skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, building it took a lot more manyears than one round of repainting.
Appreciate your efforts to oppose the lazy enshittification of pronouns!
"Two of the central players of the operation, Roy M. Cox and Aaron Michael Jones, were under lifetime bans against making telemarketing calls following lawsuits by the Federal Trade Commission and State of Texas."

We can hope that the size of the fine will set the stage for some significant jail time, as it seems unlikely that anything else will work.
It feels like the people running this campaign think that these drivers are curious and interested in being the best and safest driver they can be. This seems unlikely. I pretty much ignore anything I get in the mail, the exceptions are bank or government paperwork, but if I open it up and see that it's just informational and not something I need to take action on (like property taxes or Jurry duty), then I just stop reading.

I hope this works out, but I'd put money on it not working.
Yep. Pigs also need just a few steps to fly. It’s a Herculean task trying to teach an academic to code well if they weren’t already coding well. This is first hand knowledge going through the insight data science program for phds and seeing most colleagues struggle and never truly embrace software development.

You still can get a 250k offer in a good job market but not sure about now.
Oh, they moderate in China...
https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/24/23467181/difference-betwe...
It feels like the people running this campaign think that these drivers are curious and interested in being the best and safest driver they can be. This seems unlikely. I pretty much ignore anything I get in the mail, the exceptions are bank or government paperwork, but if I open it up and see that it's just informational and not something I need to take action on (like property taxes or Jury duty), then I just stop reading.

I hope this works out, but I'd put money on it not working.
IMO it seems like an immature name for an immature way of thinking about the world.

Yes, companies would like to make more money for doing the same work or less. So would everyone. Would you like a raise every year, even if you’re the same person doing the same job? Would you like to have passive income so you don’t have to work so hard?

It explains why some things get worse over short or long periods of time, but is not great at explaining why so many things get better over time. Like if I held mobile phones from 2003 and 2023 and said “you can buy either for $600,” for most folks it would be a no-brainer. How did mobile phones, a huge market with huge investment, avoid “enshittification”?

Now I know that Cory’s writing is more sophisticated than what I’m saying. But most folks who throw the term around (like this blog post) are not. It’s become a broad label for anything some people don’t like, like “late stage capitalism” or “woke.”

App changes interface slightly: “enshittification!!”

The original essay was interesting. The broad application of the term, I am finding tiresome.
Sure, let's rephrase it to be more accurate, despite everyone knowing what they meant by that phrase anyway, and this just being nitpicking.

"Objectively good looking" means "someone that a heavy majority of people would subjectively find extremely attractive".
It's funny I used to be in and out of homelessness and on and off bad addictions for years and I spent a lot of time in libraries. I spent a lot of effort telling myself people didn't really think things like this about me, it was just my own shame and insecurity and negativity, people don't really even think of other people that much.

Now I get to be on HN and see every day that no, my worst beliefs were true, this really is how you saw us.
> developers worldwide unite

> it's a community-driven project

And from GitHub:

> vibrant community of developers

> our friendly team

Yet it seems to be just one person, right? This all reads to me like ChatGPT made it up, so it's hard to know what to believe in your descriptions.
Your ad-hominem is unacceptable behavior; I clearly listed a fairly obvious mix of things (some OTC, some prescription, some FDA regulated) which are sometimes misused or excessively used. I didn't even bother mentioning opioids or benzodiazepine because presumably we would think of those first.

Lip-fillers are not "part of surgeries", they're non-surgical procedures; their use is regulated by the FDA [in the US]. Noone claimed you "put them in your bloodstream". Just stop misrepresenting in bad-faith.

> Cigarettes are killing more people than all the substances you mentioned.

We know that. Red herring: so is bad nutrition (sugar, HFCS, salt, for example).
I am like the author. Before 13 I had read the entire computer section, and maybe half of the math and physics sections. Plus the strips section, which was the only part of the library that very regularly got new stuff. I could not pay for those books with my allowance. I could not pay 1% of their price, and frankly it would have been several hundred dollars per month (because ... well, technical book prices). And this with it being a 70 minute bike ride to the library (I mean I just didn't return from school, which meant it was maybe 20 minutes, then returned in the evening).

Libraries worked for me until perhaps high school, back then. Now they definitely wouldn't.

Now there simply isn't any computer or math section anymore in the library. There's some leftover books but every month there's less. If you can't afford an ipad (ironically the only practical e-reader for zlib imho), you can't read books. Luckily an air will do, but still.
That’s a great line!
It's more than privatization, although that's related. A service which began as a private one, like Google, but gets worse for the reasons Google has gotten worse, would be appropriately labeled enshittification, I think.

But it's a goofy term, and Doctorow is indeed annoying. Bird of a feather with this writer, whose style is also incredibly irritating. Nevertheless, good points worth making.
There is no such thing as "raw data" independent of past practice, because all measurements gain their meaning from a model (though this is more or less explicit in different engineering and scientific contexts).

For example, we might say that a "thermocouple is a temperature sensor". But a bunch of physical assumptions have to be made - a model needs to be adopted - in order for a person to justify a temperature reading using a thermocouple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermocouple#Principle_of_oper...
Capitalism is a relatively recent invention, so no.

It's disappointing that there are people who think that "far-left ideologues" have anything to do with the decline of public libraries.
Privacy… eh. I care… somewhat. I’ll do things I personally consider reasonable, but I think that, say, the people who completely clear browser state every 5 minutes are barmy (and also probably much more exposed than they think they are - the very act of trying to not
Leak anything makes them stand out, if anything).
The point is not whether it takes one week or two weeks.

But eastern competition is fierce, and the western world is mired in esg and bureaucracy.

Something is rotten at a general level, and if its not fixed soon, this trend of lagging behind will also start manifesting where it starts to hurt.
Correct. It must literally be positioned on top of your desk to be counted as desktop.
It's even more depressing than that. Those who are on ballots are there because they've gotten Corporate America's stamp of approval. The ones who don't have said approval never make it on the ballots, and in the extremely infrequent case that they do (see Bernie Sanders) , they are there so corporate friendly politicians and media outlets can mock them as a subtle reminder to the rest of the country that the corporations own the country and it's not worth stepping out of line.
Quantitative research might be an option. One pro here is, if they like you, they will be happy to take you on and teach whatever concrete skills you’re missing.
The problem is the network not the platform. The people I would like to connect to are mostly on Twitter.
Unpopular opinion of mine: I think that viable fusion energy would be the final nudge to our demise.

Our civilisation is an energy-junkie who happened to stumble on a huge bag full of cash around 1860 and the discovery of oil distillation. Since then, we have been on a hallucinating trip, burning down our house in the process. Viable fusion is essentially another huge pile of cash being deposited right across the street, just 10 times larger than 2 centuries ago. There is no coming back after that.
You could probably still workaround this if the data was stored just in simple markdown files. This way someone can:

- still use Beaver Notes on desktop

- use any syncing mechanism such as syncthing, icloud, dropbox, oneDrive etc

- use any mobile note taking app that using similar single markdown files for storage (e.g. obsidian)
I think this is unpopular because there are so many heartbreaking stories of couples that are unhappy but stay because of social pressure.

One possibility that is in line with your thoughts is that the advanced age of marriage has improved average marriage happiness, while reducing the tails of the distribution (both good and bad).
Corporations want you to “consume“ because that's in their self-interest. Meanwhile nation states also want you to do that, and need you to do that because the economic system itself relies on it.

In other words you have all the actual authorities on the side of consumption and the non-authorities like environmentalists on the side of non- or anti-consumption.
Because we like gay marriage, duh.
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> it’s like a dash cam for my head

Basically the reason I wouldn't want to be friends and hang out with anyone wearing them.
This is the best systems paper of the year so far imo
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I'm having a child soon, and I'm slowly building up a library of real & e-books for them.

Their not bound to any specific hardware or crappy SASS.
Publishers & other parties can't retrospectively censor them.
They're mine forever.

One of my favorite memories as a child is browsing through my parents bookshelves and picking something to read. I hate to think that's going to disappear.
No condiments and I get to pick the hat. Live.

Bookmarking this for the future ;)
Due to Microsoft's Forced OneDrive on Windows 11, I installed my first ever Linux OS on my main (high performance) laptop.

It took a few hours of messing around until I finally decided to follow the Asus-Linux tutorial, which worked flawlessly. My suggestion for anyone looking to make the jump, follow a tutorial. (I thought my tech skills would be enough, but there are some gotchas)

Anyway I installed Steam last night! (And ran into an issue playing Dwarf Fortress, classic Linux... but at least I don't have to worry about M$ hijacking my filesystem anymore!)
I've seen a good book maybe three times ever in one of those. I never took them simply because it was so rare.
People said the same thing about gay people. Hell, millions of Americans still feel the same way about gay people. But the rest of us are decent enough to offer kindness and acceptance, while ignorant people like you suffer verbal diarrhea.
Marianne est peut-être pas la meilleure source..
Possibly the thing that makes C be C is that there is only one C. It is the single lingua franca of "one notch up from assembly". I would argue any language that wants to be a better C has to accept the challenge of being available on any platform, existing or future, any architecture, suitable for any bare metal use case, and it has to want to be the single obvious go-to choice. That's what it means to step into the ring of "better C" candidates. A lot of languages might offer pointers, manual memory allocation, no runtime, etc. That's cool and that gets you close to the space. But if you want to be a better C, then the bar is much higher: ubiquity.
Very insightful commentary on the article! Thanks!
Plenty of free eReader apps out there. I use Readera.
> because people instantly get what it means

I think that's an illusion. Proponents of capitalism and privatisation will argue that things go bad because of the goverment policy, not because of rent seeking and privatization.

You really can't sum up history in a single word, it's prone to disinterpretation.
Yeah there's a constant background hum of a feeling of danger when at the library. I wouldn't let my kid go to my city library alone. The suburb I grew up in still had a good, clean, safe place to sit and read. My wife and I used to sit there and do our homework together back when we were just dating.
Yup, this. Plus it makes your coworkers jealous when you're in a different exotic locale every week, and that's not helpful.
Likewise, school libraries should not include books with explicit graphic examples of oral sex. The whole "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been a red herring. Nobody has banned books. They just want to remove books that do not have value... and they have.
This comment reeks of entitlement; literally everything you could do before is still possible at your local library. You can still check out physical copies of anything you like, now additionally you can also check out digital copies.

You really ought to “play footsie” with Libby; it’s a fantastic app that enables more people to have access to your library’s content than before.

Kind of insane to me that someone like you who knows the value of a resource like the library wants to restrict how people are able to engage with the content and therefore restrict who has access.
Each company have different motivations. For e.g. Basecamp moved to save cost.

Working in Enterprise, I can share hybrid model works best for multinational. If they are going into new geography, where local laws restrict data transfer across national boundaries, having a cloud provider with local data centers is the easiest and quickest way to launch.
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Doubly so because half the country is attacking public libraries for spreading "woke" or "transgender" propaganda. I remember a recent story about a city that voted to defund their public library entirely for that reason.

Between culture-war politics and people's disgust at the homeless using libraries as shelters (as if that was the libraries' fault, and not the fault of societies refusing to care about the homeless) I really despair for the future of libraries as cultural centers. Because books aside, that's really what they are.

It's not surprising libraries are turning to stores and apps for funding when the people either don't care or are actively hostile to them.
So if the area around a Library goes downhill, the Library should move?

Libraries didn't cause the downfall of the area they are in. LOL.

Why blame the library. I'm sure if the library started sweeping away the homeless, there would be just as much outcry at their callousness.
That's what wheels do.
Learning to program is the most important thing you can do. As long as it isn't web applications everything is fine.
Programming isn't really about knowing the syntax of some language or having memorized a list of algorithms, but understanding how to build an appropriate architecture for your system.

>but it seems of dubious usefulness when it comes to finding a job.

There is a very large embedded industry if you want that. Learn about basic electronics as well if you are interested. I highly recommend learning C and (C++ and/or rust) if you want to enter there.

>combinatorial optimization

Nobody in the industry would hire you for that specifically. You might find a role where it is also needed/usefull but it isn't a career path.

>blender/3D modelling

I would absolutely avoid that as a career unless it is a major passion. Maybe you are interested in computer graphics though? That could be an option. Computer graphics is a major industry, video games, professional software for artists or engineering software are some of the larger groups there.

I would focus on R&D positions at large companies or institutions. Engineering positions are more process focused ("do what you are told") and it gets worse the more regulated the industry is (e.g. aerospace).
You can install the normal steam client on Arch Linux, and the "big picture mode" (or whatever they call it now) is basically the "SteamOS" mode
A worthless replication. Grainy photos of supposed samples floating. When asked for videos she just insulted the people asking for videos to no end and to date has not provided any. No measurements provided either.
You seem not to understand the difference between consuming a good or service that someone else has agreed to pay for, vs not paying for it at all.
You're telling me these didn't sell and people that did buy them won't wear them?

https://media.ray-ban.com/cms/resource/image/181530/landscap...

Shocking.

They look like novelty glasses you'd order from the back of a kids magazine.
Kobo, Onyx, and more e-ink devices, I never had to install any app.
Even if I bought it on Amazon, I can deDRM it with ease (bless Calibre and deDRM tools), and then go on my own merry way, with cute e-readers, and actually owning the file.

Edit: And for epubs, if the devices doesn't have the capability ootb (e.g Hisense phones) themeselves, there is e.g open-source, really well done, KOReader :3
I agree. A few points to add:

1. In Germany, alcohol at home is extremely cheap. We're talking, a great Bavarian beer at home is 1 euro per 500ml bottle, and at a bar here in Hamburg at least 5 euro. Similar for wine and spirits. Also, the bars are often low quality, and full of smokers, and have bad music, so the motivation to go to a bar is really poor. There are exceptions, perhaps if you live in Berlin or Mannheim, but in most cities the social drinking situation is not great.

2. In addition, there is no social taboo against drinking at home or alone like in other countries. Even at work, if you pull out a beer at 4pm, especially on a Friday, no one will bat an eyelid. Therefore drinking isn't really an activity in itself so much as a normal part of life.

3. Many of the newer generation are totally straight edge. There is a trend towards not drinking or taking drugs in general compared to older generations or even compared to millennials. They would much rather have a fritz kola or a mate drink
I didn't say that it was benign but that it sounds benign.
Doing this with fewer employees over a longer period of time may just be more efficient. Surely they could speed it up by throwing more money at it, but does that help with anything?
This isn't a big deal but to explain a bit why it came off wrong, sometimes I have a hard time socially and wish people would just explain their reactions instead of focusing on having the reaction:

- It's not the first, to wit, the repro's author pointing out it looks the same as effect from China repro from...3 days ago? Time is elusive.

- The Russian catgirl superconductor theory stuff is a blind alley, you've gone very far down it for someone without physics/chemistry background, it's unintelligible to people who haven't followed the sociology of every repro attempt and people who do have a background and know that's a massive theoretical question that can't be resolved via twitter or LK99, particularly when we're still figuring out LK99

- It's odd to reframe news of a room temperature superconductor as a "conflict between two theories of SC", we're just scratching the surface, we're months and months away from that, if it is resolvable at all.

- You've gotten wrapped up in the meta and express it via namecalling in a way that distracts, c.f.

---- my reference to the "stupid shit" quote.

---- "crackpot versus legit scientists": what I call They'ing, what smarter people would call creating dichotomous groups out of thin air and then attributing positions to them.

---- "recent craze" "still conservative": the metajudgements don't contribute anything and there's plenty of it to be found, it's mostly gone/downvoted on HN over last 24-48 hours because it became stifling.
How about the people who actually caused (and are still actively causing, and fighting to continue causing) the problem go first, yeah?
I’m a convert to physical buttons for this reason (though I’m not a swimmer).

A Garmin watch that allows for all interactions to be done via easy to find physical buttons and well thought out data screens was a huge improvement for my own use cases.
Maybe you should consider applying for positions at places like D.E. Shaw or 2Sigma. From what I've read they many folks who have advanced degrees in maths and other similar fields. I'm sure you'd be able to put your skills to use at one of those places.
Plus, the pay is good too :)
You can't shame someone for the worldview that women "Give up sex" in the same sentence you shame them for not managing to get sex as a man. It doesn't make sense.
> Edit: for those that think this is just some personal issue, you should look up divorce stats by number of previous sexual partners. There is a clear rise in divorce rate per increase in partners, and at about 7 it's 50%+.

You say this like it's obviously a bad thing. People who stay married might just do so because they're afraid of being alone, and so suffer in silence for the rest of their lives. People who have been through many relationships maybe know they'll be ok if they split, it's not the end of the world, and there's no point prolonging the suffering.

You can spin it many different, perfectly valid ways. Most people will probably post-rationalize their choice as "good" anyway, because that's what people do. Those who say married for a long time will say it was the best decision they could have made despite the challenges, and those who split will do the same.
Would it? More than half the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was emitted in the last thirty years, and a small fraction of the global population accounts for most of the consumption those emissions made possible.

Many people whose consumption is very great complain of time stress, diseases of affluence, a sense of purposelessness, etc. Going back to the per capita material and energy throughputs of the 1960s by raising consumption for many and decreasing it for a few could easily make both groups significantly better off.
Nearly 2 millennia, and it was itself preceded by quite a few centuries by the Code of Ur-Nammu.

That's not to say there's not a grain of truth in this perspective. My impression is that Romans were notable for their pioneering work in the field of what could best be described as "civic pride" - the sense that "civilization" represented progress, the idea of the state as a kind of collective project that elevates everyone and that we should all be proud to participate in. They probably weren't the first to think like this - history is long - but they were the last to do so in a largely secular fashion in the West for a long time, and certainly directly influenced the thoughts of the Enlightenment thinkers who eventually inspired the American Revolution.

S.P.Q.R.
This furthers my point. They even got an exclusive and still run Trump stuff.
Why? Simple, there's lots of mentally ill people on this planet.
Anime profile pictures are usualy a redflag.
These kind of people should only be ignored since they never want to cooperate.
KDE lets you do all kinds of customization, and has a pretty powerful keyboard shortcut system. It's what I use to work around most of the flaws on my crappy chromebook.

Performance is not great, but it wasn't great before I put linux and KDE on it either.