skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PG is deciding that because PC culture exists, we can't work on those real issues until PC culture is gone

That doesn't seem to be supported by the essay itself, since it has the following part:

> But by the same token we should not automatically reject everything the woke believe. I'm not a Christian, but I can see that many Christian principles are good ones. It would be a mistake to discard them all just because one didn't share the religion that espoused them. It would be the sort of thing a religious zealot would do.

It seems to say there are real issues, there are good things coming from "the woke" (whatever that means), we shouldn't discard all ideas just because one or two are bad.

> Because PG doesn't think its actually a problem.

Is that something pg actually said/wrote/hinted at in any of the essays, or are you just trying to bad-faith your way out of this discussion?
>If you're a CEO that signed a lease or construction contract on any piece of property since, idk, 2015, you have, in some way, burned a lot of money on a piece of ground that could have, in many cases, been replaced with a far cheaper internet connection and suite of remote work applications.

>1) explain this bonfire of cash to the board and possibly to shareholders, which is a pretty good way to see yourself shown the door"

I don't get it? Is this supposed to be bad look for the CEO because he wasn't prescient enough to predict the covid pandemic and the wfh revolution 5 years before it happened? Given how frequent next quarters' forecasts get revised, I don't think the board expects CEOs to be that prescient.
I heard first-hand years ago of a bug in VMWare that was _CPU-Level_ for the company that rolled it out in an effort to replace their PCs that had software locally installed. The failure would have been catastrophic for a company that had just replaced all its PCs. However, they hadn't shipped the old PCs away yet for destruction, and managed to keep the lights on by putting them all back out again until the problem was fixed.
This is super cool! I love the simulation aspect of it.

On the same note, I've been working on a bike POV display with lots of LEDs and just got "live-ish" video working over wifi with it:

https://youtu.be/hxAHBvuyqpY?si=8XraFuG_Fi54Bs7T
The app is so bad that I'm about chuck three Sonos Ones in the trash (metaphorically) and replace them with HomePod Minis or whatever—and I would certainly never go back to Sonos products after that. Huge failure. The CEO should've been dumped months ago.
As defined in a Florida lawsuit, woke is, "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them." I think that is generally true. I also agree with parts of what PG stated. More than anything, I think the term 'woke' as defined above has been twisted by both sides, and action is more important that talking.
It has been bizarre watching this debacle from the sidelines. I must have bought just on the recent side of whatever demarcation of problems are being complained about.

My app works fine. My speakers work fine. The worst problem we have is rarely the music pauses, we're unsure why, and we just hit play again.

I'm wondering if there is some functionality I am not aware I'm missing or if it is limited to older models that I am simply not experiencing the problems with?
Hi, you’re right - we can’t understand what the other side means without a genuine discussion.

And the polarized ends of woke and anti-woke shouting aren’t going to achieve that.

So it’s important to engage with the (non-shouty) people in our lives who we can have those discussions with.
Then maybe you aren't a culture fit for that employer / office?

My experience is just so different. I love the vibe and the camaraderie of my office. It makes it fun to work there.

Just sitting at home working, never interacting with people in person sounds really dull and boring and cold to me. I had to do that in 2020 and I hated it.

Productivity is nice, but IMO it's not all about productivity. As a worker I value my enjoyment of the job, and just being a robotic super productive worker is not as enjoyable as actually feeling like you are part of a team or community and having fun with your fellow coworkers.

We spend so much of our lives on the clock, I would hate to have it all just be serious productive work 100% of the time.
An 'Iron Dome' to stop wildfires: Israeli startup tech based on missile defense
The web server can be hacked so it serves something other than the static HTML you uploaded but there is no 'app' to hack, there's a whole class of problems that can happen on WordPress that can not happen with static sites.

What would hacking an HTML file even mean.
I believe you are confusing Star Wars Uncut with Star Wars Despecialized Edition. Image and sound quality are far, far away from the first thing I would point out when distinguishing Uncut from the studio masters.
I see the problem you identify with people's behaviour and agree with the noisiness of people you refer to as group two - people who aren’t thinking deeply about what they are saying have a lot of freedom to shoot their mouth off.
To be very clear, I see your comment as a sincere attempt to articulate and respond to a problem, most discussion of woke isn’t.
While I do want to offer just one olive branch to people upset about woke, that yes - annoying people really are annoying, self-righteous twits truly are unbearable - but when I see someone frothing at the mouth because someone spoke about selfishness, hypocrisy or cruelty in way they didn’t like, I’m generally left with the impression that there is no way to confront those topics in a way that would satisfy them.
There are idiots everywhere – even the smartest of us are part-time idiots, stupidity is just the background noise we have to talk over, rabbiting on about woke usually seems to part strategic tantrum to avoid real discussion and part real tantrum.

I think I’m looking for a way to distil the ideas you’ve expressed into a response I can use when someone complains about woke : `that sounds quite annoying, but let’s discuss the idea not the idiot`
> The danger of these rules was not just that they created land mines for the unwary

In real life, these "land mines" don't usually explode unless people think you're stepping on it intentionally.

For instance, every time I've accidentally used the wrong pronoun for someone, I've gotten a polite correction, I make a mental note, and everyone moves on. It's just not a big deal.

With a large enough audience, there will always be someone who assumes you've acted with ill intent. But if you know you've done it innocently, then you can just ignore them and move on.

Intent matters. Those performative things communicate your intent to make others feel welcome and included. So if you fly off the handle at a reasonable request that would make a group of people feel more included, you've communicated your intent accordingly.

Occasionally, there are some purely performative things that don't actually make anyone feel more included. Personally, I think it's reasonable to ask that question if you're genuinely interested in finding the answer. However, purely performative things tend to disappear in time; so sometimes the most pragmatic response is to just go with the flow and see where things land.
Imagine I wrote an essay on Christianity and based it entirely on the behavior of evangelicals in the South who attend megachurchies (a very vocal minority). Surely you'd expect other Christians (all around the world) who equally claim true usage to object.
I don’t believe any of these companies are seriously trying to create a tool for musicians/artists.

When they say they’re catering to “artists”, they want to say that you can become an artist by promoting their models for the small fee of X.99/mo.

Their goal is to train a model of the well-trodden one-shot text<->art form, and just sell prompting access directly to the mass market consumer audience. Way less work, way bigger market (and less discerning, too)
You may be right. Come to think of it, until this drama, the only "community" I believed exists around Wordpress is the network of small businesses specialized in Wordpress hosting, maintenance and consulting for other small businesses. I personally know someone running a sole proprietorship, whose entire income over past ~decade came from such Wordpress jobs.

It might be that this will be the only "community" that remains going forward.
I do this with WiiM. For me, the biggest thing is that I have speakers that are >20 years old that still work perfectly. Why replace what already works well?

I looked at the Sonos ecosystem for this, but their non-speaker devices are absurdly priced. The network audio streamer is 449 and the amp is 699. WiiM amps are either 299 or 379 and their network streamer ranges from 149 to 329. I have a few of the network streamers which were 149. They connect into my receiver, into an old amp I have, etc. and work perfectly.
https://archive.ph/ll1PS
Specifically making art for themselves.

Making art to share and impress others is one thing, but OP's quote implies that it's only for people's self enjoyment.

I don't doubt that there are people who enjoy painting and never plan on displaying anything. But I also don't doubt that there are people who enjoy doing their laundry.
> It seems to lead inevitably either to (obviously repugnant and utility-destroying) communism

Why is that obvious, why is that inevitable, and how is this inevitable communism utility-destroying?
I love the foggy/misty winter days we've had recently. I don't mind the lack of bright sunshine during the days, but the shortened daylight hours starts to drag pretty hard.
Did you stop using it? For me it seems like a huge improvement now.

I was really excited for the app update because the old app was really unstable. Then the update happened and it was like 10x worse than the old app. Then in the past few months it's gotten really solid (for me anyway) and I'm pretty happy with it.
Karliss above found docs which mention:

> This request requires up to three timer clock cycles. If the selected timer is working at slow clock, the request could take longer.

Let's ignore the weirdly ambiguous second sentence and say for pedagogical purposes it takes up to three timer clock cycles full stop. Timer clock cycles aren't CPU clock cycles, so we can't just do `nop; nop; nop;`. How do we wait three timer clock cycles? Well a timer register read is handled by the timer peripheral which runs at the timer clock, so reading (or writing) a timer register will take until at least the end of the next timer clock.

This is a very common pattern when dealing with memory mapped peripheral registers.

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I'm making some reasonable assumptions about how the clock peripheral works. I haven't actually dug into the Marvell documentation.
Wrong/broken link. I assume poster meant something like this [0] instead.

(Also, all those upvoting points... C'mon folks, at least pretend you're doing more than skimming headlines, jeez.)

[0] https://www.yahoo.com/tech/meta-admits-it-deleted-links-to-d...
I tried to search for info about an update that broke iPhone 7 phones. Couldn’t find anything. Can you point me to some more info?
> The number of votes it took for Republicans to select a Speaker of the House and the effort that Speaker has had to subsequently undertake to keep that position says otherwise.

It's natural that the politicians selected by this group are going to be self-serving, unable to cooperate, etc. The fractiousness I'm describing is at the level of the voter, not the politician. See the 2024 presidential election for an example.
Okay, so what's the point? Just to piss of employees and waste money on real-estate and snacks?
This looks nice. A watch mechanism built in to continuously monitor file changes and kick off the make/run process would be fantastic.
Do you use the Sonos app itself? Most of my friends with Sonos just use Spotify/Apple music and skip the Sonos app altogether. It sounds like the app update was pretty horrible though - no ability to even _queue music_. But easily sidestepped by just using Spotify.
Mastodon Founder Cedes Control to European Nonprofit
Amstrad CPC's Locomotive BASIC supported up to 40 character variable names with no trimming.
Isn't that precisely his first idea? A device containing a conductive liquid (mercury) that takes care of closing the circuits and the turning on the LEDs.
1. The Biden admin is already suing them for a different reason.

2. The Biden admin won't be there to sue them in 7 days.

3. I'm not saying this didn't happen, I'm saying Zuckerberg is a habitual liar and I wouldn't believe him if he said his name was Mark.
Language is fluid. Historically look at words like "hacker." People start to use words colloquially in ways that the originators of the word did not necessarily intend.

"Troll" is another one. It used to mean a person who posted a contentious comment that they knew would invoke a flame war so that they could sit back and wait to see who "bit." It came from fishing. These days it can just mean someone who is rude on the Internet.

You're not wrong, the "opposition" did take the word and run with it for their own use. No dispute there.

But let's not pretend that this is a conservative vs progressive thing. On the partisan isle I'm "neither." But when someone uses the word "woke", in conversation, I usually know exactly what they're getting at. And I hear it from left-leaning friends and right-leaning alike.

It's a short-cut umbrella term to mean an amalgamation of a) moral busybodies b) purity spirals c) cancel culture d) some bizarre racist philosophy that markets itself as anti-racist (critical race theory) and e) an extreme version of political correctness.

I'm not arguing whether or not left-wingers are (or aren't) using it themselves in serious conversation. Only that, colloquially, I've only encountered confusion about what it means in Internet forum discussions with like-minded nerds, such as this one. The average person I talk to has little difficulty.

And maybe that definition was shaped, wholly or in part, by the conservatives making it out to be a boogeyman. Even if so, and even if it was an unfair hijack and it's appropriate to hate on them for doing so, it doesn't change how people interpret the word in casual conversation today.
they even deleted this link. powerful opponent to have
I remember the web was full of trolls (just look at old Slashdot posts), and newsgroups could be pretty toxic back then. Just the web was more niche back then and not as many people were exposed to it.
The biggest tell by them is how gleeful they are about the possibility that AI could lower the bar of competence. If they had the skills, they wouldn't need to be frothing at the mouth for AI.
> Ideally, one should be able to control every part of code generation

The issue with this approach is that the more you can control, the less the compiler can assume. This in turn means that it can check less for you, and tools become harder to write because code analysis often heavily realies on those assumptions. Just to make an example, Zig doesn't (and with the current approach can't) have declaration checked generics.

> In a system like this, a single GUI framework could be used to either statically or dynamically generate UI elements, with templating code being run either at comptime or runtime

I feel like this is overly optimistic. Some things will always be runtime-only, even some very basic ones like allocating heap memory. You can likely sidestep this issue and still precompute a lot at compile time, but then chances are this way of computing will be less efficient at runtime. In the end you'll likely still end up with different code for comptime and runtime just because of specific optimizations.
Thanks for your explanation! Very helpful!
The number of responses that you're getting that some people would prefer a rote and repetitive act like folding bloody laundry over the act of creation makes me think I accidentally stumbled through the fun-house mirror equivalent of Lewis Carroll's looking glass.
That's Everclear!

`Everclear is also used as a household "food-grade" cleaner, disinfectant, or stove fuel alcohol`

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

It's not very palatable orally, but butt-chugging is really not advised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_enema
> Maybe he believes it can't live without his magic touch (lmao).

If 2025 Matt tried to fork b2/cafelog back in 2003, I think a good number of people in the PHP and blogging communities would have told him to, very kindly, fork off.

Or, all that money and power corrupted him over the years.
I've heard "The Great Resignation" only 2 years ago about quiet quitters and people who would switch employers in a heartbeat when made to RTO.

The opposite has happened. Workers are craving jobs harder than since the financial crisis.
Virtual video sound is rarely full duplex meaning the first person to speak blocks others and you have these really awkward pauses and latency that interrupt natural communication. Then, add in the lack of body language cues that are difficult to see over video and the pace of communication becomes slower. Ideas don't easily bounce around a team because the technology creates a one-person-at-a-time framework.
He doesn't actually do any development himself at all. IIRC his last commit was something like 15 years ago.
I admit I only read the first few paragraphs but the article references google search, twitter, and Facebook as becoming shit for end users.

What do people expect from products they don't pay for?

Pay for search and ditch the shitty social media microblogging crap and the internet becomes better.
> throw it all in the trash and start over

People will think what you’re saying is hyperbole; however, I was on a walk with the family, and I saw a Sonos speaker in the trash. It looked like new and a fairly recent model. I lugged it home, and it was a $US500 Sonos Play:5 speaker system [1].

Once home, I plugged it in, and it powered up.

I tried to pair it with my iPhone using the new Sonos app, and it didn’t work (the app never found the speaker).

I then tried the same again using my development Android device, and it instantly worked!

Once it was set up with the Android app, I could access it via the iPhone version of the app.

I can only imagine some iPhone owner literally threw it in the trash because he couldn’t get the iOS app to work. Bonkers…

[1] https://files.littlebird.com.au/pb-BfEVPbWlDe-hkxfK0.png
What's weird is the subs that will ban you for simply commenting in another sub, especially for just one comment, even if your comments are contrary to the theme of the sub.
I don't understand how (if?) WordPress has popularity among serious professionals. Extending it without plugins, many of which are paid, is a nightmare. Adding custom fields is laborious, configuring post type display modes is a slog as well.

HN seems to grumble about Drupal but even if your only requirement is a PHP server with a MySQL database connect, Drupal (8+) is just as simple to set up as WordPress and infinitely easier to configure. Older versions may have been less user-friendly but really, just click "Content->Add New->Page" and you're already running at the speed of WordPress.
"aggressively" and "performative" already contain a judgement. The actual meaning of "wokeness" is an "awareness of the existence of social injustice".
Identifying and buying potential competitors is neither lucky, nor is it visionary, it's just SOP for megacorps with deep pockets and potential competition.
Oddly enough it now means that canned tomatoes are better than fresh.
Hi, I'm the guy who discovered the quirk in the first place. You can survive pretty much indefinitely at the river, with or without food. You could cross the river at any point. I just thought it would be a laugh to see if you could get to a five-digit year. Then, upon resumption of the journey, the party very rapidly deteriorates and you can only survive about 5 or 6 days before they're all dead, even if you gather food immediately and wait to restore health. So the unmodded achievement was "I lived for 15,000 years in The Oregon Trail" and then I asked moralrecordings for help in reverse-engineering the game so I could get the satisfaction of a successful arrival.

Just a bit of fun.

edit: And the answer to "Why THAT river?" is simply that it's the last river in the game, and when I was hoping to complete a run without any modding, I thought it might be possible to play normally, get to the final river, wait 15,000 years, and then try to limp my decrepit deathwagon to the finish line before we all expired. This proved impossible, sadly.
Related: https://sagipolaczek.github.io/NeuralSVG/
He notes that "wokeness" in academia originated in
the social sciences and not, say, mathematics or
engineering.

Yeah, what's up with that? Is this supposed to be evidence for why (what he defines as) "wokeness" is bad? Ideas worth considering... can't come from the social sciences? Can they only come from STEM fields? That is uh, certainly a viewpoint for him to have.
Build PS2 Games with Unity
> I don't know what an "AI Engineer" is, but, is reading research papers actually necessary

Let's put it this way: if even half the people who call themselves "AI Engineers" would read the research in the field, we'd have a lot less hype and a lot more success in finding the actual useful applications of this technology. As is, most "AI Engineers" assume the same thing you do and consider "AI Engineering" to be "I know how to plug this black box into this other black box and return the result as JSON! Pay me!". Meanwhile most AI startups are doomed from the start because what they set out to do is known to be a bad fit.
I don't gamble. I play games sometimes, but I don't wager money on them. I have no interest in playing games for money and you'll never catch me in a casino unless there happens to be a conference or convention held there.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do with this thread, but I do not think you're having a good-faith discussion about something you're curious about.
16 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck. Now the US one is 50%>
Before you do that, you need to be very careful about two things:

1. Tide state, witch I did

2. Dog poo, which I didn't and there is a pub I won't ever go back to, as I discovered the poo issue quite late.
they've redefined it as "first amendment". Also they've convinced themselves that hypernationalistic fascism was somehow a project of the leftists the fascists rounded up and slaughtered.

It's the same mechanism of imagining an enemy causing the negative consequences of the policies they advocate for.

It's actually the core thing that connects tech startups, conspiracy theories, medical quackery, and fascism - a desire to be guided by the imaginary and construct necessary delusions to deny reality.

Wildest thing is, every now and then, it works out - the most delusional Bitcoin people of 2010 are genuinely billionaires now.

Most of the richest people had to deeply believe in what was, at some time, an irrational fantasy and that taking inadvisable acts of insanity would somehow work out.
A Lesson in Creativity and Capitalism from Two Zany YouTubers
See the article we're discussing.
Yes but that was during a time before we had even entered Enlightenment. I don't see how it says anything about consequences of a 1.5 degree average warming.