skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The `create-react-app` utility for node made to quickly start a frontend app with a CLI to choose your dependencies has been broken for a whole month now.

Lead maintainers at Meta have been taking a long vacation for a tool that is used by 13M+ people. For the past months, trying to use the tool by itself causes it to crash due to a mismatch between React v18 and v19.

Hacky workarounds obviously work, editing your deps after the CLI crashes... Though that makes the CLI itself useless. There are alternatives like `vite` which do this very well, though it's sad to see such tools get abandoned like this...

> 1.8k issues

> 490 merge requests

> mfw meta
It went off the rails during his sabbatical. He was ranting about WP "freeloaders" and doxxing random Tumblr users when he was supposed to be on vacation.
It still misses the biggest challenge though--defining "best", and ensuring you're actually measuring it and not something else.

It's useful as long as your definition is good enough and your measurements and randomizations aren't biased. Are you monitoring this over time to ensure that it continues to hold? If you don't, you risk your MAB converging on something very different from what you would consider "the best".

When it converges on the right thing, it's better. When it converges on the wrong thing, it's worse. Which will it do? What's the magnitude of the upside vs downside?
It hardly need be AI: just a couple lines of Python.
> I think you need to moderate any thoughts on Musk

The idea that forming an opinion about somebody based on what they publicly repeatedly say and do over the course of years is somehow the wrong approach with This One Guy is an act of unnecessary and unjustified generosity. “Loving the drama” is not in any way exclusive to having actual opinions, and trolls are not magical beings that exist in an inscrutable superposition of possible realities that they may or may not support.

It is downright silly when someone’s conduct is so clear that the only way to defend them is to handwave away everything that they say and do and retreat into the philosophical ideal of the unknowability of a man’s heart. That is an academic exercise that’s only useful in analyzing fictional characters and has negative value when applied to real-life powerful people that fund politicians and buy social media sites to forcibly mold public discussion to fit their values.
I thought you can do a SwiftUI project on an iPad using playgrouds, then send the project to your macbook if you want to release from there. I never tried it though.
> Had to prove I wasn't.

How did you prove it? What is their standard of evidence? My intuition says it would be difficult to prove a negative.
Out of touch. Imagine trying to tell your landlord or the grocery store they'll get their money in 30 days, and by the way thanks for the food!
Fuel additives for ships to increase clouds and fuel additives for planes to reduce clouds could reduce their warming impact by roughly 30%. (High clouds trap heat and low clouds reflect it)
> The problem is that doing multiple tests in a shared space doesn't necessarily match the world in which this code is run.

For me that's a positive bonus. If it runs multiple times in parallel and works, it will work as a single instance deployed in a pod somewhere.
Time will tell, but I hope so.
My unioned wife lives a life I can only dream of. The respect, the dignity of her job makes me feel like I made the wrong choice by getting into tech.

Unionization is the answer. For a long time, tech workers were gaslighted into thinking that unions will not let them get paid high salaries.

Guess what, without unions, tech workers don't even have job stability. Forget high salaries.

Vote for unions.
Are we going to see our institutions flexibly re-align themselves basically every US election cycle? Or do the recent changes at Facebook and Amazon, and this essay, herald a long-term shift to the right in USA politics?

Where individuals, institutions and society have to be flexible/whiplashed around in order to survive and thrive, it can be good from time to time, but it's not great for everyone to have too much such change on an ongoing basis.

If we're talking about the origins of wokeness, I would tend to go back further and look at Christianity as a whole. Suggest Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, which states that the morality of the day is somewhat arbitrarily dictated by those currently in power, and you had better snap to it and conform, which I think is more or less what we're seeing here?

Specifically, the idea of wokeness originates in the Christian conceptual understanding of pity, which is basically that we should sympathise with and help other people. Further, wokeness has in it that we don't accept people who work to benefit themselves and their cadres at the expense of society at large. Of course, this is ultimately incompatible with VC, which is why wokeness and tech/VC ultimately make an odd pairing, inevitably destined for a split, which we are now seeing.
Advertisers are perennially full of shit. Generative AI is a technology, and just like literally every useful technology created since the dawn of man, it improves productivity.

A box of literal rocks does not do anything on its own, even if we have tricked them into thinking even better than we did last year.

Literally for hundreds of years have people been fear mongering that some new technology will replace workers. It never happens. Technology displaces the available distribution of jobs, but it doesn't eliminate the need for people... and it never will, because human jobs are a human construct.

> salesforce proudly announced that it’s not hiring the developers this year because they are going to use AI.

Yeah, more bullshit. Translated, they really mean: "Hey our AI is so great that we don't have to hire developers anymore -- it's definitely not because we have 70k+ employees and our payroll is way too big -- it's because we're so good at AI and you should totally buy our software #EinsteinAIRocks #SalesforceOhana"
Institutionalized racism, sexism, and the general idea that some lives matter less than others kills people every day through healthcare claim denials, red-lined neighborhood districts with lack of infra for safe access to food/water/health/civil services, etc. If you want explicit violence, police in the USA literally kill people at alarmingly high rates usually reserved mostly for countries with notoriously violent regimes or gangs, beating out Mexico, Sudan, Rwanda [1].

"Wokeness" is a fake bear the right has built up to distract from class issues and sow dissent amongst workers and stave off class solidarity. Progressive policy is largely embraced by the majority of Americans [2], but because the right (and its newfound grifter-billionare tech exec class like PG, Musk, Zuck, etc.) have convinced an overwhelmingly large amount of Americans that their woes are because we have gender neutral bathrooms (instead of wage theft by the C suite), it is peddled and use as a smokescreen to continually push through policy and regime changes that will only every serve the .1%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_annual_...

[2]
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/majority-of-americans-suppor...
I think it's interesting that pg references James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian in footnote 15.

These two (professional) philosophers are arguably the vanguard of philosophical opposition to identity politics; they have written extensively on it, tracing its ideological roots to Karl Marx and comparing it to the Maoist cultural revolution in China. (And it bears being said: they're certainly not prejudiced against any majority or minority group.)
Yeah, but it would bring HN User Eumenes' out of pocket cost down. Which is, probably at base, the only thing they care about.
Narcissistic personality disorder[0] is unnoticeable for a person having it, but makes lives of all around them a living hell. Such person is always right, and the 99.99% people around with an opposite opinion/viewpoint are idiots. If some "idiot" is standing up, there comes the retaliation part.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disor...
A 3D view of all trails at a ski resort would be great. As a relative beginner knowing how some of them connect in advance could reduce frustration of missing them.
> Bud Light simply paid a trans person to promote their product, without any political messaging whatsoever

Isn't it one of the tenets of wokeness that "nothing is apolitical"?
> The only difference is that the ratio of fructose:sucrose is slightly (~5%) higher in corn syrup.

HFCS used in soda is 55% fructose. HFCS used in e.g. baked goods is usually 42% fructose, so it can have lower fructose levels than sugar.
The study does not appear to be longitudinal, so what it is showing is association, not causality. It could actually be foreboding a kind of "rich get richer, poor get poorer" spiral as the "cognitively advantaged" offload less, dampening the (undemonstrated) impact on their critical thinking skills.
ghost is worse than wp imho. Lots of sneaky affiliate links, and they only integrate stuff that does affiliate linking; the self-hosted version calls home as well.
Surely non-psychoactive wine is just grape juice?
I had a similar double-take moment reading about Breitbart editor "Milo Yiannopoulos" a few years ago.

Different racist cultures develop different ideas on what makes someone white. "Yiannopoulos" might be called a 'wog':

The slur became widely diffused in Australia with an increase in immigration from Southern Europe and the Levant after the Second World War, and the term expanded to include all immigrants from the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. These new arrivals were perceived by the majority population as contrasting with the larger predominant Anglo-Celtic Australian people. [1]

I couldn't remember his name in order to write this up, so I went googling and stumbled across Afro-Cuban Proud Boys leader "Enrique Tarrio".

All boats rise with the tide I guess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
It’s just the people online posting non-stop. The rest of us, checking in only when time allows, are not commenting 30 times in a single thread. (Check some of the posters here)

Same thing happened with the rest of the nonsense over the last 5 years. From social media you would think everyone took the clot shot. 1/3 didn’t but you’d never have known that from HN or other social media.

There is a small but loud contingent who wants to dictate our language, how we teach our children, and what we put in to our bodies. The good news is most people are not stupid and are completely rejecting it - in real life.
It was already flagged like 8h ago
It goes back even further than that.

There seemed to be a surge in 2011 too, when it became apparent that the Obama administration was going to let the big banks off the hook for the financial crisis.
Ah, but you believe repeated statements that it's easy to know what lewdness is are helpful and novel? They are mere assertions, not argument, and can only be met by direct contradiction.

Regardless, you are correct that this discussion is tiresome and besides, pg has pointed out that it's over: freedom is winning. It's gauche to fight after victory is declared.
From the article:

>>Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one.

pg, and many anti-woke crusaders, employ examples of performative anti-racism to undermine the necessity of genuine anti-racism altogether.
You don't understand the difference between attempting to improve yourself and aggressively applying your definitions of words and morally acceptable behavior to others without any serious thought.

Beginning by changing the language is so fundamentally flawed that I have a hard time believing you seriously think it could ever be effective.
For my clients, I handle this simply. Payment due upon receipt of invoice. Then, I stop working until paid. Then I resume their project (re-queue it in my workflow).

Resorted to this after not ever getting paid too often.
Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Learning
also featuring a great reimagining of I'm A Believer by Hot Dad :)
This is the right time. Strike while the iron is hot. People are angry and concerned. Someone just needs to come forward with an attractive way to capitalize on the situation.
But using the word he really wanted to use would totally undermine his point, not to mention getting his post flagged.
Even in US public universities have salary scales that are indexed. Moving to a different place while keeping tenure is possible too. Anyway I don't see how it's different from any other job, including the fact that having good relationships with colleagues is not a bad idea anyway.
Feeling more empathy and doing something about it are two very different things.
>"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.

Yes, this origin is correct as I remember it. I first heard the term publicly from Larry on his show a decade or so ago, mainly referring to police interactions. He presented it well using comedy, unlike the rabid versions of today. He presented it too well as today, it seems this movement has since taken over by (mostly) white college people to service their own selfish ends; that's the mind virus part.

This clip pretty much encapsulates this idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbTOcVJgM8
I'm an introvert. I don't want anyone to message me (or worse, set up a meeting with me) just to understand what my commit does.

Furthermore writing is itself a way to enhance clarity of thinking. Very often during the process of writing out a commit message I realize something else in the commit is missing.
Coding as in the act of writing code is easy. There are a handful of editors and a good git client (Working Copy). You can get several terminal emulator apps, but they don't really let you run anything local like most people would want from a terminal, but from them you can access remote systems (Blink gives you access to VS Code for the Web, or whatever it's called).

For running on the iPad, there is the obvious Swift Playgrounds published by Apple, and several apps that give you Python and Jupyter notebook access and execution. I'm not sure about other languages. You'll want a physical keyboard to make effective use of these options.

Replit has an app, last I used it it was kind of awful though, the website worked better. All the code runs on their servers.

Get a terminal app and ssh to a more useful computer, is my advice, if you want to use the iPad as a development device. I found it to be a perfectly good remote terminal device when I was traveling around a lot and didn't want to take a lot of things with me. But I'm very comfortable in the terminal and with emacs.
Charitably, PG refers to the policing part as performative. He’s probably fine with what you describe as sincere self-improvement, but not when people start wanting to police everyone else.
Contractors get to negotiate how much they are paid.
>Why am I leaving X? Under Elon Musk, X has become a machine for manipulating opinion. Let's refuse to be complicit. [...] let's take back control by leaving X collectively for alternatives that respect free speech.

This is, excuse my French, either incredibly fucking stupid or extremely disingenuous. I'm not going to go over every case of censorship under previous management, but it was all astoundingly evident: there was an aberrant woke bias whereby they strongly silenced everything even just a tad unaligned with that reality-denying, pseudomoralistic, corporativist ideology that the powers that be has so brutally taken advantage of.

If I quit X (I did), it wasn't because it turned into an echo chamber--on the contrary, it stopped being one, as it is now pretty balanced, according to data on it. It was rather because its fundamental design was already focused on compulsive, mindless consumption of junk, and now it's that, but increased manyfold, exactly the same as the abhorrent characteristics that make it more of a walled-garden. I cannot use it just on principle. To my mind, the web should be open and discovery of content should respect intentional and sovereign behavior, not promote addiction and lack of mental hygiene.
What would replace it?

PHP is unique in that it makes sharing a server trivial and low-resource compared to almost every other solution.

A simple example might be that you can run 100s of PHP forums on a single machine low memory machine but if you want to use discourse (not written in PHP), it requires 10x 20x the resources for a single forum.

This is true about almost every other solution AFAICT.
Without a canonical fork for the community (and crucially plugin authors) to rally around it’ll be a bit like Linux distros without a shared executable format, making life difficult for everyone and making it harder to keep critical mass for any vendor.
I thought corn syrup was all glucose, and high fructose corn syrup had about half converted to fructose.
It is consistently astonishing that the IT sector is predominantly inhabited by individuals of a leftist persuasion, despite the fact that disciplines such as programming ought to instil a strong foundation in mathematics, logic, and structured thinking, which are typically associated with right-leaning thinking.
The key to me is the flexibility - I have the option of WFH 2 days per week, but most weeks I'm in the office 5 days (sometimes a half day on Saturday) because I am fortunate to have a "real office" with a door, a nice view, a stocked break area - and no home distractions. If I was still in a cube farm with a barely stocked vending machine (where I spent the vast majority of my career) I'd be using every WFH moment I could get.

The key discussion should not be WFH vs. RTO - it should be why do people hate the office they are expected to return to?
It’s neither hypocritical nor deceptive. It’s simply selfish.
> I think it's hard to take that as a statement about progressive movements in general

True, but remember that many people's experience of any movement will be through an interface that is both lossy and hostile (whether it be government, corporate, clan leadership, what have you). "The effects that this had were well beyond the scope of what we intended" is so old it's in the Old Testament (but there as an answer-in-advance):

> These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots; and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers. He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers. He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle and donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day.

~ 1 Samuel Chapter 8 via https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%208%...
Spending too much time in the richest, most tolerant counties in the country can make you forget that we still have colleges that won't admit gay students, or that many people still don't believe in interracial marriage.

Yes it's a teeny tiny little bit of a shame that a college president had to step down for raising a fair academic question. It is not half as important as when a cop shoots a black person dead for dating with a white girl.
right, let’s try again: Did he drink THAT psychoactive wine?
Labor unions seem like the wrong model for organizing "knowledge workers." A professional association like the American Medical Association might be a better way to structure things.

One difference is how they gain leverage. Labor unions seem to rely on the fact that they are the ones _right there_ who can work in a factory, clean a facility, etc. But capital sort of did an end run around some of that by literally packing factories up and shipping them overseas. That seems pretty easy to do to knowledge workers as well. At least to some degree and at some level.

This is far outside anything I've read extensively about, and it'd be interesting to read more.
The Identity Trap by Yascha Mounk does a really good job of tracing the history of "woke". In particular he does a good job of not lumping woke in with all left ideas.
https://support.apple.com/guide/playgrounds-ipad/share-a-pla...

You can actually publish from the iPad now. I think that's been an option for 2 years or so.
Might be an ad - I'm not aware of the author's associations - but Craft CMS, which is linked to, has a free version like wordpress.org
Wow, Paul Graham just kinda set the standard for cognitive dissonance on HN. In short, sins of elision, omission, and exaggeration in this post and elsewhere in his absurdly entitled world make it clear that he is himself the prig here.
> You asked for (quoting) "Exactly how many people have fallen for the scam, out of all computer users". Not every crime is reported, duh.

Not every crime is reported, but it's indisputable that a lot of crimes are reported. So give me a statistic, any reported statistic.

> If you believe that nobody has ever fallen for phishing, Nigerian-prince, etc. etc. scams, well, I don't know what colour the sky is on your world, but it's not the same as on mine...

How do you know this, except from reports by victims? That's what I'm asking for.

And once again, you haven't explained the mechanism by which vendor lockdown prevents this scam. However many or few victims there are of the scam, precisely zero of them are helped by vendor lockdown. I'm not going to stop asking how to explain how vendor lockdown is event relevant here.

> If you further believe that allowing everyone root access to devices that are also linked directly to their bank accounts, social security numbers, driving licenses, etc. etc.

This is hand waving, and it's not clear how root access by the owner of the device somehow exposes userland data to criminals. Moreover, all of this data is on desktop computers, and it's mostly fine.
I think from now on I will separate the "smart" from the "hifi" so I can combine and upgrade as I please.. will probably give Dante a try for networked audio, they have a good track record with quality and compatibility. Its quite prosumer though. Perhaps not as user-friendly as Sonos (was).
Some early tiny computers were actually calculator chips. So, only floating point. And, implemented in BCD. So slow as f*k.

I remember a TI home computer, on a counter in a store. I type FOR I = 1 to 10000; NEXT I and RUN

It never finished. I changed it to 1000; still didn't finish. So I changed it FOR I=1 to 10 and PRINT I and it printed 1 and delay and 2 and delay and so on. Took ten seconds to finish.