skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is some sort of scam I think. The shareholders don't have the detailed knowledge and insight into the everyday work so the managerial class can squeeze out a dime for a dollar of some hard to measure asset like consumer trust or whatever.

Also, I got this feeling bigger shareholders might think they are smart and part of the scam and that they will jump ship (sell the stock) before smaller shareholders notice.

I guess e.g. Ben and Jerries would be all vanilla ice cream at this point of they were run in this way. You could always decrease the amount of nuts and fillings with 1% more without anyone noticing ...
I think the issue could be rooted in recent monetary policy rather than an inhrenent feature of the market itself.

Artificially low interest rate environments lead to a lot of money in the hands of investors, which due to inflation slowly loses purchasing power over time. However, with large reserves, they can easily afford to prop up a business model which persistantly spends more money on bringing "free" features to user while charging very little. Those businesses obviously outcompete any business which do not recieve such investment.

However, as time goes on, those investments must eventually earn a return. Switching from a model which loses money every year to one which must profit every year is invariably going to affect the quality of the product. Especially in an environment where directly charging customers for your service would be a death sentence.

In the absense of such cheap credit, however, a truly competitive environment could potentially emerge, where businesses must be sustanably profitable from the ground up. Esentially this would mean the last 15 or so years has been wasted time in pursuit of this goal, as false monetary signals were steering us in completely the wrong direction.

Some of todays tech companies may survive the transition, but I believe that most will eventually be replaced by completely new ones. Unless we go back to a policy of lowering interest rates to near (or even below) 0%.
Same. Have you tried https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ ? It does some of the things Obsidian does, but is a VS Code Plugin. I really like that combination.
Good luck trying to record a phone call on any modern smartphone. They purposely make it nearly impossible, unless you want to use speakerphone and the analog hole.
I love this, however...

I would say the "thumbs up" on a comment is one of the most helpful things on Github, it telegraphs that a comments is usually the fix for something, if we didn't have loads of people doing the "thumbs up" reaction on comments, we wouldn't effectively have stack overflow style answers in comments.
Top 10 on my MacBook is usually still gaspingly tiny utilization; it means almost nothing. I feel like we are back where I started: I doubt your vscode would be significantly different than my neovim. That's been my experience. I definitely lose some power keeping tsc watch running and having LSP update itself. And having projects reload. But these aren't fault of vscode - these all run when I'm using neovim too. Amid these processes vscode seems unimportant. If it is a drain, evaluate your plugins & find who is the problem.

I already explained why having multiple electron apps likely doesn't compound the problem: you're only one user. It's very infrequent that you'll be heavily using multiple apps. Even if you are, the likelihood is that the resource usage is being spent on real work, doing heavy transportation or type checking or whatever it is pumping data at your console. There's a significant chance that worrying about the cpu usage of the gui is pointless & irrelevant by comparison.
How can it be a "clear example" when it's subjective by your own admission ("they feel")?
Is cloud storage authnz is any less convoluted? I realise you're responding only to the "one liner" argument, but as soon as you do anything with SQLite that involves the cloud or authnz or secondary processes, you're right back to where you were with client/server database systems in terms of complexity.
Yes, that's part of the reason why alignment is such a huge problem.

You can imagine an AI that answers questions and helps you get things within reason that doesn't hurt anyone else plus corrections for whatever problems you imagine with this. That's roughly an aligned AI. It will help you build a bomb as a fun experiment, but would stop you from hurting someone with the bomb.
also the company that stays small will get clobbered by the vc backed competitor. they will build more features, have more marketing and lower cost during the growth phase.
> The need to have a for profit platform leads to perverse incentives.

The need to have profit is the goal of any business.

The problem isn't that. The need for profit has been entirely replaced with the need for continuous unimpeded growth. Which is decidedly not the same thing, but no one cares anymore, and profit doesn't even come into equation anymore.
I think for-profit is fine; I think the need to profitably apply eight figures of capital is the problem.

It's fine to seek profit; it's seeking triple digit millions of revenue that drives the problem.

Is it possible this is simply a knock-on effect of too-low interest rates for so long? Too cheap VC money?
> maybe Huffman literally forgot that he misunderstood the Apollo dev

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the person on the call wasn't Huffman himself. Selig was talking to some Reddit employee, who presumably then told Huffman about the call.

It's possible that the employee who talked to Selig didn't 100% accurately describe what was said in the call (because he didn't have a transcript to check what was said), and then Huffman misunderstood whatever the employee said further to come up with the blackmail accusation.
No, before. Don’t give cops freebies.
What, Zuck?
i love the 20% commitment. 80% wgaf
I suppose I had better hurry up and finish building https://stickerdocs.com then. If you like the EN concept but want something privacy focussed and a honest company to support you on your journey, you might want to sign up.
Surely people realized profits can be increased by cutting expenses before “modern MBA” education came around.
That's why I always preferred the continental term informatics over CS.
I’m not following. If ChatGPT gets worse, OpenAI can simply not update it. Or revert to a previous version.

For Google, they’re at the mercy of whatever the internet has.
Again with your ad hominem and repeating the same two words (like an annoying kid that has just learned a fancy new word) to shut down any possibility of constructive disagreement. You're insufferable. Have a good one.
Tofu Dreg kills people.

I am not sure about putting human lives as an operand in win/loss arithmetic, like some typical resource. China is not in a hot war.
> The need to have a for profit platform leads to perverse incentives.

Only because, despite their immense importance, those platforms are essentially unregulated.

Imagine water suppliers were unregulated. There would also be "perverse incentives", such as doctors paying them to add poison to the water so they get more patients and can make more money. But nothing like that ever happens, because there are rules such companies must abide by. Therefore, they simply sell water for money, and that's it. There are no incentives to extract more profits through other means, because anything else is prohibited.

I fail to see why analogous regulation wouldn't work for online communication platforms.
My personal blog with not much content, but I try: https://www.srijn.net/
Not a handy man, but we build power electronics and a lot of customized stuff. I also often give quotes that are really high for stuff that we don't actually want to do. It's kind of better than saying we cannot do it (because then they will never ask again) and if they agree to it we make a lot of money. For larger investments it makes sense to get a second quote.
> What could possibly go wrong with emailing executable scripts?

Server side malware filters will strip the attachment.
SigNoz (YC W21): Open-Source Observability Platform – Is Hiring Sr Back End Dev
Wow, this was prophetic.

> they'll have a userbase in the millions within hours of launch that's able to hop over from IG.

Well done on this prediction.
I can't wait for Hacktoberfest this year!
Teach Yourself Demoscene in 14 Days (2017)
I think it can be explained better by a different -ism.
Joplin will be unusable until they give up on obfuscating the md files.
InternLM – new open source 7B LLM
https://eftegarie.com

My personal blog with random notes, thoughts and blog posts. I don’t update it often sadly, but i like having my firstname @ my last name .com as my email address.
Even though that's a reaction on the title rather than the (interesting) content, I would like to add that Turing-completeness isn't the gold-standard of languages. Some very interesting languages like Agda or Idris focus on the benefits of abandoning it.
Thanks. I always wondered what had happened to him.
There are no worthy companies. Oh, you mean 'worthy to me'. Well, the answer remains the same. I give people and companies the benefit of the doubt at first, but the moment they lose my trust they are 'dead to me'. So I maintain a list for 'do not buy from this company'. In some company cases I will nuance that list: for example HP laptops are on my 'never ever buy again' list. On the other hand, I buy nothing but HP LaserJet printers.

I do subscribe to the 'Buy twice as good, and only buy half as many' philosophy. I tend to buy upmarket cars and computers and then keep them for 10 years or more.

Probably more accurately, you might say I go for dependability. When I hop in that car, I expect it to start at first go, and then go as far as I want it to.
You're missing the point. If we want to know something, we won't even have to google it; we will just ask an LLM. There will be no market for websites full of it because we can just directly ask it to answer our questions.

The only "if" to all this is if we will destroy the LLMs by feeding them their own diarrhea. I expect a sort of natural selection here to play out, especially in the open source space. Ones that are trained on LLM generated blogspam will probably, I expect, get outperformed by ones that are trained on genuine information, or at the very least ones made using new techniques that adequately filter noise.
With UIs like this is how you get regular people to migrate. The current server/instance is way too complex for the majority of the people. If this was available and promoted a couple weeks ago I bet there would be a lot more users now.
Counterexample: covid.

Assumptions:

- Genetic modification as danger needs to be in the form of a big number of smart humans (where did that come from?)

- AI is not physically constrained

> it's much more likely we have time to detect and thwart their threats.

Why? Counterexample: covid.

> Even if we knew how to create a new species of superintelligent humans who have goals misaligned with the rest of humanity, it would take them decades to accumulate knowledge, propagate themselves to reach a sufficient number, and take control of resources, to pose critical dangers to the rest.

Why insist on some superinteligent and human, and suficient number. A simple virus could be a critical danger.
Or even something as mundane as a good video game.

Climbing that mountain cliff in Skyrim on horseback? I'm in awe at the view, and I'm in awe that this god damn horse can defy gravity.
My personal blog: https://ybogomolov.me. I used to blog about functional programming in TypeScript and fp-ts. Now I don’t have much time for that, but I’m planning to revive the blog with more FP content soon.
> I’m genuinely curious if people just don’t care.

Won't touch that application with a stick, especially from my laptop.
Its easier to pick up and use without having to worry about data loss
> release notes

4doc's contribution here is to ask you who the audience is for your release notes. Is it task-oriented, e.g. release notes for a database to help DBAs upgrade to that new version? Then write your release notes in a how-to style. Is it understanding-oriented, e.g. release notes for new B2C product features, to help users understand what it is you built? Then write your release notes in an explanation style. Different products have different requirements from their release notes, but 4doc helps you conceptualize who is supposed to benefit from it and therefore what style (and organization, and delivery) will be most beneficial when writing them.

The worst release notes are auto-generated from Git commits, in projects where Git commit messages are basically jotted-down handwritten chicken-scratch that are not really intended nor edited for external consumption. 4doc points out to you that autogenerating the release notes from commit messages like that is basically beneficial to nobody.
Replaced it with Joplin a year ago. Very happy paying user.
I have a few dreams...

In a decade or two, we finally collectively realize that we do need secure general purpose computing, and adopt capability based security[1] widely. The resulting regained freedom to just try things results in a renaissance of the internet.

In a decade or two, it turns out that the bitgrid[2] actually does help give petaflop computing to the masses, dirt cheap.

In a decade or two, we figure out how to take an atomically flat surface, add a layer of semiconductor to it, then build transistors on it, one at a time, to make chips with the minimum possible sized fabrication system. This allows custom semiconductor production to be democratized.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

[2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid
A perfect example with the recent changes at Twitter:

> Most Twitter users barely tweet and don't care about followers - a "heavy user" tweets on average less than three times a week. So if someone is posting regularly enough to be willing to pay $8 a month for a blue tick, but has not built up a sizeable following organically, this is a very strong signal that the posts they are producing are no good.

> It is exactly that content that Twitter's new model relies on promoting - and those newly-minted blue ticks are quickly learning that there is no magic behind the checkmarks. New followers are not magically heading their way. The problem wasn't a biased liberal algorithm, it was that their tweets are no good.

> That means lots of blue ticks stop paying - but everyone else is forced to read the low-quality content that the remaining blue ticks produce. This is what is powering the enshittification of Twitter.

(From: https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-slow-sad-death-of-twitt...)
We had great luck with the latest generation of Medtronic pumps (the 700 range).

It used to be that they (older models) were off by huge margins, and the auto modes had to be constantly calibrated against as it was often not only off, but suggesting/dosing dangerous amount in either direction.

Nowadays, SO calibrates a few times a week and the pump is extremely reliable. Longer periods of highs are usually due to infusion set leaking (eg. line snagged and pulled the needle).

Like the other reply, it takes a day or two until the system is reliable.

Sensor on back of the arm, infusion on stomach is the combo we've found to be the most safe and reliable sites. Make sure you rotate as often as possible and avoid putting them in the exact same spot.
The last section is titled "Good is the enemy of better".
I've worked in many industries, and none of them put up with the poor state of tools and treat it as a given like the software industry does.
If you are on Mac/iOS devonthink is good alternative for it.
The perceived significance of the reward is irrelevant and doesn't affect whether its degradation is "enshittification" or not. It's not excluded from that categorization because it's considered a "trivial" feature. In fact, I'd argue it's specifically a good example of enshittification because it's one of the very few things that's actually just "a nice thing" the developers added, that was previously a nice friendly thing to grant when someone gains 1000xp in a month. A cool badge. Fun. They didn't have to have this nice little thing, but they did. That's cool, right?

If you use the app regularly (as you "should" if you're learning a language), you will absolutely certainly get the badge. Well, that is, until recently, because some of the quests can be difficult to accomplish. No longer is it just a nice consistent monthly thumbs-up in the form of a fun little badge, it's now a source of uncertainty and perhaps even a source of anxiety for people who are driven by "collecting" (e.g. "achievement hunters"). Sure sounds like enshittification to me, regardless of how big a deal it is.
Isofix is easy in theory but if you don't know exactly where the fixing points are, then it's like fumbling around in the dark. Sometimes it's hard to see the fixing points while trying to get the seat on.

I think that situation is something many parents recognize. Usually when the baby is screaming etc.. wonderful.

Once you've click the base in, it's easy next time though. Yet, my wife still considers fitting the seat as the man's responsibility. :-)
Found this interesting article from this news article: https://phys.org/news/2023-07-aftermath-china-survey-chinese...
He made the world’s most popular programming language in 10 days. By most people’s definition that’s very impressive.

Sure, he did it mostly by being in the right place at the right time. But lots of geniuses tried to do web programmability before, eg with java applets. They were in the right place at the right time too. They spent man years getting it all right, and even Eich’s very first 10-day hacked version of JS (or, well, LiveScript) was better. Don’t dismiss all the stuff he got right. It’s a lot!
"Shoshin" translated to English means going back to one's roots. Remembering why you're doing what you're doing, and so on. Life can get overwhelming and it's far too easy to lose track of the fundamentals.
Is it good though?
No, it’s not a threat to commit a crime (grandparent wrote “almost”).

Still, the problem remains; i.e. a new law is likely to require you to remove some content that you’ve been serving or to change the way you’re handling the content.
Basically how I came around using it, was instead of having txt files, office files and a bunch of screenshots scattered around on the filesystem under the respective project directory, I started organizing such content inside Notes itself.
Just reviewing what I've got added to my feed reader:

* tilde.news

* Lobsters

* Slashdot

* lemmy.sdf.org

* the linux sub on lemmy.ml

* A selection of the less annoying subreddits, like r/askphilosophy

* A selection of local news websites for where I live

* A selection of blogs written by random people who I think are interesting

* Hackaday

* indieretronews.com

* Hacker Public Radio

* HN of course

* And other random stuff. And dm.hn is probably going to be amazing when I have some time to comb through it

In the event that none of it's interesting, I pop open a Gemini client and just start clicking around, I always find the most random long ramblings. The Lagrange client in particular is a very refreshing reading/browsing experience.

Internet content has never been better and I don't feel overwhelmed by inauthentic stuff at all, I know that there's a lot of it out there, but it rarely reaches my eyeballs, mainly through the now-decaying morass that is Reddit sometimes.

Mind you it took me years to come up with the list of feeds I like and it's very personal to my interests, but it's always just been a text file that I edit so it was easy.
In CS 61A we weren't taught about Turing complete, we simply learned that expressive power is the ability to represent the abstractions you use to solve or model a computational problem correctly and efficiently.
There are people whose entire careers got reset due to changes in laws. Those individuals I’m sure are absolutely trying to send the same fear into other industries. Its definitely worth calling them out on though. Tired of having people try to poke holes in my career.
Maybe it is a sunk cost fallacy? I.e. not aiming for some stupid amount of growth is the same thing as telling the VCs you have failed and wasted their money.

So going for some unhealthy revenue target is the path of least resistance, since the failure still is in the future.
FreeBSD is so damn self-congratulatory.

Leadership ugh culture argh.

Makes me want to retch.

How about get some users?
Yeah, it's typically easier to emigrate out of the reach of your law's country than to avoid the reach of these trillion-dollar-worth corporations.
Consent-O-Matic. Click No on all cookie pop ups
How can this be legal? I'm pretty sure that in order to legally process health data, an entity must have a plausible reason for doing so, at least in some jurisdictions. What could that reason possibly be for a social media app?
No specific advice I'm afraid - although I guess you could try just expanding the entire page and leave the margins blank?

In any case, keep on writing!
The few talks that are available from him online are quite interesting.

Thanks for the link.
When the goals of the customers and the goals of the company are at odds, things will never work out long term.

But I disagree that the continuous growth model is the cause, although I certainly believe that it frequently adds fuel to the fire (growing a company when it's making a loss on a per customer basis frequently leads to accelerating death spirals as well as all manner of desperate measures).
Not at a startup scale but building and selling, PongFox Table tennis robot.
https://pongfox.com

I have been recently working on integrating it with OpenAI api and adding a pad for players to serve and work on their third ball drill after service which is not available in 2Kusd robots.
Goodness gracious this is all going to end in a ball of flames isn't it.
Is this correct?

I thought the call was with Steve himself. If this is true, it changes everything.

Would anyone mind checking? My wife and I have been in the hospital for a month, and it’s 2am here. Their voices and mannerisms sounded similar and I always assumed it was Steve.

If it wasn’t Steve, then I’ll immediately reverse my opinion. The evildoer was the employee.

That’s a rather crucial detail.
I have a few veritas planes and they really are fantastic, the innovation is great too, one of the only companies doing any new designs in this space. I love the look of the new number 1 sized plane, it's on my list.

Am also lucky enough to have a got a Lie Nielsen plane before they became like gold dust, similar quality but there's something about Veritas designs that I like more.

That being said I have a 1960s Record No 4 I use for a lot of smoothing, old, tatty and the blade doesn't hold an edge for long, but sharpened regularly it can achieve a mirror like finish on most wood - no sanding required.
The tagging features and the ability to just paste a picture in a markdown file are the things that bring me back to Obsidian instead of VSCode
It’s a pretty clunky experience trying to creating and editing notes. There’s also the constant worry about conflicts, to try and cut them down I open the mobile app, hit sync, make an edit then hit sync again. I use WebDAV, maybe Joplin Cloud is better at it
>Where are the Apache, NginX, PostgreSQL and Redis benchmarks?

>Where are the measurements of network performance?

You'd have to ask Larabel about that. But given that Dragonfly can seemingly trade blows with FreeBSD *18 years later* does seem to suggest there's some merits to their design
Tried both for quite some time, Obsidian has better community plugin support, better sync (paid) and stores plain text files instead of using a DB. Most importantly the mobile app (at least for iOS) of Obsidian is 1:1 with the desktop app.

Switched from Joplin to Obsidian and haven't looked back. Both apps are great initiatives though!