skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure I fall into the definition of a cynic given in the piece

"according to cynics, the world operates in a certain way, the elites are always the same, and will always be the same. The cynics think we are always playing the same game that has always been played. For example, a cynic may think that media’s only purpose is to sells your attention to advertisers - like I did here. And often they might be right."

but I too be honest don't really see the problem with that kind of worldview. I'm not chronically depressed or antagonistic because of it, but I think I'd rather have what I'd consider a realistic and true view of the world as it is rather than anything else.

"One of the strongest medicines against cynical mindset which I’ve tried is to do a “no-complain challenge”. I find its effects to be enormous and durable for years. In this challenge, you move a bracelet from one wrist to the other when you catch yourself complaining. The goal is to make it 21 days without having move the wrist. "

Before you start prescribing medicine we need to agree that cynicism is an illness first, which is not so easily done. I think the author conflates people who are sort of angry or pessimistic because of their lot in life with his definition of a cynic. I take the cynical view because of what I perceive are fundamental aspects of human nature collectively, not my mood personally. I can beat that challenge without a problem because I rarely complain, or win the lottery tomorrow and it wouldn't really have an impact of my views on the way the world operates overall.
This sort of stuff used to be the nightmarish imaginations of cyberpunk authors. Now it's reality. Extremely disturbing. It's getting to the point I'm starting to think technology is detrimental to human dignity.
They did? I sure didn't.

Unless you count things like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Run

or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_Position

or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_Hunter
Apache Log4Shell Vulnerability Has Potential to Be Catastrophic
Mine turned 50 this year. Mileage is over 500k but hard to see since odometer has only 5 digits. But most of the powertrain has been rebuilt and upgraded, as have many other parts, so it's a bit of a Ship of Theseus situation.
Do you have a point about the article or just an ad hominem?
there is something beautiful in the variety of ways a simple trashcan can be drilled and cut up; custom drain-holes must have so much variation; what’s the average volume of liquid garbage people are willing to tolerate before it overflows
I know we’re on a tangent, but this seems to go against most (all?) design decisions that the original author intentionally made. By that, I mean specifically, that the data doesn’t leave the user’s browser, isn’t stored, no tracking, etc. To order something like this online, you’d effectively be sending all of your most sensitive and important information to a 3rd party. Food for thought.
Why is it silly to think public parking shouldn't be converted? It's the restaurants that are doing these conversions. They want this dining space. It rains 5 days a year here, so having that space means you've just doubled your square footage for some of these restaurants without paying any extra in rent at all. On top of that there is too much parking in LA. Tons of parking lots and garages already exist and nearly anything new built seems to have a good 2-3 stories of parking structure included with the build. It's only hard finding parking in LA if you insist on finding free street parking vs paying for the $2/hr lot that might even be free itself with validation from nearby local businesses.
Many animals can walk and navigate environments better at 100 hours old than todays self driving cars can.

Here is a 50 hour old horse, imagine if our self driving cars had this level of environmental awareness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJEMh-_vaME
I was shocked to come across this figure today:

> "If the United States still hospitalized its mentally ill at the same rate it did in 1955, its mental health institutions would house almost 1.1 million people any given day. Instead, they house fewer than 50,000 patients," - Michael Shellenberger.

https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1470504513874403333
The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards have a lot to say on the strength, composition, and properties of glass in passenger vehicles. In addition to being very difficult to break, it must also be resistant to shattering and remain in place while experiencing some pretty extreme forces.

Automotive glass is not even glass really, it's more of a composite made up of layers of various transparent materials all designed to counter balance the weaknesses of the other layers. And windshields are bonded into the body of the vehicle with a very strong plastic adhesive.
Famous or respectable users of the Signal app or its encryption
I hope that this initiative will consider the tens of thousands of gas stations and convenience stores in every small town along the nation’s highways. These small businesses are barely staying afloat now, and many of them are an important part of the local community. Hopefully the government won’t bury them with this initiative.
>Sidewalk cafes are not nightclubs. There's a difference between people sitting at a table and having a bottle of wine with a meal vs. a frat party. I don't think anyone is proposing a nightclub or bar scene on the sidewalk. These are people sitting at tables eating dinner.

My neighborhood has a lot more bars with parklets than restaurants with parklets.
Not comma dot ai, was it?
CC Search is now called Openverse and joins WordPress
When did this happen?
CC Search is now called Openverse and joins WordPress as an open source project.
You can blame Google for that, how on earth is that Pinterest's fault? Google is the one choosing an arbitrary thumbnail out of hundreds of images to represent "pinterest.com/cake-pops". Then Google uses that thumbnail to refer people to Pinterest, but doesn't tell Pinterest what thumbnail they used. Pinterest's hands are tied here. This is Google's fault, 100%.
Did BMW follow through with their plan to make you 'subscribe' to your heated seats?
> I'm not sure what you mean by "information channels".

I mean information channels to and from the central computer.

> Wouldn't a factory mainly just need to communicate its inputs and outputs the computer or computer cluster doing the calculation?

If that's all it's doing, a free market does that fine. There is no need for any additional computation. Similarly for any other economic actor.

If the central computation is going to improve anything over what the individual economic actors would do on their own, it can only be by computing what the inputs and outputs should be for all economic actors, better than those actors can do themselves, and then dictating those inputs and outputs to the actors. Otherwise there's no point to it. And that is what it can't do based on the information argument I gave.

> I don't think the computation cost scales exponentially. If it did, the decentralized free market computer would not be able to accurately compute the economy.

Wrong. The decentralized free market computer's capacity scales exponentially, since each individual economic actor is computing their own actions. The centralized computer, however, has to compute everyone's actions. That's why it faces an insurmountable information problem that the individual actors doing their decentralized computing do not face.

> The government can help alleviate the failures of the market.

No, it can't. That is the lesson of history. Every time governments have done this, they have made things worse, not better. That is not to say that market failures do not exist, only that the failures of government are worse.

> the market is generally short-sighted, while governments can think more long-term.

You have this backwards. Government time horizons are the next election. Individual market actors can have time horizons going out decades--for example, individuals saving for retirement. Governments can't even keep their social security trust funds safe from being raided by the legislature when it wants to fund some white elephant.

> it is my understanding that the Chinese government has invested a lot in solar panel technology and implementation.

Quite possibly it has. That in no way means China might not be even better off if it were not centrally controlled by the government.

> You would probably agree this is a good thing, given the severity of the climate crisis.

No, I wouldn't, because I don't think climate change is a crisis. And as far as I can tell, neither do the Chinese. They are investing in those technologies not because they believe they need them themselves, but because they believe they can sell them at a substantial profit to Western countries who are much more worried about climate change than the Chinese themselves are.
I didn’t think this was niche, I’m pretty sure this has been an iPhone feature since day 1. I used to trigger it by mistake on the small screens.

It’s also not really a critical gesture, it’s a power user feature like keyboard shortcuts on a desktop system. It’s there if you need it but you can also grab the scroll bar and drag it to the top to do the same thing.

> This is why I've been hardcore Linux for quite some time.

Good thing Linux has no niche tricks that have to be learned to use it.

I kid, I love Linux, but this is a weird criticism to have of iOS which, interface wise, is far simpler than any Linux distro I’ve ever used.
This is a non-free non-open-source license, not to be confused with the Academic Free License.
I think the answer is rather “a bunch of stuff will happen and no one will understand what really happened”
At the risk of making an unsubstantive comment, this is a huge help to me, and I've been trying to figure out how to do this for years.

Thank you!
Sure, but now we’re just guessing. We could go on all day listing bad things founders could do, but the original comment simply doesn’t go beyond implying that it’s bad to use a $10M house in Silicon Valley as an office.

The price mentioned isn’t anything unusual even for fairly early stage startups in the Bay Area.
Interesting point about nihilism, appreciate your discussion. I still identify as cynical in many domains, though I don't think of myself as nihilistic as the latter seems more absolute.

Re: things that really don't change, I'd say "until they do". Plenty of examples in history where the whole system switches to a different equilibrium point (for example as in "Inadequate Equilibria" book).

When I'm referring to cynicism, I'm talking about the difference between the mindset of "these will never change", vs "these are attractor points in the current social system, which all history so far have been used, but the system may have other equilibriums and solutions for which X=`the rich are not greedy`".

Hope that's helpful!
I award him the "skeeviest blog post of the year" award
> The current state of self driving cars can't handle basic, well behaved, standard traffic.

Some self-driving cars can't.

At one end, you have the Uber self-driving vehicles which were caught committing numerous traffic offenses by dashcams and cyclist helmet cams within the first days of their illegally testing their fleet on public roads, and then one of their cars ran over a pedestrian that the vehicle's sensors detected but the computers misclassified, somehow - and Uber had disabled the SUV's own auto-braking systems that probably would have saved the woman's life.

At the other end you have Google's self-driving cars have had, I think one at-fault crash across the entire fleet in many, many years and millions of miles of testing? They've been involved in a lot of crashes, but every single one until their one slow-speed scrape with a bus was the fault of another driver. That was 5 years ago or so.

Somewhere in-between is Tesla's FSD "Beta" which, as has been shown by numerous youtube videos (at least, the ones that Tesla doesn't abuse DMCA to take down), behaves extremely erratically repeatedly in the space of less than half an hour in an urban environment. This includes veering off a turn at pedestrians on a curb corner, and in another incident veering toward a light pole. In general, it seems to have a lot of problems making turns.
Or rather we house them, but just in jails and prisons.
Europe doesn’t have suburbs like the USA does. In California if you drive an hour you’re in the suburbs. In Germany if you drive an hour you’re in another country.
My design would be HDMI 3.Y where Y is a variable-length Base32 encoding of the value of a bitmask representing the presence of the underlying features of an HDMI port/cable/device.
Waymo built a bespoke, 113 acre facility for this very purpose back in 2017[0][1].

Full disclosure: Google employee, working on nothing to do with Waymo.

[0]: https://blog.waymo.com/2020/09/the-waymo-drivers-training-re...
[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/google-waymo-self-driving-car-ca...
This is why I always do banking/TDAM in Firefox safe mode. I'd rather be tracked (or even hacked by some malicious script through the bank's fault) by my bank, than hacked by an extension I installed, because I wouldn't have much liability in the former but I would in the prior.
It has been my experience that the skill to be outwardly "visionary" and at the same time remain cynic at heart gets rewarded most handsomely, especially in corporate world. We all have been in those meetings, town halls and off-sites where all the right, inspiring words are routinely uttered and amazing examples of leadership are described. Yet, once you exit the meeting room and actually work with and get to know those leaders - you quickly realize that it is cold, hard, calculating cynicism (and thus true understanding of reality) is what that drives their (sometimes "behind the scenes") actions and results in conquering the corporate ladder. My personal level of respective incompetence has been reached when I found myself unable to spew that BS with conviction from a podium.
> 1. Charging rent would cost more administratively than giving the space for free, in 99.9% of cases. Yes, the city should allow the restaurants to "borrow" public space for free. People want this! It's in the public interest!

It costing more isn't an argument, if society wants it. Building a road costs money. Keeping it clean costs money. We invest in roads. We invest in bureaucracy enforcing policy. The cost can then be a measure to control the behavior.

Here in my European city there is a few between 16 and 77€/m²/year depending on the district for using sidewalks for a restaurant. As well as other regulation (remaining space, noise, ...)
"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once... until he found the object of his research. I was sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculations would have saved him 90 percent of his labor."

-Nikola Tesla
There's a bit of conceptual comingling in the question.

It is true that browsers replaced gopher clients. But it wasn't an either or. Until everything became (more or less) Chrome rather recently, browsers handled the gopher protocol just as browsers largely replaced FTP clients. (Opera used to also handle email until it went webkit).

Mathematically, gopher and the world wide web are both directed graphs. In a Turing tarpit sense, gopher could be bent to do what the web does in terms of information retrieval and indexing.

The early web looked pretty much like gopher. Not just CERN but Yahoo! too (and even the HN frontpage today). The web won in part because people wrote for the web protocol by default instead of gopher when the internet exploded in the mid 1990's.

So in an important sense, replacing the web means finding something more useful than a directed graph. That's non-obvious.

In the technical literal sense, the browser is most likely to replace the browser. When a new capability is wanted, it gets added to the browser. The browser has always handled multiple protocols. Browsers that handled HTTPS replace browsers that don't. Browsers that handle HTTP2 replace browsers that don't. And so on.
> This is really bad, if their software can't even avoid hitting a stationary object then it isn't ready to test on public roads.

Almost as bad as a Tesla crashing into a stopped fire truck. Why is Tesla “autopilot” still allowed on Californian roads?

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
That's wonderful, thanks for that list. I hope that someone else have figured one of github/gitlab issues clones
Of course the world operates in a certain way and it is important to understand it.

There are people who want to completely reject the fundamentals of how the world works. These are the people who create disasters.
Given that RSS done right is a self-maintaining gimme, I would question the professional judgment of anyone who actually takes the time to remove it.
Well, people get wildly irrational at me when I suggest that the only viable option here is for people to migrate from Earth into orbit. Space constraints will go away, because in 3-dimensional space everyone can live in as large of a house as they want but remain in a fast commute to urban centers of space cities. There are plenty of materials available on the moon to build whatever we want with. This can, of course, leave the focus on Earth to shift to biosphere remediation.

After we take full intentional control of the planet's climate and shift 99% of human land use to the project, then I expect it will still be 100 years or more before we get back to pre-industrial natural productivity. This won't happen on its own, I'm assuming we put a large amount of artificial accelerators into to the process. It won't be the same as before humans, but we could quickly get back to the same megafauna numbers as before. Rough equivalents to pre-industrial ecosystems will eventually work out the missing niches.
Organized retail theft is a law. Sounds like a small reward and a recording of the snapchat or whatever to report these types of crimes would be an easy way to put an end to this.
Fair enough, and for carbon dioxide I mostly agree. But it definitely seems like this:

>Habitat destruction, chemical pollution, mining, mineral and fossil fuel depletion, water depletion and contamination, farming practices and monocultures, human interference, etc., are all just horrific, are responsible for massive destruction and extinction of the environment, and aren't all suddenly going to get magic'ed away the instant we somehow get the GHG pollution thing under control (if we ever do).

is claiming broad relation to population being above some threshold, since the whole comment is about overpopulation.
Alpha-Gal Allergy
That's a whole lot of TLDs to block. .me is very common for personal pages/blogs/emails. .app is used for a lot of legitimate sites as well.
I wonder about that. I'm not on reddit anymore, nor is anybody I know.
Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer
Nice set of 8 articles (so far) detailing the author's journey. Features Quake nostalgia :)
Yeah, some people are morons and stuck in the original "If it's not one of the old domains you're not a 'real' website" mindset. Kinda makes me glad to know he won't accidentally stumble onto Flutter though, since bother their package manager and main site are .dev :P.
Apple owns a platform. They can screw devs over and expect to be paid for the service.

They’re willing to go international.

And just think of all the things they could be doing but aren’t. Servers. PCs. Software. Social networking.

Anything they want.
I think it's more like as things get more complex, there are many more edge cases to check and most are very unlikely to happen statistically/practically so manufacturers don't put enough thinkin/design effort in those "details".

Until, of course, it does.
First, no they don't. Look up successes in Thailand, Costa Rica, Iran, South Korea, and other nations that lowered their birth rates through noncoercive means that improved health, longevity, prosperity, equality, and stability.

Second, not lowering birth rates involved billions of people suffering and dying. There is no option where we keep living above sustainable levels without consequence.
Almost all personal blogs fall under that tld filter.
If it does that more than people then it's not ready. People hit signs and dividers all the time. It's hard to come to realistic conclusions based on one case.
My Ford Fusion has one of those rotary dials. Didn't like it at first, but it is nice having that air space free (not able to accidentally knock it out of gear, more room for an extra cup holder). Also the cars with a physical gear shift lever still work by activating switches, there hasn't been mechanical linkage for years in a lot of models.
Help, every comment I try to reply to gets flagged before I submit.
Yes a prepaid debit card is a type of open-loop card.

The two main types of open-loop cards in this industry are prepaid gift cards and reloadable prepaid debit cards. You probably see the gift cards all the time if you live in the US, they are often on an endcap near the front of grocery stores and pharmacies. Once the funds have been fully debited from the gift card account the card can't be used again, and these also expire after a few years if they aren't redeemed. Reloadable debit cards are basically a simplified bank account often used by the underbanked or for people who may not want to use a debit card tied to their bank or a credit card for whatever reason.

For the most part folks can use these products to make any purchase that one could make with a normal debit or credit card, but there are some exceptions to that. I think most of the streaming services don't accept them, and probably many other subscription based services that use periodic charges to an account.
Yep! That's one reason I find it a completely fair model. Pay for usage. If you believe that the technology will get better (as I would) and you won't even accumulate $400 of usage before. you'll want to replace it, then subscription seems the way to go. (say you ride 6 months a year, that would be ~ 6 years).

It's interesting if the company actually makes less money per unit this way (total revenue per vest is less, esp after considering the cost of managing the subscription, nevermind the eventual hack which will give owners free lifetime service), but because the price looks like "$400" they sell a lot more, seriously undercutting competitors. And lastly, by being a subscription they can claim recurring revenue which is great for growth hacking. According to crunchbase they took a seed round, so this does make sense.
I had about 16 years of walking and 14 years of cycling around gradually increasingly complex environments before I drove a car.

The car controls are not the challenge. It’s understanding what everyone else is doing and how to handle it safely while making progress and not surprising other people that is tough. And those skills are partially - only partially - transferable from your pre-car experience.
>So, if all is true, then the movies in this case are doing a serious disservice.

Yes, modern cars have these pull tags in them. I don't know how new, but the first car that I bought new with a trunk was a 2007 model. It had them. They are even glow in the dark for easier locating in a closed/dark environment.

However, if you are ever in a real life situation trying to decide that the "movies" didn't do it this way is just a really bad way to be. Maybe the illusion/magic of Hollywood still holds for those not working in and around it, but nothing on a screen is real. Every thing presented on screen to you is there for a reason (even if what is on screen is omitting things). I've been in/around/through it for 30 years, so I could be jaded too.