skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How can we make more people self host their data rather than giving it to corporations?

Here's my pitch...

Sell a productized version of a server that has everything you need to run all of your data-sharing needs already set up with a nice front end that can be operated by a remote control from an HDMI-connected TV. Using that front end, the user connects to the local network, establishes mobile app companions, enters in any global details for accounts they want to maintain, and manages all the configuration options for the server.

The server would host all of the things a household would want to maintain, using open source projects for transparency and maintainability. That would include things like peertube and mastadon for publishing content and media, but it would also include home automation software, as well as personal media software like owncloud as a way to replace google drive content and plex to manage personal media playback.

Basically, a little server that uses open-source software to emulate every modern cloud-based service, on a household scale so that you can run it cheaply enough to be affordable ($60-$70 bucks?), layered in encryption and firewalls for privacy and federated to other home servers (and everywhere else) using the fediverse, while also adding in anything you would want a home-management or home media server to do.

I call it an "accent server". Like an "accent table". I would make it stylish enough to display, but discreet enough to tuck out of sight.

And, personally, I see this kind of thing coming around either way. It's just a matter of whether or not one company puts together all of this software and starts offering it as a walled garden, or if it bumbles itself together out of CLI utility chaining, and enough reddit posts circling around the same setup questions.

That assumption is based on the idea that most people seem to want what this would provide; it's just that not even particularly tech-minded people want to go through the steps of setting each of all of these things up. And it's only when you have 3 or 4 of the services or features working in tandem that they add up enough to make a change in lifestyle (which is what we're attempting) tempting enough.

So if you could put together a "buy it once, plug it in, set it up, forget about it" kind of offering, I think you would get a ton of people that would buy it, and then once it was just a thing in your house that you could start adding custom plugins to (as easy as installing an app), then you would get a ton of adoption. The hard part is marketing; you have to really explain it fully to make anyone understand what it is you're trying to offer.
Mass boring with false positives.
No you didn't. :P
Yes - wondered if Apple needed a job?
nothing interesting or controversial at the conceptual level. This one strikes a lot of people as distasteful with respect to implementation.

Interesting or noteworthy is up to the observer.
> This is a sign of something interesting but I am not ready to elaborate on this statement in this comment which is going to become [flagged] eventually.

Yet you're being a reply guy all over this thread, might as well just elaborate you clearly have the time and interest
I have written some of my thoughts on this topic before on HN (like in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36650010)

In short.... The math curriculum my kids have experienced in California and Colorado is village idiot stupid.

Math course need to be based upon well written books... student need print copies of the book. The books need to have well written and designed lessons with numerous fully worked out examples, and need to use good print quality with an appropriate amount of limited color to the engage the reader. Books do not need to change every 2 years at the K-12 level... the books i used back in the late 80's, early 90's were fine... the math literally hasn't changed at all since then.

Students need to be encouraged to take written notes during class.

Students need a lot of consistent homework practice with gradual increase in concept complexity/difficulty (ranging from "plug & chug" to challenging word problems and physics/engineering/real-world examples) and proper spaced repetition.

A "proper" rate of increase in difficulty and the amount of spaced repetition is critical to optimize kids confidence in their mathematical capability and their enjoyment of the topic... if they think/realize they are actually good at math, the may enjoy and appreciate it more.

In both CA and CO the math classes:
- have no book, or an e-book which is dog shit bad.
- my kids were encourage just to listen and pay attention but not take notes.
- only had like 2-5 homework problems every other night.
- lesson plans seemed to make many illogical leaps in topics and subject matter and material difficulty... I'm especially looking at you, California.

Literally copying the Kumon math curriculum would be better.

I'm begin to believe that the degradation of US math education is a "long-game" plan of "nefarious actors" to rot the US's long term technical capability from within. Also considering how little teachers are paid, etc.
Newag stock price falling quite a bit after the post, is that the first Mastodon induced price correction?

https://g.co/kgs/WVku4C
For some reason this security setting was turned off on my account even though I don't remember turning it off and use sign in with Google in other places.

https://help.beeper.com/en_US/beeper-mini/beeper-mini-how-to...
I was pretty upset by this. It looks like it's still broken [1]. I stayed with the older version of Thunderbird for a while and recently upgraded by following their smartcard guide and it worked. I ran into some troubles that were resolved by installing a 32-bit version of Thunderbird. The issue was with GPGME, not clear to me whether it's a 64-bit library.

I got decryption and signing working with my Yubikey. Enigmail is still missed.

"Can I use an OpenPGP smartcard or a hardware token with Thunderbird 78?

Yes, we offer an optional mechanism. It requires that you install GnuPG and all required software yourself. Please refer to this document for more details: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards"

It just blows my mind they gimped a feature so bad and after so many years still havn't reached parity.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-how...
Spare your urethra and stop drinking that filth
A non-profit company is not a zero-revenue company. It's a company that reinvests all profits into its designated cause. A non-profit org with a billion-dollar revenue is a great non-profit org as it can finance the work on its cause really well.
Thanks! I'll have to read these. Seems like a lot of those conditions have been correlated with other attributes, such as lower income, etc. I wonder if working longer hours is really just a result of things like money problems causing the stress causing other issues.
I have no idea how software for trains is (or should be) created.

So I meant a regular code review you would do for anything else.

I can see two scenarios at play:

1. either it's "free for all" and someone (anyone?) can put arbitrary shady stuff in the code

2. or there's a process for adding shady stuff to the codebase (some "stakeholder" creates a ticket, someone creates a PR, and the it's reviewed, etc.)
I think that the problem is that cars are getting simpler and contain less precision engineering.

Making a ICE drive chain is very very difficult, there is a long supply chain required. This moat is drying out very very fast.
Is it non-reproducible? Also results which reproducibility can be measured and appears stable is perfectly good science. I dislike when people throw statements like that.
They tried with FirefoxOS almost a decade ago but couldn't find any hardware partners.
I don't know how to obtain a plausible number but Firefox is an x86 application and Safari is just a part of Apple's walled garden. Also I can not tell anything about snoop-phones because I do not use them.
Prague, Czech Republic

Pros:
Beautiful architecture, rich nightlife, in the center of Europe (less than 4 hours of driving to Vienna, Bratislava, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Leipzig, etc), good food (not the traditional Czech cuisine). The best beer in the world. Excellent public transport (all over the country). The salaries in IT are on the level of Germany, unless you’re a beginner. Almost everyone has a dog.

Cons:
Expensive rent, especially relative to the average income. The language is difficult to learn if you’re not Slavic. Prices in supermarkets are among the highest in Europe, but services are generally cheap. The dogs often forget to pick their poop up.
Poetic as this is, I always feel like if we can imagine it then it won't happen. The only constant is surprise, we can only predict these types of developments accidentally
Maybe start here: https://www.theregister.com/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_c...

While 10 years old, things haven't gotten better but worse. Seems like lots of projects besides the "core product" Wikipedia are being founded. Obviously people don't like that because they want the money to be used for preserving/building/extending Wikipedia.
voice integration in a browser for control and feedback would be great if you were blind
The AI is just automating something they could hire an army of humans to do though, twitch usually has ~80k streams running, so it would take a few thousand workers but there would be no privacy blockers.

They do have your permission to run it, as soon as you start live streaming yourself you are giving anyone with the internet permission to access that data.
why not? Pepsi is basically a marketing company as they're not exactly developing new space faring vehicles, or new flavors, even
True, Hiring a CEO is basically buying into an old boys network. It's like legalised corruption. With them you buy the goodwill of all of their buddies in other CEO positions.

However in this case it doesn't actually seem to be paying off.
While I have no reason to doubt your experience, please note that you're probably an outlier. One of the things I strongly believe that Extreme Programming got right is the max 40 hour work week. Some can easily do more than 40 hours and still function, some can do less but 40 hours seems like a happy average. Expecting more is unreasonable and won't lead to more productivity for most.

That's not to say that those who can should work the hours they'd like and see the benefits, but never expect others to be able to do the same, regardless of age and life situation.
Even worse, the vast majority of advertising consists of blatant attempts at mind control.
The install being slow is maddening. I used to have a stupidly overpowered Windows workstation I kept offline during analyses. When I would go to patch it, Windows patcher would only daintily sip available resources, and would take incredibly long to complete. I assume this was some directive to keep people from complaining about how much juice it takes to patch in the background, but if I manually click the button that says, “Patch Now”, that should mean engage Ludicrous Speed.
> But "Supporting" a browser doesn't really mean very much. As long as the browser is standards compliant and websites continue to build to the standard it will still work.

FTFY

"This website is best viewed in IE" was not just a misguided suggestion from the webmasters. It was a statement that the site may rely on nonstandard IE-specific features.

How confident are you that Apple and Google will never agree to add some matching non-standard "extension APIs" to Safari and Chrome?
Would you argue that automatic scalar-ism is also flawed, and the query

SELECT a FROM aa;

should have an explicit grouping, like

SELECT a FROM aa GROUP BY id;

?

After all, when you think about it, it's really not the aggregate functions that break expectations, it's the scalars. Of the four combinations of having or not having an explicit `GROUP BY` and having or not having an aggregate function, three of them have the unsurprising behavior of returning exactly one row per grouping.

-- aggregate function and group by - one single result per grouping
SELECT sum(a) FROM aa GROUP BY a; --or
SELECT sum(a) FROM aa GROUP BY ();

-- no aggregate function, but a group by - one single result per grouping
SELECT a FROM aa GROUP BY a;

-- just aggregate function, but no group by - one single result per (single, implicit) grouping
SELECT sum(a) FROM aa;

But then, when you have neither an aggregate function nor an explicit `GROUP BY`, it breaks expectations:

-- no aggregate function, no group by - one result row per row
-- in the source set, even though there should be only one big implicit group
SELECT a FROM aa;

Therefore, I propose that the next SQL standard should introduce a new `GROUP BY INDIVIDUAL ROW` keyword, that henceforth all "scalar" queries MUST use in order to have consistent behaviour with the rest of the language.
Tell that to the pitbull that bit the hell out of me
Top tool, will be really helpful to vizualize data, gz
Good thing the FBI isn't in the business of policing social acceptability.
Ah, haha thanks for the Hoggatah shutout :D

Yeah my self hosting story started in 2003 and involves moving all of those things to many different servers, etc. I had problems with hacking when I used WordPress, the server has been taken over 2 times. Once I stopped that those problems stopped too. And because I have only 1 person instances I don't get much attention of angry people.

The depricated PHP version is my biggest problem until now, I used a lib written in PHP 4 which are now incompatible with PHP 8 and I can't easily rewrite it to make it compatible. So this one is still running on PHP 7, but I will need to do something about it in the future. The best would be to export everything into static HTML but that's also not quite straight forward.
Beeper Mini Brings iMessage to Android with No Need for Apple ID Sign-In
"not exactly difficult"...

I'm not Jewish, but I feel like there's some sort of reason for them not wanting a list of who they and where they live to exist.
Hypotheticals be hypotheticals, but here we don't have a case of the lowest bidder screwing up maintenance of a potentially dangerous piece of infrastructure; instead, we have the incumbent breaking aforementioned hardware on purpose, and blaming it on the lowest bidder.

Honestly, I think China got this right. Business is business, but when you start screwing with critical infrastructure, a firing squad should be on the table. And in this case, at least months to years of prison.
I ran Mandarin M3 at home as a kid (also matching my local school library), so you're not alone ;)

I just checked and oh boy, I could spin it back up... https://www.mlasolutions.com/products/m3
Did you advocate for yourself? Doing good work is half the battle. The other half is "sales and marketing" i.e making sure that people are aware that you're a good worker.
Clickspring on YouTube has a whole series where he tries to recreate the antikythera mechanism from scans of the original. Great channel.
Why You Shouldn't Become a Data Scientist
Actually, free markets have a very efficient way of dealing with monopolies: it's called competition. Only when competition is restricted by governments (through regulations, certifications, patents and such) can a lasting monopoly be achieved.

> countless times in American history

Please provide some examples then. The most widely touted, Standard Oil, was already losing marked to its healthy competition before antitrust action even started:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Legacy_and_critic...
> Otherwise any random social media influencer could be included if they publish their content in various formats.

Maybe it's because I'm getting old, but... Why not?

I know that's an age old question in Wikipedia, but if people are happy to write and edit articles about their niche of interest... Let them do it, maybe they'll contribute even more to other topics.
Almost no public road driven at the speed limit would even come close to testing the cornering ability of a car mass produced in the last few decades.
"There’s also that part where they just cut off the hands of any fighting age males they came across for a while."

IIRC that was done in a single instance in order to try to pacify Gaul while Caesar was about to be away invading Britain.
The government should set or adopt standards, not serve them. And they can and should provide a reference implementation.

We could easily and reliably do forms on mainframes. This is not complicated. And de facto, every browser supports HTML 4 forms anyway, so that's a non-concern.

They already set standards for things like needing to support TLS 1.3 with specific cipher suites. There's no reason they can't say HTML 4 forms and links are required for browsers to work on their sites.
I used to think this in my 20s.

No, the CEO(and board) are completely responsible. That is the point of leadership, to move the boat before it hits the iceburg or at least have a way of dealing with it.

Firefox is buggy but heavily advertised(or astroturfed, I dont know) on social media. Everyone knows about firefox, we don't need the ad. We need firefox not to suck.
>that is literally not true lol. No other drug gives you cancer in various area of your body.

Uh, how many years of smoking or after how many years the cancer appears on average?

10? 20? 30?

Other drugs like cocaine/heroin will destroy your life way, way faster than that.
It might lead to a fault that appears more realistic - it'll go away for a bit in December before coming back again... if the engineers say the compressor's good but the computer fails it intermittently, that seems like a good point to get the manufacturer involved which is what they wanted to force
Any cursory googling of their finances would show you that they balooned and instead of using said finances to run the website they ask for more millions of dollars to sponsor a bunch of unrelated charities and hire a bunch of executives to manage such use of the funds.

I wish someone would hard-fork it already and stick to a promise of strictly sticking to the core job of operating wikipedia the website, with a small dedicated team.

Plus they don't need any more money, they have enough money to run it for a long long time already and if they keep doing a good job people will keep donating. I don't understand this model of "we need to ensure we survive forever as fast as possible by accumulating a billion dollar endowment". Nonprofits should have ~5-10 years runway max and keep getting donations if they keep doing a good job. I don't trust any organization forever. What incentive do they have to be useful and welcoming if they have a forever endowment?
Does that also work if Google again randomly decides I have to use a specific one of multiple MFA choices? Recently it forced me to dig out my old phone I hadn't been using for months and boot it just to confirm a popup because it simply wouldn't let me select a different method. I don't know what would have happened if I'd lost the phone instead of just buying a new one after support ended. It didn't even let me enter my printed out backup codes, which kind of defeats the purpose.

And most people aren't even using a free password manager, there's no chance they're going to buy and configure a Yubikey.
The big controversy in my house is that my Polish grandmother made pierogi with rolled edges and we ate them fried (the edges were my favorite part), but when I married a Polish woman who went to cooking school in Poland she insists that she's never heard of doing it that way and she does it the correct way. She'll now make a few with rolled edges for me, but most without.
Ask HN: travel planning app user discovery?
Hey everyone,

So, for context, I'm a young entrepreneur grappling with the challenges of refining my travel planning app and getting some first users. My initial assumptions about potential users fell flat due to not niching down enough, and I made the cardinal sin of not building a great first base of users to get a feedback loop going. I finished reading “The Mom Test” and did all the wrong things first. Build a product expecting people to come without real talks with lead users or a feedback loop for product feedback. Marketing barely exists too...

However, I'm determined to fix this by connecting with travelers facing real trip-planning issues. I aim to narrow down customer segmentation and determine where they align with my value proposition.

I could really use some advice from the HackerNews community. Where can I find travelers willing to discuss their trip-planning struggles? Cold DMs in Facebook groups haven't yielded much (maybe I’m doing them wrong?), so I'm on the lookout for more receptive spaces and ideas on talking to the right people.

Your suggestions could be a game-changer for me. Looking forward to your insights and would be grateful for the help!
I have no side in this fight, but I do love that my comment immediately led to a prime example of what I had in mind when I called X11 "A Thing" :)

Lovely writeup, thanks for the details this is very informative
Don’t know, as a shareholder I would be very happy with a capable CEO that is able to extract profits from a doomed product. As long as she’s bringing in more than she costs the ROI is positive.
In spite of the mounting surveillance resources afforded to them.
What's an aggregation per se? A SQL query is best thought of an arbitrary generator function. You can, using functions like UNNEST, end up emitting multiple row-tuples for each processed input row-tuple. An aggregation is just a generator function that happens to reduce over all the input rows and then emit one row-tuple when there's no more input. Query-planning engines do not special-case this. It's just a generator node like any other generator node.

Consider: using window functions, you can do partial aggregations over subsets of the input — without even necessarily partitioning the input (i.e. you can compute "running totals" and other wacky state-machine-like outputs.)
Doesn't make the bodies any less dead :D
Volumes have been written on the ballooning budgets of Wikimedia foundation, of which only a trivially small amount goes towards hosting costs. In mobile rn, but Google should get you plenty of results.
> The Bullet Cluster is a particular instance where we can actually "see" the dark matter flying around, in a way MOND couldn't hope to explain

This is not correct. In fact, LCDM can't even explain the Bullet Cluster [1]. The evidence is not so favourable to LCDM over MOND [2] when taken as a whole.

More recent observations on wide binary stars disfavour MOND more strongly, but the classic reasons you cite are not valid reasons.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0381

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06936

Edit: See for instance what Milgrom said about the Bullet Cluster back in 2006:

http://astroweb.case.edu/ssm/mond/moti_bullet.html
Yeah it's interesting. I wonder if it's done on purpose or if it has to do with the way bots/crawlers are counted
not quite, some advertisement is all about visibility, about knowing what's out there so that (in theory) you may proceed to purchase it
Oh, that's a close example I didn't think about at all. Maybe! Though I'm not sure what makes this subsidiary an inherently better structure?
I am pretty sure that MOND has been completely ruled out[0] given some recent evidence. And by more than 5 sigma.

[0]https://bigthink.com/hard-science/dark-matter-alternative-mo...
Is there something wrong with Mtn. Dew specifically or do you think all soda drinks are filth?
You seem to value integrity, are you aware that Brave browser replaced affiliate URLs with their own? So if you wanted to support someone and use their affiliate link they took the liberty to replace that. I wouldn't touch that spyware if I got paid.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531759, since that's a Show HN on the same topic and we usually give those precedence.

(Sorry, striking - it's on my list to implement a system to share the karma/credit for related submissions.)