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I mean that is a large part of what HN is, but not exclusively. As a non-american I frequently see posts that are obviously only on the front page because most people on this site are from Silicon Valley or USA in general. Some examples:

- San Francisco housing crisis: This has been a frequent topic of discussion on HN but I don't think many people outside of San Francisco, let alone outside of USA care a lot about this

- The collapse of silicon valley bank was a huge topic on HN but it was more or less non-existent in the news in my country

- Posts about US politics, such as anything related to Trump or the American Supreme Court

- When a post is specific to a particular country, it's usually indicated in the title, except in the case of the USA

It would be great to have real high speed trains in Switzerland. Unfortunately it's just not possible though. A train can only go very fast if the tracks are very long and straight. In switzerland there just is no space for that. The non mountainous parts of the country are densely populated. Even if you have tracks where you could go very fast such as the Gotthard tunnel it's not worth it to buy trains that go that fast for the very few passages that actually allow them to make full use of their speed. Besides if not all trains on the network can go this fast you need to increase the interval between trains which you obviously don't want to.

He's got a 'Date Me' button on his website which takes you to a Google Form where you can apply to be his girlfriend. I can't decide if this makes the blog post more or less believable. Could it be that he's just a satirical character and doesn't really exist?

It is true that the plasticity of children's brains is higher than that of adults. Research also suggests that in very early childhood, children have an exceptionally good ability to discern different sounds and the ability to learn how to make those sounds, although this ability is lost at some point.

However, I believe many people overestimate the advantage children have in learning a language. For example, a four-year-old can have a basic conversation and communicate their needs, but they are not yet able to have a complex conversation. Their vocabulary and pronunciation may not be fully developed yet.

It's important to note that this child has spent a significant portion of their life learning the language and is exposed to it daily, and likely has parents or others to practice their language skills with. Despite this, their language level is not yet perfect.

The point I am trying to make is that it takes a significant amount of time and effort to learn a language, and there is no shortcut or "hack." Most adults would likely do comparably well if they dedicated the same time and effort to learning a language as children do.

I don't really believe this. Of course some people have more of a tendency to be good at languages than others but I think the guy from you story probably didn't try hard enough or maybe had a completely wrong approach. There are many countries where virtually all people speak a foreign language which shows that it is possible for almost anybody to pick up another language.

For Context: This interview was originally published in the Swiss newspaper "Die Weltwoche," which is owned by a far-right politician known for taking pro-Russia and pro-China stances. The owner of the paper has publicly called the President Selenski a "liar" who "needs to be urgently restrained" and has blamed the war on the West. He is also a frequent guest on Russia Today.

I came across a YouTube creator who shared their revenue with their audience. They mentioned that the idea that sharing revenue is not allowed has been a myth for many years. However, I believe that some channel networks may prohibit creators from disclosing their revenue. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the name of the creator.

This is not true. There are quite a few large (and also some smaller ones) youtubers who shared their ad-sense revenue.

Micro dependencies and dependency hell are two of the Javascript ecosystem's most frequently mentioned issues. Anyone aware of any initiatives to lessen dependencies in important projects? For instance, the typical number of dependencies in a JS project would probably decrease significantly if large libraries and frameworks like webpack, babel, react, etc. all stopped using dependencies like left-pad or is-boolean (and also a bit more sophisticated ones). It would probably be sufficient if the top 1% of packages tried to remove as many dependencies as they could, because those are the dependencies that 90% of developers use. Additionally, large packages likely have the resources to implement helper libraries on their own rather than relying on them.

- The WC is primarily a football tournament. Qatar is a country where it's too hot to play football even in the winter. They had to add ACs to the Stadiums so it's somewhat tolerable (not a joke).

- Because it's so hot in Qatar the WC was moved to the winter. This breaks the long standing tradition of doing the WC in the summer.

- In many countries where people actually care about the WC it's cold and rainy in winter. Traditions such watching the WC outside with family and friends obviously cannot exist this time around.

- There is zero football history or tradition in Qatar. Nobody there actually cares about football. Why do the WC there?

- It is very obvious that the only reason why we have a WC in Qatar is corruption. Corrupt people in the FIFA and in western goverments and willingness to bribe and do everything imaginable to get the WC from the Qatari government.

- Qatar now has 8 large and very modern football stadiums in the radius of 50km but the entire country only has less than 3 million people. For camparison London has three times the population but not as many comparable stadiums eventhough London can be considered the world capital of football. Those stadiums will most likely not be really used after the WC.

- It is a known fact that thousands of migrant workers had to die in order for those stadiums to be built.

- Fans are not allowed to wear pride flag colors. Players are not allowed to armbands with pride flag colors because the Qatari government doesn't like it.

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I also got this ad yesterday when I opened PM. It's the kind of ad you'd expect from a free tier but not as a paying customer. At first it made me wonder if my subscription had expired.

I have two cheap WiFi Access Points. They worked fine when I got them. After a few weeks one of them stopped working and I had to restart it. A few days later the other one had the same problem. This repeated every few weeks. Once i got tired of restarting the APs every now and then, I looked into it and figured it was a memory leak in the firmware. Then I installed OpenWRT and I didn't touch the APs since. It just works. Pretty amazing if you ask me.

What do you mean? Fahrenheit is not logarithmic. The conversion function from Fahrenheit to Celsius is literallay a linear function: c(f) = f(5/9) - (160/9)

I think the problem is that the "easy" parts of netflix such as the UI or the recommendation engine seem like they were hacked together over the weekend. Of course deploying and maintaining something of the scale of netflix is incredibly hard. But if they can afford thousands of engineers who optimize the performance why can't they hire a few UI/UX engineers to fix the godawful interface which is slightly different on every device? I think this is where this sentiment stems from.

Love it. Use it as my default calculator when I need one occasionally. I would love to see support for plotting graphs and solving equations. Also a more touch friendly UI would be nice when using my 2-in1 laptop in tablet mode when doing math excercises for uni.

Yes. In Switzerland it's Twint. It's easy to use, instant and free for the user. It started out as an easy way to move small amounts of money around among family and friends without the hassle of doing a bank transfer. Now large grocery stores and online shops support it too. I don't see it overtaking the whole payment market because of the exclusivity to Switzerland. It'd be great if something like Twint would exist but usable and prevalent all over the world.

This looks like a good idea on the surface but there is one factor which is easy to forget but still very important. If you have a subscription with a news site instead of paying for articles individually you might not read articles you would have read otherwise. I often find myself enjoying articles much more than I would have anticipated just considering the title. If a per-article business model will become the norm the clickbait-problem will undoubtedly get worse. Deeper and less catchy articles will fade from media outlets which hurts the industry as a whole.

That's one of the benefits of streaming services in the music industry. Nowadays it's much easier to discover artists which deviate from the mainstream because you don't have to spend any extra money to discover a new artist. I think this is healthy for the music scene and I suspect the same is true for journalism.

Also if you have a subscription you are probably going to read more articles than if you would have to purchase every article individually even if it's less expensive to do so. People reading less is hardly a desireable goal.

Here's a few reasons:

- You trust the VPN provider more than your ISP

- You want to circumvent geoblocking (Netflix, Sports broadcasts, etc...)

- You have to use an untrusted Wi-Fi

- You want to circumvent your government blocking certain websites/services

The appeal of WhatsApp is simply that everyone already has it. It's the only messaging platform that can be used to message all your contacts. Network effect, that's it.

They should use Threema [1] which is based in Switzerland. Even though Switzerland is not in the EU it's not as bad as the US (from an EU standpoint) and since Switzerland is heavily dependent on the EU the likelihood of them spying on the EU is pretty small. Apart from that Threema publishes a transparency report [2] where they list all requests from governmental authorities.

[1]: https://threema.ch/en

[2]: https://threema.ch/en/transparencyreport

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It takes 10 minutes at most to cycle one mile. What's the problem?

I've been waiting so long for this day. Finally arrow functions in PHP! Until now it was extremely cumbersome to use higher-order functions such as array_map() or usort() . This is especially true if you're a full stack developer who frequently switches between PHP and JavaScript which has had support for arrow functions for a long time. The hitherto existing anonymous functions are so verbose and it's a real pain to bind all closure variables manually.

Is there ever going to be a radically new design system that is not an iteration of another design system? I really can't think of anything that could be done fundementally different about UI design but I also can't image that it's going to stay the same for ever. Does anyone know of a design trend that's entirely new?

If bikes drove on the left side of the lane it would be impossible for cars to overtake bikes. (Overtaking on the right is illegal.)

In Europe there are separate traffic lights for bicycles that turn green a few second earlier than the car traffic lights. This adds a lot of safety since the bikes have time to get past the first car in line. I think a lot of accidents where the car turns right and overlooks a bike in the blind spot can be prevented through this measure.

Your conception of vinyl buyers is very negative. I think there's another category of people that buy vinyl. If you really love an album and want to support the artist you can purchase the vinyl version of the album. Apart from supporting the artist you often get additional treats like a nice booklet with the lyrics or additional art/imagery.

I really think there's extra value in buying vinyl apart from it being hip.

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987816

This article is plain wrong. The original NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) article, which is linked in this article, says nowhere that the Tesla Model 3 was the best selling car in March. The Model 3 was only the fourth best selling car in March. You can find the original data here: https://www.auto.swiss/statistiken/autoverkaeufe-nach-modell...

According to the data the Škoda Octavia was sold nearly two times as much as the Model 3. It must be said, however, that the Model 3 is the best-selling electric car.

This is absolutely not true. I started learning english when I was about 13 years old. Now I'm definitely fluet in English. So it's incorrect that you cannot achieve fluency in a foreign language after the age of five.

I don't think a JVM like chromium engine would really solve the problem. Most JVM end user applications ship their own JVM. By shipping your own JVM one can avoid compatibility problems and most importantly the user doesn't has to install the JVM which makes for better UX. The same would apply for Electron.

The only way I think a common runtime could work is if Electron used the Runtime of the Browser. If every browser exposed an API to run JavaScript and Render HTMl using the browser's Engine that'd be great.