skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But blockchains are basically federated - every user is able to hold a complete copy of the chain and participate in the same way, provided they are technically adept enough.

The current state of cryptocurrency proves my point, in a sense: how can a non-technical user be involved in the blockchain, without needing to understand private key cryptography or maintain a wallet, or a copy of the chain? By centralising that effort in an exchange, along with thousands of other users. But exchanges have exactly the issue of the author's "online democracy" - they are easily subverted by the people who actually control the technology. Thus, exchanges get hacked and their users' "decentralised" currency gets taken, because those users tried to bypass the technical effort required to operate the blockchain in the first place.
Yes seems to be the case, then also there's so many new entrants that the majority of developers actually have very few years experience.
On a relevant note first plasma in ITER is still 3 years out.
https://www.iter.org/construction/construction
Fortunately my example was hypothetical, and I don't expect to avail of this option myself. Plenty of my Irish friends were pretty cool with being on JSA and not trying _too_ hard to find a job.

Growing up abroad and moving to a country in your thirties means you draw rather little benefit but pay in to the system massively. Because of Ireland's _extremely_ progressive/redistributive tax system, I have already paid more in to the system than a median earner here will in their entire career. Which is fine, that's the deal I signed up for, but I hardly think if I found myself on JSA for a while and noodled on a side project it makes me a leech.
Have you ever wanted to reserve a retweet?
By the current economic model.

Is food in the mass market fast foods quality food? Are mass produced electronic gadgets and toys of good quality? So on and so forth. The most amount of money is to be made in bringing mass quantities of shiny crap to the market.

Educated clients - the lack thereof. As opposed to the past where most software was for professional use these days the software that brings the most bucks is for mass consumption. And not very long lived either, people get bored fast.

As the economy changes consuming habits will change too, I think.
Blockchain is the most impactful technology since the internet.

It changes everything - foundation of trust. New economy. New incentives.

“If you don't believe it or don't get it, I don't have the time to try to convince you, sorry.”

I'm pretty sure some people were angry at the internet 30 years ago.
It's great to see all these services catching up to each other, though I've noticed that their privacy guarantees aren't always clear. For example, Firefox Relay just uses AWS SES to receive/send emails, whereas DuckDuckGo actually have their own mailing infrastructure!

I've been working on a similar project: https://shroud.email. It currently has basic tracker blocking like duck.com, but it's FLOSS and I'm working on docs for self-hosting.
Misrepresenting facts in this way is still a form of lying. Speaking technical truths doesn't change that. Most lies aren't complete fabrications, honestly, even when they do contain a few.
I don't speak for the project a whole :)

Node has supported ESModules (`import`) for a while and you can use it (either by naming your files `.mjs` or setting `type: module` in your package.json.

There is a solid interop story between require/import and you can mix if you want.

`require` is going to be supported "forever" so code doesn't break and both module systems work.

As for the general question: Node is committed to supporting modern JavaScript and to not allow such a gap to be created. If you see a place Node doesn't do a great job at that please tell us!
Or Aaron Swartz...
If you remove the "amp" fragments in that url (https://theatlantic.com/article/620352/), it seems to work and redirects to this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/why-latest...
It's not clear, but did you expect to keep your financial and social status while homesteading?

If yes, I think it was a mistake.

For me homesteading would be a way of escaping the rat race and doing something meaningful. I wouldn't expect to get much money out of it nor any social standing.
The judge dismissed because the statute is unclear, and a general legal principle says that unclear rules must be read to favor whoever they're being applied against. This principle is a basic protection against tyranny by arbitrary application of muddled rules.

In other words, the legislature may have tried to make what Rittenhouse did illegal, but they failed to do so clearly enough, and that means it is legal.

Even if we allow for a gray area of "legal but not perfectly legal", it's not the legitimate province of media fact-checkers to arbitrate the boundaries of that -- for the same reason it's not legitimate for the state to arbitrate the boundaries of its own vague laws. Media fact checks are, in part, a tool for the media to discredit and damage the reputations of people it doesn't like. So the media doesn't get to write the rules of what is a fact, and gray areas should be construed in favor of the person being criticized.
The site has a "curated" feed with articles the moderators deem to be useful.

What value you'll derive from it varies (especially if you're not into AI alignment) but there are a few gems every few weeks.
We can't sell AWS consulting services to anyone right now, haven't been able to for over a year, almost two I think. Non of our clients trust Amazon right now. The claims from AWS is that it's fine to host EU data in AWS, but very few companies are willing to risk that.
It makes it easier to learn and develop both frontend and backend.
> Many words that we consider "abstract" are made up

What have you been smoking? All words are made up. But that isn't related to the question fact vs interpretation at all. The word "Earth" is made up, your name is made up, "human" is made up, the air that you breathe is made up, yet you are (most likely) a human on Earth, and you'd hate it if that air suddenly disappeared.

Anyway, the quote contradicts itself/reduces itself to ravings of a lunatic, so isn't worth taking seriously.
This is not a new phenomenon. As early as the late nineteen sixties, people were debating the so-called software crisis and arguing how to improve the perceived lack of quality.

The simple answer is that a lot of software is simply good enough. It's doesn't have to be perfect under all circumstances. And making it much better than good enough has diminishing returns because it requires non trivial investments in quality.

In this case, you pushed an app out of its comfort zone and ran into some issues. Simple suggestion, use something more suitable for what you are trying to do and accept that this maybe isn't what this specific thing was designed to do or even do well.
Maybe what you're really looking for is small town, semi-rural living rather than homesteading?

I don't much like living in cities, but homesteading is a bit of an extreme reaction to it. What brings me tranquility is the ability to be among nature, to be able to talk to my neighbours and get to know them in a friendly way, then come home to most mod cons, and do what I'm reasonably good at - work a tech job - remotely, in comfort. Every now and again I need to go into the city to the office, but those occasional office days become fun, and I can often combine them with going shopping or seeing some entertainment.

If I feel like it I can go get a taste of some 'self reliance' DIY work, but I'm not ultimately required to do it - I can just get someone in and pay them to do the work.

What was it that attracted you to homesteading exactly?
I hadn’t realized that homesteading was a tread. I can see the undercurrent in current culture to want more space and be outside more with being cooped up more these days (yes, we could just go outside more). Personally, 2-5 acres sounds amazing. My wood shop is threatening to outgrow the garage and a proper barn/outbuilding would be nice.
In my experience, modern integrated synthesizer or DDS chips perform not that much worse than old benchtop signal generators. You don't get creature comforts, such as calibrated electronic step attenuators, and may have to calculate the frequency divider settings by hand. For many hobby or research projects they are certainly good enough.
now try with gentoo with no prebuilt pkg's. the end really says a lot about arch though even if it does have edges ;).
Hehe I'm quite neutral actually as I'm more of a dynamic language kind of guy.
I'm a lot more into Bret Victor's The Humane Representation of Thought https://vimeo.com/115154289 and really far away of ideas like "The Compiler is Your Friend".

I care more about concepts that are meaningful for humans and I find frivolous the machine needed technicalities to get them working.
I meant use a custom domain with SimpleLogin or similar so you get the random email aliases but the same benefits of an anonymous email forwarder. You'd be surprised how many people think an account is not important until it is.
> If foreigners can use services in your jurisdiction, you want to see what they do for security purposes.

There are a LOT of things that law enforcement agencies want that they should not get. The fact that they want it or that it would be useful to them is not enough of an argument to give it to them. It has to be balanced against other factors, to decide what is best for society as a whole.
Please, stop using heavy images: bloated-kde.png is 3.2Mb... The image is still loading in the moment of writing...

Same note for the website logo: render-small.gif is 4Mb. Still loading...
You may be onto something. After I had COVID and recovered my sense of smell, I found things didn't smell or taste exactly the same as before. Drinks, especially coffee, doesn't smell exactly the same as before, for example. And I had COVID almost a year ago, so it's not like I recovered yesterday.
A website is just a medium to publish and present information. It generally has as long a lifetime as the underlying project. The short-livedness of websites is a symptom of short-lived projects and ventures in general.

To me, this phenomenon is a parable for perseverance rather than a technological cautionary tale.
Its seems to me you need to decide what your values and priorities are. If you decided to homestead expecting to keep on pace with contemporary values such as wealth and social status then you made the wrong choice. The choice to largely leave society and attempt what you have is one often made in spite of contemporary values. Its a choice to leave them behind and adopt new values. Subsistence can be enough, if you decide it is. On the other hand if you haven't made those value changes in step with your lifestyle changes you will fail and likely grow depressed.
"throw more money at their EU-based AWS and Azure regions."

Impossible, the mother company is still american.
As someone browser focused this surprised me. I've been using fetch() for years now.
Mexican drug cartels are not terrorists because their goal is to maximize profit, not fundamentally change society and politics.
Have you considered that perhaps your value system is conflicted?

You say your friends are moving from you financially and socially. Did you move to the country for financial and social gain?

Or did you move to gain greater control of your life, be in nature, grow your own food - ie live a more human and less constrained existence?
Hey this one change is going to positively impact my day to day life. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks for sharing your hard work and time.
Mostly agree with you but I'll say it this way: make sure you RE-READ your writing after applying Grammarly's suggestions. I ask this question throughout the re-read: would a human write like this? If not, I toss the suggestion or rewrite. But the suggestions certainly help illuminate moments when neither my writing nor Grammarly's suggestions make sense.
What is homesteading? Never heard of it.
You sound like you already had established skills and experience in a career which helped you achieve a certain level of quality of life. Now it's like you've moved into a different career and you're starting out again with zero skills and zero experience. Think about it like evaluating a career move, not a life choice move, maybe it will be easier to compare that way.
I long ago decided it's not for me, though I have friends who do it.

If you are going to stick with it, I get the impression you need a community above all else. Forget youtube, learn from people in person, and share the labour.

If you are motivated by ethical/environmental concerns - there are plenty of other ways to make a positive difference to the world. Some of these are jobs in tech, if you pick carefully. Either in a city, or remote (if you've decided you like country living but not the manual labour).

Or you can go for a hybrid lifestyle - live rurally, grow a little food, also work part time in tech so you can buy more of life's comforts. (or, y'know, other jobs - teach maths? work in tourism? my friends are building a business selling fruit wines).

But yes, I get the impression that fullon homesteading is hard, e.g. at least some WWOOF hosts couldn't survive without the free work of volunteers. Maximum kudos for giving it a go.
> Is this reasonable?

Absolutely not. This incentivises the worst characters and abuse of power. DIE is the most impotent advertising for social justice that I have ever seen. I support social justice in most cases, it a basic requirement for society and every society has some form of it implemented. But I also support humanism and enlightenment which DIE proponents very quickly leave behind.

DIE put me off of it pretty quickly. I believe California is selling entitlement instead of education here. And that entitlement firmly includes knowing better than anyone else and the justification is that they do it for the greater good. We had that countless times in human history and the result was always the same. If you want to see the result of underfunded education, it may very well be California. Maybe it should not be surprising to find it there since the contrast of wealth is pronounced.

It is hard not to become reactionary to DIE, they should just be ignored in the best case. It just behaves like religeous fundamentalism, they believe there are countless Nazis all around them and are themselves reactionaries.
Not sure there's much to add. Economies of scale, specialisation and technological innovation are probably three of the oldest and most fundamental concepts in economics.

It's the difference between one layman person spending an hour to bake a single bread by hand on a wood stove, and ten persons each operating a part of a machine in a factory that spits out 8000 breads per 8-hour shift.

You can try to replicate factory-style production in your homestead somewhat and get decent productivity numbers. But you'd need to do this for bread, and cheese, and clothes. You simply can't specialise nor get the right scale nor make the necessary capital expenditures across multiple product categories for that to work.

Homesteading thereby really means accepting that your productivity is a small fraction of that of modern life.

Of course you can trade and obtain most of the things you don't produce like any other person on the planet. But what you're trading in the end is your time, and its value is measured in productivity. If you sell an hour of your time but only produce 1 loaf of bread, and you're competing in a marketplace with agents whose productivity is 100 loafs of bread, your purchasing power is very weak, and the prices of everything measured against your own labour-time will be exorbitant.

Of course you can also say you don't homestead but instead simply live in a rural area, in isolation, working a modern remote job (e.g. in tech). That'd work fine, but it's probably not defined as homesteading. But it's a modus that probably works better for you: enjoy the closeness to nature, enjoy agricultural activities as much as you enjoy it as a hobby, live relatively simply and without many expenses and luxuries, and work only a few hours in tech to sustain this cheaper lifestyle.
Not to worry you, but like I said in the sibling comment, it's been almost a year and while I recovered my sense of smell and taste, it's not exactly the same as before COVID.
I made the jump 8 years and 3 days ago. (In fact, I wrote books about it https://www.amazon.com/Escape-City-1-Travis-Corcoran/dp/B093... and https://www.amazon.com/Escape-City-2-Travis-Corcoran/dp/B093... ).

My first two years were full of buyer's remorse. I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I had expected, the work was very hard, I felt incompetent, I missed my friends back in the metropolitan area, and I missed out on a lot of the food choices.

...but the buyer's remorse passed. Partially this was my preferences changing, partially it was making new friends, partially it was hiring on help to do some tasks (farmhands to install fencing and clear an overgrown pasture, etc.), partially it was acquiring the skills and equipment that made work easier, and finally it was cutting back on the task list.

I'd be happy to share more thoughts if you want to go into more details on your thinking.
Why it took so long? e.g. Deno had fetch support for ages
Having used both, I find Grammarly much better for English texts. It has things like tone analysis, and in general has more in depth checks than LanguageTool.

LanguageTool, on the other hand, supports more languages and is cheaper than Grammarly. It isn't bad for English texts, and will definitely help you with your writing, but not as much as Grammarly.

It really depends on your needs. I use LanguageTool for my everyday needs, but when I'm writing a blog article, I make sure to run it through Grammarly.
"Google will just lock the data in the EU and keep doing business as usual."

Personal data of EU citizens cannot be processed by american companies, full stop.
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Not a historian, but the obvious explanation is that Crete was the centre of the Minoan civilisation, ‘the first advanced civilisation in Europe’ [0]. The only other scripts in use at the time were various forms of cuneiform in Mesopotamia and Anatolia (for Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite etc.) and hieroglyphics for Egyptian, all of which have been deciphered. We have far more evidence for those scripts than we do for the various Aegean ones.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization
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Indeed, both the takes on anarchism and democracy are ridiculously simplistic and soaked with western dominant thinking (being at the top of current political systems, linear view on progress, masses are dumb, liberal democracy is the only option).

I'm gonna quote this gem:

> In political history, the birth of free nations typically contains three stages: dictatorship, briefly overthrown to anarchy, reformed to democracy.

They don't even seem to realize that both words have so much different acceptions that they have no precise meaning by themselve, yet asserts facts like "Anarchy fantasizes that freedom protects itself", "In any democracy, centralised power is wielded to protect freedom".

Another hard no-no is the plot. This plot should have been log-log ffs! You're already saying it's probably power law and then continue on saying:

> There is a massive spike corresponding to just a few instances, and the rest of the graph is nearly invisible to the naked eye, so tiny and so overshadowed by just a few giants. Frankly, this distribution is closer to the Dirac delta function than a power law.

This is not serious, especially for someone studying math and doing such elite low-level dev. Don't math-wash your opinions (perhaps you know you're just joking/bs-ing but other people might not).

In the light of all these flaws, the actual content is a mix-n-match of unsubstantiated opinions (democracy is good, anarchy is bad) and then at the end a call to build social institutions on the internet.. I'm quite annoyed at this post, on one hand this is all nice and kind, and i can (hope to) see the good intentions, but on the other hand it's really really sloppy and so easy to conter-argue on.

edit: there is also not a single mention of p2p systems, in an article about centralization and federation, which is like the elephant in the room
My biggest issue with node when I was working on it briefly was I couldn't do the 'import' statements like wepback. Are they supported too now?

I'm not a web developer so I had a very hard time understanding why there are so many different type of imports in JavaScript like require, import, umd, amd, etc and which one works in browser and which one works in node?

Also why do so many libraries have this strange 5 line header code for this umd, amd, business. Is that to make their packages work with nodejs?

Does anyone who knows enough JavaScript point me in the right direction about it. I find all this very confusing.
Not a stupid question. This has already been done for numerous languages. Your search terms are "X in the Web browser" and "X compiled to wasm".
Very much agree though I don’t think you need to be farming/ranching in all cases. At least if you’re 20-40 miles from a city/good sized town that’s a resource point.

Having said that, my family about that distance out from the city are increasingly precarious. They’re retired schoolteachers and need at home care. That is probably not the situation to be in so far from the city. One snow storm and the slightest difficulty could be a death sentence.
I'm with the other guy - I've owned my car for 8 years and never touched the climate control except to set it to 24 in the winter and 22 in the summer. Otherwise I just let it do its thing, which works great. 2013 Audi A4, btw.
Any time the calculation is scaled up (or down), or involves numbers at different orders of magnitude.

If we have 2mm of rain in Copenhagen this afternoon, and my yard measures 8m×12m, how much water must drain away?

2mm × 8000mm × 12000mm = 192 000 000mm³
= 192 000cm³
= 192 dm³ = 192 L
= 0.192 m³

How much rain falls on the whole city?

2mm × 180km² = 0.002 m × 180 000 000 m²
= 360 000 m³
approx. = 360 000 tonnes.
I think part of it is desperation. There is absolutely nothing the EU can say that will convince the American politicians that privacy and corporations are out of control in the US. Americans might believe it's fine, but Germans are careful about how personal data is handled and who has access to it.

Culturally the US and Europe is drifting further apart and from the European side it's very hard to see that the US isn't wrong.
A lot of assumptions wrapped up in that short headline.

"Europe is losing ICE vehicles, just as it needs to transport people."
Ask HN: How to create a self sufficient home?
The trend of the day seems to be homestead in a self sufficient way. If you are in a city or the suburbs, how can you make your current living situation somewhat self sufficient. For food, I think food storage could be an option but micro greens might be an avenue worth exploring. I think the big ones are power, water, and natural gas.
It is - frankly - shocking that elite culture has drifted so far into the world of make believe that something as simple as energy security has become a political battleground. If there was a single issue that the entire political body of a country has a stake in, that is the issue.

And yet, somehow, we're seeing Europe in this position where they're trying to go it without energy. The figures out of the UK [0] are jaw dropping to me. 44% reduction in energy production, 20% in electricity and with a growing population!

The country must be populated entirely by monks and ascetics if they are putting up with this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_Kingdom#O...
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