skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for murder, it feels quite shameful for the author to be unable to name his victim as anything other than "the suspect" - the sentence feels like one of endless examples of the 'past exonerative tense.' Similarly, given that up to 26 million people participated in protests over the _murder_ (not "asphyxiation"), minimizing what seem to be by any count the largest mass protest movement in US history as "riots" is nothing but a thought-terminating cliche.

Similarly, the article claims that the New York Times has become far left, but offers no evidence for this. When I think of the NYT in 2020, however, while there certainly were articles using the priggish language that Graham denounce, I immediately think of the Times's decision to feature an op-ed by Tom Cotton (right to far-right politican) suggesting that the nearly two-century long norm that the US government should not use its military to police its citizens (formalized in the post-Civil War Posse Comitatus Act) be broken in favor of an "overwhelming show of force" against "protest marches." In general, the New York Times has firmly remained a centrist (small-l liberal) newspaper, and I think claiming it has experienced massive ideological drift without providing examples says more about the writer than the paper.

In general, I feel like the essay shows a base disregard towards the concept of accurate history (suggesting that "homophobia" was a neologism invented "for the purpose [of political correctness]" during "the early 2010s" and fails to convince me of any of its points because of this.
It's also very funny that he decided to publish this _now_ of all times.
I'd like to think "no", but we've debated a lot of dumb shit written by famous-in-some-circles people over the years.

I'd also push back on HN ever having been politically neutral. I think 20 years ago it was "politically naive" or "politically ignorant", but that's not the same thing.
Anyone using the term woke in 2025 is using the term in bad faith and to create the bogeyman you describe.

It's actually hard to find the time when anyone on the left actually used it. Seems like it was a little under a year and the term was dropped to be more specific actions.
Exactly, or Void, or Alpine, but I love pacman.
> use such celebrity names to obfuscate their accounts

I thought free speech and sunlight were the best disinfectants. By leaving these accounts up and allowing other users to point out how they were misleading, everyone will learn and be wiser.
> We’re deeply concerned that companies will try to get around the law and continue to exploit vulnerable workers by pretending they are self-employed when they should enjoy the full protection of the law.

This is really the crux of the issue: why do we pretend that gig workers don't deserve the same benefits and protections that proper employees do? Even referring to it as a "gig" makes it sound more like a hobby than a livelihood.

EDIT: yea sorry I meant to imply "wages and wage guarantees" as well but I just shoved it in with "benefits and protections"
How exactly would you go about implementing the "real change" here?
What actually happens is children from impoverished/troubled families and bad neighborhoods get completely screwed over, exacerbating existing problems and creating new ones by burdening already vulnerable children with more difficult logistics and higher transport and general schooling costs across town. This isn’t even about “better educational outcomes”. That’s all very weak smoke and mirrors for the actual intent: for better off families to pull the ladder up behind them and kick struggling communities clinging to the edge into the abyss while funneling cash to ideological strongholds that desperately need new ways to regrow their dwindling congregations. That’s at best. At worst it’s reinventing classic racist policies.
No it’s “vendor lock-in”

Wait no you’re right, they are practically synonyms.
Any real history of "political correctness," if we're going to use that term to mean the pursuit of social justice, will be incomplete without an accounting of the internal struggles of various activist causes when confronted with their own wrongdoing/ignorance/blindness/lack of "political correctness".

One of the best examples is the women's movement in the 70s being confronted internally by minority women blaming middle class white women for winning the right to work in an office building, when minority women had long been holding down jobs and needed other forms of championing, such as against police abuse, or the effects of poverty, or discrimination against their sexaul orientation.

It's insane to reduce the drive for political correctness to a bunch of radical students becoming tenured professors and unleashing their inner prigs against everyone else.
The timing on when this essay is being published is interesting. Are all the tech billionaires falling in line before the next administration takes over? Also, let this be a lesson that no matter how “brilliant” and rich someone is, they can have comically bad takes.
You might find some useful information on elinux.org here: https://elinux.org/Interfacing_with_I2C_Devices

Additionally, search on the wiki of i2c.
I liked the software that set its trunk branch to 'mistress'. It was extremely entertaining.
"I don't pay property taxes to make some head of OmniCorp Education LLC a multimillionaire."

In my city, school district administrators are multimillionaires.

"It's supposed to be a monopoly."

Is that a good thing?

"Your local school district is the default."

Why ought that to be the case?

"You can educate your child yourself, or pay another educational institution to do it for you."

That's what I do, and the sticker price is less per year than the annual per-student opex of my local school district.
He's presenting his own musings as some kind of historical record. Utterly unburdened by the need for data to back up his narrative.
your summary sounds an awful lot like a "good people on both sides" variation...
It’s interesting to see how polarizing views about Musk have become. People often overlook the fact that Musk was, and in many ways still is, aligned with traditional liberal values. He’s been a long-time supporter of initiatives like universal basic income, environmental sustainability through the green movement ect... Yet, the moment he expresses support for ideas that deviate from the more extreme edges of left-wing ideology, he’s vilified and treated as a pariah by those who once championed him.

Regarding X, I still see plenty of left-leaning content, but the dynamic has undoubtedly shifted. What’s changed is that the platform no longer artificially amplifies one ideological perspective at the expense of others. Previously, algorithms seemed to prioritize content aligned with extreme left narratives while outright blocking opposing views. That system gave the impression of a dominant left-leaning consensus, that was entirely artificial.

At the end of the day, it's impossible to remove all bias so whatever system maximizes free speech is the best one.
I don't know how things are funded in your neck of the woods, but if I were to take the county property tax that's allocated to my local school district and use it to pay for private schooling for a child, it probably wouldn't cover a quarter of classes, much less everything else involved in sending a child to a private school.
Marimo does this for python, by tracking dependencies.

https://marimo.io/
Sure but that's not really replacing workers at all, it's just moving the work around. Same as every other automation technology of our lifetimes. Very odd to position this in terms of replacing workers rather than increasing productivity, even if they are equivalent as I pointed out.

I have no clue why Zuckerberg would want to position stuff this way if a) it's just going to get people more upset and b) can't deliver on his claims.
> They are our betters and we should follow them without question.

Wasn't this basically the messaging of the Harris/Walz campaign? Perhaps if not directly then through the commentary around it.
completely agree. The Right uses "woke" as sort of an anti-virtue-signal.
"I still don't understand where idea "if you solving a problem and decide to use regular expressions, then now you have two problems" came from."

Nor do I. I have surmised it arose from people trying to use RE in non-systems programming languages. As opposed to people writing console utilities in a systems programming language or using such utilities to administer a UNIX-like OS.
Survive the Tyrant [pdf]
BBC BASIC from Acorn in 1982 supported integers and reals. From page 65 of the user guide [https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/download/file.php?id=91666]

Three main types of variables are supported in this version of
basic: they are integer, real and string.

integer real string
example 346 9.847 “HELLO”
typical variable A% A A$
names SIZE% SIZE SIZE$
maximum size 2,147,483,647 1.7¥1038 255 characters
accuracy 1 digit 9 sig figs —
stored in 32 bits 40 bits ASCII values

A%, A, and A$ are 3 different variables of different types.
"Russia" did not really want to invade. _Putin_ wanted to invade. You need to separate these two entities. In 2018, Putin was still riding the high of the successful Crimean annexation.

His plan had clearly been to repeat that exercise to boost his ratings by the next election (in 2024). 2018 was too early for that.

We now can see that the preparation for the war started in 2020-2021. For example, Putin made sure that Russia had a big enough monetary Reserve Fund. And unlike many other countries, Russia did not do state-sponsored economic stimulation during the lockdowns.
I like the aesthetics of glass towers just fine on their own but dislike their effect on the surrounding environment due to all the reflections. Not even in a melt-your-car way like the curved one in London. I just think it's ugly to have a beautiful old stone or steel or whatever-else-cladded building partially lit up with a wobbly grid of slowly-moving bright spots especially in the late afternoon hours when the sun is low in the sky. It started bothering me when it ruined every photo of certain buildings I traveled to see, like 33 Thomas Street, and now it annoys me on a daily basis even in my home city lol
The employer should obviously be paying to use what is essentially a SaaS payment platform like ADP, Paylocity, etc.
Is that single-payer healthcare?
...especially because this class of society is often standing on the backs of others!
I never said I won't go back and change a single function. And I never said I wouldn't change things larger than that if asked. I would lump small requests like that in with category 1 (of which a syntax change wasn't meant to an exhaustive example).

What I said was those kind of requests usually aren't meaningful or impactful long term. They very very rarely make or save anyone a single dollar. Let alone enough money to justify the time spent on the review process.

If you've already spent the time to suggest the change, if it's slightly better, sure I'll make it. Even if it's not any better, as long as it's not worse, if you feel strongly about it, there's a good chance I'll go along. I just don't think the process has a positive ROI, and I've yet to see any data to convince me otherwise.
I remember how I flashed my Nintendo DS.

In the back of the device there's a sticker over a screwhole. You'll need to poke a screwdriver in there, but inside is not a screw. It's an electrical contact to make the ROM read-write which your screwdriver needs to bridge, and stay bridged while the firmware is flashing (It is harmless if the contact is loss in the process, but I don't know if it would be safe to abort at that point) Pretty hard to convince someone to do that process, yet doable by anyone with a flathead screwdriver.

I guess nowadays it become Samsung's e-fuse where if you flash it blow an e-fuse and the status of the fuse is now detectable with software. Then apps can refuse to service people just because the custom firmware fuse was blown.
I would personally have chalked that up as usability-- because there are facilities for secure file transfer between computers, but I get the argument.

Particularly since the common tools like SCP give way too much access unless you go through special effort.

> Floppy disks, Hard disks

As you note there are 'auto run' like issues, also file systems are not historically very robust against against malicious data.

Hard disks themselves have host flash-able firmware and microcontrollers and get either DMA access (e.g. over SATA) to the system or get USB connected and the ability to pretend to be arbitrary usb devices like HID or exploit vulnerable usb drivers. So at least in theory a compromised system can turn your drive malicious such that it compromises other systems.

Though an attacker that sophisticated probably also has hypervisor escapes.

> Audio modem, Manual transcription

Personally I'm fond of just RS232 serial.
I complain about this at the other end of the cash flow cycle all the time: having to pay to pay.

When a service, often my local municipality, charges a fee to pay a fee.

VISA is arguably the biggest mafia organization in the world... 3% of all retain sales worldwide? Why?

With the proliferation of 3rd party "payment processors", and the accompanying crimes commited, The Fed has instituted a central bank hosted instant payment system:

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....

But almost no one uses it. Why is that? Do people really want their money locked up in stripe or paypal?
I know why the rule exist. Getting banned for a rule that did not exist at the time is an overreach from a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist.
Doom II running on an Stern Avengers pinball machine [video]
Your state should have information on their unclaimed property page to contact someone who can explain what documentation is necessary to establish legal order next of kin chain from your ancestor to whomever is claiming the property they are acting as custodian for. Call them! Most are usually very helpful.
My local school district pays $17k/year per student ... how much more money do they need?
As former DevOps who dealt with VMware, it's not relationship with MSP. It's just so many things plugin to VMware that migrating off of VMware is just difficult. Monitoring, Backups, Deployment and so forth are deeply integrated into VMware so companies just look at work involved getting off and go, never mind.
No surprises here. Sonos has become pretty much unusable since the app "upgrade".

I wanted to start some music playing via Sonos in another room for my dogs earlier while I was on a call.

It took nearly two minutes for the app to update and be able to select my "calming cello music for dogs" playlist.
Startup city in Kenya tries to tackle Africa's problem of urbanizing while poor
> Conversation, interaction... those happen within an LLM context window. LLMs learn nothing from those experiences.

False.

Why do you think e.g. ChatGPT has buttons for indicating if an answer is good or bad?

Even when a specific version is frozen, this is a choice rather than a fundamental requirement, and the data from human feedback is used to continue training the system as a whole.
Moral Progress Is Annoying
But #1 is wrong and #2 is abusive.

There is no such thing as "society", just relationships between individual people. To get a better "society", you need people to act better. However, all of recorded history suggests that people are pretty universally willing to use other people as tools to benefit themselves. (Obviously not everyone does this all the time or to the same amount.) History also makes it clear that passing laws will not work: despite laws against things that are evenly timelessly non-virtuous, like stealing and murder, do not prevent murder and theft. In fact in Judeo-Christian thinking, to do this requires people receiving a "new heart, a heart of flesh instead of a heart of stone" from God. (I saw "Judeo-" because the passages is from Ezekiel, which is common to both. I do not know if rabbinical thinking agrees, however.) Even if it does not require a divine gift, certainly the problem has proven intractable up to the present time.

"determine who should be removed from society" is just a scary thought. Who gets to determine that? How can we be sure they are right? What prevents them from using this as a tool to eliminate people that are competitors or whom they simply dislike? In fact, this has a name: "to purge". The Soviet Union under Stalin and the Chinese Cultural Revolution were scary times.
ideally benefits should be provided by the state or out of pocket, not by employers - imposing requirements like full benefit coverage for gig workers would likely lower employment rates
> But, inevitably, when you ask these same people what then should be done about inequality, whether it be racial or otherwise, the answer is often "nothing" or denying that a problem even exists.

That's an assumption you're making - I don't see any evidence of that viewpoint in pg's essay. Any specifics you can point to?

I can point to a specific that seems to contradict you:

> 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.

Inevitably, someone will chime in and say that it wasn't what he said, it's what he didn't say -- arguing from someone's purported silence. But that's exactly the kind of performative nonsense he's arguing against. It ought to be possible to speak against something without being castigated for failing to pay lip service in some way to a related topic.
bipoc means a different thing than black. you should use the word that has the meaning you want.
You are forgetting the massive price difference though. For sure a P3 was great if you had an unlimited budget, but a quick look at pricing sheets for September 1999 shows a 600mhz P3 at ~650 dollars.

The 300mhz celerons, easily over-clockable to 450/500mhz, where only ~150 dollars each. These prices are in 1999 dollars too, I haven't adjusted for inflation.

It was the value proposition, not the outright performance that made dual celeron builds attractive, especially in an age where we were having to upgrade far more often than we do today to keep up with latest trends.

In 1999 I vividly remember not being able to afford a P3 build, was largely why I ended up with the BP6. The P3 also had significant supply issues throughout its lifespan, which didn't help pricing at retail either.
90% of this list is less the slur treadmill and more the MLA/AP Stylebook version treadmill. Nobody's going to get mad at you for writing African American, unless you work for a newspaper, it's largely motivated by MLA and AP wanting to sell new books every year or two, same as how titles were underlined when I was in grade school and now they're italicized.
Paul would much rather make a punching bag out of straw than actually grapple with the massive inequality that he has personally helped cause. Just remember guys, the real problem our society faces is that someone was once mean to paulg on Twitter.
Yes, a few minutes spent reading about Applesoft BASIC or Microsoft BASIC would've reduced the cringe factor in reading a neophyte trying to mentally grapple with old technology.

"bytecode" and "virtual machine", no, no, no. That's not the path to enlightenment...

in this case, print debugging, is your best bet.
Why are YC’s leadership and other VCs so vocal on shoplifting crime but never raise their voice against rampant wage theft in our industry? The criminality by dollar value is far worse with the latter
Allergy with what symptoms? that's wild
> seeing the word "Latinx" on some HR form

Yes, very common in job application forms. I don't find it offensive per se, but it makes me wonder if this is the kind of company where bullshit reigns in the workplace.
Of course it’s individual people. The political entity they work for obviously has no will of its own. It is terribly unsurprising to me that people tasked with a job by the government would do what they can to best carry out that job.

Are you scandalized when a city and the county it is in sue each other and the transportation department over who has responsibilities for what sections of road and how much money who should get rather than letting the citizens who drive on those roads decide? Where do you draw the line for what money the government decides how to spend and what money individuals should decide how to spend?
To receive their wages within 30 days. This is basically just an inhouse bundled payday loan program. imo they should probably be required to pay out at the normal biweekly timescale, but it’s not nearly as awful as this title makes out
is there actually any evidence more money would fix public schools? Urban school districts as far as I know have more money than the suburbs and worse outcomes as reflected in standardized test scores.
You missed the point of the article completely. Wokeness (as PG defined it, which I would agree is the most commonly used definition today) isn't merely realizing we should be treating people better, it's realizing that people should be treated better and focusing on being a "prig" about completely inconsequential and tangentially relevant concerns as a result of that rather than taking meaningful action.
This is great, and sorely needed! My son wanted to get into hardware hacking a couple of years ago and had a horrible time. He ended up watching a mish-mash of varying quality youtube videos and reading blog posts which went out of date suprisingly quick.
Gotta fund those Christian Madrasas!

On a more serious note, you have to wonder why religions are more overt about having the taxpayer foot their bills these days? I mean really, if you want Christian, Muslim or whatever religion schools, fine. No issue from me. But if the government compels me to fund the Madrasas, that's another thing entirely.

This is a genuine problem.
https://projecteuler.net/problem=54
Gambling is the wagering of something of value on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value.

There is no wager in these games.
I'm doing what I told OP not to do.

> Offer wage negotiation coaching to the bottom x% of earners in any given position in the company (or just straight up give raises to them unprompted)

1. What positions rate this treatment?

2. when do you stop doing this?
I’m not sure. I don’t listen to much political commentary outside of the stuff shoved in my face.

What gave you that feeling from the Harris campaign?
Looking at Elon Musk, some African Americans are white.
Maybe.... MAYBE if the private schools were forced to teach the government curriculum.

There should not be freedom of choice when it comes to tracking fundamentals of arts and sciences and history.

Tell me, what happens when the education privateers decides it isn't profitable to operate in majority black neighborhoods? Rural towns with sparse population?
I think that inclusive language became a symbol of a step too far. If you expect me to adjust some governmental policies to make a better society that's fine, but if you expect me to change the way I express myself because you personally don't like it and you have a bunch of bullies behind you, that's just not okay and should be fought against.
I can't help but feel the problem is that someone becomes "full time" in the US after exactly 40 hours.

I feel like some kind of gradient system would be ideal. Like if you work 10 hours a week you get 25% of the cash value of benefits. That way, a company wouldn't be incentivized to keep them right below the limit.
That's weird, I could've sworn America was a capitalist oligarchy working to drive down education to produce a cheaper and less educated labour force.