy. If your dicator is competent & beneveloent towards your wishes, it's arguably the best - most effective form of government. But understandably, if your dicator is not competent or benevolent to you, its among the worst...
You could see this being an awful business to work in. Your clients need to be unicorns in many ways. The type of person who would use this is not the type of client the business could succeed with.
I'm not affiliated but I came across some software called Yunohost (https://yunohost.org/) recently, a Debian-based OS that tries to be user-friendly for self-hosting applications. Not sure how much it's being maintained.
Sounds like you might've had an unusually bad experience. Might've also been the distro; I don't like Ubuntu much myself. :P

Maintaining inherited environments is also much more painful than ones you get to design from the ground up. I work with varied environments, and one with ~250 RHEL / CentOS machines has approximately the same level of maintenance burden as another with a dozen or so Ubuntus because the first environment has had configuration management from the beginning and the second is a complete mess that I've slowly tried to reverse-engineer and clean up.

When your change management works, maintaining a dozen servers isn't all that different from maintaining a thousand or more; and the need for change management and automation doesn't really go anywhere even when you don't self-host things.
Uganda's Batwa people: Evicted from forests to help save gorillas
The full document is a powerful reading https://webvision.mozilla.org/full/
It has been a great alternative. And Firefox ESR (it's not in the repo anyway) also works great in 20.3 (and no doubt in LMDE).
Some quotes:

"After their eviction, some Batwa families were given farmland by the government. But as they did not know how to farm, the land was sold off and many were scattered across the region, surviving on charity from neighbours and non-profit organisations.

"On the edge of the town families squat on public land, in homes built from cardboard and tarpaulin. The community exists on the fringes."

""If you don't have land, you cannot progress, you can't send your children to school, you cannot eat. "But if I were given the opportunity to return to the forest, I would run all the way there," she admits."

""The animals are being treated better than the Batwa, because when tourists come, they pay some money, then the government uses that money, and the Batwa are suffering.""

"Conservation efforts have seen Uganda's mountain gorilla population rise to 459, and more than 1,000 globally, meaning they are no longer listed as critically endangered."

""We are telling them: 'Go to school and study', but we are [also] saying: 'Don't forget your culture, you can use it to make money.'""

"Back in the forest, Mr Tumuhairwe admits education and farming have been beneficial to some Batwa - though he adds the caveat: "But when you come to think of it, that too is erasing who we are, where we came from.""

Repeating the last quote for extra effect:

"Back in the forest, Mr Tumuhairwe admits education and farming have been beneficial to some Batwa - though he adds the caveat: "But when you come to think of it, that too is erasing who we are, where we came from.""
People who can put money down generally have access to other, more traditional loans (or don't need loans at all).
People are applauding that Western countries send these weapons but will cry when terrorists will buy them on the black market...

"God laughs at men who complain of the consequences while cherishing the causes." (Bossuet)
We are encouraged to install Spotify and Steam during the first week :)
Rocket: The modern web setup for static sites with a sprinkle of JavaScript
I HATE the Spotify podcast player.

It is the worst UI for pretty much anything: music, video, podcast, lyrics ...

I selfhost ... i download the spotify exclusive podcasts and host them myself to use the with overcast. They come as OPUS files, but ffmpeg to the rescue.
Modest income sharing as an alternative to loans isn’t any more “indentured servitude” than taxes are.
Google to allow Android apps to implement their own billing systems
> Is it? It has clean and logical abstractions, and consistency. Services depending in each other isn‘t complex or difficult to understand.

For a technologist or engineer, yes. For a layperson, no. The average consumer who desires privacy is probably neither a technologist or engineer, so the longterm target is something that just works.

Laypeople also aren't going to entertain the kind of pedantry that is systemd vs systemD vs System D vs SystemD so making systems that abstract further away from those communities is beneficial.

Edit: Thank you for your correction, as a systems engineer, but I couldn't help but highlight this is a big hurdle even in the Linux communities that I've been a part of as desktop Linux as gained wider adoption by laypeople.
If you know the information about every single molecule of each, you could calculate backwards the probability of where they came from. Eventually you would reach a state where the most likely probability would show all the oxygen on one side and all the nitrogen on the other.

This is a purely theoretical calculation, far outside the scope of our ability to calculate. It is one of those, if we turned all known matter into the possible fastest computer, could that even calculate it before the heat death of the universe sorts of questions.
My country used to be occupied by them and I remember their withdrawal that left numerous historical buildings destroyed. Those illiterate rubes couldn't even use flushing toilets, so they shat all over the place. Some of those buildings were finally repaired as late as in the last decade.
Is there any actual evidence that what you're saying is the reason for the difference though? It's incorrect that credit scores are highly correlated with income [0].

Most accidents are caused by things that are pretty ordinary forms of irresponsibility [1]. A credit score is a (flawed) measure of financial responsibility. That seems like a much more reasonable, although less narratively satisfying, connection.

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/are-...

We find a low correlation between credit score levels and income, with the correlation coefficient around 0.27 for income levels and 0.29 for log income.

[1] https://www.iii.org/table-archive/21313

Driving too fast for conditions or in excess of posted limit or racing 8,746 17.2%

Under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or medication 5,164 10.1

Failure to yield right of way 3,728 7.3

Failure to keep in proper lane 3,381 6.6

Operating vehicle in a careless manner 3,302 6.5

Distracted (phone, talking, eating, object, etc.) 3,008 5.9
I wonder what the author would have suggested as an alternative at the time.
If I were them I would be more concerned by Revolut, Monzo, Starling and Atom than Apple.
And yet, for all the pissing and moaning about HDLs from software guys, I can't express a state machine in any current mainstream computer language.

For example, the current big advance in "modern" languages is "async". Which "just" instantiates an implicit state machine that you can't control.
Description of working on Kung Fu Panda from Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty):

> My hats off to anyone that can write a Dreamworks Animation film. They have a unique process.

> First they storyboard the entire film. That is the first step. Not kidding. No writers, no script, just a story, and an entire film drawn on pieces of paper.

> Then Katzenberg watches an animatic of the boards and says, surprisingly, "this needs a lot of work. You have a month."

> Then they hire their first writer. And spend that month changing as much of the storyboards as they can, which is about 20 to 30 percent. If the 30 percent change isn't the right kind of change, people get fired. Maybe the director, maybe the writer, maybe both…

> I came in about four writers into the process. It's kind of hard to write a "better" scene than the last writer when the rules are that you can only change 30 percent of each scene or completely change 30 percent of the scenes, per Katzenberg screening. So, for instance, in this scene, the panda comes up a flight of stairs carrying a bucket of water, slips on a banana peel, says something to two geese and does an air guitar. The good news? There can be anything in the bucket. Your mission: make the movie better.

https://www.avclub.com/hilarious-things-to-put-in-kung-fu-pa...
If someone takes out a loan, goes to school, and then has to pay off the loan is that also "indentured servitude" in your mind? It just seems like two different ways to finance a purchase (training) that has a future value.

The ISA's that I'm familiar with don't bind the person to a particular employer, have minimum salaries that are required before the payment is taken out of paychecks, etc. It seems very different than "indentured servitude" and much closer to a loan.
It should start with how to make your system upgradeable too. I've server that started on Ubuntu 16 and made a helluva mess upgrading to 18. Due to php changes i've had to use ondrej's packages for later php... but that will break on a (very overdue) upgrade to 20...

All these script kiddie tutorials are terrible at showing how to maintain a server for years.
Radia Perlman explains how she invented Spanning Tree
It has also gotten much easier. For instance running your own full blown email server with docker-mailcow. There's a great UI tool that helps to setup the required DNS records. I remember doing the lengthy postfix + dovecot + SASL + MySQL + Auth + this + that guides. No need for it anymore.
What is their search criteria because I just pulled up zillow and found hundreds of houses under $3 million. Do they need like 10 bedrooms?
Sorry I don't see why this is true? If you're in an income sharing agreement, the only way for you to make more money is to work more, but this is how it works for people who don't have income sharing agreements too. The motivation isn't changed, one person just has more take home pay than the other person. (And if that person has a loan instead of an income sharing agreement, the disposable income between the two individuals are identical)
>> Either way the optimal societal goal is that if the worker works a bit harder they should earn 100% of the profit from the extra work

That doesn't seem to have really ever been true for a lot of people. It's very rare for workers to be paid in proportion to the amount of profit they produce for a company. Salaries are almost always determined by the labor market and the average wage for the role.

Wage labor, which most of these ISAs seem designed to promote, seems to be fundamentally different from the kind of sharecropping relationship you describe.

I'm not saying ISAs are good either, but that this doesn't seem to be true for many, if not most, workers today.
Devzat Is Chat over SSH
I am certain you have spent the time to ask everyone if they indeed do not like to read these, but I disagree.
Sounds nice.

Do you know some tool, to have all your feeds in one place.
I hate having to use Instagram, but a few friends post nice things.
Like timeline but with your own feed with only the things i want to see from the sources i want.

Like a daily "You missed this posts, images and ..."
>We found indicators far more predictive than FICO.

Would be interesting to know more details about these indicators.
While using code that is mostly written by Oracle employees.

It is incredible how people keep missing the picture about OpenJDK main contributer.
Now do taxes.
Europe needs rubles to pay for the oil. Europe has no rubles.

1. In what currency Europe pays for the rubles?

2. Who gets the euros in this trade?

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Russia goes trough this extra step to create demand for rubles and stabilize the exchange rate.
A lot of people are forced to follow other people dreams or worse, ambitions.

You are right about dedication. If I look back it's insane the amount of time I have spent improving my skills, learning new things. I don't do it for the money although sometimes it pays good.

I respect people working hard to launch a company but I cannot respect the posturing or the backstabbing dressed as professionalism.
The main barrier is the difficulty of doing it, and there is currently an economic disincentive to fix this.

For software companies the cloud is DRM, and the only kind that works. Rent access to software and you can easily charge a recurring fee for it. This is incredible on the business side, especially because recurring revenue is valued higher by finance types than non-recurring revenue (due to perceived lower risk).

For makers of software you can self-host, money is often made through support. This creates a disincentive to make things too easy or you cut into support profits.

If you try to make a living making endpoint applications, life is hard. The FOSS movement has educated the market that software should always be free (as in beer, not freedom). People will pay $10 for a Starbucks drink but not $5 for an app they use every day.
Are easy for the lender, mean they are good for the society ?
I wouldn't limit django patches to just being new features. Ample room for incremental improvements.

There are some parts of django core that are stable, but fundamentally broke for non-trivial apps. Let's just take /admin:

- Can inline admin models be paginated? Searched? Both? Asynchronously?

- Use autocomplete_fields by default via ID/PK lookup / when `search_fields` exist. Right now related fields will load the whole table into a <select> box. This is an absurd default.

Other opportunities that'd be universal:

- Integrate channels into admin

- AJAX form validation

- Revision history that includes actual values / diffs / undo
Good riddance, when I first heard about this I was appalled.

It's basically an extremely high interest loan, combined with bizarro access to banking records. Like for most of these ISAs if you couldn't make the payments, they want it access to your bank account to see that you really couldn't.

You have this really strange setup where if your income increases even marginally, the ISA kicks in. Lambda school, which fortunately also collapsed was notorious for this.

Student loans aren't necessarily bad, they just need harder. Caps. Like federal loans are very reasonable, private ones are not.

Outside of attending medical school or law school, private loans are just a bad idea. On top of that, I think private loans are given out too willy nilly. Anyone can go to a bottom tier law school and take out $200,000 worth of loans.

A good compromise here would be to make private loans fully forgivable, but federal loans are a fantastic deal and help me improve my life.

40k in student loan debt, which is about the max you can take out federally for undergrad, isn't bad.

Anything above 100k can easily be insurmountable, the interest just accumulates way too fast for most people to pay it off.

Then again, I never understood why lambda school needed to be so expensive. You're not running a real school, there's no reason you can't just tell people to take a free class off YouTube, and then have them pay $500 or so to have a project graded. And maybe more adventurous companies would be open to recognizing that project as proof you'd be a good hire.
I'm pretty happy to see how Gnome and KDE grow to be so polished and good looking.
I swear, writing it as SystemD isa shibboleth of systemd haters.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a news pass?
Not that I can pull this off, but if it were available would you pay for an all access news pass that paid for most of the major news sources that are currently behind a firewall?

If so, How much would you be willing to pay?
I think I'll be there first.