skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, Cixin Liu's books are pretty good! Having your craft leave trails like that behind would be really bad in the context of those books, though.
So much of the web is commercial now, including social media which, whilst full of personal writing, would disappear the moment it no longer promises returns.

To that end, so much of the web has a limited product-lifecycle, and the purpose of the websites are not at all the same as the purpose of a book. I think the way people build websites reflects this commercial reality more than anything else. Could you self host an HTML file on your PC? Totally, and you'll likely always have a PC around so long as you care about websites, so the analogy of the bookshelf I feel is similar to this. But most websites are not books, they're more like storefronts of knowledge, and when the stores shut down we lose access to the knowledge they held.

I can say this with some anecdotal confidence, as my personal website is some HTML that I haven't maintained in years but still works perfectly, yet almost every piece of software I've written in my professional life is gone, in many cases so too has the company that asked me to make it.
Software developers tend to think there's something special about our field, something inherently different.

There isn't.

Building products is hard. Building complex products, like software tends to be, is incredibly hard.

If you ever want to read about how terrible pretty much everything is when it comes to design, read "The Design of Everyday Things". It's a classic for a reason. It shows how so many products that people rely on every day are just terribly designed, even something as simple as a door or a remote control.

Software isn't uniquely bad. It's just regular old bad. Incentives are, like in every field, to make money. Up to a certain level quality is hugely important, and after that level it isn't important (for making money).

I mean, the question isn't actually would you want this or that bug fixed or not. It's would you give up other pieces of software that are important to you, so that some bug that most likely doesn't affect you is fixed. Because that's the tradeoff. More quality = less products, because to a large extent it's the same workforce.

And btw, modern software is way better than most older software. Way more features, and largely more stable.
Yea, I am in the same boat I find diet sodas taste disgusting.
I didn't really understand the fun of using Arch until I watched a few episodes of the "monthly Arch install" on YouTube.

It is very useful seeing how the "pros" do things, which looks substantially easier than when I try to install Arch and end up with a mess only slightly better than in this article ;)

Edit: the channels name is "EF - Linux made simple".
Its only a mistake if you really hate it but stick with it. Otherwise, you learned some things, perhaps in an expensive and difficult way; and now you can go do different things and learn from them.

NFI about "homesteading" but I've lived out in the woods for a very long time, which has had tradeoffs and difficulties. For me "city life" was like wearing an inside out pincushion suit the whole time; irritations everywhere that never went away. Out here I can calm down and pay attention to things and be something other than a hyper-reactive rage monster all the time.

That's worth more than any of the inducements available in other lifestyles, to me.
Is it funny? I'm a Brit and I don't really get it. Maybe because my ancestors were German jewish and had to get the hell out. WW2 wasn't really about being envious of the Germans.
The beauty of federation is that it provides an opt-out. Take a look at Mastodon, for example (FWIW, I am not a user): yes, at the time the article was written the vast majority of folks were on three instances (I am curious what it is like today), but if anyone disagreed with the policies or performance of those instances, he would be free to move to another instance, or set up his own. By contrast, there is no other Twitter which Twitter federates with.

Likewise, a Gmail user is free to move to another email provider (there are large ones, unlikely to have deliverability issues), or run his own (a tricky enterprise, to be sure).

FWIW, I am concerned that democratic rule has its own failure modes, which need to be addressed when designing a system. Do 50.000001% of users really get to permaban another user? Are there any actions which require a higher threshold, or multiple votes over time, or which are permanently forbidden? The U.S. Constitution has the advantage of a Bill of Rights, whose status has so far prevented the outright abrogation of any of them, even if some of them have come under quite a bit of pressure (the First, the Second, the Ninth & Tenth leap immediately to my mind).

Just saying, 'the will of the majority controls' is a recipe for mob rule — which is exactly what 'democracy' means.
As long as you bother to pin the content of course, otherwise you have to hope that someone else does. But if you have to store the data yourself anyway, why not go even simpler and store the content in a folder on your hard drive?
Which is definitely the reason to do it. Probably fleshes out most of the cornercases possible to experience. Further, HDD sizes are huge so just calling the whole enchilada install a standard install class makes a kind of sense. Only need to worry about picking and choosing until the whole enchilada becomes small enough to not be worth the decision process to minimize.
Good point. I still struggle with myself not to eat the whole packet. I guess I've grown to enjoy the battle of wills and the sense of satisfaction of winning each time.
20+ min of medium/high heart rate (bicycle commute, or morning jog).

For the dark scandinavian mornings, I sometimes use 5 min in front of a cheap therapy lamp.
We need a return of dumb. From appliances to code. It’s so strange how this behavior has now become “elitist”.
Because it's not for helping you to find a job, it's for helping recruiters to find you.
I divide technical books in two categories:

- Those explaining a programming language, framework or application with a specific version. These books clearly have a lifespan related to the thing they are explaining and will often end up in second hand or wholesale shops.

- Books explaining principles. It doesn't matter if they are 2 or 20 years old since the things they are explaining don't really change.
I don't see a resolution bandwidth in the plot. How do you judge the noise floor without that?
Matomo has gotten a ton of traction in Sweden at least.
You weren’t expecting hard work?

I miss hard work. The need to go outside and get things done. My teenage self never would’ve thought I’d be 30 missing old rural Virginia and free lands, while sleeping in an overpriced brick enclosure near DC.
I am surprised no one ever gamified English exercises tailoring the learning experience on the basis of mistakes done by each individual user. You can identify clearly all your weakness, Grammarly fix the, why not building up exercises to fix them at its root?
There are two issues at stake:

* Should I be allowed to ruin my health with cigarettes?

* Should I be allowed to make money selling cigarettes?

Tobacco companies prefer that you ask the first question, but it's really the second question which is interesting. We may, if we wish, say yes to the first and still say hell no to the second.

It doesn't even have to mean national monopolies. We can allow microbreweries and cigar makers and cannabis greenhouses and what have you to flourish, but just aggressively restrict their rate of profit. So that if you get into those things, we know you're not doing it to get rich off others' suffering, because you accept that you'll only make a basic living off it (at best).

I for one would be totally OK with that, and I think that if the profit motive was successfully removed, things like alcohol consumption would drop like a stone, even if alcohol was cheap.
It depends on what you are trying to do. Grow all of your food? Go off-grid? Make it your full-time job (i.e. make money from farming)? The more you answer yes to above questions, the harder it will be. Especially the last one: it's very hard to make tech-levels amount of money farming.

I would advise cutting back and building up slowly. Stay on-grid (if possible), buy as much food from the grocery store as needed, keep your job (if possible). Then, if things get easier, slowly ramp up your self-sufficiency.
The thing about Wikipedia is that users have the right to fork it, per its license, and have historically used it (see Encyclopedia-Libre). It's at least potentially a federated system, in a way that other comparable sites are not. Interestingly, the same is true of Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow: its content is openly licensed, so in principle you could use it to seed your own Q&A site if you objected to how the original was being run.
Size is not the issue. Electric motors can be made very small and very powerful. The issue is efficiency and handling the torque. Such a motor is useless if its structure cannot handle the loads. Throw enough power into it and nearly any motor can break loose from its mounts and/or snap its drive shaft. Note too the coolant pipes. I suspect this motor cannot sustain such power for more than a minute or two. Small=light=low thermal mass=gets hot fast. As a general rule, electric parts become less efficient as they heat.
ta180m.exozy.me seem to hosted on a homelab as its being served from a spectrum IP address. and its seems only the IPv6 is down. Accessing the IPv4 address gives a nginx login prompt.

Will be interesting to read about the incident if the author is here.
Astronomers Suggest a Surprising New Way to Detect Alien Megastructures
It's a fairly popular trend now, doing exactly what OP said. It usually involves buying a few acres and trying to be self-sufficient. Of course there's a subreddit for it https://www.reddit.com/r/homestead/
It's never aliens.

Black hole accretion disks are my bet. Accretion disks are the most hot and violent places we know of. The more powerful the plasma dynamo, the larger the magnetic field lines will be. Think Van Allen belts but galactic scale.

Electrons move freely along magnetic field lines and they are very lightweight. Moving at near light speed along them isn't a unique phenomenon. Hell, every TV on the planet until 20 years ago used to make an electron beam.
I get grammerly ads on youtube constantly.
Origin of the Bluetooth Name
Learn a New Stack
You haven’t mentioned why you made the switch. That is potentially the most important factor regarding how to proceed.

For example, if you did it due to an ingrained sense of moral responsibility, your current feelings may be temporary and you’ll get through them if you stick to it or hang out with different friends which align closer to your values.

If you did it because it looked like a fun challenge but ended up being more than you can take, the solution may be to abandon the experiment.

Perhaps it’s a mix of both, in which case maybe you can cut back without doing a complete reversal or hire someone to help with the hardest parts.

You mentioned YouTube and Amazon, but not local people in similar situations. Is there no one geographically close to you, a neighbour with a similar setup, you could talk to?
That's an illusion. Wages rise in real terms (discounting inflation) when productivity grows. There's a whole body of economics observations and literature on that and we should not ignore it.

If you owe debt without inflation adjustment, that's a protection against inflation. But it requires reasonable amount of financial literacy to be smart and know exactly how and when to use debt as a hedge against inflation.
Fun stuff.

Reminds me of one former coworker, which didn't like me introducing FreeBSD. So he started installing all ports packages.. only to say the following morning: Look it's broken! ( disk was obviously full and this plot was irrational to people with some common sense ).
> More whitespace, cleaner

Yeah, only whitespace and only a minor of content sandwiched between the said white space. Even just two a bit longer than Reddit likes comments would be hidden at "click here". Maybe that would work on the mobile, but on mobile they nag for the app anyway and not on mobile I have a FullHD monitor which they treat as a iPhone 4 or somewhat similar.

/rant
Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy
A cause of America's labor shortage: Millions with long Covid
Better yet! Test the different tools for installing AUR. By installing all of them with each! Also, how much time do you have? Going to bet, it won't take too long before something breaks. Most of the AUR admins do a great job, however dependence issues can happen and compound quickly.

I know AUR package managers are bad juju. Still it sounds fun.
Just because you threw time/money at something in the past does not mean you should keeping throwing time/money at it:

* https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-sunk-cost-fallacy/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost

Decide whether you're getting any kind of "value" from what you're doing, and take a direction from there. What's done is done, and it shouldn't have any bearing on what to do next.
Very good read, detailed explanation.

To simplify even more, even buying any random coin would be entering a pyramid scheme.
> In contrast on Windows most games run as Admin

That's not true.

> or at some point ask for admin privileges.

Usually this is a UAC prompt so that the installer can deploy the game/app into Program Files. This isn't the fault of Windows and I'm fairly certain this could be avoided by the developer of the game/app.

> play your game without Windows having a hissy fit about Windows updates

You know you can defer updates and the nag? But then if you value your security then you'd install these updates (I lifted this from the start of your comment).

> without worrying that some bad patch from Microsoft will hose your entire setup

These are fairly rare, and personally never had it happen. I've hosed my Fedora install because the package manager really ballsed things up. But that was also a rare event.

I run both Windows and Linux and feel I'm in happily in control of both OS's.
Yes. If you have a Business plan for Workspace you can choose your data region to be in Europe (this is still not water tight but probably the best you can do if you want to use Google Workspace).
The traditional definition of homestead is an isolated farmhouse or ranch house. Typically refers to the residence on remote land for farming or ranching purposes. I'm not sure if it is the same reference in this context.
A lot of the time software is unreasonably reliable and resilient compared to how the world usually works. Just look at 99.99999999999999% durability for object storage. I am signifcantly more likely to die tommorow than lose a file.
Northflank – Simplifying application deployment to cloud platforms
Blockchain systems can only really be manipulated by controlling a true majority of their resources (a 51% attack). In this way, they can be said to enforce a quasi-democratic form of "voting" albeit in a way that still reflects real-world constraints on, e.g. resource use.
Random story - I met the chemist who worked at Searle and whose job it was to come up with a way to purify aspartame on an industrial scale.

Normally purifying things like pharmaceuticals can be challenging, but as long as impurities are under 0.5%, generally they are acceptable (some have lower limits).

But with aspartame it had to be much cleaner since small impurities would ruin the taste. So it had nothing to do with safety but more quality of the final product.

He banged his head against the wall until they came up with a process that consistently have high quality product as measured by taste.
As someone who grew up on a small farm I have absolutely no interest. It is hard work, all the time, for very little gain. Most small farms barely break even or lose money. You have to love the work. A lot of people do. It is not for me.

Now, do I enjoy nature and want to live away from the city? Yes, yes I do, but I don’t need to homestead to do that.
The hard truth is that farming/homesteading is difficult, dangerous work which is even more difficult if you’re doing it cut off from a community. You have to be doing it for your own satisfaction rather than anything else, as the glory days of homesteading were almost 150 years ago in America.

Cities work great for many people, there’s no denying that. The main question should be what works for you, rather than anything else.
If they made an electric vw bug I feel like we could make an electric Miata. It would be heavier yes but if we keep the weight close to the ground and centered it wouldn’t be that bad
>And what stopped Japan from achieving what Europe couldn't?

Why would you assume Japan would be different? They have most of the issues Europe has in the SW scene.
> One problem is that we've heard it's very hard to make friends, would you say that's true?

That's true in all of the Nordics but I believe specially more in Finland.

I'm a naturalised Swede and had to put a lot of effort into making friends the first couple of years here. Yes, making friends is much harder than in my original culture (Brazil) but there is also the counter-side to it on the quality of friendships you make that I believe it's worth to take into account.

Making friends here is really about bonding and creating deep connections with someone else, not just a cursory acquaintance to go out to bars and do things together. In that sense I do understand completely why people are generally more reserved into expanding their social circles, it takes a lot of effort and a genuine interest in each other to foster a friendship and locals/natives already come with their own social groups from just living here their whole lives.

Cracking into these social circles is definitely hard, you will need to find hobbies and activities where you can meet people around a shared interest and usually expand from there, you won't be making friends by simply going to bars, for example.

And that's also the isolating part of Nordic cultures, you keep social circles smaller because they are more meaningful but getting started into a meaningful relationship takes time and will make you feel lonely.

People are also wary of mixing/mingling social groups as they'll feel responsible for the experience the groups have (at least here in Sweden), it's uncommon for someone to invite their different social circles into the same gathering, except maybe for birthdays.

Overall I've adapted quite well and I'm very happy with the friends I made, it is more demanding but extremely rewarding.
> Not every company that wants to grow needs to do something original

Maybe they should? The world would look quite different if companies were forced to innovate and compete rather than merge and acquire.
don't they do work you can see?
I suspect it’s the tools, frameworks, and the way the majority of software developers are taught. And also the computers we develop on.

The tools and frameworks add bloat. One some level we do this because the complexity of what we’re dealing with gets in the way of the problem we’re trying to solve. We add a layer of abstraction to hide the details and the solution becomes tractable.

We were supposed to be able to have our cake and eat it too but it turns out that a lot of these abstractions aren’t free in terms of performances.

The other factor is that a lot of developer tooling is designed for developer convenience. This is nice when you want to try out an idea. But the prototype often becomes the product. It’s nicer to work with, perhaps easier to add features to it, but that trade off is still there: performance.

And we’re taught to feel guilty or told we’re doing it wrong if we show any concern about performance. I’ve seen developers accused of the dreaded, “premature optimization,” sin for making suggestions in PRs to avoid code that would introduce poor performance. Or for suggesting anything performance related.

Lastly a lot of developers get to work on the latest and greatest hardware. They probably don’t spend any time or effort testing on older or low-tier hardware. This leads to designs that are “good enough” on these machines but will be slow as molasses on anything an average consumer would use. There’s a highly myopic view about platforms and is often not even considered.
IMO the problem is that you need a mainstream way to store the keys that even your grandmother could use. Mainstream can’t be expected to manage their GPG keys and create, append and verify signatures manually.

Though maybe in the move to the password less future with WebAuthn integrated into operating systems this may become possible.
There might even been a decent exit plan...

I'm sure there's many people out there ready to jump onto the homesteading wagon and pick up where this person left off. That is of course if they haven't already done so much that there's nothing interesting left to do.
RBW is fixed at 1.75MHz on the HackRF. But it's the measurement setup as a whole (that is the measurement receiver). The noise floor of this measurement is represented by the visible noise floor at -70dBm. That's a combination of a number of factors. Plus the HackRF has poor dynamic range and only 8 bits sampling which is quite terrible.
> I can't help feel frustrated when I watch my friends in the city enjoy all of

> the comforts it offers and seemingly pull away from me both financially and

> socially

If you don't find total value greater than your total losses in the situation, the solution is evident. Make a list, do the math. Revisit it periodically.
If they are from accretion disks then it would make sense. The average velocity of matter in the milky way is rotational, so most black holes should also have rotating dragged frames in the galactic plane as matter from different altitudes are accreted.
I'm not necessarily "obsessed" with Quality, but I have learned that Quality today, means less time spent, scooping up kitty litter, tomorrow.

I also worked for a corporation (Japanese) that is pretty much synonymous with "Quality." It was a religion, there.

In most American companies, the running joke has always been, that if you have "Quality" in your job title, your career is over.

At this company, it meant that you were a high priest.
I agree with you, you can certainly do it, but whatever you do is not the standard that every language talks, because that standard is C :).

I can add all the metadata comments I want to my C header saying that the int I return from foo() is an error code, but I'm not going to get Java, C#, Haskell, COBOL, and so on to agree on that new metadata, specially not when each of them would probably come up their own solution.

That C became a standard glue that everyone agrees on was a miracle. I can't think of many other standards that pulled that off. It's not happening again. Hence any improvement to C, and C specifically, benefits everyone. Adding extra crap outside the standard does not accomplish the same purpose.

I've actually thought of defining such a thing before, but I'd just be reimplementing SWIG, and of course the problem with SWIG is that they have to make all the infrastructure to support the different languages, it isn't the language developers themselves developing the interface (pinvoke, jni, etc.)
For those of us unfamiliar, how long until stuff comes out of experimental?
Adversarial Wordle is great. More difficult than Wordle but same old game. Evil Wordle is another one worth looking at.
While I can agree that it is several order magnitude higher in Mexico. That does not change my point. Also the links from Wikipedia are statistics on a national level, so I am not cherry picking data. Let's remind of what my point is: it is bad in Mexico, AND it is bad in the United States.
It is a lot more fun trying to see how many you can uninstall before it really breaks and how. Well mainly tried on Ubuntu. Best done from a separate TTY and watch the main X user window.