skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it rediculous to assume a seat-heating feature could cause a fire? I would assume there are even hardware limitations in place to prevent heating that would otherwise cause damage.

I imagine the situation at court "you implemented combustive seat-heating for this model?¿"
No resistance in wires means limitless power lines, phone lines, batteries charge instantly..
The problem is that people think that's a good thing.
Nitter link: https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip/status/1687405505604734978#...
Building a physical bookshelf to display a collection of ebooks has been a dream of mine for a long time. Just waiting for e-ink displays to get larger and cheaper.
Not at all what I said. I’m done with your bad faith. Good day.

It’s hardly a gut feeling, it’s extremely well documented.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/07/arizona-poly...

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/10/comment...

https://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-sect12may12-story.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-member-of-polygamist-sect-mo...

https://peacefulsocieties.uncg.edu/2011/03/17/polygamist-mor...
Just learned about that the hard way myself, haha.

Some guy got a little traction on Twitter briefly for his room temperature superconductor patent a couple days ago, but when you click his name he's just some crypto nutjob with no science background
This is what happens when you start banning accepted science and threatening to take people's kids away. They could have gotten away with a lot more with fewer academic casualties if they hadn't been so public and aggressive about everything.
Indeed. I've worked at two academic labs and one startup. The talent density at the startup is higher, but the academic labs were far scrappier and resourceful with limited resources. Venture capital makes people fat and lazy. They forget what it's like to operate on fumes.
What’s wrong with web applications?
That's ignoring all the issues American environmentalists identified and were proven right about since the dawn of the movement.

DDT thinning bird eggs and causing near extinction of many species? Banning DDT resulted in recovery.

Companies dumping sewage, PCBs and industrial waste into our water, killing entire ecosystems? While not perfect, the Great Lakes and many rivers are worlds apart from where they were 50 years ago thanks to the EPA and Clean Water Act.

Same situation for the Clean Air Act.

Same for the Endangered Species Act.

Same situation for banning lead from paint and automotive gasoline.

Same situation for the ozone layer and the Montreal Protocol.

These movements were not unopposed. In most of those fights, business and conservative (in the traditional sense of the word) groups fought against the regulation needed to address the problem. Hell, the current GOP platform for 2024 is to completely gut the EPA's authority within the first year.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/far-right-climate-p...

Climate change is much more complex than any of the mentioned issues and will take much more global cooperation. Crazy to somehow blame this on environmentalists just because the effects are larger scale and slower-changing.
This has to be the new version of:

“I don’t even own a TV!”
Bohr Effect
> I dislike the word and I also feel like we're already at the point where everything people don't like is just lazily called "enshittification."

Ah yes, the enshittification of "enshittification". Definitely did not see that one coming.
I believe you need escalated privileges (I don’t know which capability, specifically) for intervals under a certain point. The author was running as root.
Extensive evidence suggests the opposite.
I just described why it's stupid. You ignored what I wrote and decided to write something unrelated... why even bother at this point?
Who do you think start and run companies?
I would rather argue that energy consumption is the fundamental metric of the advancement of a civilization - increasing consumption is not of itself bad; whether we know how to clean up after ourselves (or if we're too busy trying not to die out) is a different problem. Limiting our energy consumption is a recipe for civilizational collapse. We have the wolf by the ears, and we can't let go. Best we can do is move forward and try to obtain enough reserve energy and resources to find a way to clean up after ourselves.

With the exception of Avatar, is there any advanced fictional civilization that doesn't use vast amounts of energy in proportion to their tech level? I'd also point to the historical record.
It's worse than selling users off. Pocket was integrated for free and Mozilla later bought Pocket. In essence Mozilla paid to sell it's users. (And I liked "read it later" the extension that saved an offline copy of the website. And was later renamed Pocket and removed that ability).

Same with that hidden spyware ad/extension (distributed using channels reserved for delivering 0day bugfixes). Mozilla shit on it's users without even getting paid for it.
But at that point then who gives a damn what the “desktop” or other market share is because it’s essentially meaningless and can be manipulated into whatever you want it to be. Add in the fact that a lot of what you run whether SaaS or even a shell is in a server somewhere else. The actual client operating system is increasingly about as relevant for a lot of use cases as what software your terminal ran a few decades ago.
ChatGPT on Trial: A Tester's Experience
Twitter, I would assume. 'X' is extremely awkward, and without proper context/people knowing that Twitter has renamed itself something silly, just looks like someone forgot to fill in a blank.

I'd recommend treating it the same was as everyone treated the Royal Mail briefly renaming itself Consignia (a real thing which happened in the early noughties) - that is, ignoring it and waiting for it to switch back to something sensible.
Of course, this is all Varda IP as they’re in California and anything a head of research performs that generates IP is owned by the employer.
It's only about 1/4 of a degree
Will this be enforced?
That is absolutely ML and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
This whole thread is pretty privileged, well off. Perhaps even 'elites'.

Why do we need libraries?

Just go online.

Just use such and such open source app.

Just use such and such free online source.

-> There are too many homeless. Libraries don't 'feel' safe.

If you are homeless how do you go on-line????

Let me clue you in.

There are homeless people in libraries -> IN ORDER TO GO ONLINE.

If you are homeless you don't have a computer.

-> In todays world how do you get a job, to be come, 'un-homeless', without going ONLINE.

-> How do you access any services without going ONLINE. You are homeless, you aren't driving to wherever you need to get to since you can't go to their website. Many physical locations have closed, 'just use their web-site'. How?

-> SO, LIBRARIES HAVE A LOT OF HOMELESS PEOPLE USING LIBRARY COMPUTER'S, BECAUSE, WAIT FOR IT, 'THEY ARE HOMELESS'. THIS IS LITERALY THE ONLY OPTION FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE.
If you're right, and you want the world to understand, why make them fight to get there?
>How did mobile phones, a huge market with huge investment, avoid “enshittification”?

They didn’t. They spy on you more and more to extract more value from you after purchase. They have non-replaceable batteries and screens, which means you can’t service them easily. They are worse at being phones than plastic Nokias 20 years ago. Companies are incentivized to create apps which are trapped in the phone’s walled gardens rather than creating webpages which anyone can access. The list goes on.
Well it would need to be on land today and close to the surface. It could have been anywhere at the time of death.
> Because of ethical reasons I want to stay as far away as possible from anything that is insurance, finance or crypto related. I'm not really interested in AI and/or machine learning either.

I'd guess that's a "no" :)
In age where an incredible amount of scientific research is fraudulent, even ivy league university presidents are resigning...

I think I'll take ideals that have survived for thousands of years over dodgy conclusions from likely fraudulent and unrepeatable data.
Same or different from "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"?
TL;DR - red blood cells can sense the concentration of CO2 in tissue. If there is excess CO2, oxygenated blood cells release their payload of oxygen and pick up the CO2. This means that oxygen is delivered to parts of the body that need it most, rather than uniformly diffused throughout the body.
Nothing wrong with web applications. It was about "web applications everything" attitude...
Oh the irony of talking about enshittification whilst using Substack, which has 9 browser cookies, 4 javascript trackers (that I could count) and a frustratingly annoying modal that scrolls into view when you read a couple of paragraphs. Do these dark patterns actually work to monetise a blogger's content?
This is going to have zero impact on the 900 spam calls I get every single day from towns in my home state with less than 50 residents.
Except these Grandes Ecoles provide easier access to Ivy League institutions to their students so they can go there and enjoy their prestige.
> I think there are multiple big reasons they didn't publish sooner. It is pretty clear that they were convinced, but had insufficient evidence to convince others. Additionally there had recently been a sensational fraud in their field so journals would have been extremely sceptical.

But hasn't it been 24 years since they discovered LK-99? Or am I missing something? If that's true wouldn't it be a tragic shame that it wasn't revealed earlier, so that progress and applications could occur?
This was exactly my reaction and I only barely had begun using stackoverflow.
The fact that you're misusing the term in that very sentence is either pretty stupid or supremely clever :)
Stability is great but if the UX doesn't fit how I'd like to interact with the internet it doesn't really matter what you call it. The general shape of the browser, how you interact with it and how you get it to do things for you has been stagnant in my mind. This is why I'm trying out other options.
Also Biorepair, an hydroxyapatite that mimics natural enamel.
I guess because it's not simply a text address, it's a protocol where a specific number of bytes in the packet (4 in this case) are dedicated for IP, you can't just simply modify this.
That applies far more to going from 10 to 20 than 1 to 2.
(the comment above mentioned the current temperature being only 0.01°C higher than the previous record in March)

> Since total ocean heat capacity is about 1000x greater than total atmosphere, it means that a barely measurable temperature increase in the ocean (1/1000th of a degree C) could drive a massive spike in global air temperature (1 degree C).

https://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/09/csfe-heat-capacity-...

As seen/felt now in Chile, perhaps:

> Mid-winter temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius in South America leave climatologists in disbelief

> Data from Chile's national meteorological agency, Dirección Meteorológica de Chile, shows several weather stations in the country reached temperatures above 35C on August 1.

> This is between 10C and 20C above what is normal for this time of year in parts of Chile and Argentina, according to data from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

> What's causing South America's heat? Dr Perkins-Kirkpatrick said the South American heat extremes were also likely to bear the fingerprints of climate change.

> "There are likely multiple causes to these temperatures — record warm sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic, the developing El Niño in the Pacific, a heat dome that was recently over the region combined with foehn winds, and anthropogenic climate change," she said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-04/south-america-extreme...
Namespaces.

Real enums, modules, etc.

A compile-time execution system (effectively replaces the preprocessor/macro system).

Syntax that is easier to `grep -r` for without complex regex.

Tests are a first-class citizen.

Safer type system.

Really, just a bunch of things that should've been added to C 20 years ago.
Without knowing which pure area you work in, I can only surmise that you have at least some category theory, which is the theoretical underpinning of type theory. Add in algebraic types, aka sum types, and you may have a solid theoretical background for modern programming research, especially functional programming.

Combine that with a previous interest in assembler, et al, and there may be an interesting possibility of compiler optimization, byte code generation, etc.

How would one add introspection and pure functional programming with tail calls to a language such as Rust, e.g., and still maintain all of its safety guarantees while keeping build times reasonable?

As an aside, there is plenty of work for those with solid assembler or other low level experience. Don’t think commercial end user or web software, think embedded hardware, IoT HW, etc. my employer, e.g., will be adding FPGAs to our high security hardware products, and we will need that low level experience. We’re not hiring yet, but we aren’t the only ones out there.

Heck, maybe that’s an area of interest: marrying an open source tool chain to a high level, functional language, to an FPGA and getting performant, safe code that is not beholden to the arcana of specific manufacturers.
What’s your strategy for interviews, how did you get so good?
> capitalist enshittification

Enshittification has less to do with capitalism, and more to do with users' willingness to put up with bad platforms and products (overused aphorism aside). People who attribute the decay of products to capitalism have a hard time looking over the wall outside of their sandbox to potentials they have yet to know or realize.
Like a lot of terms, "economic rent" is different from colloquial "rent". Colloquial rent is a neutral concept.
Fine, what would making these points in a more palatable way look like, exactly?
> How did mobile phones, a huge market with huge investment, avoid “enshittification”?

Well, based on Docorow's term, it's because there wasn't a 2 way market. Instead of phone manufacturers playing 2 sides off each other, it was a a much simpler arrangement: manufacturers sell phones to consumers, and there are enough manufacturers that they can't get entirely complacent.

Perhaps in the early days, when manufacturers acted as an intermediary between the carriers and consumers, that was more prone to enshittification. And phones in those days were pretty stagnant, looking for new ways to grab a couple of bucks (remember when they charged for ringtones? Or wildly overcharged for SMS messages?). Phones becoming unlocked, and phones rapidly improving in abilities and price did happen roughly around the same time, but perhaps that's unrelated to enshittification.
That's interesting, thanks for sharing!
> how exactly is oil distillation or its results "burning down our house"

Likely a call out to global warming.

> how is that applicable to fusion tech?

One thing that is never really discussed in terms of fusion energy is what you will do with the heat generated from these processes as there is a theoretical maximum for how much heat the planet can dissipate.

Whether the poster is correct or not, its widely acknowledged that the ability to transition from gravity powered/wind powered energy to coal combustion fueled a great deal of the economic and technological improvements from the 1700s onward (we call it the Industrial Revolution).
Private R&D has always towered above academics. People who can compete create significant innovations. People who can't compete stay as professors doing research because it's the easiest and most convenient pathway.
...and if I could continue paying this price and it would continue to work without third-party servers or network connectivity.

One of the worst problems with this subscription-based everything is that it creates an ongoing reliance on the company instead of allowing things to be pure local.

For example Netflix downloads are a huge pain because of refreshing and re-verifying. In theory these wouldn't exist if they didn't need to worry about your license expiring. You would never run into a scenario where you couldn't play the video that was stored locally because they can't prove that you are still subscribed (even though I'm only half way through my month so it is literally impossible for my subscription to have ended yet).

So yes, if I could guarantee that I could pay a fairly reasonable price for as long as I wanted to and it would work flawlessly for that entire time it wouldn't be too bad. But in practice I can't rely on that and have to dread the day I am offline and can't get heated seats or they take the licensing server down since it wasn't worth maintaining for the 8 people who are still subscribed to this service.
Similar to excessive antibiotic use, the clean feeling may be harmful by disrupting the balance of one’s oral microbiome. The feeling of disgust for natural body odors and biofilms is a product of socialization, in the case of toothpaste the history of marketing is told by Charles Duhig below:

But Duhigg argues the brand might not have succeeded if it weren’t for Pepsodent’s unique ingredient list. The inventor “had decided to add a little bit of mint extract. Mint extract, as well as a couple of other ingredients that he added, are irritants. They cause our tongues and our gum to tingle.”

And the effect of that tingling? It told people that “the toothpaste was working,” said Duhigg, “even though it had nothing to do with how the toothpaste actually worked. And people began to equate that tingling feeling with good dental hygiene. And as a result they began to crave it.”

https://www.marketplace.org/2018/03/16/mouth-full-mint-clean...
That’s what my current ISP does - their current router firmware doesn’t have functioning UPnP, nor does it have an option for port forwarding.

It’s extremely annoying.
In all seriousness - which half of the new Google WEI divided web will you so confidently declare "That's not the web" for?

Because this is the half Apple broke off to sell as iOS apps. A domain that is entirely exclusive to apple, and requires all sorts of hoops to gain access to (including purchasing Apple specific hardware).

Further - they enforced that domain by strictly locking down down the capabilities of literally ANY browser a user might try to install on iOS. Because otherwise users might have chosen to use a progressive web app and Apple wouldn't get their fucking 30% store tax.
To bring a counterbalancing perspective, in Europe at least, there are an order (or two, depending on the country) of magnitude more deaths from cold than from heat[0]. I'd imagine the US, being a primarily northern latitude country, has a similar story.

As for the Phoenix numbers, I assume you're referencing this situation[1]; as of a week ago, Maricopa County had 24 confirmed heat-associated death year-to-date, with another 249 deaths under investigation. Maricopa County has four and a half million people, over 60% of Arizona's population; even if all 249 deaths under investigation end up being heat-related, that's still way fewer than deaths from diabetes, suicide, or drug overdoses[2] (reasonably assuming that the causes of death in Maricopa County are proportional to that of the state of Arizona as a whole).

That is to say; "unlivable" is a stretch.

[0]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

[1]: https://abcnews.go.com/US/arizona-maricopa-county-phoenix-me...

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/arizona/arizona.ht...
You’re not kidding!

My grandparents had this so bad. I stayed with them a few times over the last few years, for weeks or months at a time as we dealt with some family tragedies.

One day I decided to keep track of how many telemarketer and scam/spam/Medicare/insurance/banking-fraud calls they got in one day. I lost count somewhere in the 15-20 region. It was constant.
Rebind the weird search key to meta.
less human = less greenhouse gas emissions

less greenhouse gas emissions = less greenhouse gas

less greenhouse gas = cooler waters

Seems the problem is eventually self correcting.
ModelScan – open-source scanning for unsafe code in ML models
I lead product at Protect AI and we just released ModelScan. It is open source project that scans models to determine if they contain unsafe code. It is the first model scanning tool to support multiple model formats. ModelScan currently supports: H5, Pickle, and SavedModel formats. This protects you when using PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Sklearn, XGBoost, with more on the way.
Did you talk to a lawyer
If you've got low level skills and you're not interested in AI/ML, you're probably going to end up doing process control on industrial machines.
I think you're just proving OP's point. Linux is FOSS, which means it has a bewildering variety of different Linuxes with different characteristics. They're all still Linux, but they're not homogeneous like Windows so none of them meet everyone's platonic ideal of Linux.

It's likely the only thing everyone can agree is Linux is whatever Linus has on his machine.
Completely agree. It makes it hard to have a serious conversation when the popular term sounds like it's something that a 13-year-old came up with.

Not to mention that this piece isn't even about "enshittification" at all -- it's a long rant against a feature change which is really just "I don't like this change in behavior". The search box likely changed to show results from only your library, instead of worldwide results, because it was confusing a lot of library patrons -- who, remember, are not always very tech-savvy.

The whole concept of "enshittification" is supposed to be about behavior that benefits the corporation at the expense of the user, like stuffing full of ads or jacking up prices. But this is just a UX change that the author doesn't like.

So it's a misleading example of "enshittification" even to begin with.
What about the people who don't have confidence? They should just kill themselves?
I’m afraid this would be a win win for desantis and co, dissenters leaving gives them a tighter grip on the state, at least until economically hit
Have you had any luck de-drming titles released in 2023? Calibre/de-drm stopped working for me for these, with no fix on the horizon.
>As someone who's felt invisible for a decade, I can't describe how much my mental state has improved.

This really can't be overstated. Dipping your feet into "attractive privilege" is frankly a life-changing experience.

Everybody treats you differently. It's easier to socialize. I frankly think that the reason as to why some women say they just like wearing makeup is that they are feeling this difference and mistake it for just feeling good.
A major action item here from Mozilla would be to bring this VPN under the same policies and teams that manage Firefox's security issues - or standardize the policies across the company and ensure products are staffed for it (if there is a reason to avoid centralizing that to the team). I would never expect such poor handling from a browser vendor.
In case this is unclear: This is not an insult in any way. I have a lot of respect for Cory and Jello. They are, however, only for certain audiences and rely a lot on shock value and stylings that go over well with those audiences and work against them with others.
Monopoly pricing is problematic, but it doesn't make anything inherently worse. Price is important but not a problem with the product itself. It doesn't make the product "shitty". That's a different but connected thing.
I've got this simple smart band from Garmin that I don't have to charge for over a week, and they have other models that hold even longer.

Even if the only thing it would do is vibrate when I'm getting a call, that would be worth it.

I also hate charging things all the time, I'm sure you'd like it more.