skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To run a macro on the start of each line matching your search, you can use:

:g//norm @q

Here, g// repeats the most recent search, and norm @q runs the q macro on each matched line. This is not quite the same as starting the macro with a search, since the cursor is at the start of the line and not at the start of the match, but it's often good enough.

You can also restrict it to just the matches inside a range of lines: First select the lines in visual mode, then type :g//norm @q, which will cause Vim to insert a range before g, as in: :'<,'>g//norm @q, which means "between line '< and '>, find lines containing a match of the most recent search, and run @q on each such line".
It's an actual cologne one can buy: https://www.joketown.com/smell-rich
Did pg really think through the timing of this essay?

Whether his intention or not, releasing this right now feels like it's part of a concerted effort by the SV ultra-rich to convince their fans that Trump Is Good Actually.
Ask the average Chinese person whether life was better for them in the late 90s or the late 2010s.

I'm pretty sure the rates of hunger and malnutrition dropped significantly over that timeframe. I have no doubts that obesity is higher now, but also a lot less people are starving.
I like the idea that you could think of the essay as part of the newly performative "not-hard-left" messaging. I guess maybe it is a product of its very recent times. It seems to me like there's a bit of social and cultural space for people to "speak up" that haven't felt like they can for some time. To my mind, that's all to the good, it leaves room for discussion and debate which is healthy.
You're not arguing in good faith and skirting the questions and logical answers.
Actually many people on the right believe they have been censored by Musk because of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/elon-musk-far-...
Will Smith has never had a stereotypical “black accent”. (I’m Black by the way). But do you notice that no matter how accepted an actor is in the Black community or even the Black hip hop community - ie Eminem - that they never say “the N word” in public or in their lyrics? Of course in movies you will hear it.

As an aside, I do think Robert Downey Jr. may be the last White guy who can wear Black face in a movie without getting canceled.
Could someone with "0 coding skill" really compose the prompts in the first place? You need to understand the problem space, the right terminology and visualise a general architecture/structure for the solution. These things might be obvious to you and me but take someone from a different field and it would be the same as handing me the controls to a medical robot and telling me to start pushing buttons.
I remember how a particular AI ethics reasearcher got Yann Lecun to leave Twitter. That's perfect definition of wokeness for me.
> If you're into retro computing, you probably know about Oregon Trail

Damn, that made me feel really old.
> In 2020 we saw the biggest accelerant of all, after a white police officer ~~asphyxiated~~ a black suspect on video.

This is quite some impressive editorializing, especially when the black "suspect's" killer is currently in prison for murder. I only highlight this because it indicates a very particular viewpoint held by the author - particularly stuff like this -

> And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice.

So, he states very early the performativeness is the issue. But, inevitably, when you ask these same people what then should be done about inequality, whether it be racial or otherwise, the answer is often "nothing" or denying that a problem even exists. I don't pretend to know this author's view here, but I'm just pointing out that the sentence quoted here is kind of dishonest - the implication being that if performativeness regarding social justice is a problem, that you should then focus on real efforts around social justice. This isn't mentioned a single time in this nonsensical screed, getting close in parts like this answering the "what now?":

> In fact there's an even more ambitious goal: is there a way to prevent any similar outbreak of aggressively performative moralism in the future — not just a third outbreak political correctness, but the next thing like it? Because there will be a next thing. Prigs are prigs by nature. They need rules to obey and enforce, and now that Darwin has cut off their traditional supply of rules, they're constantly hungry for new ones. All they need is someone to meet them halfway by defining a new way to be morally pure, and we'll see the same phenomenon again.

So, this author undermines his entire "point" (if a real one existed) with stuff like this, because the obvious conclusion is that any real effort at correcting social injustice and inequality will be met by cries of "aggressive performative moralism" by people exactly like this. From my view, that's probably the point, just please don't pretend you're doing anything intellectual here.

I'll leave this, this certainly does sound very "conventionally minded" (as he uses in a derogatory manner throughout this):

> Whenever anyone tries to ban saying something that we'd previously been able to say, our initial assumption should be that they're wrong
100% agree. They've become a symbol of how money corrupts people.
I'm pretty sure the extra overhead of maintaining a website (/equivalent) is a few orders of magnitude more than losing out on the 1% tech-amish.

Tech is hard, it's difficult for us to understand how hard.
I write for myself, and maybe a core group of friends, not random Web person.

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/05/16/just-code

But this authenticity tends to make some new friends along the way.
That's not a real problem. There are established models for training people to work in fields, where you need plenty of experience to qualify for an entry-level position. Medicine is the most prominent example.

And it's going to be easier than in medicine, because software is so forgiving. You can do real work during training with minimal supervision, as mistakes rarely cause serious harm.
No. Even asking this question requires either bad faith or being in a coma for the last few years

He has endorsed the neo-nazi party in Germany
The trouble is that all those labels do is rile up people who use opposite labels, or put the same labels on opposite things. Then we get into a label war, which is bad for everybody and invariably deterioriates into acrimony. We're trying to avoid that sort of internet here.
Shadow Divers (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers) - story of amateur deep sea divers who discover a sunken German U-Boat and spend years trying to get into it. Genuinely riveting story, absolute nutters operating at the edge of what’s possible (and what should be done?).
They simply realized reach is what you need to control, it doesn’t matter if you can write the most brilliant political content if no one will see it due to the distribution algorithm penalizing it while each single one of Musks mostly idiotic tweets reaches hundreds of millions of users. Free speech is meaningless if it can’t be heard by anyone.
How is that imitation?
Can you elaborate? I want to take you seriously but I don't get your point.

There are very few situations where speech leads to incarceration, and I don't think PG is talking about those, is he?
How much money do you have to have before your beliefs stop changing like a flag in the political wind?
well done, replying to continue a great thread
An invasion of your own country is not be definition a "proxy war". It is a matter of life and death.

You sound exactly like Putin. How strange.

Putin's moronic invasion of Ukraine has done a huge amount of damage to Russia's economy. Russia's per capita GDP could be double what it is if Putin wasn't such a complete moron.
Do you have specific excerpts from the book to push your claim that Paul Graham's writing identifies as a white supremacist?

Not sure why you are mentioning Project 2025 or the civil rights stuff, you lost us there.
> AI could reduce our staff by half, but that isnt what happens. Instead we just get more work done. The productivity increase seems to warrent spending more money on programmers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I mean, that's part of it. The culture war is useful to both US political parties, because they both have a bourgeois class interest and need something to keep people invested in politics for the sake of their political legitimacy, but at the same time need to prevent them from gaining class consciousness or becoming involved in class politics.

Put another way: the culture war (as woke vs. anti-woke) divides the electorate, but in a way that lets them be parceled out between two factions of the ruling class, rather than aligning any of them against the ruling class.
If you want some critique of the thing PG thinks he's critiquing (which, to parallel what he says about social oppression, is a problem but not of the nature or relative magnitude he thinks it is), but from people who have agendas to oppose social oppression instead of to protect it along with their own wealth and power, you could start with:

How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth?: Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language. by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-much-discomfort-is...

we will not cancel us. by adrienne maree brown https://adriennemareebrown.net/2018/05/10/we-will-not-cancel...
thats a shame, I had wanted to get the iwad for my collection
Aha, on Twitter, makes sense I'd miss it. I've mostly been thinking of Twitter as a place for posting random thoughts, and I thought most others saw it like that too, not like a place for serious thinking/discussions. I guess I was wrong.
That is pure speculation on your part (flamebait speculation at that). You can't prove it nor even offer compelling evidence for it.
I believe he's referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
If your position is that awareness of Musk’s alignment with the far right is a matter of feeling rather than well-documented fact [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] then no amount of easily-accessible and readily-available detail will convince you to adjust that position.

As for an example of Elon making Twitter rules around speech he doesn’t like, here[8] is one that is very public and not hard to come by.

1
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/02/elon-musk-nazis-kanye-twit...

2
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/12/20/elo...

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/elon-musk-far-...

4
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-...

5
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/business/elon-musk-nazi-jokes...

6
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/02/elon-musk-reinstates-...

7
https://www.vice.com/en/article/elon-musk-twitter-nazis-whit...

8
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-cis-cisgender-slur-twitter-185...
This is pretty much a canonical example of what does not belong on HN. A dumb topic, and then on top of that a dumb take on that dumb topic.
This presumes a high, perhaps delusional, level of faith in the public speaking space to determine what is "true."
Campaign [https://freeourfeeds.com/] aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky's tech [AT Protocol] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686651
Can anyone recommend a resource for how to (architecturally) handle communication with a device over i2c? That is where I am kinda stuck atm when it comes to programming a GPS device.

Backstory: at one point I was trying to use elixir/nerves on an rpi to manipulate a few sensor modules to try and produce a race lap timer for motorcycles: https://github.com/whalesalad/rabbit/blob/master/lib/rabbit/...

I bit off more than I could chew: learn elixir, learn i2c, and produce a novel library for controlling the ublox chip since nothing existed for Elixir.

But when it comes to managing the state of the device, reading/writing memory, etc.. that is all very foreign to me (I am used to sockets, http apis, etc) like request/response style interactions.
The desire for upvotes is largely what makes HN and Reddit approach groupthink so quickly. Folks with an opinion that they know will be popular will hyperbolize their opinion knowing that it will appeal to the dominant opinion of the community and get upvotes. People who feel really strongly about an issue then go into a thread and upvote everything they like and downvote the things they don't. They are often also the people with the most time on their hands. That's why heavily moderated subs (like AskHistorians and AskScience) that rely on a more formal moderation structure with credentialed moderators result in much higher quality discourse.

When you know your opinion is shared by the majority of the site, you'll be less careful about what you write and less charitable to folks with different viewpoints. You're more likely to sneer at the "opposition" and performatively signal about your superiority. That's how upvote social sites, like Reddit, end up getting so many highly upvoted "hivemind-like" uncharitable takes. Likewise, if you know your opinion is not shared by the community. You will hedge your writing, emphasize how it's simply your opinion, and water it down with caveats and complications that while true are a lot less emotionally evocative as the comments written by the majority. Eventually folks with minority opinions may just churn as the stepping around eggshells becomes exhausting. This creates further pressure to conform to the majority.

Some folks with majority opinions may not feel that strongly about their opinion but will post strongly anyway, knowing that they'll get upvotes. I've done this when I was younger as the dopamine boost makes you feel like a community hero, like you're "fighting the good fight." I've actually said some incorrect things due to this in the past but have nonetheless been highly upvoted.

HN has some safeguards here, like not being able to downvote someone who replied to you, hiding downvotes behind a karma threshold, and judicious moderation separate from upvotes/downvotes. But it's hard to change the fundamental nature of upvote based sites and the clique dynamics that form as a result.
This is by Twitter itself, before Musk: "Our results reveal a remarkably consistent trend: In six out of seven countries studied, the mainstream political right enjoys higher algorithmic amplification than the mainstream political left."
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2025334119

This is more recent: "We observe a right-leaning bias in exposure for new accounts within their default timelines."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01852

You can also find a lot a testimony from users like: https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1es2lfd/...

---

Now from personal experience (I've been on Twitter since 2007 and used it virtually everyday since then):

I've heard and read a lot of such testimony in particular from user who don't post much or at all and only follow a few accounts. In the last two years they've been exposed to a lot of far right content.

I've seen how the moderation team at twitter took action before musk when reporting (often illegal) hate speech and now just respond by saying that it doesn't violates the platform rules.

I've seen on the contrary people (even journalists) and political or news organization getting locked out of their account following a far right online mob against them, and then having a hard time (sometimes to the point of giving up) getting it back because the moderation team did not act.
> Build me a website where users can make and share a link to a text document like a shopping list and edit it collaboratively

Between a human and a current-day LLM that would take a day,
tops, to implement.
Correct, but if the point is "what is lewd can change out from under you without any consent on your part" ad contra scarface and in support of the OP, then this is a reasonable response (though I agree it would have been better to put it in quotes and then point out the issue in several follow-on paragraphs to better fit with the site. This isn't Reddit).
You don't even need a new account. You could have a years old account and you'll get notifications about that crap even if you have never followed anything even remotely similar. That's what made me delete my account. I got Musk's tweets in my notifications and noped the fuck out.
Offline-First: Save and Sync Your Notes from Anywhere
On that note, Facebook suggestions are 3:1 or 4:1 in relation to my friends.

The reason I only visit FB once a month to check for messages from some people who still use Messenger.
The point of UBI is not "a life of relaxation and leisure", and no realistic UBI in the life of anyone now living will deliver that.
If you want technical articles with less politics, try the invite-only red site.
Thanks. I understand this a lot more now that I've learned about venvs, and I'm between VScode and emacs for editing. No longer would I install a editor which depends on the same environment as the code I want to run.

As for Spyder, it is included in the default Windows install of Anaconda (and linked to by the default Anaconda Navigator). As a new user doing package management via the GUI, it was not clear at all that Spyder was sharing dependencies with my project until things started breaking.

Anaconda was also half-baked in other ways: it broke if the Windows username contains UTF-8 characters, so I ended up creating a new Windows user just for that ML work. PITA.
Really? In a thread discussing PG's most recent brain fart you can't understand why today would be the day?
Is this a subject Paul has expressed an interest in before, or is this another instance of tech founders cozying up to the incoming president before he's installed? There seems to be a lot of that going around in Silicon Valley lately, is something threatening their billions of dollars if they don't toe the line?
Just go check out that man's X (twitter?) feed. Elon constantly says the quiet part out loud. I'm from genx and if you're younger I'm going to give you all some solid life advice. When someone tells you who they are, listen.
Woke is critical construcivism.

The belief consists of two parts:

1. That truth is socially constructed thus when we see bad things, it means society created these bad things.

2. In order to determine what parts of society to cut-out to make society better, so bad things stop happening, use a critical theory to determine who should be removed from society so it can be more equitable (usually the stand in for good.

Woke normally holds that goodness is when results are equal, and if they are not equal, they have license to adjust them to equal (This is the core argument of Marxism, though woke could be said to be identity or social Marxism rather then just the economic Marxism presented, though in practice class identity was present from the start as well and expanded in practice under Mao).
>If you can't see that this is 99% of a video slot machine game, just without any cost per spin

The cost per spin is the thing that makes it gambling. Without a wager, it is not gambling.

Watching a horse race is not gambling. Placing a wager on a horse race is gambling.

In Luck Be a Landlord, players do not place wagers. There is no gambling mechanic. Not even a virtual wager for play money.
American publishers tend to give one a choice: hardbacks, more expensive, clumsier, but made for heavy duty; paperbacks, less expensive, handier, but not holding up as well under wear. And in general the first year of publication one can buy only the hardback--which is why I don't like book clubs that want to read only new books.
> The easy (and right) way out was to hire the most competent doctors

What I mean by "easy" is "quick and superficial." Hiring the most competent doctors delays achieving the statistic of "more black doctors," so it's not the "easy way" I'm talking about. It takes time for education to come up to par in black communities, because they're poorer for historical reasons. The right (and harder, because it's not doable via a means that the DEI people directly control---hiring) way is to put money where it's needed for education, and "more black doctors" will be a ripple effect achieved without discrimination.
> Yea, this is a nice thought if you don't live in society

Well, democracies are societies, and you have much freedom in (most of) those. Not sure where you live, but if possible, you can always try to vacation in one to experience it yourself :)

> "your freedom to stops at my freedom from"

I don't understand what this means, nor how it relates to having root access on your digital devices. Could you possibly explain this again? I want to understand.
Shouldn't matter. Musk is a free speech absolutist after all.
I am very sympathetic to the idea that some harm-reduction policies do more to enable drug addiction among the homeless than help them.

But the immigration stuff is just right-wing nonsense. a) We don't have anything like unrestrained immigration, that's propaganda. Obama and Biden both deported more people than any other presidents in history to that point (https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-deportation-re..., https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamas-deportation-policy-nu...). And b) the percentage of homeless who might compete with a Honduran immigrant for a day-laborer job is a tiny sliver.
BASIC doesn't have typing, so most BASIC interpreters just used floating point everywhere to be a beginner friendly as possible.

The last thing they wanted was someone making their very first app and it behaves like:

Please enter your name: John Doe

Please enter how much money you make every day: 80.95

Congratulations John Doe you made $400 this week!
that definition is wrong, really by just common sense
This is a weird hill to die on for a billionaire. Is wokeness a problem? If I recast it as an assault on free speech, sure. But exactly how bad is this assault? I sure hear a lot of really rich people talk about wokeness, despite the proclaimed suppression of their speech. And is it as much of a problem as racism, sexism, homophobia or other forms of bigotry endemic in our society?
I haven't been able to dial in a palatable dark mode palette with Dark Reader but this is perfect to me. Thanks!
Bullshit. Try using the term cisgender on Twitter, regardless of context
In the US statistically speaking a minority is much more likely to be killed by another minority than a "white" American.
Stuff like Pringles are made from the nastiest rotting potatoes in the planet. It's been 20 years since the last time I set foot in a potato plant, I can still smell it.
relevant:

Slack, by Tom DeMarco
https://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Effici...