skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was banned from Twitter within hours of Elon having control for changing my displayed name (not my handle) to "Elon's Musk" in a reply to something unhinged that he had tweeted.

So much free speech.
“Work like hell. You just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. This improves the odds of success. If others are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year.”

Of course, these 60 to 80 extra hours you put in are subcontracted to underpaid workers that are willing to accept mostly everything because of the toughness of these economic times, so you should definitely take advantage of that. And since we're about success, let's use our economic advantage to further our gains by moving the levers of power. Let's bring more cheap labor to keep the wagies in check!
For all we know there have been great civilizations in eons past. How would we know? 100 million years from now there might not be a trace of our own civilization left.
Massive disinformation campaigns that have occurred over the past 10 to 15 years.
> In the same way "colored people" can gain these connotations, just from other few people (falsely or not) inferring that it has those connotations. [...]

> It's not that there is a history of discrimination

In abstract theory, that would be possible.

In concrete reality, with "colored people", there is, in fact, a history of discrimination, and when the context of use is not such that there is a clear separation from that history (a separation that exists in, e.g., the NAACP continuing to use "colored people" in its name) it has become problematic because of that history.
I chuckle at the argument that you're entering an echo chamber when you leave X.

News flash: X is already an echo chamber!

Maybe the "oh no don't leave for an echo chamber!" assertion is a case of people remembering the pre-X version of twitter, and comparing competitors to that - rather than what X is today. Or maybe it's a case of "boiling a frog," where people on X are actually unaware of what it has become.

Or maybe... it's actually just a bad faith argument by people who like the current X echo chamber.
No. Stuff like this benefits those behind HN and many who frequent this site. The political-neutral face HN puts on is a farce.
Yeah, it seems like it might pencil out if the housing is very cheap to replace (and therefore insure) but the tax revenue you can gain from it is high. Since local taxes are mostly property taxes, this is basically a paradox: if the property is cheap, the taxes will be too.

That said, there are some cities that have a local income tax so, in theory, one can imagine a scenario where, as a development project, some local government convinces high-income artisans or work-from-home workers to move into extremely cheap housing by subsidizing their disaster (flood, fire, earthquake, etc.) insurance. This is again likely a paradox: if high-income people wanted to live there, the housing wouldn't be cheap anymore.
I got a roost when they launched, still have it, practical and durable, I imagine I'll always have it.

The problem with this paper one is that the paper will wear within a couple of years, and if you spill your coffee on it or anything like that or put it down on a coffee-ring stain, it's straight in the bin.

I fail to see the value in something made from recyclable that is essentially disposable rather than a roost which can be made from recycled plastic and last forever.

The roost also only cost about double to triple this to buy.

EDIT: I see the roost is quite a bit more expensive now, but longevity and ergonomics wise I'd say still well worth it.
Kokoro-TTS
True, but there is something to be said about making it to his level.

He isnt stupid. Stupid people don't make it this far. They don't. Don't let the media designed for The Commons tell you otherwise. There are too many filters from rational intelligence, social intelligence, willpower, book smarts, delegation/management/leadership, etc... If you fail at one of these, you don't ~10,000x your company's value.

John Mearsheimer said "They made the wrong decision, not an irrational one." And I think that goes for the Metaverse. VR was/is incredible. I personally would find it difficult to bet real money on that question.

He sees something that is reasonable to say. Will mid-level engineers be replaced by AI? If there is a 2x efficiency improvement, what will half those programmers be doing? Will 100% of their midlevel engineers be replaced? No, but I don't think a smart person would make that claim. Do You personally think 0 people will lose their jobs because they arent needed anymore?
Twitter is already, and increasingly so, an echo chamber of the type of people who want to stay on Twitter.

From that vantage point it is the conscious decision to stay on the network during an exodus that creates an echo chamber. Something similar happened with facebook. The people who are still on facebook in 2025 are having a pretty different conversation than occurs in some other places.
I’ve been on the site since the beginning under various usernames. I agree with your point overall but sometimes something said truly is “bad” (idiotic, foolish, whatever) and is deserving of being called so.

I believe writing “after the riots of 2020” and framing what happened as “wokeness” qualifies as idiotic.

I made my points and haven’t responded further. I don’t believe I’ve said anything else that can be considered flamewar style commentary. I’ll keep in mind what you’ve said.
So I've been thinking about this recently and come to the conclusion that 'smart' and 'stupid' are just extremes of behaviour and capability.

That is, people have clever _moments_ - some more than others perhaps - but can equally have stupid ones. We convenientally flatten the statistics into a boolean.

For example, recently someone considered to have made a lot of smart decisions in his life has been found to have payed others to rank his character up in a video game so he can brag about it. Everyone has stupid moments.
> they got the source material in a way where someone broke American law

Isn't inducing or offering someone incentives to break laws illegal by itself? I'll admit that isn't specifically an IP law violation, but it can't possibly be kosher.

For example if a buyer of goods can reasonably be expected to know the goods were stolen, they can also be charged. Isn't this the same thing?
> He was always just a successful guy whom lots of naive student mistook for a guru on account of his success. That happens a lot.

Agreed. People seem to think that success is deterministic, so following the advice of successful people will lead them to success, rather than there being any number of other factors that might make someone who might make choices with the highest chance of success end up not succeeding, or someone who might make choices that aren't actually that smart end up becoming successful in spite of that. The worst part of this is that it's not just the students who naively believe this, but the successful people themselves. When someone mistakenly thinks that their own success is solely attributable to your own superior intellect or work ethic, it's not surprising that they end up advocating for policies that treat people in unfortunate circumstances as being not worth trying to help.
I was referring to cjs vs esm (require vs import, respectively). I suspect I was late enough to the game (and focused on browser js) such that I've mostly only used esm.

I will note that node has embraced esm, and nowadays it's frowned upon to only publish cjs packages so this problem is shrinking every day. Also cool is some of the newer runtimes support esm/cjs interop.
I think a lot of people would argue against DEI because it takes the easy way out of a real problem. The result we want is more black doctors, but the way you should get to that is not changing standards that are not inherently racist.

The easy (and right) way out was to hire the most competent doctors, not the blackest doctors. I don't want more black doctors, I want the best doctors, regardless of their skin color. If you want more black doctors, you should train better black doctors. However, if you're going to do that, don't be surprised when white trainees band together to work harder too. If it's fair for your side, it's fair for every side.

I have no idea why we went backwards from "discrimination based on skin color is never okay" to "it's okay if they're black" but there's no reason not to simply recognize the mistake, fix it, and move on.
I'll believe it when I see it. As it stands Zuck and Meta directly benefit from hyping up AI to the moon.
Profit seeking is normal behaviour. The economic system normally keeps it in check through competition. If it's not kept in check it's because of the economic conditions.
This article never takes up the cause of the minorities who are being harassed and killed on a daily basis, but spends a lot of time whining about having to show even a modicum of empathy by using more inclusive language. For this reason it reeks of self-centered willful ignorance.
"What is Twitter now is a fair game. Every voice is heard the same. What Twitter is doing now should have been the norm the whole time."

Where is your proof for that being true? I was a left-leaning voice that was banned from Twitter after changing my display name (not handle) to "Elon's Musk".

How is that free speech?
(Shrug) If you're retired or independently wealthy, you can afford that attitude. Hopefully one of those describes you.

Otherwise, you're going to spend the rest of your career saying things like, "Well, OK, so the last model couldn't count the number of Rs in 'Strawberry' and the new one can, but..."

Personally, I dislike being wrong. So I don't base arguments on points that have a built-in expiration date, or that are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of whatever I'm talking about.
I don't think Boards of Directors and C-Suites of massive, publicly-traded companies operate based on empathy. They pattern-match cultural trends to maximize shareholder value. To assert otherwise is laughably naïve.

My comment suggests that I think introducing inflammatory political issues into the work environment, issues that have a "correct" answer as far as your boss's boss's bosses are concerned, is unethical, corrosive, and counterproductive.

Beyond that, you know virtually nothing about me. But by all means, continue in your presumptions. Let's further accelerate the breakdown of civil discourse, perhaps that's the only way to eventually get back to something approaching respect for differing opinions, no matter how assertively stated.
Yeah, that's the one! With the guy named Coyote.
The US is already on a pretty pronounced decline in labor participation since about the late 90s: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

This is already an order of magnitude lower than most other advanced economies.

I think it's true that Americans work pretty hard, but when given the opportunity will rather work towards early retirement or enabling a spouse to not work than taking leisure.

On the welfare front, there have also been huge expansions in the last few decades towards SSI and Disability payouts. It's not a UBI (since it's not Universal), but the future of the US would probably be an expansion of these existing programs to more or less provide the same results.
A cereal box is likely thicker than the material used in the product this article talks about. It wouldn't take very many folds to prop up a notebook.
Books are special cases, because they can be considered discussions. And, often, they're nonthreatening discussions. Pick up the book if you'd like, read it, think about it, respond by talking to others or writing letters. Great way to advance knowledge.

But here's a different context: I see somebody spray painting a wall in an alley. If they're painting a flower or a portrait, I might hang around or come back later to see the result. If they're painting a swastika, I'm more likely to avoid that alley from then on.

Symbols mean something. If they didn't, nobody would bother using them.
I can't seriously take any statement from Nvidia about the greater good while they maintain an artificial moat of CUDA workloads that can work on other hardware but is not permitted.
2008 TARP for Wall Street? Corporate tax breaks that were unfunded and yielded $2 trillion in cash reserves decidedly not funneled down to working people. Sounds like socialism for institutions too big to fail, but not for people who needed it (70% of Americans with less than $1,000 in savings for emergencies).

How long will this situation continue before the house of cards tumbles down?
I've had trouble keeping the audit trail. It can distract from the flow of debugging, and there can be lots of details to it, many of which end up being irrelevant; i.e. all the blind rabbit holes that were not on the maze path to the bug. Unless you're a consultant who needs to account for the hours, or a teller of engaging debugging war stories, the red herrings and blind alleys are not that useful later.
> Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one.

> Female students might object if someone said something they considered sexist, but no one was getting reported for it.

Wow, PG downplaying racism and sexism was not on my 2025 bingo card.

I hear some good points and I can understand the fatigue with cancel culture; still, discussing recent movements like blm and #metoo in negative light only seems very narrow.

I guess especially for rich celebrities movements like these and the power they represent can feel limiting, threatening, to the point of feeling targeted.
There is nothing logical about his essay. There is no reasoning. It's kind of all over the place. It's kind of a desperate essay.
In a way, this kind of ad hominem attack supports his point.
wokeness will be discussed until morale improves... (or better said easier to rule and win elections while the masses are fighting the non-existent "culture war" and have no time to look at real problems (which whoever is ruling has no interest in solving..)
If that's the case, I don't think we have anything to worry about anyway. If productivity actually drops then I suspect that this program will be sunsetted.
The rate of immigration and our ability to assimilate immigrants matters.
lol zuck couldn't even match tiktok tech talking about AI smh
What, IYO, is being twisted here? What should people be called?
The problem is that it's a performance. You know who else cries convincingly without meaning it? Actors in movies. Wokeism has equated performance to action. Pretend you care, make it public, and the problem somehow goes away. If you truly care about solving problems, that position basically guarantees that nothing will change.
I imagine they look similar to the gymnastics you did to come up with this comment.
> I have evidence of the opposite.

Do you? [1]

[1] https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcpy.1...
There were some interesting points, thanks for sharing.

One of the fallouts from this movement, is that the identity of the groups of people “wokeness” (sorry, I am using terms from his article) claimed to protect, are now intrinsically linked to this movement without their consent.

I am politically progressive, but strongly believe in free speech especially when it comes to science and research. But as a trans person, I do genuinely need help sometimes to overcome folks biases, since we make up less than 1% of the population.

My fear now is that social-justice warriors might have unintentionally made things even more difficult and complicated for me, because what I do to survive is intrinsically linked to a modern political movement.

Hopefully something that will be considered, for folks against dogmatism/puritanism who still understand bias :(
I don't disagree, but Thiel has been "out of his shell" for decades.
The videos showed off Windows 95' multimedia prowess.

"Why did the Windows 95 CD have extra fun stuff, like the Good Times and Buddy Holly music videos, the Rob Roy trailer, and the cartoons by Bill Plympton? Because it was fun! Why does one have to justify having fun? In addition to the multimedia fun, there was also video game fun, with the addition of Pinball and the mercifully-forgotten hovercraft game Hover! (Some of us thought it was so awful, we secretly called it Hoover!)" -- Raymond Chen

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=32853
For math only.
Well it was either sugar water or democracy and we can't have democracy.
If woke people are performative... then what is this incoherent nonsense meant to be?
Are you aware you are asking parent to “prove it” to the claims you don’t agree with, and then make similar claims in the opposite direction without “proving it”?
I'm sorry where does your math come from? 1 state having 1/3 of the nation's homeless doesn't represent 2.5x the normal rate. That's 10-15x territory.
Nvidia might do for desktop AI what it did for desktop gaming
The easiest thing for a truly evil person to do is lie. They lie about being good, first and foremost. That most people are just a bunch of willfully ignorant rubes works very well for them, unfortunately.
Does it send MIDI?
“Woke”, for the most part, is a boogeyman that the conservative right uses as a summary label for various political movements on the left. Basically nobody on the left talks about “woke” except for perhaps a period of six months back in 2017.

Many political groups do this: they identify some aspect of the opposition, preferably one that is easy to ridicule, and then repeat those accusations ad-nauseum. The complaints about, say, LatinX have far surpassed the number of actual proponents of it, which were a small number of people of the left. However, it still brought up again and again because it forms a useful image of what people are fighting against.

The trouble with this is that a groups idea of the “enemy” typically outlasts and often surpasses the actual enemy that idea is based off of. People on the right will write endless articles and videos about wokeness not because there actually exists a problem with wokeness but to try to gain political and social status with their political group.
I was in the same boat of thinking recently. I've decided that I'm going to blog for my own benefit first -- being a better thinker and writer. When I have something I feel worthy of sharing more widespread, I'll share it with my circle.
I don't agree with the how, but the conclusion is true.

I'll elaborate a bit more though...

In a capitalist world, it will always seek to maximize profits. Human suffering, animal suffering, morality, and so on are basically irrelevant.

Someone willing to exploit human happiness for an extra 2% gain, will wipe out the competition if they are unwilling to do the same. So everything is guaranteed to spiral in a race to the bottom.

So with a new tool, as every time before, it will be a race to the bottom to see how can most unethically use AI to exploit value.

Whether we end up as slaves, or starving on the street remains to be seen. But the odds of humanity being better off without a sharp course correction and regulation by the government, are very low.
Truthfully I think that it is a dialectic process that counterintuitively perpetuates a mentality of victimhood and otherness. The neverending process of being othered//feeling othered//trying to empower oneself in one's otherness is entirely futile. To assimilate, you must assimilate.

I'm well-aware that I'm being rather evasive and I certainly don't think anyone is fooled by what I'm really saying.
And when all of those people who remember the horrors of war, or at least heard first person accounts, have passed on?
> there won't be any seniors

In the SFBA, Lockheed hires welders who can get a security clearance.

Someone I know was in their 70s working there, because there isn't a large pipeline of welders to pull from. In his words, "there's a bunch of great guys with steady hands delivering doordash, because it pays better than being an apprentice in a body shop".

Most automotive welders can't get a clearance, the true factory welding jobs no longer pay well or are automated away.

In response, the old Martinez chevrolet factory welders are continuing to work in Lockheed with larger than normal incentives to stick around past their medicare and social security pay.

Most of them would rather be training new guys (or girls, apparently half of the good new welders are women), but most of the time there's nobody new who comes in.
Well, I've seen a rewrite that worked. The CEO used the software, including the signup processes. I've also seen a sequence of gradual changes that broke badly. Nobody in management used any part of the product.

I don't think being a rewrite is the important difference there, if you see what I mean.
I think this is a bit reductive.

Trump came to power on the back of a populist anger at the wealthy elite and the consequences of neo-liberal economics (which is pretty fucking far from e.g. Marx. Regardless of the entirety of his meaning, certainly some of Alex Jones' hatred of "globalists" springs from the fact that they outsource jobs to where the labor is cheaper). Insofar as "wokeness" factors into Trump's power, it was to harness that anger and direct it at some wealthy elites, but not others. That is, he claimed that these wealthy elites are being performatively sanctimonious and are trying to rob you of your freedom, money, power, etc, but those wealthy elites have your best interests at heart. Even though the two wealthy elites are kissing cousins (to whit, Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump Jr. both engaged in a committed long-term relationships with the same woman, albeit at different times) and don't actually care either way.

"Woke" in the traditional sense is realizing that no matter what they say, both groups are wealthy elites, and that neither actually has the interests of anyone but the elites at heart.

There are definitely moments of "are we really prioritizing this right now?" with modern social justice movements. But even on the subject of trans kids, the question for me is not "are we encouraging the wrong ideas around gender?" but rather "are we doing everything that's necessary to keep kids from committing suicide?"

The other day there was a post about fascists vs. rakes, and I really do feel like the the discussion around wokeness comes down to a similar misunderstanding about the intentions and moral principles of the two sides of the discussion.
i dont think the ppl expressing their outrage here realize the screenshot of their content is being amplified and shared on other platforms not because they agree with it but purely for comedy.

so steadfast is their view point as the only possible view that they cant imagine/realize many of us are laughing at them.

coupled with the discoverability of usernames connected to their other real world profiles and the virality of their comic, it probably is unwise to be labelled far-left or 'woke' in professional circles going forward.
This is horrible advice if you want to work on anything innovative. You don't have time to wait for things to bubble up. For example, physics textbooks from the early 1900s rarely use linear algebra, even if they're written well.
The natural garnet crystals have frequently the form of rhombic dodecahedra (i.e. with 12 rhombic faces disposed in the directions of the 12 edges of a cube).

Such crystals may be eroded to more rounded forms, but some of the original plane faces may remain more or less intact.

It is hard to be sure from the image, but the garnet below the title may be not artificial, but just an eroded natural garnet that originally was a rhombic dodecahedron.

The same can be true for other faceted garnets. Only a more thorough examination can distinguish natural crystals from those that have been polished, so they have plane faces with other orientations than the faces of the natural garnet crystals.