skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 18, I spoke at the flagship TED11 conference in Monterey in 2001. I argued for the human exploration of Mars, a talk which in retrospect wasn't anything special other than for the relative youth of the person delivering it.

TED was practically unknown back then because the founder wasn't interested in publicising it widely and because we didn't have good streaming video yet. As a result, my uni was extremely unimpressed by me taking time off to visit it (but there's a TEDxCambridgeUniversity now). It also meant there was less incentive to play to the crowd, so while there were still some "inspiresting" talks like mine, you'd also see Matt Groening show off a preview of the Futurama pilot and complain about the laughable notes he received from Fox executives.

But that didn't mean there was no incentive. I arrived a day early and didn't have anything to do, so I wandered to the lobby and saw Sergey Brin and Larry Page. We went out to get a sandwich with a couple of other people and talked about games and tech and shit. When we walked back we saw Jeff Bezos in a Subway. And if I recall correctly, my talk was after a Nobel prizewinner and before Herbie Hancock. The point is that with such an influential audience, it almost seems wasteful not to hype up your shit in the hopes of getting investment or making connections or whatever.

I was too young to realise this. If I had, I should've just begged the Googlers for a job and rode that rocket to the moon. But what I did get out of the experience was something far more valuable: the realisation that even the richest and most famous people are just people. And events like TED? They're fun in a way. I wish everyone had the chance to see what it's like. But there's no point in organising your life around trying to get in, as many seem to do. It's just not worth it compared to the other things you can do with your life. Even doing a successful TED talk is inferior to making a successful career or building a worthy app or writing an important book.

I barely remember any of the talks at the conference. Maybe that's because I was knocked out by a deadly combination of jet lag and my first and only ever migraine, but frankly, they just weren't that impactful. What's had a more lasting effect on my life was the thing that got me to the conference in the first place: Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy and his later books, which converted me to socialism. Of course, there weren't any 18 min talks arguing for socialism at TED11.
Another issue I have been wondering about: what prevents people from simply cloning smart contracts? Like how can one even make money with them? Suppose I make a contract that provides a useful service, and in return asks for a 1% fee on the "money" it has processed. Why wouldn't somebody just clone the contract and set the fee to zero in the clone, and people just use the clone?
Has the potential to invalidate the ongoing corruption trial of the previous prime minister Netanyahu - fruit of the poison tree and all that.

The original news story: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3928830...
Worked fine for me. The brevity is exactly what I need instead of wading through tons of often unnecessary text.

It's all common sense - which too many of my bosses just didn't have - and the summary form help bring them to focus. IMO it's good. YMMV, I appreciate.
For my tiny website there is nothing that cloud brings other than being more costly.

I have the same access to my shared hosting, and the amount of money per year is peanuts.
Citadelle (titled in English as The Wisdom of the Sands) by Antoine de Saint-Exupуery. He didn't finish the book but it's about philosophy of his life and I think that Antony was a good example of a strong-willed man.
I created a FB account a while ago because I needed to reproduce a bug in Firefox (which I was never able to reproduce). Anyways, I haven't used that account other than that... until covid times made me nostalgic amd made look for people from my childhood in southern France. I found a lot of accounts, but none of them appeared active. I didn't engage, but if these people are using Facebook, it's not in way visible to the public (Edit: IOW, either they are privacy-conscious, or they stopped using FB altogether). Put here a disclaimer about anecdata...
Exactly, the Cambridge Analytica scandal really did irreversible damage to Facebook's brand amongst non-techie people.
Apple literally has an ad tech network that it would literally force on all apps in the store if it didn't know it would get an anti-trust slapdown.
100%. All of TED comes from, or converges to, that "talk".

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on
Wait, is that supposed to be uplifting? The Silicon Valley version of the future has turned out to be a dystopian nightmare.
This is maybe a completely un-informed comment, but does religion have much to do with the actual books? From my own personal experience 90% of the people I meet who call themselves religious couldn't quote more than 10 lines.
Interesting, but I wish there was more data and it went deeper in details.
PHP still has a vibrant ecosystem.
1) cost
2) simplicity
3) scalability

With the advent of Chinese frameworks that solve C1000K problems like swoole, workerman and so on it even found its place as high performance interactive backend server.
I generally pick up a bag of apples without checking if any of them are bad, and then just discard the bad ones as I come across them later.
old.reddit.com still exists and doesn't have any pop-ups.
It comes from Laravel (https://laravel.com/); "The PHP Framework for Web Artisans". The command line entry point is also called "./artisan".
On genealogy of morality - Nietzsche
As an European I welcome this, they don't give a rat's ass about privacy.
First time I've heard of that. The only thing that rings a bell is the artisan command in Laravel
Here's a list of some of their DD:
https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/kosyg
From that list, Hanauer's talk on inequality might not be super profound, but I just listened to it and I cannot even understand how was it seen as partisan and banned.
it's a slow process but examples of better schooling do exist. it takes research and the willingness to look beyond your local region.

the problem has multiple aspects. funding is one, management another, actual teaching methodologies yet another. for all of those examples can be found. not everything is directly applicable and it takes some experimentation.

but a part of the problem is also the definition of success. the goalpost on that keeps changing too.

for adults to be successful the environment needs to be supportive too.

aren't there studies that show that children from poor families are less successful despite good schooling? so if we want children to be successful we also need to eliminate poverty. these things go hand in hand. and i suspect that some attempts at better schooling fail because other aspects like this are not being addressed.
Sorry Dave, you’ve been discontinued.
Like many things TED was fashion.

For a while it was cool for people to do such talks, the problem is that those people don't have unlimited things to say, so naturally when all important stuff is said and done, only lower quality content is left, with the expected spiral to the bottom until it doesn't matter any longer and is time to move on.
Complicated frameworks means the “shared nothing architecture” is unusable and you have to use fcgi/fpm to get acceptable performances out of your website.

At which point there’s little difference from <everything else>.
How is housing solved in other richest countries besides US?
The numbers are still low (China has about 10% of the global semi sales but +50% of consumption).

And true, some are fabless and the Chinese fabs fab for foreign customers as well.
If the food stayed the same and you are overweight or near it that could indicate diabetes.
Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt, written in 1946.

Talks about minimum wages, inflation, tariffs, devaluing currency and so on in a very small book, based on (rather game-theoretic) analysis.

Reads like it was written today.
I've never heard of a customer getting process tweaks for a one million die run, but then again I've got no experience with legacy fabs.

Certainly the 14nm fab that Intel promised lately[1] for automotive demand would not entertain that sort of thing.

[1] https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automotive/article/...
Already discussed extensively in the past few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30207734

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234026

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234444
The most bizarre transformation of a saying in history. "One bad apple" now means the same thing as "don't throw out the baby with the bathwater."
Yes! I've got a website with pages on a variety of subjects, and the most visited pages are on the most obscure topics, that I wouldn't have imagined anyone would ever be interested in. I guess those pages appear in a google search. If I was starting over, I'd just write on super-obscure topics. The more obscure the topic, the less "competition", the more often someone reads it.
Yeah, isn't the market so fucking magical? We just have to rebuild Google of 2008 from scratch and with no funding! I'm sure somebody will have that done by 2100 or so.
Ask HN: How do you manage your long-term goals?
I mostly ask about goals to other people and sometimes they ask me and I'm reminded of my long term goals this way.

Or I randomly think about them when smoking for instance
Why do you think not a single institutional investor has rallied behind this cause? Hedge funds love fucking each other over and would embrace popularity with the public. Why hasn’t some firm with a few billion under management taken up this cause if there’s really anything there?
> Yes

Only if your version is greater than or equal to 1. Before that, you can do what you want.

Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at
any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

https://semver.org/#spec-item-4
Yes, this is indeed the problem. I like the social aspects of work (work discussions, but also small talk) more than the work itself. Some people argue that that should not be their problem, and that as long as they get their work done, it's fine, which is probably true.

What I do know is that I did work from home for four months and I was miserable. Any job where the norm is at least three weeks at the office would be a huge plus for me, and if choosing between jobs that are mostly remote and jobs that are mostly in the office, I would take a paycut for the job that is mostly in the office. I realize it may be the other way around for other people and am really curious what the norm will be in the end.
Unfortunately Facebook (Meta) are still in Europe almost 2 years later. It was clearly an empty threat.
I hope that kind of advertising will die with your company.
I think they're citing Apple's role as a payment gateway as "paid back more to developers than anyone else", since technically on your $2.99 sale, Apple takes that money, and then pays you your $2.10 share.

Meanwhile Microsoft hasn't paid as much out to developers, because Microsoft did not succeed at effectively middle-man that transaction flow the same way Apple has. Apple doesn't do a particularly good job of it on the Mac either, mind.

Meanwhile, Visa, Mastercard, and banks have likely all paid out more to developers in all of time than Apple has, but that doesn't make as good a narrative as comparing Apple as a platform owner, rather than as a financial intermediary.
> Speech was severely restricted at the time and Germany also had hate speech laws.

Nope. It had way too weak protections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Germany#Weimar_R...
> If so, and storage size is a problem, you can compress the files

I'm literally in the process of processing 100gb compressed spatial json and it's not enjoyable
This story keeps shooting up to the front page, and I hope the mods keep wiping it. Utterly unfit for the site. No intellectual curiosity, no big announcement, vacuous, hate train. Easy wipe. Poof!

I don’t like excluding the possibility of a substantive comment. So please prove me wrong. If you want to comment on this, be particularity thoughtful.
“Thanks coach”

The ego in this response and complete ignoring of the advice given to you is off putting.

And I’m quite younger than you ;)
Why would you care how many global functions there are in PHP? Just namespace your own functions and the whole "issue" will instantly disappear.
Yes, absolutely. The effect it had on me was that I got more humble, which is why I recommended it.

What I see on HN is that there is a lot of "Success" literature promoted, which from my point of view is a little bit too much focused on self-optimization.
>Still, Malone, who calls himself the “inventor of mRNA vaccines”, thinks his work hasn’t been given enough credit. “I’ve been written out of history,” he told Nature.

Yeah, it's even worse than what I've written above. He's also pretty much sour that he hasn't been given enough credit.
>> The free offer is available in the following countries: Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain and Monaco. A telephone number corresponding to the country is required.

Seems interesting. Could potentially substitute the whole G Suite for free.
Never heard of 'em, but wish 'em all the best.
Um, if a business wants to charge me and I disagree with the charge, they need to duke it out with me directly. Over e-mail, which is my official means of contact. Or in court, if it comes to that.

I'm not going to engage a collector. They aren't part of the 2-party agreement, they have no rights to any information about me, and I'm not going to give more of my personal information to some 3rd party idiot just because they asked for it.

Pro tip: Never give private businesses your real address or phone number. Make sure they only have your e-mail address. They aren't the police, and don't need to know where you live. If there is a dispute they must engage with you directly by e-mail. If a business needs your credit card billing address, change the street address, as long as the city and zipcode are correct it will usually work.
oculus quest 2 - product of the decade
Yes, I agree in principal any hypothetical character in a narrative should be just as likely to be "she" as "he", but in this case the author specifically mentions his own personal aircraft. Maybe this was an attempt at such (justified) political correctness but being sloppy about where it was applied.
Self advertising in the worst possible way EVER.
Well, this kind of blanket statement is true for just about anything. Such an extreme level of skepticism isn’t useful.

The worst TED talks are flawed largely because they were about the promoting speaker rather than the subject. (And with that, erroneous information followed). TED Ed has a dedicated team of producers and writers for each video that translates some complex ideas from a qualified educator (researcher, historian, science writer, etc.) into video form.
That would lead to a huge influx in money from VCs wanting to fill the vacuum and jobs as advertisers suddenly have a harder, less scalable job to get an outreach.

European countries can and should take them up on that. Thanks to GDPR people can export their data to a new network pretty easily, but I expect most won’t even care/expect to keep the old data.
"Privatising profit but socialising cost" didn't happen. Profit and cost were privatised together. It's rtpg's misunderstanding. See my comments above. From rtpg's reply, rtpg is in fact against privatisation itself, not just against socialising cost.
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Some small hedge funds no one had heard of had a bad year, while market makers like Citadel who thrive on volatility and high volume made a fortune.
Wordle’s success is based on learning from the past
This does happen and tends to create competition.

If your entire service is a very thin wrapper around a smart contract, the market may decide that a fork with equivalent functionality and lower fees is more worth using.

On the other hand, if your service also provides other features on top of the contract (web/native interfaces, UX, hosting, ongoing development, customer support, and so on) then it may be hard to build a competitor simply by forking the underlying contract.
I have read, regarding the GPU shortage, that silicon wafers are in short supply. Is that true? If so, how does it square with actual component production not rising? Are people that high in the supply-chain stockpiling silicon?
You may struggle to reconcile this with the idea of public schooling and keep your position coherent. Particularly compulsory public schooling.

It is hard for the government to control the school system and also for the government not to exercise any control over the school system. I think you might be advocating voluntary, private-only schooling here - although I also think you might disagree with that opinion.
Precisely. It’s about managing investor expectations. They will never leave the European market and therefore lots of money on the table. They do feel the effects of privacy laws and tracking prevention though. It further betrays the entitled arrogance of exclusively ad-run businesses. It’s still profitable, just not as profitable as before.
Such extreme examples aside, but generally the expectation that rail transport has to be profitable is harmful. On one hand, people expect roads to be well-built and well-maintained so they can run their cars on them for free (with some exceptions), but when rail transport is subsidised with tax money to offer an environmentally friendly and competitive alternative to cars, they complain about it.
If you're on a Mac then the built-in Preview app works pretty well for this type of thing. The only problem I've had with it are accessing signed PDFs from AWS SOC2 attestations.
Good lord, HN is a circus tonight, and I find it delightful. Best birthday present. Good job OP.

11 out of 15, for the record.
It's way faster to learn by yourself than from someone teaching you because you can go directly to what you need to understand etc. So it's more suitable for geniuses.

Counterexamples to your point: Mozart, guy was copying whole compositions by memory at age 14

Adrian Lamo: didn't finish high school

Einstein?

And many others
My problem with PHP is that it solves the issue of code reuse the wrong way round.

In other languages, you can import code like this:

import mail as mailer

The external code ("mail") does not have to make assumptions how it will be called when it is used.

In PHP, it is the other way round. Every piece of code needs to try avoiding namespace conflicts by prefixing the code with something like this:

namespace Illuminate\Mail;

Hoping the namespace (here "Illuminate") will not clash with other code.
There is legacy code out there, and I think people are grateful for these frameworks :).
Also, adding functions (e.g. overloads with new types) can absolutely change runtime behaviour, break tests, etc. Depending on language.
> The Weimar Republic maintained a number of criminal provisions for hate crimes and anti-Semitic expression.

> The aim of censorship under the Nazi regime was simple: to reinforce Nazi power and to suppress opposing viewpoints and information

I believe Goebbels said something that the mistake was giving them free speech in the first place. He didn't like free speech at all, but he was also a propaganda expert and knew that some people would again try to censor speech which would work in his favor.
Where did Frederick Douglas say anyone was entitled to an audience?

The speaker has a right to speak, but cannot demand others listen. The listener has a right to hear, but cannot demand others to speak.

The speech he gives is amazing to read, he goes further:
"Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money."
I come to your website https://trycriew.web.app/ and I see some spam, it's not even clear what it is about, maybe add a description or a title?

After scrolling I see some posts, looks like some kind of dictionnary, or blog, or feed

The image at the bottom is not properly sized (it doesn't have the original ratio)

I see there are reviews, but isn't that comments?

"posted" doesn't mean much

"1 month ago" means there is very little activity on your website

The whole design is not great, the borders are too round, the shadows are too strong, the "Connect with us" at the bottom is not clear it's a button and not clear why I would want to connect with you.

You need to make it clear that links/buttons are links/buttons

etc.
Apologising in advance to derail from the point of this comment. Lately, I've been giving audiobooks a go. It really does make "consuming" a book much, much easier. Listening during commute/chores is a huge plus. But also, I can't help but feel that listening to books is far less engaging, rewarding than reading them. I've found this holds not just for immaculately written books, but even for easy reads (e.g. wheel of time; pulp sci-fis).

And so I'm at a cross w.r.t. audiobooks. If its not half as gratifying, should I continue to pay thrice as much for a book that I'd enjoy twice as less? On the other hand, am I better of consuming said book (/audiobook) than not?

I guess I want to ask if (i) it's just a me thing? and (ii) if not, where do you (/you all) stand on the matter?
Is it really common to say "I have a relationship"? I would instinctively say "I am in a relationship". Maybe though it is also because my mother tongue is German and in Germany people say "Ich bin in einer Beziehung".
Alright, that's a totally fair argument. And like I said, JR works well now. There are perhaps arguments around the edges about opportunity costs, but there is now a healthy structure in place (at least it seems to be so from the outside). And there are trains that work!

Hard to argue that the overall results are bad.

(I do think that "paying a fair price" is not a great argument when you are the central government and can print your currency, but Japan is not the US or Russia and it was the 1960s...)
Sure keep saying that to yourself. As if the whole 'culture war' wasn't herd mentality at its finest.
The amount of content available isn't a real problem, since Reddit deletes terabytes of that content on a whim. Consider it already deleted and migrate already.
I'm definitely not the fondest user of PHP. There is an extreme gap between the users and the ones being able to develop the language. That gap for example, is a lot smaller in Golang.

Language improvements didn't happen until Hack started being a thing. The performance was a shitshow for 20 years until they got help from Intel engineers. Some of those fixes were extreme low hanging fruit, simple profiler based optimizations -- again, why was this not picked up sooner, imo due to said gap.

Also the community has a severe case of Stockholm syndrome. Always on the extreme defense of the language and the big frameworks (Symfony, laravel). It's a community which shuns other languages and makes fun of Enterprisey Java solutions, yet the average project made in Symfony reminds me of one thing, Java Enterprise projects. The practical difference being they swapped XML for YAML.