skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it should just be called bait-and-switch.

Yeah, it's similar, but not really that.

Bait and switch is more that the advertised value is never provided.

Enshittification is more of a specific process in which the value is actually initially provided to all parties. This is generally done at a loss to the company, which is well-funded.

When, as a result, the company obtains a monopoly or nearly so, it then begins to claw back all of the value for itself. First from the end user. Then from other partners (e.g. advertisers). The end result is a shitty experience for everyone but the now very profitable company, but by then there are limited options.

Of course, that's the simplified version. Doctorow goes into a lot more detail, claiming it's a frequently run playbook in the tech industry and offering many compelling examples.
This comment feels so disconnected from reality that I can only imagine you possibly live in a bubble of EV owners. To offer my anecdotal observation, where I live, I rarely ever see an EV. Maybe a single one on the road per day, if that. Various dealerships have told me everyone getting one around the area recently has been returning them.

While on a time limited event, like a vacation, where I may need a rental car, I have no desire to sit and wait for my car to charge and waste my time, over a 45 second gas fill up. Hotels don’t universally offer charging ports (or enough of them, if it even does). EVs have a very long way to go to being generally useful for the non homeowner who doesn’t have a charging station in their own garage.
Having used emacs for over 30 years, I suggest that the first thing you'll want to learn is how to bind keys. The default keymaps for nearly everything in emacs are generally awful. Just search for "my .emacs file" or "dot emacs gist" and you'll find oodles of examples to start from.
The parent was talking about async exception in java -- like the InterruptedException . They are hard to work or reason with.
it is just a bit hypocritical that the anti-tax people, who cloak in words about small government, are opposed to a less intrusive form of government services that would also generally cost taxpayers less (since Turbotax et. al. are always steering users of their products into higher tiers they probably don't need)

"we want to make your life worse so that you align with our political goals" is generally a terrible thing to admit to out loud
This graph [1] from this thread [2] I find most interesting. Why was the FSD miles per day so constant for so long? There was almost no variation for four months soon after a beta roll out? I'm more concerned by that than a line graph from investor material not perfectly matching a marketing slide.

[1] https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/435550405_7...

[2] https://www.threads.net/@moskov/post/C5bOJYQLCft
I have an EV, no gas car and I'm super happy about that.

And yet when I needed to rent a car, I rented a gasoline one.

Why?

Because car rental is pretty much the worst case for an EV.

If I rent a car I'm likely abroad, with zero knowledge of the recharge network and often not great options in terms of costs because most are national (at least, here in Europe, only notable exception being Ionity).

I'm also likely to drive long distances, with no routine, and little planning capacity.

And whatever other reason one would pick an EV for (noise, pollution, fuel cost, one pedal drive comfort etc.) they are all negligible when applied to a 2 weeks vacation.
I don't see that removing or crippling an option a lot of users rely on improves the market, or competition.

Doesn't benefit the public? Are happy iPhone users that rely on iMessage every day including it's SMS integration not benefited, or not the public?
> Electric cars as an economic proposition have already proved themselves. That debate is pretty much over.

Have they? It seems that when rubber meets the road, so to speak, it is not a simple one-to-one replacement for gas or diesel vehicles. The day-to-day ownership is more complicated, planning your itinerary and day around sparse public charging and owning property to have at-home charging. Also, the long-term ownership, having low resale value due to the high repair costs of the electric drivetrain and low overall repairability, makes ownership a poor proposition for most average people.

Electric cars have been on the market for over a decade. Show me one that someone has kept past 200,000 miles. Meanwhile, you can find Toyotas and Hondas well past that benchmark all day on Marketplace.
I will take the wheels popping off occasionally over whatever that 8-dimentional abyss of hell that is Windows 11.
This is also how it works in Julia, where macros digest notation for einsum-like operations before compile-time. In fact the linked file's explanatory comment:

(einsum (A i j) (B i k) (C k j))
results in the the updates
A[i,j] = \\sum_k B[i,k]C[k,j],
which is equivalent to matrix multiplication.

very nearly contains the syntax used by all the Julia packages (where @ marks a macro), which is

@tensor A[i,j] = B[i,k] * C[k,j]

(using https://github.com/Jutho/TensorOperations.jl, but see also OMEinsum, Finch, and my Tullio, TensorCast.)
Where can I get a job developing software using these kinds of techniques? I had to perform a ray tracing calculation one time (before I knew what ray tracing was and was essentially deriving the same things the author is talking about) and absolutely loved working with 3D geometry and implementing it into software.

What kinds of industries should I look for to essentially work with programming math problems like this?
A bunch of high school and college kids are using our TTS APIs to run 24/7 streams of improvised SpongeBob, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Breaking Bad (wat??), and more. This stuff is all over Twitch and YouTube streaming.
Yeah, electric cars definitely don't make sense for car hire. The main advantage of electric car ownership is cheaper fuel costs long term if you charge at home overnight. That obviously isn't going to happen for a hire car, and even if it did the fuel cost of a hire car is insignificant compared to the cost of the hire itself.

On top of that, charging is still way less convenient than refueling an ICE car, and when you hire a car it's usually in a situation where you can't afford inconvenience.

I think electric cars are the future and hopefully I'll never buy an ICE car again, but car hire has got to be the last domain to transition surely?
What cats' love of boxes and squares can tell us about their visual perception
The most important factor in my learning Emacs was doing it in a room with experienced Emacs users. I really strongly recommend doing this if you possibly can. A few minutes of an experienced user shoulder-surfing while I worked, and giving advice on better ways to do things, was worth hours of self-directed study.

Get together with experienced users in person and have them watch you edit. That's it.
Vehicle rental periods are inherently time constrained. If you’re on a business trip or vacation the last thing you want to be doing is waiting for your vehicle to charge. And, you inherently also often do not have access to private charging infrastructure which means you actively have to go out of your way to find a safe and reliable charger. And you have to do this in a strange place that you don’t know. Home charging is the critical factor that makes life with an EV appealing.

Vacations are so time constrained that a huge % of ICE renters opt to just get hosed on gas up fees that rental companies charge instead of going to any ubiquitous gas station before dropping the car off. Car drop off with a flight to catch is always a race against time.
What happens when you return it with a lower charge than when you got it? Don’t you just have to pay the difference? Is that more expensive than charging it yourself?
One can only assume they want less Python in the company.
This is interesting and reminds me of the idea of “thinking in action” where insights/understanding happens while interacting with the concrete subject matter in exploration, experimentation, etc., which seems to be exactly what the author described she was doing when learning Russian or physics equations.

I don’t think that from “dull” memorization and mindless practice alone (how it was often done in school) understanding at a deeper level somehow magically happens. What I do believe is that both (“smart”) memorization and explorative/playful interaction with the subject matter (turning it upside down, interrogating it, relating it in different ways, etc.) support each other, which, after some time, creates enough structure in ones neural pathways such that deeper insight can emerge from intuition.

When we try to learn math conceptually, we focus a lot on metaphorical or contextual understanding (“what is this like?”, “how does this apply to the real world?”, etc.), which may divert attention away from the actual subject matter, which is the symbols, formulas, equations, axioms, theorems, diagrams and so on. It is all one really needs to understand.

Sometimes I read texts where the author talks about mathematical ideas in a very vague and abstract language, mystifying and obscuring it or entangling it with other subjects. But then it turns out what they write makes no actual sense in the language of mathematics, which itself is very concrete and clear. Maybe they have fallen into the trap of thinking that they knew about the subject when all they have is a broad conceptual perspective without any grounding in the actual rules of the formal system.
I’m sure that the one and only way for disabled people to participate in regular life is for you to save money on your order in sushi. How lucky for you—-cheap sushi and righteous indignation. What a delicious combo!

We would also have accepted: it’s somehow necessary to save the planet or it’s a question of racial justice.
Hacktivist group claims it infiltrated Belarus security agency
World's biggest 3D printer whirs into action
Sorry for the akshually energy, but the acronym MRSA is specifically for methicillin-resistant Staph aureus. In this context you might have meant MDR for multi-drug resistant? There's also XDR for the apocalyptic superbugs we're inadvertently breeding.
It's partly a religious thing, partly what you're used to and partly using the right tool for the job. Some programmers use debuggers as a crutch and some complex systems (e.g. that involve multiple distributed components or are timing dependent) can't be easily debugged using traditional debuggers.

EDIT: yet another factor is sometimes you may not even have access to the system you need to troubleshoot. Being able to reason about code execution without observing it is a useful skill (and still a debugger is a useful tool).
Have a look at Scala.
Why can't we resolve this with synthetic data? Just take the original statements and ask another LLM to flip around the relation, then train on both. I tried this with GPT-4 and it seems to understand the task [0]:

Me:

For each of the following relational statements, flip the relation around and generate a new statement or question answer pair.

Input: Bluey's father is Bandit

Output: Bandit's daughter is Bluey

Input: Neil Armstrong was the first person to step on the Moon.

Output: Who was the first person to step on the Moon? Neil Armstrong.

Now for the real statements:

- Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel to space

- Who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer's son? Tom Cruise

ChatGPT:

Here are the flipped relational statements:

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel to space

Output: Who was the first woman to travel to space? Valentina Tereshkova.

Who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer's son? Tom Cruise

Output: Tom Cruise's mother is Mary Lee Pfeiffer.

[0]: https://chat.openai.com/share/33eb3ee4-2094-4748-b01e-0967af...
Sounds like a hasty generalization.

If everyone carried around their own TP in this case, there would be no need for a face activated dispenser.

I propose there is probably still a reason to s** on the administrators desk, regardless of Chinese social mores regarding carrying your own toilet paper.
For a large number of people, a sense of security > avoiding soul crushing work.
Very valuable feedback, thank you, Philip!

I'm not going to defend myself regarding the "switch and bait", since the goal is 100% to get people to generate a report, and then show them just a little bit and give them FOMO-ish. The whole goal of how I designed the website is to answer the question "why not" rather than "why". However, if people feel like they have been tricked, and that they don't want to purchase the full report, just because of that, It's definitely something I need to change. ATM I feel like, you as a user don't lose much, other than 60-90 seconds of waiting (sorry), for an actual "free report", even though it's limited.

But I totally understand what you are saying, and I even agree to a certain degree.

As for the validation, I have fixed it and I think it works better now.
Why let the businesses create anything at all? Why not regulate the creation of everything?
That's interesting, but two people over a couple of weeks isn't the same as one person claiming they could build it over one weekend.
Scientific Authority and the Democratic Narrative (2020)
The 'boring phone': stressed-out Gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones
The casual violence in this article is vicerally disturbing.

I wouldn't want to say it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". I do think it is important to understand the industrialisation of violence and implications of supporting porn. This popular porn style is just clearly harmful.
So it's only a different app with a different name that serves different content?
I wonder if the economics for the rental provider don't work as well: rentals probably get in more collisions (infrequent drivers + unfamiliar environment) and that's a problem if they can't get them back on the road quickly.
> very large projects with a one-file-at-a-time architecture (this was my primary job at google, ama)

Is there any place where we could see such tools? A lot of the scripts that I write are contained in a single file, and I'm sure that there would be much to learn from seeing such project scripts. Thank you.
They're created with ThreeJS and react-three-fiber. My website is open source, you can find all of the 3D scenes here: https://github.com/alexharri/website/tree/master/src/threejs...
"Who will buy HashiCorp" was the question that everyone was asking for basically their entire existence.

Vagrant, Terraform, Vault, Consul and Nomad were just too good. HashiCorp's biggest competitor against Terraform and Vault Enterprise was their own stuff! If your platform team was even moderately competent, you had no need for any of that stuff, especially at the prices they were asking for!

Personally, I was hoping for Microsoft to acquire them.

Terraform as a replacement for ARM is _literally_ the dream, and Vault would have been a really good underlying service for Azure Key Vault.

Now that I think about it, I'd love a universe in which GitHub is Azure DevOps, TFE-but-better is Azure RM, and Vault is Azure Key Vault. Alas, that is not reality.

I want to think that Microsoft made a bid but lost out to IBM.

All that said, OpenTofu is a drop-in replacement for Terraform; nearly zero work required. I haven't tried OpenBao yet, but I presume that it's the same situation there. There's enough steam propelling them to make me think that they'll pull through for the long haul.
Secret ballot was introduced 1866 in Sweden. I think we were the third country in the world to do so.
If we're talking about a species that has exploited the resources of its star system, and done so at a scale that includes noticeably blocking the light from its star, then said economy has billions of times the energy we're currently consuming. Proportionally, the cost of an interstellar spacecraft would be less than one week of your salary.
Very much enjoyed the game :)
Ah, that problem in general I am familiar with, yes.

Tasks in Hubris are independently compiled programs, not threads in a shared context. So I don't believe that it's an issue. You don't share locks between tasks, you create a task that holds the shared resource, and have the two tasks that want to share it talk to that task, patterns like that.
Voting for one of two parties compresses the will of the people to a single bit.
"The models, in other words, do not well generalise to understand the relationships between people."

Curiously, the need to do this well - handling the quadratic complexity of a shifting set of human relationships, grudges, and alliances - is thought to be one of the things that led is to higher levels of intelligence.
Nobody provides SMS levels of interop on unrestricted internet messaging platforms because the experience sucks.

Running the IM equivalent of an open SMTP relay is a ghastly experience for users. You literally have to gatekeep because the alternative is going back to circa-2000 levels of spam.

Deep down you know exactly what would happen because we’ve all lived it with spam voice calls again recently - we’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s warranty…

Destroying a working, positive experience on the apple platform and dragging it down to 2000s level is the explicit goal for a lot of people. The pain is the point - not to bring android up but simply to tear things down and walk away.
I don’t typically get 1099s until in February. I suspect wouldn’t get you pre-filled tax forms until late March.
DEET is a repellent which is meant to keep them away, but if they land then they land. Permethrin is a pesticide so it kills. When I'm in the woods I wear outdoor clothing that's been sprayed with permethrin, but I also put a "heavy-duty" DEET repellent on my clothes and use OLE (oil of lemon and eucalyptus) on exposed skin, even though the last one might just be placebo.
Starlink competitor unveils new internet satellite
Use vim in insert mode?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11464768/3529997

Additionally, there's something called "Easy mode", started from vim -y or evim. It's a more radical departure than just starting in insert mode: it has some key bindings matching other editors', and normal-mode commands are done by hitting Ctrl+O instead of Esc. As a consequence of that, being in insert mode is the rule rather than the exception.
Since it was apparently made 9 years ago (2015), it's highly unlikely.
Simple and clean. Very nice. Loads instantly.
My guess is that the company set a goal to reduce headcount by X%, every executive was told to find some teams to cut, this team was expensive because the engineers in it were long tenured and excellent - and it caught someone's eye as a result.
Posting one story does not mean endorsing anything. I have stated this on my profile. I usually submit links I think are relevant to the tech industry.

At least one startup based in Silicon Valley I know may go bankrupt and shut down due to the tiktok ban. https://www.stan.store/
You're definitely correct. Not even only on different streaming services. Movies have different cuts too. For instance, Blade Runner has 5 different cuts
https://www.reddit.com/r/hfy/wiki/series/the_daedalus_encoun...
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3519
I’ve been an Apple user since the Core 2 Duo laptops. So something like 20 years. I’ve owned countless laptops, every other iPhone since launch, two iPads, two watches (a first gen and last year’s), two HomePods, a pair of AirPods Pro and Max, a Time Capsule, two Apple TVs, and… lord knows I’m missing multiple somethings.

The only time I’ve had to use support is when I’ve broken an iPhone screen to have it replaced.
894 comments here. similar in several posts on reddit. and only 1 review of his game on steam. shit's brutal.
Do UHS-III microSD cards actually exist?
"struggling to stay relevant" is an exaggerated editorialized title.

Sure, they're not "Numero Uno" anymore, but they're very far away from being irelevant.

If they can get a solid third place in the GPU space behind Nvidia and AMD, and a second place in the AI space behind Nvidia, and stay in third place in semiconductor manufacturing behind TSMC and Samsung, that's still a huge accomplishment considering how high the barriers to entry in these spaces are, especially for a single company.
agree plus the proliferation of cube-sats built by undergrads,, seems like conflict over this is going to happen between nations
My partner is dealing with the same thing. Could you elaborate on the eastern medicine you used to treat your case?
I also made an "ok to wake" alarm clock for my daughter :) https://cosmith.fr/projects/nightbox
What about a micrometeoroid?
If this doesn't have you looking for the door, idk what you're looking for.

Betting the company on AI, all of the tools of which are written in checks notes Python, and they think laying off all their institutional knowledge is a good idea?
it's open source! check out https://github.com/google/pytype and https://github.com/google/pytype/blob/main/docs/developers/t... for more on the multi-file runner
I'm aware of about half of those things and have the luxury of using none of them, along with zero social media except HN, which I'm alternately warm and cool on as it is. I realize I use it more when I'm feeling shaky about my sense of purpose for the day. Makes sense that I treat the symptoms with bursts of low-effort dopamine, but I usually find I'd rather have gone for a walk.
Eken fixes 'terrible' video doorbell issue that could let someone spy on you
If they break the law, sure, if they put features in their products that are perfectly legal but that you happen to dislike not so much.
"Consider this: can an mlp approximate a sine wave?"

Well, yes - we have neutral speech and music synthesis and compression algorithms which do this exceedingly well...
I once built an Arduino project that monitored one room to an sd card while we were on holidays. That allowed me (in principle) to know if the heating could be lowered a bit more during absence. The results were not conclusive.

Another thingy tried to determine where the mouse that sometimes came into another room came from, by using infrared distance sensors. Never caught anything.

What did work was a two op fm synth with midi in and audio out. I was satisfied when it worked, so I didn't go all the way of making a 4 or 6 op version with pots and buttons (or one of those horrible deep menu systems).

So nothing practical. Just toying around, trying to get a bit of knowledge about how things work and having fun at the same time.
Balaji (2021):

> Btw, I rarely post personal news on here, but I moved to Asia awhile back and will be splitting time between India and Singapore .

> Why? They are optimistic on technology, they’ve brought hundreds of millions of people online, and they both speak தமிழ் & have great dosas!

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1355088787286544384

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Meta Edit: I would just like to add that this one of the most vibrant recent discussions, with many 5 digit karma posters, and this is not a flame war.

This seems to happen a lot in the last couple years. Some of the most interesting discussions now appear to happen, post-flag. What does this mean for HN?
Amazon uses Xen which they call "Xen 2" I think because they've made tons of improvements and optimizations over the years.

Google uses kvm. They probably contribute as well although I haven't checked.

From a quick search Azure uses a private build of hyper-v which surprises me actually but it's possible.

Edit : millions of VMs doesn't mean anything, at the end of the day it's just servers each running a bunch of VM, which people have been doing for 20+ years. There is no scaling issue there, the hard part is storage, networking, orchestration, managed services, power...