skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That comment makes untrue claims and cites no sources. The claim about multi-million dollar jackpot winners is a viral meme that keeps making the rounds despite the people with the actual stats repeatedly trying to debunk it. It is not true that a huge percentage of winners go bankrupt.

https://www.nefe.org/news/2018/01/research-statistic-on-fina...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PetPeeves/comments/18xqcbw/70_of_lo...
The same thing happened with law careers earlier. Everyone believed that becoming a lawyer was the golden ticket. Back in the early 2000s, law schools were packed with people pursuing that path.

Everyone highlighted the starting salaries of lawyers, but those figures applied mainly to outliers in BigLaw. Many graduates found themselves with $150k in debt, working $60k associate jobs in major cities. It can take a decade or more before you start earning the kind of money you were promised at graduation.
I don’t know, California-based co-founders trying to pump rates in the US by making people have info on better salaries (we can raise your salary by $XX,XXx!) while simultaneously outsourcing work to low salary positions in India just has a bad taste in my opinion.

But good for business I’m sure!
I mean, there's a reasonable argument that large swathes of current copyright law in the US also violate the First Amendment. I haven't read it yet, but the book No Law from Stanford University Press[1] makes that argument and has been on my to-read list for a while.

[1]: https://www.sup.org/books/law/no-law
That's one thing you gotta learn by yourself, hopefully.
Sounds like a great book. Did you happen to read it in English? Ask because my brief search for it shows at least one review saying it's a bad translation.

Link to more info for those interested:

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL57401616M/The_Machine

https://www.lebowskipublishers.nl/boek/2257/stijn-bronzwaer-...
While I think there’s definitely room for improvement as far as loosening things up, speaking from experience I had a very eerie and disturbing encounter with a music generating AI which after a very long session (definitely hallucinating) started saying things that seemed mean spirited and harsh, and actually had some relevance to the song. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days, and it really did give me a bad feeling. It was a feeling like, “What if it’s right?”
Since when is QQQ actively managed?
Lots of the heavily multilingual people in the world also have a lot of irl interactions that necessitate knowing languages other than their mother tongue. Of course that’s not the only reason to learn languages, but it is both common and effective. So in terms of expected number of languages spoken I think it’s a good baseline.

In the case of the US the languages that would meet that criteria in most parts of the country would be English and Spanish. But there are also hierarchies around languages, ie people that speak the more dominant languages are less likely to speak the less dominant languages, but the speakers of the less dominant languages are expected to speak the more dominant languages and suffer higher consequences if they don’t.
I agree that this isn't really something I'd switch over on its own, but what entitlement are you talking about? How is discussing not using an app or switching to something else... entitlement? I reread the whole thread and I couldn't find anything that felt like entitlement tbh...
Redwood Materials recycled a record 20 GWh of batteries in 2024
That’s nearly double the amount of battery energy storage Tesla deployed in all of Q4 2024.
Links? I liked this post - wouldn't mind seeing one of yours!
Same.

I think much of the stuff that you need to do is common sense (put word out, write about it, encourage word of mouth). And it's usually obvious what will definitely kill your project (don't talk about it to anyone, don't listen to customer feedback etc.) so do the opposite of those.

My general experience has been that word of mouth is slow but very reliable and the customers you get from there are usually high value.
Yeah, I am still thinking how to evolve this into a useful, yet minimalist design as it grows. I am quite inspired by high-density websites (things that were de-facto in the late 90s), so will have to see how to incorporate that.

That being said, the meta-point about at-scale discovery is astute - it's largely unsolved for personal sites/digital gardens. And I certainly don't want to be the bottleneck long-term. Will have to think through a solution as more content gets added.
I've found myself in a similar position. I'm trying to figure out how to not be self-destructive, but I feel the urge to distance myself from people.
I don’t think complaining about flagging in general is helpful here. Science hasn’t ever meant that all viewpoints are equal. That would just be chaos.

It’s also not decided by popular vote, but if you want peer review instead, then you’ll have to read a peer-reviewed journal rather than Hacker News comments.
Don't get me wrong, I like it.
But there's a fake nostalgia around terminals lately (nvim, oh-my-zsh, etc) and it seems emotional
Myanmar Military Junta Enacts Repressive New Cybersecurity Bill
The talk is not online anymore. Anyone has a mirror?
Not necessarily since you pay for wireless connectivity. RX/TX doesn't matter. Recipient could be on a different network too. You want a text, you cover the costs.
Banks still charge me on both ends for int'l wires.
Now I personally agree with you and not with the reasoning I presented above but it's still an argument.
(My guess) They don't know they're supposed to.
We prefer to think of them as synergies of interest!
Thanks for writing this. It reminds me of Steve Job's commencement speech at Stanford.

> Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
We've happily fucked future generations by being scared of nuclear (with the fear campaign funded by fossil fuel companies), and bring about climate change.

That is shameful, and the anti-nuclear crowd can take responsibility for that.

I'd be more concerned about the next 100 years, than pretending we can predict what things we do today will be a positive or negative for 200 years from now, let alone 1000s.

And anyway. If you bury this stuff deep enough, encase it in glass, it's going to take a fairly advanced civilization to get at it. They'll quickly work out the risks involved after playing too much with their newly found treasure. Then they can decide whether to leave it be, or whether it's a boon.
I prefer to view it as "what's the likelihood that, with your current knowledge of languages, you're able to communicate with any person you may presumably want to speak to in the future."

This is why it's so much easier to only speak English than it is to only speak another language.
We had another post on this topic the other day and my position is obviously the same. I've been programming for 35 years and the clearest long term trend is that I write shorter functions (notwithstanding starting out as a child in some random BASIC dialect where I wasn't taught about GOSUB, if it was even supported) and am more happy with my code.

If you have to argue against long function names to make small functions sound bad, you've already lost. In the other thread, I showed off some code from the main module of my current project, `bbbb`. Currently, the file contains 17 functions, of which 4 are hooks mandated by the calling code and the other 13 are private implementation details. The longest name in those implementation functions (`_normalized_name_and_version`) is the same length as the longest names among the hooks implemented (`get_requires_for_build_sdist` and `get_requires_for_build_wheel`), and would be shorter without the handicap of a leading underscore.

I'd say more, but it deserves more thought and editing than I want to devote to a comment submission form.
admiration++ for responsiveness in adding the email option.
I wouldn't claim all views are equal either, but people are mighty quick to jump on how misinformation is defined (even when that's been proven wrong) here, I don't equate it to many other things
He actually did the "it's not you it's me" routine, I hear George Costanza invented it.
which countries did have high standards for everyone but no "too rich" (whatever that def means. Is more than 1 million dollars too much?) people?
then that's a good strategy. It's about time the world takes on western dominance.
Would Asians still fall into this category? OP mentioned that Apple is at 50%.
Nicely done. I know this seems crazy at first but in my opinion big SQLs are one of the best ways to store complexity.

The problem being complex is the issue. SQL is a standard, condensed, extremely performant, actually testable, and logical language. Sure, not anybody can instantly maintain it but that would be the same as if it was a lot of lines and functions in Java. The more lines the more risk for bugs.

I also love how deep SQL goes. And that makes totally sense. It powers the world of data since 40+ years so of course people asked for niche features. One of my favorite is the model clause in Oracle with which you can implement multidimensional arrays. A friend implemented Conway's game of life with it in way less lines you expect.
Which is exactly why the command line is to be used as little as possible, and for the very few use cases a command line is required, it doesn't need to be fancy.

macOS users of Apple and NeXTSTEP culture linage don't care iTerm2 exists at all, only Linux and BSD refugees.
Unfortunately it’s literally impossible to own and not rent your domain :(
Nailed it - entitled captures it accurately.

I've been on HN since 2011 and it has never been this hostile, unhelpful and flat out arrogant.
And if you want to do a commercial spin-off from your university work, it might be easier to put it all out as MIT/BSD/Apache and then start a completely independent company than to deal with all the paperwork.

This makes life easier for competitors, so it's definitely a tradeoff, but it's the right tradeoff in some circumstances.
A family member who seems intelligent and sane occasionally tells me stories of her experiences with ghosts.
What’s there to gain though?
I'd imagine this applies to emotional health as well as financial and physical health.
I enjoy AVR Assembly a lot. A big reason is that Atmel has very good datasheets.

However if having an audience for your games matters, this is maybe a bad choice. On the other hand, if you would like to use LEDs, buttons, and sensors (or just like making physical hardware in general) it's very good fun.

Another word of warning, I find Microchip Studio bloated and buggy. To the point where I'll code ASM in literally anything except that, then paste it in to simulate.

Also there's a bug in the Atmel-ICE. One of the programming headers is soldered in upside down (or at least it is on mine). This is no problem if you buy the full cable assembly (where they reverse it again in the cable). However if you cheap out and buy the raw PCB only like I did, knowing this will save you a frustrating puzzle.

Anyway these minor frustrations aside, its the main language I've always returned to when I want to make something just for the fun of it.
Love the idea, but I’m not sure how well it will scale. I’ve seen similar lists before and even went out of my way to include my blog there, only to never find that page again.

That said, I’m loving this renewed interest in building our own little corners on the internet. I have mine[1] too.

[1]: https://rednafi.com
> unusual straight rods which reminded him of Cleopatra's Needle (Obelisk ...

Also, of course, Obelix[1], purveyor of menhirs[2] -- Breton "standing stones".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelix

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir
The Dome (2005)
I generally agree with the sentiment (and yes, internet should be treated as an utility). However, the reality is that the vast majority of people will not be able to self-host on their own hardware for a myriad of reasons (lack of skill, lack of money, lack of interest, etc.) That's not a reason to gatekeep them from having their own corner and claim it as theirs.

If you have a domain and your own site, even hosted on a colocated rack or in the cloud, you're already miles ahead of those that don't. And if you have a domain and can manage DNS records, then in the future that doesn't preclude you from "graduating" to your own hardware, if you so desire. The goal here is more or less self-sufficiency with web properties rather than a pure interpretation of "rent" vs. "own." Because at some point you have to rent something from someone (say, you're not running your own domain registry and registrar).
A lot of the contradictory nonsense was simply a result of the election year. As such, cynical people in power were aware they could make recommendations that would be unhelpful to the incumbent president’s re-election. Low economic activity AND civil unrest were both great factors for getting Trump out.
It's true, and yet it's still a better alternative to not having your own domain at all (at least IMO).
I would recommend the Skyfield library: https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/

It does the same thing, uses the spk files to compute planetary positions, but it does so with a beautifull API which is a pleasure to use.
A bit funny to see "owner" and "buying a domain" next to each other
The prevailing wisdom before 2020 was that almost no virus was airborne; and you needed to assume new ones weren't, lest all hell break loose.

That's how we got the pandemic.
Agreed that is why auditors, disclosure regulations and companies like hindenburg exist and how public markets should function, they prevent executives from defrauding the public. Keep the accounting clean, lest you invite scrutiny from shorts
sets of reals, not traps.
Bringing a mobile external monitor with me saved my life (figuratively).
Weird. I love a good link list, but most links I clicked were just regular portfolio websites, not digital gardens in the gardens vs. streams[1] sense.

Does the creator not know what a digital garden is?

[1] https://archive.org/details/gardens-and-streams-wikis-blogs-...
I’m not the end user in this scenario, but the person using it has had no issues for the several months it’s been on their machine. This was a vanilla installation with no UX extras like start menu replacement
Do you guys provide relocation/visa support?
In my case, it's surprising because companies waste a ton of money buying snake oil and aggravating their users for next to no benefit. You'd expect companies that "only care about their bottom line" to optimize this away, yet they don't.
I don't want to gatekeep, I want to gate-unkeep! The way things are going, we're divinding the people and the companies into two classes, with the former having fewer rights and privileges than the latter.
I want everyone to have the RIGHT to participate in the Internet, should they have the interest to learn how to do it. That right is under pressure when we accept this division, when we use the excuse that "most people don't know how to", to justify taking away everyones right to even try.

If only companies have the right to participate on the internet, they are empowered even more to chose who should be allowed to even run a website.. It's a slippery slope that ends up in a very bad place, participation wise.
It becomes like the airline industry, where the companies pushing hardest for more regulation and red-tape are the oldest, those who made their fortunes back when it was easier and cheaper, and who now use their enourmous wealth to make it harder for new players to enter their market.

It's the same everywhere, when you start allowing power to concentrate.
Hah! Well that certainly is a good directional guess! I am of Eastern European descent.

Also, big fan of Krtek - grew up on that cartoon, was quite an educational experience at that age.
It's not like the forbid mirroring. The problem is simply the size of it: around 100 petabytes.
I think having kids should help a lot. I'm spending around an hour every evening with mine and a few hours during weekends, but neither me nor they feel this is enough. I would also go skiing for 2 weeks every winter with my family and rent a cottage in the countryside for whole summer holidays, but I have neither money nor time to do it.

The irony of the situation is that by the time I earn the money my kids will grow up, leaving me a sad lonely man.
How are you the arbiter of what responsibilities the developer of one the the most incredible open source projects should have when you're happy collecting your Microsoft and Google paychecks literally spreading cancer on the internet in the form of AMP pages and straight-up closed-source trash?
I don't understand. How is it that my comment can't lead to any productive discussion?

I don't know anything about that AfD party, why Elon supports them, or their policies. At a glance it does appear the Elon supports them. I am taking the previous commenter at their word that the party backs "complete closure" of the EU borders, but I can't confirm or deny it yet. I haven't looked into it yet. At a glance it does seem extreme (from an Overton window perspective) for Elon to be backing a political party that wants to break up the EU.

How was my previous comment handwaving? I have to expand into all of the above instead of summarizing my impression in order for me to not be handwaving?

Like... what?
I found Klaus Schwab’s HN burner account!

> let’s modify peoples’ genes and make them eat bugs
Most scrapers use residential IPs nowadays. They will just rotate their IP and go on, while the IP you banned would get assigned to an innocent user that won’t be able to access your site now.
Started my blog[1] around five years ago and never looked back. Before that, I got burned by Medium and decided: never again. Maintaining your own little corner on the internet is easier than ever, though I agree it still requires some technical know-how. Also, I’m not sure how much I trust these WYSIWYG blog engines like Squarespace or Weebly.

[1]: https://rednafi.com
Others have already pointed that mortality rates do not reveal the full picture. There are various factors that affect the mortality rates in different countries – masks being only one of those factors. There are more critical factors at play such as age, obesity, co-morbidities, access to affordable health care, etc.

While masks are shown to slow the spread of infection, ultimately the larger problem with handling the COVID-19 pandemic was the lockdowns and isolation. Lockdowns and isolating individuals definitely helped reduce the spread of the infection and probably saved a lot of lives but prolonged isolation actually reduced the overall immunity in our population. Human immune systems require constant exposure to all sorts of germs to keep it humming along. Isolation does the exact opposite and while it is useful in the short term, prolonged 'clean room' type conditions created due to isolation and lockdowns are harmful.
Fair feedback. In my eyes, I treat any personal site as a digital garden - I am not really sticking to the "pure" definition. If you are putting an effort to curate and grow your own site, is that not a digital garden? I think it is, but that's my own take on it.

I intentionally try to avoid sites that are in any shape _not_ personal or otherwise representative of an individual trying to stake their little corner of the internet.
Hard to stomach but you can't deny honesty. I wouldn't be surprised that more business high brass people think that way about the workers but are smart enough not to be open about it.

Otherwise the guy doesn't seem to be having a crisis at all. The problem is he's been doing business for the past 10 years. Likely put in a lot more hours than needed. Now business is all he knows and catching up to doing something more meaningful is hard.
Because most startups fail. Venture capital is a bulk business. Look at how YC works.
China Flexes Lithium Dominance with Plans for Tech-Export Curbs
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sciencealert.com is a pop-sci site, it doesn't use that strict terminology.
Building immunity via vaccines rather than naturally deprives the living virus a potential host to evolve in. It also means you don't have to contract the virus in order to build immunity, meaning the first time you get the virus, a vaccinated person's body would be more prepared, which means more people could more contract the disease at once, without collapsing the health system - allowing it to be safer at the community level to free up movement. I just think you misunderstood the reasoning, you weren't being "lied to".
php would be just

Hello World
My dearest memories are with friends and lovers, I miss the former and can’t always have the latter; if I had all the money in the world I would use it to spend more time with the people I love and care about.
Is the legislature more democratic than the executive?

Also, what does that mean in reality? The 538 elected legislators can't regulate everything (or anything), of course. Whatever they do, it will require delegating power, as I said, to functionaries. And in any case, implementing laws and policy is an executive branch function - for the legislature to do it (beyond writing law) would be a violation of separation of powers.
UK ICO response to Google's policy change on device fingerprinting
Cloth masks are not very effective against spreading of covid19, but they are effective against spreading of swine flu. Covid19 and swine flu both hit hard immune system for first time, so mortality rate jumps from 1.1% + 0.1% to 5.4%, or about 5x.
I think many companies in China have a different relationship with IP. They realize that people copy from each other, they will gladly copy from others and expect them to do the same, yet they realize that being hard-to-copy gives them a competitive advantage.

In the west, being hard-to-copy often just means slapping a proprietary license on your software and not worrying about much else. THe "source available" model is a prime example, the software is trivial to copy in theory, but everybody knows there would be legal consequences, so nobody serious actually does it.

In China, this doesn't work, so you have to obfuscate your code, build anti-reverse-engineering protections etc. This is similar to how the gaming market works in the west.

There are plenty of great writeups on reverse-engineering Chinese apps and hardware, and their reverse-engineering protections are often far more elaborate than what those same apps would have if made by western companies.