skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pg has been pretty consistent in this position for a long time. His worldview is closest to what one could call "classical liberalism":

Free speech, economic liberalism, civil liberties, individual autonomy.

That's a worldview that is pretty idiosyncratic today (sadly).

On some topics he's "left wing" (pro palestine), on others he's "right wing" (anti affirmative action in university admissions).
I find a lot of applied AI use-cases to be "same as this other method, but more expensive".
I agree with this entirely, and I think if you've watched some of his other shows you'll understand why. Some of the most consistently funny, well cast comedy on TV has had him behind it. Kids In The Hall, 30 Rock, A.P. Bio, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, Documentary Now!, Portlandia and so on and so on.

I'm sure he's quite a handful to deal with, but whatever that entails the end result of his presence on a project is that the project is often a good idea and well run. Don't get me wrong, he's had his money grabs and failed concepts, but the sheer number of hits he's involved with boggles the mind. He's willing to put money behind concepts few others even consider.
True, but shared hosting providers (like hostinger) offers basically the same, but for cheaper and no pricing per website, even on cheaper plans you can fit five or more sites in.

Of course, it doesn't matter in the end - as long as users have ability to choose a hosting there will be cheaper and "better" options. Shopyfing wordpress would be worse...
Right but that infrastructure is getting created either way, especially when you have power companies starting regional ISPs!
So if one takes PG seriously, it’s ludicrous for him to unequivocally say “On October 11, 2020 the New York Times announced that "The paper is in the midst of an evolution from the stodgy paper of record into a juicy collection of great narratives.", but then in the footnotes backtrack and say “It's quite possible no senior editor even approved it (the quote in question).”

Making such an absurd claim brings into question everything written on a subject he clearly knows nothing about.
It's not just about the various social classes, but rights of outside groups as well, and the ability to move between those classes. The linked essay has the details.
No it is not. Outside this strange bubble on hacker news, no ine really cares or has ever heard of the creator.

They just use wordpress.
https://archive.ph/j4Oi5
The Hysterical Crypto Bubble Somehow Became Respectable
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683251
Are you sure? He says 'And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice.'
Not sure if I agree with an engineer inherently being better here.

The ideal case is having leadership who uses the product, or at least is willing to walk in the shoes of an end-user. Plenty of engineers do not do this either.
I'll be honest: I think it's pretty funny, and I think matt probably agrees. Also, as others mention, it's much easier/faster then removing the field and column and validation, yes.
I got a bluOS device just as a networked amped for my 25 year old speakers. But honestly its too much of a hassle to switch inputs. The price wasnt too bad, but I basically use it as a dumb amp with digital audio input from the tv. At least the amp fits under my tv.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682773
Nah, try living in the midwest suburbs. Comcast charges me $70 for 75 Mbps.

I would gladly pay a lower price for less speed by they don't offer anything lower.
The great firewall is finally broken
This is the silliest, pettiest, snowflakiest thing I've seen in a while.

Partially agreed. I am silly and petty in response to other people trying to force BDSM on me. They try to force everyone into Domination, Submission and Humiliation so I neuter their pseudo mind-rape and teach others how to do the same.
The Reddit post is here https://old.reddit.com/r/WPDrama/comments/1hlp08d/what_drama...
Like stepping on an icon, no big deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumi-e
Probably means something like: if you eat this donut then I cannot eat it, ergo your freedom and my freedom are at odds.
Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.'S Fires
Cool real life use Case.
Don't think lmms usually get applied reasonably where they should be and I am glad that a generic knn model also was used to simplify costs and also just more suitable.
I had the same reaction, all the other parts of the parent comment sound bad but switching to mDNS seems like the one that should have been an improvement or at least neutral...
I also thought first about the 2CV in Le Corniaud (1965) :)

I had no idea that explosives were involved!
Did you read what you wrote or was it a stream-of-consciousness thing?

Because you wrote:

> This will increase costs for ISPs and likely increase prices for others.

It will not increase costs.

Which is what I wrote.
I think there is a deep seated concern that this could exacerbate the problem if poor people white people are able to take advantage of that help to a greater degree than poor black people.
I don't know if it's "patently absurd" given that it's a well-known C.J. Date take on NULLs in SQL. You may disagree with him on this - I do - but the very fact that the father of relational algebra has this take should be sufficient evidence that it's not a trivial question to be dismissed without consideration.
Interestingly, even in music schools there is a kind of snobbery from composers that performers are lesser musicians

That is, if you are world class pianist and tour the world playing classical music, you are still lesser than a composer who creates their own works. Is an actor not an artist because they didn’t write the lines and aren’t directing the scene?

Interpretation is art. Performing is art. That includes DJing at some level, because at the end of the day we are all using the medium of music to express ourselves and bring that experience to others, regardless of who wrote the notes on the page or put the track on vinyl
Given the state of comedy on SNL, I’m not sure that’s a mantle I’d want to claim.
If anyone complains about "woke" or "DEI" it is safe to assume they're a racist, just as with paulg.

See, the thing is, @paulg does understand that there is a difference between "prigness" as he put it and the original term of "woke" which in no way means political correctness or some culture war term. Matter of fact, the only people I see use it are racists, as a dogwhistle. outside of rare "liberal arts" academics on twitter, you don't see anyone use the term "woke" to mean politically correct or anti-racism. Woke was a term black people used to to mean raising awareness to a racially complicated past, as in being "awoke", and even then it is academics not every day people that used the term.

It has been hijacked as a dogwhistle, with the purpose of propagating racist agenda.

Same with "DEI", you all know why tech CEO's are rolling it back right? they all were summoned by trump who instructed them to roll it back. and he did that because he and his backers have a racist agenda. of course "DEI" is performative b.s. to the most part, but it did help raise awareness to racial issues in the work place. It forced saying the quite part aloud. Racists also hijacked the term to essentially mean the "n-word". I recall with the crowdstrike outage, racists were using it very obviously to attack minorities as the cause (although that is a view divorced from reality in that case).

Whether it comes to "return to office" or now this, I keep meaning to afford @paulg the benefit of doubt. Perhaps he is just that disconnected from the non-rich world? but he and his ilk are too smart, and I otherwise respect them and their acheivements too much for them to be so ignorant.

This is @paulg jumping on the bandwagon and kissing trump's ring. Perhaps he is not a racist at heart, but he certainly is a racist by action, and action is all that matters.

Dear tech CEO's: May your cowardice never be forgotten and may you be crushed along with trump and share in his downfall as you have decided to lie in his bed. You lie with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

Understand that the only scenario where the world forgets your cowardice is if trump/gop succeed in installing a dictator that will rule America for decades.

HN: I'm disappointed in all of you on staying silent or afraid to speak up to these people. Who are we without principles? These CEOs and founders are nothing without your support. They need you, not the other way around.
i got several "nice" sonos speaker for free, tried to stream to them via bluetooth, learned i couldn't, then promptly gave them away. what a garbage experience
Sounds nice and virtuous... until you remember there exist gangs of homeless people who mug law-abiding citizens, retreat into the structures that you want defended from demolishing, and cry victim when people want to stop their crimes. Not to mention they use the said structures as a hub to distribute drugs to the local community of teenagers.

You see, the problem with every such discussion is the lack of nuance and the willingness to demonize e.g. parents who want their kids to be safe in their neighborhoods.

What you call lack of empathy for the homeless is, in some instances, the concern and actions of the said parents.

So do these parents truly lack empathy, how do you think? Or they say "no matter what hand life dealt you, please just stay away from my kids"?

What's your opinion?
Academically, at least, yes. One of the latest versions of this kind of idea I am aware of is https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08620, although at more than a year old, this work might be out of date. I am sure there is ongoing work commercializing these kind of approaches, but I don't know of any in particular.
My reddit account was permanently banned for _upvoting_ vaccine hesitancy.
Woke in is when you don't play there games. Don't wanna join them beating up whoever is at the wrong end of the stick ? Woke.

See a observed phenomena as a result of complex socioeconomic circumstances instead of making a deliriously stupid absolute statements? Woke.

Defend a person that is weaker than you , has a different gender or skin color? Woke.

They are fucking bullies and if you are simple a decent, considerate person your behavior points that out . And like all bullies they hate that.
Odd that you would say "only Suspend to RAM", because that is far more difficult to reliably implement in terms of hardware compatibility than Suspend to Disk.
Essentially yes, that's correct. Your mistake is thinking that the outcome of those months of work is being able to kinda-probably fix one single bug. No: the point of all that effort is to truly fix all the bugs of that kind (or as close to "all" as is feasible), and to stop writing them in the first place.

The alternative is paradropping into an unknown system with a weird bug, messing randomly with things you don't understand until the tests turn green, and then submitting a PR and hoping you didn't just make everything even worse. It's never really knowing whether your system actually works or not. While I understand that is sometimes how it goes, doing that regularly is my nightmare.

P.S. if the manual of a library you're using is 700 pages, you're probably using the wrong library.
I don't think you can do anything serious locally.

IMO, the best option is hosting a VS Code server [0] on a linux box and using Tailscale to connect to it via the browser. At that point you have a real compute environment and a pretty usable IDE.

But the screen and keyboard were too small so I gave it up.

[0] https://github.com/coder/code-server
For most cities, the first few loads often have enough profit to cover like 10-15% of the build costs, with the first year usually covering 25-35% of the build costs. After two years or so, with no other expansion, cargo trade will be dramatically reduced and the bulk the cargo will be passenger/mail cargo, but so long as you don't allow empty shipments, the line should remain profitable.

The fun comes from trying expand as fast as possible. But it's pretty difficult to actually fail.
London Underground destroys all other transit on the planet when it comes to noise, and ironically, it's not even the trains themselves, it's the effing speakers

MIND THE GAP

louder than an Iron Maiden concert, it's unbearable and unnecessary, no idea why they don't turn that shit down
The combination of must use an app, the app mostly doesn't work, the speaker needs factory reset frequently makes it a paperweight on the way towards electronics recycling.

Firing the CEO seems good but insufficient. Liquidate the company, use the assets to try to offset the environmental damage done by the mass manufacture of e-waste. Or I suppose fix the software stack to bring the speakers back to usefulness, perhaps by throwing away everything done for the last few years in reset --hard fashion.
>If a debacle on this scale is surprising today...

I used to think of American passenger train travel as this romantic affair until being similarly stranded in an Amtrak the Cascade's for 24 hours with no cell or heat back in 2019 (thankfully no carbon monoxide poisoning either.)[1]

Now I say leave the rails to freight. 500tmpg is a pretty good multiple over sending things via truck and about 14x more efficient than sending the same weight in passengers. Despite common ignorance, our freight rail is the best in the world.

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2019/02/am...
> Ultimately it comes down to force. The person with the pointiest sticks will likely be able to enforce their view about ownership over others.

This is a common but simplistic view that ignored e.g. concerns about popular legitimacy and support that often lead to the downfall of strongman regimes. Many people think they can enforce their views of ownership over others, but find that it's not quite that simple when they try to put it into practice. That's why I mentioned the social contract.
I spent truckloads of money on home theater and audio systems and have been quite happy with my Sonos.

I have the Sub, The original big play bar and some 1s and I have a record player that plays to sonos and then upstairs I have an Arc.

I've probably got 10 years on this system now and couldn't be happier. I remember having to replace my receivers 2-3 times in a 10 year time frame from failed circuits to needing HDMI to needing a newer HDMI and all that jazz.

My play bar has just been optical out from the TV and it's supported 5.1 audio realy well.

I use the spotify play direct. I'm not a huge fan of the newer app and I wasn't impressed with them EOL'ing products.

With that said, it's been wife and kid approved. Everyone in the house knows how to use it and its been problem free. No wires for my cat to chew on.
No reasonable developer, given the requirement “remove this checkbox as required by a court order”, would respond by changing it to “I love pineapple on pizza”. There are so many other things that could be possibly done instead: just remove it, hide it with CSS, change it to a “<input type=hidden />”, or change the text to “please check the box” if it was really so hard to remove. I can’t imagine any lone developer or product manager being so petty that they would risk their job to spite a court order. The checkbox is only there because someone higher up wants it to be there.
For real. In my area, you can choose between xfinity or comcast and if you don't like those hope you enjoy satellite for way too much money and awful latency.

Spoiler for the uninformed: Xfinity and Comcast are the same entity.
I can't tell if this comment is serious
Those dynasties - problematic as they inherently are - have survived presidencies in both parties over the decades. I would argue its destruction and I'm pretty sure folks like Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham when they think no one is listening, would agree. They've bent so far and so deeply to stay afloat.
It'd almost certainly fail, because for many people (who haven't researched much) they consider "Medicare" the same as "crappy healthcare".

You're much better off boiling the frog by expanding the availability of medicare through various means until almost everyone has it as an option even if they're not using it.
Putting me on the list by my full name was unexpected and unwelcome. I immediately wanted to delete the account.

Not providing an option to delete the account was another unwelcome surprise.

I added a goal but it doesn't show up in the "Manage goals" tab.

Navigation is broken on mobile (Chrome, Android), it overflows its container.

The leader board failed to load at least once.

The idea to use full name is a good one as it provides extra accountability, but you should ask for permission to do it. You should also explain, that using full name increases the chances of success.

Please remove my account. I wanted to provide feedback, but I'm not otherwise interested in goal tracking.
Also there's the "The Princess Bride: Home Movie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s1yU3nGkQ

Note that this isn't really a fan-remake as it's professional actors but with the spliced scenes but it's pretty entertaining.
“Bro” but you did.

The federal government censored speech it didn’t like by PAYING social media to delete it. In many instances it was content that was objectively true.

Public schools are right now telling children in kindergarten they can choose their own gender. They cannot.

The federal government wanted to implement policies to require administration of an experimental gene therapy, that didn’t even work and was never even tested for protection against transmission, and many many people were forced in to taking it if they wanted to keep their job.

I’ve voted for left progressive candidates for 20 years but I can’t vote for this shit any more and judging by the recent election neither can over half of America. Have fun crying about trump for the next four years.
basically every billion or trillion dollar company the started as a startup has rewritten their entire platform
I assume that you are referring to the liberal use of “goto”. Of course, “if”, “while”, and even “switch” are also used. Quite the mix.

Directly calling into system calls (“write”) is interesting.
Better to spend $100 in op-ex money than spend $1 in cap-ex money reading a journal paper, especially if it lets you tell investors "AI." :p
New Training Technique for Highly Efficient AI Methods
> by calling out the moral failures of others to make themselves feel more virtuous.

Isn't it impossible to determine the internal motivations of others? And even if they were doing it to make themselves feel more virtuous they can still be turn out to be right on the issue, can't they? Or it's possible that there's a combination of both moral outrage and ending up feeling virtuous.
I don't think it's a symptom of a mental breakdown. I think it's a symptom of highly successful tech people who, over time, get more enclosed by a "yes-men" bubble and start to think their shit don't stink so much that they then actually start to lose touch with what most of us call "reality". You might call that "a mental breakdown", I call that being an asshole.

Over the past 5 years or so, I've start becoming numb to all of the tech leaders who I used to hold in high regard who I now think are just the boring epitome of self-involved douchebags, e.g. Musk and Andreesen, for example. It just looks like garden-variety power intoxication to me.
I thought it was more pro woke than anti pg, still I was surprised.
The point is, you're not the one deciding the split. You don't think the majority of the revenue goes to you over the ride share company, do you?
> And what happens when ISPs can charge whatever they want - again a natural monopoly - should the subsidies increase,

You're making an assumption here. It worked fine when we did it for healthcare.

/s
> Well... this is sort-of my point! For example, what's the fundamental difference between allocating memory in some heap[1] structure at runtime and a compiler allocating members in a struct/record/class for optimal packing?

There are many fundamental differences! For example at compile time you can't know what the address of some data will be at runtime due to stuff like ASLR, nor can you know the actual `malloc` implementation that will be used since that might be dynamically loaded.

Of course this does not prevent you from trying to fake heap allocations at comptime, but this will have various issues or limitations depending on how you fake them.
Why would a salesperson rubber stamp product decisions? Even if yes, there are other roles that approved the changes.
Good many then these stupid bot will leave my server alone always looking for wp-config FML.
Really depends where in CA. I'm in SF and pay ~$50 for 300Mbps (Comcast), but my parents across the Bay get symmetrical 10Gbps (Sonic) for the same price!
Im not sure why you think this is a "progressive" take that's the mainstream view of the center right Christian Democratic party of Germany.
There's a lot of it about, mate. The other day I had an American tell me with a straight face that we can get jail time for flying a Union Flag here in Blighty - I guess there's a big industry for convincing people that everywhere else is a hellhole over there.
There is Ghost at least: https://ghost.org/ https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

However, it has recently shifted to more limited audience. (payed subscription-based content with different tiers)
Tech support for niche issues is pretty good there.
the baggage is the selling point. there's so many other ways to build a website that aren't wordpress and replicate the core functionality, the reason it sticks around is the huge legacy of plugins written in php that can't be easily replicated.
"Easy to implement" is a good reason to use bubble sort too.

In a normal universe, you just import a different library, so both are the same amount of work to implement.

Multiarmed bandit seems theoretically pretty, but it's rarely worth it. The complexity isn't the numerical algorithm but state management.

* Most AB tests can be as simple as a client-side random() and a log file.

* Multiarmed bandit means you need an immediate feedback loop, which involves things like adding database columns, worrying about performance (since each render requires another database read), etc. Keep in mind the database needs to now store AB test outcomes and use those for decision-making, and computing those is sometimes nontrivial (if it's anything beyond a click-through).

* Long-term outcomes matter more than short-term. "Did we retain a customer" is more important than "did we close one sale."

In most systems, the benefits aren't worth the complexity. Multiple AB tests also add testing complexity. You want to test three layouts? And three user flows? Now, you have nine cases which need to be tested. Add two color schemes? 18 cases. Add 3 font options? 54 cases. The exponential growth in testing is not fun. Fire-and-forget seems great, but in practice, it's fire-and-maintain-exponential complexity.

And those conversion differences are usually small enough that being on the wrong side of a single AB test isn't expensive.

Run the test. Analyze the data. Pick the outcome. Kill the other code path. Perhaps re-analyze the data a year later with different, longer-term metrics. Repeat. That's the right level of complexity most of the time.

If you step up to multiarm, importing a different library ain't bad.
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