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Have you investigated how much of your business has been diverted by AI agents scraping articles from your site and essentially presenting them to the users through their UI?

And related, do you see a future where info products become much more proprietary/hidden due to scraping?

I can see it's marked "educational", but would it be also suitable for smallish embedded devices ? Assuming the bootloader part is swapped out, etc.

> or is it just a neat academic toy

The Internet was a neat academic toy at one point for whatever that's worth :-)

And now all these tesla folks will buy the next cool thing and continue the cycle.. We got them again!

Do you have any actual evidence of capital moving out of the United States? Besides opinion pieces, I mean. I'm genuinely curious.

Wow, it's never too late to find a HN secret link!

Isn't this way more about regulation rather than the tech?

Still would be cool to see even if not allowed on the roads :-)

It made a lot of really good choices in the late 90s when a lot of dot-com companies started and a lot of people around the world started getting interested in making their own websites. It eventually snowballed to the LAMP stack which became the most user friendly way of doing stuff on the web on low budget. The inertia from this is massive so it's staying for a bunch more years.

..and loads and loads of politicians that pretend they can solve problems above while shamelessly grifting.

> had a great product

> We got acquired

Can I just ask about the reason for this? Was it owners wanting off the ride?

> A lot of people treat economics as though damage didn't happen unless someone acknowledges it.

This is what I call the TV effect. People are trained from an early age, by consuming media, to only construct what is "real" by what is announced. And it's not just economics, but all sorts of aspects of life.

> But everyone knows that's not what killed them.

Another addition I'd like to add here is more often then not wrong people get booted while the "dead weight" tends to stick around and becomes even deader due to a motivation fall from the layoff. So maybe it doesn't kill, but for sure exacerbates an already bad situation.

> you think a government can? Browser engines are really hard to build.

As opposed to CERN being easy to build!? I'd say is totally doable, but it doesn't promise filling anyone's pockets at the moment so traction is hard. Who knows, maybe in the future..

So ensuring privacy would mean feeding the infamous privacy predator Google? Seems like a classic case of exchanging short term gains for long term pain.

> Tired of seeing 5-6 engineer levels where most people fuck around while 10% of the org carries everyone else.

As long as nepotism(both direct and indirect) exists this will always be the case.

I believe proof-by-induction is still a mathematically valid proof. Just one to be suspicious of/can be overridden by more rigid proofs.

> Nearly all applications of Generative AI APIs by their very design and value proposition externalize cost to society

But they promise to maximize value for the individual. Which works in what is called an individualistic society.

> How this plays out is a good question.

Look into what happened to Japanese wood printers around the time of the industrial revolution over there. It was a many layer apprenticeship system where everyone had a separate job - the bottom layer, mostly children, would make prints for candy wrappers and such until you get to the top - the masters which dealt with the most valuable and skilled work.

The lowest layers got cut, replaced by machines, and the entire structure eventually toppled. Including the work that couldn't be done by a machine - it was simply not requested anymore or there wasn't enough people coming from below to fill the ranks.

It's somewhat doubtful whether software engineers will feel the same both, because of the actual impact AI and that the job itself IS automation by nature. There could be political factors, however, that could skew things otherwise.

> Jobs with Meaning?

Really short answer: ones where you get to own the fruits of your labor at the end of the day.

> Macbook hardware is great

Then install Linux on the Macbook? Two setups ago I was running this config and it was pretty great.

I'm glad I learned jQuery some years ago instead of jumping on whatever was on top in the js ecosystem at that time(no one remembers).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the blog post is concerning a stability improvement on Windows specifically?

Capillary action. Still doesn't make any sense to me.

OP's post focuses on understanding, which is informative, but maybe not so helpful. Here's my drill.

Small steps. First cut smartphone access. Delete all, but essential apps(e.g. work-related) in your phone. You can still visit whatever you want on another device you don't carry around with you e.g. a laptop. Do that for a month or until you feel ok about it.

Start to do SOMETHING ELSE that is somewhat productive, a sport, fishing, etc. Make sure over time to up prioritize that activity and down prioritize social media. Rinse and repeat :-)

Oh, that can of worms again. Just for fullness sake, in C-like languages there's also error codes and even the infamous "goto" statement as a potential way for dealing with errors.

I was just about to post something very similar. I think it's definitely the "Review Queue" system at play here and it has proven quite ruthless to new users posting questions/answers with SO partially mitigating this with marking said users with "hey, that's a new user, please be nice" when you do reviews.

I think that's a very good point. Maybe not that we don't have multiple societies, we definitely do[1], but that no one is willing to take the wheel of the so called "globalized" part of the world.

[1] See e.g. China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, large swaths of people without internet. The list goes on and on.

On the contrary: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doomposting

There is an entire generation raised on "doom porn", having almost constant exposure to tech.