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> We’ve all been Marl at one time or another

This, to me, is the key line in this quite good article.

It's not that software companies are catering to those other people who are infinitely stupid and deserving of our scorn. It's that they are catering to the worse impulses in all of us and encouraging us to become those people.
Is there any reason to prefer to be a “Show HN” over a general post?
I have no VPN, and I get the infinite loop fairly frequently on archive.is. It comes and goes despite no changes on my end in connection/browser config.
I owned a treadmill (second-hand, details long forgotten, sorry) which had two long steel rails (running the length of the machine) for the main structure. The brackets which connected the rails on the front side were steel, but the ones on the back of the machine were inexplicably plastic. There were major load paths (cyclical loading from running) going straight through these brackets to the feet. Between the wear and plastic embrittlement, these parts were the first to fail, and the entire rest of the machine was in decent condition (easily years of life left).

There was nothing particularly complex about that part, they could have easily used steel brackets. I can't help but feel like it was designed for a specific lifespan.
I'm surprised they can sustain such low pricing
that serves no purpose in anonymity whatsoever
> My mother's maiden name? I guess I can reveal publicly: it's fgjlh%ngf9, so into the password manager it goes.

Echoing: never actually answer security questions. Always treat them as additional (super annoying) passwords.
It doesn't run on ARM macs. Which is all new macs.
It absolutely is NOT. The issue is when you buy a home in an HOA, you sign a contract with that HOA (outlining these rules and regulations) that is enforced in courts (it’s a signed contract). They are no better than collection agencies, not government agencies. They may use the same methods as backwater sheriffs do to bolster their pay but they are not, in any way shape or form, affiliated with any government agency.
Nationalize it. 'partner.gov' here we come.
Anyone know more about the "vacuum" improvements?

To make my database fast, I often have to do a vacuum full on some key tables. Which is basically a freeze all access to the table, and copy byte by byte to a new physical file. So as your data size doubles, the vacuum full time doubles. Have a table that is so big I basically can't vacuum full it anymore (in an acceptable amount of downtime).
That's still considered inside trading, but as far as I can tell, nothing prevents it. Inside trading seems rampant and completely unenforced unless you're a regular Joe or Martha Stewart.
Yeah I wonder if that will impact their partnership they have with their VisionOS...
I agree with your critique that stylometry overrides throwaway accounts.

The issue is "deleting."

AFAIK, nobody's disagreeing that the internet can forget and deleting is "better" for privacy.

The question is "how much" better.

Here we're talking about the false sense of privacy through erasure when archivers should be assumed to be running everywhere and at all times. The latter weighs in favor of the parent's critique that deleting is not constructive.
The article doesn’t mention a number of contributing problems such as monopoly power. I want to highlight growth as such a problem.

Perhaps Ycombinator is the wrong place to bring up such a point, but the idea of constant growth in user base as the source of value in a company almost certainly contributes significantly to the problems discussed in the article.

What happened to community? The businesses I like to deal with are rooted in my area, owned and operated by local people with faces, and I willingly go interact with them.

I have no such loyalty to large faceless internet companies, and negative loyalty to companies that enshittify everything as a way to eke out profit when bound to forever growth fantasies.
OP here.

I agree with you. Web design doesn't seem to be the strength of the Whonix team.. and got worse over time.

Basically, you download a Virtualbox image, import it and then have a hardened Debian VM with Xfce UI & some privacy-friendly apps like Tor browser & a crypto wallet. The internet is slow (because of Tor) & tcp-only, but sufficient for most things. Virtualbox guest extensions are included and most things work out-of-the-box.
Why not a shear pin? There's no need to make the (more expensive) gears the shear point when you can use a pennies-each shear pin (or shaft, or similar).
(author here) I agree monopoly & market power is a big part of the story here, but I feel like that is already well-understood; I was trying to describe what the incentives feel like from the inside.

I guess more anti-trust in tech would probably be good, but the reality of network effects & the advertising economy mean it's actually nontrivial for government to intervene in a way that's clearly net good for users. Google has gifted the world amazing free-to-use software that gives me probably thousands of dollars of consumer surplus yearly. Had OKCupid stayed separate they might have had to tinderify anyways just to survive. Same with YouTube and Instagram had they not been acquired.

If I had to point my way to a solution it would be something at the protocol or operating system level. Apple, for example, mostly doesn't make money from ads and could set up their OS in a way that makes apps compete to satisfy user intentions rather than hijack their attention.
> “Our firm — most other firms that I'm aware of — they don't go straight to foreclosure,” he said. “It’s about recovering the funds that were expended, not trying to put an owner out of their house.”

Right... So they only care about money, not people. That says it all. Because this is absolutely all about putting someone out of their house.
I don't know, but one guess: maybe sticking to a stock-selling schedule isn't enough to steer clear of insider trading.
Tails includes an "Unsafe Browser" which connects in the clear. So on top of a Firefox exploit, you would need another exploit to launch that browser or an exploit to escalate to root and tamper with the firewall rules. At least one Tails user has been successfully targeted like this ("an exploit taking advantage of a flaw in Tails’ video player to reveal the real IP address of the person viewing the video").[1] With Whonix, even an attacker with root would not be able to make a non-Tor connection because the firewall runs on a separate virtual machine.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7gd9b/facebook-helped-fbi-h...
I wouldn't think a person would struggle to find a HOA-free house in the midwest. If you were to pick a random house on the market in a random neighborhood in Detroit or Chicago, or Kansas City, odds are you wouldn't pick one in an HOA.

You might struggle if you're looking to buy a new house in a brand new subdivision.
Yes, I’m sure it is iOS anti-tracking and directly related to why firewall apps inside SIP my not know what is going on.
The idea sounds interesting, but that announcement says absolutely nothing about how it works. And many (most?) teams already know how to work async and use tools that support async collaboration. So if this is targeted at engineers, the marketing folks really need to gain a better understanding of their audience before writing up their content because it doesn't answer the questions we'll have, nor does it acknowledge our existing async collaboration skills.
(and also a great intro to recursion, as that's the only way to recurse)

FTFY :P
The ideal would be if we could pick one billionaire to have absolute control over our lawncare fines, then the Invisible Hand will solve all the problems.
> OKCupid had a model that increases the likelihood of matching with someone and ...never using OKCupid again.

That was OKCupids claim, but was this claim ever proven through data that directly affirmed that as an outcome?

Often these websites have tiered profit schemes that can milk a user for $100+/m. Sometimes they gamify it, like loot boxing, to make it more lucrative. I don't remember OKCupid being any different.
I have multiple flakes and a lotta CUDA drivers. In fairness though, this is after a few months of no manual GC. I think nix-collect-garbage could bring it down to ~120-150gb.

It's totally worth the stability, but maybe not the best choice for the storage-constrained.

EDIT: According to nix-tree my current generation is only 45gb right now.
Preowned homes are unaffordable at the moment (lack of supply, interest rates, buyers with low interest rate mortgages who don’t want to move), leaving new homes in HOAs the only option for all but the most well heeled buyer.

(have also had poor experiences with HOAs and refuse to live in one)
HOAs are just pure evil. I don't understand how anybody would voluntarily subject themselves to being terrorized by them. I'm currently renting a house in one and I promised myself to never buy anything in one.
Conglomerates are IMO almost always mercenary and damaging, yeah.

They're far from the only company purchases happening though, e.g. many small companies that grow too quickly sell to something larger to simply have the manpower and money to handle the new scale, and sometimes that ends up better for everyone. You just don't usually hear about these because they quietly work, and they don't involve globally-recognized names.
Forwarding after starting program or disconnecting would be entirely possible with X if toolkits supported it. I wrote a tool once which this for my own work.

I also use ssh -X a lot from home to work and performance is sufficient. Xpra shows that it could also work over low latency links if you have latency hiding which the X supports but because it is asynchronous but - again - toolkits never bothered. Fixing these issues would be a million times more useful than redeveloping everything from scratch.
Together with the tons of data leaked by browsers it makes it very easy to track people across places and devices.
Seems like the members put way to much power into the HOA?
I'm so tired of seeing this argument. Most "big" open-source projects are well funded. Usually the reason they don't support <<obvious thing>> is poor leadership, not funding.

Over the past two years Tails has received 500k USD in bitcoin alone:

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1qjg53lw...

You can also surmise that they receive ~200k/yr from official sponsors:

https://tails.net/sponsors/index.en.html

Then you have all the paypal, bank, cash donations.

Is it enough to add support for a second arch that is fully supported upstream (they ship a customized Debian)? You decide.
Behind the objection to the solar-only future are fears that this turns the high latitude white countries into energy ghettos. Solar, the anti-colonial energy source.

Solar's experience rate is greater than any other energy source. In the long term, can even wind keep up?
Well maybe if Windows applications were packaged similar to MacOS (one of the few things I like) with the application data and user data for the application in 2 folders then it wouldn't be such an issue.

Most Windows apps sit under program files, some sit directly on drive root. But all spray configuration/user data files for themselves all over the damn place, requiring unique uninstallers.

MS, build app install/uninstall into Windows directly...
I'd be fine with shorts if they didn't disable the normal player controls.
I assume any anonymous surveys at work that roll up through my management chain aren’t anonymous at all. My manager will get responses from only ~10 people and my writing style will be unique within that small sample size.
> Having an LLM rewrite a comment would do this entirely, no?

> Are you just interested from an academic perspective how one might build something more surgical, that only changes some words in a comment?

Yes and no. ChatGPT seems like a blunt instrument, and given it's not purpose built, it could miss certain characteristics that could enable identification.

Also LLMs kind of have their own style, and adopting that particular style is likely self-defeating to getting a message out (e.g. I would tend to ignore something that sounded like it was written by ChatGPT). Manual correction then be needed, but it would be hard with such a system, because I think that would tend to re-introduce the author's style.
This is almost the exact approach I took for my project Neptunely (https://neptunely.com/). Working on bringing it to a VST at the moment so it's more portable.
ever heard about natural immunity ?

or, do you take every new shot and antibiotic preventively, just because you have a "progressive" mind ?

funny how the collectivist thinking i have seen in communism is making big waves today: i do everything for my comrades, and i feel great.

take a booster for me dude.
With SwiftUI and Kotlin Jetpack Compose you can write architecturally and syntactically similar code across the two platforms. Essentially the same compact classes with the differences just being view property differences and OS API discrepancies (location, etc). So it's become a lot easier to manage separate development while keeping design direction and architecture on the same page. This is more so the case for apps with simple aesthetics and simple user interactions like Threads. It's not necessarily a sign that they are dropping support for React Native.
There's been some recent fuzz on HN about Goodreads too. Is it September over there too?
Plenty used on ebay at low cost. Quad port 1G (two sets of bypass) go for $25. Dual port (one set) 10g-baseT is maybe $30ish. Fiber bypass nics are also available, they'll have direct fiber connectors rather than SFP+ though (bypass will be optical).
Why it needs to be in base? valgrind is in ports, it's just a pkg_add away for installing it.
> There are some things that you simply CANNOT express in a "free market" because the measure of their success cannot be expressed in market terms.

Sure you can. If you want to measure the success of your matchmaking company in market terms, you could charge users for your matchmaking service and then return their money if they don't get married. You put your money where your mouth is by betting on the success of the couples you suggest.

I think companies don't try this strategy because it would be too expensive for the end user. You would need to charge thousands of dollars to make up for the hard work of matchmaking and the risk of bad matches. Not something an internet startup can do at scale.
> Just imagine a credit card collection company agreeing to come after you, when you made a good faith attempt to close the account.

Given the practices detailed here, I could very easily imagine it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37490241
> The goal for many is to create something like digital life.

Well yes, the incentives are aligned toward the goal. The person(people) to create AGI will be the final recipient(s) of the Turing Award.
And with that ban all the homeopathic stuff.
I would appreciate data to the contrary, but the accounting in your first claim doesn't seem right to me. Behind the meter rooftop solar should be the most cost-effective because no new distribution is required nor is any land use change required.
It isn't.

I love open source: my two books are open source, I work in open source, and almost all of my hobby projects are open source.

But after spending all day coordinating with users and combing through the issue tracker, there's something very relaxing to me to have a little project where I don't feel "on stage" whenn working on it. It's good for me to get a social break.
+1 and from which IDE/text processor did you migrate from to neovim?
A rain dance might be more effective than other ideas they've considered.

The one thing they haven't really tried doing is giving industrial scale agriculture a reason to help solve the problem. If big ag's profits were actually at risk because of big ag's overuse of water, they'd be incentivized to use less, by any means.
Stupid question I suppose: what's stopping the family from turning right back around and suing the HOA for the now presumably lost value of the home, to the tune of 100% of the mortgage payments made minus the supposedly owed fees?
Will that stop abuse when you determine to release stock-damaging news after you had planned a scheduled sell?
I'm not talking about what I think, nor does it matter what I think, or what you think.

I spoke about what's happening. Your emotional points about human artistry are irrelevant. And actually, no, as a human, I don't like what's happening to this world, but once again, what I like or you like is not the topic of discussion.

Labor is being replaced by technology, and the "power of labor" which is immense in theory is nowhere to be seen in practice. Care to show recent examples to contrary? I'll wait.
I don't get paid for working on Wayland (nor on Qt). You also didn't engage with any argument.
Surely someone is using online shopping shipping addresses for this?
> It’s morally bankrupt to view defense as an exciting market.

Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
The father of a friend worked at a high position at Canon.
For a specific enterprise command, the client company wanted printers with a lifetime 20,000 copies instead of the base 10,000. Canon went "no problem, we'll see with our engineers" and actually they only had to remove a small device which was basically a print counter and would artificially block the ink input at approx 10,000 copies. So nothing to do with good engineering, only bad business practices.
looks like getting covid is the least of your problems
You absolutely could do market based dating where people can bid how much a date with the other would be worth and you match everyone every few days based on the highest sum of bids, collecting the difference.

So if A wants to date B and bids 60 and B will pay 40 to date A the match will cost A 20 plus fees.

This would cut to the chase amazingly fast, which isn’t what people want.
Just remember how many AAA or big name titles use Unreal as engine. Those can sell millions of copies at 60 per copy. And even if they have much better rate it is still probably half a million to millions a game.
Has anyone completed a serious engineering project in OpenSCAD? I just can't imagine how that would work. I suppose the actual design work wouldn't be that much different, but I can't imagine a way to collaborate with it. You'd need a mechanical engineer, who is also a programmer, who is also willing to learn OpenSCAD. That is expensive.

With FreeCAD, even if you never used it before, a CAD person could figure it out. Its mostly learning which icons do what. (IB4, someone mentions the topological naming problem, that its completely avoidable with a 10 minute youtube video on the subject, or you can download the RealThunder fork of FreeCAD if that 10 minute youtube video is too time consuming)

I guess my point is: Yes its technically possible to do a lot of things on any OS, but it isnt practical.
Personally I am not advocating for "protection", protection against what? Your own device? Why is your device harming you to begin with?

The online data privacy crisis isn't really about data or the bad actors, but the lack of understandability and control over our own electronics.

To solve the problem you need to make users more involved, remove automation in favor of manual processes but simplified as much as possible. "Protections" are mostly band-aid hiding the real cause.
I can see that, from the light reading I did on consequentialism it seemed to focus more on degrees of punishment, or even a binary of punishment, rather than a methodology.
First, your insistence on scientific rigor is laudable but, quite frankly, limited in scope. We're on the cusp of a new era, and your demand for reams of data misses the point: it's not just about what we can prove right now; it's about the trajectory we're on. And let me tell you, that trajectory is heading towards AI surpassing human capability, whether you like it or not.

You talk about LLMs like ChatGPT being "black boxes," implying that's a reason they can't replace humans. Let me clue you in: medicine was a black box for centuries! And yet, we didn't sit around waiting for the perfect solution; we innovated, learned, and improved. Why shouldn't we expect the same trajectory for AI? Machine learning models are already becoming more explainable, and they'll only get better.

On the topic of accountability, you act as though it's an exclusively human trait. Let me burst that bubble for you. Accountability can be programmed, designed, and regulated into an AI system. Humans wrote the laws that hold people accountable; who's to say we can't draft a new legal framework for AI? The goal isn't to mimic human accountability but to surpass it, creating a system that not only learns from its mistakes but also minimizes them to an extent that humans cannot.

You dismiss the non-determinism of AI as a fatal flaw. But isn't that a human trait, too? How many times have medical professionals changed their "expert opinions" based on new evidence? The fact is, non-determinism exists everywhere, but what AI has the potential to offer is a level of data analysis and rapid adaptation that humans can't match.

As for the anecdote about the 17 doctors? Don't trivialize that. It's not just a point of failure for those specific doctors; it's a symptom of a flawed and fallible system. To argue that AI can't replace doctors because of one paper or anecdote is to entirely miss the point: we're not talking about the technology of today but of the technology of tomorrow. AI is on a path to becoming more reliable, more accountable, and more efficient than human medical professionals.

So yes, my point is that AI doesn't just have the potential to supplement human roles; it has the potential to replace them. Not today, maybe not tomorrow, but eventually. And it's not because AI is perfect; it's because it has the potential to be better, to continually improve in ways and at speeds that humans can't match.

We're not just dabbling in speculation here; we're tapping into a future that's hurtling toward us. If you're not prepared for it, you're not just standing in the way of progress; you're standing on the tracks. Prepare to get run over.

I can now get into a car driven by AI and go wherever I want. 2 years ago people like you were saying it's a pipe dream. You need a certain level of brain power an IQ of 90+ to realize that despite the fact that this anecdotal snippet of progress isn't scientifically rigorous it's a datapoint as strong as 17 doctors failing in front of chatGPT. It allows us to speculate realistically without the need for science.
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing
Any plans for integrations with digital Ad platforms like Facebook/Google?
Sounds like its users have something to hide (sarcasm).
I get why people are upset about the pricing changes because they are harmful. That said, I'd love to see more discourse around the macroeconomics of platformification of gaming (i.e. gamepass) because this Unity move feels analagous to what's happening in streaming and I think we're gonna see more of it.

With things like Gamepass, players have access to much more content for a lot less money. There's no way that this isn't having a massive impact on sales and revenue downstream for studios and other gaming vendors. If the revenue changes in indie gaming are anything like the shift from traditional album sales to iTunes and then Spotify, then things are going to get ugly.

Tech has identified that the most valuable position to hold is owning the market and we've seen it over and over again, and it never works out in favor of the suppliers or consumers in the long run.
John Oliver made an episode on it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os
Llama Index and MonsterAPI for RAG Q&A on business docs with limited budget
This integration results in access of LLMs like Llama 2, Falcon and MPT easily and at low cost for RAG question answering on PDFs and docs.