skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what you are suggesting will be labelled "communism" or similar

I am definitely not suggesting communism. What I laid out was the problem and how, without insurrection, it could be mitigated.
NGL, I can't really argue with that. Thankfully it's not the same across Europe - Germany is just a basketcase when it comes to laws. It's like getting fined in Switzerland for falling off your bicycle. They're not even remotely consistent in how or why they're applying them.

"In Hamburg, a man (59) who had called Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (54, Green Party) a “complete idiot” on “X” (formerly Twitter) went unpunished. In Wunsiedel, Bavaria, the district court has now imposed a hefty penalty on someone who called Habeck an “idiot.”

"P. feels he has been treated unfairly and claims: "My Facebook post was meant to be satirical." His role model: the ZDF satire magazine "heute-show" . It regularly awards the "Golden Idiot" prize, for example to Winfried Kretschmann (75, Green Party), Sigmar Gabriel (64, SPD) or Björn Höcke (51, AfD)."

https://www.bild.de/news/2024/hamburg-regional-politik-und-w...
I truly believe the Fediverse is a viable solution. I've found Lemmy to be an extremely viable alternative to Reddit. The fediverse, more than any other centralized solution, seems equipped to avoid the hellish pitfalls that profit-motive behemoths seemingly must sink into.

There is no monetization, corporate decisions, manipulative algorithms; just self-hosted open source instances as far as the eye can see. Certainly there are rough edges and a perceptible decrease in dopamine from using them, but surely that's worth toughing out as they shape up if it means stopping the unfathomable destruction of society that we're experiencing in real time from big tech?

In Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky makes a powerful argument that independent, citizen owned media is of critical importance if we're to pull society to a better, more collaborative place. It doesn't get more 'citizen owned' than a web of interconnected self-hosted servers.
Would be interesting to known if those articles were also entry points, e.g right after a search.
I've been working with Linux since I was 10 (I'm much older now), and I still don't think I "know Linux". The upper bound on understanding it is incredibly high. Where do you draw the line?
that sounds so cool better that than be starved out and slowly die like me while watching someone else use your SSN

so it's like lobbyists? or does rit have to be a specific industry
Dtac? Maybe he was wrong, but the operator said I couldn't.
"It has also been pointed out that Dorsey does not bear sole responsibility for Twitter’s sale. However, he is complicit and he profited handsomely from the sale and all of its harmful consequences. The sale left the platform at the disposal of the far right, causing a sharp rise in hate speech and harassment and the layoffs of 3,700 of the Twitter employees that made it worth so much in the first place."

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/20/2025-01-20-FOSDEM-protest...
For that to happen we would need a paradigm shift on the main ideology behind most functioning governments: neoliberalism.

It's not in the current sociopolitical/economical zeitgeist for governments to step in and create jobs, since the 80s we've moved towards privatisation, even very socially oriented governments like Western/Northern Europe are in it. To undo this flow into the other direction will take another generation or two of people under a new ideology voting for it.

We've been fed neoliberal policies for way too long, the contemporary Western world has been molded in it, I don't believe such a huge shift will happen fast enough if AI does actually develop that fast to replace jobs. We will live through a limbo of pain until newer generations fight against it, usually that only happens when our collective pain is way above the uncomfortable threshold.

> Even now at least half of economic activity is government created in many developed countries

I wasn't aware of this fact, where could I find statistics about it (if you have sources easily, if not I can do my own research).
> What's changed?

Largely, the make up of the audience in HN. I sincerely doubt that the hard core of people doing startups, thinking of doing a startup, or just very interested in the topic has gone away or changed attitude very much.

But the profile of HN has grown. It's a miracle that it's still an interesting and curious group, but from comments I'd be astounded if there were not a far greater proportion of people who are here because they are generically interested in tech topics and not specifically startups. That broader group was always there, of course, just its proportions relative to the hard core of entrepreneurs has changed.

I'd love to see some objective analysis of how things changed after the twitter and reddit kerfuffles, but I don't believe the article's thesis that the zeitgeist is the cause.

PS I could live without the stories that violate the precept of "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." ... but it's still pretty good here.
Because there's no VRAM. The “regular” RAM on Apple Silicon devices is shared with the GPU virtually in its entirety.
This. London can't grow much more - it can densify up to a point, but you can't build much more on the edges of town without some enormously expensive infrastructure upgrades through the middle. Which they should probably do anyway, a tube line, a Crossrail line and a new HS line every decade or so, but neither Labour nor Tories are into that politically, because of London-envy in the rest of the country.

Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and the larger university cities on the other hand, masses of scope, and on a much smaller budget and shorter timescale.
Oh, don't even start about Go's knack for being pithy to a fault.
Maybe it changed, I won't pretend I checked yesterday. I think it's still valid, you're still looking at a significant percentage of your wage.
It's how I wanted to spend my money, and I'm happy with my decision.
could you explain what you mean - are you saying that the sign that Elon made, twice, was not a Nazi salute?
> Bypassing labor laws, banking regulations, copyright? All right! Making a fuss when they are talking? Uncivil, not OK, who do you think you are!

Many "tech thought leaders" are, for lack of a better word, clinically relevant narcissists. In their view, the world revolves around them and their ideas, everyone else has to stand aside for their grand plans, and god forbid you try and shine a spotlight on their bullshit - then you are the enemy.

That also explains the hard shift towards the (far-)right observed over the last weeks, with pledges of allegiance made in Florida. It's not just about the 47th threatening revenge against anyone not supporting him, it's more about the simple fact that the progressive/left doesn't provide the positive feedback that these "leaders" crave like nothing else.
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far
If it's the ADL, they don't speak for everyone and they do not speak for me.

I'm literally German descended, living in the UK with little to no shit given about Trump whatsoever at all. This is Musk. What I do have a problem with is my friends and my families having a history going back nearly 100 years of misery, death and loss from the ideological constructs he's pushing for the last few years.

You can be a statesman and show respect, honour and decorum or you can be like that. There is no place in our political landscape anywhere for this.

So quite frankly stop gaslighting.

You need to understand that despite what people believe in the US, Europe is ideologically different and has a longer memory. There are literally reminders everywhere around us every day of last time.
> It therefore came as a shock when Warsaw was the most notable European Union victim of the decision by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden last week to cap coveted AI chip exports.

The link to the decision (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...) already ends in a 404 error (with an unmistakably Trump-like text "Page not found - go home"). But maybe Poland can set its hopes on Trump willing to overturn all of his predecessor's decisions, even though the current Polish government is probably not to his liking?
All of the UK's cities - apart from museums like Oxford and Cambridge - are full of real estate investment sprawl. There is no reason some of those spaces couldn't be used as labs and light factories. In fact there are plenty of brown field conversion projects turning old mills (etc) into new light industry hubs.

The bigger problems in the UK are business rates (extortionate), profiteering by landlords and land owners, insanely expensive utilities, crumbling physical infrastructure, and Brexit.

We could have had a government that invested/fixed in all of those things, but the big landords and land owners decided they didn't like that idea. They'd prefer to keep the country struggling and backward, because it appeals to their sense of aristocratic self-importance.
Good point. Unfortunately blocking people often takes more taps and achieves less. The platform definitely won't show you the creator, but can still show others exactly like them.
Yandex is the only search engine with a working image search these days that I know of.
All of the arguments presented in this were equally true in 2013 as they are in 2025 and there are many more dimensions than you are taking into consideration. For instance, the demographics of HN users could have changed, or the economic climate is cyclically more defensive and 'risk off', which is well known. I suspect this is more related to economic cycles than a cultural paradigm shift and would suggest the author to think more deeply than forming vague generalizations around some HN comments of anonymous users.
Pretend all you want but interest rates make a ton of difference.
If you can make a safe, compounded, perhaps leveraged 5% from treasuries the financial bar that a successful startup has to pass is so much higher
does this assume democracy is real? as in the people have a say in the policies so anything to the contrary is a deep state?

i've never had a say over my life let alone politics so it's a very foreign concept like having agency
My repair for that was to unfollow anyone posting BS I was uninterested in.
His main objection is that FOSDEM is not CNBC. Should not be endorsing pretense of interviews, that are just marketing pitches.
It's for the entire world, for Americans are not really known to look up Indian Telugu-language films on Wikipedia, I presume. So your hypothesis sounds reasonable.
And in related news the ESA's Gaia spatial mapping L2 Satellite is just about to run out of Gas [1] after some amazing work much of which can be seen in VR for the real 3D treatment [2]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/esa-spa...

https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky
In my newest hobby project, I decided to bite the bullet and use the flake.nix as single source of truth. And it's surprisingly fast! I used cargo-crane to cache rust deps. This also works locally just running "nix flake check". Much better than dealing with github actions, caches, and whatnot.

Apart from the nix gh action that just runs "nix flake check", the only other actions are for making a github release on certain tags, and uploading release artifacts - which is something that should be built-in IMO.
> to try to make companies do their own agreement and policing, as to avoid the rigidity of regulation unless we absolutely have to.

This is precisely the censorship policy of the PRC. It ensures that nobody ever knows for sure what speech is permitted, so no speech is completely safe. Platforms compete for users by permitting marginally legal speech and compete for the favor of regulators by censoring it. This system is much more effective at suppressing political dissent than the US system, in which censorship decisions can be challenged in open court.
FYI many modern cameras still do this.
Scenario 1: an ambitious guy in his early twenties fails and writes anonymously about how it feels to see your company collapse and your investors shun you. He felt alone and ashamed and he had to pick himself up.

Scenario 2: a guy who already made millions in tech and who is a venture capitalist on the side coyly brags about his business failures.

Can you see how they are not the same?
This is getting so ingrained in todays society that it even spills over on non-tech. We have this provatisation craze going since a while and as soon as something don't work we expect the market to sort it by switching provider. For example now, the state has hired a taxi company to do all school transports for all kids that can't take the bus for any reason. And all other disabled transports that is the responsibility of the state. This has been working very bad since a number of reasons. The solution to this is that they rewrite the rules for the next contract round. All taxi companies gets to bid on the contract and the cheapest wins the contract.

If it didn't work with the previous one, do we really think it will work with the next one that wants even less money? Hint: The workers are the same since the winning bid cannot be won by a single taxi company. There will be a big company that has no drivers and they in turn will hire all the local taxi companies to do the actual work. They will do the same mistakes of setting the incentives wrong and we will end up with non function disabled people transport. Again. It's not even the first circle coming round. It just keeps happening.
Unity uses C# but the engine is written in C++, but you are probably right and there are other engines out there written in C#
It's ironic that progress that freed many people from hard agricultural jobs and allowed society to free part of the population from daytime jobs was mostly directed at non-child-bearing categories like children and teens (to learn and study for future jobs) and elderly (to retire earlier than in previous centuries). The age ideal for raising children is also ideal for economics to be a part of it
> they don't see it as just another "Compile to JS" language that will eventually be replaced by something else once the hype wheel starts turning yet again.

In case of TypeScript, they might be right - given its peculiar positioning and staying power, as well as indirect effects from resurgence of popularity around type systems (Rust, type annotations being leveraged in LLMs, etc.), 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.
> learning modern React ecosystem from the scratch is no easy undertaking even for experienced developer.

Strong disagree on this. Modern Angular and Vue work almost identically to React. The details are different, but the principles the same. For an experienced dev, that knowledge should translate directly.

The ecosystem is also not that bit. React Router and some state management tools are the only React-specific libraries one really needs. The rest you can lookup.

The trickiest tooling in the JavaScript ecosystem has always been the build tooling, and that's largely shared across frameworks.
I am not building anything. Perhaps you need to study history and see what happened. There is no distinction of evil between the communists in USSR and NAZI Germany. They were both clear evil. I thank God they are both history now and we should not forget it, ever.
a) This isn't about Trump. It's about Musk.

b) There are leading Nazi experts who have said it is a Nazi salute.

c) ADL has far broader goals on its mind than what idiotic thing Musk does or doesn't do so their statement needs to be put in context and taken with a grain of salt.
An alternative is to add all dependencies explicitly into function argument list or object fields, instead of using them implicitly from the context, without documentation and static typing. Including logger.
I'm using https://github.com/adefossez/demucs to split drums, bass, voice and "everything else".

Works pretty well for my personal/hobbyist use (quality also depends on genre and instruments used - synth stuff tends to bleed into voice a bit).
Anarchy does not mean mob rule. Allowing protests to censor anyone from talking opens up a huge security hole: anyone can then organize a “protest” to censor anyone.
Balancing NIH with dependency hell requires good judgement AND time. If you need to get something done to a deadline you take the path that is easier in the short term.

In Python projects I also find people use the output of pip freeze to generate their requirements.txt so it contains indirect dependencies and these never get removed. I just removed numpy from the requirements.txt of a web app - if was a dependency of an obsolete dependency.

> One should neither get too excited nor too upset, but some of those announcements will sound funny to anyone who's been around for a while (in general it is mostly rehashing all the same ideas from 70s onward).

its also frustrating and annoying. People really should learn something of the history of their field. Do people have no curiosity?
Which is why people will frequently repost things wrapped in a CW. Hence the request not to do that, so people see it.
> Not true in my experience, the pay in academia has always been more than acceptable. But again, I was in CS/LangSci, and I know that for instance in the humanities, pay is lower for similar jobs.

This could also depend on location, but from what I’ve seen, postdoc CS pay in most places is less than what you can earn as an entry-level frontend engineer at a medium-sized scale-up.
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> 4. The industry has matured. The low-hanging fruit of the mobile/web era has largely been picked, making truly innovative opportunities harder to find.

I disagree: In my feeling truly innovative opportunities are still rather easy to find.

I feel what rather changed is that with VC becoming big and mainstream, investors have become more risk-averse in investing into innovative ideas (that they don't really understand). Perhaps also society has become more conservative, so selling a really innovative product to a customer has become harder.
Thanks - there is no doubt software startups, with typically limited capital requirements are easier than almost anything else.

> Products like that work if there's natural consumer appeal built into the product,

I see customers as a wider pool than end consumers - they can also include businesses - quite a few large businesses also have investment arms.

For example you mentioned Philips - they have one - https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/innovation/philips-venture...

I guess the worry for startup's there is if you too close then they might 'steal' - however big companies are typically quite keen on upholding IP laws - they use their venture arms to spread their bets - partial stakes ( and inside knowledge ) on a whole array of startups.
It seems like there's an expectation of having to get investment as quickly as possible for your company in order for it be "worth doing", which feels counter-intuitive. It sucks that this is the first thought and must prevent a lot of good stuff ever getting started. At least in the UK, a 300k salary for a senior developer is not plausible for most people. But the idea of growing a something slowly, without investment and reaching that sort of income definitely seems more likely. I guess it's all different circumstances!
I'm not sure having multiple cultures in a country is necessarily a bad thing but it can be a mistake not to be able to recognise the issues or treat people accordingly. Like Singapore is a successful very multicultural society but if immigrants/expats do bad stuff they get kicked out rapidly.
extrapolating from one post instead of total Series A-F raised without accounting for interest rates as well as political motivations to weaken tech seems a bit sensational imo
https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/formatter/black/
> when we try to fight each other in every single regard

Bit hard to be civil when Musk has replicated arguably the most offensive action in human history.
What is censorship for you personally? I don't have a clear definition in mind (because I think is hard), but something along the lines of "the ones with overwhelming power should not be able to impose what ideas are spread".

Why I think is hard it's because multiple rules can be made to make it impossible to spread ideas: talking loudly in the street => you disturb the neighbors; you send mails with pamphlets => it's spam; want to make an add on TV => extremely expensive. And so on.
> I mean, technically, this is ...

That's kind of the "will twist themselves to deny what is fairly evident in plain sight" OP is talking about.
I'm not saying that protesters shouldn't be disruptive, I'm saying that they don't have a right to be disruptive. If you believe that your cause is just, then you have to accept responsibility for the consequences of your actions. Disrupting a conference may well be a more effective way to highlight your grievance, but you don't get to play the victim if the organisers throw you out or refuse you entry. You have a right to protest, but that right does not supersede the rights of other people to go about their lawful business. The alternative to that balancing of rights is nothing more than mob rule.
I'm British. My grandparents were probably bombed by yours.

I'll admit he's not one for showing decorum.

I don't see any ideological constructs pushed by Elon that are remotely similar to those pushed by the Nazi party.
Thanks, that's all I need to know.
Hate speech = political speech you don't like
The ADL, who is defending him, is the world's foremost anti-neo-Nazi organization. If they say not to worry, I'm going to trust their judgment, even though the photos look pretty questionable to me as a layman.
Your own link says: "This discussion has now been superseded in many respects. See these follow-up pieces".

At the "follow-up piece" linked from there, it says the same thing that I have said, i.e. that the current solstices have been fixed by the Gregorian calendar to be the same as those of 325 AD.

In my posting of above I have simplified, by writing as "22" the present date of the solstice.

In fact, during the 4 years of the Julian year cycle, from one leap year to another, the date of the solstice fluctuates between the 20th and the 22th, the same as it did around the year 325 AD. As I have said, the Gregorian calendar has been chosen so that the date of the Spring equinox, which is used in the algorithm with which the Church computes the date of the Easter, is the same as in 325 AD.

I do not know from where you got "In 325, the solstice hadn't occurred on the 22nd for at least 90 years", but this is obviously incorrect.

If you are right and in 325 AD the Winter solstice was on the 20th, within 3 years before 325 and after 325 there must have been solstices on the 22th, because these occurred every 4 years.

By the time of Julius Caesar the solstices occurred 3 days later, so they must have occurred between the 23th and the 25th, with the same 4-year period. It is likely that in some year when some astronomer has actually determined the date of the solstice by measurements, it happened to be a year when it occurred on the 25th, so most later Roman authors who have reported the date from hearsay, like Pliny the Elder, have said that the Winter solstice falls on the 25th.

As also explained at the link provided by you, the dates quoted in various sources for the solstice dates supposedly reported by ancient Roman authors are frequently off by a day or two due to translation errors between the Roman calendar and the modern calendar, so they must be interpreted with care.
Ah, the QUIC drama. When everyone adopted quic before the protocol was even fully specified.
Was searching for more context, that can be found at https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3295662/beijing-mee... for example