skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "hey, maybe he's just a bit overexcited and socially awkward with his gestures" excuse would also be a lot more plausible if it was about someone who hasn't spent the last couple of years giving written and verbal encouragement to the far right, who happened to be exactly the sort of person who would see a Nazi salute as a super clever gesture that owns the libs, is deniable to the parts of his fanbase that don't like Nazis, and meets with uproarious approval with the parts of his fanbase that like Nazis. A bit like when he was tweeting out his approval of interviews describing the holocaust as "humane" and then promptly deleting when called out on it or retweeting neo-Nazis talking about Jews' "dialectical hatred against whites" as "the actual truth" but then apologising for it. Sure, mentally he probably has more in common with a 13 year old carving swastikas into their school desk because it's edgy than Himmler, and his far right admirers hate his H1-B visa stance to the point he seems to be really overcompensating, but that doesn't mean we should act like it's a normal way for an adult with the ear of the president to be behaving.
> First things first, let’s establish some ground. Go is a good language for writing servers, but Go is not a language for writing servers. Go is a general purpose programming language, just like C, C++, Java or Python

Really? Even years later in 2025, this never ended up being true. Unless your definition of 'general purpose' specifically excludes anything UI-related, like on desktop, web or mobile, or AI-related.

I know it's written in 2017, but reading it now in 2025 and seeing the author comparing it to Python of all languages in the context of it's supposed 'general purpose'ness is just laughable. Even Flutter doesn't support go. granted, that seems like a very deliberate decision to justify Dart's existence.
The other bit here is that hacker news attracted a lot more engineers (vs more entrepreneurial-leaning folk) in the intervening time - and engineers never really made bank on startups. Even in successful startups the engineers are typically lower on the pay-out ranking than the less-technical founders and the VCs...
wonder what geopolitical dynamic is at play

are there any nations that are rivals or allies with Poland the US is thinking about
I had one product that took off, made more money than at any of my previous (big-tech) jobs, and I thought the tales were true. If you work hard enough, catch a lucky wave and have the skills to ride it, you're free.

The product peaked, and then very quickly dropped to zero in about two years, while I tried everything to prevent going out of business.

Back at the bottom, a year or two of aimless wandering, I figured, well, I've seen the light, I know how this dance needs to be danced, I can dance it one more time.

I've since had half a dozen attempts not even produce a handful of accounts (or in the better cases, paid accounts), and it's simply not sustainable.

I was finally getting to a point where I felt ready to give up last year, and decided to try one last time or get back into a regular job. The problem being, "getting back" now means that I am 20 years older and more than likely _not a great fit_ for many of the roles out there.

So, for now, I am once again knuckle-deep in a new product, about to have a first customer this week (if they sign up) and some light on the horizon.

Yet, even if I manage to surpass all the possible stretch-goals on growth I have set this year, it will still pay considerably less than minimum wage, and that's if everything (and more) works out within this and the next year or so. On occasional consulting gigs I charge $$$, and I don't even dare to compare that to what these Saas/products bring in, is just ... sad. And I hear someone clacking on their keyboard already, responding...

The usual reaction to a post like mine will and used to be: well, you've got the wrong product, audience, or both. But all I want to say after doing this for 20 years now, is: that's the default. If you're not starting from a large-enough platform, your only way to success is to be literally "failing" upwards, in baby steps, turtle-speed, and that only results in success if you can somehow sustain doing that long enough.

The default is that nothing works out. People love to skip over this and always feel it doesn't apply to them and their idea. It will fail. The game is not to make a great product, the game is to figure out how to not go under while waiting for and/or constantly provoking your lucky break.

You can get lucky, and if you try long enough and often enough, you at least stand somehwat of a (very, very, very slim) chance. And, then, even if you do, all that luck is very brief and temporary and you'll be thirsty waiting for the next strike to stay above water. There is no "I made it" — there's only "I'm safe for a second, but what do I do next" in the very best of cases.

All that said, I believe it is totally worth the life experience. Life is short, it's a noteworthy thing to go through. But after a decade of failing, it'll quietly turn into a question of character, responsibility, psychological or social issues and general life-planning skills rather than a question of "do you want it hard enough to succeed".

Life is short.
Why can't other AI tasks be also in focus? Like having fun with some creativity. I remember that I once created a story with an LLM when we switched sides. I still remember some of the twists and it's interesting that I no longer can attribute them to either of us :)
The garden thing feels like a cultural bug. Sort of, everyone thinks they ought to have a garden, but most people don't actually, in practice, want to do the work to maintain one, nor do they want to pay the extra for the amount of space that makes a good and useful one.

Most of those new-builds with tiny, astroturf-and-slabs gardens and wooden fence panels would be better built as apartment blocks with a shared park. Or, if your cultural aversion to apartments is too strong, as seems to be the case in much of Anglo culture ("my own roof over my own head"), row/terrace-style housing again with outdoor space provided in the form of a shared public or private park.

It seems to work well in parts of Inner London anyway, the Georgian garden squares are way nicer than a garden almost any individual resident would have time to maintain. I don't know why we can't have more of that.
Seems like mostly bittervets replying here. We've all been there, at the start of our career, perhaps struggling to be relevant in our field. Then finally finding what looked like Thor's Hammer and machinegun nailing all possible requirements with it. Or maybe it was just me <shrug>.
> which ironically is called "OpenPlatform" for some reason

This is pretty weird, the original text is 开放平台, but it basically is another name for "API" in China.

Not sure who started this, but it's really popular, for example, WeChat has an "Open Platform": https://open.weixin.qq.com/. AliPay too: https://open.alipay.com/. And peak strangeness, Alibaba Cloud (whose API is largely an AWS clone): https://open.aliyun.com/
Press CMD+Shit+R to force reader view, it usually works if it's an article. On iPhone I think you can force reader view by long pressing the reader button on the side of the URL bar.
> it wouldn't surprise me if at some point, browsers (read: Google) decided to start supporting it as first-class language. A decade down the line, it might be that JavaScript will end up being compiled down to TypeScript instead of the other way around.

If WASM still exists in some flavor at that point, but TypeScript ends up being the target for JS instead somehow, we can assume we probably have other, way worse issues in the world to deal with, because something clearly went wrong.
But why make the request to yourself?
> “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope.”

> lying to me about something like this.

That response is objectively not lying.
> React has "Context", SwiftUI has "@Environment", Emacs LISP has dynamic scope (so I heard). C# has AsyncLocal, Node.JS AsyncLocalStorage.

Emacs Lisp retains dynamic scope, but it's no longer a default for some time now, in line in other Lisps that remain in use. Dynamic scope is one of the greatest features in Lisp language family, and it's sad to see it's missing almost everywhere else - where, as you noted, it's being reinvented, but poorly, because it's not a first-class language feature.

On that note, the most common case of dynamic scope that almost everyone is familiar with, are environment variables. That's what they're for. Since most devs these days are not familiar with the idea of dynamic scope, this leads to a lot of peculiar practices and footguns the industry has around environment variables, that all stem from misunderstanding what they are for.

> This is one of those ideas that at first seem really wrong (isn't it just a global variable in disguise?)

It's not. It's about scoping a value to the call stack. Correctly used, rebinding a value to a dynamic variable should only be visible to the block doing the rebinding, and everything below it on the call stack at runtime.

> Implicit context (properly integrated into the type system) is something I would consider in any new language.

That's the problem I believe is currently unsolved, and possibly unsolvable in the overall programming paradigm we work under. One of the main practical benefits of dynamic scope is that place X can set up some value for place Z down on the call stack, while keeping everything in between X and Z oblivious of this fact. Now, this is trivial in dynamically typed language, but it goes against the principles behind statically-typed languages, which all hate implicit things.

(FWIW, I love types, but I also hate having to be explicit about irrelevant things. Since whether something is relevant or not isn't just a property of code, but also a property of a specific programmer at specific time and place, we're in a bit of a pickle. A shorter name for "stuff that's relevant or not depending on what you're doing at the moment" is cross-cutting concerns, and we still suck at managing them.)
The Signpost (the newspaper) is more or less "independent", it's meta commentary on Wikipedia within Wikipedia, but it's not subject to the same extremely strict rules as articles.

There's opinion pieces, a humour section, it's really outside of the encyclopedia proper.
My "income"? As in, the food going into my belly? The warmth of my house etc? We are already totally dependent on modern technology for these things. When was the last time you foraged or lit a fire?
Single person centuries ago was a weird wizard who was probably secretly communicating with a devil and should be exiled from the village just in case. Or he would just die from the lack of help during the illness or trauma. And most certainly he would starve, from not being able to grow food he requires. Those people didn't have an alternative for kids.
As the developer of this animation and a game developer by day (and night) I had considered the light cycle game. Many great sessions on Armagetron back in the day. Very tricky on a cube to keep multiple players visible at once and also to have controls and direction be consistent.
It's hilarious to me that so many people are just noticing the censorship of these sites. But hey, I guess that's a good thing right? Surely we all want freedom of speech now.
Why it's so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer
Thanks for that info. Live and learn.
I see this a lot in the local startup community too. There's a lot of "ecosystem" feeders who survive on the supply of newbies, but the old experienced founders have mostly either exited and retired, want nothing to do with the startup scene any more, or have just given up and got a job.

The buzz from 10-15 years ago just isn't there any more.
this is HN, there are more throwaway accounts than “real” ones
>"The Roman salute, also known as the Fascist salute,"

Yes, post-WWII "thanks" to fascists.

As I've said in a different comment: I'm not saying this is somehow "ok" now or that Musk didn't do what he did. My point is that people see one's stupidity and immaturity as something bigger than it actually is.
> 2022 and 2023 were the highest years on record for net migration into the UK. The only reason 2024 wasn't even higher was due to the new Conservative government's policy stopping international students from bringing dependents to the UK.

These aren't the same people as the people wanting to migrate away. I am talking about people that were born in their home countries wanting too leave. You are quite well aware of this you are being disingenuous.

Also there is 400,000 going out of the country last time I checked (and that was a good few years ago). Why are those people leaving?

> Migration to Ireland is at the highest level since 2007. It represents a 3.5 per cent increase in population - which in a given year would be one of the highest ever recorded for a single country.

Again this the same thing.

> Wildly bad faith wasting of my time as it's one of the most famous speeches made in a Western Democracy in the 21st Century, but since I have to lead a horse to water... here's a translated transcript from the website of the HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT.

I don't follow Hungarian politics. I also don't trust American news sources. Thank you for the link though.

> But of course the rules are different for your opponent in debate. Laughable.

While they numerous and frequently get buried on major search engines. It been an issue for years now in the UK.

Most notable examples are on wikipedia

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

There are literally countless cases now. Last time I checked there were 7 cases a day prosecuted and that was way back in 2018.

> I think you're conflating two issues here - Hate Speech and 'Freedom' of Speech.

Hate speech is a made up term to limit freedom of speech.

I am put in the unenviable position of defending people that I dislike because I think people should have the right to speak their mind.

> The most famous is the fighting words doctrine; a well known limitation to freedom of speech under 1A - enshrined in a 9-0 decision in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942).

Firstly I am talking about the UK not the US. So why you are talking about the 1A in the US is beyond me.

Also I know Fighting words is not anything like the hate speech laws in the UK. So this is irrelevant.

> More to the point, the First Amendment prohibits defamation actions based on “loose, figurative language that no reasonable person would believe presented facts".

You are now conflating defamation with hate speech. These are not the same thing. Again this isn't irrelevant.

> Something something wilfully ignorant.

Yes you are being wilfully ignorant about UK hate speech laws. There are loads of cases in the UK where people have been prosecuted for Hate Speech, There is also non crime hate incidents which can show up on background checks when you go for a job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-crime_hate_incident
Musk has:

a) routinely demonised immigrants.

b) espoused the Great Replacement Theory.

c) endorsed a tweet saying that black people have inherently lower IQ.

d) perpetuated lies about companies prioritising diversity over safety.

There are hundreds of examples I could list. But suffice to say his ideologies have a significant overlap with the Nazi ideology. And the recent salutes should give you no delusion about what his inspiration is.
My grandparents were bombing each other.

So you literally missed the bit where he was going on about antisemitic conspiracy theories being "the actual truth"? Crikey. Appears no one has any context these days.
> This one seems illegal at least in UK.

It wasn't for a long time though. There's a bunch of other similar schemes which caught famous people[0] when they were declared illegal by UKGOV.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jun/19/tax-scheme-...
Like the man said, " If there's a new way I'll be the first in line but it better work this time."
Same thing in English, you have huge enterprises which basically operate on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, and end up calling themselves things like "OpenAI".

It even bleeds into marketing pages, go to the Llama website and you see "open source model" plastered all over the place, completely misusing both the "open" and "source" parts of it.
I'm not sure that there's a startup winter at all, it looks like a web browser tech winter to me. AFAIK YC also changed their focus and now are looking for physical things much more - like supersonic jets.

There is only so much you can do with organizing information and entertainment through HTML and JS and make a profit of it. Maybe there will be a nice whiplash gold rush for making the web great again as this pile of garbage doesn't inspire anyone anymore.

That will happen as soon as a new business model alternative to what caused the enshittification appears. Alternatively, maybe a new tech will emerge that will offer freedoms and possibilities similar to the early days of the web.
Hi - please don't assume that retirements become job postings. Tenure lines have to be granted in many cases; if a dean is told by the provost to trim, then tenure lines are not granted after a retirement. My department has not matched its attrition rate for some time now.
Your rhetoric hinges on a wilful conflation of the two meanings of the word “disruption”. Also, who says I approve of bypassing labor laws, banking regulations, or copyright?
Tangential but I can't wait until some startup starts working on mind reading AI so the brain becomes nothing more than an organ
Beatmatching by ear is great fun but you get rekorbox for free with any pioneer controller, which you should want for practicing anyway?
Zoea – Composable Inductive Programming
No, in France it specifically refers to "Harmful speech targeted toward individuals or groups on the basis of intrisinc characteristics [to this group], that may threaten social peace." [1]

If your particular political ideology requires this sort of speech, you should probably do some introspection.

[1] https://www.un.org/fr/hate-speech/understanding-hate-speech/...
Decentralisation is a socio-political solution, not a technical solution. It directly addresses the problem of media ownership and proliferation.
It's never going to work. It would require all clubs in the world to throw away their expensive Pioneer gear.
Yeah, I agree 100% with you. The thing with Golang is that it's supposed to be a very explicit language, so passing the context as an argument fits in with the rest of the language.

Nevertheless: just having it, be it implicit or explicit, beats having to implement it yourself.
> The point is that there shouldn't be any "the" machine for users to get locked into as a chokepoint. If you want to block someone, you block them, or delegate it to someone in a way that you can later change at no switching cost to yourself.

Why would you force the provider to support objectionable (for them) content? It makes sense for the instance to be aligned with its users on moderation rules.

> The benefit, and goal, of federation here should be to make the hosting node a fungible commodity.

Communities aren't fungible! And your insistence on having federation completely seamless will result in "what's the point anyway, let's centralize it, more efficient"
The price is misleading if you compare it to US or EU prices. Generally EVs in China and India are much cheaper than in Europe or in the US.

That aside, there will be a wave of entry level EVs in the EU and US in the near future.
International politics aside, what is this ban exactly about? I doubt that all GPUs or all ASICs will be banned to those countries. Is there some regulatory agency that defines what's an (advanced) AI chip? Do they go by transistor count, or by the amount of fast RAM?
By "adhering to the rules" you mean censoring. US companies are censored in China or they don't get to be there.

Is the US allowed to censor Chinese companies in the US? To Chinese companies get to benefit from freedom of speech in the US but US companies don't get to benefit from freedom of speech in China?

Can't have it only one way buster.
I don’t think that was thought through at all, just some stupid political posturing.
First of all lots of chips are in data centres already. Google has one in Poland.
There’s freedom of movement and business across EU so any Polish citizen can set up company in Germany buy the chips and legally drive them over the border - there’s no border checks in Schengen area- bit like US interstate borders.
You have the opinion that Musk's gesture was perfectly innocent. Others don't think so. It's your opinion, and it's a valid hypothesis. But the other opinions are as valid as yours. They are implying that Musk is not nice and don't give him the benefice of the doubt. You are implying that people criticizing Musk are not nice, and don't give them the benefice of the doubt.

The parallel with "democrats doing Nazi salute" is pretty poor: of course people will not assume it was the intention for someone who has, by the ideas they defend and by their acts, demonstrated they are strongly opposed to the Nazi ideas. But it is not the case here.

On my side, I think it is very difficult to believe that Musk has done it 100% innocently. Musk is a troll, and it was a perfect opportunity to "trigger" people while pretending he did it innocently. I'm not sure how sympathetic he is with Nazi ideas (but I would not be surprised he would be sympathetic to the core concepts, he is promoting the same family of ideas grounded in the same roots), but I think it is very much plausible that he don't consider the Nazi salute dirty enough, so that he can use it to troll with despite the consequences (think of the message it sends to real Nazi sympathizers), which is already pretty bad. The views he has expressed otherwise (support to AfD, conspiracy theory, ...) just reinforce the idea that "100% innocently" is unlikely.
Maybe he doesn't have a company because he is too dogmatic about things that don't really matter.
These people also don't see a problem with it: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...

And this person similarly doesn't see a problem with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tlenyBWs4w&t=88s
> a company isn’t evil for ... having to do layoffs

"have to" is carrying a lot of water for the fintech with >5 billion in revenue
This resonates. Trying to get back into a tech job and they all need Kubernetes experience because microservices. I've spent 10 years developing MVPs that never scaled past 100 users, let alone anywhere large enough to need K8s.
https://archive.is/ERvQA
Somehow Rekordbox seems to run much better on my Ryzen 5 8gb ram windows laptop from 2019 than on my i7, 64gb ram macbook. It seems to only like windows?
UK: can confirm that '#democrat' gives "we've hidden these results". While typing in the search box it auto-suggests "democrats crying memes", which is not hidden.
The effect that you’re describing applies to vanilla js sites as well. It’s usually the result of an average team competence, or of just having a team. You’re cool with vanilla only until there’s few more random guys who slap the patches over the code. The only difference is that this method may break the codebase so bad that the site won’t see the light at all and there will be nothing to complain about.
Yes. Especially Germans can make these kinds of long-terms plans.

I saw one thing that made it obvious to me that they were only people who could possibly develop a certain technology which hasn't been commercialized. Basically, they were doing research on details that they from their analysis could determine were necessary, but which nobody else had even thought about yet. It took me half an hour of a guy who had done his PhD on it explaining until I understood why they needed it. I think his work was paid for by industry though.
Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok block democratic hashtags
Tags “#democrat”, “#joebiden”, and #kamalaharris” have had all content blocked and removed.

Is anyone else seeing this?