skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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interesting. So what does that tea do to people? I’ve read some things and claims and that it’s popular among tech C suit.
This is the company that had a "recycling mode" that did nothing but brick the hardware, then leave a message with the user to dump it onto an unsuspecting recycling center to deal with the now useless lump of plastic.

Fuck 'em.
There's probably a waiver in the contract signed by temp workers giving the platform freedom to change terms of payments.
I don't think it's a mental breakdown, I think this is a (poorly executed) long pivot into Matt's companies having tighter control over the ecosystem and keeping more of the profits from hosting, plugin and theme sales. He's burning down "the community" on purpose. In a couple years, it'll be run more like Shopify, where the theme store and app store only list products that run their billing through Shopify and give Shopify a 15%+ share of all associated revenue.
Maybe JPMorgan doesn't want employees like you; maybe they want employees who chit-chat, and become attached to their company, for various (non-kLoC) reasons. Not every workplace is for everyone.
> Should students and employees have to participate in woke indoctrination sessions in which they're required to answer questions about their beliefs to ensure compliance? No, because we wouldn't dream of catechizing people in this way about their religion.

But a group prayer led by a school coach is, of course, totally fine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_v._Bremerton_School_Di...
Sure! A really simple (and common) example would be a setup w/ treatment A and treatment B, your code does "if session_assignment == A .... else .... B" . In the else branch you do something that for whatever reason causes misbehavior (perhaps it sometimes crashes or throws an exception or uses a buffer that drops records under high load to protect availability). That's suprisingly common. Or perhaps you were hashing on the wrong key to generate session assignments--ex you accidentally used an ID that expires after 24 hours of inactivity...now only highly active people get correctly sampled.

Another common one I saw was due to different systems handling different treatments, and there being caching discrepancies between the two, like esp in a MAB where allocations are constantly changing, if one system has a much longer TTL than the other then you might see allocation lags for one treatment and not the other, biasing the data. Or perhaps one system deploys much more frequently and the load balancer draining doesn't wait for records to finish uploading before it kills the process.

The most subtle ones were eligibility biases, where one treatment might cause users to drop out of an experiment entirely. Like if you have a signup form and you want to measure long-term retention, and one treatment causes some cohorts to not complete the signup entirely.

There are definitely mitigations for these issues, like you can monitor the expected vs. actual allocations and alert if they go out-of-whack. That has its own set of problems and statistics though.
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The issue is the electricity bill (for cooling).
For a subset, sure, the main barrier to entry is people believing themselves capable of following instructions and caring enough to invest the time. AI enables some people to believe in themselves, but most still won't care enough if there exists another option where they can just login to a web front end and "add post" (granted, GitHub lets you do this too, edit a repo from the front end and add a file, I suspect a GitHub action can be triggered to rebuild a static site from there, then you have free, unhackableish, high performance hosting, but theres still a few concepts to learn, especially wrt DNS, and you don't get any analytics or the e-commerce obviously. Squarespace and Shopify will continue being profitable despite certain things becoming a little easier.
> you won't get to drink it out of the tall glass bottle.

Arguably the most important part. Plastic bottle soda tastes terrible.
It's true, but one has to ask "who made woke-ism into a mind virus?". I think alt-right media say that BLM/Liberals have, but in reality it went viral when it became a favored perjorative and performative act by the alt right, a sort of gradual straw man argument that became true by its own belief. That's the textbook definition of a virus if I've ever seen one.
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Everyone less empathetic than me is a bigot.

Everyone more empathetic than me is just virtue signaling.
> Knowledge workers do not need to be there in the office like the labor unions.

Nothing about a labor union implies this, either, just that labor is necessary to produce revenue. This is still true for service-based companies, even if it takes longer for underinvesting in labor to hurt.

> The GP is suggesting companies thinking that if we don't need in-office workers, why not just offshore it altogether?

This is true regardless of if you're in a union or not. I'm not going just to toss the baby out with the bathwater. There isn't a situation where I don't want a union outside of maybe self-employment.
> That's largely all anyone can do

When you don't have an understanding of racism as a systemic issue, this ends up being the conclusion. Which is why "woke" people (the ones who aren't just adopting the aesthetics and being annoying) typically discuss social issues in systemic terms (prison, policing, discrimination, etc). Which requires not just individual actions but collective action.

The inability to understand this concept is really just a lack of imagination that comes from internalizing the status quo for too long. Not to the fault of anyone, it's only natural. But I think this is why "woke" looks like a bunch of nonsense from the outside.

For example: the US has 2M people in prison more than any other country. An insane number, but to live in the US is to accept that number as normal.
Shrug. In our latest meeting our leaders had no problems hiring 'outside hires' for random unexpected project resulting from them trying to stiff US vendor ( don't get me started on how that makes sense ). Adding those contractors with the amount of time spent in meetings, we likely have already spent more than the money that would be paid to the vendor, but I digress.

Anyway, I am mentioning it, because the usual issues with quality of work that had to be QC'ed immediately came up. To be honest, there is nothing stopping corporate, but none of the jobs most of us do are so easily done that it can be just put in a simple step by step process ( and even then its hardly a way to guarantee accuracy ). I guess what I am really saying is: if they could, they would have already.

But they can't, because you get what you pay for.
This kind of "upspeaking" will probably get more accepted and popular now. Dark times ahead.
Pure, disinterested A/B testing where the goal is just to find the good way to do it, and there's enough leverage and traffic that funding that A/B testing is worthwhile is rare.

More frequently, A/B testing is a political technology that allows teams to move forward with changes to core, vital services of a site or app. By putting a new change behind an A/B test, the team technically derisks the change, by allowing it to be undone rapidly, and politically derisks the change, by tying it's deployment to rigorous testing that proves it at least does no harm to the existing process before applying it to all users. The change was judged to be valuable when development effort went into it, whether for technical, branding or other reasons.

In short, not many people want to funnel users through N code paths with slightly different behaviors, because not many people have a ton of users, a ton of engineering capacity, and a ton of potential upside from marginal improvements. Two path tests solve the more common problem of wanting to make major changes to critical workflows without killing the platform.
> why do people hate the office they are expected to return to?

They hate it because it's designed to be hated. The discomfort is the point. You're meant to know your place and be reminded of it everyday.
I am not paid for the two hours of sitting in traffic (one hour to work, one hour back). The company does not reimburse for gas, car insurance, vehicle wear and tear, etc. Take the bus? Not sure they pay for bus fare either.

Those are two hours every single week-day that I could use to either do more work for the company or, more realistically, do self-improvement tasks or hobbies.
In the same way that the police upholding the law is vigilantism?
Water based inks come in tons of flavors. You can have washables (most of your royal blues), "permanents" (most blue blacks and special formulations) which leave a faint mark you can't remove (GvFC inks sans Royal Blue, Pelikan 4001 Blue Black, etc.), pigments which cling to your paper like their life depend on it or you can go full send and get "cellulose reactive" inks which will not leave your paper unless you destruct the said paper.

Many "permanent" inks on permanent rollerballs and gels (e.g. Uni SuperInk) is also water based, yet they don't and won't leave your paper, because they're made of UV resistant pigments.
A friend and I love to send each other examples of ridiculous things being labeled "woke". Lately we are spoiled for choice. British tabloid newspapers are an especially good source.

In his post, pg says "Political correctness seemed to burn out in the second half of the 1990s. One reason, perhaps the main reason, was that it literally became a joke. It offered rich material for comedians, who performed their usual disinfectant action upon it."

What I remember the most from that time period was comedians making jokes about exactly this effect: At some point people started labeling everything they didn't like as "political correctness", and the phrase lost all meaning.

(I don't have particularly strong feelings about pg's essay tbh. I've personally managed to completely ignore political correctness and wokeness without anything bad happening).
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This ties back to my idea that "wokeness" is an ideology that centers awareness, not solutions. Everyone in San Francisco is sufficiently aware that homelessness is a problem. Nobody really advocates for police brutality or shooting innocents as a positive good.

However, the debate constantly returns to the the question of how important these issues are on an imaginary scale that doesn't exist, instead of what we should be doing out.

Bob thinks police brutality ranks 9.8 on Bob's "importance scale". Sue thinks it ranks 7.6 on Sue's "importance scale". Arguing about the numbers and scales is completely irrelevant, and an excuse to attack someone else's position instead of proposing a solution you have to advocate for and defend. It is a strategy of taking the fight to the enemy.
I would go one step further and say even with tools like Suno and Udio people don't like making music.

People simply want to enjoy good music other people put their time in to create it, and I think that is a good thing.
> I go to work in exchange for currency, which is required to acquire goods and services

Social currency is also a thing, which is much more difficult to gain in a remote setting - if not impossible. I don't go to work to socialize either, but I'm not naive enough to think that without an extremely established career and reputation at an org that I'll be promoted or employed strictly on merit. there is always some degree of social-ness involved in those kinds of decisions. I'm not saying that's how things should be, it's just how they are.
this!!! sustainability is a huge aspect that seems to be getting lost in the broader discussion. locked devices are leading to an incredible amount of e-waste and it's entirely preventable.
Population dropped 2019-2020, but population has increased each year since 2020, both in Austin proper and austin greater metro area. Housing prices increased until about 2022 when they started dropping, and (along with rent) have been trending downwards since.

If your point is, "construction has to outstrip population increase in order to decrease prices", then well, yeah, we agree fully.

If your point is that huge amounts of new units going on the market in Austin does not have a significant impact on prices, I don't think that's supported by any evidence or makes any sense.
For flat-file wiki-based websites, you can try dokuwiki [1] which is extremely convenient and of course quite fast for what it's made for.

[1] https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki
So why do companies insist?

If it has no meaningful impact on productivity, and workers don't like it (including a lot of managers), why push it?

That's why I believe that companies have some evidence (or belief) that work from home employees are not as productive, enough so to wage this political battle and pay loads in office expenses.
Except the goal of this kind of behavior is not actual change but proving to the world you are "morally superior" by your chosen system of morality.
I think the conditio sine qua non of whatever social movement PG is trying to describe here is that we have become, and will become more, a low-trust culture. Social circles are wider and shallower now than ever. If I can't take the time to get to know a person, I can't assume good faith when they use some questionable word. It benefits me to impute the worst motive, because (1) it is much safer to avoid a false harm than to admit a false good, and (2) it brings me social credit.

Instead of assuming that someone is well-meaning and requiring much evidence to refute that assumption, people are marked by small infractions, because the cognitive effort of the presumption of innocence cannot be applied on such a large scale and is not worth it to us. This is the mentality behind the "believe all women" principle: women are harmed more by letting a rapist free than by jailing an innocent man, and since we can't vet all the claims of sexual assault, better just lock them all up. A metaphor frequently given by proponents of that ideology is that men are like M&Ms. Would you eat an M&M from a bowl if you knew that a few were poisoned? If even 1 in 100,000 were poisoned, would you take the risk? No. Low trust. (I've never heard someone reply that women are not all benign either and yet people don't seem to apply the same logic to them.)

You see the extremes of this in the politicians representing US political parties. Trump can say anything and supporters never waiver, because they know he's "just joking around" or whatever. Meanwhile a Democrat candidate can say something small askance with what seems to me like innocent intentions, and their career is over.

This is also why the Democrats are so fractious internally, relative to the Republicans. Republicans default to trusting each other (not saying whether that's merited or not) while Democrats only make temporary uneasy alliances.

Some people tire of this low-trust culture (because they haven't been burned by trust before) and are pushing back on it.

In my opinion, the low-trust people are going to win eventually because the higher-trust people are more local and less internet-connected. Either society will collapse into many sub-societies, or else these sub-societies will dwindle until there's nothing left of them, and all that's left is The Culture.
The opposite of “truth” is not “lie”, however.
Pure hyperbole is pure hyperbole.

If you want to shun me for not loudly enough pronouncing how great some sort of special privileges for certain ostensibly oppressed classes is, or for not jumping enthusiastically enough though hoops referencing people with exactly the most woke-community prescribed terminology, then chances are I don't particularly to associate with you either. That's fine.

If you start telling lies about me online and try to incite a mob to threaten or harm me and the people who do opt to socialize with me (despite or maybe even because of my opinions), or organize mobs for PR damage to pressure my boss into taking away my livelihood, that is something quite beyond exercising your right to choose your associations.

Of course that would still not literally make me unable to pronounce my woke-taboo opinion, but it should nonetheless be obvious that trying to wreck my life is a disproportionate response merely to me not toeing the line you took it upon yourself to draw. What you "can't say" is almost always graded rather than absolute, but active hostility destroying months or years of a person's life is well into the territory that constitutes a real hindrance for freely expressing an opinion.
A Startup Is a Religion
It's not the workers that get to decide surge pricing or wages. The employer decides that, and they keep the extra money for themselves.
“Can you believe it? That colored boy wants me to call him ‘mister!’”
A server is someone else's device. Your phone is your own device. So no, doing the scan on your own device and making your device your potential adversary is not better than doing it on the server. You can always choose not to use the server.
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Pretty much, but what was left off is the union demands for healthcare as an employment benefit that truly entrenched the practice in the US.
There’s research papers on system design involving llms that would definitely be useful in practical contexts.
He's been pretty consistent about this.
Hell yeah, we can be a family up until the moment their automated performance tracking software flags me and I get let go!
Ah, the I’ll replace you with an Indian routine that’s been going on for over 25 years years of my career.
About the Title: The Guardian's title is now "...gig economy workers charged fee to get paid quicker". (They note that as a correction to their prior version of the article.) So the whole story is more-or-less about an extra-bonus-sleazy payday loan scheme.

About the Health Insurance angle: The article is about YoungOnes - which claims to only operate in the UK and Netherlands. Both of which counties have national health systems. (And the article is so UK-centric that I see no mention at all of the Netherlands.)
For a CEO of a public company this is about as close to a perp walk with your stuff in a cardboard box as it gets.
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i guess pg knows one thing about it ;) https://fortune.com/2022/12/18/twitter-suspends-paul-graham-...
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Sure, some of the web is read-only, but what about commenting, contact forms, forums, eCommerce or anything else that requires a proper server? That's a big advantage WP and other full CMS have over static site generators.
Maybe.

Quality of work, communication challenges in time zones, language barriers, and setting a company culture are huge barriers to entry for workers remote from India.

Minimum required wages of at least the prevailing wage and limited access for W2's are major ones for bringing them here. Even doubling the W2's wouldn't cover replacing all jobs.
> If I had to think, I imagine the entire point of RTO mandates is to keep cities sustainable.

The entire point is to get you to quit because firing people is hard, and they don't care if their best talent leaves.
Yes; in fact, many people "test" this every day, by accident, while trying to set up popular instruction-following models for "roleplaying" purposes, through UIs like SillyTavern.

Open models are almost always remotely hosted (or run locally) through a pure text-completion API. If you want chat, the client interacting with that text-completion API is expected to be the business layer, either literally (with that client in turn being a server exposing a chat-completion API) or in the sense of vertically integrating the chat-message-stream-structuring business-logic, logit-bias specification, early stream termination on state change, etc. into the completion-service abstraction-layer of the ultimate client application.

In either case, any slip-up in the business-layer configuration — which is common, as these models all often use different end-of-conversation-step sequences, and don't document them well — can and does result in seeing "under the covers" of these models.

This is also taken advantage of on purpose in some applications. In the aforementioned SillyTavern client, there is an "impersonate" command, which intentionally sets up the context to have the agent generate (or finish) the next human conversation step, rather than the next agent conversation step.
My Sonos app experience is probably the worst of any smart devices I’ve owned. Dropped connections, unable to connect or stream, just all-around inconsistencies. Great speaker when it’s hardwired but the “smart” app is bad. Why did it take years for the chickens to come home to roost?
Well that is basically the model of the home stereo today.

People don’t realize sound was solved decades ago. How they could get the same stereo their grandfather could have ordered from the sears catalog and some cabinets from that sears catalog and that would be better sound than they are capable of ever perceiving, and how it would last them their entire life on that one stereo and probably the lives of multiple generations of family members. With IO that has always been a standard and always will be a standard. And a stereo like this isn’t even terribly expensive. A couple hundred up front for never having to make another home audio equipment purchase in your life is some serious savings.

Instead they are sold soundbars and other crap tiny speakers that are not built to last, and might use specific io to connect over open standards that have been around for decades. They end up spending quite a lot more money for a shit experience that they are none the wiser that there are even alternatives to, without becoming audiophiles themselves consuming hundreds of pages of relevant media in that niche.

What a cash cow of an industry.
What a wild and disconnected assertion.
>...“monarchy” at a global scale, where Putin is effectively “King of the World.”

I can't see a lot of enthusiasm for that.
What about using distro packages? That would insulate you from upstream suddenly turning malicious.

I'm not sure if Debian's packages are kept up to date with security patches, though. The latest changes to the wordpress package[0] were in December 2022 and and May 2024.

[0] https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/w/wo...
Is Ayahuasca passé now?
You forgot to mention Wordpress as you also can publish static websites wit it.
What is a breaking change with the update that introduced Apple Intelligence?
They would have done this already if they could. Timezones matter much more
Have you tried maintaining a blog with plain hand-written HTML? You need, at the least, single post pages (for permalinks), an index page, and an RSS feed — all slightly different views of the same content. It gets messy, and at some point you write your own SSG, which somehow becomes worse.

This is without going into how you ideally want an image pipeline, sitemaps, cards for twitter and stuff, maybe category pages, …
Pretty much this. The ACA that said you had to offer health insurance to employees working over 30h / wk? Well, guess what, you're now only working 29.5.

We should have just expanded medicare to cover everyone, but no, that'd give too much power to the workers.
As far as I have experimented, nothing can replace a good fountain pen for me. Being able to use one for decades and use a bottle of ink for 4-5 years is also a great plus for sustainability in my book.

If I can't use a fountain pen, I fallback to a Uniball Elite or Uniball Signo 0.7/0.38.

On the ballpoint department, you can't get my CdA 149 from my dead, cold hands.

If you really want to use a smooth Bic, try Cristal Soft. If you want something flies, try Uniball JetStream.