To give an example which was published just today: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/5/23011810/elon-musk-twitter-sec-board-member-moderation

It starts with: "Ahahahahahaha fine. Longtime shitposter Elon Musk, who has a side gig as the CEO of Tesla, is on the board of Twitter, a newly minted meme stonk, after filing the wrong form with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Tremendous content."

So, question: does anybody else feel that way or was it always shit and I just didn't notice or am I just growing old?

Lastly, any recommendations on good mainstream day to day tech sites/blogs (as I won't be reading this trash anymore)?

A bunch of things I've noticed:

* Landlords seem extremely greedy and do terrible rent seeking tactics like fees upon fees (250 admin fee to rent here, $75 to apply, $300 non refundable pet deposit, $25 a month pet rent, $12.50 community fee, $15 trash valet, $5 online payment fee, $100 a month community internet (for the $50 a month package), going Month to month after a lease ends is 2x the annual price. And then they use RealPage to collude to make prices higher[1]

* People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there's someone with loud as exhaust on "sportish" car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.

* General worker apathy is endemic everywhere I go people seem aggravated I would dare to check my order and point out they didn't put in the ketchup i asked for, or the napkins, or whatever. Or when I dine in the tables are dirty. Or the gym is filthy, the cleaner just drags the mop around looking busy but accomplishing nothing. But in many instances they keep asking for more tips.

* Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. And this one I think I've observed the root, it seems that people get promoted away from their problems so they're not the ones to solve them. And those who do write good software (albeit slightly slower) are not promotable beacuse they're "under performing" their peers. Why does it seem management (and many thusly incentivized engineers) have abandoned decades of experience showing how to create reliable, robust, reusable code that is both great the customer, fast to iterate on, and only a tiny tiny bit slower to write.

* Seems like everything is subscription model and you have to pay N times to access something thats only worth 1-3x . Eg: I Netflix for a couple hours a month. At the price for 4k access I can almost go out to a theatre. Video games are all trending to subscription models. I just learned the other day that the PS4 games I got with my subcription to PSN all are locked because I stopped subscribing (nearly 50 games) . So I paid them like $125 for access to these games for 24 months, and now I cannot play any of them? At least I still own NES/SNES/N64 Game cartridges that will never lock me out.

* Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I've noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I've ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them. And every year our taxes (their paycheck) and our insurance goes up (a consequence of poor driving habits). And at the same time, we get these cases where a dude like Tyre, at least as I see the body cam, seems to be basically complying and the police freak out on him, he basically complies, and they taze and pepper spay him, no wonder he ran away -- what is someone supposed to think when they say "on the ground" and you get on the ground and then just keep getting more and more aggressive. Like are you gonna just lay on your face while they potentially pull their gun and just shoot you in the back of the head? How do you know what's going on unless you can face and see them? How can you trust they wont, cause even if it's 99.999999% they wont, you only get 1 one chance and if you get it wrong you're dead without any coming back.

* Over and over again we keep hearing stories of fake people becoming the top paid, respected, or otherwise status people in society. Elizabeth Holmes, Frank/JP Morgan scam for $175M[2], fraudulent crypto schemes

* And there's a ton of little things too like the water is poison, the air is poison, the food system is poison or crashing etc.

I'm aware of pinker's general argument that many numbers are getting better. But it seems like people just treat eachother like shit these days.

Anyone else have other examples? I am I way off base here?

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/26/23479034/doj-investigating-rent-setting-software-company-realpage

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html

[1] https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/samsung-bricks-smart-tvs/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-advertising-inscape-data-privacy-q3-2021

I’m Jason, one of the co-founders at H3X (https://www.h3x.tech). We are building the lightest electric propulsion systems in the world. Our first product is a 250kW (330HP) integrated motor drive in a 18kg (40lb) package. It combines the electric motor, inverter, and gearbox into a single unit, resulting in an ultra-high-power density solution for electric aircraft (and other mass sensitive applications).

In terms of electrification, we believe the aircraft industry is where automotive was ten years ago. There are many companies working on eVTOL and single-seaters, but very few are working on large commercial single-aisle electric aircraft such as a 737. This class of aircraft is absolutely critical to electrify as it accounts for the most passenger-miles [1] and is the biggest slice of the pie in terms of aviation emissions. Beyond the environmental impact, there are huge potential cost savings from both fuel (or lack thereof) and reduced maintenance for airlines.

Aircraft are very mass sensitive so there are two main technology challenges that need to be solved to enable this class of electric aviation –

(1) High energy density and efficient energy storage (batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, etc.)

(2) Light, efficient, and high-power density electric propulsion systems (electric motors, power electronics, gearbox)

There are many people working on (1) and great strides are being made [2][3]. We are focused on solving (2). A study done by the DOE determined that for a 737 to complete a five-hour flight, the propulsion system must be >12 kW/kg [4]. Today, best-in-class systems have a power density of 3-4 kW/kg. With our first product, we are targeting 13 kW/kg, making it an attractive solution for near-term Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) applications as well as an enabling technology for the aviation industry to enter the next stage of electrification.

There are some cool things we are doing with the electromagnetics, power electronics, and the integration between the systems to get to the 13 kW/kg. There is not a single magic bullet, but rather a combination of multiple technological advances - 3D printed copper stator coils, high frequency SiC power electronics, and a synergistic cooling system to name a few.

Our origins in electrification stem back to our college days where we built Formula-style electric racecars (s/o to Wisconsin Racing FSAE!). During year 1 of the program, we got so fed up with our COTS motors and inverters, we decided to go clean slate and build our own from the ground up the following year. Those were super happy fun times. Lots of dead IGBTs and all-nighters in the shop, but in the end, we got everything working and delivered! It was a true test of resilience and taught us how to GSD. Great preparation for starting a company. This led us to grad school and it became apparent during this time that the electric aircraft industry was a sleeping giant ready to be woken. We felt uniquely positioned to capitalize on this opportunity, so after about a year in industry, we left our full-time jobs and went all in.

We’ve got a long road ahead - aviation is tough, there’s no denying that. In addition to the engineering challenges, there are also major certification barriers. However, CO2 is a serious problem and right now the major aviation players don’t have a compelling plan to meet the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement. Innovation needs to come from the outside and that’s what we’re doing at H3X.

I’d love to hear your guys thoughts and would be happy to answer any questions you have.

Sources:

[1] https://www.transtats.bts.gov/tables.asp?DB_ID=130

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21449238/tesla-electric-c...

[3] https://hypoint.com/, https://www.plugpower.com/

[4] ASCEND DE-FOA-0002238

I always thought this was a bold idea and yet I never heard anything about it after was this one comment from Sam Altman's AMA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2hwr02/i_am_sam_altman_lead_investor_in_reddits_new/ckwqv8x/

Did it not pass regulation or did they just abandon the idea?

Gigster also made similar claims and I have not heard anything since:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/01/gigster-fund/

I can read the `news` news in many places, and I do,
but I like to come here for industry and niche
technical topics.

Many I've spoken to share this
sentiment and I hope this is of benefit to anyone
wishing to focus more on what they are interested in.

You can block a source or keywords with the same rule:

news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/{phrase1}|{phrase2}/):nth-ancestor(1)

e.g. a brief sample of sites that are not principally
about technology and recur somewhat frequently
(choose your own):

  news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/businessinsider.com|dailymail.co.uk|foxnews.com|theverge.com|cnn.com|reuters.com|zerohedge.com|insider.com|bloomberg.com|euronews.com|theguardian.com|wsj.com|ft.com|theconversation.com|thetimes.co.uk|bbc.co.uk|nytimes.com|newyorker.com|theatlantic.com/):nth-ancestor(1)

news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/web3|crypto/):nth-ancestor(1)

This rule isn't perfect as it only removes the title
line and keeps the number of comments, but it is
definitely good enough and I am enjoying reading HN a
great deal more.

You can add these to your Android phone too with Firefox
and uBO.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

They stopped doing that but I found they appear to remove affiliate links altogether unless it comes from them.

Just to test I put NordVPN's affiliate link structure and viola it gets removed:

<a href="https://go.nordvpn.net/aff_c">Test Affiliate Link</a>

I have never seen Andrew Ng or Andrej Karpathy making such claims.

State of the art AI can only do very specialized things in limited scope e.g ASR, NLP,Image recognition, game play etc.

What am I missing?

Sources :
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/04/elon-musk-says-global-race-for-ai-will-be-most-likely-cause-of-ww3.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musks-doomsday-ai-predictions-are-irresponsible.html

http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/25/technology/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-ai-artificial-intelligence/index.html

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/4/16251226/russia-ai-putin-rule-the-world

Some uses cases like NBA Top Shot seems like they could have lasting value, essentially a digital version of trading cards backed by the official sports league: https://www.nbatopshot.com

Other uses cases like buying Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.5m seem a bit more like mania to me: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/5/22316320/jack-dorsey-original-tweet-nft-cent-valuables

Do you agree or disagree? What are your thoughts on this space and it's future?

Nowadays Google Chrome, VS Code, Slack and Notion are now eating 90% of the memory of my 16GB MacBook Pro. One reason to switch to a new laptop would be to upgrade to 32GB. This won't be possible for now with M1 macs.

What do you guys think? Is 16GB reasonable today for average Software Engineering work?

This seemed to me like a nice question for HN (Mac and Electron apps ranting welcome)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3888705

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3886783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3894287

Although it was countered by those who actually bothered to read the TOS:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120424/17562518637/calm-down-internet-google-drives-terms-are-standard-countless-websites-including-gmail.shtml

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms-privacy-data-skydrive-dropbox-icloud

Also there is no such thing as the Google Drive TOS, there is the Google TOS and it’s not new, it's the same boilerplate stuff used everywhere.

FUD was inevitable seeing how many established competitors Google has in this area, but I suggest reading the text in question (in its entirety) from the source and making your own conclusions:

http://www.google.com/policies/terms/

Google Apps TOS:

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html

Reminds me of my own situation and the action I look a few weeks back: Charge, more, like, way more, for my apps.

Example: I recently upped the price of my excellent podcast app (SkipCast) from Free to $24.00. The result: I've made more in the last 2 weeks than the first 6 months when I was at $2.99. Sure downloads are waaaay down, but each sale is worth so much more.

The argument is simple: as app developers we're absolutely screwing ourselves by living in the delusion that what we'll have enough volume to stay afloat at such low prices.

The core problem, as far as I see it, is the app store's search system is incredibly inflexible when it comes to the top three spots, the only ones that have a prayer of making any money. Mix in that in some categories (including mine), there's a feedback loop of the same app being perpetually featured and thus, the only one that get downloads, and we've got a recipe for disaster.

So, you do something else to set yourself apart: charge so much that if someone does scroll down far enough to see you, they'll take pause and wonder why you cost so much.

Free is poison, and completely unsustainable for all but the luckiest.

It's a complex issue but one thing I'm absolutely sure of: I'm sure as hell not giving my hard work away for $1.99 anymore. I may not make any money, but at least I'll do down with dignity : )

*Small update for readability.

I've been eagerly awaiting the Fitbit Flex for just this reason, however I've seen reviews [0] stating that the wake alarm is nothing more than a fixed time alarm, unlike the Fitbit One. I may end up buying the One, but I wondered if anyone here has a recommendation?

I've seen various mobile apps, but ideally I'd like something attached to me (as that would be more accurate?) I tend to kick things off my bed as well!

Thanks

[0]: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/6/4303072/fitbit-flex-review

Discord (170 people, 17% of employees, laid off) - https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees

Twitch (500 people, 35% of employees, laid off) - https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/10/24032187/twitch-layoffs-video-game-industry

Unity (1,800 people, 25% of employees, laid off) - https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030695/unity-layoff-staff-25-percent

Duolingo (10% of contractors laid off) - https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030420/duolingo-laid-off-10-percent-of-its-contractors-because-of-ai

Google (1,000 people, 0.5% of employees, laid off) - https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-engineering-assistant-hardware

Humane (10 people, 4% of employees, laid off) - https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24032274/humane-layoffs-ai-pin

Audible (100 people, 5% of employees, laid off) - https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034985/audible-is-laying-off-5-percent-of-its-staff

Credit to @imadeanaccount on another site (I know you're reading this lol) for compiling this information, I just thought it was cool and posted it.

Did I miss something?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Musk&sort=byDate&type=story

Here are the most recent results ... is this really the best topic for HN to spend it's attention on? Seriously?

   Elon Musk Trolls Twitter(https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?...

   “Temporarily on hold” is not a thing. Musk has signed a binding contract(https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?...

   Matt Levine Blog: Elon Musk Trolls Twitter(https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?...

   Elon Musk Trolls Twitter(https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?...

   Elon Musk Trolls Twitter(https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?...

   Elon Musk says Twitter deal is 'on hold'(https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/elon-musk-tweets-that-deal-for-twitter-is-on-hold)

   Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over bot numbers claim(https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/13/musk_twitter_on_hold/)

   Elon Musk tweets Twitter deal ‘temporarily on hold’(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/13/musk-twitter-bid/)

   Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘temporarily on hold’(https://nypost.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-says-twitter-deal-temporarily-on-hold/)

   Musk Says His Twitter Takeover Is ‘On Hold,’ Then Says He’s ‘Still Committed’(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/elon-musk-says-his-takeover-of-twitter-is-on-hold.html)

   Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over fake account details(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61433724)

   Elon Musk is putting his Twitter deal on hold because bots(https://thenextweb.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-deal-hold-bots)

   Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘on hold’ after spam/fake account report(https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/13/23070306/elon-musk-twitter-deal-on-hold-spam-inauthentic-accounts)

   Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is on hold(https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/tech/twitter-deal-on-hold-elon-musk/index.html)

   Twitter takeover temporarily on hold, says Elon Musk(https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/13/twitter-takeover-temporarily-hold-elon-musk)

   Elon Musk puts the Twitter deal on a temporary hold(https://www.teslaoracle.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-puts-the-twitter-deal-on-a-temporary-hold/)

   Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold(https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/twitter-deal-temporarily-on-hold-tweets-elon-musk-2972524)

   Elon Musk says Twitter deal on hold pending details on fake accounts(https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-says-twitter-deal-on-hold-pending-details-on-fake-accounts.html)

   Musk puts $44bn Twitter deal ‘on hold’(https://www.ft.com/content/a0aa177e-607c-4f3c-b2af-ac74535e2d26)

   Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over fake account details(https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61433724)

   Musk $44B Twitter deal temporarily on hold(https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-44-billion-twitter-deal-hold-2022-05-13/)

Your time is limited, and cannot be replenished. "Spending Time" is not really a metaphor,
it's a reality.

I'm choosing more carefully how I spend my time. I've spent this time in the hope that a few
of you who are significantly more skilled and able than I might reconsider how you spend yours.

- http://open.salon.com/blog/kerry_lauerman/2012/02/03/hit_record and

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3562861

Many of the news sites/blogs we see on HN follow some or all of these shitty tactics:

- high volume of cheap content produced by summarizing someone else's news with original sources discretely tucked away so you don't accidentally view the story where it originated

- minimal outbound links but usually plenty of internal ones, especially their precious tag/topic/follow pages ... Mashable's SEO-reinforcing fluff pieces on Apple have made them a page-1 Google result for "Apple", ridiculous. In Business Insider's case they're obviously aware this is an SEO loophole because they disguise them as plain text [1], though others are happy to rack up that extra pageview when you foolishly assume a company or product goes to ... the company or product's page [2]

- tagged with all kinds of useless crap for search engines [3], in The Verge's case they even mislabel them as "related items" so you'll click through at least once or twice till you learn they're just useless SEO pages

- driving up pageviews by breaking up content and photos between pages [4], or in Engadget's bold style by doing a "live blog" with an auto-refresh option that refreshes the entire page

- traffic goldrushes ... when we're really lucky HN's front page will have 5 or 6 rewrites of the same story as each popular blog notices a trending topic and scrambles to produce their 2 paragraph summary and claim their share of the pageviews

- link bait and pandering is normal ... it's hard to believe TorrentFreak built a business out of telling digg users how much The Man sucks for wanting to stop piracy, but what's harder to believe is 6 years later those users have grown up and come to HN where ... they still want to be regularly told The Man sucks for wanting to stop piracy. And then there's the link bait, not just in the form of ridiculous titles and content tailored for this or another site's audience, but also scabby websites commissioning infographics about ponies to market their forex trading site still pull traffic long after they were revealed as a cheap SEO trick [5]

- they're so crazy about trackers, lojacking links, sharing widgets etc that they make the internet feel like dialup all over again... if you use Ghostery you'll be familiar with the giant purple column of blocked services when you hit a tech blog, if you don't you should check it out

- the AOL Way [6] ... when it leaked AOLers scrambled to say it didn't apply to them, it's only for the rest of AOL effectively saying the company-wide policy on link-baited content farming applied to ... the company, but nobody at the company. Except the people who eventually quit [7], because back then it was shameful to be (outed) as a journalist-turned-content-farmer, although not so shameful if everybody knew it but nobody said anything

They're pretty much a de facto standard at this point even though they're crap for the viewer, they're not even that great for the original source [8] their articles come from.

Some sites almost exclusively dedicate themselves to this garbage, some only stoop that low part of the time. All of them do it because this value-less crud has just as good a chance of winning HN, Reddit, Digg, etc as real content but at a fraction of the cost.

Why do we allow it to work?

[1] Usually companies and sometimes valuable keywords on Business Insider are linked via <a class="hidden_link" href="..." rel="noreferrer">...</a> so they appear as plain text, there's about a dozen in this: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-admits-it-no-longer-rules-your-workplace-2012-2

[2] http://mashable.com/2012/02/06/samsung-galaxy-note-stylus-backlash/ ... everything is a link to Mashable

[3] http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/6/2774657/nokia-white-lumia-800-release-date tagged with: UK, EUROPE, WHITE, ITALY, POLAND, RUSSIA, GERMANY, CHOICE, SWITZERLAND, RELEASE DATE, COLOR, FINLAND, ANNOUNCED, WINDOWS PHONE, LAUNCH, LUMIA, SKU, VARIANT, LUMIA 800, NOKIA, CELLPHONES for a total of 21 tags on a 6 sentence story

[4] http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57372103-1/nikon-woos-the-pros-with-long-awaited-d800/ ... you might do a gallery like that as a fallback for the 0.x% of people with no JavaScript, but they choose a poorer experience

[5] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_game_digg_using_infographics_voting/

[6] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-aol-way

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engadget#Mass_exodus, somewhat ironic considering The Verve is pretty much Engadget 2.0 .... and this year that'll become official when AOL re-buys them

[8] http://www.tenpoundhammer.com/2012/01/aggregation-gone-too-far-calling-out.html

This makes Facebook's shift to young adults [1] seem more clear - that group can spend as much time as they want on Facebook and consumption, and they can then spend their parents' income. It's a constant fresh source of income with buying power.

I roughly equate attention to time and energy - once it is spent, it is gone. On the whole, as billions of people spend their time and energy scrolling through ad-supported applications, their attention becomes less valuable over time. Do you think that the time and energy spent on ad-supported applications is pulling from users' productivity? Or just transferring it from other forms of recreation?

I don't quite think I'm hitting the mark here, but I'd like to know your thoughts on if the attention economy is sustainable in its current state. Have we hit peak "attention" and the only new users left are kids in middle school and high school? I think this would make for interesting discussion with recent headlines and revelations about the major companies in the space [2].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/25/22745622/facebook-young-adults-refocusing-teams

[2] Impact from Apple on SNAP, Facebook revelations, HN headlines recently involving Google... it goes on.

Enshittification has emerged as a viable business strategy because companies have realized that the value they offer is big enough that it prevents them from being shunned at large.

e.g. Reddit has reduced the quality of its platform because it knows its zombie scrollers are going to come back [2]

Airbnb has reduced its user experience with hidden charges and commercializing because it knows that people need places to rent when they travel.

Youtube once it realized its value in the market, started to shove more ads to force its users to pay to increase revenue. It also started to shove shorts everywhere to invite zombie scrollers, to improve engagement and hence revenue.

LinkedIn became cringe (I don't understand what design decisions they made) hence inviting more influencer-esque posts to drive engagement and hence again revenue.

There are many more examples of prominent companies in the past who have enshittified their offerings and it is safe to say many more companies will follow.

So my question is what can we do as users to keep the quality of our lives up to our indivisual standards.

In my opinion,

- we can make many decisions that improve our indivisual quality of life but,

- there is very little that we can do to improve the standard of living of the society as a whole because of network effect.

e.g. I as an individual can refrain myself from using tiktok to value my time, privacy and mental health but there is very little that I can do to help other people fall into the same cess pit. Writing a blog to educate people will reach out to a few 1000s of people a month but I am sure tiktok recruits more zombie scrollers than that each day. Network effect for them is so strong that it is hard(impossible?) to prevent them as a whole unless you are a law maker or a person rich enough to influence the companies.

My conclusion:
In these modern times or what indian people call kalyug [3], the most we can do is look for ourselves, make sure our own mental health is maintained, your own privacy is not compromised and we are not exposed to polarizing and/or fake news.
Even looking out for your loved ones is a dubious proposition at best, let alone the society as a whole.

I want to start discussion about this and see how you all perceive this phenomenon and how you think we can deal with it (if you think we should at all).

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-memo-api-pricing-changes-steve-huffman
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga

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        "kid":"Zami's Majuscule Key.",
        "tmb":"cLj8vsYtMBwYkzoFVZHBZo6SNL8wSdCIjCKAwXNuhOk",
        "x":"2nTOaFVm2QLxmUO_SjgyscVHBtvHEfo2rq65MvgNRjORojq39Haq9rXNxvXxwba_Xj0F5vZibJR3isBdOWbo5g"
    }

We hope you enjoy!

# What is Coze useful for?

Coze can be used for anything needing cryptographic signing, such as IoT,
authentication, sessions, and cookies.

As a timely example, reddit.com/u/spez, the CEO of Reddit, edited people's comments on Reddit.
(https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...)
Coze stops that as cozies are impossible to edit by third parties.

And to cook foods without overcooking requires low power settings (~20%) for long periods of time (6-15 min), but constantly checking the temperature, guesstimating another x minutes, rinse and repeat... there has to be a better way!

It seems like building a cheap low-res IR camera in the roof of the microwave would be such an obvious idea. I punch in my desired 130°F, and it alternates between heating and waiting -- as soon as it detects hot spots or any food that's reached the target temperature, it backs off, then starts up again until the whole item is at desired temperature. Your food is never overcooked, and never undercooked. You could even defrost perfectly, and/or hold a temperature for really large items to penetrate the inside.

Yet there seems to be vanishingly little progress. Searching online yields 2015 patent that seemed to go nowhere [1], a dismissive article from 2018 [2] about a hard-to-use IR accessory, and a deep learning paper from last year [3].

So I thought I'd ask here, since there are bound to be engineers with experience. Is there something I'm missing here that either makes it impossible to build (e.g. microwaves would fry the camera electronics or something) or somehow so inaccurate it wouldn't be worth it?

I don't know if this is a startup idea, or just something I wish the big brands would start producing...

[1] https://gizmodo.com/infrared-microwave-lets-you-watch-your-food-change-colo-1685143405

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17139114/cmicro-microwave-temperature-sensor-system-kickstarter

[3] https://www.mdpi.com/2571-5577/3/1/13/htm

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Twitter&sort=byDate&type=story

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Musk&sort=byDate&type=story

Even though this one was submitted 15 minutes ago:

Musk teases details of Twitter suppression of Post’s Hunter Biden scoop

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33781569

I also see additional stories not shown in HN Search, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theverge.com

I guess my big question is how a WFH employee base could mobilize to stop something like proctoring software from becoming the norm. After all, unlike in a physical plant, workers scattered across the country or the globe in remote teams are not going to have the same chance to organize and garner collective bargaining power if something like this is mandated from the top down.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wayfair-to-lay-off-about-5-of-global-workforce-11660912543

https://reversemortgagedaily.com/articles/layoffs-reportedly-strike-again-at-aag/

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/18/23309439/crypto-com-layoffs-unannounced-july-august-bear-market

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21296180/apple-hey-email-app-basecamp-rejection-response-controversy-antitrust-regulation

I think a short list would be:

- requiring / forcing the use of their APIs
- arbitrary reasons for termination of your app
- when deleting + restoring your app all reviews are lost
- No ability for developers to report false reviews

... this has been evolving for a decade or more so would be nice to hear what you guys thing as I'm sure I'm missing some.