skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With 1.3 million samples showing fairly clean/consistent trends, something seems to be reliably happening, sustained over 20 years. And effect sizes on the order of 1/3 of a standard deviation seem not that small: an average score in 2000 would be somewhere around the 60th percentile if you got it today, right?

They did include demographic questions between 2004 and 2009, which seemed to line up with other results out of that lab [0] indicating that massive online panels like this are reasonably representative, if skewed female. As nice as it would have been if they’d looked more formally, there seems not to be much indication that the demographic composition of their respondents changed all that much over that time.

Even if these results only describe “the population of online people who do personality tests for fun,” don’t they still reflect something reliably changing about that population?

And whatever we wish had been done differently in this study, isn’t it appropriate to interpret it as at least a flawed piece of evidence against the entire landscape of clues pointing toward a rise in social anxiety over that time?

[0] Sam Gosling, whose project collected these data, wrote the book about massive online panels: https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4311014 . The project this data came from started off with research addressing whether it was representative enough to be useful https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037/0003-066X.59.... . Lord knows lessons have been learned since then, but I’m not sure it’s fair to imply that serious people didn’t think seriously about the questions we’re raising here.
Have you tried not looking at them? Or wearing sunglasses? Im under the impression they have a kinda natural visceral reaction to eye contact
> In the study, 54% of Generation Z said an inheritance is critical to achieving financial security and retiring in comfort.

I think this is rather tone-deaf. They think the kids are saying "I want an inheritance", but they're probably thinking along anti-capitalist lines, as in "inheritance is the only way I'll survive this hellscape"
Too hot for trout: Why some anglers are rethinking their approach to fly fishing
For context, I'm in my 50s and have done all I need to do in the tech world. So I'm motivated by deciding what to do with the remainder of my life. How to be healthy and happy, decrease stress, increase life satisfaction, and not be regretful at having worked my entire life and then dying.

So I'm working towards setting myself up for the future non-working years. Buying tools to support hobbies, gaining woodworking skills, learning to kayak, improving my exercise and eating habits to stay strong. All so when I do stop doing the tech day job, whether that be in 5 years or 5 days, I am already in the shape I need to be in, with the tools and expertise needed to be productive with my time doing things that are different than how I spent my working days.
Everything is molasses and it irritates me to the point where I am hurting myself out of stress and anger by the simple fact that I have to constantly abort my muscle movements and train of throught to let the stupid software finish rhe animation/lag/burning my computer.

It turns out most people are not bothered by this. Somehow they are still slower than those animations.

On of my biggest suffering in life.
I do not think the claim was that this is a unique construct to Rust.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/07/mexico-cartels...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=q1p94mLE3Aw

Mass surveillance is used to kill journalists and politicians.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-councilwoman-k...
Congress Put the Wrong Date in the Tax Law. Companies Are Reaping Millions
>You can argue what exactly is and isn't a reasonable expectation of privacy, and someone else can argue differently.

No. The guy you're replying to isn't giving his opinion on whether it should be allowed or not, he's stating how the law works right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy_(United...
An "easy" win in court can cost thousands of dollars needed up front, and may take years to achieve. For someone on Medicaid that is not easy.
Deep learning requires attention span.

I fear that shifting to a TikTok style education is just another lead towards an Idiocracy.
> The chance of them migrating all the application code to use some kind of hacked about wordpress theme is absolutely zero.

Dunno why you'd say that, that's the exact thing I'd expect them to do. I realize it's idiotic and will end in failure, but I still expect them to do that.
I’m not hopeful that Musk will face any consequences for any of this. He skated on pumping dogecoin & I presume Andressen et al will get the same for their altcoin shenanigans. Perhaps part of his alignment to Trump is to have the Federalist Society judges ignore his alleged fraud.
.... I need to know what this is a reference to?
Ladybird August 2024 Progress Report
You can also state this without the Rust involvement: adding a duplicate of the APIs in any other dialect, going through that exercise pushes implementors to reach clarity and understanding that is more detailed and complete than any incremental code review, and you can benefit greatly if you utilize that feedback in a timely fashion to improve the code and/or docs. There's an interesting parallel here to one of the common rust feedback tropes: until rust has two implementations and a specification it's not ready; this is interesting to reflect on in context.

This also came up in the video referenced in the step-down announcement, specifically just before Ted jumped in all hot, they were in the middle of about to propose to take some of what had been learned and perhaps rename or even document the C side once it was understood. Amusingly/disappointingly that suggestion which was coming was also counter to what Ted assumed they were saying.

A recent personal experience example down this same path happened in the GSO paths in the network stack, where a well intentioned incremental linux change made its way through review, landed not only in head but also into stable and LTS before anyone noticed that it was broken. It had actually broken kselftests (noted by a maintainer after the report it was broken), but kselftests is quite a mess to use on any given day, so it's hard to "spot" regressions and demonstrably isn't used as a tool to guard against regressions consistently. Reviewers missed the semantics, and i wouldn't blame them because it turns out the semantics in question aren't explicitly or clearly written down anywhere. Last year we wrote against this interface at work, and gained substantial performance improvements, but to do so we had to read the docs, read the source, read the review threads, make assumptions, try stuff, and ultimately settle on the observed semantics more than anything else. This is a userspace interface, so it should be well defined and stable following the mantra, and it's mostly ossified now due to having real users, but it's not well documented or well understood. We follow along some of our fellow offload implementors and have seen a number struggle trying to work solely off of the docs and looking at our implementation, as they miss minor semantics - you can only get those by reading the source and patches very closely. The point of this story is that these problems of understandability cause regressions inside the kernel too, all the time. Reaching for tools to avoid this is a good idea.
Have you reduced motion in the accessibility settings? Sounds very similar to the devloper settings in Android.
GDPR is pretty clear on anonymisation requirements https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files/2021-04/21-04-27_aep...

So somewhat possible?
I remember lcamtuf mentioning very similar concept ca. 2003.

In his version you would partition secret data and send it out to non existing email addresses, just to get them bounced back within a couple of days.

If you want to get your secrets back together you would simply start gathering appropriate parts (you need to keep track of all the chunks somewhere), otherwise you'd simply send them to another non existing email address.
Well, you can define the syntax however you like in a new DSL, right?

I like the syntax notpushkin proposed and would extend it a bit like this:

fruits* = MultiChoiceInput
# Pick two out of three fruits
Fruits are healthy, so let's pick two fruits
you will eat every morning for the coming week
- [ ] Apple
- [ ] Orange
- [ ] Banana
Because they'll be moving it to their own hosted version, wordpress.com, not allowing people to write their own code, or install different themes / plugins.
The discussion of the SD Early Access Program starting on pg34 (https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=332879335...) is interesting. I didn't realize those Tesla-driving Twitter/YT accounts were instructed to delete disengagements/errors and were paid - even getting early access to Musk's Twitter-revenue sharing program. But I suppose I really shouldn't be surprised.
GitHub has package repos for hosting package downloads.

A SLSA Builder or Generator can sign packages and container images with sigstore/cosign.

It's probably also possible to build and sign a repo metadata index with GitHub release attachment URLs and host that on GitHub Pages, but at scale to host releases you need a CDN and release signing keys to sign the repo metadata, and clients that update only when the release attachment signature matches the per-release per-platform key; but the app store does that for you
Do the privacy laws regarding public surveillance speak of "content"? Because that sounds like something a techbro smug halfwit would say.
This feels like spam to me. If I'm wrong, could someone add some explanation?
> Secondly, I get tired just thinking of the process of figuring out how to pay someone somewhere money.

An invoice?
To me, it's a bug not a feature that precedent can just expand infinitely as new capabilities in the world grow.

There's a lot of people saying that search warrants have always allowed intrusion & seizure. But the fact that all these devices (cars, cameras, phones) are now potentially interesting data-rich objects to be seized, mined for ever larger total information awareness by the state seems like a massive defect & flaw of the system to me.

I dont want old laws + new technology to automatically result in the state's eye of sauron (palantir) getting to better observe us.
I have crows nesting in a tree just outside my house. Crows are monogamous, so I see the same pair flying together all the time. Several months ago, they started to look a bit frazzled, they have chicks growing up. So I started giving them bits of food (meats and thawed mice).

They are now bringing me pieces of colored glass :) They also caw if I wave at them.

They are also keeping pigeons and seaguls away.
https://archive.is/XNMW3
Httplistener has two implementations. Managed (cross platform) and http.sys (windows only).

It’s “ok”. You can’t do things like re use contexts but it’s perfectly fine for throwing small backends together when you don’t want to force users to install asp runtime. I did a minimal web api around it to make life easier going between it and kestrel.

If kestrel was nugettable without the asp runtime it would be a dream but it requires a lot of that aspcore infra so it is what it is.
> Storage tanks for compressed hydrogen enjoy the square-cube law.

Not really. Wall thickness is roughly proportional to diameter, and surface area to the square, so you don't gain anything in terms of storage mass ratio by building bigger tanks.

> But the round-trip efficiency of the tank is virtually 100%

This is oversimplifying quite a bit. Compressing hydrogen, the lightest gas, is very energy intensive per unit of mass, and this energy is not fully recoverable upon decompression (due to general pump efficiency and thermal losses in the intercooler).
Fair, but Tom7's video presentations are always really fun too.
Yes, I recently rediscovered it.

Man, in the 90's when I was learning about a lot of manufacturing processes, that tech book store was a gold mine!

I would get the pre-computer era books and those contained all the manual, analytical geometry means and methods. Awesome skill builders for the time.

I still use that stuff when making things sans a nice shop environment today.

My first internet account was at techbooks.com

ISP run on a Sun Sparc 10 and a few Linux boxes. I could dial in at 9600 baud, just smoking fast! Ahem.

It became teleport.com later.

Fun times.

In any case, Powells books is very highly recommended.
You don't trust your own phone's airplane mode to shut the cell modem off?
>>>People will move out of the cities onto land where they can remove/shoot down cameras.

>Drones, country where owning a gun is right.

Shooting down someone else's drones/cameras however, isn't.
I see, thanks for the clarification. Btw, I really enjoyed YT "Making a game in Free Pascal" back in the day. I did learn a lot from your video :) Pascal is one of my top languages to code in! Nice to see you around here
(author here) Yeah, or if it's on http someone could MITM and change the script, or if they are malicious extension on the browser the content can be stolen after decryption.

That felt implicitly obvious to me, but I think you're right and it wouldn't hurt to put those assumptions in the FAQ. Thanks for the feedback!

(If you, or someone else, see other attack vectors, feel free to comment with those)
The stories of geniuses suffering from depression and other mental illnesses sure make remarkably interesting reads. It’s a pity he didn’t get psychiatric help, this could have been a boring story of an aging scientist taking care of his plants.
The analogy I find helpful for this is, you let the cat out your front door and close it. You walk to the back door and close that too.

A race condition (which safe Rust can have) is a normal phenemenon in our world. If we put the cat out the front door, then walk to the kitchen and close that door by the time we reached the back door maybe the cat had run around the outside of the building and come inside again, closing the doors in the wrong order introduced the opportunity for a race - be very careful.

A data race (which safe Rust does not have) is a weird thing caused by the mismatch between how you think the computer works and how it actually works. What happens if Alice tries the put the cat out the front door at the same time Bob tries to put it out the back door? Well, in the real world that cannot happen, either Alice has the cat or Bob does. But for many languages† this sort of nonsense can happen and when it does that's a disaster

† In safe Rust it can't happen, in Java, OCaml and Go it can happen, but it may not be a disaster (the details are different for each, it is a bug though).
Long ago times there was a sense of community, but also of loneliness/isolation at the same time. There was also much more accessibility/approachability, there was less to understand and it was easier to understand because we were spoonfed in bits as things were invented/developed and the reasons behind them. Trying to get my son tech skills I had a challenge, where do I even start? It's all just uninteresting dogma you just need to memorize now but for us it was 'this spec/software developed from this and ah ok I see the reasons why'.

Since 40 years ago there have been what, 400 million people years of development work done? That is harder to digest, harder to approach, harder to feel you are a part of something unique and exciting or of a small community.
You sound just like the guy from approx 20 years ago who stomped up and down on the Ars forums proclaiming "Cocoa was not going to replace Carbon".
If you rely on a calculator then you owe it to yourself to check out pcalc. One of the few apps I maintain paying for these days.
They clearly need better telemetry in the calculator app.
Is the idea that you'll check replication status after making each write? Or I guess you could do this at the application level, like after completing a transaction to e.g., sqlite check that there's at least one other zone caught up before acking whatever call the user made?
Interesting, I wonder will it be "1 wordpress instance" with each tumblr blog as an author, or something like wordpress.com / WPMU where each tumblr blog is a wordpress blog.
EDIT: I'm not sufficiently sure that this comment was accurate on US tax laws so I'm going to delete it.
I don't understand what's in it for the lender in the borrow stage.
No, it leverages ocean water
Sleeping in coach is awful. There's an untapped revenue source in auctioning off empty sleepers to people already on the train.

Before they changed their booking systems about 10 years ago, you could always get on the train with a coach ticket and ask the conductor if any roomettes would be free all night, and they'd negotiate a token price with you. I'd even haggle for one during the day for a long nap after a sleepless night in observation watching movies on my laptop.
It sounds like you have experience with that? Can you share further?
> Does a ref counted arg transfer the ref or does it take its own ref?

This sort of thing also comes up a lot when you write Python extensions in C. You have to know the "calling convention" when you pass object refs in and out of functions. This entire category of problems goes away when you write extensions in Rust with PyO3, and the barrier to entry for new folks is much lower. C++ can do similar things (std::shared_ptr), but it tends to introduce new footguns in a way that Rust really doesn't.
Just use basic types?

Sure you can over engineer Rust, for dubious gains. But that's true for any language. *cough* MetaAbstractFactoryProxyFactoryFacadeBuilderProxySingletonWebViewFactory *cough*

> More self-documenting for whom

Anyone using basic Rust types.

Is type `Sync`? It's safe to share between threads.

Is type `Option` its value can be missing i.e. None.

Is type moved? Yes, if it isn't borrowed, and not Copy.
How about instead of investing in preparing for the end times, we invest in keeping the planet habitable?
This is how Astrology Apps and similar genres work. They prey on a gullible demographic and then extract as much data as possible: contact lists, location, and more. Apple is complicit because even the dumbest reviewer knows an Astrology App doesn't need constant location access (but we need to lookup their star signs! We couldn't possibly just ask for a one-off zip code!).
Love that approach! Would you be ok with me featuring it in the Community and Alternatives[1] section of the StatiCrypt readme?

[1] https://github.com/robinmoisson/staticrypt#community-and-alt...
due in part to the practical application of an eponymous law of nature discovered by Dr. Murphy, the carousels are designed to always turn in the direction that takes your luggage away from wherever you are standing.

over 97% of the time, it is found to require more than 540 degrees of carousel rotation for your luggage to reach you, regardless of where you stand or move. this fact remains true for all passengers simultaneously. except for that one damn guy who got upgraded to 1st class and now his suitcases were first to come out right in front of him too (we collectively hate him).

note: this is statistically impossible, but airport bureaucracies and Dr. Murphy are clearly not subordinate to mathematics.
Yes, it was something like that. But "desirable" here means something very different for mathematicians and traders actually applying the strategy (I.e., they don't care at all, and neither does anyone else working in finance).
terrorist, then pedos, then drug(dealers|addicts), then "criminals". and finally used openly on everyone after all when the average person going about their business inadvertently commits an average of three felonies per day we are all criminals.
Patches are expected but the kernel interfaces shouldn't change right? Like if I write a kernel module no patch should break my compatibility and make my module not build anymore (I think)? I don't care if it changes underneath as long as it doesn't change where I interface.
These people created Wordpress and continue to base their business around it.

Realising something is a bad idea technically isn't really in their bag of tricks.
I think this is the comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1f4erbg/comment/l...
Yeah, with the helpful title of "Turn the onscreen keyboard into a trackpad", not even mentioning "move/moving" or "cursor", and also using "trackpad" wrong? A trackpad is for controlling a pointer, like a mouse, not to control the "insertion point of text".

Great that it is mentioned somewhere, in some manner, I guess.
I’ve seen many that are map first. There are N student projects alone that have done this. So maybe the execution was never good but:

1. Why do people want this

2. What’s special about this execution? Map first isn’t new.

Flickr was super successful. None of these other implementations have been. Lots of other photo-oriented things have been successful in the past so it’s clear the market is there. IG also fundamentally changed the UX with the feed, mobile-first design, its filters to make things look better easily, etc. These were very meaningful changes.

I don’t want to crap on others putting themselves out there. It’s hard and vulnerable, I know. But you have to at least acknowledge the space you’re going into and why this is different.
> Brasil requires media companies to appoint legal representatives to handle complains of illegal activity

If that was the case all millions of sites that operate in Brazil, without having legal representatives in the country, would have to be blocked, which doesn't happen. The truth here is that this Supreme Court "judge", which is more like a de facto dictator at this point, wanted essentially a hostage. Someone who he could jailed to blackmail Musk – as Moraes threaten to do with the previous representative, which was the reason for why Musk shutdown X operation in the country . It's that simple. Them going after Starlink, a totally different legal entity with different investors only proves this mafia-like style and how much of banana republic the whole country became, with zero legal certainty.

You are talking about something you really don't understand, such was what is happening in the country. Nobody outside Brazil is taking the decisions of this judge serious. Not even Interpol, which denied countless Red Notice alerts that this "judge" tried to issue, such as when he tried (and failed) to go after exiled journalist Allan dos Santos living in the USA and Oswaldo Eustáquio living in Spain.

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2021/11/interpol-segura-...

https://revistaoeste.com/brasil/pf-nao-inclui-oswaldo-eustaq...

Again, you are really talking about something you have absolutely no idea.
Backwards compatibility is more important than consistent naming conventions. 43.5% of all sites on the web run on WordPress (as of August 2024), and they have 20+ years of plugins and themes installed, many of which talk directly to the database.
Can someone else wearing the same gloves unlock your device? Otherwise seems more likely the capacitive sensor isn't bothered by a few tenths of a mm of nitrile.
Yeah this is spammy. Clicking the link on the site gives me a spam warning.

Also, who is "Robertson"?
I tried to subscribe to your newsletter but I get a 404 error on the webpage
Hmmm, no.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31912781/why-doesnt-the-...
If you would like to learn more about the Punic Wars, Oversimplified has a very, very good (and humorous) explainer video

https://youtu.be/yRmOWcWdQAo?si=6FNtH2zqJ9XAMh3g