skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what you are saying is that those are the only two political tools? IOW, Putin could only choose between sanctions and war against Ukraine?

Of course there are other options, there always are. Duh.
Related: yEd graph editor with my favorite feature: automatic diagram untangling / re-arrangement / reflow.

https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
Yeah, you're right. Same logic applied. Updated links to the correct company.
Heh, so yes, everything is indeed terrible as feared. Thanks for the comprehensive answer, and especially sad to hear about "ActuallyOpenTitan"... which seems weird, especially since they are involved in the Skywater open ASIC thing.
Different uses for different audiences. That article addresses engineering use cases. But diagramming is also useful when discussing (and constantly revising) concepts and workflows with business users before any code is written. Drag and drop fits the bill just fine there.
Isn’t that the name of the episode of trailer park boys starring him and model trains as well?
s/shopify/spotify/

https://cloud.google.com/customers/featured/spotify
In the podcast they talk a lot about when to self host. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. For example this podcast's community is on Discord, but for their other podcasts they maintain a Matrix server. It's interesting to hear them talk about the joys and pains that both solutions bring.

I used to run an email server from my basement, now I also know that that is not something I want to self host anymore :)
The main problems with self hosting are securing the server for remote access, and maintenance.

If you can keep it local, Synology has good boxes that are reliable and largely plug and play. They require little to no maintenance.
And, of course, Google thinks it always knows more about buses than I do. "Hey, YOU MISSED A BUS"
An update on recent service disruptions
Assume for simplicity that only two countries exist, Germany and Russia, and that all Euros are numbers in a computer. Crucially, the computer storing Euros is in Germany.

Up to a month ago, Russia could have shipped gas to Germany in exchange for "Euros", which means: Russia ships gas, and at the same time a number in a computer in Frankfurt goes up, reflecting the fact that Russia owns more Euros. Then Russia could go to a car dealer in Stuttgart and buy a Porsche 911 by spending Euros. Russia gets the Porsche and the number in the computer in Frankfurt goes down.

Now Germany is saying: the number in the computer is frozen. Russia cannot spend "Euros" to buy a Porsche. So Russia, understandably, says: These "Euros" are useless to me.

In this setup, no trade can happen anymore. The Euro is effectively worthless and the ECB has defaulted. As a compromise before things get worse, Russia is proposing an intermediate solution. First Germany sends the Porsche to Russia. To keep track of the transaction, a number in a computer in Moscow (a "Ruble") goes up. Later, Russia sends gas to Germany and the number in Moscow goes down to settle the balance. In order for this to work, the Porsche dealer or some intermediary must accept Rubles in exchange for the 911, and Germany must trust Russia not to freeze Germany's rubles (in which case Russia gets the Porsche for nothing and Germany is pissed).

How is this different from the '80s? First, many things in the 80's were done in physical bank notes, to which the "freezing" does not apply. However, the large amounts of gas trade make the exchange of physical bank notes impractical. Second, banks in the '80s would not have dared to freeze the money of their customers. Such breakage in the banking system is a new thing whose consequences remain to be seen.
That's what Western Digital does with their "My Cloud" product line and honestly it makes me cringe.
It only happened on players connecting or disconnecting from the server. Unfortunately it was a server crash so once it did occur it discontented up to eight players.
I was hoping this would mean I get to decide how much I pay
This is smart and what Apple should've done. Apple is clearly beholden to the massive cash cow that the App Store has become. Apple's attempts at complying with various orders are that their cut should be 27% and the payment processor can have 3%. That's ridiculous and is going to get them into trouble.

You see this pattern repeatedly and people will bring up things like the Pareto Principle or argue it's better to squeeze the profits for as long as you can but ultimately some government or court will take away your monopoly.

As someone in possession of such a monopoly it is always better for you to control how that happens. Having it decided for you could be truly disastrous. Any government investigation could widen in scope to areas it otherwise wouldn't.

I predict App Store cuts will ultimately drop to a far more reasonable 10-15% including payment processing or 5-10% without.
RIP. Was there ever a widely adopted alternative to GIF in the browser for animated pictures (like PNG is to JPEG)? Or is using video formats in place of GIF made a replacement irrelevant?
This is super cool! I'm curious how much of a problem the policy side of things is here? My impression is that some of these projects fail because of NIMBYism and long lawsuits over land use and the like (despite the net positive climate impact).
The Fed helped create the housing bubble to begin with. Greenspan cut rates massively after dotcom popped and took his sweet time to normalize. Bernanke certainly could have worked with fiscal policy to bring down housing in a controlled way, as it become an out of control snowball.

Of course there were many other factors too, government policy encouraging and guaranteeing subprime mortgages, clueless borrowers, faulty credit assessments, too much leverage.

IMO the government should seek not to create bubbles and also to set up a structure where it's inherently difficult for them to form. E.g. Limiting leverage for investors/important institutions is an obvious one. A system that relies on participants making smart decisions is doomed to fail in the long run.

If buy and hold residential SFH investors were only allowed to lever up to 2x to 1, you would see significantly less speculation in SFH with minimal downside outside of investment returns for those investors.

It really doesn't take a lot to set up a safe structure while still leaving it a mostly free market. Just requires foresight and a willingness to curb some of the fun/exuberance in the short run
The HDMI port on the RTX 3090 is 2.1 (48gbps) and should be able to push resolutions higher than 4K, but it's no better than the DisplayPort. Both HDMI & DisplayPort carry audio signals, but the Apple Studio Display only pipes audio over USB, so a single passive HDMI or DP cable will not transmit audio
How would that work, self hosting Spotify and YouTube?

In theory you could probably find ways to rip and download everything you want to save, but it would require a massive amount of storage space just to be sure you never lose things that have a tiny chance of being missed.
While that's alluded to in some other comments there is 0 proof of this - it'd be a huge issue if the price for choosing another payment processor (while still likely paying Google their Store % cut on the backend) is being an enterprise customer of a completely separate business unit.
As another commenter mentioned, for the EU many fintechs will opt to get a banking license in Lithuania.

For example, Revolut is a bank in the EU via a Lithuanian banking license, but only an "e-money institution" in the UK (though the application to become a British bank -- and for that matter, an American bank, and other jurisdictions -- is in progress).

Monzo is a UK bank, but opted to cancel their US banking application, and I don't believe is an EU bank either (someone please fact check me here!)
Humans didn’t evolve to be humans
so you never click on those news articles here?

I am also thinking about not news per se but opinion pieces, lifestyle, technology articles?
How much are you willing to accept as a bug bounty to implement this for K9?
Can you trust yourself with passwords for true e2e encrypted traffic? that could work too...
This is neat! I heard about MicroAcquire the other day on the Indie Hackers podcast but it's more around projects that have demonstrated revenue or profit.

I guess it could be hard to determine the value of the project; without revenue it's hard to know what it's worth. You might be tempted to ask for a price based on your time spent but that doesn't translate to value-added. But maybe that's OK: it's meant for side projects. :)
Counts as a recording artist, I suppose? The article somewhat goes off the rails into just covering "famous people who do model trains".
This is a smart comment because this is exactly what we run into (I operate a coding school that uses ISAs). Employers love our graduates, but if we charged employers, we'd have to play a cat and mouse game of "please don't contact our students directly" or "please don't apply to their website and go through me". By charging students, we can be at ease with making introductions or promoting employer/student activities without having to police their communication.

That said, I believe there's a lot more we can do to help ease the financial burden from students and I love the direction of trying to move the cost of education from students to employers. I'm working on that.
Thanks for all of this.

I work on projects that mostly use buildroot to make their images, but I've also done that other ways when I was playing with an RPi.
that will probably never happen. There is always an ongoing fight between decentralization (enduser, humanistic approach) and centralization (efficient, dictorship, monopolization approach). Centralization will almost always be more efficient but has "security" flaws in the form of bad faith actors while also acting as the central authority. Basically see any form of dictatorship over multiple generations. Ofcourse they can accomplish good, working systems. They can even be efficient as long as all orders are done exactly without fighting back.

decentralization is taking back some of the control back from central authorities. The problem is people often do not want to be 100% responsible for their own well being. This in turn leads to re-centralization at some point. We have governments because people often do not believe they can easily live together with complete trust. We have laws in order to make it easier for humans to live together. Essentially offloading a cognitive function of threat detection by relying on a trusted entity (government) to create a safe environment. In a dictatorship its possible for that trusted entity to transform into a bad faith actor and no longer work towards its original purpose. We introduce democracy/republicanism (a form of decentralization) in order to protect against this flaw. This form of government itself often re-centralizes in some form or another (government parties).

What I'm trying to get at is that while centralization is efficient and many things head to centralization we should still try to make the backbone decentralized whenever possible. It is a form protection against a central authority transitioning to a bad faith actor. Almost all central authorities will eventually transition to bad faith (from the end users perspective). With as much of the backbone being decentralized as possible we can at least more easily finger point and hold those central authorities responsible for their actions.
It is absurd. Bay Area prices are far too high, but there are still many suburbs in Bay Area proper that are $6k/mth payments. With current 1.5% 30-year mortgage premiums over 10-year treasury rates, you're effectively only paying (1.5% * mortgage) per month + property tax, because most of that money is saved going into principal of the house loan and the house price keeping with inflation. So net worth wise, you're only wasting around $2k/mth to live there... (out of a $30k/mth after-tax making staff engineer, and assuredly a $35k+/mth after-tax making surgeon couple)

Of course, if you're too uppity to live in places like San Leandro, that's a you problem.
Magnets and garlic: an enduring antipathy in early-modern science
Oh god no

> relax, we’ll use a low-energy proof of stake chain

But someone will need to put up stakes. How long before you can bid to buy “is-odd” and everyone wanting to use it paying you a small fee. Crypto style libertarianism and open source freedom are not compatible….
"Explosions don't alpha-blend correctly" is particularly odd given that TBDR's strength was supposed to be alpha blending.
Activist Publishes Redacted Version of Classified Military UFO Report
Direct link to PDF version: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17496977.2019.16...

Submission statement: I'd heard about this before, that in Medieval Europe garlic was thought to deactivate magnets (note: this is not the only variant of the "garlic effect", just one common one) until people actually finally started testing it in the 16th century, but I'd never really read more about it than mentions... anyway, this article discusses a bunch of the details. Note the "Who came up with the idea of the GE?" section I found fairly hard to follow, but it does discuss a number of the variants of the hypothesis...
"Why are you taking my picture?"

"I'm not, I'm checking if you are too close to me."
Russian journalist Oksana Baulina killed in Kyiv shelling
I think that's actually a good thing. We fetishize college in America, telling everyone that it is the only path to a successful future. I think this has duped people into taking on student loan debt, only for them to find out they would have made more money as a plumber or electrician.

There are plenty of vocational opportunities out there that can provide a high standard of living and also a rewarding career.
I think you'll have to search long to even find a Chinese who thinks that Confucianism is in any way more "true" or a "deeper truth" than Daoism (or any other of the Tang-Dynasty-era philosophies like Legalism or Mozi). The philosophies are not in opposition, they look at different aspects of life.
Well, you have to applaud her honesty.
I assume when you say "Node" you mean NPM?

Just spent a few minutes checking NPM's startup code. For a total run of ~234ms, it spends:

~50ms loading a version-parsing lib, loading JSON metadata containing Node binary version and checking node binaries against some hard-coded compatibility data. Dum doesn't seem to do any such sanity checks, which may be fine if you manually ensure your environment is correctly setup.

~25ms initiating logging (& exception handling). This seems like it could be improved.

~40ms loading config & 2 external dependencies (`which` and `graceful-fs`) - not sure if the config is the reason for slowness. The dependencies bring functionality Dum doesn't seem to need as much as NPM does. I guess the load-perf of the dependencies could be improved, unless it's the config loading causing this.

~80ms checking for updates!!! Absolutely no need to do this on every run - this could be throttled somehow at the very least.

The remaining ~40ms is actually running the script

---

Update: After looking more closely, it appears the update checking code doesn't actually run every time - it's taking 80ms just to load that code (without doing the actual check - the check is cached)
https://freedombox.org/ can make this easier. It is based on Debian and has a nice Web GUI. One can also order an appliance: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pionee...
I'm not following. Afaik Lambda didn't collapse. It recently rebranded due to a trademark conflict, but they're still alive and well from what I gather. Someone be so kind to explain?
More like SystemSh
My hosting stack seems to be similar to yours. In addition to the services themselves, I run a watchtower container to check for new images for me, which then notifies me through yet another selfhosted solution: gotify. I have watchtower setup not to automatically recreate the containers (I've been bitten by postgres updates a few times too many).

Speaking of Wireguard: I've been looking for a web-based management interface to define Wireguard networks with (using the server it runs on as a sort of central "hun"), but haven't yet found anything I really like and/or found simple enough to use. What does your Wireguard setup look like?

Watchtower: https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower
Gotify: https://github.com/gotify/server
She repped Herbalife too
Speaking of policy mistakes, pretty much "everyone" agrees that raising interest rates now is a policy mistake.
SystemŞ?
Clip-in pedals are optional because dangerous they are. My only serious accident on a bike was when I weared SPD pedals. Unlike a helmet, clip-in pedals trade security for efficiency.
Serious question. I'm in my mid 40s, I've been using Linux for over two decades. I use a tinc network (also Syncthing) to manage my home and two offices, plus my kids laptops. We do gaming, I do media server stuff. I teach IT, I own a (presently inactive) web-design company..etc. etc.

All to say, I don't understand the point of this. What is this for and why would I want it?
If it's an air-gapped local network, then sure, but how useful is that? Are you disconnecting your phone/laptop from the internet when you access the air-gapped network, or do you use two network interfaces on every device?

I assumed the GP was talking about a typical home "local network", one behind a NAT - so no incoming traffic, but usually, it allows any outgoing traffic.
Everybody is complex and complicated. No one is all good or all bad. Obituaries are a short way of honoring the good in people while biographers can flesh out the complexities that show our poor choices.
If anyone's interested, I'm a bootcamp grad with a current ISA. The ISA I currently have:

*pros*:
- zero interest
- whatever hasn't been paid after 5 years, I don't owe
- no payments are due if you don't have a job making over $50k

*cons*:
- tuition was definitely overpriced and you end up having to pay 150% of the principal loan (assuming you have a high enough paying job for long enough within those 5 years)
- a lot of bureaucracy you have to go through to prove you don't have >$50k salary

It definitely sounded scary when I first heard of them. And at the point I was in the bootcamp we were literally dumpster diving and shoplifting to get us through till rent was due and our foodstamps were renewed. Recently got hired with $90k salary so it worked out, but I was very aware of the fact that I was in no position to negotiate and could easily be taken advantage of

EDIT: To clarify, zero interest means zero interest. The 150% is the terms of the ISA agreement. You pay 10% of your paychecks to them until it's either been 5 years or you've payed 150% of the principle amount. Most people that get jobs in tech will have paid the 150% before the 5 year mark
I generally use arch now because I like tinkering. If I didn't I'd probably use either debian or fedora.
I didn't vote on anything. I was uncertain if you were dispensing with a tangentially related personal anecdote or if I'd overlooked a more significant connection with the topic of what's unique and special about Georgian honey.

I agree, HN is a very specific thing, with fairly strict rules and autistically narrow norms and protocols. I check out reddit or one of the chans when I want more open ended discussion. Live long and prosper, friend.
I don't understand how this is a "feature". Is the price different, or the features gained different, or does it just determine who ends up getting what % cut? I can't imagine most people actually care whether Google or Spotify is getting a bigger piece of the same price they're paying either way.
That is the interesting question but regardless of the answer and considering the current exchange rate I only see that in one case it should be to the detriment of Russia in the other case it should not matter. What am I missing?
When you're Neil Young or Rod Stewart, you don't pay for music gear unless you try very hard. The manufacturers will give it to you for free on the off chance that you get spotted using it (those musicians also tend to be very careful about what gear they get photographed using, due to sponsorship agreements).

I can absolutely see the appeal of spending your money in an industry where nobody cares who you are or what products you use.
You are right other conservatives won’t fight against it but it is also only religious conservatives that support it, at least banning abortion per the Texas law. In my own experience in a heavily democrat area, every single democrat I’ve met also support a ban on abortion after a certain period of time and the debate is more over how long or what point after conception until it should be banned.. that point is often swayed lower and I’d argue too low with conservatives, but even as you see in the Texas, it’s still allowable for 6 weeks after, not at birth. Mainstream conservatives rarely call for banning this early barring religious conservatives. And while this may sound no true Scotsman, conservatives are much less religious than they used to be in my experience, the country itself is also much less religious and this is allowing the mainstream conservatives to move away from religion based positions.
I get what they're getting at here, but isn't cycling still wildly more efficient than walking/running? Maybe they haven't changed because they are already reasonably optimal.
>It's basically an extremely high interest loan,

Yeah, because there's adverse selection going on: "But people with high credit scores tend to have better, cheaper options than ISAs". All the academically successful student can get student loans/scholarships to traditional 4 year programs, so you're left with people who are genuinely bad mixed with diamonds in the rough. Because of this, you have to charge more to make up for the bad application pool. I'm not sure why this is worth complaining about. It's like complaining that lawyers who work on contingency overcharge compared to ones that work by hourly.

>A good compromise here would be to make private loans fully forgivable

So basically turn them into unsecured loans with sky high interest rates?
Epik was hosting platforms that contained extremist content, encouraged and celebrated mass violence and allowed conspirators to plan sedition against the government. Yes, if you're doing that, you should expect that some businesses may choose to reconsider their relationship with you.

It's not a problem even most garden variety racist assholes on the internet are likely to have, though.

Also, 8chan is doing fine.
> It was more expensive in the long run, and less safe.

Are you sure about that? It's more annoying to have to change them, but as someone who bought some long ago, it was cheaper than new, even taking into account how much wear there was.

Most used tires actually have lots of wear left - people throw them out because they get a puncture and want all the remaining tires to match. Or even more common they have 2 good ones in back, and 2 bad in front (they forgot to rotate tires), and just replace all 4.

Those 2 good ones are sold for much less than new, but they're almost as good as new.

> If she had access to credit she could have bought new tires on credit.

Once you pay interest on that credit, there's no way she would have come out ahead. Used tires are the correct thing to do here.

> It is also just a proxy for income, which is harder to quickly/cheaply verify than a credit score.

If you look at the other replies you'll see that credit score is actually not a proxy for income. It measures responsibility.
Far be it from me to naysay criticism of Kissinger, but framing it in terms of the blood libel[1] is, as they kids say, "not a good look."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel