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Agree on the rendering speed, I was working on some experimental visualizers in LOVE which drew lots of individual pixels. I ended up having to rewrite a bunch of it in shader language to get decent FPS. This might be true with other frameworks too though, I understand graphics are not an easy thing to just automagically optimize.

Yep, I supervise whenever possible. Also, we use NewPipe with comments and recommendations disabled. I just let him choose from a playlist of pre-approved videos.

Although not really a hobby tunneler, one of my favorite people on this list is William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, the reclusive 5th Duke of Portland who built an extensive series of tunnels under his estate. His life is fascinating. Recommended reading:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-duke-who-loved-tun...

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/portland1907/portland7.htm

Some more brainstorming:

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"Support Void", "Voiding", "Customer Voiding"

Tossing all customer support requests (and sometimes customers themselves!) into the void.

Pros: Sounds snappy and dramatic. Has humorous resonance with voiding your bowels.

Cons: Meaning not immediately clear. Sounds active when the problem is really more passive.

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"Customer Neglect", "Customer Disservice", "Customer Ghosting"

Opposite of "customer service."

Pros: Meaning is more obvious because of its relation to Customer Service.

Cons: Not quite as snappy.

I remember seeing a documentary way back in 2000 about the internet that said something like "the internet is freely accessible now, but some people believe eventually pay walls will begin to block access to more and more portions of the internet." And I thought how ridiculous, that will never happen, information wants to be free!

Well, looks like I was only partially right. Most access is still "free", but at the cost of enshittification.

To offer a counter opinion: I agree that it makes it difficult to read and serves no real purpose, but I actually kinda like it. It reminds me of the golden ages of the early net, when everybody had their own website, all with questionable but unique design choices.

I admit that the current sanitized, standardized net is probably better overall. It's certainly more accessible. But I do appreciate sites that make weird personal choices like this.

I liked how the Hard Fork Podcast compared it to Wikipedia. When Wikipedia first came out, people were up in arms about how dangerous and untrustworthy it was. Wikipedia is going to ruin society with widespread misinformation!

Then we adapted. People learned about Wikipedia's strengths and weaknesses. People use Wikipedia as a useful tool for research but don't trust it blindly. I think the same will happen with LLMs.

I wish he would stick to the historical content. These days there's too much discussion of modern issues. I guess that's fine, but not what I personally want from the podcast.

Also, the guests can be pretty hit-or-miss. Some are great, some are pretty terrible.

I agree. In addition to your theory, I think that even if protests are ineffective in the short term, they can be effective in the long term. That is, the media attention given to protests can gradually change people's thinking. But it is a very slow and subtle shift, and impossible to measure. Of course, one might argue that shifts in the zeitgeist were already happening, and protests are just a symptom. Personally I think it goes both ways, they feed into each other.

We can hope that even if the Reddit protests ultimately go nowhere, they will at least have shifted public opinion, if only slightly.

I'm the opposite. I want to like it, but it hurts my eyes to read.

I was going to comment that that the contrast between the beautiful illustrations and red blood that violently explodes when you kill the opponent is pretty funny. But then I looked up the original Jump 'n Bump and it's just as gory, if not more! Good ol' 90s games.

"Anime style" seems to be a decent compromise that is easily understood by most people, even if technically incorrect. AFAIK a similar term is often used in Japan: "アニメ風イラスト" (Anime style Illustration)

It's funny, I've noticed that this seems to be a common sentiment among the HN crowd. Maybe spending so much time with tech has made us more aware of its downsides.

> In Seattle, participating employees will gather outside the Spheres in South Lake Union Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m., organizers said.

Not much of a walkout. That just sounds like lunch break.

Interesting story, but if this story was supposed to portray Bezos as a "perfectly ordinary everyday dude", it certainly didn't give me that impression.

I had to split it up into three viewing sessions, but I thought it was worth it.

Common misconception. Japan can be very trashy, especially in big cities. It doesn't help that the government doesn't put public trash bins anywhere, supposedly because they're scared of terrorists putting bombs in them.

Even in the suburbs and countryside, people illegally dump trash all the time because they don't want to pay to dispose of it properly. Anywhere you go, you will see signs imploring, "don't throw away your trash here!" under which are mounds of trash.

It may be true that Japan is on average a bit cleaner than other countries, but not nearly so much as people seem to think.

> The Department of Justice made the unusual decision not to ask for jail time. In its sentencing memo, the government noted “the divide between [the defendants’] online personas, where they were significant, well-known, and malicious actors in the DDoS criminal milieu and their comparatively mundane ‘real lives’ where they present as socially immature young men living with their parents in relative obscurity.” It recommended five years of probation and 2,500 hours of community service.

Good to read a story where teen hackers get rehabilitated rather than heavily punished and pushed further into crime. That said, they don't really strike me as genius hackers. More just opportunistic and perpetually online.

I don't think algorithms have to be bad, there's still room for experimentation with algorithms that don't just "maximize for engagement". I'd love a platform where I could customize my own discovery algorithm.

For example, I'd like to try out algorithms that:

+ Prioritize people who post less often

+ Prioritize people with less followers

+ Prioritize posts with less engagement

+ Let me manually choose people to prioritize/deprioritize

I'm not sure any of these algorithms would actually be any good, but the point is I want the freedom to experiment. I suppose this might be theoretically possible with ActivityPub/Mastodon, but I haven't seen any implementations.

The idea is stated succinctly as Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."

The earliest instance I found of Erwin Knoll's quote is from 1982[0]. I suspect either Michael Crichton or Gell-Mann had heard this quote, which in turn influenced their discussion.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/27/us/required-reading-smith...

The Good

+ The 3D animation is cool.

+ The concept is intriguing.

The Bad

- The AI-generated story can be interesting but tends to be pretty repetitive, often getting stuck in a feedback loop that doesn't make any substantial progress. This is a common problem I've noticed with AI-generated stories.

The Ugly

- While interesting at first, the word puzzles quickly become a boring chore. They aren't particularly difficult, just busy work like solving a captcha. This is ultimately what made me stop playing, I probably would have played much longer if I didn't have to constantly solve the puzzles. More variety in types of puzzles, or at least making them appear less often would probably help.

I like the concept, but I think it deserves a better execution. Although ultimately I think interactive fiction is better when written by humans.

When I was a kid I loved these ski maps almost more than skiing itself. I would take them home and enjoy carefully looking at all the details. Never considered the man behind the maps until now.

I'm curious what these problems are. The only problem I've had with venv is that sometimes I forget to activate it.

As the article says, I think these days it's pretty safe to just use Python's built-in venv and stay away from everything else.

Yes. The real danger of AI tools is people overestimating them, not underestimating them. We are not in danger of AI developing intelligence, we are in danger of humans putting them in charge of making decisions they really shouldn't be making.

We already have real-world examples of this, such as algorithms erroneously detecting welfare fraud.[0][1]

The "pause" idea is both unrealistic and unhelpful. It would be better to educate people on the limitations of AI tools and not let governments put them in charge of important decisions.

[0] https://archive.is/ZbgRw [1] https://archive.is/bikFx

Some highrises are advertised as long-lasting, for example with "200 year concrete" and so on.[0] However, I think this is mostly marketing fluff -- if a company thinks they can make more money by tearing down a highrise and building a new one, they will not hesitate to do so, and often do. It seems that historically most highrises don't last longer than ~50 years. With new construction techniques and materials, maybe that will change.

Smaller apartments are even more ephemeral. The official service life for apartments according to the tax code[1] is only 20-40 years, depending on the construction material.

[0] https://hamatawa.com/lifespan/

[1] https://www.keisan.nta.go.jp/h30yokuaru/aoiroshinkoku/hitsuy...

I agree with most of your advice, especially "go outside" ... but I don't understand why one should "stop listening to podcasts". Do you mean stop listening to podcasts which discuss current events? Because there are plenty of good podcasts which don't.

Also, I think this is good advice even without the proliferation of deepfakes or GPT spam. I already abandoned social media in favor of small group chats and Real Life long ago, and I know I'm not alone. The only habit I still need to kick is reading too much HN. ;)

I think this is a concern not just for Copilot but for LLMs in general. It's only a matter of time before they get monetized, intentionally (sponsored results) or unintentionally (SEO spam). LLMO might be the next SEO.

Both misinformation and disinformation have been rampant since the dawn of media, yet people tend to believe everything they read. As Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy says: "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge." I doubt the proliferation of even more misinformation via AI will change that.

On the other hand, I do think that humanity always finds a way to adapt, even if it's not the most ideal way. I'm not as optimistic as you, but not as pessimistic as the doomsayers.

Somewhat fittingly, I was unable to find a reliable source for Knoll's law aside from a 1982 NY Times article[0]. Perhaps even the law itself is a fabrication.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/27/us/required-reading-smith...

Genuine question, but what makes an LLM more dangerous and requiring of censorship than a search engine? Search engines are perfectly happy to serve "unsafe" material with the right search terms.

Also, if the goal is to ensure the LLM "thinks" in a "safe" way under the hood, the current methods seem insufficient, as jailbreak prompts show it's not really changing the underlying model. Feels more like slapping a band-aid over the problem.

> front ends independent of any of the existing frameworks that exist today, which I think is probably controversial

Not sure controversial is the right word, in fact I think it is quite a common sentiment among developers, especially those that originally come from back-end. The only problem is finding a company that is willing to forgo the frameworks.

They do exist though. Here's a short list of companies that use vanilla JavaScript, most notably GitHub and Netflix:

https://gomakethings.com/companies-that-use-vanilla-js/