skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They've become a symbol of how money corrupts people

Become? I've read at least one of pg's books, and probably 10s of the essays, and even when I first read it (probably close to 2012 sometime) it was evidentially clear he is mostly about money. If the job (VC) didn't make it clear, the essays makes it even clearer.

In short, most people involved in the VC/startup ecosystem are mostly about money. They will say they care about other things too, but they mostly say that because they care about money. If there is no way to make money saying/doing a thing, then they won't do that thing.
If "I think we need to massively curtail people's liberty in order to remove our enemies and establish a white national ethnostate" vs "we need to stop those guys" is your idea of "ape tribalism" then I'm not sure that you're really available for reasonable discussion here.
Health Care AI Requires a Lot of Expensive Humans to Run
lots of things reach a breaking point: dams, pollution assimilation, BS jobs, social media sites...
This is good. I would've like to see the things that are possible by hacking hardware upfront. I think this help entice users by providing some exciting anticipation.
It's my impression that geeks are prigs at a higher rate than society as a whole, but their priggishness is generally directed in random directions which makes it harmless and even quaint or endearing.

Surely you've experienced the one person on the team who will lecture endlessly on why robertson screw drive are so much better than torx, yadda yadda... or something similar. it's not a question of having a point or not-- they might or might not-- it's the haughty air of superiority, the perspective that countering perspectives don't exist or at least couldn't have any merit, that their pet issue couldn't ever be too irrelevant to worry about.

"System of rules that you can use to bludgeon people with instead of considering and empathizing? Sign me up!"

Maybe before you didn't notice it because more of them agreed with you or because enough of their priggishness was uncorrelated. Like a ferromagnetic material, if the domains are pointed in random directions you get no net field.

It's probably even just an effect of online forums in general. If you are of the view that many ideas are valid and that your preferences aren't so important, you tend to not comment at all.

In any case, if you're bothered by the net-prig-field there is a remark in PG's essay which might provide some advice: The priggishness is amplified when membership can be self selected by ideology rather than geography. If you just mix a diverse collection of people together their prig field will tends to cancel out, views will be normalized, extreme positions suppressed. So seek out venues where the structure of participation doesn't lend itself to polarization, or at least polarization incompatible with yours.
Or it could be that TikTok is just getting started which it seems it is and selling it off to a US company would just be giving away a lot more potential future profits and close the door completely to operating in the US again.
No. And man, I feel like the quality of PG's essays have declined. Even if I agreed with a few points, it was so rambling, and just made so many leaps. The sheer length of it is a pretty good signal he didn't really work that hard on this.
Trump won the popular vote; it's very hard, over the long term, to have strong social pressure from a minority over the majority.
Wozniak's original BASIC for the Apple II only supported integers; when Apple decided they needed floating point and Woz refused to spend time on it, they decided to license it from Microsoft, producing Applesoft BASIC. Applesoft was slower than Woz's BASIC, because it performed all arithmetic in floating point.
I find it's super-easy to communicate this way if I pick a position I think is bad and dumb.

It frees me from giving a shit if I'm using e.g. rhetorical tricks in place of good-faith argument. Of course the argument's obviously bad, if you're any good at spotting bad arguments! So are all the others I've seen or heard supporting it. That's why I picked it—it's bad.

I can usually argue positions I disagree with far more persuasively and fluently than ones I agree with, because I'm not concerned with being correct or making it look bad to smart people, nor making myself look dumb for making a bad argument (the entire thing is an exercise in making bad arguments, there's no chance of a good one coming out). Might try that. It's kinda a fun, and/or horrifying, exercise. Drag out those slanted and context-free stats, those you-know-to-be-disproven-or-commonly-misrepesented anecdotes and studies, (mis-)define terms as something obviously bad and proceed to tear them apart in a "surely we can all agree..." way (ahem), overgeneralize the results of that already-shaky maneuver (ahem), misrepresent history in silly ways (ahem), and so on. Just cut loose. No worries about looking foolish because you already think the position's foolish.
Same but also with Dang.
It's terrible and the humanitarian aspect is awful.

Still, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds tells me

> "The strongest Santa Ana winds yet recorded occurred in early December 2011. An atmospheric set-up occurred that allowed the towns of Pasadena and Altadena in the San Gabriel Valley to get whipped by sustained winds at 97 mph (156 km/h), and gusts up to 167 mph."

The 2011 Citation 24 from that Wikipedia article, if one looks it up, includes the line

> "We haven’t had this kind of event in more than 10 years,” said Stuart Seto, a weather specialist for the National Weather Service in Oxnard, Calif. “This system is particularly special because there was cold air being pushed up, and it makes them even stronger. Some are going to be hurricane force, but all of it will be felt.”

So, roughly every 10 years there are hurricane force wind events in Greater LA out on the tail of the normal weather distribution. And documentation of those stretches over at least 20 years. And everyone interprets it as special at the time.

I quickly tried digging up historical Santa Ana data from peer-reviewed publications. The obvious article I found had data only back to the late 1960's and it was from 2003: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/eint/7/8/1087-356... I can't figure out if right now is a 1- or 2- or 3-sigma event when combined with changes in human living patterns and forest management patterns. That shouldn't change aid or the systemic response to helping the people involved. But it should inform how we collectively speak about these circumstances when they arise.

I grew up in an area that had awful flooding roughly every 30-40 years (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood). It's presently overdue to happen again. That such disaster is infrequent doesn't change the humanitarian scope of the catastrophes when they happen, of course, but it does suggest that humans tend to discount the tails of historical weather patterns.
I'd love to redirect my property/state taxes away from my local failing public school system to the private school I send my kids.
You read a reply from a person that doesn't like the implications of PG's statements and conclusions. Which I think is further evidence of PG's claims.
I don't want to touch my phone to stream music in my home. I don't want a app involved, apart from maybe setup. I don't want 'cloud' involved _at all_.

I want to point my music 'streaming' device at a NFS or SMB directory and play music. Would be better if it supported some OSS streaming protocol so I could just stream off my LAN (think mpd/dlna but I have no idea what protocols are "best" here).

I'd love to open up foobar2000 or whatever, and point it at what speakers I want and let loose.

Ya, some rpi solution is "probably best here". I know they're(Sonos) going for 'this works for people who dont know what a rpi is", but stereo gear works for a long time. I don't want to be on some 'upgrade cycle' because they've decided I need to upgrade hardware so they can harvest more dollars from my wallet.

Maybe the problem is that ["I have a stereo", "mp3's", "CD's"] and they are targeting people who want to play Spotify from some 'i-device' to a speaker and don't have a stereo. Either way, the hardware is 100% avoid for me. Its a gamble on 'will it work' and 'will they support it?'.
Thank you for explaining your situation. I can see why that would be frustrating!

Here in Washington, the state legislature recently passed a law overriding any local zoning which would forbid multi-family housing, but the law does not apply to cities under 25K population, and its strongest provisions only apply above 75K. Oregon has had a similar law since 2019. This approach seems more reasonable to me.
This feels like another VC/executive "taking a knee" towards the new administration, a vivid trend in the last few weeks. I feel like pg was particularly more left/right neutral just up until this month of inauguration.
Except the state is doing its killing as normative behavior in all of our names, whereas disorganized gang violence is already generally seen as wrong.

And yes, police unaccountability most certainly affects more than just minorities. The lawlessness of law enforcement is actually the most pressing second amendment issue of our time, but you wouldn't know it by listening to the fully-pwnt political hacks at the NRA, pushing their chosen "side" of the group-herding thought-terminating "woke" strawman like pg here (sigh). How can you claim to have a second amendment right to self defense when the police can summarily execute you for exercising that natural right, in your own home, at night? (The answer is that you can't)
The BBC TV series “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” touches on efforts in the last decades of the 20th century to model ecosystems with feedback loop models. It’s quite well-directed, and an interesting watch if you liked the Wikipedia article.
> It's not like someone at Google will ever read your blog and offer you a job; if you want to work at Google, learn how to pass their interview process.

My blog literally had that effect from Google, many years ago -- although obviously I still had to go through the interview process. And my blog definitely helped me land my past and current jobs as recently as 2 years ago.
So I only use facebook on desktop, I don't have it installed on my phone. When I go to the website, at the top of the page is 'feeds' and on the left is 'friends' filter. I just bookmark that page and only view that.

https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr
Big Oil and Big Ag turning cow poop into energy – and profits; it doesn't add up
Yes exactly. The whole debate doesn't change the fact that certain people form the lower class, and those people tend to also have certain physical characteristics, and people don't like lower social class, which makes them dislike those characteristics.
Meta: when I hear people talking about "X" I (still?) think they are referring to X11.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
For all the whining about being blocked on Bluesky, no account has crossed the 100k blocking mark, far less than 1% of the user base
It’s an issue with all metaphorical language. You want to compare it with one thing (irresistibility of the call, as TFA) and some non-zero percentage of your audience makes a different association (lured to their doom, as your interpretation).
Journal that published viral study on black plastic removed from major index
>The cost per spin is the thing that makes it gambling.

The "landlord" aka casino is constantly requiring that you pay `X credits within N spins` or else it's game over. That is just moving when the subtraction of player's credits happens from every spin to every few spins. It's effectively X/N credits per spin, per "rent" notice. That's a core game mechanic.

You realize you're trying to argue that this is appropriate for children, where the whole game is they pretend to be a gambling addict trying to make their ever-increasing rent payments (which children don't have) by taking spins at a video slot machine.
Sometimes it's good to know where people stand when they're shooting themselves in the foot.
If anyone's familiar with Christianism they will be also familiar with Pharisians, mentioned probably mentioned more frequently in the New Testament than the old (Jesus often recused their ways)
Where do these principles of equality and tolerance come from? Are they descriptions of a stochastic processes produced by one of an infinite series of marble machines, or do they have a deeper root in something that is true for all places and times (I'll even accept roots in something that is true (not just acceptable) for this time, for all people within this time)?
Just like in a bad neighborhood, there's safety in numbers and keeping a low profile.
My advice: just have one high priced bucket.

Then you will filter out bargain hunters -- they require at least as much support [1] -- and focus on price insensitive customers (they are the most profitable). Price insensitive customers also provide a clear indication of what people will willing pay for (people who want free don't want to pay for anything so there is no clear signal).

Your job is to solve your customers' problems. Except for how much your product costs.

[1]: Notice that you already have a complaint from a non-customer. You don't want customers who want you to solve that problem.
Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle
Hanania's book is called "The Origins of Woke" and specifically calls for massive changes to Title 7 and jurisprudence surrounding it. Hanania has a record of contributing to explicitly white supremacist web sites. Though they claim to have softened their beliefs, they continue to cite other contributors to these sites.

It is possible that PG is not aware of Hanania's book. But I think the connection is worth interrogating.
If open source doesn't specify a license that is it under then you should only assume that the source has been made available. Both GPL and Apache licensing are considered open source, even though apache is more permissive for commercial derivatives. No one calls GPL "source-available" in common conversation regardless of OSI's opinion.
Arrests after Charles Darwin grave spray-painted
Conscious of the effects of structural racism.
The fact they do this is not very surprising, what I find surprising is the velocity of the change of sentiment in large parts of the tech industry. It seems a lot of people were fed up caring about these topics and feel safe to openly say so now. That wasn’t the case during the first Trump administration, so I wonder what affected this change of heart now?
Never heard of it. Was the banned account flogging its own cologne with the same name?
Sounds exhausting to live with a perceived boogeyman of problems versus seeking real problems.

Personally, I am surprised. This is a pretty unique article from a usually articulate thinker that leaves out significant details like: (1) the term originated by folks who recognize there can be structural inequality embedded in policy which, for some inequalities, has been described as structural racism since the 1970s; (2) the term got hijacked by political propaganda machines to circumspectly throw out working policies and other elements of progressive political points in the retrenchment regarding the term.

There really isn't any more detail to be had unless to sanewash the political propaganda's claims.
To be fair, other non-cosmetic stuff uses the CPU percentage. This same bug was preventing fast user suspend on the OLPC until they worked around it. It was also a fun challenge.
I didn't mean to imply that pg was saying that these incidents were unjustified or performative. I just think it's telling that the actual real-world events he discusses are not examples of the supposed overwhelming trend he's trying to diagnose.

I think if he tried to actually discuss the main events of cancel culture, it would give the game away, because it would be a lot of penny-ante whining about minor setbacks in people's professional lives. Like, who is the most prominent example of an unjustly cancelled person? Larry Summers, who had to leave his job at Harvard almost 20 years ago, and later served a prominent role in the Obama administration? I'm inclined to take Summers' side in the controversy, but if that is a historically significant injustice in your worldview then you might be suffering an advanced case of brainrot.
Do religious and political movements always develop such sects within a decade or so of their founding? If not then I'm not sure wokeness has existed for sufficient time (since the mid 2010s in the form it's discussed in the article I think) that the analysis you present here applies.

But I still find the analysis interesting. I think one difference between wokeness and political and religious movements is that wokeness doesn't seem to have a doctrine.
People suggesting lobster.rs as an alternative are the Marie Antoinettes of 21st century.
If you're truly mystified, and believe this is nothing more than PC linguistic gymnastics, I wonder why you started with "negroes"?
Are residential tax exemptions also redirecting billions of taxpayer dollars to the "rich", by the same logic?
Most of those are terms for different things.

Not all people who are black are African American.

Not all people of color are black.
No, I didn't make any statement on Musk's politics; it wasn't the part of the comment that interested me.

To the extent you slightly implied you were interested in what I think, he certainly seems trending far-right to me, but I think you need to moderate any thoughts on Musk with the reminder that he loves the drama, enjoys trolling, and has an almost unique freedom (in the west) to say whatever he likes online. Combine that with the drugs and his current ego trip, and I don't think it's that easy to say what he actually thinks, and I certainly don't think it's worth a lot of my time to consider it deeply.

I agree that banning cis while allowing the n-word is a concrete example, thank you. Super dumb. Speaking as a cishet guy. Also, banning cis seems essentially performative for Musk's (target?) audience(s?) -- I note that anti-trans rhetoric was one of the major platform points for Republicans in this election, so it's not, like, risky performativism, just run of the mill performativism.
That'd be a task for the next CEO to fix.
If multi-arm bandits has piqued your curiosity, we recently added support for it to our feature flagging and experimentation platform, GrowthBook.

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Generally speaking, most people on the left talk about a certain number of ideas. For example, many on the left believe strongly in trans rights. They believe that trans rights are either being actively limited or are actively under threat by people they believe are trying to either get rid of them or force them back into the shadows.

So, when a prominent figure such as JK Rowling starts both talking about “protecting women” and the “trans mafia”, they become concerned about what influence she might have on the debate on the rights of trans people. They criticize what they believe to be false or harmful beliefs about trans people and believe that her words are actively doing harm by promoting those false beliefs.

People on the left generally do not believe strongly that “more discussion leads to correct beliefs”. They point to the many moral panics, bigoted movements, and real harm done to certain groups in history and do not believe that what some call “open discussion” has historically always led to the least harm.

People on the left generally do not believe that all discussion needs to be censored or tightly controlled. Rather, they view certain beliefs and viewpoints as actively harmful because they spread harmful beliefs about particular demographics. They believe that political discussion can, and does, go beyond what is useful or helpful sometimes.
Polygamy Is (Not) for the Birds
They have much in common.
> But by the same token we should not automatically reject everything the woke believe. I'm not a Christian, but I can see that many Christian principles are good ones. It would be a mistake to discard them all just because one didn't share the religion that espoused them. It would be the sort of thing a religious zealot would do.

It seems like pg sees good parts with "wokeness", and also bad parts. He want to continue with the good parts, while getting rid of the bad parts. The essay mostly seems to speak about the historical context, and how to work with "wokeness" so the good parts can persist, rather than "whining about having to show empathy".

Lots of comments here would do good by trying to address specific parts of the essay they deem worse, as currently there seems to be a lot of handwavey-arguments based solely on the title alone.
Actually I think that's exactly the problem with "wokeness" today. People care so much about minorities that we've come to a point where people will be extremely quick to cancel someone online who says something wrong but the same people turn a blind eye to the actual injustices that happen in the world like homelessness and hunger. It's easier to ban someone who says something ignorant than it is to go out and advocate for building new homes or deciding to stop buying on Amazon and Temu to curb the capitalism that people seem to hate so much.

Change needs to happen and I think the "woke" are at least working in the right direction compared to a lot of the right (who seem to be moving back a lot of progress that's been made in the last 50 years) even if their actions are woefully inadequate.
Proxmox is limited in the tooling available to manage larger deployments. Although they have very recently made some good progress in improving support for these use cases.
I wonder if you make a process with idle in it you could end up in the reverse track where users ignore it. Is there anything preventing an executable being named System Idle.
As an outsider, the rambling against wokeness is insufferable, even though I personally agree with some points usually brought up.

I only found out what wokeness is from people ranting against it, and never really see anyone arguing in favor of it. It has become a mania of the right.
Literal quote from Zuck in just the past week regarding the changes he wants for his shitty platform:

“It's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram”.

Add it to the already impossibly long list of people shouting about “free speech” when they absolutely, positively do not give a single shit about that topic outside of the context of how they can use it against others.
Statistically true. What's your point?
Don't forget about the Cascadia subduction zone! Could be bad for the area...

https://www.pnsn.org/outreach/earthquakesources/csz
I think the biggest mistake the Corn Syrup people made was naming! Instead of "High Fructose Corn Syrup" they should have called it "Low Sucrose Corn Sugar"
Paul was on the board of, and advisor to, many of these companies that exported their culture to the world through their products and services. He wasn't the black sheep of the group whom others simply ignored and promoted their own independent political convictions.
You got a lot on your hands and I’m writing what follows more for myself than for an attempt to change your mind. The Overton window has greatly shifted rightward the last 50 years. The sort of statements being made by people like Musk merit condemnation. It’s no longer a matter of let’s politely disagree and state our mutual positions. We are well into the realm of the Paradox of Tolerance. Normalizing abhorrent viewpoints is not a lofty goal.
This is so vigorous that the standalone term "cis", is frequently targeted for visibility reduction even when used outside of the context of gender.
I stopped using Reddit after the 3rd party app massacre. I don’t even do it out of protest, it’s just I don’t feel like it anymore. I guess that’s how powerful habits are.