skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever considered that you are taking the wrong message from these trainings?

"white people" isn't real. That's why there is a concept of "passing", and why the KKK in my state marched against other white people. All these groupings are arbitrary on their face.

>But these trainings divide people up into groups—just along arbitrary lines.

How do you suggest material about how dividing people up based on the farce of "race" should be made? It needs to have some "in group" vs "out group" to demonstrate how that dynamic works. Are they supposed to use real and explicit life examples? Should every person joining your org be made to watch a training video where a white manager calls a black employee the N word?

Do you not understand the concept of film and acting and theatre? That you often demonstrate matters through allegory or metaphor?

Or do you also complain that Dr Seuss tried to educate children about racism with the "star bellied sneets" because it's just an arbitrary division?

You complain that "they were all wrapped up into the Indian category", but guess what, that's the same story for Italian Americans and the Irish and at one time that nobody seems to remember, the Catholics. "White" is also a horseshit made up group. There is as much diversity in India as there is in America.

Like I just don't get it. What would you rather have to help train adults about racism and how not to be racist?
Really it depends where they end up. If you drop them on the street, that incurs a greater cost than landfill, which probably is less economic than incineration (plastic contains a lot of energy).
I'd rather worry about eating too many Calories than too few.
> Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one. I don't think any reasonable person would deny that.

Au contraire, the idea that racism is a problem is now labeled "critical race theory" and it's a crime to spread this knowledge to students in multiple states.

Teachers in Oklahoma can't teach students the fact that the Tulsa Massacre was race-driven.

So Paul himself, it appears, has given himself over to the wokeness by acknowledging that racism is a genuine problem.
Their answer:

> So if ops(2*16) costs $8, then ops(232) costs $8 ops(232) / ops(216) = $2521.98. Far more than $8^2.
> The cost reaches the millions for 64 bits, and ~$165 trillion for 128 bits:

Your answer

> meanwhile 512 bits costs $8
> But you just keep believing 128 bits costs $165 trillion ROFL.

At this point the only conclusion that doesn't involve questioning your sanity is just to conclude that you don't know anything about math and you struggle even reading mathematical notation (“if <> then <>” being the most basic construct one can learn about math, and you still struggle with it!).
The user says they were banned within hours of Elon taking over Twitter. New Parody rules did not come into affect until November 2022.
Owners of social networks are terrified that they're accountable to society in any way. That explains why Musk and now Zuckerberg are so happy to throw away the last concept of accountability that society tried to create in the last decades. Basically they've taken over and are making all the rules.
Have you found the fabled solution for measuring programmer productivity?
Probably because of the blog post that it is a comment to
If you look how many white people are killed by blacks versus blacks killed by white people, you will have a shock. Even when you account for whites being a few times more than blacks in the general population.

I really don't buy this "minorities" are being killed story.
Thanks for the feedback. I totally appreciate it. Also, there is already an about section. Have you checked that out?
I do not call that a censorship of speech decision, it's a banning encouraging the competition decision, no? The company doesn't want competitors being boosted, so it makes and enforces a policy. I presume people discussing the Fediverse as a concept are not routinely suspended, although I'm too lazy to check.
In this case, they are one in the same. And if it is a free speech forum, then it should have been a protected act.

Free speech means free speech for those you dislike too. It also means having a space for those that are disruptive, loud, and engaging in trolling. That's what those fire-and-brimstone "you're going to hell" preachers are doing at universities. (Which isn't all bad - it gives students a great opportunity to learn debate and to stand up for what they believe in.)

The ACLU has represented the Vietnam War protestors, the KKK, neo-Nazis, LGBT activists, Westboro Baptist Church members, religious followers of Jerry Falwell, flag burners, anti-abortion activists, women's rights activists, communist party members, gun rights advocates, anti-Trump protestors, BLM protestors, and more. And it's a good thing they represented every single one, because erosion of free speech for those we don't like will eventually get back to us.
I did, and do, and each day I pay the price and then some.

Free speech and research is critical in order for our society to thrive. That said, it is not mutually exclusive with helping folks that need a little help to integrate and contribute when they really want to? It’s sad to see changes that helped, getting thrown out for its association with a social craze.
> The main exception to this, I believe, would be for critical systems where compromising operation through software modification presents too high a risk. Examples I'm thinking of include:

> certain medical devices, such as implants and insulin pumps
> subsets of electronic control units for cars

These are precisely the opposite of what should be exceptions. If you have a pacemaker implanted in your body, you need the right to replace whatever software is running on it before the manufacturer goes out of business and takes the signing keys with them.

There exists no thing where the owner of the device should not have the right to replace the software it runs, and the more safety-critical the device the more important the right.
> “Woke”, for the most part, is a boogeyman that the conservative right uses as a summary label for various political movements on the left. Basically nobody on the left talks about “woke” except for perhaps a period of six months back in 2017.

As someone who most folks would indentify as “liberal”, I use this term to describe a very small but vocal group of so-called progressives who are a problem for the liberal cause writ large.

> The complaints about, say, LatinX have far surpassed the number of actual proponents of it, which were a small number of people of the left.

This is a prime example. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been indignantly corrected by so-called progressives when speaking about “Latine” — note that this term is what many/most Spanish speakers (at least ones who aren’t eyeballs deep in “woke” circles) are more likely to use when they don’t want to use “Latino”.

Latinx is one of those white liberal made-up things (of many), and the language police enforcement is off-putting and shows an incredible lack boundaries.

“Woke” ideals resonate well with a narrow group of “progressives”/liberals, but the “woke” agenda, messaging, and implementation are alienating to large swathes of the US public, including but definitely not limited to conservative extremists.

If you want to see some realpolitik on this issue, note how AOC learned (via Pelosi) to get in line with votes and messaging when it mattered even while endorsing progressive/liberal/woke ideologies.
"Inclusive language" won't stop anyone from being killed or harassed, especially with Trump in power in the US again.
Also in the great lakes region. From reading and researching this topic I feel like Californians vastly overestimate the risk of blizzards and tornados while discounting wildfire and earthquakes.

I feel like any natural disaster here has plenty of warning, which massively reduces the actual risk me and my family assuming I take the warning seriously. Unfortunately there is absolutely no warning for earthquakes and relatively little warning for wildfires (better than earthquakes, but still not as good as tornados or winter storms).
Well like any political descriptor, "far right" is a generalization that applies to several groups. In this case, Elon is part of the corporate-techno-authoritarian far right that supported trump, while figures like Loomer who were posting the anti-H1B content are part of the white-nationalist/christian-nationalist far right (that also supported trump).
Government entities use taxpayer money to fund legal action (and pretty much everything else they do) all the time. I am not a lawyer but I believe it is called “administrative law” and is completely normal. To think so otherwise is completely ahistorical and incorrect.
Everything Might Be Accounting Fraud
> In Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, the wealthy class pays out a fair bit of money to citizens

In the gulf states, the usual pattern is that the citizens are rewarded with a share of the wealth extracted by exploitation of vast hordes of noncitizen laborers, so that they are invested in the exploitation, from which, on a per capita basis at least, the wealthy class receives much more.
That is not a relevant answer to my statement.
wrong. your definition essentially means "business friendly", the wiki is open source in every way that matters, except for "lets make money off this persons free work"
I don't think that one was ever "acceptable". That being said, literally every term after/including "African-American" in that list is socially acceptable. Not sure what they're going on about.
Balance of Nature
The theory that ecosystems exist in equilibrium seems disproven, yet it remains commonly accepted in popular science and environmental efforts.
The title is:

Inside the Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools

It's about religious schools, which is a major omission from the title.
Opportunity cost, mostly.
Police ignore standards after AI facial recognition matches
You're lumping big changes with small changes. If you really won't go back and change one function or one class because someone shared a better idea at the PR stage that's unhealthy and you will improve by letting go of that.
The comments before mine certainly point out that many dislike the hype topics.

I think these hype topics are inherent to HN though, given that the org is fundamentally a venture capital financial institution.

By nature, VC is always riding a wave of hype. Investors put money into a startup in hopes that it generates returns like the next singer on stage in her underwear.

The industry could support smaller returns from thousands of smaller startups, but the big payoff comes with investment in the next big superstar.

These are the same financial forces that guide massive industry consolidation.

Who actually likes goggle today? Investors...
> X has lost net users and Bluesky is gaining them

X grew by about 47% last year so im not sure what net loss you are talking about

Bluesky gained X users but that rate has now almost certainly slowed down

Many who publicly advertised they were quitting X for Bluesky are back on X as they don't get anywhere near the engagement they are used to.
People who lean left are choosing to leave.

Greg Lukianoff of FIRE, a free speech defender said Musk made twitter better for free speech (on balance):
https://youtu.be/Er1glEAQhAo?si=2aWdSIsbKzjz0nGA&t=2853
I understand your point, but I don’t think anyone used the word “wokeness” before the Right started it as insult.
That Elon/Twitter part was really out of place, like a VPN ad integration in the middle of a Youtube video. Attributing the rise of wokeness to students becoming deans and administrators sounds kinda dubious but maybe, he could use more evidence there.

Otherwise a great piece.
Of course you can do all of this! After all, the sources of e.g. Wirth's Modula-2 single-pass compiler for the Macintosh (that generates native MC68000 code) have survived, and it doesn't use "stack of addresses": it uses "fixup()" calls when compiling conditions, loops, references to (imported) global variables etc. and, surely enough, calls to functions. It even has "CheckUDProc()" call at the end of the module-translation procedure to check whether there are any undefined procedures left in the symbol table.

It would be entirely possible to treat calls to undefined functions as implicit forward declarations; he simply never chose to do so.
PG and Altman don't have editorial influence on Hacker News, and current moderation policy is to not kill topics partaining to YC. (which is why I suspect this blogpost got rescued from being flagkilled)
Latinx is a great example of the overreaction. Some people use this term. It was briefly catching on among groups with power, but ultimately never did. But it is spoken about like Harris was saying "latinx" in all of her campaign videos and that people are being fired for using "latino" or "latina" or even "latin."

Ultimately, I think it is important that groups are able to try things and then later determine that they weren't the best idea. Shouldn't this be ceelbrated?
Interesting concept idea apps! How does Missio handle workflows?
okay, but I really wasn't trying to imply that the good-bad moral line of WW2 should be rotated. It's about adding nuance: the effects of european colonialism in the pacific are massive, intertwined throughout society in ways that are more and less invisible to us, and that it's edifying to understand that.

More generally, all of history is like this. So I think it's good to attempt to understand history through multiple perspectives, to practise empathy in our use of language, to wonder if things could have been any different, and to think about how these causal forces shape our lives today.

I use clichés all the time, and I agree that as they come, "cargo cult" is a comparatively narrow one. But to Orwell's point, clichés compress meaning and then (through the power of association) pick up additional connotations that we mightn't all agree on. It's a trade-off. Many times I make that trade, but I know that when I do, there's a higher chance that other people will fill in blanks with their own cultural context than I realize.
Definitely they're smart, but most of them just started writing and built up a following that way, and that became its own kind of credential.

Jeff Kaufman started writing in his freshman year of college (https://www.jefftk.com/p/webpage-up), Matt Y also started as a college student (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/11/matt-ygl...). Dan Luu's linkedin tagline is just '???'.
Histories of computing tend to either begin with ancient efforts — like the abacus, Archimedes’ mechanical theorems, and Aristotle’s logic — or they skip ahead to the early modern period, recounting stories of Gottfried Leibniz’s calculating machine, Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine, or Ada Lovelace’s recursive algorithm. That is, if they haven’t jumped straight ahead to the work of the Claude Shannons, Konrad Zuses, and Alan Turings of the 20th century.
Rather neglected in this story are the parts in between: the weird and wonderful contributions of the Middle Ages. As I’ve written elsewhere, the Dark Ages weren’t all that dark, and this period of intellectual history is rather hard done by. To remedy this shortcoming, here are four computation systems from the Middle Ages you have (probably) never heard of.
> Consumers can assess the credibility of each.

I ain't doing all that work. I'm picking whatever I already believe in.

/s but only kind of. That's how most people think. They aren't enlightened like you.
I would have to refute the notion that wokeness is a mind virus. "Stay Woke" has a much deeper origin in African American culture, and it refers to the fact that one needs to stay vigilant about another's intentions.

The implicit message is that the "us" cannot trust the "they", and writers like Paul Graham show the reason why: Any attempt at social change can easily be labeled a virus by capitalists if it does not produce greater prosperity. It's the same prosperity that has poisoned the earth, so I hope they have answers there too.
I've not seen the economic system keeping it in check through competition in my lifetime and I don't think it did historically.
Their problem with "political correctness" is that someone corrected them who them deem lesser than them.
Why is that not just 'transclusion' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion ?

Except a special-case of transclusion: high latency and compile-time only. As opposed to doing it with JS dynamically; if Pinboard had an API, or even simply doesn't block frames with HTTP headers, you could simply dynamically call from the static site page to the other site, load the relevant HTML, and present it transcluded into the static site page. (This is how Gwern.net does a lot of stuff: everything from the Wikipedia/Github popups to transcluding other pages.)
Not if they're from PG apparently
Texas AG suing Allstate for data collection
Eh. The relevant parties are largely incapable of feeling embarrassment.
Totally agree with this.

The thing is, there are at least four major factors that lead to the energy depletion of burnout:

- physical (i'm unhealthy, don't sleep, eat or exercise well)

- mental (i'm distracted and interrupted constantly or don't let my brain rest)

- emotional (i work in a culture of terror with people who trigger me)

- meaning - (i simply don't care about what i'm doing and neither do my colleagues)

all of these are necessary, and none are sufficient. most orgs and people are breaking along more than one of these dimensions, and the co-morbidity makes it hard to diagnose the cause of burnout.
This is a rare case where the author and their position makes the content more important than the content itself.
At no point in this long piece does the author seem to consider that people may be "woke" because they sincerely believe that they need to raise their and other people's awareness of prejudice or ways in which society puts people down. Instead it immediately assumes it's a liberal arts movement from those lefty universities.

Of course any cause or point can and likely will be distorted, and some will be performative. There are also, e.g. performative people who like to moan about lefties in universities, but this kind of low effort behaviour doesn't in itself undermine reasonable criticism about e.g. universities sometimes being too intolerant of free speech.

My point is this is fairly lazy. It starts assuming woke, which I note the author agrees is often used perjoratively (and therefore is surely used in a specific loaded way, in the same way if I call someone a piece of shit I'm not generally using it to praise the human body's ability to excrete waste effectively), is some performative nonsense and not wondering or being curious whether there's something useful or at least sincere underneath that.

This would all be fine if there was a bit more thoughtful distinction and critical appraisal of the author's work, and he wasn't treated with such uncritical reverence.
IMO most of these CEOs are not motivated by wokeness or anti wokeness. They are motivated by money, and the freedom to take whatever action they deem appropriate both inside and outside their companies.

Biden was anti-monopoly and Trump is pro-corporate, so these CEOs are just naturally aligning according to their own motivations. And like all people, sometimes they take on the other priorities of the group, to feel that they fit in.
He's a smart enough person that even asking that question makes me think the whole piece is written in bad faith. Yes, language evolves and has specific context and nuance.
Personally, I think everything should be hackable, however...

Limiting the ability to _easily_ modify what's running on a system is more about public cyber-health than the individual's freedom. Viruses + malware much more easily infect systems when they are running outside of a sandbox.
I agree with Sam Kriss, "wokeness" is an etiquette: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/wokeness-is-not-a-politics

> They’ll tell you that actually, there’s no such thing as wokeness. It’s not an ideology. It’s not a belief system. It’s just basic decency. It’s just being a good person.

> They’re right. Wokeness is an etiquette. There are no sects within wokeness for the same reason that there are no sects on whether you should hold a wine glass by the bowl or by the stem. It’s not really about dogmas or beliefs, in the same way that table manners are not the belief that you should only hold a fork with your left hand.
Can we have a Meta where AI replaces Zuckerberg and makes better decisions?
Heroku's New Stack Might Be What We've Been Waiting For
The reason the student protests of the 1960s didn't lead to political correctness was precisely that — they were student movements. They didn't have any real power.

I don't know what Graham thinks 'political correctness' would have looked like in the 1960s – most Americans still thought women's lib was a joke, many Americans were fighting to preserve segregation, and nobody had heard of such a thing as a gay rights movement.
Despite the quotes, the person you’re replying to didn’t use the word “waste” nor have they claimed using that fruit to feed animals would be bad. In short, they didn’t make the argument you’re against.

However, in the interest of good faith discussion, I’ll offer a rebuttal to the argument you are making. The logic applies when (and this is very important) that food goes to farm animals which will be slaughtered of humans to eat.

“Waste” isn’t really the right word, more like “inefficient”, in the sense that the amount of food which takes for an animal to mature is orders of magnitude greater than what you take from it. In other words, you could feed significantly more people if they ate what you’re feeding the animal.

When you couple that with the environmental impact of raising animals as food, including deforestation and land use, which in turn affects us as well, it becomes a major issue.
Good find, Dartmouth was the original BASIC for their mainframe timesharing, Apple and other micro variants came later.

Speaking of, John G. Kemeny's book "Man and the Computer" is a fantastic read, introducing what computers are, how time sharing works, and the thinking behind the design of BASIC.
The point is that trademark holders could start by reaching out and asking nicely instead of being assholes about it.
Great ref, from Germany’s energy mix!

Here’s an S-curve model I made based on two maximum carrying capacities for solar; the lower bound is the current amount of farmland devoted to ethanol while the upper bound is 1% of the earth’s surface. Data models based on historical growth in solar [1].

I show the current total electricity usage and the total energy usage. These are growing slowly worldwide, around 2%.

https://claude.site/artifacts/eb3c4763-3b70-458b-8e70-6b8370...

We are deep into the massive exponential growth of solar. Can we keep it up?

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci...
Calling this "cluelessness" is being more charitable that parent, and on the balance of evidence, mayn not be the correct explanation.

If one were sceptical of this synchronized "political awakening" in the tech industry, that incidentally is aligned to an incoming presidential administration, one might call it some sort of gratuitous signaling of virtues. Which is hilariously ironic, and shows either a lack of self-awareness, or profound levels of shamelessness.
But your approach results in someone who can't even conceive of the truth being identifiable. It doesn't seem like a great way to run a society.