skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God forbid people have standards of basic human decency. "Trump bad" posts being popular on a website is a world of a difference from a rich guy buying another platform with the specific goal of bringing back literal nazis, as proven in released court documents, doing it, and then going above and beyond by posting that kind of content himself.
Whatever else you think of him, he's an incredibly concise and persuasive writer. Even on topic I disagree with him on, I can't fault his reasoning or presentation.
I think it’s intentional and ironic. But I don’t think PG realizes what he did. I throughly believe he’s in the space of “I can do it because i am morally superior. But other folks can’t because they don’t get it like I do.” I get this feeling from reading not just this, but his other essays too.
Why the heck is there a beer in the background of pics? Lol
Interesting to compare this narrative to "A history of 'wokeness'". (Specifically, it's interesting that the "origins" seem to have very little to do with the history.)

https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-hist...
Haven't read the article yet, skimming the comments.

Wild quote though. Does PG self censor when using the N word? Or does he say it, with the hard r?

If that word isn't part of his vocabulary, why not? Seems like it should be.
I worked in a 1920's Beaux-Arts office building. The windows were maybe 2/3rds the height of the walls, but they opened! It was awesome to swing them out and hear the city and get some fresh air.
> designed to offer discounts, not charge higher prices.

And some of this has always existed. Think of stores which always offer a coupon. Customers only pay full price if they are in a desperate rush or if they don't know. But the fact that it has always existed doesn't make it any nicer.
That reaction is due to the recent app updates, but the device has been solid for years. Even after the update fiasco, it is still a great appliance.
> Perhaps a more intelligent version of ctangle which could screw with modification dates of files based on whether the code was actually changed would have helped, but…

yes, it would --- noweb did two things right: they created a helper utility, `cpif`, which checks if a tangled file has changed at all and leaves the existing file alone if there was no change.

and they radically simplified the markup, which made it most accessible.

and they created (third good thing) a modular architecture with a.well defined easily parsable intermediate textual representation to pipe text and code chunks through whichever utilities you want, for syntax highlighting, indexing, whatever.

and then, of all options, they chose the icon language for a reimplementation. from awk and c, available anywhere, to iconoclastic icon. bummer...
Plastic which will last 10 times longer and can be reused.
I once worked for a team that, when a serious visible incident occurred, a company VP would pace the floor, occasionally yelling, describing how much money we were losing per second (or how much customer trust if that number was too low) or otherwise communicating that we were in a battlefield situation and things were Very Critical.

Later I worked for a company with a much bigger and more critical website, and the difference in tone during urgent incidents was amazing. The management made itself available for escalations and took a role in externally communicating what was going on, but besides that they just trusted us to do our jobs. We could even go get a glass of water during the incident without a VP yelling at us. I hadn't realized until that point that being calm adults was an option.
I write a blog to share projects and to have a single place to point people to (that can be accessed without an account).

I share some of my posts on HN such as annual interesting books [0] and articles [1] lists. But my main source of new readers recently has been from chatbots. This has led to the interesting scenario where many posts more than six months old get regular traffic, while traffic on new posts depends on a link getting shared somewhere. I'm guessing it's due to how often my website is getting scraped for training data.

As for motivation, I still get a rush from receiving an email that someone enjoyed a book I recommended or some code I wrote helped them solve a problem.

[0] https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2024

[1] https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-articles-2024
Many would not open an account on truth social, since Twitter/X is turning into it seems logical to encourage/help people leaving.
> The annotations on functions, classes, and modules are no longer evaluated eagerly. Instead, annotations are stored in special-purpose annotate functions and evaluated only when necessary. This is specified in PEP 649 and PEP 749.

FWIW, these "annotate functions" are named `__annotate__` per my suggestion (https://discuss.python.org/t/_/25672/4).
> Yes, multiple minutes to complete is very believable. Cloudflare reported 60% packet loss over ~100ms distance. Thats going kill window sizes and goodput.

You're begging the question: that 60% packet loss is exactly what I'm questioning. That's not normal for public Internet connectivity, so we need something beyond "oops, we routed the request over the public Internet" in order to fully explain the outage.

Sure, given 66% packet loss, "multiple minutes to complete is very believable" and "Thats going kill window sizes and goodput" (sic), I agree with those points. But it's the premise — that packet loss on the external link was also absurd — that needs more explaining?

(… this is where I wish Canva would have linked that quote to its source. AFAICT, Cloudflare never published that, so IDK if that's a private correspondence, or what.)
The irony being of course, that the current wave of performative anti-woke articles from PG, Zuck et al is based mostly on fear that they'll be cancelled by the incoming administration if they appear to be too kindly disposed to minorities...
'So long, Douglas Adams, and thanks for all the fun' (2001)
I love when urban dictionary nails something well like this, it's very amusing. Like a gold nugget surrounded by trash. The only other thing that tickles me so is the occasional pseudo-profound 4chan green text.
My guess would be because most of the audience it's said to are much more familiar with Christianity than with 0000s Judaism. If the person hearing the comparison don't know anything about the operand then for them it becomes a meaningless comparison.
First time I've heard about it, really cool! (https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/chat/irc/)
Thank you for the site.

I've been trying to learn how to customize Linux (e.g. roll my own Linux) for any platform but it takes time to learn since all the information is laid out all over the internet, thus hard to locate. I'm aware of Linux From Scratch project but it is a long read and I find that certain knowledge is assumed (e.g. why build chain is needed), thus not necessarily newbie-friendly. Though I've yet to go through your site, hopefully it will take the newbie inexperience (e.g. electronics knowledge if any) into consideration.

Good luck,
SM68
Go on a walk or take a shower...
I've never seen the same behavior from any other software supplier.

Almost every software company out there will jump into their customers complaints, and try to fix the issue even when the root cause is not on their software.
Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
> I wonder if it's using the background tile map for this instead of sprites

Yes, it's all background tiles being loaded continuously from the SD card. We created the tiles with a custom tile de-maker.
That seem extremely frustrating.

It does seem like there ought to be a reasonable split between personal software and business stuff. I mean you guys had a big contract, it is some negotiated thing between two peers, it could be reasonable to negotiate root in some subsystems, not in others. In the end you can’t really trust anything a system tells you if somebody has full root of it. It seems like you guys keeping control of the logging would be a reasonable give for them, if they expect support. (But why would you guys have planned around a downright adversarial customer? That guy is weird).

Also, doesn’t this seem like… basically some kind of fraud? I wonder if your annoying user expected to be able to add the savings whatever he got back from the support contract to his “value to the company” somehow.

For personal customers who are just buying smartphones, we don’t really have giant support contracts to screw around with.
They're also low pressure inside. This makes it possible to take them to otherwise difficult places.

https://cferenac.blogspot.com/2010/06/toilet-paper-and-pring...

> The second time—they struggled with potato chips. You see, they had packed regular potato chips in small bags, like Lays. It turns out when you’re at 15,000 feet, the air pressure makes the bags (and the chips) explode. Just picture climbing one difficult step at a time, in freezing weather, under the most treacherous of conditions, and having little bombs going off in your backpack. Terrifying. Not to mention the chips were impossible to eat. Pringles, on the other hand, are vaccuum packed. They keep their shape, and as Jamie says, “They have great karma because they’ve been spooning inside the can since they were made!”

Most bags of potato chips that I've seen show near failure at about 9000 feet.

Specifically related to shipping them... My Worst Load Ever: Hauling Oregon Potato Chips to Texas - https://www.dat.com/blog/my-worst-load-ever-hauling-oregon-p...

> I got loaded, and it was time to sign the bill of lading. Everything looked normal at first until I read that this load cannot be exposed to elevations higher than 6,000 feet because the bags of chips may pop. That would result in a carrier claim. I didn’t like that at all, especially because I didn’t know — and had never needed to know — anything about measuring elevation.

---

Late edit about Pringles on Everest - https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/playing-with-mo...

> I managed to take a large plastic jar of cough drops, empty it into another jar, and cut it down to a size that would hold the vials. Some padding and duct tape and we were good to go. In the mean time, Scott found two lids from some Pringles cans (a major food item) and he created a large circular holder with the Nugget in the middle. He held the pieces together while I applied duct tape and presto, we had a Nugget Containment Device.

(I'm certain that I read that story on HN long ago... but I can't find it)
From the communities I was around some went to discord, but most did not really stick and discord is not very suitable platform for stuff like that imo. There were also some reddit clones popping up at the time, but they were politically charged just to another direction of what reddit was taking, not really spaces to hold that diversity and nuance either. Some also moved on to some other subreddits that would draw less attention of specific kind. In time afaik the old communities faded away or broken to smaller pieces, fragmented into smaller echo chambers and the ones not fitting in any of them just moved on. There are not really places to hold nuance in the internet now. What I liked in reddit was that you would get all people coming from all these different references at the same place and sometimes indeed interesting things would happen in that intersection.

And thing is, the internet was already largely shit at that point. I guess there is no specific time point to point when the internet broke because it seems it can always break more.

> It's often quoted that 80% of content is made by 1% of users, and usually those people are the first in, and if you lose them, it's over for you.

Maybe why meta pushes ai content creation so bad.
I am ethnically Syrian. The Syrian people are feeling the first glimmers of hope and happiness in 50 years. People are still starving and without food and water, but they have hope again. If you are American or European, please reach out to your local representatives to ask for their easement of anti-Assad sanctions so that Syrians like the ones you see here can finally start to rebuild.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u-u6-6VsxUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c15e4MhJLpg
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZXsGSi0Vc28

Thank you!
I grew up in the 80's - I felt exactly the same about evangelicals then as I feel about the woke today.
I remember listening on FM radio to my 100MHz computer running FreeBSD, which sounded like calm rain, and to Windows 95, which sounded like a screaming monster.
Chromecasts + HDMI stereos + Speaker Groups: https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/7174267?hl=en

Works from Apple and Google mobile devices with Spotify
I'm not a big fan of Musk either outside of Tesla/SpaceX/StarLink.

But if it's not Musk, it's the DNC, if it's not the DNC, it's someone else. I don't see how it detracts from X still being a good platform. You have to curate your TL, yes -- but you've always had to do that!
> His whole argument is it's unimportant and performative, so then why did he spend all this time writing an article about it?

Arguably because a large portion of the population doesn't agree that it's unimportant and performative. Current culture is captured by the concept and collectively spends a massive amount of time worrying about it.

If you personally feel that this is a waste of time, how else do you communicate that if not by spending time thinking and writing about it?

I also think most meetings are a complete waste of time. The fact that many other people feel meetings are important directly impacts me, and just believing that they're a waste isn't good enough. It's necessary to actively push against something if you think that thing needs to change.
> The issue is who owns and runs TikTok, so why not use legally extant powers to correct that?

This is a step short of expropriation. If there are real security concerns, prove them and ban the product. It only matters who runs TikTok when you want control of it, not public security.

Weird that you focused of the word "farm", it could be easily taken as an online content farm.
You are likely looking at this design from a modern system perspective.

But the PDP-11 system that many of these designs were made upon had a minimum memory size of 4K bytes and with varying models that had different maximum memory sizes that are smaller than a single JPEG photo in today's world: PDP 11/45 max memory 256kbyte - PDP 11/70 max memory 4Mbyte.

And this was the total memory for everything, the OS, and the users, and the system supported multiple users sharing the same machine at the same time.

With those resource constraints, the design rules that determine good from poor are radically different than with one of today's systems with multiple Gb of RAM.
Despots care a lot about PR. Otherwise they wouldn't spend so much on international sports.
>When I looked into it, it basically meant that it was made from beat up ugly strawberries

That's true for basically all processed food that contains fruit or vegetables, for obvious economic reasons. The stuff that looks good goes to the supermarkets who care very much about shelf appeal, the rest goes to the processors who absolutely don't.
I follow a bunch of Japanese game developers, who at present don't have a strong motivator to leave X. Most of them are also on LINE, but I'm a little reluctant to try it since I don't actually read Japanese. (ETA: I looked at LINE just now and it seems more like a chat app than a board where users post information for anyone, so I think it's off the table.)
> that climate change won't come under control.

All signs point to this, or it's already reached a tipping point - certainly nothing we are already doing is reducing total carbon output, just slowing its acceleration. There was that one weird year in 2020 where emissions went down as the entire world stopped commuting - regardless of what you think about the realistic ability of new/unproven tech and regulations will be at preventing 3+ celsius change from industrial average by 2100 (catastrophe of biblical proportions) - if AI is indeed as critical to the economy/humanity's future as its proponents (marketers) say, the enormous amount of power and other resources that often don't get factored in, like the massive amounts of increasingly scarce water to cool the massive datacenters - will certainly make such efforts at reducing emissions extraordinarily unlikely, if not impossible, short of converting our entire power grid to sustainable energy, which there seems to be little to no political will for. It's grim, I'm extremely skeptical of optimism at this point on this particular topic. I am bracing for catastrophe at some point in my life (looking at the LA fires very near me, I would argue it's already here) and think the world governments would be wise to do so as well rather than pretend we're just going to magically figure it out at the last possible second. Not even to mention there are a lot of people, including people in power, who don't even believe climate change is happening at all.

We're living in Don't Look Up.
I can't for the life of me comprehend how PG manages to write in a style that sounds so lucid, so readable and compelling, and so authoritative, but on a substance that's so factually incorrect that it won't stand to any bit of critique.

Like the paragraph quoted above: it's just so blatantly obvious what's wrong with turns like "considered particularly enlightened", or "there are no underlying principles" that I find it hard to believe that the text as a whole sounds so friendly and convincing, unless you stop and think for a second.

I wish I could write like this about whatever mush is in my head.
> No. I'm saying that removal of zoning limits to allow increased density does NOT lead to lower prices. It leads to increased density and increased misery as a result.

I never made that claim.

> It's not a public dataset, so I'm replicating my results using public datasets.

You'll need to do better than just comparing real estate sales. If you're going to make a coherent argument based on data, it should at least attempt to show the relationship between more datapoints than just arbitrary sales and time, especially with only a 6 year timespan. Whether there's something there or not, you're not providing a substantial enough analysis to be compelling here.

It's fine if you don't like denser areas. Plenty of people who grow up in denser cities move out because they feel like they're sick of people, but cities wouldn't be cities if they're wasn't a reason to be there, and many people prefer it. There's not a chance in hell I'd move back to a car dependent hellscape, because I grew up in one, and that's true misery to me.

> It increased its density by 25% over the last 12 years, many times leading the nation in the number of active construction cranes. The result? Faster price growth than even in SF.

Again, weird cherry-picked comparison that wouldn't surprise anyone who's aware of the two tech hubs.
i'm almost never using a movable one but:

- on the practicity: i can do exactly what i want with a fixed one, without risk for the blade to slip

- small dust and bits tend to gather at the junctions and sit there
“Mr. Liedtke, this is going to cost X hundreds of thousands of dollars’ or something. Hugh didn’t answer. He looked at us, Philip and me, and he said, ‘Put ‘em back,’ and we put ‘em back on. And he said, ‘That’s it’ and left.
I've never heard of this man but I have great respect for having some appreciation of external aesthetics.

It was erected in “six-and-a-half working days, a remarkable feat compared with the eight weeks or more that a conventional masonry facade would have required.”
It's surprising how much we have to deal with for the benefit of saving relatively little time in initial installation. These buildings are supposed to last decades, what is 8 weeks? This same principal is evident with consumer products that have ugly fragile snap-together seams so they can trumpet "15 minute setup" etc.

For some building features, like granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, or washer/dryer hookups, developers can quantify how much they’ll contribute to additional rents.
Somehow nearly every new apartment building is "luxury accommodations", which makes no sense because it should just be bringing up the average of "market accommodations". I have a feeling buyers/renters are catching on to these min/maxed characteristics in the same vein as the beautiful kitchens with shoddy rest-of-the-house.
All of "wokeness", "social justice", etc, when you look at the "forest not the trees" ends up pretty simple:

One group of people is saying: "This hurts, please stop", to which the other group says: "No".

So the first goes back to the drawing board to come up with reasons, theories, explanations, convincing arguments... and you get things like critical race theory, systemic *isms, etc.

That's pretty much it. Sure, there's other bits in there - about accomplishing the "stop", or about handling emotions around blame, or about handling your own hurt, etc - but, at the end of the day?

It's really just people saying "this hurts, please stop", and what forms around the response when the response is "No".
And we get ci/cd so any flag change means a pr anyway…
This is a ridiculous comment. I don't know if you've noticed but a lot of what's happening in the entire western world politically is a result of the backlash against wokeness and leftist economics.

Without wokeness there is no Trump, and the far right in Europe would still be marginal.

Edit - it's funny, just yesterday I was listening to a podcast where Peter Thiel was lamenting the lack of introspection on the left. Lots of comments proving it correct.
A little buried since the overarching focus is on consistency but I found these two paragraphs from the blog post really relevant points as well:

"You need to develop a good sense of how the service is used in practice (i.e. by users). Which endpoints are hit the most often? Which endpoints are the most crucial (i.e. are used by paying customers and cannot gracefully degrade)? What latency guarantees must the service obey, and what code gets run in the hot paths? One common large-codebase mistake is to make a “tiny tweak” that is unexpectedly in the hot path for a crucial flow, and thus causes a big problem.

You can’t rely on your ability to test the code in development like you can in a small project. Any large project accumulates state over time (for instance, how many kinds of user do you think GMail supports?) At a certain point, you can’t test every combination of states, even with automation. Instead, you have to test the crucial paths, code defensively, and rely on slow rollouts and monitoring to catch problems."
No, multi-armed bandit doesn't "beat" A/B testing, nor does it beat it "every time".

Statistical significance is statistical significance, end of story. If you want to show that option B is better than A, then you need to test B enough times.

It doesn't matter if you test it half the time (in the simplest A/B) or 10% of the time (as suggested in the article). If you do it 10% of the time, it's just going to take you five times longer.

And A/B testing can handle multiple options just fine, contrary to the post. The name "A/B" suggests two, but you're free to use more, and this is extremely common. It's still called "A/B testing".

Generally speaking, you want to find the best option and then remove the other ones because they're suboptimal and code cruft. The author suggests always keeping 10% exploring other options. But if you already know they're worse, that's just making your product worse for those 10% of users.
Heads up - you should use "qD instead of "qdd to avoid an extra newline at the end of the register contents. (In fact the current Vim 9.1.954 behavior seems a bit odd in that it moves the cursor down, but not to the start of the line, as if j is pressed... Seems like a bug to me.)