skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have mentioned, it's easy to get swept up in the panic of preparation. I've had the conversation with my wife that no matter what you do, you will not be able to prepare for everything. (Jokingly, I'm reminded of the couple in Tremors with their underground bunker that a Grabboid bursts into.) You will likely be unproductive if you're trying to plan for every contingency.

I recommend starting slowly. Build up a week, then a few weeks. Buy ingredients and foods that you like and will eat. Avoid buying a "food supply" and instead increase your pantry that you rotate food out of in the course of a normal week or month. Make sure you also build up a relatively liquid savings. It's far more likely that you personally will face an economic hard time than it is for us all to be facing apocalyptic dystopia.

My church recommended for a long time having a year's supply of food for security. I think many people thought it was a forewarning of coming global destruction, but as I've reflected on it, it's much more about personal hardship and caring for oneself, family and community.
His face is one I started noticing! He seems to have written tons of articles I really enjoyed
Expecting government help instead of taking responsibility is not the proper way. If you are able to take care of yourself you take a strain off whatever limited resources are left to help those who can't help themselves. Be a resource not a drain.
Put your big belongings in storage, pack a car and spend the next few months shopping around. Visit cities and places you think you'd like, get an Airbnb for a month or 2. I did this when COVID first hit (am still doing it) and love it.

I was coming from NYC, so I've been able to actually lessen my rent, even through Airbnb.

I loved Portland, San Diego, Austin and Boulder.
I don't regret putting it off until my 40s because it let me find a person I want to have a family with

Thank you for including this tidbit. I'm a man in my early 30s interested in having kids and recently discovered that I've poorly vetted my 5+ year SO's interest in having kids. Her "yeah, I'm hypothetically interested" has become "hard not interested".

The requirement to break up with her if I want kids is deeply painful, but the real source of my dread is the feeling that I won't then be able to find someone good in time. I'm very glad you found someone good to have a family with.
> than sure the percent needs to be lowered and I am not arguing that

Yes to 0% and any percentage of revenue should be made illegal. Google and Apple can charge whatever fixed values they want or even charge based on a wide variety of vectors but a % of revenue should be explicitly illegal that kind of blatant rent seeking is a quintessential example of something the government needs to stamp out.
yeah, she compared them to Nazis, as they were doing genocide and ethic cleansing. The last one that happened in Europe was in ww2.

Also, Milosevic and his cronies died in prison as war criminals that killed tens of thousand of innocent people.
what a nice character, you should’ve asked them on a date
The nineties saw the demise of pacifism as a viable mainstream idea as the Democratic party under Clinton wholeheartedly and unconditionally embraced militarism. Today there are two parties in the USA, one that loves war and another that loves war even more. The results of this disaster are in the news today.
You aren't thinking about longevity. Diet, exercise, sleep, stress. And supplements. Start giving yourself a medical education by watching YouTube videos. Chances are you can really extend your health and lifespan.
I'm glad you got a good deal out of used tires. I'm sure the value is there if you look. Personally I've bought new good tires for less than $100/tire after rebate, and having them professionally installed costs over $100 where I live, so it's never seemed worth it to me.

>If you look at the other replies you'll see that credit score is actually not a proxy for income. It measures responsibility.

I do see now the other reply with the Fed's article about the low correlation (0.29) between income and credit score. That's pretty interesting/surprising to me; I stand corrected.
Richmond, VA? I found it very affordable, at least 10 years ago, the weather is not extreme and everybody closes down if there is a bit of snow, and it's not that far from DC.
Geriatric primigravida used to label first pregnancies at 28 or older. I assume that is no longer the case.
I don't even get what you doubt. Bin laden was a leader of an international organization dedicated to his ideas. Their agenda is extremist by most, but that leaves big group of people, arguably even a country, that welcome it as the true will of Allah. They have papers and they publish books. There's a place for many people on the fringe.

I just read the Economist's Obituary someone linked above, which is good and somewhat disorienting. The last sentence is a quote of him with exact negation of what you say about cheering - (spoiler alert - it is probably better to read
the whole thing before the quote) - The difference between pure Muslims and Americans, he said, was that Americans loved life, whereas Muslims loved death.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.economist.com/obituary/2...
Someone else posted here on HN in the last year or so; she lived in the Pacific NW and had built a database-based - web site that lets one enter constraints and find hints that help answer your question. Alas, I can't find the link at the moment.
By getting involved in the government and helping prepare for disasters is the very definition of taking responsibility for yourself and being a resource for those around you.
The number can vary greatly based on browser, other extensions and location accessed.
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I'm not going to pretend to be an expert but lactose intolerance depends on gut microbes which doesn't require evolution to change. You can alleviate symptoms of lactose intolerance with probiotics/kefir.
Are you saying that you should never interact with strangers because you might make them anxious?

There's probably tons of things that can make people anxious. I'm not going to lock myself in the house to avoid making others anxious.

As a socially anxious person myself, I would love for someone to start the conversation with me.
I was afraid that reference would be too low brow for the HN crowd but definitely recommend this episode of TPB.. "I hear there are some bitchin trains in Bangor"
Everybody indirectly gets value from CT because it allows the public to exercise their oversight over the Web PKI more effectively, and thus it acts as a guarantee over the behaviour of the CAs.

As a researcher it lets you call "bullshit" easily, many years ago I actually used the logs to show that CAs "missed" (did an inadequate job of identifying and revoking) some certificates they should have revoked months earlier, if you attempted that without logs you'd never be sure how much you missed and you'd have no fixed scope for the work.

[[ As to getting hit by bots, keep in mind that passive DNS can cause that too, if anybody (testers, third party services, anybody) does a DNS lookup for name X on most well known public DNS servers, the server operators sell the DNS answer + timestamp (but not who asked so this is not personal information), which you can then buy as a bulk service. So e.g. some-uuid-on-a.server.example gets looked up on an iPhone over somebody's ISP, and within seconds a feed has added some-uuid-on-a.server.example A 10.20.30.40 to the list of known DNS answers. ]]

You can use these monitors, (although not specifically the one operated by Google for much longer) or you can build your own. If you build your own you can choose to specialise. Maybe you only care about certificates for names under .horse, or you only care about certificates from for-profit companies, or with RSA keys.
Wow automated trading, never seen this before.
Are you saying that the many critical commenters with multiple years of HN activity and karma are Russian bots?
I think https://privacy.com is close to that. You get a virtual credit card number for every single service that you sign up for, and you can simply disable them in a centralized place.

It works on the web but it is still a hassle to use on mobile. I imagine Apple can potentially do this using Apple Card, but I don't think this is going to happen any time soon.
yes i know, the fact that this is a small blurb at the bottom of the article (which is largely about functional partitioning) exactly proves my point
Indeed it’s about honesty in the face of death. The speaker speaks both of the good and the bad things.

Obituaries tend not to.
Early 40s.

Muay Thai. It started as a casual interest to help me get in shape. Learning about the technical, historical, and cultural aspects and nuances really hooked me. Wish I'd started much earlier. If you're interested, the best fighting art channel on YouTube IMO is https://www.youtube.com/c/8limbsUs

Music. Playing uke and singing is just fun.

Getting enough sleep. Self-explanatory.
We evolved to use vessels! Vessels! Not cups!
Thanks for making Kagi! I hope you and your team can figure out a way to make a flat monthly fee feasible so I can continue using the site!
I used to work at this company. The ceo is totally mental and mistrusts his employees to be productive remotely. Company is desperately in need of new top leadership. This guy even rehired Nissan’s deranged and corrupt CIO, who is renowned for reorganizing with total disregard for people.
Gestures broadly at the behaviour of basically every crypto subreddit, YouTube channel and forum; to say nothing of the advertising by crypto businesses.
Love this game! and its game theory underpinnings.
I was an auto insurance actuary in a different life. Most states do NOT ban the use of credit in auto insurance pricing, but there are some exceptions. My company actually decided not to do business in California because we could not use credit as a factor. The difference in premium due to credit could often be as high as 12x between the highest and lowest groups.

Some states (Maryland comes to mind) do limit the maximum surcharges you can implement because of credit, although there are sneaky ways around this that everyone uses, like underwriting tiers (GEICO) or using credit in multiple places (Progressive).
I'd rather 100% of the money go to the artists, personally. It is possible in many cases, but not with Spotify (or Google, Apple, etc). Middlemen want their cut, and Spotify cuts as deeply as Apple (google, steam, microsoft, sony, etc) does.
I understand why you say this, I upmodded you for the sake of a discussion, and it seems that society is trending towards "interact with people as little as possible". However, it's not like asking someone for something in public is imposing on their autonomy or forcing them into doing something they don't want to. You can say no. If no is too much, you can just walk away. You live in a society with implicit agreements on interactions in public spaces. If that gives you anxiety, maybe you should also try some therapy, free form or otherwise.
agreed. both of these companies --google and apple-- have leadership that see this as a hill to die on. Apple looks ready to go to the guillotine for the right to gouge startups, while Google seems more amicable to try obfuscation tactics to keep their hand in the cookie jar.

my opinion: a couple million dollars invested in F-Droid might do the world a whole lot of good. if you were say, epic, you might consider an anonymous donation.
Spotify is public and you can see most of their numbers -- the Cost of Revenue for 2021 was 7 billion EUR on 9.6 in revenue. The cost is said to be mostly the royalties though it would include paying the many millions to some podcasters.

The ad-supported users outnumbers premium users (236 million to 180 million) but bring in only 1/6th the revenue. So that's a factor depressing the payout per stream.

https://investors.spotify.com/financials/press-release-detai...
galera is not a solution for scaling out writes, full stop

galera has lower max writes/sec than a traditional async single master because it's a cluster. the other members of the cluster need to ack the writes, and all members are doing all the writes, so adding machines does not increase your max writes
A proposed fourth: was it BGP?

Although most of those fall under “bad config update” (although likewise that applies to DNS).
Sure, I see what you're saying, and I'm fairly resilient, but I don't think it should be anyone's duty to accept widespread, severe adversity based on the mistakes of world leaders.

It'd be a difficult, long grind back to normality with no guarantee of reaching a better or more equal world than today's (perhaps worse, given the way that resources were redistributed after the fall of the USSR, as I understand it).

If unrest really becomes that widespread, I'm off on the road with some books, the most-reliable, widely-compatible electronics available, whatever's left of my sense of humour, and a few stories.
Mostly this is correct. Few exceptions -

Weather patterns on East coast can be unpredictable, much more so than central valley CA. torrential rain = mud leading to bogged down equipment, this can be the difference between a profitable job and unmitigated disaster for an installer.

Second, construction cycles in utility solar can be a bit wonky because of ITC tax credits, lots of turnkey providers looking to have construction starts in q4.
It's a nascent market, wide bid/offer spreads relative to other products, no to little regulatory overheads (for now!) and for the most part build on modern technology stack ... So yea this is not surprising, what is though is that none of the traditional exchanges or venues have yet to make a serious play. Once they do this gravy train will end.
What Is a Data Breach? (2020)
One thing I think would help the self-hosting community is a standardized method for tapping into repositories of scripts and functions. The next step is to build a UI on that platform and then I can do admin things from a self-hosted UI but it just runs several script for me behind the scenes. E.g. a button for check upgrade for my email server, a button for upgrading my email server, etc.

If administrative configuration became standardized, then it will become commoditized by hosting platforms.
Depends on whether you're referring to a SaaS provider or something more like a MSP.

I'd like to believe the engineers running Google Photos or iCloud are spending a lot more time on keeping my photos secure and available than I would be willing to put into a server running in my basement.

In the case of a business hiring an MSP to manage something complex like firewalls, Active Directory, server patching, then sure it's reasonable to assume that if they made a mistake, the impact would be equivalent to you making the mistake yourself.

It's possible you need to tell whomever you are reporting to for these post-mortems, they should be outsourcing to reputable service providers in order to free up time and man-hours, not necessarily just to save financially. I suspect that is the real problem.
So, Spotify also reportedly takes 30% of the revenue before paying the creators.

This isn't an Apple/Google/Spotify thing, it's a service thing.
Well, I think it’s just the usual gotcha of programmers assuming things about languages that are not true.

Though I’m not sure why wasn’t two new i’s added instead of modifying the latin i? It is a different letter after all in this case.
The white elephant in the room is that crypto has terrible transaction efficiency.

I think someone figured out that Visa or Mastercard can process around 200,000 credit card transactions for the power required to process one etherium transaction.

Crypto only really works for people for whom moving a very large amount of money, that has a very high cost otherwise. You know, the kind of people who have to wash their money...
I think op is saying that to them (Putin/Stalin) they will delude themselves into thinking that. I didn’t get the gist that they meant everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBC5TVdYT8

Matt Damon says line goes up, you coward!
> that underpin these massive financial successes

It very often takes hard, non ideal, working conditions to make financial success. This story is from a period before that success.
It's somewhat structured; I use both broad categories and a tag system. I can also add additional comment text to archived pages. It's all patched together with shell scripts and some Lua (since that's what I'm familiar with). `ripgrep` is the utility used for searching. It's fast enough for me even when I don't use any kind of category filtering, but I have a beefy computer and use NVMe drives, so YMMV.
if true, that doesn't look like a very strong correlation to me, at least at first blush. the difference between high and low income is 111 points on a scale that goes from 300 to 850?
If you’re into the pharma business you should consider Boston, San Diego or sf. There’s some other areas, but you have to be able to switch jobs without moving unless you’re a renter. If your politics doesn’t require the us, look into Vancouver or Toronto. Yanks file taxes each year so there’s little issue in Canada. Dealing with logical regs would be more hassle without a local nexus, but many places have one.

A lot comes down to your comfort in the various areas of the us. No need going somewhere you’ll be uncomfortable with.
What's the minimum karma needed so can you start reporting comments on HN?
> The price people are willing to pay is who determines the actual worth of the ticket.

Indeed

> Do people sell tickets for less than the concert costs to produce where you live?

No, they don't, at it's not what I said.

> If ticket booths charged exactly what scalpers charge would that change anything for you?

Ni idea why you're asking me this question
IMO, companies that build tivoized devices like these deserve to go out of business. This whole thing would have been a non-issue if they wouldn't have attempted to restrict the end-user in the first place.
Another adverse selection problem: the education programs that should be using ISA's are the ones where there is a high risk that it will not increase your earning potential. For example, small liberal arts colleges. They are probably the least likely to do so, for that very reason.
I was going to comment, but this is what I was going to write.

In addendum, one does not need to go overboard in their prepping, or even seem like they're prepping. When my wife and I started prepping 4 years ago (before pandemic, before etc. etc.) we just began buying a little bit extra in our weekly shop. Cans last forever, sugar lasts forever if kept dry. Nobody's going to notice if you buy a big cube of toilet paper one week, then another the next week, and suddenly you have a 3 month supply.

Watching the news is honestly optional, and for me only brings anxiety. There's always going to be crap going on in the world and it's always going to be sensible to have some extra packed away.

If you happen to live in the USA, the Mormons have what they call Home Storage Centers, where I believe you can go in with your own food and use their equipment to preserve it, or you can buy food from them already preserved. Ask your Mormon friends, they're taught to prepare.

P.S. Some other, non-world-ending reasons to have a stash: Friend calls and tells you they're in desperate need of food, you can raid the cupboard and take over an emergency hamper without having to spend. Rains cut off your only bridge to town for a couple of days (happened to me recently). Floods, fires or drought in other parts of the country cut off supply chains for a couple of days, and while others are stripping the shelves bare, you can stay at home and avoid the doorbusters. Lots more reasons, and you don't have to be worried about world events to have it make sense for you.
Kind of:

> Ubuntu 22.04 includes the bulk of the recent GNOME 42 release plus a number of apps and libraries carried from GNOME 40 (and earlier). Why this mix? Well, GNOME 42 features a lot of GTK4 & libadwaita ports of many core apps. Ubuntu didn’t feel like they’d get enough testing before its April deadline so held back.

> The good news is that a good chunk of GNOME Shell 42 is included in Ubuntu 22.04, including an updated GNOME Shell desktop, its new screenshot tool, a backport of the new ‘Privacy’ panel in the Settings app, and the latest version of the Nautilus file manager.

Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/01/ubuntu-22-04-release-fea...
I think all those are anti-features on a network slug.
As I understand it, the device is intentionally simple because it is there to ensure some misconfiguration cannot expose some port that should not be exposed.

I have implemented firewalls similar to this in the past. They typically had three network interfaces. Two of them were configured as bridges and then I use ebtables/iptables to filter traffic flowing through. These two interfaces would have no IP address and would not be visible on a traceroute, etc.

The third interface would only be connected to a separate admin network. Or it might not even be plugged in. In the latter case, the admin needing to change anything on the device would have to be physically present and bring a "crossover" ethernet cable and plug their laptop directly into the third NIC of the firewall. From there, they would be able to ssh into the firewall and change config.
I think its highly dependent on where you live.

I personally think the best thing you can do to prep is to be ready to change your country of origin and to try out many different cities to get a feel for them and whether you could live in them long term.

I think the issue is that perhaps people are not prepared to leave their familiar surroundings (myself included) and therefore wait too long and therefore risk becoming refugees as a result.
Or phrased slightly differently, Spotify takes 30% of revenue generated by selling access to artists' songs.
Prehistoric collectors recycled stone tools to preserve the memory of ancestors
I score in the 76th percentile for trait neuroticism and had a traumatic upbringing so my HPA-Axis is fried, I admit. I know that how I react to things is definitely not in-line with how others do, and that sometimes my worry isn't necessarily justified, but I've also caught many, many instances where my hyper-sensitivity to risk caught problems ahead of time that others didn't see coming. That's largely allowed me to strike a balance.

For a very long time now I've paid close attention to structural issues in systems, and for some reason that's just become my M.O. It seems like we're at a point in time where several structural issues brewing for years are all coming to a head at once and converging. The historical record has a clear pattern of one thing going totally sideways usually not being a big deal, but two or more things going completely sideways at once taking systems out of their safe operating envelope and introducing runaway feedback loops. The Nickel market on the London Metal Exchange is a recent example of this I would say. If it weren't for the negative feedback loop that was immediately applied things would have been very, very bad.

So... I'm watching this all very, very, very closely and I feel as if my feelings are justified. I think at this point, most people aren't neurotic enough.
I’m not sure what the status of Neil Young’s train layout is, but I worked with him on his Pono project and got to see the layout and the full scale real train cars which were next to the building with the layout. As far as I know he sold the property (~500 acres on the SF peninsula). The trains were sort of for his son. Neil was also part owner of Lionel.
Or put another way: mind over matter is amplified by psychosomatism. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss...
You're right, unless there is unknown physics that happens near a black hole.