skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who cares deeply about science education, here are some hard truths that many people flinch away from:

“Anti-science” Americans are not less intelligent on average than “pro-science” Americans. It’s simply a difference of who they trust to give them the facts. One group trusts and believes the public health organizations; the other group treats those same organizations with extreme skepticism. No solution to this problem will be effective until trust in the system is rebuilt.

The core problem that no amount of trying to “get through” to people will solve is that America’s public health and science institutions actually are deeply problematic organizations that are politicized and do not always act honestly and in the best interest of the people. The media, meanwhile, has lost all trust with a significant segment of the population who rightly recognize it as a propaganda machine for the ruling elites.

Why should my parents, who are quite intelligent but never received any significant science education, believe what they are told about science by experts that they can clearly recognize as untrustworthy?

You have to recognize and address this before any progress can be made.
That's because most of the engineers or coders in this thread are in fear their job won't exist in a few years and they will have to go learn a completely different skill to make a wage. It's hard to admit you may not have a job in x years time because a computer took it.

But let's be real here, 90% of software and coding is taking x performing an action on it so the user can consume y. It's basic stuff. Much like how we don't write machine code these days and we use a compiler, your bonkers if you think your going to be writing python or c in the future and not just saying give me x and y from z.

You will still get folks writing code in some obscure areas, but most of us will switch to describing system and app flows and have the code written by ai and in areas utilize ai's to get tasks done. The theory of software construction from a high level will become more important than actual language mastery on the low level.

The folks saying it won't are much like the horse riders of yesteryear who said cars would never replace horses.
So who gets to be arbiter of truth? and what is the recourse if they are wrong?
Denying the moon landing has also become popular recently, I've noticed. I personally have had to explain the evidence to multiple family members. The occasional coworker as well. It's always some tweet with tons of interactions from people with the USA flag in their profile name complaining about how the govt lies about everything. There seems to be a huge market on social media for selling people the idea that they are being lied to. The article is right that the people making multi-hour documentaries that explain something like the moon landing aren't reaching people the same way a 12 second "look at this clip of a guy on the moon. jk its a soundstage. what else are they lying about???" video is. I really don't like where any of this is going.
That's strawmanning, not steelmanning.
There are many things on which I don’t agree with pg. But I feel he is accurate with describing wokeness as the term is commonly used currently. He doesn’t go into the history of the word in this essay.
Nvidia has lost about $100 billion in market cap in the past couple of hours.
Since YC startups (culture) is the exact opposite of what PG is saying, this is just a political stance in words, nothing more.
While you may be right by academic classification, most TERF studies I've seen and most notable TERF accounts on X are almost exclusively far right-wing, because it is an inherently conservative stance even if the grounding starting position is more socially progressive.
I generally like working in the office. I get more completed, I enjoy my coworkers, communication is easier, and I'm visible to management.

If it came down to RTO, or a 4 day work week, It would be an unbelievably simple choice: 4 day week.
That's not even the problem.

The problem is Eumenes wants his school to be funded by everyone else's property tax.

When did this entitlement mindset grip this country so much that people openly ask for handouts like that? I know I will sound old now, but back in the 70's and 80's welfare was a bad thing. Now, everyone from corporations to private schools openly demand it.
It's very telling that he gives Marxist-Leninism as an example of moral orthodoxy instead of the much more relevant Capitalist orthodoxy that exists in the U.S. which he viciously upholds. It's pretty clear that it's much more acceptable to rail against DEI, "wokeism", etc., than it is to suggest that a different economic system is possible in American society. There's very few people in power that can get away with suggesting that there can be something better than Capitalism, or even admitting that there's some problems that Capitalism just can't fix. Most of the progressives or "wokes" in power only go so far as suggesting refinements and guardrails for the current system. Meanwhile, roughly half our elected officials rabidly speak out against the "woke" with no consequences, and the media clearly props up the current system against all else.

It's just so frustrating to see guys like Paul Graham pretend like they're somehow outside of or above "orthodoxy" and "ideology", to use their own terms. "Wokeism" is a religion, but somehow "anti-wokeism" isn't? My point isn't that all of what they label "wokeism" is good or that Capitalism is all bad, it's that there is a hypocrisy in their beliefs that belies their whole argument.

Above all it's just embarrassing to see, and it kills me that they paint their obvious orthodoxy as heresy, when it's anything but.
> People out of a job because of you and you're gonna forgo your bonuses.

Well, the board seems to have fired him too?
The Google one seems dead on, except it should be gendered, native English refers to boats and cars as female gender:

“Ah well, now she'll work a lot less well, of course!”

Since you mentioned Google and Deepl, here's O1:

“Ah well, obviously she’s gonna run a lot less well now!”

“Ah well, looks like she’ll be running a lot less well, naturally!”

My own thoughts on google were replace work with run, replace it with she, and I wasn't sure about of course, versus, say, naturally. My own would have been:

“Ah well, now she'll work a lot less well, naturally!”

The context is that the 2CV driver is fussing to the Rolls driver who bumped him to make it fall apart. It keeps the Galois humor of a 2CV running well ever, and the naturally rhymes with that.

// English native, FSL here
1. SRM will reduce efficiency of equatorial solar but minimally effect solar in northern climes. Like, less than 5% reduction. Pretty good trade off for stabilizing temperatures.

SRM from lofting sulfur or calcium only lasts about a year. It has to be done yearly. So, no long term effects, for better or worse.

2: We will fry the planet long before running out of fossil fuels. There is a lot left.

3: we absolutely can and must try geoengineering at small scales before scaling up. It isn’t a binary phenomenon. Every time there is a volcanic event, we get a natural experiment.
Huh, interesting. I guess there's probably more accidents in urban areas, but thanks to lower speeds fewer fatalities.

I don't quite follow the second point - my presumption is that the chance of a bike hurting a pedestrian is lower than a car doing the same, and the chance of causing a fatality is, in general, reasonably low compared to getting hit by a car.

Stats would probably be hard to gather - there's probably quite a few bikes hitting pedestrians, but in all likelyhood many incidents go unreported if no one is injured.
While I agree, the rot in the metro area schools runs so deep its going to take decades to get the progressive ideology out of them. My kids have gone to public schools their whole lives, but we live in the suburbs where the focus has always been on preparing kids for higher education and being prepare to find a successful career after college.

Public schools? When the cost per student is double that of my kids school and their graduation rate is hovering in the 60% range with less than 50% attending college? THAT is a huge problem. And what happens every year? Those same schools cry and whine they need MORE money to fix the problem. And every year the state allocates MORE money to them and every year NOTHING improves. And yet, its a constant cycle while the suburban schools continue to thrive while those metro area schools and their residents? They're trapped, like my sister and her three kids were.

What's the solution for them? They yank their kids out and send them instead to a private school whose focus is education, not indoctrinating them into some progressive ideology. The other problem is families won't wait around for ten years and wait for the problem to be fixed. They have a very narrow window in which to change things for their kids. Like my sister did, they're going to find somewhere else to send their kids and do that.

I 100% agree with your comment, but I feel the metro area schools are so entrenched and so far beyond being repaired, the best course is to make private schools more affordable, as opposed to spending decades trying to undo what these schools have done.
It's questionable in what way wokeness exists at all without a clear definition. Graham's definition is more personal judgment than definition, but according to him, whatever he thinks it is seems to be about 30 years old. Bolshevik-Mensheviks and Trotskyists-Stalinists sects appeared faster than that (the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks split a mere 5 years after the creation of the party).

Also, I think Sam Kriss's point about sects and splits was meant to be taken in humour. Funnily enough, both Kriss and Graham seem obsessed with convincing the reader they're not boring. But whereas Graham's writing is predictable though he repeatedly insists on telling the reader that his old-school conventionalism is the true rebelliousness, Kriss writes provocatively in a way that's supposed to make you unsure of whether he's serious or not. In any event, Kriss's writing is at least always entertaining even when it isn't interesting.
My understanding is that double and triple panes are an attempt to mitigate this.
One can always just measure the current \textwidth (or other dimension) and make adjustments to typesetting based on that.
made from a single sheet of recycled paper

Do they mean a single sheet of seriously thick card stock? Sheets of paper do not weigh 45 grams.
And to add insult to injury, you write "peperony and chease" on their tombstone.

Edit:

Poor Andy :-(

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/TheOregonTrail
Is this not the best example of what a lot of people think is the problem with wokeness? You are either “woke” or a racist. It’s almost comical.
> Sometimes it's a marketing stunt, but often recycling is more expensive. I mean, recycling a plastic bag is probably more expensive than making one.

Depends on the price of oil. Metal recycling is far more cost effective that extracting from ore. Glass, too, is very economical to recycle.

Plastic recycling was never about recycling, it was to convince people to use plastics.
And some quick DDG'ing confirms:

"Australia’s shortage of diesel additive Adblue is serious, but we can stop it going critical" (December 12, 2021)

<https://theconversation.com/australias-shortage-of-diesel-ad...>
CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music
The only people who could plausibly define 'woke' as 'people who investigate their own values and have empathy' are people who consider themselves woke and are sufficiently under pg's 'prig' definition to believe that is exclusive to them, and sociopaths. What emotionally normal person would say membership of another group is defined by 'basic human decency' and 'thinking about whether their objectives are any good'?
If you are in enterprise companies and see these discussions, you can see that the shift from product-led to sales-led (ie, enterprise) is a pretty conscious decision that companies make, as they know exactly the type of persona they are trying to target.
extroverts are not going to win this war
All good questions and I would be lying if I said I knew. My assumption is that Syria does not work without the revenue, as evidenced by the fall of Assad and many other poor petrostates when the tap is cut off. Most states cant survive a 40% budget shortfall, let alone a fledgling one trying to bind together many armed factions.

HTS & Ahmed al-Sharaa is reportedly not open to national partition [1], but the SDF is unwilling to integrate into the national military structure.

It might work as an uncomfortable trupple if the US and HTS are willing to be bedfellows, but it is unclear if that is attractive or even viable for either. Everything we know about Ahmed al-Sharaa indicates they they should be a ideological enemy, and the only thing that hedges against this is that it would be really convenient if they wern't. Maybe this will be shown in time, but military trust building is measured in terms of years or decades, while payroll is due weekly.

In general, I think Syrian Kurdistan is a fascinating example cognitive blindness, where the US public and media simply memory holes anything that happens there because creates too much cognitive dissonance. This was true when the US was fighting Russia for the oilfields, and is happening again now, as NATO allied Turkey is bombing Kobani cement factories to impede US base building. [2]

https://www.twz.com/news-features/u-s-reportedly-setting-up-...

https://hawarnews.com/en/renewed-bombing-by-turkish-occupati...
And then we can develop systems that save user prompts, automatically and dynamically regenerating page content as the AI models are updated.
https://archive.ph/PI7vb
Wokeness is also a way the media can smack down candidates like Corbin and Sanders, labeling them sexist or an antisemite for focusing on class instead of identity politics.
> This should have been a tutorial, not a product.

It doesn't seem too difficult to make something similar.
With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App 'Red Note'
I recently switched my system to the S2 app and protocol. I was still on the old S1 app for the past years which worked fine, but I wanted to add new Sonos devices that only supported the S2-protocol/app.

I had checked the compatibility lists and found that one of my older sonos devices wouldnt be supported. But I accepted that as I really wanted to get a new Sonos Sub 4 (S2-only) to connect with my existing Sonos Playbar (which supports updating to S2).

The upgrade process was bad, had to restart and reset devices a couple of times.. but after a while I got all my existing Sonos devices onto S2.

When I added the Sub to the system, the app told me that I couldnt pair it with the playbar. The app adviced me to get one of the newer Sonos soundbars..

I'm very disappointed that they did this.. I fully understand that some devices dont work with a new protocol, but after consulting the compatibility list I expected my Sonos Playbar would be able to pair with all other S2 devices.. what is even weirder is that it is possible to link the playbar with the older Subwoofer devices on the S2 network, so why couldnt a newer device be able to do the same thing..

I returned the Sub and will be ditching Sonos (and probably any other system where you "buy into" the system only to be left with uncompatible gear after a while..
I've maintained a domain and blog for nearly 20 years, but I find myself questioning why I want to write anymore. I don't know the answer, but it's interesting reading through others' perspectives. For me, it used to be because I enjoyed the tinkering aspect of maintaining the site and writing was an avenue towards that. Now, I just wonder who cares about my content, and more worried about writing something that gathers the wrong kind of attention - not because I'm worried about me, but because it's easy to just get internet-mad these days.

I work in tech, and it's probably good to have something out there, but I wouldn't assume it's a detriment not to. If nothing else, when I find some novel answer to a tech problem, maybe it'd be useful to document it for someone else. I don't think I'm doing anything esoteric or unique, but perhaps documenting is unique enough. But I'm not in it to growth hack or gain readers or anything. It'd be for me and anyone who happens to find what I have to say of interest.
it isn't "just" markdown though. "top matter" and custom html tags and custom htm in-general kinda breaks the appeal.
I'm there with you. He's could be trying to see how far he can go to get people to fork, and finding out there's literally nothing he can do to make his critics fork on their own dime. If it weren't GPL'd, WPE could fork it, close it, and lock it down. Instead, the parasite has to volunteer to be the next host.
I sort of get what you're trying to do here - an exercise in empathy - but the flip side of this is that he has been made enormously wealthy off the back of thousands and thousands of unpaid volunteer hours on an open source project. It's not only "others" who are getting the financial gains.
The whole "pale, male and stale" narrative is antiwhite racism. I don't think people should perpetuate it.
more accurately: The X Window System, version 11

and yes, I know it has its problems, but it is still a fine platform for many things and many people!
Swift Playgrounds is Apple‘s preferred answer.
A project that isn't discontinued, among other things.

I don't want to fiddle or think about hw/sw interface or compatibility. Just buy high quality speakers and invest by adding pieces to my system over time.
It's just a reminder how much "right place at the right time" plays into the phenomenon of ubiquity, from Wordpress to Harry Potter to Zoom to Javascript.

There are countless efforts to make the next Wordpress out there, yet no combination of Scheme and Rust is going to make up for the critical missing ingredient of "right place at the right time".
I like this take: https://web.archive.org/web/20230404013504/https://freddiede...

I think it's a farce to suggest that no one out there could be accurately described by it (identity politics being more important than class, language policing, etc)
> only reason we have the current system is due to tax referencing

What is tax referencing?
That's not true. PG has been ranting about wokeness for quite a long time already. I don't think you quite understand the nuance of a lot of these definitions. PG isn't a conservative MAGA guy nor a bigot. He just does not like how the woke crowd goes about trying to affect social change and how unsavory types use the woke crowd to achieve their political goals.
At least under some circumstances Linux shows (schedulable) threads as separate processes. Just be aware of that.
Facebook or YouTube might already be using an algo like this or AI to push variants, but for each billion user product, there are probably thousands of smaller products that don't need something this automated.
I think this is too cynical to be true. I brought up saturation and uncare of primary users (designers) specifically to address that quality is not enough. You put your heart and 1000 person-hours into a lovely font, but many will still opt for whatever ships with their OS or design tool. Quality is simply not enough, and sometimes don't even enter the picture, very similarly to creative work - for a musician, talent itself does nothing. Same for well-written code for software engineers - nobody cares, maybe only themselves in the future. Software achieving business goals, and being well written, or by brilliant people are two different things, with very weak correlation.

Usually the recipe for success includes good quality / talent, sure. But it also usually includes something that is markedly different from others. People, searching for this distinct something, can seem tryhard, or just throwing sh!t at the wall, to see what sticks - and maybe they are - but they are also doing something that's an organic part of the road to success.

For a font-related example, that might be easier on the eyes, could be Fira Code. One of the immediate distinguishers is the ligatures. Check it out if you haven't already, it's quite neat, and it was the talk of the town for quite some time.
I'm not talking about the literature -- I'm talking about the extremely simplistic and sub-optimal procedure described in the post.

If you want to get sophisticated, MAB properly done is essentially just A/B testing with optimal strategies for deciding when to end individual A/B tests, or balancing tests optimally for a limited number of trials. But again, it doesn't "beat" A/B testing -- it is A/B testing in that sense.

And that's what I mean. You can't magically increase your reward while simultaneously getting statistically significant results. Either your results are significant to a desired level or not, and there's no getting around the number of samples you need to achieve that.
Can you provide a few examples? I honestly don't remember anything this bad
Of course, someone could argue (analogously to this article) that the problem with the phrase is that the members of the People's Temple in Jonestown didn't drink poisoned Kool-Aid as often thought, but rather a different product called Flavor-Aid.
Different approach: splice in visual and audio effects of guns into Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Deathly Weapons -- Harry Potter With Guns

https://harrypotterwithguns.com/
Is this just an add for another paid CMS?
Interesting but I don't think the app is the only reason. The main reason is really the strong declining sales since last year.

As CEO of a public company you get about 3 quarters down before you're out.
Such a popular trick that it got a song written about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFLjNi2_qnk
A libertarian and consumer friendly right-to-repair (RTR) / right-to-own (RTO) governance model could be something like Orthodox Union or UL but for consumer devices

The Right-to-Repair union RTR-U could be a simple authority with access to the keys to unlock the device if the vendor breaches certain commitments. Various levels of commitment could be offered similar to copy-left. The basic / lowest level would be "can unlock if the company dies". Higher commitments could be

will unlock if ...

company starts telemetry

company changes licensing

company stops providing timely firmware updates.

This way consumers are guaranteed a certain quality of service and access on their devices. Then vendors get a stamp of approval (like OU or UL) with the level of certification like RTR-open, RTR-private , RTR-long-terms-support etc.

This governance operates within private enterprise while consumers are offered the option to buy into vendors who commit to right-to-repair and right-to-own.
I mean, there's not a lot we can do to stop you using the phrase in this way. But you should know that you will cause confusion. The phrase "open source" is, to an awful lot of people, a technical term with a specific meaning and has been so for decades now.
With AI that is now possible without wordpress
If the effect size x site traffic is so small it's statistically insignificant, why are you doing all this work in the first place? Just choose the option that makes the PHB happy and move on.

(But, it's more likely that you don't know if there's a significant effect size)
Meta's create-react-app unofficially officially deprecated