skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I’m just a stick in the mud, but I’m curious - is anyone else tired of the term “enshittification”?

It seems needlessly crass and juvenile to describe a real and fairly obvious problem with VC backed firms striving for profitability. And it’s just not that clever of a term?

And it just leads to a lot of the same comments on HN, whenever there’s a policy change on Reddit/Uber/Airbnb - “This is another example of enshittification, as coined by Cory Doctorow”.
Juche is the gap in the horseshoe?
No one paused.
> discount and argue against using circumstantial evidence

Didn't discount or argue against using circumstantial evidence, nor did I argue against speculating. I am stating the evidence only supports the possibility, it does not prove it happened. Please stop making up false arguments.

>neither side of the debate has the definitive evidence

Agreed.
By Windows 10, .NET Native and C++/CX with WinRT, were looking cool as COM evolution with modern tooling.

Then they had to screw it all up.
Remember to donate to the fsf or eff or your organization of choice when you see stories like this
I wish that community effort actually worked, but the truth is almost no one reviews 99% of the open source libraries linked into every app, let alone the binary blob drivers and OMA-DM toolkits with root access to your phone controlled by Apple/Google and Qualcomm.

Truly no e2ee chat is safe if even one person accesses it from a smartphone with code the community cannot review, or is not actively reviewing.

Until we have 100% open code on endpoints with auditable hardware (like the Precursor) and have crowd sourced signed code reviews... we are vulnerable to any company, state actor, or teen that phishes the credentials to an NPM repo.

The state of software supply chain integrity today is about as good as hospital sanitation practices in the 1800s.
NASA opposes lithium mining at Nevada site used to calibrate satellites
Men without degrees are more likely to join the Great Resignation
Wagner troops may reach Moscow by evening as Kremlin hurries to intercept
While I understand the sentiment, I think people here can discern between an iMessage and an hn comment. I would be curious to know the percentage of people commenting on mobile devices. I’d guess it’s a lot. I prefer the ui the way it is, I don’t mind the old school feel. I’m sure I could go get an App to make it better. But I don’t think mobile vs desktop necessarily correlates well to quality of hn comment. I could be wrong tho.

Sent from my iphone
If it takes more than 2 hours, there's a pretty good chance it's the wrong job for the person doing the challenge.
NYC Bus. Owners Unhappy with Facial Recognition Ban Prompted by NYC Bus. Owner
Show the results and declare a golden age later. The "golden age" label is not for contemporary journalists.
This is the first thing I thought of when I saw this! I began learning how to build websites during this era and was always in awe of their work.
hopefully someone can create a script for phones since Firefox Nightly in Android got Tampermonkey add on
I would expect an article title like this to be backed up by some dramatic increase in healthcare availability (like free healthcare in the U.S.) but no, it's just the people at the high end have access to better care than ever before. Hooray.
Unfortunately not, “lrn” uses a very simple file format where each entry consists of three lines: question, answer, empty line. But I think it’d be a good idea to look into supporting Anki decks. I should do it some time. It’d be probably limited to decks that use text only.
It’s incredible that in some part of the world the programmers are called “nerds” but in San Francisco are millionaires.
TriviaQA has different splits. They did compare and their model is much better.

https://twitter.com/MaartenBosma/status/1672349512499867648
Worth noting it is possible to embed decryption keys inside .pcapng files, using editcap --inject-secrets.
America: where you get shot asking someone to pick up their dog's poop.
On my sort of large phone all the links and buttons are just big enough that I can press on the right things consistently without zoom. My issue is that I accidentally hit them when scrolling sometimes.
Thought provoking article.

Odd that it's been flagged, though.
> It’s important to reiterate that the PPUs inherently are not redeemable for value if OpenAI does not turn a profit. That said, there are investors that have been willing to pay for these PPUs and that’s where the value being told to candidates is derived from.

> In conversations with recruiters we’ve heard from some candidates that OpenAI is communicating that they don’t expect to turn a profit until they reach their mission of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). As with any startup, there are risks associated with equity and it’s important to consider the possibility that equity can be worth nothing.

This is weird. They don’t expect to be profitable until AGI exists? Does the monetary system we have today even matter at that point?
> I mean if someone just put some source code in your mailbox you don't suddenly get the rights to use it however you want right?

You're applying way too much logic to a legal problem. If you ask a lawyer or judge about this, their first question will be "what intent was that source code mailed under, and were you the intended recipient?"

If someone mails you a bunch of source code by accident, and it's reasonably obvious to you that it was by accident (which it will frequently be, because who the f*ck mails source code around?), you may in fact be required to destroy it.

On the other hand if someone mails you the same code and you have reason to believe their intention was to spread it out no strings attached, yeah, you get the rights to use it however you want… except if the sender didn't have the right to do that to begin with…

P.S.: "no strings attached" is also something that is impossible in some jurisdictions, since what you're doing might be required to be a contract of some kind, and contracts require bidirectional considerations. But at this point you really need a lawyer to explain the actual situation…

P.P.S.: this is like that joke about writing on a brick "by accepting this brick through your window, you indemnify the thrower against all possible charges or damage resulting from this brick" and then chucking the brick through some storefront window.
Before we extend life span much, we first need to work on dementia. It won’t be pretty to have a lot of very people with dementia.
Men are dropping out of the labor force because upset about their social status
They already kind of did.

"Azure OS" with Web applications.

That is why Windows desktop has become a mess.
> In not-capitalism, there's a possibility this might not be true. Open source developers MIGHT NOT need to earn a living doing something else.

That's all well and fine. Except this is a fantasy. It has not existed ever in human history, does not exist today and the laws of physics say it cannot exist in the future.

If we limit the discussion to reality, well, FOSS isn't even close to free. Before a person can devote effort to working on FOSS, they have to sustain themselves.

Look, there's nothing whatsoever wrong with this reality. FOSS has gone incredibly far and deep under this model. There's nothing wrong with recognizing that FOSS exists due to what one might call charity. It's people working at whatever they do who then donate some of their free time to whatever they care about in the FOSS domain. And that's fantastic. Let's not pretend it's free though. It costs every single contributor a non trivial amount of time to participate in the effort. And that isn't free for anyone on this planet.

What I am saying is that this isn't a bad thing, yet it is a reality that should not be swept under the rug.
I would bet it’s almost entirely authentic flagging. News about Russia’s invasion has a lot of propaganda and unverified reporting, and I imagine HN users are tired and skeptical of anything on the news about it.

For context, I’m not at all denying the invasion or how awful it is. I’m only saying there is extreme hyperbole at times in the same way there is about controversial political figures in the US
Prisma Client Extensions is production ready
Without E2E, the cloud providers are legally required to hand over your private data, often without a warrant.

They often also sell your data to law enforcement.

With E2E, they cannot be legally compelled to do those things, and doing so voluntarily without disclosing it would likely be illegal.

So, E2E has legal benefits for the end user, in addition to some technical benefits.
You know you can just go adjust the zoom on most browsers & it'll stick for the site, yes? On Chrome there's a "zoom" option in the drop down.

HN is well optimized on mobile. It's great as is. Lot of people just bullying their opinions.
These 9 States Are Trying to Block Kids from Social Media
It's also just good UX. A lot of the web today ignores browser defaults, so when you click on a link, there is no visual indicator that you clicked it, like a link color change.

We just don't notice/care because the page usually loads quickly enough.
Legislation introduced for vehicle fees based on weight in NYC
Exactly more like how many clicks is a particular event worth.
There were other frameworks before React: AngularJS, Knockout.JS, Backbone.JS, ExtJS, and I'm probably missing few others... Most of them had a concept of props/dirty-checking/retained-mode and they were definitely faster than naive React.

What VDOM made easier (in terms of performance) was memoization, you could get faster if you carefully evaluated your dependencies, but to be fair, it introduced many edge-cases and many people avoid memoization to this day.

VDOM also made react-native possible, and it made cross-browser programming bearable (but other frameworks at the time did that too)

Now, one REALLY COOL thing about VDOM is fragments, because being able to render multiple elements from one component, makes certain layouts very easy using plain CSS - either with simple > * or even with CSS GRID.

I am not sure, if Svelte 4 can do that, but it's very simple thing to do with VDOM. And it certainly was not common feature for a very long time.
I tend to avoid map and filter unless the code I'm writing can be naturally expressed using them. I almost never use reduce. Sum of a list is one of the few reasonable use cases. I've seen some horrific reduce code that's working very hard to avoid an explicit loop.

If I need to count occurrences of each character in a string, I'm using a loop.
There is a lot of flagging happening lately.
Most of the current inflation is probably a delayed effect of the recent money printing craze. If that's the case, then the corrosion to investing is overstated.
Not stock PPUs which are only worth anything if they turn a profit and according to OpenAI that isn’t happening until AGI.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html
I suspect that you are correct, but do we know that Sam Altman is not telling the truth then about OpenAI pausing?
When I see both an up and a down arrow next to a comment and I zoom in so that I can touch just one of them it seems the other one lights up as well. At least that is my impression on the iPhone.

So do these little tiny arrows really vote up and down or are they just a neutral engagement signal?

I always intended to look in the code but as it fits this topic, I guess I can just as well ask here.
Probably the people who can afford super expensive treatments and those who profit from them.
Anyone have some napkin math on how many QPS something like this can handle??
If it wasn’t pushed back against it would take over the entire site and every thread would devolve into a rehashed flame war about Trump or gender issues or something. Then everyone else would leave.
Why smart AI regulation is vital for innovation and US leadership
Sam Altman said something to the effect of 'OpenAI has the highest talent density of any company'.

OpenAI is modest in employee count and extreme in employee talent, with its employees rewarded commensurately.
It's always interesting to think about how someone somewhere is earning as much as you earn in a decade or lifetime in a single year. Also that you are that person for someone else.
Except most jurisdictions have rules governing things like that.
> as experienced by people living at the time

there's another twist of all this.
Communication back in time has been.. mostly missing - and slow if any.

So people in two distant cities could be on two different planets, with similar outcome :)

Seems those "linear" timelines, put in that context, look more like bitemporal things.. so its possible that city B learned that city A was in war when that war actualy ended, or later.. and reaction (if any) might be misplaced..

As of maps of "rivers".. that's similar to how people migrations - or army moves are shown.

btw, there's this history-map of europe 1-year-per-second:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P0QSxlnI

and also this, i don't know are they of same author:

https://thesoundingline.com/map-of-the-day-every-ruler-in-eu...
And World War 2 saw a complete leveling of most of the country…
Bio-hackers and/or the wealthy. The best medicine will eventually become available to everyone who is a part of the global economy. At least it always has given enough time. In the last 25 years, more than a billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty. The world is at 10% or less right now.

A glaring counterpoint is certain things like eyeglasses probably aren't universally available to everyone who needs them, but those industries WILL develop.
The issue here isn’t screen size.

@media (pointer: coarse) {
/* UI for fingers */
}

I frequently use small viewports on my laptop and the pervasiveness of this misconception drives me mad. I try to fit more information on the screen and websites respond by spatially bloating as if designed to impede.
Bro has achieved the real American dream: complete dissociation from the lives of regular people
there's an interesting discussion to be had here around desktop vs mobile applications/UIs. Despite the promise of the existence of a unifying paradigm I find that often technology providers pick a preference or a preference bleeds through culture (more of our QAs use this device) or by pandering to the majority user (typically phones today). In our case I imagine the culture of traditionally accessing HN through an IDE-capable device results in the default being optimised for desktop use.

Spotify recently (well over a year ago now) merged its two clients with the mobile UI being the winner. Its interesting how as a desktop user you notice all these imperfections where you are now the loser. The search is top(ish) left instead of top right and various UI elements work now _so_ much better when you are able to swipe right (to easily navigate albums in a scrollable carousel) or swiftly swipe downwards (where on desktop one must find and drag a scrollbar).

I imagine we've all experienced some of the more irksome manifestations that have already transpired due to this schism such as: websites that tell you to download an application, a support call for a broken web function that results in "use the mobile app, it works there" and isn't fixed for weeks or months, or the horrific pop-ups that encourage the use of one or the other application as dev teams hint at their disinclination to continue minority support.
Hmm are they refugees if they flee a relatively stable land, and cross a dozen stable countries before they get on that boat? Perhaps there’s another word we can use?
> His policies likely resulted in several million more deaths than might have otherwise happened.

Perhaps more than several million when estimates are between 15 and 55 million dead.
I'm trying Harmonic right now and it is really lacking in features, sure, the Material You is great but I can't edit my comments or see how many votes a comment/post has (and there is no Inbox?!).

Love the browser concept in it though, never seen anything like it before.
TS is definitely not zero actual value. The decrease in bugs my team has seen since migrating our JS apps to strict-mode TS is remarkable. It’s been ~5 years since then and I can’t imagine going back.
Paying someone a lot doesn't magically make them a good engineer. You have to actually hire the best people, and there's only so many of them to go around.
Tell me large projects did not exist before TypeScript.
Wonder if we'll see many IPOs from any companies not turning a profit anytime soon
I really hate to break this to you, but in no case would I see a sign that said “no vehicles” and hesitate to ride my bicycle right past it. If it applied to bikes, it would say so. This doesn’t take vast knowledge nor is it a flex, I’m saying this is uniformly what I would expect cyclists in all US cities in which I’ve lived to understand as well.
The Fed is not a force of nature, its response to the rise of inflation is absolutely crucial and important for economy, and it is not in any metaphysical way coupled to the rise of inflation — it can act as it pleases.
Yes, as a general rule of thumb salaries track or exceed inflation in the long run. If that weren't the case, everybody would be living in Huts eating gruel
It’s the kind of term a bunch of nerdy kids would come up with, snorting and giggling at how clever they are. This is more or less the level at which Doctorow operates.
No that's not how ours works. We have, basically, 20 checkboxes for "things that are good about this work". These range from "strong user focus" to "logic to prevent <some problem we've previously had with billing>".

The submissions that we continue with check a bunch of boxes. The submissions that we pass on don't.

The problem is, we're not hiring people to build to a spec. We want to assess your decisions and ability to go from a basic problem to a first implementation. If we shared the rubric with folks, they'd focus entirely on trying to check the boxes and I don't think we'd get an accurate assessment.

Your point about valuing peoples' time is important, though. We have not yet found the right balance for everyone.
Didn't Stalin say (roughly), "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic" ?
> Patiently waiting for the day where we stop pretending inflation is anything other than people in government intentionally debasing the currency personal gain.

You'll be waiting forever, because this is not what it is.

Ideally inflation would be 0%, but that is impossible to do because it would mean that the "money" (however defined) available matches exactly that money that is needed for the economy to run and grow. But it is impossible to know/predict a priori how much would be needed.

So if you have too much money available, and more importantly moving around 'too much' (velocity), you get positive inflation. Now if you have too little money available (especially if it's 'hard money' like coins, and not credit), you get the effect of stifling economic activity:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bullion_Famine

You also have the effect that the people who have the (literal) coin being able to charge more for it (rent seeking) because everyone else wants/needs it to do business (notwithstanding credit arrangements).

So which is a bigger problem: too much money possibly allowing too much economic activity, or too little economic activity? In recent decades (post-Great Depression) the dogma is that we'd rather have positive inflation to have 'extra money' around so that activity is less hindered.

Further, there is a misguided idea that government creates money: it does not. (No, not even the central bank.) Money is created by private banks through credit:

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/how-is-money-crea...

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/132

And if you think that deposits are re-loaned out, this is utterly and completely wrong and out of date. Tobin called this "the old view" in 1963:

* https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cowles-discussion-paper-...
They're voicing their position in writing. There's no way to make that "neutral" unless they have a neutral position. Of course someone on the left is going to write like they're on the left. Likewise, someone on the right is going to write like they're on the right. There's no incentive for people to take the time to neuter their writing just because you disagree with how they stated things. It's not impossible that this is a "black and white" kind of thing in their mind, right?
https://archive.is/ihMYw
From the No<OOXML> days, the only thing i regret is to have not sued Microsoft in court for having corrupted the whole process.
They're not mutually exclusive, I embrace the term, albeit I'm not a millionaire!
Sure there is. Do it once every 3 years. Simple math.
> The media would not be reconciled to the idea that such eminent persons should suffer such a cruel fate.

You're imposing your own narrative here. The interest was driven by the Titanic and deep sea exploration. Whomever the six people were means nothing. I've watched documentaries about this type of Titanic exploration and now the subject of those documentaries is part of a slowly developing catastrophe.
From some time in the 1900s until the late 1970s, in the US, iirc.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide...

Significant wealth inequality gaps and the lack of wage growth, in relation to inflation, coincide. There's a lot of data on this subject, but getting specifics on how the data is collected is very difficult (given the data collection is often decades old).
Isn't it for member of technical staff? It's a high level position.
the article is talking about investing
Thank you — I knew it was free but didn't recall that I'd done the in-app "Premium" purchase. I'd still recommend it for anyone open to non-free (as in beer and/or freedom) apps.
Only when overfunded with VC money.

At that point, they are not hiring you, me or anyone who directly applies themselves via the job form.

They are hiring their friends from elite circles.
Yeah you should not work here. That's a completely reasonable stance.
Normalized dot product is equivalent to cosine similarity.
The whole exercise specifically asked us to ignore context, "common sense", etc. If we were supposed to consider an exception for park services, it would have been explicitly stated.

Of all the forums for an insistence on rigidly, literally following rules to make people's heads explode, HN is not exactly the most surprising, but it is one of the funniest.
What should I know to get a job there?
Agree. Does no good to have 200 year old people with osteoporosis, extreme cancer, and dementia.
I got it! thanks in advance for the upvote!
A ~$100K signing bonus sounds kind of small for someone making $900K per year.
But this is a totally meaningless definition. It says nothing about the phenominalogical experience of consciousness in a meaningful way and contains nothing that is scientifically falsifiable.
I understand your happiness, but using such a vague word as "cloud" is doing a disservice to this setup
Looks like they don't hire remote, otherwise I would absolutely be applying right now...no way am I moving to SF.

(Not that I think I would have a realistic chance, since I'm sure they're getting the best of the best applicants right now. But still.)
Because these operating systems evolved to the point where root is not needed. Switching to root is dangerous and violates the principle of least privilege. Now privileged actions like getting your location is managed by the operating system and the operating system can ask the user to permit permissions to apps.
Static type analyzer wars really.

Sure I say go for it for those super galactic world changing giga projects but most simply aren't that.

A project with well organized, clean code without a lot of junk will be a small, easily overseeable project, for a long long while.