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No, but I do feel like if every programmer were to complain that all they do is babysit AI code, and if we see that most of their commits are fixing mistakes of AI code (e.g. wrapping stuff with null checks or something), eventually management would listen.
Me as well, having a definition is useful when trying to understand someone’s perspective and I applaud him for that.

It seems that his opposition is with SJW Puritanisms and I agree with him on that point.
Rich people will definitely have more options so they can walk away from bad deals.
I think there is a lot to be said for public schools to be eliminated, for all schools to be private schools with the government providing vouchers. So you would have some students going to a strong STEM school, others to schools with strong vocational education, etc--instead of students going to an average generic local public school. There is a lot to be said for freedom of choice.
Yeah, the Vouchers Hurt Ohio site says 90% of the schools receiving vouchers are religious.
So you imagine Discord punishing you for talking about Slack? Or Google suspending your account for talking about TikTok? On the matter of customers talking about marketplace alternatives... your instincts say "oh yes, let's exclude this from the discussion of free speech?"
On the immigration issue, I'm mostly speaking from personal experience. I think this issue, just like immigration itself, is very regional and doesn't present the same way everywhere. In the town where I live it's now basically impossible to get an entry level job - the competition is fierce[1]. This is a result of a mass influx of foreign students thanks to a local diploma mill. Not surprisingly, the rents and homeless population have increased rapidly over the same period.

[1] https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/massive-lineu...
I've lived long enough to see pg turn into a boomer-ass uncle lmao.
> One of the things I love most about this country is that America is a civic nation

What are you a communist? /s

Jokes aside, with the recent election, the country has been sold to capitalists and oligarchs.

I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if the school system in some states is fed to vultures to suck money from.

You may think it is impossible in America but remember anything has been possible in America, including enslavement and redlining. Selling schools to vultures is not at all outside the realm of possibilities here.
It just means being awake with regards to your position in society and privileges. Recognizing your unearned advantages (and disadvantages) and managing to swallow your ego and acknowledge the ways you've benefited from society's stratifications.

The problem, of course, is that "Awareness and acknowledgement of the true nature of society" can be interpreted to mean a thousand different things, some of which are more accurate and actionable than others.
I also really love this game. It's what originally taught me a lot about the workings of trains, different capabilities of locomotives, the need for sidings due to monetary cost of double-tracking everywhere, etc.

The article mentions the existence of the PSX and Dreamcast ports but does not mention that the DC version is actually re-done in a fully-3D engine as opposed to the traditional approach of the PC version where the 3D models were pre-rendered to 2D graphics covering the multiple angles of rotation. It's one of the Windows CE based Dreamcast games! https://segaretro.org/Windows_CE

Here's a longplay where you can see it: https://youtu.be/a7tgccUpPAc
This is a shallow dismissal, which is against the HN Guidlines.
There was an essay by Ken Shirriff on the front page earlier, discussing political stuff but leaning in the opposite direction. It, at time of writing has 271pts vs this with 218pts.
> probably intended for other people in Korea

The seller is called “grape lab”, with a “g” as the logo, and “Sustainable Design Lab” as the tagline. Everything in English. How is that “intended for other people in Korea”?
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You are missing the forest for the trees.

The example I cited, of performing parade drills with fake guns without understanding their purpose while hoping they will cause some other effect, is more than sufficient to fill the accepted definition of cargo culting. There is no need to get hung up on specifics of airport rituals, which appears to be your preoccupation.
I agree that the government should not censor statements that don't violated specific laws.

I am strongly convinced that any person or organization has the right to moderate content flowing through the systems they host. If you want to say "I don't believe the Holocaust happened", that should be your legal right. It should be my legal right to tell you, "go get your own soapbox to spout that nonsense. You're not doing it on my dime."
That sounds right to me, too. Five years ago someone of color could say to a white guy "if you're not down, you're at least woke" and mean it as a compliment. Not sure what the new way to say that would be.
"Government entities use taxpayer money..."

Individual people - government employees - decided to do this.

They decided to use taxpayer funds (that were specifically allocated for educating students) to finance legal action aimed at preventing parents from choosing which schools would receive taxpayer funding to educate their children.

In other words, government employees spent public education money on litigation designed to keep money flowing into their own pockets, rather than allowing those funds to follow students to whatever educational environment their families determined would best serve them.
Easy, Reclaim The Net documents Twitter censorship for years. Here, you have dozens of links, pages and pages https://reclaimthenet.org/?s=twitter
What do you mean BS trope? Literally the king of insurance says to self-insure if you can afford it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/charlie-munger-said-warren-bu...
> concerted effort by the SV ultra-rich to convince their fans that Trump Is Good Actually

If that was his intention, wouldn't he make an article calling for the end of wokeness and everything related to it? Instead of saying something that can be summed up as "There are bad parts of wokeness, and there are some good parts"
He’s been interested in how taboos influence our thought and speech for a long time: https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html .
This is the whole problem. That money (and more!) should be going to public schools to fix them. We should all want great public schools everywhere. An educated populace is the only way we as a country can grow and improve.
Its a totally usable pen everyday if you want. I don't think most people spending $40 on a pen put it in a display case, its not a $4000 pen.
and then there are the people who name their variables Dennis...
> This should have been a tutorial, not a product.

I love this. More tutorials, fewer products.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/charlie-munger-said-warren-bu...
Oh this is super cool. Makes things a lot easier for me. I will be using this.
> He was truly an innovator that makes today’s “films of people talking to each other” look amateurish.

I feel you could have said the first part without attempting to critique films with a different aesthetic aspiration.

I just watched Eisenberg's "A Real Pain" last night, and there is no way that any of the things Keaton was good at would have improved that film at all. Which is not to say that Keaton was not an innovator .. just that there is more than one aesthetic goal for films, and room for all of them.
There is so very little citation or substantiation in the entire essay. Even the footnotes are largely just more speculation. He presents it as some kind of historical record but it's literally just his thoughts.
Is that how you justify a swastika tattoo? You can also rob the bad people of the power to hide behind the words and symbols: if only bad people use them, we know the users are bad. It's definitely signaling, I don't see why it has to be "cultural".
Personally, I took the comment to imply that we are not really solving the root issue behind what is driving the change in terminology and thus we are doomed to continue to apply the same (ineffective) solution.
One of the challenges is that cweb wrote #line directives to its output so a file might change, but not in a meaningful way.
The rich are choosing sides for Trump era, and this is just a white flag raised.
Here's an account that calls itself Michelle Obama (not even Michelle's Obama) after the parody rule went into effect (unlike Elon's Musk). It doesn't label itself a parody. It's still there. https://x.com/TaxpayerEnrique
Criminalization of homelessness is probably the most stark example of class warfare in society today. And agitation against these policies is absolutely called "woke" by the right.

The idea that wokeness is in contrast to class-based advocacy is not correct. The right will happily call class-based advocacy "woke" until the cows come home.
"According to your opinion, and it's your site so you can censor people who speak up. But I can see that you don't take sexual violence seriously. It's your choice to enable serial sexual harassment through lewd comments."

There I put it in quotes so you can see the point being made. Considering I can attribute lewdness to nothing, I am easily capable of doing so from any comment. Now, as an "individual of color experiencing comment censorship" (the phrase for someone who is downvoted), I demand action.
It's supposed to be a monopoly. I don't pay property taxes to make some head of OmniCorp Education LLC a multimillionaire. I do it so that the kids in my neighborhood aren't dumber than rocks.

Your local school district is the default. If you want to do something else, you're free to. You can educate your child yourself, or pay another educational institution to do it for you. Is that too expensive? Maybe you should talk about that with the person who pays your salary.
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I love that complaining about language policing is language policing
direct translation: „we at meta are a super innovation company and among the leaders in AI. our valuation will go through the roof this year.“ (buy stocks now i need to catch up with my billionaire „friends“.
I've been thinking about Tintin as well recently after seeing Elon's rockets. The concept of a young investigative journalist travelling the globe while solving mysteries and seeing wonders both natural and cultural certainly does have an enduring appeal.
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If the junk doesn't work right from the beginning, yes. The problem is that sometimes the junk might look like it works at first, and then later you find out that it doesn't, and you ended up having to make urgent fixes on a Friday night.

> And in that process I've found is where the real magic happens

It might be good way to learn if there's someone who's supervising the process, so they _know_ that the code is incorrect, and tells you to figure out what's wrong and how to fixes.

If you are shipping this stuff yourself, this sounds like a way of deploying giant foot-guns into production.

I still think it's a better to learn if you try to understand the code from the beginning (in the same way that a person should try to understand code they read from tutorials and stackoverflow), rather than delaying the learning until something doesn't work. This is like trying to make yourself do reinforcement learning on the outputs of an LLM, which sounds really inefficient to me.
I don't think the "show less like this" works on photos. It seems to work well on text posts.
That’s really all Silicon Valley has to offer at this point.

They are our betters and we should follow them without question.
If folks want to instill this mindset in their kids, themselves or others I would recommend at least

The Martian by Andy Weir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)

To Engineer Is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design By Henry Petroski
https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/engineeringinsociety/front-ma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Fe...!
I replied to your comment about what constitutes imitation and why that rule exists. Neither of us have any idea about the details of that particular ban
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> This was not the original meaning of woke, but it's rarely used in the original sense now. Now the pejorative sense is the dominant one. What does it mean now? I've often been asked to define both wokeness and political correctness by people who think they're meaningless labels, so I will. They both have the same definition:

An aggressively performative focus on social justice.

In other words, it's people being prigs about social justice. And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice.
An ideology that highlights the existence of, questions, and probably seeks to undermine a number of current social hierarchies, and power structures.

Whether this is seen as a good or bad thing depends in where one falls on the left/right spectrum.
Well, here's a more realistic test, reading and printing 16 × 16 slides from DATA statements. With BASIC 2.0 more like 1.5 fps… :-)

BASIC 2.0 (slow PRINT): https://masswerk.at/pet/?prg=hn-globe-slides-test&rom=2

BASIC 4.0 (faster PRINT): https://masswerk.at/pet/?prg=hn-globe-slides-test&rom=4

The main part of the program is:

10 PRINT CHR$(147)
20 FOR F=0 TO 16
30 PRINT CHR$(19);:FOR R=0 TO 15
40 READ A$:PRINT TAB(12)A$:NEXT
50 NEXT
60 RESTORE:GOTO 20
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This is my experience too. Even though we don't hand off control to the (often buggy) BIOS anymore, there is still a fair bit of hardware support that needs to be in place to have a smooth suspend/resume. Even on the Windows install that shipped with the laptop I've had machines that fail to suspend properly and turn into bagwarmers or that fail to restore the graphics when waking back up or any number of potential issues. I've even had machines that brick their SSDs the first time you put them to sleep. Permanently bricked, can't even be wiped or factory reset bricked.
"People of color" is a broader term than "black people", and is meant to replace the (pretty widely accepted as) offensive "colored people", not "black people". I feel like it's useful to have a non-offensive phrase that means "nonwhites" without being defined in terms of white people, but maybe I'm just too woke to reason effectively ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's an argument to be made that maintaining the integrity of the school district is, in fact, serving the education of the students.
"Gig workers" gets the headline, but this is really just highlighting that contractors of all sorts get shafted with regards to payment timelines.

"Standard 30+ day delay" is pretty common for contractors of all sorts, and is part of the reason contracting rates should be so much higher than standard employment. But it's kinda shitty and usually due to laziness on the corp's part rather than any particular actuarial reason.
I'm in general agreement with you. And <<-- I think he's right to complain about US Universities on this. There was a period quite recently where literal invitations to self-criticism were required at some of the US' top schools. I cannot believe this increased the diversity of opinion and thought at those schools. To me, Summers is a stand-in for a lot of academics in the essay, and most interesting because he was a powerful person who was not as powerful as the social movement of the time.

Anyway, as you say, Mr. Summers will be fine.
Multi-arm bandit does beat A/B testing in the sense that standard A/B testing does not seek to maximize reward during the testing period, MAB does. MAB also generalizes better to testing many things than A/B testing.
It's not "racially gated," lol. It's a word that was popularized and primarily used by black activists, just like how "bikeshed" as a verb was invented by and mainly used by software engineers.
The sort of people who make careers out of this type of thing: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/words-and-phrases-comm...
What influence of theirs are you seeing on HN?
Point taken. I wouldn't recommend avoiding anything modern across the board and neither does CS Lewis. And innovation is great but I would guard against assuming that innovation is always positive and a step in the right direction even if not directly. It's also true that many old texts, religious or otherwise, contain timeless wisdom that can inform innovative efforts. And I'm not talking about old by many centuries either. For example, I think many of the hacker types that frequent HN and seek to build something innovative would probably benefit from reading some of Alan Turing's writings. On the other end of the spectrum, maybe Sam Altman could benefit from studying the story of the tower of Babel.
Things will play out differently in the public and private sectors. But if you take Trump's cabinet selections as a bellwether then there are people of a variety of races, sexes, and backgrounds.

I find it hard to take seriously the notion that anybody serious is arguing for "let's go back to all white dudes" as a response to DEI. Sure...it's going to happen because nepotism and cliques aren't going away. But on the whole, it seems people want to move towards competence/merit being the only factors in play.

Will it get there? Time will tell, but there will invariably be issues. Your execution can be wrong, even if your philosophy is right. But if your philosophy is wrong (we need x% minority engineers, x% trans engineers, x% female engineers), you'd be hard pressed to avoid bad implementation.

"We are having a hard time hiring all the people we want. It doesn't matter what they look like" John Carmack
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Thinking about progress, I read that AfD’s chancellor candidate was a lesbian. That would be unimaginable two decades ago let alone the 60’s. Even the right is progressing and they don’t know it.
I would generally agree, but in many cases 1) people don't read the comments/replies, 2) interesting responses get drowned out by low-quality responses, 3) the criteria by which useful responses get highlighted can be skewed by a variety of factors, including vote brigading and algorithmic bias or sometimes just a bias towards the earliest comments (which get upvotes, which then get more views, which get more upvotes).
Abbot and Costello - Who's on First - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYOUFGfK4bU

SNL - Republican or Not - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_N80qKYOM

If one desires understanding and learning about the world, one must remain curious and humble. Unfortunately curious and humble people are generally not as emotionally and more importantly, politically activated.

So a politician may go looking for a subject that will be emotionally activating to as many people as possible. It barely matters whether more people will be on their side or the other side. As long as the fight is going, they will get engagement.

It is very difficult to motivate a person towards a complex world where the other side is made of humans (sinners, but still human).

It is much easier to motivate a person towards a simple world where their own side is righteous and the other side is composed of demons.

---

So, is the other side made of sinners or demons?
That's a brilliant quote. Thank you for sharing.
It's also with nothing that this article's title was either directly ripped from or just so happens to be identical to a YouTube video about the "party ball" in the video game super smash Bros[1].

There's lots of good criticism of the actual article to expand on here, calling someone a white supremacist because they used an incredibly common title format does not add to that.

[1]https://youtu.be/lSaNV-83mAQ?si=xAE75fWHcqG17Lfm
Did one Cloud prevail?
It's perceived as performative by the dominant culture because it's purpose is to bring certain injustices to light; injustices that are sometimes nuanced, but usually just obscured by history and bias.

That's about as long an essay at PG has ever written; red flag.

Imagine individuals and their experiences that "wokeness" is meant to help and notice none of that is recognized in the essay.
It's a GDP graph. How do you cherry pick a GDP?! Good grief.
>and not, incidentally, by censoring left-wing users the way Twitter used to censor right-wing ones, but without censoring either.

Type the word "cisgender" on twitter and say that again, Paul.
Yesterday I was at a gaming parlor in SF and they had "Oregon Trail the card game". I sent my brother a picture. I couldn't my kids to even know why it was special.
At that point why even bother making it legit? Just use dev tools to edit the price you want into the page and send a screenshot to the hotel…

“Oh, you don’t see that price too? Sorry Mr Manager, I guess it must be because you’re booking it from another location. Nevermind then, I’ll continue to book through this partner instead…”
Well said, thank you for this.
These fringe conspiracies on the left are just as troubling as the same ones on the right. Sure it’s possible but highly unlikely that this was an intentional use of that book. I would guess for more likely he has no idea about this book like myself.
This objection is mentioned specifically in the post.

You can add a forgetting factor for older results.
I think thats likely the worst outcome possible. The public school system needs reform not privatization.

Privatization of any vital public infrastructure has to my knowledge never led to a better result. Whether is public transport, medical care, or education. You can have a specialized public school system that allows for different life paths, but putting the education in the hands of private entities is going to degrade the education for most students.
I have favored certain job offers over others due to liking the building they were in.
> #1 Understand the system: Read the manual, read everything in depth, know the fundamentals, know the road map, understand your tools, and look up the details.

Maybe I'm mis-understand but "Read the manual, read everything in depth" sounds like. Oh, I have bug in my code, first read the entire manual of the library I'm using, all 700 pages, then read 7 books on the library details, now that a month or two has passed, go look at the bug.

I'd be curious if there's a single programmer that follows this advice.
I just have one question.........Are they replacing Junior Engineers yet?