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Six months ago, I spent a week at the shore. It happened to be full moon. We were out walking late at night while the moon was high up, and had to slog through ankle deep water on the way back. It was like clockwork roughly 12 hours apart.

Did read through stackexchange. It is indeed complicated. But the top response feels like paralysis by analysis. If we analyzed turbulent flow too much we would be unable to build rockets. Remember frictionless planes and point masses in high school? Those results are not exact either but a great way to model and understand what is going on.

Soooo .. could we make simplifying assumptions here? What if the earth was a smooth rigid sphere with a layer of water on the surface? The center of mass of Earth-Moon is at ~3/4ths of the earth's radius, from the earth's center. They are rotating about that center. The 12+ hour tides in many parts of the world start to make sense. Is there a mistake in this mental model?

Years and years ago I tried to store and organize family photos using iTunes on my computer. Suddenly, I could not use image files directly any more , for example edit them in Photoshop, without having to jump through hoops. That was when I ruled out apple products for ever. .. It's enshittification.

Nice work! Immediately usable.

Happy to see this research. Some old studies showed that Asian children who moved to Australia had a lower incidence of myopia. Perhaps due to more time spent outdoors:

https://healthland.time.com/2012/05/07/why-up-to-90-of-asian...

Stop with the snark, people. Even we have to pay our electricity bills, ya know. We're not sure about the name for the next version though. Gemini keeps suggesting "Google AI Ultra Draft". What do you think?

Adams did such a great job exposing the absurdities of the American white collar workplace, as seen by the underlings. So it is puzzling how he went over to the dark side of the pointy haired Boss. And the Boss's masters.

I hope some pharma underling might have cooked up some good meds for Adams, despite all the pharma bosses and their backers.

OP: "How do I fix this?". One small step is to vote for better data privacy rules. That might reduce some of what feeds this enshittification. EU is making some progress with this. I'm optimistic this would eventually happen but maybe not in my lifetime.

SQL Data analyst with years and years of experience here.

Most of my roles were in small teams building quick ad-hoc analyses for business leaders in large multi billion dollar businesses. Example, one db was Oracle e-business suite. It had been set up ~20 years prior with enhancements along the way. There were only a handful of people in the company who knew what the fields helpfully named like ATTR_000349857. Everyone was overworked with urgent requests (and occasional layoffs) and no one bothered to spend time on documenting the database. I suppose this topic fits under "Provide business-specific context". Great, hire someone to understand and document all that crap. Ain't going to happen.

The other roles also fit this pattern, different systems but urgent needs, always a drought of people who understood both the business and the database.

Occasionally we'd get some "AI team" come looking for "data". After many mindless meetings with no clear objective except "increase profits", they'd quietly disappear.

I use stack overflow a lot to pull SQL examples and tweak. A lot of AI talk feels like hype -- to start with, i'd suggest not redefining words like "hallucination", "intelligence" etc which mean something else in English. Maybe call it "advanced algorithms" and stop with the hype. Also the surveillance and extraction of user data for advertising. Thank you.

Sorry sounds like a marketing plug.

In my previous employer we used to call this "Malicious Obedience". We also used it locally where your direct boss asked for something stupid (especially if they were the nasty kind). We'd implement it and sit back to watch the resulting chaos. Sometimes the change would be quietly rolled back.

It didn't appear on DuckDuckGo either, Thanks.

Interesting, Thanks to the writer.

However, all this amazing stuff in the service of .. posting ads ?

Our World in Data has a great chart showing negative correlation between women's education level and fertility: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/womens-educational-attain...

This was particularly experienced in India, where the birthrate went down when literacy went up.

Maybe more educated people do worry about the future?

Ever heard of "Body language"? It's worth looking up "Nonverbal Communication" in Wikipedia. It's estimated 2/3rds of all communication is nonverbal. A therapist I know also mentioned something like this.

Many of the HN readers are developers. We want everything to be deterministic. If A, then B. 1+1=2. And so on. Hence the angst in some comments. The author may not be 100% correct everywhere. The examples seemed to get a little more judgmental towards the end of the list. But these are great soft skills to have, people! Next time you have a crazy user or boss, observe their body language. It might help.

Garmin user here. Maybe the last one on the planet? (my kid thinks I'm nuts).

Many of the comments are about how great Google's products are (or aren't). But the case is about anti-competitive behavior. Personally, I hate how a bulk of the internet now consists of surveillance. All this amazing tech brilliance.. resting on a foundation that's about getting us to buy more junk. I will be happy if this lawsuit reduces that (even a little bit).

The Most Unwanted Notification in Chrome is the annoying pop-up that asks if I want to make Chrome my default browser. The second most are the "sign in with Google" pop-ups on many many websites. My answer is, "NEVER".

The internet monopolists sound like they have gotten desperate, trying to monetize, capture, and surveil the last few independent users. Sooner you are broken up the better!

-- Happy Duck user

I share quite a few of his quirks. I was also rejected by most of the grad schools I applied to. So how come I didn't amount to anything?

Seriously, a well written article including the accessible explanations of his work. Plus, LoL funny. Thank you.

This is why I turned vegetarian. Fish, Chickens, Cows, Goats and other creatures are sentient.

I enjoy building or fixing physical stuff. So much that when I visit family members (or even close friends) I take my tools along. People are usually happy at the results. It has become something of a pleasant joke among the visit-ees.

The key is to enjoy what you are doing. If anything becomes a drudge, search for something else that matches your talents and is enjoyable.

There may not be any technical solution to this? As we HN readers like to think!

Would we be OK with a monopoly business opening and scanning our postal mail, and sending us junk adverts based on this? Or worse?

The internet is a public utility. We need to work towards better rules. Bit like the EU is doing.

Reminder: "I wanted to write about his cruelty to his wife, his crazed domination of his mistress that lasted almost 25 years, his screaming fits, his depressions, his absurd contention that he was the greatest writer in the English language (he first made this claim in Mombasa at the age of 34). "I am a new man," he assured me once, "as Montaigne was a new man." But did Montaigne frequent prostitutes, insult waiters and beat his mistress?" -- from an article on NPR

I agree with you but still not using it. The challenge when I first tried Apple was, the photos all disappeared into iTunes. I wanted to pull out a jpg to do some photo editing and it was difficult. So I gave up and never went back. It must have improved in 15 years, but they will now be training their AI on my photos. So not gonna use it now either. I'll look for an open source app after I retire.

> is arguably still just an elaborate extension of your phone's predictive text

Nailed it. It seems to be doing a good job of helping coders and document writers. It seems to be great at solving protein folding. Other than that, I'm not so sure.

All the Republican Senators and Congressmen/Women .. I am looking at you.

If the parachute had already deployed sometime during the past 50 years, wouldn't it burn up on re-entry?

The author used Nepotism tongue in cheek. It's clear he was pretty talented. He was just saying his family was also talented and knew people in Silicon Valley.

Lots of nitpicking in the comments. Personally I support this law. Some years ago Finland made some changes to their educational system, that resulted in highly improved outcomes. Looks like they're trying out a good idea here also.

Let's remove nonprofit status from all churches. Because they are involved in politics

Wikipedia is a shining example of what the internet could have been. Before the internet was "Enshittified"

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

I am going to increase my monthly contribution.

The subheading said Digital Detox. Means no App. For apps, get a Muskmobile .. the ones running with high beams on all the time.