skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of creators create without the expectation of direct payment. Of course, many are not in a position to do so as well. But I expect that, for the most part, the platforms make a lot more money off the creators attempting to monetize than the creators themselves do. And, in so doing, they make the overall experience worse.

But, yes, RSS was always pretty fringe. And today there's enough hope being dangled that a newsletter or YouTube channel will make it big that it's even more fringe.
Since nothing Google provides has any effect on its income, but all of it is free and unlimited (until they shut it down), all of it.
What happened? 400k salaries for developers happened.
> An aberition in the system is not a rule

An aberration shows your rule is not actually a rule. Trump is also not the only time this happened. FDR also bucked the trend.
> Any idea how many projects besides Wikipedia are run by WMF

You seemed to have missed the point, while saying it. The point is the banner makes it seem like Wikipedia needs money, when it's actually all the other projects, which OP presumably does not value, which need the money.

> now projects are being cancelled, staff departures aren't being backfilled, and jobs are at stake.

That sounds like a desirable thing, get it back to reasonable spending levels.
Maybe "createad a website", "built a website" are simpler and deliver the meaning.

My thinking is that if by "launched" we mean "deployed to production" then it's useless for the end user. If it's not deployed to production, then the user has nothing to visit so for all intents and purposes of the end user you haven't built anything (or launched).
Surveillance Capitalism is not only about the 4th Amendment, (even if i did focus that aspect in my comment) shifting power centers may make corporations a bigger threat for civil rights than government agencies, as behavioral futures markets and mass manipulation undermine the very ideals of a liberal democratic republic and the core concept of how our society is governed. I can't compress Zuboffs book into a few sentences. Glad you know about it.

I like to joke that in the EU personal data belongs to the person it is about, in china all data belongs to the government, and in the USA data belongs to the corporations that gather it. If i could choose the global system for human society, i would not choose surveillance communism, but i would also not choose surveillance capitalism. I want no state of mass surveillance, no matter if it is operated by the government or by corporations, it is a terrible idea either way.

We disagree on whether surveillance by american corporations is "a different league" or "just as bad" as surveillance by chinese corporations. Let's first agree the societal systems are obviously different and that free speech and the ability to reform are parts where these systems differ. But I do not consider surveillance capitalism less worse due to the ability of democracy to reform democratically, because surveillance capitalism undermines that very ability. I do however agree that it is good we can have this discourse without worrying about our social score. Please like and subscribe ;-)
My all time favorite is Robert T. Kiyosaki's book "Poor dad, rich dad". Pretty much everything he teaches about financial success is fiction. In reality he worked a regular 9 to 5 job, failed at starting his own business, and finally made money by selling this book and providing seminars.
You're an HN reader, so you should be able to knock this out over a weekend /s
> In reality, the Wikipedia Foundation is doing just fine. In fact, they make so much money from donations, they spend (read: waste) massive amounts of it on various social ventures instead of using it on the service that caused people to donate in the first place.

That's a strong statement that requires some proof and links to the sources.
> Any idea how many projects besides Wikipedia are run by WMF

I use Wikipedia, not any of these other projects.

> Any idea how expensive it is to support and facilitate the big "Movement" discussions

I don't care about the "movement"

> and the User Code of Conduct discussions?

I don't care about this either, but how on Earth is that expensive?

You are asking me to donate to things I don't use, and don't care about, and are not necessary to the product that I use. If you allowed me to donate specifically to Wikipedia, I would (and I did until I realized I wasn't). Why don't you segregate funds between Wikipedia and the rest of WMF?

As for the spam level, I know that the reason that it has gone up is because you need more money to fund this stuff that I don't care about and could run Wikipedia on a small fraction of the donations you get. That's the issue. Not how "soft" the banner design is. You are using Wikipedia as a bait and switch fundraising operation for a lot of other stuff that, honestly, very few people know or care about or would donate to if it weren't for the Wikipedia focused fundraising.
I would imagine they’re salted so shouldn’t have equal hashes
Wow, this sounds exactly like what I was talking about. Thanks for the reference.
Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’
Yes, however, I do not see that salary increasing any time soon. If I were to rent, that salary would get stretched a lot more than it is right now, as even that 90% of money I can save currently with my lifestyle (and it's closer to 70-80%, realistically speaking) is kind of peanuts.

Indeed, I have options, but the other option is going from saving a small amount to almost nothing. And the more I think about it, the more I realize I may be just... making a big mistake, and that I should "Carpe Diem".

Let me remind you at my current rate I'd need to work for 20 years to afford a house in my country (with 0 other expenses, so 30, really speaking).
Ask HN: One Book you recommend reading before end of the year
They are almost like 6-5 days left for this year to end. I wanted to know which book fellow HN readers recommend reading
Which tools do you recommend?

Feedly does not do this (at least, not by default?), and I consider the experience substandard.
With a phone call model, you can still select your drivers more carefully. Remember that Uber and Lyft actually left the Austin market because they refused to comply with basic best practices for ensuring passenger safety-- like submitting drivers to fingerprint checks.
> This narrative is flawed for a few reasons. Firstly, the stock market crash affected all companies, not just TSLA.

TSLA has been absolutely hammered above and beyond most other stocks. There's not many companies that are down 70% off their highs and at this point TSLA has lost more than bitcoin, an asset that's currently in the middle of the biggest financial scandal since Bernie Madoff.

> Second, there's no evidence to suggest that Musk wants to "own the Libs" or that Democrats have actually stopped buying Tesla cars

He's publicly thrown his weight behind Republican candidates and said Democrats were bad. He's let Donald Trump back on twitter and re-platformed lots of ultra right wing folks including people who stormed the capital.

Most CEOs quietly donate to the party/candidates of their choice. Some do it very quietly with PACs that don't even require disclosure. Openly advocating for specific candidates is a recipe for disaster as a major corporate leader.

> He is simply in favor of free speech.

I agree, free speech is great. Now explain how this isn't a PR disaster for Tesla?

> Third, even if Musk was actually trying to "own the Libs" and it was affecting Tesla sales, any decrease in TSLA purchases by Democrats could be balanced out by an increase in purchases by Republicans.

Read the damn article. Tesla ownership is a lot more prevalent in rich, liberal communities. The exact communities he's alienating. This should surprise absolutely nobody. Instead of taking sides in political slap fights, Musk needs to put his ego aside, shut the fuck up and take money from anyone who wants to drive a Tesla.

People buy cars for a lot of reasons but one of this big reasons people buy expensive cars is because they feel it makes some sort of statement to the world about who they are.

The statement a Tesla made 2 years ago was "I'm a forward thinking environmentalist" whereas today it says "I support Elon Musk".
For me RSS worked very well at a time when mobile data connection/wifi was not ubiquitous yet. For a year or two, every morning when I came to school I went directly to that one place where there was the one Wi-Fi router. I downloaded all the new articles in my NetNewsWire feed and then read them over the day.

The tech is nice, but I have no desire to use it anymore. I no longer follow specific blogs. Now I just open hacker news or reddit any time I want to read something.
The federal government is free to ask for whatever it likes. It’s pretty absurd to imagine otherwise.

What it can’t do is punish people for what they say.

Twitter as you point out, is a business that is free to do whatever it likes, and publish whatever it likes on its website.

At no point did Twitter enter into an agreement with people posting tweets about who they will be shown to. That’s not part of its business.

Elon doesn’t seem to be doing anything differently. He’s using Twitter to advocate for his political views, and ban people he doesn’t like.

Associating Elon with freedom of speech is a red herring. There is no connection.

That said, everything that people keep claiming to be ‘censored’ is somehow public knowledge, and nobody is afraid the government is going to punish them for talking about it.

The idea that freedom of speech is under threat because of anything to do with Twitter just isn’t in contact with reality.
> There is no meaningful sense in which either Rust or Go’s reference compilers is “proprietary.”

Nobody is talking about the compilers. This, right here — the fact that you are conflating a language and one implementation — is the whole point and is indicative of the tight control the respective organizations keep over their languages.

The direction of the languages is entirely up to their private owners, and that exclusivity is enforced via intellectual property law. They are exactly as proprietary as RHEL or Unix.
You might be interested in Ink and Switch's 'Inkbase' [1] concept. I'm not sure it's ready for Android tablets yet, but it seems to have a lot of potential for 'programmable' ink like you're describing.

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/inkbase/
I agree completely. You have to know who you are dealing with and you have to have already established a relationship with the person.
If anything, I think you're overselling it. Most authors make at best a very small amount of money from their work and are nowhere near being able to make a living from it. Most books simply don't sell much at all (200-300 for an average author), to the point where even 100% of sticker price wouldn't pay for a person's living expenses.

A generous assumption is hardbacks at $25 a pop. That would put an average author at 5k to 7.5k in a year... under the very improbable assumption of 100% of sticker price going to the author.

Spotify and the music world has a distinctly different problem. Last I read, the vast majority of their revenue is going to their licensing deals. The license-holders then don't pay much to the artists. You can blame Spotify for this if you choose, and many artists like to publicly, but as with many things in music it comes back to the labels.
Fair enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
I know I’m in the minority but I stopped reading Sanderson because I dislike Kramer so much. His inflection makes everything sound so corny.
For a SaaS to help founders I had over 200 wait-list sign-ups. I think only one tried the MVP and that was about it. I put significant time and effort into building it. Marketing is incredibly difficult. Possibly why Paul Graham says there needs to be at least 2 co-founders.
Well, yeah. But that isn't helping his stance here. Doesn't necessarily hurt, but is a distraction.

He is claiming that audible gives a raw cut of profit, particularly to the smaller artists. But is there evidence that they give a smaller net payout to the same audience?
School's out...
Anyone recommend a “beginners starter kit” to start exploring wled stuff? Ie. A board, pa, and smallish or various strip options? Thanks
The square root of 4 to a million decimals by Normal L. DeForest
Destroying science and gnawing at the idea of freethought, one victim each time.

> "Those of us who have had personal experiences of living in totalitarian societies will recognize that summary condemnation and punishment of individuals accused of ideological trespasses—without due process—is the hallmark of totalitarian institutions"

This phrase is the perfect resume for lots of actual examples. If science must bend and be put to the service of the local ideology whatever it is, there is not point into wanting to be a scientist anymore. Is the dirty work and bad parts of being a politic, without none of the benefits of being a politic.
> bunch of extremely well-paid SWEs complain about donating two bucks to a completely free encyclopedia

You are NOT donating to free encyclopedia. You are donating to their parent company, which spends fraction of your donations on the encyclopedia, the rest goes to other questionable causes. That what bothers everybody.
I’m not following. DEI are racist? In what way?

I’m confused because holding initiatives for underrepresented groups seems to be a good thing for society.
>Some non-profits exist mainly to enrich their officers

This could very well be, but it goes against what first comes to the mind of most people when talking about a non-profit: the name itself implies that those companies are "not for profit" after all.

EDIT: I also think that the reason why most countries have a special tax law regarding non-profit organization, is to help people that want to do "the right thing" even if it is not profitable, not to provide their officers with an easier way to enrich themselves. So if a non-profit is being used by their officers to enrich themselves, I think it is correct to see them as people that are cheating the system. If they are doing it in a way that is technically legal, I would say they are probably exploiting some loophole.
Russia's success in taking Ukraine, and eventually big parts of the EU, was somewhat hinged on the idea that nato, and to a lesser extent the EU as a whole, could be broken up by doing things like threatening Germany with a cutoff of natural gas.

This sort of breaking up of NATO cohesion would allow China and Russia to act more freely in the world without a unified opposition.

What China and Russia were betting on was that the EU would be weak in the face of tension, and realistically that was a pretty good bet because the EU looked pretty.

They attacked, that didn't turn out to be true, and all their best laid plans are going to shit before their eyes as the EU unifies in the United States pros like 10% of our military capacity at Ukraine and manages to make a tiny country of like 25 million people compete effectively with the country of 150 million that is like three times the size.

China still wants Russia to be a strong unified country, because they want a Russia opposed to the west so that the west is now divided between two fronts.

But aside from that, every single one of their plans has gone about as long as it possibly could have.

Russia was not able to take Ukraine but in a few days

The west did not fall apart

United States has gotten stronger economically.

Economic sanctions have been incredibly effective, without firing a single shot.

It has become clear that given a choice between security and economic progress, countries choose security. China was betting on the ability for their large experts and import market to prevent countries from standing against them.

People were claiming this was going to be the decade of authoritarians against waning democracies, but all of a sudden it looks like this is going to be the decade of strong democracies against waning authoritarians.
I quit Lastpass about a year ago and at this point I really hope they actually deleted all my credentials and not just pretended to and hid it somewhere else.
This is changing! (or technically, has changed!)

eBPF recently added the ability to look through internal data structures through iterators [0] so instead of parsing text we can run a program that traverses through all the task_structs and pushes the exact information we want to userspace in the form the developer wants.

So, alongside other tradeoffs, it's more flexible than syscalls.

[0] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2022/03/31/bpf-ite...
Related: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/why-i-hate-the-indie-hacke...
What other gig economy companies does this apply to?
I setup filters in gmail to archive my newsletters, add the label 'Newsletters', and forward them to my RSS reader app (in this case Readwise (paid), which has a personalized email that accepts inbound traffic). Any new newsletters I sign up with myname+news@gmail.com. That suffix means it still arrives at my email address, but I can use that recipient to create filters. I never see these emails unless I click on the 'Newsletters' label.

This keeps my inbox clean.
Would it be possible that the wheels could be built in a more-trusted / hardened environment? Having a binary blob isn't as serious when it comes from a trusted source. Almost all Debian/etc linux distributions have this feature (binary-downloading package manager).

The hardening could mitigate on-compilation hacking.

Obviously, this leaves "compile in the backdoor and wait for the user to fall into it" but at least this isn't an issue of compiling on the user's computer and it isn't a issue of binary blobs. And possibly there's a greater chance of detection if actual source code has to be available to compile.
>... because it’s the only side criticizing it.

That's an absolute that's not true. I've seen a variety of people lambaste it, from right-wingers to independents, apolitical folk to even some progressive folk. Isn't nuance neat? :)
There's a variety of running jokes that Italian is half sign language anyways.

(Apparently derived from the fact that in Italy, there's quite a lot more non-verbal communication with hand gestures than other parts of the world)
The model of finding the thinnest gap between business and customer possible, drive a massive VC backed wedge into it, ignore unit price and hope you can figure it out before you run out of series raises has been a staple of the US scene for years, this isn't exactly shocking.

We've also seen the central conceit of "you're the product" in the sense of some next wave behind the scenes user/consumer data market be exposed for literally just ads, same as it ever was.
And don't forget the "product managers" and executives. Much harder to justify that type of capture in call center model.
Ah, it's hard to see those 15 unread items from Aaron Swartz. What an optimistic time that was for the internet.
Google Reader was a service that brought in good will, subsidized by people trusting Google to "not be evil" and provide useful services. This subsequently turned into people using Google's money-making products, like ads.

At least to most I've spoken with on the subject (a few dozen, so informal straw poll), killing Google Reader turned people's opinion of Google from scrappy startup to untrustworthy behemoth.
> He has sold all the Teslas that he can sell to coastal elite liberals

If you think this is true, I have a bridge to sell you.

Tesla right now owns the lion's share of the EV market (a late-November report put it at 65% of the market), but that share has already started to slip (it's down from 71% the year prior). But they're still a small player in the overall auto market (~3.5%), especially compared to established operations like Ford (~13.5%), Toyota (~15%), and GM (~16.25%). And now that two of those three marques are making heavy EV bets, I'd expect the EV market to grow overall, something Tesla is increasingly poorly positioned to take advantage of.

Put another way: Westchester County has the highest rate of Tesla ownership (6,926 total, 69.4/10k residents). Using the tool in the original post, there were 685,843 total vehicle registrations in Westchester County in 2022, so Tesla accounts for just 1.01% of vehicle registrations. What CEO would accept such a low level as the maximum addressable market?
> This is one of the underappreciated benefits of the Nordic-style welfare state: everybody can afford to fail.

So then the Nordics are the startup capitals of the world, far surpassing all other countries, right? Right?
Underground ibogaine use for the treatment of substance use disorders
but python is not the only language to have an eval(), so why is python's in particular the root of all evil?
I honestly feel for you and understand how frustrated you must be feeling. I also think you put too much pressure on yourself and that you went after a lifestyle instead of working on a product that solves a problem and with that achieve your goals.

Two things that come to my mind:
- The majority of the startups operate in new/unproven markets. Three startups is far from being a lot in this scenario. Ask how many failed startups the best entrepreneurs have worked on and on some cases you'll see 30+.
- If you don't have access to venture capital, it's wise to work on your startup as a side gig and see how it goes from there. You would have much likely had more runaway ($$$) and be confronted with other business opportunities that would result in other (sometimes better) ideas.

The last point I want to add is related with the type of startups I see being founded. I view the Product Hunt feed on my Telegram and if I do a scroll over the next month or so, +80% are startups about tools for other entrepreneurs or slight variations of already existing companies (with the majority being note taking apps). I'm really not feeling a lot of innovation there.

PS - I run a side-gig Cybersecurity newsletter (cyb3rsecurity.tips) with decent results and the traction is definitely there while having 0 followers on Twitter.
If I wanted to make a programmable LED grid in the least DIY way possible (I know nothing about electronics), would Pixelblaze be a good option?
> though you may opt for a spinner if a progressive operation is consistently, predictably very short

For greater guidance on this, the Nielsen Norman Group spake thusly:

> Use a progress indicator for any action that takes longer than about 1.0 second.

> [A looped loading animation] should be reserved for actions that take between 2-10 seconds. For anything that takes less than 1 second to load, it is distracting to use a looped animation, because users cannot keep up with what happened and might feel anxious about whatever flashed on the screen

> Generally, percent-done progress indicators should be used for longer processes that take 10 or more seconds.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/progress-indicators/
That's the option I like too, but it's easier said than done. We have these quasi-monopolies popping up around digital intellectual property of nearly every sort: charge a lot. Everybody uses Microsoft Office. There's only a handful of Hollywood studios. Etc. Etc.

It seems that for some combination of legal and technical reasons it's very hard to beat an incumbent in these industries. Maybe it's just that the economies of scale are so good, I don't know. but when you think about it, everything involved is man-made, the very concept of intellectual property itself is a human invention. Patents, copyrights etc. all just stuff we cooked up. If we have defined it to be a self-reinforcing monopoly-generating thing, maybe we should redefine it.
Let me guess : issues coming from recent monitors expecting DRM ?