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Posted by
milkoolong on Friday April 04, 2025 @05:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I heard reading well-written code can improve my skills. Instead of reading top-rated projects on GitHub, which I do, I thought to ask the community to share their favorite OSS they believe to have examplary code.
How much of it is stress-induced eating when low-income households barely live paycheck-to-paycheck. That in itself can lead to learned eating preferences inherited from parent to children. I'd assume a healthy diet is the last thing on your mind when you worry tomorrow is eviction day.
Posted by
milkoolong on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @04:30PM
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I find it difficult to process comedy and humor, and would like to discover books with well-written humor to study; the way I've been studying known stand-up comedians. Thank you!
Posted by
milkoolong on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:59PM
from the ask-hn dept.
There are always someone or group who has the power to flip a switch to shutdown a network as seen in regions of conflict. With innovation in blockchain, ipfs, web3, the network is still at the whims of a central force with the Killswitch.
Posted by
milkoolong on Monday September 18, 2023 @01:25PM
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I have a 12 year old who got interested in lego, dinosaurs, then minecraft modding from an early age. We step in to moderate and guide as needed. But as parents, we are not scientists or engineers, and that makes it a challenge to choose optimal learning materials for him to build on top of his interests which atm is dinosaur hybrids, dna, gene splicing (he watch yt and read wikipedia to fill...
I would be interested to see happiness levels between countries and culture.
Curious. Where does the 100B spending go to most to build a chip factory.
I was thinking a Tesla x Mecha, super modular.
The reason I go with alternative even though it's not oss. I prefer transparent pricing strategies. Plausible's USP is OSS. Their attempt at mass adoption is bait and switch. That's a trade off some are comfortable with. I don't see anything wrong unless price change was kept secret and abrupt.
The same way many empires fell to obsoletion were their inability or lack of foresight to adapt from Blockbuster to Borders to Toys R Us. Music streaming and Cable TV too.
Authors should shift to paid newsletters and drip content over time. Imagine a book with 250 pages would keep your subscription going for a year or two while you work on the next. And once you're about ready to launch the next book, you can compile the "old" content to physical book for a flash sale. Ofc lack of distribution channel and exposure might hurt sales. OTOH, you'd likely see more profit than publishing it whole unless there's a marketing / branding / political advantage.
I'm out of the loop on privacy practices for social media giants such as TikTok. Should I place the same trust I have with Google, Facebook / IG, Twitter to TikTok? In other words, bleak?
I wonder if the the Director of Meme reports direct to him too.
Posted by
milkoolong on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:57PM
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There are tutorials out there but none list the essential skills necessary to build-it-yourself from scratch such as casting and molding. If there are pre-existing software or electronics out there to reduce effort, all the better. I see it as a hobby over a year or two. I have the idea and designs but no skills!
Posted by
milkoolong on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:49AM
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The underdog success story always link back to a significant role model like mom, dad, uncle, friend of family. For example, mom was an educated school teacher (Daymond John from Shark Tank). Self-made traces back to a support system and growing up without worrying about abuse or food on the table. Are there people who actually made it out of extreme poverty (way below your country's income...
Would the artwork be in its own category: AI Artwork? Otherwise, I find it hard to support an AI-Artist who machine generated artwork based on "stealing" and "feeding" it 100.000s of creations from traditional/digital artists. The potential to profit off of it in one form or another is un-ethical. AFAIK, nobody have the rights to use their artwork without permission. Artists' artwork is not under a MIT license nor is it for sale as a stock image.
It's flawed to think an artist referencing others to produce their original is the same as an AI-Artist stealing artwork to generate an original. Youtube, Facebook, TikTok reciprocates value to its customers in exchange for selling their data to advertisers.
What value are YOU, the AI-Artist, providing the artist for their data?
Note: I'm ignorant in this area. My views are based on personal conversations with how influencer artists' feel about this popular trend.
Posted by
milkoolong on Monday August 29, 2022 @08:56PM
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Universal Health Care and Basic Income is too controversial. Universal basic utilities (internet, electricity/gas, purified water) seem likely to be accepted versus giving everyone free money and health care.
I use tutanota and the alias works. But didn't know masked emails were offered by services like fastmail!
I was able to generate a random private duck address (
[email protected]) that's connected to my
[email protected] which then forwards to my personal gmail. I can change the forwarding address too which helps when I move from gmail to a private-er service. Please send me your best educational spams at the address above. It will self-destruct shortly when I generate a new private address. Really cool to see more offerings like these.
> In general, it is useful for many projects to be aligned with something people or businesses believe in so much or find value in that they are willing to pay for.
The end of the day it comes down to audience regardless of your code being open source. I chose an alternative analytics based on the founders' business acumen, morals and ethics before I even considered open source. Similarily, Discord Nitro over Matrix and Circle/Mighty Network over Discourse.
The author shared good examples but for majority of projects, it doesn't make sense to open source it as a path to financial security. I'd argue it actually hurts many niches. I assume Plausible has a healthy dose of startup clients who are techie that see open source first as the holy grail for trust, transparency, and security. That's a solid audience! Otherwise, think again.
I used to enjoy YNAB but I think it was change to subscription that turned me off at that time. Maybe I will revisit the service again. Every Dollar offers a free tier which is nice. Mint is hard to beat though.
I recommend the book Unschooling by Kerry Mcdonald. In the book, he gives good example on how public schools interfere with a child’s curiosity.
Posted by
milkoolong on Saturday August 06, 2022 @01:44PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I homeschooled and wanted opinions and resources from the intellectually-curious community on what you believe are (non-negotiable) skills and knowledge your child should have before adulthood.
I agree K-Pop isn't as popular as the bubbles believe it to be in America. The comparison should be between S. Korea's vs Japan's sub-culture eg manga, web toon, live dramas, and music, and its impact on the West while taking into consideration Japan had an early start (and now established influence) on influencing for several decades. In comparison, Korea and K-Pop is still a baby. Another way to look at it is, Japan popularized Asian Animation (anime) in America the same way S. Korea did for Asian Music (k-pop). Japan's start was a cascading influence of video games, j-rock, and anime + manga. But you are right if we talk about music alone, k-pop is not as popular in America as fans think. S. Korea is still working on their cascading influence (k-pop, dramas, toons, web novels, esports, etc). Until then, we will see more Ahegao Sweaters.
I'm curious. I wonder what country would be most feasible to erect a self-sustaining village? And what is the ideal way to manage it eg village chief?
In 2022, this comment is likely the most realistic including the comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32120668. Many of the advices out there isn't applicable without parents, role models, and environment that encourages it from a young age such as discipline and financial literacy.
I use porkbun and namesilo. The low cost solution plus trustworthy TLDs are likely (to name some) .cc , .us , .work , .link , .top. FYI, I graduated from namecheap after dozens of domains, and then realizing the base cost + multi-year renewals were slightly higher than alternatives.