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by adregan | 2025-05-29 13:34:42+00:00
The irony that web art history (design, ux, &c.) is so much more difficult to study and appreciate—compared to traditional forms—when it should be the easiest, always surprises me.

I try not to profess in mixed company that young designers should know the history of the web (it’s so young after all!), lest I be pegged an old man yelling at clouds. However, there was a time when there was a really interesting intersection of print designers coming to work on the nascent web, asking for the moon, and web developers teasing out compromises because the platform was so limited. Now that the platform is so capable that it could accomplish those designs, we don’t have designers capable of imagining it.

I’d love for a designer to ask me to do something different for a change of pace. There have been many neat APIs that have slowly made their way to CSS over the years sitting unused.
by flkiwi | 2025-05-29 13:34:49+00:00
Our kid effectively taught himself to read very early. We had been reading to him at every opportunity, and I think he teased out what was going on and, on some level, decided to learn on his own. He's been reading well above his age level for years now. As the OP mentioned, one of the primary short term benefits is that this child is, comparatively, a breeze to parent. If he gets frustrated, he goes and reads. If he gets bored with playing a video game, he goes and reads. He appears to be a well-adjusted kid with a close and functional friend group--within the limits of the COVID generation anyway--and he gets on fine with kids who aren't big readers. It's his thing, his intellectual space.

One thing OP didn't address directly is that the most significant lesson of watching our kid on this journey has been learning on a practical level how early individuality and complex reasoning show up. Before I was a parent, I thought kids were blobs where parenting unlocked skills. Since becoming a parent, I've learned that kids, on some level, are experiencing frustrations and joys that are shockingly similar to adults' and that a lot of their development isn't just bits and pieces turning on over time but affirmative effort on their part. I don't know why that should be surprising given we're the same species, but it really struck me that this little person on some level realized he couldn't read, wanted to, and learned. That affected other areas of our parenting, e.g., addressing his frustration as if it were a rational human response to a challenging situation from his perspective rather than irrational childhood reaction. (Note: He's still a child and we don't parent him as if he's an adult, but we have subtly adjusted our approach to be more ... I don't know, respectful of his individual motivations as a thinking, feeling person with comprehensible goals and desires, even if the underlying support infrastructure is still a bit in flux.)
by lesuorac | 2025-05-29 13:34:54+00:00
> McConnell is more to blame for the dysfunction of Congress and the misuse of the Senate than anyone else.

McConnell isn't in charge of the Senate anymore and they're doing a pro forma session against Trump. ("Friday, May 30, 2025 Convene for a pro forma session at 7:00 a.m." [1]).

[1]: https://www.senate.gov/
by nabla9 | 2025-05-29 13:35:18+00:00
When the time is up, Apple can get a daily fine that can be ~$50 million per day (= 5% from last years average daily revenue).

The ruling was worded in a way that implies something close to that to ensure compliance.

>... Any periodic penalty payments that may be definitively set should be sufficient to ensure compliance by Apple with this Decision and may take account of Apple’s significant financial resources (see recitals (286) and (307) of this Decision)
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-29 13:35:38+00:00
> Prices went through the roof

This is just exhibit 8345346 that this type of "free market" doesn't result in lower prices for consumers, but this grift has been going on for a long time now. Free market now means private investors are free to take over entire markets and monopolize them and bribe/lobby the government regulatory agencies to look the other way at best, or enact regulations that act as moats to defend their position against competitors at worst.

The current state of Canada (stagnating wages, exploding CoL) is what's coming everywhere in the west. The US seems to be most resilient to this, probably due to its status as the world reserve currency and a larger, more competitive economy.
by danaris | 2025-05-29 13:37:31+00:00
> they were not left with nothing

But many of them were.

It's easy, at this distance, to look back and see that a large number of former farmers were able to find work in the new industrial factories and the like, and to simply ignore the fact that many of them did not.

Many of them saw their income dry up, and failed to pay back the loans they had taken out in the spring to be able to plant, and had their farms repossessed.

Many died.

Without some kind of comprehensive, structured program to provide jobs and/or retraining to people being put out of work by a major technological advancement, yes, some of those people are still going to do OK, but many if not most will struggle, suffer, and die. And right now, the government is actively slashing and burning structured programs to help people.

So I'd say the burden of proof lies on those who posit that "something will happen" to ensure that truckers being put out of work by self-driving trucks aren't just left destitute.
by wat10000 | 2025-05-29 13:37:56+00:00
Customers also tend to try to get the largest slice of the "better off." That's not special. Do you take less pay than you could get because you don't want to be greedy? Do you voluntarily pay more than the listed price when purchasing items? Of course not.

In a properly functioning market, the limiting factor is competition. A business can't capture 99% of the "better off" because the guy down the street will undercut it by only capturing 98% and all the customers will go there. A customer likewise can't capture 99% because the business will decide it's not worthwhile and sell to customers who capture less. Somewhere in the middle is found equilibrium.

Bag-holding is different, it means there's some sort of trickery and the other side doesn't actually benefit from the transaction. And this does happen, but it's not the norm. Again, go take a look at your local shops. Which ones are engaging in this?
by teleforce | 2025-05-29 13:38:01+00:00
I think people need to realize that HTAP it's not a technology but database features while relational is the real database technology.

It seems that now people is converging to this pseudo-math database solution namely Postgresql with its battle-hardened object-relational technology that's IMHO a local minima [1].

The world need a proper math based universal solution for the database technology similar to relational. But this time around we need much more features, we want it all including analytical, transaction, spreadsheet, graph, vector, signal, etc. On top of that we want reliable distributed architecture. We simply cannot add on indefinitely upon Postgresql because the complexity will be humongous and the solutions become sub-optimal [2].

We need strong database foundation with solid mathematical basis not unlike the original relational database technology.

The best candidate that's available now is D4M by the fine folks at MIT that has been implemented in Matlab, Python and Julia [3]. Perhaps someone need to write C++, Dlang or Rust version of it to be widely acceptable.

It's funny that the article started by mentioning the article inspiration was from the popular article on big data is dead and by doing so is prematurely dismissing the problem. The book on D4M, however embrace the big data problem by its head by putting the exact terminology it the title [4].

[1] What’s the Difference Between MySQL and PostgreSQL?

https://aws.amazon.com/compare/the-difference-between-mysql-...

[2] Just Use Postgres!

https://www.manning.com/books/just-use-postgres

[3] D4M: Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model:

https://d4m.mit.edu/

[4] Mathematics of Big Data: Spreadsheets, Databases, Matrices, and Graphs (MIT Lincoln Laboratory Series):

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262038393/mathematics-of-big-da...
by ebiester | 2025-05-29 13:38:10+00:00
I think the difference is that I spent so much time tweaking the website that I wasn't writing. Moving back to Jekyll was entirely a move because I wanted to spend more of that time writing.

At the same time, I know that it limits me in other ways (for example, I'd love to have a way to post to my blog in one section and federate to bluesky and mastodon, and I know it's possible, but I would have to build it. So I'll eventually move from Jekyll.)
by oldpersonintx2 | 2025-05-29 13:38:22+00:00
this works out so well for Trump it would not surprise me if it was set up

the tariffs get rolled back, which Bessent has probably convinced Trump is a good thing (drowning out Luttnick who is increasingly MIA)...but Trump can blame judicial overreach and maybe fling mud at the judge on truth social

its so perfect it would not surprise me to find out in a few years that it was all bought and paid for
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-29 13:38:41+00:00
The automotive industry has historically been the most important in both the United States economy and even the world's. It employed millions upon millions, in high-wage jobs. Some large fraction of marketing was for the automotive industry. Even today, having a new luxury car is a status symbol (all the more so if the youngest generations are basically cut out of that). If Tesla can plausibly promise to keep that going forward in an era where no one tolerates burning fossil fuels, then how could it be anything other than a good investment? Of course the "how could it not" could easily crumble (and has already started doing just that).
by nerdsniper | 2025-05-29 13:38:50+00:00
Optimally, suppliers/vendors/customers would like to grow together. If the companies I'm the vendor for are only getting a tiny sliver of value from what I'm selling them then they might not grow in their market, and my business with them also won't grow.

There's a lot of narrow-sightedness in this zero-sum model of transactions.
by BeFlatXIII | 2025-05-29 13:38:58+00:00
Overturning Chevron isn’t stripping Congressional power so much as it’s forcing Congress to explicitly use its power not to lose it. De facto, it does strip Congressional power, but that’s solely because Congress is too incompetent to fulfill its role.

Likewise, it also strips Executive power. Executive agencies can no longer fill in the obvious gaps in what Congress passed.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-29 13:39:09+00:00
> Back during the 2000 dot-com boom crash I met a guy who got into a top business school in part by writing about the challenges of climbing Everest

I met a startup founder in my local community who would always bring up his ambitions to climb Everest. He made sure everyone knew and made it part of his personality.

Except, he was very out of shape and undeniably overweight. He was not doing any type of training or fitness activity. Everyone could see with their own eyes that this man was not on any path toward climbing Everest in any way.

Yet people around him always brought up his Everest ambitions like it was an amazing fact about him. I always wondered if it was some sort of litmus test to see who could be convinced to deny reality and follow what he said.
by oxalorg | 2025-05-29 13:39:41+00:00
Exactly this. My entire website is handcrafted, and not once but over the last decade almost ~10 times.

It's fun and I almost end up revamping something every year.

Everything handcrafted:

- the matrix js code on home page. https://oxal.org click on the matrix for a surprise!

- it's built using my own Static Site Generator: https://github.com/oxalorg/genox

- my website uses a css theme, again handcrafted: https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura/

- if you go to https://oxal.org/blog/ you will see a small cyborg following you (started with a base image generated by chatgpt and then edited and added animations manually in Piskel sprite editor)

- it's deployed on a VPS manually, just run `make` (I've experimented with serving it via a handwritten C http server, but I haven't finished this toy project yet)

- i have several shell scripts which uploads things to my websites in private locations (think gists, quick share videos, screenshots etc.).

- the favicon is also pixel art, made when I was still in college! https://oxal.org/favicon-32x32.png

- I even tried designing my own funky font but gave up and used a Naruto inspired font

- and as a bonus, try to `view-page-source` on the home page

I see my website and feel extremely proud of my journey as a software engineer, and I cherish this simple thing oh so dearly!
by sampullman | 2025-05-29 13:40:26+00:00
That's true. I'm not anti AI or anything, I use it for plenty of things where search falls short or has decayed due to SEO spam

I guess it comes down to knowing where to find valuable information. If you already have known quality sources, AI is currently inferior.

Where I live I'm lucky to have tons of trails that have been meticulously mapped out and the made available (with images, directions, gear recommendations, etc.) on various blogs. I don't see AI being able to totally replace that in its current state, especially due to the semi-dynamic nature of the data.
by mgr86 | 2025-05-29 13:41:02+00:00
> I'd argue that his pragmatic approach to web design — combining web standards with design flair — was what won out during the 90s and early 2000s. Certainly, of the three web design gurus in 1997, Zeldman’s website back then was by far the most interesting and exotic. --

I really looked to him at that time. I would sneak away during lunch my senior year of high school to read his new Web Standards book. I still regularly check A list Apart, albeit its seldom updated these days. But his approach melded nicely with the other things from XML land I had been reading at the time.
by eadmund | 2025-05-29 13:41:10+00:00
> Useit didn't change its design over the years. By the Web 2.0 period, it was seen my most in the web design profession as being hopelessly outdated.

Oddly enough, I much prefer it to the corporate NNGroup site. And that last version reminds me a bit of HN itself. Simple, clean and usable — really simple, really clean and really usable, not mindlessly aping a trend (and getting it wrong) but intelligently setting its own trend.

I wish more sites adopted that style of design.
by IshKebab | 2025-05-29 13:41:23+00:00
Yeah presumably because the ugly site has an awful background and poor font/colour choices that make it kind of hard to read. E.g.

https://taylor.town/wealth-000

I made my website myself too and it isn't ugly. This guy's website is ugly because he decided to make it ugly out of some misguided sense of self-importance.
by DrScientist | 2025-05-29 13:41:29+00:00
Great point - it's one of my pet peeves - automatic chained dependency management - at the what-do-I-need-to-build-everything level ( which is not the same as what do I need for my particular use ).

I think dependency management should be manual - make it intentional - and yes slightly harder.

If you have a static typed language, ( reflection like mechanisms aside ) you can make the compiler do the work in determining if the right dependencies are there and you can massively cut down the dependencies trees.

ie there is a mismatch between the semantics of automatic dependencies tree's and what you actually need when you import.

So if you need want to use library B from module A - I don't need the dependancies of B such that the whole of B compiles , I just need the dependencies of B that enable the my very specific use of B.

So if you add the module B to your project and run your compiler then it should tell you what further dependencies you need - rather than assuming you need to be in C and because you brought in C you also need D and E etc etc.
by TheMongoose | 2025-05-29 13:41:37+00:00
Right now you're competing with people that have years of actual experience writing code for companies and an army of new grads who know nothing but have the degree and are desperate/young enough to work for nothing or near enough to as makes no difference.

You're also doing this somewhere in the vicinity of the peak of the "AI will replace all the programmers" stupidity.

> Unfortunately, a portfolio is nowhere to be found, as while programming for pleasure, my ADHD-tendencies flit from cool thing to cool thing to cool thing and I never seem to get a project really presentable.

Long term I'd say that you should fix this. You need to produce something that is either real or real adjacent. Now maybe all your half finished projects are the most impressive Python ever written, I don't know you. But nobody is really going to crawl through the graveyard of half started , half baked, and half finished projects looking for a reason to hire you these days. If they are HR they might not even look at your GH at all.

It's also worth considering if you're even suited to a corporate job coding. Mostly you're going to maintain and/or write old boring crap a lot. If you can't stay excited about your own ideas for long enough to finish anything, will it destroy your "sensitive super-introvert" soul to write yet another CRUD app or go change the crusty old TPS report collection system to add the new field?

Short term, get a crap job (like you said you plan to do) and apply for all the crap coding jobs if you still really want to, maybe you get lucky.

Here's a linkie for you if you so choose: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ludics-guide-to-getting-soft...

It's written for the Australia job market, but I've noticed an up-tick in response rate since I started applying his tips.
by _benedict | 2025-05-29 13:42:09+00:00
> If you really want to get silly, x2iedn.32xl is 128 vCPU / 4 TiB RAM, and you get 3.8 TiB of local NVMe

This doesn't affect availability - except insofar as unavailability might be caused by insufficient capacity, which is not the typical definition.

> Depending on your availability SLOs, of course

Yes, exactly. Which is the point the GP was making. You generally make the trade-off in question not for performance, but because you have SLOs demanding higher availability. If you do not have these SLOs, then of course you don't want to make that trade-off.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-29 13:43:04+00:00
This is definitely true but these missteps are also making it harder to push the agendas. E.g. they could have just done extremely fast and mostly bullshit administrative hearings from all the people they've been deporting. Instead, because they're actual morons, they've completely skipped any semblance of due process.

They can revoke visas for countless reasons, instead they've decided to go on TV and brag about doing it for engaging in protected speech.

The list goes on!
by tndibona | 2025-05-29 13:43:19+00:00
Yes, this is true that all the click bait and unoriginal content deserves to perish. But, what about the carve outs for people putting money on original content. Like perhaps a local news gazette with paid journalists. They need google to be found, they also can't afford to get scraped and be AI-regurgitated up.

Let's take a practical example, if you searched for let's say "Whats the latest research on intermittent fasting and its effect on weight loss?". Google could easily AI-summarise a DOAC podcast on this topic and serve it up. How is this fair to Steven Bartlett who put the money and time on an interview podcast? He is deprived of a potential subscriber, lost out potential ad revenue, cant recover his cost. The youtube network he depends on is owned by Google. Seems a bit unfair to genuine people.
by horsawlarway | 2025-05-29 13:43:27+00:00
Yes, because - to be blunt - yours is so much lazier.

I picked machines that were undeniably controversial at the time they were introduced, because they did all the things you're claiming to be upset about here: They put people out of work, they enriched capital owners, they changed social structures, they altered governments.

Essentially - they are relevant discussion items for the topic at hand (if you're unaware, the general term "luddite" for use as "anti-technology" directly comes from the english textile workers getting replaced by looms, which they tried to destroy repeatedly, and were eventually suppressed with military force, with sentences including execution and exile to penal colonies).

That's not some blasé "waves hand 'technology good'" reference I'm making, and I think your response is partially so annoying because we likely agree on a lot of things about the potential negative impacts of AI.

I just think the way you're articulating it is relatively low effort, and I think the original post is absolutely allowed to say that. You'll get dismissed because you're so obviously wrong about the easily verifiable things that it's hard to take you seriously about anything.

Which is exactly the impact of comments like "Why talk about this because we'll all eventually die" - they alienate your allies because they are trivial and trite trash.
by _elephant | 2025-05-29 13:43:29+00:00
What if language didn’t begin with words but with resonance?

Watching chimpanzees throw stones into trees feels less like a primitive gesture and more like a signal—a pulse across time. Not just a message to others nearby, but a mark etched into the sensory fabric of the forest.

Maybe what we call “language” is just the tip of a deeper communicative iceberg. Beneath it lie rhythm, vibration, and shared attention. And that’s not exclusive to humans.

Instead of asking whether chimp signals “count” as language, maybe we should ask why our definition of language is still so narrow.
by ComplexSystems | 2025-05-29 13:43:48+00:00
My complaint is that I don't get what we are getting at when we reference "creativity," "cleverness," "ingenuity" and so on. The halting problem cannot be solved, in the general case, by any machine constructable in physical reality. That includes both computers and human beings. And computers can keep at it much longer than I can, come up with novel hypotheses to test much longer than I have the patience for, and can basically do anything I can do except try a bunch of random crap out of sheer frustration and eventually give up.
by deltarholamda | 2025-05-29 13:44:09+00:00
As I recall, Greenspun skewered Siegel. Siegel advocated a two- or three-stage "entry portal" to your site in one version of his "Killer" books, and Greenspun thought that was daft.

I appreciate Nielsen's approach quite a lot. We could do a lot worse than a return to "usability" on the Web. We've gone to a lot of effort to recreate a substantial subset of what Flash brought to the table, but do you really want your photos and text blocks flying in as you scroll? It's cool the first time you see it, but after that? Does anybody ever say "man, this site has great information, I just wish it would bounce around my screen like a Jack Russell terrier."
by Maro | 2025-05-29 13:44:12+00:00
Such nostalgia — in the seconf half of the 90s I was 15-18 years old, and I was reading these books trying to become a kick-ass "Web Designer/Developer". I quickly realized "Web Designer" is not for me, I have no sense for pixels, I need to focus on the "Web Developer" side. Learn "DHTML" and how to make things work on both IE and Netscape! IE back then had JScript, which was not exactly Javascript, or EcmaScript, which is what you said if you wanted to flex :)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-29 13:44:53+00:00
Based on my citations, I believe there is an argument to be made that government and presidential immunity might prevent any civil claims from sticking, but I would be pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong by the outcome of a legal action. If the tariffs are determined to be unlawful (after exhaustion of any appeals), one would think recourse would be possible, but only the outcome of legal proceedings would confirm.