skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Beyond this comes money. Our technology sector is invested in basically every sort of green energy, except for nuclear.

Fortunately (at least in my opinion) this is changing, Rolls-Royce are developing new "mini nuclear reactors". We have the technological expertise and it looks like we are beginning to see the political and financial motivation too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59212983
But in case of sports betting the money don't come from other people, it comes from the house.
Fun fact, the very first explanation of Bluetooth tech I saw was by Leo Laporte on Tech TV sometime in the 90s. The name was the first thing they discussed iirc.
I agree the centralization is needed and that democratic centralization is preferable to proprietary walled garden. I disagree that democratic centralization is sufficient - I think we also need self-hosted options even if they are marginalized by the centralized democracy - to keep it in check.

This:

> Just look at how many "evil" steps Facebook has taken, successfully holding on to their userbase.

is orthogonal. Facebook is not democratic and does not offer a self-hosted version. And it never did. So with Facebook the question is not about what is preferable but how do we get from this worldwide tyranny to a centralized democracy with or without self-hosted alternatives.

I think the facebook situation is actually an argument in favor of my position. If Facebook was a centralized democracy with self-hosted alternatives at some point - it would be much easier for people to migrate off it when it started to become evil, and it becoming evil would be significantly less likely.

As for how Facebook loses now - I think eventually it will be taxed into ground/blocked by most big trading blocks/countries. There is already a lot of talk in EU of enforcing some control over social media. It holds too much power with too little control for countries to let it go forever. Facebook can (and sometimes do) change who wins elections. It can't go on like that forever.
We've already started placing the bets across a dozen or so accounts to bypass this. That wasn't the point of the story.
Absolutely. They may have even seen a real horse a few times in their life.
The article says it's unaffected by other gpu loads on other tabs, but didn't specify on another app running on the computer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBUxZdWJ_zE
Windows Vista is 15 today
>mandating ideological purity tests

Are we saying that its bad? I mean, I think it's bad, but it is in fact "progressive" so I dunno what the consensus is.
Objective-C is a superset of C. If there is Objective-C interop, there is by necessity already C interop.
I keep hearing that claim, yet it is never backed up by any substantive evidence or actionable advice as to which of these apparently abundant exclusively EU-based services to use for solving a particular problem.

Well, other than the usual Fathom and Plausible, that is. It might come as a surprise to some, but the web and software in general isn't just comprised of analytics.

Just to try and prove myself wrong I searched for a GDPR-compliant EU-based video conferencing tool on that "developed in Europe" site linked to in the article. The only result I got was "api.video - Video APIs for building, scaling and operating on-demand and live streaming videos".

So, because of GDPR I'm now supposed to code and run my own video conferencing service?
Yes, I do use that ("and also use my own custom domain"); I specifically mentioned a couple of benefits of an anonymous email forwarder with a shared domain that you do not get with your custom domain? To reiterate:

- different email addresses can't be cross-referenced

- spammers can't guess additional emails to reach you at

- no risk of leaking personal information via the domain

I appreciate that there's definitely a risk in adding a third party, but I think it's clear that there's also benefits of a shared domain, making it a trade-off?

(Oh, and to be fair, with a custom domain there's a relatively similar risk: it's relatively easy to lose control of a domain.)
> the total power generated

Total power generated doesn't matter as much as you think it does. Base load and load following matter never factor into the starry-eyed discussions of renewable power sources. Weak winds at night? Boom, suddenly you require other means of producing energy.
Thats my point. Even with hate speech laws the protection is apparently still better than in the US.
this would not work, as it would still fall under the FISA jurisdiction according to US law.
I just skimmed for some LG "digital signage": it's not obvious to me that these things actually contain a TV receiver. If it lacks a TV receiver, it doesn't really qualify as a dumb TV.

This one comes with Windows 10; that's not quite what I mean by "dumb". It appears to really be a "smart" non-TV.

https://www.lg.com/uk/business/digital-signage/lg-55ct5wj-b
No, nuclear plants are regularly taken offline for weather related reasons.

The main problem seems to be that people have invented an entirely ficticious nuclear power that does not and has never existed, just so they can slag off renewables and "elite culture" whatever the heck that is.

The real actual nuclear power, which is better than coal, but not particularly competitive with modern renewables is apparently irrelevant to people who have bizarrely joined a one sided culture war on the side of fossil fuel companies and think this makes them cool, well informed and counter-cultural despite reality leaning the other way.
Because they are supposed to be top researchers in their field. And I doubt you'll find a world-wide renowned scientist in biology who believes sex is merely a social construct. So these goals are at least partially incompatible. Universities should be about research, science, teaching and teaching students to educate themselves. Following the dogma of DEI is incompatible with teaching students to educate themselves.
Similar topic, but after having COVID and losing my taste and smell for a few weeks, all carbonated sodas "taste off" for me. I've talked to a few people who have had similar experiences and after a year later, all of my regular Cokes still taste off :/
"Nice" former coworker...hope you found your way to freebsd anyway :)
The UK's STEP project uses a higher aspect ratio ('spherical tokamak') to reduce the required size of the machine.

The initial investigations from MAST are encouraging, but we'll see how it goes.

Of course, this stuff will be ready for commercial use in like 2050 assuming everything goes to plan (which is rare unless it's really prioritised like the Manhattan Project, Apollo Missions etc.)

So regardless, something will have to be done prior to then - either we find better energy storage solutions for renewables or we expedite the construction of replacement/new fission plants or both.
Imagine this dismall planet dotted with decrepit nuclear plants, even as the societies that are supposed to keep them safe collapse either of their own accord, or due to interminable warfare.

When deciding on the wisdom of adopting a technology that will shape our fate for the next century you don't condition on the best (or even expected) scenario, you condition on the worst plausible scenario.

For a long as we haven't solved our obvious and serious socio-economic pathologies it is actually safer to keep burning carbon. At least that damage is in-principle reversible.
I guess it's "from the ground up" as in "greenfield", where there's no preexisting code to support or rewrite. I.e. "ground" means "fresh project" (and not e.g. entering bits by hand).
Yes exactly this, it makes me feel dizzy, kind of "floaty" and generally just bad, anything with artificial sweetner can ruin my entire day. It's amazing how many things have these artificial sweetners in them, I have to read the labels on everything new I try. I can't seem to find others with the same issue so I'm really glad you said this.
> If the customers are still buying it

In a lot of cases, the customers aren't buying it, it's "free" (the cost being not monetary but elsewhere) and no new entrants can compete with the giant piles of cash the incumbents are sitting on
I see here a climate scientist advocating for public education policy without seeming educated himself on the subject (advocating for trial runs of charter schools and voucher programs as if they haven’t already been tested and studies borne out). I don’t really see the canceling here, it sounds like his talk are moved from one audience to another audience still at MIT, his public advocacy in a field he doesn’t study was published in a national paper, and somehow he’s “cancelled”?
Totally agree. I have a decent German-made car and it BLOWS Tesla out of the water in build quality. I remember getting into the model S in a showroom and just feeling like I was in a budget auto. For 100k it doesn't compare at all to a 50k Audi, it's just plasticy and flimsy. It felt like the McMansion of cars, all show.
> a discussion about how current efforts are dubiously effective would be a welcome and would help your application at my institution.

A required statement as part of applying for any faculty position or promotion is simply not the appropriate place for such a discussion. You're expecting what amounts to a serious research effort in social science. This kind of intervention in effective leverage points of a complex system (even if perhaps only a "system of oppression", as often described by those most concerned about DEI) is the stuff that research papers are made of, not short statements of conformity.

(Of course, this assumes that effective mitigation of DEI challenges is the actual goal of these requirements. It's not unreasonable to be rather skeptical about this, as the original professor who raised the issue - who is a social scientist - states in his blog post series.)
Here are some perf measurements I made a while ago with a serial and a parallel radix sort: https://forwardscattering.org/post/34
They don't. They explicitly compete for the same spot, the cheapest most inflexible power generation. Nuclear obviously loses here and are pushed closer to the peaker side and is hampered by the insanely costly initial investment. The closer to peaker you are the more you want the price to only be operating costs.
> When Apple decided not to support file sharing over Bluetooth in iOS, that was a good decision

When Apple decided not to support file sharing over Bluetooth in iOS, that was a bad decision made to push its own not-compatible-with-anything ad-hoc file sharing standard, which in the end wasn't adopted by anybody else.

Nothing innovative in reinventing a wheel. Poor vision, bad execution.

> Meanwhile, there’s still no reliable way to wirelessly transfer files between Android and Windows devices, and your have to use Bluetooth for that!

And it will never be unless both will freaking stop reinventing the wheel, and keep trying EEE with Android Beam, Android Share, Samsung Share, Windows Share, and other misadventurous attempts at standard-making which live no longer than 2-3 years.

Windows XP, and Ericsson R520 had built-in Bluetooth stack, and worked just find from the box.

Win 10, and latest Android had to both individually subvert the OBEX standard in their own ways to become mutually incompatible from the box.
World record lightning ‘megaflash’ confirmed over U.S.
slightly unrelated, but i read mixed opinions on the safety of aspartame. Is there anyone knowledgeable in the field who has research proving one way or the other? I rarely consume sodas, I just don't know whether it's safer to consume artificially sweetened ones or standard ones. The literature on the topic seems conflicting and incomplete
My homesteading fantasies were tempered by a real examination of the amount of hard, hard work and time every day that's required. It sounds like you might be happier with a house on a one acre lot within easy driving distance of a city, where you can grow a kitchen garden and maybe keep some chickens. A tech job can afford you that ability. Good luck.
https://grid.iamkate.com/ - overly good day for renewable production in the UK, my thoughts:
1. Wind is really cost effective for the UK and loads more is due to come online
2. EPR reactors keep running massively over budget e.g. Flamanville 3
3. Research money is heading into the best ways to store grid level energy.

All in all I am very hopeful and not against Nuclear at all but I just can't ignore the charts today.

Such a nice thought that a good % of my flat is being powered with little consequence!
Very few houses in the US have plaster, unless they're over 70 years old.
> Every restaurant, every taxi, every plumber

Sure, except they don't find an advantage in the restriction.

They are not cloudy. A dark kitchen OTOH ...
This is about preprint servers. Cool.

But for some reason I had inferred from the headline this was about sharing the actual data. As in the source datasets.

Ages ago, IIRC, Univ of WA had a project called something like ShareSQL. Made by astronomy or geology dept?

Idea was to put your datasets online in read-only one-off databases.

Sorry, I can't quickly refind this project. "ShareSQL" is too generic for searching. And probably not even the right name.

Happily, hosting datasets online is getting a lot easier. IIRC, startup fly.io hit HN front page last week. They'll host your Postgres instance. (Like a blogger for databases. Ha. That's a pretty good tagline.) I'm sure there's dozens more startups.

Any way. We're long overdue for sharing of data. I don't really follow this git ecosystem, but I've gleaned that hosting binary blobs is getting easier. And ever more accessible, like the hosting of SQLlite instances accessible via HTTP, also recently front paged here on HN.
Actually there is a direct conflict between fuel economy and emissions.

https://theicct.org/nox-and-co2-emissions-from-trucks-what-t...
You can back that up with combustion turbines. The cost/watt of a simple cycle combustion turbine powerplant is just 5% of the cost/W of a nuclear power plant (combined cycle, just 10%), so backing up the entire grid this way is cheap (in capital cost) compared to the capital cost of a nuclear-powered grid. If you don't use those turbines very often, the fuel cost is manageable, even if you use non-fossil fuels like "green" hydrogen. To cut down on that fuel cost, you can also add some batteries to reduce the fraction of time the turbines are required to operate.
I assumed it was an alternative macOS Apple Music client at first. But it seems to be available for Windows or from the AUR. I’ve been using the web player on Linux, so I’ll give this a try.
This. We use a non-Google analytics product that we could even move to self-hosting if needed. But the marketing director basically was like “This is better than GA, and I will use it for almost everything, but we have to have GA also because it shows as conversions.”
What did you expect homesteading to be, or to get out of it? People don't do homesteading for the money - it's a lifestyle choice. The very reason many people do it is to escape urban areas, so of course the "comforts" of the city won't be there (that's intentional).

"requires an almost soul crushing amount of hard work"

I consider the work I do, coding for a large organization, to be soul crushing.

It's all about what you want and your perspective. If you want social status, money, and city life, then it sounds like you've already figured out that homesteading is not for you.
Fun fact: Apple and non-Apple devices won't share files via Bluetooth.
I have your books on my shelf, very helpful. Thank you for writing them.
The successful youtube homesteaders also usually have a good looking woman walking around in not much clothing all the time :-). I always get the feeling that this is just show and that a lot of them have plenty of resources they don't talk about. I wonder how many of them really make a living of homesteading.
I wonder how much of the green movement of that era was supported by the Soviets, who had obvious motives for undermining nuclear research in the West. I could be that even long after the USSR has been wiped away that its influence remains.
Your assessment is correct. There are just no days off, even if you’re a hobby farmer like me. Nothing wrong with cutting your losses.
> Many of the nuclear plants are being shut down because they are either end-of-life or were recently shut down because they were uneconomical.

This is simply not true. The main reason plants are being shutdown is because Germany, Belgium and Spain are closing them before end-of-life due to political pressure.
Ah okay this makes sense. I wish I personally had the spare time to contribute this.
> I’m seriously surprised that Apple kept using Bluetooth for their AirPods

The fact that most people expect earphones to work with more than just their phone and laptop might have something to do with it.

I actually think Bluetooth works ok for wireless accessories. Seems fine on my games controllers and mice. No complaints with Bluetooth for my Apple Watch nor the Pebble that came before it. Audio feel like the worst widespread use of Bluetooth and even there, I think half the problems are the implementations rather than the protocol. For example I have a few Bluetooth speakers that works flawlessly. My old Bose earphones worked flawlessly too. In fact ironically the worst bluetooth audio hardware I've used is actually the AirPods -- but I accept that I do shop around before buying audio hardware so there will be other products out there that are terrible.
They also won’t be good for the environment if they lead to fewer fatalities.

If you can prevent 30k/year car collision related deaths at 20 metric tons of CO2 per year per person that’s roughly 600,000 metric tons of CO2 per year compounding and just in the US.

But of course it’s silly to discuss the environmental impact of self-driving technology like discussing its impact on baking cakes or puppet shows.

The same technology can be used for driverless car share or driverless busses that run on renewables.

https://www.inspirecleanenergy.com/blog/clean-energy-101/ave...

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2020-fatality-data-show...
Will wasm ever get direct access to the dom so that isn't needed? I keep wanting to jump into wasm, but I don't really want to learn any more javascript than I already know, which is just enough to play codespells and screeps. And I certainly don't want to learn a framework which seems to follow the madden nfl release schedule.
Ask HN: How to Make Right Connections?
There is a saying that who you know is more important than what you know.

How do you make connections with the right people in the software industry, espacially after the covid?
It's probably already been written below, but the core problem appears,
when the software is not being SELECTED by INFORMED receivers.
In that case, no 'evolution'/survival-of-the-fittest is happening.

E.g. when you are using an app tied to a service you are already sold on,
you cannot select an alternative app to use (because e.g. your
fitness-chain only has their own app).
Similarly, if you are a gmail user, most users are not informed
enough to figure out they could access their mail with an alternative IMAP client.

Good software happens when you can choose between competing alternatives.
But the world is currently filling up with siloed monopolies that don't
have to compete.

I see something similar with christmas calendar candles. Every december,
supermarkets stock christmas candles of horrible quality.
They get away with it, because every shopper only needs to buy a single
calendar candle, and every shopper is an inexperienced christmas-candle buyer.
Meanwhile, the rest of the year, you can buy big candles of the same size,
of excellent quality, just without the dates of december marked out.
TL;DR: A lot of inexperienced candle buyers exist only in december.
I know comments should be helpful and constructive, but in the long term it's best to remind you that Hacker News is neither your lawyer nor your business partner.
> The only counterexample I can think of is Spotify as they seem to have never really focused on just one country.

Spotify was only available in Sweden for the initial 3 years, and after that they launched in the UK as well. 5 years after the local launch, they expanded into the US.
> Windows sidestepped it with COM

Erm, isn't the whole point of COM that it is also just a "C glue interface"? Not how one would typically design C APIs, but COM APIs are C APIs nonetheless.
The problem is not that it is possible but that it is done without consent or oversight.
Homestead may not work if you depend on your own farm for all of your food needs. However, I feel off grid life with solar, storage, EV etc. combined with a remote job and hopefully cheaper Satellite Internet in the future may work for a lot of people. If I lived in a scenic country I would've at least tried this lifestyle, but may be that is because I am inherently introverted.
This is not an elite thing.

In the countries where nuclear is shut down / being shut down it's often so with large majorities in public opinions supporting it
"He rolled the dice very carefully"
That's funny. So what does this change actually mean? Next time this won't happen?
A better idea would be to replace / improve the fetch spec. Handle redirects, set JSON as the default request content type, encode URI components for users, decode response bodies with JSON headers as JS objects, etc.

Right now most developers either write their own library to do these things on top of fetch or another HTTP client or use a third party library from npm.

A new standard would allow us to make http requests out of the box comparable to high level HTTP clients like superagent, axios etc. that have been in use for the last decade, since before fetch was conceived, with whatever benefits fetch provides (I think it's cancellable now?).
Yeah this is what most people are not getting in this whole debate. That and the fact that it's really costly to transmit electricity over long distances, even at extremely high voltages.

The best solution is a bunch of smallish nuclear reactors spread out over the continent for base power production, wind/solar/hydro (is wave electricity a thing? I remember it was discussed a bunch of years ago in relation to green production) wherever those make sense, and high voltage transmission lines to allow load balancing.

But we don't have that, and it takes a long time to build so we should get started now, but instead they will say "oh we should have built that 20 years ago now it's too late"... :(
That's a feature, like the green bubble, it's a social signal used to coerce bystanders into the sinister cult.
Disposable websites are good for job security.

There are other factors to consider, once a site turns into a desktop app replacement with dynamic content it is expected that it will change and grow, features dropped and added, styles change, the tech stack is replaced. Building a single use product to last doesn't make a lot of sense, the only part that does is the idea of maintaining "permalinks" where the content is stable and "append only", but the style may change. The world has not placed enough requirements to preserve a historical friendly web, which is why archive sites, print to pdf, and other options exist.

It is expensive to plan, and maintain sites with longevity. You don't know what the future holds and longevity might be at odds with relevance.
Oh so many wonderful memories…