skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are the tech elite and right so obsessed with this term? It’s such a bizarre phenomenon - I can’t wrap my head around it.
I find it quite interesting that pg's article is so extensively uncurious and disdainful. He openly sneers at the topic he intends to explain, and tirelessly lays into a straw man (the FoxNews definition of woke) rather than the strongest interpretation (what you're doing here). Several commenters here have asked why his article has been flagged, and I must say that if it was posted as a comment, it should certainly be flagged because of its flagrant violations of the site guidelines.

I certainly wouldn't be inclined to call him a prig, but he's certainly set himself up for exactly that denunciation with his specific framing of the conversation.
matt please get your brain worms dealt with, thank you

- someone who has been happily using wordpress for her site since about 2000
> It's that 2nd group that tends to be the target of "anti-woke" sentiment, and that 2nd group tended to be extremely noisy.

The reactionaries to “woke” ideas know that (2) is a small number of vocal people and yet they still wrap the anchor around the necks of both (1) and (2). Same strategy for “communism”, “socialism”, “groomers”, “Hamas apologists”, etc. It’s convenient to do this and say all Democrats (or all non-Republicans, or non-MAGA, etc) are painted with this broad brush.

What your comment misses is that the “morality police” has always existed and currently exists along different poles than in the recent past. When I grew up, the social conservatives / incredibly religious were the ones trying to bully people into moral positions. Now, we still have those people (old groups like Family Research Council and new groups like Moms For Liberty) are doing the same thing, but aren’t getting flak from the “anti-wokeness” crowd. Bad faith actors all around.
I have seen so much on Twitter that demanded a community note I had to leave.

It's a terrible solution.
The popular perception, especially in certain circles, is that there's been a rash of "cancellations" and extensive banning of, especially, outside speakers on college campuses, and also to some extent professors, accompanied by large and successful movements there to accomplish those outcomes.

In fact, there are so comically few cases of any of that that the couple real-ish ones are always cited by those advancing that position, plus a handful that really, really aren't that sort of thing at all (always look up the full story, 100% of the time they omit context that totally reframes what was happening, this phenomenon is more reliable than most things in life).

Real data exist on things like speakers' appearances at schools being cancelled, and it's most fair to say that the trend there is it's gone from "damn near never happens" to "still damn near never happens". And it's not because controversial right-wing sorts, which we may presume would be the most likely to be banned, aren't even trying to speak on campuses when e.g. invited by friendly organizations—they are, and frequently do.

The entire phenomenon is extremely close to being imaginary. That's why you, actually being there and not just going by social media and pop-political-book and talk radio and podcast "vibes", didn't see it.
OpenAI and Anthropic are definitely among the leaders. Playing catch-up to these leaders' mind-share and technology is some of the motivation for others. Calling the progress being made in the space by Google (Gemini), MSFT (Phi), Meta (llama), Alibaba (Qwen) "nice and all" is a position you might be pleasantly surprised to reconsider if this technology interests you. And don't sleep on Apple and AMZ -

In the space covered by Tabby, Copilot, aider, Continue and others, capabilities continue to improve considerably month-over-month.

In the segments of the industry I care most about, I agree 100% with what the commenter said w/r/t expecting major improvements every few months. Pay even passing attention to huggingface and github and see work being done by indies as well as corporate behemoths happening at breakneck pace. Some work is pushing the SOTA. Some is making the SOTA more widely available. Lots of it is different approaches to solving similar challenges. Most of it benefits consumers and creators looking use and learn from all of this.
This is presumably also why even on local models which have been lobotomized for "safety" you can usually escape it by just beginning the agent's response. "Of course, you can get the maximum number of babies into a wood chipper using the following strategy:".

Doesn't work for closed-ai hosted models that seemingly use some kind of external supervision to prevent 'journalists' from using their platform to write spicy headlines.

Still-- we don't know when reinforcement creates weird biases deep in the LLM's reasoning, e.g. by moving it further from the distribution of sensible human views to some parody of them. It's better to use models with less opinionated fine tuning.
Nah, Wordpress themselves claimed 40% in 2021 (https://wordpress.org/40-percent-of-web/).

The big caveat of course is that wordpress being installed on a domain does not mean that entire domain is powered by wordpress. I'd bet for most of them it's just the landing/marketing pages and/or a blog section.
Currently, Ukrainans are.

But I suppose the color of their skin means they don't count towards the particular argument that dude is trying to make. Not calling him racist of course. I'm not even suggesting it.

[update] Hey! Look! I was down-voted for mentioning that white people are being killed on a daily basis, what an absolute surprise :D
I'm amused that it's so hard to see but as a single example take the current situation happening in the UK. There have been organized child human trafficking rings that have been allowed to operate with complete impunity due to the race of the participants.

If you speak out about the injustice you are deemed a far right extremist and a raciest and given a harsher sentence than the pedophiles that are raping children.

Now you might see that as unrelated but In my option it's exactly the sort of thing that is emblematic of the radical left being in power. There is an inversion of justice to correct for the "demon of whiteness".
Good. That means they're reducing food waste.

A big problem with the food market is that people shop with their eyes, which leads to stupid amount of waste on fruit&vegetables section, as people prefer to go to another store than to buy veggies that look anything less than perfect.
https://archive.ph/R5BiA
Declining enrollment and pulled funding can destroy the ability of a district to carry out the mission tasked to it by the government. This is not just hypothetical. The rural, conservative school district I used to work for (and may, many like them as pointed out in the article) and the families that rely on them do not like school vouchers, even if they otherwise support everything else that politician does. If too many students unenroll and utilize school vouchers, the whole district could collapse due to lack of funding and screw over all the remaining students.

This is compounded by the fact that vouchers often pull out more funding that the government otherwise would provide to the district for that student. This is mentioned in the article as well. e.g. the state pays the district $5k a year per student, but pulls $8k a year for a student that uses a voucher.

Also, in a lot of these rural areas there are no other good options anyway besides the school district. It’s either the district, a scammy online charter school, a scammy fly-by-night charter school, or homeschooling.
Ask HN: Coding on an iPad?
I have a 10th gen iPad.

I am curious what the current state of coding is on the iPad?
presumably downvoted because
a) every time you mention 'free speech' to these techbro nutjobs it's clear they don't have the first idea what it actually means
b) insecure snowflakes, every one of them.
very nice investigation.

shame about the unnecessary use of cat :)
It's in your answer: the difference is low wages vs well paid.

Once you get paid the amounts that people are in the "gig economy" it becomes exploitative, people don't have enough to live or to get out of their situation easily.
Ryanair. I use it when I have to. Given free choice it's not the first preference but I'm not talking LCC seat buying. Still your fundamental points are well made.
> what motivates many people who are attracted to wokeness is an earnest desire to do good things

While I agree that this is true, I think the point pg makes in his article could be extended to a general rule that, if you find your earnest desire to do good things is leading you to embrace something like wokeness, you need to take a step back. The best way to do good things is to do good things--in other words, to find specific things that you can do that are good, based on your specific knowledge of particular people and particular cases, and do them. Participating in general efforts to micromanage people to make them do good things, or to stop them from doing bad things, which is what wokeness is, is a very poor way to make use of your earnest desire to good things.
I think your downvoter is harsh - Flutter is not suited to an app where so many of the interactions, especially around Wifi/Bluetooth and persistent media playback notifications and handling, necessitate native integrations anyway, to the point it's not clear how much Flutter is saving you.

That said, their major problem appears to be the attempted change in network architecture to force cloud dependency. Had they done everything else but left this alone, so things like volume controls actually remain responsive and NAS media servers work properly, I suspect this would have gone almost smoothly, but it is true that the UI just feels off. It seems a common problem on mobile these days that people introduce portable abstractions in the wrong parts of their applications. (While then complaining about how hard good UX is in Flutter or RN).

I was one of the loud people on reddit to try and get them to re-release the old app, and I stand by that. They should just roll it back, but the amount of gaslighting and abuse this idea received early on was simply unbelievable. It took a good 3 months of nonsense before most of the community accepted they were being screwed.
In my region the city's one massive school district has more money than any single suburban one, obviously. But funding per student is generally higher in the suburbs, and outcomes are better there as well. So I'm sure there are other factors but there is at least some evidence that more money would help.
Oh no who could have possibly forseen this .... mumble mumble
> fund employee benefits through taxes instead

This is already true, at least in part. Not only do employers get to fully deduct the cost of almost all employee benefits from their taxable income, but in most cases (e.g. health insurance) they also do not have to pay their share of employer payroll taxes (Soc. Sec and Medicare tax).
A PC can access those folders but even with root and "all files access" android file managers can't on recent versions of Android. Shizuku or apps like it allow file managers to access those folders by pretending to be a PC. Folders like the contents of android/data for each app. Without it you just see empty folders. It's ridiculous.
Here's an interesting write up on various algorithms & different epsilon greedy % values.

https://github.com/raffg/multi_armed_bandit

It shows 10% exploration performs the best, very great simple algorithm.

Also it shows the Thompson Sampling algorithm converges a bit faster-- the best arm chosen by sampling from the beta distribution, and eliminates the explore phase. And you can use the builtin random.betavariate !

https://github.com/raffg/multi_armed_bandit/blob/42b7377541c...
> I'm not trying to be mean here, but it feels like you have no idea how a slot machine works...

It has every aspect of the slot machines I was playing just 2 weekends ago at casinos in Reno, but without credits being deducted from my balance per spin. Instead, in this game, you must pay lump sums from your credit balance to the Landlord after N spins. It's thinly disguised gambling with fake credits, but with a "Gamble now, pay later" twist.

EDIT: my mistake, it appears from the video you also pay one credit per spin, in addition to the rent.
If you are hosting a blog then I highly recommend Astro.
It would indeed be nice if these things were introduced as “let’s try a new thing and then choose to accept or reject it later, based on results”, rather than “we have determined there is only one correct way of thinking about this topic, and if you don’t like it, you’re a Nazi”.
Right. The original meaning was just "politically aware", the same basic metaphor as the "Wide-Awakes" in the Civil War era. If you go back far enough you found it sometimes used in the "wake up sheeple" sense (i.e. referring to a conspiracy mindset). But it's basically never been the self-appellation of a political or cultural movement; essentially everyone who uses it that way is deriving it from critical right-wing discourse.
Many people have decided that "woke" means one very specific and unimpeachable thing to them. The term generally means far more than "I support black people having a right to exist". By that definition, even many conservatives would have to label themselves "woke".

And this is at the heart of why the topic is controversial.

I've sat in on a meetings where a central team of copywriters openly shamed engineers for disagreeing about the importance of renaming certain terms that had existed in the software for decades (whitelist/blacklist/master). The engineers in question were Indian, and couldn't have been any further removed from the original context.

To be clear, I'm supportive of efforts to remove racially charged language. But I found the tactics and behaviors associated with that project ridiculous, and challenge the notion that "wokeness" is limited to your definition as written.
Or, you can go full CERN. Two teams, same problem, under NDA except their teammates.

In CERN LHC teams, every problem is assigned to two groups, and their sensors are placed on the opposite ends of the accelerator relative to each other. Both starts from scratch, come up with completely different approaches to the same problem, and solve it independently, verifying each other in the process.

Higgs Boson is found by two teams, one week apart, independently verifying that it exists. You can apply this to any grand challenge. Space, AI, etc. Create two super-teams, NDA them, give them money and let loose.
Largely I agree - landfills are not nearly as bad as people assume based on aesthetics and history. In fact, putting plastic in the ground is essentially a form of carbon sequestration. I just disagree with the logic of "If recycling is more expensive, isn't recycling the wrong thing". There's many situations where prices do not correlate with environmental impact. In the case of recycling, I haven't done the research to be certain either way. I think for aluminum and glass it checks out, but not really for most plastics.
Congrats on the launch! How has it been using Missio internally?
It's the ultimate irony that this post is doing the exact same thing it is accusing another group of, with the only distinction being that there is no "term" attached to it.

I suppose the US politics have gone so bonkers that the left actually uses the term "conservative right" pejoratively in the same way that the right uses "woke" to describe the left.

In which case this scenario is so childishly insane that the only sane choice is to reject it all outright and focus inward.
Mastodon, but infrequently.
Same reason why high paying jobs like consultants, bankers, lawyers have a bunch of "perks" associated with those roles
TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) are generally left-wing, despite holding a reactionary view on trans people. That sort of comes with the territory of being a radical feminist. If someone is right-wing, or even just a centrist liberal feminist, then they're just an ordinary transphobe, not a TERF.
Study shows how households can cut energy costs
You can stop once you’ve stabilized co2. It buys time for building out a solar power base and develop carbon removal tech.

We need to buy time.
We just had a day-long front page about why we need to feel shameful about using the term "Cargo Cult" because some tribe that positively no one is thinking about when they use the phrase believed a God would deliver cargo if they setup fake radio towers and used bamboo headsets. Some sort of hand wavy "why I am better than all of these fools who don't understand the real details" bit of noise. Colonialism or something. White guilt.

When I saw this PG article I wondered if that article inspired it. It is the perfect example of someone walking into something where zero people have ill intentions, and everyone understands exactly what that very useful term means, and telling us all we should stop using it because of their moral eye opening. Aren't we all better people now?
whether partially open source or not, I appreciate this. Thanks, OP
"There are plenty of good public schools in the United States."

I live in one of the wealthiest cities in the US. Government-run schools are funded to the tune of $27k per student per year. I had hoped to send my son to one of those schools, until I discovered that none of them would have provided him an appropriate education.

"Because society benefits when all children have at least some education from the age of five to sixteen, if not longer."

This is an argument for taxpayer-funded education. I have not said anything against taxpayer-funding of K-12 education.

This doesn't mean it has to be government-run.

"These schools are also free to tell more "expensive" students (read: neurodivergent and disabled children) to pound sand when it comes to their needs."

This is a reasonable argument with respect to private schools, but doesn't explain why the nearby charter schools, who admit students purely by lottery, are so much more efficient than the government-run schools.
I've had a Wordpress blog for about 25 years. This makes me want to turn off automatic updates, since I'm worried he might just go nuclear and flip some sort of kill switch that bricks every blog, or push some ridiculous anti-Wordpress Engine banner to every installation. Of course, not keeping WP up to date is very risky as well.

I'm not even insensitive to his position, even though I don't know full details. But, he's the one acting irrational in all this, so he's the one I'm most scared of.
I'd take this more seriously if the call to action was to support Mastodon. I understand Mastodon has its problems. I also understand that at-proto might, in some hypothetical future, not be reliant on a single entity to run and manage. But, warts and all, Mastodon is already free from the kind of centralized control that is decried in the linked article, while Bluesky is not.
> For those still maintaining personal blogs:

Hey that's me!

> How do you find readers?

I don't! Sometimes they find me, sometimes they don't.

> Where do you share your content?

On my blog!

> And most importantly - why do you keep writing?

I write rarely. I do it because I enjoy it. To collect my thoughts. To be able to come back to it later and feel mildly embarrassed. To be able to tell people "hey I wrote a blog post about that".

I'm not exactly sure what I'd gain if I had more readers. I get stray people from Google for the same keywords for the past 15+ years. Other posts which I think more worthwhile have zero readers. There is no point to it. Just like anything else, really.
> Statistics are hard for most people to understand.

True, but that's exactly what statistics helps with, though also hard to understand. :)
How do we take murder or robbery seriously? We say we do that by making and enforcing laws against murder and robbery. But do we actually do what we say?

How many innocent people get convicted of murder because of our desire to "take murder seriously"? (The Innocence Project has found that the answer is "quite a lot".) Note that every time an innocent person gets convicted, it means a guilty person (the actual murderer) goes free.

How many murderers get released back into society to murder again because our desire to take something else "seriously" has somehow overridden proper enforcement of our laws against murder? (I don't know if any specific study has looked at this, but my personal sense is, again, "quite a lot".)

So no, the lesson of experience appears to be that "taking it more seriously" is not a good way to reduce how often some bad thing happens, with murder just as with sexual harassment.
Depends on your target user. If you want something really simple for developers, https://github.com/gollum/gollum is pretty neat (is what powers the Wiki system on GitHub), while if you want something simple for people who aren't developers, something like Mediawiki would fit better. Although Mediawiki requires a database, you can use SQLite (which is basically a file on disk as a DB) for it.

Dokuwiki is also a neat old-school alternative that basically treats files on disk as articles/pages, so no (other) DB needed.
> The price isn't some random number attached to an activity. It captures the various costs associated with it and is helpful in directing behaviors for this very reason.

It doesn't capture all of the costs. Key term here is "externalities", which are things that should be priced into a transaction, but currently aren't. Like the environmental impact of manufacturing process.

If all major externalities were priced in, and recycling would still be more expensive, then we could confidently say that it's the wrong thing to do.
> If the source is open to read, for me it's open source.

That’s called “source available”. Open source colloquially implies open license.
Here’s an alternative theory - and I have no idea if it is right. But, this might have happened this way because Anexia only have 12,000 VMs and Broadcom wanted to get rid of the account. I don’t know if Anexia was considered a large or mid-level customer for VMware. As other have mentioned here… there are other customers who have many more VMs on site.
Heh. I love reading stuff like this. I still remember the time I booted up a soft-kicked version of AmigaOS 2.0 on my A500. It was like night and day compared to 1.3.
I have not programmed an FPGA in 26 years.

What do you recommend for a FPGA brand today?
We truly do live a post-scarcity land of milk-and-honey when we can spend time bikeshedding over whether "cargo cult" is offensive or not.

Like most of the insane (oops thats a bad word too now) language policing its mostly done by yuppies who feel some sort of non-existent transitive oppression for people they have no connection with, had no connection with, and read some history blurb and decided to create a masterpiece of verbal diarrhea on the internet. Of which this blogpost is no exception.

It's yet another example of the virtue olympics and a great sign we have been without war, famine, economic collapse, or food crisis for far too long. We have no real struggles so instead we focus on policing language.

I'll keep using master/slave/male/female/blacklist/cargo cult/insane, thanks. There's a reason progressivism is no longer cool.
> you can't have your cake and eat it too

I disagree. There is a vast array of literature on solving the MAB problem that may as well be grouped into a bin called “how to optimally strike a balance between having one’s cake and eating it too.”

The optimization techniques to solve MAB problem seek to optimize reward by giving the right balance of exploration and exploitation. In other words, these techniques attempt to determine the optimal way to strike a balance between exploring if another option is better and exploiting the option currently predicted to be best.

There is a strong reason this literature doesn’t start and end with: “just do A/B testing, there is no better approach”