skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I avoided wordpress like a plague. Used stuff like django, flask, grav and who knows what. But recently I had to make a website with lots of unknowns which needed to be authored by dummy users and I just said ** it and went with wordpress.

What I struggled with are: 1) Interesting site design, 2) custom functionality through plugins, 3) making it easy to add pages and blog posts with a nice editor.

I'm glad open source solutions exist, but I swear, they always have drawbacks. Either they are code heavy, plugins are out of date, maintenance takes a lot of time or there is no way to easily design a page.

So for Wordpress I bought Oxygen, for which you can still buy a lifetime license for, and oh my god, even I can make a nice, responsive website without touching code. It's such a game changer.

I think lots of people avoid wordpress because of security. But that is not primarily a wordpress fault. Linux & PHP complicates it a lot. And I'm sure those other open source projects have severe bugs, too, but nobody knows or talks about them.

What could bring down wordpress, imho, are expensive license fees for plugins. Who wants to spend 50 to 100 bucks per year and per page for a builder plugin? Everyone wants one, but no one wants to pay yearly. And it seems that all plugin makers are starting to go that way.
The article reads a lot like two articles in a trenchcoat:

1. a personal account of the procedural and philosophical weirdness of treating a body with a dead brain but otherwise-alive organs as simultaneously alive and dead

2. a criticism of the anticipated role of artificial intelligence and its perceived lack of bedside manner

Article #1 is compelling. One of my relatives is an anesthesiologist and I'm tempted to reach out to her to ask whether she's ever treated an ASA 6 patient and (if so) what her own thoughts are on that procedural and philosophical weirdness. Brain death is something that fascinates me on both those fronts - stark evidence that the line separating life v. death is fuzzier and more context-dependent than a lot of people would want to admit. The possibility for a body to be living while the organ responsible for what we usually call "personhood" is permanently dead is a centrally-shared influence behind my views on everything from abortion to animal rights to artificial intelligence to the afterlife. What even is death if pieces of us continue to live on separate from ourselves?

Article #2 doesn't feel as compelling. It seems to come out of nowhere, and I don't think its premises are particularly well-founded. In particular, the conclusion in the last paragraph:

> AI promises to elevate healthcare; but, to the degree that it replaces doctors and nurses, it also threatens to depersonalise patients and to wash off their distinctive colours until everyone has the same drab tint.

I don't perceive AI as the thing that's doing that. That depersonalization was a foregone conclusion the very moment someone came up the idea of privatizing healthcare. In the case of organ donation specifically, that depersonalization is more than offset by the repersonalization of those organs inside of someone who needs them; organ recipients and the loved ones of organ donors alike express all sorts of feelings of connectedness through those donated organs - as if the donor, at least in some sense, continues to live through the recipient. Indeed, a part of that donor's body does continue to live through the recipient, and there's a poignant beauty there that no amount of corporate-driven distillation of patients into insurance records and HL7 streams can ever hope to "wash off".
Will Penn's big wager on ESPN Bet pay off?
And that's why if a developer doesn't use Firefox and uses Chrome, they are just helping a monopoly take over everything and make a mess.
> Suppose you built twice as many housing units as you had residents. Rents wouldn't decrease? Why not?

People make the same specious arguments about gpu production during mining booms etc. Surely producing more gpus will lower the price, or reduce the profit per gpu at least? Are you saying prices don’t fall with increased supply!?!? that’s a counterintuitive statement, Mr Bear!

it just also turns out to be a true one. Getting more people into the bubble etc, or building more hype around the bubble, often only drives the bubble higher even with increased supply. Macro and micro are different things and the forces can work very differently!

now, ponder the way we’ve turned housing into a bitcoin-style money machine full of people who never want the number to go down… yeah there actually is all sorts of counterintuitive and hazardous second-order effects involved in housing, why would you ever think there aren’t?

(The American housing market is basically the exact same kind of “deflationary asset” as bitcoin by design, in fact - if the system is built around the idea the number can never go down (can never be allowed to go down, in fact) that’s what you’ve got, regardless of any actual utility delivered in the process. We have turned housing into bitcoin instead of a place to live and that’s the overarching problem here.)

Maybe increasing the supply only increases the supply of luxury condos, which if they are all consumed by wealthy individuals might push housing prices upwards etc. Such activity could, similar to bitcoin, actually stimulate enough economic activity in an area itself to sustain upwards trajectory on pricing, or merely crowd everyone else out without prices actually dropping “on older condos” as everyone blithely handwaves. These effects are observable in real towns - Colorado mountain towns have a massive worker shortage yet no workers able to afford housing, so the area has been wracked with crippling labor shortages for multiple decades now! Markets are weird and inefficient in all kinds of exciting ways!

https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/news/breckenridge-historic-home-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna17970

Basically economics 101 is barely sufficient for economics 101, and frankly every assertion you can pull from such content is somewhat incorrect and massively oversimplified, even one as simple as “prices will decline if production volume increases”. No, not always - and that’s not the only case I can think of where that simple, confident assertion is completely wrong, it’s not true of giffen goods either for example.
Another reason to get tattooed
It doesn’t just boil down to affordability, but how many people got down in the dumps struggling to afford their expensive apartment, got stressed out and depressed, caused relationship issues and drug use, and led to a downward spiral where they ended up in a place with severe mental illness and couldn’t function with free keys after 5 years of that?
Oh yeah I missed that. So a desktop computer can't play? Lame.
Not great if you have dogs in the office unfortunately.
This completely sucks. Was it about liability?
One of the things that strikes me about WordPress is the way that web nerds expect to find it easy and are angered when it is not.

Like everything, it takes learning. It has opinions.

It has some crazy history (I really wish media items were not handled the way they are), but it also has methodology to it.

If I said I know Go and JS and Perl and Java and Ruby and C, and I was enraged that Rust is so hard to learn, I'd be shot down for it, rightly.

WordPress looks like it does a simple job, but actually it's a whole, quite broad platform. You might have to read some documentation for a bit.

And if you've inherited a site using Elementor, ask the people who made it how to change the simple stuff, because they will be able to help.

If you've inherited a site using Visual Composer or Divi... shoot the people who made it.

If you think Gutenberg is bad (it is very much not, now!)... oh man, Divi was a time.
This is taking money from hard working black people and giving it to a handful of racist grifters. Further, it deprives their schools, police, EMTs, etc of tax funding from the wider city to enrich grifters — and these are communities that already struggle with funding.

Your comment only makes sense if you view “black people” as an amorphous blob, essentially defined by their ethnicity and not as individually distinct people.

Yuck.
That's why I later bought a boxed copy of Quake to atone for my sins...
And you probably think glass repairers don’t drive around freeways at night dusting gravel.
Show HN: Simple rigid body physics engine
You are right, approx 2B households alone exist.

Using SRV and increasing IP address space “by 64k” is only valuable for large single consumers such as AWS.
There is absolutely a homeless-industrial complex (HIC). The city of San Francisco spends $70,000 annually per homeless person![0] The homeless there are homeless because severe mental and addiction issues cause them to reject help, not because resources aren't available.

And no, weather is not the most important reason for why so many homeless come here. If it were, San Diego would have a worse homeless problem than San Francisco.

The most important difference is that the city of San Diego spends one third as much as San Francisco per homeless person. ($46.8 million in city spending[1] for an estimated 1900 homeless.[2])

The HIC uses every virtue-signaling, heart-tugging propaganda tool at its disposal to increase the flow of money thrown into its bottomless maw, despite no metric ever improving one bit whatsoever.

[0] <https://abc7news.com/sf-homeless-plan-housing-all-san-franci...>

[1] <https://www.lajollalight.com/news/story/2023-04-15/san-diego...>

[2] <https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-07/downtown...> [3]

[3] The count is only of the homeless in downtown San Diego. While presumably most homeless San Diegans are there, just as there are very few San Franciscans living on the sidewalk in Pac Heights, the point is that a larger number would mean that much less spending per homeless person in the city as a whole, and that much more glaring a discrepancy between the two cities.
Awk doesn't load things into memory. It processes one line at a time. So memory usage is basically zero. That said awk isn't that fast. I mean your looking at "query" times in the range of at least 30 minutes if not more.

Awk is imo a poor solution. I use awk all the time and I would never use it for something like this. Why not just use postgres. Its a lot more powerful, easy to setup and you get SQL which is extremely powerful. Normally I might even go with sqllite but for me 6TB is too much for sqllite.
> There are towns in the UK with words meaning Harbour, Sea, Coast which aren't at the coast because it retreated.

Can you give examples of this?
it's really hard to afford a sf apartment AND a crippling drug addiction, for several reasond
True, and for the bigger companies you can assume this will be handled correctly. A lot of smaller companies don’t follow the rules that strictly.

Off-topic: if I understand the GDPR correctly, applicants can also request all of their data of the interview process, and the company will have to send their interview notes, assessments etc. Would be a dick move, and I’ve never seen it done, but I’m still waiting for the first candidate to try it.
What is the base number they are comparing to when the study says 5x more expensive?

It’s already outrageously expensive to live near the beach in Southern California (and strangely completely desolate in Baja California), so an extra assessment might not be that material (but I have no idea!).

The article seamed to base the 5x number on the cost of sand increasing.
<< Static websites are fine, but dynamic ones are better.>>

Nah
The horror of it all!
"Made available at a URL" is one possible distribution mechanism, yes. But this only works for asymmetric keys. If you publish symmetric keys (e.g. for HS256) at a shared URL... Well, now everyone can get these keys and forge tokens to their heart's content.

Even with asymmetric tokens and a key distribution URL, you still have to make sure the clients periodically update their list of keys — this is not something you get built-in with every JWT library. And you still have to setup a mechanism for generating the keys and distributing them between the various instances of your auth server. This is not so hard nowadays with cloud KMS services, but setting up this solution on our own infra was quite painful.

> I agree that a lot can go wrong, but isn't that also true for home growing a distributed database tokens solution (I surely have seen some monsters in the wild). So can't the problems with both solutions be mitigated using some good libraries?

My point is not that a database solution is without its own issues. At my $DayJob we're also using a mix of stateful and stateless tokens (with distributed revocation lists) and we had to deal with issues with both of them. But stateful tokens on a database rarely suffer from security issues — the issues we had were always related to scalability and performance. The mitigations for these issues are also different: they almost always have to do with optimizing the infrastructure (scaling out the database, adding a cache) rather than using a library. In fact, when we use stateful tokens in a distributed scenario (and I'm sure this is true for almost everyone out there), all token handling is centralized in the auth service, so libraries are not strictly necessary. At most, client libraries would be very thin wrapper around HTTP API calls.
> Again I think you are confused. Assuming random distribution, 'We Are Coming' is just as likely as any other similarly long structure to form.

You are confused. How could we be back to square one? We've discussed it before. I'm not arguing that "WE ARE COMING" is more likely than, for example, "WE RAE COMING". Of course, they are as likely.

Suppose you have a machine that generates 15-char strings. Yes, "INTERCHANGEABLE" is as likely as "YSVQEPQVIGXOQSR" to come out—but that’s not the point. My point is that the probability of getting a proper English word is very unlikely. Most of the time, you'll get gibberish strings.

Also, I didn't say the sentence to be encoded in morse code. Instead, the galaxies form the literal shape of "W", "E", and so on. I hope you can see that in this case, it's borderline impossible to happen.
Hardly.

Sufficiently large schools will have at least one staff member doing something inappropriate with at least one student, there are literal Royal Commisions on that kind of thing.

Particular specific institutes of the past have gone further with large numbers of the staff abusing large numbers of the students.

There's a middle ground between always deferring to teachers as absolute authorities and not.
Docker Desktop Support for Windows on Arm
For all the rhetoric about saving our children, the best for the children, etc,
it comes to putting it into action, we do the opposite: no respect, low compensation, sending kids to school without any manners or respect towards the teachers.

Administrators are no better. They change policies year to year, more paperwork, more training needed, more rules. A lot of them have never been a teacher even.
They’re closing schools but transferred millions to racist grifters on dubious grounds in violation of public funding laws.

And that’s ignoring such race-based policies are explicitly illegal under Washington law.
Ya know what, I didn't actually test that but I would assume. I've been on a laptop for awhile and all my desktops have either a wifi card or its build into the motherboard.

I did disable the driver and tried to make my laptop act as if it didnt have WIFI at all, but I don't see how they could protect a desktop from what I was attempted above without WiFi access.
> It's more important to go deeper on a topic than what the topic is.

100% agree. Both calculus and probability can be used successfully as a vehicle to teach rigorous though, which is the real point of math education.
> Don’t see how those prevent tokens from being misused?

The purpose of a nonce is to explicitly prevent the token from being reused.

The purpose of the other claims is to prevent them from being accepted (and used) in calls to other services.

If you implement your server correctly, each instance of each service is a principal which goes through auth flows independently and uses its own tokens.

There is no token sharing.
In case anyone is curious. This outfit has a right center bias, but is generally credible.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/american-affairs-journal/
> Prior to the email and call, I had neither met nor heard of the person who emailed me about this leak. They asked that their identity remain veiled

And yet the journalist included a screenshot with one of the weakest blurs I've ever seen... Why would you not excise the person's video portion completely? What good does it serve to have it included in the story? Even if that portion is faked, why would you offer potential signals like skin complexion, hair color, background picture, etc.? Why...
Not badly written but it's poorly supported, and argued mainly from anecdote. There's no engagement with subject matter experts, there's cherry picking of data points, and the suggested solution isn't supported by provided data.

It's like if I said, build systems are awful and too much dev time goes to maintaining them, a build system was almost used in a clever hack by a state level actor, Kevin Mitnick, a Convicted Felon, used Make when coding hacking tools he used in his crimes, build systems are a problematic abstraction and we should avoid unnecessary abstractions in coding, and therefore we should call compilers directly from the command line.

Maybe we should do public social housing like this article suggests, I actually agree with that, but the above is hardly a measured article in support of that, anymore than I laid out a great case for invoking a compiler directly.
If you need a simple site now you barely need any plugins at all. Something for a contact form, maybe.

You do have to lean in slightly to how Gutenberg and Full Site Editing works -- I recommend this amazing documentation site:

https://fullsiteediting.com
You should migrate to somewhere that does value affordable housing.
Any user, not just developers
The Way We Are Building Event-Driven Applications Is Misguided
In this article, I express that the prevalent approach to building event-driven applications using the choreography pattern is misguided and can lead to significant technical debt. As an alternative, I introduce the Infinitic framework as a way to enable teams to implement event driven processes without the pain and complexity of building and managing an event-driven system themselves.
This is extremely common in Third World countries, where I come from. In my view, both nonprofits and large religious organizations attract the same kind of people. People who want to create their own little thiefdom, by taking advantage of peoples faith and Good will.
Is this specific procedure particularly unpleasant? I had all my wisdom teeth taken out with only some local anesthesia. I didn't care for people hovering their instruments real close to my face, but the pain wasn't that bad.
This entire discussion is about the Internet itself, not companies that connect to it: how does the Internet know which direction to send traffic in? It's managed by a protocol called BGP. Other countries can say your addresses are present in that country, and steal your traffic.
Have you looked at WP-CLI?

A lot of the stuff you want to do can be maintained at the command line. And it even gives you a way to do some fleet management.
I have had limited experience of this, helping seniors with computing problems as a volunteer. One of my mentees had double-hip replacement. He definitely wasn't as sharp afterward. In his eighties.

My own cognitive state under anaesthetic, I am told was lucid but entertaining. I was interviewed by a doctor about some research project in wisdom teeth, post operative. It's 30 minutes of my life I have no recollection of, or even awareness. Another time after a colonoscopy I was told I was on a 30 second delay loop, replying well after the normal interval to any question. Slow.
Where would that be that's nice to live, safe, good infrastructure, good jobs AND by some miracle still allows you to buy affordable housing?

Plus, if you move to a low-CoL area with a high-CoL job then you're not really solving housing, you're just moving your problem elsewhere onto other people making housing unaffordable for them. How many former cheap places to live have been gentrified into oblivion in a short amount of time?

The goal is to make housing affordable AND help preserve local communities and culture(even though that might be contradictory to a degree), not to keep gentrifying and uprooting them in a musical chairs style game and then wonder why communities are dying, family units are dying, birth rates plummet, family support networks are dying, mental illnesses are up, loneliness is up, etc.
For very good reason. Legitimate routing is often asymmetric and applying this rule would block a large percentage of Internet traffic.
Just tried it. I have to say that the proposals are not generic and don't feel like typical AI generated ones. The quality is pretty good. keep up the good work!
No, the insurance companies are going to go bankrupt, and tell their customers get bent while their executives fuck off to the Alps. Hopefully the hoi polloi have a government that's capable of bailing them out of such dire straits but the way things are going, that's been pillaged too and the only thing remaining for them is a fuckton of guns and ammo. But hey, Fort Knox is full of gold; that'll make for a raucous time until the looters figure out it's worthless once it's all circulating.
> Running it is equivalent to comprehension.

Interpreters run your code, but they don't 'understand' it any better than compilers, which don't run your code.

In a sense, compilers typically 'understand' your code better, allowing them to do more optimisations.

(The boundaries in practice are more blurry.)
I checked it out around the same time Mark Pilgrim moved to it. Movable Type came and went but to their credit they tried a GPL version but sadly OpenMelody never caught on.
Tram, yow!
What's wrong with taking money in the background?

That's less money that advertisers like Google have to be shitty.

"To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral." -- Abbie Hoffman

Does anyone else remember installing a bunch of copies of that Win98 era software that would put ads on you desktop and cut you a cheque every month?
In many countries, mortgage interest is tax deductible, while rent is not.
Because Let's Encrypt is the CA that hands out certificates without actually verifying identity.
Corporate browsers such as (checks notes) Firefox and all of its forks.
And some fava beans.
yeah in 94, and the reasons were ridiculous.[0]

[0]: https://merage.uci.edu/~jorion/oc/case.html
Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal
Eke, not eek.