skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's clear that the fewer plugins one installs (ideally none) the better, though it's difficult to follow this rule in practice. I recently had to set up a WP website from scratch, and plugins are a very common way for people to solve their problems (especially non-technical users). Plugins are even used for basic ops work like rewrite rules, backups, log parsing, caching—and I get it, for most people if they didn't exist they wouldn't have done the ops stuff, or solve many of the other types of problems, so it's kind of a blessing and a curse given your attack surface increases with each plugin and WP feature. I've learned that Wordpress really is what you make of it, directly proportional to the engineering effort you put in.
A few hops to get to the list of known backdoored themes and plugins:

https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-...
Very cool, how do you get the camera to point to the right place?
Timeline:

2021-09-22: Jetpack Scan team discovers the dropper and back door in the FotoGraphy theme, and tries to contact vendor about the initial finding.

2021-09-27: Confirm presence of dropper + back door in all current free plugins and themes downloaded from vendors website.

2021-09-28: Confirm that dropper + back door is not present on downloads from wordpress.org

2021-09-29: Trying to contact vendor again, with updates on new findings.

2021-10-14: Escalated to WordPress plugins team to try to obtain contact with the vendor.

2021-10-15: Compromised extensions are removed from the vendor’s site.

2021-10-16: Response from vendor

2022-01-17: Most plugins have been upgraded to new versions, themes have been pulled from WordPress.org.

2022-01-18 Public disclosure
As someone living directly below a flight path, I want one of two
things: to make enough money to move out, or lobby the FAA to spread the
pain more widely. At some point, the so-called NextGen technology
enabled the FAA to channel all air traffic along a hyper narrow corridor
-- one that's unfortunately right over my street.
Note that the definition of a household includes "or two or more people who live together and share facilities (such as for cooking) in a private dwelling". Many of these would prefer to live in their own home.

You also ignore that the rapid growth in housing is causing people to buy them. If housing prices were flat then people would buy them largely for the rental income. Instead since they are increasing in value people buy them as an investment.

Many people resist believing more supply will reduce prices. I'd like you to imagine a wizard waving his wand an creating 1000 nice new homes in a city near you where new houses cost $1 million dollars. These homes are all auctioned off. The wizard then create another 1,000 homes and the cycle keeps repeating. People who don't believe supply is a problem will tell you that these houses will keep being snapped up at $1 million each forever no matter how many are built.
Resigning over the truth is a badge of honor.
It's... it's beautiful. Thank you.
First, it doesn’t imply that.

But to clarify a bit, the people who read HN are generally privileged enough to make a choice about what they eat.
Node-RED project creator here. The company is FlowForge and we're creating an OSS management platform for Node-RED. We just made our first release public.

https://flowforge.com.
I think scientific cooking completely misses the point about cooking and about
eating food. You should cook your food the way your senses tell you is right.
You should cook your food so that your senses tell you it's right. You're
going to taste the food with your mouth and smell it with your nose. You're not
going to taste it with a thermometer or whatever else silly probe of irrelevance
anyone might think of sticking into it.

The same goes about following arbitrary rules about how food "should" be cooked.
It's your tongue and nose that will experience your cooking. Not Julia Child's.
Cook food using your senses and cook food so that you like it. Cook as thou
likest. That shall be the whole of the law.
Noise of a rocket launch is a pretty big issue that's likely not going to be overcome for a long time.
Or ants on a Klein bottle.
It's worth mentioning that MicroSHIFT is a large Taiwanese bicycle components manufacturer. It's unlikely there's a trademark infringement issue as they're in different markets, but this is kind of like a bike company naming its new product "Hewlett-Packard".
I really enjoy my APO, but honestly, for steaks, between it, reverse sear, and the circulator, I still go for the circulator most of the time. I generally will be juggling a variety of things trying to get them all to finish at the same time, so being able to hold the steaks there if I get behind is nice. The APO could do it too, but it's generally handling something else for the meal that would suffer from being bagged.

I have used the APO's psuedo vide mode for steaks using the probe and it does work very well and is quite quick. It's also killer for bread - way easier and (for me) better results than the dutch oven methods.

Now that the APO has a new tank design it solves the only real complaint I've had it it though, so I do highly recommend it. Between it at my Breville SOA I haven't used my regular oven in years.
I do the same -- that is what moved me from Matlab to Python and Windows to Linux about 15 years ago. I had no idea at the time what a blessing that move was going to be, but the principle of maximizing future freedom led me in the right direction.
I'm in the same age cohort, and I am nostalgic about the UI feel of the era (which was basically polished IBM CUA), not the look. As far as the theming goes, you're right - I recall most power users at the time switching back to classic slate grey. But that was purely a visual difference; it behaved exactly the same.

Today, I'd be willing to tolerate the ugliness of XP Blue Luna if it meant consistent UX behavior. But this isn't an endorsement of Luna - merely a sign of how far we've fallen.
> And considerably smaller carbon footprint than industrial emission and cars

Yes, I am recommending people reduce their addiction to cars as well.

But honestly, planet is likely a lost cause for humanity, so “Let them eat steak!” I guess.

And if you think humanity is thriving today, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
That makes sense if you're the dailybeast or whatever, but bloomberg?
Yeup.

Anecdotal opinion: it is easier to keep finding new strategies to deal with my career, including building my own business, when I'm not drained by my personal life.
Great article but I didn’t like the whole libertarian take at the end that we are worse off because we don’t follow whatever is optimal is some theoretical free market model.

The real world is generally not well captured in unrestrained markets. You got externalities and tragedy of the commons not taken into account.

If people always bought what benefitted them and society then nobody would be a heroin junkie, an alcoholic or obese.

I don’t think high rise cities are really a path to better societies. I loved high rise building when I was younger but today I must say that most of the cities I enjoy most are not cities with tall buildings.

Not everything of value can easily be captured in a market based system. They tend to only capture what can easily be measured. However the things which can easily be measured are often the least important things in life.
They can even travel fully upside-down on my ceilings. Cliff overhangs are no obstacle for them.
"if x then y" doesn't imply anything if not x.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalgeographic...
I thought actually that this was going to be the second price from the article. What's so disappointing to me is how many companies get to treat the earth as a free or nearly resource to turn into profit.
This quote lead me down this rabbit hole:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/08/speed-reading/
Oil/mining companies have definitely used dowsing in the past, but as far as I know it didn’t work.
The whole perfect steak thing is not new.

"Males are best turned into gluttons with the help of their vanity. They ought to be made to think themselves very knowing about food, to pique themselves on having found the only restaurant in the town where steaks are really “properly” cooked. What begins as vanity can then be gradually turned into habit. But, however you approach it, the great thing is to bring him into the state in which the denial of any one indulgence—it matters not which, champagne or tea, sole colbert or cigarettes—“puts him out”, for then his charity, justice, and obedience are all at your mercy."

C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters 1942.
A Kinsey gaffe:

https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2011/08/wo...
Do you ever wonder why the conservative party in the US is pushing so strongly for Voter IDs and arguing them being mandatory when voter fraud is virtually non- existent?

Always take time to understand why people push strongly for a solution to a problem that isn't occurring. And usually when you do, you'll find there are second order effects that cause that group to benefit.

Looking into that gets to the root of the issue and the reason why people are correctly labeling it as anti-voter rights.
Agreed! I’ve used Hugo + Netlify for the last few years, really like it. I’m not a big blogger, but it would be easy to run a blog with this setup.
"According to Sucuri researchers who investigated the case to figure out the actors’ goal, threat actors used the backdoor to redirect visitors to malware-dropping and scam sites. Therefore, the campaign wasn’t very sophisticated."

"Threat actor" and "supply chain attack" sound like attempts to elevate a crime into terrorism. As if their intent was to keep food off of the shelves rather than theft and fraud. Aren't those bad enough?
How does pre-reg handle cases where unexpected findings are made along the way? Are those data to be scrapped so everyone has to start their pre-registered "real" study from scratch?
this is how nomal people read book, maybe it is not best, but still most common way to contact literature
There are federal statutes governing conscription. Are there any similar statutes governing the employment decisions of health care workers?
As others have said, static site generators are super easy to set up, and for a blog you'd be able to do basically everything in Markdown. You can also very easily include Netlify CMS or similar for a GUI editor (which will make commits directly to your repo).

I'd recommend at that point just using GitLab or GitHub pages as others have suggested, but if you do want to move completely off of other people's services, it's much simpler to set up nginx or Apache to serve static files than it is to safely host a WordPress instance.
It's like the chemical equivalent of a timeshare. Better find someone else to buy it and take it off your hands.
With remote work, why are we still all trying to cram ourselves so close together?

Also, why isn't building down economical?
https://archive.is/mrpNt
Reminds me of George Carlin's classic "Stuff" routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
Especially the "seals in the juices," myth.
I made no claim that using sscanf instead of strto* fixes all the issues with C string represenation.
I fail to see how this is not a perfect example of the above. Just because he supposedly did it "calmly"?

How did he "eviscerate" it? Did he have an objective metric where it scored low despite promises? Did he show it kills babies?

No. He just wrote a different one which in his opinion was better.

The author is simply exaggerating for effect.
> Okay, but why is the government subsidizing this?

Because the goal is to reduce carbon emissions. This plant produces Hydrogen out of hydrocarbons, and manages to sequester 40% of the CO2 output. The Hydrogen produced maybe be used to generate electricity, for example. The obtained MWh of electricity will have less CO2 emissions than if you simply burn the hydrocarbon to begin with. Moreover, you can store the Hydrogen for load balancing. It's not 100% carbon neutral, but it's an improvement over what's available now; the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Has BookFace contributed back commensurately to the degree Señor Mark Fuckerberg has benefitted? That would be truly impressive and challenging, to the tune of tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.

MySQL is truly the unsung hero of FB, the whole operation would not have taken off and become a smash hit in the first place without riding atop the back good ol' MySQL.

Unfortunately, Postgres wasn't such hot shit 15 years ago. Today Postgres is AMAZING, it is truly a great day to be alive and a programmer. Now our best choices for relational DBs are Postgres, MySQL, or Oracle 21c (lol, Oracle <3's $$$ but at least Larry is straightforward and honest about it :)
In my search engine work, I found an enormous cluster of websites that had a huge number of pages with link spam on them, but with a seemingly legit front page. Sometimes linkfarms will have some sort of a facade, but this was more elaborate.

More confusing still, they were all on .net and .com-domains. I just couldn't figure out what was going on, .com-domains are expensive, typically link farms are on .xyz, .icu or something similarly cheap.

I don't have the number, but I'm certain I identified tens of thousands of them, if not a hundred thousand. That's close to a million dollars in domain fees. The numbers didn't add up, who would spend that sort of money on link farms? They were also hosted all over, not just on Chinese clouds like most spam offenders are.

It finally dawned upon me: What I was looking at was hacked wordpress instances. Holy crap there's a lot of them floating around.
Well people aren't doing that either. Expert opinion is a type of evidence. You still have to be investigating and questioning to apply reasoning to that evidence that can lead to a rational conclusion.
I'm saying the opposite thing. I've had A5. A5, I get. A5 is very good. But you don't eat a whole ribeye of A5.

"A5" gets my attention in a good way. "Wagyu" gets my attention in a bad way. But I might be nuts!
If you fail too hard at investing you have to quit, but if you’re too successful you also quit because you retire or the technique doesn’t work for too large a fund.

Note, “just hold index funds” as a strategy should be dominated by “borrow a lot of money and put it in index funds” by the same arguments. Don’t see robos offering that though.
That’s not always the case. Here in Ontario there was a case of a relationship being declared common law by a court despite not cohabitating. That is quite unusual, but simply living together for 3 years (or 1 year with a child) is the normal yardstick courts use.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7327501/couple-no-home-no-kids-sp...
For non-Valley insiders: the above is hyperbole. For one thing, the massive Intuit campus is right next door to the Googleplex. For another thing, the industrial areas just across Highway 101 (a quarter mile from the ‘plex at most) are full of non-Google startups and midsized tech businesses, as well as junkyards and auto body shops and who knows what else.
The unabridged audiobook is just under 24 hours. 16 hours seems short, but not terribly so.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Moby-Dick-Audiobook/B071NYW4Q1
How different is the LD-50 between EtOH and 1-propanol?
The comment above this is from CS Lewis. The contrast in morality is pungent.
Well, sure, if you like your food some certain way, then cook it for yourself that way.

But a lot of the "scientific cooking" is about repeatability. I know I like my steaks rare, edge to edge, with a hard sear. I know that the easiest way for me to accomplish that is using an immersion circulator, combi oven, or reverse sear, drying it (and if I have time, cooling it down briefly), and then either searing/basting it in cast iron or finishing it off on my kamado grill with the temperature ramped up to inferno.

I've cooked hundreds of steaks just on a grill, or just in a pan. I can nail a rare or medium rare steak on the grill, and adjust for temp, etc. But there are inherent limitations to those methods - it might be rare in the center, but simply because of the physics at play, more of the meat than just the surface is going to be well done.

And as for the myths in the article... a lot of these are just things that are patently untrue. It's not about "scientific cooking" vs. cooking to personal taste, people just believe a lot of things that are just flat out wrong.
HN readers are generally pretty privileged. This is slightly inconvenient change they can make to their lives. If they’re not willing to do something this small and easy, what hope does humanity have for “success” overcoming climate change?

150 years from now, people will wish all they have to do is limit steak consumption. It’s far below the very least we can today, but it’s something.

Important note: I never said “go vegan today” or anything close to that. I said, limit steak consumption to a few times a year.
I have a good friend who works in that space, and is pretty open that it's not practical at the very high end. It's interesting to find that putting a bottle of wine in a blender has the same result as airing things out in an expensive decanter, but you don't need a high end blender to enjoy wine.

The high end of "scientific cooking" is figuring out what and why things taste good, or how to do it. Unfortunately it also becomes a catalog for people buying useless expensive crap because it's "healthy" or something. See: juicero.
> Division of labor accumulates bad ideas along with good ones.

Agreed. To take an example from my area of specialization, accessibility, both Windows accessibility APIs (yes, as is often the case with Windows, there's more than one) have serious design flaws IMO. But they still allow disabled people to do many things we would otherwise be unable to do. I worry about what will happen if programmers truly follow your proposal from another subthread: "build/reuse less. Do without." In this case, doing without would make computers much less useful for many people, and possibly erect new barriers to employment, education, and just living one's life.
You’re a person of great conviction and superior morality — who dares not name the company and reveal their identity. I’m amused.

“ I want the best people and the best people don’t work for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.”

Tell me when you hire a Yann LeCun or Jitendra Malik. Your claim is random shit-talk that’s not verifiable.
AKA, don't yuk my yum.
I’m very much not a libertarian, but I do wish that cities wouldn’t take such an absolute anti high rise stance.

Every high rise city has low rise neighbourhoods, but low rise cities don’t have high rise neighbourhoods.

So it’s a choice between a mix, or pure low rise, and I really dislike when the low rise people choose to force their taste onto others.
Guess which is a more important target to the enemy in the event of an all-out war: the runways, hangars, and fuel facilities or the research and development offices. (I mean, it's sort of an academic question if a well-placed enemy warhead makes it through...)
The submission isn't loading for me right now but based on your comment, I imagine I share some views with the author.

I have this problem with games; there are lots of games. I can only find out if I enjoy one by spending time on it (and unfortunately the industry seems to like drawing things out such that the first hour or three aren't necessarily representative). Unfortunately, very often it is the case I go in hoping I would enjoy it, but after a while have to cut it short because it's not enjoyable. Not only have I not gotten much out of it, I've lost all the time I could have spent on something more enjoyable (or productive). And it's still true that I've lost the time, even if I enjoyed the activity. One tricky part with games that start out as fun (and addictive) is that it can take a while to realize it's not fun anymore and hasn't been for a while. And I've definitely had regrets with games that don't feel fun but after consulting opinions, "trust me it gets better." Ugh.

That sort of plays in to the value calculus on games.. a common mindset I see in reviews is that if a game offers hundreds of hours of gameplay, it is a high value game. For me, it rarely works out that way; I'm not a bored teenager desperate for entertainment, and in practice long games rarely seem to respect my time. They're long because they drag on and push you into running around, dull repetitive grind and fighting, mass produced shallow quests, boring errands, copypaste scenery spread over a large map... Quantity over quality. From my perspective, a game can definitely have negative value.

What I'm looking for in games today is definitely the opposite. Maximum quality that lasts a weekend at most and then I can move on in life. And I still don't want to waste most of my weekends playing games, even if I could find good ones.. Similarly, I have a bunch of books about which I've been wondering whether it's really worth my time reading them.

I'm sure I'd feel differently if I could somehow make more time available to me (e.g. work only three days a week oslt).
That's really pathetic, to put it mildly. Three weeks between initial contact and removal of compromised themes. Four months until public disclosure.
Why do you not want to use somebody else's service?
Is there...anyone in that group who is left of center?

Like Bari Weiss, Kenny Xu, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Andrew Sullivan, Will Reilly, John McWhorter, Abigail Shrier, Megyn Kelly, Zaid Jilani, Peter Boghossian, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Glen Loury are all people who I'd either describe as "generally conservative" or "have known clearly intolerant views against some group", whether it be immigrants, Muslims, or transgender people.

(and those are the only names I recognize, except for Angel Eduardo who I know nothing about except that he's been criticized by people I follow on Twitter for being a part of FAIR).

It's really, really, really hard to believe that an organization claiming to be against "racism and intolerance" is apolitical, when there's no notable left-of center representation on its board, and a good 10-20% of its board members are notable primarily because of their intolerance towards certain groups.

Like you could perhaps make the argument that this group is devoted very, very specifically to free speech and I'd believe you. But "intolerance", no. Those two things are fundamentally at odds.
Compare against other companies/s&p 500 you'll find it's good, but not the best. That's ok.

https://g.co/finance/COST:NASDAQ?window=5Y&comparison=NASDAQ...
It doesn't even have to delete anything.

What happens when it gets 53% of the way through whatever it's doing at it errors out? Now wtf do I do?
Criminal case against Chinese-born top MIT scientist collapses
If we didnt suffer from such a dire shortage of housing I would appreciate your point more.

But we do.

I have a feeling if expensive city center land became a tax liability (as it should be) rather than a gold-like asset to be jealously hoarded we wouldnt see the NIMBYism that led to this tangled web of regulations.
Anyone here with thoughts on maintaining a device for Lineage? My (currently-unused) Moto Z Play is no longer supported by either Motorola or Lineage. Wondering how much work would be it to keep a port functional.
I'm a chemist done research. Information is known, but procedures are more often than not, not respected.

In perovskite research there is a lot of toxic and dangerous materials, e.g., people would still ignore it.

It's hard to explain but my experience in labs is easily explainable with covid. All started cautious but in the end most aren't that thorough and safe.