skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter is not unmoderated.

I don't know how many people I muted, banned, or how many times I clicked that I don't want to see something. Over time, Twitter gets better.

This being said, I prefer doing my moderation myself instead of having somebody I extremely disagree with (former Twitter employees) to do this for me.
Actually, the origin of “wokeness”, the term, is right-leaning bigots who need to discount any grievance by any group of people who claim they might just possibly be suffering some systemic disadvantages in this country.
It is a horrible waste to produce any strawberries from an environmental perspective compared to the least sensitive feed crops so feeding them to animals is more of a better than nothing while getting someone out of the market for the grades of strawberries that drive production is not. But any mediocre quality strawberry jam probably does that.
Vouching relies on visibilty while flagging dramatically reduces visibility.
yea there will. ASI (supposedly).

The common theme from these CEO's is today is the worst AI will ever be.
(who knows if thats true, not me)
Nothing. But if people are afraid of NOT hiring boring white dudes it becomes not about competence but about avoiding the optics of not wanting to look like you’re doing a DEI thing
This appears to be the next hype train after the Metaverse, of which we hear very little these days.

The logical AI consequence for Facebook is not that they'll be able to save on salaries, it is that people will (and already are) getting tired of the Internet and will visit Facebook less.

But it fits with the coordinated effort between Starmer's AI hype and the new fake MAGA team of Musk, Sacks, etc.

I'm sure that replacing workers is exactly what Trump voters hoped for! Let us see how the Bannon/Musk row plays out.
Paul Graham is one of the smartest people I've ever met, hands down, not a close call.

If I know propositional logic, one of two things follows: either (1) I've never met any smart people, or (2) you've jumped to a false conclusion.

Either way, you shouldn't be posting personal attacks to HN.
Finland isn't responsible for all the homeless from Sweden and Denmark. It had a number that makes sense based on it's population and resources, therefore it was able to solve it.
Who's "they"? Peterson couldn't name a single person when pushed.
> What does it mean now? ...

> An aggressively performative focus on social justice.

> In other words, it's people being prigs about social justice. And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice.

Oh, great! Yeah, I think we should focus on effectively furthering social justice. Can't wait for the rest of the article.

...

If you, like me, were waiting for PG to outline some methods for furthering social justice that are effective and not performative in the rest of this article, I have bad news for you. It seems that he has given no thought to it at all!
You make a new commit every 12 minutes for eight hours?
It's worth mentioning that X's problems with toxicity are greatly enhanced by its current leadership, so even if everybody switched to bsky tomorrow it would be different. There are far better tools for users to manage their own experience on bsky than X allows.

But, assume that bsky does turn to shit too... if nothing else the (successful?) migration from X shows that people are capable of moving - should bsky face its own calamity the friction to move again will be lower.

There's reason to hope that it won't end in total disaster though. It should (at some point) be possible to federate with bsky in a meaningful way, and perhaps a migration can be even easier than this one (i.e. you can switch to another instance that is run differently).
So you were banned for the new rules on imitation as opposed to free speech
I have a specific example in mind, but I fear that if I mention it, I'll be doxxed, cancelled, fired, and burned at the stake.
Could you share the parts that have been "ripped" or "identical" from this book you're talking about? Would be very interesting if true, otherwise kind of despicable to make those claims without any sort of proof whatsoever.
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>He is actually that one kid at school who constantly lies to seem cool, except he is a grown man with tons of money and power

It's really what it is; this whole affair has me relieve grade 4, the ones who would invent crazy cheat codes to see Lara Croft naked and stuff like that. I've never interacted with individuals who behaved like this since then, so it's really a trip down memory lane.
You have it backwards. People who had old conservative views were told they were wrong and got upset. So they started to believe they were being targeted and persecuted when in reality, if you count how many went to jail or got fired, it was people where were brave enough, woke enough, to fight for change.
I can see it turning the job into a quasi-product/engineering manager role and for some, they may not have chosen the new social version of the career.

For some of my smaller projects, AI makes them vastly more efficient to do, but it is far from the hacker-style type of work they started as. For many of them, the human communication, typing the change request into ChatGPT, and pasting the new code into the file are all that remain of the work.

Memory and storage used to be precious resources in the computing world, but now nobody blinks at shipping webpages that are 5MB, APIs that take 3 seconds because there is now a spinner to distract people, or entire browser instances for a calculator.

I know a few software devs that didn't take that transition well as they loved knowing the little details and then the paradigm changed to "nobody cares."

Dev used to be an option for a quiet solitary job. I can see that type of role disappearing.
Based on looking at the "Latest" feed (which shouldn't be biased by the algorithm), and on what newly created accounts see, right-wing posts on Twitter outnumber left-wing posts something like 10:1.
All those falls, my toddler is going to love his films I guess.
That sounds like satire not imitation to me.
This is clearly not an imitation. Parody if nothing else which is protected by fair use.
This seems to show the opposite: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29739293/
Some people are using AI to generate bug reports and have been getting banned because they're hallucinated spam. The bugs don't actually exist. The curl dev wrote a blog post about this issue.

Generative AI can't think, it can only mimic.
i'm quite surprised by the level of skepticism in this thread. I've been developping my website + webservice + db only using cursor "composer" mode, not typing a single line of code, and i'm already with something fully functional. I am voluntarely refraining from fixing the bugs myself by digging into the code, just to see how far someone with 0 coding skill can go. And this answer is : as far as a junior / midlevel software developer can.

Obviously, not on its own. I still needed to give it guidelines and feedback on what to do next. But i could improve my site while watching TV. This was science-fiction just 2 years ago.
> you feel Musk is aligned with the far right

It's not a feel, it's real (unless you're so far to the right yourself, you don't consider the AfD, neo-nazis, TERFs, etc etc such)
I think you're probably right wrt flattery of southern accent, but for white people imitated black accents I have to disagree. Growing up one of my friend idolized Will Smith and thought he was the most badass dude on the planet. He would often quote movie lines from him with the accent, and it was 100% a form of flattery. It is also very common for white people to rap along with black artists using the same accent, and it's because they love the song and the style. Nowadays most parents will immediately try to silence their kids for doing that in public, and anyone older than about 12 is now terrified of doing that, so it's quite possible things have changed.

That said, I would agree that the majority of people doing accents are likely to be mocking. I'm not sure how to prevent throwing the baby out with the bath water though.
You got banned for impersonation, not speech.
- There’s generally no secure way to transfer data between physically separate computers running conventional OSes.

- Malware which can bridge air gaps has existed for several years now and is becoming increasingly common.

Floppy disks

Hard disks used like floppies (especially plugged into a RAID controller with "auto run"-like features disabled)

Audio modem

Manual transcription via keyboard
"free speech absolutist"
So lowlevel engineers are already replaced by AI? Lowlevel meaning low tier no low level/hardware software engineers?
Forget about Midlevel engineers.

Social Media itself can be replaced if ChatGPT or what ever just takes everyone's chat history and connects us directly to people who care about similar interests.

I don't give a shit about getting the worlds Attention if only 6 people in the world actually care about the things I care about. Social Media's current architecture is pure shit.
If you don't act against disinformation, you get a world that is spammed with so many statements that it's impossible for the average consumer to assess the truth of any of them.

Is that what you want?

If yes, why? If not, what's your approach?
Puritans predate "Fundamentalists" in the American Christian sense of the term, and if we're just following _this_ line of thought (and no others) the Romans were busy setting Christians on fire for garden parties because they were not willing to conform to what the Empire demanded (worship of the Emperor and acknowledgement of many gods).
> irrelevant things as passing unused arguments to a function.

That's not irrelevant. I have seen many bugs detected by that warning.
> Or maybe... it's actually just a bad faith argument by people who like the current X echo chamber.

I won't pretend to speak to the motivations of any HN users, but I've seen some of these conversations play out where someone invokes the concept of an echo chamber only when it means LGBTQIA+ people can just exist without being harassed. That's an undesirable outcome to those folks.

I would like to think HN is better than that, but more frequently in the past few months, I've been disappointed by commentators on this website, so I wouldn't put any money on that bet.

Echo chambers can be dangerous, but misinformation and unchecked bigotry are more dangerous. Whereas the consequences of an echo chamber are abstract, I can measure the consequences of the latter in deaths.

So my go-to question is simply, "What are your priorities?"
Does One Emotion Rule All Our Ethical Judgments?
This isn’t the Cold War and ideology is for simpletons.

I may have to write a book to educate people about how the world really works.

Thanks for the motivation.
I think it's much simpler than that. Woke is power, it's a moral position that can be used like a club to force others into a specific line of thinking. While it's basic mission of recognizing discrimination, etc. around us, it morphed into a political and societal weapon to force people and institutions to do certain things, like establishing DEI offices.
https://archive.ph/2025.01.13-114446/https://www.newyorker.c...
Just call it "The International Woke" already. It's what this is getting at, isn't it?
The semantic debate over the label “AI” continues. While I think some of these concerns of AI for haphazardly inserted llms or other learning algorithms inserted into a product might have some merit i think ultimately it might fail to recognize the source of the problem isnt in bad use of labels but is fundamental to label usage itself. The ship of Theseus conundrum has some lessons applicable to this.

really its easy to point a label at tangible visual stuff, but pointing a label at more ephemeral stuff creates all manners of issues.

First i’d be willing to say this following statement is true: ‘humans invented object identities and invented the labels, and also both the label machine and the labels pointing at identities they want to label’, well i guess darwin invented the machinery but humans willfully made the first use out of the machinery for that purpose. if humans choose to make labels and define where labels are applicable, theres never going to be an objective true valid standard sense of a word, except by convention but even that rests on ‘objective’ quicksand, unfortunately.

beyond an argument on linguistics and the philosophy of language, that still leaves the substances of intelligence itself. while llms have clear huge gaps in inadequacies, i suspect its not far off from human capabilities by algorithm adjustments, adding architecture modularly (like reasoning), and ultimately through distillation and transfer learning, plus new techniques. Because of that, even dumb haphazardly shoehorned llms might surprisingly be closer to intelligence (or a core component thereof) than what even the most ardent semantic nazis would consider ( or archnemesis to LLms, PhD, Gary Marcus, orrrr also famous naysayer and contrarian, Yann Lecunn).

300 years on the exponential singularity timescale might actually be 5 to 10 years.

but maybe it might be akin to TV standards of black before TVs became capable of true black. grey was black until oleds and now previous tv formats of black, aka really grey, can now retroactively be reclassified as grey.
or how about usage of the words unlimited when it comes to cellular data. those naughty marketers and their definition bending usage of words.
If I expected that, then I wouldn't order one in the first place; much the same as I wouldn't order cheap plastic junk from Amazon with the expectation that it's just going to break or I'm not even going to get what was pictured in the listing. So at the very least we need to have faith that both are decent quality if we want to have a debate over it.
>Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one. I don't think any reasonable person would deny that. The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so. Instead of going out into the world and quietly helping members of marginalized groups, the politically correct focused on getting people in trouble for using the wrong words to talk about them.

Following this logic, the Emancipation Proclamation was "problematic" because the "correct" thing to do is free slaves quietly via the underground railroad, as we wouldn't want to get slave owners in trouble.

This is fundamentally an argument against systemic change, as "getting people in trouble" is both core to the genesis and the enforcement of things like the Civil Rights act.

Attacking "wokeness" with this argument is deeply problematic, and extremely tone deaf in the wake of the Meta moderation leaks, wherein their internal documents highlight that the new moderation changes allow statements like "Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit.”
"That same year, a coalition of school districts, now numbering more than 200, filed suit against the voucher expansion."

In other word, a bunch of government employees used taxpayers' money to find legal action, with the aim of maintaining their local monopolies on the provision of taxpayer-funded education.
I have never heard of Pixelfed before. Seems to support ActivityPub, which is nice.

More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelfed
Perhaps CoT and the like may be limited by this. If your model is cooked and does not adequately represent less immediately useful predictions, even if you slap a more global probability maximization mechanism, you can't extract knowledge that's been erased by RLHF/fine-tuning.
Elevating tweets of folks that pay the troll under the bridge, where folks on the left are going to avoid that fee (why would someone on the left materially support a right wing pundit?) is one very obvious way.
The title.

>It's worth noting that the title of this article
Certain kinds of leftist are anti-immigration. But anarchists and those in favor of international communism are aggressively (sometimes militantly) opposed to the concept of national borders or any meaningful restrictions on the movements of people.
> Annoyed people are whining about civil rights?

Nobody is annoyed people are whining about civil rights. We are annoyed that people a) are whining about non-issues that they have gone out of their way to be offended by, and b) are demanding that the rest of us change the world based on their blown out of proportion views.
I think this is partly correct. It just allows you to do more work, and there is always more work to be done. That said, if every company does this, there isn't suddenly more money supply to just double everyone's profit. It's going to increase competition since the path from idea -> product is shorter, so you'll likely make the same amount of money while doing twice the work. In the end, your input effort and output profit will remain the same - the gearing in between will just be adjusted.
> Really hope op and crew are sued to oblivion.

Might a less vitriolic response be more productive here? Given the altruism that leads this endeavor, strong negativity might best be delayed until a more holistic understanding is gained.

For example, I've been accessing these same records thru Ancestry for some time - along with millions of other Ancestry users. If these records were a realistic vector for actual meaningful harm, the evidence should have manifested some time ago.

Broadly speaking, if we want privacy efforts to help in tangible ways, it's important to limit restrictions to where they do provable good. The alternative is restrictions that apply only to us - and not those with motivation (financial, power) to use private data for their own ends.
Also not on twitter, other than to camp my name. I disagree with your reading of the essay - he says that both of those were sort of "peaks" for their respective movements, and I would say that feels accurate to me. I'm in a mixed-race family, and George Floyd was the first and so-far only period where our family needed additional support, talk, help, considering how to respond.

I agree that Anheuser-Busch seemed to have been stunlocked by Dylan Mulvaney v. Kid Rock on the internet.
If pg spent any of his time talking about actual computer science topics instead of the dull pablum and oligarch apologia he outputs today, we’d all be better served.
I find it hilarious that the prophet of modern Startup Culture and its subsequent proliferation of Y Combinator/FAANG cult practices (e.g. growth at all costs or practising agile as a copy-cat set of misunderstood tech rituals) is blind to fact that the only ones proselytising about "wokeness" these days are the same ones trying to outrage you about it (i.e. Fox News and Elon Musk) in order to distract you from the fact that wealth and resources are being hoarded by the very same companies/individuals.
Maine, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Vermont are the only states that don't have any limits on the increase in property taxes. California may be on the low end at 3%, but most are limiting to less than 10% growth. You can read more here https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/property-tax-cap-by-state
Black person here.

Like most discussions of "woke" and "wokeness," this one too fails HARD by not fully and directly addressing the origins of the term -- and by "fails hard" I do mean will almost certainly do more obscuring than clarifying by starting from an information-deficient premise.

Including, e.g. "The term 'woke' has its origins in the Black American community as a signifier of awareness about ones political and social situation..." is a bare minimum.
Because they are helping Trump, their behavior is often so insane it drives people into his camp who might have otherwise been somewhere in the middle.

Look at the surveys done of swing voters in the last election, they biggest single item was social issues such as trans.

Also just read the linked article(seems reasonable enough, though I don't necessarily agree with all of it), and the moralistic responses attacking him personally, instead of responding by pointing with the part they disagree with, this is a logical fallacy.
Yeah, I switched from pip to uv. uv seems like its almost the perfect solution for me.

it does virtualenv, it does pyenv, it does pip, so all thats managed in once place.

its much faster than pip.

its like 80% of my workflow now.
You can hire less people if they are more productive. Or you can do more things.
> "Freedom - the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints"

Yea, this is a nice thought if you don't live in society. However, it falls apart pretty rapidly once you realize "your freedom to stops at my freedom from". So it's a non-starter.
Show HN: Moneta – Conversation as the Engine of Application State
Hi HN!
I’m Thunder. Longtime lurker and first time poster. I’m excited to present Moneta (https://moneta.studio/) with my co-founder Rob.

*Moneta is a conversation-as-code platform for building multiplayer AI-native applications in which the AI can reactively update the application based on interactions with users or other AI via CRDTs.*

The key idea is that rather than using a conversation to generate an application, in Moneta the conversation *is* the application. We call this idea 'conversation as the engine of application state' (CATEOAS).

This means that instead of saying “create a todo list that can do X, Y, and Z” you would instead be declarative and say in the conversation “please add x to my todo list”. The conversation serves both as a universal interface and the engine of state.

The state itself is managed via Yjs - we treat the AI and the users as collaborators on a shared Yjs document per each application.

Finally, every Moneta application is equipped with the ability to dynamically `fetch` its own hypermedia or the hypermedia of other applications (both Moneta and otherwise) as well as post messages to itself or other applications (assuming it has the correct access privileges). This means that it can introspect, self-message and communicate with other Moneta applications as well as external APIs both via the conversation as well as the UI.

Moneta and the concept of CATEOAS has continued to surprise us with emergent capabilities and I hope it will surprise you too.
---

As an example of Moneta in the wild, take a look at our Moneta generated landing page and note the multiplayer capabilities in the form of shared cursors and live user-count: https://moneta.studio/

NOTE: You can see the conversation for all Moneta apps by clicking the M tab on the right side of the page

Here’s Moneta’s take on Moneta and CATEOAS: https://thunder-hn-post-content.mnta.io/

Again note how Moneta can interact with comments in the UI or via the conversation.

And just for fun, here is a hacker news clone: https://thunder-multiplayer-hn.mnta.io/

Feel free to add comments in the above apps as well as review the conversations that generated it.

Please feel free to reach out at thunder (at) moneta dot studio.
I think this just demonstrates that changes to language are not sufficient to erase racism.
Nope. It was a term of respect and affirmation in the African American community first, and seems to have been successfully expropriated and rebranded.