skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If that word isn't part of his vocabulary, why not? Seems like it should be.

I don't get the comparison. Hard "R" or not makes little difference. You're eligible to be canceled for using either form. So not like PoC/CP.
It's obviously based on a few anecdotes involving a small number of indigenous groups ... perhaps mainly just one! "Cargo cult" should not be taken as a serious term, on the level of "polytheistic religion" or "agrarian society".

Anthropologists who take "cargo cult" seriously have let themselves be trolled by pop culture.
Hell (Haskell Shell): Year in Review
Most of the toothbrushes we've owned in our lives still exist. What is the cost of having them around still? I don't know, but I know it wasn't factored in at all when we bought them.
protonmail . if you pay for a single month it's free forever, I think
> Female students might object if someone said something they considered sexist, but no one was getting reported for it.

It seems that the defining factor is that there was no actual authority attached to the morality of the situation. He is essentially saying that life was better when one could get away with doing whatever they wanted with no repercussions.

This is such a well-travelled path that I am surprised his intellect, nor that of the people that he claims proof-read this document, didn't protest before hitting 'publish'.

Here's a question: how can social justice actually be justice without enforcement. The US constitution coded this as the 13th amendment - is that now a woke document? Is that an example of "radicals getting tenure", or is it example of progress?

Articles like this really don't age well. Neither, it seems, does the author.
Low-cost vortex beam generators could boost 5G/6G networks
I didn't mean to imply that the price for this specific laptop stand is justified. I read the above comment as a small rant about how expensive recycled things are, and wanted to add that sometimes it is for a good reason. Not always, and like others have mentioned, the plastic bag example might not have been the best one.
None of them, lifetime plans are not sustainable and will burn you eventually. Pay monthly or annually if your files are that important.
The people fighting to get through to anti-science Americans
As much as I rail against it, I realize the privileged position I’m in now as a 50 year old, strong experience and a stint at BigTech on my resume.

If I were just starting out in my career, I would be spending whatever time it took to get into BigTech and adjacent companies - yes “grind leetCode and work for a FAANG” (tm r/cscareerquestions) and I would also be learning good software engineering practices and some g framework to be prepared for techno-trivia interviews on my chosen stack.

I guess my point is, there is a huge difference unfortunately between being prepared for a job and being prepared to interview. Contributing to open source doesn’t help the latter.
How corn syrup took over America
I like to follow a statement like that up with: What exactly did you want to say that you can't anymore? Please give some specific examples.

While the sentiment sounds good on paper, in practice it far too often is someone complaining that you can't demand a black men to be lynched if they have a white girlfriend anymore because society has gone all woke.

There are lots of things that aren't 'PC' to say anymore and that doesn't mean society is failing. In fact I would argue that it is just plain old progress, especially when it is accompanied by a number of things that we can now say that used to be taboo.

Out with: "Gay people should be burned at the stake."

In with: "Contraception allows families to decide when to have children."
An interesting article. I learnt a lot

But it reinforced my use of the term.

We see it all the time in technology. Something will solve everything....

The current AI bubble?
Ask HN: In the age of AI innovation what should software engineers focus on?
I'm a software engineer and have embraced using AI to make me more productive. Seeing the fast pace of innovation and improvements of agents and tools leaves me wondering what I should shift my focus to.

Beyond the obvious answer of "learn how to use AI," I'm curious how other people would answer this question.

My own answer: Use AI tools to make the transition from employed software engineer to being able to produce value while transitioning to becoming self-employed.
Prime Minister Starmer plans to make Britain AI 'superpower'
The technology could also be used by oppressive governments to harass dissenters (and anyone else they might target). Essentially modern, high-tech COINTELPRO.
He's just kissing the ring.
I can't count how many times when other people ask me "how can I use this API?", I just send a test case to them. Best example you can give to someone that is never out of sync.
A compiler in the mix is very helpful. That and other sanity checks wielded by a skilled engineer doing code reviews can provide valuable feedback to other developers and to LLMs. The knowledgeable human in the loop makes the coding process and final products so much better. Two LLMs with tool usage capabilities reviewing the code isn't as good today but is available today.

The LLMs overconfidence is based on it spitting out the most-probable tokens based on its training data and your prompt. When LLMs learn real hubris from actual anonymous internet jackholes, we will have made significant progress toward AGI.
> The only answer is not to use social media at all. And more or less that applies to HN too.

That is the only correct answer. To essentially delete all your social media accounts.

If one wants to stop their alcohol addiction for example (Using Facebook, X), is not done by switching the brand of alcohol (Threads, Bluesky).

It is done by stopping altogether (by deleting all your accounts) and only you can do that.
After this:

> hundreds of the brightest minds of modern civilization have been hard at work not curing cancer. Instead, they have been refining techniques for getting you and me to click on banner ads

I was really hoping this would slowly develop into a statistical technique couched in terms of ad optimization but actually settling in on something you might call ATCG testing (e.g. the biostatistics methods that one would indeed use to cure cancer).
Are you accusing the people who fight against Trump's politics and who vote against him to have put him in power? Also, what "leftist economics" are you talking about?

Now this is a ridiculous comment.

It reads just like "antifascists are the new fascists" discourses. It's absurd.
The article missed the biggest opportunity to be curious by avoiding the question: What if they're right?
After many leaks, Switch 2 announcement could come "this week"
Document Your Progress at Work
I think even the people you would call the most woke hate mandatory DEI training. The idea is fine in theory, there's three main parts that seem to be common to them.

* Here's some genres of people you might not have interacted with in your personal life before that you might run into at work, and here's the broad strokes of how each of those groups would describe themselves and some cultural differences you might want to keep in mind.

* Here's a baby's first introduction to intersectionality and some situations where that lens might be relevant at work.

* Stop sexually harassing your coworkers, Jesus people.

But the implementation is unbelievably patronizing and presented with so much "sensitivity" that the overall experience is an hour of what feels like walking on eggshells. It's exhausting.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "positive reinforcement", but I don't think it's possible to disagree more with this sentiment. "building the connections you need to solve it, getting the shame of your life, and losing sleep over your failure" isn't a strategy for teaching for something; it's a coping mechanism for someone trying to brute force their way through something that they weren't adequately trained for.

Most people seem to think it's fine for companies to offload the entirety of the burden of learning to individual employees, and maybe I'm an outlier in this regard, but to me, this seems more like a cop out to avoid trying to actually solve the problem at the cost of the employee's emotional health. I'm not surprised that companies default to this, but it's also not surprising that burnout is so common in our industry when this is considered the "best" or "only" way to do things.
Both of you are attacking pg's character, yet he's done no wrong here.

> These new administrators could often be recognized by the word "inclusion" in their titles. Within institutions this was the preferred euphemism for wokeness; a new list of banned words, for example, would usually be called an "inclusive language guide."

As an LGBT Latino, I feel gross when people step up to "include" me. The "LatinX" thing is just sick, and the fake "pride" bullshit makes me feel unbelievably cheapened. Not all gays or bis are the same. I don't go around screaming "yass qween", listen to Beyonce, or watch Ru Paul. But we're token represented like that. I hate everything about it.

Superficial facets of my "identity" have been commoditized and weaponized. (I'd say "appropriated", but that'd only be the case if this wasn't a complete cartoon representation.)

I've been called a "fag" once in public for kissing a guy. Whatever.

My wife has been called cis-scum (despite the fact she's trans!), I've been made to write software to deny grants to whites and men [1], I've been told I can't recommend people for hire because they weren't "diverse", I've been taught by my company my important "LatinX heritage" and even got some swag for it, I've had a ton of completely irrelevant people make my "identity" into a battle ground, etc. etc etc. I can't count the number of times this surfaces in my life in an abrasive and intrusive way.

I felt more at home in the world before 2010 than in the world today that supposedly "embraces my diversity".

[1] Restaurant Revitalization Fund, look it up.
Scramble

They provides three different Lifetime plans and end-to-end encrypted.
I sadly suspect we’re going to see some risk adverse hiring of boring white dudes in all positions of leadership. Regardless of competence.

We’re already seeing DEI weaponized. Any non white male person in charge of an organization that makes a mistake will be labeled a “DEI Hire” accurately or not. Organizations will be risk adverse and only hire the most boring white dude they can find from central casting. Whatever you want to say about diversity initiatives this will be a pretty terrible outcome.
The Anna Karenina Principle of Scaling Software Systems
Well, it's a fundamental contradiction, for starters. Public domain is public domain, as in out of copyright. You can't have something in the public domain, but still have its use be restricted.
Odd that this site is a “.co.uk” but talks about the US fair use doctrine. The UK does indeed have “fair use” (actually called fair dealing) but this wouldn’t come under it as far as I can tell (IANAL, etc.)
Aren't oil state actually quite generous towards citizen? Either by welfare or by setting up jobs. Or controlling commerce.
Most of the 8-bit BASICs of the time share a common ancestor. Perhaps making every number a floating point was a reasonable decision for the hardware that the common ancestor BASIC was written for and it just got carried over through the generations.
>Only reason is an other chunk of money they charge for it

Developing and adding the nano-texture isn't exactly free. There's also downsides to using the "regular" anti-glare technology that most other displays use, so it's not exactly a clear case of apple intentionally nerfing a product just so they can sell an upgrade for it.
Along with every other country in Eastern Europe, plus long-time NATO members Greece and Turkey. And in the West, there's Iceland, Luxembourg and Portugal.
even though I agree with much of his commentary, the piece that's missing is in the questions: were you principled and brave? how were you an example?

I know what I did, and some of it is in my comment history on this site. but I think the whole episode was a failure of moral courage. sure, it was the woke, but really, it was us. I think anyone feeling more free to speak now needs to reflect on that. Watching Zuck on Rogan was refreshing and hopeful, but that (very Harvard) oblivious affect that blows with the wind is not a foundation on which to rebuild the culture.

there's a very compelling take from the woke, which summarizes as, "you don't get to say mean and dumb shit without a cost anymore, and we're not bearing the costs of your culture that is set up to exclude us." This must be heard, and most criticisms of the totalitarian moment that seized our culture overlook that this argument was the kernel of truth that anchored the system of chaos and lies that followed.

to most of them I would respond, "you othered yourselves and when adults wouldn't listen to you, you organized to terrorize kids about their 'privilege.'" however, for our civilization to survive, there is a social re-integration of a lot of people that needs to be done so that there is an us again, and a sense of our shared protagonism.

I'm glad PG, Andreesen, Zuck, Musk, and others are addressing this stuff. Elon's massive gambit and persistent leadership, and Zuck hiring Dana White for the Meta board are very good starts.

If you want to be a part of rebuilding after this dark period, ask yourself if you had courage when it was hard, and reflect on when you didn't so that you don't fail like that again.
OpenAI Calls on U.S. Government to Feed Its Data into AI Systems
Did you explore this?

https://stripe.com/en-nl/tax

Cost is much higher (80 eur/month) than your target, but a pay-as-you-go option is 0.5% per transaction.
Of course they can tell they're at the centre of an even greater cancel culture mob, the writing of these articles is entirely with fear of avoiding cancellation in mind...
...what is 8 weeks?

A lot of skilled labor to pay. (I wish they had paid it!)
But what _would_ qualify? The point being made is that your definition is so constricting as to be useless. Nothing (sans perhaps true physical limit-conditions, like black-holes) would be a black box under your definition.
This is the greatest weakness of an already weak essay.
Man, we've seen so many replacements for make over the past two decades. Make is gonna be a really, really hard tool to unseat: it's small, it's reliable, it's pretty cross-platform, it solves a narrowly-defined problem well, and it seems like 95% of what people want is a slightly different syntax or interface.

Meanwhile, I am never going to abandon a working tool that does what it says on the tin for something users have to go out of their way to install without a really good reason. .PHONY hasn't bothered me in decades. It's a reasonable hack, imo.

Make hits a really, really sweet spot of addressing a hard problem with a simple, understandable interface. It's not too large, it's not too small, it just does one thing really, really well.
Alternatively, I've found the "Maybe it's a bug. I'll try an make a test case I can report on the mailing list" approach useful at times.

Usually, in the process of reducing my error-generating code down to a simpler case, I find the bug in my logic. I've been fortunate that heisenbugs have been rare.

Once or twice, I have ended up with something to report to the devs. Generally, those were libraries (probably from sourceforge/github) with only a few hundred or less users that did not get a lot of testing.
Search engines are great at rendering content using JavaScript, they're just not able to explore the Zulip web application's URL structure, so they tend to index one page per Zulip installation.

The current solution is that projects that want their publicly available content to be search engine indexed set up https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive, which usually involves hooking a GitHub action up to GitHub Pages for a 0-infrastructure deployment. Ultimately, that's the same model as an IRC indexing project like this one: a separate tool from the chat server is responsible for search engine indexing.

Lean runs one here: https://leanprover-community.github.io/archive/, but it looks like it hasn't updated in a year, so likely whoever in the Lean community needs to investigate why it isn't updating.

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/21881 tracks our goal of making the server natively offer search engine indexing. The current separate archive tool model has some advantages (search engine load can't break the server, for example), but I think it'll be worth doing the native version when we can find the resources for it.

Source: I lead the Zulip project.
My respect for PG and the rest of the leadership of the tech world unfortunately seem to be headed off the same cliff.

The arrogance and lack of empathy is so disappointing and so unnecessary. Please try harder. A lot is at stake here.
He's the co-founder of this website
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Right now, they are not even making their own games exclusive to Windows Store or the XBox App (see MSFS 2024, Age of Empires series, Forza, etc...).
Merely saying that without explaining your reasoning is worthless.
an interesting article on this topic: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/more-christian-th...
Generally the reaction is not to minorities(non-white, is what I am assuming you mean) but to people from outside of a group trying to tell a group what words to use i.e. LatinX.

An aside: If someone who is white is talking to the Spanish speaking community, would they be considered a minority? If so, then the parent premise would hold true.
Taleb is a strong proponent of this as well. Related to the “Lindy Effect”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
When each proud fighter brags
For the record, there are some conservatives on YC that agree with PG.
The Calorie-Restriction Experiment (2009)
It's interesting that pg doesn't connect the type of thinking and indoctrination he sees in wokeness with similar types of thinking and indoctrination we currently see in followers of Trump. Crowds of people holding up "mass deportation now" signs, the governor of Texas ordering flags at full mast for the inauguration in the middle of a period of mourning [1], Republican politicians refusing to say whether or not Trump lost the 2020 election [2], Republican state legislatures trying to minimize mentions of LGBTQ topics in the classroom. Not only is much of it performative, as he complains about in the essay, but it has the feel of religion more than just a political movement. It almost seems like one could rewrite this essay with the focus on Trump instead of wokeness.

This part in particular seems misguided if only because pg fails to recognize that "the next thing" is already here and wearing a red MAGA hat.

> In fact there's an even more ambitious goal: is there a way to prevent any similar outbreak of aggressively performative moralism in the future — not just a third outbreak political correctness, but the next thing like it? Because there will be a next thing.

[1] https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-orders-flags...

[2] https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-still-t-trump-lost-17...
I find this particular notion to be rather weird. I cannot see how it's a "waste" if something's fed to animals instead of humans!
Sounds like JavaScript!
He's smart about startups and tech but as soon as he starts to talk about politics or philosophy he gets very 2 dimensional very quickly.

In much the same way people who build useless startups never talk to any actual customers, Paul Graham wouldnt be seen dead with the types of 1970s black activists from Harlem who actually originated the term "woke" (to refer to e.g. police brutality).

Im sure he knows plenty of the rich, white moral posturers who run large corporations and pride themselves on making a rainbow version of their company's logo for use outside of middle eastern markets, though.
Just had to anthropomorphize machine learning.
"He then received a Master of Science in 1988, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1990, both in computer science from Harvard University."

Anyone with a PhD Comp Sci from Harvard is automatically very smart in my mind, unless by "smart" you mean something else...
The flipslide is trolls will spew out the lies faster than you can rebut them. Much faster. Orders of magnitude faster. The lie is short, pithy, and requires little thought. The truth require context and effort. After a lie has been rebutted several times there is little value in allowing it to be repeated constantly. Eventually the truth tellers get worn down and the lie is allowed to live on in perpetuity, allowing more and more people to believe it over time.
What big leftist economics policies have been enacted in the West recently?
> I can do it because i am morally superior. But other folks can’t because they don’t get it like I do.

I think it’s more of “I can do it because I can afford it. But other folks can’t because they need their job (or something similar).”
I can't say I've seen it with every vendor. Or even internal dev team I've been an internal customer of - but I've seen it around a lot.

You might be lucky in that you've worked at companies where you are a big enough customer they bend over backwards for you. For example: If you work for Wal-Mart, you probably get this less often. They are usually the biggest fish in whatever pond they are swimming in.
The article has a chart that compares the total costs between the two types of walls. There's a column for "capitalized heat loss", which presumably factors in the HVAC costs. The article also specifically says

>The most obvious was cost. A glass and metal curtain wall wasn’t necessarily all that much cheaper than one made of brick in terms of the materials themselves, but it was much thinner and lighter. Its thinness meant that for two equally sized floor plates, the curtain wall framed one would have more rentable square feet than the stone or brick one. This more than made up for the fact that the thin curtain walls had worse insulation and were more expensive to heat and cool than masonry walls.
Average new car cost is $45,000. Liability minimums in many states are still around $50,000. Even if you're insured, there's a good chance you still won't be able to afford to replace the other guy's car.
That was true of most BASIC dialects of that era. Many hard to track down bugs were introduced when programmers didn't understand this and had WATER overwrite WAGON.