skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this article just for the straightforwardness of the setup. Pets not cattle should be the home server mantra.

My setup is not quite as simple. I have one homeprod server running Proxmox with a number of single task VMs and LXCs. A task, for my purposes, is a set of one or more related services. So I have an internal proxy VM that also runs my dashboard. I have a media VM that runs the *arrs. I have an LXC that runs Jellyfin (GPU pass through is easier with LXC). A VM running Home Assistant OS. Etcetera.

Most of these VMs are running Docker on top of Alpine and a silly container management scheme I've cooked up[1]. I've found this setup really easy to wrap my head around, vs docker swarm or k8s or what have you. I'm even in the process of stripping dokku out of my stack in favor of this setup.

Edit: the homeprod environment also consists of a SFF desktop running VyOS and a number of Dell Wyse 3040 thin clients running the same basic stack as the VMs, most running zwave and zigbee gateways and one more running DHCP and DNS.

[1]: https://github.com/peterkeen/docker-compose-stack
I would imagine since, combined, we're spending tens of billions of dollars on Fusion research - someone must have some ideas for step 2, right?!
Down side is the cost of entry if you want to be your own fab is too much. Do not feasible for a start up.
The dumbest way to solve a maze [video]
Maybe time to dust that off and try again I'll bet more recent phones make those apps shine
This should probably be called "use-specific gps optimization". These are ideas that improve accuracy for specific use cases (cars on roads) but may introduce errors for other users (people in buildings). We see this with googles driver-focused navigation whereby it always pulls you to a road, even though you may be well off the road.

Ive seen this come up in courts. A gps record will say that a person is traveling on highway X instead of parrallel street Y based on speed or direction of travel. When someone is doing something unussual (high speed in wrong direction) mapping software optimizations may go haywire. This is fine, so long as we all understand the difference between the underlying GPS track and a software-optimized track that incorporates logic beyond simple gps position.

Take the unussual situation of a large traffic accident. We dont want the EMT position to be reported as being on the sidewalk just because they are walking. Or after an earthquake. We dont want trapped survivor positions to change based on expected interfearance from tall buildings, buildings which might not be there anymore.
I am concerned with:

- Stagnated wages.

- Increase in healthcare costs / possible bankruptcy due to one issue out of my control.

- Lack of prospects and overall economic disparity that makes it impossible to own a home.

- Losing fundamental rights, e.g. abortion.

- Losing democracy to a bunch of demagogues that exploit the ignorant and less educated.

- Dealing with a police state and surveillance capitalism.

- Facing a looming climate catastrophe.

and all that while the geriarchy at the helm is driving us to a cliff either because they are lining their own pockets or because they are too stupid to see the consequences of their actions.

My job as a SWE who is also finishing her master's is far more complex than anything my teacher grandfather and office assistance grandmother has ever done.
I think dotnet core with blazor is a good option these days.

- C# can be used for all code, frontend and backend.

- Several GUI frameworks/toolkits to choose from (mudblazor, radzen etc)

- Cross-platform

- High quality development tools from several providers

- Code can later be reused in native applications for most platforms

- Lots of documentation and tutorials available.
Content like this is a pure gold for us self-taught developers.
Two companies. Out of thousands.
How did you get cold anything from this?!
> the US is a far preferable superpower than the other probable options.

do you have an argument for this claim?
In my experience, Hacker News has been one of the places that's unusually sympathetic to Reddit, probably because it originated with YCombinator. If you get the impression that people here generally dislike Reddit you should take that as a a strong indicator that Reddit has actually become a cesspool.
San Antonio is a huge spread out metropolitan area, so this can't be that much of a problem there.

I like your semi-remote idea. May I suggest everyone get together at a resort-like area, not at an office?
I wonder how much of this is the technology and how much of this is, “don’t hold off your purchase of an EV because you’re waiting for new battery tech”. It makes me think of the latest iPhone announcement. There’s lots of complaints about it being only incremental improvements but making radical improvements has its downsides too. If you think a radical improvement is right around the corner you’re not going to buy and try to time your purchase. With steady improvements you can buy in whenever without worrying about the timing.
This entire lockdown experiment in my home state actually has me looking at moving. I am never going to establish a customer-facing business in any state that has a risk of lockdown, period. In my home state, countless small businesses that I loved went bankrupt. Who knows where their owners are now, or how their families are doing. Hopefully (for how hard it was on them) they got counseling.
> "Professor Carroll, ... has reasons for his faith in the expanding universe theory, “evidence” which he gives here."

Does anyone know where this list of 4 or 5 evidences that the universe is expanding are that Sean Carroll outlines? I had the link but am not finding it!!
> it conspiracy-minded politicians instruct them to.

You got it right but backwards. It’s the radicalized (though not so small) conspiracy-minded minority instructing their politicians to ignore health guidance and requirements.
That's BBC
Automotive standards like AUTOSAR have been using C++ for quite some time and now are looking into Rust as well.

https://www.autosar.org/news-events/details/autosar-investig...

Note that MISRA is also adopting AUTOSAR on their standards.
They most likely resorted to skipping IT involvement because the department is difficult to work with.

"The cloud" is both a technical solution for flexible workload requirements, and a political solution to allow others to continue delivering when IT is quoting them 3 months of "prep work" for setting up a dev environment and 2 to 4 weeks for a single SSL certificate.

As a consultant, I am confronted to hostile IT requirements daily. Oftentimes, departments hiring us end up setting and training their own Ops teams outside of IT. despite leading to incredible redundancy, that's often credited as a huge success for that department, because of the gained flexibility.
I'd say advertising based on intrusive surveillance, rather than particular frameworks, have ruined the web. These new frameworks merely make it easier to trick you into staying on a page longer.

PHP sucked and was notoriously bad for security. And of course there was Flash. The web has had some dark times before.
It’s a taught Master’s. They want the money and some scrap of a justification for admitting you. Don’t overthink it.
The anhtrax stuff that followed is now some obscure story but it was weird and strange at the time.
At this point I don’t know what you’re trying to tell me overall.
I have to say Svelte is my first thought, even though it explicitly misses some of the criteria.

There's a lot of criteria in the original question, which will inexorably lead you to React.

But for learning fast from scratch and doing lots of iteration and rewrites on a very complex UI, Svelte is going to provide a leg up.

The biggest issue is finding a UI library you are happy with, and dealing with inevitable Sveltekit changes. I used tailwind and it integrates ok with Svelte. And I've just resigned myself to dealing with Sveltekit updates.
For the SEO
I'd just like to emphasize that this was "prior thinking"
Angular markets itself as a tricycle but comes with a manual in which the first chapter after the introduction instructs you to swap out your wheels for jet engines. The learning curve and hidden complexity is absolutely insane and I would only recommend choosing Angular in extreme cases where you actually need to break the sound barrier.

Source: I maintain a complex Angular SPA since AngularJS/2.
That was my thought while reading the post you responded to.

A US Citizen thinks the US is the best superpower? color me shocked (I'm also a US Citizen).
> everywhere else it was just a temporary voluntary sheltering at home

Except it wasn't voluntary.
The 9/11 text pager data archive is similarly interesting: https://911.wikileaks.org/
More opaque than every nth HN title referring to some cutely-monikered code framework that presses all the wrong mental buttons in those oblivious to its nature? Surely not.
https://www.iter.org/sci/MakingitWork:

“The helium nucleus carries an electric charge which will be subject to the magnetic fields of the tokamak and remain confined within the plasma, contributing to its continued heating. However, approximately 80 percent of the energy produced is carried away from the plasma by the neutron which has no electrical charge and is therefore unaffected by magnetic fields. The neutrons will be absorbed by the surrounding walls of the tokamak, where their kinetic energy will be transferred to the walls as heat.

In ITER, this heat will be captured by cooling water circulating in the vessel walls and eventually dispersed through cooling towers. In the type of fusion power plant envisaged for the second half of this century, the heat will be used to produce steam and—by way of turbines and alternators—electricity.”

That’s about ITER, but the two devices do not differ in this.
> buy a gTLD managed by Google (.app, .dev)

"Google suspended our domain out of the blue – lyearn[.]com" -> https://twitter.com/shuchit_gandhi/status/156882926948860313...
California trends to have problems with electricity instead.
For Deuterium-Tritium reactions, the easiest to achieve, 80% of the energy is contained in neutrons which pass through the first wall and must be captured in a blanket. The rest of the energy could be carried to the first wall by photons, called radiative cooling, but you can also use divertors that allow the fusion products to escape the plasma carrying away some of the heat.

I think in a stellarator you will need divertors to remove the fusion products because of the continuous operation.
I don't think there are many caveats at all, and only a single obvious counterexample (Python).

As to "crap software", most of application software these days -- crappy or excellent -- is written in safe languages, and nearly all low-level code is written in unsafe languages, including some of the world's most dependable software, from avionics to OSes. We can say with close to certainty that we can do better than C, but we can also say that full soundness (Idris) is not the answer, so the sweet spot is obviously somewhere in the middle. But we really don't know where exactly -- except that it's not at either end -- or even how wide the sweet spot is (or maybe there are multiple ones, which could be either universally equivalent or dependent on some variables).

There's more we don't know about software correctness than what we know -- it's extremely complicated and affected by factors ranging from formal languages and complexity theory to management, economics, psychology, and social psychology -- but we believe noe that the ideas of the 1970s of full soundness being the only path have proven wrong (including an acknowledgment even by Tony Hoare [1]), and, indeed, Rust doesn't adopt soundness fully, and relies on testing, code reviews and other unsound processes as the main means for correctness, like virtually all mainstream programming languages.

Anyone who cares about correctness (like me -- https://pron.github.io) knows to be very skeptical of any claims for absolute answers, let alone simple ones, on that extremely complex subject.

[1]: http://176.9.41.242/docs/math/1996-hoare.pdf
Well, in the US, ethics was covered of course by faucci's wife!! Her position was to advise her husband!

No conflict of interest there. Move along....
Confronting Indifference Toward Truth: Dealing with Workplace Bullshit
Sure, just imagine if Germany had gotten nukes first. Would they have never used them again?

How many countries, when given damn near absolute power, wouldn't have used it to directly conquer?
oh yeah? And how do people explain the sudden collapse of wtc7 that was not hit by anything?
Of course it’s working. It’s just not done yet. How else did the US and EU lines turn sharply down in the mid 2000’s? Outsourcing to China has been going on for decades prior.

Now people have caught on to the fact that we need locally made things. There’s a huge push among my peers for things that are Made in USA or Made in Canada, and food grown within 100 miles, and things that are durable vs things that are plastic. My colleagues who work in manufacturing automation cannot keep up with the insane demand for onshoring production. I’m talking about everyday objects, but to further illustrate the idea: which car brand is currently the coolest, and why, and where is it made?

All of this is just here - remember they have a sort-of-free market in China. Once they reach the GDP per capita where most people care about such things as the environment, the same dynamic will play out there.

I agree that we should price in externalities though.
”The third thing is that they seemed to go from solution hypothesis to code very naturally”

Functional thinking tends to do that, irrespective of the language. Once you have the ”pipeline” in your head, you can just write it out.
Try Flutter (Dart). Picked it up for a gig this summer. Strong typing, great performance, diagnostic tools are capable, instant hot reload, and it can be compiled for any platform.

The main factor that might make or break it for your usecase is whether it supports the kind of advanced text layout you might need.
Does anyone know how he writes his papers? His illustrations will forever be beyond my skills, but I’d like to up my paper mojo. Since his references are in bibtex, I assume he’s using some flavor of TeX, but this looks more sophisticated than LaTeX. In particular, he has small sub-illustrations next to his section headings that are really hard to get right using LaTeX. Is he using ConTeXt? Which fonts does he use? The ligatures are really nice, also hard to do using standard LaTeX available fonts.
Right.

We do know that the climate of the Sahara differed and it was grasslands in portions for a time.

But it wasn't farmed (your own article notes that the seeds found were wild), and the processes which re-asserted the pre-existing desert landscape were not human-induced.
Both historic and ordinary: the Queen’s 2011 visit to Ireland
Others are pointing out that this is (very) hot fusion. But I'd just say that if you know the first thing about fusion, the title is actually very simple, ie, stellarators and tokamaks are competing designs for magnetic confinement fusion. Of course, no one is born knowing anything about nuclear physics, and it's not really a casual subject of conversation, so there might be a lesson here that people could take about writing in domain specific jargon and how inaccessible it is for outsiders.
My two cents: you have too many requirements that will cause paralysis.

For example, don't worry about the Android or iOS idea yet. You are going to have trouble just getting the basic app done. Do that first and then you will need to throw it away once you understand what you need to build.

If it were me, I would use svelte. Much better than react and satisfies your need for typescript. Use storybook for UI testing, just shift your thinking about that idea...
> I understand why v6 is necessary for the internet but I can’t reconcile it with my home network.

Your home network is part of the Internet, by definition. There is no difference between one part and another.

It’s useful for certain corporations to try to crush the end-to-end principle but there is no benefit in going along with their plans.
I think that's true. But I think you may be jumping to an unwarranted conclusion.

Google has a number of advertising businesses, largely distinct. I think Youtube, adwords and adsense are the names of the three big ones. Adwords is a monopoly (that is, only Google sells advertising on www.google.com) and Youtube is too. But you didn't mean to to say that Google has a monopoly on selling ads on google.com and youtube.com, did you?

I think you had the third business in mind. That's the one that serves ads on third-party web sites. And what does Google's 92% market share for search have to do with its market share for that business? Or, put differently, how does Google's 92% market share help sell that product to more web site owners?
The thing that helped me was realizing that for a homelab set up, running without the extra redundancy is fine. Now for me that meant running k8s on a single box because I was specifically trying to get experience with it, and putting the control plane and actual workloads on a single machine simplified the whole thing to the point that it was easy to get up and running; I had gotten bogged down in setting up a full production grade cluster, but that wasn't even remotely needed for what I was doing.
When I was younger I would build a set, play with it for a while while modifying it. And after that it would be never built again, because it would disintegrate into the giant collection of bricks I had, used to build custom cities. Perhaps with the exception of trains, which I used to rebuilt close to the blueprints.

Now that I'm old, I'm not in the mood to build custom LEGO structures anymore, and I have some builds (e.g. ISS) that are exactly by the manual and just sitting, looking pretty on furniture. I think my younger self would be disgusted. :)
As an outsider, it seems to me that both sides in the US were massively radicalised, letting all things related to covid become a partisan issue rather than about optimizing outcomes for the population.

In Republican areas, resistance to vaccines seemed to be at an irrational level, where Democrat areas seems to have enforced lockdowns, maskwearing etc to an extent where it caused much more harm than good. (Mental illness, loss of learning for school children, economic disruption, etc.)
And even the biggest cities with the best public transportation systems have a low coverage in terms of area. This is why this is such an ignorant comment.
As a non-web developer who needed to learn a framework that "just works" for a hobby project, I suggest Svelte.

It was very easy to set up (I had previously had yelling and cursing matches with Angular).

Typescript integration is one little script away (and that script is included with the skeleton project every tutorial tells you to use).

Making a UI that "just works" is stupid simple. It's intuitive- easy to throw stuff together, but also easy to make things that scale and compose nicely. Svelte has been the most bullshit-free experience I've ever had in any of my web frontend escapades.

Frontend deployment? scp the build folder onto an EC2 instance running nginx. Done.

For styles? KISS. Use mvp.css. to use it, slap a single line of HTML into the top of index.svelte. Boom, everything is pretty enough that the average user will notice nothing out of the ordinary.

The stack I've settled on for my web projects is this:

- Svelte for the UI/UX.

- mvp.css for all of my styling needs.

- For the database/backend API/etc, Rails with postgres.

- Infrastructure? An ec2 instance. Nginx. Certbot, assuming that counts as infrastructure. Maybe some docker containers if I'm feeling fancy.

With this stack, a single person with very little web experience can have a fully-functioning MVP for a fairly sophisticated service deployed in a couple of weeks. It's unsophisticated, and it probably doesn't scale to a million billion users, but setup is easy, deployment is easy, maintenance is easy, and all of the necessary structure is there to let you scale up to a more sophisticated architecture later.
This publication was started by Nathan Jurgenson, an American sociologist who was hired by Snapchat out of grad school as a sort of resident theorist. (He was a student of George Ritzer, of "McDonaldization" fame, and applied a similar conceptual framework to digital media, "playbor" etc. Jurgenson also cofounded a conference called Theorizing the Web that in its later years received funding from Snapchat.)

Snapchat provided the funding for Real Life, which has now been discontinued, probably in this context: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/technology/snap-layoffs-r...

As a result, the publication is winding down. (Note the past tense on the about page.)
Osint: Recommended reading before the end of 2022
It absolutely takes decades for trees to decompose. This is just one study of many:

> In woods stretching from Minnesota to Maine in the north and from Louisiana to Georgia in the south, technicians catalogued every downed log they found. They ranked each log on a scale of one to five, from freshly fallen to badly decomposed, and then returned to the same forests five years later to revisit and reassess. Using these figures, the researchers were able to create a model of decay for 36 different species of trees. “Some people said it couldn’t be done,” said Woodall, “but we did it.”

> The computer model calculates that the “residence times” (how long a tree will take to completely decompose) for conifer species range from 57 to 124 years, while hardwood species are typically around on the forest floor for 46 to 71 years.

https://northernwoodlands.org/knots_and_bolts/tree-falls-in-...

Note that these estimates are for trees that have already fallen to the forest floor. It's common for trees to stand for decades after death, especially in dense forests where they have other trees to lean on.
It’s basically law in some countries. It’s negotiable but firing LIFO is cheap and firing someone with longer tenure is expensive (e.g severance could be 12 months pay or more). So all else being equal, if you are a recent hire you are at much higher risk.
This only really tracks if they intentionally wear socks on specific feet. While some socks have L/R indicators, most don't.
Remind me the percentage of electricity production?
I found using web components with Lit got me most of the way there to allowing individual components to self contain their state and redraw as required when state changed.
I would go with Angular.

Build a PWA until you need to go native.

Pick any UI framework that you like - Material, PrimeNG, Covalent...
There’s an example of doing this on the readme- scroll way down
Xbox came out in November, how did you have one in September?
University of London. There’s more than one Master’s degree that allows you to take individual modules as stand alone qualification and once you hit the limit you transfer to being a Master’s student proper. I did Finance. Last I looked the London School of Tropical Medicine also did this. If they offer a Postgraduate Certificate they’ll probably take your money for an individual module if you have any evidence you can do postgraduate level study. I had a MicroMaster’s from EdX.

https://www.london.ac.uk/courses/international_type_of_study...
Are there any good resources for what to mind as a sysadmin? It seems that most resources I find when searching, or that come across my radar (like this article) are focused on mechanism and how-to.

I often feel a bit out of my depth when dealing with sysadmin tasks. I can achieve pretty much any task I set out to, but it is difficult to ascertain if I have done so well, or with obvious gaps, or if I have reinvented some wheels.

Does anyone have a recommendation for in-depth "So you want to be a sysadmin..." content? Whether books, articles, presentations, or any other format.