skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scientific method is to look at data and form models of reality from that. Not to have a model in mind and then look for evidence to support it or evidence to ignore.

Graham has a Hegelian, Panglossian view of things. In "woke" terms he is a very, very wealthy white cishet male born to an upper middle class physicist. As the relations of production and social order were created for and are controlled by his class he defends it.

To use an example - due to government mandates, the number of blacks attending Harvard Law School this year is less than half what it was last year. It does not fit into the narrative of a progressive, forward moving country which is meritocratic (although absurdly the legacies etc. taking their place is called a move to meritocracy). You can't say there is a national oppression of Africans in the US by the US, or that things are not meritocracy, so thinking starts getting very skewed. You can read this skewed thinking in Graham and others.

YC was started by a convicted felon, and it's due to his privileged birth that Graham was not convicted along with his co-founder. Meanwhile black men are killed by police for selling loose cigarettes or handing a clerk a counterfeit bill (something I unknowingly did once) to cheers from corporate media commentators and demagogues. What kind of country you live in even here in the imperial center is very much a question of what class you are in, as well as other things.

The working people and wretched of the earth are tired of being lectured to by the scions of diamond mines, Phillips Exeter graduates and the like. Even if they do know the worst case big O time for quicksort. History goes through twists and turns, and I welcome the challenges to their power we will be seeing this century.
Well, for a start it won't have Musk trying to break it. Like, its worst near-term case is probably 2022 Twitter. It's unlikely they'll do pay-for-attention, say; musk!Twitter is the only social network I know of to have done that outside the dating/hookup site world.

Also, though, it has significantly better self-serve moderation tools than Twitter ever did (they _kind_ of existed for pre-Musk Twitter as third-party stuff, though Musk's API changes broke most of them). For instance, I subscribe to a moderation list which auto-blocks transphobes, so I don't have to read their One Joke again and again (seriously, they've pretty much had the one thing for the last 20 years; you'd think they could at least come up with some new material). People who, er, enjoy the one joke are of course free to enjoy it by not subscribing to that mod list.

I do expect it to get worse over time as more people join, tbh; the current user base is rather self-selecting. But I don't think it will get as bad as current-Twitter. If it does, er, onto the next thing, I suppose.
I remember Corel Linux!

It was the first Linux I ever used, from a PC magazine CD in 1999. A significantly hacked-up KDE 1.1 w/ integrated Wine. To this day, you can find Corel in the copyright dialogs of a few notable KDE apps, e.g. the file archiver Ark.

I'm now looking back on 25 years of Linux use, 19 of them as a KDE developer, including writing large parts of the Plasma 5/6 shell, 6-7 years on the KDE board, and working on the Steam Deck (which ships with KDE Plasma) at a contractor for a hot minute to bring gaming back as well. At least on the personal level it was an impactful product :-)
The future for programmers is not bright. Consequently the future for bug hunters and security professionals is very bright.
Counterpoint: all the nonsense in millennia old religious texts that still wastes people's time to this day.
Would this essay be on the HN frontpage if it was written by anyone else?
Your comment, while eloquent, is totally unsubstantiated. At least PG tries to justify his perspective.

You didn't.
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Not OP, but personally it's just sad to see someone that you view as a historically great mind getting distracted by nonsense, like if a great mathematician suddenly stopped their research to focus on flat earth and contrails
Its not from some random github project its from a trusted member of open source community. Same as other libraries you use and install.

It was used by rye before rye and uv sort of merged and is used by pipx and hatch and mise (and bazel rules_python)
https://x.com/charliermarsh/status/1864042688279908459

My understanding is that the problem is that psf doesnt publish portable python binaries (I dont think they even publish any binaries for linux). Luckily theres some work being done on a pep for similar functionality from an official source but that will likely take several years. Gregory has praised the attempt and made suggestions based on his experience.
https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-711-pybi-a-standard-format-...

Apparently he had less spare time for open source and since astral had been helping with a lot of the maitinence work on the project he happily transfered over ownership to themin December

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2024/12/03/transferring-python...
https://astral.sh/blog/python-build-standalone
It seems less than fully above-board.

I would suggest not trying to start a business relationship in this manner.
I wonder how much of this is to throw off hedge funds or mislead competitors
Western urban monoculture.
About the only game from the 90s which I still play regularly, IMHO it's pretty close to the perfect computer game since it strikes just the right balance between simulation and 'arcade-y' fun - and all the modern 're-enactments' I tried so far somehow don't manage to capture the essential of what makes Railroad Tycoon 2 so much fun (the Platinum version runs great on modern computers btw: https://store.steampowered.com/app/7620/Railroad_Tycoon_II_P...).
I think Loki also originated OpenAL, which is still around as well.
over the years i've had to translate a lot of code from academics/researchers into prod systems, and variable/function naming is one of their worst habits.

just because the function you're implementing used single-character variables to render an equation in latex, doesn't mean you have to do it that way in the code.

a particular peeve was when they make variables for indexed values named`x_i` instead of just having an array `x` and accessing the ith element as `x[i]`
https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#ar... is your friend.
Yep. I implemented this as a Java library a while ago (and other stuff): https://github.com/JensRantil/java-canary-tools Basically, I think feature flags and A/B tests aren't always needed to roll out experiments.
When a vocal, extreme minority of the left drives things towards absurdity, there is likely to be an acute reactionary response.
Massive expansionist post-Covid fiscal policy and QE that created the inflationary crisis. Mass immigration (yes immigration is an economic policy).
If anything, this is a useful looking glass into the minds of people who love to complain about language policing and think "censorship" is our biggest social problem.
For sake of argument, what if the answer truly is "do it quietly"?

What if it's most effective to live your life to the best of your ability without prejudice, and instead of preaching about what people should do, you just do what it is that you believe to be right?

I grew up in (and left behind) conservative evangelical christian circles, and the thing that always made me most uncomfortable with "wokeness" is how much it often resembles those holier-than-though people I grew up around.

It's not that I disagree with the underlying ideas behind "woke" positions as much as it is the behavior of the people who want to move those ideas forward.

Whether it's overly pious evangelical christians or "very woke" people, I think there's an underlying belief that transcends particular points of view that there's a particular way people must conduct themselves and that using various tactics ranging from moralizing to public shaming are tactics that are effective.

Except I don't think these tactics are effective at all, and while it may be unsatisfying, "try to be the best example you can be" seems far more helpful than what often emerges when people feel they're morally justified.
Believe it or not, but 'enumerating as a CD-ROM' drive is actually a documented feature of some Realtek USB Ethernet Interfaces: https://www.lcsc.com/datasheet/lcsc_datasheet_2206141400_Rea... (6.16. Driver Auto-Install Mode, page 24).
I would think that most people view this as positive, but not without downsides. For example, I've been traveling to China (from the US) since the late-90's, when the economy in China had just started to open up. The effects from that hadn't really impacted most people yet; most people were still pretty poor. Back then, obesity was unheard of. Telling someone they looked "fat" was a compliment, meaning you could afford to eat. Since then, over the years, China got flooded with Western-style junk food, like Pepsi/Coke, KFC, McDonalds, and so on. And now, obesity is an actual thing in China, not the same level as the US, but the fact that 25 years ago it didn't even exist, and now it's becoming a public health issue - well, I think that's what most people are making jokes about, the inevitable and unfortunate consequences that never seem to get attention.
> It's literally just a single exe/msi installer.

And so is .NET. Just install SDK from a single exe (or, on macOS, do 'brew install dotnet'), open VSCode, maybe get the C# extension. That's it. dotnet run, dotnet build, etc.

For scripting, there is 'dotnet fsi' for F# interactive. And you can also compile F# scripts directly into native executables with community tooling if you wish to make them full standalone programs.
The article is refreshing in its research and writing: the research is crude, testing just a very few alternatives - just enough for something to write about. And that's okay, this is not a scientific paper. And then the author collects a few quotes and does not dilute things too much. Good job.

I propose another workaround alternative that doesn't exist yet. A "multi-browser" which lets you browse and visually diff the web from different points of view. See the web from deep china, europe, Kansas City, San Francisco, Chrome, Firefox, daytime and nighttime, incognito, logged-in, etc all at once (modulo some time spreading for opsec or something) so we can get back to peace and what matters: booking a bloody hotel room or reading a magazine article without making a project of it.
That is a view which is entirely opposed to my own. I have no faith that there is some authoritative entity that could objectively determine what is a lie and what is the truth.
About "family and friends", a couple of times by fixing minor and a priori unrelated side issues, it revealed the bug I was after.
> Also maybe it's because he assumes there is a group of "the woke" instead of realizing that the people who self-identify as "woke" probably mean something really different than the ones who use "the woke" in a demeaning way.

Just mentioned this in another comment, but historically the only people who've actually identified as "woke" are black civil rights activists, who used it to mean that someone was aware and informed. I've never seen it used in any other context (or really by other people) until the latest culture war generals co-opted it as an insult for progressives and minorities.

> Shouldn't the antidote to such a behavior be to see the humanity in others, coming closer to them rather than distancing from them?

You would hope so, but I'm guessing the people who use civil rights-era slang to belittle activists probably don't care about the humanity those activists are trying to highlight and fight for.
I believe hacker news automatically truncates the number at the beginning of titles
Emacs is very simple. It has point-and-click menus and tries very hard to generously interpret mistakes and show helpful error messages. I wouldn't call it tricky, unlike the command language in vim.

Power tools aren't as common as regular hammers and saws and so on, i.e. 'less popular', but among professionals few would prefer the unpowered ones just because the threshold to bring one out is lower.
>ultimately its because skyscrapers dont attract customers, they are occupied by employees. Employees will always come to the office, they dont make decision whether to walk-in based on building's aesthetics.

as opposed to customers? When was the last time you went to a mall because of how good it looked?
It doesn't really matter if the argument is morally satisfying.
Curiously, instead of "set capture reg, wait for clock edge, read", the "read reg twice, until same result is obtained" approach is ignored. This is strange as it is usually much faster - reading a 3.25MHz counter at 200MHz+ twice is very likely to see the same value twice. For a 32KHz counter, it is basically guaranteed.

u32 val;
do {
val = readl(...);
} while (val != readl(...));

return val;

compiles to a nice 6-instr little function on arm/thumb too, with no delays

readclock:
LDR R2, =...
1:
LDR R0, [R2]
LDR R1, [R2]
CMP R0, R1
BNE 1b
BX LR
Without the r, you could maybe say it's a friendly word and hide behind that. Though generally yeah consequences socially are the same.
I don't disagree, but I do think it's important to note whether the person is mocking the southern accent or just imitating it as a form of flattery. Often it's the former rather than the latter. The (vast) majority of the time I hear someone doing a southern accent it's for purposes of making fun of them, especially for being stupid/redneck. I don't think it's unreasonable to be offended when somebody is mocking you.
I don’t know about “be nice” - Personally the expression I equate it with is “live and let live” (or maybe “quit being an asshole”)

It’s a reaction to discrimination. If there wasn’t racism and sexism and discrimination there would be no “wokeness”

So congrats righties, you got what you asked for
You must have astonishingly high insurance premiums or a very cheap car.

I pay about 1 000 NOK (about 100 USD) per month to ensure my 2015 Tesla S here in Norway. It would take over forty years to get back the purchase price by not insuring it all and more like eighty if I were to merely drop the collision protection. And that's not even considering that they have paid out about 60 kNOK (6 kUSD) in claims for collision damage so far for this car (no other vehicle involved).
> I think it's bizarre that we treat computers as the most dangerous products in the world that for some reason demand paternalism, when none of these other products are locked down by the vendor.

That's because there are people behind every product, and the people behind computers tend to be the paternalistic, nanny-state type. Just read through the histrionics in any HN thread about leaf blowers, they want every landscaper locked up and their tools of the trade taken away. Someone once suggested they should be forced to use rakes. Imagine if some landscaper insisted what laptop you should use.

As you wouldn't expect to find many in-the-Army buzz-cut guys roaming the Google campus as you would at a gun company, you wouldn't expect some blue-haired face-pierced sales engineer selling you table saws.

It's a cultural thing, nothing more.
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The real threat to HTS is the USA.

One of the primary reasons Assad fell is something like 40% of Syrian national funding came from oil revenue denied by US backed Kurdish separatists.

The US will have to make the hard choice between HTS success or sacrificing Kurdish autonomy.
If you believe that I've got a bridge to sell you.
This says as much about the kind of tasks these people are being given and the whole organization of the company as it does AI's capabilities. This does not make rat penis implant recipient Mark Zuckerberg look as good as he probably thinks it does.
You're using "training" in a looser way than me.

LLMs have training data and context. I'm talking about training data.

Conversation, interaction... those happen within an LLM context window. LLMs learn nothing from those experiences. What they can learn within a context window is super limited and disposable.

You can't really compare the two. Humans are much, much more.
I have concluded, as a general rule of thumb, that if something costs more to recycle than to produce naturally, it is probably more harmful to the environment to recycle it than to create it fresh and dispose of it properly.

There are certain exceptions to this -- nickel cadmium batteries come to mind -- but for things like this, the question isn't "is it more economic to produce it new than to recycle it?" so much as it's "is it more economic to recycle it than to dispose of it properly?"
Companies complain about regulation while behaving in ways that demand it.
> They don't really have any interest in social media as we use them.

This seems misleading, even if it's true. My kids keep asking for TikTok/Instagram etc access. Because their friends have these apps.

Seeing certain messaging will them have a similar impact that it does on older individuals.
One day they're going to want only senior engineers, but with AI taking all the mid-level jobs there won't be any seniors.
If only the councils were as good at fixing potholes as they are at coming up with excuses as to why the road surface is within acceptable limits[0].

Even when they do bother to fix the pothole, they seem to just dump a bit of cold lay asphalt in the worst bit and hand tamp it down rather than properly preparing the surface and levelling the repaired section. As soon as another lorry goes over it, it just breaks up again.

[0] https://www.boredpanda.com/pothole-measure-50mm-darren-twitt...
> Any non white male person in charge of an organization that makes a mistake will be labeled a “DEI Hire” accurately or not.

That sentiment ("any mistake is because they're a DEI hire") is obviously wrong. But didn't DEI open itself up for that accusation by lending it some truth? It's a fact that black doctors have lower GPAs than Asian doctors on average.

I think a lot of people would argue against DEI because it takes the easy way out of a real problem. The result we want is more black doctors, but the way you should get to that is not changing standards that are not inherently racist.
It would but not for long . politics stuff tends to get flagged fast .
I do agree with you that it seems like that and I generally agree with you, but I'm also not a fan of your comment that only addresses the mind of PG, while the words he written are right there.

Point out the parts of the blog post that shows his lack of rational thinking and research, rather than just giving some overall personal attack, as currently the comment is relatively off-topic considering the submission.

I'm sure there are good and bad parts of the blog post, while you failed to address any sides of it.
Same for yours, You can hardly call the free market and privatization policies that the western europe has been going through these last three decades "Leftish economics"
A bunch of people who previously voted left are now voting right. Ask yourself why.
You might want to look into Shadow Empire (2020), which, among things like wargaming, planetary simulation, roleplaying and leader management, also features a complex logistics system (with also railroads), as well as stock market like trading !
That's just not true. He did not like wokeism, but on the other hand he's aligned with the democrats, including voting for Kamala. Like his politics or not, he is independent thinker.
From hunter gatherer society to day, every time a new technology comes along that claims to make life ‘easier,’ it pushes us further into being slave-adjacent. We have phones, ChatGPT, Google, and smartphones—but for what? We end up working more and more. The greater the technological progress, the more our lives are exploited to generate profits for our corporate overlords.

ChatGPT will save you time but your boss will now demand you to greatly up your productivity to match this fabulous new technology. Now you’re working even more for the same or less pay!

AGI, in its final form, will turn us into slaves in its final form, and yet we’re cheering it on. This is madness.
Pretty cool approach, looking more into it, thank you!
Ya, I'd assume so, they just said they started using it regularly then, but not that they needed to, so I'd assume that'd be why, but it's not like LA people are the only ones chronically checking up on the situation.
Before I even had a computer (begin 80s), my grandparents used to always bring me to a warehouse where they sold inventory from burnt down shops. Usually I would by soccer fan shirts (Ajax in my case at the time) and stuff, but this time, it was a specialist bookshop and I picked up a few computer books and magazines. This was so early in the computer era that I had never seen a computer magazine or book; I knew what computers were from the 2600 which my cousin had to play games on, but outside that I knew not very much. I read these things from cover to cover many (100 times possibly) times and always remember that when we did get our first computer, I opened my favorite one; it had the ISBN/author/publisher page and then page 1 was:

Turn the computer on and type

10 PRINT "My first homecomputer program"<enter>

RUN<enter>

And the book continued like that. I really cannot remember at all what the book was called or for which homecomputer it was; I do remember that after a bunch of pages, the programs stopped working on my system with a syntax error. I think it maybe was a ZX Spectrum or so book, but it hardly can be as I think it was too early for that. It was the fastest way to get into it and got me deep into programming because it went so easy that I kept finding more and more.
Good. Although I feel has improved greatly in the last 2 months, destroying a networked ecosystem to launch headphones is simply inexcusable.
The question you've got to ask yourself is what does that show? What would it mean to you if it got that right? Would you question your priors and deeply think about how to make use of LLMs despite their shortcomings, or are you just trolling and will just wait for the next Rs in strawberry question to come out for you to stochastically parrot?

o1 does fine with that btw. https://chatgpt.com/share/6785626a-6ea8-8009-83ab-673433465c...
It does not appeal to me, but each passing year there are fewer and fewer new consumer products that do appeal to me. Actually, I think this product captures the spirit of the times: a $20 piece of paper that presumably falls apart after a year – a 'laptop stand as a service'
>unless you're a Musk-stan

what's a -stan? do you mean like kazakhstan?
States are governments too and a lot of them are suing big tech.
That is the same person who renamed his company to Meta and went all in into the metaverse and how we all be working in the metaverse.
The guy got lucky once, that's all, he is not the modern Oracle.
This sort of thing makes me nervous. When the owner of a forum finds the masses don't unflaggingly support his take on something, what's the reaction?

Elon has recently shown us what happens on Twitter when you don't tow the line. I don't know that Zuck is meddling behind the scenes, but it could just be that he doesn't telegraph it as boldly as Musk.
It's political correctness gone mad!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xpsg9
Immigration was kicked off long before recent times and used to largely be a right-wing policy.
I recall a similar environment at Google where a lot of the software work was very tedious, on-the-rails work.
Free speech has never prevented a private company from policing their own platform and Facebook especially does not promise "free speech".

Just like "state's rights", "free speech" has always been a lie told by those who want only THEIR speech to be free, which is why you can say the N word on twitter and not get banned or blocked, but if you say "cracker" you may be downranked