skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enshittification does not apply to platforms only. It applies to products, services, companies alike. Even beloved foods and snacks. Quality nosedives, people abandon the product, MBAs act all surprised "how? why would consumer turn their nose to our more expensive, shittier, new "improved" taste offering"?
As far as I'm concerned he typed it out right after the events and scheduled it to be released later, that is now.
Ceylon Revolutionizing AI Collaboration with Multi-Agent Frameworks
What are your thoughts on "VanillaJSX" which was on ShowHN recently, and is a part of:

https://code.immaculatalibrary.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269321
> Why would the number of posts matter?

Scale matters. Everyone on HN knows this.

Why would the Biden Admin have a right to lean on FB to censor true and important information?

"We need you to censor this false [read: true] information from your 3 billion users, because reasons" - not a very defensible position.

By the way, I've advocated for tearing Meta apart and putting it in global public ownership for years, partly because of their acceptance of over-censorship. There's such a thing as public responsibility, and Meta has repeatedly failed. I said so here, just yesterday.

I'm 100% fine with Meta and others censoring some things: drug sales, scams (I wish they would!), and worse.

But censoring scientists trying to say true things of a devastating pandemic, or minimize the harms from terrible policy? Censoring discussion of stories that politicians find embarrassing? Censoring the word "Zionist"??!! That's indefensible.

Again, there's a basic responsibility there; whether enshrined in law or not, and whether the law is enforced or not. Allowing a platform used by nearly half all people on Earth to warp our collective understanding of issues up to and including war, plague, genocide and famine is unacceptable, whether by government "request" or not.
Yeah.... no it's really not overblown.

It is a serious problem when these tools are being pushed as trustworthy when they are anything but.

On an almost daily occurrence I deal with some sort of hallucination in code, in summarizing something, we see it constantly on social media when people try to use Google's AI summary as a source of truth.

Let's not try to lie to push an agenda about what the capabilities of what these models can do. They are very powerful, but they make mistakes. There is zero question about that, and quite often.

The problem isn't that they hallucinate, the problem is that we have comments like yours trying to downplay it. Then we have people that, it is right just enough times that they start trusting it without double checking.

That is the problem, it is right enough times that you just start accepting the answers. That leads to, making scripts that grab data and put it into a database without checking. It's fine if it is not business critical data, but it's not really fine when we are talking about health care data or.. oh idk, police records like a recent post was talking about.

If you are going to use it for your silly little project, or you're going to bring down your own companies infrastructure go for it. But let's not pretend the problem doesn't exist and shove this technology into far more sensitive areas.
Appreciate them releasing it. I was expecting System prompt for "artifacts" though which is more complicated and has been 'leaked' by a few people [1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/dedlim/6bf6d81f77c19e20cd40594aa09e3...
Looks like the Mac cheese grater now has serious competition.
Wait, they do it for Apple Corp??
Reasons not to be used by Facebook [2011-2019]
I realize this is a very preliminary study but 19 individuals is a very low sample size
This has nothing to do with Telegram.
Wouldn't it have been more useful to merge duplicates?

Even framing the same question in different ways is useful. If someone posts a Duplicate, adding that to a list of "alternative questions" that is collapsed by default on the original post might have been a better approach.

It also takes away the whole "your question is worthless" dynamic that closing a question raises.
> Let others say the wrong thing on your platform, be it advocating against a narrative or revealing evidence of war crimes, and you can be tortured.

Do you have any examples of this happening?
Is this some sort of joke?

Try comparing 1924 to 1974. Jets, supersonic flight, nuclear energy, satellites, computers, man on the moon

We’ve got video games. lol
FreeBSD has good ZFS support, and nice package update cycle (quarterly + ongoing security updates), halfway between rolling release and point release, coppled with the stable "core" part of the system.

Hardware support is shitty, even worse than OpenBSD, and it tells a lot. 12th-gen Intel integrated video driver is scheduled to appear only in September 2024.
That and the always changing crates required since the std lib was anemic and the stupidily long compilation time.

But I must admit that Cargo and clippy were nice and lifetime are easier to understand than when using std::move in c++ is required vs when it's implicit.

But really what made me abandon learning Rust is Nim. My first Nim program I made a small maze game in about 200 lines.

Also the fact that I now mostly program recreationally since I pivoted from software development to infrastructure ( my title is system analyst) at a research University (absolute job security is really nice). Software development at that institution was getting to political to my taste and I like to play with nice hardware!
I have a lot of 220V circuits. One is like 80A and powers a whole building. Also, almost all power comes into a home as 220V single phase from the local power distribution.

Water heater, heat pumps, stove, dryer, hot tub, etc are all 220.
Not working. The other day I uninstalled Skype from my cell because some group chat notifications had gotten past tolerable.

August is a sanctuary. It's the only thing I can hold every day of the rest of the year against Tech's meaninglessness. It's when I can read and do what I want instead of what I must.
If you can drill that deep, go deeper and use the free planet-mass fission reactor in the Earth's core.
While logged out (on desktop at least), all I see is the single linked post with no other content, no ads, no popups. The worst is a couple of sign in/up buttons on the right side and a banner on the bottom of the screen asking me to log in. It's actually pretty great.
Cliopatria: A database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE
OCI Containers for FreeBSD – Doug Rabson, FreeBSD Project [video]
I need to ask where exactly do you see that?
How will ChatGPT handle new languages and technologies that don’t have a wealth of old human generated content to train on? Is it smart enough to read the docs and figure it all out?
I have no idea why someone would use one now. In the mid-90’s it was pretty much the only practical cross-language way to create dynamic web content. Someone certainly could have written their CGI program as a separate web server, but:

1. proxy support was limited or non-existent in the main webservers that existed at the time, so routing the request over would have been a problem.

2. there were no frameworks to speak of to make any of this easier. CGI.pm would help parse and decode GET and POST data. That was just about all there was. There was no PHP (as it exists now,) no Rails, no http frameworks like actix-web. Nothing.

“Inefficient and prone to break” is an excellent description of CGI. Most practical people moved away from as quickly as possible.
It's actually pretty fast if written in a lean language like C/rust. See "cgit" for a good example. And if you want to distribute a program which talks HTTP, it's kind of the obvious choice - the alternative is each program packing it's own HTTP server, which needs a reverse proxy/SSL in front of it anyway.
Can’t find the claim about the statement not being political anywhere in the linked article. But there’s this:

> Meta’s CEO aired his grievances in a letter Monday to the House Judiciary Committee in response to its investigation into content moderation on online platforms

Sounds like he wasn’t the initiator of the discussion, but I may be misreading the paragraph.
We've also seen instances where visible "clumping" in a galactic disc correspond to differences in the rotation curves, which dark matter can't really explain. But this is still a topic of much debate.

However, there's lots of good evidence for dark matter besides rotation curves of galaxies. For instance, models of galactic formation work a lot better with it than without it (without dark matter, as galaxies coalesce, they get hot and the pressure keeps the gas apart and makes star formation really hard).

We also see the Bullet Cluster, where two galaxies collided/passed through each other. The gas and dust has been slowed down from collisions, but the dark matter has passed right through. We know this from the gravitational lensing. The lensing happens around the mass of the galaxy, but with the bullet cluster, the lens is off to the side where there is no normal matter, because the dark matter kept going when the regular matter slowed down.

In other words, we have some really good evidence for dark matter, but there's a few things going on here and there we can't explain.
really fun to play! very creative game! thank you :)
Where to even begin.
1. Temperature - The higher the temperature difference, the faster the loss of heat. How will the steam maintain it's energy (temp) in that long pipe.
2. Drilling each borehole is no small feat, and uses lots of energy and materials, all of which have associated embodied energy costs. Is is really worth it once all that work is done?
3. Geothermal. Interesting analogy, why not just use that instead. Boom, no additional radioactivity required.
This whole things sounds very Rube Goldberg machine like.
Apple adopted such a constraint-based system about 10 years ago in iOS and macOS. It's called Auto Layout.

It's powerful but not trivial to adopt. In particular, the design experience in Interface Builder has gone backwards in usability. The old system of resizing rules visualized as "springs and struts" was easier to understand in a visual design tool.

One might argue that's the cost of progress, and that designers using Interface Builder become better UI engineers when they have to figure out how to express themselves in constraints. But it seems to me that the reality is that a lot of people just stopped using IB.

IB used to be a crown jewel of NeXT's development suite in the 1990s. It was simple and focused, and allowed you to build surprisingly powerful UIs that connected to high-performance native code (unlike its mainstream competitor Visual Basic).

I don't think a lot of people have such fond feelings about Apple's current IB. Something was lost along the way.
That is some interesting data analysis.
Genetics can predict height, cancer risks, neuropsychiatric diseases but not IQ?
Hmm... you could probably still do a powered flyby though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect

This is different from a normal gravity assist. Close to a black hole the gravitational field would be quite strong, making this potentially very powerful.
Tax is a cost.

If a government spends more than it takes in, in taxation, the difference has to come from somewhere, and invariably, it comes via inflation.

The choice to spend more than the governemnt has, is a choice, and is imposed, so is a tax.
Good ol local disk
> I suppose it's human nature ...

It's pretty simple, the different realities like you said. People consume and trust different streams of information (for a whole bunch of reasons). Your info stream probably told you that people were gobbling horse goo and aquarium cleaner and dying by the droves, while threatening your grandmother, and you believed it because the sum total of your experience told you that was the most believable of the options.

Other peoples experiences led them to believe sources saying that there was a thing called ivermectin that sees use in agriculture but also in billions of human doses as an antiparasitic that seems to be helping against covid (and that big corporations are not to be trusted).

There are life stories behind each of these perspectives. Many people with either of these perspectives had never heard of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine before their media of choice started praising or condemning them. Then suddenly they were experts.

I never took any of it. Was that the right decision? It seems to have worked out at least. I do try to avoid the trap of thinking any of the stuff blasted out by the media corporations, at no cost to you, has any other purpose than to get you to 1) vote a certain way or 2) buy a certain product, or 3) support some forever war. The news corps aren't just generously informing you - there has to be an ROI.
Slack and Spotify if needed in a Linux Jail, yes to Games (Proton or Linuxlator or native), maybe to Wifi and BT.

Read my comment two steps down the line (bhyve-vm etc).
To be fair, that's a common practice even when it comes to non edible products (for example, coming from a petrol producing country, I grew up hearing every now and then about OPEC having decided to reduce petrol production to raise prices)
https://www.bastillepost.com/global/article/4076639-japans-r...

"Japan's rice stockpile has dropped to its lowest level in this century due to a prolonged heatwave in 2023 and rising domestic demand, causing concerns among residents about high prices."
I never got around to grinding enough karma points on there so that the platform will let me actually engage with it. Since I can't post answers or even vote on things, there's not a lot of reason for me to bother logging in. As a result I just mooch off what I find and leave.

I can't be the only one. Their walled garden kept me out.
Show HN: Talk to todoist to create and manage tasks
Picasa -> Photos was actually a new thing, right? Photos is cloud-hosted while Picasa was a program you installed on your computer and had web-sharing abilities.

Google Talk was the original one, then transitioning to Hangouts, while Allo and Duo were created too (I supposed to compete with Apple's iMessage and FaceTime), which also died, and finally we got to today with Google Chat and Google Meet.
Because most households in the US might have maybe 3 breakers setup this way, all of which are likely running critical infrastructure already.

Most folks aren’t going to unplug their water heater to turn on their AI.
Somewhere up to $5 million, according to this r/AskEngineering thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/1dfzwxd/estim...
The most precise timekeeping device ever built
My absolute favorite is when the model will tell you why something should be one way, but in the same message confidently tell you it is the other way.

I had a situation where I was playing around with having it right a quick method for me. I gave it the specs it needed to work with and the other methods it will call.

Basically, it wrote calling one of the methods with the wrong (missing) arguments. When I asked it to fix that call, it first said its current call was right but then when it went to explain it (in the same message), it pointed out that a certain missing argument was required to be passed in.

I have seen similar situations with these models looking at data time and time again. It theoretically sees it, but once that wrong data (the first failed interpretation) is part of its context it's basically all over.
You are responsible for curating your "For You" tab by following/liking-posts-of/replying-to-posts-of/muting/blocking/unfollowing the right accounts.

Once I accepted that my "For You" tab got much better.
That other definition doesn't really seem to fit either, but I acknowledge that if they had used a different word ("adopted a bigger breed" or "popularized a bigger breed" or something) then it would fit with the anecdote.
With Telegram I do not have to worry about losing my "primary" device in order to access my account. Telegram is more a social network than a chat app. Moreover Telegram does not require me to feed it my whole Contact List in order to communicate. WhatsApp has this limitation on purpose (there actually are workarounds but they are "hacks" and not how Meta wants you to use the app). It is very suspicious: why can't I search for a WhatsApp contact by manually typing in a number into WhatsApp? Instead I need to put it inside my Contact App and grant WhatsApp full access to it. LOL
Most people also don't want their opinions to be silenced or used against them either.

As for limits, I think by now we have collected enough data from social media use to know what kinds of posts border on outright immoral and are a negative to society. Some of these have been captured and prohibited by law. It wouldn't be that hard to use the existing laws and norms as a test bed.

But again some people don't want free speech because they are afraid their feelings may be hurt in an exchange. Mostly boils down to that.
> Tax is a cost

Not all costs are taxes…

> If a government spends more than it takes in, in taxation, the difference has to come from somewhere, and invariably, it comes via inflation

Governments spent more than they earned before fiat currencies. They made up the difference by borrowing. Borrowing isn’t fundamentally inflationary; this is trivial to show with commodity money.

> choice to spend more than the governemnt has, is a choice, and is imposed, so is a tax

Every commemorative bill is a government choice. That doesn’t make National Talk Like a Pirate Day a tax proposal [1].

Consider the implications of your definition. Every cost and every government choice is a tax. At this point, taxes are so naturally occurring as to make the word meaningless.

You get a pay raise? A tax on your employer! Tesla stock goes up? Musk is taxing you! Governor went on a walk instead of driving? Taxation! Cat got sick? Mittens is taxing me with vet bills!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pi...
This seems like a strange use of money, surely? Nothing against FreeBSD, but Linux is where most of the focus already is. People using FreeBSD are doing so due to preference or legitimate need due to their software somehow specifically being BSD dependents.

Not that this isn't 'nice', but is that the goal here? I would have thought it would make more sense to put this money toward something underfunded but still useful for the government.
"which allows games like Stardew Valley to run, but it is not enough for other more serious Linux games"

Hey! ;-)
Instead I see "Something went wrong" and underneath "Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com".

I guess it must be great to be tracked by Elon Musk's minions in exchange for some entertainment.
Drilling deep into the planet for power just reminds me of Doom.
Signing Coupons to Prevent Fraud
Is this really preventing users from using old hardware? Are old devices being bricked?

Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see drivers getting open sourced when they're going out of support, but on its own, not doing so isn't preventing people from using old hardware in most cases.

In any case, in your opinion, does a successful hardware product have to open-source its drivers and specs at EOL? Is any other hardware product a failure by that metric?
I think the 1600 number is a coarse metric for this sort of thing. Keep in mind that these instructions are limited in the number of formal parameters they can take: e.g. 16 nominally distinct instructions can be more readily understood/memorized as one instruction with an implicit 4-bit flag. Obviously there's a ton of legacy cruft in Intel ISAs, along with questionable decisions, and I'm not trying to take away from the appeals of RISC (e.g. there are lots of outstanding compiler bugs around these "pseudoparamaterized" instructions). But it's easy to look at "1600" and think "ridiculous bloat," when in reality it's somewhat coherent and systematic - and more to the point, clearly necessary for highly performance-sensitive work.
Teacups and Demons Help Demystify Physics
"Talk about mud flaps
My gal's got 'em."
It’s a tax on anyone who has cash or the equivalent.
Yes, but most homes don't have extra 220v outlets except for the ones provided for the specific appliances that need them.

So if you want to plug in a device like this "tinybox" at home, it's going to be a lot easier to find two separate 110v outlets on different circuits than to have a new 220v circuit added, or to unplug your stove every time you want to use it.
Maybe a bit of a stupid question, but wouldn't it have been enough to just buy the domain and then configure a redirect to the old domain?
> Obviously the likes of Juniper, NetApp, Sony, Netflix, &c., know something you don't.

Or there was no advantage and it was just the preference of the person designing the architecture.
For those curious, for all of history, mankind has probably only dug a few dozen or so holes a mile deep or deeper. It’s not easy
Battery prices have only dropped low enough to make it cheap very recently. Of course there's not much built yet. It's the rate of build that matters, and the rate of increase of the rate of build.
I don't have anything to sacrifice. I'm single, no children, no wife and not looking for one, and the work I'm doing is also my hobby.
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China's export curbs on semiconductor materials stoke chip output fears
https://archive.is/KjatF
> Slack and Spotify if needed in a Linux Jail, yes

Ha, just after you last said:

> That's funny because i don't even know a reason to use Linux these days.

Well, there's one reason to use Linux, lol - to run all the apps on BSD that BSD doesn't support.
Don't know on what version of Sublime you are but the newest release has indexing built-in and it works really well.
minor pedantry: 50 years ago was the mid 1970s, and there was a not insignificant amount of concern about gender and sexuality back then (especially in my college town). 50 years before that would be the 1920s, and although I wasn't around then, I believe the suffragettes in those days (would we guess Mary Olive Byrne to have been one?) had had their concerns as well.

Lagniappe: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eine_Frau_ohne_Mann_ist_wie_ei...
https://archive.ph/13S4l

I bet if you asked someone in 1948 what current event was going to screw up the world for 100 years or more, the testing of nuclear weapons might have been on their list.
I agree.

I complained about this in the past.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489594

Platform decay is a much better word and makes sense.

Even as I type this ‘enshittification’ word my device wants to autocorrect it, I don’t care if it’s purposely made for shock value, I wish ‘enshittification’ was never coined or added to any dictionary nor should be ‘word of the year’.

Again, should this word continue to permeate in the English vocabulary, people will be saying it on the radio, TV where by law swearing is not allowed to be broadcast.

All it takes is a freudian slip.
I think Google did this to protect their users from snooping. If they have everybody's timeline on their servers, governments can request that information. And governments like to do that:

https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...
I think that speaking to a larger culture issue and reputation for the site.

I never asked a question on SO, though I used it as a reference often. I had this idea in my head that to ask a proper question that wouldn’t get moderated away or obliterated by the community, I would have to spend significant time and energy researching how to ask appropriate questions, and provide a bunch of supporting details that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that I did my due diligence before asking.

I guess at the end of the day this means I didn’t actually _need_ to ask a question, but also means some useful discussions and interesting answers to problems I solved, that I’m sure others have, don’t haven’t answers out in the wild.