skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar. I built “out in the county” and first thing I did was get chickens and make a garden. I didn’t plan on a full farm, but had a picture of raising a few chickens and things for food. The chickens all got sick, were very gross, needed wormer and finally raccoons and possums killed them, despite my best attempt at an enclosed coup. Fun fact- raccoons will just rip off a chickens head and leave it. I did a spreadsheet and each egg cost about 20$

The garden has fared a little better. I’ve lost crops to squash borers and bad blight. I’ve gotten a few things off of it. But not nearly what I’ve spent in dirt, amendments, plants etc.

What I’ve decided is that there is an economy of scale to these things. For all its flaws, factory farming is efficient. Just like factories cranking out widgets are more efficient than a guy carving widgets by hand one by one.

It may be that after several years I get more efficient. Im trying more from seed and seeing what amendments work. But for me, I now garden for fun. I enjoy digging in the dirt and growing things I can eat. It’s a hobby and not something I think makes sense for financial or even environmental reasons.
Rent seeking intensifies.
Yeah, other EV and hybrid motors are similarly impressively small for their power output.
Parsing/reading error of the day:

> my yard measures 8m

You use a very long unit of measure.
Yes and: I removed the curtains in my east facing bedroom. To better wake up with the dawn. Weirdly, once established, my self-wake time mostly carried over to winter.
They still do since they're a subsidiary/related.

Microsoft tried to get around that by not hosting in the EU but having a european trustee do it for them.

That got us the CLOUD act
Just make sure you're understanding charts like this: https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

Maybe we are due for a correction - but there are reasons why housing went up so much the last few years. One is correction from the bust after 08, another is because people drastically changed their lives in response to the pandemic.

It is not super easy to get a loan. It isn't going to be like 08.
> without considering the direct consequences of these actions

And the best example of that in Germany is Hambacher Forst. Return to coal is a direct result of moving away from nuclear. Nuts.
If you are building multi-tenant backend for i.e. SaaS app and you want to provide better isolation between your tenants (than relying on hardening, security/pen testing of your own code, or want to allow user/3rd party code to execute on your BE)
Nucler power is just too risky of an investment. You can set up a solar park in weeks, nothing compared to the decades of lobbying, nimby-backlash, getting the planning permissions, financial
risks and pouring billions into the nuclear plant. And you still need massive tax cuts and securities from the tax payers for it to be profitable, not to mention the government to help you out if the darn thing goes pop. A d Murphy know a nuclear power plant is one of the most complex machines we humans can built.

Why would you do that as an energy company. Ask Tepco if they are happy. They aren't. The only countries that still build nuclear are the ones that massively promote it for political reasons and it's often countries with an or wanting to have an arsenal of atomic weapons, go figure. Nuclear is a dead horse unless.
There is a chance that it won't be commercially viable. See e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_0VEmN7Bg8
Dude I am talking about Visual Studio 6.0, 25 years ago !
I think ramping up usage of gas is a bad policy. Even taking a little bit longer, but jumping from coal to renewables make more sense than using gas as bridge fuel.

We should either go nuclear or renewables with storage. There are still some good spots for hydro-storage as well as batteries are getting cheaper each year.
The problem is simple. For decades, Russia was supplying natural gas reliably and for a reasonable price. Generating electricity with natural gas is trivial.

So shutting down old nuclear power and replacing it with wind/solar backed up by gas was not a crazy idea.

Was is a crazy idea is then letting 'the free market' take care of the gas supply.

Where is gets more complex, natural gas is not just used to generate electricity, but also to provide heat for lots of homes. Keep old nuclear power plants running doesn't do anything for keeping people warm.

In short, Europe has a natural gas problem, not so much a nuclear power problem.
My Wordpress hobby blog is 12 years old and is still using the same theme as day one. A few years back my favicon suddenly stopped working. I called Wordpress and they said my theme was deprecated and to get the favicon back, I’d have to choose a new theme… but once I did, I could never revert back to the old one.

My blog has thousands of short form posts and I very much like how they are presented. I just left it the way it was. I sincerely hope they never make me try to switch, but realistically I have to assume they eventually will.
It's not about Google or Facebook.

It is about USA politicians and USA laws that allow USA to do anything with our data as if we were terrorists.

The "Privacy Shield" was established by politicians twice already and dismantled twice by EU courts.

The initiative to strike down privacy shield and enforce ban is a result of civil society.

https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-...

> 2020 CJEU ruling hits the real world. In July 2020, the CJEU has issued its groundbreaking "Schrems II" ruling, holding that a transfer to US providers that fall under FISA 702 and EO 12.333 violate the rules on international data transfers in the GDPR. The CJEU consequently annulled the transfer deal "Privacy Shield", after annulling the previous deal "Safe Harbor" in 2015. While this sent shock waves through the tech industry, US providers and EU data exporters have largely ignored the case. Just like Microsoft, Facebook or Amazon, Google has relied on so-called "Standard Contract Clauses" to continue data transfers and calm its European business partners.

> Max Schrems, honorary chair of noyb.eu: "Instead of actually adapting services to be GDPR compliant, US companies have tried to simply add some text to their privacy policies and ignore the Court of Justice. Many EU companies have followed the lead instead of switching to legal options."
> I was wondering what Nodes stance is on the seemingly increasing gap between the NodeJS and browser implementations of the JavaScript engine. It's still very common to see Node modules that use require()...

"Seemingly increasing gap" - how did you come to that conclusion? If anything the gap has reduced since the availability of ES modules. I see more and more libraries preferring ES modules, but ultimately that's up to the library developers.
One issue with device virtualization is that the required hardware features are often locked out in non enterprise-grade hardware (although they can sometime be unlocked, for example: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock).
At least in the US, there have always been two places where freedom of expression is taken to its most extreme: libraries and universities.

Libraries tend to take the view that even bad and hateful ideas are worth preserving simply to record how bad they are. The idea should live on in its horrific badness, an example to all of the idiocy of humanity. In my experience, you'll never meet anyone as dedicated to privacy and openness as a librarian.

Universities take the view that every idea should be up for debate. It's the only way, the argument goes, to suss out the bad ideas and to harden good ideas against poor arguments. After all, if your idea is right then it should not be such a burden to examine it. The best ideas are those that survive the strictest scrutiny, so all ideas should be subject to it.

In both cases, the ideal should trump the social norms of avoiding certain topics due to social pressure or how offensive they are. Not studying history, medicine, or science due to societal norms is a questionable choice on the academic search for truth, and institutions of learning and knowledge should be dedicated to that search for truth.

Both these institutions, then, tend towards the philosophical ideal of free expression, not the legal reality of protected speech. When they say "freedom of expression," they're more interested in John Stuart Mill than the Constitution. Places of ideals judge themselves by ideals.

It's one reason people get annoyed when there are those stories about professors expressing bad ideas and asking students to think about them critically, and students respond by attacking the professor or asking for their removal. Bad ideas are great practice for learning critical thinking skills.

That said, I'm sure there are cases where the professors are sanctimonious jerks, too.
>The Reg Day porn (particularly Deep Throat, but many)

Today? Clearly not.

But you don't need to fast forward that far. They were discontinued in I think 1980 or 1981 when things went from "we don't think you should do this" to "this is no longer a polite request."
sorry if this is a stupid question, but how do I try this out? I ran node with the experimental flag on a file that calls fetch:

node server.js --experimental-fetch

Got 'fetch is not defined' reference error.
Walkability? Lol that doesn’t exist in 99% of the country
Wind generally can't provide base load due to its sporadic nature. They really aren't substitutes until we get cheap energy storage
First, this is awesome and congratulations! Second this sounds like a lot of work! Can you comment why was it so hard to add fetch to node, yet packages like “node-fetch” have existed for some time and seem to implement fetch rather easily? Only asking from a curiosity perspective.
Sadly that won't change as long as the red herring "BUT CHERNOBYL BLEW UP!" still works in public opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...
The person you're replying to didn't mention anything about the useful lifetime of technical books specifically. URLs appear in e.g. footnotes and bibliographies of plenty of non-technical works.
> I am of course talking about the meat you and I eat.

Are you? How do you know what meat I eat? For example, I don't live in the US and I don't eat beef (I find it tasteless and I prefer mutton which is also traditional to my local cuisine). As far as I can tell, the animals I eat aren't given multivitamins and I don't even understand why that would be necessary.

I think you're generalising from your experience with meat in your country to the rest of the world without really being very well aware of what goes on in the rest of the world: how people eat and how they raise their animals. Perhaps that's something to think about before talking of what "we" do.

There is a lot of planet Earth outside the place you live, you know?
Much of the reason nuclear got more expensive is that there's been such a big dip in construction. Lessons are having to be relearned and we're paying for it. That and so many politicians and contractors getting away with being leeches whilst dragging out projects in some countries. Comparisons of construction projects of the same design in china vs europe would make one cry.

Also much of the price reduction for renewables are in things like solar which has other issues like it's shorter lifespan paired with it's recycling being basically a joke/scam.

Additionally if you throw a solar panel or windmill in the trash before it's proper and well done the cost of it's energy in the calculation goes up just the same.
While there have been malicious packages found in the AUR before[0], I haven't heard of a cryptominer sneaking in... yet.

One was found in the Ubuntu Snap store at one point though[1]

[0]:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-found...

[1]:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/malicious-packag...
The homesteading movement is about the very obvious civilization problem that's about to hit.

https://www.cargill.com/story/the-worlds-farmers-are-aging-r...

Nobody wants to be a farmer anymore because of government policies that not only attack farmers, but also spread misinformation against farming.

In the near future, maybe 3-5 years we're going to be forced to spend money as taxpayers to create farmers. The problem is... we've done this before in other industries and it made things worse. There's a 0% chance this will work for farming.

This is set in stone just from a country average. The number of boomer retirees cannot be displaced with workers. Afterall child labour laws etc. Which means we've known about this worker shortage for ~15 years now.

Germany(-4%), Russia(-5%), and South Korea(-6%) are already impacted by this worker shortage. Canada(3%) and Japan(3%) are right on the cusp of starting the problem. The USA, UK, Italy, Spain, France will be a little bit more.

If we do nothing, Germany will be -23%, Russia will be -24%, Canada -11%, South Korea -26%. USA is projected to basically just stave off worker shortage.

You might ask, 'but isnt that happening now' LOL no, not even close. What we need to do, and what Canada is doing. We are basically letting in any immigrants at all. ~400,000 per year. We have a province, PEI which has 140,000 people. We are bringing in multiple provinces worth of people every year to help stave off the worker shortage.

So you know what the homesteading movement is about? It's about creating farmers. You were manipulated.

My recommendation, figure out how to make it easy/automated. Vertical farming, aquaponics, whatever.
HN is generally so incredibly uninformed on this topic.
Something I've noticed among the "successful" youtube homesteaders is that they almost all invariably have property "in the city" that they rent out (generally unseen, usually unspoken, and always off camera) for significant passive income and treat homesteading like a virtuous hobby. Many of them also have side hustles like giving paid talks on homesteading, renting out "farm experiences", or offering classes on various farming skills etc.

Farmlife is hard as hell and successful farms find ways of leveraging what they grow into hired cheap labor and other efficiencies that takes much of the burden off of the owners. In the case of the popular homesteaders, they don't like to show this much as it takes away from the idyllic lifestyle they are literally making money pushing -- where tilling a field, cutting back brush, or fixing a field drain are 10 second activity clips.

If you want to farm, just go farm, but the homesteading trend in my opinion has smells of a kind of grassroots pyramid scheme where the only way to be successful at it is to bring other people into it.
Perhaps these strings pertain to a warp drive super highway
I guess lab safety wasn't what it is now. Serendipitous discovery, but it could've gone much worse.
Brits will have to concede to the French on that one. A French poncelet is 100kg raised one meter in one second, ~980W.
Rain water will always be cheaper than tap water.
-Except the 'remote' part, this is basically what I've done - I work for an engineering company 2.5 miles from home, then tend to the land with my father-in-law on weekends (and evenings if something comes up!)

We grow some fruit and veggies, tinker with the property, trying to improve a little here and there, leaving it in a slightly better state for the next generation (We live here as my wife's family has been living here quite literally since the dark ages; when Columbus wore diapers, my wife's ancestors had already tilled this plot of land for at least a hundred years)

I'd go nuts if it was all I did, though - farming is lonely, hard work. I'd much rather do engineering. Different strokes, &c.
If democratic countries build more nuclear power plants, then won't that encourage less democratic countries to also build nuclear power plants, and then eventually nuclear weapons?

"We're not making nuclear weapons, only nuclear power plants" is what countries like Iran say. And many other countries would like them to stop.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, just giving a wider perspective.
My 2012 Volkswagen is getting up in years, but I love it. Manual transmission, no screens, everything is easily adjusted by the driver via tactile controls. I'm loathe to get a new car because it's nearly impossible to find a recent model car without large screens.
As for electric cars forget about it. I would love a "dumb" electric car. No screens, no driver assist, no GPS navigation; just a simple vehicle with an electric drive train. But short of doing an electric conversion on an old car I'm probably out of luck.
> Good teachers and good nannies aren't easier to replace than good carpenters or construction workers. But since many men who are in charge of setting salaries don't understand that they aren't as well paid.

I'm not sure teachers and nannies are good examples. Public school teachers are largely unionized which would eliminate differences in pay between men and women. And many nannies are effectively small business people who set their own rates.
> Are the incentives given to developers so at odd with app quality?

Yes.

To expand, as others have said QA is a cost centre, and they often reported things it wasn't clear that users would actually view as a problem.

By cutting that out you get two theoretical benefits:

1. The people actually using your software will be the ones telling you where the problems are. This helps you prioritize work.

2. You don't spend as much money on QA people or dev time on fixes, which means more on feature work.

Maybe a not so obvious side effect of agile development is that it sort of reorganized software development into feature-focused development, meaning developers' bonuses at a lot of companies are often tied to the amount of new features they implement, and there's almost no focus on maintenance or fixes.

The same thing happens in politics: The incentive is on shiny new things, rather than maintaining the old things everyone uses constantly and desperately need the repairs. It isn't until bridges start literally falling down that tunes change on this.

Basically, if your performance is measured by how many new features you're able to deliver on time, to timelines set by a manager or executive who also has a bonus tied to how many new features or products their teams were able to deliver in a quarter, you're not going to think about QA at all if you can help it.
In the US, thanks to the first Amendment and its interpretation by SCOTUS, what is legal is very broad.

Thats why elites have outsourced the censorship to private entities. Ironically most universities, since they are public, violate the law when they deplatform someone they don't like and have lost numerous court cases.

Of course they keep doing it because litigation is an insignificant cost for rich non-profits, theres no personal risk for the administration and it makes them feel virtuous.
WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser
> if most of their energy is wasted to mine cryptocurrencies

This is not ahppening at all, so not sure why you mention completely absurd scenarios.
The requirements are not limited to "understand[ing] the salient DEI issues" in an abstract, neutral sense; going by the scoring rubric, they're explicitly demanding a statement of ideological conformity-- as well as a personal commitment to an especially divisive, controversial, dubiously-effective approach to mitigating DEI challenges-- that goes further than what was previously "expected of all faculty". That's what makes it not OK.
I think what raised these above other simple shareable examples though is the low cost of engagement. No login, No signup, No Install. Just load page, and sharing was via the built in clipboard. Starting was essentially 0 cost. Sharing was 0 cost. Getting your friends or family to start was incredibly easy.
Consider this: Hambacher Forst and return to brown coal in Germany is a direct effect of moving away from nuclear. That would be a great background to the total CO2 math.
When XP came out I remember many people vehemently staying on Windows 2000 since Windows XP just added a bunch of "fisher price bloat". It wasn't until some service pack (SP2?) that people upgraded.
That you don't buy it doesn't mean it's not true.

ITER has horrific power density, some 400x worse than the reactor vessel in a fission power plant. Given that the non-nuclear part of the a fission and DT fusion plant will be similar, making the reactor itself much larger and much more complex, and therefore much more expensive, cannot be a win. The less experimental follow-ons to ITER (PROTO, DEMO) are still massively too large.

This generic problem with DT fusion reactors has been known since at least the 1980s.
Almost nothing human technology does is "CO2 Neutral".

The question isn't CO2 neutrality, but "How much worse is the alternative". And when the alternative is to burn Coal, Oil and Gas, Nuclear power wins by a landslide.

Secondly:

Fossil Fuels have to be mined, transported and stored as well. The components of Wind and Solar energy farms have to be constructed from resources which have to be mined and processed. Power plants, be they coal, nuclear, solar, whatever, need to be constructed and maintained.
Someone had to link this, guess I’ll go ahead. https://xkcd.com/2055/
“In 1996, three industry leaders, Intel, Ericsson, and Nokia, met“

So Nordicsemi really had nothing to do with it? The world felt more consistent before I read that sentence.
An interesting point about the logo, and a test of Unicode:

"The Bluetooth logo is a bind rune merging the Younger Futhark runes (Hagall) (ᚼ) and (Bjarkan) (ᛒ), Harald’s initials."
I work on a website that has been around in some form or other for nearly 22 years. In that time it has undergone about 7 major revisions. The last revision was about 5 years ago. But we are still finding bugs and the site requires two of us to work on maintaining it. The site is interesting in that it is far from being our core business site, yet is useful enough that the company will probably keep it around until after I’m retired. There is always work that needs to be done and we have a large backlog list of things that we need to do to keep it running. Our biggest issue right now is the site is running on a cluster of 2008 Windows servers and we want to move it onto AWS EC2 Linux servers. We’ve been trying to get to this work for years, but there is always something else that needs doing that has higher priority.
Adding 8k lines is hardly a small change.
Windows Requires a Minimum of 8 Hours Online to Update Successfully
The commit adds undici (another Node.js project at https://github.com/nodejs/undici ) as a dependency and exposes its `fetch` - the code changes you see are probably just adding a flag :)

> I just wonder how come features like this that kind of seems obvious to include in the ecosystem takes quite some time to land?

I answered that below (check it out) but note how expensive adding a bad API is vs. asking people for one more `npm install` :) There is more discussion in https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/19393 and in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tn_-0S_FG_sla81wFohi8Sc8... a discussion from 2018 we had on it