skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is reason why he is writing this now. He did not get rich by having an opinion.
There is absolutely no anti-offshoring properties conferred to your job by having a shitty office cube.

These companies already offshore every change they can get, you aren't going to preserve your job by going in each day and staring at your boss with giant sad eyes like Puss in Boots.
I thought the underlining thing had more to do with practical limitations of (most people's) handwriting and of common typewriters. Italics, when available, have been preferred for titles as far back as I'm aware.
Or, even more cynically: "most people" meaning "that CEO".
The best line of the article: "Pretending that typing a text prompt into Suno makes one a musician inflates the worth of that output and the company."

You are basically sharing fused search results.
Nailed it. You don’t even have to buy new stuff now.

Still rocking my early 90s system. Has required a couple of amp repairs (capacitors and sticky relay) but no big issue. Bought a Bluetooth DAC for streaming stuff. Job done.
> I'm not at work to make friends,

Most of my great friends I met at work
One note to consider here is that JPMC has, over the past 4-5 years, invested over a billion dollars in renovating and rebuilding several major offices (270 Park and Polaris being major efforts).

It's not entirely unlikely this is related to that as well.
I see these tools as another instrument or a synth. It should let 'me' create something rather than just do one-shot text-to-music. I would like to have a piano with intellisense (predict next few notes after I play my dumb keys), does this exist yet?
...except that using floating-point values to represent currency was never recommended because of precision issues. Using fixed-point or "integer cents" was preferable.
personally I've come to believe that's not about the real estate investments. maybe some. nor just a generic assumption that people working at home are slacking off, maybe some. and not about the desire to express domination in person, maybe some.

I think that WFH substantially shifts the power balance to the worker. if I don't have to worry about my commute, or which city or country I'm actually working in, then the barriers to me changing employer start to really drop to zero. so if I feel bad enough about the situation, I can just spin up a new job without changing .. anything.

I understand if everyone else is WFH and I'm only hiring in office, that puts me at a disadvantage. I'm still willing to consider this thesis.
I really don't understand how this relates.
thank you for the sane comment. adrienne maree brown is wonderful
Go absolutely has classes, polymorphism and encapsulation (I don’t know Rust) and many, many packages in go follow extremely common OO patterns.

The 2 differences in go are composition being the mechanism for inheritance and structural typing in an otherwise strongly typed language. Both of those were available in other languages that strongly identify as oo.

My first cs class was taught in scheme. I think that’s the _right_ way to begin to learn. But very quickly after that oo and imperative ought to be introduced.
Well, I'd just put some old-requeriments based distro like Hyperbola on an Atom netbook with Libre drivers, it's close to a setup from that era, I had an Athlon XP with a Geforce2 and it was like that, except the GPU on the netbook it's GL 2.1 compliant and the GF2 was GL 1.4, but for Koules, Slashem, FreeCiv, Frozen Bubble, SuperTux and such, the difference didn't matter at all.

On the desktop, using FVWM/TWM/CWM/Wmaker... would be literally the same as a machine using those in 2001-2004, except cwm, which evilwm it's the closest match.

On the memory reqs, I woudn't downgrade the distro, but set a more lightweight WM where the games would fly, such as IceWM.

On MESA, until release 7-9 it was very subpar, and I remember the GATOS project for ATI cards.

BTW, on Lincity and FreeCIV, Lincity-NG and the current FreeCIV iterations are pretty much addictive like hell and with far better graphics and many more features than the former Lincity and the GTK1 build of FreeCiv.
No. If using a plain text word suffices, then that's all you get.

My wife is an IP attorney at a large UK based law firm. We have discussed this exact thing before (in this thread).

She worked on a client matter for a banking app that wanted to show the logo of each company next to the transaction. This was not cleared by legal given that the law only allows for the bare minimum reference.

I think it's dumb because a logo is faster to see in a list vs. text, but it doesn't matter. I think IP laws are so backwards in the modern era, but thems the rules.
I don't get why people act like we're talking about saffron when it comes to sugar. It's dirt cheap and costs cents per pound.

Corn syrup could disappear overnight and nothing would change about how much junk food we eat, how much we produce, nor how sweet it is.
I’m paying my own commute into the office. I take on the risk of auto travel at the busiest time of the day. I can’t get far enough on my lunch to truly take a break and I can still get fired for actions taken during lunch which makes it more of an unpaid hour. I’m forced to live somewhere the company wants me to live which may be overpriced, crime-ridden, and have terrible schooling.
Realistically, the river would have changed its course after 14272 years.
> single payer would free up the union to fight for more

Do unions in single-payer countries typically have healthcare goodies?
If you think that wouldn't be the man you've got a rude awakening headed your way. Thanks for setting back women & equality 50+ years...
How does 174 work with a outside contractor company?
Yes, I might naturally say "It's no longer going to run as smoothly." But, to me, phrasing it as "It's going to run much less smoothly" adds to the humor by suggesting that it will to _some_ degree still run "smoothly" (when in fact it won't run at all).
I've been wondering for a while what the alternatives are.

I've got a Denon amp which has Heos, had random Alexa/Google Home devices previously, random amps with just Bluetooth or line in whatever. Thought there must be a way to sync these things, think previously there was the Google Chrome audio?

The WiiM devices seem nice but is that the price of entry to sync various unrelated audio ecosystems then?

Edit: had only seen the price of the highest end ultra device, this is actually very reasonable..
The financial barrier is an excellent guardrail against bots and drivel, including those that are state-sponsored though I agree the latter will have more power to counter, but it will certainly act as a drag.

I don't see how you get to the idea that you can only pay for X if you are in some kind of financial elite, it's just normal subscription.

"Verification" is all well and good for the mainstream but pretty meaningless for niche and new voices; and we saw the consequences of unaccountable moderation for free speech by those doing the verification.
I can't be the only one that sees "wokeness" and general political radicalization (on either side) as being explainable by the collapse of religion and nationality as the key sources of identity and group-inclusion.

Political identities are modern-day religions, basically.

I'm not saying it's better to be actually religious - this isn't some sob-story about how the decline of religiosity is some great evil. I'm just pointing out the parallel: that something that's consumed A LOT of human energy and attention has disappeared in 1 generation leaving a huge vacuum of meaning for most people, and people are filling that vacuum with political identities.

Doesn't this list work for both political movements and religions: shared moral frameworks, common enemies, a metaphysical value system, sense of belonging, set of virtues and sins, rigid orthodoxy, regular rituals (protests, boycotts, etc), transcendent societal goals, conflict-as-sacred-struggle, etc.

Overly simplistic, maybe; but I think I'm not too far off.
>I also think it's telling

What is it telling you? I feel like there is some big aha here that I am missing.

They both literally demonstrate the same thing -- the evolution of language -- albeit in different eras. "Mongoloid" had reverted to being considered disparaging if not clinically nonsensical by the late 70s. Retarded, literally meaning slowed, continued through to the 90s before the great cultural cancelling occurred. But both saw mainstream use that shifted to being cancelled (although everyone still chuckles when an Airbus implores the pilot to retard the plane), in the former case because it's nonsensical, and in the latter because we thought it just sounded too mean. That if we just impugned a word everything would be better.

No one is dying on a hill about that, and what a ridiculous way to frame it.

I love that people are busy running around down-arrowing every one of my comments, and hysterically clicking flag. Just yesterday I saw the same from the fanatical right. Get a grip.
> why are you entitled to run their app on what they deem to be an insecure platform?

For starters, because they're wrong, and they're wrong in a way that makes their users less secure. Allowing the use of Windows or Android with open CVEs while blocking completely up-to-date Linux or aftermarket Android ROMs clearly shows that this nonsense is contrary to security.

> If you don’t like it, either pick a different bank or deal with not having access to their software.

And that's the next biggest reason: Customers don't have the same amount of power that the companies have, so it's perfectly reasonable to tilt things in the customer's favor.
Isn't it the opposite? Testosterone causes high-risk behaviour.
People who do make music sure don't like it when Ai is trained on their copyrighted recordings without their permission and for $0 compensation. What is happening is the music version of the game played by amazon with its vendors. See a hot new thing trending, fine tune train you model on it and then release an ai "artist" to compete with a real group to steal their popularity. Just like Amazon sees a particular flashlight is popular they come out with their own version of it and bury the original while highlighting their own product at the top of search.
He typed smugly, confident that everyone reading this will appreciate his pedantry that totally contributed to the conversation
People would rather believe their leaders broke their brain than to accept that their power is wielded over us for selfish personal gain
I think Reddit's API changes and more did lead to an Exodus of a good chunk of power users that gave the site more of an identity. But what's worse is the official Reddit clients gamify using Reddit so much that, on the whole, content quality is down significantly, even in the smaller niche subreddits that usually had great stuff. The problem is high quality content isn't profitable, endless scrolling is.
Well, it didn’t used to be bad. OG Sonos was awesome. If the ceo kept leading investors on with “just one more quarter/we are almost ready to launch the big fixes/etc” then I can understand why it took so long. AFAIK this is the first ceo that Sonos has ever ousted so I think it’s a pretty big deal.

Hoping the new one will have more foresight to not screw over existing customers in the face of the new shiny.

In other news, I hear Framework is looking to get into other hardware niches… if they ever made a networked speaker, I’d buy it.
> what's the point of a city like New York

Pizza and Bagels. If the rest of the country got their shit together and figured out how to make acceptable pizza and bagels then I could leave this city.
I agree. The essay seems to assume there are clean lines separating the "good ones" from the "bad ones". It's very reductionist.
I have read it before but which part?
Ransomware abuses Amazon AWS feature to encrypt S3 buckets
RTO is a cheap way for the companies to filter out the rebels that they hired during Covid.
That's just CGI. You could theoretically do the same with any other language, but PHP is just the most popular.
I love AI and I love making music, but I find music generators like Suno vaguely gross. It can make better music than me and I probably couldn't tell it's AI, but it's an emotionless experience. Text-to-music feels more like replacing humans than empowering them.
I would love to do a one click transfer to a static site but it’s not easy.
I’ve only seen Astro Wordpress kits but paid
Probably AIs don’t like it either. We should stop making music altogether then.
I don't know, I agree that production value has jumped in the last decade but these trends are often cyclical. The overproduced boy bands of the 50s and early 60s gave way to aesthetically simple folk singers like Bob Dylan, and the shiny, glittery pop-rock of the 80s got swept away in a cloud of secondhand smoke by Grunge. I believe another one of those counterculture, indie backlashes is due to hit soon.
This is great timing. I recently purchased a micro:bit for learning with my young daughter (who loves it) and found I was very quickly out of my depth with even the most rudimentary customisation for the board.

My draws have now exploded with breadboards, alligator clips, jump wires, LCDs and various other electrical components and I'm in desperate need of understanding the fundamentals of how all these things work.

There's something magical and addictive about being able to control your own hardware components from your own code though. We've had great joy from simply lighting up LEDs and programming our IR receiver.
> I'm not at work so we can talk about who won the last football game

You average Joe/manager in the office judges you based on this.

( I too don't like it)
In Paul Graham's hierarchy of disagreement, he notes that articulate forms of name-calling are still name-calling.

When Graham opens his essay by providing a definition of 'prig' but then using that pejorative over and over again to refer to his conceptual opposition in this essay, how are those who are responding to the essay to respond? It seems we put ourselves on a field disadvantage if we are to argue a point with an author who is immediately resorting to name-calling with one arm tied behind our backs.

I respect this site tries to be something else than other online fora. But it is a site still inextricably tied to Graham and his legacy, so when he drops an essay like this it's reasonable to either expect people responding to it will take the same tone as the founder of this site, or that we should be very, very clear that this site has become something not at all associated with its founding.

Has it?
You're not wrong, but compromising a server that exposes nginx configured for static files, sshd, and nothing else is at least an order of mag or two harder. Probably no one is going to drop an nginx 0day on your blog.
> The complaints about, say, LatinX have far surpassed the number of actual proponents of it, which were a small number of people of the left. However, it still brought up again and again because it forms a useful image of what people are fighting against.

I agree that the number of proponents of something like "LatinX", or "biological males playing women's sports" are far, far outnumbered by the people who aren't supporters of those things. But the issue is that the people who are supporters tend to be extremely vocal and generally in positions of power or better able to influence those who are, whether thats in corporate or academic administration settings. As such the small number of "woke" individuals are having outsized effects on society and culture, and the backlash is in response to the magnitude of that influence, rather than the number of people pushing for it.
What does corn syrup cost vs real sugar cost? Does that change the equation?
I don't disagree with a lot of what he says here, but I feel like too many people in Silicon Valley are hyper-fixated on the conformity and enforcement coming from the left, while ignoring and even stoking the flames of anger and conformity on the right. Particularly his points on news, because much of the news is now heavily skewed to the right.

PG would do well to reflect similarly on the rise of the right wing equivalents and recognize that they're the ones actively stymying progress on many of the critical issues of our time.
But if you don't squash, doesn't this render git bisect almost useless?

I think every commit that gets merged to main should be an atomic believed-to-work thing. Not only does this make bisect way more effective, but it's a much better narrative for others to read. You should write code to be as readable by others as possible, and your git history likewise.
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Wait - how can you say remote is comparable with in-office, then tell me a work from home mother is going to look after her 6-yr-old while doing her job and not split her attention & efforts?
To be fair, humans making art also involves fusing the search results of their past experiences and inspirations
I'm not really sure to be honest! He could well be thinking exactly what you said, I was just pointing out the flip side of that argument if that is what he believes, because it would be doing a real disservice to the open source community around WordPress without which he would be nothing.
> Well that is basically the model of the home stereo today.

The entire digital ecosystem seems to be heading this way. Even cars
Apparently they are known for that so I'm not sure why acting surprised.
I mean that's fine, that's the kind of distinction everyone has to make for themselves. Personally I haven't encountered anything from PG that conveyed meaningful information to me at any point in the last decade so this is more a continuation of ignoring a zero value content stream than anything else. Put simply I don't need a lecture from PG regardless of topic.
> should have just expanded medicare to cover everyone

Maybe the solution is to go piecemeal. We already have Medicaid for the poor--raise the limit on that. Expand Medicare to children and pregnant women. Et cetera.

> that'd give too much power to the workers

Medicare For All isn't popular [1]. There isn't a conspiracy, just people being cautious about a complicated and important topic.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/468401/majority-say-gov-ensure-...
Most CEOs, yes. But founder CEOs normally don't care about stock price that much. Zuck turned down yahoo, remember. Bezos kept taking losses in Amazon in the beginning for the sake of future growth despite the stock being punished so hard. Steve Jobs was like that too. Your cynicism is misguided. VR is a very long call.
Lots of us enjoy playing an instrument, improvising, etc. Even if an AI can do it better, I don't care, because just listening is not the same experience.
The problem with this approach is that it requires the system doing randomization to be aware of the rewards. That doesn't make a lot of sense architecturally – the rewards you care about often relate to how the user engages with your product, and you would generally expect those to be collected via some offline analytics system that is disjoint from your online serving system.

Additionally, doing randomization on a per-request basis heavily limits the kinds of user behaviors you can observe. Often you want to consistently assign the same user to the same condition to observe long-term changes in user behavior.

This approach is pretty clever on paper but it's a poor fit for how experimentation works in practice and from a system design POV.
I find it amusing that the bug in the final screen is essentially the Y2K bug.
I didn't mean to start an overly hashed discussion, but butter is high in saturated fat. So we would expect junk food consumption to stay the same but now also have a larger atherogenic effect.

For the sake of argument though, let's just say they are noninferior to each other. The point is that it's a red herring compared to our junk food culture and the ubiquity of junk food.
Free speech is the freedom to communicate ideas and opinions. The above censors none.

This is also why spam is not covered under freedom of speech.
If the i8 suffers from a similar problem (I'm not familiar with the design of that car) that's equally baffling to me on BMW's part.

A car telling someone not willing to maintain it itself that it's time to take it to a service center is fine and all and probably would avoid a lot of headaches for people that aren't mechanically inclined. But a design that encourages tacking on labor charges or being unable to give your car a quick look over yourself seems awful.
Nope. I just prefer Craft, and I think it's a much more stable platform in terms of leadership these days. I also think it provides for a much better developer experience. Just opinions, though. I currently don't monetize my blog in any way — though I should probably change that at some point :)
Breathable Air Quality App
Dunno why you're downvoted, but you're hilariously correct. HFCS doesn't contain sucrose (the disaccharide), but contains the two monosaccharide components of it (glucose and fructose). Functionally speaking, eating sucrose vs. HFCS (55:45) has the same metabolic effects; your body instantly cleaves sucrose into the two monosaccharides. So yeah, HFCS contains no sucrose but it tastes just like sucrose and makes you fat just like sucrose.
Sold my great Onkyo and try to exactly revert it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689139
> The average user... stopped getting automatically banned for joining the wrong subreddits.

Still happens, you're just not allowed to talk about it. /r/bannedforbeingjewish (which collated this) is banned,[1] but to give an example, /r/interestingasfuck (13 million subscribers) bans users that are members of /r/Israel.[2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bannedforbeingjewish/

[2] https://archive.is/OkfOY
"either directly ripped or just happens to be near identical" is a pretty wide disjunction—it includes every possible case!
I already have teammates in Mexico, Argentina and Chile. Every day I chat with people in the London office.

If I was at an office, I'd be spending hours on zoom anyway.
People care about content, apis less so, unfortunately.
One thing I wanted to point out: I’ve seen a lot of people on HN and elsewhere allege that moderates or the “right” (in quotes because it is overused as a pejorative label) cannot define what “woke” is. But I disagree, and think most people who complain against this term can easily point to what ideas it represents, and what it means to them. Even if that is not very precise, it is real and meaningful. Enough so that they can find common ground with other people who use the word, even if they aren’t exact matches. The accusation that people can’t define it is itself a tactic meant to undermine the credibility of complaints against it. But is it really any less imprecise than people using broad labels of other kinds (things like liberal or conservative)?
> minorities

Ahem! I think you mean People of the global majority? Please consider using more inclusive language in the future.
LinkedIn has a DEI jobs category in their Jobs section. How is that a qualification to do a job?
Bluesky is much easier to use than Mastodon, particularly for non-technical folks. It’s also has an UI that looks a lot like Twitter from 2-3 years ago.
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The quote doesn't go "The arc of history is short and goes straight toward justice. Absolute downhill battle, frankly embarrassingly easy."
My last company was fully remote and went through an expansion of hiring a lot of jrs and co-ops. They had a pretty well developed onboarding & mentoring process but it was still very hard. In the end I saw the same people be successful in a remote-first environment as I suspect would have been successful in-office. I believe it was harder on the seniors and other mentors though.
Has he said he was going to pull out of development? I hadn't read that anywhere in all of this.