skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I could have expanded on my last sentence more and completed the thought. Of course nobody wants to be the person who works the drive through at McDonald's as their life's ambition. This type of job used to be seen as a stepping stone that provided you some spending money and an opportunity to meet people outside your parents social circle and school, a first taste of the working world, but wasn't a determinant of what your career ended up being. Gen Z though sees people /their age/ every day online who have become multi-millionaires on the Internet by being social media influencers or content creators, and they want to jump straight to the end where they're famous, rich, and respected (arguably).

My generation was never exposed to that, we were exposed to Tommy the lawyer who got his start working the stock room at the hardware store and now drives a Porsche. The type of "instant" fame and money that kids get exposed to now just wasn't even in the realm of possibility for my generation, except perhaps sports stars. Even though the number of people who "make it" vs those who try is vanishingly small, a lot of folks in Gen Z seem to think being an influencer or a similar role is the primary career path they want to try for, and unlike something like being a sports star, it's less limited by outside influences and requires less genetic talent. Anyone could, possibly, be an influencer, even though very few people actually will become one.

Now, taking that job is no longer seen as a stepping stone, it's seen as giving up and admitting to yourself and the world you won't be able to hack it online. It's truly remarkable if you observe high schoolers, girls especially, these days and how much of their life is spent online vs with those directly around them. Social media is not just entertainment, it's one of the most important things in their lives, and their presence there is seen as a determinant for their future. This is a very different social zeitgeist than my generation grew up with, and I'm a Millennial, grew up with Internet and computers, but prior to the dawn of social media.

This isn't an economic issue in that sense, then, it's a social issue, a rejection of the type of work that most people in the US started with when they were that age. A drive through worker at McDonald's makes nearly $37k/yr if they work full-time at the starting wage where I reside now. That's more than many professionals made when they started their careers when I was a teenager, and it's more than double what I made starting as a shelf-stocker /inflation-adjusted/. It's not that the job doesn't pay enough to attract people who are starting out, it's that those people see it as a serious social faux pas to be caught working that type of job, it's an admission and acceptance of failure, rather than an admirable place to begin.
My whole point is that cryptographically-secure should be the default, as there are many scenarios where a PRNG leads to a security vulnerability where a CSPRNG would not. It is precisely new programmers who should be using CSPRNGs for everything, because they are the least well-equipped to know when strong entropy is necessary! We should (almost) never be asking "Do you really need a CSPRNG?" but rather "Do you really need a PRNG?"
That's just what a super-intelligent AI would say.. hmmmm...
I think Semaphor was being sarcastic; Firefox never had any meaningful usage on mobile, certainly not 20%.
Masking behaviors are strongly correlated with worse well-being and increased mental health issues (generally depression, suicidial ideation and attempts).
Prompt engineering is close to training data curation for ResNets. Way beyond hyperparameter tuning.
Then don't use addons.
Probably so they don't have to personally drive them everywhere. My mother has a coworker who has a 22 year old daughter who is essentially unemployable because she can't drive and therefore can't get to work and can't afford to move to a place where walking/transit is an option. The family has a spare car.
Lived in Berkeley for a year after graduation while commuting to South San Francisco and it was nearly impossible to find a street parking spot after getting home from work.

Just an anecdote to cancel out your anecdote.
Ebikes also tend to change the equation. I live 37km from where I work. By bike its 1hr20 when its not too windy. By ebike its 1hr flat (ok, its a speed pedalec, requires a license). By car its 45 min. By train its 1hr10. Despite having the means to own a car I sold it a few years ago and never looked back. I rent one every few weeks I need one.
I'm guessing your friends still chauffeur their kids around. If they stopped, I bet the kids would learn to drive, since their alternative to taking the wheel is to sit at home.

Now that it's become clear that services like lyft/uber are unsustainable at their current prices, the days of cheap taxis are numbered. Soon, unless you live in an urban center (or university), the only choices will be: drive yourself or walk.

I wish bikes were among the viable alternatives. But with their theft wildly out of control, pedal pushing just can't become a mainstream alternative to cars.
SwissGL: Swiss Army Knife for WebGL2
I Google "ios action button" and find nothing. I google "ios share button" and screens full of the button we're talking about. So regardless of "Apple parlance", this is the "share button".
As far as I know, police are are the only government employees in the US with a strong union and lobbying effort. Salary can get relatively high, especially with overtime and side benefits of employment like moonlighting as private security.
>The monolithic kernel folks just haven't noticed it.

I know may be by sheer number of users most people use them in the cloud or for development but some of us do actually use linux on our everyday machines.
Sneaking Custom HTML and CSS in to Your GitHub Readme
In a university class, we had an assignment that asked us to write a program that would communicate with its copies over POSIX message queues. I remember grepping through the source of all the software I had on my Gentoo installation, and couldn’t find a single one that had any sort of usage or support for POSIX message queues. Does anyone know of even a single app that uses them?
No. My whole purpose was to make fun of made up, conjoined words. :P
or tenacium
I still remember a recent company I worked at. They had a strict on prem datacenter ethos. Their procurement was so bad that you had to know your hardware requirements months ahead of time to get what you ask for (pre-covid mind you). If you under provisioned, you were boned. What naturally happened? Teams allocated a ton of resources that ended up sitting around in bitrot hell. I think someone took a sample of all system CPUs and found something like 6% averages. Pathetically underutilized. If this was k8s, it means the company can provision for their general needs, and teams can requisition what they needs easily through technological means instead of bureaucratic ones. Crap like storage classes, etc are sure more annoying than simple apps teams, but it's way easier than needing to manage the bare metal and provisioning / maintenance / migration that is often completely invisible to apps teams. Oh my app got restarted an hour ago, why was that? Oh it turned out a node had it's hard-drive started to fail and the node automatically drained it's load and moved them to a spare capacity node without you. Plus it often saves the need to page a human to run around frantically to figure out why all these services are crashing or misbehaving.
Rent? Utilities? Insurance?
places change, no? people move, businesses go out of business, new people move in, new businesses get setup etc etc
LLMs are bad at arithmetic, promising at math
Gwern shows that while LLMs are terrible at arithmetic, they are able to invent novel non-trivial mathematical concepts and demonstrate understanding of it.

Gwern explains how the LLM is able to do this by identifying mathematical concepts using the same pathways used for modelling language.

It's a fascinating dive into how LLMs work conceptually and is a further display of emergent, surprising capability.
Most would love to, but the rent is too high and they need a car to be able to get to their job so they can tread water. Owning a primary home as a means of "lazy wealth generation" is only accessible to people with family money or career titles like "Software Engineer" and even then the homes are much lower standard than before for older people working the same job.
Then why doesn’t iOS ask users to customize the displayed name of native App Store apps before installing them? As I said, I think it should be consistent, and I don’t think that's a hugely controversial opinion.

Also, why don’t Windows or Android ask you to name apps before you install them? Why doesn’t Steam? This is just not how installing apps works. At a minimum, I would like it to avoid popping the keyboard up by default. If a user wants to edit the name, tapping on the name themselves shouldn't be a problem.

> Discoverability of the installation process is IMO the real issue.

I agree this is certainly the biggest issue.
The historical context is web development became popular and developers from other disciplines moved over and brought their practices from those other areas of programming with them. We compile apps for the desktop, we should compile apps for the web too. They brought their complexity with them and forced it onto web development instead of stopping to consider if that was a good idea. Now we have developers who never knew how things were before transpilers were created and now think that this is how it has to be and that this is the best way.
We spent two years living in a 50 square meter (~500 square feet) miserably cold and dark thatched cottage in a field in Ireland. That was, admittedly, unpleasant, but the places I see on Funda.nl look perfectly nice.

Incidentally, the author of this article showed us around Houten (9 minutes from Utrecht by train) and it was hard to contain my dumb grin just seeing kids - not much older than mine! - riding bikes _everywhere_ and just doing their thing. we visited for dinner and when her ~10 y.o. son said "I want to go ice skating" she said "OK, have fun!" and he just... hopped on his bike and went. No "ugg who's going to drive him" or "I don't want to have to pick him up late" etc. - an independence most kids can only dream of.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/16/welcome-cycle...

I actually would've thought the biggest adjustment would be cultural - the Dutch seem more reserved than Americans (who, to be fair, are known for being exceptionally outgoing).
IIUC both were projects spawned after Audacity added telemetry to their release builds.

The telemetry in Audacity is behind both a build flag, and a runtime opt-in setting (although it was originally going to be opt-out, hence the uproar (I need to go fact-check this, it's been a while)).

So, if you install Audacity through your distro's package manager, you're probably not getting any telemetry, opt-in or otherwise.

With that in mind, I'm not sure I understand why these forks exist exactly. If I was a windows or macOS user, I might be interested in telemetry-free builds, and I'd be very thankful for anyone providing them, but I'm not sure why a whole fork is needed to do that.

Looking at the git tree, it's clear that these forks have diverged significantly from upstream Audacity (simply from looking at commit counts and screenshots etc.), so it's apparently not a simple build-config-change and rebrand. However, the marketing blurb on https://tenacityaudio.org/ does not make it clear which features are distinct from upstream.

Edit: You can read about the telemetry options currently present in Audacity here: https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/
And it's not as if older versions of the kernel cease to exist when a new one lands, too. Worst case, it'll always be there in source control, just a checkout and a build away.
This was a great read and you’re right the there’s not enough written about “knowing when to fold”.

One note is on the “not needing a tech cofounder” section. I was expecting to read about how no/low-code tools are widely available and bootstrapping the MVP or early versions of the product can be done without deep technical vision/technical partner, or that not all projects require a technical cofounder. The content was great and illuminating, but didn’t seem on-topic for “you don’t need a tech cofounder”
Because, per my other comment, whether or not they want to/need to own a car, being able to drive one is a pretty essential life skill. If nothing else, if you can't/won't drive, you'll be cut off from a lot of employment opportunities.
I use some addons that weren't whitelisted trough the addon collection trick.

Many addons plain don't work. The mobile browser doesn't have the UI these addons rely on and maybe there's some API coverage missing.

I considered this a fair reason when the rewrite was released, you could still use the old Firefox for a while. But then time passed and nothing changed.

It's clear the Fenix devs don't have the capacity or the interest to maintain addon support.

There are many silly things about the browser rewrite. For instance, you can't enter an IPv6 address and navigate to it (i.e. http://[::1]/). Firefox will always Google it. You can click a link from another app and the page will load just fine, but the address bar just doesn't understand those addresses. Then there's the fact about:config is disabled in stable versions of Firefox. Or the fact that enabling user-installed certificate authorities requires you to go into debug settings.

I don't think Mozilla has a clear idea what it wants with their browser, it feels so unfinished in so many ways.
Training data for machine learning. Targeted ads. Punishing your enemies.
So, the opposite of building things would be building things?

That's the problem with the concept of "opposite". The opposite of something always tends to be very similar to the thing. If you want to get any kind of diversity out of your ideas, you should steer clear of it.
> So.. your point is CHAdeMO had a big head start and still lost out to CCS? That's a shame.

This is low-effort sniping. The upthread point was that at the moment the standardization process was happening, both CHAdeMO and Tesla presented superior technologies to what the committee ended up picking. And CCS is still suffering with those limitations in comparison with Tesla's much trimmer device (CHAdeMO hasn't kept up as well, it's true).
Whether or not it gives someone else "a hard time" is hardly a measure of the ethics of an action towards a sentient being. I think sentience at least warrant a measure of compassion and consideration.
>In the US, this was actually entire hypothetical. The route just doesn't actually exist.

Drag your butt over to Google maps and punch in a route from Lowell, Leominster, Worcester or Taunton Massachusetts (outlying cities in the Boston area people many commute in from) to any portion of the Boston area just inside I95 but not downtown and eyeball the times.

The route exists in the US and the times are in line with his estimates.
Yeah, I'm not certain about the analogy, and I'm basing it more on how I have seen the phrase used in other places, but my cursory search did not dig them up. IIRC, the complaint is that, in order to present history as the steady progress towards what they regarded as an enlightened present, Whig historians attributed influential and powerful historical figures with liberal motives and goals. Tory historians might have attributed them with illiberal motives and goals that were sometimes thwarted (leading to what they regarded as a suboptimal present), which might well be more plausible in general.

Looking a little further into the article, I see it mentions a whig history of science that ignores failed theories and dead ends, and I would agree that this is not the same as attributing successful theories to people who probably did not hold them, though the latter does also tend to present science in 'march of progress' terms.
I've been working on a geospatial application, and one of the use cases was finding intersections between large sets of polygons. For some use cases you might not need a separate data store like this.

I used an in-memory RTree in Golang [0]. It's super fast and efficient.

[0] https://github.com/tidwall/rtree
> The young are falling out of love with cars because they're unaffordable. It's as simple as that. It's yet another sign the standard of living is declining for the young.

Have you compared to how things used to be? These numbers all seem to assume that it used to be much cheaper relative to income. That seems like a rosy look at the past but the numbers don't support that assumption.

Yes it would be dumb for a young person to pay 47K for a new car! (I'd say it's financially dumb for any person of any age, unless very rich, to pay 47K for a depreciating car.)

Since when do young people (on average) buy new cars? Aside from wealthy families, that was never a thing.

My first car cost $500 in 1988 was 20 years old with the floorboard rusting away so the road was visible through the floor while driving. And a starter that didn't work so it had to be push started every time. That's $1264 in todays dollars. That doesn't buy much, but I see a handful of beaters on craigslist that can be had for that money, and most seem nicer than the rusted beater I bought for $500.

My first new car (nothing fancy, a Mazda) cost 42% of my gross salary at the time.

A Mazda 3 can be had for $23K today, so at a similar price proportion a $55K salary would feel the same as when I bought.

So, none of it feels proportionally more expensive than 30+ years ago.

I think what is different today is the very high end of the market has grown a lot. There are endless cars over 100K whereas back in the 80s the list of hyper-expensive super cars was a very short one. Maybe this twists the perception of the market.

But the basic beater cars and new Toyota/Mazda/Honda/Kia-level cars are about as affordable as they ever were.
On the concept of these very weird displays, I remember an HP oscilloscope that had a monochrome CRT and a polarizer in front cycling between R, G, and B components on every refresh cycle. Overall, the screen resembled a DLP projection when you'd see different color frames when your eyes moved, but a stable color when you were looking at a part of the screen. A very neat way of producing crazy small color pixels on a 7"ish CRT.

And yes, that device cost about the same as my house back then (2002).

https://hackaday.com/2019/01/17/sharpest-color-crt-display-i...
Get a Subaru Impreza
> you'll be relying on maintainers ..

Our team (at Fortune 500 co) are pretty agile and forward looking (compared to corporate IT) but we're still not allowed to use anything from NPL-like repos without permission, and even then it has to get a code review and be pulled into our local repo. Personally, I agree with the CTO's belief that going from NPM directly to production is sort of insane.
They are certainly able to do so.

The only tool that I know of that can encrypt SMS messages is Silence. The source code is quite stale.

The fifth amendment allows an individual to refuse to disclose a password in criminal trials (they can be compelled to open biometric locks, hwoever). I don't know if these protections would extend to civil proceedings such as occurred here; if not, the judge could hold such witnesses in contempt.

https://silence.im
wait you guys didn't have penis inspection day in elementary school?
And never experienced a severe rent shock or an asshole landlord apparently. I hope that remains the case.

Having been a renter for the last 10 years, I'm sick of landlords dragging their heels on repairs (in one case I had to take a landlord to small claims court) and my monthly rent spiking 6-10% or else going up by a mere 2-3%, forcing me to lock-in longer term leases to save money.

Especially now that the wife and I are in the family formation part of our lives, buying a house in the suburbs is looking more and more attractive. More space, room to do stuff at home, a fixed-rate payment to plan around etc. But I'm assuming that doesn't apply to you at your current stage of life.

From a financial perspective, renting is great for staying relatively mobile, but if you're planning to stay in one place for more than a few years, buying is probably the way to go. Nerdwallet has a good calculator comparing the two with a couple of dozen factors taken into account: https://www.nerdwallet.com/mortgages/rent-vs-buy-calculator

I agree with you that at the end of the day housing is an expense, I'd much rather fund my retirement with stocks. Although once the kids have moved out downsizing might be able to net a few hundred grand more, but that's a decision for 30 years from now.
Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3
No - but Wall Streeters (and a lot of similar creeps trying to justify various nasty stuff) would love it if everyone believed that companies were.
Not sure about the China angle, but if he's in Singapore he may be safe. Allegedly the Singapore-US extradition does not cover money laundering [0]. Although, I'm not sure if this will count as Fraud or Money Laundering.

[0]: https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2016/vol2/25342...
I meant UP to 10k squares. Like, the whole list.

Would look like stuff from a "A New Kind of Science" I bet.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2017/05/a-new-kind-of-sc...
> YouTube vastly improved in the recent years.

Can you explain how?

From my perspective, the platform is still struggling to get the basics right : lots of spam in the comments, recommendation is meh at best, some videos are hard to find even when typing the exact title in the search bar and I can go on and on.
That 18-year old CR-V lived its entire life in snowy New England (upstate NY, then NH, now MA) and it is likely that it will be retired because of rust rather than a mechanical cause, though it will be well over 20 years old at that point.

Prior to the 1980s, very few car makers used galvanized steel. After the 1980s, most cars are galvanized, meaning they'll stay structurally sound in the snow belt far longer than before. (They'll still show some cosmetic rust long before becoming in any way unsafe.)
It certainly helps! But in California (my home) at least neighbourhoods that are walkable and nice often have very expensive homes. We liked South Park, San Diego, but there were almost no homes under $1 million for instance.
No. Young people always have had no money. It's the nature of being young.

Cars are really just trash technology that has made city life worse.

Older generation have an emotional attachment to cars, and project a lot of virtuous attributes onto it (freedom, independence, wealth, ...). Younger generations just do that less. They accurately see what cars are.

The young have that luxury. They're not at that age yet where they need to capitulate to the cult of the car. Once you have children, the thousands of vectors pushing a family in all directions, car life in some burb is the only one that's financially affordable.

It's the other way around. Youth reject cars because cars are objectively shit. As people get older, options dwindle, aspirations get adjusted, and people submit.
> You cannot build new houses in Venice, or Amsterdam center.

sure you can. it's just that people don't want to.

> That's where tourists

aka money.
In this code:

for (i = 0; i < BUFS_IN_GROUP; i++) {
/* add each buffer, we'll use i buffer ID */
io_uring_buf_ring_add(br, bufs[i], BUF_SIZE, i,
io_uring_buf_ring_mask(BUFS_IN_GROUP), i);
}

Where did bufs come from? Should that be br.bufs[i]?