skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think enshittification is literally the moment when a company goes from their mission statement to the standard American MBA enforced, short term oriented "next quarters profits" mission.

I think you might find early googlers or other early employees at other companies actually felt like they were enacting those missions, and now it is obvious at almost any of those companies that nobody, especially the leadership, cares about those missions.

I think it is middle managements core purpose to push back in defense of the mission, and articles like the one here are examples of cynical middle management who have given up on their core responsibility.

I think employee disillusionment can be measured by the difference between actual empirical priorities and the stated mission. I think this disillusionment is also a direct measure of short term thinking vs long term thinking. I think employee disillusionment is directly proportional to short term thinking.

I think the most valid criticism of almost every company is how much they are sacrificing their stated mission for profits.

I think pondering the difference between mission statement and actual action shows that mission statements really do matter.
Remember "I'm Feeling Lucky"?

It was absolutely bananas that a search engine could be SO GOOD the first result would probably be the right one.

Now the first link (and second and third) are never the right one. Usually something different entirely.
One more of the reasons I don’t make hardware.
> But engagement is a proxy and I think we need to start actively acknowledging that the metric has been long hacked and at this point abused.

It will not be, as long as it is the internet gatekeepers' livlihood.
The only two things I can think of are Atmos (as mentioned in the article), and metadata for dynamic range compression (which you can do on the computer too but may be more convenient to control on the receiver).

I think the main reason for audio passthrough preference in the home theater crowd is seeing the DD/DTS logos light up on the receiver.
Role of citizen science mobile apps in facilitating a contemporary digital agora
You've hit the nail on the head. I also have a childhood hip condition (Perthes disease) that has had me looking at hip replacements since my 20's and having the same fears as your friend.

Looking at pro athletes is sort of instructive; essentially none of them have returned to play after a hip replacement (Bo Jackson kind of, but in limited capacity). A few, most famously Andy Murray, have returned after hip resurfacing, so it's probably about as close to a natural hip as possible, but likely still a bit inferior.
Yeah my local barcade paid for it, just waiting for it to show up! Have you played it yet? The premium looks rad, but ready to play any of them.
Nimble nationality will define state capacity
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
Sounds lovely.

I would like to know how much money you have from grants and who is paying for them, and what you get out of it as a private (?) company.

Also is there a human element in the decision or is it all algorithm. I can imagine for $250k people might try to game it. Or just create leftpad type stuff and hope it gets a lot of dependencies and downloads with low effort.

It has crypto vibes, is it a token?
It has always been the case and is in fact the stated premise of the site that it's barely held together in a cohesive community. The original mission statement was "see how long we can fend off Eternal September". So that's not alarming; it's how things are supposed to be. I suppose a perfectly stabilized cohesive community would be worrying, a sign that the site is staling.
Oh SoftICE, you got me past many shareware nag screens ... :)
I don't think revdel can actually fully delete a revision, there's always at least a revision entry left, perhaps with no user name or summary.
Some people are just incapable of anything useful. But they sometimes get power and do unnecessary things. I noticed such groups are ferocious in justifying their existence.
> Most of us had full control of our devices growing up, right?

Yes, but the devices could do a lot less.

Like, I had full control over my bike too. But not an automobile.
We're talking about a specific device with a specific design flaw that was ignored and caused preventable harm. CPAP devices are not a major industry.
> Dan Preston is a NIMBY dressed in wolves clothes.

Citation?

> They make for great tag lines to pull support in and NOTHING changes.

Two questions, independent

* Is that the fault of those advocating for change? Are they failing to introduce legislation or is their legislation not making out of committee or whatever due to opposition? Sincere question

* Is there a candidate which would walk the walk better on actually implementing the popular policies which Dan advocates for?
Dare I even ask what "pedopolitics" is?
There are several IPv6 -> IPv4 interops (bridges) developed already.
All of them appeard due to slow IPv6 adoption. Some of them are: NAT64, XLAT6, DS-Lite.

Never heard about ND tables overflows? They fixed one thing, broken another.
ARP poisoning is mostly fixed problem.

I like NAT myself. Im dualhomed (el-cheapo), using policy routing and NAT.
Everything works like a charm. I cant imagine such setup w/o NAT actually.

SLAAC might be great thing for you, but not for others. This is why IPv6 is such a failure. Instead of creating simple protocol to meet middle ground, they slapped together annoying techs for specific cases like IoT. Great job.
For OP, maybe he could’ve simplified the problem to test it. Limit your articles to ones about one city only. Cache all of the links on your machine. There’s only 6 million English articles on Wikipedia anyways, and you can download a dump to play with.

If the limiting factor becomes your radius of articles, you know you’re on the right track.

Sometimes a prototype takes longer than a couple of days to build out. That's ok too. I’ve been working on a prototype for the last 6 months but I enjoy the problem.
And how many of those apps could just be websites? Do you then regulate websites?

If the US does something like the EU DMA, do you regulate all app stores for content?

Exactly how do you do either in a way that the government doesn’t come in an regulate content that they don’t like?
Autodesk investigating why customers are receiving infinite email notifications
I'm not allowed to use chatgippity at work, sadly. But Ive heard a lot of people mention this so I might try it at home and see what's what.
The government didn't hand over that money for free, they paid it in return of goods / services (such as NASA launches).

If you have a company that makes bridges and the government hires you to make a bridge is that also a handout?
Imagine how many people are now watching shows you abhor on Netflix - think of all the electricity we could save if they turned off their TVs.
Technology has always destroyed jobs and industries, all the way back to Ned Ludd. But it created new jobs and made us more efficient. Otherwise, 90% of us would be farmers.

It is unclear to me why any specific industry should receive special protection from technology. Should we ban bread factories to protect the jobs of local bakers? If one was to draw a line, what would be the criteria?

On a side note, we are hearing about this much more now, because the journalists and artists have a louder voice than the bakers.
I believe it was right here on HN that I read last week the pithy aphorism,

>to err is human. to screw up a million times a second, you need a computer.
It sure would be nice if more people noticed proof of stake cryptocurrencies (which cut electricity usage by something like 99.99%) like Ethereum instead of the prevailing Bitcoin myopia.
> Regrettably for the government (and society)

It's not regrettable for the US that we have the world's leading rocket launch company and the largest EV company (outside China). It's actually pretty great for us.
>Regrettably for the government (and society), the guy who ended up taking advantage of those incentives the most ended up being a complete nitwit. So, we're kind of stuck with him until the government actually grows a pair and gives the SEC actual teeth, but too many nitwits are influential and would also be hurt by an SEC that does more than slap them on the wrist, so it's never going to happen

What do you what the SEC to do about spacex?
I doubt anyone here would say this directly so I will: the csam charge is an assured way to punish this man without a trial about the other issues. If CIA planted CSAM on a computer they would do it in such a way as to comport with the expectations of a forensic examination, by legal standards.

An organization that commits crimes in other countries to do their job, and commits crimes possibly in America regularly, wouldn’t frame someone? Why? They can frame an undesirable politician in another country, but not someone who betrayed their trust and committed an act of aggression and treason from within? That’s laughable.
"We are legally bound as a nation"

"We" ain't all americans. There are people here coming from opposing sides in various wars. And there are more wars and slaughtering going on, than in the middle east. And "we" are just tech people. Not better or worse by principle, which shows off very easily as there can be religious flame wars about software already.
So it would be good, if we could debate all this in a nice way. But apparently we cannot. This is why many people want NO politics here at all. As there is usually nothing coming out of it, except more of the usual - and not interesting discussions.
Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
Advertising is the only business model that works at scale AND can support hypergrowth.

We know that subscriptions work at scale, mostly. YT Premium[1] has 100 million (Maybe 90M if there are 10M people only getting Music premium). But if YT was only available via subscription in 2010 during the gaming channel boom, it probably would have failed out of the gate.

But advertising is necessary to maintain the scale YT runs at today. 100 Million subscribers is nothing compared to the >2.7 billion humans that use it. Not all of them would pay even $2/month if you let them.

1: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-music-premium-1...
I'm really confused. Did we read the same thing? This is just a "sequel" to the original Omelas that, if anything, suffers from the fact that it doesn't really add anything new.

It's harsher on the city's arrangement. It seeks out and destroys whatever moral ambiguity might have been present in the original. To me it read like, "I read the Omelas short story and I just want to be clear that the correct interpretation is that Omelas is bad, see, look how bad."

I don't see how it misses the point of the original. It just kind of shouts in agreement with the original in an unnecessary way.

> In what way does Ursula roll in her grave?

Who said she was rolling in her grave? I searched the linked page for any mention of "roll" or "grave" or "Ursula" and found nothing.
Yeah Tesla paid back their loans fully.
That's pretty much the trick.

Discord is so time inefficient, its almost hilarious. For every incredible conversation between experts you observe, you have to weed through 200 times as much filler.
Riffing on crafting pipelines by combining tools...

Org mode can also export html and markdown, so that's three potential pandoc inputs, with potentially different properties. All of which might be massaged before input. And in extremity, an org-mode parser permits emitting customized input. Then pandoc's parsing and filters permit altering the pandoc ast in flight. And the ast isn't hard (assuming comfort with ASTs), so if some other tool has templates and output one likes, one might skip the pandoc backend and emit it oneself from pandoc ast json. Rather than hoping to persuade that other tool to both accept and generate what's needed.

So for instance, last year I had a project written in a project-specific markdown dialect, kludged to pandoc-flavored markdown, parsed with `pandoc -t json`, and html emitted custom from the pandoc ast. With embedded directives from dialect to emitter. And html templates copied from non-pandoc tools. In a language with nice pattern matching (julia's Match), the emitter was a short page of code.

"Avoid reinventing wheels, but sometimes it's easier to assemble a satisficing custom vehicle, than to find and adapt a previously-built one."
Have you had any trouble with BeautifulSoup? I've thought about doing something similar but wanted something more robust with scraping. I've thought about using Puppeteer.
Are you saying that face masks are not effective?
Unfortunately no. Falcon is pretty much worse than other models at the same parameter count.
Plex Raises $40M
Because they charge it in their room?

Because they use it as an alarm?

Because you have a late date night and won't be there in person?
I don't think desegregation is remotely comparable to what's going on here.
Time to stop subsidizing their shipping.
If you find this fascinating, you will love this book "A Theory of Architecture".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Architecture
The trick is to use whatever that is built into the system you are using. On iOS I use the Shortcuts app to create an action to generate QR codes. On desktop I just use Chrome's built-in QR code generator right from the address bar.

Assuming you already trust your OS and your browser, this means you do not need to trust any additional party for this simple task.
Whether or not it’s a worthwhile use of energy is certainly debatable, but it’s not exactly “pretend internet money” when you can trade it for billions worth of USD in a single day with minimal slippage
True - that version was compiled on TurboPascal.
You're like a dog chasing your own tail, everything you ask has already been covered in previous comments (such as how vim listens for keys from external bindings or how those bindings can know the mode from vim). I don't enjoy repeating myself and it's obvious you're not looking for solutions only drama.

I don't know what modtap program you should use, I don't use them you're the one demanding it. Do you have mech keyboard, use that? Fuck do I know, DYOR. Nothing I would suggest would satisfy you anyway and my patience ran out several comments ago.

What programs do you use and what _exactly_ are you missing in vim. Is it modtap? A GUI? I don't even know what you're so pissed about and you refuse to mention it. Be constructive or find something else to waste your time on, this will most likely be my last response as I don't expect anything different in your next one.
Automated Chaff for the information age.
investments aren't handouts.

the ROI for govt investment in spacex has been more than 10x which is a crazy number considering the amount vnc/hedge funds spend on trying to reach a fraction of those returns.
https://github.com/r-follador/CubeTrek/
> could become not-small amounts.

Let's not get too relaxed here. There's gigantic masses of plastic all over the world that would like to say that anything mass produced and cumulative "WILL become 'not-small' amounts".
> No social component (but you can publicly share tracks if you choose to do so)

So it's Strava without its key feature.
I am super curious about getting data from Stern since they have added Stern Insider. They record all your scores and give you little icons for achievements etc. I don't know what other data they store, but it would be pretty rad to do some stats on it and look at the time of day when balls get drained, and multiball run times against a population. So curious to see if any outside factors influence gameplay. Outside of proper leveling, operation etc.
I like to use the names of fruits in Spanish, but I might branch out into trees and flowers, thanks for the idea.
that's also the point too, you might find one that's a lot better in every way
omg, even talking about the flagging is going to trigger the flamewar :)
So you're... scraping Google...?
The first fully reusable ICBM!
I would have downvoted that for a number of reasons. I guess people flagged it, since there's no downvote. I don't flag unless it's something egregious (racism, spam, etc). But since this thread is all about the topic of why stories might not make the cut here, this is why I would have downvoted it if I could:

1. "Breathing 101" is an uninformative headline. I correctly guessed that it was literally referring to the human act of breathing, but it's still a bad title (I know it's not your title, and that HN encourages using the original source's title; it just sucks).

2. You submitted the link with no comment or context about what the article was or why it might be interesting. If a headline grabs my eye, I always click on the "N comments" link and the article link to open two tabs, and I look for additional descriptive text from the submitter, or a comment from them about what they found interesting. Sometimes I read the actual article first, but if the title is ambiguous or the topic is contentious, I'll usually start with the comments tab and see if I'm going to be wasting my time before I read an article. This alone wouldn't be a reason to downvote, but if I was leaning that way, it would factor in.

3. The word "wellness" in the link's domain is a huge red flag. To me it means "this is going to be a bunch of hippie crap". Not a primary factor, but seeing that would be enough to make me dig farther and find evidence so that I could Angry Downvote something I don't want to see on HN ever, if we could downvote. Yes, this is petty.

4. The very top of the linked article says "Click here to make an appointment". This indicates spam.

5. The article is just bad. There's not much information. It's not scientific. It touches lightly on some potentially interesting things but doesn't dive into them at all, or link to better sources, and it ends with what appears to be advice and encouragement to incorporate breathing exercises, but without much information about how or what the benefit is.

It looks like spam. It's the kind of clickbait that floods my Facebook feed.
it takes a lot of computational power to secure something so important like protecting a whole digital currency. you can only make profit by creating renewable resources in bitcoin ecosystem.
You don’t even need a map UI to test the ranking algorithm. At least, simply sorting by page views is probably not ideal. Some recency bias would be useful.
Chemicals are shorthand for synthetic chemicals. We co-evolved with natural chemicals which means that they're usually not too harmful to us and get easily biodegraded.

In this case it's about PFAS, a subgroup of organofluorine compounds. There's only 5 known organofluorine compounds produced by organisms.
Absolutely; parenting young kids is awful. Luckily, I didn't really expect it to be very fun, even though I felt obligated to do a good job at it. The upshot is that parenting made me more fully mature than I would ever have become otherwise. That's an underrated aspect, imo, but I don't now many experience that.
The "Notes" feature is now live!
The sonoff line is typically pretty hackable and now has etl certification on some of their products. If recommend something like this if you want to switch mains voltage. I use tasmota, which is similar to esphome. The tasmota wiki has disassembly and flashing info. I've always used wires to flash mine but I think there's a software only flash method. The s31 can be flashed with some spring hook probes and the appropriate rs232 cable (3.3v on the data lines iirc). Some of the in wall line need a few pins soldered on (typically 4).

Tasmota has a setup package of you don't mind manually setting up each device. You can also configure them with code if you learn a little c and platformio. At this point, I batch my devices and flash them with wires for initial configuration (Wi-Fi, mqtt, etc), then run updates wirelessly using an http server on my network and mqtt to coordinate.

Side note, the esp8266 is older and less powerful than the esp32. In practice, the esp8266 can't handle https but the esp32 can. This has never been an issue for me and most of my devices are 8266.
So what is the impact of this proposed EPA ruling on ordinary people disposing of ordinary household items like those you describe? Will we all need to have hazmat plants installed in our sewage lines? Will we no longer be able to wash our clothes in washing machines? Will we have to segregate all our trash and pay for our community to have a hazmat disposal truck come around along with the regular trash truck?
> You can perform any computation you like in a single pass if you have enough compute time.

You can't perform _any_ computation. A single forward pass through a neutral network can perform many classes of computation, and it can _approximate_ all... but that's not a guarantee that the approximation will be good (and there's classes for which the approximation is pretty much guaranteed to be bad).
To put this in perspective, according to Macrotrends on GDP per capita (not adjusting for purchasing power parity, I assume) China is now at the point that the US was in 1980, and in 2014 was at the place the US was in 1974.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/gdp-...

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/gdp-per-capi...
It looks to me like the government has gotten it's money's worth and then some from their transactions with his companies. Whatever his personal antics, I can't think of any instance his companies haven't delivered whatever the government has asked of them. Perhaps we should separate the services his companies provide from the man himself. If he stops delivering, the government can look elsewhere.
You did not address the parent's point at all and instead made a pathetic attempt at deflection with a strawman. Both Netflix and Netflix customers benefit, in the form of lower electricity bills, if either find a way to use energy more efficiently. And since you can only spend 24 hours a day watching TV, the increased efficiency can only be offset by increased consumption to a minimal extent.

Bitcoin has no incentive to do this, and no ceiling on consumption, since any efficiency gains just get plowed straight into increased mining, and so energy consumption can only ratchet up, forever. Address that claim, please.
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on a Mac, one can 'brew install qrencode' (from https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/index.html.en)
You don't understand. The people that SpaceX beat out for launch contracts because they were too expensive were not grifters!

Only the company that did better work for less is guilty of being a grifter. /s
And sweave is built on noweb :)
I mean, that's part of it, but if look at the quality of some of the analogies being made on this thread, "objectively not smart" on its own is clearly not sufficient to cause a firestorm.
Change of scenery. Run into the neighbors. See what's available IRL but not on-line (daily specials, etc.). Exercise. Fresh air --for various levels of "fresh". See what's new on the high street.
How many times does the author slit a kids throat?

Yeah, we must have read different stories.