skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have recommendations for learning Wordpress if you already experienced with modern practices like GitOps and immutable deployment artefacts (containers/VMs) using more fully featured frameworks like Django and Rails, which have abstractions like ORMs and Migration frameworks to look after all your database changes (within reason obviously since we all know these tools aren’t one size fits all) …

I know there’s value in Wordpress even if it’s just potential future revenue supporting a subset of the 1/3rd of the web running on Wordpress. So I’ve pushed but when I loose spend twelve hours over a whole week trying to work out how I’m supposed to manage my database (don’t even get me started on how frustrating it is that you are basically forced to use MySQL) and basically giving up because there both appears to be nothing other than do it yourself with SQL DDL if you don’t want the plug-ins doing it for you, and the fact the web is full of SEO for how to “migrate” your content from one Wordpress site to another hosted somewhere else…

Id love some recommendations as it feels like I’m making an uphill slog through a river of 18 years worth of outdated info posted by users and decaying SEO bacon written by developers.
> This whole "see, we wuz right!" thing is a bit bizarre given that no, people didn't ignore evidence early on. They ignored a theory based upon literally nothing, generally put forward by people arguing that it was somehow weaponized and intentional. If there is evidence it should be pursued, but that doesn't give credence to hysterical conspiracies.

It's not so much that they just ignored the theory, but that they made it taboo.

Now, I empathize somewhat with the people who made it taboo (I probably helped in an amateur capacity, throwing the baby out with the bathwater), but in retrospect it's embarrassing and one would have hoped the professionals would have done a better job.
You can still drive the car and this is temporary. To hold on to the purchase because of this is idiotic.

And I am going to call out on your BS. No state begins at 75. Max speed in most states is 70 and 4 or 5 have a max speed of 80, which is the max across the country. So go lie somewhere else.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/speed/speed-limit-laws
>I don’t think that everyone’s using the SPA pattern for no reason. For large corporations, it allows teams to work independently: the “frontend engineers” can “consume” “APIs” from teams that probably work in a different language and can only communicate through the hierarchy

This is really the main reason. Ultimately just a consequence of Conway's Law [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
My Future in Tech (2018)
pardon me but 5 years of my life doesn't seem un-noticeable or less noticable at all, and I would certainly notice it much more than for dogs (much as I love them)
I think the suggestion is, when there is not great evidence either way we should not support or shutdown ideas within the realm of probability - let's be honest and simply say "we don't know".
Racial Equality Proposal
Some French horn players solder coins to their instrument
> When it was initially argued that it was a lab produced virus, there zero evidence and was purely used for political posturing. As such, the argument was rejected by many.

This isn't how it actually happened. I've linked a good analysis of what did happen elsewhere in this thread.

> the less dramatic explanation still seems to have very good scientific support

Which explanation is that? AFAIK, We don't currently have any clear explanation of how the pandemic started. If it was a zoonotic origin we are still missing the details of how that happened.
I wouldn’t doubt it about PHP, it’s just the fact people gather together to actually discuss and appreciate technology for the sake of it, not wanting to sell something is becoming rare. Or it could be my perspective have changed, and I didn’t realize people were selling things.

And the whole blogging community was so great, people exchange links not for SEO, but from appreciation of content or styles.
Git “Sponsored-By” Trailer Proposal
`stg publish` was cumbersome to use and I wrote simple bash script:

cat ~/bin/stg-update
#!/bin/bash
set -e
current=$(stg top)
git push -f origin HEAD:$current

It pushes changes into remote branch with same name as a current patch.
It's called China virus bc it's originated from China. It has nothing to do whether it's lab leak or not at all.
I think that's just a matter of 1. resources and 2. risk tolerance.

1960s USA had a less superficial political culture, so was more willing to tolerate PR-sensitive risks in pursuing major technological achievements, and it could allocate a much larger proportion of GDP to the Apollo program, as government directed social welfare spending consumed a far smaller share of GDP: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-driving-growth-...
I've heard that the Denver CO area is pretty hot right now. Most of the stuff you mention is pretty good there. However I also saw an article about some of the less ethical companies not hiring people there because of salary disclosure regulations. Property values are nuts, but not California nuts... yet.
This is great! I've seen cases of colleagues having issues with their startups because they notice cashflow was not great almost too late. We wanna help startups with that so we're working on this https://tryhorizon.co/. It'd be awesome to get some feedback on it :D
Archive.today has it in full: https://archive.ph/vMbpD

I wonder how they're so consistently good at evading the Wall Street Journal's paywall, which is usually strict with no metered free limit and limited exceptions even for Twitter and Facebook shares. Probably the WSJ's website team would like to know too.
Tesla has had voice commands 'working' for a few years. A simple rule-of-thumb to think the FSD (or whatever they call it in 2030) is working, is to ask yourself, how many of the last 100 voice commands has it understood. If the number is different than 100, then don't trust the FSD.
Two guys change the Google future
Rapamycin can have bad side effects, especially on the kidneys and making the patient more susceptible to bacterial infections. Wise to look at dogs, if that is the case.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31586989/
That or dozers are still used but I am not sure what happens to the downed trees now.

They used to use big horses and the chains which is how we cleared so much land even before industrialisation.
FBI to share compromised passwords with Have I Been Pwned
I take exception to that inflammatory comment. You have never met me, so how could you possibly know what I do and do not respect? The integration of the database is so i can deliver time travel debugging properly, which i believe will be a mainstream feature within 5 years in almost every language, as the productivity improvement is just too great to ignore.

Please refrain from personal attacks, and take Beads for a spin, and let the work speak for itself.

It has very few errors at this point, is quite usable, compiles very quickly, and makes a great web app that stretches like rubber. There are a few products like Beads, such as Elm, and Yazz Pilot (now called visual javascript). but they are all sufficiently different to be an interesting avenue of study.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27309329

^ I just asked a question about moving across the country and the scam-like feeling I get from every moving company that I've talked to. I can't read the full WSJ article because of the paywall, but the opening paragraphs are exactly the thing that I'm afraid of.
>> a sign of a good saleswoman

This is one of the most important qualities you need if you are building a company.
I wouldn’t personally choose Florida. I would think Austin, Portland, Denver, Tuscon, Asheville first. Many college towns across the country could give you the things you’re looking for, a big question is what weather you want.
To be challenged, you have to have discussion. What happened was the silencing of an unapproved idea. There was no intellectual process.
What I see are two masses screaming regurgitated talking points at each other and refusing to actually engage in any kind of meaningful way. It is distopian and disturbing.

I do not personally have any thought or idea about which covid origin theory is true. For me this isn't about the lab, but instead the thought police.
> Every app has to implement it itself rather than calling a syscall and letting the OS deal with its complexities (same as for TLS, making fewer apps implement it without a lot of extra work). Which also increases context switching

Nowhere does RFC9000 say that it has to be implemented in user-space. A kernel-space implementation of QUIC would be conforming. Any OS kernel project (whether open source or proprietary) which would like to develop one is free to do so.
Let me repeat myself from a post a fortnight ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27127269

I have remarked before that Zuckerberg wants to be the Murdoch of the 21st century. To wield his media influence as a "kingmaker" (mostly quietly and behind the scenes, but with those seeking to gain or hold power knowing they will need Facebook's co-operation). And ensuring as compensation an unchallenged position for Facebook, and minimal taxation and other interference.
Why can't QUIC be implemented in the Kernel? Just because something can be implemented in user space does not mean that it has to.
> I don't want my app reminding me to vote/get vaccinated(I did both btw) every time I open it

I basically agree with the sentiment, but some of this stuff is tricky. We really do need everyone to get vaccinated, in the same way we need everyone to not dump their sewage in the middle of the street, in order to protect the health of the public at large.

Imagine we were living during WWII and having this discussion. Would you feel differently? Because I don’t think we could have won the war if we were simultaneously having major internal debates about who the good guys were.
My suggestion for published scientific papers would be to introduce a cryptographic hash to ensure forever integrity of the related data.

I'm not sure if this would relate to what you are developing here though, because it seems you
are aiming more at the pre-publication phase where people are actively changing things?

But if a hash were included in the text of the original published paper then - for example once it was in a printed journal -then it could not be changed.

The paper would not need to contain a hash for every piece of data. There could just be a single hash of a
text file that itself is a list of hashes for each related data file.

Then the data that was used to write the paper would be crystallised forever and could not be retrospectively manipulated.

And it is a very simple concept. Anyone could later download the data files and check the hashes for themselves.
A new leader for center right in Italy
What I would do is buy a minivan and go looking around the country. . .
I was thinking they intentionally left all their junk behind in their previous house. Material excess is the American plague.
> What is "Russiagate"?

It's talk-radioese for the Mueller investigation.

> What about it was "patently false"?

IIRC, a lot of misunderstandings about it (e.g. misunderstanding the proven claims that Russia made signficant efforts to interfere with the election as a claim that they successfully rigged it).
WordPress is highly complex... it has plugin extension points, convolutes HTML building into application logic, and regularly has new security vulnerabilities discovered and exploited.

A guy I know runs a blog for his non-profit on WordPress. At one point he asked me for help because pages were loading extremely slowly. It turned out the blog had been hacked and was being used to host gigabytes of junk pages with SEO boosting links to really trashy websites.

I used to recommend WordPress wholeheartedly for self-hosted blogs, but these days I strongly prefer something that doesn't have any back-end code that the site owner has to maintain and/or update -- a static site generator, a JAMStack-based blog, etc. Or consider using someone else's hosted blog platform (someone you really trust to host a secure platform).
Here's a page from my blog [1] with my favourites. Cheers!

[1]: https://legends2k.github.io/note/hacker_culture/
Drives used for Chia farming both SSD and HDD would have very little use over time. All the discussion around Chia destroying SSD's is when they are used in the initial plotting process which does a huge amount of reads and writes in the process of generating a plot. Once you move those plots to a large capacity spinning disk for farming, there is very little reads on the disk thereafter.
I use StGit with Gerrit. My workflow has nice property: single StGit patch maps to Gerrit review directly. Managing multiple simultaneous reviews is a breeze.
HIBP Open-Sourced on GitHub
No idea why people keep reporting that corona wasn't serious in China.

These items have been reported in the Western press:

- The crematoriums in Wuhan had to work around the clock.

- The traditional 1-year mourning grave visits in Wuhan had record attendance.

- millions of cell phone numbers in China have stopped working (though it's possible families are sharing phones during the lockdown)

- NTD media has shown early records of reported case grand totals decreasing week-over-week. (Grand totals can't decrease mathematically.)

- nobody who has said "cases were insanely low" has provided any documentation on that aside from CCP state media claims.

More than half of the people who studied the origin for the past year felt there was enough circumstantial evidence for a leak from WIV because there's around 20 items pointing at WIV, and none contradicting it.
> Every app has to implement it itself

No? I'll just link against one of the cross platform libraries that implements it, the same as for any other networking protocol. (Ex https://github.com/microsoft/msquic)

Also see: https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations

> same as for TLS, making fewer apps implement it without a lot of extra work

... do you not just link against a relevant networking library at this point? If not, why?!
Would you consider other countries? I found all those in Kaohsiung, as well as great electronics markets.
But they didn't, which is the point.
I assume most of the time it's the higher-ups deciding these things, not the engineers. The boss decides they doesn't like something about the native UI and asks the team to build something new, without understanding the deeper implications.
> Another voyage was necessary to vindicate the Phoenician claims. This trip was made in 1488, when Bartolomeus Diaz reached the Cape of Good Hope.

That’s a full 2,000 years between the Egyptian circumnavigation and the European one.
:D :D T_T
Social media companies just want to make money. It's people who want social media companies to act like government. Originally, Facebook was pro free speech because in a vacuum that's what would make the most money. Facebook only started censoring when people started complaining about it.
On the underside of the table?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Com...
You are able to negotiate with Uber, because they do not have an unlimited pool of labor to draw from. In labor markets with little to no regulations, wages can rapidly grow, because employers complete for workers, and that means they have to offer more pay when general productivity rises.

Now what if productivity doesn't rise. Do we want to force companies to reduce shareholder profits in order to pay workers more than what the unrestricted actions of people in the market would result in them being paid?

No we don't, and if you doubt me, I can link to you the economic explanations for why that is, which includes an explanation of the role that the profit earned by investors plays in increasing productivity and wages.
I discovered StGit just a few days back and tried it recently. I found stgit operations much easier to understand and learn (less than an hour), compared to regular rebase. Another important advantage that StGit adds is that we can craft a nice commit history while we are coding. Don't need to wait till the branch is completed to edit it reasonably. For me, StGit is a sure addition to my workflow. My only wish is for StGit integration with magit. The emacs package that exists now is too outdated.
> I infer from this and your domain name that you plan on using ML ...
Yep

> I’m curious if you remember the example. Also - Tog worked at Apple for 14 years

I couldn't find it, although he has another post on Fitt's Law. The phrase he used was "pulling defeat from the jaws of victory" - maybe it's on Archive.org

> it’s kludge but it has nothing to do with them not knowing fitts law.

Yeah, my characterization is a bit unfair

> Did you know that many of those folks went front Parc to Apple and continued their research?

I did have a chance to meet Jef Raskin a few times. He was between Apple stints, working on the Canon Cat. He's the one who turn me onto Card, Moran, Newell 1983 -- and thus Fitt's Law.

I don't doubt there is a lot of thought that goes into refining the UI. However, there's the quandary of breaking the current idiom, which limits change. However, for low vision folks, there is less of a switching cost. Same holds for newer devices, like glasses.

> Do you have the core technology proven out yet?

Tis incomplete. Some parts of the interaction model. Am a bit weak on the ML part. May license GPT-n. Looking to form a team. Just convinced my blind friend to join. He kinda pioneered AR in the 90's.
Even with people moving to walled gardens, many people still want to build and collaboratively author websites.

WordPress is still best in that, even when it kind of sucks.

I myself prefer the "static builders" for small websites, like Hugo/Jekyll, but WordPress also have built-in editor and access control; with small websites it's whatever, but with bigger websites, it comes handy.
MMO that promised an 'infinite open world' has become a giant fiasco
Show HN: My 2000's TV – Nostalgic TV simulator
This is my first major addition to the MyRetroTVs side project in 7 years. Recently I rewrote the underlying My70sTV/My80sTV/My90sTV code from the ground up to take better advantage of modern JavaScript and modularize things. Thankfully that made it much easier for me to slap on a new decade. Hope you enjoy!
I believe there are a LOT of people in the world that would think if your site does not come up in gooogle than it doesn't exist.

I remember reading that there are huge populations in which 'the internet' is facebook - so if fbk censors you - you do not exist.
The reason I don’t use q is it’s far too easy for me to accidentally hit a 3rd q when I didn’t intend to and not even realize it.

This was a bigger problem when Apple decided to go with those butterfly keys.
People who work gig economy jobs are often the most marginalized in the employment market. The effect of restricting the gig economy is to reduce the employment options of the most marginalized.

Case in point:

Vox writers, who eventually unionized, spent years publishing articles arguing for laws limiting the gig economy, like this one:

"The gig economy has grown big, fast — and that’s a problem for workers" [1]

Three years after the above article was published, its agenda succeeded, and a new anti-gig-economy law, that was heavily by major unions, was passed in California. That law in turn forced Vox to let go of hundreds of gig economy freelancers, thus reducing competition to the full-time journalists who used their media platform to lobby for the law:

"Vox Media to cut hundreds of freelance jobs ahead of changes in California gig economy laws" [2]

The media being fully unionized means that it is extremely biased in its coverage of these kinds of stories.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2016/10/26/13349498/gig-economy-profits-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/vox-media-to-cut-hundreds-of...
Denver is all of that, Boulder maybe even more. But it’s expensive and I left
RIP Eric Carle.
Just a few days back my 5 year old announced how Eric Carle is his favorite author and how he wants to meet him. It took me quite by surprise because not many kids that young care about authors, they like a book and are done!
Probably just clear cache and cookies, then spoof the referrer as Facebook. Works for almost all major paywalled news sites.

Edit: An even simpler solution:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/b5...

They might just run that extension actually, since it's popular and regularly updated.
I was being snarky - MIT-/BSD-style licenses are licenses and they grant companies license to use your software, without having to "do business" with author (but companies can be publicly pressured to do so (see the fine article), once they start using said software). The snark is rooted on the fact that large companies avoid AGPL software like a leper - they won't even install it, let alone do business with the author. So anyone hoping to do a long-con is better off avoiding AGPL.
Possible future paths of civilization in 280 chars
The extinction of species and even languages triggers mass self-examination. But entire cultures are currently evolving at a speed and in a direction that will essentially lead to their extinction within two or three generations, and few people are mourning the loss yet.

Human nature being what it is, my unborn American great-grandson will feel he has little in common with any randomly-chosen Cambodian of his time, but the truth is that they'll listen to the same music, play the same video games, watch the same movies, argue across the same political spectrum, speak the same language, and get their education and news from an elite that is even more globally homogeneous than they are.
Because CNAME cloaking allows obscuring some ads, so uBlock won't be able to trigger on them if it can't pierce the veil. On Firefox it can, on Chrome it reportedly can't.
It’s because the evidence is overwhelming and political establishment has realized it will be impossible to suppress the information. Will we “cancel” an eminent virologist and former President of Caltech because he explains transparently to people the smoking gun with the FCS and CGG condons. This isn’t even “just” a lab leak of a naturally occurring dangerous virus, it’s a lab leak of a synthetic gain of function virus. Previously since it was Trump’s people saying it, ok that was easy to discredit and claim racist china hate at all that. What are they going to do though now? round up all the world’s scientists and try to silence them. The’ve throw in the towel, that’s what’s changed, the corruption and intimidation only worked so far, only so many scientists able to influence and try to manipulate the narrative with. Some of those have even turned on the CCP boot lickers, realizing the game is up. It’s too damn obvious. This is now damage control mode. Also they needed to wait for the worst of it to be over, that way less political fallout. Imagine they actually admitted this all officially last year, before the peak waves.
Have you read any of the reference manual? Why do you suggest the product is incoherent? it has been highly polished, and have written tens of thousands of lines of code in the language, and it works very well. A nice balance of concise vs. readable.

What indoctrination are you referring exactly? I don't understand the motivation for personal attacks on the author of a product you haven't even tried yet.

For those people who would prefer not to have to waste 100 hours of their time mastering CSS, the 10 hours it takes to learn Beads might be a better bargain.