skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think PG is right in tracking modern political ethical standards (that he prefers to refer as wokeness) to the student movements of the 60s. It is worth reminding about the roots of 60s movements itself though.

It was spread over the whole Western world, and was basically reconsidering Western power structures and political beliefs in the aftermath of WWII. The generation of the 40s-50s was either complicit in fascism/nazism directly or have seen it as "them" problem and was more preoccupied in defeating it militarily. The generation that came after them though had more time to reflect on how it all was even possible, and found its roots not just in Germany or Italy, but all over the world including the US - in colonialism, in racism, in sexism, classism/social darwinism etc.

So I think we should understand where we are going to be heading to if we let the oligarchy declare this work and the ethics that stemmed from it outdated.
> Give me the hydro power of Norway and I will make any country all-electric.

Fun fact: the consumer taxes on electricity is higher than the taxes on gasoline (the tax percentage, not the total amount paid).

It's more efficient to burn oil in a oil power plant than to make gasoline and burn it in an ICE engine. So EVs make economic sense in the long term for any country. It's just the inertia of the existing energy infrastructures holding back the transition.

> but people must stop putting pressure on others

Many countries and individuals are making a bunch of terrible excuses for why they're not transitioning to EVs, which makes absolutely no sense at all given what Norway has achieved. Norway is not THAT special. It's certainly not an ideal country for EVs. The cities there DO have apartments without off-street parking. The winter is brutal on range. Norwegians loves to drive hours and hours up to their mountain cabins in winter to ski - often with a huge ski box on top that create a lot of drag. Or they drive far down the European continent in summer, as far as Croatia for instance (to the Americans out there: Norway is part of Schengen. You can drive/travel freely anywhere in Europe without passport control)

And it makes even less sense for a country that does not have its own oil and fuel production to be dependent on ICE cars. EVs grants a path to full energy independence. ICE does not.

Of course other countries will and can not move quite as fast as Norway. The conditions are different. That goes without saying. Nobody is blaming other countries for being behind. But that's not an excuse for doing little-to-nothing to push the transition forwards.
It never really was that at the beginning. It was a good, locally-controlled system which would build itself a wifi mesh (back when that was unheard of) be configured to pick up things like samba/cifs shares and play your library, with some really neat features like combining speakers into stereo pairs or surround systems, and then playing your music and any input devices arbitrarily across these zones you have set up.

At some point they integrated spotify and other similar services, which risked what you talked about, but was fine. There are even third party controller frontends available on linux.

But recently (mid 2024) they delivered an absolute stinker of a new app which routes everything via their cloud, fails to load half the time, barely responds, and looks suspiciously like that grab for control you imagine
Some homes withstood the LA fires – architects explain why
> Can somebody fact check the LA firefighters running out of water despite being next to an ocean?

It has been fact checked.

Having more water is better than having less, but just because you have the reserves (or an ocean) does not mean your distribution can handle the volumes needed:

> Water runs short: […] “There’s no urban water system engineered and constructed to combat wildfire,” said Michael McNutt, a spokesman for the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, which serves 75,000 people in northwest Los Angeles County. The system was intended to supply water to homes and businesses, he said, and to help fire crews defend a large structure or several homes, not multiple neighborhoods at once. […]

* https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/20...

> The firefighter clarified, "Well, we were flowing an amount of water that the system couldn’t … it was overbearing, just because of how much water these firefighters were utilizing."

* https://www.tmz.com/2025/01/13/california-governor-gavin-new...

* https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1878661950021960013

Another problem is that most folks do not (know to) shut off their main water connection when you evacuate: this is because if your how burns down all your pipes are now open and start spewing out water. And if the neighbourhood burns down all the houses start spewing water. So there's gallons/litres of water being sucked out of the system dropping pressure that taking up capacity that could be used for fire hydrants.

Further, even if you had water and distribution, it may not be possible to have crews battling the fires due to other factors:

> “I’ll be clear: We could have had much more water. With those wind gusts, we were not stopping that fire,” Pasadena Fire Chief Chad Augustin said.

> When winds are as strong as they were Tuesday and Wednesday — reaching 100 mph on mountaintops and surpassing 60 mph along the coast — firefighters are severely limited in their tactics, experts said. They make it too dangerous and all but impossible to establish any fire perimeter. They blow flames as tall as 200 feet horizontally and send balls of red-hot embers flying at speeds that can carry them a mile or two away, where they start what are known as spot fires.

[…]

> The lack of firefighting by air was a critical deficiency that persisted from Tuesday night through early Wednesday, fire officials said, and one that has allowed other devastating Southern California fires to spread in the past, including the Woolsey Fire, which burned across a footprint just to the west of the Palisades Fire in 2018.

> “Without helicopters, this kind of a brush fire, we cannot stop it on the ground,” said Margaret Stewart, an LAFD spokeswoman.

* https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/20...
1) The entire region is extremely hilly -- you're familiar with gravity, yes?

2) Fire trucks and municipal water supplies aren't designed to fight wildfires, never mind wildfires through an urban setting
> Norway has strictly followed the rule, "never get high on your own supply."

While historically true, we're approaching an era where it no longer is.

Our oil fund was set up such that the government could only ever spend at most 3% of the annual yield[1]. This seemed like a conservative approach, however it seems they didn't take into account just how large the fund would get. As such, even using less than the 3% limit, the oil fund money constitutes a large fraction of the national budget.

In the national budget for 2025, the oil money pays for 20% of non-oil expenses[2], and it's just increasing each year.

As such it does seem we're starting to get high on our own supply, just in a more roundabout way.

[1]: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/okonomi-og-budsjett/norsk...

[2]: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/statsbudsjett/2025/statsbudsje...

[3]: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/okonomi-og-budsjett/norsk...
Why look anything up when you can "just ask questions?!" (/sarcasm obviously)
Intel Battlemage Showing Off Nice OpenCL Gains with Newest OSS Compute Stack
You've missed the fact that sequencing our genome isn't gathering all the information required. To duplicate a human in computational space - say to create some accelerated AI simulation, you'd need to sequence a complete Telomere-to-Telomere genome (something achieved for the first time only last year!), complete Centromere sequencing (not yet achieved). You'd also need to 'sequence' or somehow encode the epigenome - DNA methylation, histone modifications, and other epigenetic markers. Then you'd need to do the same for both mitochondrial DNA and the human microbiome - every functional bacteria and virus we host (quite the task given how little we understand this ecosystem and its interactions with our own behaviour). Then you'd need to combine genome sequencing with transcriptomics (RNA sequencing), proteomics (proteins), and metabolomics to get a holistic view of human biology.

To make this data 'actionable' for a synthetic intelligence you'd need to functionally replicate the contributions of the intrauterine environment to development, and lastly simulate the social and physical environment. This can't be 'decoded' in the way you implicitly suggest - since it's decompression is computationally irreducible. These are dynamic processes that need to be undergone in order to create the fully developed individual.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230210-the-man-whose-ge...
yes it is, like independent product reviews or crash tests of cars. Anyway Kim Jong Un doesn't care.
> I am not discounting corporate greed, but I would like to point out that it is only getting harder to employ ethically

It is only getting harder to employ ethically because of corporate greed. Stock market valuations and profitablity has been very high for quite a while, but employees are treated like shit nonetheless.
This is somewhat compounded by the fact the QWERTY layout itself is an inefficient legacy remnant of typewriters, whereby the most utilised keys would have a tendency to stick together if placed side by side, so QWERTY was envisaged as a way of spacing out these keys across the keyboard. Not for ergonomics or efficiency, but as an engineering workaround.
Nearly Half of Adults Worldwide Hold Antisemitic Views, Survey Finds
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/world/nearly-half-of-adults-worldwide-ho...
Is this for sale? Its so cool
It could be argued (and I certainly believe so) that because of the spammy bs nature the internet has acquired, now is the most important time to create your own, genuine content. To fight back against aggressive globalisation and commodification of the internet, and in turn, socialisation. I believe we need much less of "generic SEO-maxxing Instagram influencer with 10M followers", and much more "average person who put genuine thought and effort into something cool for a handful of consumers".
No better time than now to consider the choice of where we want out future to lead.
ahhhahahahaha saw the title then saw who wrote it hahahaha.

anti-woke people are more annoying than the people they criticize. yawing on like a broken robot. this is one of PG's longest essays which should say a lot about somebody who has written such great, tight, concise essays about startups.

i will not be reading this. compact has a better-written reactionary pov about wokeness if you want to read it (i don't recommend that one either though. honestly i recommend reading american history instead of some white dude's reactionary "a history of wokeness" blog post)
Sure, but prior to FB style ads, newspaper humans reviewed the ads prior to publishing them in the newspaper. They did things that didn't scale.

FB, Google, YouTube, and other ad markets don't give a crap about any of that, and print money by not giving a crap. Most of the those newspapers are out of business now, and/or were bought by special interests. This appears to me to be a clear net loss for humanity.
> I have the sense that the author is more interested in grinding axes than in explaining.

People are free to target whoever they want when publishing on the internet.

There is a good chance that neither you nor HN is a part of that target.
Actual source, please?
There's a difference between "make sure local energy needs are provided for" and "encourage overuse and expansion of local energy needs by barely taxing" (the US, and to a lesser degree, Canada), or even "subsidizing overuse via artificially-low prices" (much of OPEC).
Pissing it up the wall is exactly what the Netherlands did with it's now bygone wealth of natural gas.

It's why the Netherlands (cold, cloudy, wet climate) is Europe's primary bell-pepper, tomato, cucumber etc producer all year through. It's why it's the largest producer of mushrooms worldwide. Has massive cut-flower exports all year long.

Energy for greenhouses and mushroom farms is provided for basically free. Ironically, now that the gas is (economically) finished, the government is essentially buying Russian and Norwegian gas with tax money (not literally, but through subsidies).

So your Dutch tomatoes (aside from being tasteless) or the mushrooms on your pizza are for a large part this cheap because Dutch taxpayers paid for the energy to grow them.
If the software wasn't a shitshow, they compete in that bracket now via the Ikea Symfonisk range.

They just really need to sort out the damn software.
Agreed, that’s why products of that nature start to break when you do.
European comics are usually done by one artist only. I can’t explain why but it’s very different from American comics where the same concept (one character with a simple background) can be derived by a hundred people.

Both are good but I guess they come from a different background and tradition. You have Joachim Phoenix playing a joker without Batman, but people would never understand why a new Tintin would have a different art style than the old one. It would be very confusing even to me.
NTFS compression is slow and has a low compression ratio. ZFS has both zstd and lz4.
1) yes it's a naked publicity stunt

2) even if it's not on the menu, people will ask about it. Some proportion of those people will be annoying to deal with if they hear that the restaurant refuses to make it. The restaurant's life may be made simpler by openly offering a fuck-off price. Or it might not, hard to say, nobody except themselves knows how much grief they get from customers.
More like 1.0%, right?

This page says thay have about 1.1 Trillion dollars in Equities (after converting from NOK):

https://www.nbim.no/en/investments/all-investments/#/

Which is about 1% of the total global market cap of about 109 Trillion or so.

The other investments aren't stocks.
This was a really interesting read, I love when blog posts give a little slice of life behind an often unspoken phenomenon. I feel like so many people a susceptible to “the feed” and what they perceive others are doing or value. If someone has a good marketing strategy, and a VP is doing their job by researching on LinkedIn, seems like a recipe for disaster. You could only hope most VPs aren’t doing this but…
Agile is just an example. Management strategies in general are based on gaming metrics that benefit management and sales departments, at the cost of customers and developers.
There would have been no article about this pizza place. It's free advertisement -- and interested me looking into it. Looks like nice pizza! Would be interested trying them if I am ever in Norwich area.

Nice tactic, if you ask me!
That is kind of the point Paul is making in his essay. The most progressive people are pushing an ever evolving definition of what it means to be racist or anti-science or a bigot.

This is why Trump won. People got tired of being told they were a bigot if they expressed any concerns that were not inline with the most recent trends of progressivism.
The difference is that the ZFS kernel module is included by default with Proxmox, whereas with e.g. Debian, you would need to install it manually.
I of course don't know your specific circumstances, but nonetheless I'd like to recommend you the author's own take on their work described in a rant titled "Spare Time and Hard Work".

It's available here: https://mitxela.com/rants
(unfortunately It's not possible to link directly to it so you'll need to scroll a little bit down to find it)

I personally like coming back to it from time to time, since it's inspiring in it's own way for me.
I used WindowMaker for years and while it was pretty good, it was never as good as NextStep. GNUStep I could never really get to work consistently, it always felt more like an interesting proof of concept than a stable desktop environment.
Which is why I said less of an impact not zero impact.

Regulators didn’t set floor prices to wildly unreasonable levels. So yes, it did modestly lower prices and service quality because airlines now competed in different ways. But we’re talking the difference in the cost of an inflight meal etc not some wildly different number. For that you needed wildly more efficient aircraft from other companies.

Post regulations we also got lots of bankruptcies and bailouts which shifted costs from consumers to taxpayers.
Selling a piece of cardboard for $22 is an amazing achievement, recycled or not. It's beyond my comprehension. The world is at the same time much too poor and much too rich. I'm already sensing the throwing away of perfectly good (and forever durable) plastic and metal laptop stands, to be replaced by this glorious virtue signal.

AAaand let the down-voting of my opinion begin....
The remarkable thing about this compression method is that stochastic gradient descent for some reason creates algorithms in the network. Not Turing-complete algorithms, of course, but algorithms nevertheless.

An LLM trained on the addition and multiplication data develops circuits for addition and multiplication[1].

It stands to reason that LLM trained on human-produced data develop algorithms that try to approximate the data production process (within their computational limits).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01154
> Plain HTML only with a single page and hyperlinks into a specific article. Very basic styling and no JS, don't even necessarily want to have a css file, just inline in the header. Very likely just setting font family to sans and be done with it.

This describes exactly how I started out. This setup held for a bit less than two years, then I went for a multi-page setup.

The first thing that I actually scripted was an RSS feed. And the with the first refactoring of the header, I went for an SSG.

If you want actually want to blog, I'd say: the best setup is whatever gets the least into the way of actually writing and hitting publish. Styling, deployment, navigation structure, JS-based routing, all cool, but only of secondary importance when your goal is writing in public.
Different mindsets, I find many problems easier to reason about from traces.

It's very rare for me to use debuggers.
> Here here.

Where, where?

"Hear, hear!" HTH.
I did some napkin math on this.

Pacific Palisades and Altadena (at the time I looked) had about 8,200 acres burned (not including the wildlands).

Assume 30% of that is actual structures, then assume only 10% of those structures are on fire at any one time. Assume there are no 60 - 100mph winds blowing embers miles ahead of the fire lighting more fires.

Even then, you'd expect to need ~375,000 gallons per minute to suppress it.

The entire area is pressurized by 3 water tanks that each hold 1 million gallons, so that'd be exhausted and the system depressurized within 10 minutes. It stayed pressurized for longer than that because in practice it's pretty much impossible to produce 375kgpm of flow out of fire hydrants (you'd need several hundred simultaneously).
Note that while Norway is by absolute no means under developed, it is rather sparsely populated among nations. Population densities inside squiggly lines on maps of Earth vary by the orders of 10^3 to 10^4 per area. The US resides in 184th and Norway 224th spot respectively on the list[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
Embrace nature and go live in the jungle without clothes, tools, fire, water, food, medicine. Calling it brutal after such an experience wouldn’t be dismissed as a value judgement.
Yeah I get that. I'm mostly berating my own country.
I think it's because Americans have a hard time understanding Norwegian culture enough to manipulate them. Look at Canada and the UK for examples to the opposite.
Basically each FreeBSD MAJOR version - like 13.x or 14.x had 5 years lifetime/support (like LTS) - it was shortened to 4 years only recently.

Details:

- https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2024-Jul...
I see your comment grayed out as if it was downvoted but this is 100% true and my colleagues share your sentiment.
I still think writing is valuable (as is note-taking as a whole) for personal reasons but most people I know assume that most new professional content is LLM generated.
Only if the writing is s*t we kind of believe that it was written by a human but that is also bad for obvious reasons.
Engineering "home-cooked" software
Some people compare wokeness to a religion, and I think this is somewhat of an apt description. There’s a meme going around about abortion or whatever that says that it’s fine if you’re religious and you want to limit yourself, but your religion shouldn’t limit me, and this is how I feel about most social justice stuff.

I read woke/social justice stuff to shape my own understanding of the world and then use that to act to help people in substantive ways, but I don’t really believe in proselytizing. This way of thinking is not for everyone, nor should it be.
An unfortunate case of Border Derangement Syndrome
It looks very promising, thanks for sharing!
The "issue" with saying an LLM can't do this is that CFD simulations are not actually that niche. Many university courses ask their students to write these types of algorithms for their course project. All this knowledge is present freely on the internet (as is evident by the Youtube videos that the author mentioned), and as such can be learned by an LLM. The article is of course still very impressive.
> Maybe there’s still value in writing for its own sake?

I just finished Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird and it has a meaningful response to this.

“I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. The thing you had to force yourself to do—the actual act of writing—turns out to be the best part. It’s like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.”

For me, writing is like tidying up a messy room. When the clutter is gone, I can think more clearly and focus on new ideas, so I believe there is still a lot of value in writing without worrying about readers.
Baby steps, if the foundation is shaky no amount of reasoning on top is going to help.
Fedora 42 Cleared to Ship WSL Images for Easy Windows Subsystem for Linux Use
Is there some reason you are working at that time? Are you on a shift or working with a different timezone. The obvious solution is to finish work by 5-6pm and be in bed by 9-10pm.
I'll go one further - whiteboards rock and post-its on a wall can go die in a fire. Unless they actually stick (they won't) and don't curl up (they won't) and you have coworker with a perfectly legible handwritign (you won't) and a good pen (you won't) and standing close ot it (you won't) - you won't see anything.
> Broadcom never released a public specification for the V3D 3.x or 4.x series.

So the support must be worse if you prefer free drivers?
1. Put a lot of taxes on gasoline and gasoline cars.
2. Put a lot of subsidies for electric cars.
Done, time for the Counter Strike.
ByteDance considering selling TikTok to Elon Musk
Reaction, reaction everywhere
Taskfinder
You do know that structures right on the seashore have been burned in the Palisades Fire?

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/carbon-beach-palisades-fir...

Whether or not the fire started there, or even if any amount of water would have helped, the idea that the fire was localized far away from the ocean isn't universally true. Much of the fire was/is far away from the ocean... some areas of that fire were right at the shore.
what about meson?