skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember some books that were explicit about tracking the state. There was an old space adventure story I read as a kid where you wrote your stats out on a piece of paper:

shields: 100
lasers: 100
troops: 100
hyperdrive: 50
days: 0

As you read the book it had you encounter hostile threats and even roll dice and do lookups on tables at the end of the book to decide what happens next. There would be places like "To hyperjump over the rift you need at least 40 hyperdrive points left, add 3 days and turn to page 88. To go around add 7 days and turn to page 41." There were even fights against enemy ships where you had to roll for both sides and do chart lookups to see how many troops you lost in the boarding actions and how badly the ships were damaged. You could even lose a fight and end the run right there.

The plotline involved you racing to some planet to deliver news of an impending invasion or something and if you didn't get there within I think 30 or so days the news would be too late and you would lose.

However, being the nerdy kid that I was I mapped out every single possible route in the book and then simulated all events going perfectly on each route and there didn't appear to be a single way to actually win. The author had not done the math right and the absolute fastest you could finish was like 40 days even if you got crazy lucky with the dice.
No one is saying that
>> Or is CGI still a thing and a possible alternative for shared webspaces?

>I think I just threw up a little, in my mouth...

Sorry ;)
I think in the not too far future, every electronics device will be locked down. Laptops and desktops can be locked down too. The technology is already there. They can also throw in AI for recommendations i.e. lock down users' mind too. Think what this is going to do to the next generation if they start using electronic products from 6.

For example, if anyone is interested, check out the computers Chinese governments are using right now. They are basically large mobile phones running some sort of Linux, but the whole thing is locked down. Fortunately things are OK on the commercial side but again it's more and more difficult to root or unlock a device.

And now the Western states are following suite, except it's the corporations that are leading the charge.

If they achieve this, and wipe out all commercial electronics distributors such as Mouse, then we need another underground railway movement to teach people to scavenge and build computers in that Dark Age.

I'm not joking. This could be real. It's already shaping.
> New York Public Service Commission Chair Rory Christian last week issued an order stating that the law will take effect on January 15.

> $15 broadband plans with download speeds of at least 25Mbps, or $20-per-month service with 200Mbps speeds.

This looks like it will be applied statewide. Not sure if remote parts of the state can handle such heavy connections.
> So you can read a section of code and immediately know what it’s doing and why it’s written that way?

No, but the documentation you have been advocating (at least so far here) wouldn't help either.

> What if I want images in comments or a math formula?

I don't have a good answer. I've seen some interesting ascii art. It looked cool, but it was out of date from what the code did and so needed to be deleted as I'm not enough of an artist to fix it.

> What if want to refer to another section of code? Use your IDE to go to the definition of the code in question, (hopefuly you can do this).

I understand (or think I understand) your problem. I often have problems with code that I don't understand. I don't think literate programming helps though as nobody actually is writing documentation of the type that would answer the questions I really have.
Education isn’t deciding which authorities to trust — that is literally authoritarianism. The point of education is to make your own good decisions in unclear contexts.
I think the holy grail of marketing cloud is tied to two key things:
1. Cohort identification (segmentation)
2. Personalization.

I think Agentforce could be a powerful tool for processing the vast audiences, and identifying - with data cloud's help - cohorts for segmentation. I'm envisioning more than cohorts of 'women in their 20's and 30's who ski' but more 'past customers of women's ski boots who also predominantly buy red products' That's a little fuzzier than just data. In fact it's a combination of data(who bought what, when) but also fuzzier info 'who mostly buy's products that are predominantly red, regardless of the shade' and I think if you can surface that data to an agent, it could synthesize an interesting cohort for you to market your brand new red ski jacket to...

On the personalization side, I think Agents have a lot of potential. Imagine an agent workflow that went something like this:
1. for each known Data cloud profile develop a marketing profile
2. identify the profiles that show recent activity and / or a history of activity in the next two weeks.
3. Our marketing partners for the next month are: A, B and C.
4. Sort our selected profiles into one of those marketing partners by expressed interest, past history, or relevant markers from their extended data cloud profile. (ie, Kumar seems to always go skiing in early feb..., sort him into Partner A's marketing group)
5. Write email copy to Kumar with a sense of longing and nostalgia for past winter sports vacations. use marketing images from partner A (Vail) and talk about the upcoming ski weather, what the resort's new offerings are in the restaurant and talk up our new 'Ice planet Hoth' approved ski jackets to keep him, and his family warm...

I envision that email is going to be a hell of a lot more persuasive to casual buyers than 'hey, check out this jacket bro!'.
> Paul can oppose an ideology without agreeing with everyone and especially extremists who also oppose that same ideology.

He's doing it by conflating 'priggishness' (puritanical moral conservatism) with a movement that's advocating for equity and trying to dismantle structural oppression. He's deftly sidestepping the power dynamics at play, which fundamentally distinguish these two things. It just so happens that he's in a class of people who sit at the top of a tower of structural advantages benefitting him as he tut-tuts people who are pointing out that they're oppressive to some groups.

Ultimately he's just building a massive wall of text strawman for things he doesn't grasp and attacking it. We're fully in the era of this lazy take, like a dam breaking loose, lots of people who have been threatened by those movements are finally feeling free to attack them en masse.
Every ecommerce requirement is better served by iframes than by WordPress plugins.
To be fair to pg, he has hinted at anti-radical-left beliefs before (see the essay about moral fashions). He is probably able to voice anti-radical-left views now because the Overton Window has shifted.
now if only I could find someone making a similarly bad decision. I've been looking to upgrade to a midrange KEF stereo pair. :)
There’s a globally shared movement opposing anything the left considers progress—for minorities, the environment, a shift away from fossil fuels, animal rights, fairness, and other ethical causes. This opposition dismissively labels such efforts as “wokeness.” From the US to Germany, from Orbán to Erdoğan, you see this trend everywhere.

It’s largely driven by men who feel their way of life is under threat. They want to continue as they always have: eating giant tomahawk steaks, driving oversized SUVs, denying climate change, and being offended by the existence of gay people. These are the same individuals who empower fascists—whether in the US, Germany, Argentina, or Italy.

The world seems to have forgotten the lessons and the misery of the Second World War.
Canton speakers are legendary, I wish I had the money back then. A good friend of mine still has his and won‘t give them away for any new smart speaker.
Yep, and this kind of needlessly wasteful consumerism is everywhere in the tech industry. All of the token statements about sustainability that come from the same industry that normalized and celebrates this kind of product strategy drives me a little crazy sometimes.
I don't really know if anyone reads my blog because I don't use any analytics or care to know.

There are a handful of times that I've written a post about something and then when someone offline expresses interest in X thing by coincidence, I can say "Ah, I actually know a little bit and you're welcome to read what I know in your spare time!"

I also have a thing of writing about any thoughts and anxities I might have at various milestones (starting new jobs + 5 year increments).

That recently came in handy with a mentee who was a bit like "I don't know what I'm doing, is this normal?". Saying it's normal is one thing but even better is being able to point to a post where I blurted out my mental state 10 years ago :)

I also don't share posts anywhere but I have a hint that at least one person is subscribed to my RSS feed (I think they told me something broke once) but part of the fun is not really knowing who's out there I think

The other value too is that just like trying to explain something to another person, the act of putting together a coherent piece of writing forces you to sort through your own thoughts (even if you think you understand the topic) which is valuable even if no one elses reads your own writing.

I re-read one of my very first posts not too long ago that I had completely forgotten about and thought "This is good stuff! I wish I knew about it earlier" haha
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> Twitter, which was arguably the hub of wokeness, was bought by Elon Musk in order to neutralize it, and he seems to have succeeded — and not, incidentally, by censoring left-wing users the way Twitter used to censor right-wing ones, but without censoring either.

You mean how twitter is censoring users who use "cracker" but not those who use the N-word.
I had a website got hacked when the FTP server running on the shared host got exploited. They added some malware injection code to the index.html file.

After that I added a cron job that compared the hash of the index.html with a precomputed value. Didn't change often enough to be a hassle.
Water is a lot less luminescent than LEDs. I think the effect might be reduced if changed to a water based display.
And you can run one written in a memory-safe language, like Caddy.
is this just me or this post also seems to be indicating some form of "moral superiority" and bias in the author's thinking?

To me it seems like Musk's twitter takoever has done more than just "neutralize" the wokeness of twitter. It has amplified factless-ness and fake claims beyond proportion.

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/how-elon-musk-twi...
I have a 40-year old amp and speakers at home. My dad’s old stereo. Works fine, but it has so much static buzz.

Sounds great though. I’m just a bit hesitant to leave it powered on all the time which means I don’t use it much compared to my Bluetooth speakers. Old power supplies are not very efficient. They can get hot. There is also a decent amount of dust. And then there is the risk of some old cap blowing.
He's not wrong, but this is such a weird angle to take. He's trying to make a classic startup "trouble statement" and it's not working.

There's a lot of people who want to be skinny without having to workout, but you shouldn't lead with "people hate exercising".

The trouble statement isn't that "people hate making music". It's that only people who enjoy making music can currently make the music they want.
> the same, unbending absolute arguments they claim to be fighting

Both sides are absolutely doing this. It's like the concept of multiple equilibria has temporarily left the zeitgeist.
While "Empathy for the homeless" can situationally mean talking nicely about them, it also means stopping, blocking, and undoing directly terrible actions against the homeless.

Bulldozing peoples' stuff is in fact pretty bad.
Having laws against giving money to people is in fact pretty bad.
Putting hostile architecture everywhere is in fact pretty bad.
People make decisions, over and over again, to not just hurt homeless people, but also hurt the people trying to help homeless people.

Stopping people from doing that is called "empathy for the homeless". It's called that because saying and feeling bad things about people is part of the process of hurting them. It's how people agree who is and isn't okay to hurt. By stopping group efforts to make things worse, you only have to worry about random individuals trying to make things worse for other random individuals. Which is unstoppable but untargeted.
It's hard for me to believe this is the main reason, but I'd love to be shown otherwise.

My instinct is to think it's fuel on a fire that was already burning - declining sales across the market, smart speakers taking a big slice out of Sonos' pie, and missing the boat on new markets (headphones) … and then a bad app release being the straw that broke the camel's back.
You are not trying hard enough. Sure, you managed to allude to Paul Graham being a white supremacist just for using a similar title. How many ways are there to phrase a title for an essay about this topic?
But really my disappointment comes from you not being able to leap to calling him Hitler. Surely someone else in the comments will manage it anyway.
7/10
hi! author here.

> Just get a feel for how these LLMs respond then build a pretty and user friendly app on top of them.

as you know, "just" is a very loaded word in software engineering. The entire thesis of AI Eng is that this attidude of "just slap a UI on an LLM bro whats so hard" is a rapidly deepening field, with its own stack and specialization (which, yes, some if not much of which is unnecessary, vc funded hypey complexity merchantism, but some of which is also valid), and if you do not take it seriously, others will, and do so running rings around those who have decided to not even try to push this frontier, passively waiting for model progress to solve everything.

i've seen this play out before in underappreciated subfields of engineering that became their own thing, with their own language, standard stack, influencers, debates, controversies, IPOs, whole 9 yards.... frontend eng, mobile eng, SRE, data eng, you name it. you just have to see the level and quality of work that these people are doing that is sufficiently distinct from MLE and product/fullstack webdev to appreciate that it probably deserves its own field of study, and while it will NEVER be as prestigious as AI research, there will be a ton more people employed in these roles than there can be in research and thats a perfectly fine occupation too.

I'm even helping instruct a course about it this week as it happens if you want to see what a practical syllabus for it looks like https://maven.com/noah-hein/ai-engineering-intro
For those who don't know the famous philosopher - it's George Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso
Sorry for the long delay. Handyman business is something I would be interested in.
> I grew up in the 90s and the PC culture then was Christianity. You couldn't say a curse word, or even mention the idea of sex.

Wow that's not my memory of the 90s at all. We're talking about the decade when Loveline with Drew Pinsky and Adam Carolla was a popular MTV show?
Good. As I’ve said in other threads. There are other projects, other CMSes that are perfectly capable of taking over. Let the Wordpress monopoly die and with it this crazy man’s tirades.
> The EU spending has brought a lot of benefits though.

> Massive investment in domestic defence production

Is that actually happening? My understanding is there was a lot of rhetoric, but the actual efforts have stalled:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/world/europe/germany-budg...: Germany Promised to Step Up Militarily. Its Budget Says Differently.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/world/europe/germany-mili...: Germany’s Much-Vaunted Strategic Pivot Stalls
My cousin is a VMware sales girl. She didn't like the Broadcom move at all. Customers are exiting right and left. And no new contracts at all. Game over
> A couple hundred up front for never having to make another home audio equipment purchase in your life is some serious savings.

I have a rather nice NAD amplifier that I bought about 29 years ago. It had to be repaired once at about the 6 year mark. Recently, it has developed a new electronic failure mode that I don't believe can be repaired.

So ... yes, but let's not overdo the "never have to make another home audio purchase" part ...
Exactly, this “hacker” news. Where does this screed from PG fit into that? If this was published by literally anyone else it wouldn’t have been allowed in the first place.
> "the first days around a decade ago"

Your calendar's missing a few years; HN is from Feb 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
>it was more akin to "don't use a hard-r

I still have to remind myself that this refers to the racial slur and not an intellectual one. One of the funniest moments of 2024 for me was watching an episode of the wan show where linus admitted he'd used 'the hard r' in the past. His co host (Lucas?) was visibly taken aback. Like, color drained from his face. As linus goes on about how *tard used to be acceptable when he was younger you see it slowly dawn on Lucas that Linus doesn't actually realize what 'hard r' means and the relief that his boss isn't some sort of avowed racist is palpable.
Do you have details on that? How and why was that necessary?
It is no coincidence that wokeness arose during Occupy Wall Street, and the insistence on the use of the "progressive stack" was part of what destroyed that protest movement.
> Is the entire drama that WordPress is asserting a trademark over 'WPEngine' (i.e. 'WP'), and WPEngine disagrees?

That is a minor issue in the disagreement.

The bigger issue is that WPEngine had its access to Wordpress cut off on very short notice for questionable reasons.

This obviously had a negative impact on WPEngine’s business, but also on all of the business that WPEngine served. I think the latter part is what has a lot of folks up in arms — the collateral damage was really tone deaf (imho).
Philosophy is pretty well explained here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/01/13/bluesky...
When Did the Bank of England Become a Lender of Last Resort? – The Daily Economy
Yeah man, he's really breaking out of the mold by doing the exact same thing all the other SF billionaires are doing by sucking up to the right wing. Even braver and more punk of him, like Zuck, to only do it after the right wing won the election.
Uncovering Real GPU NoC Characteristics: Implications on Interconnect Arch.
The whole article is an opinion piece that is judging a group of people. I don't think most people would agree with your definition.

And besides, the definition of "woke" is a secondary issue anyway, the article's purpose isn't to propose a definition of woke, it's to judge and criticize people who behave a certain way, and he's done an adequate job IMO of describing the behaviors he's criticizing.
Why not just put your sound system on a shelf like everyone else so you don't need to renovate your kitchen next time you want to upgrade it.
I don't think you realize LATAM such as Brazil and CR is becoming the go-to destination for outsourcing, not India. IME, it's much more stable in SA than India.
But those poor CEOs won't be able to go on their incredible journey!
hi! author here! putting together a list like this is intimidating - for every thing i pick there are a dozen other suitable candidates so please view this as a curriculum with broadly prescriptive weightings, with the understanding that the CURRENTLY_RELEVANT_PAPER is always a moving pointer rather than fixed reference.

we went thru this specific reading list in our paper club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnIMY9pLPdg

if you are interested in a narrative version.
How is this unique to "late stage capitalism"? That same sentence can be used mad lib style for any human endevor.

>Perhaps more indicative of ________ where rent seekers try to extract more and more value and consolidate more and more power

Feudal Europe
Roman patrician class
British Raj
Ming dynasty bureaucrats
Latin American drug cartels
etc

Point being that the "late stage capitalism" people lack rigor and don't add to the conversation
Ooo nice! Looks sweet
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You are completely right and the people down voting you are severely deranged. A HTML site + a wysiwyg solution like Surreal CMS is miles better than any site generators, easy to use for the client, and dirt cheap.
It's certainly easier until you have to deal with different views of the same content. I do not trust myself to keep things consistent, and neither should you.

Back in the day I'd have clobbered something together with SSIs to have, at least, a single copy of text to maintain, but that gets old quickly.

A determined and focused person can probably make do with single-post pages and a titles-only styled rss.

Hugo and Zola serve a wider audience.
It's an extremely accurate definition of what we genuinely believe. There is no ulterior motive. There is no hidden agenda. It's very simple, and we're all confused why it even needs to be a 'thing.'
> The suboptimal cases are autocracy with bad leaders or democracy with good leaders

If we're talking real-life dictatorships and republics, the latter make much better use of brilliant leaders' talents. In part by not having a power struggle at the end that, on a coin flip, decides if the work survives.
DMT makes people not care about anything? seems like a blanket statement without any basis
I think the similarities to a religion are a strong indication that there's a serious issue
Careful there. I think some of your axes are down to the nub. Maybe all those drawbacks exist to an extent but the market is speaking and ebikes are very popular.
Didn’t see in the article what they define as “low income”. As a general rule of thumb I don’t like government and bureaucracy interfering with free market, however I see the potential benefits here. Glad they excluded smaller ISPs with less than 20k customers.
> I’d argue that some people like putting doors on cars in an assembly line, that it provides for their family

What? That doesn't mean that they inherently like "putting doors on cars" or working in an assembly line - they're doing that task because it puts food on the table.

It's like watching a bunch of people bobbing up and down in the ocean after their boat capsized and saying "wow they must really like swimming!". uh... no. They're doing it to avoid dying.