skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>However there's another company that buys cheap land from farmers in the Amazon, with cheaper labor, ships it up via freight, and sells it for marginally cheaper. The costs in the latter example are largely driven by transportation - and while cheaper, has a significantly larger carbon impact.

How does this apply to recycling though? Landfills in developed countries have little, if any externalities, because they're engineered to contain waste.

https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/9/3/the-hidden-engin...
Parents probably care more about the education of their children, than government employees do. I think those parents can be trusted to know what is "serving the education of the students".
Which countries were they, specifically?
> In every comparable city in the country, housing prices are up. In Austin, they are down.

Now compare the population. Travis County population (sans Austin) went up, so the prices are also up. And Travis County actually has _more_ new units than Austin proper.

The driver for the price decreases in Austin is the population drop, not the new construction.
An optimistic explanation is that they don't want to be antisemitic. The present-day term for "Pharisee" is "Jew." The early rabbis who created Judaism as we know it were Pharisees, and theirs was the only first-century Jewish sect which survived until today. You can even see the alternation between "Pharisee" and "Jew" in The New Testament. For instance, in some verses it criticizes the Pharisees for washing their hands before eating, whereas in others it levies the same complaint against Jews generally: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2011%3A38%...
Icons are too large on my desktop screen. This is an issue if there are many news points in the same vicinity. I have to zoom in needlessly to get to the other articles.
Almost Everyone Developing Tor Was Paid by the US Government (2014)
> why do we pretend that gig workers don't deserve the same benefits and protections that proper employees do?

Because some—in some cases, many—of them don’t. And in many cases, e.g. healthcare, it’s unclear why we’re still bundling something into employment that properly should be separate.

Extending employment protection to gig workers is a simple solution. But it probably leaves many of them worse off than they are now. (Also, most full-time employees are paid up to 14 days after post.)
They finetuned QwQ to perform well on a benchmark. For the past two years there has been a constant stream of "X fine-tune beats Y closed model on Z benchmark". This isn't interesting and has never been interesting, see Goodhart's Law. If you're actually using local models day to day you will quickly find that finetunes are almost universally a waste of time. Even when it comes to something like smutty roleplay gaslighting a model can often lead to more interesting and consistent results because finetunes are basically always overfit to the training data.
Cross channel people smugglers? That seems to be up a lot. Also millionaires leaving - I think the UK is a world leader at millionaire export at the moment. Also foreign passport application processing in London - I recently got a German passport and there's a huge backlog of applications.
This is kind of a weird framing. 30 days is longer period than probably acceptable, but most people get regular, lagging biweekly paychecks rather than getting their paycheck paid out continuously in infinitesimal chunks.
Send a check. That’s free.
If I go into for you instead of following it's extremely heavily skewed into conspiracy theory right. So to me it looks like they are boosting the reach of that content.
I’ve got a friend who did this. His 13yr old daughter craved instagram and snuck access.
The story sounded like parents of the previous generation catching their kids smoking and drinking.

I’m pretty sure the prohibition didn’t work and added the spice of forbidden.
I don’t know the answer, but I suspect full prohibition isn’t it.
I'm saying I don't understand their open source model. I thought open source meant you could use and modify code and run it yourself without having to pay a license. ie completely independent of the maintainer. So I was confused by this limit of how many were allowed to use something you are running yourself.
With root + LSPosed + this LSPosed module

https://github.com/LSPosed/DisableFlagSecure

it works in every app again on YOUR phone. I also have root and all my banking apps work currently ... but it's a cat-and-mouse game.
Almost no one uses FedNow (which would theoretically bring the U.S. almost on-par with European Open Banking) because the banks really don't have much incentive to integrate with it, especially if they're the ones making money by issuing debit and credit cards.
Perhaps the more accurate term is "suppressing" - you can do this directly or by crowding out or deprioritizing specific content based on many attributes. Content is both literal and second-order (like paid vs. unpaid)
I think 'dispose of it properly' is doing a lot work there. I understand that for something like plastic, properly disposing it would be to chemically render it down to it's constituents rather than just landfilling it. If the thought was to burn it, well then how are you properly disposing the released greenhouse gases?
Device time limits and prerequisites, and periodically check-ins (hey, what are you doing/watching?)

Even with all this, it's obvious that the influence is very strong
This seems wrong. Reasoning scales all the way up to the discovery of quaternions and general relativity, often requiring divergent thinking. Reasoning has a core aspect of maintaining uncertainty for better exploration and being able to tell when it's time to revisit the drawing board and start over from scratch. Being overconfident to the point of over-constraining possibility space will harm exploration, only working effectively for "reasoning" problems where the answer is already known or nearly fully known. A process which results in limited diversity will not cover the full range of problems to which reasoning can be applied. In other words, your statement is roughly equivalent to saying o3 cannot reason in domains involving innovative or untested approaches.
Ah, HR... and here I thought we were talking about real people! ;)

I've been condescended by (generally well-meaning) corporate diversity initiatives on many occasions, but I think it's hard to take that as a statement about progressive movements in general. Corporate shit tends to be toothless and cringey across the board.
Here are some takes on woke from the left:

The Origins of Contemporary Woke Culture ft Christian Parenti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxdBOxl_eik

which is an excerpt from the full This is Revolution podcast episode:

The Cargo Cult of Woke ft. Christian
Parenti

https://www.youtube.com/live/6TJbv45DJyk

Chris Hedges interviewed Parenti also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTpeQ4V-YeY

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-wokeness-kills-class-...
JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate
> Whether this is seen as a good or bad thing depends in where one falls on the left/right spectrum.

And/or where one falls in the social hierarchy and power structures.
What term would you use to encompass non-white folk?
Yet both of these issues seem to plague closed source software more than open source ?

Doom wasn't developed with open source in mind, was it ?

What open source software "only builds cleanly on one specific ancient version of a closed source compiler in a specifically tweaked build environment that has been lost to the ages" ?
Nope, I don't imagine this because those companies make different promises to their users than X does to its. They, none of them, are part of the commons of US discourse, embedded in our infrastructure. They'd have to be universal or nearly so to even qualify for most definitions of the way the word 'censorship' applies under the US 1st amendment.

I don't take my business to Twitter, and that's fine. I choose to use Discord because, in very small part, I guess, of its attitude on content. Google would no doubt ban me for some sorts of content, but not most. Again, these are business decisions that any of these companies can make; some will lose them users (money), some will gain, that's all fine with me; they'll (generally) adjust to making the most money, e.g. serving the most economically large portion of their user base they can attract.

Musk's a wild card because he can (mostly) afford to pay extra to get a different mix of users than might be totally economically optimal, but history shows that most significant and impactful companies trend hard toward serving their customer base and trying to expand it as widely as possible.

Free speech is alive and well in the US; I can publish a website with nearly anything I want to say on it, and if it's taken down, I am allowed access to Federal courts to determine if that takedown was legal. I can email it, I can print it on broadsheets and distribute it anywhere I want, I can text it out en-masse. I cannot say whatever I want on a Disney forum, however, and that, like Twitter does not impact the question of whether or not we have free speech.
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I was somewhat hesitant about sharing this personal projects, especially since I just saw that cool looking Werk[1] tool posted, but I figured that my ADHD-fueled creation might still have it's own place to be.

I just finished rewriting the code for a personal tool I use to automate terminal tasks while minimizing the amount of Python/Bash code I have to write.

As with all other tools I create for my own use, the guiding principle is simplicity and approachability, as if the tool creates more issues or friction than it solves, I'll get discouraged from using it again.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42672863
Buildings can last centuries or even millennia. Whether spending the extra on that build quality is worth it, especially in a post atomic bomb world, is an exercise left to the reader.
Who's being killed on a daily basis? Could you provide sources?
Having caved on this idea, I 100% agree
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Hey everyone, I would like to share this project I have been working on, happy to receive feedback!!
Why would a for-profit company have to justify increasing prices?
What are you saying? Musk is literally and openly supporting the far right neo-nazi party in Germany these days. See: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/01/10/musk-dou...

Also, it's just not true that "Previously, algorithms seemed to prioritize content aligned with extreme left narratives while outright blocking opposing views". It's a lie. Twitter's research itself revealed their algorithm favored right wing politics even before Musk. And it became a lot more true since he took power. See: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2025334119
I understand, but in my view it's neither a good argument nor a helpful point.

You're right that the meaning of a word like "lewd" is disputed. But disputed is not the same as arbitrary, so your argument falls afoul of this guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Whem you respond to people with opposite views (e.g. scarface_74 and gedpeck in this thread) in that way, you stand no change of persuading them or even of generating a curious response in them. It's guaranteed to be alienating. That's the opposite of the kind of conversation we're hoping for here.

What it will do is generate reinforced agreement among readers who already shared your view, but this is also the opposite of the kind of conversation we're hoping for—not just (or even at all) because it worsens polarization, but because repetition is bad for curiosity, and these are some of the most-hammered nails that exist.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Yeah, right next to the "Evaporated Cane Juice".
Or we could just fill the same container with....water
Yeah, I find it completely implausible that kids wouldn’t have interest in social media. Perhaps the OP is using a very restrictive definition that excludes TikTok and instagram.
This is such a great idea that I'm surprised I've never read anyone suggest it in all of my professional life.
> History also makes it clear that passing laws will not work: despite laws against things that are evenly timelessly non-virtuous, like stealing and murder, do not prevent murder and theft.

They probably reduce it a bit.
> Well, that is kind of what you sound like.

This is what senior engineers do. Interrupted to switch tasks every 10 min. Make your good changes as a commit and move to the next task. Maybe you get back to it today, maybe not.
"It is terribly unsurprising to me that people tasked with a job by the government would do what they can to best carry out that job."

Right, but the government tasked school district employees with educating kids who enroll in government-run schools. The legislature explicitly created a voucher scheme, and it's unclear why school district employees would think it was their job to prevent this from happening.
Oh yes, point well taken, thanks for the extra context.
... Or he is well placed to make an even-handed assessment? If your prior is that people generally are smart and have agency, it seems like you might not want to discard pg's opinion out of hand.

Agreed that Elon doesn't seem to be as much of a free speech absolutist as he promised, especially if you hurt his feelings, or seem fun to ban.
You have rights with a public school system you don’t have with private school system. And not just “it’s a government run school so they have to follow the constitution.” You have explicit political rights. For example, you have the right to vote in school board elections and bonds. You don’t get to vote for the board of EduCorp LLC.
if the movement stopped at the level of consciousness, then there wouldn't have been as much backlash. It went way beyond consciousness. You are admonished if you aren't actively anti-racist.
Those groups are not anywhere close to wielding power or influencing govs decisions.
Knuth's literate programming is completely bonkers from the software engineering perspective. Knuth never worked as a rank-and-file programmer in a corporation.

However, Knuth is definitely not doing it wrong from the perspective of Knuth. His approach is workable by someone else who is another Knuth. Such another Knuth would never work in collaboration with Knuth; he or she would have an office at a different institution, working on different research with different programs. Knuth's approach does not have to scale to 2 or beyond, or to megaprojects.

Knuth's approach lets an author write a book or paper, and its accompanying code, as a single document. Knuth tested and refined his approach in the context of this use case, and of course it works.

Knuth's approach to literate programming chops up the program into arbitrary pieces that don't necessarily even follow functional boundaries. The program unit he's interested in is any group of lines that deserve commentary. His system is like a macro preprocessor that stitches the program together via text inclusion of arbitrary lines, which are given a name. For instance, a function body might be pieced together from three separately defined texts.

It's obvious that we can't simply cannot write the Linux kernel, MongoDB, Google Chat this way; basically anything that is not a solo effort. Even some solo efforts couldn't be done that way. The approach will not only scale to multiple developers, but also to certain project sizes and complexities. Solo projects can go into hundreds of thousands of lines; that's far beyond what we would want to develop using chopped up pieces of program text plugged into a book-like document, extracted to make a buildable program.

TeX is Knuth's most famous program that has been maintained for many decades and used by others, which is also developed with a literate programming system. However, those core programs like tex and metafont are only a small part of an entire TeX distribution. The entire TeX ecosystem contained in a Tex distro is not banged up in that literate programming system! Supposedly, TeX generates out to around 50KLOC of C, and Metafont to around 20KLOC. I would guess that would probably just about start to be straining at the limitations. Knuth's intuition for a documentation system to handle about the size of the program he set out to create may have been spot on.

Also, what fanf2 said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683602

"The tooling that supports literate programming is mostly about overcoming these problems with Pascal."

Excerpt from a great comment!
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I finished Replit's 100 Days of Code for python. I'm looking for resources that are 1) up to date (APIs, libraries) and 2) focus on building projects.

I don't have a specific domain, but I want to focus on the fundamentals so I can better decide where to pivot to next (I find DL, GenAI, AI agents, and Robotics the most interesting domains).
But there’s this statement as well:

> Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be…

The whole idea of woke (in the non pejorative sense) is that you’ve done the work to perceive the actual problem.

That statement shows that he hasn’t, which I think undermines the good parts of the essay.
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No one said it wasn't obvious, we're saying spending almost $70bn on a company and announcing that the only way you can make it back is by squeezing 10x more out of the big fish, that might not have been smart.
the onus is on the person making the allegation
Every model is deprecated in time if evidenced Science is done well, and hopefully replaced by something more accurate in time. There is no absolute right/correctness unless you are a naive child under 25 cheating on structured homework.

The point was there is nothing intelligent (or AI) about LLMs except the person fooling themselves.

In general, most template libraries already implement the best possible algorithms from the 1960s, and tuned for architecture specific optimizations. Knowing when each finite option is appropriate takes a bit of understanding/study, but does give results far quicker than fitting a statistically salient nonsense answer. Several study datum from senior developers is already available, and it proves LLMs provide zero benefit to people that know what they are doing.

Note, I am driven by having fun, rather than some bizarre irrational competitiveness. Prove your position, or I will assume you are just a silly person or chat bot. =3
Because they're the ones benefiting from the wage theft, and complaining about low-level crime helps elect politicians that are more likely to overlook that wage theft.
> "determine who should be removed from society" is just a scary thought. Who gets to determine that? How can we be sure they are right?

I am extremely socially liberal, but have a very hard time aligning myself with the left because most members of that constituency seem completely incapable of recognizing this. They're so eager to repeat the errors of the leftist policies you list (along with other clearly non leftist examples like the Salem witch trials) that they're a danger to society.

They're zealots and need to be treated accordingly.
Why is it so expensive? It looks and functions exactly like a dozen other similar stands on aliexpress.
Let’s just rewrite the thing in Laravel, hook all the functions using RunKit7 (or a fork) to implement a plugin compatibility layer, and send the old codebase to the dumpster fire. WP Engine and other hosting agencies, it could be a matter of survival for you.
lol, take a quick peek at your home’s Internet access logs. You’ll almost certainly find opportunities for some parenting / teaching moments.
It definitely doesn't predate the song, at least by my memory. (and fwiw, Wikipedia, Know Your Meme, Urban Dictionary, and Oxford English Dictionary all credit the song and have no references prior to that.)
Yet this article is the only mention of the term "woke" on his site. What a strange coincidence that it happens now even though he's been interested in the topic since at least 2004.
Sure, for the same reasons 84% of white people are killed by white perpetrators, and most child abusers are family members of the victim. Closeness brings both opportunity and conflict, and things like redlining and white flight have ensured the white and black population are quite well segregated.
For produce with a tougher skin than innards, the blade will deflect off the inside of the skin and steer itself along that interface.
Yep, this was mentioned elsewhere in this thread, and it's the only example I've heard of. Like I said elsewhere, seems performative to me.
How to tell everyone that you don't know what SWEs do...

They aren't slinging pig iron into train cars.

If you are in the C* suite and believe this you need to find someone to feed context up to you stat.

Probably why lean, Toyota, agile failed too...

History will be far more likely to remember you as a tulip salesman than an innovator.

Hint, the code isn't your problem.
> like how "bikeshed" as a verb was invented by and mainly used by software engineers

How dare you occupationally gate this term! (if it's not clear /s)
The book "American Nations", whose basic idea is that the US + Canada is composed of 12 cultural "nations", also observes that the Puritans were rather intolerant. The Puritan culture influenced what he calls "Yankeedom" (New England west to Minnesota) and the "Left Coast", which was settled by Yankee shipping. My impression is that these two areas are the most "woke"; it seems that Puritan intolerance casts a long shadow, even though those areas rejected orthodox Christianity a long time ago.
Absolutely insane equivocation. "Negro" has always been associated with slavery and that's why it was used up until even recently by people like Malcom X. "Colored" is associated with apartheid America in the same way.

African American was a term used around return-to-africa movements and was always heavily associated with non-americanness.

> they’re not black, they’re Black

Somebody has never heard of proper nouns

> they’re not Black, they’re People of Color

Yes... nobody ever called indigenous people negroes. It's not the same thing as black. People use the phrase to talk about more than just black people.

> they’re not People of Color, they’re BIPOC

The I stands for indigenous.
great strawman, guy that refuses to read documentation
>It costs significant cognitive load,

It really doesn't. The human brain is very adept at accepting renames for concepts and we are so accustomed to alternative references to the same thing that we take physical pleasure from wordplay and give nicknames to our favorite things.

It takes only a few tries to start learning a new name or reference to something for normal people.

Hell, give it a try! Take a completely meaningless or harmless term in your life and attempt to use a different word for it. Hell, there is a wonderful children's book about doing this called "Frindle".

I would go so far as to argue being able to liberally and arbitrarily adjust how we reference things is one of the key powers that makes language work, and one of the main ways it enhances our ability to work with concepts and logical systems. Language DOES affect the way we think.

If using a different word for something really does cause you significant cognitive load, consider seeing a psychologist because there might be something "abnormal" about your brain.
So now the ones who want to preserve the constitution and the democratic processes (aka by demanding peaceful handover of power instead of hanging the Vice President), are woke.

Strong Weimar vibes from our billionaires.