skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hyper-enshittification stages look like:

1. People get on the web and make real content with care because they're just excited to share stuff with each other.

2. Advertisers talk them into putting some ads on their pages so they can get some compensation for their work.

3. Shitty people figure out you can just make content where the main incentive is to get people to go to the page and see the ads.

4. Those people then outsource writing the content to the lowest bidder.

5. The lowest bidder becomes an LLM.

6. Search engines cut out the middle-man entirely and just send your search query to an LLM, stuff some ads in, and show the result to the user without ever hitting the web (except to periodically scrape it for model training).

7. Because of 6, people stop putting new content on the web at all. The models get shittier and stupider with regards to current events.

8. To counter that, LLM companies make deals with news organizations and other primary source information provides and pay them to have direct access to content to train their models.

9. Those organizations get such a large fraction of their income from those deals that eventually they get out of the business of giving human readers direct access to it because it's not worth the effort. Newspapers become B2B companies.

10. The only way to get information is via a handful of giant tech companies sitting on top of huge LLMs saying who-knows-what trained on a slurry of actual information and giant piles of ads.

I hope that somewhere in the process people start to get tired of talking to machines all day and hop off the ride entirely and starting calling up their friends and getting information the old fashioned way.

The only consolation I have is the belief that people have a deep seated desire to connect to actual humans and know the real truth about the world.
Diamonds used to be finite. Now, we can make as many as we want.

Jewelry companies are trying their best to convince people that there’s a difference between lab-grown and “natural” diamonds.
Do you mean how long this system can last for the world, or for the US? I would be surprised if this system lasted 15 more years in the US.
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Sure, after fees and expenses..
A lot of smaller countries get bailed out by large countries and when the small countries go down only a small % of people and next to nothing of humanity is impacted.

US defaulting on its debt is likely going to be a far bigger problem than climate change or a small war. It also sets entire humanity back by decades.
Indeed, and they’re at 2.87T today… Built largely on differentiated high-margin products, which is not how I would describe OpenAI. I should clarify that I’m a fan of both companies, but the reality is that OpenAI’s business model depends on how well it can commoditize itself.
> Also the hate on Arena is bizarre - it’s not perfect but it is polished and works well on (at least) iPhone PC and Mac.

The hate against arena isn't due to lack of polish or it not working well, it's about what it's trying to do. It's not about collecting or trading cards anymore it's about opening as many loot boxes (packs) as possible.

MTGA let you purchase specific cards, Arena does not and likely never will. That isn't an oversight, that's a conscious choice to get people to spend money on buying more digital packs. That's a big reason it gets hate.
> They were later released from zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org

It's like zombo.com, except you can't do anything, until it releases you? :p
Except 24 years ago you didn't need Cisco to write HTML. Your analogy is not correct and it tells me you didn't bother to read my edit.

I really shouldn't have to explain how this bubble ends.
I think the hook is the same with loot boxes, gacha and booster packs. You pay money for the thrill of not knowing what you are going to get. For some people that thrill is addictive, so they keep spending more money for that brief moment of excitement.

From my perspective the idea of a game being compelling because of the mystery doesn't work with PvP because the fundamental mechanic pushes people to learn the meta so they can win. If the original goal of Magic was to allow people to feel the wonder of discovery, either it should have been a PvE game with a GM, or the booster packs actually are a core mechanic that provide the thrill of the unknown, in which case the game was structured from the start to make money.
because once Bot_J and Bot_Q are discovered to be bots, then everyone they've authenticated suddenly needs new people to vouch for them.

problem is, how do you figure out someone's a bot? Ah well maybe someone will make an AI tool for that, we humans are too busy doing groceries and putting round cubes into square holes.
What causes it to collapse?
No they're for professional interaction. I don't go on calls and send emails to discuss social aspects of life. I do it to get the job done.
You can also use a ZFS or BTRFS snapshot that gets restored in the initramfs, discarding your changes. That's a common approach for people doing this on NixOS.
The question makes no sense. You've just asked me whether I plan to walk off the eastern or western edge of the planet.

Why did you choose that username?
You're assuming that LLMs will boost spam and scams more than LLMs will tone them down by marginalizing them automatically. I have the opposite view. SMTP spam used to be mostly unavoidable, then one day it was not.

IMO, the number of engineers and moderators needed to offset one scammer is about to take a huge dive.
> Even those are really having to fight bots though.

We recently released a closed-system, iOS-only app, that has a fairly rudimentary, privacy-first system of user registration. It is currently restricted to the US and Canada.

Each signup request is manually vetted. There is no automatic registration. The app is designed for a specific demographic, and we do our best to ensure that new accounts are real people, that fit the demographic.

This is an iOS-only app (free), restricted to the North American continent, and with no accessible server API. The server is a bespoke server, and has no connections or dependencies that we don't control.

We are flooded with bots, and, most likely, scammers. So far, they have been pretty easy to spot, but that could change.
I was disappointed that my typical PIN for low security things like the snack storage closet at work, 2112, isn't there. I figured there would be more Rush fans than there are I guess.
The equation to rank links is a poor substitute for an editor. Editors used to be the gateway of information that was disbursed via newspaper, radio, and TV. They were not without fault. So what is the least faulty filter? (Even your own brain, eyes, and ears are faulty, sorry perfectionists.) You cannot trust video or audio now due to deepfakes. What can you trust as a source of information more than 50%?

There's still information in the noise, you have to become your own editor.
I am not so impressed with the Turing test. The ability to listen actively and change the subject when your are over your head will get you pretty far in conversation.
and that will really turn on the hyperinflation tap.
Yes, but you still don't have the front of the brain yet. that's the key.
Starting something without a very good plan or being unable to execute on it is a sign of bad judgment.
i thought we were still pretending russia was behind the nordstream attack
I pay for Kagi and I have to say it's so worth it. Very fast and no more trash result, a lot of customizability, filters, lenses, etc. They even have an incentive to make my searches worth while since I pay a flatrate.
It's not necessarily that Google or whoever is doing it on purpose. It might just be that Google gets lazy because rhe money is still coming in. Or the psychiatrist, chiropractor, etc actually believes they are helping you and feel they can continue to be useful (or don't want to turn you lose too early in case of a bad consequence). There's all sorts of unintentional stuff that can still result in a bad outcome that seems predatory.
I'll take that bet. I don't even think we'll see an attempt at the federal government being fiscally responsible for another 15 years (though I do suspect things will get better in the late 2030s).

Either way the US will be fine barring something stupid maneuver like embracing modern monetary theory.
2051, assuming nothing changes. That's probably not a good assumption to make, though.
I think you're idolizing perhaps.

There's no doubt Ilya is highly respected in the field, but not to the same extent as Albert Einstein is in physics.

Maybe with time, but certainly not today.
Those are all explicit privileges given to the guest. You can also "escape" from a VM if you give it access to the Docker daemon on the host...

It's like saying "2 ways to escape an unprivileged user account: 1. type su then the root password, or 2. convince the admin to setuid your shell"
>Your rabid fanaticism

Recognizing value isn't "Rabid fanaticism" lol.
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The U.S. is limited by the productive capacity of the nation. The government can’t command output that doesn’t exist by printing money.

It can, however, crowd out private investment and redirect the country’s resources via fiscal policy. It’s been happening for many decades and there’s really no scientific or pragmatic reason to suggest it’s somehow a fundamentally different system than it was 30-40 years ago when people were, wrongly, predicting it’s imminent demise.

If you think “it’s different this time” the burden is on you to prove why.
There's two Dominion Online games now, one from Temple Gates Games where you buy expansions, and the other one from ShuffleIt which is subscription-based.

At least the Temple Gates version honors past purchases made on Making Fun dominion, even if they came from a Humble Bundle.
The power 9 became so powerful when later on it became possible to make combo decks that could win within 5 turns
It's politics. Until relatively recently, the expectation that social media could be moderated even while acting as a "public square" (which was never a "base expectation of all social media" for anyone outside of a politically vested minority) was not controversial. Now people want to make "algorithms" illegal.
This is a nothing story. Court cases have many checkpoints along the way and this case has passed a very minor checkpoint that is almost always passed. The real meat is yet to come.
> Is it collusion if everyone is shopping their competitors prices?

Not at all! Competitors are free to publish their prices, to whoever they want, for loads of reasons, but colluding to raise prices isn't allowed. Realpage advertised this as a pricing cartel as a service though.

Prices for rent used to be much more negotiable than they are today, in part because of Realpage. From personal experience, landlords before Realpage were more willing to take a lower offer on something that had been vacant a while. But maybe they should have kept it vacant if they knew they were already the best price for similar accomodations.

>and might I add, imagine this algorithm is possibly “the most perfect algorithm at generating positive rent growth” to which there is no improvements possible...

A perfect algorithm with global knowledge is what the act is trying to prevent, because tilts the market entirely in favor of supply against demand. Same effect as a monopoly, which is why it's illegal.

A lot of this stuff was hashed out in cases around a hundred years ago, by people who tried and failed similar hope-theres-a-loophole arguments, and there are plenty of loopholes they could've hid behind, but instead:

"According to the complaints, RealPage’s own marketing materials make clear that it “utilizes the competitive data” of competitors, to allow those competitors to “outperform the market,” As RealPage allegedly put it, it offered clients “the ability to ‘outsource daily pricing and ongoing revenue oversight’ to RealPage,” allowing RealPage to “set prices for its clients’ properties ‘as though we [RealPage] own[ed] them
ourselves.’”
Probably, but by far the most likely scenario is a decade or more of persistently high inflation as bondholders (i.e. your pensions and retirement accounts) and normal people are pick-pocketed to bring down the nominal debt load.
A lot longer than people are probably expecting. Fears of the debt are nothing new yet the US keeps defying the odds.
If that is the goal, then this course of action may be counterproductive. Military service may increase the sense of entitlement among youths, who will still face unemployment after the training is over.
I heard a different variant of this, which is that Jim Koch the brewer at Sam Adams is a functioning alcoholic who drinks a lot throughout the day. The yogurt and yeast is an unrelated thing that he claims to work.
"pay-to-win"

Yah, good luck with that. Anyone who has played competitively knows you will absolutely get stomped by a higher skill opponent even if your deck is more powerful on paper unless the discrepancy is ludicrous. Garfield made his game too well to fall to such trite criticisms...he outdid himself, its immune to his own potshots, lol
Sure, morality is subjective to an extent but not every company is Ben and Jerry’s or REI, two companies that are the poster-children of the more-ethical side of corporations.
That is heart-breaking, and will probably make me cry the next time I listen to his music.
Show HN: Miteiru, a Cantonese,Chinese,Japanese Immersion ElectronJS Video Player
Miteiru, used to be a Japanese-use only.

But now, I changed my plan from working in Japan to working in Hong Kong, I need to learn both cantonese and chinese.

Whisper 3.1 has been out, now all videos literally can be captioned, and I've been using this for a while to learn cantonese and chinese. Combine this with GPT-4o as our teacher.

Again, I'll be maintaining this app and tryna achieve all CJK supported video player!

Feedbacks are accepted!!

Sorry didn't prepare the build for linux :p You can build it by yourselves
> the engine is directly coupled to the prop.

Mildly interesting: to reverse propulsion, the engine is stopped and restarted rotating the opposite direction.
idk squealing about exponentials seems like a thing someone whose never seen a sigmoid does…
Unless of course the increase in tax revenue is greater than increase in spending.

Further, if that spending goes into the economy it can lead to more people paying even more in taxes thereby increasing tax revenue even more....
Show HN: Mimicpc.com – "Canva" for AI Apps
HI HN

Everyone knows about Canva, the massive template, open-and-use online design tool.What is Canva for AI Apps.

We just built MimicPC(https://www.mimicpc.com/?co-from=HN), a tool that runs in the cloud, where everyone can focus on AI creation without deployment, and easily use all the pre-installed AI apps and plugins in your browser for productivity and fun.

If it's just high-performance, low-cost GPUs and rich apps, you can probably find alternatives too.Is that all there is?That's not true.

We're going to be the "Canva of AI Apps", where you can share your configured AI apps, plugins, and parameters directly with anyone, and they can apply them directly to their work, so that more and more people will be influenced by you to use AI apps directly without difficulty.I'll be bringing this capability this month, what do you guys think?

Now I'd like to start a campaign where I'll add N new apps every week, suggest the ones you want, give me the address of the app, and I'll let you see and use them quickly.
My point is the real difference is the implementation of the three libraries. It's not a fundamental platform difference.
The Real ID Deadline Will Never Arrive
I’m old enough to remember reading articles during the Clinton presidency that were handwringing over what would happen if the U.S. paid off all national debt and there were no more treasury bonds to purchase. Seems like a parallel timeline now.
I wonder whether this was inspired by https://xkcd.com/26/. (I'm guessing not since there's no mention of it. But it's a nice coincidence.)
The internet is the largest and most elaborate monument to marketing we may ever build.
The core patents have already expired.

AFAIK manufacturing e-ink displays is still difficult.

I also have worked with e-ink displays for hobby projects and you’re flipping tiny balls of ink. Unfortunately e-ink displays are extremely slow and it only gets worse if you want colors or anything you might want in a display. E-ink displays look cool and sound cool but really suck to work with.
https://archive.ph/w2oC2
> The only future of the internet is, sadly, proof-of-person and proof-of-residence on every public network interaction.

I'm going to be that pedant and point out that the Internet is not the same as the Web, and it's the Web that's sick. The Internet is fine.

It's a distinction that matters because the Internet is expensive things like satellites and undersea cables. It's an investment that's too large to just walk away from, so perhaps its future is our future.

The Web is just a bunch of conventions about how to use the Internet, it's not binding in any way. We can write a different protocol without laying new cable, we can make it less profitable for abusers, and then we can abandon the sick version that we're currently using.
If I knew I wouldn't tell you
> this old canard comes up.

Your examples 1 & 3: I have personally witnessed those negative outcomes.

Regarding 3, A/C repair shops (drain system first, then discuss pricing) and transmission shops (disassemble first, then discuss pricing) are kind of notorious for it.

And yet there are mechanics and therapists who have earned my unquestioning trust.

I've not used 2. I may have bias.
And getting people to buy into this Ponzi scheme is getting more and more expensive. Hence the ballooning interest payments. As debt reaches maturity, more and more of it will have to be refinanced at a higher “apr”, since nobody is even contemplating drawing down the principal. This could further drive up the rates.
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"Machines can appear more creative than humans when the Humanly are bored of the task and have no intrinsic motivation to do it well."
We can't. The Federal Government can. We and the Federal Government have exactly opposite incentives on this issue.
Show me any time in the past 50 years where taxes went up and the deficit went down.
That kind of verification could be off-protocol. Perhaps a reputation or incentive system could help as well.
I also run Fedora's atomic desktop (GNOME flavor) on my main desktop. It is really snappy, no frills and just works. Almost everything I do terminal wise is inside of toolbox/podman containers. If a tool is a big enough of a hassel or something I haven't tried I can create a toolbox, enter it and install deps then build/run the application.
But when there's a configuration change dpkg-configure asks you if you want the upstream one, no?
What has caused disruption in the past? Greed, I suppose.
This problem has happened many times before and will happen many times again. You should familiarize yourself with the playbook.

https://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/res2/pdf/c...

tl;dr: at some point, they will soft default. This means they stop paying high interest rates, inflation will run hot for a while, the debt will devalue, and with freshly reduced debt/GDP they they will spike interest rates to end inflation.
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In general I mean. Governments spending more, collecting less and the difference keeps growing.
Are you sure you’ve talked to their support team? Most queries are automatically redirected to their LLM bots, and I suspect even their customer service reps use their models to answer to support tickets.
The -stein timeline was so much better. I miss it.
You called the criticism "ad hominem", but your own criticism of the study lacks any substance. How about look at their method [0], and/or the method of the polls that their findings are based on [1], and justify your opinion that the design of this study is not sound.

If you can't provide concrete debunks then your complain is nothing but hot air.

[0] - https://tmb.apaopen.org/pub/a2exdqgg#s2

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20220319202108/https://news.gall...