skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wendell Berry once said that agriculture is the "way we enact our dependence on the land."

Monsanto et. al. are the visible symptom of a psychological malady and spiritual poverty. Greed over the sacred bond between ourselves and the life that sustains us.

Both their GMO products and their attempts to enclose and sequester the genetic commons are part and parcel of their underlying epistemological problems.

> "You can't own land, man."

> I can because I'm not a penniless dirty hippie."
Toyota doesn't even bother trying to market the Tundra outside the Americas, since cowboy cosplay isn't terribly popular abroad, so it makes sense that they are made here.
True up to "nobody has the money to pay for those bonds": there's often a flight to safety in recessions of people moving money out of the stock market. Plus all the big international investors. Shortage of buyers is a risk but not one we've been close to so far.

One lesson of QE seems to be that the Fed can print money in a recession without causing inflation. Or at least only inflation of asset prices, not wage/consumer goods inflation.
With the previous Mac Pro they made a big deal right away from the fact that it was being made in Texas. Since they didn't do that this time around many people were wondering if they shifted production over seas. This is Apple quelling those rumors. Also:

> The value of American-made components in the new Mac Pro is 2.5 times greater than in Apple’s previous generation Mac Pro.
DataCamp's funding history and pitch deck examples
HBO fends off streamers at Emmys while other TV networks struggle
Is it possible that the manufacturers simply want to pay as little as possible to get these things manufactured, and that they can pay people elsewhere (like in China) far less that they can pay US workers? I am no expert, but this site claims that rent prices in the US are, on average, 150% higher than in China and the cost of groceries are 72% higher.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...

It seems to me that Apple can get the same work done in China and pay the worker far less than they would have to pay a US worker (in terms of equivalent spending power).
Committing instantly to the file is perfectly fine, as long as you have infinite undo (preferably with version history) and local drafts - i.e. exactly what VCS provide.

A shared folder in a server doesn't separate saving from sharing, but that's a fault of shared folders, not autosave. The popular storage models for end users are utterly broken, but developers don't care because they don't need to endure it, they've got their superior tools that they keep to themselves.
> Both narratives seem to turn on the big "recycling is a hoax" twist, which is obviously a big clickbait success but then go in opposite directions with it

Erm, what? On the topic of recycling, your two "sides" seem wholly compatible - you've just ascribed different group identity caricatures. Which says little about people, and is mostly a reflection of how the political parties work to divide us.

Disagreeing about whether to outsource a problem to China or deal with it locally is ultimately a separate topic.

I believe these articles are being driven by a backlog of stuff at recycling centers because gasp the abstraction where you just put your stuff in a separate bin and your consumption-waste is magically absolved has been shattered. We've already been inundated with a message telling individuals to "use less" for decades, so any effect has basically already been realized (meanwhile every other advertising message and economic signal continues to say "use more").
>She travels around with the help of maps and has been to more than 30 countries. I can personally never do this.

How so? People did exactly this not just for millennia, but also throughout the 20th century, and up around 2005 or so...

What's the difficult / tragic experience one has in a different country if they don't have constant internet access or GPS?
I don't know why I can't flag this but this is spam. Obviously don't click the link.
Agreed -- but that tech still exists.

Funny story, last week I was telling a coworker about how I had fully automated my home back around 1995. He was genuinely surprised that this was possible before "the internet of things".

I had to inform him that the only difference between the tech of today and the tech then is that today's tech is smaller and cheaper, and the only difference between "automation" and "internet of things" is that the latter involves being subjected to surveillance. But he's a young sprout and has no living memory of the state of things back then.
Also you are conflating the 2018 SEC and Pentagon with the 2013 NSA, which kind of kills your credibility.
Can't speak for "everyone" but here's my 2 cents on what you're describing.

As an American, my first thought it when it comes to most issues tends to be "what can we, America, do to make things better." This leads me to vote a certain way, consume a certain way, and live a certain way. I understand that out countries are doing their own things and having their own problems, but there's fewer mechanisms in place for the average person outside that nation to affect change (and depending on the structure of the government, there might not even be that much for people IN the nation to do).

I care that China has bad aspects of how their government works. But the low hanging fruit for me is to try and pressure the people in my neighborhood (either literally or metaphorically) towards better decisions. "Change start at home" and all that.
In a game that has to ship, it's fine. In a product that needs to be maintained for a while at least, I personally try to avoid brilliant code. I'd like to say it's out of empathy for co-workers, but it's really to keep myself sane when I need to change my own code in 3 months time.
every thumbnail is strange.. looks like they were intended to be square but stretched?

don't bug me to log in until i've gone through a couple stories first?

amazon link just cause, seems a bit out of place
I'm going to push back on this, at least a bit.

Maybe I'm atypical because I work with Javascript a lot, but I don't think it's that hard to read minified JS. Modern browsers have a lot of tools to help with that -- you can set breakpoints on DOM manipulations, you can autoformat the code so it's not just a jumble of text -- you can even pause execution and add custom code to functions that can do additional logging or subvert existing behavior.

And because the industry is at least somewhat focused on minimizing bundle size, it's pretty uncommon outside of captchas for me to see obfuscated code -- most of the time, you'll only be dealing with minification.

I don't know how WASM is going to affect this -- I suspect it'll be more problematic. But I manipulate minified JS all the time. It's a very 'inspectable' language, for lack of a better term.
What do you call a pilot on their last day? Your pilot ;)

I’m sure it happens more often than you think.
I think people do want these jobs, not everybody can be a programmer after all ... but without specific policy intervention it’s just not possible to make these jobs cost effective. Where economics is ruled by the [EDIT economically (rather than socially)] liberal free market mindset, which does effectively maximise profits, you’re not going to get this value judgement in favour of expensive low skill jobs ...

EDIT the alternative is to put all the displaced employees on welfare, which may actually be cheaper overall ... but that’s another value judgement ...
I mean it has to have been all but closed for years right? The only thing they ever made was a giant flop that never got a meaningful update. What could they possibly have been making for the last several years?
Seems reasonable - after all, those people have more money.
At least I as the consumer can avoid any airline using Boeing or flights that are operated with boeings. It's small potatoes but I did what I could and if everyone does the same it will hurt Boeing.
I wouldn’t call the printing press “good” in the long run at all (it’s just a hell of a claim to make about most technology). I think we have been forced to adapt around technology that refuses to cease existing once it’s discovered. That adaptation is often very violent. To be trite, your iphone is the perfect symbol of the violence of capitalism: you will never perceive the blood, sweat, and exploitation that leads to your device, ie commodity fetishism. Violence, cultural conflict, class conflict, and technological progress are all inextricably linked. Reducing technology to “good” or “bad” isn’t a conversation that goes anywhere.
My bad. You articulated it better than me.
I recently was in Prague for a day and mobile data wasn't working for whatever reason for me. I was able to get wifi in the train station, which let me download google and here offline maps for the city. So I was able to navigate around, but couldn't check twitter/hn etc. That worked out pretty well.

I could have also bought a paper map but who wants to deal with that?
Yes, it's the leading theory. That doesn't mean is true, just the most likely explanation for the data we have now.

Hardly anything is "conclusively proved", although theories we can design experiments for are much more robust than theories about historical or geological events where we don't have that luxury.
This is such a charming poem. I don't like poetry, but there's something special about science poetry.
Well, if course they are. Chinese farmers use antibiotics like candy. Even the stuff that the West considers reserve antibiotics of last resort. There is zero possibility of any Western pressure making them stop. Look also at the CO2 they emit and the plastic they dump in the ocean. The CCP has only two modes, rising living standards by questionable means, and mass die-offs of the population. This is the strategy of Mao.
You make a good counterpoint: it's awesome that this can be done concisely enough these days to fit in a hobby blog post. That's new and demonstrates the approachability of these tools.

At the same time, OP is right: a business doing this is making poor engineering decisions.
Does it solve the problem is the cut and solar and wind don't make it right now.
> and hope that you aren't on a strict budget

If you have a credit card and you're still on a tight budget, you're using credit cards the wrong way: i.e. the way most people use them. Use them like a debit card and you'll be fine, and in emergencies you have credit to dip into.
I've cut down my fish consumption considerably after reading similar headlines a few years ago. Luckily, there's a lot of plant-based options available.

https://goodcatchfoods.com/
I guess many beginner developers haven't realize this feature of Python yet. There are a couple of lib to enhance the FP feature of Python. Like itertool, functool, maybe more. In PySpark there are many functions take other function as parameters.

Another language is JavaScript. It uses function as parameter all the time but often just one time but not in a general way. Seems no JavaScript developer really seriously care about the term FP or OO.
Symptoms pretty much guarantee bad or improper RAM.

Source: I've been building systems, including POWER systems, for 30 years.
Also not so good in a blackout.
Hydrophobic catalysis: biological role of DNA unstacking induced by environment
I agree that in principle the inequality is causing instability and , and as much as I detest socialism, I don't see a peaceful way out of where we are not involving the "tax the wealthy... a lot".

Some comments: income taxes are the most stupid taxes ever. Rich people don't have incomes, they have capital gains. Increasing income taxes hurts middle-class: the rich wannabe. We need to abolish income tax, and turn it into asset tax, or at very least increase the capital taxes significantly. Tax people that are already rich, not the ones that are motivated to try to get there! Once they get there - then you can tax them.

Having said that - the taxes can't be too high, because people don't like taxes and rich people have plenty of resources to run away with their wealth.

So... there's no really easy way to get out of this mess.
I think snapping together a tower can be done equally well anywhere in the world.
There's no brainwashing going on. I myself am an introvert. I'm not discriminating. However despite being an introvert, i still do desire to interact with other people.

There is a social aspect to my and human nature that cannot be denied.

One example: 99% of introverts want to have sex with the opposite gender and interact with them despite your introversion. A good number also want to have kids and interact with those kids. You may value your "recharge" time but despite this most introverts also seek to socialize and interact with other people. It's a conflicting desire, but to be human is to be social, you cannot deny biology.

Look at the way humans live. We live in cities, towns or tribes. A very very small amount of us live in isolation outside of towns, tribes and cities. I would argue that most introverts live in a community and are unwilling to go far enough to live in total isolation. We are animals that live in groups. We are herd animals. My guess is that introversion stems from defensive instincts designed to deal with creatures outside of the herd.
> I'm curious - why is facebook required to promote a competing social network?

They aren't required to promote, but arguably also can't actively find ways to prevent it from trending "organically" as that could ostensibly constitute an anti-competitive practice
> How else would your explain negative interest rates?

Um, central banks that are charging negative interest on reserves.
You don't have to wait for anybody.

Maybe the most important thing to know is that we can make carbon-neutral alcohol fuel, and, integrated into regenerative agriculture ("Permaculture" et. al.) the economics are totally different than large-scale industrial ethanol production.

Think Community-Supported-Agriculture that supplies your gas.

Dave "Farmer Dave" Bloom collected all the necessary info into a book (that was banned from public tv at the time!)
http://alcoholcanbeagas.com/ Get the book, find or start your local fuel co-op!

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For practical advice on what to do I recommend Toby Hemenway's videos in re: Permaculture

http://tobyhemenway.com/videos/

Especially "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Planet – But Not Civilization" and the sequel "Redesigning Civilization with Permaculture".

Permaculture is a school of applied ecology (the word itself is a portmanteau of PERMAnent agriCULTURE) that has adherents and practitioners world-wide. It's not the only form of regenerative agriculture either.

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See also https://www.greenwave.org/our-work Oceanic 3D farms! And now they are building reefs?

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For more inspiration and projects search "Geoff Lawton Greening the Desert"
Differences Between gRPC and RSocket
Publicis Sapient's John Maeda explainshow big companies can think like startups
How much of computer manufacturing happens by hand, vs. loading the component reels on the pick and place machine and hitting the run button?
>The govt doesn't have this ability to print money and pay debt. The Fed does.

The Federal Reserve is part of the government. The Board of Governors is an independent government agency, with members appointed by the President. The individual banks are set up more like private corporations, but it's the Board of Governors that set the orders for new money being minted. Saying that it isn't the government that has the ability to print money and pay debt when this is the case is a little obtuse.
They're mostly appealing, yes. The question of usability should be changed to "Is it researchable?".
What I meant was manufacturing jobs, not actual manufacturing output. Just didn't phrase it correctly.

The government typically provides incentives under the condition of creating jobs, but they're trying to create jobs people don't want.
It's funny – I went on a backpacking trip when I was younger for 6 months. This was a couple years before the advent of smart phones. I travelled all over the place in super rural areas. I hitch hiked around and bought maps at gas stations and ask strangers for directions.

The only technology I had was a camera and an old iPod for music.

Now, if I go out in a new city I feel anxious without my phone – even when I'm right downtown with access to transit!

I don't think foreign places have gotten any harder to navigate. I think maybe all this technology in our pocket has made us less personable and less likely to make quick friends with a stranger for the mutual benefit of sharing information.
Governments also fight for their self-interest even if against their populations. This is deffo not restricted to country x country dynamics. It's also important to remember that increasingly countries do not do what's their citizens "will", so that would be an idealized view instead of an empirical one. Also since laws are passed by gov, when it suddenly forgets to put the checks and balances for itself, it is lawlessness too.
DNA is held together by hydrophobic forces
Funny we just came back from Japan (first time) and we thought about how lucky we are that we don't waste our little time to find our way.

There was a couple next to us on a bus with a smartphone (probably 40-50) and they asked school kids unsuccessful if that bus is going to the right direction.

I showed them my Google maps with our current location and the bus stops/route to tell them the bus is going in the right direction.

I also (even with high usage of Google maps) can remember a lot about roads and stuff. After all I still have to map the map with the real world.
All these articles are saying the same few things in different words now. I am a little burnt out on this topic at this point. I've felt this and said this for almost a decade now.

Technology amplifies our nature. It is a neutral force. Being mindful and having empathy are not just good habits but foundational to being healthy and happy in the 21st century.
> It's denominated in dollars that the government can create for "free".

The government cannot create wealth "for free". It can print more dollars, but in doing so it makes each dollar worth less. No wealth is actually gained.

> there are knock on effects of creating enough dollars to zero out the debt

Doing that is impossible, though. Reducing the value of a dollar means that you'll need even more dollars to repay that debt than you would have needed otherwise. There is no net gain here.
I think there's definitely value in disconnecting and "living in the moment" but let's not pretend smartphones haven't improved many aspects of travel. Google Maps alone has saved me so much time and effort. Translator apps have helped me communicate outside the tourist traps. Even things like Uber have made traveling a much more pleasant experience.

So yes, I think I can do a better job of being mindful about not using my phone to say, browse twitter.
Certainly some people want those jobs. However if you talk to young people, most of them seem to be more interested in becoming Instagram famous than stamping out widgets for 40h a week.
Like this one? https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
I had the same reaction when the German government revealed their insufficient measures as part of the "Klimapaket" (climate pact) last Friday. Scientists are recommending a tax of 180€ per ton of CO2 to achieve the necessary reduction in emissions. The German coalition government decides to introduce a 10€ CO2 tax. How dare they?
With P2P law, Switzerland reaffirms its commitment to privacy
Frames reloading in background is how I managed to create some interactivity before XMLHttpRequest. No idea if there would have been some better way at the time.
Here in Poland there is also an instant electronic transfer called BLIK, where you confirm the payment as well. What is sent is a temporary numeric code to the terminal (it can be typed in as well as sent over NFC or QR code) and it is similar to automatic escrow. Disputes work differently depending on the bank though.

And in some banks they're starting to roll out OTP 3D Secure etc. confirmations even for PoS terminals above certain value. Most terminals support it, it's just a hold on transaction.
Thanks for this. I had no idea this was the case, and have long operated under the erroneous belief that most transplants basically worked and left the recipient relatively problem-free afterward—well, at least as far as the transplant was concerned. It is odd to learn that transplants are a time-buying exercise.
If toxic masculinity exists, then surely there should be some examples of toxic femininity? Can you provide some such examples? Or is it only masculine traits that can be toxic?
I appreciate Drew sharing this, I was interested in picking a Raptor board up sometime...
The old Mac Pro was never updated, but they never stopped production of them.
>The issue with this is that I don't know how to get anywhere (conveniently) or find public transport connections without my phone.

Almost anywhere you go, even developing world, they have all kinds of small guidebooks and maps, often given for free, with all the public transport connections. You can ask any passer by for directions (god forbid they might be wrong or difficult, and you lose some time!), take a cab, ask the bus driver, check the diagrams at the subway station, and lots of other ways...

People say it like it's some arcane magic to do so, whereas even back in 2000 or so, there were no "apps" and instant access to public transport connections, or such, and billions still managed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuhHI5AFOeg I just saw this video talking about her
During the day California runs on up to 40% solar energy on some days and I don't notice any difference. My stuff doesn't care where its electricity comes from. I drive an electric car too.

http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.aspx

There is a lot of low-hanging fruit.

Coal is the #1 cause of climate change and phasing it out is the most important thing we can do. Just swapping coal for gas cuts CO2 emissions per kWh by 50%. The problem is that coal is cheap. In most places in the world it is still the cheapest way to generate electricity.

After that other big things are: live closer to work, use public transit, drive electric vehicles, eat less meat (especially beef), and improve home insulation if you use a lot of HVAC. Those are relatively minor lifestyle changes.

A lot of environmentalists really let the perfect (and very impractical) be the enemy of the good on this. We can make a substantial dent with very little change. After we do all the easy stuff like phase out coal, then we can look at what's left. This is how you solve problems in the real world.
Mistake #1: Windows != GUI

I think that's only true in a literal sense. For many people, it's untrue in a practical sense, and those people live in a practical world.
Well, there's Revolut not quite prepaid virtual debit cards.

Some banks offer temporary card numbers as a premium feature.
Add a couple of seconds when spinning up an ENI. New nodes in a VPC are around 3 seconds (and our last EBC with Amazon indicated that it won't get lower than that for awhile). It's worth noting that this impacts ECU scaling for Aurora Serverless as well.

Why would you need to put a Lambda in a VPC? For access to a database, other EC2 bound resources, or overall network security reasons (such as outbound network monitoring).