skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think there's anything about Bsky that makes it "left wing" or an echo chamber

Bsky lacks (1) ads, (2) paying posters rewarded with promoted reach, and (3) a default algorithmic feed (Discover is algorithmic and exists, but the default feed unless unpinned is always Following.) It also has shareable feeds, as well as the default pinned feeds.

Each of these individually makes most users experience of Bluesky a lot more seeing what they choose to see than seeing what the site owner has a financial or other interest in everyone seeing, which in a sense makes it more likely to be a personal echo chamber rather than a single echo chamber or the mythical perfectly unbiased online marketplace of ideas.

OTOH, it also got a lot of users specifically in reaction to negative feelings about the central ideological direction perceived at X, which may make it on average more left-wing by comparison, if very much not uniformly left-wing or having any fundamental trait tending toward remaining even relatively left-wing.
> maybe let Syrians decide for themselves

What does this mean? From the outside the choices are work to reduce sanctions and increase commercial and diplomatic ties or keep the Syrian economy in a stranglehold.

> if Israel keeps occupying territory and undermining HTS rule then we don’t know what will replace them

Israel is like problem number eight billion for Damascus right now. (Keep in mind that without Israel neutralising Hezbollah, HTS would have had a tougher fight with Assad. Damascus and Tel Aviv may have more to coöperate on than fight over.)
Well he chose not to make those wishes known in his will apparently, or in any of the contracts which assigned his IP to others.
Also the higher molecular weight helps. Krypton is better than argon; xenon would be better still but is very expensive.

Thermal conductivity of gases: https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=90754...

Notice how good CFCs are (even though they have plenty of internal degrees of freedom).
Pre-CSS grid masonry layout. Author hides the content with CSS, and JS reveals it, to avoid a flash.

CSS to make it noscript friendly: `.main { visibility: visible !important; max-width: 710px; }`
> If you're going to buy a laptop stand anyway and you have the choice between A) a plastic stand or B) this recycled stand, does it make more or less sense, in terms of environmental impact, to buy the plastic stand over this one?

I mean, if you expect the cardboard one not to last very long, then yes. Yes it does "make more or less sense".
There's much more ideology attached to "wokeness" than just "be nice" and "be respectful", such as the concepts around gender and neurodiversity spectrums.

Just using the word itself evokes immediate reactions from those aligned with particular political "sides". I've formed this opinion after my many, mandatory DEI trainings at work.

I think all good people can agree that being nice and being respectful of people who aren't hurting others is a no-brainer.

Edit: Note that this comment is being downvoted to oblivion and illustrates my point.
it's not about the "meaning" of the word but more the way people use it and its connotations.

it is often code for a racist or homophobic sentiment the speaker doesn't want to own up to.

when people say "things are getting too woke" - let's be honest, they are often saying that people who were once unfairly marginalized (black people, gay people, women) are getting less marginalized.
What we didn't have 20 years ago was interaction bait/rage bait. I mean, I guess rage bait still existed, but it was FAR less common.

Don't feed the trolls, we used to say.

Now, everyone with a room temperature IQ and a massive ego can't help but correct people. So many videos of people deliberately doing things wrong that they HAVE to comment. Or poorly worded questions that make people argue over the correct answer when they can't even agree on what's being asked.

Not to mention that social media has given a bullhorn to every moron conspiracy theorist, and now we have a greater number of Flat Earthers than any time in recent history, not to mention political issues.
He is attacking a straw man, by defining "woke" in a far narrower sense than it is actually used. Any objection to any form of prejudice, or any indication that the speaker is aware that members of some groups are better off than others, will be labelled "woke" by many commenters. It's to the point where some bigots say "woke" in the exact same places that their grandparents would say "n***-lover".

But instead Graham focuses on people who are overly concerned with specific language because those people are easier to criticize.
It should also be noted that that comic was published 8 years ago. We're now at +1.5c, which means we're actually doing worse than his "current path" line from back then.
> I also think the gruellingly slow death of legacy media and rise of bluesky and X (and mastodon) is a net positive for society, if only for the reason that ~tweets can be immediately and transparently rebutted, whereas brainwashing ‘news’ programs can’t.

The problem with this logic is that for the most part, new media isn't replacing legacy media; it's simply placing new layer of filtering in front of it. The vast majority of people sharing information on these platforms aren't journalists doing their own research. Instead, they're getting their information from journalists and just applying their own filtering and spin. "Rebuting" usually just involves linking to different news sources. You were always better just reading the legacy media in the first place.
The Chromebooks that require removing a single internal screw are a fairly civilized example of this approach (might be a little harder to execute in a phone).
There's still lots of gatekeeping everywhere if you know where to look!
The images are not destroyed, they all still exist.

I'm not sure if a style is something that can be destroyed, but I don't think AI has done that yet.
> Many cs grads go into bs jobs way under their potential (random government agencies, contractors.)

Why are those jobs deemed bs?
I googled "does BlueSky have a CP problem" and I still have no idea what this means.
Binary search rules. Being systematic about dividing the problem in half, determining which half the issue is in, and then repeating applies to non software problems quite well. I use the strategy all the time while troubleshooting issue with cars, etc.
The reflection and hot patching features are often called out as negatives, and in general I agree, but for the most part, they're non-factors. All of the "find_x_by_id_and_status()" methods that rely heavily on reflection are all available with a more general, maintainable "find_by()" method which just takes a hash of parameters. And in practice, I'm not sure how much custom hot patching is actually used in production codebases. Overall it's mostly a red herring which detractors have vastly overstated.
The goal of the website/service it to facilitate this part.
> ways to neutralize the use of VPNs

Probably - unfortunately - and so we can expect buying online to become ever more cumbersome. Great /s. Although diminishing returns might save us: the platforms will focus on "most buyers" and hopefully leave techies alone. But we can see in the youtube story that in some cases there is sooooo much money that even the techies will be beat back through pharaonic efforts.
> Moving the goalposts

Grew rapidly must equal responsible for every penny because we are moving goal posts around.. The US brought its budget under control when Bill Clinton dodged meaningless conflicts and it spends most of its money on costs like the VA being raised for decades into peace time. Naturally it can spend into a deficit in peace, the Republicans make a game of intentionally flushing money down the toilet with war to try to avoid social spending, but social spending can be an investment while an investment in Afghanistan would have been a war crime.

Further book value is not nonsensical for international finance, it is hard to measure for a country but building civil infrastructure via loans is obviously raising a value that will pay dividends, if you do it in your own country..
The Doomscroll Industrial Complex: How Anxiety Became a Business Model
Even if you do have something memorable, how would you be found through organic search and even then why would most people remember to check it off unless they follow you on social media - which will probably be suppressed if you have a link to your blog - or they use RSS, which few people do these days unfortunately.

You almost have to have a mailing list, which is problematic on its own.

Then, what’s the ultimate goal? Ads (ughh)? Paid subscriptions? Becoming known as an industry expert?
The author owns the copyright unless they transfer it. His transference of those rights shows that he was motivated by profit.
The "20" is missing from the title.
As background, the trouble started when they abandoned their native app for a Flutter rewrite. Flutter is not wholly to blame of course, but it's the reason the app feels weird and unreliable, and that in turn makes the hardware — and the company — feel weird and unreliable.

The first order of business should be to return to native app development, or at least adopt a platform (like React Native) that uses native controls.
God I hope not. That would set a terrible president. Every other state insurance plan would eventually start running itself in a "obviously insolvent but it looks sane if you squint and market it with the morals of a used car salesman" manner but they'd be fools not to if the feds are in the business of picking up the tab.
If I remember correctly applesoft also had a few single bytecodes that would decode to other key words. Like PRINT and ?. But I could be remembering badly.
I should have been very clear that "silly legal matters" was meant tongue in cheek. I do not think that this is cool at all.

You raise a good point. However, both Spotify and YouTube benefited from network effects and being the biggest guerrilla in the room. Can you remove the initial illegality from their later success, since the latter dependend on the prior?

What seems inevitable is that some deal is made with major rights holders, the little guy gets screwed, as has happened before.
I don't understand this wokery-as-politeness argument. Politeness obviously has a place, but if you're trying to solve real social problems while also being unable to discuss the actual problem, because speaking frankly about it is impolite, then clearly is counter-productive if your goal is to solve actual social problems. As far as I can tell, wokery functions as a straight jacket on language that is designed to make only one solution to a given problem (generally the solution that blames white people) even sayable.

I don't think it is politeness, I think its a political power play to control language that sounds nice to first-order-thinking left wing types.
Right now, although it's possible to use Android with either root or a third party ROM, attestation breaks all sorts of little things. Today this is mostly banking apps, and anything that involves NFC, but this isn't where it's going to end.

Attestation requirements are only going to become more prevalent. I predict that in a few years basically all proprietary software for Android will require attestation.

So... you may still be able to unlock the device and make it yours, but you'll also be locked out of the ever expanding and ever-more-isolated walled garden.

If you can live off of GrapheneOS and F-Droid, that's great, but for a lot of users this won't be a real choice, because you increasingly need proprietary software for access to real things in the physical world (i.e. I needed to install a special app for event tickets recently).
The difference here is people are trying to address people’s actual life experiences instead of something they believe based on faith.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell. You can disagree without this. There was nothing lewd in what scarface_74 posted.
Depends on the version. The original was BASIC, but the one with graphics and sound (which I think was more popular?) was assembly.
I think the word “woke” means very different things to some people.

As an example I think people from the American political left to somewhere(?) in the middle see it as what it has been introduced as, that being looking past the status quo and instead looking at your own values, i.e. the morality of homelessness and not having a disdain for them but empathy for them instead.

and then on the other side it feels like the people on the American political right see it as what this website describes it as “ A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.”

I think the divide has originated from taking unlikeable behaviour and labeling that as ‘woke’ (in bad faith of course) and some people have just bonded to that definition so much that they see it as that.

At least that’s what I’ve noticed online over the past few (bonkers) years
Then just don't navigate to For You. I wish I could just see my friends on Facebook (those are the people I care about), but I can't turn off crappy suggestions.

With X I can control my own feed by using the followers tab.
The more sophisticated the population the higher the production value is. If the population are idiots who will believe anything then why bother overproducing, slop will do. It's cheaper that way.

And yes, your foreign shilling is that obvious.
> The soundtrack was also incredible, and I wish it were available independently.

For a few euros (and less if you happen to catch a sale), the GOG version is worth it for the soundtrack alone. But yeah, 7-Zip doesn't seem to recognise the installer used by GOG, so you actually have to install the game to get at the soundtrack files.
If you live in LA it's kind of important.
> A pass is a model with no human training data input that is able to reason on human content.

OK, then humans fail hard. A baby raised with "no human training data" (no conversation, no active teaching, no social interaction, obviously no books or videos) would be a total imbecile... or dead.
Once again flagged, it's becoming an issue :(.

I see more and more post disappearing and since you can't vouch unless the post is completely dead it just gets buried.
You don't want a small laptop screen as close as possible to your eyes. That's asking for eyestrain and problems in the long-term.

If you're having trouble seeing clearly, you should use glasses and/or increase the system-wide font size (or decrease the "resolution").
child sexual abuse materials
In my experience, the most pernicious temptation is to take the buggy, non-working code you have now and to try to modify it with "fixes" until the code works. In my experience, you often cannot get broken code to become working code because there are too many possible changes to make. In my view, it is much easier to break working code than it is to fix broken code.

Suppose you have a complete chain of N Christmas lights and they do not work when turned on. The temptation is to go through all the lights and to substitute in a single working light until you identify the non-working light.

But suppose there are multiple non-working lights? You'll never find the error with this approach. Instead, you need to start with the minimal working approach -- possibly just a single light (if your Christmas lights work that way), adding more lights until you hit an error. In fact, the best case is if you have a broken string of lights and a similar but working string of lights! Then you can easily swap a test bulb out of the broken string and into the working chain until you find all the bad bulbs in the broken string.

Starting with a minimal working example is the best way to fix a bug I have found. And you will find you resist this because you believe that you are close and it is too time-consuming to start from scratch. In practice, it tends to be a real time-saver, not the opposite.
This. Never ever go to For You on twitter.
The first thing you should do is give yourself some slack. You are worthy of love and joy. You got dealt a bad hand, and that sucks. It's not surprising you're tired, distracted, and demoralized. So care for yourself, forgive yourself.

You didn't say what country you were in, but check at your school for mental health resources.

What to do: Stay in school and finish your degree. While doing that, try to figure out where you want to go after you finish your degree. You are not alone, the world is large and filled with wondrous people and things. Maybe go and find the nest of the sī murğ (from what I understand it lies beyond Mount Qaf).
Section 2.4 gives a concrete example, though there are some asterisks. The example is one where a compiler rewrites something like `while (...) x++;` to put `x` in a register: `int reg = x; while (...) reg++; x = reg`. The author reports this is an optimization GCC was observed doing, and means you can have a read-writeback even when the while condition is false to begin with. If this optimization appears interleaved with identical writes then you have problems.
> a mob of angry people uniting on social media to get someone ostracized or fired

Worth noting that this arose by the specific design of the social media ownership. The "correct" side was artificially boosted and the incorrect side was censored. The outraged would have just cancelled each other out otherwise.
Yeah why is this news obscured by a joke/disingenuous title about soda and snacks? Is the Pepsi angle really the most important here?

And thanks to their subscription wall, the nonsense title is the only thing I get to read...
There is no chance AI will inspire rich tech execs to give money to all the people whose jobs they've stolen.

We're trending toward Saudi Arabia, where an ultra-wealthy class rules society.
Why sick? That was the directory for binaries that weren't meant to be run directly — `getty`, `login`, etc.

Today there's much more software, so some things got moved into finer-grained locations like /libexec and /sbin. That wasn't the case in the /etc/glob era when the entire UNIX system was smaller than today's average web page.
> From the article: "Twitter, which was arguably the hub of wokeness, was bought by Elon Musk in order to neutralize it, and he seems to have succeeded — and not, incidentally, by censoring left-wing users the way Twitter used to censor right-wing ones, but without censoring either. [14]"

As has been demonstrated time and time again, especially on the Internet, unmoderated discussion boards do not scale. Trolls can naturally push out the reasonable people by increasing the noise level. Once the number of users exceeds some small threshold it is basically a guarantee that trolls will move in. Shitposting is cheap, easy, and the people who do it have all the time in the world. If you don't moderate the board will become useless for substantive discussion.

I mean this was amply demonstrated back in the Usenet era. Nothing has fundamentally change with human psyche since then, so the rule still holds true. Twitter/X is just the lastest example.

You've hit the nail on the head here. If you let the trolls in they will suck all of the air out of the room.
The bitrate of the PCM is determined based on how quickly you can write a byte to the register. The fastest you could write general data is once every 6 cycles, which gives ~298 MHz of sample rate, so 44.2 kHz is easily doable if that's all you want to do with the CPU.
Eric Goldman echoed it here as well in this section: "The Implications of Trump’s Election for Section 230" in his 2024 internet year in review. [0]

[0] https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/01/2024-internet-...

He says Section 230 is on the chopping and extinction block in 2025 and he would be shocked if it made it to 2026.
There will never be anything funnier than a massive article which talks about the "origin of wokeness" that fails to, at any point, talk about the actual origin of "wokeness" – Black communities online.
"Am I the only one here who can't stand HN's AI obsession?"

Nope.

Someone took an HN poll last year and a majority agreed "AI" is overhyped.
Ah. Well I don't think I want to be googling any more of that.
That conflation of dems/leftists is central to one side of the "identity-politics culture-war bait". They aren't going to stop doing it.

However, when folks do it, you know that they are just un-self-critically engaging in something that they putatively dislike in other folks.

Not to get to annoying on the topic, but I do find it fun to unpack.

Ironically, the hated "I know this, so everyone should change their behaviour" position is central to the idea that "we [HN] are fed up with the constant identity-politics culture-war bait."

That claim is about who "we" are, and it's stated with a great deal of certainty, even if there is a bit of cowardly rhetorical hedging.

And that claim is supposedly consistent because the claimant has over-determined the "we":

so that claimant isn't making a universal statement, just a statement of "I" and the "We" to which that "I" belongs.

Which seems like a pretty normal move- notice the concern with "_many_ people" and the demand that we don't look too far into what that population might actually mean.

I've been on HN for a decade, have some karma, and no, I am not part of that "we" apparently- a fact for which I am grateful, as I am grateful I don't feel compelled to vote for capitalist Democrats.

Still, I think that it really is worth not looking too deeply into what they are saying because their point will be lost: they get to say who "we" are and what kinds of things "We" are sick of, and they don't feel bad about it because it's not univeral, so the cowardly hedging that they did means they aren't being hypocritical.

I personally don't care if folks are hypocrites though, because it makes for a pretty cool set of tea leaves to read about where folks minds are at.

I come here specifically because I try not to hang out with the kinds of sociopaths that wreak havoc on my world via badly implemented technology, but it's an easy place to check their general mental weather.

So, yeah, they aren't gonna agree, see the internal contraditions, understand the distance between lefitsts and performative DEI folks, etc.

But, happily for me, they will keep displaying their terrible opinions so I don't have to rebuild connections with real-life assholes just to keep my ear to the ground about what horrible new thing is coming to our world.
> Most, I don’t know really, that would need a lot of statistics

Believe me.

You wanna know something funny?

The word used in Latin for betrayal (tradunt from which derives tradimento in Italian) at its origins meant "to give, transfer, deliver"

When the Christians came to be, they changed its meaning to something bad because Judas "gave Jesus away".

A simple innocent word has become the quintessence of being an awful person because of a stupid religious myth that also started one of the many persecutions of the Jews.

So beware of changing the meaning of words or advocating for their removal from the public discourse, you'll never know who's gonna be hurt by it.

> the connection to the toxic social attitudes are obvious

the only thing that is obvious is that they are only hyperboles, Amazon is not an Empire, Linus Torvalds is not a dictator and Federer did not actually reign over anything.

I would also argue that Linus has been seen as "benevolent" and I really wanna know from you where the connection to the toxic social attitudes lies when we talk about Federer's reign.

It's obvious to me that the sentence was referring to "the king of mens' tennis" (as a metaphor, do you know what they are?) to celebrate him and not to some literal evil ruler who should be dethroned, with the use of the force if necessary.