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Your comment reminded me of this book:

The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck, which I read many years ago, as a teenager or young adult.

I was quite moved by it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Earth

Excerpt:

[ The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a 20th-century Chinese village in Anhwei. It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Buck, who grew up in China as the daughter of American missionaries, wrote the book while living in China and drew on her first-hand observation of Chinese village life. ]

It is only today that I got to know, due to googling for the links, that she won both the Pulitzer prize and the Nobel prize for Literature, partly for that book.
Janet Reno? The only thing she smoked were the Branch Davidians.
I am forever haunted by the death of a woman by a metal straw where it impaled her in the head when she accidentally fell in her home.
I mean lots of the lore is just residual 16 year old’s getting into reading stuff. You read l’Estranger (translated), decide you’re an intellectual, and so have a go at Ulysses cos it’s the hardest one and so suitable for you, an intellectual. The internet has been a good transmission vector for the sentiment.

If your ideas about cooking come from watching Masterchef (analogously), you might treat the idea of making a beurre blanc as a similar act of conquest, triumph in the face of splitting adversity whilst a thousand-voice choir crescendos in the background as you whisk. But a million french housewives happily made it for decades having never been told it’s impossible, and indeed knowing better that it isn’t.
Wow, I didn't realize it only used 4 AA's. Didn't have one but saw a few. The screen wasn't bad and the keyboard was fantastic, which was a point of focus for me since my Atari 400 had membrane keys (though I got really good at slide-press typing on it).
If the argument is between two new formats, how are old formats at all relevant? The issues you outlined are faced by both (or any) new format so is essentially moot in the context of this conversation.
I generally agree with the defined problem, but when a prescription is provided then that becomes the new goal rather than the initial desired outcome (no more negative effects of digitopia). Your progress is compared against your adherence to the protocol firstly, then the initial desired outcome secondly.

With that being said, to be a bit hypocritical, and with the disclaimer that this is non-exhaustive and different things work for different people, the protocol that has worked for me is as follows:

Delete all social media

Meditate hour a day

Gym (weights, cardio) 5x a week

Good sleep

Proper diet and supplementation

Have job that pays good enough and be good at it

Live well below my means and take on no debt

I think once you remove basically everything, and you’ve listened and quieted all of your thoughts and sophisticated ape urges, you come to understand things truthfully, and wisdom + stoicism + peace naturally ensues.
See also:

> In 2020, through a collaboration between AMD, Intel, Red Hat, and SUSE, three microarchitecture levels (or feature levels) on top of the x86-64 baseline were defined: x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, and x86-64-v4.[41][42] These levels define specific features that can be targeted by programmers to provide compile-time optimizations. The features exposed by each level are as follows:[43]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level...
I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I'm vegan, though not the type to rave about anything. I'm afraid this is selection bias --- the loudest voices win. I've seen plenty of folks talk that way on the Internet, but never IRL.

Some have made a religion out of it. If you want to get an idea of how tiresome it can get, go to r/vegan and observe the folks getting into pissing contests about whether, for instance, vegans should have any contact with non-vegans.

I think there's something deeply ironic about taking the moral high ground, since even the most committed vegans still benefit from animal agriculture in ways they probably aren't aware of. It's like capitalism --- utterly inescapable in today's world. You just ought to do the best you can under the circumstances.
CSIS report on space and airborne sensors for hypersonics
Indeed, this is extremely powerful and underutilized, even though as you correctly note it's not a replacement for testing in practice.

A thing which has repeatedly caused apparently competent people to just give up on proving software is Rice's Theorem, sometimes just encountered in the form of "Oh dear, I just realised I'm trying to solve the Halting Problem" (Henry Rice got his PhD for proving that it's not a coincidence, proving any non-trivial semantic requirements of arbitrary programs is always Undecidable)

But Rice's Theorem only means we cannot always be sure. So the important insight is that we're engineers - we mostly want simple, robust, reusable components with easy to prove properties so we often do not care about the edge cases, we can just reject all the programs we can't prove.

That's the crucial technical difference between Rust and C++, but it could have been and in my opinion should be exploited more extensively across the industry.
I meant what was shown in this movie [0]. In a nutshell, the ability to remain calm when the unexpected happens, to try to solve the problem, or at least to not make it worse.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)
The web has become unusable without extensions like uBlock Origin, but extensions can contain malware.

I have moved over to only using extensions that have gone through Mozilla's manual code review necessary to become part of their "recommended extensions" program.

> Before an extension receives Recommended status, it undergoes rigorous technical review by staff security experts

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...
Don't think they need an argument. That's the nature of the beast.
It's not about argument or logic or reasons. That's why professors and
scientists are helpless against it.

I think about Heidegger (of whom I'm a reader), and Chomsky (who
infuriates me, but I like).

Was Martin Heidegger a Nazi? How could such deep and valuable
philosophy come from someone who was aligned with a bunch of genocidal
bourgeois thugs?

Noam Chomsky told us the answer. Academics and intellectuals are the
worst of cowards, says Chomsky. They will always side with power in
the end. Heidegger chose self preservation. He wanted to stay in his
job and be able to write philosophy, nothing more.

Some of the people I was a freshman with are now deans and
vice-chancellors. Those I'm still friends with say they wish they
could be like me - crazy and authentic but poor. I tell them to their
faces that they sold out, but I'd love their salary. They say, it's
not worth it. At least we can still laugh together.

What happened over the decades between 1990 and now is that, one by
one, good people caved in to what they believed was "inevitable".
They were browbeaten or manipulated into the rationale of "markets and
industry". They put aside the effort of real thought, principles and
taking the harder road. They gave up on the students.

Each time I walk back into a university it feels a little colder. A
bit more Fascist. More fear and loathing. Not sure what I am saying
really, other than intelligence is not enough to resist evil.
Yea this sounds like a hot conspiracy theory take, but let’s not forget we’re constantly making new members of society.

40years ago, I wasn’t around to see ads. Even if they’re successful, they have to start again for the next generation.
Do you usually pop into target because you’re out and about, walking around with no access to a vehicle in which you might keep bags? And then you purchase enough stuff that you require a large plastic bag for?

And this happens often enough for you to be throwing away large quantities of these bags, and rather than reflect on your habits and adapt, you say something else is causing the waste?
> most people will just tell you things if you ask

In my experience people are often bad at explaining their inner emotions. Rationalisation is one of my favorite words!

I will often ask a friend why they acted a certain way, and I will carefully listen to what they say, but I often disagree with their stated motives - denial and lack of self-awareness are rife. This has nothing to do with people consciously trying to deceive me (there's another topic!). I have the same faults. I'm average at reading people, yet all too often I have to trust my own flawed instincts about what I think is going on.
I wanted to love this book. I understood the concepts and found them legitimately thought provoking - I just disliked the writing style. He uses elaborate metaphors, strained socratic dialogue, peppered with cultural references and visual cues... and relatively few paragraphs actually articulating the core ideas. I only understood Godel's incompleteness theorem when I looked it up elsewhere. It's like he focused entirely on the mystical "look how deep all this stuff is..." story and forgot to actually explain the subject at hand.
It's hard to turn off your car in a traffic jam, efficiency is getting cars off the road. And those transit options are often horrible for the disabled. The fight against self-driving cars is especially shortsighted.

But yeah, wanting to make things worse for everyone tends to get a lot of push-back.
Back in my days building custom software (in the US/Canada) a lot of the PM work was figuring out how the process overrides worked. Every organization has a set of formal rules... and the way things actually work (and 50% of my job was making sure our CRUD apps that were more than just spreadsheets with changelogs).

But having lived & worked in a few countries now, the way other cultures do their overrides is always more visible (e.g. Country A you might pay bribes to get out of tickets, country B might just not pull people over in nice cars)
Self-Driving Labs
An intro to what self-driving labs are, what they can do, and how we can fund more of them
> I don't think that I'm "on the spectrum" but I'm quite bad at predicting social responses to stimuli. I don't know when a joke will get a laugh or be offensive, when a comment here will get voted up or down, when flirting or a complement is harassment, etc.

Interestingly, all of these also have a cultural aspect. One can be excellent at predicting all these reactions in one culture and be a complete failure at it in a different culture, even though you are the same person.
Just leave them in your car? Most people drive to stores, especially in the US.

I also almost always have a backpack with me when I’m out and about, I just leave some cloth backpacks bags in it.

Realistically, how much stuff are you buying on trips to the store on a whim?
The vast majority of Target stores are not urban stores, they are big suburban stores where few people visit without a car.

But even in the city, I almost always have a small backpack with me, and in one of the pockets I have a very compact fold-up shopping bag that I use when I stop at the store on the way home.
I actually essentially do that, I have a reusable bag that folds up into itself with a zipper into a package about the size of a wallet. Fits well in a purse or jacket pocket and is more pleasant to carry when full than a plastic bag anyhow.

So really, there’s not even a small sacrifice involved for me, just a little bit of planning, to avoid making that waste.

And isn’t this kind of ingenious gadget based solution much more in the hacker spirit than throwing up our hands and saying, give me back the old traditional way regardless of the flaws?
it's very easy with debian to maintain small patches on top of packages

and dpkg-buildpackage will do all the hard work for you
I've known a number of people who ran into him that said he was really chill, but who knows. Most really toxic dickheads are really great at putting on the nice guy show when it benefits them. That said, everybody has bad days, and it's pretty clear he had some giant mental health issues to contend with. I have too, and while I've always been more of a social harmony type, I hope there aren't too many that judge me based on my worst days. I imagine the people that actually worked for him would probably know best, and given his status, I doubt someone that had terrible experiences would be particularly willing to step forward. I will say though that I heard a lot of really negative shit about Mario Batalli a-decade-and-a-half before he was publicly shamed for it, and never the same for Bourdain.
>probably better to have that as a native browser feature

/Agree. It is crazy that I have to trust some unknown coder with all my browser data just to enable vertical tabs in Firefox.

Of course many of these extensions are open source and thus auditable. As I lack the skill to detect nefarious code, I am wondering if this might be a good use case for AI. Anyone have thoughts on building a good malware finding prompts?
That's what makes it tricky: Both are possible.
They shoyld really get on that eh
They started as £0.05 here in the UK. Now a few years later it is £1 for a plastic bag from Waitrose. Outrageous.

Even worse are the places that offer only paper bags, but charge you for them because they can now. 30p for a paper bag from Boots makes no sense when the whole point of the bag levy was to stop people using plastic ones.
Just to put this in perspective, in Australia $20M third party insurance is compulsory. You can not register the car without it. The cost is about $500/year.
As soon as I saw people were using metal straws as a replacement for plastic straws, I thought... that is a terrible, dumb idea. Yet people still buy them. It's pretty nuts.

There are now perfectly functional composable straws, but people still need to compost them.
Killing off nearly all the wolves, mountain lions, lynx, bears, coyotes, foxes, etc, is probably a good chunk of the problem when talking about small mammal populations.
Are you comparing a car with a straw? Really? Trust me you will be perfectly fine without a straw! Try it sometime.
That just seems to show proportions on github - it may be with the growth in the total sector size the absolute number is still increasing.

But yeah a 0.234% yoy-decrease isn't "plummeting". If so, then things like typescript or python are even steeper in their, and java being the next big thing showing massive growth compared. And rust itself is decreasing according to those stats, so I guess it's declining too.
It's one of the better ways to avoid getting scammed: Try to validate the communication in ways without relying on any information they gave you.

If someone claims to be a police officer and hands you a number to call to see if they are real... don't use that number. Figure out the non-emergency number of the station they claim to be coming from independently and ask them. If a "new agent" from your bank calls you and gives you a "new number" to call them, figure out an official number of your bank and call that.
Wow, for an HN comments section, this feels weird. How can people be so annoyed of a plastic straw / bag ban? It is a minor inconvenience. Yes, those environmental rules continue to ban stuff we liked, and I get it, but it is not like we have much of a choice? This stuff is everywhere, including inside our bodies. Let's try to reduce it at least a little.
I'm going to try and explain why it made a difference in my life as briefly as I can.

I read it in the early 90s as a teenager at a community college in the suburbs, along with the Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, at a point in my life when I was struggling with having a lot of doubt about Catholicism, and the _one_ thing that was keeping me from just giving up on religion entirely was that I just couldn't understand how the experience of _being_ could be anything but a spiritual soul, and those two books gave me the intellectual tools to basically completely rebuild my entire conception of what and who I was -- which is to say that I could finally see consciousness as the an emergent property of ordinary matter, and the relationship between consciousness and computation.

It's an experience you can only have if you read the right books at the right time in your life. You can only be exposed to any particular idea for the first time once in your life, and if they ideas in those books are not new to you, I'm sure you'll find GEB pretentious and ponderous or whatever, but for me it was like fireworks going off on every page. I read it and reread it and took notes on it and used it as a launching point for more reading for years afterwards.

edit with some extra thoughts: Keep in mind this book was written in 1979, when vanishingly few people had access to computers, let alone the internet. There was no wikipedia you could go to to scratch an itch about some topic. GEB is encyclopedic in scope and meandering because it _had to be_, he couldn't expect an audience who were familiar with _computers_ let alone artificial intelligence and set theory. It's really extraordinary that it's accessible as it is, given the breadth that it covered.

Today, given the advances in all the things he was talking about, I would think it's mostly interesting to read for historical reasons.
What really caused the sriracha shortage? Two friends and an epic breakup
The M61 (the gun the Phalanx is built around) apparently has a 80% dispersion of ~5 milliradians (see this amazing reddit post complaining about DCS - note that the evidence points to a range of values - I think 5 milliradians is a fair summary https://old.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/eyddn3/m61_and_gau8... ). At 1500m that works out to a 75cm radius (I'm pretty sure its radius...) disc.

Assuming your firing at a missile flying right at you, and assuming a Cold War era threat (so say a Kh-22 fired from a Tu-22M), you're talking about a 92cm diameter target (46cm radius) that you're trying to hit.

In reality, things are worse because in addition to dispersion, your actual point of aim of your stream of bullets will be effected by external factors (like wind).

You can see how in the scenario layed out above, you do actually have what seems to be a reasonable chance of landing a few hits when you're spewing out hundreds of rounds within seconds. But you can also see how quickly the odds go to crap as you push the range further and further.

I think that gets to the reality of what the "effective range" value is. It is a rule of thumb designed to help weapons officers quickly determine how best to react in a scenario.

Remember that CIWS was envisioned to be deployed in a scenario where USN ships would be subject to saturation attacks by supersonic anti-ship missiles from multiple bearings and sources. Phalanx itself only has a magazine of ~1000 rounds, which is good for maybe only 10s of firing, so you really do need to conserve ammo.
Why California's housing market is destined to go up in flames
I love browser extensions both as a user and as a hacker.

The elephant in the room is browser extensions are not a web standard and Google or Firefox can make a breaking change to you at any time “for security”. Also Chrome can boot you out of the store or ask for 100 point ID check in the future.

Extensions are great but a web standard for them would be even better.
Most of those links are about bad memory. If you blame bad memory for filesystem issues I don't really know what to tell you. Ignoring the poor state of the native encryption code, ZFS has had 1 corruption bug in like 10 years. Thats one of the best records for modern filesystems. I still wouldn't trust my data to btrfs by comparison.
I've been using cloth bags for decades, but in 2020 I switched to grocery pickup rather than going into the store myself. This forces the use of plastic bags -- no amount of pleading will allow any other option.

It's a giant step backwards.
https://archive.ph/ckE4C
Hahah the whole point of op is that there is value in not always having a point, but meandering, especially for techies. Are you set an proving him right?
Source? And what do you mean by America, USA? Wikipedia says something else:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_the_United_St...
Hence, the weekly LLM explainer at the top of the hackernews feed.
I would say focus on what's fundamental and pragmatic to each (e.g. immediately relevant). All the recent stuff actually isn't that, unless you're the one doing the research or implementing them. I think LSMs are great and I'd gladly use a db that uses them but I don't need to know how they work, only their properties when selecting a db. If I'm using a relational DB though I'd damn-well better know how indexes work.