skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Igalia is a pretty interesting business. For context, they are a consultancy whose engineers contribute quite a bit to the various browser engines (WebKit, Blink, and Gecko; perhaps Servo too?), among other things. From Wikipedia:

In 2019 they were the #2 committers to both the WebKit and Chromium codebases and in the top 10 contributors to Gecko/Servo. Igalia has helped the interoperability of some features across web engines; they implemented CSS Grid Layout in WebKit and Blink.
> If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. You're out.

This statement strikes me (a writer) as ridiculous. LLM slop is sloppy. I would expect anyone who reads a reasonable amount to spot it immediately.

Are you saying you are literally unable to distinguish LLM cliches?
When do you plan to add support in the admin UI for alternate source urls for plugins and themes, so that others can more effectively mirror your apparently overtaxed infrastructure?
We’re gonna have so much local inference available.
Given the age and ubiquity of Wordpress, I am shocked at the relative immaturity of Matt's communication skills.

He thinks the world has all the historical understanding and nuance of the situation. Why would they?

This looks like a world record speedrun attempt (any%) at destroying a legacy.

It's worth noting that WPEngine looked like this all the way back in 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20110112043959/http://wpengine.c...

They have never pretended to be anything else.

Why now, Matt?
Please, for the love of god, let it die. WordPress's horrible security, annoying maintenance, and cookie cutter sites have filled the internet with malware and garbage content. It's so annoying to maintain that we have to find these managed hosting places that provide very little value. And despite them, you still need to add a bunch of extra stuff to make a reliable site. Time to create something modern.
No it isn't. Myopia on your part (and destructive myopia, too).
> running a sportsbook is a terrible business

For a couple years you could make bank on MLS games simply because the odds were so broken you were almost guaranteed a good payout, it was mathematically impossible to lose money if you bet using multiple apps on the same games.
One can support a strong military and still not want analysis or decision making to be overly automated. Certainly not by an LLM that could easily hallucinate that World War 3 has started.

One can also want to contribute to the military via taxes or service but not personal data. Just as one can be pro-police while also pro-fourth amendment. Respect people’s privacy or you won’t have a country worth protecting.
americans unironically trying to justify air strikes using the phrase "weapon of mass destruction" in 2024 -- to describe a fucking computer program, no less -- is so far beyond parody

wonder if this guy considers stuxnet a wmd
There are two main things reducing quality of the schools as this goes on:

1) There’s a really bad staff shortage. The ways schools are trying to compensate without significantly raising pay are making school worse. Three examples are reducing the length of the school week, cutting “specials” (art, music, languages, non-“core” classes), and replacing instruction with crappy computerized solutions (believe me, they’re mostly crappy).

2) Because there’s a shortage of teachers, it’s harder to turn down an applicant or get rid of a bad or mediocre teacher. These also aren’t disproportionately leaving—plenty of good ones are among the ones moving to other sectors, in part because they tend to have the best prospects outside of school, and it’s not like schools can really offer them more to try to keep them. So, the pool of candidates is at least not improving as it shrinks, and it’s tougher to get rid of teachers that otherwise might be let go. Further, the teacher pipeline is drying up and it’s quickly becoming a less-attractive option for students entering school. Result: average teacher quality may be expected to trend down.
Indeed, that is a nice sentiment, but not borne out by the actual data.

It's more like being armed makes not all, but far too many people, think they can be as much of an ass as they like at any time. It works fine, right up to the moment it doesn't and they get put down; but they never think of that in advance, so it doesn't stop that subset of the population being asses (or just shooting up the place), and the rest of us having to live life watching our sixes.

There's a reason that most civilized societies moved past it.
Hours ago – many Facebook Rescue groups removed
Just over 48 hours ago multiple rescue Facebook group communities were removed. These groups had not broken policy and they were not notified. We believe that AI detected something and removed a lot automatically.

In some instances profiles of prominent rescue people and their moderators were also removed or have been suspended.

I own one of these groups and we all need help!

The groups are communities of people that support the care of small animals and while I know of at least 8 groups in guinea pig communities, we are hearing it has happened to other groups that care for rabbits, fish and even squirrels.

Once the groups are removed you can't access them but the owners/admins can. I can see my group and even now the stats in the group say it is healthy and fine - yet it was removed.

FB instructs you to lodge an 'appeal' however there is no option for this. I have sent emails to appeasl@fb.com and platformc@support.facebook.com and nothing has come back.

The on screen information from FB says that if appeals are not done within 30 days then the removals will be permanent. This deadline will be 25th October.

These groups are global. Some of us are on other social media platforms raising awareness, but outside of these these seems to be little help.

Groups affected right now are :

Guinea pig cavy savvy Community – help and advice
Guinea pigs Australia community
Guinea pig advice and support
Guinea pig cage ideas
Ashtead Guinea Pig Rescue UK
Wheekers
Everything Guinea pig UK

If there is anyone connected with FB that could please look into this we would be grateful. The groups tend to have 10K upwards memberships.

If anyone is here that is from Facebook please look into this urgently.

If AI has done this, and we know FB is heavily AI driven then this is a scary prospect given there is limited human common sense behind these decisions.

Thank you
"AI" isn't a technology. Do you mean LLMs? If so, then lol hell no, why on earth would I.
Every other option is even worse. Including walking away (they have too much oil so someone will control it)
At least where I grew up, biking on christmas day was a miserable recipe.
WordPress will survive all of us.
I watched the video/stream he did, and have very little good to say about it. while he may be right about it, cool; trademark infringement, yeah, they didn't give back, there's a feud; I'm sure it goes deep.

He disabled millions of wordpress sites from being able to update/access things. Plugins.. functionality.. Sure, they don't deserve to get free API access and all that; none of that matters.

What about non-profits for animal shelters, programs like st judes, things where livelihoods depend on it and they don't even know what an API or domain name is let alone what all this stuff is about and their whole stream of operations comes crumbling down because they paid somebody to set it all up for them and all they know to do is long in to wp-admin and press 'update' and make blog posts and check their 'payments' etc and modify/add things like their woo commerce plugins?

We're smart, we know what all this means, a lot of people I come across in the real world can utilize wordpress because it's easy for them, but if I explain in depth how things work they look at me like I'm speaking a foreign language.

He doesn't care.

I don't need that question answered. I already know.

I don't have an opinion on it, but when 75% of the internet is running wordpress, have some tact.
The almost perpetual brainwashing (adverts) don't really help.
Understandable. Sometimes such a small window of history a while ago gets blurry. Sometimes I need to look things up as well to remember the order of things.
Everyone's tossing in the name of other third-party packages, but have you explored the language section from Python's standard library?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/language.html
yeah saying AI is questionable is like saying building the internet or electricity is questionable
> There were more geoblocks when the EU law went into action a couple of years ago. There are less now.

Source for that?
... and if ALL you can see is social effects, then you're reducing the rich complexity of human nature to a gray goo.
Buddy, among other things, i'm licensed as an IP/antitrust lawyer, have actually worked on some of the most recent antitrust cases in tech, and am trying to help you understand what the law actually says.

You don't want to know, that's fine.

But to say "i just made it up" is beyond silly. I don't have an urge to make up anything to win internet points. If i did I'd be on reddit :)

I'm not gonna continue this since it's clear you aren't interested in actually learning anything as much as winning an argument. That's not interesting at all, and not what HN is for.
Many techies hate it when CEOs are boring and only say comms that are vetted by their companies PR and legal teams...

But this whole debacle is what happens when a CEO doesn't do that. There can be unexpected, company-ending results.
There’s also improved testing: previously old people would die of “unknown natural causes”, now they’re diagnosed as having cancer.
yeah, this is just critihype
AI fanatics claiming to know SHIT THE TOP TIER NEURAL SCIENCE HAS NO FIRM IDEA OF.

We know there are neurons and that electric signals hit between them. That’s it. Literally everything else about your claim is bogus nonsense.
Very informative article. Matt is definitely in the wrong here.

I also loved how this was formatted, it was quite long but easy to read with a nice font.
Putin outlines new rules for Russian use of nuclear arsenal
When I hear someone say, 'We know academia is flawed, but it's the best we have, and it's hard to improve,' I can't help but feel a deep, seething frustration.

It's profoundly insulting and grotesque—on par with excusing the inexcusable.

Accepting this degree of mediocrity is as repulsive as tolerating the most heinous acts imaginable. I've confronted people directly with this, to their face, because to me, it's inconceivable how anyone can be okay with such a vile acceptance of the status quo.

If society was even slightly capable of rational action . . . (legally, I cannot complete this sentence).
> Quite the opposite: as with all piracy, the ones who pirate stuff are also the ones who spend the most money buying the stuff they pirate. (For books there's the obvious reason that paper is still by far the best reading experience, but it was also true of DVD, video games, music CDs etc. but these people wouldn't have spent more money if piracy was impossible).

you take a few interesting leaps in a failed attempt of.... trying to turn opinion into fact?

> the ones who pirate stuff are also the ones who spend the most money buying the stuff they pirate.

Uhhh, wot??

Please provide ANY source for this. Really. Like even if it's a blog you wrote and was a creative writing experiment for you, publish it. Just so I can mock you.

> (For books there's the obvious reason that paper is still by far the best reading experience, but it was also true of DVD, video games, music CDs etc. but these people wouldn't have spent more money if piracy was impossible).

So at this point, I hope it's clear that you are a bit silly. But...

> For books there's the obvious reason that paper is still by far the best reading experience

This level of intellectual dishonest is horrible, especially if it's legitimate.
Low-performing inner city schools do sometimes pay quite a bit more than easy suburban schools—but the work environment is so incredibly terrible and the job so difficult that they struggle to retain good teachers anyway. They have to pay extra just to keep anyone at all.
The Palestinian government is incompetent, and they bear some responsibility, but this is like blaming the antelope for getting eaten by a crocodile.

I am not saying that you should blame the crocodile and not the antelope, because both animals act according to their nature. However, I am saying you have to recognize that the antelope is having its innards ripped out while the crocodile is going to be just fine. If we are under the assumption that Palestinians should not be industrially killed, then the correct response is to beat the crocodile with a stick so that it releases the antelope from their jaws.

The tendency to blame Iran for supporting factions in the region is totally hypocritical considering Israel's perverse relationship with the United States. Considering this, Iran's security concerns are actually totally legitimate.
We've gotten into the territory of just repeating ourselves, so I don't want to do that.

I will say that

> Again, you and the original poster seem to have this understanding that scientists and engineers from the mid 1800s to early 1900s are not to be trusted.

Is not correct as far as I believe. Instead, we're saying that there's no reason to believe any study until it has stood the test of time. The longer it remains impactful the better.

I am building from this statement:

> The scientific method works over a long period of time, but to blindly trust a peer review study that just came out, any study, is almost as much faith as religion, specially if you're not a high level researcher in the same field and have spent a good amount of time reading their methodology yourself.

Saying that textbooks from Maxwell's era had misunderstandings and bad information is not saying they are inept, it's saying that that is how it works, it always has and always will be that way. That's it, really. The fact that good science came from it is to be expected, and the fact that bad science existed is also not to be suprising.

I think you interpreted the statement about the 1900s textbooks being wrong as a slander against the entire era, which is not how I read it, and certainly not what I meant to imply by any of my comments.
All NPUs require drivers. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-NPU-Driver-1.5
And that's a shame
Well now we know why crime is down
> there is a new scapegoat every month.

Correction: there is a new scoundrel every month. It would be nice to expose them all instantaneously, but unfortunately that's not possible.
https://x.com/Tas1Bora/status/1839457426564599937?t=7rGQhNPp...
From a philosophical perspective, I don't see how the vaccine mandates for public jobs is appreciably different than vaccine requirements for public school that already exist.

As far as the China lab goes, there were plenty of scientific papers that studied the China leak theory, though I personally don't know what they found.
If they don't know, now they know
.org or .com?
That would probably be painful. It's old-style C.

Better to start with Jim Tcl or Picol.

Even something like Tiny Tcl would be a better start (I think it fit in 64K).
> just use OIDC

OIDC doesn't scale, and OIDC Federation is still in draft. SAML Federation is mature with wide support and good discovery UX thanks to SeamlessAccess.

SAML has a variety of standard attribute bundles, entity categories, frameworks, and profiles covering important integrations, e.g., identity assurance. These are slowly being defined in (or ported to) OIDC.

I like OIDC and think highly of the people working on it, but it's nowhere near as cut and dry as you suggest.
> A plain memory latency test sees about 131.4 ns of DRAM latency. Creating some artificial bandwidth load drops latency to 112.4 ns.

Can someone put this in context? The values seem order of magnitude higher than here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16143/insights-into-ddr5-subt...
There's... a bit of a spectrum from completely blandified corporate comms to what Matt's doing there.

It is perfectly possible to have a distinct voice without setting the house on fire. There is a middle ground.
The argument was that HN supports a "private equity grab" over an OSS-supporting person.
I'm simply pointing out for plenty of people it's not about OSS or private equity but about the behavior of the person.
I'm surprised no one mentioned that Wozniak designed the Apple 1 to work with either the 6800 or the 6502.
I realise it's high drama o'clock, and therefore time for everyone to jump in and try to get in on that sweet drama traffic, but this is the epitome of an article that really could just have been a Tweet.

There's not really any new information here, nor does the article offer some unique third-party take that hadn't been explored before. It's a lot of armchair psychology, third-hand anecdotes, and unfounded sweeping generalisations. TMZ: Tech Bros.
The only reason that a ban like that works is because there is the threat of a gun. You can pretend that it doesn’t require a gun but that’s what the ban is: threat of arrest if you don’t comply.

It does require the gun, but it doesn’t require that the gun get pulled out, because everyone knows the police WILL do so if you resist them. It’s implicit. The cop does have to be ready and willing to do so (contrary to your claim), or everyone would ignore the ban, as it would have no teeth.

People don’t obey laws that are inconvenient to them because of the goodness of their hearts, they do it because the police will draw down on them and force them if push comes to shove.
How would one replicate privately the entire WordPress.org infrastructure, from plugins and theme hosting and updates, core storage and update calls? Can you point to any documentation that would allow WPEngine or any other host to stop using wordpress.org capabilities and keep using WordPress functionality as you are asking WPEngine? How do you envision that affecting plugin and theme authors? Core contributors? "Extend" Stores?
To interpret the headline literally: Writing code for humans is actually relatively easy; it’s called “literature” (or “technical writing”). What’s hard is writing code (for computers) which is also easy for humans to understand. Anyone who has written polyglot code knows the enormity of the challenge, but also knows the tricks to make it work. I.e. you have to do a lot of things which means something to one “reader”, but is meaningless to the other, and vice versa. For example, variable names are meaningless to the computer, but very important to humans. And so on.
Sorry if it came across as non-falsifiable, that was not the intent.

Neural networks do not directly encode high-level reasoning and logic, yes. But in the spectrum of “does this model the actual functioning of an animal/human brain”, they lack both a 1st order model of how biological neurons and neural chemistry behaves, but also lack anything like the multiple levels of structural specialization present in nervous systems. That’s the basis for my argument.
In what circumstance do you imagine NYC tax money would go towards EU lawyers?
I think it's much better not to play the game and if you're good enough to pass a coding interview, you're even better to go into business for yourself.
Exactly. This comes off as a totally unhinged and immature rant, unbecoming of the CEO of a company that likely has a 8 or 9 figure revenue.

I didn’t know (or really care) about this battle, but I’ve always passively seen Matt as one of the insightful grandfathers of the blogging era, having insights from the observations from his perch.

This blog post erased that.
I can't think of any exponential improvements that have happened recently.
or the models will become cheaper to run.
Discounting fraud... what if the AI produces something genuinely better. Genuinely moving you to tears? What then?

Imagine your favorite movie, the most moving book. You read it, it changed you, then you found out it was an AI that generated it in a mere 10 seconds.

Artificial sentimentality is useless in the face of reality. That human endeavor is simply data points along an multi-dimensional best fit curve.
> If that AI is worth more than a dime, it will recognise how incredibly efficient humans are in physical labor, and employ them instead of ”doing away“ with it (whatever that’s even supposed to mean.)

AI employing all humans does not sound like a wonderful society in which to live. Basically Amazon/Walmart scaled up to the whole population level.
This reads like part of the smear campaign predicted by Matt in his interview with Michael Paulson.

Also note that the author doesn’t disclaim any financial stake in the company he used to work for, WP Engine, after his company was acquired. He merely claims that he isn’t a “fan of either party”, so we should value his opinion and trust that it is impartial.

As for myself, I’ve never used WordPress or any CMS, I’m a lowly embedded software engineer. If Matt, the progenitor and steward of one of the most successful open source products in the world, asserts that an entity in the ecosystem is a leech, I’m inclined to believe him.
That would be a worse case scenario. The Apple stores are incredibly brightly lit, and you’ll be hard pressed to notice wining isn’t differences between any display type in such an environment.

These displays and their content are intended to impress in media viewing situations in which you’ll light control accordingly. They’ll still look good outside of that, but they offer so much more when you want to dim the lights and kick back with one on the couch with a movie or whatever.

Now if I could only get one in a size I cared about, I could be rid of LCD permanently. Alas, I doubt I’ll see this in a size suitable for what I want it for in less than 5 years or more.
The Notorious B.I.G. and all his homies hate WordPress
> WP Engine or their users aren't paying for the services provided by WordPress.org and these are services that cost money for continued hosting

Why should WPE pay? They are hosting software on behalf of their users. It's (as far as we know) just stock WordPress. Should linode or Hetzner be forced to pay for their users to host WordPress on their servers? The only difference here is that WPE preinstalls WordPress for the user.

And to my point, the person who benefits is the end user, not WPE. WPE benefits in so far as their customers get to benefit from these services. But WPE isn't adding URLs to WordPress.org, that's what the software hard codes. So the truth is that yes, WordPress is trying to extract rent, because they gladly let anyone run their software on any server except WPE, and that's the case because they're demanding fees (which are completely arbitrary).
In the 80s, Sam Smith pubs had a ‘25 pubs in London’ challenge. Get a drink in each of the 25 and get a T-shirt. It took me and a friend several weeks. There was a story of some guys doing it in a weekend. Hard because of travel AND opening times of some of the financial centre ones.

Good Times! And of course, no screens and no-one had phones (except in the financial centre and those came with an external battery)
> The Palestinian government is incompetent

The Palestinian government has no presence in Gaza; it has made repeated deals with Hamas for all-Palestine elections which would change that and return control of institutions in Gaza to the Palestinian government, but Israel (which, even before the recent crisis in Gaza, exercises control of much of the West Bank and whose cooperation would be required to fulfill those agreements) has prevented them from being carried out.
I know someone that caught a charge for brandishing in similar circumstances and unfortunately it stuck, so I truly am sympathetic.

That said, I think there's a difference between being suspicious and keeping your head on a swivel vs freaking out, calling the cops, or taking radical action