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Yes - this is exactly how I felt about the "Wokeness" essay. I am constantly afraid that PG is gonna fall down the same strongly right rabbit hole so many of his colleagues have, and he hasn't so far, so seeing the title of the essay was worrying.

When I read it though, I realized he was just using "wokeness" to mean the dogmatic surface level understanding of the subject (IE, not that he was being surface level, but he's talking about people who engage with equality/identity issues in a surface level way). It's kind of a strawman idea, but people like that exist and are annoying. It makes me wonder how many people who are really centrists hate wokeness because they think the most annoying wing of it is representative of the whole movement.

Reading PGs article, I get the sense of someone who doesn't fully understand the thing he's criticising, so makes me hopeful he can learn. But again, I'm always a little afraid that the legit criticizisms of his article will get drowned out by people who reinforce what he says in it.
> he's been very demonstrably weak internationally

What you or I view as "big man tough guy" doesn't necessarily align with what Trump views as "big man tough guy". In Trump's view, "solving" the problem of Taiwan one way or the other, when so many other presidents have "failed" to do so, makes him the big man. Whether he completely screws over American interests in the process – never mind the people of Taiwan – doesn't really enter in the calculation.
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> He just wanted to talk about how the particular loudmouth brand of annoying leftist came to prominence.

Nah, this is just not true about that essay. This is sort of excessive "lets twist what people say with maximum leftist spin so that we can paint everyone who disagree with them as crazy". It is getting repetitive, tiresome and amounts to a massive amount of online gaslighting. Center and left are all supposed to pretend that everyone is leftist just concerned with some extremists, no matter how much it is clear it is not the case, unless someone actually supports nazi party ... and sometimes even longer.

That essay did not even cared about actual history of events either.
I have read some experts views a while back and as far as I understood it’s more complicated. Suppose that Russia launches nukes for The Netherlands or South-West Germany, it’s likely that the UK/France will retaliate ‘just in case’ because it’s not immediately clear if the nukes are not destined for the UK/France.

But yeah, Poland/East Germany is probably too far away and there will be debates about nuclear sharing.
I understand there is updates being made to the space export control rules (https://www.space.commerce.gov/new-space-export-control-rule...) regarding space/satellite components that were previously classified as ITAR. I've been curious to know if this will enable Canadians to apply to some space/aerospace technology companies in the US that were restricted to US citizens only?
That isn't whataboutsim.

Trump didn't do it, and Biden did.
Lots of folks in the comments who aren’t practicing good code safety when using a client library that’s not from the vendor of their storage service.
Make it 1986.

There are a lot of people, particularly Millennial men, whose parents had it better at that time than the Millennial men do now.
The idea would be to sell excess power in summer to offset the cost of buying power in winter.

For sure this won't work equally well everywhere, and I'm not sure if this would still work once practically everyone has solar; but right now it's plausible.
Yeah while I was reading the post I couldn't sense the point of writing it. The title could have been "Enshittification isn't only caused by venture capital". But that doesn't make sense because you can't have VC in a vacuum. Seems like pot/kettle pointing.

> All flavors of capitalism harm working people and seek to shift wealth and power from the public and democratic institutions to private interests. But that doesn't change the fact that there are, indeed, different flavors of capitalism [...]
Of course, I get it. You are so smart and everyone else is an idiot.

The thing is… if you had grown up in someone else’s life, you would be the one censored. Your intelligence has nothing to do with it. It’s a historical perspective.

But of course, you’re a genius and can’t nobody else tell you nothin. I believe John Stewart Mill wrote at least a volume on that topic!
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> they'll always be X years behind the current process node

Which will render the country a technological back-water and affect their ability to build the advanced systems needed to compete in a war for Taiwan.

And given that China would be fighting against a war against West + Japan + South Korea with support from at least a few ASEAN countries they would need to be at the top of their game to have a chance of taking Taiwan.
Yeah, getting LLMs to invent jokes is an incredibly unfair test of them - but I derive enormous entertainment from seeing them try.
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So because China will steal it eventually, we should just give it away now? That’s your argument?

>clearly China is capable of catching up with ASML’s tooling

The only thing clear to me is precisely the opposite. Nobody has been able to catch up with ASML, including China. If China is capable of catching up on their own (without espionage), why would Taiwan even matter? Why would export controls on ASML tooling even matter?

They matter because ASML and TSMC are companies built on secret know-how that others can’t replicate. Do we really need to explain on HN that companies are built on secrets?
> Many tech pioneers and leaders wish to continue supporting those who don't fit the mold but feel their own status threatened by figures with nearly infinite power[0] who disagree.

If only tech had some sort of rugged frontiersmen who weren't afraid of a bit of hardship. Davy Crockett types, pushing boundaries and standing firm under siege no matter the personal cost.

We could call them "pioneers" - if any existed.
I feel like the best advice is to take the ideas, even principles you like from folks and run with that. That's it.

I still like a lot of what Steve Jobs had to say at times. I do not pretend to know what he was like IRL or if I would even like him ... doesn't matter.

Truth be told folks who take those ideas and principles from others and not carry the weight of those folks as idols, might even do better with them.
You’re wrong that a so-called “war on hate” doesn’t work. More correctly, it doesn’t work in the US because of the first amendment and the few limitations on it.

Many other countries have robust anti-hate speech laws that are effective, although less so in the age of the internet.

People broadly conform to the society in which they live, and the rules of the society are broadly set by the laws they adhere to. So in countries where hate speech is disallowed, people conform to a less hateful viewpoint as a rule, and hateful people are the exception.

In the United States, it is clear that hatred is the norm as long as it is permitted by law and by leadership.
Protecting people is always the justification. “We aren’t restricting your freedom, we are protecting you.” That governments seek to “protect” people from words on a page is wild to me.

> regulations are for the companies. But they’re not banned.

So if they don’t follow the regulations they simply keep paying fines indefinitely? Until they run out of money? Until the company goes out of business? We aren’t banning those companies, instead we’ll attempt to bankrupt them if they stay in our markets; unless they do what we say. In other words, extortion?
Maybe consider MikroTik switches running RouterOS (ROS) / SwitchOS (SwOS)? The learning curve is steeper than other switches, but the functionality is quite powerful. At first I was not a fan of WinBox, but it grew on me after I learned they had a beta version for Linux/macOS and that it could connect to a router by using just a L2 MAC address. It can also be virtualized / dockerized, so you can experiment with it before buying hardware.

The newer hardware is even better, but I have the compact desktop version of this 24-port MikroTik switch: https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-css326-24g-2srm-review...

As well as this Wifi 6 AP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICrDw8_PZ3o

They recently released a small 10G ethernet switch that looks seriously good: https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-crs304-4xg-in-review-t...

If I had to do my network all over again, I'd probably get either the MikroTik L009UiGS-2HaxD or RB5009UG+S+IN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxkkNxsEhs

Side Notes

- The Terraform provider for RouterOS is actively developed: https://github.com/terraform-routeros/terraform-provider-rou...

- If you want Linux without actually needing to poke at the underlying OS, then you might also be interested in Palo Alto NGFW products running PAN-OS. Terraform is also an option: https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/terraform-provider-panos

- The one area I found RouterOS majorly lacking was IPv6 support, which is provided as a separate plugin/package. My ISP doesn't support IPv6, so this did not make any difference for me.

- The best IPv6 support in a network product advertizing a unix-like OS is OPNsense / PFSense, but those are routers and not switch hardware. Terraform providers are also available for these.
Has there been an emulation solution made for Mifare Classic since this direct access?
Your argument is, "Don't say 'I believe X and if you disagree with me you're bad'. Just say, 'I believe X.'"

But then literally in the same sentence, you say, "If you do the thing I don't like (in this case, calling people bigots because they don't support lgbtq) *then you are self-aggrandizing."

"Nobody should be called a bigot for their views on lgbtq, but it's virtuous to call people self-aggrandizing for calling people bigots."

Either name-calling is okay or it's not. You can't have it both ways.
Doesn’t have to be your experience to be true for the vast majority.
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Are you sure? How many of us in tech actually made decisions that made social media how it is? How many of us were even complicit in implementing it? I wasn't. Most of "tech" is not social media. Now how many of us were sounding the alarm and trying to build alternatives?

I don't think we should put all the blame on social media anyway.
> It just doesn't seem like those applications matter enough to normal people to actually pay anyone for them.

I thought this was basically the core point supporting the conclusion, but I don't think people really want to pay for anything, which is why everything is ad supported. I don't think you can say people don't want AI just because they don't want to pay 20/month or w/e for it.
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Even if there's not a mapping Mixxx has a "MIDI Learning Wizard" (I forget what they call it) where, assuming it speaks MIDI, you can plug it up, choose an action, and then move the control for that action and it will figure out how to wire it up. For simple configurations that don't require scripting (ie. no setting LEDs on the controller or what not) you can get a fully functional setup for a controller Mixxx has no knowledge of without writing any JavaScript or XML at all!
I would expect diversity to decrease with diffusion rate, so e.g. diversity in soil or mud would be lower than diversity in water.
I think a better title would be "Big Tech is struggling to add real capabilities and improve productivity despite slapping LLM models in every one of their existing apps", but it just doesn't roll off the tongue..

For the bubble to burst, investors would need to stop believing in the potential of AI in the near-to-medium term. I don't think we're quite there yet and, if we are, the article doesn't really support that claim.

There's still room for other companies to innovate and create real value with LLMs. But innovation is usually better done by challengers who have nothing to lose than incumbents who are, as the article correctly points out, trying to signal "trust me, we can innovate" to their (non-VC) investors.
Huge pretending going on though that we are doing this. We are not throwing away the baby.

There is nuance and people are pretending there is not. I support trans people but also support safety for all people. There are some nuanced details when you get to reality, and we can’t just pretend those away.

The symptoms or pretending are things like not finishing the essay, or not even reading far enough to uncover PG’s definition near the beginning, so it had to become a footnote later when someone told them about it.
enums and a couple others were a pre-1.0 Typescript feature when Typescript was first trying to figure out how standards following to be and also TC-39 was just "getting the band back together" to start work on what would become ES2015 (aka "ES6").

Since 1.0 Typescript has been following a plan that every feature needs to be on TC-39's standards track somewhere and since around 2.5/3.0 they've been even more strict that every feature needs to be at least Stage 3 in TC-39's standards track.

That enums still exist at all is mostly a testament to Typescript's backwards compatibility goals. A lot of 0.7-ish code will still compile today with the right flags and can be usefully upgraded by setting new flags one at a time. TS 0.7 code also won't look like modern Typescript, it's so far away now.
Good read - I use ChatGPT almost every day but a lot of my friends only tried it when it came out, weren't impressed and haven't been back since. I don't know any non-tech friends who pay for it.
>The whole "war on hate" thing was a bad idea; you can't forbid hatred

You can't forbid it but you can absolutely make it socially unacceptable. "Free speech" doesn't mean letting people spew hate and doing nothing; choosing not to hand them a megaphone, support their business, etc. is entirely valid.
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Republicans have the benefit of not having guilt around saying things that are patently not true while the Democrats are still trying to act within norms.

It is asymmetrical warfare on the truth.
Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
My toilet doesn't officially support crapping without an internet connection either. I'd argue that in both cases it's implicit unless very explicitly disclaimed.
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It would work on the ground, I believe the pilots (normally) had to get a fix before takeoff. You do need to see the sky without cloud cover, but spy satellites were less of a concern back then so less risk of being overflown during a daylight setup. The cameras are basically visible telescopes with very narrow fields of view and good baffling. Only a few stars are bright enough that you can sight off them, but it can be done. The device does a scan, so it's only accepting a small area on the sky and the initial fix can be sped up because you know where/when the aircraft is taking off. A lot of tricks to minimize the need for "plate solving", like knowing which direction the aircraft is pointing within some tolerance.

Info here: https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/4/4-3.php

It wasn't exactly a simple instrument to use, and it relied on a ton of planned course information. You could also do a cold midair start after a power outage, but preflight would be much more preferable!

Some modern microwave telescopes like BICEP3 have an additional optical telescope for star pointing that are daylight-usable, but in summer you need to use a big baffle tube. The images are taken with a high sensitivity CCD camera and you can pick out brighter target stars surprisingly well in the images.
> Preserved ancient shipwrecks

See also "bog people".

But the results of such extreme anomalies do not extrapolate reliably to the general case.
If the US rhetoric continues it will not be long until you will see some currently non-nuclear EU countries start talking about contingency options. It will take a while, but it is good to remember that the reason there are so few nuclear weapons states is not because it is terribly hard, but because states have abstained for the global good and benefit of non-proliferation. This with the implied protection from states that have it.

If that no longer holds, then we enter a new era where non-proliferation will be history.
I was genuinely afraid of this post hitting HN, but thank you for the kind words.
I understand the feeling of disillusionment, but it serves no purpose. Biden wasn't great and that disappointment paved the way for the current one. We all know that.

I grew up in Brazil, during a military dictatorship (sponsored by the US, BTW), and, if I can suggest one thing it's this: everything is politics. From deciding where you and your colleagues go for lunch, or whether you indent with spaces or tabs.

So, if you want to not get disappointed, involve yourself with politics. It starts with school boards - they decide what students study, what they will eat, how money is distributed between districts, etc. Get to know the candidates, learn how it works, think about the possibility of running yourself if you can's see any sane people there. If there is someone sane, campaign for them. Visit others, talk about the issues, talk about solutions. Go to city council meetings, consider running for city council.

Rinse and repeat. If successful, think about the next level. This is how you change things. Not by protesting on the streets (that works, but it's not as effective), but by coordinating votes.

You don't need to be a candidate, but if you know how to crunch data and run simulations, you can get electoral maps and help direct campaigns to spend the right amount of money on the places where it will be most effective. Learn the Cambridge Analytica playbook and use it (unlike them) for good.

There is a huge number of interventions you might want to do that could help shift the demographics enough that the mid-terms turn out more aligned to your ideals.
Again, what does that have to do with our discussion about money?
> Most human math phd's have all kinds of shortcomings.

I know a great many people with PhDs. They're certainly not infallible by any means, but I can assure you, every single one of them can correctly count the number of occurrences of the letter 'r' in 'strawberry' if they put their mind to it.
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Great harm then? I’m not morally obligated to to treat Putin with respect. Most people agree that there are people who are so reprehensible that they don’t deserve respect.
The Supreme Court during Trump's last time in office upheld versions of the travel ban that covered the nationals of certain countries (Burma, Eritrea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Nigeria, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Venezuela, and Yemen). It is expected that most if not all of these countries will be included in a new travel ban. It's unclear what other countries will be included but China and India could be added.
"why go out of your way to remove them"
in principle, it's fine to have them. But really, they are just a symbol of the fake performative substance free dei culture. A reminder of it. Transgender employees should not be discriminated against, should have all the protections and respect like any other employees. But do we really need tampons in mens' bathrooms, really?
Yep, but people don't pay attention to history anymore and their ignorance keeps us repeating it.
The author isn't talking about abstract "hatred" in the sense of people's internal, personal experiences. They are talking about hate speech, a specific concrete act with external material consequences.

> Adding on, the trans issue isn't simple.

It really kind of is though.
It’s like.. incredibly escapable. Nihilism makes for a weak argument
An extra point that it is too late to edit in, on openness wrt software: unlike some companies we could all mention, they are playing right with the slicer software. It is heavily based on earlier AGPL3 licensed software and their work is correctly licensed also: https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/blob/master/LICENSE

There might be some question as to whether anything like the connectivity layer that sits between BS and the printer that currently isn't open, should also be AGPL. I'll leave discussion of how AGPL and losly linked components do/n't work together to people with more experience in the area…
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Anatomy of Table-Level Locks: Reducing Locking Impact
There are two key aspects here: the nature of work and a critique of woke narratives, which some argue deny recent developments by framing them as a simple desire for acceptance. Specifically, transgender individuals are seen as being elevated through diversity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, with accusations that these efforts sometimes prioritize activism over qualifications and invade female only spaces that are there for a reason.

While I understand the personal challenges you’re navigating regarding identity and humanity, it’s important to maintain boundaries between personal matters and professional life. In Silicon Valley, the focus is on achieving ambitious goals that deliver exceptional results, similar to the performance expected in professional sports. Success depends on everyone concentrating on their work, regardless of personal beliefs or identities. Therefore, keeping personal issues like sexuality and the woke religion separate from the workplace ensures a productive and diverse viewpoint inclusive environment where all qualified individuals can contribute effectively and help companies thrive against odds.
It's interesting to see how tech bros are slowly sliding to the right. The first thing I ever read from Paul was his thing about lisp, and I almost instantly disliked him. There is an intense ego that radiates from his ilk. You see a similar thing with some small business owners. Owning and running a business gives them a feeling of superiority. They feel that they are affluent thanks solely to their own efforts (and perhaps some negligible work from their employees), and seeing that others are less wealthy they conclude themselves to be superior [1]. I think it's an inevitable fact of capitalism that the people who rise to the top are the ones who are greedy, who confuse profit with virtue. It's really no surprise that they are easily influenced by the winds of fashion; you don't get rich by taking a stand.

[1] Footnote 12, https://paulgraham.com/superlinear.html#f12n
Yes, on the scale of centuries, but I think we are on the other side of the peak now, at least in the US. Being born 40 to 60 years ago is probably better than being born 10 to 30 years ago. And that is the timescale humans live and think in.
It's a manifestation of insecurity and lack of trust in the team.
Frustration Tolerance: An Essential for Surviving Large Orgs
The government should allow sales, but apply a heavy annual tax to the property.

peruserperyear SaaS-model pricing for governments.
It's so dumb I'm tempted to believe that it's outrage bait invented by the author to advertise the knife.
Most definitely. Each person decides for themselves where the lines are drawn.
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Interesting. MakeX has needed improvements for a while now. Can't wait to give this a try.
I think this IP ASML uses is more like Coca Cola or KFC recipe I did not see those going into public domain as those are trade secrets not patents.