skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My biggest beef with self-hosting is that they expect us to set up the SSL/TLS certificate without explaining the step to set it up. Some guides does have section about it but never provide the details about creating CA for my self-hosting needs. I turn to Google/DDG to find information about it and they are all over the place or leading into dead-end.

If you have your own domain pointed at your server, the Let's Encrypt certbot can automatically pull in a certificate and configure your apache/nginx webserver (alternative webserver caddy has this feature built in as far as I know).

If you don't have your own domain, don't go with self-signed certificates. Get a free https://desec.io/ subdomain, and they have their own certbot plugin to generate automatic certificates.
Self hosting is hard. You need to take care of security, backups, software updates, software installation and so on.

Even on something like a QNAP (which can be compared to managed hosting) this can be hard. Flip the wrong switch and you expose something to the world. Missed a security update: your device is now vulnerable.

While I host a lot of things myself I can understand self hosting is not for everyone.
Wait... It's been a long time since I got a new phone or internet contract, do they require a credit check now? In the UK too?

How long has this been a thing?
That's an odd way of using inflation numbers. 8% is a YoY change. What makes you able to sum that up with a 3-month metric of SPX to yield anything useful?

It's 0.6% and 0.8% MoM so far [1], so if we're simply summing up an approximation for YTD and extrapolating to March, I'd suggest -(7% + 0.6% + 0.8% + 0.8%) for -9%.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-rate-mo...
oh boy. the amount of real estate listings I look at (lotto dreams) that are many millions and filled with the cheesiest, cheapest looking, ugliest stuff that looks straight off the american furniture warehouse floor...

That's amazing you have a friend that will do that.

I recommend it for art too! Especially paintings.
No mention of APOC vs. non-APOC countries:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795896
To put it briefly,

Messages sent using classical crypto should be viewed as being public after an unknown delay. They can be decoded at your adversary's leisure with techniques and equipment invented in the future.

Quantum cyrpto must be broken immediately to be broken at all.

If what you are encrypting is, for example, credit card information, it's perfectly fine if that becomes public in a decade. Your information will have changed.

If what you are encrypting needs to remain secret for the next fifty years, do not use classical encyrption and a public channel. It may well be made public while the information is still sensitive. This is why QKD has some early adopters. It's the only long-term secure alternative to having people carry one time pad's back and forth in suitcases full of hard drives, which has its own security issues.
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Maybe I didn't explain myself well. Yes, I could get a data dump from many sources. It is a lot of work to turn that dump into a product that I self host.
Yes, cannot push/deploy. Also can't view https://help.heroku.com/UMAUQ4UF/why-am-i-seeing-application... because it says I'm not logged in, but also I can't log in.

Also, why do I have to be logged in to view their help pages?
I think the whole "self hosting isn't easy" meme gets repeated so much that people just take it as given now and default to managed software. Or, someone might argue "Well, my grandmother who knows nothing about tech cannot self-host, so it's not viable!" ignoring there is a huge spectrum of competence between grandma and a seasoned Linux sysadmin. People aren't morons, and there's enough info out there on how to do it. I agree it's not organized very well, but it's not like setting up a web server is dark wizardry.

With all the tools out there and easy access to VPS services and even bare metal for your basement, there's never been a better time to self host. And not just web servers, but E-mail, git, photos and media, and so on, it's very accessible.
I have always wanted a Ronco egg scrambler...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdonmCgg3lE
- We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

- I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket_strike_on_Kyiv_TV_...

But sure, propaganda. The "tower was never hit", etc. etc. There's one side on this discussion who is consistently lying about the events, and its not the "Kyiv TV Tower was attacked" people.
My psychologist suggested I partake in 1 act of kindness every day, doesn't matter if in favor of a loved one or a stranger. This was to help me deal with some mental problems I had.
Following this advice in multiple occasions I actively helped people on the streets, be it by helping them put the groceries in their cars or by taking something that fell off their pockets.
I would say this helped me immensely, would you find it super sketchy?
What's the music?
> we could probably take half of the $100k+ workforce and replace with automation and a dumber, cheaper workforce.

That's basically what i'm doing. I was at first automating a secretary's job, now i'm automating my "SRE and security manager" job. With some resistance, so i'm starting with the most boring part of his job, but my goal is to automate him away. It's my secret, secondary job description. I hope i do that within a year.
Detached homes are a very specific type of housing well suited to specific needs. The problem [In the U.S.] has been that suburbian-style has been prescribed, with little flexibility to accommodate other needs. Lawns, backyards/front yards, and setbacks are great if that's what one desires and is willing to pay for.

However, not everyone wants that, yet is forced to pay for it through zoning rules requiring them. Tall multi-storey townhomes are a great middleground that reduces land costs and retain many of the benefits of SFHs, yet are literally illegal to build in much of the US.

A ton of land in competitive markets is being wasted through zoning, to many people's [And the climate's] detriment.
Russia cut off access to Facebook – making Meta's work in Russia illegal
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> Also a way to ensure that it's one time only and not a continuous monitoring type situation.

Not quite what you're asking for but access does need to be regranted every 3 months.
If you really want mainstream adoption of self hosting then you need to stop calling it self hosting and rebrand to "personal cloud". The ease of use of cloud software includes zero install, zero management and consumption based pricing. Desktop and mobile had hardware packaged with software and a simple install mechanism with ease of use as a staple for mainstream users.

Self hosting has zero standardisation around hardware, software, install mechanisms. It's a Dev led movement that has everything to do with control and ownership over ease of use. You want mainstream adoption of self hosting. Rebrand it, standardise it, make it easy for non devs.
My last employer forced all of us to return to the office - it reversed the policy, only after a significant exodus of talent. I was one of those, but far from the most difficult to replace.
You know what would be kind of neat? Like, a web site you'd go to called makemeoneofthose.com, and you'd click some buttons, and then sometime later you'd have a hosting setup that you own with some software, web server(s) and database(s) on it, and then you can go hack on it yourself, add some features, whatever. Like they send you some AWS keys and say "It's all yours. Good luck and don't forget to pay your hosting bill."

And now you have a blog, a picture-sharing thingie, a bulletin board, a whatever.

Maybe there could even be a version where you pick a datacenter and somebody racks up a PC for you with the software on it.
What you're proposing is a wasted effort when a neutron bomb would do this far more efficiently.
Great relevant podcast: https://selfhosted.show/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220323181519/https://bits-chip...
Honest Q: where though? If storing outside on a bike rack isn't an option, where can the folding bikes be reasonably stored while out and about? If I go to the store, for example, I see no option but to lug the bike around with me the entire time. At work, sure, I could stash it in the office during the work day, but outside of that I'm not sure storage really works.
Why is this pertinent to hacker news?
This is oft-cited but far overblown in practice much like the ado about whitespace in Python.

There are better things to spend time complaining about and it's not this.
Where do you typically migrate to? Or does it depend on the project?
Can recommend https://cloudron.io for those looking to get started with self-hosting and don't have a whole lot of time figuring out how to install/update a variety of apps.
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Actually no. The same amount of energy is required to boil water to start with but then you need more to "super heat" due to increased pressure.
China and India have a no first use policy, even though they have nuclear armed neighbors.
No the OP but in America a protected class is someone who qualifies for special protection/considerations by law. Basically it is there to help prevent someone's condition from being used against them. According to wiki the US has 10 of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

edit: wiki lists 10 not 9
"gentlemen's agreement" doesn't mean what most think.

it means an altruistic agreement where both parties have something to lose from either speaking/competing
To do this right you should also think of backups, updates, and monitoring. Self-hosting is true freedom but doing it right for things like email is akin to running a small business. On the positive side docker makes many things a breeze.
This is the real question
1) I'm not "proposing" anything.

2) Nobody said that historically, Russians have been perfectly rational. So whatever you think would or would not be appropriate is irrelevant, and in any case recorded facts about events that actually happened trump your feels about those events.

3) Russians may not even be in possession of neutron bombs suitable for ground delivery. The only ones they've had were installed in ABM systems and had a whopping 10 kt yield.
> Cost of living is insanely cheap. But you probably already knew that. For fun to make my friends mad I’ve sent them housing listings.

Whatever you do, do _not_ say this within earshot of Columbus natives.

> trying to dispel the "Columbus is a small hick town myth"

Columbus was never a small hick town. It was always the world's largest suburb.
did anyone else groan when they saw that this is just more web3 blockchain-foo?
It does, thanks.
I get cross policy warnings on the demo page Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://demo-api.metarank.ai:3000/movies?user=pnsar&session=...' from origin 'https://demo.metarank.ai' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.
Why can't NXP use the ROM patch mechanism (which was the cause of the previous vulnerability) to fix this? Was that all in vain?
From my experience the biggest cost other than Panels and copper wire is the framing and structural infrastructure. Building codes, wind loads, etc. make it so its not as simple as propping up a few panels and plugging them in. It's significant and also cost inefficient in many ways.
I understand this, but I also... really like the cloud.

I can share, be social, get recommendations, not worry about backups or a lost computer, not maintain anything, access from my iPhone, etc.

I have thousands of photos and music collections lost on old laptops and hard drives that I'll never see again.

I know there's huge tradeoffs (as articulated here), but there's some really amazing things about the direction the web is going.
> A year down the line, 20 companies are using your code. Two years down the line, 100 companies are using your code.
>
> Now you have a choice: Do you continue donating your time, servers, emotions and experience to making someone else money?

Every single number you mentioned is completely irrelevant because your underlying premise is faulty. If you released some very good code to the world for free under an open source license, it doesn't matter whether 0 people or 1 million people use it. You are under literally zero obligation to fix or update anything, just like it says in the text of the license you picked.

Any social obligation that people imagine you have (or in your case perhaps more importantly that you imagine you have), is just that: imaginary. If you can't stand the idea of some stranger on the planet not liking you because you refuse to spend your time fixing their pet bugs, that would be a good topic to bring up with your therapist.

And of course, just because something you did crosses some arbitrary line of popularity doesn't mean the universe suddenly decides you are entitled to compensation for it. If that's how you hoped things would go, then you should have started a business to sell it in the first place.
They're still doing well. I got to a point where I needed to take time out, spend time with family, do gardening, lie out in the lawn looking at the sky. I did that for 8 blissful months before a guy I know pulled me into this dumpster fire.
I love this app except when it has issues detecting when I dock/undock my laptop (which plugs/unplugs the same monitors again), and then Monitorian won't show any of the monitors that I have connected.
Wikipedia discusses this - Terahertz radiation is absorbed at the frequencies of the quantized rotation of h2o. If you can get these to emit/relax at once, you get a laser analogue. Trying to use something that’s absorbed by water vapour is going to be difficult in that the frequencies will have to be chosen carefully or “dry” radiation pipes will be required.

This is an experiment that was done in second semester p-chem lab in ancient times and might still be being done now. A good double beam spectrometer and a source that can emit both near IR (vibrational bands) and far IR (rotational bands).
Agreed and even when you can get the interpupillary distance correct you can still get peripheral blurring and sometimes have to adjust the headset constantly to make sure that you're looking straight on.

FoV is also a big deal that a lot of people tend to overlook, most of the commercial offerings only have around 100° whereas humans have about a 200° FOv. It's like I'm constantly playing a submarine periscope simulator.
I did this once. Don't overthink it too much - yes, it is as simple as finding a rack with sufficient space, power and network, plugging it in and going. You'll most likely get a public IP and have no access to your neighbors, so they won't really care what you do with it as long as it's not illegal or against the Terms of Service for your host. So yeah, if you want to do it, just do it. Get an OS you know, install an SSH server or Remote Desktop, and rack it up. If you can get to it on your LAN, you'll be able to get to it on the public Internet. Also, quickly learn about good auth and firewalls and fail2ban.

That all said (and said with the clarity of age and knowing I was a stubborn kid who did things "because I could"), the experience of spinning up a VPS today on Linode or Digital Ocean is effectively the same, infinitely cheaper, and a lot more fun than racking a server somewhere. I can script up a fleet of servers from my bed at 1am just because, and can't tell the difference between SSH'ing to them versus that one box I did 15 years ago. If you want to do it, go nuts and have fun, but you really aren't really missing much over conventional VPSes these days.
In an ideal world, you're absolutely right. Reality is different, though—sometimes people make mistakes and generate objects on-the-fly without memoizing them, and sometimes you have to deal with third-party or legacy code that you can't control. Reasoning about the behavior of hooks in these types of situations can become really difficult, and there really is no good answer aside from being ultra-defensive with how you handle props and dependencies (which has many of its own downsides).
Kirby and the Forgotten Land goes down smooth like a Kirby game should
This was my single biggest hurdle when I was trying to set up a personal VPN to remote manage things- I didn't really understand what I was supposed to do, or why things just never quite worked.
>What you're proposing is a wasted effort when a neutron bomb would do this far more efficiently.

Please don't spike the conversation.
I assume the typical dev sentiment is that I would rather spend/waste/invest 2 hours of my time rather than spend/waste/invest 1 hour trying to read other peoples code and documentation. Devs are fidgity bunch. And as the great filmmaker Satyajit Ray said, "The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."

Based on the quote above boilerplates are for people who are more founder-y than dev-y. Some see codebase as solution, some see code as solution.
Israel Blocked Sale of Pegasus Spyware to Ukraine and Estonia
I dont think it's a legitimate target whatever kind of propaganda is pumped out.

I think Bill Clinton is also a war criminal. The question is will you call him a war criminal or will you go quiet or bullshit an excuse for why it's ok when WE do it?

Edit : He never did call him a war criminal.
I love promoting self-hosting.. self-host, self-host, self-host!

Having said that, I'd say: Chose your battles wisely...

You can run your hardware in X number of physical locations that you have access to (personal house, family etc.). But that doesn't always suffice for backups, so go with an additional cloud provider for additional backups.

Emails: Do you want to be hit with tonnes of spam traps because you're an unknown IP (any individual doesn't send email emails to 'warm-up' your IP). Do you want to lose emails because your personal server had a power-cut or internet connection drop?

Monitoring: I'd said for small-medium personal setups, to get the level of monitoring, central logging and intrusion detection detection that someone (at least for me) would be comfortable with in the current age, a fair chunk of computing power goes to this. Maybe you'd use an external vendor for monitoring, since your home server monitoring itself won't detect if it goes out.

Instant messaging: For IOS, at least, you need to jump through a bunch of hoops to send notifications to devices - should you use an external service for this?

Honestly, I'm rambling, but.. I absolutely recommend self-hosting everything.. but I think a foreword about the amount of effort that needs to go into setting up services that you rely on a daily basis is (or should be) pretty high.

I.e. if I were wanting to setup a single service for myself that I _heavily_ relied on.. I probably wouldn't do it. If I wanted a bunch of applications.. serving 5 applications from a k8s cluster and some additional work for monitoring, log management, backups and other bits and pieces probably starts making sense.

On another note, for me, hosting things on your own, especially for data/services that you truly care about, sometimes can have a keep-you-up-at-night feeling of "you don't know what you don't know".. what if someone is in my network.. what if there's a vulnerability in the VPN, firewall and X, Y Z that hasn't been patched and someone is on my machine deleting/stealing my data. There's also people at lot more clever than you in the world and plenty of people writing scripts to automatically break into services that require a little more knowledge than you have on the subject (whatever the attack vector maybe).
If it's anything like the patching in some common bluetooth controllers, the patching area was filled up a long time ago with new features and they don't want to respin the base silicon.
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If you have a cabinet, and neighbors are caged to prevent your access to those, then you may get physical access. Call a small provider near you and ask.
Sadly the answer is, as often, it depends!

Many rack space rentals will not permit you to just install whatever PC you fancy because it is potentially a risk to the neighbours in terms of fire or bad hardware, most will happily quote you to buy one their approved ones!

It is pretty easy to get a rack space provider where the provider cannot access the machine but this can be good or bad. In some cases, I would rather they could shutdown the host if, say, the RAM is broken and replace it but if you would prefer to do this yourself, that is fine.

In most cases, you will be given a public IP address directly mapping to your machine via a router/nat lookup so whatever services you open on your machine are open on that public IP address so pretty easy to setup RDP/ssh/whatever.

Probably the biggest issue though is the extra work or hassle if something goes wrong. I remember at a previous company where some guy would frequently have to drive for 30 minutes each way to go to a data centre to perform certain updates that couldn't be done remotely.

YMMV
And we can call it cPanel ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_thinking
It was excellent and is definitely worth the time. Thanks!
We found a couple:

https://planetary-science.org/research/prospective-lava-tube...

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/26349/hirise-spots-the-mouth...
> Nope. Still need to convert it to real money for buying something. Gas fees > transfer fees.

Sure, if you choose an expensive (congested) blockchain to make the transaction. Otherwise the fees are about comparable or in some cases even less (below 1% for a round-trip from "real money" to crypto and back).

> Without an underlying economic activity it's all a ponzi scheme.

What do you mean by "underlying economic activity", and what kind of such activity does for example a bank or fintech possess that distributed ledger tech does not?
Right, I supposed we should consider bonds compared to where else would you put the money atm - nothing looks particularly attractive.
MMT isn't something you test, it's a framework for explaining what happens in economies. Regardless of what policy decisions are made, MMT has been very accurate at predicting market reactions.
Seems like you could do this pretty easily with a Docker image and a config file. Actually, I've done this with AWS (use a pre-existing image to get some open source wiki software up and running, which I then customized)+
Got it - makes sense. Thanks for being civil.