skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think hackernews is the wrong audience to ask this question. Reading all the comments I didn’t see any other “homesteaders” or those that had tried it. You might try looking into the “back to the land” movements from the 70s. They reduced the soul crushing labor, kept socializing, and saved money by setting up communes.

However overall, it seems like your current situation is not meeting your expectations financially and socially. If you write down what you expected and what you got, maybe you can see where your assumptions were invalid and can decide to adjust your plan from there.
Not him, but the wire goes up into the ceiling plastic and around the side, under the plastic, and only comes out around the cigarette lighter. The "back" camera is usually built into the same unit. The advantage over what he is describing is that people often break into cars to steal the more visible (non-mirror) cameras.
No, you're not.
I think the OP got carried away.
Few years back everything new with at least minimal social touch was "New Social Network"
I really like Bluetooth.

I just wish it would "just work". My bluetooth devices (high end) don't always connect properly and I have to disconnect them and reconnect them.

It's a minor inconvenience I know, but after 23 years I'd have hoped that those oddities would have been rounded out.
I really don’t mind all the commuter cars going electric. It just frees up more spare parts for my race car, and potentially, more race cars if the mood strikes me.

The sooner we can get the Walmart warriors into adult Power Wheels the better.
It is still being built and they have a very good deal that means every house hold in the UK will be paying over the odds to give it guaranteed profits for decades to come.
So what is the current state of affairs with nuclear on CO2 neutrality? Last I heard, in its life time it is not CO2 neutral due to mining and storing the fuel. Are these solved problems?
Reducing the amount of meat we eat does not "stop emissions". It reduces emissions- but not enough to stop climate change.

Climate change can only be stopped (stopped from getting worse, that is) by eliminating or drastically reducing the amount of fossil fuels we burn. That is because 3/4s of greenhouse gas emissions come from burning fossil fuels and only a much smaller amount comes from raising animals for meat, and then not even all animals that we reais for meat are significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, only ruminants are.

I find it shocking that, in order to promote the animal rights agenda, the indisputable fact that anthropogenic climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels is sidelined and the weight is placed on meat production. That is dangerous propaganda and if you care about the climate you should not promote it.
A web app to generate valid QR codes with readable images
I had left an almost full case of Diet Pepsi at work went we were sent home for COVID. Over a year later when allowed back I opened up the work fridge and grabbed a can. Due to masking and still being quite nervous about the virus I basically slammed it so I could re-mask faster. Big mistake, it was awful.

Thanks for explaining why!
Mostly. But "otherwise directly incompatible with the functioning of the Institute" could be construed to be anything.
Why is this a bad thing? Part of a faculty’s job is to do community service and to manage a diverse classroom. Faculty who have a good handle on the issues that arise through teaching such a diverse classroom are better equipped to handle the job. It’s no different than judging them based on the their research or teaching experience, which are also part of the job. If an applicant doesn’t understand the salient DEI issues, they are literally unqualified.
The waters can be muddied when it comes to perception of reality. This is particularly true when it comes to reading about areas we are not experts in. Take your last example that sqrt(9) = 3.

If one takes a different branch of “square root” then sqrt(9) would be -3. This is assuming we are working in the field of real numbers. If we instead consider finite fields then things quickly get more interesting. Some finite fields contain square roots of 2 for instance.

A person not sufficiently well versed in mathematics might not have the insight or knowledge to say, “well, when talking about sqrt as a function from the reals to the reals that symbol always refers to the nonnegative root.” It’s easy to confuse people and it’s easy to do it at scale these days. Civilization is not prepared for this era of cheap, easy disinformation at scale.
Just to clarify that I didn't mean all work was done... more that the existing homestead footprint leaves nothing of interest left to do as far as homesteading goes.

But still, it's an important point to drive home to anyone thinking of doing homesteading or farming... you're right, the work is never done, and it's often really hard work.

Might be better to go off and work on a farm or homestead to see what you're in for before committing your life to it.
Crypto mining needs cheap energy, and household and nuclear electricity is anything but.

If anything, it helps suppliers monetize the load which would otherwise be wasted, like unexpected peaks in solar or wind production.

IF it happened that crypto mining drives electricity prices up, the economy would reach a new balance with mining included.

In any case, crypto mining pays carbon tax as any other industry. If I get sound money in exchange, I agree to pay the transaction fees, which will in turn offset those expenses.
Not modern. Greenpeace was founded 50 years ago with an anti-nuclear agenda. They call themselves "green" because a wolf wouldn't dress up as a wolf, but rather a sheep.
5 years ago they told me I could write multi threaded web applications using C, C++ (or Rust).

Then they realized that web assembly could solve world peace and got to work on that.

Today I am still unable to create a div from a wasm compiled C application.

- yes, yes, I know interface types are cool and yes proposals take a while but please, I just want to write better web apps.

Given wasm will need to be imported as a script src and have a robust threading model before the dream of web applications competing with native applications for performance, I suspect I won't see it usable in my lifetime
"content" perhaps doesn't include metadata
I guess you already know that if those announcements don't include an earth shattering factorization record it's because they probably didn't achieve anything worth noting.
That is a good middle ground, but be ready to drive for SO MUCH more of your life. I grew up this way, and now, live in a city, where I'm engrossed in my whole life, except my job is 30 minutes away, out into the country.
1. You'll be shocked how much planning it takes to accomplish any little task. You'll need to plan days or weeks in advance in order to not forget to get little items that will keep your progress going. And the planning ahead and covering contingencies also gets expensive.
2. As much as it makes sense, it will be also somewhat exhausting to work a whole day, and then have to make 3 stops in town for provisions before getting to go home. Keep that in mind too.
3. Cheers! Weigh these cons, and if they're not bigger than your pros, then find joy in what you've picked. Make some of driving prayer time. Buy a jeep to love time on the road. Gain confidence and self appreciation for the planning and consciousness you're capable of when you're calculating and covering contingences. Nothing is perfect, only good.
> The other possibility is that you are re-romanticizing city life. Grass is always greener. Perhaps an extended vacation of a month or two back in the city will give you fresh perspective or the certainty you need.

Like you alluded to, we tend to romanticize what we don't have, but I think the mistake is in attaching too much existential meaning to it, like we might get it wrong and fail to be happy. If you do it earnestly, with intentionality, it'll never be a period of failure if you end up changing your mind. Maybe you eventually find that an occasional trip to the city is all you need to satisfy the city dweller inside you. Or maybe a retreat every year and regular hiking is enough nature to calm the soul.

I can yearn for nature and crave a coffee in the city center all in the same day, I think that's pretty normal. While travelling and deeply immersed in another country, I'll get pangs for home, it doesn't mean I need to get on the first plane home but it doesn't mean I hate travelling either.

There is a bit of a false dichotomy going here anyway, there is a broad range between city life and homesteading, maybe just re-gearing to be somewhere inbetween is a good compromise.
This makes sense now. We must not use kW in the US because we have horses but we don’t have any 2500W hairdryers!
>> Typically, the real evaluation is the market

Last years experience tell us that the perception on Media is the driving factor not the market. No-one is waiting for market effects to be visible. They are just reacting to anything that makes enough noise.
It has a pathetic amount of transactions.

If it's adopted to any extent it will need a lot more than that.
I been naming the files with .mjs file extension which allows import keyword and top level await. No special flags needed in the latest version. I use JS not TS.
A strong fingerprinting signal in itself.
How do you do both?
I don't get the random hate for Visual Studio Code on HN, it runs perfectly fine and is super fast. Are there genuinely people who think the 1 second it takes for VSC to load is too slow compared to the 0.75s it takes Sublime to load? (Made up numbers)

Unless you meant Visual Studio, but that wouldn't be a fair example at all.
The most effective form of lying is lying by omission. It's harder to detect, easier to defend as just ignorance, and is perhaps more effective than outright false claims.
Here's an undeniable fact: WTC7 wasn't hit by a plane, but collapsed at free-fall speed anyway.

Here's another fact: Weapons inspector David Kelly was found dead in a field with his wrists cut, days after openly expressing fear for his life based on his refusal to lie for empire.

Try asking people how they feel about these (crucially important) facts: the vast majority will ask you what WTC7 is, and who David Kelly is.
I would say equivocate.
This is similar to how I've been living on my homestead for the last 8 years, and I'm enjoying myself.
One can only wonder how much thought and sophistication goes into maintaining this hack.
From my aged perspective, this is reaping the "green benefit" from the 70s and 80s, when there were world wide activists campaigning against nuclear power for "reasons" (largely the Cold War). If you think green activists are something new, it's because you're "young".

We're reaping what we sowed back then: the "brainwashing" of the public that unquestioningly accept that nuclear power is 'bad' and tightly linked to nuclear weapons and death.

Despite the fact that nuclear power stations do not have to produce "weapons grade" plutonium/whatever and, I'll repeat this until I'm blue in the face, has been responsible for smallest number of deaths of any form of energy generation and produce the lowest amount of CO2 (i.e. zero, other than construction). It's entirely likely more people die in a day world wide from fossil fuel pollution and production than have ever died from nuclear accidents.

> The trouble, as ever, is time. “Any investment decisions you make now aren’t going to come to fruition until the 2030s,” said Osbaldstone, the research director at Wood Mackenzie. “Nuclear isn’t an answer to the current energy crisis.”

As the saying goes "the best time to build X was yesterday".

Careful what you wish for. The millions of tons of CO2 we could have avoided emitting in Europe...

> “Nuclear isn’t an answer to the current energy crisis.”

Sorry, but to use an old quote, nuclear is the worst solution to the current energy crisis, apart from all the others.
There seems to be separate things at stake here,
though they are not independent.
(1) the amount of and 'pleasantness' of the work involved.
(2) the basic social consequences.
(3) the 'joneses' social consequences.
(4) what originally, and what still, motivates you about it.
(5) what the alternatives are.

(1) is for you to judge. If you find the amount of work is not rewarding, then you are the source of truth on that.
(2) is whether or not you can partake in a social collective of likeminded people doing something similar.
If your homestead is isolated, I empathize with this being unfortunate. In my own country, there are rustic collectives (think small villages) that have a great community about being self-sufficient.
(3) is a personal thing. Personally, I couldn't care less; part of the appeal is refusing the 'keep up with joneses' threadmill.
(4) is the core.. do you still trust your basis for making the choice, and with what you have experienced now, can you find a valid basis to continue on.
(5) This "FOMO" bit is split between (2) and (3). The 3-part, you can live without. But if it really is more your (2) - your basic social needs - then of course it's not negotiable.

To sum it up, you need 'your fair share' of a social existence, but I question whether you need the joneses-part of it.

I have in my basement between 30 and 40 mechanical keyboards,
and the last 4 or 5 months, I've dreaded ordering anymore, because how many keyboards does a human really need..
Are you missing the basic social community we all crave, or that they are caught up in their modern-forever-busy-for-no-reason lives..
My last visit to China in 2019 felt like stepping into the future: You can do anything using apps, even buy a bottle of soda at a vending machine or pay for vegetables from a street vendor. I wouldn't call that lower quality, quite the contrary actually in terms of ubiquity and functionality. Of course most people in the west wouldn't know that as the Chinese service providers do not expand as much overseas, but they're on a whole other level there in terms of technological adoption.
> Stretching up to 150 light years long, the one-dimensional strands (or filaments) are found in pairs and clusters, often stacked equally spaced, side by side like strings on a harp.

Are they really one-dimensional or is it just relative to their 150 LY length?
Most likely they taste like chicken.
> I'm picturing a bookshelf of raspberry pis in custom "boxes" like a collection of 8-tracks. Pull one out, plug it it, turn it on, and connect to it.

Why do your books need onboard compute? Why a Raspberry Pi, and not, like, an MMC/SD or Minidisc?

I think when we recognize what led you to first reach for the Raspberry Pi, we'll be able to better nail down why things are more difficult today than they need to be, and what we should be doing instead to eliminate that difficulty.
I though everyone (old enough) knew this already, it was a somewhat talked about thing when Bluetooth started getting adopted in consumer technology aeons ago
If aspartame was't invented as an ant-killer, it certainly works as one! Dust some ants with it and see what happens.
Uhm what was the 001 porn?
I am not any kind of expert in the matter, but I don't buy the technological dead end argument.

But still if everything worked perfectly I would hazard we would still be at least 20-30 years out of a commercial project that would cost billions and take a decade to build.
Every restaurant, every taxi, every plumber you have ever interacted with did not make their money by selling your personal information. They did it by providing value in exchange for a fee. Google and Facebook are the exception to the rule. Sure in the category of free and very popular social networks and search engines this may be the norm, but that category consists of less than a dozen companies.
5000 pictures is a lot of pictures. Adobe Lightroom struggles with that many.

It seems to me that if somebody said ‘let’s make a program that can easily view 10,000 picture albums on a high-end computer’ it could be done. You would have to think through the data structures and apply the methods used in high-end video games.

It seems to me nobody is taking the problem seriously enough.
To not sign malicious agents so they can act like they're the website you're actually trying connect to. There's a worryingly large amount of CA in Firefox or other browsers, many of the quite shady or government-owned
Fastmail proxies all images (when using their webmail interface), and AFAIK remove tracking images. https://fastmail.blog/privacy-security/fastmail-keeps-you-sa...
Haven't tried myself but if you're willing to pay for your privacy (you not being the product), hey.com seems promising (https://www.hey.com)
I’ve found that many companies have outsourced that role to youtube and blogs. The manufacturer/ developer provides a bare minimum of instructions, and I end up finding the actual how-to and troubleshooting guides from helpful users online.
> 12. Apply the Blink test
I can’t recall a client buying an over-explained idea. People either get it and want it or or they aren’t and they don’t. Within seconds. Make a fast impact.

Is this true? I agree with the rest of the advice but this sounds odd to me.
> Much of mining happens in China.

Not since they banned it, resulting in a lot of the hash power moving abroad. Only 20% or so that stays underground.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/18/chinas-underground-bitcoin-m...
Nope. If in phones its somewhat of a competition, on tablets Apple has been eating Android's lunch since day 1.
We could've partially solved the problem with steady construction of wind farms which were politically held back in the last 10 years.
And a large part of why it's cheaper is because Germany spent so much, driving the costs down the production learning curve. The whole world, including Germany, will benefit tremendously from that spending.
I'm afraid WASM is going to break the internet. There will be the real, now fully closed apps (silos, walled gardens, call them whatever you want) and the remnants of what the internet was, written in HTML, an observable, hackable text.

In the other hand... Java couldn't pull this off. Flash couldn't pull this off either. So we'll see.
Cider for Apple Music
Optimising for Mean Time to Hello World Considered Harmful
I agree, this might be the case of negative bias. We don't think about all the software that "just works."

I just had a video call with someone halfway across the world, but got bored, so I pressed the home key on my android so it became a windowed call so I could scroll through Instagram instead. All on a $500 phone.
That seems like a great model for the modern world.

What is the food that's easiest to grow?
Since you are using the term redneck I doubt you are from the midwest ( Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. ) or if you are you are from a Urban city center not a farm...

Redneck is more of a southern state term, many southern states (like TN and KY) are confused as Mid-west, they are not
BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M
You weren't trying to make fun of people, but it's a good one:
https://xkcd.com/1053/
A modern car wouldn't be safe to operate with a 40 hp engine. Even those tiny little Japanese kei cars typically have a 63 hp engine (maximum legally allowed). Fuel economy is typically rated for about 54 mpg, but real world fuel consumption is usually worse.

https://jalopnik.com/i-lived-with-a-japanese-kei-car-for-a-w...
This[0] is a pretty extensive resource.

[0]: https://dismail.de/serverlist.html
Coal is free underground which is in the same league as saying that solar is cheep at noon.

That something this simple is never talked about when it comes to renewables is a monument to peoples ability to ignore the obvious.
I've tried the outsourcing part before. Unless you have fields you can lease out or some other basic need of other farmers, it really doesn't work. Especially today with the shortage of "blue collar" workers. The costs to have someone clear land, dig ponds, run water lines, etc is either too much or you simply can't find someone that's reliable.

I've seen a few folks move from the city in the last 5-10 years and try the "we'll just hire a landscaper to manage the drive way and cut by the trees". It didn't work out well. 10s of 1000s of dollars a year to have someone reliably do it, or they simply couldn't find someone.
Big Tech increases funding to US foreign policy think-tanks
Easy. Management decides to use new tech without giving time to devs to learn it; new tech has huge blind spots making it impossible to do anything serious above Hello World; devs need time to figure out how to go around new tech’s limitations, no such time is given, ever to anyone; a management mandated culture where the dev that closes the ticket first is praised even though that means that he skipped almost all the edge cases; product owners and managers that lead the way but they have no clue about UX and dev, the blind leads the way.
It should be this way anyway. Currently they pay little to no tax on all their European income. They don't even collect VAT which to me is a mystery how they can get away with it, because AFAIK it's already a law they should have to follow.
It is shockingly similar looking. At first I thought they were on an expensive enough Cloudflare plan to remove branding. But 1. the site owner has beef with Cloudflare and 2. Cloudflare doesn't use recaptcha anymore so it does just seem like a very similar theme (IDK if it was actually copied or not, it is not that complex of a design).
If anything, it's the upcoming mass transition to EVs that worries me, suddenly the 80-year-old grandma from some village in the Carpathians will have to compete on the same deregulated energy/power market against a fancy lawyer from Luxembourg who drives his 150-170k Tesla or Porsche.
As the inflationary BTC miner reward halves every 4 years, the miner income will gradually shift to primarily transaction-fee-based. I suspect this will drive down the available energy budget.
> you only write Java using your system editor and the JDK in introductory compsci courses.

Even universities in India use IntelliJ or Eclipse these days.
>So the main problem with democracy online is that network effects are unchecked. When Facebook or Google goes evil - they take everybody with them.

I think the trouble with this discussion is that you don't really agree with the author. They are proposing a massive online community centralised on a single system - and which is kept in check by user democracy, not alternative instances.

If network effects are what keep Facebook and Google in power, imagine the network effect you would get from all the participants in a real-world democracy being on the same platform. How are those users going to start another instance, even "hiring someone who is capable" to make it for them? They won't, simply. In such a system, most users are not able to circumvent a technical coup. Just look at how many "evil" steps Facebook has taken, successfully holding on to their userbase.
So you're saying that eating meat doesn't stop people from being deficient in "key nutrients"? I understand that.

What I don't understand is that you said that "most meat eaters I know have heavy deficient in many key nutrients". If that's true then most of the meat eaters you know should be severely sick, disabled, in hospitals, etc. Is that the case, or were you maybe exaggerating? I'm trying to understand what you're trying to say.
Interesting! I was actually about to go to U of Washington, but ended up avoiding due to the fact that they don't let students directly into CS, but instead have a cut-off system in second year.
sounds great! Does this mean that fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu will, finally, be back? It was an important--I would say, constituent--part of the internet for many years.
And if you copy and paste to any of the other apps this firm sells, good luck with the formatting!