skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jokes of this kind are funny because they reference an unstated truth that performer & audience know. They are one of the vehicles by which culture is created. If you think that a joke is communicating a mistruth (by which I mean something disputed, I do not mean a lie) or creating a negative culture - regardless of the intent of the author - it's okay to discuss that.

So in this case, I don't think there's any reason to believe there was an exclusionary intent, and I don't interpret GP as saying that or as calling GGP out, but there may be an exclusionary effect, and I give it's totally reasonable for GP to respectfully add this footnote to mitigate any unintended negative impact.

Some may say this is being a wet blanket or ruining the humor, but people always call you paranoid or a safety Sally or whatever when you try to mitigate unintended harm in any context; you learn to ignore it.

I used to be involved in a biology lab, and people loved to stand on these rickety tables that fell apart at the drop of a hat. So I would bring them a stepladder and politely insist that, if they were in my lab, they were going to use a stepladder. They called me a safety Sally everytime. Doesn't mean I was going to let them smash their heads on the cement floor.
Those environmental disasters were clearly created by other warped, bad ideologies. Neoliberalism is another example.
Parents, friends, the street. The negative incentive is working hard for $12 an hour, with no possibility of promotion or advancement, no ability to get a better job, nothing to aspire to, nothing to live for, no reason to persevere. No decent employer will give you the time of day if your resume lacks a college degree, let alone with a criminal record, patchy work history, or lacking a dream beyond making a decent wage.
Hollow core fiber? Total internal reflection requires the core to be a higher index of refraction than the cladding, so I wonder how that works!

Turns out, it functions differently. Instead of total internal refraction it has to rely on weird physics like photonic crystals. The pictures are absolutely wild.

https://www.rp-photonics.com/hollow_core_fibers.html

https://www.google.com/search?q=hollow+core+fiber&tbm=isch
There can be no free or fair market here. The barrier to entry for new companies to enter the phone market is just unbelievably high with all the patents.

Modern human communication, phones, are too important to be held hostage by just two companies, neither of which are acting in consumers best interests.

IMO this is the time that governments should be acting on behalf of the people, and not the corporations with the deepest pockets.
The irritating part of encryption is that it's hard to determine what the underlying data is. With one key, it could be a word document that says "paying my taxes is the one joy i have in life" and with another, it could be the most horrifying image you can imagine.

I understand the government's interests in this particular issue, people that abuse children are the biggest pieces of shit that I can imagine, but unfortunately math is a pain in the ass and their laws are not possible to administer.

If you think someone is abusing children, you can always send a cop to their house and have them check. That is well within the rights of the government, and I'd even go so far as to say I support that right.
Nothing happens.
The Podcast Paleo Nerds did two episodes[1][2] in April featuring DePalma and the Tanis site.

[1]: https://www.paleonerds.com/podcast/robertdepalma

[2]: https://www.paleonerds.com/podcast/robertdepalma2
That's not something that would really need to be considered unless you're talking completely apocalyptic, no soil at all.
> Docker is a system for shipping your laptop to production, and because of the inadequacies in the tooling of those popular languages, it's in high demand.

I know this is in jest, but I don't agree with this. Docker is a way to run code in an environment you fully control without knowing exactly what it will be running on.

Many of the popular tools can generate a single file, but they'll be built for a specific architecture or require a certain run time.
I disagree. This has been eroded in a continual and unstoppable way.

It's annoying because years and years ago my view of computing was very very positive.

I would have viewed something like web assembly as better and faster! Now I view it primarily as a way of obscuring what happens on your computer. We can see that web pages load and run fast enough -- it is just that most do not because they load the maximum number of advertisements and trackers that the delay will bear.
I think that’s a little premature. Logistical problems caused by the pandemic and geopolitics have revealed significant weaknesses that may be inevitable in globalization past a certain point but that just means the pendulum will shift a bit in the other direction, not kill it. Also most medium & smaller countries won’t be able to onshore all goods and services and will therefore be required to continue relying significantly on globalized industry.
Australia – voyage of a 17-century merchant ship ended in mutiny and mayhem
At this point you must know that if you buy a mac you are surrendering any claim on your third party apps surviving between updates. Irritating, yes, but not surprising.
I wish I could agree with you but I’m helplessly bound by my DNA to think you’re wrong.
What's special about Stripe Press? What makes it "serious work"? In "the space" -- what space?

Stripe seems like a boutique publisher that carefully selects a small number of titles for quality and appeal to a certain audience. But "traditional" publishers like MIT Press, Springer, and Addison-Wesley have put out hundreds of important, high-quality books. With all the signal out there, I don't find it too hard to figure out which ones are the classics that are worth reading.
Yeah also that magazine is ugly. They were complaining about a yellow building but they're a brown website.
> One needs to grow up and have a proper education to understand…

> So how about looking at reality for a change?

Someone using this type of language on HN has no room to complain about criticism of their behaviour.
Yep. It's essentially trying to use POSIX API to do firmware updates. This will come in handy if you have a remote server to manage a fleet of OTA firmware updates of course. That's why it should have had been FUSE based in the first place.
The point is the local transportation accounts for the significant majority of carbon emissions from freight transportation. Moving goods 3000 miles by ship and another 100 miles by road is not much more emissions than moving goods only 100 miles by road.

A more effective change would be to make transportation emit less greenhouse gases. Get hydrogen powered container ships and electric vehicles. This would reduce greenhouse gases significantly more, and wouldn't involve destroying the global economy.
I dunno, maybe when you become is big/complex you stop prioritizing supporting niche fake non-standards compliant mass storage devices? You'd never do that though I'm sure.
> Globalization in its recent form has been all about exploiting labor cost differences.

? That is globalization. It's arbitrage through nations borders. Arbitrage is not limited to financial instruments but can be extended to Labor, Weather and Culture.

> * the most advanced countries have seen how quickly that edge can be lost if you outsource to this extent, which could lead to more proprietariness and a desire to enlarge gaps in absolute lifestyle instead of short-term cost-minimization; especially if armed conflict stays hotter than it was in the 90s

Sure, in a truly globalized world, every country will be arbitraged to equality. That's a feature not a bug.

> * on the other hand, if closing labor cost and standard of living gaps continue in the future, globalization makes less sense because paying the logistics penalties and shipping costs in a world with more-or-less equivalent labor costs everywhere becomes stupid - sooner or later you run out of cheaper places to outsource too.

This assumes all geographies have the same advantages. I'm pretty sure it's more profitable to produce bananas in African jungle; and also impossible to pump oil out of Japan. Globalization re-enforces local advantage. On equilibrium, only your local advantage will prevail as everything else will get arbed to death.

> Outside of raw materials, what do you need from halfway across the globe that none of the millions of people within a few hundred miles couldn't figure out how to do or copy?

Tropical fruits, Highly advanced computer chips, iPhone made by factories all around the world and assembled nearby, Internet services, Medical equipment, the list will goes on. Now if you are saying who will roast your coffee, cut your hair and wash your car; yeah it'll be a few miles around.

Also: Shipping material halfway through the world is stupidly cheap.
Of course, the other thing is that there's a ton of effort that goes into writing that question so well. I think if jira tickets were that well written, I'd be able to go much faster too.
Your comment would read so much better without the opening paragraph.
Wasn't joking. Perhaps my worldview is more limited than it should be.
> Also, I’m unclear about how to briefly fit my 45 years experience into a resume format

You don't. I have a way less experience and I still only show my last 10 years. As I said somewhere, if someone is interested in my experience in managing a (now) 15 years old specific software then I is not interested in them.

Also I'm in favour of 'CV should fit on a single page'. If someone looks for talent then this is more than enough to interest them and nobody looks at the second page anyway.
> Requires more labor or becomes more expensive are probably correct. Are we willing to pay for it?

I certainly am, but in the US we have a history now of eating rubbish and devaluing quality food, so I'm not sure how quickly the market will push farming practices. I think the labor is the more difficult issue, as fewer people want to farm.

I imagine it's a very hard choice to switch off a high production farm for a permaculture one (one I personally hope more people make).
I don’t know if this is true, I’ve seen some truly awful spaghetti g with a dozen modules to implement a trivial web api and it was indecipherable. This was for a “tech” company as well, not just some random internal app (it was built by the sales org though, which explains it).
Presumably this is for HDMI-VGA adapters, but it assumes that the adapter itself has an EDID EEPROM instead of passing the data through (otherwise you'd be writing to whatever monitor it's connected to), and that the EDID EEPROM isn't write-protected.
That still catches abusers, as abusers are often consumers of material.
String theory as it currently exists is very different to how it started. The original use case was actually as a precursor to the current model for partons: QCD.

(Side note: there is still another theory in QCD research that is used, called the Lund string model, but it is not related to string theory and should not be compared. I just bring it up for completeness)

This is not to say that I disagree with being more critical of science initiatives, but that heavy-handed approaches like jail and social punishment are not the silver bullet you may think they are. Theories get repurposed very frequently between departments and the relationship between a line of enquiry and the results it may produce is not always linear.

Really, science communication (especially from news outlets) itself should be defunded, as it misrepresents the topics discussed. In its place, (structured, public) science EDUCATION should be funded.
I’m a network engineer by trade and think that would be cool, but I don’t think it’s a great idea to have a bunch of amateurs all of a sudden participating in BGP for numerous reasons. It’s certainly possible for an individual to setup a LLC, get an allocation from ARIN + AS number, order a business ISP connection w/ BGP and get an adequate router. It’s a high barrier of entry and won’t be cheap. Making that easier will likely lead to more widespread BGP issues (intentional or unintentional), filling up router TCAMs with even more prefixes, etc.

There’s already communities out there for hobbyists to play with/learn BGP on private networks over VPN tunnels if you really want to.
Historically, there was little trade outside of empires, due to poor transportation routes and lack of refrigeration, or canning, so trade was in goods that could last the journey and were high value enough to be profitable. Dry goods, household items, textiles.

But, most countries did not have vast trade --economies were local and regional. So, yes, humanity can survive and even prosper without "globalization" but progress may be slowed and progress may be less uniform, among other things.
Having finished reading this essay in full at last, I am astounded at how completely unsubstantiative this discussion thread is. Not a single comment seems to be informed by TFA, but rather by preconceived notions about the imperial Chinese civil examination system.

That said, I would say that if there's any flaw in this essay, is that it doesn't revisit those predominant notions until the last two sections of the essay ("Modern Prose Aesthetics and Individuality"), ("Meritocracy and Social Reproduction"). It instead spends most of the time describing the system in detail, which is of course very much appreciated. I particularly like how it explains that much of the exam material was prepared by "the so-called literati [...] the cultured elite." (There's probably all sorts of parallels one could choose to read into contemporary society, if one was inclined to treat history like a cudgel.)

Wikipedia's article on the eight-legged essay mentions there is a post-Opening Amplification section that elaborates and clarifies the themes of the essay. One wonders how this article would read if delivered in the baguwen format.
Wonderful, great, but oh god why do it in sight-destroying white on black text? I can't be the only one that suffers shape outlines in my eyesight for minutes after even a few seconds of looking at it.
Vanilla vi has the ':set list' flag to make tabs and spaces visually distinct too.
Moving raw materials across the ocean could also be better overall for the environment.

If Country A can produce 100Mt of raw material by digging up 10000ha of already-destroyed farmland, and Country B would need to clear 100000ha of pristine untouched forest for the same amount of raw material extraction, wouldn't it be better to source from Country A? At least up to some point where the environmental impact of oil used to ship 100Mt of material from Country A is worse than clearing 100000ha of pristine untouched forest.
Well this sucks. We didn't always see eye to eye, but I always enjoyed our exchanges. Already missed.
It may become self sufficient(whatever that means) but there is little incentive to do so due the waste of resources/inefficiencies.

If you have valuable goods/services you can offset the transport costs and exchange them for food or whatever you need.

The same rules apply at the individual level. How many engineers are self sufficient? How many cities are self sufficient? Is it really worth it to build all kind of redudant systems (i.e people building bunkers for their families and learning survival skills) ? I think we already know the answer.
Tropical storm tracks 1886 to present
It’s become more common to have the EDID stored in an I2C device that is part of the main silicon (because HDMI requires I2C devices anyway for HDCP and HDMI 2.0 SCDC support), but well designed monitors with an I2C PROM for the EDID have the write-protect pin of the PROM asserted to prevent accidental mishaps by tools like this… or by intentionally malicious tools.
Because, historically, people almost always favored trade over sovereignty. Even today, trade is still happening between Russia and the US. People just like to trade across the virtual boundaries that culture and nationality has made.

Evolution will favor those who trade over those who don't since the ones trading will be more efficient. There will blips along the way but unless you can convince me otherwise how a closed system will be more efficient, in the very long time, globalization is our fate.
> Did "neoliberal ideology" inspire the Soviet Union to drain the Aral sea?

Well, no, stagnant state capitalism is different kind of capitalist exploitation than neoliberalism.

> If your only solution to environmental destruction is change the ideology of the world to match your own, then you don’t really care about the environment at all.

Caring about the environment is an ideological position, and obviously ideologies which reject it (as both state and market capitalism do) are going to be problematic for the goals of those who accept it as long as the latter are dominant.
Ask HN: What's an up-and-coming field, media, or technology
Hey HN,

What is something that you see has a lot of potential but is less known? It could be anything: a new technology, a style of music, heck, even a new species of bug that has been discovered. I'd love to learn about new ideas or discoveries people are working on.
Good documentary about this issue on Netflix: Kiss the Ground (2020)

https://www.netflix.com/title/81321999

It has some striking pictures of two farm fields side by side.

One supports diverse plant life and produces nutrient-rich food. The plant roots prevent erosion, and retain water. The soil is rich and black. It's "regenerative".

The other has brown, dry, dead soil. It's tilled and irrigated and sprayed with chemicals. It grows a single crop, a monoculture.

Multiply that by a hundred years and thousands of consolidating mega farms all over the world, and you have a huge amount of erosion

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This problem has been well understood for decades (and by other civilizations for centuries), but is repressed / conveniently ignored by a wealthy, government-subsidized food industry

Here's a 2012 documentary about a 1994 project in China to restore degraded / desertified land, and it shows how poor entire states become when the soil is poor (which I suppose is not unlike the American midwest!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjLV_aVRUmQ

https://rethink.earth/turning-desert-to-fertile-farmland-on-...

Chinese land has supported agriculture way longer than American land, and they have way more people, so they have these problems sooner

The US is going to get there
> "So while additional writes to the volume will succeed, reading back the data will give the wrong contents," explains Allan.

That's ... not a correct implementation of a USB mass storage device. I'm not surprised it broke; I'm surprised it ever worked at all.

Looking into this a bit more, the RPi bootloader emulates block-level access to a FAT filesystem, but throws away writes to anything other than the contents of a few emulated files.

Filesystem implementations and OS page caches are not written to treat the physical block storage as authoritative and capable of modifying their writes out from under them. To a filesystem or the OS, that just looks like a failing drive.
You're not very familiar with science then, what you see on HN is just the tip of the iceberg.

What astounds me again and again is the level of cult and blind belief in academia we've reached in parts of the world. It's almost like science has taken the role of religious dogma for many self-proclaimed atheists. Including holy (twitter) wars, schisms and the sacrifice of scapegoats.
The nanowire localizes the photons in space, time, and energy. APDs can't do energy.

The cryogenics allow using cryogenic-level bandgaps/carrier-energies, so each optical photon turns into many carriers which then flow out the wire in both directions, the delay between the pulse on both ends localizes the impact along the wire.
Read this again with fresh eyes, then when bookmarking it saw that I had already bookmarked it back in 2019 and forgot I had. It's still great writing advice.
Globalization is as old as written history. Trade routes were around at least 1000 years ago. Colonization of the Americas was driven by Europe's search for easier access to Asia.

Modern Globalization will return once the political climate improves.
I also want to suggest this YouTube lecture on the subject which I’ve enjoyed listening to a couple of times.

Dave Montgomery - Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

https://youtu.be/sQACN-XiqHU
This is not true. The law was specifically geared toward Muslims and targeted against “religious extremism”.

The law was specifically aimed
https://apnews.com/article/religion-france-government-and-po...

> The ruling was the first under a controversial law, championed by President Emmanuel Macron, aimed at protecting “republican values” from what his government calls the threat of religious extremism.
Well, I am sorry the world timeline is not adjusted to yours. What makes this moment particular to say 1,000 years ago? Nothing.
The government compelling apple to cause peoples phones to search themselves (with no probable cause that the suspects of the searches committed a crime) would be facially unconstitutional under the fourth amendment, not the first.

Compelled speech would be an interesting argument against compelled writing of software, but is definitely the weaker one here.

Edit: Oh, I see in one of the other replies GP raised the first amendment. Just take this as a reply to the idea in general...
You have had a knee jerk reaction to the description of an opposing ideology, but if you hadn’t you would see that the description of the problem was factual and ideologically neutral apart from rejecting the problem.

I, too, ideologically oppose any motive to extract more from the environment than it can sustain. And I see more problem with your reflexive, defensive ideological counter reaction than GP’s correct summary and incomplete list of offensive programs.
The wikipedia page mentions it - the prevailing winds are west-to-east across much of the US and Canada due to the jet stream. In the winter the jet stream also moves further south. It mentions some of what must have been epic multi-day dust storms that started in South Dakota and reached Chicago one day and the east coast the next. New England had red snowfall from the residual dust in the air.

I was surprised recently when I was watching an Iowa corn farmer on youtube who is the new generation taking over the farm and trying to change things for the better by doing "new" things such as no till farming. I remember reading about no-till as a kid back in the 80s and there are still people who are just now getting the memo and trying it. I loved farming but didn't take over the family farm because my dad was reticent to trying new things, and chose computer programming instead.
I hope we continue repeating the cycle -- but in a different way.

I read the book "the rational optimist" where it turns out mining coal and drilling for oil helped save the whales (replacing whale oil) and forests (replacing firewood).

So I am saying maybe solar (or well designed nuclear) could help with energy and pollution.

That said, all the bay area redwoods were clear cut to rebuild the city after the earthquake and fires in 1906. Only a handful of old-growth redwoods exist.
This. It's also a very common and controversial topic where everyone has their own goddamned opinion they think is right - hence it's going to generate a firestorm of debate wherever it's posted.

Except on HN because it's probably going to get nuked.
Bulwani is from India not Pakistan
Imagine the cooling system!

A gaming computer can use 1000W. Google says spacecraft radiators reject 350W/m^2.

If my math is correct (no guarantees) you'd need a king-sized-bed-sized panel just to cool your rig.
Prisoner's dilemma is solved and not a dilemma with repeat rounds (aka trust and relationships). Like the real world. This fits well with the fact that cooperation works, and is why civilization exists.