skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enshittification happens because the people who own and run the "markets" have decades of practice using them as an excuse for their entirely self-serving choices.

They're closely associated with the econo-political concept of There Is No Alternative.

The choices which benefit them personallyare catastrophic for most of the population in the short term (see today's news about insulin prices for one tiny example) and will be catastrophic for absolutely everyone in the longer term.

Climate change is enshittification on a planetary scale.

If someone went around setting fire to rows of houses it wouldn't take long for them to be jailed.

For some reason when corporations do the same to the planet it's "economics" and "market forces", and we're supposed to just accept it.
There are, Tipeee is one as the author edited in.

> Part of what made Patreon explosively successful, in the first place, was that Patreon had apparently cracked the code on one of the hardest problems on the internet: micropayments.

> By the time Patreon had come along people had been discussing the problem of micropayments on the internet for at least two decades.

I guess the author missed the years where Flattr buttons were popping up on every website, blog, and even comment ?

Flattr 1.0 seems to have been killed by a combination of the 2013 Twitter APIpocalypse, being €-first, and not being based in the Silicon Valley :

https://blog.hsnyc.co/post/flattr-works/

https://thenextweb.com/news/flattr-twitter-payments-ban

Then Flattr 2.0 tried again :

https://www.engadget.com/2017-10-24-adblock-plus-relaunches-...

And I doubt that Flattr was even the first to do the "bundling" trick, heck this is probably also what made the Minitel so successful ?

But as you can see it works in the opposite way : the patrons set a specific sum of money to be distributed each month, which then gets redistributed depending on their engagement with some or other creator (which you can decide to manually boost).
Do you know https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ ?
Agreed.

Check out this animation posted by Elon Musk in the last few days https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1710561314278379959 where the X jerks slightly before it rotates, and then rotates off-center...
Patreon is effectively the publisher here? Again, they are already doing it which makes your assertion of illegality questionable. What jurisdiction are you, Germany?
That spell checker (Apple? because I can't reproduce on Windows) needs to check its spelling. "Unionize" is certainly a word, used 7 times in the Wikipedia article about unionizing (for example).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionization
>I'd say we can't even do that because human stupidity is fifth elemental force.

I am definitely copying that. Very nice way of putting it.
Yeah, I'm using the Swift Charts framework
"The car is literally driving itself" as on-screen text in one of the advertisements
> datacenter is to information what power plant is to electricity

Very much not.

Running a generator at home is much more expensive than paying your utility for electricity. But running a server at home is far cheaper than paying AWS if you actualy use the server.
> Now, I absolutely get why people have bad attitudes towards IT. IT is often unfairly biased against users. After all, the only users they interact with most of the time are morons, and that paints an unfair stereotype. Like, for example, the stereotype that those users are morons: it's not the user's job to use a computer, it's the user's job to do whatever their job it, and the computer is a tool to do that. Yeah, users should know a little bit about how to use their tools, but that's a little difficult to enforce.

The big part of people's bad attitude towards IT is that, from user perspective, they're noticeable only when they suddenly make it more difficult or impossible for the user to actually do their job. And they do it often enough that they're seen as an outside force that's at best annoying, at worst dreaded.

Now sure, the typical user may not know the other side of the coin, and in many cases the annoyances are legitimate from the POV of safety and effectiveness of the company as a whole. But then, occasionally IT seems to not see the costs either.

I'm biased here, but I have this negative bias towards IT despite being rather experienced and savvy computer user, because I've been on the receiving side of changes that make it hard for software devs to do their work, in companies that make money selling software.

My favorite example is Windows Defender "realtime protection" - a functionality that adds a noticeable cost to individual I/O operations (writes) on any file except those on one of several exclusion lists (excluding by location in the filesystem, excluding by the process making the I/O call, etc.). This feature has really bad interaction with typical software dev work - version control, building software, running tests, and other things a dev does constantly, tend to do a lot of tiny I/O operations, and they all suffer the penalty. This can easily make all your actual work activities take 2-3x longer - or more, when you account for the disproportional distraction it causes[0].

Now, the corporate IT decides the endpoint machines are not allowed to add additional exclusions to the list, even if otherwise the user has local administrative rights. The list is fixed, contains mostly system stuff, and all your dev tooling and source code is not on it. I wonder if anyone tried to calculate the total cost of this one decision - money lost by software releases being effectively delayed 2x, and in associated extra salaries for one of the most expensive employees in any tech company? Is it worth it, relative to whatever this decision saves? Is it worth sticking to it, and ignoring tickets from software dev begging for help, and/or replying to them that the company will reimburse them for a laptop cooling pad?

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[0] - https://xkcd.com/303/. Or, when single `git add` of a file takes 2 seconds instead of near-instant, that slowly makes you avoid touching it. `git commit` taking 1 minute instead of few seconds (for executing post-commit hooks) is the difference between being in the flow and browsing HN. Etc.
Tetrataenite: A new approach to manufacturing 'cosmic' magnets
That's manipulation of people's emotions. It's going to be big business
> It would also be faster if we referred to files by their inode numbers. But we have filenames, and I don't want to speak for everybody but I think people like them.

Actually, we do refer to files by their inode number, not by their name. The system uses the name to lookup the inode number, and then use the inode number.

Maybe I misunderstood you initially[1], but you weren't proposing to keep the numbers and use a lookup service for the name. AIUI, you proposed to replace the number with a name, no?

In which case, absolutely no one is proposing to replace inode numbers with names, so inode numbers/filenames as an example does not validate or lend support to your proposal for replacing port numbers with names.

[1] I'm on a personal quest to stop misunderstanding people in a way that reduces the strength of their argument. It's not going as well as I though it would, and I still do it sometimes.
Absolutely true for urgent care, but most care isn't urgent. If you need a new hip or cataract surgery, that's very much plannable and if you could save a few thousand by going to a different hospital, definitely something to consider.
I believe the non-tarnishing lroperties of gold is why it has achieved it’s status in the sorld.
Stand-up napping pods
Leetcode is fine: lots of supported languages, large community, lots of solutions and editorials.

Here are some more resources:

- USACO: https://train.usaco.org/ and https://usaco.guide/general/

- Codeforces: https://codeforces.com/
the de facto standard community for competitive programmers, regular contests with editorials, huge archive of problems (https://codeforces.com/problemset) with pretty accurate difficulty ratings so you can focus on problems of suitable difficulty if you want to progress quickly. They also have an incipient EDU section: https://codeforces.com/edu/courses that covers basic algorithms with practice problems.
Last I checked, NSFW art wasn't currently acceptable, payment processors would refuse to deal with you... so how do the likes of Patreon and OnlyFans managed to get a pass ?
The purpose of your insurance is to pay for damage caused by you to other people's cars, so it's not really up to you whether you think cosmetic damage is important or not.

(Personally, I think this is quite "regressive", in that the poor have to pay to cover potential damage to cars much more expensive than their own. It would work better if insurance was completely optional and only paid for damage to your own car, whether caused by yourself or others. That way you would have a lot more control over how much you want to pay and how much risk you want to take on).
Clinton and Pelosi claimed the 2016 election was rigged. But they weren’t accused of conspiracy theory (or sedition).

So it’s interesting how we’re so quick to judge people who question the 2020 result.

Particularly given the outright corruption uncovered in The Big Guy’s regime and the government agencies that manipulated social media to cover it up.
Is the article not valuable without address the root of the problem?

The author explains how he copes with the way organisations behave. Without this coping mechanism, he would be less happy and more angry. This coping mechanism could help a lot of unhappy/angry people right now, while solving the root problem requires more time and collaboration. Maybe it is also okay if we make people more happy right now, and work on the root problem in the next article?
The company I work for uses MicroPython commercially, for medical devices. It's used in a growing number of commercial segments.
> People can actually invoke shapes and colors in their minds.

Please can some of you chime in. I have never been able to picture things and I don't have a voice in my head. Do you? I assumed my way is the norm, it's weird finding out that it might not be. What does picturing things even look like, is there a floating object in front of you?

On the voice thing I saw a Reddit thread where people were expressing surprise that some people don't have an inner voice when they read or think.
> having to provision for peak load is not cost effective.

That is true, if peak load is much much higher than mean load.

For most companies, that's not the case.

On the cloud you are overpaying for cpu, network and storage by a very wide margin. That makes sense if your peak load is, say, 100x your mean load (and you have sufficienly smart autoscaling to optimize for this).

But for most companies there is not such huge multiplier from mean usage to peak usage. So those are better off with owning hardware.
There is no one metric of code quality. There are a bunch of competing concerns, some of which will push others down if you push them up.

With cognitive load it doesn't even generalize. Who hasn't worked with somebody who joined a project and then immediately started changing the code to be more aligned to their taste in idioms to reduce the cognitive load. Their cognitive load that is. Not necessarily anybody else's.
I know what an assumption is.

> can you provide a foundation for it that is stronger than "yes, I assume it" or "everyone knows"?

That's not really an accurate portrayal of my argument. But here's sources I know of.

* Origins of Life course on Complexity Explorer

* The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere

* Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
Did you miss Flattr 2.0 - a browser extension looking at your engagement ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15557954
Just to be clear, not just data but bytecode will also be executed from flash too.
I mean I believe it's mostly just taking pictures or videos outside on their iPhones, which I believe will automatically capture in HDR if it's bright enough. I seriously doubt that people who upload some random picture they took outside to Reddit are intentionally trolling people who happen to use a device with an HDR screen.
Yep, also pension plans going away and the fact those same employees can even get that substantial pay raise isn't the problem at all.

Pay employees well, give them a dream to catch and make sure they won't die miserable and would you believe they may just decide to stick around.
> Measuring longitude requires an accurate clock

Not 'requires' — there are other ways to determine longitude.

I've read the book and seen the clocks. They are amazing.

> Greenwich was the prime meridian because Britain invented the best clocks.

I think that's backwards though. They would have ruled the waves regardless, and Greenwich would have still been the prime meridian.
Time? 12 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds. Might be wrong.
I must have missed where Clinton and Pelosi orchestrated the halting of the transition of power by threatening the lives of hundreds of legislators.
This isn't 4chan, there is an objective reality. Alexa telling people Trump won is in the same space as my digital girlfriend telling me to kill the Queen. It's not smart.

If alexa told people to drink bleach, lawyers would be queueing up to hit Bezos for restitution. And, if you read the story the programmers intervened.
> Cooling, fire suppression, electricity, DR site, etc.

No, unless you are particularly huge (google, facebook), you rent space in a colocation facility that handles the real estate stuff (like electricity, cooling, fire). That is the best of all worlds for most companies needs.
Is it really refering specifically to a male deity? I thought it refers in short in general to the Æsir, one of the principal pantheons, with male and female gods

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86sir
Then why does the FCC limit speech on air and in movies? Sounds like bs to me.
I currently work every day on a codebase that is >95% not mine and changing, and its very fun. Some days I'm just as productive as on my own projects, sometimes 1% of that.

I think there is great value in letting yourself enter this hacker flow state on other people's code - its new and exciting.
You don't see the intermediate steps from a 10x10 neural net to LLMs?

Like, a whole decade of ML: better optimisers, better init, residual connections, tokenisation and token embeddings, training with large batches over thousands of machines, the attention mechanism, causal masking, flash attention and other memory optimisations, and even having the foresight to train on the totality of web text.

Not seeing the intermediate steps doesn't mean they are not essential and needed.

If you still believe a toy 10x10 fully connected net is the same with current models (bar scaling), then what is you opinion on MLP-Mixer? That was an "MLP is all you need" moment but it didn't lead to adoption.
It would have been much clearer. Ironic, isn't it?
pcj moment
NSFW art is not illegal; VISA won't block you if you fund an artist who is drawing or photographing nudes, and Patreon's current policy is that this form of content is acceptable.[1]

[1] https://www.patreon.com/en-GB/policy/community-guidelines
This is why I'm thinking we need a new system. Not capitalism, not communism, not anything that's already been talked about for 200 years.

It seems to me that our real problem is that we are wired to demand everybody contributes. Both righties and lefties actually agree on this, they just have different views on how to get it done theoretically, and in practice have also come up with various schemes to make this happen.

But actually we live in a world of plenty. Yes, there are hungry people. Yes, there are people who don't have an iPhone.

But what do I mean? I mean that in general it appears to me that almost everything is produced by a very small number of people. We're no longer living in a world where you need 9 people to feed 10 people. The same is true for a lot of goods and services. We don't actually need a bunch of people to do many things.

Quite a lot of processes, if you ask someone who works in various industries, are really done by a few people, supported by a cast of extras that outnumbers them. Some of these extras make more money than the people actually doing the useful work. Often these extras are are like you allude to, only there in order to pretend they are part of the process so that they can make a living.

To make things worse, there actually is a class of people who have no job at all, which creates a kind of fear among the hangers-on.

What we actually need is to have productive people unimpeded by people who need to scrape a living. We should change our norms so that if you aren't selected to be one of the people who makes iPhones or grow food, you can just be good friend. If you want to be an iPhone maker, study and try to get in there. If you don't make it, you're not a failure. You just go about living while all the robot designers take care of stuff.
Dubious Islands of North America
I can’t picture objects or colour, but have vivid dreams. Also it’s normal for me to hold conversations with myself in my head. Post-covid I had a few days with no inner “voice” and it was terribly lonely.
Personally, I consider self-hosted services to potentially have a longer lifespan than relying on a commercial product. Unless a company has a robust escrow contingency, then there's always a possibility that they can go bust and you lose your data and service. Probably more of a concern is vendor lock-in, especially when they decide to change their service levels.

Paperless-ngx is a great example of how open source can work around the issue of lack of maintenance (quite a big problem with commercial services if they don't get much profit from them) as IIRC Paperless-NG was a fork from Paperless and now Paperless-NGX is a fork from Paperless-NG. Even if it becomes completely obsolete, I can choose to keep an instance running for as many decades as I wish.
> 90% of everything is crud, and that explains almost everything.

> Here's the pressure if you're in the 10% of people that aren't crud at their jobs - you're surrounded by people that are crud.

I wish people stopped overusing crud. It kind of dilutes the argument and makes it less clear.
What should come to mind when communism comes up then?
Couple of search terms: aphantasia, subvocalisation. These topics have come up here a few times, I see they're doing the rounds on Facebook atm.
I'm already working on a service called WingmanGPT.
English also uses 12 and 20: "half a dozen" = six, "four score" = 80.
It's a bit rich calling it insane just because it's not immediately approachable for you. Not every project is aiming for mass-adoption and if you want to lower the barriers, that's on you to make happen.

Like a sibling commenter is already doing, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802337

Consider pitching in time/money there (if welcome) instead of complaining when not everything is served to you on a silver platter.

A sqlite backend would be another thing that could reduce the complexity for a minimal OoB setup, I guess.

Truth the told, I wouldn't find it unfair to call the architecture/setup "insane". This is not one. If you've done any meaningful self-hosting in the past decade, it's as straightforward as it can be.
I think it's a two steps process: you first realize that there's an issue with the algorithm. Then, since it doesn't make sense to give a fine to an algorithm, you held the creators and/or users responsible (depending on the specific case).
I did address both the OP's 1) pseudonym (anonymity) and 2) by-works, the other two points (patronage and audience relationship + API) are both viable and already very much present in crypto art communities.

The real feature of crypto is decentralization, which does not need to mean fraud—in the same way that end-to-end encryption does not only facilitate criminal behaviour.
Discord could eat Patreon’s lunch overnight if they wanted to. Every Patreon I’ve been interested in was just a paywall for a Discord community.
That would only be a bad thing if the Java ecosystem was good to begin with.

From my perspective it is terrible enough that the language specific wrapper library has 10x to 100x the usability of the Java option if you use it directly from Java. For example, GORM for Groovy is significantly better than Hibernate even though it is built on top of Hibernate. It is so good that I chose to use groovy once, not because it made sense but simply because Hibernate is so terrible, the cost of a different language was outweighed by it.

I don't give a damn about most JVM features. They don't change the crap ecosystem at all. I personally despise the JVM for being incredibly memory inefficient as well. None of this is going to change.
I see you are a fan of wordplay. Perhaps you will be interested that I (mis-)read your username as: Politermon (like a Polite Pokemon I guess! :) haha :p)
This has to be the worst way of explaining something I've seen in here.
The Libre has been life changing for me, but in particular during sleep I do find that the levels can be very unreliable if you end up sleeping on the same side as where you have attached the sensor.
I think you would be surprised how many senior leadership figures will make decisions to say "yeah we have that" to friends and stakeholders.

AI is one of the big things you can see right now.

"Hey we need our chatbot to be AI powered"

"The one that has like 5 users a month and costs far too much money, we should pay an engineer to work on AI for that?"

"Yep that one, X said it's the new trend and will improve our customer relations"
Whilst possible, the ‘standard’ origin for French is that (the language as a whole) derived from Latin combining with native Celtic and Germanic languages.

Of course this doesn’t mean that specific words (for example the numbers) may not have derived from or been influenced by other languages like Basque.
This sentiment mirrors precisely how I think we might look back at a pre- augmented reality era if we can get an ‘AR web’ right. I write about it and advocate for it on my blog - this post in particular has some exposition on how I think AR could obviate keyword foraging, not knowing what questions to ask, and many other kinds of ignorance we take for granted today:

https://noahnorman.substack.com/p/what-is-augmented-reality-...
I was replying to a comment about how the fact that Git has a datastructure (or whatever was meant) is surprising since it's just a command that you call, which is absurd considering what it does (store revision history).
likely https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(topology)#Transition_...

although the quoted sentence does not make sense to me; transition maps connect different patches of one manifold. it's possible the "LLM space" gp is talking about is a parameter space of some nature each of whose points is a manifold, but that seems like a stretch
Something along the lines of:
A socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

I guess the point of the poster above is that the word communism just confuses things in the initial statement — it’s just a dictatorship. Socialists and communists fairly uniquely believe in workplace democracy.
If you have no explicit hierarchy then an implicit hierarchy will start to form in most cases, which can be even worse. In many cases you have both.
> I've never seen a more useless support channel

The Apple support forums are the same. Full of self-righteous fanboys and broken or irrelevant links to "documentation". I think there's only one real Apple employee that actually makes an effort to answer questions.