skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it amazing it's been on for 50 years.

It's one of those shows that's really never good, if you're lucky there's two decent skits a night. Once in a while you get a one that goes for a while, and spawns off a mediocre movie.

I know the thing to do is say "oh it was good when x and y were still on there", but going back and re-watching episodes with my favorites, they are still full of duds.

Sure, there are a handful of classic skits and characters but I just don't see how it lasted this long. Is it the timeslot? Is it incredibly cheap to produce? Is it just a tool for NBC to push whichever stars have a new movie or what not out?
You all understand that this is to appease MAGA/trump right?

So what? well, are you not terrified? if they preemptively are going to such lengths to appease the racist MAGA crowd, are you not afraid of what they will do with all the data they collect and with the amount of dependency we have on tech?

Please be afraid. IDK, maybe watch star wars or something, the piece about how fear leads to anger, then hatred then violence should make you afraid. Have you ever seen CEOs an tech leaders line up to brown-nose a president before? what happens when he asks them to do even worse?
Tech workers may not have job stability (but compare to say, farm workers), but it’s a pretty tough argument to say that they don’t have high salaries. Even for the highly educated like civil engineers and librarians, tech workers out earn most of them.

Unionizing tech workers may or may not be a good idea, but finances would be comparatively down the list.
This is a very interesting take, and I am going to largely agree with you here. It really looks like this may be what is going on. This is really a symptom of a much larger phenomenon, in that a society that values material wealth , and only acknowledges a material reality without realising or recognising the metaphysical reality.
> Michaels compares the show to a Snickers bar: people expect a certain amount of peanuts, a certain amount of caramel, and a certain amount of chocolate.

Sketch comedy is broad by necessity. There isn't much time to set the scene, so characters have to be easily-digestible. The SNL formula is something like:

- a race sketch

- an office power dynamics sketch

- a "couple learning about each other" sketch

- and one off-the-wall absurd sketch

I think it lost its way a few years ago, best shown by Bowen Yang's haughty affectations. Comedy works when the performers are victims of fate, underdogs trying to flip the script. If you're above it all to begin with, there's no room for the funny.
EU stonewalls criticism after hiding von der Leyen's week-long hospitalization
Some attributes I don't like in people:

- Nit picking/pedantic thinking.

- Snitching.

- Keeping score/counting favors.

- Blaming.

- Attacking ad-hominem.

- Latching onto words instead of principles.
I came in here to see if this had been posted already. deBoer does a much better job at talking about it in a comparatively neutral way. He only adds his two cents at the very end.

Another good one that gets it even closer is from Sam Kriss. His prose is a bit less to the point than deBoer, but he outlines his idea that "wokeness" is not a political ideology but rather an etiquette. I think it's paywalled now but the archived version can be read:https://web.archive.org/web/20230324050437/https://samkriss....

It's a good writeup that doesn't require the reader to have taken a stance or agree with the author's (arguably reactionary in the case of PG's post, depending on one's perspective) politics.
+1

See my comment as well. The evidence PG uses to support his claim the New York Times has done this massive ideological shift is completely undone in his ninth footnote, that says the throw-away line in the article might not have even been reviewed by a senior editor. Yet PG still has gall to state it as fact.
exactly - and this is why YouTube clips of each skit exist
The difference in resource consumption is huge.
It's quite a bit more inclusive than that [1] and IQT is just a small piece of it. There are endless programs coming out of Stanford SRI and Harvard that get tested by the public and have dual use civilian and DoD.

[1] - https://www.iqt.org/portfolio#full-portfolio
An amp will wake on hdmi (arc) input, but it won't wake on spdif. Unless you figured out something clever you still have to mess with multiple remotes and turn devices on/off individually.
> I grew up in the 90s and the PC culture then was Christianity.

I read the entire article hoping it would acknowledge that the rightwing moral majority invented, or at least popularized, much of the behavior the article decries. For example, I went in expecting it to touch on the rights version of newspeak and cancel culture (see Freedom Fries and the Dixie Chicks for memorable examples).

It was strangely silent in that regard.
Review of the ReMarkable Paper Pro
Pete knew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BgvxLd7G0Y
Were the students forced to participate though, or was it voluntary?
And D goes from cursor to end of line instead of the whole line. Wasn't sure how complicated I wanted the description to be.
> because of right of way issues

Also, before someone says "that's only for cables", I'd point out that useful electromagnetic-spectrum bands and orbital-paths are finite collective resources as well.
> Personally, I think the issue is mostly about behavior, and not specific ideas

No, it really is about specific ideas. I’ll discuss four:

1) Many on the left believe that non-whites are a cohesive political coalition with common cause and shared interests. This goes back to the 1990s with the “rainbow coalition.” A lot of the way the left talks to minorities, and various things like affinity groups arise out of this idea that non-whites will bring about left-liberal changes to society. Also the antagonistic way many on the left talk about whites. But most non-whites don’t think of themselves that way, as we saw in the election.

2) Because of (1), many in the left believe in permissive approaches to policing and immigration because of the disproportionate effects of those policies on black and Hispanic people. But the public wants more policing and less immigration, including black and Hispanic people.

3) Many on the left believe in treating people of different races different to remedy past race-based harms. But the public doesn’t like this—even California voted overwhelmingly against repealing the state ban on affirmative action.

4) Related to the above, there’s a general belief on the left that, in any given issue, policy should cater to the “most marginalized.” When confronted with the burdens to the average person, their reaction is to either (a) deny such costs and accuse the other part of various “isms” and “phobias,” or (b) assert that the average person must bear the cost.
Röhm was actually known to the public to be gay for some of the time that he was in power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6hm_scandal He wasn't quite 'openly gay' in the modern sense, but he didn't really put up much of a pretense.
The stand is crap as the wrists are placed on a serrated looking rim of a stand. As soon as anyone puts their hands on it wrong way it is a goner. And the price is in line with Versace.
Please take your meds or seek immediate professional help, Matt.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9t... (1963 Syrian coup)
Conservatives will readily confound moral outrage with virtue signaling in order to neutralize it.
"right-wing media misleadingly blame forest mismanagement" and "Critics blast DEI, Dems, bad forestry, eco-activists for L.A. fires but never mention climate crisis" is "basically called a trumpista"?

Okay, whatever.
Location based price discrimination has it's own affectionate nickname here, the 'Australia tax'.

When I travel it is often cheaper (hundreds of dollar cheaper, even after currency conversion) to book parts of a trip from a UK or US based device, than from an Australian one, directly through the airline or hotels website. Same for digital goods -even for services that do not have a business or support presence locally ie no local overheads, we still get charged a premium.
Did you pet you cpus at the end and say something like, “you had a good run boys but we best be putting you out to pasture.”
Probably not as humorous as this: https://i.redd.it/000igemozcl61.jpg

The Berlin Wall was officially called the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart". Russia claims they are fighting in Ukraine to denazify their regime. North Korea is called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

A bit naive to take these self-appointed labels at face value.
3D-printed microscope in <3 hours – costs $60, lenses, camera, and Raspberry Pi
Full paper at https://opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext.cfm?uri=boe-15-4-2224&id...
Imagine that the 2028 Democratic presidential candidate for some reason consistently uses the term "colored people".

We all know what's going to happen. The underlying history and culture would change within the span of 24 hours, and suddenly "colored people" would loose it's racist connotations.

Awareness of history and culture won't help you understand language rules. Instead, to avoid saying something racist, one must be keenly aware of political expediency.
Perfectly reasonable as long as you maintain the mantra "Is this actually a widespread social problem, or is it people being shitty on the Internet?"
made from many sheets of recycled paper! agree that the description is a stretch.
How Do We Democratize Scientific Research?
Being anti-censorship is one thing that should, taken in isolation, have nothing to do with your object-level views. But in practice, those claims tend to correlate with very specific views, and they're applied hypocritically. Elon is the most high-profile recent example - I think it's hard to argue at this point that he had any principled anti-censorship views, given his behavior since taking over Twitter - but he's far from the only one.

You won't see PG writing an article on how homeless people in SF should be more pro-breaking-the-rules. Because it's OK to steal from your users, to inflate your growth numbers, to make false promises to build your initial userbase, but it's not OK not to shoplift from the Safeway or do drugs on the BART. That's the kind of breaking the rules that isn't cool, edgy, smart, and most importantly high status and beneficial to Paul Graham. Don't you think that double standard is a bit suspect, that he's "pro-breaking-the-rules" exactly when the rules restrain him and not others, when it's the rules he thinks are stupid and not the rules someone else thinks are stupid?

You won't see PG writing an article about how it's bad to deny a 15 year old medical information on puberty blockers. That is, undeniably, censorship in its very simplest form: it's the suppression of information out of a belief that it is in some way dangerous to let people know about it. But most of the people who claim to be so concerned with censorship won't say a word against it, and a lot actively support it, because it stops being "censorship" when it's something they like.

And, of course, the idea that the anti-woke crowd is "anti-authoritarian" is kind of laughable right now, given their response to the incoming administration.

The change isn't that his (or other tech elites') ostensible values have changed. It's that their ostensible values have become increasingly transparently hypocritical. PG hasn't become less of a hacker: it's "hacker culture" itself, especially as represented and hijacked by venture capital, that is not what we (or at least what I) hoped it was.

Rule breaking for me, and not for thee sums up my objection, I suppose.
wokeness is more or less southern Baptist fire and brimstone Christianity for posh urban white people. For western minorities it functions as a kind of nationalism
Nice, I checked out some screenshots, still looks very compelling :) Nothing wrong with flat/emission/background/basic/straight color shading, a concept for which I've heard a thousand terms now.
Don't forget:

- sketch with some animals (usually dogs or cats, they're cute)

- sketch with some fluid sprayed over a cast member
Kind of hard to search for because the titles are all over the place, but here are some of the past book discussions I've found that had a lot of comments and good suggestions and discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929112

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29498220

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306651
Here in Lithuania it's mostly due to customer demand - customers want for open source systems that could be easily modified, would work "just like the old site did", finding developers would be cheap/easy and if launching and hosting site is cheap too, it's all the better.

When you write down all the demands, there aren't much options left. Drupal and Opencart are used, but WordPress is used for 90% of the sites mostly due to demand/requirements.
This is a significantly less good piece of writing than many of his older essays. It can be as simple as that.
> although obviously I still had to go through the interview process

So they did not exactly offer you a job, did they? Say you had applied spontaneously without this first contact, would it have been different?

I have had multiple people tell me that they got "recruited" by a FAANG. And when I ask details, what happened is more that some recruiter "convinced" them to apply and go through the interview process. So they did not really get offered a job: they applied and went through the process. I get a ton of messages on LinkedIn from all sorts of recruiters...

> And my blog definitely helped me land my past and current jobs

Was it because the companies discovered you through your blog? Or did you apply and put your blog on your resume as a portfolio?

My point is: I think that a blog is part of your portfolio, and I agree it may help when applying for a job. But I don't believe in "building a personal brand" such that a company magically offers you a job.
The contention you are trying to challenge is that Twitter amplified right wing posts more than left wing posts in the pre-Musk days.

Your link fails to support you. It is mostly just examples of alleged Twitter censorship, mostly of right wing-ish stuff. This has a couple of problems.

First, the claim was about what Twitter amplified, not what it censored. It is quite possible to both amplify a given type of post more and censor that type of post more. It is possible that censorship might inversely correlate with amplification so that one can be used as an inverse proxy for the other, but that would require research because it is also possible they correlate rather than inverse correlate. Something amplified draws more readers, which could increase the likelihood that someone will notice any violations of the rules and report it.

Second, even if we make the assumption of an inverse correlation between censorship and amplification to see how left and right amplification compares we would need to know how they picked which incidents to write stories about.

Reclaim the Net does not provide any information on who funds it or who runs it, it is asking for donations but doesn't say what the donations are used for. The names listed on it don't show up in search except at RTN or on sites that are reprinting RTN stories. There is just not enough information available as far as I could find to tell what biases they have when selecting stories.

The commenter you asked for proof cites a published paper in a peer reviewed open access journal that gives a detailed explanation of how it reached its conclusions. Its authors include several people who worked at Twitter and had access to its internal data.
The essay touches on something that I think explains that, though. Disputing an actual specific allegedly-woke idea requires one to confess their heresy specifically, so as the essay says, it's not smart to confess directly to holding a specific heretical opinion.

Suppose that a person feels that Black people aren't being helped to succeed in our society, and are actually being harmed, by the way they are being told they are always victims with very little agency, as Black author John McWhorter argues. He gets called all kinds of nasty things for speaking that opinion, and he's Black! On the other hand, it's harder to "cancel" or accuse someone of absolute racism (or race traitor-hood) if they say "I don't think the woke mindset is helping, and I think there are better ways to help Black communities."

So that's why imho the word "woke" is a popular tool among those who don't like the various components of it, which are much, much easier to enumerate than those on the Left incredulously pretend. It's basically just:

1. The idea that people can be harmed by hearing ideas they disagree with, and that society should punish those who spoke those ideas.

2. Ideologies about race and generational guilt which basically boil down to "the whole world would be much better off if all Europeans had mysteriously vanished 1500 years ago and we wish that had happened."

3. Ideologies that have to do with gender, which I dare not even elaborate on, because of how heretical all but one opinion on that subject is.
I didn't mean that people who are making music don't like making music, I meant people who don't want to play and instrument or sing or user a DAW or any other kind of conventional music making don't suddenly become interested in making music, even if they do enjoy listening to good music
Superstable lipid vacuoles endow cartilage with its shape and biomechanics
My understanding is they usually do small trials early where they figure out if there are deadly side effects, and then do larger effectiveness trials once there’s determined to be minimal danger. So being in the control group is probably a negative thing on average.
Wokeness is like veganism: for every person talking about being vegan you will find 10 guys who complain about vegans, typically unprompted, while eating meat. I had a work collegue who would complain every meal about vegans, although there wasn't a single vegan at the table.

Wokeness is the comparable, I teach at a liberal art university, there are probably few places more "woke" than this. Even here if I count there is probably a 10:1 ratio of "people complaining about woke" vs "people demanding a woke thing".

The feeling that others are judging you from a high horse is a very strong force, even if they aren't judging you at all. And strong forces can be used to manipulate people into making choices against their interest .
A quick search shows this item [0] from 7 years ago -- I remember this critique well before then.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934942
Most people were cowards then, and now too. It's nice to finally get these leaders sharing what they actually think again. After biting their tongue for what a decade?
Not really, not unless we enforce last mile unbundling. There's not going to be multiple fiber lines run to every house in my neighborhood for the same reasons why there aren't multiple power lines or multiple water lines or multiple sewer lines.
> Thanks to Sam Altman [...] for reading drafts of this.

Ftfg.
A friend of mine pointed out that in societies like Russia and China, it is the oligarchs who are most directly under the thumb of the strongmen. They're visible and are the first to "fall" out a window, whereas if you're some nobody you might be able to get away with dissent.

Bezos's quashing of dissent at The Washington Post might not (just) be the solidarity of a real billionaire with a fake billionaire but rather the very real fear he won't get a permit for anything for the next four years. If Zuck plays along with Trump, Trump eliminates competition from a better alternative, etc.

A counterexample is Bloomberg Businessweek which trivializes racism with the mindlessly woke policy of always writing "black" (as in African-American) with a capital B right next to reviews of $350 bottles of booze and $3000/night hotel rooms.
> On the other hand, I couldn't care less about diversity checkboxes. The idea that a firefighting corps is better for having more women is as weird to me as the idea that a firefighting corps is better for having more Taylor Swift fans.

Fact is, volunteer corps are already struggling with obtaining and retaining volunteers. Excluding women excludes 50% of the potential force.
That knowledge was less widespread at the time.
As information continues to come to light is it actually concievable that the government is actively avoiding investigations that might put the government's immigration policies into question? That seems to be the unstated in the article.

Has the case load dramatically increased, as in were there many more offenses? Were resources cut or reallocated? Did the definition of what counts as a sexual offense or reporting calculations change somehow? The article just doesn't say, which is absurdly bad journalism.
(Disclaimer—I work for Strapi). I would love to know why you think Headless will not cut it or what Strapi could improve. We're seeing many SMBs succeed with it.
For some reason I feel like running home stuff fell out of favour. Or perhaps, I stopped doing it. I would prefer to do it again however I don’t ever have an idea what to do with it since these days I just stream everything from the internet. And I have plenty of cloud compute for whatever I want to do.
All of that can be solved by a healthy mentorship environment; and you can create a healthy mentorship environment remotely.

Arguably, for example, pair programming is far easier, remotely, with screen sharing.
Well, the trains are still quite bad on their own. Especially the deep lines.
No problem.

That's not to say they aren't downsides. https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/q... documents them. As an example I had to add the https://pypi.org/project/gnureadline/ package to a work project that had its own auto completing shell
because by default the builds replaces the gnu readline package with lived it/edit line and they're far from a drop in replacement.
Bluesky is the closest thing to Twitter nowadays. Was hoping for Threads to work out but it seems less organic than Bluesky.
> I cannot help but think that, for history-minded folks like me, a good compromise would be to "squash and keep" -- so that the individual commits don't pollute the parent branch, while the details are kept around for anyone needing to review them.

But not linked together and those "closed" branches are mixed in with the current ones.

Instead, try out "git merge --no-ff" to merge back into master (forcing a merge commit to exist even if a fast-forward was possible) and "git log --first-parent" to only look at those merge commits. Kinda squash-like, but with all the commits still there.
Back in the day they had some tremendous comedy talent such as Jim Belushi, Gilda Radner, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy.... Most of the shows were pretty good.
At least for 60% of those papers you can't reproduce the results....
Ditching a native framework for something JS-powered and running everything thru a cloud server sounds like technical decisions willfully made by engineering leaders.
I have my qualms with how most DEI programs are implemented but a bigger question about Apple and Meta (and others) is why you'd want to mess with company operations when they've been doing incredibly well? Love it or hate it, these companies have had historic success while implementing DEI, CSR, and many other programs for social good.

Again, while I do have issues with what DEI means in today's workplace, can't argue with how successful these companies have been at hiring and making money.
Agree completely with your comments and the parent's comment. It feels like this shouldn't have been allowed by the courts without better scrutiny and wisdom on the part of the courts.