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I always thought search engines could go back to using titles, description, and meta tags, but limit the number of characters/meta tags accepted.
Thanks for sanity. More broadly, concentration of power and unsafe technology are two different subjects -- we can and should tackle both.
This comment and many of the replies seem to outright dismiss chatbots as universally useless, but there's selection bias at work. Of course the average HN commenter would (claim to) have a nuanced situation that can only be handled by a human representative, but the majority of customer service interactions can be handled much more routinely.

Bits About Money [1] has a thoughtful take on customer support tiers from the perspective of banking:

> Think of the person from your grade school classes who had the most difficulty at everything. The U.S. expects banks to service people much, much less intelligent than them. Some customers do not understand why a $45 charge and a $32 charge would overdraw an account with $70 in it. The bank will not be more effective at educating them on this than the public school system was given a budget of $100,000 and 12 years to try. This customer calls the bank much more frequently than you do. You can understand why, right? From their perspective, they were just going about their life, doing nothing wrong, and then for some bullshit reason the bank charged them $35.

It's frustrating to be put through a gauntlet of chatbots and phone menus when you absolutely know you need a human to help, but that's the economics of chatbots and tier 1/2 support versus specialists:

> The reason you have to “jump through hoops” to “simply talk to someone” (a professional, with meaningful decisionmaking authority) is because the system is set up to a) try to dissuade that guy from speaking to someone whose time is expensive and b) believes, on the basis of voluminous evidence, that you are likely that guy until proven otherwise.

[1] https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
It's a bunch of stuff all coming together: Electric heating is still memetically coupled with resistive heating in Germany, which isn't very efficient (and can't beat subsidized fossils anyway). Post-war era houses in regions that don't usually see -10°C or less tend not to be airtight "because it's healthier" (because vapor can escape, avoiding mold). Heating engineers preferred to sell the stuff they know (and is somewhat easier to install) so they discouraged heat pumps.

So everybody has been telling everybody in Germany that "electric heating" doesn't work, heat pumps are vaguely "electric heating" (different mode of operation, but for that you'd have to know how heat pumps work in the first place), and with all that you end up with some "wisdom of the crowd" that fuels false confidence.
Mitch was trying to do (at least) three things at once:

- make a hackable, open source tool

— create a new interaction model for PIM data

- be a livable Mail/Calendar client

The team assembled would probably have been quite competent at doing any one of those things!

It’s not clear to me there was a path to achieving a harmonious combination of all three given any staffing.
Aren't there comments equally likely to be AI-generated?
spoiler alert: facebook was always about fakes
> HN, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, SMS, etc. all have a limited range of expression through form. Somehow we get by.

Disagreement exists as to how well this is going for us. (cf., content collapse)
Facebook already was a hellscape without the AI generated content.

A simple solution: #DeleteFacebook
I think they're responding to the question "If Adobe can't buy them, what other exit options do they have? Go public?". It's a bit tongue in cheek, but it's a fair point that we're in a weird place if the idea of founding a company with the goal of being sustainably profitable indefinitely rather than just being acquired by a much larger company is somehow the suboptimal backup plan rather than the main goal.
> If I was the board I’d be calling for the CEO’s head after loosing $1 billion for absolutely nothing

The Board signed off on the deal. Given Adobe’s stock is up for the day, I don’t think shareholders are crying over this termination fee.
The information you provide with payment - name and address - is sufficient to add a delinquent account to your credit report, which will immediately tank it. Again, SSN is not necessary for this.
It’s classical Nigerian prince audience. The stories are crafted that way, the audience does not see obvious warn signs. When for other people first sentence with intentional mistake is a red light.
And those other files can include bios files, drivers, etc
In this case I support them - language variation like this eventually leads to a new language that isn't mutually understandable. Anything to force people to speak more alike increases communication. Ever try to understand someone from places like Mississippi, Scotland, or Australia - they all speak English, but it is not always mutually understandable. There are also cases where words mean different/opposite things in different areas leading to confusing.

There are lots of other reasons to hate chatbots, but if they can force people to speak the same language that would be good.
I can somewhat imagine this happening in the USA after Jan 6th set the example of modern political violence in the USA.

But regarding Europe, I see more right-wing politicians getting elected more often in some EU countries as a response to allowing extra immigration from the war in Syria. In Poland as a counter-example, it went the other way. However, all of these political shifts were non-violent.

"Civil war" is politics via violence. Please give me a scenario as to how you see that happening in specific countries in the EU.
> but overall there is more good than bad

This seems like an extremely dubious assumption, to me, especially given the extremity of the conclusions being placed upon it. Feels like a roulette player saying "well if I always double my previous bet then eventually I'll win back everything" and cracking open the family savings. Like in some extremely idealized version of the world what you're saying might make sense? But if you take even a cursory look at history it becomes abundantly clear (to me, at least) that the truth is more complicated.
> I think the argument that humans are naturally willing to harm infants for personal gain is not at all true.

Who is making that argument? There isn't even agreement on the assertion of "harm" in the particular context of the original article. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as they say.
The gulf between wrong and removed from the internet for being wrong is massive.
I hate to think how many B2B SaaS ads small children have been subjected to.
It doesn't make anyone rich quickly.
Yes, I think "technological colonialism" would be a better term. We give these poor saps baubles and we get their riches.
I think you're missing the forest for the trees (perhaps deliberately) if your immediate criticism of e/acc is that we don't have democratized access to surface-to-air missiles.

Most people are able to understand what is broadly meant by "technological development". It normally means stuff like camera phones and internet access and hearing aids, you're the first I've read whose mind immediately jumps to weapons of destruction. If someone noted that they'd been impressed with the technological progress of the 2000s, I wouldn't personally feel the need to smugly clarify that they don't have access to missiles, so their point is misguided. Perhaps their comment would have been clearer to folks like you with the addition of more qualifications and context to describe _exactly what_ kinds of progress is being talked about, but personally I found it very clear.

You're letting the political mask slip a bit with the inclusion of the Whig comment, by the way :)
It's just the good ol' power law at play.
I think the Gemini stuff is really neat, and I've already experimented with Lagrange and Kristall browsers. However, the information I'm interested in isn't published on those networks, and I think that's true for most of us. Reader view is a seamless way for me to have control of how the web is presented to me. An RSS client + browser with reader mode is the perfect combo for most online stuff that is information (and not function, like an e-shop).

As I understand it, forum functions are not a feature of the Gemini protocol?
I prefer this turtabalist trip-hop version that samples it:

https://youtu.be/LOypHvuSDIo

It's just chill and sets the mood.
US lawmakers urge Biden to probe EU targeting of tech firms
This may just confirm that your local library doesn't have what you're looking for on Libby, but if you have a Goodreads to-read list, you may find https://projecttbr.com/ very helpful. I used to comb through my list of books to read manually and had a hard time finding anything I wanted to listen to, but this site made it a pretty easy process.
MV=PY?
When it comes to whole market altering merger - they don't take that long.

The negotiations took that long, to come to nothing. Clearly Adobe couldn't come up with a solution to the problem of a potential monopoly.

Most M&As happen quite quick, mostly dealing with acquiring companies that are outside of the purview of regulators.
Regulators were always opposed to this merger, it's Adobe that wanted to fight it out.

> you can expect a serious chilling effect on M&A

Oh no, less corporate consolidation. The horror. Won't someone think of the capital class for once?
Except you forgot about competition within the movie making industry. They could very easily end up competing against each other by making 2 or 3 movies of the same thing, which lowers their overall return, and is a bad deal for everyone.

I think it just depends on the pricing the copyright holder wants. If you can pay a few bucks and get exclusive rights, it's totally a win. If you have to mortgage your business to get the rights, it's a much harder decision.

I think a reasonable compromise would be, by default a copyright lasts 10 years, but they can extend it another 10 or 20 years(or maybe even until their death), if they pay a fee of some sort, perhaps yearly, so the copyright will expire as soon as it doesn't make sense to pay the fee anymore.

This lets the long-term copyright winners continue to win for most of their lifetime, if they cut the people(the govt) in on some of that return. While most things that don't need long term copyright get dumped into public domain to help invigorate and make more awesome new ideas.
Java and C# seem to have actually gotten the idea of multiple implementations correct, in the sense that I have never needed to worry about the specific runtime being used as long as I get my language version correct. I have basically never seen a C/C++ program of more than a few hundred lines that doesn’t include something like #ifdef WIN32 …
If your files include non-bootable ISOs, they will also show up in the boot menu. I haven't tried selecting one to see what happens.
Absolutely! And I do think that the relationship between technology and power is super interesting and worthy of consideration, but this approach to it is just....goofy.
Love that - I also have a few competing ideas around something that sounds very similar. My goal is to create a textual interface that eschews traditional programming conventions in favor of a grammar and syntax that feels familiar to UI designers. I'm calling the overall effort "matry" - right now it's a language but that could change in the future: https://matry.design/
Whenever I'm told about the impressive work people are doing at their FAANG dev job, I always wonder what they mean. Because the product I see is not particularly appealing (I suppose I am the product though). They did at least switch from showing me political rage bait to women whose nipples I can clearly see through their clothing, which is indeed more pleasing to me, but not what I go to Facebook for, and eventually drove me off.
Not every equilibrium is a good equilibrium.
This is what I use most often these days for loading any system with a Linux install (or to test drive distros it's an awesome tool).

I have found some hardware seems to have weird issues with drives of a certain size (I tried using a 256GB external SSD and have encountered a laptop that will not boot from it, and will only boot from USB storage if it's like 32GB or lower or something weird like that). But that appears to be a particular quirk of that laptop and nothing to do with Ventoy in particular.
What does this have to do with e/acc?

Im very much in favor of yimby, but i understand personal preference as well. If someone in Venice Italy was against filling in canals, would you be similarly outraged?

I think there's a balance between not making every neighborhood a densely populated cookie cutter multi family dwelling and endless zoning permits that require you to file with dozens of environmental agencies with dubious impacts on environment.

But again, what does this have to do with e/acc or the article apart from being a lazy dunk on someone who has e/acc in their twitter profile
Non-paywall link https://archive.is/79qVk
Most of the facebook ads shown to me for the last few years were scams of varying sorts.

Ranging from fast fashion sites "going out of business" (whose domain was registered within the last 90 days) to kickstarter campaigns for cloned products to drop-shipped products with slick videos whose discount price is 3x what it costs for the same on Amazon...
Oh sure I realise rationally that it's fair, but given that my aim is somewhat to support creators and somewhat to feel good about supporting creators, it doesn't really help me on the latter because irrationally it feels unfair. I am not sure lots of people would be doing this though.
What are you talking about? People can subscribe to Playboy Channel or whatever and watch that on TV with no censorship. The only real restrictions were applied to broadcast (OTA) channels due to limited spectrum. Even that is now effectively moot as broadcast TV is dying off.
The creators are aware of the political valence of accelerationism. The name “e/acc”, pronounced “ee-ack”, is a play on EA (as in, Effective Altruism). The whole thing was tongue in cheek shitposting that somehow got real traction.
> Cheap to maintain: Most webpages should work indefinitely without falling over.

Simple HTML will do this, so long as a browser that supports that version of HTML and CSS is still around. A static Go binary serving dynamic HTML will do this. I struggle to imagine Python, Ruby, etc being able to accomplish this though. That's to say, I'm not sure that's a good rule or could use some reworking to make it more achievable.
>The problem with C/C++ stemmed from compiler vendors competing with each other to be "better" than their peers.

Yea but this is Linux and OSS. NIHisms are fucking rampant everywhere.

I give it a year before gccrs announces a new "gnurs" mode with language extensions.
Yes, Result<T, E> should be equivalent in power to exceptions (the missing E part is why I was saying it's a superset of Option<T> functionality).

Regarding exceptions being more code, I very much don't agree. Even for embedded apps, the pattern of "if this fails, wind back up to some top level event loop" is quite common, and exceptions give it to you for free if you're also using RAII. In contrast, with Result<T, E> you have to write code at every level of the stack to handle it. Code which gets particularly ugly when you combine it with things like map() or filter().
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I've been tickled by the idea of a follow-up version, Send Me To Hell, where users instead throw their phones _downward_. High scores are awarded based on the maximum speed achieved as the phone hits the ground.
> Twitter/X instantly placed a warning that the article link could be harmful.

It’s amazing to me that there are still people who haven’t heard of the Streisand Effect.
Who is going to write it?
University, where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Reading more of the Wikipedia link, while it is true that:

> The Senate Report gave the official reasons for passing copyright extension laws [...] to ensure adequate copyright protection for American works in foreign nations

... it also notes:

> The report also included minority opinions by Herb Kohl and Hank Brown, who believed that the term extensions were a financial windfall to current owners of copyrighted material at the expense of the public's use of the material.

And who supported the bill and lobbied for it?

> Since 1990, The Walt Disney Company had lobbied for copyright extension. The legislation delayed the entry into the public domain of the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons, leading detractors to the nickname "The Mickey Mouse Protection Act".

> In addition to Disney, California congresswoman Mary Bono (Sonny Bono's widow and Congressional successor), and the estate of composer George Gershwin supported the act. Mary Bono, speaking on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, said: "Actually, Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever. I am informed by staff that such a change would violate the Constitution. ... As you know, there is also [then-MPAA president] Jack Valenti's proposal for term to last forever less one day. Perhaps the Committee may look at that next Congress."

> Other parties that lobbied in favor of the Bono Act were Time Warner, Universal, Viacom, the major professional sports leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB), and the family of slain singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

So, primarily American corporations and individuals looking for a "financial windfall", including Sonny Bono himself who would have liked the act to completely violate the US constitution and make copyright last forever.

What you don't see on this list are any European organisations asking the USA to match their own copyright durations.
I have no idea why or how, but lately FB has been showing me a ton of really interesting "suggested for you" content that actually gets me sucked in. Stuff like clips from nature docs, min-docs on extinct megafauna, time-lapse building a cabin in the woods, etc.

I feel like I must be part of some pilot program to actually show people stuff they want to see. I'm sure it won't be deemed profitable enough.
>> culture of underinvestment which the UK public sector has been undergoing for the past 15 years.

It's going on for much longer than that. It's hard to think of a time when there was investment. It's also hard to think of a time when the individuals and teams who could have prevented this would be given the respect that they deserve. This is a problem in the UK that extends beyond the UK public sector because a lot of the management in large organisations has some cultural similarities.
I am quite sure people were able to come up with plenty of downsides when fire was discovered too (accidents, usage as weapon, burning whole fields, forests and even dwellings), but most of us can now agree it was a net positive for mankind.
The parent comment poses a question:
> If Adobe can't buy them, what other exit options do they have?

Operating as a sustainable business that sells a good product for a profit is apparently not even on people's radar.
I don't think that applies as much to line workers in the overseas subsidiaries of Japanese companies as it does in the central company. Like, Square Enix's former European divisions, Sony of America, all run much more like companies in their home countries than like their parent company.
Yes, they are, all these psychos are reading Nick Land. It’s not an accident.

> Combine technology and markets and you get what Nick Land has termed the techno-capital machine, the engine of perpetual material creation, growth, and abundance.

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

> Land is also known for later developing the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas behind neo-reaction and the Dark Enlightenment, which he named.

It’s all neo-fascism.
Not a good thing when it's taken to absurd lengths. See Lina Khan's attempt to block the Within Unlimited acquisition. The problem with the current administration is that there's no good-faith path forwards to get anything done. If you have worked with the FTC recently you'd understand what a hostile clusterfuck it is.
Yea I mean how do people think large companies do things like payroll which is easily more than this monthly.
Most Silicon Valley VC types are poorly disguised crypto- (excuse the double entendre) fascists.
At that point, the process is the interesting thing. Instead of an AI generating "cool" shapes and delicate carvings, a real person had to painstakingly carve out each tiny channel in the wood - a combination of art, skill, and patience. I can come watch them work each day until I see the transformation of a single block of wood into something functional or beautiful (or both!)

On the other hand I might be able to print out a copy of the AI generated one, hang it at my desk, and enjoy looking at it a few times before it becomes part of the background of my disposable life.
Truth is whatever advertisers pay for it to be
maybe you can ask lawyer_bot powered by chatgpt to represent you in court
"bots" can make legally binding trades on Wall Street, and have been for decades. Why should car dealers be held to a different standard? IMO whether or not you "present" it as a person, this is software deployed by the company, and any screwups are on them. If your grocery store's pricing gun is mis adjusted and the cans of soup are marked down by a dollar, they are obligated to honor that "incorrect" price. This is much the same, with the word "AI" thrown in as mystification.