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Meta is like one giant cancer that grew a few small tumors of benign[1] nature, like some of their efforts in open source and open research (React, Llama, etc.)
by forkerenok 6mo ago
Meta is like one giant cancer that grew a few small tumors of benign[1] nature, like some of their efforts in open source and open research (React, Llama, etc.).
[1]: I could be wrong thinking those are benign.
- tietjens 6mo agoReact benign? That’s the first time I’ve seen this suggestion on HN. Usually it’s held responsible for great crimes and wrongs.
- muskyFelon 6mo agoHa, I think the great crimes and wrongs title goes to Angular. I became a front-end guy specifically to avoid all the OOP verbosity. I'm just trying to call some APIs and render some data on a web page. I don't need layers of abstraction to do that. Anyways, is there a "just use vue" effort like there is with postgres :)
- tietjens 6mo agoI also found Angular to be a nightmare. I enjoy Astro, Svelte, even Preact can be fun. There are many to try. My comment above was just a joke, but I'm getting downvoted.
- SecretDreams 6mo agoEverything consumer facing from meta is like a toxic waste hazard. It makes me sad seeing people stuck on those platforms.
- alex_suzuki 6mo ago[dead]
- rdevilla 6mo agoFacebook was the Eternal September of the Web. Netiquette died when it was made generally available, as did the culture that spawned it.
- h2zizzle 6mo agoAs a Millennial, I'm sad to say that it wasn't even older generations' fault, but our own (+Gen X). The tipping point was letting in normies who traded in photos and money instead of text and art.
- rdevilla 6mo agoElitism and selectivity were actually features of the early Internet. High barriers to entry (tech savvy, literacy) ensured that there was a high signal to noise ratio, and thus you had, let's say, upper quartile participants concentrated in one (forum of) fora. LLMs are now heralding the Eternal September of even software engineering, and now I am wondering where to hang up my Techpriest robes in search of more elite pastures. I wonder if this is how the clergy felt once the vulgar were allowed to study scripture not in the original spiritual programming languages of Hebrew or Latin, but English.
- foobarian 6mo agoAnd Greek! Don't forget Greek -emacs user
- iugtmkbdfil834 6mo agoI mean, one can always get an older machine and code everything as holy binary chant not only impress the youngsters, but also impose level of distance from the 'limited by llms'. FWIW, I like the analogy despite seeing a benefit to knowing the original languages to studying scripture.
- ghurtado 6mo ago> I wonder if this is how the clergy felt once the vulgar were... You meant the "vulgus". "Vulgar" has the same root, but a very different meaning. This random thought is kinda disconnected from actual human history. "Not allowed to study Scripture" was not a thing: Illiteracy was. There were people that knew how to read and people who didn't, that's it. I'm trying hard (and failing) to visualize your mental image. "Dear Father: it looks like the Bible has been translated to English by my dear brothers up at the monastery. I'm sure you understand why I can no longer be a priest" Remember that you're living in the actual earth timeline, not the 40k one.
- netfortius 6mo agoA few weeks after they expanded access beyond .edu domains, I deleted my account. Haven't looked back since. Not an ounce of regret.
- philipallstar 6mo agoExactly. Why should furrin students get a look in?
- mnw21cam 6mo agoI think Zstandard would be the most benign example.
- ozgrakkurt 6mo agoZstandard was created by one amazing person. Pretty sure he would have done it even if meta didn't exist.
- kryogen1c 6mo ago>Meta is like one giant cancer Cancer is a great metaphor because its a perversion of natural, healthy processes. So called social media is nearly that, but actually grotesquely unhealthy. People are dramatically unwell when they are not social, but that unregulated process is also negative up to and including being lethal.
- rolandog 6mo agoExactly. It started out as something good: see what friends and family are up to. But now: scroll infinite algorithmically placed or sponsored rage bait trying to trigger you into behaving the way that advances certain corporate or foreign interests at the expense of whatever was left of our already tattered social fabric and our collective mental or literal health.
- tinfoilhatter 6mo ago[flagged]
- CrazyStat 6mo agoYour own source [2] says: > But to be clear, there is no evidence DARPA or the U.S. intelligence services had any role in the creation of Facebook.
- tinfoilhatter 6mo agoDo you require everything you read to spell out everything for you point blank? Are you unable to connect dots? The DARPA lifelog project ended the day Facebook was announced by a college dropout no one had ever heard of before. Facebook just happened to have the exact same goals / features as the lifelog project. Must just be a giant coincidence huh?
- CrazyStat 6mo agoI require at least some evidence. Your own source says there is none.