skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There absolutely is decline in tech, largely made by market demanded tradeoffs.

For example cell phones still sound worse than land lines did in the 90s. We just don't care, and don't have a choice anyway (even most landlines are ultimately going to interface with a digital connection).

Refrigerators have more gizmos than before, but one of the key features, reliability, is in decline.

Personal computers are increasing moving back to a client server model which is absolutely a step back from where we were a decade or more ago. When the services behind all the billion SaaS apps we consume disappear so will the tools themselves.

Market conditions have virtually eliminated software you own.

I suspect this trend will increase dramatically over the next decade where most of the devices and tools we use are objectively worse than what we're using today.
Are OAuth apps able to take advantage of these fine-grained APIs?

Last time I checked, there was no read-only permission available for OAuth apps and you were required to create a one-off Github account with limited permissions.
https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/building-oauth-ap...
>After buying it, I haven't printed a single sheet of paper for note-taking.

OTOH you can buy a whole lot of $3 spiral notebooks for the price of an ipad pro
This is something I have been trying to root out at my big company inc. Until I said something deploying late Friday was the norm and all the issues that come with it. Now we deploy on Monday and have a whole week to fix issues and then rest. Rather than cobble shit together by Friday and then throw it over the wall.
Oh boy, how do people put up with that drive through?
Tit-for-tat is a highly effective strategy when playing an iterated-prisoner's dilemma[0]... ie the "concept of justice" can emerge through natural selection if "intelligent beings" were forced to play such games on which their survival depends (a plausible model of "society").

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#The_itera...
Think asking for a generic question around trust is probably not the right question to ask, and the answers aren't really insightful.

Instead, if you don't know anything about a topic, would you trust a report in one of the publications about the same topic? Intuitively, if NYT covers something I have no idea of previously and I want to get more context, I would probably go there, regardless of how much I trust NYT. I trust them enough to be a starting point and would likely believe a lot of what they say.[1]

Then, if a person is scared of something - insert any hypothetical scenario - they are more likely to trust a publication which echoes those opinions. And in turn reject the publications which do not. This partially explains why the trust is so high for Democrats, and gone up during the time of Trump.

[1]: Lately, I have been relying on FT, and some Substacks, but thats probably just me.
A rewrite is a rewrite, even if only one line changes.

Not going to bother to list everything that changed, it is public available for anyone to judge.
It's been a few years since I've been to Seattle, but other than trails along the bay I don't recall biking within the city itself feeling safe. Were there many protected bike lanes?
GM Finance used to have a deal where they'd virtually sell your locked-out shares in anticipation of a market bump after the lockout. Is that still a thing?
Okay, let's say that's 100% true.

Is it also accurate to say that "people who are eligible for California EV subsidies are more often than not well off"? No, it's not. It turns out, the more well off you are, the less your eligible for subsidies, and the vast majority of subsidies go to people who are definitely not the people who'd be taxed by this proposal.
If they want to make a desert and call it peace, perhaps. Seems like a bad strategy to smash a crown jewel before you annex it.
bunch of upvotes tells me this is real for everyone.
Ableton Note: a playable iOS app for forming musical ideas
I imagine there are at least two orders of magnitude more construction workers (and backhoes) than rocket builders (and rockets).
Rust is seen as more approachable by Javascript and Python devs, so they tend to learn it more often than C or C++.

It is a lot more similar to JS than C++ is.
> If your country is broke, gambling away money on crypto is far from "100% right".

I can understand the opposite viewpoint, but to me taking some risky bets makes perfect sense when you're already poor and in a bad position for any kind of realistic improvement in any reasonable timeframe.

> There are many different ways besides crypto that El Salvador could attempt to improve their economy.

Of course. And as far as I know they are doing some of those things: particularly working on the crime and corruption part of it.
Clocktower lofts are also very unlike currently vacant offices. Old industrial buildings had large open spaces that turned out to be easy to reconfigure. Most empty buildings now are more like 100 Van Ness which stayed empty for many years until its value dropped to a fraction of what it had been. And that conversion was still expensive enough to be risky and force offerings to the high end to make the math work out. This is going to be a rough ride.
The process is inherently a waste of resource, you can make it as efficient as you want, selling airpods with glued batteries, 200 millions phones per year, pushing people to continuously upgrade, &c. is an unsustainable waste

This is like the aviation industry, rolls royce making their engine 5% more efficient over a decade is nice, if in the meantime we multiplied the number of flights by 30 we're still fucked

So yes apple removed some plastic wraps and uses a bit of recycled aluminum, its all marketing, carbon neutrality isn't a thing, green capitalism isn't a thing, it's a feel good marketing slogan for 30 years old techbros buying a new apple watch every 9 months
Author has a reasonably open mind on virus origins, article from may 2021 https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/coronavirus-origin...

He's not circling the wagons defending natural origins in the above.
Yeah, I can't imagine he was happy with TSMC having to cancel all its sales to Huawei. But that wasn't really Tsai's fault; nobody is able to moderate the US, and the sanctions weren't a Taiwanese policy. I was thinking reunification was really the only path to saving TSMC, but if Chang agreed, he probably would've declined the invitation to the photo op; and obviously he knows more than I do about the issues.

Instead he says reunification would destroy TSMC because of how dependent it is on overseas suppliers.
How about the hospitals opting out of handling emergency cases?

https://twitter.com/dokhollidays/status/1582013255106498560
Those are generally the “no trust” crowd.

The “trust media” crowd are the bourgeois who watched the Iraq War lies then tell you with a straight face the same people are being honest with you about Ukraine.
it's a funny sentence in the article everyone is picking apart, of course the space industry is not necessarily unsafe, the point seemed to be, and I may be misreading it, that the space industry happens to be more unsafe than it needs to be due to the competitive incentives at play.
I assume anything Google is extremely energy/processor/RAM intensive and only consider it as a last resort on battery powered devices.
> I wish "the media" would go back to reporting the news instead of repeating talking points.

I see this said a lot but I don't think that's a simple request, assuming what we're really saying here is "objective facts, not opinions". There's a finite amount of news you can report so which objective facts you choose to show your readers is in itself a subjective decision of "newsworthiness". And how do you present that news to your audience? Anything other than a chronological list of events (which would be an awful user experience) requires subjective judgement of importance.

I’m also very dubious that you could build a sustainable business around such an idea. I think a lot of people say they want objective news but when presented with a choice they’ll favour media that caters to their existing biases.

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of garbage media out there today and it can absolutely get better. But I think people are striving for an entirely objective media that simply doesn't exist, and never has.
There are a few [Citation needed] in here from my point of view
MySQL Connector/J has new Maven Coordinates
Yep. I'd really like to see this broken down by vendor. I'm not convinced those trusting Dems are counting Fox News as "the media" for instance.
I don't see much of a difference between the two. They're both institutional murder and torture.
What Is the Python GIL and Will They Get Rid of It?
yes, which is why it’s unfortunate young people don’t vote. if they did, blue america from sea to shining sea.
I'm currently using neovim so it is pretty trivial to add save hooks. Although the approach I am currently using is just a custom shortcut that saves all files and touches the file. This way only explicit saves by me trigger the rerun.

My current setup is documented here but it's easy to tweak to your prefered workflow. https://kevincox.ca/2022/06/14/small-tools/#w
Related issue. But nice to see this default terminal as a setting.

You can't turn off gpu hardware acceleration for windows terminal (no option), if you are trying to free as much GPU memory for cuda. Love windows terminal, just no option to turn that off yet.

I have a fast enough cpu, I turned off windows features/browsers to from using gpu. Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling, xbox, nvidia shadowplay, icue, browser gpu use, any tool tray icons. Was able to clean up quite a bit of gpu memory.

I'd think this might be a more popular issue with people using stable-diffusion rendering.
Here's a much more positive take [1]:

What's it like to live in a different culture having substantial trust
in media, government and institutions?

It starts with teaching intellectual self-defence at an early age.

In Finland, social resilience is also considered a part of national
security (see my paper here [2]), instead of considering national
security as only the interests of a few industrial oligarchs.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/how-finland-can-help-us...

[2] http://www.icicte.org/assets/icicte2019_5.4_farnell.pdf
> Both China and Taiwan are problems of global importance. Saudi Arabia is not.

Do you know what OPEC is
Babashka is a native, standalone, batteries included and fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting. The intended use case for babashka is to use Clojure for scripting in places where you would previously use bash. It comes with several batteries included. The memory overhead and start-up latency is much smaller than JVM Clojure. The intent is that bb scripts can also run with normal Clojure if you outgrow bb, so there is a smooth migration path.
The tool has been in development for over three years but hasn't had a breaking change in over two years. The 1.0 release is a continuation of that stability.
> I assume such appeals must necessarily reveal the underlying decision making process.

Probably not the parts they keep secret. The Oversight Board can make a decision about content based on the content itself and publicly-available context.

What tells the automated system that flagged it initially used don't need to be revealed, and the feedback from the Oversight Board probably isn't "make these detailed changes to the abuse detector algorithm" but a more generalized "don't remove this kind of stuff".
A car is basically a huge powered helmet.
Mixes.it – creates Spotify playlists dynamically from radio content
> Because C does not have real arrays

C does have real arrays, they just get implicitly converted to pointers to their first element in a lot of cases (for a multitude of reasons in part having to do with simplifying the language), A[B] is defined as such so it works with normal pointers and arrays-converted-to-pointers in the same manner.

Try using an array with sizeof, unary &, or in the form of a string literal used to initialise an array. In those situations it suddenly stops behaving like a pointer to its first element and definitely behaves like something which is unlike anything else in C (hint: it's an array).
Settings > Fire button animation > None
I mean yes, I'm not trying to be cruel or unsympathetic. We should help and minimize the harm to people who are being left behind.

But equally, gasoline used to cost $1/gallon. People used to communicate by mail and have to use pay phones.

Then people came to be expected to buy more efficient cars, pay more for gasoline, and communicate electronically. And by the way, many people who aren't dealing successfully with things getting more expensive are because they're being very inefficient. Think of all the houses and cars that were totally inefficient before higher energy prices caused them to upgrade?

Life moves on. People are forced to adapt.
But the steel industry has been doing the same thing (with largely the same facilities) for the last 50 years. The move to recycling and mini-mills is the biggest change in the last 40 years. The same is largely true of aluminum mills. You should be able to figure out how to make that safe, but you won't make anything, if you demand that everything be as safe the first time as it will be in industries, which are a century old.
The only way trust could be lower was if the media was owned by the state.
The problem I see is instead of reporting facts, I see alot of stories with these words in their title - "maybe", "could", "possibly, "potentially". I think its all about churning out volume(of stories) to generate clicks. Maybe the solution is to get a paper subscription.
I rarely see submissions with such a high proportion of flagged/dead posts ...

I wonder what it is that brings the crazies out of the woodwork, whenever some congress announcement happens.
And sometimes Windows just does that on its own.
Or Safari is not a good browser.
That's what happens, when you start ordering from AliExpress chips for 1/10th of their price in regular stores like DigiKey. Wait until they figure out that what works are actually clones with ridiculous quirks.
In my ideal world the role would be called something like "product developer" with the responsibility to develop and articulate a clear vision for the product (with a holistic understanding of "product").
I would expect that the Democrats and Republicans are seeing the world (and the media) through blue- and red-tinted glasses. I would expect that the independents are, on average, seeing more clearly.

And yet the independents see this much closer to how the Republicans see it. I find that somewhat surprising.

Could be telling us that the most of the (non-Fox) media leans left, and the independents see it but the Democrats don't.
We have been done a disservice to our country by talking about 3 branches of government and their checks and balances which clearly fail when people choose party over country.

The real "branches" of a civil society are the media/information branch, the business branch, the civilian branch, the military/enforcement branch, and the legal branch. All the real checks and balances exist in the inter-relations between those structures.
Distrust in the media tracks pretty well with the removal of the FCC fairness doctrine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

I really feel that if we brought this back, we’d have more trust in the media
Source: am Dutch.

Sure, helmets would make cycling safer. Helmets would also make walking on the sidewalk safer. But I bet you don’t wear a helmet there. This implies there is some level of risk you’re willing to take before you wear a helmet.

My theory is that cycling in the Netherlands is safer than it is in most countries. Just some factors:

- People mainly cycle for transport, not for sport: you sit upright, you go relatively slowly

- Every car driver in the Netherlands is also a cyclist sometimes, so people know how cyclists behave and respect them

- Cycling is everywhere: you don’t encounter cyclists only in the center of big cities, basically every road except (often, not always!) highways will have cycle paths in parallel so as a car driver you encounter cyclists everywhere and anywhere

- The bicycle infrastructure is fantastic: if possible bike lanes are separated from car lanes by greenery or trees or something, bike lanes don’t cross right next to intersections (so you’re not in the blind spot of a car making a turn - the car already turned and then crosses the bike path) etc.
This is an overly negative comment for what is a positive move. Supporting USB-C instead of lightning is good, and it is a reasonable cost to have older accessories face backwards compatibility issues.
SafeBrowsing V2 only sends a partial hash to Google, only sending the full hash if the partial has a match. You can just read Chromium's whitepaper on their various features if you want to understand the privacy implications.
A fantastically written and extremely technically performant page as always from Bartosz.

Several of the piano key demos ask you to observe what happens when you play multiple keys at once. Is there a way to do this on a desktop PC that I am missing? I had to switch to my phone to try those sections.
Here in San Francisco, you have the school physically closest to you and you have the school to which you get assigned. In most cases, they are not the same. So you end up traveling 20-45 minutes by bus. Isn't this the norm in the USA? Which is why there are yellow school buses everywhere?
Very true.

(Though innovations like bicycles mean you can still get to places pretty fast.)

But per the OP's comment, if you're not in a densely populated city, your distances to other businesses and people is not primarily driven by how long it takes you to get to the end of your lot or how wide the streets are.
Why trust media? It is very clear regardless of their political orientation, they just need clicks.

Always ask yourself, does certain article benefit the writer or the writers' sponsors, and always assume the worst.
5 year Osha reported fatalities & serious injuries:

https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/accidentsearch.search?acc_keyw...

Osha incident report for this incident:

https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detai...
When I went to high school, I walked, as I lived only a few blocks away. So did most kids. During the morning dropoff time, it was mostly walkers, bikes, and busses, with a few cars here and there.

Today? Proportions are reversed. Just a few walk or bike, and an absolute catastrophe of cars dropping off kids. So many that they back up in to the surrounding neighborhood. It's bizarre to me.
Media aside, do you really think those two wars are comparable?
I'm aware of those things, but I'm just saying that there's no silver bullet given cultural preferences to compose a variety of forms based on omitting/concatenating discrete parts that can't be adequately stored in a globally-reasonable schema. The best we can do is compromise on (or completely do away with) any preference for rule-based composition, and instead just echo whole names without recomposing them. It's fair, but it's a compromise.
You are saving like a pound and a half
I prefer Safari on iOS and macOS because it is so limiting that I assume it is helping conserve battery. With Wipr content blocker, I never see ads and it is generally pretty fast.
> they come up with end-user project prioritization

Then they have failed from the beginning. Technically, everything you do affects end-users - including faster deployments - although in some cases that effect is more obvious than in others.

In a perfect world, each product (or, in a complex system, a well defined subset of features within a product) should have a dedicated representative of each of the "horses", who should agree on the priorities - with the product lead (thank you @Jenk!) guiding the process and helping resolve the conflicts.
This is just plain false. C++ in the 1990s had nothing like serde for example.
> 4) Dependency injection.

Can you explain why DI needs an entire framework/libary?

When I was taught DI in school, I was given the impression that DI was a $1000 term for a $5 concept in that without DI, you write code like this:

class Foo(object):
def __init__(self):
self.bar = GetBar()

whereas with DI, you write this:

class Foo(object):
def __init__(self, bar):
self.bar = bar

Obviously, I'm grossly misunderstanding what DI is, because if that's really all it was, you wouldn't need a DI framework. I just haven't had to write code using any sort of DI more complicated than that.
https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto packages directory
aviation is not exactly a laissez-faire industry with private industry self-regulating...
Somewhere up that direction, or maybe in Denmark, I heard there's a bike tunnel, where the the ventilation system is set up such that you always have a tailwind.

I want some of those here.
I feel pretty comfortable that riding a bike here is safer than driving a car in the suburbs. Drivers generally pay attention, and speeds are much lower. More infrastructure would make it better, but we have a real protected lane for the part of our commute that actually has significant traffic.
I think this discussion of convergent evolution is pretty interesting in context [0]. Namely, "intelligence" arises from natural-selection (ie from some non-intelligent predecessor that developed incrementally to better fit its environment)... and the process of natural-selection would necessarily lead to various commonalities between intelligent creatures that came to be independently.

PG's essay seems to (implicitly, not explicitly) compare between technologically-sophisticated intelligence - ie not between octopuses and humans, but between species that could at least communicate through inter-stellar distances, if not traverse them directly. If so, convergent evolution would have imposed even more onerous similarities between such species: to develop a radio-transmitter, intelligent creatures would also likely to have been very socially developed, or how else would they have been able to transform the resources around them to build a transmitter?

Therefore it is the physical world in which we live that most likely leads us to conceive "math" similarly... and even "justice." [1]

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/arik-kershenbaum-on-why-alien...

[1] tit-for-tat being one of the best strategies to solve an infinitely-recurring prisoner's dilemma
> RAII doesn't work without bringing in a whole lot of other heavy-duty features: mainly exceptions, but also constructors and destructors.

You don't need exceptions to make RAII work. It does make fallible resource allocation a little bit trickier (the RAII object needs to be prepared to be in a live-but-failed-allocation state), but it's very doable. Constructors and destructors are absolutely not heavy-duty features.
This is great! It has always been a peeve that they have been so coarse grained.

Thank you to the team members that made this happen.
Awesome for Davis. Sad when you realize this could be every city in the greater Bay Area which all share a similar climate to Davis but somehow is not...

San Francisco is getting there tho. I see new protected bike lanes pop up regularly.
Some codes would require you do things like tear down a addition that was perfectly legal and safe last year or moving a house back further from a road that the government expanded. Not everything in local building codes is for safety, there is a lot of aesthetic stuff in there. Imagine being forced to rip out a 100 year old oak tree because it isn't legal to have a tree in your front yard anymore. Pools are no longer allowed, fill it in. No thanks. I'd never buy in a locality like that, might as well live in a HOA.