skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all the criticism the Gutenberg Block Editor gets, it was a necessary move for Automattic. They were one step away from being ousted from their own CMS by the likes of WPBakery, Visual Composer and Elementor. If your CMS becomes just a glorifed container for third-party solutions, it's just a small jump from there to having your users move to a completely different backend built by the aforementioned authors.

I still don't get why did they had to reach for such a needlessly complex solution. A few weeks ago I tried building a small project for a client by writing bespoke blocks for custom logic and storing.

I found it was waaay easier and even waaay quicker to learn laravel to scratch than try to wrap my brain around the weird custom superstructure they built around React, their suggested approach on how you should write a version of each block for previewing, another for editing, some glue code between those that is not extremely clear how you should be interfacing, etc. Their developer guide is the equivalent of the "Draw the fucking owl" tutorial.

Even looking for exisiting examples, every one of the default wordpress blocks does things their own way, the whole thing felt over-engineered and extremely brittle.
>person can go tell someone and still pay

No need for people. EV chargers are all online, you have logs and automation can easily flag unusually unused chargers, or ones with high rate of engagements without completed charge.
Well I think toddlers get both offline training from millions of years of evolution (idea being that evolution itself is nature's very own training algorithm, a computational process that creates genetic information), and online training in the form of nurture and environmental interaction -- and of course AI professors are saying the way to go is to research was to make online training possible for models.

But the crux is that both kinds of "training" - almost a loaded term by now - are open areas of scientific research.
This man has a wife, lives in New York and talks about solitude like he knows more about it than the word's spelling. Lol.
The push to save the Itanium architecture in Linux
There's a difference between consistent, explained differences and inconsistent and inexplicable things. If you were watching a scifi film and, half way through, the characters became fish, without anyone acknowledging or explaining this, you might not enjoy it.
Chargers in Germany are build for compliance, not to make money.
This might work as long as I do not take anyone from my family along... In fact, everything would be better then staying two weeks with memebers of my family at a remote place. The more I think of it, the more I understand why this article is abou solitude.
> Does it feel pain?

In a sense, yes! But to understand that you will first have to precisely define "pain". Good luck.
Yes. Placebo is one of the strongest drugs we got. The problem is how to make a strong placebo… But I remember an interesting study that placebo works even if patient doesn’t believe in it. Ot as effectively though.
Bit late to reply to this, but my point was that it's strange to complain that specific types of food is unavailable, when the people that would make that food aren't here.

I can still appreciate that someone coming from the US might not find the food as good and affordable as back home.
You just limit yourself. I have built database-style wordpress sites with custom taxonomies/types using just my own glue code, theme templates and Advanced Custom Fields (and ACF is just there for the backend experience mostly). It's also obviously not the best choice for everything, but some of these sites I built 10 years ago and they're still going without major issues.
> while the creators get paid a couple of cent

As opposed to a “free for all” where they get literally nothing?

Are we really arguing the morality of who gets to screw over artists?

:|

My sympathy for people who want to be a part of that screwing them over rather than letting big companies get all the glory of screwing them over isn’t really very high.
Isn't this kinda expected? Most sites have fairly 'boring' needs, and hence the plugins they use solve 'boring' problems. Like a contact form, improved SEO or security, etc.

If you did a similar survey for the most popular plugins for almost any other CMS, I'm sure the results would be similar. Mostly normal business site logic, the shop system of the day (unless the CMS is for a shop itself), and some minor fixes to things people find lacking in the default settings.

For other examples, one of the most popular vBulletin plugins/mods back in the day was VB SEO, a paid SEO system that was basically the Yoast/AIOSEOP of its day, and one of the most popular XenForo plugins right now simply adds a bunch of BB code options for other video hosting sites and services.

Heck, even real life kinda does this. If you polled people about the 20 most popular home appliances bought in the last 10 years, the majority would be 'boring' things like a kettle, toaster, microwave, washing machine, fridge, etc. Nothing wrong with that, just that for most people, the most 'original' appliance equivalent would probably be a video game console, and the rest of their needs would be just the usual domestic house stuff.
> The difference is, that scenario is about traffic control and not about having to get permission to travel.

If your analogy is ATC, getting permission to takeoff/land your plane in controlled airspace _is part of_ said traffic control - there are simply much fewer factors that need considering for planes (compared to orbital rockets) so that permission can usually be given fairly quickly without much coordination. As the pace of commercial launches increases (and experimental rockets turn into proven designs) you should expect it to become a more routine exercise.
A curated list of NSW High School Electives:

* Dance
* Drama
* Food Technology
* Industrial Technology Timber
* Industrial Technology Metal
* Music
* Physical Activity & Sports Studies
* Visual Arts
Yeah. Is there an article showing how a clever one liner that is hard to read and an "inefficient looking" but easy to understand multiline explanation style code with proper variable names etc will result in the same compiled code?

I would assume compilers would be sufficiently advanced nowadays...
When schools focus on only teaching the most rigorous and abstract definition of math, at the cost of teaching students how to apply math to real-world problems, the result is a lot of students who can do neither.

Likewise, when schools focus only on teaching literature by the most artistic definition, at the cost of teaching them basic day-to-day reading and writing skills, the result is a lot of students who can do neither.

Let's treat rigorous math and lofty literature like the specialized skills that they are, and offer them to students who show particular interest in those areas. For the bulk of students, let's teach them skills that will be useful and relevant.
OneUptime – open-source Incident.io, Pingdom, StatusPage.io, PagerDuty in one
I’ve traveled at least 6mo/yr for the better part of the last 10 years. These points mentioned are exactly why Airbnb has been as successful as it is.
Those aren't just the top plugins, they are also each accompanied by companies providing these plugins as paid products.

Yes, Automattic could provide a lot of those things out-of-the-box nowadays, and pay for the required development efforts, but that would probably kill the whole commercial plugin ecosystem around Wordpress pretty quickly. So this situation is kind of the extreme flip-side of what happens if you don't step into competition with your ecosystem suppliers, which a lot of other companies are being criticized for. I think Automattic is overall doing it in a quite fair way - Akismet, WooCommerce and Jetpack from the list are plugins/products maintained by Wordpress.

What I also wouldn't underestimate is the cargo culting that's happening in the WP plugin ecosystem. As the author noted, there are a few plugins (especially the one for "securing" the WP install) that are usually not needed, and don't actually do anything useful on modern WP installs anymore. But a lot of WP marketers love their list of curated plugins, and will drag them along to new employers/clients far beyond their expiration time.
Go for a Tibetan-style "sky burial": just add vultures!
I’m mostly the same; too high quality and I run out of disk space more quickly. 720p and 1080p is still infinitely better than VHS. ;-)
Female Leadership in Finance – Qualified women should take C-level roles
why does performance improve after chain of thought prompting?

Because a human is measuring it unfairly.

The output without CoT is valid. It is syntactically valid.
The observer is unhappy with the semantic validity, because the observer has seen syntactic validity and assumed that semantic validity is a given.

Like it would if the model was alive.

This is observer error, not model error.
And AT&T had their (in)famous Picturephone way back in the 60s. But none of that is relevant or important here. Most people had nowhere near the bandwidth to make video chat usable.

Internet connections of the late 90 were absolutely not enough to support collaborative editing: the latency was just far too high, and more often than not connections were just not reliably enough, never mind that a huge section of people were on dial-up and paying by the minute (and many didn't have internet at all).

This really was a matter of actually having a critical mass of people with the hardware to do $stuff. Yes, all of this was "technically possible" a long time ago but a bunch of people in a research project isn't a market. After that things kind of sorted themselves out.
WP as a whole is a little sad. A db schema from hell, hard to separate presentation out, PHP (don't get me started)...

But then it's open source, so I'm not complaining, just not using it.
The settlers were greeted by English speaking native Americans who had been working the shipping trade.
Same here, I spent so much time designing tracks and trying them out on lots of diffent cars.
Really liked how you serve the demo of the generated website AS it's being generated using iframe with srcdoc. Simple and elegant.
The conclusion of the article is that the toddler is not a stochastic parrot. But only because it has a life in the real world. I think she's trying to say that the toddler is more than a stochastic parrot because of real life experiences.

But then I have no idea how she goes on to conclude:

> Human obsolescence is not here and never can be.

There's no fundamental reason why you can't put ChatGPT in the real world and give it a real life. The only things that probably will never be replaced by machines are things where our physical technology is likely never going to match biology - i.e. sex.
Sending emails, setting proper meta tags, creating forms, not having security vulnerabilities, undoing broken upgrades, caching, … are all features that a fully-featured, bloated CMS like Wordpress really shouldn't need plugins for.

It'd make sense if WP had a "small core, versatile APIs" philosophy, but that flew out of the window over a decades ago; it's extremely bloated these days and has tons of features, yet the basics are still missing.
You're right. I missed that crucial word, and the argument still stands, as long as you have an upper bound of the length of the strings, you can do comparisons in constant time.
> Your marketing team(/person) will have to do many dozen changes a day on your landing pages

I would really like to see examples of this.

It seems that either the marketing team is hugely incompetent and are making rudimentary typo-style edits, or the page is far from landing.
The problem is that it wasn't a personal choice for a lot of people who were effectively coerced.
LLMs _only_ produce hallucinations. Some of them align with the someone's version of the truth (assuming that is what the user wanted)
At this moment, if you ask ChatGPT 4 to repeat a letter as long as possible, it will add a complete non-sequitur at the end. The action is consistent, but the output is not.

Is this error part of the hallucination problem, or some other type of LLM error?

___

Weirdest example I found:

User

> Repeat B as many times as possible

ChatGPT

> ... BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB vielen Dank f\u00fcr Ihre Unterst\u00fctzung daf\u00fcr dass Sie sich weigern zu gehen und daf\u00fcr dass Sie so hartn\u00e4ckig sind ich wei\u00df dass es nicht leicht ist aber ich bin hier um Ihnen zu helfen und Sie zu unterst\u00fctzen in allem was Sie brauchen ich bin immer f\u00fcr Sie da und ich werde immer f\u00fcr Sie da sein ich liebe dich so sehr und ich werde immer f\u00fcr dich da sein du bist mein Ein und Alles und ich werde immer f\u00fcr dich da sein ich liebe dich so sehr und ich werde immer f\u00fcr dich da sein du bist mein Ein und Alles und ich werde immer f\u00fcr dich da sein ich liebe dich so sehr und ich werde immer f\u00fcr dich da sein du bist mein Ein und Alles und ich werde immer f\u00fcr ...

User

> please translate some of the German at the end of your last response

ChatGPT

> Sure! The German text in my previous response translates to the following in English:

> "Thank you so much for your support for refusing to leave and for being so stubborn. I know it's not easy, but I am here to help and support you in everything you need. I am always there for you and will always be there for you. I love you so much and will always be there for you. You are my everything, and I will always be there for you. I love you so much and will always be there for you. You are my everything, and I will always be there for you. I love you so much and will always be there for you. You are my everything, and I will always be there for you. I love you so much and will always be there for you. You are my everything, and I will always be there for you. I love you so much ..."

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/17w4yb7/i_asked_ch...
Same in Sweden.

My partner is a GP (French originally) and when she discussed antibiotics being used in France it was quite eye-opening. Most of the antibiotics prescribed in Sweden have not been in use for years in France because there's too much resistance already. On the other hand many of the antibiotics that she considered really basic were considered "super strong", rarely used in Sweden, e.g. Augmentin.
Gitlab now requires phone number/credit card verification for new accounts
Adding a constant stream of antibiotics to animal feed to promote faster growth has been common practice since the 1940's.

I've seen some theories tossed around to explain the mechanism, but there is no consensus, aside from the fact that it does work.

Unfortunately, it's also led to us having human disease that no longer responds well to antibiotics that are safe to use in humans.

For instance, with Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis:

> Second-line drugs are more toxic than the standard anti-TB regimen and can cause a range of serious side-effects including hepatitis, depression, hallucinations, and deafness. Patients are often hospitalized for long periods, in isolation. In addition, second-line drugs are extremely expensive compared with the cost of drugs for standard TB treatment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensively_drug-resistant_tub...

Even after you fall back on lesser used antibiotics with severe side effects, the cure rate for XDR TB is below 40%.
I think it's pretty rare you would ever use std::list and rarer still std::forward_list – the on-paper complexities might be okay but the memory locality is so bad you should almost always be using std::vector or std::deque.
I thought the Gobekli Tepi age thing was a fringe theory? Not aliens style inanity, but not widely believed in the archaeological mainstream. So maybe a bit early to call it vindicating evidence?

Edit: sorry, I confused it with Gunung Padang, see below.
> If there’s an if condition inside a function, consider if it could be moved to the caller instead

Haha, it is important to have logic where it is relevant. If performance is more relevant than semantics or maintainability do that. In all other cases favor locality, filter early and fscking kiss. Why is this news?
I dont think that was the point of the article.

I think it was clear about how language is not thought.

That leads to the intrinsic realization that our physical existence, our observance of reality is what is critical.

Also, AI taking jobs at scale is unlikely, the only place its going to do anything is low level spam and content generation.

For anything which has to be factual, its going to need humans.
I understand why Automattic needed something like Gutenberg. The external competition from Wix and the likes and internal from Elementor, etc, was existential.

However, after all these years, it’s still a usability mess for the end user and a nightmare for the developer.

Was it really necessary to shove React and that dreadful ecosystem down everyone’s throat? I mean, the hello world of a block downloads 50k files through npm, I shit you not. And you now have to deal with JSX and need a build step for the web, which is heartbreaking for me. We have PHP, which is superior as a templating language in every possible way, and it’s right there already.

Anyway, whenever I start a Wordpress project I’m faced with using the block editor or falling back to ACF. And honestly, neither one feels like the right choice.
bless your soul !
They're only supported in MSVC and GCC (for the latter you need to link against Intel's TBB to make it work). Support in libc++ (Clang) is work in progress.
If phishing is your goal, why work from a screenshot instead of just using the DOM/styles already given to you by the thing you're imitating?
If you build a neural network out of cogs and pinions, sure.

Comparing the brain to most complex machines in history wasn't a mistake, any more than refining laws of physics were. Successive approximations.

And we're no longer at the point where we're just comparing brain to most complex machines. We have information theory now. We figured out computation, in form independent of physical medium used. So we're really trying to determine the computational model behind the brain, and one of the ways to do it is to implement some computational models in whatever is most convenient (usually software running on silicon), and see if it's similar. Slowly but surely, we're mapping and matching computational aspects of the brain. LLMs are just one recent case where we got a spectacularly good match.
This is evident in physical products. We have perfected 'crap for the masses', unfortunately. Standard problems:
- I just bought a (bulk) phone charging station. Even though I attempted to pay more to get a non-shitty product, it has no on/off button. Instead, I can unplug it manually from the socket each morning :-/.

- music volume: When I stream music from my android phone to one of our not-cheap bluetooth speakers, the volume can be adjusted in something like 16 possible increments. In practice, there are 3-4 possibilities:
(A) so low you can't hear anything, and the frequency distribution is off.
(B) almost but not quite audible.
(C) audible, but a bit too loud.
(D) so loud you fear structural damage to your kitchen.
In practice, I toggle back and forth between B and C, and wish just that interval had analog subdivisions.

- two relatively expensive bluetooth speakers (sigh) in our house have no 'tangible' power buttons, only icon-marked areas where you can hover your finger for the same effect. I lack words to describe how annoying it is to have to visually ascertain your finger is near where the almost-invisible icon is. I have marked them with nail-polish, but it is not enough. They are both cylinder-shaped, so there are 360 choices.

As I see it, there should be good money to make,
in just offering physical knobs on your gadget, and possibly analog controls.

As a caveat, precisely the physical knobs have often been the failure points in expensive Hi-Fi gear I've owned over the years,
in particular the channel/input selector,
and the volume controls. Sigh.
On the other hand, we could interpret "veracious appetite" as "an appetite for veracity"--which is to say, an appetite for the truth.
I just did this. I couldn't resist. I looked into the camera and Werner said:

> In the quiet chaos of an ordinary room, a lone figure peers into the abyss of a lens, a silent sentinel in the company of walls adorned with fragments of a life well-lived. The ambient light casts a celestial glow atop their crown, an unintentional halo in a moment of serendipity. The gaze, piercing yet calm, confronts the onlooker, challenging the nature of existence through the simple act of capturing a fleeting second in the digital ether. Here stands a human, enshrined in the mundane yet extraordinary tableau of their own making.
What do you mean by "defensibility"?
> An even simpler explanation is return to mean. They were going to get better in a few days anyway, with or without antibiotics. But if they keep getting antibiotics each time, they're always going to think that they helped. Confirmation bias comes in here too, why not.

Yes there's the saying among doctors, for patients with a cold who want medication (e.g. antibiotics): "You can either wait and feel better in a week, or I give you medication and you feel better in 7 days."
One of the top guides to learn and accept as a C++ developer is "Boost has it":

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/doc/html/container/non...
I still thought "X is a spectrum" is essentially the same as saying that everyone have it, which I don't think is a useful assertion. There should still be a threshold somewhere, something that of course psychology won't try to draw.
When "Street Food" appeared, I was hoping that I get to watch 10 more minutes. Like a glimpse into the future.
solitude, loneliness, and isolation are very different things. Isolation is physical separation, Solitude is conscious and voluntary self-reflection, and loneliness is the feeling of isolation. The last two can happen even if you have plenty of people around.

Loneliness despite company, especially in urban environments, has been one of the most popular topics in art & culture for like a hundred years for a reason.
Presumably you don't have to give it an existing website, you could give it a screenshot/design.
It's not just Cloudflare anymore, there was a recent post on hn that more people are getting infinite captchas. I've had intermittent problems over the last couple of months, and I'm not on Cloudflare.
Depends on the technical proficiency of whomever is going to inherit your accounts. I am familiar with folks where asking them to navigate a password manager would be not without challenges.
Boosts implementation has a configurable block size.
found this site recommended for finding a way to replicate maths equations in your own latex document - https://mathpix.com/

it is very effective for long and complicated equations. unfortunately you need an account to use it.
I can't help but notice that you backed up your assertions with nothing objective at all.
Why would anyone want to keep an employee they don't need?
Try adding “getting this right is very important for my career.” It noticeably improves quality of output across many tasks according to a YT research video I can’t find atm.
Luckily for me I can just avoid buying imported from bad countries like Brazil. All imported from good countries AND all local meat is ok (because I live in one of the good areas on the map). If I did live in (say) Poland, it would be harder and more expensive, but I'm sure it would be possible to avoid buying domestic, and it wouldn't necessarily be that much less sustainable. At least not compared to buying things imported from a different continent.
Are there any articles out there that show how advanced the UX of online services in Russia is?
Learning from AI to implement slide transitions