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I misread the title, and read it as 'The Art of Criticism'. First time I ever heard of him. Here's his Wikipedia entry for anyone interested:

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

> Social media has had both good and bad, AI may bring both sides too

AI is nothing more than a bunch of if...else statements so of course it gets things wrong and reveals its weaknesses in unusual ways. It's also mostly a black box where we can't inspect the actual code and dataset used to spit out the answers, so there's no transparency, which is bad.

I've never used Bing. Heavy user of DuckDuckGo though, which uses Bing as a source. DDG also has Q&A tech. Heavy user of its currency conversion feature, so it tells me what `100 dollars in Euro` is.

Tangential, but Google provides many answers to various questions in an intuitive way above the fold and without having to click on various articles / URLs. This is great, but also drives traffic away from websites, keeping everything on Google.com! Can't wait to see how Google implements its 'Bard'[0] system alongside search.

[0] https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda...

Okay I'll bite.

Some details as to how it integrates into a site would be nice. Show me some code snippets! Also, and this is tangential: how do stats get collected if a visitor browses with JS disabled?

Also your logo[0] looks very similar to IceDrive's[1] logo. Links below for comparison.

[0] https://beamanalytics.io/favicon.svg

[1] https://icedrive.net/

[1] https://icedrive.net/favicon.ico

> Given these challenges, I believe that many programmers will likely lose their jobs within 1-3 years

It depends. If you're a programmer, you would be naturally skeptical of an AI dictating how a program should behave. If a human isn't in the loop: foot, meet gun.

A donation link would be nice. Maybe a Patreon, Ko-Fi, or Liberapay link so I can support the project.

Kludgy code. Cargo culting. Lack of commenting & docs.

> But for very small very well contained libraries I would argue that they sometime _are_ done

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_a...

> As stated by McIlroy, and generally accepted throughout the Unix community, Unix programs have always been expected to follow the concept of DOTADIW, or "Do One Thing And Do It Well." There are limited sources for the acronym DOTADIW on the Internet, but it is discussed at length during the development and packaging of new operating systems, especially in the Linux community.

> How to Prioritize Tasks?

I use a priority quadrant[0]

[0] https://appfluence.com/productivity/why-you-should-manage-ta...

> Self hosting is not an option for me

I've had great success with Migadu[0] and I have several custom domains hooked up. If Migadu shuts down, I still have the custom domain and I just respawn a new server.

[0] https://www.migadu.com/

This all depends on your perspective. If you want to believe tech has gone to the doldrums, that reality will manifest for you. Meanwhile people will be creating Raspberry Pi server clusters in their bedroom and hacking the planet regardless of surveillance capitalism.

Being grandiloquent does not equate to being more intelligent, you're just being superfluous when more terse and lean sentences are better.

> We're talking about the NSA here

And the NSA is not some magic eye of Sauron. You can dodge their gaze. Yes you need 'ridiculous' amounts of effort, but that's the price one pays for being anonymous. You need to make surveillance expensive, and this is done through good opsec combined with properly implemented cryptography (no side channel attacks possible). Snowden changed the game here. Many have gone dark and the NSA is now compromised as a result.

We know things like XKeyscore[0] exist now so I imagine people changed their behavior after that. Having one account for your whole digital life can prove disastrous in terms of privacy. If all it takes is an agent to type in your e-mail and get a laundry list of all your other online activity, then you have failed at opsec (if you are trying to do good opsec that is).

This is why I have several accounts that are insulated from each other and also dedicated accounts for each type of activity (one account for Facebook, another for Twitter, another for Reddit etc). Basically every activity gets its own dedicated e-mail so you can't do cross-correlation of activity and it also limits the blast radius in the event of a breach.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

Humor is mixing the real with the absurd

I assume all my email is readily available to authorities, whether I deleted it or not. E-mail is inherently not designed to be private. I also assume multiple copies of it exist in various locations around the globe. There's a phrase: 'Dance like no one's watching, send e-mail like your email is going to be leaked'.

But I feel your pain. Outlook is the worst. When you delete items from Trash, it sends them into another folder where you can 'recover' deleted e-mails. Everyday Joe assumes the e-mails are deleted when you purge trash, but oh no, dark patterns striketh again!

> The IP has already registered not long ago

> The IP comes from a known VPN provider

> The IP comes from previously flagged locations

I noticed this when registering. Residential IPs are treated differently. You don't get shadow-banned at all with plain old vanilla IPs. In-fact you can make your first post under a residential IP, and it will show up in /newest and you don't have to wait in purgatory for about 5 days for it to show up.

One other option is to use a really obscure VPN service that not many people use and has a greater chance of not being on a blacklist, but that is rare. It's also rare to get a SOCKS5 proxy that isn't flagged as suspicious in some spam database.

Then there's the shady practice of using hacked residential routers to make your posts, but who does that?

It's a Single Serving Site[0]. Not every URL needs to be a big diatribe of text.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving_site

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/single-serving-site

I never use my laptop's built-in keyboard. I've probably never even pressed certain keys on it once. I do this to preserve the keyboard's lifetime, since I do a lot of typing, and I don't want to get it repaired a year later. I get a new keyboard once a year, typically mechanical, although I sometimes enjoy 'low profile' or thin keyboards if I'm going to typing a lot and don't want as much clickety-clack / noise.

Well there is Github Pages, where you could host a static site, although I'm not so sure it will still be around in 30 years time. Then there's the 10 year ICANN domain renewal limit, which means you have to 'be there' in two other 10 year intervals to renew the domain.

> How can we use HN to make real positive change in the world?

People already try to do that via comments. Comments give context to a URL and discuss the finer details of a site, and give it some 'story time' / narrative. If you wanted to, you could email users if they provided an address in their bio, and help out with projects.

I don't have any gripe with it other than one thing:

Lack of widgets. We have people writing emoji pickers in JS and placing them in documents, and some of them work horribly on mobile. Then there's the caveat of emoji pickers being already available on mobile and no such JS widget is needed. Then there's 100+ variations of dropdown menus implemented in JS, which all have their own bugs, don't work well on mobile, and are already somewhat natively available on mobile anyway so the JS widget is not needed.

I always wondered, did we put the nukes on the wrong end of the rockets? I mean a nuclear warhead can cause serious damage, but if you put it behind a rocket for controlled propulsion, we can explore deep space, which is better. Why go to war when we can become space faring instead? It's much more humane, civilized, and less embarrassing as a species.

On a long enough timeline, every company becomes an AD company.

Edge is a reskinned Chromium browser with Microsoft tracking and telemetry baked in. Just because they have a VPN now, it doesn't make it any more private/secure. Why do people use Edge? If you're any way privacy conscious you wouldn't use Microsoft products.

site:old.reddit.com "query"

If you're in the EU, try getting the Revolut app. They have a feature called 'virtual cards' which are great for e-commerce purchases. The idea being, you use a card once and then terminate it after making a purchase. This means you don't get unexpected charges a year (or two) later as most services keep your card 'on file' now, which is a dark pattern.

Well since I know PHP I would go with Laravel. Build on strength.