skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a very hard problem. It's not even a problem. We've got a framework for protecting the rights of content creators as to their content, and we have it that after some time those works enter the public domain because that is actually quite valuable for society.

Pornography might be a problem, specifically as to this case or even generally -- many think reasonably think it is. Pornography does generally get less protection than other contents/speech, so you could limit the sorts of pornographic contents that are ok, and you could ban pornographic parodies of historical persons and characters that have entered the public domain. You could even see an outright ban on all pornography, which would completely solve that part of the "problem" that you see. But distasteful use of works that have entered the public domain is absolutely not a problem in and of itself because we have long ago decided that all works eventually entering the public domain is a very desirable outcome.
The best primary source is the Erowid trip reports vault: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Ayahuasca.shtml

First it makes people purge (vomit profusely) because the MAO enzymes normally break down the psychoactives in the stomach, and it reacts violently when the enzymes are inhibited with MAOIs. It's likely a reaction to something else in the plant because the psychoactives absorb into the stomach before they throw up.

The technical name for what happens next is "full disassociation" which can best be described as the brain disconnecting from the sensor organs and then hallucinating whatever it wants in their place. The actual experience people have varies all over the place. Lots of trip reports of people seeing god, or aliens, or seeing their life flash before their eyes.

It's popular among the Silicon Valley crowd in general from my experience, but specifically the ritualistic experience in the Amazon. Freebasing DMT isn't as popular.
I don't see why it's obviously yes. Broadband providers can compete with each other in a way that the water utility or roads cannot.
Trash removal is free in NY, sure. The city says people should have trash removal provided and it should be centralized.

The equivalent would be that the city pays ISPs to provide service to certain people.

Instead they say "you have to provide them service even though you'll lose money on these customers".

Do you see why this is different?
Those businesses may have enrolled in Apple Business Connect or otherwise made an agreement to show their trademarks inside the Maps app. Or the Maps app is showing the store’s app, and their app icon includes their trademark. (One of the requirements of submitting your app to the App Store is granting Apple a license to use your app’s icon.)
A lot of people actually despise living in major cities. I was born in one, a huge metropolis, and lived in it for the most of my life. For a long time I was forced to live there, because the jobs were there too.

In may ways, the pandemic was a blessing for me. Remote work allowed me to move to a small city, closer to a rural area. If depends solely on my desire, I will never again live in a major city.
I often observe people at my office using the laptop keyboard and monitor exclusively, while sitting at their desks, even though we are all given external monitors, keyboards and mice.

I guess they are young and their bodies don't hurt yet.
If only there was a small and very cheap device with wifi and aux out that you could plug into your old stereo, and instantly get the possibility to cast music directly from all your Android apps. Like a Chromecast but for Audio.

Seriously, this was a thing 10 years ago! I bought five, and they all still work perfectly. They do multiroom audio. They are compatible with the new Nest speakers. The only reason we can't have them today is corporate greed and rent-seeking MBA fuckers.
> I don't like these types of mandates because it distorts the market.

Internet access is more or less a “natural monopoly” because of right of way issues and cost to build just like electricity and gas and water. Those things have always been regulated and had price controls.

> Politicians get to say "we provided X people with internet service and we didn't use a dollar of tax payers' money". Which sounds nice, but you can't really get something for nothing. This will increase costs for ISPs and likely increase prices for others. How much? Who knows!

And what happens when ISPs can charge whatever they want - again a natural monopoly - should the subsidies increase,
Bingo. Dating apps were my biggest nightmare. I don't think I've ever landed a good date out of them over the years. Meeting someone at a friend's BBQ? Easy as.

I still get PTSD seeing my friends swipe Tinder. So cruel.
There's a handful of users on the reddit gaming pages where I can distinguish their writing style and bad opinions well enough from other users that I recognize them. The site culture is opposed to referencing someone's post history, though.

The pseudononymous nature of the website was originally one of its selling points, being a nice inbetween of 4chan's anon chaos and Facebook's "your boss and grandmother are reading your posts" stiltedness. Nowadays, I'd rather have the personalization back. The new UI lets people upload avatars for their comments, which probably helps, but they'll have to pry the old UI from my cold, dead hands
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I'm in Oregon and paying $65/mo for symmetrical 1Gb plan which seems more in line with those prices if you scale them linearly. But I have my choice of multiple providers here, so they compete.
> we still have colleges that won't admit gay students, or that many people still don't believe in interracial marriage

1. Who cares? Those colleges are private entities and presumably this admissions discrimination means they cannot receive Federalor state funds. If admitting gay students goes against their religious beliefs, then the rest of us benefit from having the people they reject.

2. It is not up to us to tell other families who they can and can't marry, or what they can or can't think. Let the bigots be bigots in their bigoted bubble, as long as they don't hurt anyone outside it. (If their children wish to leave the bubble, we should protect and support them privately.)

3. A cop shooting a black person for dating a white girl is homicide, independent of anyone's beliefs.
The article says you need a licence, or is that location different?
I suspect they gave him a timeline to IPO and/or sell or he's kicked out as CEO. His recent actions are those of a man with a deadline and nothing to lose.
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Most hardware shops don't understand that the software is also the product.
If it takes a felon winning an election for you to come out and write this then you are a coward. Where were these deep thoughts when BLM was blocking public roads and emergency services. I'm impartial to both sides simply making an observation.
They are less intelligent, regardless of the country. This anti-establisment-ism is based on a fundamental inability of making logical steps longer than 2, or the inability to generalize. Typical wacko seem one single example of something suspicious, maybe even a fact, then a scammer wraps that suspicious event or a fact in a conspiracy theory, and that person believes it instantly, not questioning this simple and crude world view.

Two most popular examples nowadays:

1. Moon landing. A person sees 1 single moon picture with unexplained details on it, read a conspiracy explanation about it, and then makes a single logical step that a single picture falsifies everything about moon landing. It doesn't enter his mind to think about the other 9999 already explained photos from the Moon, and then to ask that conspiracy guy how do those fit in his theory. It doesn't enter his mind to maybe question his skills at deciphering optical illusions and artifacts and ask for help.

2. Vaccines. Antivax crowd prides themselves in finding some negative cases for any given vaccine, be they fake or real. But even in the case of real deaths for example, they intellectually unable to take a second step and apply statistics, to understand how much more good a vaccine brings to the humans compared to the bad.

They can't really reason logically, aside from simple "single fact" -> "decision". Anything more complex is no go.
Talking about not wasting money and then planning a building that has more than 6 floors is quite cheeky.
I was thinking about Stewart Lee as I attempted to read the article. It resonated especially strongly as I got to the part about how this awful "political correctness" is the reason that women are now able to report sexual harassment on campus. I wasn't able to make it much further. Hats off to those brave adventurers who made it through the whole thing.
An AI assistant lessens the fear of the blank page. It gets you started creatively so that you can work and it offers ideas which, even when they are bad, can lead you to something creatively satisfying. The important thing is that the AI is only an assistant and not the complete author. The human has to guide and tweak and rewrite a TON.
Much like "woke" isn't really a single coherent entity, neither is "antiwoke". E.g. Bill Maher is notoriously anti-woke, but I haven't heard him demanding language policing. The part of it that does is the same people who have always done it, i.e. social conservatives - for whom it is literally a part of their platform and has always been that.
I mean, cool tech, but why not just print a QR code next to each illustration?
If was running a major site that depends on Wordpress , or am an agency that makes use of Wordpress extensively I would be very concerned. Irrespective of who is right/wrong, Matt’s actions come across as rash, irrational , and reactive.

Definitely not the type of leader I would want to be leading an open source project I depend on.

From a risk analysis perspective, this would make me question if wp is fit for my company. If the ceo/leader can behave in this way , what are the risks he pulls similarly self destructive moves that jeopardises my sites?

I am have no bone in this fight, I dropped wp back In 2010, due to the multitude of issues with plugins, themes and security. It was easier(and more secure) to roll an app with django/rails.

Though, I think if you are using Wordpress. Either look for alternatives , or look to a fork with better governance.
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Outside of initially setting up my Sonos speakers, I never venture into their app. I happily stream via Airplay2 from my iPhone or iPad. Everything has been working just great on my stereo-paired Sonos Ones in my den, a separate Sonos One in the kitchen, and a Sonos Era 300 paired to a Sonos Sub mini in my living room. No complaints here and if anyone is thinking about throwing theirs away, I'll gladly take them off your hands for free.
How? A broadband provider either has to create infrastructure costing billions hidden like water utilities or use over the air internet which has it own limitations based on spectrum and not all spectrum being usable for data transmission.
I think you may have a point about what will happen, but that can happen at the same time as a mental breakdown. How do you justify something like this https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/17/pineapple-on-pizza-is-deli... if you only believe in the power play? How does this fit in?
Interesting point to consider. I recently questioned the validity of a statement made by a newsletter publisher related to a repeatedly-debunked conspiracy theory that he used to attempt to bolster his point. It reeked of irony.

I politely asked for a fact-check on it in the comments section, as I otherwise enjoyed and agreed with the substance of the post. He both removed the claim in question and my comment.

I was unsure of how to feel about this. Those who had already read the post online or still had the original in their inbox were left with the misinformation from what they may consider a trusted source.

I believed it would have been better to edit out the false information, leave my comment, and reply with clarification on the editing and why.

Likewise, this practice of dynamically-edited online content is actually relevant to the topic of PG's post and the role it plays in replacing the traditional constraints on printed media.
As an extreme outsider (and mostly emotionally uninvested) to this whole scene, and having read a few of the most popular articles, I've always taken Paul Graham to be an intelligent and articulate person. This article is has made me really reevaluate my judgement.

I'm open to thinking about and discussing the points he is raising, but his arguments and the presentation feel weird and flimsy. Lots of anecdata, cherry-picked history, bad arguments propped up by debatable ideas presented as facts. And weird, almost sociopathic lack of empathy (eg: the 2020 "a white police officer asphyxiated a black suspect on video" event)?

I mean, sure aggressive policing of speech and performance in social media is somewhat dumb, but any normal mind should be able to look behind the overreaction and realise that the underlying issues raised are valid and pressing.

Is article is just a performance piece in preparation for the incoming regime?
The things grandmas do to see their grandsons regularly. Smart. :-)
Bruh an engineer probably suggested those changes.

You think a salesperson is suggesting mDNS and frameworks?
I don't think its accurate to describe the AfD as right wing. Far right or possibly fascist
> If every single office job went remote, what's the point of a city like New York. Who's going to willingly pay $6,000 for an apartment, ride the trains for over an hour a day, if you can just sit at home in a much cheaper city .

Yeah, but that's the heart of the problem here. The suburbs that many flocked to when WFH became acceptable are largely subsidized by city income. Cities are largely funded by employers paying hefty taxes to operate within them. Non-negligible portions of municipal budgets are also funded by small businesses that cannot exist without people working centrally somewhere.

Until municipal governments figure out a different operating model, I don't think any major city can survive big companies pulling out en masse unless your desired end state looks like Detroit circa 2000.

> I go to work in exchange for currency, which is required to acquire goods and services. All this other crap, all these holiday parties, all of this let's dance in diversity videos, no that's not what I'm here for .

What of the people whose jobs aren't WFH compatible? "They get what they get?"
EEVBlog had a video about mod'ing a dumpster-found Sonos Play 5 into a cloud-free working system.

EDIT: Whoops, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeIk-4ItQ70

They (Sonos) basically willfully attempted to brick their consumer devices, and since many sonos customers were prosumer enthusiasts but not technical (hw or sw) it really did signal EOL for the products. Bananas. I still have a my Play1/3/5 infrastructure operating through Home Assistant and AirBridge that turns them into Airplay devices. It's not perfect but still gives them utility. Considering how much they f'n cost..
Remember chatting with random strangers on IRC and slowly peel their personality? Those were the days.
> Reasoning scales all the way up to the discovery of quaternions and general relativity, often

That would be true only if all that we grant for based/true/fact came through reasoning in a complete logical and awoke state. But it did not, and if you dig a little or more you'd find a lot of actual dreaming revelation, divine and all sorts of subconscious revelation that governs lives and also science.
It’s been happening with both landline and cell phones since the mid 80s on a national level
Linux mailbox subsystem is a poor excuse for abstracting (Asahi Linux)
the bible it saved my soul so incan sit today and write Rist
Not yet there aren't. Perhaps we should form a committee to start a few and ensure that none of them actually have thr critical mass go succeed!
So the society should pay attention and stamp out whatever new fad the students got up to? Never mind the concerted well-financed efforts to smear and destroy truth, reason, democracy, pretty much any values there are?

At the dawn of Project 2025 let us think how to stop the woke the next time?
put diamonds on top of those LEDs and you can sell it to rappers.
Even Paul himself uses the word in a way that sure seems inconsistent with his definition:

"Consumers have emphatically rejected brands that ventured too far into wokeness. The Bud Light brand may have been permanently damaged by it."

Bud Light sent Dylan Mulvaney promotional cans of beer to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of her web series about her transition. Mulvaney had been a target of right-wing activists for some time, and those activists drove the boycott. This was just a particularly effective example of a long line of right-wing campaigns against companies that associate with trans celebrities. How does "woke" fit into this except from the perspective that "woke" just means being on one side of the culture war?
Sort-of.

Neither a Sonos Port nor something like an Alexa Echo Dot nor the long-discontinued Chromecast Audio can awaken my stereo (whether from 1955 or 2025), select the appropriate input, and allow me to start playing music from my phone.

A Sonos speaker does allow that, though.

And so might a modern sound bar when combined with things like CEC and a regular-ass $25 HDMI Chromecast.
Yes it is worse, much worse. A large part of the reason for that is that it's written in Go. The other part is that it's written by Googlers and sysadmin people; two groups not particularly known for their great software engineering skills. My personal experience here is mostly with cAdvisor (which I guess is not strictly part of Kubernetes but comes from the same ecosystem). It is chock full of horrible error handling (if there is any), uninitialized structures and a dozen layers of indirection.
Read this and understand one thing, you being anti-woke is not fighting the elite, fighting a cabal of anti-freedom leftists.

You are sided with the billionaires, politicians and justices of the Supreme Court that hold virtually all the power in this country. You are on the side of Putin and the Iranian regime, both calling out "western degeneracy".

"Wokeness" is nothing but a scarecrow used to discredit any and all progressive ideas. In the name of "anti-wokeness" women are dying of complications, giving birth to the child of their rapists. LGBT people have to hide in the closet, from fear of repercussions to being who they are, enduring massive psychological pain.

As a remedy, I would like you to hold one conversation with a trans guy/girl, hear them complain about the harassment they receive almost daily, about how difficult it was to have anyone recognize their illness and receive treatment, and realize that they are simply trying to live a life in this messed up world, like you and me.
One imagines a lot of the engineers going "yay!" are just people who want to have a job tomorrow.
I agree, it's absolutely and entirely bullshit and is becoming an easy sloganism that you can bash around. Where "replacing developers, engineers, and scientist with AI" really is about 'doing more with less'... or... just 'doing more, faster?'.

But it is genuinely replacing workers, in real terms. And more importantly it's replacing services, which in turn means jobs and revenue. So they too turn to electricity & automation, so they can do more... so they can remain competitive.

So uh yea, I 100% agree with you there, and wish that more people saw straight through it like you do.
> This was not the original meaning of woke, but it's rarely used in the original sense now. Now the pejorative sense is the dominant one. What does it mean now? I've often been asked to define both wokeness and political correctness by people who think they're meaningless labels, so I will. They both have the same definition:

> An aggressively performative focus on social justice.

This sounds quite wrong to me. The people who use "woke" pejoratively don't limit their use to aggressively performative focus on social justice. They actively oppose the specific stances on social justice themselves, regardless of how aggressive or performative they think the advocates are.
I'm having some trouble understanding, does "These people" refer to the David family referenced in the article, the Jane Minor community garden referenced, Rootwork Herbals mentioned, or some other group of people?

> some of them have told me that he's always been eccentric and hard to live with and some of them have tried to talk him out of his misbehavior to know avail

It sounds like the alleged crimes in the article are pretty rough to put up with, if it was your neighbor:

> David alleges Whittaker has vandalized her son's car, spray painted her fence, threateningly shot a BB gun in the air during a teen gardening session, removed sections of her fence and threatened to hit her son with a stick, among other offenses.

I wouldn't call that kind of behavior "eccentric", maybe antisocial. And if that behavior was directed mainly towards their black neighbor, I would call it racist.
The "we" you mention must be an extremely small portion of society then.

What percentage of Americans disagree with that definition of woke in your opinion (or with data if you have it)?
But the proposed MAB system does not even propose a method to know when this system needs to be stopped (and remove all the choices except the best one).

With the A/B testing, you can do power analysis whenever you want, including in the middle of the experiment. It will just be an iterative adjustment that converges.

In fact, you can even run on all possibilities in advance (if A get 1% and B get 1%, how many A and B do I need, if A get 2% and B get 1%, if A get 3% and B get 1%, ...) and it will give you the exact boundaries to stop for any configurations before even running the experiment. You will just have to stop trialing option A as soon as option A crosses the already decided significance threshold for A.

So, no, the A/B testing will never run forever. And A/B testing will always be better than the MAB solution, because you will have a better way to stop trying a bad solution as soon as you have crossed the threshold you decided is enough to consider it's a bad solution.
They are but in my experience, they're not very good at chilling the water. They usually dispense ice, too, of course, but sometimes you don't want ice, or the bottle neck is too narrow.

Not to say I would put one of these machines in my house, but I can see how it would be superior in some ways.
A lot of luxury products are like this. For example a lot of wine on shelves are literally the same wine under different labels and price points.
Should be called front dooring your backdoor
See also: automotive manufacturers. (They're slowly figuring it out, but it's taken a long time.)