skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Not only that, corrupt politicians have the incentive to do it to themselves.

You take someone like Pelosi, is she actually a radical? Nope. Is she corrupt? Oh dear, yes. And you could say the same of several prominent Republicans. But if the most prominent criticism of her is that she's corrupt, what defense of it is there? It's indefensible.

Whereas if she pays lip service to some fringe lunatic ideas, that becomes the criticism of her from her opponents, and then the opponents can be accused of racism etc. and nobody is talking about the corruption anymore.
It's much easier to navigate to the end of a codeblock in the editor with vim. I can't do the same without braces. I admit this is an irrelevant argument if you're outside the vim echo chamber...but it's a pretty big echo chamber
> deleted everything from my home drive to "teach me a lesson". Lesson painfully learnt.

I had a mentor in my teenage year that was the same kind of person. To this day the only meaningful memory I have of him is that he was an asshole. You can teach a lesson and be empathetic towards people that make mistakes. You don't have to be an asshole.
You've described a scenario disastrous enough that my primary concern would be drinkable water.
I contend that if you submit a patch under any circumstances your change isn’t going into linux today.
Whatever time is be saved (if?) will be taken up by the higher expectation of the worker. Imagine a manager’s monologue “now that you have AI, wouldnt’t it be easier to implement those features that we had to scrap because we were understaffed? Soon we’ll be even more understaffed and you’ll have to work harder.”

Let’s see hope my pessimism is unfounded.
Contrapoints, her defenders, and her critics (mostly) were all on the left. I don't know the person you linked to, but she seems to be defending Contrapoints from a left theoretical perspective. It's deeply disingenuous to argue that bigoted right-wing campaigns are justified by some subset of people on the left being cruel to other people on the left.
It's weird and fine.

I always find this take funny, because I have lots of problems with python, but this one has always struck me as the most superficial of the common criticisms.
Everyone does moral enforcement though. Even this blog post we are commenting about (which I really agree with) is an attempt at moral enforcement. He even prescribes that wholeness be treated like a religion and gives a whole list of scenarios where one should deny the request of a woke person (same as one would a religious person). To constantly keep up this equality among all ideologies requires rules and enforcement of those rules, aka moralizing
If this deal happens, it could redefine how the US-China tech standoff is negotiated... Musk’s involvement would be fascinating - not just for the data implications, but for the precedent it sets: Can a single entrepreneur navigate and mediate two global superpowers’ interests?

It also raises the question of whether TikTok, under any ownership, can ever truly escape concerns about data security and political influence. Hmmm. Perhaps the bigger story here is the global power shift reflected in how tech companies are wielded as strategic assets.
Regarding your Claude copying flow, there's a Python-compatible alternative. In nvim, you can use treesitter selections to select a block, and treesitter is aware of the indentation.
I believe it was mentioned somewhere before that he got his strategy wrong. He should consider applying for a job as a garbageman at the landfill and quietly digging... instead he make a mix of embarrassment fanfare of himself.
Honestly, a couple million X-prize type situation for a trash goblin bot that digs through the landfill semi-autonomously and retrieves hard drives would have a decent shot.
> while the rest of the population has clearly had enough

The number of upvotes (and, presumably, vouches) for the article suggest that you’re in a bubble.

Instead of getting offended, consider this an opportunity to be intellectually curious and learn some interesting history.
> The only ones that come to mind are good, actually

It's funny you say that, because my impression is that DEI allows companies to avoid criticism of their oppressive policies with token investments in a few diverse staff.

- Running sweatshops in SEA [1]? "NIKE, Inc. is building more equitable and inclusive practices to empower our employees and create the workforce of the future." [2]

- Repeated oil spills in Nigeria? [3][4] Shell's vision is to become "a place where everyone—from employees, to our customers, partners and suppliers—feels valued, respected and has a strong sense of belonging." [5]

- Exploiting unaccompanied, undocumented children in factories that make Cheerios? [6] General Mills is "committed to advancing our culture of inclusion, equity and belonging for our people, business and communities." [7] They are also happy to look the other way when their subcontractor Hearthside Food Solutions hires children to work in their factories, as long as they have plausible deniability.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_sweatshops
[2] https://about.nike.com/en/impact/focus-areas/diversity-equit...
[3] https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/africa/shell-oil-spills-niger...
[4] https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/12/21/timeline-oil-s...
[5] https://www.shell.com/who-we-are/diversity-equity-and-inclus...
[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-... https://archive.is/1sDWO
[7] https://www.generalmills.com/how-we-make-it/putting-people-f...

I hope that's enough to reveal that a lot of these so-called DEI initiatives are only there to performatively assuage investors and activists, while the companies involved continue preying on the marginalized.
> so the "goal" in some ways to was to make the software so good that you'd never hear from them.

Yes. There are people who talk about product experiences that delight or whatever. Nah, the ultimate experience is one that's so flawless, so frictionless that it's completely forgettable. The user doesn't want to remember anything. They have a problem a/o need, the goal is to make it disappear w/out a trace.
Of course you can leave it inconsistent! If whitespace is insignificant, you can move things around however you want and use (frequent) runs of a code formatter to clean things up for you. If whitespace is significant, it must be fixed manually line by line.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the power-button problem! I had the same thing. Super fun to reach back behind the equipment rack to unplug the POS.
Counterargument: the UK's Soft Drinks Industry Levy.

In 2018, the British government introduced a tax on soft drinks with a sugar content of more than 50g per litre. The tax isn't particularly onerous, at 18p or 24p (22¢ or 29¢) per litre depending on the sugar content. The industry response was immediate - the majority of drinks were reformulated to reduce their sugar content to below the threshold, which is precisely what the government intended. Although initially controversial, the levy is now regarded as a clear victory for public health, with no significant economic impact on industry.

Even if the purchasing habits of consumers are price-inelastic, the decisions of manufacturers most certainly aren't.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/sugar-ta...
PMs would never let an automated system make the company look bad, nor would they let engineers have time to build such a system.
I discovered this back in 2015 (by the version history) and put together a "one sheet" (two sided) version of the rules. The side with the card effects is especially useful.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRIiRebARNIadQaMZgimKYvW...
I still think this smells like a free-speech issue and it does not smell good. However, Congress seems to be OK with it and the Supreme Court, so … oh, well.

We've yet to hear anything coherent from Trump or anything substantive from Musk on the issue, which is odd because supposedly he's all about the Freedom of Speech as an absolute right.
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Hg names the branches and keeps the name. The other day I was looking at a sequence of commits trying to figure out where they came from and knowing the branch would have helped.

mg always kept history though. Git has always encougaged squashes and rebase to keep a linear history so that information was lost.
Bingo! This accusation is a confession.

And what are people supposed to do about injustice? Resolve it without talking about it?
There are no "tenets of wokeness", because "wokeness" isn't an ideology, a movement, an organization, etc. but rather a pejorative.
If anything, they provided an example of how the counter-argument is disingenuous: one person's opinion of what is and is not lewd did not dictate the community opinion on the topic in this context.

Many of these complaints about arbitrary rules changing, to my observation, come from people who were simply unaware of a decades-long conversation happening in spaces they don't care to be invested in: sociological studies, gender studies, cultural studies, human behavior studies, etc. And when those conversations reach a well-reasoned consensus with convincing arguments that sway the hearts and minds of people with control over interaction spaces, it can be a little startling when rules change! But being upset about it is a little bit like being upset that the web APIs changed due to the publications of WHATWG while consistently ignoring the well-publicized discussions and work of WHATWG.

Graham in this essay seems to be laboring under the belief that because these norms didn't originate from the STEM education space, the STEM industry space doesn't need to adopt them or take them seriously... As if they weren't originating from the space of professional consideration of sociology and human behavior.
Except in plenty of cases, Paul's claim is demonstrably true. People vastly overestimate the racial disparity in police uses of force, for example: https://manhattan.institute/article/perceptions-are-not-real...

When people were asked whether male-dominated or female-dominated industries were sexist, they vastly overestimated the degree of gender discrimination as compared to the experimentally observed rates (and in the case of male-dominated industries, they got the direction of discrimination backwards): https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S07495978230005... from https://id.elsevier.com/as/authorization.oauth2?platSite=SD%...

The whole pattern of people saying what amounts to "the fact that you disagree with me means you haven't bothered to examine the problem" is a very unfortunate trend. Did it occur to you that perhaps he did do the work on studying the problem, and came to a different conclusion?
where exactly does a house make no return, especially in say last decade/15 years? I bought three houses in the last 20 years, one doubled, one up 70% and one 40% (still occupying it)
okay but it is water instead of mead? would prefer mead
I was afraid to go down the rabbit hole of 3D Accelerator dead-ends... admittedly because I'd diverge into weird tangents.

I'm willing to 'write-off' most early proprietary API cards, OTOH 3d Blaster VLB was so memory holed that if it wasn't for LGR I'd thought it was a Mandela effect hallucination...
While there is room for quibbling about whether or not silently removing false information from a piece you've written is dishonest, it most certainly is not honest.

In addition to those who received an older version with the misinformation, a critical aspect of determining what is true is determining who to trust, since there is far too much to be known for any one person to determine it themselves. Silently editing your own writing to respond to good criticism of it leaves future readers less informed about your own trustworthiness.
Kamala has either the #1 or #2 most left voting record in the Senate.

> To be clear - Kamala was not remotely a leftist. She got in without a primary and was pro-war and pro-fracking, both positions totally antithetical to actual leftism.

Those are both good because they fight off fascism. There's nothing leftist about letting someone be genocided by Russians.

> I'm of the opinion that many of the folks on the actual right and actual left agree on a lot - our system is broken, politicians and the elite are the problem, inflation has gotten out of control, the economy sucks, housing is too expensive, and it's not gonna get fixed by doing what we've always been doing.

This is a demonstration of "horseshoe theory". Most of these are wrong! Inflation is not "out of control" but has already been fixed. The US economy is the best it's ever been and people are mad about it because they think they saw it was bad on the news!

The real correct opinion is that American elites are good and the voters are bad.

> Liberals and Conservatives are just two marketing arms for the same business - business as usual.

This is the classic indicator that you're a teenager and have an emotional need to appear above everything. They couldn't be more different. Only one of them wants your wife to die in childbirth.
Tbf- most of [any] engineering is like this.
Note, part of the fun is the forensic analysis to figure out why stuff didn't work the first time... Maybe a LDO Voron 3d printer kit would be a fun project too =3
Someone in Hollywood is going to remake Holes with this exact plot.
That's the perfect application for llm code! It is a well defined problem, with known inputs and outputs, and probably many examples the llm slurped up from open source code.

And that isn't a bad thing! Now us engineers need to focus on the high level stuff, like what code to write in the first place.
I meant as we use them. Exclusionary of the [HN crowd]. I don't think most of the ones we use market to children anyway. And social networks rely on a network effect to be useful.

They will certainly find a way to socialise on the internet, but unlikely in the form we're used to. I'm saying it's like giving antibiotics to viruses; most of the solutions we have will be ineffective because the next generation will be doing something different.

Many kids will have Roblox and learned to interact in worlds with others without texting, posting, or commenting. If you play mobile games, most even disable typing because of toxicity/language/app store restrictions, and they rely on emoting to communicate.

There's one way stuff like this, which don't resemble most of today's social media: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1070710/Kind_Words_lo_fi_...

I wouldn't be surprised if a new app emerged where they'd poke each other without typing any words. Those are the ones I'd watch out for.
Musk stands to gain a lot. If China had done the same to Google in China, everyone would have an uproar, but somehow when it's done to a Chinese company, it's okay?

Even if I think TikTok is cancer, I am not sure two wrongs makes one right..
It’s not about virtual machines. GPUs typically have direct memory access to pretty much all system RAM. There exist PCIe mitigations, but the review does not meet up to Qubes security standards.
>How many hundred that are I don't know, but they made "fun" news stories during those times.

Seems like every human story then. The few-and-far-between exceptions get magnified by 100-1000 times their actual significance by people on the other side.
Because 1 in 10 (for examples) vegans are calling meat eaters as cruel murderers. And that becomes the image of vegans because they are the noisy ones.
I've been extremely happy with Directs + Astro (and Svelte for some reactive components). It has a weird license where it is open source but they require you to purchase a license if your company goes over $5 million in revenue. But it's such a nice piece of BaaS.
Yes, though American portion sizes are huge as others noted.

I remember some report about how Mexico had a very different rate of obesity from the USA until some of the free trade agreements kicked in and multinational food companies with USA branches started getting a bigger share in the Mexican market, ending up with the Mexican diet resembling more of the USA diet.
I mean I could very easily still push to another remote until it comes back? I do not feel locked in at all.
UP's Big Boy got some upgrades after a year or two of touring the UP system.
It no longer needs a Diesel helper. Previously, the helper engine carried the modern Positive Train Control gear, and the steam engine cab had a display connected by a cable to the Diesel helper. Now, UP 4014 has its own PTC gear and antenna in the tender, so it's self-sufficient. UP runs that engine on heavily used main line track, so it needs to be fully connected to safety and dispatching systems.

This was mostly a power problem. UP 4014 had a small steam turbogenerator atop the boiler to power lights and such. Now it has three such generators, and there's enough electric power to run auxiliary equipment.

UP did a serious rebuild on the Big Boy, to original main-line standards.
Many parts were fabricated from scratch. It's ready for regular use for decades.
Most heritage railroads lack the resources for such major overhauls.

Here's the first test run with no Diesel, in May 2024.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khJZ6NO5rhQ
There was a period of time on Musk's X where an internal filter would instaban anyone who wrote the letters "CIS" together.
Another point, he is very invested in keeping the economy and the widening gap between the rich and everyone else out of it.

One of the big catalysts of wokeness was of course, Occupy Wall St, borne out of the 2008 financial crisis. When the bankers get bailed out and you just go underwater on your mortgage, people start to get upset and want to change things. And organizing yourselves and drilling with lots of rules and getting on the same page with people you don't otherwise have any connection to is paramount when it comes to becoming a large enough, hivemind type group that can bring about collective action. But if he brought that up in this article, people who don't care about 8 genders and fringe social issues might start backing away from the "woke = bad" message
He tried to turn Sonos into Juicero
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I'm a Chinese living in China. I don't have to select and defend one of those two presidents like Americans.
I'm not really sure what the technical details were.

This is the complaint, in case anyone is curious: https://trellis.law/doc/159246087/complaint-case-initiation-...
Although obviously that's only from one side.

If may be that it's less risky if there's a common service such as you describe, since the operator will prefer to keep their business going. But if significant assets are involved it may still be somewhat risky.

(This was the company that supposedly ended up with the IP of the Kestrel aircraft, formerly owned by Alan Klapmeier and originated by Richard Noble as the Farnborough F1)
Having the power to determine truth does not seem like a great way to run a society even if it gets you some easy wins on other fronts.

It might work at first and be effective for some time in the same way that a dictator can "get things done" but there is no free lunch.

Eventually you will get evil dictators, power hungry arbitrators of truth. It will bite you. It is only a question of when. It might be years or generations. The only winning move is not to play. Don't concentrate the power in the first place.
An AI Engineer is someone who builds AI products, just as a Software Engineer is someone who builds software products.

Hope that helps!
You would think these tech oligarchs might be concerned with some other problem facing th world. This is the only one they seem to care about and much of it just seems like fragile ego.
Thanks for that reference. Hadn't seen that one before.

"This three way switch has Zone A and Zone B in Series. Zone C is in Parallel with A+B."

Important info that they provide up-front, which I like.
To the folks mentioning every game under the sun with a random element and calling it "gambling", that's wrong.

Gambling involves random events,
of course, but not just random schedule.
The payout being random is what makes gambling gambling.
People don't spend hours at the slot machine because every once in a while they get a giant jackpot.
They spend hours because relatively frequently they get some payout,
but any given payout may be small or large.
Same with the lottery: people don't keep playing it because of that 1 chance in a few hundred million of getting the (as of this writing) $95 Million (Mega Millions) or $285 Million (Powerball) .
People play the lottery every week looking for that $2 or $5 payout, or on good weeks a $20 or $50.
> Because loudly attacking individuals for not being in complete agreement with your views is rarely effective

It's worked wonders for Donald Trump.
i cant stand the guy at all, but at the moment he seem to be the only one daring to put up a fight against the woke madness going on in the west. so until a more sane person comes along....
Problem is that often you also end up relying on GitHub for CI/CD so not as easy of a change. Imagine GH being down and you need to deploy a hotfix. How do you handle that? Especially, if you followed best practices and set up a system where all PRs need to go through code review.
I erred on the side of pithy to try to avoid derailing. I've never voted for him and there's a lot that I dislike about him; however…

There's a very credible argument that the DA overcharged the case so people who dislike him can try to ostracize him as a felon and make his supporters look unhinged. If your shorthand for "the less woke candidate won" is "the felon won," you don't get to credibly claim "I'm impartial" in a conversation about wokeness.
Spontaneous collaboration is a big one for me. I am in a niche department and by simply having an office in an accessible hallway with my door open, people suddenly remember that my department exists and they are constantly popping in my door to chat about ideas. Usually those chats result in new projects
Pretty much. Partly because I have developed a pretty robust C standard library that I allows for writing code that is not too dissimilar from the kind of Python I was writing. And one shot processes mean that I can simply allocate memory without having to free it (and use arenas for one script that is a long-lived file-watcher).
Two's a Crowd
Isn't altering the texture essentially just 'matte' like most LCD displays used to be, just through something like etched glass like steamdeck had as an option?
NY Post: Fact Checking Is Now Censorship
But to what end? Backup everything in case the owner comes looking later? The contents of a drive won't in general become the property of the recycling facility, since much of it will be constrained by licences or copyright.
> I can’t even imagine how many weird decisions would get made in Elon’s TikTok.

The decisions will be to promote China and to never criticize the Chinese government.

Musk thinks China rocks and America is complacent and entitled, especially New Yorkers and Californians: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...

Musk advocates for the submission of Taiwan to China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...

Musk claims to be a free speech absolutist but mysteriously has nothing to say about the lack of free speech in China. In contrast, Musk is happy to ridiculously call Western governments "fascist" and "tyrannical":

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/11/majority-...

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/elon-musk-doubles-down-o...

Like all oligarchs, Musk is authoritarian by nature and sympathetic to authoritarian regimes.