skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> which isn't the case basically anywhere else in the US

Hi from Buffalo, NY! We get clouds and apocalyptic snow!
>what does "performative" mean in this context? I honestly can't tell. It would really help if pg provided an example so we could evaluate for ourselves.

>In other words, it's people being prigs about social justice. And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice.

>Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one. I don't think any reasonable person would deny that. The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so. Instead of going out into the world and quietly helping members of marginalized groups, the politically correct focused on getting people in trouble for using the wrong words to talk about them.

>Meanwhile, basically all national politics is performative bullshit. Why are we not calling both parties woke?

He doesn't even point fingers on this matter, but the social justice angle is the evident answer to that.
Great book +1
Sure but well-insulated concrete doesn’t transmit much visible light.
Oh, absolutely what it has come to mean over time. But what it has come to mean is ultimately what matters at the moment I think. The term has evolved, and I think that's a big reason there's so much polarization and disagreement about what it means.

Some subset of people understands the "true" meaning of the word, and the set of ideas originally associated with it. I suspect the majority of people are more likely to use it in the sense it has evolved into.

Some kind of separation needs to happen. The underlying ideals and ideas vs. the tactics people employ in bringing them about. If someone's MO is to judge/shame people, exert their moral superiority over others, and see the people around them in absolute terms, that set of behavior is particularly harmful to the underlying goals. It presents itself as the "truest" form of support for the goal and the only right way to go about achieving it. But it uses coercion/manipulation to take advantage of people's fear of public shaming and the consequences of "getting cancelled" which tends to ensure silence from people who see themselves as more pragmatic but not interested in getting labeled with "them" for raising questions about reasonable things.

I agree that when people use it now, it's less about anything substantive and entirely about what people feel the word has come to mean. Not sure how, but we need to fundamentally change the conversation.
Not much mention of the USDA or the relevant committees in the House and the Senate. They're awfully relevant. The department and committees who control agricultural subsidies and how much corn syrup gets spooged into American food also control the funding of SNAP (food stamps).

Politicians in the states where corn doesn't rule everything are nevertheless limited in what they can do to combat these trends, since their political opponents are happy to use hunger as a weapon if they can.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22656777

https://www.essence.com/news/new-trump-administration-propos...
>The CDC says that no cases of CWD have been detected in humans to date, but add that this may be a possibility in the future.
Because there is usually a graceful period before forcing to authenticate.

Also, if it's Xorg lockscreen, then it's probably not very secure to begin with.
This sounds more like a modern CTO felt the need to refactor the a big part of the codebase for the sake of it and if that wasn't foolish enough, they decided to not roll it out incrementally.
I think the more glaring thing is that Musk has indeed directly censored twitter. Saying cis results in an auto-ban for example. But he's also just blatantly censored people for disagreeing with him.

Also, in a time when the next president of the united states is quoting hitler and also saying that Hitler "had a lot of good ideas" I hardly think a very poor multi-page screed on the word woke is the best use of time and thought.
> I’ve been in companies that have tried dozens if not hundreds of A/B tests with zero statistically significant results.

Well, at least it looks like they avoided p-hacking to show more significance than they had! That's ahead of much of science, alas.
Sure but gay rights activists were sincere about gay rights.

AIDS activists like Act Up were genuine about the threat of AIDS.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the civil rights movement were genuinely students committed to nonviolence.

The suffragists genuinely wanted woman's suffrage.

But for anti-fascists, we have jpeg memes calling them fools.

Just like how racists dismissed the civil rights movement, homophobes dismissed gay marriage, people against women voting dismissed suffragists, and people made jokes about AIDS in the 80s, people who dismiss anti fascists are probably... well...

We'd all like to imagine we're August Landmesser - especially those who were driving around with American flag bumper stickers during things like Abu ghraib. The ones who are most fervent about saluting also swear they'd never be heiling. Sure.

Right. Nobody ever thinks they're the bastard.
Of the many (hundreds?) of women that alledge Coby drugged them very few (two?) had said they knowingly took a known drug with the intent of having sex.

With Cosby's testimony included he was convicted, it and the womens testimonies were found to be sufficient under law to demonstrate guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

When the testimony was excluded on technical grounds the statements by Cosby weren't demonstrated to be false or questioned in any way, they were simply set aside, as true as they ever were.

Again, the general public is entitled to shun Cosby on the basis of the testimonies presented including his own words which haven't been discredited, just excluded.
And so the zombie apocalypse begins.
> you are still lesser than a composer who creates their own works.

That concept goes back to "There's nothing remarkable about (the piano). All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." -- Johann Sebastian Bach
> It is perfectly possible to supply 1000Mbps symmetrical fiber service to end users for $20/mo because numerous self-sufficient non-profit municipal broadband organizations in the United States are doing just that.

This statement is false.
Anecdotally, having worked at multiple small-medium companies with a variety of leadership backgrounds, the worst have been sales background. Engineering backgrounds have ranged from OK to great.
yeah, i wouldn't start spreading this "news" until i see it on !dailymail
Make Python look like Ruby
Internet is a utility, like water.

We can't have true competition with utilities, because we'd need six sets of pipes into every apartment just to have six competing providers, so the government needs to step in and regulate utilities, because they are a natural monopoly.
Agreed of course. Though currently iOS 16 is the standard and that goes back about 2.5 years. Which is sort of a shift from many major apps supporting an iOS dating back 4-5 years.
Because I’m not making a contemporary comparison but a chronological one. Yes, women and LGBT leaders among fascists can be boringly mainstream today. It wasn’t until recently. That’s a dimension of progress.
<Cabin in the Woods reference>Sensible Chuckle<\a>
The Celebrity Jeopardy sketch started in the mid 90s and was done by 2005 other than a couple reunion special occasions. It’s not from the last 20 years anymore, you may be getting old.
I am not surprised. With the amount of misinformation that is produced and disseminated from the highest levels of israeli society. See my other posts on
1) Zionism = racist / supremacist ideology
2) misinformation
3) links to a documentary demonstrating how people are being awakened to the truth (and how they realise they have been lied to) Israelism film on YouTube
4) psyops campaigns both against their own citizens , and Americans etc.
Do you have a source more credible than right wing tabloids for this?
This article seems to be talking about the great firewall of China as if it was some cultural barrier to Western consumers preventing them from accessing Chinese sites, instead of a technological barrier barring Chinese citizens from engaging with the internet at large. Am I missing something?
vkou is correct. The US freight rail system is the best and cheapest in the world, and has a larger share of freight shipping than in other countries. <https://archive.is/20240502094047/https://www.economist.com/...>
I mean I'm a dummy who just wanted to listen to ISS static and trucker jargon.
The question is, where?

Most of the midwest is empty, same with other states.

You have very dense areas in the east coast, which already leverage a large train network. In the west coast, Oregon and WA already have trains connecting their largest cities (Portland/Seattle/Vancouver).

California has caltrain, and internal city trains. In the USA, for passengers, it makes much more sense to fly than trains, the infrastructure costs and time costs of trains vs planes don't make sense.
Nvidia blasts Biden's new AI restrictions as 'misguided', praises Trump approach
> A lot of sites don't have enough traffic to get statistical significance with this in a reasonable amount of time

What's nice about AB testing is the decision can be made on point estimates, provided the two choices don't have different operational "costs". You don't need to know that A is better than B, you just need to pick one and the point estimate gives the best answer with the available data.

I don't know of a way to determine whether A is better than B with statistical significance without letting the experiment run, in practice, for way too long.
At least the lights stay on most of the time these days.
I dont think this is true. I am no audiophile but Sonos is actually quite expensive vs getting some streamer like Wiim with basic cheap amp and any solid speaker brand - KEF, Elac, Klipsh, Polk…

I know its some choices but any of them are good choice its mostly flavours. What you get for same money will sound better and 100% last longer because you have modular system instead of glued box that stops working when Sonos stops caring about the product (like they did before).
it's sarcasm.

you cannot say the great firewall is broken and at the same time say people who are joining Xiaohongshu must abide to their current state overseen moderation rules

no, the great firewall is still there and there are users moving but I highly doubt this is gonna change the hegemony of meta inside the US
One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps
Interesting approach to a a very interesting challenge, given how close the images supposedly are.

With the limited training data they have I'm surprised they don't mention any attempts at synthetic training data. Make (or buy) a couple museum scenes in blender, hang one of the images there, take images from a lot of angles, repeat for more scenes, lighting conditions and all 350 images. Should be easy to script. Then train YOLO on those images, or if that still fails use their embedding approach with those training images.
Why? This is just for communication between the shell and its helper programs, the user wouldn't even see.

What do you not like about escaping?

Of course, for program-to-program communication you can also use different techniques, instead of escaping. Escaping is just the most human-readable and human-producible.

(As a simple example, to be able to represent all characters in a string, you can either escape quotes like \" or you can prefix the string with its length.

Computers can work with either convention, but humans will hate you if they have to prefix every string literal with its length and keep that length in sync with the string.)
I have, and in 90% of cases that's because my code is seriously messed up, so that (1) it is not easy to write a unit test (2) there has not been enough effort in testing so that mocks are not available when I need it.

Adding tests is not easy, and you can always find excuses to not do that and instead "promise" to do it later, which almost never happens. I have seen enough to know this. Which is why I myself have put more work in writing unit tests, refactoring code and creating test mocks than anyone else in my team.

And I can't tell you how much I appreciate it when I find that this has benefitted me personally -- when I need to write a new test, often I find that I can reuse 80% if not 80% of the test setup and focus on the test body.

After adding the first test, it becomes much easier to add the second and third test. If you don't add the first test or put the effort into making your code actually testable, it's never going to be easy to test anything.
As someone who has used mDNS professionally, it did indeed just work.
You will need another tool to write a lock file that actually locks dependencies for more environments than your own. I don't know what you're trying to say. Pip does not support writing it.

Sure, I guess if you have one Pip will "support" reading it.
> Nearly 1.9m violent or sexual crimes in England and Wales were closed without a suspect being caught or charged in the year to June 2024 – about 89% of all offences given an outcome, official figures show.

So, not just sexual offenses and not just England.
I see, I think that's a related but distinct point from what I was saying. That said, I agree with the quote, but would add that it applies to most people in general, not just the leftist. I would also add that the moral self-righteousness is an essential part of the attraction.

I thought that this was particularly evident in the defund the police movements, where poor minority neighborhoods actually wanted more policing and law enforcement when polled.
What does the great firewall have to do with Meta hegemony in the US?
Probably egged on by people telling them they had a much larger hiring pool if they went with JS (which is almost certainly true).

Just once, I’d like to see a leader actively refuse these kinds of arguments when the process they have is objectively better.

Never once have I ever experienced an Electron-ified version of an app and thought, “oh yeah, this is better.”
> Many on the left believe that non-whites are a cohesive political coalition

What percentage of what group is “many on the left”? This does not sound plausible to me.
The headline made it sound like yet another themed cryptocurrency, but it was even more lo-fi than that: he just asked people to invest in his non-existent crypto-investment firm. Nothing really high-tech needed for a straight-up Ponzi scheme.
Now for those who are curious, i'm done with my first experiment and i am planning on starting a full redesign of that project, this time providing the AI with a lot more guidance on software best practices. I'll decompose more, make it write more unit tests, etc. And make sure to keep everything in check regularly regarding code quality (still writing nothing myself though).

In fact, i'll be doing exactly what i would do with a junior/midlevel developer. Except AI work probably 100x times faster.

My first iteration of that project lasted about 3 days from start to finish, reaching a point where i left so much cruft accumulating that it couldn't refactor it properly without breaking absolutely everything in an impossible to recover manner... But before you say anything, i've personally seen the same thing happen at least 5 times in my career, with professional humans developing the code.
why is it so difficult to provide a mere link?
Musk has been lying about Tesla's full self-driving for a decade. Why stop now?

The lies worked. They boosted Tesla's share price as intended.
> I'd like to call into question your use of the "I'm a liberal" card here

I never labeled myself as a liberal, I just said that most folks would put me into that category.

I definitely have some beliefs that do not toe the party line of either side of the American divide.

> what is the "woke" agenda, what is the "woke" implementation?

PG just wrote an entire essay on this exact topic, and that essay is what we are commenting on.

I more or less agree with pg’s stance.

> The wording is straight out of [any conservative pundit]'s script, with not even a single shred of demonstrated understanding of either the underlying values, nor the problems stated.

In your reply, you’ve given me a purity test and then indirectly labeled me as an ignorant member of “the other”.

This is exactly the type of behavior that gives “progressives” and “liberals” a bad reputation, even though most liberals (and many progressives) don’t engage with this sort of rhetorical style.

There are much more constructive ways to have these conversations, and I wish that folks (on both sides, fwiw) would commit to trying to take the more constructive paths.

If there are any specific points about my post that you would like me to clarify or address, I will be happy to do so.
I'd dispute some of the reasoning with those - the first one is assuming the cyclist is fueling themselves with fruit, something quite expensive with limited calories rather than the real stuff people fuel up on like bread or potatoes.
That's not an accurate summary of what the article says. There's no doubt that Röhm rose through the ranks of the SA when it was already widely known that he was gay. Even Hitler himself knew:

>Röhm's appointment was opposed from the beginning by some in the SA who saw it as cementing the subordination of the SA to the Nazi Party's political wing. His homosexuality was seized upon by those who disagreed with the organizational reforms but could not openly criticize Hitler without breaking with Nazism, because of the Führer principle. Hitler said that the personal life of a Nazi was only a concern for the party if it contradicted the fundamental principles of Nazism. The leader of the Berlin SA, Walther Stennes, rebelled against the SA leadership and declared that he and his followers would "never serve under a notorious homosexual like Röhm and his Pupenjungen (male prostitutes)". On 3 February, Hitler dismissed Stennes's objection, stating, "The SA is not a girls' boarding school."

In case it is not obvious from my original comment, I am not trying to paint Nazi party as a beacon of DEI. The Nazi state went on to murder thousands of homosexuals. But in response to the OP, Röhm was certainly not closeted and it is doubtful that his homosexuality could even be described as an 'open secret'.
You don't think high schoolers would succumb to authority and peer pressure even if they didn't really want to participate?
The wokesters of Bluesky (of course) are dunking on PG's essay in their usual condescending manner: https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabnik.com/post/3lfnoikjxrc2c
Knowledge can inform external behavior. When you go to another country, you have to learn the norms of what will be considered disrespectful in that context. In America, for example, somebody waving their middle finger at you will be seen as them intentionally disrespecting you. Not because they necessarily are (maybe they just arrived from Japan and don’t know better yet), but because for people socialized here that is perceived to go along with the intent to disrespect. National borders are not the only cultural borders.
yeah, the author is either being paid to spout propaganda or doesn't know how the internet doesn't flow into and out of china freely, never has, never will
It was January 13, 1952 they had airlines.
I have some Sonos systems installed in 2008 that are still working great. No hardware failures, app still does what it always did.

That being said they feel clunky and worse year after year, the UI is old fashioned, it's not quite as reliable. And of course the whole thing is orphaned. I'll never buy another set of several thousand dollars of Sonos v2 or whatever they want me to do.
> I know the thing to do is say "oh it was good when x and y were still on there"

And almost always that golden period was when you were 15 years old
These sound like extremely technical decisions that presumably engineering leads in the company came up with, signed-off on, and convinced leadership to go ahead with.

I doubt a Salesperson has the technical expertise to initiate any of those changes.
I have preferred smaller companies for a long time, particularly those that make a profit and don’t have “growth at all costs” as their real mission statement. I’ve worked at some dysfunctional smaller companies too, but nothing like the big tech firms. Working for real customers you have to care about versus working for increasing the share price makes a difference.

I don’t expect to derive my happiness from my job, but I can reduce the frustration and overwork and feeling like nothing I do matters by working at a place where my contribution has clear value and the org doesn’t have the management slack for lots of bullshit.
> you're basically relegated to Sonos or a smart speaker (which I do not want).

I use dumb bookshelf speakers with Bluetooth support. Mine are "Edifier" brand, but there are others. Works perfectly. (at least as "perfect" as BT can ever get) No apps or smart stuff, beyond BT.

On the other hand, when I'm trying to comprehend how to get audio from a TV into them, then I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I found one of the few remaining TVs with a headphone out, so I can use that. Next time my TV breaks, I guess I'll have to learn what is actually going with HDMI. Connecting arbitrary speakers to a TV seems like an arcane mystery.
Maybe you’re talking about hot prepared whole cooked chicken breasts served hot in a to go container? Because SNAP allows you to buy them cooked refrigerated or frozen to take home and heat or buy raw to take home and cook.

> What Can SNAP Buy?

> Any food for the household, such as:
Fruits and vegetables;
Meat, poultry, and fish;
Dairy products;
Breads and cereals;
Other foods such as snack foods and non-alcoholic beverages; and
Seeds and plants, which produce food for the household to eat.

Households CANNOT use SNAP benefits to buy:
Beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes, or tobacco
Vitamins, medicines, and supplements. If an item has a Supplement Facts label, it is considered a supplement and is not eligible for SNAP purchase.
Live animals (except shellfish, fish removed from water, and animals slaughtered prior to pick-up from the store).
Foods that are hot at the point of sale
Any nonfood items such as:
Pet foods
Cleaning supplies, paper products, and other household supplies.
Hygiene items, cosmetics

https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligible-food-items
To be fair, it's actually different from the more traditional take on anti-glare (usually a separate film) in that Apple physically alters the glass surface directly instead, which affects the colors less, so it's not just a pointless marketing distinction.

Whether the benefit justifies the price tag is another matter...
I don't follow that logic and that is the kind of absolutism many of us disagree with. It seems like an appeal to emotion to me. I'm not sure you can characterize the EP as shallow; aggressive yes, if one considers bold to be synonymous with aggressive in this context.

I don't find any issue with people making statements like that. I also don't need to agree with it to think that you should be allowed to say it. Do you find that to be problematic?
Sorry but bubble sort is a terrible example here. You implement a more difficult sorting algorithm, like quicksort, because the benefits of doing so, versus using bubble sort, are in many cases huge. I.e., the juice is worth the squeeze.

Whereas the comment you’re responding to is rightly pointing out that for most orgs, the marginal gains of using an approach more complex than Epsilon greedy probably aren’t worth it. I.e., the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.