skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not encourage someone who completely lacks experience in server/network management to do self-hosting, as it is easy to make mistakes.

Nevertheless, if someone is willing to dedicate some time for study and experimentation in the beginning, this is not an insurmountable problem.

I have been using self-hosting on "a literal PC in my basement" for about 20 years, without any problems whatsoever, and with negligible costs (the main cost being that I have a set of public IPv4 addresses and a fixed IPv4 address on my router connected to the ISP, which implied a more expensive monthly fee for the ISP).

After the first few months, during which I have made frequent changes in the configuration, while I understood better and better how it should work, the time wasted with server management during the next years has been negligible, i.e. just a few hours per year, used mainly for software or hardware upgrades.

Configuring and managing services just for personal needs or for the needs of a small number of users, e.g. a family, is much simpler than in an enterprise setting.

For reliability, it is good to have a second spare computer and a second image of the root SSD/HDD used on your server, to be able to replace the active server in case of failure. As others have already mentioned, periodic backups should be done and they should preferably be stored in a different location.

While I believe that self-hosting is not difficult, unless someone has already done such management work as a professional, it is necessary to learn many things.

For security, the first thing needed is to understand well what a firewall does, which are the firewall rules needed by whatever services you want to host and how to configure and monitor whatever firewall program you choose.

For this, some knowledge about how the main IP protocols for networking work is necessary.

The management of keys and certificates is also important, as you have mentioned, but what you need to learn for this is much less than what you need to learn about networking protocols, in order to both make a correct server configuration in the beginning and to diagnose any problems that might appear later (usually because someone at your ISP makes some changes in their configuration, which break yours, but nobody who answers the support call has any idea that they have changed anything, so you should better be able to identify yourself what they might have done, if you want a quick solution).
Yeah, I remember reading about these when they launched and on paper they seemed like such a bad deal. The only group of people who would benefit from them over traditional loans are people who know they would never be able to pay off the equivalent debt.

> credit scores were the most predictive variable of good participant behavior for us.

Unrelated, an insurance adjuster once told me that, given two people of the same age buying the same car, credit score is the number one determinant which one will be more likely to get into an accident. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on your position) most states make it illegal for determining insurance premiums.
Max Howell created Homebrew but hasn't himself been involved in its development or governance since like 2012. The fact that Homebrew is mentioned in every line of this project's home page seems to me that he is trying to cash in on its popularity to push a competitor that he can monetize, of course with all the current buzzwords (web3, blockchain, dao) sprinkled in.
I'm not sure I understand what you're describing ...

A slug should not need to be dynamic nor should it be complicated in any way ... in fact, it is one of the simpler systems I have ever deployed ...
It's in the title of this post: income share agreement.
First of all, thanks for engaging. It's nice to think this through with the help of others.

That being said, I have an issue with this being called 'therapy'. It may as well be, if we just think about the person receiving the benefit. However, it's a bit predatory through the lense of the other person.

But it's like you said. It's not binary. Yes, it bothers me a little. Nonetheless, as with everything, it may have its uses.

Again, thanks for your comments.
> Whereas in a decentralized system where people are pointing at random GitHub accounts? Yeah, they could totally delete the GitHub account (or force-push an empty repo) and cause the same exact problem as leftpad.

To be fair, they explicitly say everything would be backed by a distributed file store like IPFS. Nobody will be able to randomly delete their own Github account and leave anyone in the lurch.
In your experience did you have to sign up with a partner ISP at the colo? Or is that done for me and just part of my colo bill?

Is power use included as well?
Income Sharing Agreement, I.e: what bloomtech (fka Lambda) use. No payment upfront, but the institution gets a cut of income above $x until the repayment amount is met.
There are many sub-genres in sci-fi that criticize technology for it's downsides.

How do you plan on impartially dealing with stories that criticize the technology being promoted by your sponsors?
Instead of taking out student loans, enter an agreement to share your income to fund the ISA and pay for future recipients.
It's hard to see what VR does better than pancake computing.

Superficially it's obvious - 3D! immersion!

But practically it's not at all like real 3D (no tactility at all, stupid strap-on goggles with trailing cables, weird mismatches between head movement and perspective, no integration with the real world so you're constantly anxious about bumping into the furniture, and let's not even get started on avatars etc).

So far it's just too clumsy to be a convincing substitute. It's basically only really credible as a game accessory - like a joystick, but better.

I can't see VR becoming phone-popular until two way direct neural interfaces become a polished technology. And when that happens a lot of other developments become possible at the same time.
bunnie made a 1-hour video that walks through the Precursor tech stack (no, not ideal from an accessibility perspective):

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6336

IIUC, Xous is designed for environments that aren't quite as constrained as the microcontrollers that Hubris runs on. Precursor has 16 MB of RAM and 128 MB of SPI flash. There's some kind of support for separate executables, but the OS and applications are packaged in one image. Whatever flash isn't used by that image is for user storage. Also, they've got the Rust std library, or at least some subset of it, running on Xous.

Incidentally, bunnie is working with me on a version of Precursor with a braille keyboard and text-to-speech output. I got my prototype unit today. So I'll be digging into Xous more soon. bunnie wrote a nice article about the process of designing the braille keyboard here:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates...

and covered more recent developments on that front, including meaty technical details on the software side, in a recent status update:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates...

I still need to figure out the use cases that Precursor is best suited for, given the modest hardware specs, but it's still cool to have a fully open mobile hardware platform that's fully accessible.
Or purchase 50x4TB drives for $10k USD, or 100 if you want RAID-1. These can easily fit into 4-8U of rack space, at around $1,500 or less per rack U (don't buy new / expensive servers if all you need is high-IO NAS storage hosts for cephFS).

This will have minimal recurring fees. But will cost you time to manage instead of paying $CLOUDVENDER $50k/year. Please evaluate the tradeoffs for your scenario but good God don't blindly default to the cloud without first thinking carefully about it.

See also related: Today's HN top article is "Just say Yes to self-hosting"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30781536
I used to love running my own servers with all the services etc. I’d manually write beautiful bash scripts to keep it all nice and easy to rebuild on the fly. My first job had 10 Ubuntu servers (on site) and I was the only guy who used Linux at home and had experience with sql.

I have never volunteered to maintain servers since, it was horrible and everything was always my fault (it kinda was, I was a hobbyist at best with no real production Linux experience.)

I do still end up as the dev ops/infra guy at every place I’ve worked but at this point I’m probably one of those stubborn senior guys who wouldn’t like the way the juniors went about it.
How effective are economic sanctions? (2015)
15 Years of Helvetica
I've started playing Kings quest 2 with the kids and oh my the amount of deaths. I had forgotten the pixel perfect walking needed not to plunge to your death. Kids are enjoying it though since they get all the fairy tale references.
The change you are referencing is an unwelcome and short-sighted change. After the Vietnam War, the US military focused on confronting a possible armada of Soviet tanks flooding Europe. During the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars, the US military had to relearn how to fight insurgencies and perform nation building. The top military brass have to obey the President of the USA. But I would argue, the US military will readily admit we suck at insurgencies and nation building and would argue against the wisdom of doing so. The US military wants to deter aggression from the likes of Putin and other conventional armies. Having nothing but Special Forces and urban warfare specialists is not going to deter Putin from attacking Poland or Kim Jung Un from attacking South Korea.
The Bug Bounty Program effectively protects them from that.

You wouldn't know how insulting that is before going through a good of paperwork that legally tames your desires.
Dude, it was meant to be mildly educational, not an "argument."
It depends on the country. Some countries subscribe to the idea that all credit is bad credit.

I grew up in a system where only negative credit history was shared between banks. If you had no credit history, you had perfect credit history. Your creditworthiness depended on having regular income and paying bills in time. Based on that information, banks determined an overall limit for all your loans and other forms of debt. If you had a credit card, you would get a smaller mortgage. Large credit limits relative to your income and spending signified risk rather than creditworthiness.
> I've heard worries that the government will run into budgetary issues if bond rates climb too high.

There's no foreseeable future where the US government has issues servicing her debt. We deficit spend because our tax revenue as a percentage of GDP is anywhere between 5-15 percentage points below other advanced nations, because congress continues to be fixated on tax breaks for the wealthy and throwing money at pork barrel projects. There's plenty of room to raise revenue and reduce spending, the unfortunate problem is the timing of such moves - we had a whole decade to get things under control in a booming economy, now we may be forced to do so in a downturn if it comes to that.
Almost all of the value of homebrew comes from the sheer comprehensiveness of the package catalog, which entirely relies on a large community of users contributing recipes. He should credit those people and not act like the appeal has anything to do with the brew cli itself as a tool.
It doesn't have to be. If the shareholders want the company to otherwise cease operations and throw a big ice cream party for all the shareholders every Friday they can choose to do that. There's nothing that forces a public company to focus only on maximizing shareholder value, they just have to be open and honest about the goals of the company and try and meet the shareholder expectations.
I think this is the most relevant passage in the article:

>Some speculation has focused on the relative youth of Africans. Their median age is 19 years, compared with 43 in Europe and 38 in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of the population in sub-Saharan Africa is under 25, and only 3 percent is 65 or older. That means far fewer people, comparatively, have lived long enough to develop the health issues (cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and cancer) that can sharply increase the risk of severe disease and death from Covid. Young people infected by the coronavirus are often asymptomatic, which could account for the low number of reported cases.

A disease that overwhelming kills the elderly is not going to have a comparable impact on a society where only 3% of the population is over 65. This is especially true when you note that obesity rates in Sub-saharan Africa (with South Africa a notable outlier) are much lower than in "developed" countries that have been hit harder by Covid.
Does it really work like that in practice, or are there """bonuses""" you can get if you prove your credit?

Here in Czechia, it's like you say, no history = perfect credit - but as I said, you'll get much better deals (after counting in bonuses) if you have proven your credibility - and the normal deal you get with only "perfect" credit is nearly a financial suicide. Building your credibility by having a credit card (and paying on time) is as good idea here as it is in the US because you don't pay interest until the next month so it's free.

The only difference is, in the US it's institutionalized (and thus transparent) whereas here I have to do under-the-table dealings with the bank's independent sales representative. Sucks, IMHO.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1505923007096700939.html
But the parent is arguing that guile-emacs was never on the table. Instead the plan was elisp-on-guile-vm.

I'm sure a guile-emacs would have been a better platform in Isolation but without the thousands of elisp packages it would never have gained traction.
The key takeaway:

> Better than an ISA is an income-dependent loan with some minimum amount that must be paid back regardless of the program outcome.

As for collection, I suggest structuring it as a loan, but with an 'income share' option in the contract. That is: participants are legally getting a loan, but the loan has an option to pay back less via income share. Dont pay? Then just pursue them for the loan.

> But people with high credit scores tend to have better, cheaper options than ISAs. Also, using credit scores for ISAs is... largely missing the point.

The self-selection problem is actually identical to loans. If you offered loans without checking credit score, you would end up with the exact same issue--people with poor credit would jump at the chance, and people with good credit would decline and pay upfront because they can.
The problem is you’re fighting a battle against global economies of scale for what is essentially a hobby or personal project. This is not a winning battle and most companies prefer to outsource the risk to someone else they can point to shareholders and blame.

People get caught up in the technical aspects of developing for cloud but I’d bet those weren’t anywhere near as important as risk outsourcing for the executive. At that point cloud was still new and the thought was we can run our infra if we need to.
I want to run my servers from both AWS as well as my laptop. At the moment the configuration and deployment of each is unique which, apart form being a bit of a hassle, also means there might be issues on one i cannot reproduce on the other. It would be really cool if there was a way I could deploy to my machine with awscli and self host my own beanstalk setup so I can test and debug even offline safe in the knowledge it will work exactly the same.

Are there any projects that offer something like this?
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For those who ride/own folding bikes, what are your reasons for favoring them over a regular bike?

Every metro area I’ve lived in allows bikes on trains and city busses have racks on the front. Leaving a bike in a secure lobby/hallway, garage has almost always been an option. That said, I don’t hesitate to chain mine up on the street either, so I’m having trouble seeing a folding bike as offering any advantage in most situations, especially considering the compromises that are often made in comfort and performance.
I posted a bit about this in another comment. Basically I think we can avoid it by having multiple ways of picking the winners.
Author; Unrelated to the topic but related to your blog; the footer has a missing colon in address, in theme link. It is

https://https//github.com/nodejh/hugo-theme-mini

It should be

https://github.com/nodejh/hugo-theme-mini
It would be interesting if you could create incentives to prod folks in the right direction and align incentives. For example, you could reward high-earning students by giving them a cut of income generated from students who follow. Or feature successful students in advertising materials in a way that makes them proud or gives them more career options. Something akin to a Dean's List.
It is a short blog post. HN is just allergic to posting Threadreader links to things like this for some reason. I don't understand what's so terrible about posting an easy to read version of the exact same content, rather than having to deal with Twitter's terrible UI for such content.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1505923007096700939.html
I'm interested in how you set up your home and hosting networks without any shared hardware. I've been running my own websites from home for awhile on their own machines, but never considered they could be on a completely separate network all the way up to the modem.
I'm pretty sure the Russian cannot detect French Rafale in enemy territory, and while MICA can hit most Russian planes without troubles AND defend against R77s, i'm not convinced old long distance missile like the R-27 can actually lock on a Rafale, let alone hit it.

Also i'm not sure there is a chance for any Russian fighter to avoid getting hit by a Meteor, so i guess Russia would have to destroy Eu satellites and hope the US doesn't lend theirs?

Also i think Europe have more MICA-VF than Ukrainian had manpads. So the Russian would have to go ground-only. I don't think they have something as good as MICAVF to defend against let's say SCALP, so most of the artillery would have to stay under cover (and again, need to destroy EU satellites).

I'm pretty sure the fuel tech used in the Meteors could be used in AtS missiles too, and that would render any artillery useless as long as any EU satellites can discover the piece. Basically, mechanized infantery and tanks would have to be the way to go.
Switchblades, the attack drones the US is giving Ukraine
"Court order Daniels to pay $300k" would be a more accurate title. Anyone who has been involved in a lawsuit understands that getting a judgement and receiving payment for that judgement are separate and largely unrelated issues. This seems especially true given her comments on the matter.

>"I will go to jail before I pay a penny," Daniels tweeted Monday after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against her in the long-running case.
Well, you are given flexible machines and components for even further hacking to implement "the perfect memex", or "the closest to the original intended process"...
how would you get started learning these things? I've always wanted to do something like this but I don't know what begin with
Review or get emailed when a cert is issued with your domain in it somewhere.

Secure-corpdomain.com etc?
credit score is the number one determinant which one will be more likely to get into an accident

I'd like to know how that differs from just plain income? The more money you make, the easier it is to keep clean credit. But it also gives you more control over driving to let you be a safer driver.

Overnight snowfall made the roads slippery? An office worker can go in late, or just work from home for the day, but the low paid service worker has to go in or he doesn't get paid (or might even lose his job).

Feeling sick today? Office worker can just call in sick, the service worker doesn't have many (or any) sick days, so he drinks half a bottle of cough medicine and drives to work anyway.

Going out for a drink after work? Well paid worker can take an Uber home, or get a hotel room in the city, an option that the low paid worker doesn't have since even if he took Uber home, his car is parked on the street and is going to get ticketed or towed.

Running late for work? Office worker can call in to the meeting or reschedule his morning meeting (and just shrug and say "traffic" when he shows up late), low paid worker is going to get his pay docked or lose his entire shift for being 5 minutes late so he's gotta drive fast to make it.
He's talking about Android, I'm talking about iOS. I don't know what Android does, and I'm sure that it's device-specific anyway, unlike iPhones.
Also, people often forget there are plenty of good financing options available for low-income students. I got free tuition at a well regarded state university.

So the main target for something like an ISA are students from middle-class families that want to pursue an expensive education at a "cool" school.
Any monitoring and alerting system with spurious false positives leads to “negligence.” I can’t speak to the other aspects but definitely the UX aspect is frightening to consider. Normalization of deviance can hardly be blamed on the individual.
A lot of what is said here is true, but it also depends on what your position is within the organisation - if you are senior (or a peer) and have the respect of your colleagues then you can look at running a training session, followed by writing a piece of an application/a sprint using TS so that they can familiarise themselves with the reasons why it is better.

Which is really the second part of this - you need to spell out why typescript will make their life easier/better. If you can't do that succinctly then it is unlikely that you will be able to convince them.
I disagree. This is Russia we're talking about. The whole post-war western security policy was, in no small part based around Russia / USSR. Russia declaring war in Europe is a MAJOR event in European history whatever the outcome of this. It changes things geopolitically forever. This moment is at least as big as 1989. I suspect we'll look back on this later in the C21 as a major step towards a multipolar world, with China at the helm of one of those poles. That's super significant even if this war is just a chapter in that bigger story. Maybe the effect will be something else but this is part of a game-changing narrative playing itself out. I'm certain history is being written before our eyes.