skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the perception of what’s out there is filtered through so few sources, then it’s bound to be skewed. The blogosphere is as vibrant as ever. The blogs that have staying power, that are well done, are still there. Finding them through search engines is not going to provide you with the instant discovery you’re looking for.

HackerNews and other niche sites, word-of-mouth, and serendipity, play a bigger role in blog discovery for me. It’s a slow process but the results are stronger.

There’s no instant tech-effort solution to this in my opinion. If you want a good blog to stick around, express your thanks and gratitude to the blogger. Buy them a coffee. Encourage them.

Go now to your favourite blogger and send them a message of appreciation.
I remember a newspaper article about a gent who had passed away at around 100. He had retired from running his own business, but needed a purpose and got a job as a Walmart greeter. He didn't need the money, but he thrived at this job, and did it for decades until he could no longer get up in the morning, and then passed away.

Having a job where you get up, go out, do something useful, and interact with others is good for the soul. Sitting at home by yourself watching TV is a recipe for decline and death.
I'm not sure how you define a blog. Could you clarify? I often delete or edit posts, so I have control. I download my FB data so I have an archive. I have a link to my FB on my Twitter and all my posts are public and I get people from Twitter reading it. I have 60 followers I don't know who read it. Not sure what else it needs to be to meet your definition of a blog.
It wasn't like that in the beginning of the pandemic.

Any potential source of division in the US gets seized upon by the utterly massive partisan propaganda machinery (of both parties) and turned into a fault line with which to segment the electorate. Nothing is immune, and the process is advanced, scientific, industrial scale, and highly effective.

The reason billions are spent to do this to us is that elections are largely decided by whose base is most fired up to actually bother to vote. That means it's less about debating issues or convincing anyone and more about firing up the base with fear, hate, or other base emotions that tend to translate easily to action.
Hi, just wanted to clear something up. Wiby is biased towards the interests of those who submit websites to it.
There's certainly something to be said about "civilian" stock trading tools like Robinhood, right? Stock prices pumped by hype because the barrier of entry is so low that collective masses of uninformed people who don't care about fundamentals can effectively overpower major firms and "experts" through social media (i.e. wallstreetbets).

Which is not to say that this is bad, just different from the pre-2008 environment. Stocks used to be for the educated elite; now anyone with a cell phone and a bank account can participate.
Ask HN: What are some hard-tech blogs that you follow?
Hey HN! I wanted to know what are some of the hard-tech (loosely defined ranging from climate tech, space exploration, autonomous systems, biotech, nuclear to name a few) blogs that you follow?

My understanding is that hard tech companies usually face a different gamut of obstacles while building their tech and scaling their business, namely, unproven technology, iteration rate, endless research, uncertain milestones, regulation etc.

Please post away!

PS: Reposting this because there were no comments last time but got some upvotes, indicating interest.
I too am dismayed. Short of being actively engaged in the political process, your only other option is to remove yourself from the jurisdiction.
The main problem I have with vlogs (and podcasts for that matter) is that they are linear, and they are long. When I read a blog, I can skim, scan for keywords, I can take it at my own pace. It's a very different experience, even if the raw content is the same.
I stopped reading at "I would like this to happen at runtime".

I got burnt so many times by runtime craziness already that the only thing I want happening at runtime is trivial code running from top to bottom.

But if you enjoy runtime hacks, more power to you! You must be a much better developer than me.
IPA the parent refers to is the "India Pale Ale", a categorization of Beer used in the UK.
How much of Berne is included TRIPS is interesting and rather telling. Yes, automatic copyright is included. Where it gets interesting is when you review how they made sure there are no loopholes towards intellectual property rights while explicitly excluding moral rights...
Whatever you do, just don't use Medium. Ghost or Hugo (With Netlify, https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-netlify/) are both very low effort solutions and most of them come with themes that don't look too bad from the get go. It's very quick to get something up and running even though it's technically a static site generator.
Again, none of these sentences indicate that anyone was infected at work - nor that it's any more dangerous than literally everyone else's work place.
I recently checked out Write.as and it fits the bill. It’s a paid blogging platform (the backend is open source so you can self-host).

Svbtle is also good if you don’t mind mandatory Google Analytics that you can’t disable (I left the platform because of that).

Squarespace can also be used as a blog although it’s more general-purpose than just blogging and a bit more expensive as a result.
Normal people don't have computers anymore.

This is the reason platforms are far more popular than blogs - people don't have this knowledge of setting up web servers that we take for granted. And even if they did, there's no benefit.
People who want to head off a financial panic. A compounding panic makes it difficult to address the underlying cause of financial issues that triggered the panic in the first place.
I have an entire setup for crawling rss hourly

http://handlr.sapico.me
President of Serbia holds Orwellian virtual rally
Is there a good faith counter-narrative to the history of People’s Parks and Houses that isn’t presented here? I’m genuinely curious. The whole movement seems fascinating, but I wasn’t satisfied with the explanation of why Sweden adopted a more neoliberal approach after WWII. You’d think there are at least some downsides of bottom-up welfare, otherwise it would have persisted for longer. If Swedes really wanted to they could try a similar approach to welfare today. I suspect it takes a lot of communal bandwidth that is scarcer in the modern age. The average person is substituting whatever “work leisure” they may have performed before with pure leisure. The former, more civic form of leisure is necessary for bottom-up welfare.
Self-hosting doesn't solve the biggest problem of blogging - which is that nobody will read your work.

I started blogging in 1999 (and sadly there are the Wayback Machine archives to prove how juvenile I was!) and it was either self host or use Blogger.

Discoverability was pretty interesting. Most blogs' traffic didn't come from search engines (Google existed but it was pretty much geeks only) or platforms, but from other blogs whether by being referenced in a post, via a sidebar link, or via a webring or similar device. Getting over 100 visitors a day to your blog would be a big deal! Getting other bloggers' attention via linking to them was a big part of things or leaving comments on their blog. These things barely move the needle anymore.

While I have a lot of nostalgia for those days, I think there's actually a lot of other ways to be discovered now. Sites like Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, Designer News, etc. provide opportunities to be found within various sub-communities. Most people have Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social profiles on which they can share their links, often findable via hashtags people are monitoring. There are 1001 email newsletters that are always seeking out interesting things to link to.

So, I dunno, is discovery really a problem nowadays? I don't think it is, but maybe I'm too "in the game" to see the problems people are having with it. If anything, I think there's just too much to do nowadays and we're really competing with there being 100x more people online than 20 years ago.
You can find people who have been "sounding the alarm" since 1980 about stock prices.

This is no coherent analysis in this article, just a random collection of out-of-context opinions.

I generally expect better from Bloomberg.com .
This is so weird to read. As a rare language native (Hungarian) I was never part of The Glorious Blogsphere That One Day Disappeared. I ran my blog because I wanted to make it, to tinker with it, to write, to create.

Those that went dark only because search engines now don't find them feel like they never done it for these values.
I agree with this. It's compliance will be contextual / regional / etc. This is why the system also support real-time alerts and safe analytics. In the event a place like Walmart wants to more actively enforce they can. Display is just the public facing feature.
Show HN: Visual Brainfuck Interpreter
A Brainfuck interpreter that shows how the cellular automaton behaves as your code runs. A description of the language and some challenging puzzles can be found below.
Neat that looks pretty cool, I assume Kintex7 doesn't work in Vivado webpack though?

Edit: Or at least the K420T board I found doesn't seem to be supported: https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/vivado/vivado-w...
Thank you! That great summary should be the top post.
You’re right — you didn’t have any judgments per se now that I re-read this. The language was very similar to a lot of arguments people are currently making why we shouldn’t care so much about the virus.
Exokernels are orthogonal to unikernels.

Unikernels run exactly one application, but can be based on an arbitrarily complicated OS (specialised) to that one application.
Exokernels can run arbitrarily many applications, but OS functionality is minimal and limited to ensuring protection and multiplexing of resources.

Specialising a rich OS (such as Linux) to a single application might yield OS functions that are as restricted as those you find in an exokernel.
> there are no other good alternatives for your investment

If the market is going down, then even cash is a better alternative.
I think simple practice of craft is a huge missing piece in our field. Everyone is trying to learn something, or invent it, and relatively little practical mastery. When I hire a new grad I expect someone who will learn and grow. When I hire someone with 20 years of experience it's because I want them to do what they know. They're at the top of their game. The only people skills I need out of them is good taste and the ability to say "no" without hurting feelings.
I don't think it's a coincidence that Google prioritizes content that has people staring at more ads for longer periods of time.
Blogs and forums stopped being a thing when Google flushed them out sometime between 2009-2012 (with the Panda update? I'm not an SEO guy so I wasn't really following it at the time).

Anyway, it felt like a bunch of places went from having active communities to stagnating or dying outright overnight. People forget just how much general innovation was being driven by these sites - Styleforum and AskAndy for men's fashion, BB.com for health and wellness (ignoring misc), Something Awful also comes to mind.

Reddit was supposed to become the trusted alternative, but it just really hasn't happened.
I never realized how bad Google spam could be for technical content until I had to start searching for solution to some Windows issues. Almost without fail, the first page would be littered would spam sites posing as informative answers. Many of them were just duplicating content from official Windows documentation with minor modification. The more sophisticated ones would provide enough real content to entice you into thinking the page had the solution only to reveal you had to sign up to access the full content of the page.

I've never encountered this before when searching for linux or programming topics. In those cases, Google results always include relevant stack overflow postings and links to the appropriate section of documentation.

I'm surprised Google hasn't penalized these spam pages, but I'd imagine there are some perverse incentives to keep them around. Wouldn't surprise me if many of these sites show adds through a Google-owned affiliate program or are in another way tied into Google's ad tech empire.
Bloomberg has a higher hiring bar than most, if not, all game studios. I like how you fallback on seniority while the video game industry isn't exactly known for top tier talent.
bulma is amazing. clean and elegant, super easy to set up. i use it for prototypes and later often realize i just don't need anything more.
You haven't answered the question.

> Lest a user submit a 50,000 character password?

What's wrong with that?
HN has a long history of de-sensationalizing link titles, both through automated substitutions and manual changes from moderators. Some aspects of this are in the "News Guidelines" at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

> If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.

> If you submit a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.

> If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

I sometimes wish the guidelines were a bit more transparent, e.g. confirming with the submitter that the meaning of the title hasn't been harmed by an overzealous replacement. The edits are clearly a net positive, but they're confusing when they go wrong.

A few months ago @petercooper made an app for tracking live changes to HN headlines, which gives a sense of how frequent they are: https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/
How do you decide that stocks are P/E is too high now as opposed to it being too low in the past. The us equity market has historically had much higher returns than the rest of the world. There's no reason to believe that could continue forever. At some point world markets will reach an equilibrium.
Medicare for all would lead to a NHS style solution because Medicare in it's current form is going to blow up the federal budget. Medicare for all would accelerate that budgetary explosion, and require serious cost controls in the form of an industry takeover.
You've missed my point entirely. I am not saying that the solutions offered are all communist. I am saying they are characterized that way for political purposes.

Each one of the options you've laid out has been disingenuously labeled with some form of "scary socialism" (i.e. "communism").

So you're making my point here. I actually believe in the spirit of the options that you recounted. In my view, they can be part of a sane capitalism. But, they are characterized as, let's say, "too-socialist". I further believe that the alternative to these is positioned as laissez-faire capitalism without bounds.

So if you'd read my statement closely--the language I chose--you might have grokked my position. But my point was not to state a position, instead encouraging that there are reasonable discussions to be had that don't fall into the standard binary trap.

EDIT: You didn't miss my point. I failed to make it clearly. See my edit in the original comment.
Opera tried it, it didn't work:

https://dev.opera.com/blog/taking-the-web-into-our-own-hands...

Current attempts:

DAT: https://dat.foundation/

Zeronet: https://zeronet.io/

Secure Scuttlebutt: https://scuttlebutt.nz/
I miss blogs too, not just reading but the writing of them. I've been trying to start up again, and recently wrote this take on Twitter's role in all this:

> I turn to Twitter even though it is just about the worst platform imaginable for the exposition of ideas. In its favor: the barrier to publication is extremely low, and there is no shortage of engagement with others to be found. The negative: that engagement is often of the worst kind. Nevertheless, for all its flaws, Twitter is immediate and just sufficiently gratifying that once you’ve blurted out a half-formed, typo-ridden, uneditable utterance, you might find your original communicative impulse satisfied enough that you’ll never take the time to turn it into a more polished and complete work in the form of a blog post.

https://wincent.com/blog/something-to-say
> If stock trading becomes a mass popular hobby, like video games and movies...

"Stock trading" is already just another form of online gambling. Novices have been doing day trading for quite a long time and it does seem to attract more people during times of volatility.
> any moral system which can lead to these conclusions is not a complete moral system

But "these conclusions" are unobjectionable, because they include the premise "things are net better". Because "net better" is imprecisely defined, I can substitute as strong a condition as desired up to and including impossible conditions. Which means they can subsume non-utilitarian moralities (I believe non-utilitarians are just utilitarians with binary step functions for certain utilities).
I think the popularity of Twitter is due to people not wanting to express complex or nuanced thoughts. If it weren't Twitter, somebody else would be in that space. It seems to me that the ones who are participating in such networks never intended to put too much effort into their communication or arguments anyway.

It's a supply and demand issue, not a tool's existence.
I agree that fraud is under-prosecuted. Users so rarely sue their database provider, howsoever richly it is deserved.

The stickers come from organizations that are largely captured by vendors. Kudos to Jepsen for maintaining independence.
Inflation won't happen until spending for goods/services increases. These Fed bailouts all end up in the pockets of people who don't compete for the same goods/services we use, so the money has little inflationary impact. Unfortunately it does give those people a massive amount of influence and power over policy. I think it's like inflation on democracy.
It absolutely is. P/E ratios of 20 to a zillion to one only happen in the stock market. Don't believe me? Build a company, keep it private and then go sell it to someone. If you ask for anything more than about 5x you'll be laughed out of the room.

The stock market is about speculation, plain and simple. At some level is people playing "business owner" without having a clue how to build value or where it comes from. Go back to my prior 5x scenario for context.

Nothing wrong a speculative market, it's just a matter of accepting that reality and everything that comes with it. I made a pretty nice living a couple of decades back day trading full time. Traditional investors putting their money into the market have no clue what goes on in the speculative battleground they trust with their savings.

Again, to clarify, I am not saying it is a negative. One can do very well in a speculative market. The key point is that it is important not to confuse it with reality in any way.
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Hidden; sort of. These days if I want to get the RSS for a site, I need to look for 'alternate' links in the code.
All you have to do is viciously mute/unfollow people and words that are remotely in the sphere of something someone might get angry about.

My twitter feed is 95% weird humor and cool art/tech projects. It takes some work but it's doable.
"Let's throw one away" thought experiment.

You're rebuilding the internet, if not from the ground up, then {UDP,TCP}/IP up.

What do you do in the next internet to try to avoid the spam and SEO problems on this internet?
Wordpress.com is exactly this. But it's not new and trendy.
> search has certainly lowered in quality

I would argue that the public internet has lowered in quality, and the lowering quality of search results simply reflects that the information you're looking for often isn't out there.

A good chunk of that is that more and more info is locked into walled gardens (in some App, on Facebook/Instagram/TicTok), but also a lot of what people want to find in todays world just isn't on the internet anymore, except places like the web archive, where Google isn't allowed to venture...
Reassessments just change the way the pie is divvied up. It makes things more equitable, it isn’t a relief unless the assessment rolls are out of whack. (Like California)
When they yelling, I'm selling.

When they crying, I'm buying.
If that 16 was a useful number, you could just sell when prices got to 17 and buy when they got to 15.
The problem with listening to these kinds of things is that you are only getting their opinion at a discreet point in time and their opinion might change quickly one week to the next. Druckenmiller openly talks about how he often changes his mind and does a complete 180.
If you lost half a billion dollars like the DAO did, you would probably get that consideration, too.
I recently fell in love with https://micro.blog

It sounds exactly like what the OP is looking for. In addition to being a easy-to-use (micro)blogger-focused platform (no ads, $5/month basic plan for hosting), the fact that they allow you to host everything on your own domain and cross post to more widely used platforms like Twitter and Medium seems like the best of both worlds. My current flow is writing in iA Writer and saving to Dropbox (for long term archiving). iA Writer allows publishing directly to micro.blog. Following other people through RSS feels like a breath of fresh air after being used to the Twitter feed for too long. I thought that RSS was dead for a long time, but checking out NetNewsWire and the default feeds there restored a bit of faith for me.

I hope and believe that blogging is going to survive this current centralized social media boom, and come out stronger in the end.
Envied? Sure. Respected? Nope. Such people often do have self-esteem issues because they know they didn't earn it, and so does everyone else.
Hence Duck Duck Go.

As with TFA, the notion that Google has some death grip on data is premature at best.

Go to Wordpress and start a blog. The fascists have blown up much of the rest of social media.
Twitter is great for pushing current events or initiating discussion on less well thought out topics.

It's not a good place for conversation. And that's ok, as long as users understand these limitations and there's an alternative (blogs or forums) that interested participants can turn to.
Sorry, I meant TeamFoundationServer.
Anyone can pull off a hugely profitable trade and become a WallStreetBets god. This is what you do:

1) Open 20 different Reddit accounts.

2) In each of them claim to make a different crazy bet, preferably using options and “document” it. Doesn’t matter if you actually make the bet, photoshop works fine too.

3) Once the trades close, abandon all your losing accounts, and start posting photos of “your” new Ferraris and luxury yachts on your winning accounts.

4) Announce you are using your magical trading skills to open your own trading fund open to a select few redditers who wire you money first.
Short answers: https://indieweb.org/site-deaths and https://indieweb.org/Facebook
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Ford's value is low because they pay out 8% dividend yield every yea. This has hurt their growth because other companies are reinvesting that money. Additionally dividends are objectively worse than buybacks because of the tax implications.