skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this. And even leaving out deaths and the high long-term environmental uncertainties of nuclear waste storage, solar and wind are already cheaper and will continue to get cheaper for the forseeable future.

Now, people will say "bUT tHe sUn dOeSn'T sHiNe aT NiGhT", and that's true for the moment. Right now, we cannot shift everything to solar and wind. But if you pay attention to battery development, you don't need to be Einstein to see that pretty soon, we will be able to cost-efficiently store large amounts of energy, distribute it and use it in a way which will solve this intermittency problem.

You can look at the data and read more about this here: https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
The area was purchased by RWE in 1978.
> their approach still spends 7 bits on the prefix.

The Yggdrasil people are very clear that this is a research project. Not to be used in production, to be used at your own risk etc etc etc.

In that light I find it unfair to claim it spends addressspace. Which, I might add, is pretty darn huge and we are not going to run out of addresses any time soon. If ever.

Maybe pedantic, but needed to point out that the 7 in `0200/7` of the usage is the opposite of being spent. The 7 first bits are the mask you need to apply to indicate that it is INSIDE the yggdrasil address-space. Which means that they only 'spend' 1 bit from from the first byte. Not 7.
One thing I hate about fetch() is that you can't manually follow redirects. Using { redirect: 'manual' } doesn't expose the Location header of the redirect, so it's essentially useless. I know that node-fetch fixed this issue, so I hope the official Node fetch() does not have the same problem.
> Keep old nuclear power plants running doesn't do anything for keeping people warm.

"According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, about 43 nuclear reactors around the world—mostly in Eastern Europe and Russia—provide district heating in addition to generating electricity." (https://www.powermag.com/district-heating-supply-from-nuclea...)
> £23 billion for ~3.000 MW which is completely insane

3000MW almost constantly, for what, 60-80 years? How much would the equivalent wind+ grid scale storage(multi-day) that would need to be replaced multiple times over that same lifespan cost?
I find Bluetooth impractical to use due to its slow speed and incompatibility between Android and Apple devices, as well as interference with Wi-Fi.

Everyone I know shares files via a centralized service like WhatsApp, but those are getting iffy also.

I share files locally through a hotspot and LWS:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.basov.lws.fdroid
Warp drive contrails.
I do agree on that, I wasn't a huge fan of the storytelling which did a lot of belabored hand-holding and did indeed feel like an amateur who did just enough research to treat the reader like a naive student.

That's a hard trick to pull, though. How do you tell an expert's tale without a) getting too technical for most or b) getting to ELI5 for the few?
This is so accurate. We have two cars. When my wife starts one of the cars the carkit connects to my phone and she spends 10 minutes with the engine running trying to get her phone to connect to the car.

If I'm in a good mood I turn off Bluetooth on my phone to save her time.
> So first up, the stat is usually fatalities per TwH, since that skews things in Nuclear's direction, not just number of fatalities which would be won by some obscure but not very successful power source.

Why wouldn't it be fatalaties per TWh? It's TWh by the way.

> Second, even with the correct metric, solar and wind are now beating nuclear and projected to continue to do so, widening the gap over time. Comparing the very start of the renewable rollout gives misleading stats as the total power generated is low, and many stats that get quoted on this are more than a decade out of date.

> You can build a wind turbine and ritually sacrifice someone on completion of the build and the fatalities per TwH is infinite as it's not generated any power yet, but with every year of operation it gets lower.

No, wind towers don't have infinite generation, require maintenance and decommissioning, and have been well around for long enough that statistics are quite well available throughout the lifecycle. People have been acting like we've been at the very start of the renewable rollout for the past 30 years, which is longer than the operating life of an average wind turbine.

> Basically the same applies to carbon output, nuclear does well, but wind/solar/nuclear have been basically tied on both metrics unless you're relying on some very, very old data.

Again I've been hearing that renewable energy will solve all this and nothing else can for the past 20 years if not more. Hundreds of nuclear plants could have been built and running in that time now.

Funny thing is it keeps getting repeated. Again, and again, and again, by people who don't understand the fundamentals. Coal was doomed, completely on the way out and destroyed by wind and even solar just a couple of years ago according to these very same anti nuclear people. Today, thermal coal prices have been at record highs for the past year. Coal production is ramping in many countries and global consumption is near record highs and will take many decades to drop. Coal plants are being built with 40 year lifespans.

Where's wind and solar? Still only make up little more than 10% of global electricity generation. Most of the stats for renewables quoted includes hydro which exceeds both of them combined.
I'm a full time Iowa farmer. And not an "alternative" farmer, a John Deere & rows of corn type.

Unless you have:

A) an existing land base big enough to support you (in my area, that might be 500+ acres) and the knowledge and equipment to farm it,

B) a niche market for a rare farm product that you can charge exorbitant prices for, or

C) preexisting wealth (which can maybe get you item A),

you're not going to get ahead financially by homesteading. The business model just doesn't pencil out. Doubly so for any sort of animal agriculture. The market (both inputs and outputs) is driven by commercial farms, and you're trying to compete with that market from a wildly disadvantaged starting position.

Homesteaders I know also tend to be rather unfocused in their plans. They want to grow 15 different kinds of food, build everything they need from scratch, learn how to do a dozen different jobs, and take care of all the various maintenance around it all. That's fun when it's a hobby, but exhausting when you're trying to make a living off of it. And ultimately the work you're doing for yourself and the money your saving are usually the equivalent of minimum-wage-type jobs; having a basement full of home-canned garden produce is a point of pride, but it's not like the price of grocery store frozen peas was making up a significant fraction of your monthly spending beforehand.
Whenever you see happy optimistic talk about a DT fusion reactor, ask them "what's the power density of your reactor?" And make sure they're using the volume of the reactor itself, not just the plasma.

For a PWR, this is about 20 MW/m^3 . For ITER, it's 0.05 MW/m^3 and for ARC (2014 paper) it's around 0.5 MW/m^3 .
Ultimately, this is about money.

For aging nuclear power plants, keeping them running becomes more and more costly. So the question becomes, if we need to invest a big chunk of money, what should we invest in to reduce CO2 emissions the most.

And the answer is that building out wind/solar and insulating buildings is at the moment way more effective than keeping old nuclear power plants running.
Where did you get that 3k USD a month expense per kid from?
American here - we absolutely do not think it's fine. There is no cultural drift[0]. The reason why we don't have GDPR-like laws is that our political system uses culture wars as a distraction tactic. There are plenty of things that Americans absolutely support that have a snowball's chance in hell if it were put into the form of a bill for Congress to vote on.

The EU basically threatening to ban the US from the Internet if they don't play ball on data protection is the sort of thing that might just be loud and forceful enough to get US politicians to actually pass some strong privacy legislation. I'm also happy that US intelligence agencies have been specifically called out - it's like some kind of virtuous inverse of the Five Eyes policy-laundering strategy.

My only complaint is that this ruling is the second-biggest incursion[1] of national borders into what is ostensibly supposed to be an international space. If interpreted a specific way, one might argue that even basic things like messaging systems and web forums need to be totally hosted in the EU, or users need to be siloed off from the US. I'd much rather prefer an international privacy framework that fixes the privacy issues without splintering the Internet, but we tried that with Privacy Shield and the courts shot that down.

[0] More generally, I've found that the gulf in culture between countries is often overstated. Usually because the person overstating it either wants to make the foreign country seem alien and thus interesting, or seem alien and thus dangerous.

[1] First-biggest one being China's Great Firewall
I feel Bluetooth is the ever-unstable technology we have been beta testing for 2 decades.
I own Quietbose QuietComfort 35 which I paid 350 USD.
They are top of the line headphones and yet the bluetooth still sucks. This is not a blame on Quietbose which in fact might be one of the best product ever.
After few months of use I just decided it's just less annoying to use them with the cable.
BLUETOOTH STILL SUCKS!
> but the scoring rubric says that applicants

Like I said, "the scoring rubric" is not the arbiter of the faculty hiring process. Neither is the DEI office. It's not just one of many things considered, it's quite minimal when stacked next to research experience.

That said, a cutoff here is entirely appropriate. Look at what the lowest scoring entries are on the rubric. They are characterized statements of this caliber as as "vague", "little expressed knowledge", "little demonstrated awareness", "seems to be not aware", "no specifics", "brief descriptions" etc. Why would a department want to accept a faculty member who communicates vaguely, with no specifics, and seem unaware of the salient issues? This isn't about "They don't believe the right things". It's about "They don't believe anything".

And anyway, you're giving the rubric more rigidity than it deserves just because it's presented as a rubric. It explicitly states this:

These examples are offered as illustrative suggestions; they are neither exhaustive nor ironclad. They can be modified to fit the academic and disciplinary backgrounds of applicants in a particular search. Faculty members in individual units should use their disciplinary expertise to understand what examples are likely most appropriate for their particular department or search.

So really, this whole document is just a fancy way to frame a suggestion that you should really think hard about DEI issues on your application.
In defense of user-defined web fonts
The Chevrolet Volt has a direct mechanical coupling from the internal combustion engine to the transmission for efficiency. If doesn't really operate as a series hybrid much of the time.
Incredible you get downvoted for this. You are absolutely correct; nuclear is disappearing because it is too costly and basically only makes sense if you want weapons.

Look at the projects in the UK - delays for decades and massive budget overruns. Or Turkey if you to see something that is driven by dubious reasons ...
> 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.

I'm still waiting for a practical alternative to natural gas for small housing units (apartments, or just small houses without gardens). Heating water with heat pumps is impractical unless you have a lot of space. My combined hot water/central heating heater is the size of a large microwave oven. If I can replace it with something similarly sized, I will. Until that's possible, I'm afraid I'm stuck with gas.
You've been posting comments that get flagged, then deleting and reposting them many times—in one case, over a dozen times! That's abusive, and we ban accounts that do that sort of thing, so if you'd please stop doing it, we'd appreciate it.

Also, if you could please stop posting flamewar comments in the first place, that would be good, because it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> If you use the wrong metric then people will game it. Now watch governments do the same.

So true.

In a world with information overload, the real trick is not having lots of information, it's knowing which variables really matter. Bad bureaucracies and journalists often fixate on the wrong stats, which is usually what's easiest to measure or benefits them personally the most.

In the case of Quora, they seemed to prioritize signups and decided to become a gatekeeper to loads of actually useful information for humanity. Twitter appears to be sliding down this same path. The managers responsible for these decisions probably have loads of metrics "proving" that they're geniuses for these decisions, but I'd say that they're not measuring the right variables which are a lot harder to figure out.

This may be a controversial statement to some, but in the case of Covid, the governments of the world have been fixating on what benefits them most ("permanent" emergency powers, the beginnings of a digital social credit score system through the backdoor of vaccine passports, shoveling trillions of dollars around that will inevitably lead to gross corruption, a permanent in-built excuses for every failure they preside over, an opportunity to reset the economic system (you will own nothing and like it), etc) and what's easy to measure (the omnipresent "cases") while harming a load of other important variables that also really matter to peoples lives and health: the survival of the small businesses their family built, social cohesion and mental health, early cancer screening, physical fitness and low BMI, the right to absolute bodily integrity, and numerous other important things that are harmed by the fixation on only one aspect of health.
I’d go with fastmail or proton if it were just me, but my extended family is using my domain and I’m not paying $60+ a year per user.

I’m currently evaluating Zoho Mail as their prices are pretty reasonable.
I think you’ve misinterpreted the common meme. The common meme is that gender or race are social constructs. I haven’t heard the meme sex is a social construct.
To add to your point of treating company's money as your own -- "Tracking Money" will help understand a lot of corporate priorities and explain a lot of decisions. --I-- may want to update something because "it's the right thing to do / makes for cleaner code / etc". But the management probably has a reason (good bad or ugly) for their own priorities. Advice I read mid-way through my career is "understand your manager's goals and reasons", and it was so simple and yet so... shocking to so many of us techies. We always expected manager to understand our recommendations and priorities. Hubris! :)

(in Public Sector, "Tracking Money", interestingly, did not work as well; but "Tracking Personal Status/Blame/Credit" worked well. The two should be equivalent but in my limited experience there's differences)
Can you set more than one cookie in the request and read more than one cookie in the response? Was shocked when I learnt that's not supported by the spec..
As other have asked, it would be nice to get some clarification a bit on what exactly do you mean by "homesteading?". Did you buy a full blown farm and are now keeping cows? Is there a specific reason you didn't want to move to countryside but still keep your tech-job remotely?

I can share some of my own experience, as I'm a second year bee-keeper and CTO with around 16 years of experience. So I've chosen to share my life between a excellent tech job & a city apartment and a country side house (2 hour drive from my apartment).

We decided to start bee-keeping with my wife two years ago because we both felt the need to be in the nature. And bee-keeping has really been a great choice because it doesn't need your attention 24/7/365. During the ~4 winter months we have here in Estonia, I barely go there, maybe 2-3 times. So I still have the freedom to travel or pursue other hobbies if I'd like to. And during the sprint - summer - autumn, I only need to be there once a week which also isn't a fixed day, so I can play around my work schedule nicely. Sometimes I even go there during workdays and just do some remote work from there, in the middle of the woods where the only sounds you can hear is wind blowing and birds chirping. I'm obviously there a lot more than that, but this is the bare minium, this is the "I HAVE TO" and if the weather sucks or I'm busy otherwise, I don't have to go more than that.

And even though it's sometimes physically hard and tiring, it has had a enormous positive effect on my life. Doing something with your own hands that you can see and touch is a very different kind of happiness than the one my work offers me.

But all this comes with a "but". I mostly grew up on the country side, even more so, I'm actually keeping my bees at my grandmothers house (where she no longer lives due to her age) where I spent most of my summers during childhood. So I knew what was waiting for me regarding up-keeping the house & land.

What I'd suggest is to do the things that make you happy not the things that others are doing. If you don't like the physical work, don't do it. If you'd just like to enjoy nature, just get a cabin the in woods where you can go from time to time.

I'm in a lot better place with my good paying tech job and half-time bee-keeping because I also have the funds to invest into the house & land and make it more livable for the future. If I would have just quit my job and moved there full time, I'd be struggling to make the ends meet, let alone actually build houses there and develop the place for the better.

Tools, resources and materials (wood, metal, sand, gravel etc) and help from professionals all cost money. It's a lot easier to earn that money in tech than with farming.
But in case the society as we know it today collapses, I still have the skills, tools and land to live off, but it hasn't yet, so no point in going full off-grid yet.
So your solution is ... do drugs?
It is propaganda, read through this wiki[1] and see how far people have gone to create propaganda against it. It's one of the most researched ingredients by the FDA.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
If it only was this easy!

For me it's an on-/off relationship over the years.

I usually am fine with the Diet Coke at McDonald's in Germany (it's cold), but not a fan of the stuff I buy in plastic bottles. I do like Diet Pepsi but not Max (I find it tastes very artificial). Coke Zero is so-so.

And the weirdest thing is that we have Fanta Tangerine, which they switched from sugar to only-as-diet a while ago and now I can't drink it because it tastes so horrible.

TLDR: Either my sense of taste is just broken or they're actually switching the recipes every few years. Or it is actually this phenomenon here.
Good point, but I was under pressure to buy a new one, and the options were limited due to Covid-related delays. As I live in Germany were it is very hard to find an unauthenticated Wifi-network, and there is certainly not a single one in range of my home, I could accept that risk.
Ukraine by itself had no interest in joining NATO. NATO is the one interested on encroaching itself further into the east, because this means good business for the European and North American military complex.

Damned if they provoke Third World War in the process, probably they think they will be able to live the post apocalyptic world in a paradise in New Zealand or Madagascar after they emerge from the bunker in some 20 years.
They're also dead ends where you already assume one car per adult. Dropping below that number is intimidating in most American settings, but changes the whole mindset.

If you objectively see convenience in spending 50k on a car, 30k on a parking spot, and 100/mo for insurance just to be able to pay other marginal costs to be able to go to a store and avoid exercise in the morning, you're either delusional or have never considered how that money could buy you better conveniences.
they weren't really "unsuited", just more than necessary. Hence why they replaced them quite thoroughly. (And places like AWS spent effort on making them low-overhead, e.g. the microVMs that run your lambda functions)
Second, even with the correct metric, solar and wind are now beating nuclear and projected to continue to do so, widening the gap over time.

This is true but not very significant since nuclear is still forty times safer than the next safest energy source, natural gas. Solar, nuclear, and wind all have a niche in a green future. Nuclear fits in locations with insufficient wind and solar resources and provides reliable base supply.
That is true for easily testable truths. But since we are social animals and we abide by social rules (such as wearing masks) then we care how many "Likes" an idea has.

Humans are part of the universe and they have killed people for what they believe is true in the past and they will continue doing so in the future. Try saying earth is not the center of the universe 500 years ago, especially if you have evidence.

All it takes is an emergency and even an expert becomes an average person: we go back to 'survival mode' on fear, that is human nature. And I believe fear to be one of the most abused drugs of this time.

Even testable truths sometimes are not testable because of time constraints. And we humans have to have faith things are true, which not everyone is used to doing, especially non-religious.

So although truth is very abstract for the universe it is very relative for us humans. And this relativity might get us killed.
> solar and wind are now beating nuclear and projected to continue to do so

Projected is the operative word.

One useful concept that was introduced a decade ago is a "cubic mile of oil", or CMO. To yield the equivalent power, one would need to produce 250,000 roof-top solar systems a day for 50 years, or 1200 turbines a week for 50 years, or 1 nuclear power plant a week for 50 years. Innovation is still desperately needed here. Nuclear has been unfairly sluggish in this department.
We are not, this is a place the server-side implementation is going to diverge and this was discussed in the PR: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41749#issuecomment-10254...
> It used to be a common expression in left wing circles to say - 'I may not agree with your views, but I will fight for your right to say them'. Sadly those are long gone.

The way I do the math, I wouldn't say they were long gone... I trace the death to approximately 2017. It was a philosophy predicated on a certain amount of tit for tat, and I think that philosophy took a big hit when during a pretty bog-standard protest / counter-protest someone stabbed the left wing protesters in the back (or, more accurately, drove a car into them from behind).

Other people may identify first shot fired in different places... The man in Seattle who got shot and the aggressor claimed self-defense, for example... But enough incidents happened in a short enough amount of time that "defend to your death the right to say it" got supplanted by "No quarter for fascists" and not enough people stood up to shout that opinion down because, well, people were getting killed.

I don't know how one puts the genie back in the bottle. It may not be tractable without people getting tired of violence. And historically, that can take a long time.