skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly matters how screwed we are, but a single person eating less meat and taking the bus more often isn't going to make any impact whatsoever when everyone else maintains business as usual. Laws and tax incentives need to drive it first and foremost, but as usual with these things it's too little, too late.

Systemic change is what matters and it's all too common that "personal responsibility" is the talking point of corporations who greenwash their operation through buying cheap fake carbon offsets to relieve themselves of any responsibility while outputting more CO2 than a small nation on a daily basis, making sure to simultaneously blame everyone else as much as possible to divert attention.
I appreciate the effort put into curating and maintaining this list, good job on that!

I’m curious, is there also some specific existing “AI Researcher Reading List” you would personally recommend? Or do you plan on making and maintaining one?
Thanks for sharing this info. It’s helpful, and I will take some time to digest it.
> Anyone using the term woke in 2025 is using the term in bad faith

This was the initial claim. It got me curious how we're supposed to be able to discuss emotionally charged subjects, if you can't bring it up without getting the label "you're doing that in bad faith" slapped on you.

I disagree with most of pg's article, and I'm very left-leaning myself. But I also find it very worthwhile to find a sensible way to disagree with people, even if it's emotional. It's important we're able to understand and see good points no matter the delivery mechanism, or no matter how much we disagree with a person (like me, here with pg who I don't agree with at all, on most matters).

> I doubt you're truly unaware that everybody saying woke in 2025 unironically is angry and making an insult.

This is probably the first article/comment section I read about "wokeness" in at least a couple of years. I'm a left-leaning (European) person far away from American politics, so I am not aware of how the left/right of the US currently use the term. I saw the essay, read through the thing and now I'm here, reading through comments.

> I also don't believe you could read this comment section and think PG didn't get everybody emotional (and mostly confused about his point too), or that he tried very hard not to.

No, I do think he got people emotional, and I don't think he tried or didn't try to make people emotional, it seems to be a very heavy topic for Americans (right or left), so I'd wager it's impossible to discuss it without emotions. Some topics just are like that, and that's not necessarily wrong or bad.
I dislike RTO because none of that happens anymore. The economic landscape is too paranoid (despite positive macro indicators) for employees to enjoy work.

People don't want to chit chat, just clock in clock out. Layoffs threat is ever present. Remote & odd-time zone meetings are still here. Can't turn off my computer after 5pm. In office benefits are limited. Mentoring, learning-seminars and after-work activities are soft discouraged.

Why even come in ?
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> what's the point of a city like New York

I agree that RTO mandates have to do with keeping downtown office space prices high. But, if you could work from anywhere, why wouldn't you want to be in the coolest city in the world? You don't need to be in Manhattan. But you can get some pretty great apartments while still being a 30 minutes subway ride from downtown.

I visited NYC regularly through Covid, and it seemed quite lively.

Remember, us programmers are a famously introverted & indoor bunch. Most people want to be in places with rich social lives apart from their smaller intimate communities.
Chinese social media app RedNote tops App Store chart ahead of TikTok ban
AI can search your code today. In cursor this is called “codebase indexing”. We have some million(s) lines of code, orders of magnitude smaller than Facebook, but definitely larger than the average startup. We search with AI tools, through Q&A, and for AI-driven code mods. Cursor also exposes LSP stuff to their AI system so it can look at that tool.

Sourcegraph Cody is another example of a code AI that can search.
You make some good points, and I think I agree with them. I know robotics tends to be harder [1], but I don't understand how much harder it is. Visual-Language-Action models [2] have been gaining traction recently, along with training in simulated environments. Fine-tuning VLA models for specific purposes may reduce the data requirement. Plus, it's pretty cheap to record someone washing the dishes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox
[2] https://openvla.github.io/
While average power consumption per rack has been increasing fairly steadily over the past 10 years, the metric I currently use is abound 10kW per rack under reasonable to heavy load - that's about the same as a consumer electric shower.

So, this is implying their Vienna data center has 180 racks? With 60 being about a third, if we say each rack has 40 servers... that's ~7k servers total... which is a sizeable chunk of floor space, like 3000m^2, or... 40 tennis courts?

But yea, that a non-insignificant operation just for the Vienna data center.
> but without censoring either

PG should try using the term "cis" in a post.
I think what PGs article misses, pretty much completely, is a more accurate definition of the work woke, which is:

>A word used to label another's political beliefs and activism as incorrect and foolish, particularly if that person is seen as "left leaning" or "progressive."

In other words, it's common usage has devolved to mean "you're an idiot."

This is a travesty, really, because its use erases any chance to have an honest dialogue about the topics and behaviors being labelled as "woke."

For example, people could instead say: "I disagree with X behavior, and here's why." Instead, people say: "look at that woke idiot." (And really, this is not an exaggeration.)

The normal behavior you describe, of people pointing things out, with others' responding in kind, has little to do with the common usage of the word "woke," which has simply become a form of name-calling.

And it is unfortunate, because there is much to criticize about activists on the left, but name calling is in no way helpful, and instead, drives further reductive discourse.
interesting example of the whole phenomenon. presumption of guilt and sentencing and dismissal without any evidence of wrongdoing.
he still got paid millions just for the title CEO
s/autistic/artistic

I violated my own rule of always re-reading a post 5 min after posting it...
It does seem like throwing investor money at 4000hrs/week open source development was a ZIRP
Cleantech investments to top fossil fuels in 2025
Google Maps allows you declare your allegiance. You can mark a business as LGBTQ+ friendly (why should I have to declare that and it not just be assumed?).

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/addi...

You can also declare a business as "woman owned/led"

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/empo...

and "black owned"

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21348990/google-black-own...
I'm wary of the concepts of "fact-checking" and "mis-information," but there really is a lot of bullshit being said without any corresponding check on "yeah, but is that true?"

Of course, if your worldview is sufficiently different from mine, we will disagree on what is true. But lying is lying.
I wonder how much of that is Sonos sucking vs bluetooth just being an absolutely terrible connection protocol. it's always a raindance prayer that bluetooth will work, even harder to have it pair. bluetooth makes printers seem like NASA level quality software.
From a (potentially made up [1]) letter from Freud:

> So yesterday I gave my lecture. Despite a lack of preparation, I spoke quite well and without any hesitation, which I ascribe to the cocaine I had taken beforehand. I told about my discoveries in brain anatomy, all very difficult things that the audience certainly didn’t understand, but all that matters is that they get the impression that I understand it.

Maybe pg has the same strategy. Certainly reads that way.

[1] https://www.truthorfiction.com/sigmund-freud-i-ascribe-to-th...
Nice! Hopefully it will grow to include circuit bending [1] techniques, those typically used for altering music machines and similar.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending
Around 2010 I had the pleasure of trying a bunch of American candies of all sorts sent to me over the course of a few years by an American friend, and whether it's the HFCS or not there is a permeating flavor to the sweetness that is recognizable in almost everything I've tried. It's a sort of nutty flavor, curiously reminiscent of the unique taste of Dr Pepper. I noticed in Life Savers, Starbursts, Milk Duds, US Coke, the list goes on. Practically everything. And I could discern it when comparing US and European versions of one and the same product, e.g. a Twix or Snickers bar.
You give them far too much credit. But more importantly, ask yourself who’s really the morality police at this point? The ones screaming “woke” all the time, vowing to strip “woke” people out of positions of power, seem pretty dangerous to me.
I recall working as contractor in 2000s to a company that had one arm trying to compete in a used car market niche and they had a laptops pretending to be consumers in the usual ways crammed in in shelves that were scanning craigslist and other websites to repackage and resell the info to used car dealers. IIRC craigslist blocked naive dedicated scraping at the scale they were doing it so I assume but don't know that they needed to mix up the IPs in way that required that volume of laptops to do it nation/world wide. This sort of thing probably has been going on as long as the web browser have been commonly available.
The beginning of your post is so insightful, and I've rarely seen it expressed so well. The anti-science Americans are not dumber, and treating them as dummies is part of the problem. (One that I'm guilty of on occasion)

This is the internet, though, so here comes the part where I disagree with something. This is where you lost me:

Why should my parents, who are quite intelligent
but never received any significant science education,
believe what they are told about science by experts
that they can clearly recognize as untrustworthy?

How are they "clearly recognizing" these "experts" as "untrustworthy" without the expertise to recognize which so-called experts are bogus and which ones aren't?

If you said they simply don't know who to trust, because there is a lot of conflicting information (much of it deep domain knowledge) and the government is not always trustworthy or effective, I'd agree, but it seems like you're saying something a bit different?
> unless he grows the value of his company he’s screwed

What are the consequences, exactly?
Rewriting history was never more fun!
> If you are giving scholarships or subsidies to black teenagers so they can eventually get into a university, that’s also DEI, so better subsidise their families so they can get a better primary education and upbringing… but that’s also DEI.

Looking at this in terms of race is misguided. Don't do anything for "black people," just help "poor people" get better educations by giving more money to poor schools. A lot of "poor" schools are actually black schools, but not all, so more than just black people will benefit; and not all black people are poor, so we won't waste resources on those who already have them.

Defining DEI as "doing anything about the problem" and then saying that DEI opponents therefore don't want to do anything about the problem is a lazy bait-and-switch that I wish we would all recognize and stop doing.
Big celebrities/influencers and news media need to leave X for this to have an effect. Nothing will change as long as both of those user types remain on the platform.
The inscribed Umm el-Marra cylinders of northwestern Syria, circa 2400 BC, 500 years before alphabetic writing was derived in Sinai from Egyptian hieratic phonetic writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script
Pressable includes support, global caching, and a bunch of other things you won't get on a $5/month VPS. Also not everyone wants to play system administrator 7 days a week to keep their server from getting hijacked or nuked.
WordPress' GPL license guarantees you access to the code and specific rights. It doesn't guarantee you access to the the WordPress database repository of plugins and themes.

WordPress could, in theory, make the repository free for access to all except larger hosting entities that put more of a strain on things, for which there is a fee or throttling. Possibly even indicating this within the WordPress admin UI which flavor of access the user is getting. "Pro" vs "Free" for example.

Note that I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, and this is based on my understanding of open source licenses like the GPL over my 20 years working on PortableApps.com.
You are not what you think you are. You are what others think you are
IDs in Apple Wallet will be coming to Illinois [pdf]
It seems that this is definitely a pressing issue for the web
>Much as they tried to pretend there was no conflict between diversity and quality. But you can't simultaneously optimize for two things that aren't identical. What diversity actually means, judging from the way the term is used, is proportional representation, and unless you're selecting a group whose purpose is to be representative, like poll respondents, optimizing for proportional representation has to come at the expense of quality. This is not because of anything about representation; it's the nature of optimization; optimizing for x has to come at the expense of y unless x and y are identical.

Eh, if x and y are correlated, you can optimize for x to a point and still get y gains.
I see a number of suggestions here for alternatives to Sonos but I'm not sure they meet the requirements or expectations of what I have for Sonos.

I basically want anyone who is on my network to be able to use the music services that I have configured on my Sonos and queue music or set regions or whatever. Ideally this would be mostly unsecured but some light security would be fine -- I basically don't want it to be complicated.

The wifi streaming (as opposed to AirPlay or Casting or Bluetooth) is so that once I start the music playing I no longer have to deal with any continuity of the system I used to trigger the music.

The app changes have unfortunately transformed my Sonos setup into a mostly useless collection; I can still get it to work but it's so cumbersome and the search and playback functions are so broken that half the time it doesn't do what I want.

Are there any real alternatives? Homepods and wiim don't appear to meet these criteria -- is there anything out there that is actually a good Sonos replacement?
> On the 6502, you can absolutely access all 64K of memory space with an LDA instruction.

There are two LDA instructions (maybe more, I too am about 40 years rusty). One loads from page 0 only and thus saves the time by only needing to read one byte of address, and the other reads two bytes of addresses and can read from all 64k. In latter years you had various bank switching schemes to handle more than 64k, but the CPU knew nothing about how that worked so I'll ignore them. Of course your assembler probably just called both LDA and used other clues to select which but it was a different CPU instruction.
The same tactics were used against them at the time, too.

As an example, see this old anti-MLK comic; it certainly sounds quite familiar: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/s6ll2c/a...
No, of course not. UL doesn't test the brainbox part at all.

The AC -> DC power supply is tested for safety by UL, but the thing powered by that power supply is not tested at all.

Normal UL testing and listing deals with mains-powered devices, not low-voltage DC-powered devices.
You can get something quite similar in some colleges/universities, where you can effectively avoid going outside for days/weeks at a time.
An Internet rails against political correctness, forgetting that it's not 1996 anymore. Some Hackernews decry the woke mob. No technology is discussed.
People who use AI to make music don't like making music.
I don't think a swastika tattoo would be problematic if the person doesn't impute Nazi symbolism to theirs. Even in the West, swastikas and associated symbology is used pretty heavily in neo-pagan circles, and while some of those folk are racist, most aren't.

But OPs point is broader: if you allow the bad people to just appropriate the symbol as their own, they're going to gradually take over everything. Never mind swastikas; we're at the point where making an okay sign can be misconstrued as a white nationalist gesture, and people self-censor themselves accordingly.

There's also the reverse problem here, where, if you tie such things so strongly to symbols in popular opinion, then loud condemnation of such symbols is used to "prove" that one is not a bad person. For a major ongoing example of this look at Russia with its cult of "we defeated the Nazis therefore we're definitely the good guys".

At the end of the day, it's really just a lazy shortcut. The bad people are bad because of their ideas and actions, not because of their symbols. If we always look at the ideas and actions, the symbols are irrelevant, and we don't have to surrender them to the bad guys' claims.
No, people have to be able to derive works from other works, especially when the latter are in the public domain. Up-thread I sardonically said to burn Picasso's Las Meninas, and I repeat that here because I think it's a good example, and I think you can probably think of many more on your own. E.g., A Fith of Beethoven vs. Beethoven's Fith Symphony -- good or bad?
Earliest Capture of Youtube.com
Are there any projects working on open protocols for digital audio distribution? Any chance manufacturers opt into open protocols?
Hacking isn't just about computer programming, you could call it a philosophy.
> Delusional.
this would go on to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars ...
> But being a jerk isn't a crime and doesn't forfeit your rights.

The court case isn't about Matt being a jerk, it's about crime.

> WordPress.org has to pay for their servers

Wordpress.org was sold to volunteers as a community asset owned by the foundation not Matt and even Matt's lawyer made public statements to that effect.

Volunteers spent their time building it up, developing in to WordPress core reliance on w.org infra, etc..

Matt has a long history of un-ethical behaviour, and the current WPDrama is extensive. For me alone, the one screenshot of his threats to go to the press with confidential information about someone unless they did what he wants was enough.

Now volunteers find out from court documents that w.org is "Matt's personal website" as he puts it.

Additionally, now many volunteers are banned from the thing they helped build simply for voicing disagreement with his actions which are almost universally accepted as unethical. Many have been banned for reacting to one of his post with with disapproving emojji!!

Matt has built up the foundation through deception and then weaponised it.
If the drug is effective and safe, then one half of the patients lost out on the benefit. You are intentionally "sacrificing" the control arm.

(Of course, the whole point is that the benefit and safety are not certain, so I think the term "sacrifice" used in the article is misleading.)
Ask HN: Where can I buy a cheap consumer level EDA sensing device?
I'm keen in playing around with some SGR/EDA data, but even in the niche field of biometric sensors, the tech seems neglected when compared to a relatively low yield technology like single sensor EEGs, which is also quite niche, but a more competitive market.

And generally, is anyone else interested in this space? The high-end stuff like the Neuralink mission naturally draws headlines, but on the other end of the scale, devices like the Muse and Emotiv headbands obviously have a market, but aren't close to mainstream.

At some point, these kind of devices will become widely prevalent, but in what form, and for what applications?
> I know how to plug this black box into this other black box and return the result as JSON!

To be fair, most of software engineering is this.
Ah, so when you said "they" your pronoun didn't match your antecedent. Makes sense considering no one on this site seems to know what a pronoun even is anymore.
I doubt any Apple engineer is very against the idea that an iPad user roots it. It's more like the legal and financial mindset. Legal doesn't want trouble and can shoot anyone who it doesn't like with law bullets, Finance just want MAW $$$.
NFTs Are Making a Comeback as Trading Volumes Surge: Galaxy Research
> the observed behavior of many self-described feminists might lead you to believe that the definition was "someone who thinks that any dispute between men and women should be resolved in favor of women"

I think there's a broader problem here, where there's a tendency to define all cultures by their most extreme elements and have conversations that are centered around those. This sells, this gets clicks, and it also decimates our theory of mind of others. The left does this, the right does this, centrists do this as well by pretending that what is "extreme" in their culture is unknowable and impossible.

A respectful conversation with someone while holding curiosity can resolve most of the ills of the day. Lots of folks want to tell their story, and they're told that its not safe.
he made a hard right turn a decade or more ago. Its not just now.

source: his other blog posts.
> Then yesterday happened. Automattic announced that it would restrict its contributions to the open source version of WordPress. The company would now only put in about 45 hours a week total — down from nearly 4,000 a week — so as to match the estimated hourly contributions of WP Engine. This action is blamed on the “the legal attacks started by WP Engine and funded by Silver Lake”, which I think is a gross mischaracterization. WP Engine definitely did not start this.

WP Engine owns several WordPress plugin developers. Does plugin development not count now?
It's extremely simple. The Tube map shouldn't be a copyrighted work that requires a license to be used.

You're judging the copyright enforcement action by itself in a void, but it's not in a void.

Except it's actually trademark? It's ridiculous to apply trademark law here. No consumer confusion is happening.
I'm glad to see we're already rationalizing Trump's poor performance, before he even starts.
You are dismissing the issue by implying it is a right wing thing.

Obama is using the term and criticising people who do it in this clip. I in no way consider him to be right wing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM
I don't know what you want. Most of the article is spent elaborating on what that means and providing examples of it.

> Instead of going out into the world and quietly helping members of marginalized groups, the politically correct focused on getting people in trouble for using the wrong words to talk about them.

> The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so.
The NAD downfall was so frustrating and sad to experience. Mine has been boxed and shelved in the garage for years now.
Rollback ability is a must—it can be the most used mitigation if done right.

Not all issues can be fixed with a rollback though.
Just this week I needed to completely revamp my personal website. I went with Squarespace because it's quick to spin up and I don't have to fiddle with tons of plugins and a complicated theme ecosystem. I just need a website that works. I used to use Wordpress for all my previous iterations, but now, it's done. Sad to see it become obsolete by not fixing them broader business and user-friendliness problems.