skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well said.

I think Matt Mullenweg has every right to take the action he's taking. It really seems like many companies are perfectly happy to exploit open source products.

In this case, it seems like one company makes a lot of money using the Wordpress codebase and doesn't want to make equal contributions. Then they use the money they're making to turn around and sue Wordpress for standing up for themselves.

If I were Matt Mullenweg, you can bet I would be incensed! I'm honestly very surprised that Matt Mullenweg is facing such criticism when he's simply trying to protect IP that he and the community have spent a lot of time and money building together. It's only natural to want to ban the freeloaders, and in any case, it's a little outrageous to think anyone is entitled to access to the resources and creations of others with or without compensation.
This is a lot of words. Do you think Internet should be a utility, or not? Obviously: yes. You enjoy water, schools, roads and power. Trash removal in NYC is free, and it's better for that community than being private. But also, you work in tech or something. More customers, less money being paid on meaningless rents. And fuck Comcast, right? Think critically. We don't need ISPs, and little about that ecosystem resulted in innovation that mattered historically.
Facts simply disagree with you. The USA took part in (too) many bloody wars and invasions since WWII.

After Iraq, one would have hoped Americans finally learnt the lesson, yet Biden was voted president, after backing the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lybia. Even Obama championed drone strikes around the world and supported Saudi Arabia's invasion of Yemen.

If there's a lesson to be learned, it seems to constantly evade Americans' attempts to grasp it.
So, so beautiful. I was shocked at the price. I was expecting something about 10x what he's charging.
I'm totally fine with recognizing that other groups of people might struggle more than me, and maybe we should try to help them. I.e. setting up a free tutoring program in inner city schools is a good example.

I'm not fine with my hard work being dismissed because of my sex, ethnicity, or whatever other 'privileges' I had. When I see someone online speak about privileges, it's often being used as a cudgel to silence someone. It wears away at my empathy.
feel lucky. s3 suspend quit working on my thinkpad in -CURRENT some months ago after having worked for like a decade. i didn't notice until i pulled a molten hot slab of locked up laptop out of my bag
Soft layoffs.
Robinhood to Pay $45M in SEC Violations
Just a small feedback… I have switched to the reader mode because the font used is very challenging to read for me.
And then what, serve me fake Disco Elysium dialogs? What's the threat model?
What hidden costs? Taxes? Probably the top 5 thing I'd love my taxes to go to.

I think the downsides will be obvious: their internet is super cheap but not really fast. In other words, not too dissimilar to 3/4/5g plans with phones almost everyone has. No one's gonna be streaming Netflix and any Youtube over 360p on this plan.

If we're arguing that the Internet is a public need, then I don't see the downsides here. use slow internet to get lower income people on their feet. They hopefully rise up and then grab jobs that can allow better internet in the long term.
>down from nearly 4,000 a week

Do they really pay that many people to work on development? That's 100 fulltime jobs.
You can assign multiarm bandit trials on a lazy per user basis.

So first time user touches feature A they are assigned to some trial arm T_A and then all subsequent interactions keep them in that trial arm until the trial finishes.
The For You page is just an example, Musk appears everywhere on the platform, watch a video, swipe it and a video of Musk (totally unrelated) pops up. X is basically a right-wing propaganda machine now, which is one of the reasons I don't use it.
I was massively into Tintin as a kid in Ireland and when I met my Belgian wife she introduced me to this and I loved it. I was hoping I'd find it mentioned in here already!
>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.

I would argue that's not a "static" website, but even so that's still nothing some smart usage of PHP includes or the like can't easily solve.
WordPress is an open source project, and part of being an open source project is you don't really have a right to demand that people not mooch off of your work, at least as far as most open source licenses are concerned [1]. If you don't like that, well, then open source isn't for you.

The other major complication here is that Matt has thoroughly mixed his several roles together, so you have to spend time untangling what is Matt-personally, what is Matt-as-his-company, and what is WordPress-via-Matt. When you untangle that, the core demand appears to be that Matt (in who knows what role) demanded that WP Engine compensate Matt-the-company for its use of WordPress-via-Matt resources being provided by Matt-personally (that no one knew was being provided by Matt-personally as opposed to WordPress-via-Matt). Given the thoroughly tangled mess of that stuff, and the fact that--in the past--Matt made several steps to untangle the ownership of everything, I am not particularly persuaded by the logic of "I'm just trying to get them to pay their fair share," as they're not being asked to pay the people they should be paying.

> why is Matt / WP Foundation acting unfairly by asking for payment?

Because they're asking someone to pay, not the foundation whose resources they are allegedly using, but their largest competitor (a very distinct legal entity).

[1] There are licenses that do have clauses that let you take action, but generally having such a clause makes it not Open Source-compliant, and frequently the relicensing needed to bring the current licenses to that state involves a lot of drama.
The original comment made it sound like minorities are just hunted down by random whites, lynching style.

But even if you look at police murders on civilians, they are killing more whites than blacks. You might argue that whites are 5x more than blacks, but police has more interaction with blacks than with whites. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot, on multiple topics. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we've already asked you to stop.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Might be a mix of supply chain and slow production of the Lyriq, theres what like only over 1000 for sale in the US.

Seems getting replacement parts without a warranty is a major problem for EVs
> “Woke”, for the most part, is a boogeyman that the conservative right uses

Yes, it is an ingenious sort of strawman.

In its prior usage, to be "woke" meant to be informed, alert, and to resist being bullied or easily duped into relinquishing one's rights to object, to defend oneself, and to dissent.

In this sense -- I note with some irony -- Jordan Peterson was "woke" when he would not allow his students to coerce him into using terms of address that he rejected.

Now the usage on the "Right" in US politics in particular uses "woke" to mean hypocritical or superficial assertions, positions, and policies that serve a dubious objective or prove to have no foundation in facts -- especially if these are the opponents' views.

Flinging these accusations of hypocrisy and delusional policy-making has become more important than defending democracy itself. Herein lies the masterstroke of the messaging. Using the term "woke" to attack supposedly "woke" opponents has become a memetic (viral) behaviour that has completely devoured political and public discourse.
Thanks for the “bitter lesson” news from the frontlines. Curious; did you experiment with 4o as the sole pipeline? And of course as I think you mention, it would be interesting to know if say llama 8b could do a similar job as well.

Congrats on shipping.
> I'm going to guess that he thinks racism is not a problem that currently demands any policy changes whatsoever, except perhaps to roll back prior policy changes to address the real, measurable damage of historic racism.

Is that really your charitable reading of the part you quoted?

In my mind, a charitable reading would be that he means it is a genuine problem, and deserves to be fixed, but it isn't as big as "the woke" deems it to be. I wouldn't do any assumptions if he wants/doesn't want policy change, and jumping to thinking he advocates for rolling back prior policy certainly doesn't sound like charitable reading to me.

It is a divisive topic already, we would all be better off trying to understand as well as we can before replying.
Easier said than done. Intent does not matter. The vocal minority will instantly peg you a racist and those whispers will continue to persist. I have personally been through it. Unfortunately we exist in a world now where the vocal left and right pollute the airwaves.
An incredibly ignorant article from someone who clearly has no concept or understanding of the topic being discussed. He defines wokeness from the perspective of those who are anti-woke. Remember, Elden Ring is a woke video game.

"Whenever anyone tries to ban saying something that we'd previously been able to say, our initial assumption should be that they're wrong."

No one was prevented from saying anything. People just decided they didn't need to listen to it.

The reality is, PG is just writing this now because a new administration is coming in, and he wants to play nice with a felon. No morals to stand on, only money. Ethics be damned, I'll sell my soul and kill the children for a dollar. Sad state of affairs.
I don't think you're discussing in good faith.

I doubt you're truly unaware that everybody saying woke in 2025 unironically is angry and making an insult.

I also don't believe you could read this comment section and think PG didn't get everybody emotional (and mostly confused about his point too), or that he tried very hard not to.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681976
Also very interested in this. I ended up paying for 2-3 years of WordPress.com to host my tiny-traffic blog and I had to pay for a higher tier to handle video (sidenote: fuck wordpress for offering a shitty watered-down WP version on WP.com, you know, literally the thing they complain about WPEngine doing). I'd love nothing more than to migrate away but I've already done a mess WP -> Hugo (or was it Jekyll? not sure) -> Ghost -> WP and I'd like to automate the migration as much as possible. Every other time I spent a while copy/pasting and hand-fixing posts. I know I won't get away from doing that completely but I'd like it be easier.
I've read his earlier writings on the topic and they are substantially less conspiratorial and influenced by neoreactionary thought. He even previously used the term "prig" in this 2004 article:

https://paulgraham.com/say.html

This is top to bottom a more thoughtful, nuanced take on essentially the same topic. The main difference is that saying stuff like "class of bureaucrats pursu[ing] a woke agenda" and "woke mind-virus" is fashionable among SV elites today, and it was not in 2004.
Impressive, intelligent, articulate young woman. Not a shred of defensiveness, which always earns my admiration. I will be interested to see what she does next.
And my friends are from a sports group that meets up every Sunday, who aren’t any bit related to work.

Some people prefer meeting others outside of work and there’s nothing wrong with it. My coworkers are wonderful folks but, frankly, won’t become beer-buddies.
Rosetta supports 32 bit apps. I've read conjecture on here that the removal of 32 bit was due to unresolvable pointer security issues on their 32 bit SDK, which was different than how its done with their 64 bit system.
Cable has always pushed the boundaries a bit.

I remember pearl clutching over The Simpsons in the early 90s, to the point where Bush Sr. got involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Bad_Neighbors
You really misunderstand why the jobs are in NYC, if you think that people only come to NYC for the jobs.

On the same point, gosh you sound like a fun person! I know, I'm sure it's not part of your job to be personable. Though, I do wonder how an approach like that will work for most people.
The show that is a guide for life!? Oh yeah!
dang, great video and nice write up

I can see a good video as far as show/don't tell my stuff is dry/way too much info. Guess it depends verbatim tutorial vs. just showcasing.
Microserving LLM Engines
Good. Hiring should be based on merit, not whether you're black or trans.
Well-insulated concrete doesn't scale to towers. Well-insulated metal panels do scale or just coated glass. That's what we do as architects.

And ornaments and post-modernist jokers like this guy can go with Adolf Loos https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_and_Crime
yeah but the difficulty in hacking Nginx vs Wordpress must be orders of magnitude more difficult though
I never watched or read the series but my wife was watching it (last week actually), I passed by and saw a chase scene where they were shooting from their wands at each other and I made a comment like "Oh, it's Jason Bourne for kids.. now I see the appeal"
The mismatch here is Sonos’ owners want Sonos’ shares’ returns to at least keep up with SP500, and Sonos’ “target” audience wants speakers that sound great. And I don’t know that that is possible, given the market for speakers.
Can you please bridge how your comment "and if you don’t like it, you’re a Nazi" is in any way connected to this tweet about a researcher saying the usage of the phrase "latinx" reduced latino support for Democrats?

Another person is asking basically "why are people so quick to dismiss claims of aggressive wokeness policing" and this is why. Because it is always so much exaggeration about the topic coming from these claims.
Subsidising doesn't make the market more efficient. As a capitalist American you should have said "we need more competition!"

In France Free dropped the price from something like 45$ to 15$/month, and then they did the same with mobile plans and a 2$/month plan that still exist today.

Recently the senate invited the CEO and asked them why they don't increase their prices. The CEO got mad at them for even asking the question, being proud of proposing low prices while still making a lot of money gave back a lot of consumption power to the people according to them
I’m using AI every day and I don’t see why I would ever stop. It’s not doing my job for me but it’s a much better way for me to learn how to do my job. There is undeniable value in it. I don’t think scale is going to bring us to AGI but what we have now is a big deal already.
Not that it makes ok but these terms are basically no different and perhaps in some specific cases better (the cards had a myriad of fees for various transaction types) than the sort of scummy prepaid visa tied to a debit account crap that temp agencies have been loading people's pay onto for more than a decade now.
Was going to say the same thing. I guess some people are just firm in their beliefs. It's only data if it supports what you were otherwise going to say, or something like that.
What in the world is "php.ini level of madness"?

If you are trying to attack php you are not doing a good job of it, especially because there were good reason for using a separate program for glob.
I run my own mail server today for my family, and very rarely have deliverability problems. Bog standard Linux install, exim4, dovecot, SpamAssassin. It's basically set and forget. I've been doing so for over a decade, so I probably built up some pretty good IP reputation, but it's totally possible to run mail yourself.
U.S. Judges Demand SEC 'Explain Itself' for Rebuffing Requests for Crypto Rules
There's been weights on Civit.ai [1] for months, and I just assumed this was already done and a lost cause. When I asked ChatGPT/Dall-E for an image "... in the style of Herge" it didn't do a half bad job enough for me to see the inspiration either.

[1] https://civitai.com/models/488165/herge-tintin-sdxl
the $15 plan is about what I expected.

the $20 plan is kinda absurd. I'm in CA, but I'm paying 100/month for a 400 Mbps plan.
"Nigga" as used in songs etc. vs the full N-word.
Not being able to test alternate universes sans Instagram acquisition doesn't mean that it's not impossible to tell whether a CEO is good or not, you just have to make a qualitative argument for why they are or not.

Buying IG was a good move because it has paid back Facebook's shareholders multiple orders of magnitude. Isn't the goal of the CEO to steward the company and to make shareholders returns (wether public or private)?
There are some variables to consider, but even using grid energy mix most EVs -including cars- have a smaller co2 emission per mile than bikes, due to agriculture having quite a big eco footprint.

https://archive.ph/YgEe8

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-kcal-poore
I think people may disagree on what "within reason" means. There are some red lines established by Title VII that cause "just asking questions" to cross into "hostile work environment." Is it reasonable to keep asking those questions?

Reasonable people can disagree on that question, but the law will protect a company that fires an individual for crossing that line while the rest of society is arguing over where the line should be. That's just how law works in general.
> But if you know you've done it innocently, then you can just ignore them and move on.

For sensitive people that isn't really an option, it just causes endless stress.
the Arxiv version https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12488
This post feels like Paul Graham is another billionaire(or multi-milionaire, whatever) to confess his past sins in attempt to win a seat in Trump's administration....
One of the best games I have ever played! I still open it sometimes and wonder why I could never find another strategy game that would hook me just as much.

Also learned as a kid about stock and dividends, which proved quite useful later on. There was a bit o geography and history in it as well, plus the music! Why were our parents complaining about us gaming so much!?
Isn’t it by definition that the median person making an argument will be mediocre?
> "Corn Syrup and Sucrose are chemically identical from the standpoint of human metabolism ..."

Really? Because I absolutely notice a clear difference in how "jittery" I get, and the different feel of the ensuing insulin response, from a US Coke Original vs. a European ditto made with sucrose. The difference in total sugar content is a mere 2.5%.
> Isn't that the issue though? I healthy society should be able to challenge, object and argue (within reason), without losing jobs or being exiled?

When you're in parliamentary/house sessions (or whatever your democracy/society/state has), sure, argue and object to everything. There you have what Americans are so crazy about, "Freedom of Speech" and all that.

But outside of that, in private life, most people would find you very cumbersome to deal with if you challenge, object or argue with things that people state about themselves. If I say I'm 32 years old and you try to argue against me, I'll eventually just ignore and shun you, because who has the time to deal with such inconsequential stuff?
Oh glorious child of freedom, heir to the beacon of liberty and burger-fueled enlightenment! I kneel before your radiant stars and stripes, humbly begging your divine intervention in my lowly, uncivilized land. Please, O harbinger of freedom fries and democracy, rain your benevolent drones of cultural superiority upon us! Invade my country, shatter my outdated customs, and replace them with the gleaming perfection of Walmart aisles, NFL Sundays, and pumpkin spice lattes.

I yearn to sing your anthems while sipping on a 64oz soda and binge-watching reboots of shows that ran better in the '90s. Let your Hollywood blockbusters teach me the true meaning of heroism, your fast food teach me the joys of high-fructose corn syrup, and your reality TV show me the deep complexity of human emotion.

Oh merciful dispenser of freedom, take pity on my backwards existence. Supersede my wretched culture with your superior one—bless me with the gift of questionable foreign policy decisions and an uncanny ability to add cheese to everything. Only then can I ascend to the higher plane of existence that is AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM™.

Please, I implore you, invade us swiftly and mercifully. Turn my humble homeland into a shining franchise of your illustrious nation, and I shall forever pledge allegiance to the flag, even as I drown in the sweet nectar of Diet Coke. Amen.
If you are wanting to play with C# in a REPL (although C# has a REPL these days; it's not great but it works), F# could be worth a try. I know the Scheme/ML family split means not everyone who likes CL/Scheme likes the ML family (and vice versa), but F# is a "good one" for what that is worth.
> My experience is just so different. I love the vibe and the camaraderie of my office. It makes it fun to work there.

Me too! If we had free teleporters I'd probably go into the office for at least half my work day, just about every day, voluntarily.

... I don't like it enough to pay about 15 days per year, every year (5 hours commuting per week, times 50 weeks, divided by 16 waking hours per day[1]), hundreds of dollars a month commuting (gas, plus insurance and depreciation on a car), and make every single thing that happens at home and requires my attention less convenient and more disruptive in ways that probably also amount to at least several hundred dollars per year, one way or another, and quite a few extra micromorts/micro-chances-of-crippling-injury per year (risk of that ~250 hours of extra driving). Plus increased restrictions on where you can live, which can come with significant (tens of thousands per year) costs in many ways, including in raw dollar terms.

It's nice, but the cost is really high. I'd also probably really have fun with a supercar, but I'd rather not buy one just the same. Far too pricey for the benefit, to me.

[1] Perhaps more to the point, that means over six entire work-weeks of extra work time per year, uncompensated, just to get to and from work. A month and a half of extra work every year. And that's with an hour a day spent, lots of people have more than 30 minutes lost per day (nb you'd need to include extra gassing-up stops, and extra car maintenance visits, divided by commute days per year, to properly account for this—so your commute time would need to average somewhat under 30 minutes each way to hit only an hour lost each day, probably closer to 25 minutes than 30).
Given the "free market" as of late, I would love if the government "interfered" more so people can get basic services that is standard in every other country. It's more a question why some of these were privatized to begin with.
Substanceless empty comment that has likely been copy-posted by Mildred under a pro-vaccination video on YouTube, written into the newspaper letters page about climate change by Capt. Black, and in the tabloid news article comments section about immigration.

Do I really have to waste my life pointing out that you are making solely an ad-hom comment, while whining about ad-hom comments?

"they lack substance"

"they lack the ability"

"educated under woke teachers"

"unable to see"

"unable to argue logically"

ad-hom, ad-hom, fantasy, ad-hom, ad-hom.
meh, if you're gonna cheat with a time machine, then just bring a floppy disc with the various versions of wordpress. as PHP gets updated, just release the newer version of wordpress. it's open source, right?