skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also as a brit, there is some other truly mystifying things happening with gas.

I was reading yesterday how despite the gas price explosion we are seeing, which is crippling for many low income households, we actually exported twice the quantity of gas September - November 2021 than in the same period in 2020. Clearly privately owned gas companies currently have the right to sell to the highest bidder, even if it is oversees. But, right now, the UK government needs to be addressing the cost of energy crisis that is impacting its citizens and it isn't a supply issue at all.

https://www.energylivenews.com/2022/01/31/how-did-the-uk-man...
Universities in California are going in precisely the other direction by mandating ideological purity tests aka "diversity statements" for staff.

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2019/11/24/uc-davis-math-prof...
> 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.

I think the keyword here is "comforts". If we are honest in our world today, it is comfort and convenience that, while we crave them, are, for the most part, causing us grief in terms of environmental, political, cultural and economic impact. So while I understand your reticence and reluctance to forge onward, I do applaud your willingness to journey down this path in the first place.

To my mind, this is an opportunity to re-calibrate your system of values in such a way that homesteading becomes a way to reintegrate yourself with the natural world without trying to dominate it. In doing so, you need not necessarily adhere to an ascetic approach to homesteading, but work to achieve a balanced and fulfilling approach.
There are no blackouts in Europe. There's no energy shortage. This is not Texas. There's a cost problem, however. With gas specifically. And that reflects in the electricity prices currently because there are quite a few gas plants.

Until recently, nuclear was the undisputed king of cost. There was nothing more expensive in the market. And that's before you count the cost of long term storage, security, and decades of government subsidies. I guess, for this year it might look quite alright compared to gas. But that is probably a temporary effect before it goes back to its undisputed status as being the most costly thing in the market.

Replacing an expensive thing with an even more expensive thing is not a solution to reducing cost. It doesn't make sense. Europe needs cheap power, not expensive power. And it's getting plenty of that from renewables. It's far ahead of most other places in the world in terms of deploying wind and other renewables.

The nuclear phase down in Germany is actually happening without any disruptions to energy supply. The grid seems plenty resilient (again, rolling blackouts are not a thing here). Also, there's a healthy growth of other capacity and it's a very competitive market with lots of innovative companies making lots of money.

Nuclear was always a relatively minor part of the energy economy in Germany. We're talking about some 20GW of capacity in total of which some 8(?) GW remains which is on track to disappear later this year. Compared to the new capacity that has been added in (mainly) wind and solar form since the nuclear phase out started 12 years ago that is nothing. About 3x the amount of nuclear capacity Germany ever had was added in wind energy alone since then. Probably in the next few years more will come online than Germany ever had in nuclear capacity. People probably have more solar on their roofs than ever existed in nuclear capacity. That was growing at a pace of almost 0.5GW per month last summer apparently.

The reasons electricity prices are high is because the EU is overly dependent on natural gas, which until recently was vastly cheaper than nuclear (and coal plants). The current geo-political situation with particularly Russia is disrupting oil and gas prices. Not because there is a shortage but because Russia is trying to pressurize the EU to do what it wants. The cheapest solution to that is diplomacy. And given that apparently gas prices dropped 11% or so after Russia kindly started providing gas through Ukranian pipelines again, that seems to be working.

The likely long term effect will be an acceleration of replacing gas with other things. That was already happening anyway. Higher prices will make it happen faster.
That type of problem is found throughout chemistry but usually an accepted nomenclature applies (when it doesn't is when we get into troubles).

So why did Wiki make the change when I pointed the matter out if it is incorrect?

I'd now suggest you get it corrected.

Edit: also tell Wiki that it shouldn't post inconsistent information as it only confuses (similarly ChemSpider).

Edit 2: 'aspartame is a trivial name'. Very true, but aspartame is not known to the world by its IUPAC name, even at best it still means that a nomenclature problem exists.
How exactly does WASM provide that better than, say, docker?
There's always the tennis court.
I'm guessing, in terms of angle (ie "above" or "our perspective"), this is pretty much what you'd see. We collect data sitting here on planet earth, so more or less, everything we see is from the same vantage point in the universe. The overall size and shape of things can be calculated by relative motion of objects in space. We also can make educated guesses about the shape of our own galaxy by observing others from the outside.
And because it won't be used and is not needed, the mine will operate until 2038?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_surface_mine

> Begun in 1978, the mine's operation area currently (as of end of 2017) has a size of 43,8 km2, with the total area designated for mining having a size of 85 km2.

So there's still a bit to dig.
I use Gmail for personal email, Zoho for business email. In the future I will be purchasing server hardware for the website and stuff. At that point I'll probably be moving to self-hosted email using something like Mail-in-a-Box.

https://mailinabox.email/
You can think whatever you'd like.
This is awesome, thank you. Excited to take it for a spin.
But it doesn't matter anyway - wind and solar should complement to nuclear, not to replace it.

This year we saw weaker summer winds in Europe which is part of what has caused the current energy crisis. These weaker winds are expected to become more common as climate change continues.[1]

Nuclear has the benefit that it's reliable. If you design a plant to output X gigawatts - it'll still be able to do so regardless of the weather.

[1] https://theconversation.com/what-europes-exceptionally-low-w...
I mean, they have EU datacenters... the issue with Google Analytics is that this data can be moved through other datacenters.

This was one of the ways the NSA programs worked... just tap the google lines which were unencrypted and slurp the data as it moved from datacenter to datacenter.
Where can I read about it?
I have 130,000 photos in iCloud Photos and the photos app on my Mac and iPhone can scrub back and forth in the history from today back to 1985 completely flawlessly in literally a second with no hitch.

It sounds like OneDrive is a file syncing solution where they hacked on some photo browsing functionality to preview a handful of pictures in a directory and it's not thought through for people who actually want to use it for more than that.
It does not work right now and probably will require Apple whitelisting your website.
https://undici.nodejs.org/ "Undici means eleven in Italian. 1.1 -> 11 -> Eleven -> Undici. It is also a Stranger Things reference."
Ukrainians fight for their country since 2014.
I believe it will be hard to convince them that their struggle for the freedom is unnecessary.
I really don't understand the problem with Google analytics. Anyone who is able to explain that in easy terms?

So they are collecting data about me to show me better ads. Isn't that what I want? They compare my data to a collection ("look-a-likes") of others that match my data fingerprint. What's wrong with that?

The way I understand it nobody is interested in me as a person (which is a bit sad, but that's a different story...).
Nuclear is also the most expensive energy source (total cost per MWh). Which is the real reason why "Europe is losing nuclear power".

When finished the UKs Hinkley Point C nuclear plant will probably have cost around £23 billion for ~3.000 MW which is completely insane.
> But I also discovered that non-sugar sweeteners feel a lot… lighter?

My theory: diet soda has no high fructose corn syrup, so it feels thinner (less viscous and sticky).
I feel that I am of no great use here, but I wonder if "DIY automation" can help you taking some pressure from you.

It seems like there are lots of interesting projects and ideas out there that can help you with "keeping plants alive", maybe some of these can lift some weight of your shoulders?

Maybe you can automate watering some vegetables by using Arduinos and electronically controlled valves and sth. like that. That could free up time which might improve your quality of life?!?
Undici seems to be an HTTP 1.1 client. Is there any work or timescale to provide HTTP 2 support?
Any time one is consuming "lifestyle media" where a person is advocating a way of living you have to ask these questions:

1) Are they making a non-trivial amount of money just from the advocacy? Are the living off the farm or off YouTube?

2) What other supports might be invisible? Do they have family money? Do they have a cadre of volunteers?

tl, dr; Is this person Talking Their Book?
> If clean energy is something we need now, then nuclear fusion is not a viable solution.

That was kind of my point as well, commercial fusion is decades out in the best of cases, thus making the reluctance to maintain and or invest in proven fission technology that much more risky. If commercial fusion was few years out I would be much more sympathetic to objections to fission.
And on other side coal power plants are hit with expensive CO2 quotas.
Reading https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/about.html it's even more unclear. They claim to have invented something much better than traditional routing but there is no mention of how Yggdrasing perform bandwidth/latency/cost-aware routing.
If you don't like the experience then move back?

There should be no reason why citylife is intrinsically worse, except for the noise and the pollution (car tyres create loads of microparticles).

Agriculture became big business for efficiency reasons, not due to some capitalist plot. Living in the city (if you commute by public transport) is likely more ecological than living in a rural area due to efficiency reasons.
> This assumption leads to the conclusion that only services that reside in the same jurisdiction (EU, USA, ...) can be used if legal protection from the state is desired.

which is the correct conclusion? As the state can only offer legal protection under its own jurisdiction.

Sure, real life complicates things a bit. (mainly, the jurisdiction of the EU as an institution in and of itself compared to its member states is a messy affair) but it is still a totally valid argument none the less.
Works fine enough for my headphones. Just wondering, have you used any BT 5.0 devices recently?
Is there any chance to break spec and allow manual redirect handling?
the fetch API makes a lot of sense in a browser, but imo this is a pretty crucial feature that undici's implementation lacks. [0]

Deno decided to break spec [1][2] so the following code works fine:

fetch('https://httpbin.org/status/302', {redirect: 'manual'})
.then(res => console.log(res.status, res.headers))

In undici this will succeed but with res.status 0 and no headers, as per spec. You aren't allowed to see the content of a redirect, like in a browser.

[0] https://github.com/nodejs/undici/issues/1072
[1] https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/8353
[2] https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/4389
Which NodeJS versions will this be landed to?
Author here.

I quit my job four years ago to build my own independent software business. I've written an annual retrospective every year and shared it on HN, and it's led to interesting discussions and extremely valuable feedback.

I'm happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about the post.
>> 3) The app in general is inconceivably slow. What is taking so long? I am viewing the same directory for 2 hours, why is it still so slow to load?

Practically speaking that's probably because nobody has tested the app with more than a dozen pictures in a folder. At a guess?
"undici" means "eleven" in italian. But I don't know the rationale behind the name
> In the coming one or two decades, wind and solar can easily outpace nuclear in reducing CO2 emissions.

This is not a fight between wind/solar and nuclear. This is a fight against coal. You should reduce the coal first, not nuclear.
I expect the number of employees taking advantage of companies pales into insignificance when compared to the number of companies taking advantage of employees
>can’t be compelled to handover to US law enforcement

Even if a US company holds their data in the EU, due to FISA 702, the CLOUD act and EO 12.333, they can still be compelled to hand over that data. So being a US company is a dealbreaker, regardless of where the data is stored.
I disagree. Their influence on policy has directly benefitted the fossil fuel industry and worsened the climate crisis. History will remember them for what they are.
If you have hate speech laws, then your speech is not protected.
The photo caption is a good example of misinformation. There is no evidence that anyone was harmed by taking prescribed (human) ivermectin:

"A debunked ivermectin study was later retracted from a server, but the damage was difficult to contain: It had been viewed more than 150,000 times and covered widely by the news media not to mention contributed to a host of serious side effects among those who ingested ivermectin with no proven benefit against covid-19. (Mike Stewart/AP)"
OTOH, maybe the other problem is that you're buying cars too frequently to be willing to study the manual.

There are plenty of times when ergonomics and feature discoverability are at odds, and I heavily prioritize ergonomics when I'm driving a large, lethal object at super-human speeds.
Agreed.

Am a supporter too, as a matter of fact it's the only recurring donation payment i have...
Similar, but with IBM Websphere MQ.

Why a message queueing technology is branded under 'Websphere' I have nooo idea, but it turned out to be a nightmare of various configurations jammed together and not working well.

Tibco Enterprise Messaging (EMS) on the other hand is a dream to work with IME.
node-fetch (which is great btw!) implements fetch "reasonably" as in stuff like `fetch('./foo').then(x => x.json())` works but it's very far from a "real" fetch.

Some people argued users would still like it and there was an attempt[1] by Myles but at the end of the day - the changes were pretty big.

For example: a response body in fetch is a web stream (a whole new stream type) and to cancel you use an AbortController (web type) which is an EventTarget (another web type). `node-fetch` uses Node streams instead which is very reasonable but not something a platform can "get away" with while still calling it fetch.

Here is a comment I wrote about it in the tracker during the PR review process https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41749#issuecomment-10257...

[1](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/27979)
Potatoes. They require the least maintenance and if you employ a small greenhouse (really, just a meter high, sticks and plastic sheets as cover) they can be grown all year round, yielding as much as 4 or even 5 harvests, depending on the potato type.
Even applying better PNG compression reduces them to less than a third of the size. Beyond that you can consider if the full resolution and quality is actually critical to the article.
Imagine you make a comfortable living at a tech job. Now imagine you find out all your co-workers make three times as much as you. Feels bad, doesn't it? But you felt comfortable before.

I'd recommend a middle path. Homestead, but adopt some modern conveniences where it makes your life comfortable. Reject the things that would just lead to more difficulty, expense, complication. Then disconnect from your friends for a while and see if you don't start to feel good about your life again.

Personally, the more I'm out in nature and just comfortable enough, the more I think everyone else is crazy for living in cities. It's really beautiful and quiet and interesting out here. And I really appreciate every little advantage I have. Just being able to lie in my bed, snug and cozy, with a glass of wine, some mushroom risotto, a movie on the laptop, and the whole world outside just quiet and blanketed in pristine snow ... How could anyone ask for more?
I'm from Sweden, and we've also been shutting down reactors, but Germany is the biggest offender in Europe on this particular issue, I hope Germans are raising hell about this at home just like I try to over here.

Sweden is planning for super energy intensive green steel, the Northvolt battery production and recycling facility, huge datacenters for Microsoft/Google/Amazon/Facebook, and on top of that a rapidly accelerating electrification of private vehicles. To cover this they are planning to expand hydro, but the estimates I've seen are for an additional 600MW which is literally nothing in context (green steel alone is estimated to need 9000MW) and will do fuck all for the new requirements from the above, it's fucking looney tunes.

I personally think the environmentally best short-term solution would be for all the shut down but technically still usable reactors, in countries like Sweden and Germany, to be turned back on while we construct new safer and more future proof ones.

I should buy a UPS.
As a (now, primarily) C developer who still uses plenty of C++ in mixed-language projects when needed: C++ should only provide as much C compatibility as is needed for consuming headers with C-API declarations, and nothing more.

Microsoft's 2012 advice [1] to compile C code with a C++ compiler was misguided (at the time this was just an excuse to not support the latest C standards in MSVC). Writing C code in the so-called "common C/C++ subset" is a massive PITA for a C coder, because this common subset is a nonstandard dialect of C which will forever be stuck in the mid-90s.

[1] https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...
> AirDrop which work’s way better than Bluetooth

and is proprietary Apple exclusive nonsense. no thanks
and this is exactly what makes the EU a player in geopolitics.

This kind of soft power even has a name, the brussels effect[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
I've always said, the only people who think farming for a living sounds fun have obviously never farmed. It is more tenable if you have income sources so you aren't depending on farming for your dinner. If you are independent wealthy and can pay others to do all the farming for you, you aren't a farmer, you merely own a farm. It is a tough life. The best part is the half days, just pick any 12 hours you want to work!
i lucked out, the people where i moved accepted me. I have developed quite a network in 2 years.

But then i am a conservative and a lover of God.

I got people on speed dial to help me out if i need it. For anything. Often for free or in exchange for my skills. I have developed a lot of skills.

The social aspect is key out here. Trying to do it all yourself is a fools errand. Also dont expect things to happen overnight.
>In the anarchist federated design, the answer is you, the individual. Even if the admin of your particular chosen federation instance chooses to boot you off and delete all your posts, you still hold a copy of your own data which you can take with you to another instance, or to even start your own instance.

Which is not much consolation if everybody is on the first instance.

The beauty of how e.g. email is decentralized is that I can change email provider and still get to talk to everybody I used to over email - without having to convince them to switch.
HN has passed the Unicode test.
Yes I could imagine and I have experience of developing apis with "bugs" that you kind of need to keep since people come to depend on it working a certain way.

But I can't help to feel like Node is progressing kind of slow compared to other languages / tools. This is just a personal impression from a bystander who is not really into the actual progression though. I have a feeling that node used to push new features all the time but in last couple of years have stagnated somewhat. Stuff like imports etc is still not really here.

I understand that developing an api that has such huge userbase as node is a massive undertaking that probably has issues that I can't imagine but it doesn't really help me in my day-to-day experience with it.
DEI doesn't help you manage a diverse classroom. In fact it does the opposite by harping on racial divisions instead of just teaching the subject you're supposed to teach. No better way to foster animosity than to divide a group of people that is supposed to be equal and start enforcing different rules on the different groups.
I can't believe that there were people who actively worked on killing this effort and actually succeeded. Talk about stupidly reactionary.
In general it seems US public policy has suffered since the 70s. There were things like serious efforts for universal health care or metric conversion. These days it's not even imaginable to make a big change in the country.
Nice, thanks for sharing Vline!

I wish modern cars still followed that philosophy, but it's hard to find cars with DIN radio slots these days since all the electronics are so integrated into them. It feels like you'll be stuck in pre-2015 cars if you choose that. Not that pre-2015 cars are terrible, but it makes it harder to find low millage ones.

I also think about the environmental impact of buying a new car. Manufacturers try to sell you on the idea that getting a new car is better for the environment but I really wonder how much fuel you need to save over the lifetime of a car to make it worth the cost of building a new one, in comparison to just fixing and older one. Who knows, maybe it's better to keep driving a '80 olds than to buy the latest ford electric truck.
Meanwhile, there’s still no reliable way to wirelessly transfer files between Android and Windows devices, and your have to use Bluetooth for that!

The issue is there are a hundred different ways to transfer files between Android and Windows, and no two people use the same method. Personally I just use a file manager to copy files onto a network folder on my Windows devices.
This whole conversation is winding down, but I just wanted to thank you for this comment as it brought me a new perspective on the matter. I have for at least a year had an uneasy feeling about Bentham’s utilitarianism, so your response indicates to me that I should consider it in the light of the tyranny of the masses and perhaps I will find some realisations there (personal or societal) if read more and think about it for a little while.
"And, while Yusef-Zadeh already knew the filaments are magnetized, now he can say magnetic fields are amplified along the filaments, a primary characteristic all the filaments share."

Yup - definitely related to warp drive tech ;)
Not sure what you mean by the worst desktop. I guess you mean UI/UX which tbh, I stopped caring a long time ago.

I'm using Linux as my daily driver, usually work from the commandline and have multiple screens which I can cycle through with a keyboard combination.

This way, I'm at least 3x more productive (speed, efficiency, ease of use) than Windows.
Most of the time, I'm not even using a mouse.
> 3.000 MW

Well those are 3000 real MW. Not 10% when the weather is good and 0 otherwise. And it can be piloted as needed.
i agree, dont expect to make a living at it.