skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lobsters probably comes closest. But still invite-only (AFAIK) and you also don't bump into random programming superstars (who programmed that one childhood game you absolutely loved) there every now and then.

Besides, I feel like HN is dang's kingdom, and compared to how it used to be, pg is barely mentioned nowadays. Based on feelings only, it doesn't feel like HN skews pg/altman friendly, I'd probably say it's the opposite if I had to say anything.
> He exist in a world where the Overton window sits comfortably over the destruction of the entire western world by the hand of communists bent on burning down the world to rule over the ashes.

In which alternative reality is that happening? Where in the western world are communists in power?
VMware was taken over by a company whose business model is extortion. Ie take over a company with customer that have few or little alternatives then keep jacking up prices as high as they can.
Ycombinator is of course, involved to some extent with the creation of HN. So I get it. Tech leaders cultism sort of infests the space.

But I do tend to find HN pretty broad in topics. I do think they end up on here because they’re good at making news for themselves (not a compliment) and the sort of people posting on here, are posting tech news. I don’t see ending up on HN’s front page as any indicator of goodness, but more so, it’s at least something people are talking about and sparks some discussion, goodness-neutral on the specific topic at hand.

dang is really good at his job!

That said, I really like mastodon! Obviously it’s a different sort of platform, but you can get a similar but less-tech-thought-leader-centric experience with some light curation. (And participation by yourself!)
> platforms such as Facebook and Twitter claim to be the digital equivalent of the "public town square"

Our government also claims to serve the people, while bending over to the first one who pays well.
I find the movable ones cut a thinner peel, probably the blade is held at a more optimal angle if it can find its own position, or maybe my particular movable one is just better-made than my fixed one.
> Literally never seen an Anglophone yelling at a Spanish speaker about it before, only queer Spanish speakers who use it to refer to themselves.

You and I move in different circles. I was definitely running into "normal" Spanish speakers for the past few years who's awakening experience with "wokeness" was seeing the word "Latinx" on some HR form and being told that the reason was "for Hispanic comfort" ... which every single one of them found gaslighting in the extreme (since none of them liked it, even a little bit).
>There is legitimately very little reason to use X

Unless you are a sports fan.
I'm sorry to hear you're called slurs. They seem endemic for my kid as well as soon as you move out of ultra progressive areas; as a white parent of a black kid, it's disheartening and eye opening to find out just how racist some families are, and how immensely wide spread it is.

That said, I don't think this qualifies as newly minted removal of speech. It is the allowance of speech that was formerly removed.
Probably because this topic is American and it's the history of American Christianity that's being referenced.
> Americans tend to be enthusiastic about their company mission - in the extreme, believing that they’re saving the world - while Australians are more liable to think “it’s just a job, mate”.

There are some people who "drink the kool-aid" and believe that messaging, but it seems largely self serving.

Say you want to be a yes man (or woman) to get ahead. Why limit yourself to agreeing with your boss, when you can agree and also imply they are a hero?
That might be poor investment advice.
I feel like it's important to enter this part of the cycle where the absolute worst people feel comfortable entering their most heinous takes into the permanent internet record under the delusion that the social pressure to be a good person has been defeated forever.

This is effectively putting the popcorn into the popper, but it won't be served until about ten years from now.
For whatever it's worth I live in South Tacoma, Pierce, WA, USA. You're not going to find a working, greasy auto club at the flagship Lemay Museum (although it's worth a visit, as is Blackhawk in CA). However, the Lemay family is a local fixture / institution.

I drive by the family compound in Parkland maybe once a month. They own / owned Marymount, the former military boarding school; for lack of a better characterization they use it as a garage. There are auto and motorcycle shows there annually (and also gun shows). Walking one of those shows and talking to people is certainly on the table, but it's not a "need to do something now" option.

Meanwhile, talking to people (Burns Towing, the good people, as opposed to the sh*tshow on Hilltop which the City contracts for impounds) and making phone calls has generated some promising leads on the mechanic front anyway. I went and visited a guy a week ago who has a lift (and his old race car) in his garage and wrenches older US metal as a semi-retired pastime. He might find time to help me out if along with paying him decently I provide him with some home brewed beer.

We talk about "free beer", but in fact beer is not fungible on the internet.
Concur. I have seen issues with suspend on Linux in the past, but my last three Dell laptops suspend just fine. Usually the only weirdness is with laptops that don't have an S3 state anymore, or when you add/remove hardware in between being awake and asleep.

That said (and it pains me to say it), the experience is still nowhere near as flawless as MacOS on Silicon hardware.
A Framework for Training and Deploying Language Models at the Edge Computers
In my experience, not only are quantitative metrics gameable, but they depend greatly on accurate estimates (which just shuts the problem along) and tend to bias towards rushed implementations. You also have to be very careful to consider what duties the person has beyond pure coding, which can become time-consuming as they grow in seniority, such as mentoring juniors, engaging with product teams, or supporting product enquiries.

The qualitative measures you mention describe "quality" rather than "productivity" (rate of good output). Both are aspects of performance, but are definitely distinct.

I suspect that the best you can do for productivity is kind of a halfway house, where - as part of their feedback - a more senior developer indicates whether the rate of implementation met/exceeded/fell below expectations.
That's the point.

Spending time teaching people to use people of color instead of black is just performant. Actually firing a recruiter that immediately throws any black resume into the trash is real change.
I can't stop my wife from cleaning everything we put in recycling. Not just a rinse-off, but completely and immaculately cleaning them. Sometimes in the dishwasher. I think the net environmental benefit of our recycling may be below zero.
could chess be considered a choice-based game?
Is there a reason Proxmox wouldn't work for many of them?
Not exactly. The article doesn't try to draw a causative link between Christianity in particular to "wokeness".
So long as the Turkish and Kurdish nationalists are at odds, an independent Kurdish state is nonviable without foreign backing from the US to keep the Turks out.

There's a decent chance that they'd be better off working with HTS to carve out some concessions about their position within a consolidated Syrian state than relying on continued foreign support, especially seeing how things went last "T" was in office.
Indeed, it's an interesting rabbit hole!

I liked the part where they were looking for someone to manufacture the handles, and the Japanese machinist said "If he could make it, I can make it!".

Indeed, having gone down the rabbit hole of machining (both to see if it would be a viable hobby and if it could even be a career), this was the attitude of the shop teacher: "if you can think it, you can probably make it". I am far more surprised that neither the American nor the Taiwanese manufacturers said this. Then again, perhaps it was because management didn't talk to the guys who made things!

(Now that I think of it, had they done that, perhaps they would have gotten the answer "We can do it, but the fins will wear down the tool too fast, at least until we can figure out a better material for the tools!" instead of "Nope, we can't do that!")
I was raised with an allergy to this stuff. Now I eat it for breakfast and observe its birefringence between two polarizers.
That's a great example of the insincerity of the PG article. I mean, I can believe there are people that don't pay very much attention to Twitter who genuinely believe that Elon Musk is the sort of free speech absolutist he says he is, but someone who was suspended and then left Twitter because a new Elon censorship policy praising Elon for not censoring anyone is quite funny.
> we are starting to see hiring pick up again

There is a different picture. You are now seeing the same jobs but this time it has a reduced salary + equity and fewer openings. It is not the same as before 2020.

For every tech role open, it will be ultra competitive to the point where companies may start hiring olympians for the job that match the so-called "exceptional talent".

The truth is, it will get worse before it gets any better.
I do not wish for taxpayer dollars to fund private school (religious or otherwise) or homeschooling. One of the things I love most about this country is that America is a civic nation. This country is built on shared civic ideals, values, and vision. This country is not built on a specific racial, ethnic, or religious identity like many, many old-world Eurasian nations.
Thanks! Missio uses an LLM to handle tasks from plain English prompts. No need for workflows like Zapier—just tell it what to do, and it handles the API calls for you.
The whole debate about whether or not he can realistically do this based on the state of the technology seems like a side issue to me. What really stands out is that he and CEOs like him would imply that a large, critical segment of their work force is not especially valuable to them, and also that they don't really see them as people. Rather, they are things that can be set aside as soon as they aren't needed.

These business owners aren't going to see us as people until we force them to. Unionize and strike.
New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill
> It's very strange that they talk about replacing the developers with AI but somehow still sell software. Something doesn't add up.

There's a simple answer. This is the "replacement" fallacy that is all too common when hypothesizing the impact of tooling. Tooling increases the productivity of workers. This "replaces" workers in that you will need fewer of them to do the same job, but can't replace all of them because zero times anything is zero.

If you have 10 people shoveling, you can replace 9 workers of them with a backhoe. But a backhoe can't replace all 10 workers.
If you look at the ads for microcomputer software, there were a lot of business-related stuff, i.e. AR, AP, etc. Stuff that a kid in public school had no idea what those acronyms meant.

If you're writing business software, you'll need to support decimals for currency-related calculations. Tax and interest rates also require decimal values. So floating point helped a lot.

When the 8-bit microcomputers went mainstream, (Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80), graphics got more popular - sin(), cos(), and other trig functions are popular and their return values are never normally expressed as integer values.

Sure, most would never write a fast arcade-like game in BASIC, but as a code trial playground, turnaround time was relatively quick.
>Following this logic, the Emancipation Proclamation was "problematic" because the "correct" thing to do is free slaves quietly via the underground railroad, as we wouldn't want to get slave owners in trouble.

Present-day racism and slavery are in completely different neighborhoods of magnitude; to the extent that the comparison borders on false equivalency.

>...the new moderation changes allow statements like "Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit."

If a platform is attempting to operate within the ethos/spirit of free speech, you 'should' be allowed to make such statements on the platform. The root of the argument is the disagreement on whether and where one should be "allowed" to say those things.

Saying it's problematic is not a trump card (no pun intended). If you can demonstrate how allowing people to say offensive/harmful things (excluding established limits on free speech regarding safety) is inconsistent with free speech, then you're adding something to the discussion. Anything else is likely a disagreement on utility of free speech vs. civility; a place where folks can agree to disagree.
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He does not allow the use of the word cisgender, in any context, for one
It will be better because Bluesky gives users control of the algo & moderation via the open ATProto(col). We get choice and competition without the switching cost (after you move over to ATProto)
>I for one put all the words back when people swap them out

This is the silliest, pettiest, snowflakiest thing I've seen in a while.

"Words can't hurt you" say people who are so upset that languages change through various means (yes even intentional! Ask the French) that they go out of their way to edit other people's content to say what they would rather it say.

It's really funny to decry 1984 Ingsoc as you actively rewrite your individual view of reality to conform to your sensibilities, as if that isn't exactly the same ideology.
You're right. It's really lazy to use the term at this point as there isn't a shared meaning assigned to it. It's mostly used as a pejorative by the right at this point, but it's original meaning was very different and indicated a positive attribute. Whenever I'm in a conversation with someone who uses the word, I stop them and ask them to define what they're talking about. Usually they end up with something vague that boils down to "stuff I don't like".
> Guess who had budgets, hiring powers, went to leadership offsites?

To be clear, those are strategic decisions "what are our goals and how do we allocate resources to achieve them". Tactical decisions are "what specific actions do we take to use available resources to achieve goals".
I hope Patrick Spence will eventually share his thoughts around the fall of Sonos and the unexplained UX update.
I'm reminded of the github issue opened by a machine, commented on by a machine, LGTM'd by a machine, and merged by a machine.

With self-congratulatory post-merge success gif post by a machine.
At the very least there should be the right to unlock and use a device after it loses support. A whole ecosystem of software could exist (and does in some cases) to help support or repurpose old devices. If the hardware is still good for something, let it be used! I'm still using my MacBook Pro 2013 and it is fine. I worry I will not be able to do this with Apple's newer laptops. In addition, I want to be able to use my Sonos hardware after Sonos inevitably discontinues support. More realistically I'll eventually have to stop using my Sonos speaker, and realizing this I will never buy another Sonos product.
autistic value? Trains? I see what you did there?
Maybe a better way to put it is that rich people have options. Of course if it's cheap for someone to offload the risk, they will. But if an insurer raises prices too much a people who can self insure will walk. Most people don't have that option so we continue to get squeezed with higher premiums and worse service.
There's also a great deal of sanctimony attached in many cases, which is the thing people hate the most in my experience.

It reminds me of when I was getting breakfast with my wife one day, and there was a guy who had just come from some kind of feminist protest. He was wearing a shirt that said (paraphrasing) that the only two reasons to not call yourself a feminist are that you are unaware it just means "treat women like people", or that you're an asshole. He seemed genuinely unaware that the sanctimonious hostility his shirt expressed is a huge reason why people don't call themselves feminists.

"Woke" is like that. I'm quite certain that there are a lot of good people who really do just want to respect everyone. However, there are also a lot of petty jerks who are using an ostensibly good cause to bully people. Unfortunately for the former people, the latter people taint the movement and make it unattractive to those outside it.
This is where wokeism falls apart as an ideology: It is outcome driven instead of opportunity driven. Equality becomes the goal regardless of motivation, ambition or merit. Why would the best, or more broadly anyone better than average, participate in such a society? What's their incentive?

When you define woke this way, you ultimately admit that wokeism is just a veneer of identity politics layered over good old-fashioned communism. The problem with communism is that it sounds great, but doesn't work. How many times must it fail before people realize that?
Musk literally supports the far right in elections all over the world. In the past few days he intervened in Germany in favor of the far right candidate. See https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/01/10/musk-dou...
My point is that "cannot say" is pure hyperbole. Your freedom to say whatever you want is not impinged, and my equivalent freedom to shun you based on what you say is similarly unimpinged.

Usually when people complain about what you "can't say", what they actually mean is they can't say whatever they like and still have people still employ / socialise / be nice to them.

Expressing opinions that others find disagreeable is not a protected class.
> Basically nobody on the left talks about “woke” except for perhaps a period of six months back in 2017.

Can't really agree. Especially in the wake of the 2024 election, there's been quite a bit of discussion about wokeness on the left.

The trouble is that many people have decided that if you discuss "wokeness" and especially if you have a problem with some element of it, that means you're no longer on "the left".

Personally, I think the issue is mostly about behavior, and not specific ideas. "Let's all make an effort to move culture in a better direction" became "If you don't wholly endorse these specific changes we've decided are necessary, that makes you a bigot, you're not a true progressive, etc.".

When a lot of this was heating up during the pandemic, I encountered two very different kinds of people.

1. Those who generally agreed with efforts to improve the status quo and did what they could to help (started displaying their pronouns, tried to eliminate language that had deeply racist connotations, etc)

2. Those who would actively judge/shame/label you if you weren't 100% up to speed on every hot-button issue and hadn't fully implemented the desired changes

It's that 2nd group that tends to be the target of "anti-woke" sentiment, and that 2nd group tended to be extremely noisy.

> not because there actually exists a problem with wokeness but to try to gain political and social status with their political group

The other issue that I see repeatedly is a group of people insisting that "wokeness" doesn't exist or that there isn't a toxic form of it currently in the culture. I think acknowledging the existence of bad faith actors and "morality police" would do more for advancing the underlying ideas often labeled "woke" than trying to focus on the fakeness of the problem.

Maybe that group is made up of squeaky wheels, but their existence is used to justify the "anti-woke" sentiment that many people push.

For me, this boils down to a tactics issue where people are behaving badly and distracting from real issues - often issues those same people claim to care about.
> By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.
> not having a disdain for them but empathy for them instead

[4] The woke sometimes claim that wokeness is simply treating people with respect. But if it were, that would be the only rule you'd have to remember, and this is comically far from being the case. My younger son likes to imitate voices, and at one point when he was about seven I had to explain which accents it was currently safe to imitate publicly and which not. It took about ten minutes, and I still hadn't covered all the cases.
Lol. I played Oregon Trail as part of curriculum in elementary school in the mid 90s, I guess by then it was already a retro throwback.

EDIT: I played the 1985 version, I didn't know there was a text adventure.
It can even have the opposite effect.
I guess you could call turning your social media site into a toilet, causing anyone with any sense of pride or morality to leave, neutralizing “wokeness”.
That's hilarious. I had a similar situation, also back in the 90s, when a developer shipped some code that kept pegging the CPU on a production server. He insisted it was the server, and the company should spend $$$ on a new one to fix the problem. We went back-and-forth for a while: his code was crap versus the server hardware was inadequate, and I was losing the battle, because I was just a lowly sysadmin, while he was a great software engineer. Also, it was Java code, and back then, Java was kinda new, and everyone thought it could do no wrong. I wasn't a developer at all back then, but I decided to take a quick look at his code. It was basically this:

1. take input from a web form

2. do an expensive database lookup

3. do an expensive network request, wait for response

4. do another expensive network request, wait for response

5. and, of course, another expensive network request, wait for response

6. fuck it, another expensive network request, wait for response

7. a couple more database lookups for customer data

8. store the data in a table

9. store the same data in another table. and, of course, another one.

10. now, check to see if the form was submitted with valid data. if not, repeat all steps above to back-out the data from where it was written.

11. finally, check to see if the customer is a valid/paying customer. if not, once again, repeat all the steps above to back-out the data.

I looked at the logs, and something like 90% of the requests were invalid data from the web form or invalid/non-paying customers (this service was provided only to paying customers).

I was so upset from this dude convincing management that my server was the problem that I sent an email to pretty much everyone that said, basically, "This code sucks. Here's the problem: check for invalid data/customers first.", and I included a snippet from the code. The dude replied-to-all immediately, claiming I didn't know anything about Java code, and I should stay in my lane. Well, throughout the day, other emails started to trickle in, saying, "Yeah, the code is the problem here. Please fit it ASAP." The dude was so upset that he just left, he went completely AWOL, he didn't show up to work for a week or so. We were all worried, like he jumped off a bridge or something. It turned into an HR incident. When he finally returned, he complained to HR that I stabbed him in the back, that he couldn't work with me because I was so rude. I didn't really care; I was a kid. Oh yeah, his nickname became AWOL Wang. LOL
Or just use https://opennebula.io/ based on KVM, still works with vmware if needed. ~20 year old project. It has legs