skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this creates the perfect incentive to ensure that in four years any way to keep the existential risk at bay is worth stopping for
Most frameworks are still there (requiring everyone be fluent in all of them) just because no meteorite killed that specific dinosaur.

Every framework starts from scratch pretending all done before belongs to the trash can, much like that multi-year discussion re: Raku being better than Perl just because has "say" instead of "print".
The net outcome of that? the complete irrelevance of both.

Dear nerd-framework author, can you all invest 5 minutes in a cross compiler/converter, strive for compatibility and not reinventing the wheel when native JS performs the very same thing?
I think the bigger issue is that most of the financial upsides of startups were illusory

Unless you're a founder, you're unlikely to make any money, and predatory VC/backers using convertibles/senior debt to turn your equity into Zimbabwean dollars. Thats before any stats are calculated for lasting long enough to either IPO, make money or get bought out.

As someone who did successfully exit, the stories of multiple-millions being handed out turned out to be legends. Dodgy accounting & staff retention meant that actually you don't get fuckyou money.

The only realy reason to join a startup is that you either believe in the "mission" or that you believe it will bring you joy to work in that way.
> And learning modern React ecosystem from the scratch is no easy undertaking even for experienced developer.

I don't see a scenario where this is likely, other than if you're contributing directly to the react codebase.
The main reason for the no-go is that you get hired by HR, not another developer. Many times the company has outsourced the hiring process to another company and that one has even less of a clue about programming. So they just read the keywords (or use an AI) to match you. No match, no interview.

Ofcourse you can pick up another stack much easier if you already know another. But that is not interesting if all you do is compare number of matches on the CV.
Interest rates are like a dial which turns economic activity up and down.

I’ve always understood that in theory but it’s the first time I’ve actually lived through it and it’s wild.

A few years of higher rates and half of the tech industry and the people who buy tech seems to be on hold.

It makes me realise how vacuous the last decade was and how a lot of our jobs and businesses existed because of dirt cheap money. I’m glad I saved some money rather than thinking it was going to last forever!
Context's spread just like exceptions do, the moment you introduce one it flies up and down all the functions to get where it needs to be. I can't help but think that local storage and operations for Go just like Threads have in Java would be a cleaner solution to the problem.
There is no success without try. If nobody ever tried to make something new, we would have never had many of the great tools we like today. The main problem with the fatigue is not new tools, it's when a tool exists for some time, gets used by real-world people, and decides to change major things. There could be good reasons for the change: maybe something that wasn't well thought enough, or the big picture has changed, .... but then all those users/developers have to adapt their real-world scenarios to the new major forced change, and this fucks everything and everyone up. And this tends to happen way too often with modern development.
Copyright infringement and plagerism aren't the same thing.

A human reproducing a patagraph word for word in an educational context would probably not be considered copyright infringement (although lack of attribution might be problematic). In the US anyways. The US is sonewhat unique as having very broad fair use when it comes to material used in an educational context, much broader than most other countries.
I looked it up because I was curious. They are a politically active organization funded by individuals, corporations, donor-advised funds and foundations. Being a politically-engaged non-profit they do not disclose who their donors are. There's always risk of conflict between ideology and figuring out who's going to pay you to keep promoting it.
It really wasn't. Even local-only programs need to process data that isn't formatted in the user's locale.
It's actually around 750,000, mostly third world, and around half of those are students.

Importing cheap foreign labour from the third world was always one of the goals of Brexit. This game gets played over and over - import cheap labour to keep wages down, lament about how the country is being invaded, and then blame immigrants for lack of investment, corporate profiteering, and other structural policy problems.
Trump's entire campaign ran on curbing immigration, closing the borders and deportation of illegal immigrants. The one exception to that (the H-1B story) caused a lot of upheaval in his base. Among the many crazy things he said were things like people having to go out and vote for the last time, that he will be a dictator for a day, and calling his political opponents vermin. I'll just mention Project 2025 and his former wife mentioning that he's had a book of Hitler speeches by his bedside in passing.

Among the first acts on his first day as president he shuts down an app that helped people immigrate legally.

The first swath of Biden era executive orders rescinded[1] includes migration related ones to now loosen and reduce oversight and enable more heavy handed treatment of the matter, creating the foundation to conduct the type of raids that started happening the second he was certified[2].

Then at his inauguration this unfortunate little mishap occurs. Twice, mind you. By a man who continually promotes and enables alt-right ideology.

If you squint really, really hard, it's a dog whistle. That's the best case scenario. For everyone else, Elon Musk unambiguously performed a Nazi salute.

The absence of this moment from alt-right safe spaces like r/conservative and the X/Twitter feeds of prominent influencers despite the fact that their user base seems to have loved it is, in itself, a story worth telling.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/init...

[2] https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigrati...
This is very cool! Genius. Thanks for sharing.
I think you need to watch the videos not look at the photos as the videos show more unambiguous context and do not come with a narrative explaining them away. These are plain and simple nazi salutes.
I'm not sure it's going to be enough; the ones holding powers in organisations are not ready to let go of it and it's more of a systemic problem.

I think a shock is needed for real transformation, politics are just a show, what really happens is dependent on the sentiment of the executants.

Otherwise, it's going to take a very long time like you said but it's not clear whether the system will survive that long, at least in the EU.

It's funny that I got downvoted and you as well. On HN the white knights outnumber people with a realistic world-view heavily.
I don't blame them; when your earnings/power depends on you not asking too many questions and subscribing to the dominant ideology this is what you do.
Ok, but that means you’re not getting full privacy. It’s a trade off.
The thing is, historically we never really had much respect for complexity.

> We talk about complex subjects all the time. Medicine, politics, economics, sociology, morality and more

For our entire history we have being talking about complex subjects we barely understood and, like proud primates, we were always very vocal and cocksure about our view points.

We experienced two cultural revolutions, first in the world of ancient Greece, subsequently in the modern era of scientific enlightenment. One can think of the emergent scientific method as effectively learning to respect complexity. Being humble about assertions that cannot be validated again and again, in different conditions, by different parties etc.

The tangible result of this new trait (respecting complexity) was pretty amazing. But only for a precious few domains. Our default mode, being 100% sure about things we have little clue about (who needs hallucinating AI when you've got humans), continues to be the prevalent one.

Whats worse, we now have what has been called "the pretence of knowledge" [1]. We know that real knowledge is powerful, so why not pretend we have it when we actually don't? This leads to a random mix of (typically self-serving) opinions coupled to the superficial use of scientific tools. A pathology most visible precisely in the above list of really complex topics.

The risk is that as the challenges of our own complex societies mount, we will undo also what we have achieved, and effectively go back to become stochastic parrots, unhinged from complex reality.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hay...
Despite what you might read in the news, occupancy per household is LOWER than it has been for a long time.

Partly changing social customs - and you could, legitimately I think, argue some of this is down to immigration/multiculturalism - the old landlady/boarding house model, for example, which provided a LOT of cheap and relatively comfortable roofs over heads, was based on higher trust and cultural commonality than exists today.

But a lot of demand is driven by people living alone, either due to family breakdown, old age, or just out of personal choice.

On that basis if you wanted to increase supply, levers you could pull are an even more favourable tax treatment of rent-a-room schemes (although it's already pretty generous - people just don't want to), land value taxes to encourage under-occupiers to downsize, inheritance tax changes for the same (no more favourable "family home" treatment relative to cash or pension assets) and, more difficult this, legal and planning instruments to encourage suburban densification, get streets that are largely full of decaying HMOs knocked down and replaced by mid-rise which is fit for purpose.
Well, I learned something today!
I heard from Polish news that Spanish government formed a dedicated team to negotiate with US and they succeed, yet Polish government wasn't interested in the talks at all despite being invited to.
Why Dumping Seawater on Blazes Isn't the Answer to California's Wildfire Problem
I'm going to add something that isn't being mentioned here who's impact is underappreciated I think, and that's the idea of developers as craftsmen. Normally when you learn a craft, you eventually reach a sort of mastery, in the old guild system this was a literal title that you acquired.

Once you became a master it's not like things stood still, you were constantly refining your techniques and innovating; but something I've noticed about master craftsmen is that they are extremely conservative in their tools.

Even if they know that theoretically a new tool would allow them to do something with greater ease, they have already put in the time to learn to do that thing with the tooling they have, and they understand that, if they are ever considering adopting a new tool, the tradeoff has to be immensely in its favour.

Often they will adapt the tools they've already spent perhaps decades using, rather than a completely foreign tool. They build a deep mental and physical model of how these things work, and it allows them both a social prestige in demonstrating their ability to do something that others can't with the same tools, and clarity of purpose to not spend their time constantly overwriting their prior knowledge.

You can see this in programming with, for instance, really serious C programmers, who've had decades to internalise the craft and to this day can do anything they need to with C89, or particularly C99.

I think that humans have an inherent need to acquire this feeling of mastery over a domain. Consciously or not, I think webdevelopers have their morale sapped by the constant demand that they relearn how to do the most basic parts of their craft with entirely new tools every few years. Because of this cycle, they are robbed of both the inherent fulfillment of truly learning a craft, and the social prestige that comes with it. That's why it's so irksome to have the newly minted college graduate pushing these new shiny things constantly, it undermines the opportunity to experience gaining true mastery of the domain, both in terms of having to constantly relearn new skills, and in destroying any social prestige which comes with what little deep knowledge of "legacy" systems the developer has accumulated through practicing their craft.

This situation runs totally counter to the human spirit in my estimation.
It also literally says "unseen-by-OpenAI".
not necessarily, rerun job will most likely use the fully resolved dependency graph of your actions (or equivalent), a fresh run will re-resolve them (e.g. you pinned to @1 vs the specific version like @1.2.3 of a dep).

the history problem goes away if you always enforce squash merge...
Better start keeping an eye on this page: https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes
Poland has 0 (zero) tax up to 50k$ per household for families with 4 kids. And there many other benefits afaik. And it is a highly religious country. It's fertility rate is 1.4-1.5.

Industrialized and highly educated populations will not go back to 2.1 and higher, it just doesn't work like that in the current social environment.
I've worked at startups and at a FAANG. For many years, I've told people that they should never do a startup for the $$$; their expected value is higher at a FAANG. They should do a startup only if they're interested in the technology or the people.
Look at the video, it's not a bad angle or misinterpretation. And he did it twice.
> Perhaps also society has become more conservative, so selling a really innovative product to a customer has become harder.

Customers are more locked into existing products. Network effects, switching costs, familiarity and branding, staff training (for businesses) and learning something new....
You're absolutely right, not just mothers should be able to participate. However, the physical and emotional effects and trauma of childbirth are borne by women alone, so they're usually the party that needs to be incentivised. We're also operating within the social framework of Japan, which is deeply patriarchal.
I'm not a huge podcast consumer, I feel the same way.

The setup I've found to at least be somewhat entertaining + thoughtful enough to feel meaningful, is interviews with people who have a ton of experience seeing how the world evolved over time, and can contrast that with how things are today. People would get a lot better at avoiding mistakes if we could get better at listening and hearing folks that are older than us.

But it's really hard to find good interviewers who also end up having good guests. Most interviewers seem to be more like announcers, and then they don't seem to think/react at the spot to dig deeper into things, but just gloss over some talking points they wrote the day before.
> The only realy reason to join a startup is that you either believe in the "mission" or that you believe it will bring you joy to work in that way.

Or the startup was a stepping stone in your career. Big Tech wouldn't hire you, b/c you have a different background, so you work at a startup to develop experience and then switch to Big Tech.
The US government spends 10 trillion dollars year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...

That's larger than the GDP of all but two countries in the world.

That is not starving.

On top of that, tech CEOs and highly paid tech workers pay a lot of tax. Far more than they cost the country.
I'm pretty sure he doesn't use it though. Have you seen the formatting of the Clojure source code? It's eclectic.
Will Zuckerberg add another clause to his TOS, taking it from "it's OK to call someone mentally ill but only if they're queer" [1] to "it's OK to call someone mentally ill but only if they're queer AND don't live in Europe"?

More seriously, I don't see how those companies can enforce this while not severing US users from EU users. They'll probably just ignore it anyway.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/meta-immigration-gender-policies...
> aren't a waste of time

> spaces on the internet to scroll

These 2 are mutually exclusive ;)
Are you able to say more on your startup story, through the exit?
I wonder if the PRC will allow Poland to buy “AI chips” (TPUs?) from them once SMIC catches up a bit more. If not Poland, what about Turkey, South Africa, India, Switzerland, Israel, and Brazil? The US policy could easily backfire.
but in case of hate speech it is relatively clear in most cases what is and isn't hate speech even through people on both sides love to pretend it isn't
A trillion dollar marketing industry condemns enquiry and threatens
mild inconvenience as the terrible fate awaiting anyone who errs from
the path of simplicity. The word "just" has a lot to answer for. "Just
do it". "It just works". Complexity is an acquired taste. It is
somewhat rebellious to celebrate and indulge in it.
Nobody voted for Musk. That's part of the problem.
This is hyperbole.

The hardware and software industry has about a million standards that were collectively designed and adopted by the industry. Every single IETF RFC governing the internet and W3C RFCs governing browser standards for starters - we wouldn't be on this website having this conversation without those.

It's completely reasonable to say "multiple competing standards harms consumers with no benefit, come up with a common standard". This is what governments are supposed to do! If there is a single manufacturer not adhering to the standard it is reasonable to tell that manufacturer to comply. Is any reasonable person unhappy that we're all using common chargers for phones now?

Nor did this charger regulation seem to have negative consequences. Apple proactively licensed their wireless charging standard tech to the whole industry to get ahead of any legislation. Might not be great for Apple's profits, but I prefer that as a consumer.
I'm not trying to say he didn't do what he clearly did.
US export controls splitting the EU along Iron Curtain boundaries is a philosophical repudiation of America's top diplomatic victories of the 20th century. Disturbing to see the US denying its alliance with individual members—to me, it's reminiscent of #47's comments denying US' responsibility towards Montenegro, except this one's on the other guy, the supposedly diplomatic one, the supposed champion of alliances in a US-led unipolar free world.

I think it must be a double shock to EU politics to see both American sides' contempt for the unity/solidarity of the EU.
there's a pause watch history button on the history page
or incognito mode
or just open it in an incognito window
> and not on speech save for crimes(death threats and so on).

Dealing with speech that is, actively encourages, or supports (or engenders fear of in potential victims)¹, such crimes, is exactly what this is trying to get the companies to address.

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[1] That list being the battery/assault/affray equivalents of hate speech
Aha, really? What editors do that?
Musk is too ignorant of it to support or not support "Nazi Germany", flat out. But he's constantly boosting actual Neo-Nazis, agreeing with the white replacement stuff, endorsed the AfD -- again, without knowing what that means -- and now he's snarling, and saluting the audience and Trump.

> Georgios Katidis (Greek: Γεώργιος Κατίδης; born 12 February 1993) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. He is best known for performing a Nazi salute after scoring a game-winning goal in 2013, which led to his permanent suspension from every level of the Greece national team and his suspension from AEK Athens for the remainder of the 2013 season.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Katidis

Note how the article doesn't even mention what he thinks about "NAZI Germany", because it doesn't matter. It's a Hitler salute.

And that's a soccer player, not someone rambling about fake news on a platform they bought where they also constantly say "hmm, interesting" to the most vile, demented nazi bullshit, and now running a "department of government efficiency". This deserves a LOT more scrutiny, at the inauguration of a President who once said he could shoot people in broad daylight on Times Square, and his supporters wouldn't mind.

> This is one of the many reasons Democrats lost. This type of propaganda will not work anymore.

What "kind of propaganda"? That you keep repeating I claim Elon Musk "supports Nazi Germany", which doesn't exist since 1945? What are you on about? This is why people come to the realization that some people are really just defending this shit on autopilot and we must not wait for their approval to resist fascism.
I see no problem with his "salute". I'm glad more and more people are rejecting this kind of brainwashing by the media.
Dot com bubble mark 2 coming?

I see a lot of naivety in some of the AI startups - excited by the AI - but not really understanding the business they are trying to apply it to.

Also a lot of carnivorous sheep and grifters attracted by the money.
Is there a "Duolingo" that takes a web site as input and makes it into a course? So I could learn by reading e.g. a geeky news site in the language to be learned.
i believe the company you're looking for here is Oracle. Hilarious if a delayed fine comes one day for the masters of costly audits!
I highly agree. And I think in practice, what is driven by curiosity and passion ends up being a better product. I think part of the reason why is that all over social media and the internet there are gurus telling people "you can be the next to be rich and you deserve it". But that's the wrong motivation to have ingrained in every potential founder.
> His main objection seems to stem from the fact that Jack Dorsey's net worth is $5.6 billion.

Fair. You do not become a billionaire without being a massive POS.
The claim that 1-2% of the population is intersex is a common myth:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/

"Many reviewers are not aware that this figure includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex, such as Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia."
"...the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%"

It's often commonly claimed it's as common as red hair, too - it isn't.
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/intersex-is-not-as-commo...

Personally I've always found the "argument from commonality" to be shaky philosophically and morally. A population's degree of minority doesn't make discrimination or mistreatment more acceptable, so why massage stats to make them seem more populous than they really are?

As to your question as to why does "woman" have to mean "adult human female" - because that's the dictionary definition.

I totally agree with you that there are some people whose sex is hard to judge immediately, often, but not always, because they've gone out of their way to make it ambiguous. Everyone else can be clocked at 100 feet in a dark alley - we're evolved that way.

A few awkward social faux pas over people who look or act androgynous - for whatever reason - doesn't justify exploding a category that works and serves everyone well almost all of the time. I don't feel guilty over my use of sexed pronouns even if I occasionally get it wrong and this insistence that I should... isn't convincing.

Notice that arguments about the treatment of "intersex" people (those with disorders/differences of sexual development) are used to buttress the position of people who feel like they're the other sex, but are otherwise biologically completely normal. These groups really have nothing in common but it's useful to conflate them.
It's not just for cancellation and timeouts, it is also used for passing down metadata, but also for cross-cutting concerns like structured loggers.
>As a symbol of fascism.

Post WWII? Sure. Pre-WWII? No.