timmytokyo

If you want to remove public funding for public broadcasting, do it through the US Congress. The president does not have this authority.

I'm sure his replacement will be so much better. /s

I think this is an important point. It's easy to lose track of just how bad search has gotten over the years because the enshittification has been so gradual. The replacement of search by AI is capturing so many people's imaginations because it feels like the way google felt when it first came around.

If AI replaces search, I do wonder how long before AI becomes just as enshittified as search did. You know google/OpenAI/etc will eventually need to make this stuff profitable. And subscriptions aren't currently doing that.

Actually it kind of is. View the "active" page to see.

Here are some recent HN posts that have been flagged into oblivion:

>Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send 'No Confidence' Signal (wsj.com)

>Trump's Fed Attacks, Trade War Push World to Sell Off US Assets (bloomberg.com)

>White House plagued by Signal controversy as Pentagon in "full-blown meltdown" (arstechnica.com)

>An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here's how to survive. (nytimes.com)

>The Crypto Con: How Trump Is Looting America from the Oval Office (mitchthelawyer.substack.com)

>RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans (cbsnews.com)

HN is its community, and the community is speaking loud and clear about its allegiance.

Ask yourself who runs this web site.

It's burning cash. Lots of it.

[0] https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the...

I love that: "personalist protocol". What an anodyne way to describe a kakistocracy.

Right, because lifespans were notoriously longer 1000 years ago.

This guy wasn't flying in a private jet with a professional, hired pilot. He was flying himself in a propeller-driven Mooney M20.

s/company/monopoly/

I'm old enough to remember a time when you "owned" the content that you purchased. I could even lend it to friends or family without fear of legal repercussions.

Now our corporate overlords own everything they produce, even after you buy (sorry, I mean rent) it.

Rationalism has a number of characteristics typical of cults.

1. Apocalyptic world view.

2. Charismatic and/or exploitative leader.

3. Insularity.

4. Esoteric jargon.

5. Lack of transparency or accountability (often about finances or governance).

6. Communal living arrangements.

7. Sexual mores outside social norms, especially around the leader.

8. Schismatic offshoots.

9. Outsized appeal and/or outreach to the socially vulnerable.

And yet so many cults and politically extreme movements seem to originate out of the LessWrong-o-sphere. Strange, that.

What kind of political leftist would you say resonates most acutely with Scott Alexander's January paean to the scientific racism of Emil Kirkegaard and Richard Lynn ("How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates")?

The inability of executive agencies to create regulations will extend beyond one presidential administration. Given that conservative administrations tend to favor cutting regulations anyway, this jurisprudence will likely impact liberal administrations more than conservative ones.

Even if they implemented the feature with opt-in permissions, why would you trust this company to honor your negative response to the opt-in?

Just a couple years ago, numerous people (including here) were ridiculing Blake Lemoine, the fired Google AI engineer, for seeing "sentience" in an LLM. Now it seems nearly everyone has become Blake Lemoine.

It's fascinating to observe how prone to pareidolia we are. Our wetware pattern matchers are ready to fire off positive signals at the first sign of anything even slightly approaching "human", whether it's faces or -- more recently -- language. These primitive ape brains are fooling us into thinking we're talking to an "intelligence".

Not everyone has a facebook account.

"A key congressional committee asked insurance giant Cigna on Tuesday to provide corporate documents so that lawmakers can examine the company’s practice of denying health care claims without ever opening a patient file."

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-health-insurance-de...

Article is paywalled.

Jack Dorsey left Bluesky's board in May. I don't believe he has anything to do with the company anymore.

On further reflection, I think what makes this example particularly difficult to understand is not so much its use of generics, but the way it uses functions. It's a function that returns a function that takes another function as an argument. The generic [K,V] type arguments are actually pretty straightforward.

Your example of go code that's harder to read is iterators, and I agree with you. There's no denying that code like this places a high cognitive load on the reader:

  func (al *AssocList[K, V]) All() iter.Seq2[K, V] {
    return func(yield func(K, V) bool) {
      for _, p := range al.lst {
        if !yield(p.key, p.value) {
          return
        }
      }
    }
  }

But the code that actually uses iterators is in my opinion more readable than its non-generic counterpart. So it's really a question of how often you're expected to write (or read) iterators. And I don't expect that most programmers will be writing (or reading) iterators that often.

Fascinating that the first person cited on this site's announcement page is Helen Buyniski, a "journalist" for Russian state media and a COVID conspiracy theorist. It's almost as if this project has an agenda.

My experience with Walgreens is that the stores are woefully understaffed, the product selection is poor, and what product they do have is ridiculously overpriced. As for the pharmacy part of the store, the staff are constantly overwhelmed, and you're guaranteed to stand around waiting for help even when you're the only person in the store.

I've seen this scenario repeated over and over again at several of my local Walgreens stores. I'm not surprised they're in financial difficulty.

If it's harmful to the bees, natural selection will weed out this behavior pretty quickly.

I suspect we'll be hearing from her soon. She's not been shy about taking on anti-consumer monopoly behavior.

I use the --color=always option with eza. This allows it to be piped through less and still maintain the color.

To avoid having to type that option every time, I have a bash alias for ls:

  alias ls='eza -F --color=always'

They're all terrible, but I agree #1 is particularly egregious for a company ostensibly dedicated to security. A simple fuzz tester would have caught this type of bug, so they clearly don't perform even a minimal amount of testing on their code.

I wonder why so many people are confused about what AI is (and what it's capable of). Could it have anything to do with the snake oil being peddled by Sam Altman and the media hype machine surrounding him?

It was only a couple years ago when Blake Lemoine was (rightly) ridiculed for seeing sentience in a chat bot. Now everyone is Blake Lemoine.

Waiting for the next AI winter to put all this nonsense to rest...