skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And entities that become too great and harmful to other entities (monopolistic) get challenged, even if they can provide some good, and from that challenge they sometimes get parasitized as well. Business competition, therefore human behavior, is natural no matter what way you want to politicize it.
Sorry, but for all intents and purposes, WPEngine IS WordPress.

Running WordPress is such a pile of security and customer support suck that nobody wants to deal with it. Consequently, if you are being made to run WordPress, you also want to pay somebody to make the pain go away. If I pay WPEngine, I can tell my marketing and design teams "Customer support is over there. Talk to WPEngine and leave me alone."

If WordPress made their software such that hosting administration wasn't such a fiasco, WPEngine would have viable competitors and wouldn't be able to extract the ecosystem.
So far I have never handled a stolen phone as far as I know so I don't know much about that angle. What I get are peoples old iPhone 7's that have been sitting in a drawer for a few years. They are eager to donate them but have no idea how to get their personal data off them, so the work I do is sitting down with them and walking them through the process. I would say that's about 1 hour per phone including getting to and from the donor, teaching them how to reset their iCloud account password (or Samsung account, whatever) to erase the phone. When I get a carrier locked phone I sell it on eBay and buy an unlocked phone or a bunch of chargers and cables. I'm always happy when the phone is from Verizon or was bought unlocked, but AT&T is better than most.
AFAIK, the only reason to use the label's `for` is when you want to place it in a different place from the widget.
The problem with the common CO2 sensor modules is they don't have DC accuracy. Meaning they rely on the device being present in place where it regularly (e.g at least once a week) gets exposed to fresh air, which the module sets as its baseline. This works because fresh air has roughly the same CO2 concentration everywhere.

Hopefully this method doesn't have the same restriction.
It is 100% an anti theft mechanism - it prevents people from stealing phones from carriers. The scam is:
- get a new iphone from tmobile that costs $30 over 2 years.
- don’t pay them anything: you just got a free iphone. Tmobile is mad and won’t provide service to that handset because you stole it from them.
- You open a new line with at&t and tell them you’re bringing your own phone.

Carrier locking prevents this. If someone steals your phone on the train that’s a different problem with a different solution
I dropped VSCode when I found out that the remote editing and language server extensions were both proprietary. Back to vim and sorry I strayed.
I can only speak as someone who has done enough web dev to feel like every CMS is designed to get in the way and extract money.

Using any variant of wordpress on a project seems equally negligent.
That's pretty much what I do.

TestFlight records how many sessions I run, on the release-ready app. I use TestFlight from very early on.

It always shows thousands of sessions for me. The next-highest tester is often only tens or hundreds.

But that number is dwarfed by how many sessions I run in the simulator.

It tends to result in apps that folks like using.

The biggest danger is that I get so familiar with the UI, that I don't understand its [lack of] discoverability for those unfamiliar with it. I can easily design inscrutable UI.
> That's how I'm writing this message to you.

Neat. Can you explain your setup a little? How do you go from voice to whisper to writing in this reply input form on a webpage?
This has the same energy as a spat between two Mastodon instances. Did he make any effort to work this out with them in private? I'd think he would mention that if he did.

Actually, since WordPress supports ActivityPub now, it's a spat between two massive AP platforms with apocalyptic potential. Someone needs to get follower migration from WordPress to anything else on the AP fediverse done quick.
India is actively building 9 reactors right now to come online between now and 2027.

Article says 16 though so there’s probably more coming.
> All models are useful, none are correct.

I have generally heard this as "All models are wrong, but some are useful" which is attributed to the statistician George E. P. Box.
It can be overwhelming. What I tend to do is find a vertical that I can understand and master, and then expand out from there.
> I generally wrap my radios inside of the label for this reason. Is there a reason not to do that?

Actually, I think this is the best way to deal with all inputs that have labels—a small number of issues and edge cases (such as the one described in the article) just disappear. It’s also valid hierarchy-wise.
"Applied ..."?

On the Optimization Ph.D. qualifying exam, got a "High Pass" and the best score in the class.

In optimization answered a question in the Kuhn-Tucker constraint qualifications and had the paper accepted quickly in Mathematical Programming.

Taught linear programming in a well-known business school for 5 years.

NYC had a few users, in a loose group, of linear programming but were not very good at it. Somehow I stumbled into the group and was by far the best, but there was no chance of a career or job there.

Net, saw next to nothing in "applied". Believing "applied" would have been homeless living on the street, exactly, no exaggeration.

Was not able to help my wife -- she died. Had two cats. They got sick, needed medical care I couldn't afford, and died.

Thousands of resume copies posted -- no meaningful responses.

The Sheriff showed up with several workers with guns, dumped all my clothes, furniture, music materials, e.g., piano, large professional library on the front -- I had to drive off with a few items.

At FedEx I saw a good application, got a memo from the Founder, COB, CEO to pursue it, pleased two crucial members of the BOD, saved FedEx twice, but one manager tried to fire me,
another said there was "no money in the budget" for me, the stock promised in 3 weeks was WAY late, and I'd been commuting between Memphis and Maryland.

Could have done better with a lawn mowing company, LITERALLY.

Actually, big picture: Heavily long, likely still, the main US customer, apparently 99+%, for optimization of any kind was US national
security.

I was manipulated, fooled, and very seriously hurt by the claim "applied".

A fact of life: Nearly always people with money, power, and optimization problems don't understand optimization, fear and resent those who do, and choose just to avoid the subject.

So, no wife, no cats, starting a business, no boss, sole-solo founder, do have some original applied math deep in the technology, and face just US Internet startup reality.

Optimization? Get a 2 hour overview and otherwise f'get about it.
That's not the same PPU, is it?
Am I missing something? This feels like such a bizarre hill to die on. He's upset that a company offers hosting of his software with a default setting changed. I guess, don't have that setting then?

There's no mention of the source code being changed or custom patches being applied. So the allegation that it's "something that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to look like WordPress" is maximally overblown. Unless, again, I'm completely missing something.
1. In that case those that were adopted tended to be the cheaper and more ubiquitous technologies, ie, at a biological level just more calorically cheaper to adopt and perhaps efficient to maintain.

2. VC and general funding, ie supporting an entity, is a feature of evolution.

I guess I expected better of HN but it seems people don't realize that nothing we can do will stop evolution and everything we do is just a feature of it.
I’ve avoided working directly for the tech industry. I was contacted by Google and Amazon without ever having reaching out to them but that was right before the mass layoffs. Beside high level proprietary projects I’d rather work for myself doing whatever I want.
I think what he says is we should be perfect users of our time, leading to some certain goal. Kind of like what AI could potentially be. So I think maybe we transition progressively from humans to AI to reach that perfectness. I'm sure it's possible to have AI that doesn't fall victim to those vices.
It’s impractical to “repossess” phones so in practice the carriers wouldn’t be able to stop people from deliberately defaulting on the contract with no repercussions (they can bring it to a different carrier who is indifferent)
Why? I do not understand why that would be odd. The OP doesn’t want to live in a world without human interaction. Any life without others is not worth living. Not so odd or far fetched to me.
The entire basis of the feeling of loneliness is to encourage a person to socialize.

Hunger exists so that we eat, thirst exists so that we drink, etc.

I guess people are free to do whatever they like, but I mean, well, you know, uncharted territory.
AI Podcasts on the fly, without NotebookLLM (code)
You don't. All of those things are very hard to prove one way or the other.
Unexpected Consequences of McDonald's Touchscreen Kiosks
Hard disagree over here. Apple's not always been good but my experience has usually been better than the competition (at least OSX 10.4+). They've been on a downward trajectory, certainly I've whined a lot about how bad MacOS 14 is, but their main competition (Microsoft) has also been working to lower the bar. Linux on the desktop's largely been a non-starter for me due to Apple's ARM stuff and disinterest in spending the effort to find compatible hardware.

I've not used Apple for photo stuff past monkeying around with Aperture. However I recently tried digikam, darktable, and rawtherapee. Darktable in particular was atrocious, and if that's how Gtk apps are on Linux I'd consider that another strike against desktop Linux. All three crashed or hanged repeatedly. You could rather easily dismiss some things like keyboard shortcuts not being aligned (rawtherapee) or partially aligned (darktable) with MacOS norms. Even the lack of app signing (darktable, digikam) and mix of cocoa and gtk widgets could be attributed to big bad Apple.

But once you dig into them it's a rogues gallery. Darktable has two different modules for setting the white balance (ugh). Countless issues have been opened (and then closed) over this on github. The docs explain when each one comes into play. With the default settings if you believe the docs and change the module that's supposed to be active, you'll get an error. Widgets respond to mouse events even if you think the cursor isn't over the widget. Rawtherapee, for some reason, renders the metadata widget as blurry mess to the point of the text being illegible.

To me it feels like open source projects sneer at ease of use (especially after looking at how bug reports are dealt with) vs commercial software companies willingness to fund a UX team.
Reminds me of a Japanese software company I applied and interviewed at when I graduated university. Company name? Bug Software.

A quick internet search shows no relevant results for the company.
But it is WordPress, Mullenweg hasn't shown that it's anything other than stock WordPress with a setting turned off.
Why should it be complex?
ConnectRPC here but yeah same idea.
Automattic's own managed WordPress platform severely restricts features all the way up to the top plan. I guess it's okay for them to do it.

edit: I am referring to WordPress.com which is the offering comparable to WP Engine.
What works for you does not work for everyone and vice versa.

From the paper:

>> Loneliness is often not problematic, with almost everyone experiencing loneliness from time to time (Cacioppo and Cacioppo 2018). Yet some people are not successful at alleviating loneliness, leading to a state of chronic loneliness that is associated with depression, anxiety, and physical
health outcomes at levels worse than obesity

>> Study 3 finds that AI companions successfully alleviate loneliness on par only with interacting with another person, and more than other activities such watching YouTube videos.

>> Moreover, consumers underestimate the degree to which AI companions improve their loneliness.
Unlike with a real person, where you only find this out much later, here you know the connection is shallow and meaningless from the start. That seems like an upgrade! Now you can have fun with no consequences.
> Button-toggled voice notes in the iPhone Notes app

Is this a physical button or on-screen? I’ve been rewatching Twin Peaks recently and would love a high-tech implementation of Cooper’s tape recorder.
> Here’s the scandal no one at Meta wants you to know: There is a backdoor built into Meta’s front-end infrastructure. Yes, you read that right. This isn’t a conspiracy theory; it’s fact. A hidden mechanism exists within the code base that allows Meta to bypass any user-facing controls, enabling them to access personal data even if you’ve set your privacy settings to the most restrictive levels.

Isn't that just how the vast majority of platforms work? To not have this capability requires deliberate design like end-to-end encryption, and that's always going to be advertised as a feature.
Makes you wonder if we should be more worried about the mental state of people who are rabidly anti-AI.
No, it really was the obvious explanation already at the time of that message.

You'd already been shown that this post was not present on the author's blog, nor linked to on their active Twitter account. Both of these things were noted in the GP. Whose account is not green, and whom you were implying was making up a conspiracy theory about this post being fake.

As for the post itself, it was on an otherwise empty Medium blog (you didn't need to look into how many xs the name had, just note that this blog had no other posts at all).

On the other hand, the only link to legitimacy the post had was that it was posted by an old HN account. But it's also not a very active account.

It's easy to see why and how somebody who had hijacked the HN account would use to to give legitimace to the fake. Your alternate theory that the Twitter account was actually compromised is preposterous. There's no motive for it, and it's hard to see how the timing would work out (the attacker using the HN account for misinformation gets to choose the timing of the misinformation; an attacker hacking a Twitter account to suppress the post doesn't).
JAWS isn't free[1].
Using the trial version for accessibility testing goes against its EULA[2].

[1] https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/

[2] https://webaim.org/blog/jaws-license-not-developer-friendly/
There doesn't have to be a single silver bullet for PTSD. The beauty of science and medicine is that we can explore multiple avenues simultaneously. Ketosis has shown promise for some, including you, which is great. However, different people respond differently to treatments. Instead of pitting methods against each other, why not advocate for a more inclusive approach? Embracing multiple methods makes sense because PTSD is complex and affects individuals differently. The goal should be to find what works best for each individual, not to win a treatment popularity contest. Let's push for more research into all promising methods. That way, we can build a more comprehensive understanding of PTSD treatment options and hopefully help more people find relief.
> Eating good food feels fantastic. Why would you want to give it up?

That's exactly what self pleasuring mentioned above is though?

One could argue the same thing about food, if it was possible to eat a pill that would give you all the nutrients you need and would take your appetite they probably in theory should want to take that pill if they would press a button to stop wanting to self pleasure.

In fact, I think more people would likely want to get their food habits under control since this makes you gain weight and increases risks of certain illnesses. While self pleasuring can be potentially harmful in excess, I don't think it can be exactly as harmful as being addicted to food can be.
Follow the Snow
That's not what the OP originally posted. Also, suicide is never the answer.
Yes, you seem to have the argument backwards.

The argument isn’t that “turning off saving revision data” is terrible. That’s not the problem or the argument.

The argument is that private equity will use open source, maximize profits from the Labour open source volunteers have done, and minimize costs wherever they can.

The “default setting” is an example of this behavior.

Also, calling turning off all historical revision data as just “changing a default setting” in a content management system is disingenuous to say the least.
OMG yes! That appeared in the somewhat recent UI revamp and I’m so tired of mashing at that button. Not only is it unavailable for what feels like more than a second, but now it’s in a different place
What do people on here use this stuff for? Are you building out large IT infrastructures? Sorry, this is all very new stuff to me.
Is the source code of this somewhere?
This is so fun. I love it. Well done!
It's a 20 minute long video, the information density can almost certainly be denser.
What is the Axiom of Choice? (2021)
People are often scared of things they don't understand.
This is so fun to explore. You've done some great work on this! It's inspiring. A lot of fun to think about how you've implemented everything.
These things are all much improved recently, but you are correct not there yet. ‘juliac’ is a new static compilation option which should release around 1.12, and there are others like Cognibotics experimenting with Julia for hard real time applications.

Julia was also recently used by WhatsApp for audio codec R&D. Hopefully these use cases will drive better guarantees and tooling.
The elephant in the room is that true randomised controlled trials take decades to do and even then are almost impossible to build in a way that teases out nuances such as the specific effects of individual compounds within a supplement.

So we are effectively left with pseudoscience as the only other option, but what would you rather do - sacrifice all of the insight and knowledge we are learning at such a rapid pace in medicine today, just because there's no feasible way to prove it within your lifetime (like, if you wait 20 years for observational studies to show that humans benefit from Omega 3 you will have missed the entire window when it would have been beneficial).

We have to find a balance, but it can't sit at the extreme of requiring everything to meet an impossible bar of scientific proof before we start to benefit from it. But the price to pay is that some of them are not going to pan out.
Palm Springs was fun as I had no idea that it had any scifi element.

Primer is also good, but doesn't have a super high user rating.
Do you know of anywhere at all to get one of the devices that don’t require re-calibration?
I’ve not yet had this problem but I surely will now! Thanks I guess.
If what you're saying is indeed the case, that's some awful hypocrisy. WordPress.com (run by Mullenweg!) is not "real WordPress". It disables the installation of most plugins unless you pay them a boatload of money. Arguably, that's just as "hacked up" as what WP Engine is offering.

Imagine going after a direct competitor for doing to your open source project the exact sort of thing that you commercially do to that same project. The idea that they're immune to the morality argument because they contribute to the OSS project more is ridiculous.
The linked video offers the full context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnI-QcVSwMU

(Relevant section starting around 10:14)

I think he’s using this as one prominent example of overall harm to the space.
I've been really wanting a system like this, but it's just so hard to get a new FOSS app off the ground, and I don't really want to maintain another app by myself, plus apps without a server are hard and I'd rather not self host anything.

It would be so cool to have some kind of generic manager for entity relations and metadata. You could scan a box, then hit a link type button like "Is near" or "Should contain" "Is checked out by", and it would keep it all in a SyncThing folder.

Maybe one of these days I'll find my old notes on building something like that, and try to make an MVP as a web app or something.

EPC Gen2 modules are cheap enough now that a consumer level $100 scanner to directly scan the items themselves, rather than a box code, seems completely possible, but it seems too time consuming unless you want to start a whole business around them.
They don't prescribe anything, it's just there. Like a box of sweets at the supermarket. Or a bottle of beer. Or whatever else people like.
In my experience, the revision system in WordPress is not performant. The more revisions there are for a given page, the longer it takes to publish that page, eventually leading page publish requests to time out. I usually have to limit the number of per-page revisions to keep, to prevent that from happening.
Ironically, Android being an "open platform" competitor to the closed iPhone was one of its major initial selling propositions.

Andy Rubin, 2008: "A developer will be able to use it as a platform and they'll be able to develop their application on the Android platform. But also because of its openness, a developer will be able to modify the platform, make the platform better. Therefore, because the platform is open, we think Android is somewhat future-proof." https://www.cnet.com/videos/t-mobile-launches-g1-first-googl...
GPT missed at least one:

Primer (2004) - Really good zero budget movie about the dangers of time-travel abuse.
Thank you for the very thorough answer :)
This seems like something HAProxy can do effortlessly.... Especially with it's hitless reload.
Yeah, but how often are they needed?
Well, this is specifically about how half of the Congress itself can use AI. Is that a good test case for elements of regulating the process of writing laws?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2361657-ford-patents-ca...

Ford got a patent for the idea.
The OP didn’t say they were going to kill themselves in actuality, the OP said they’d rather end their own life than talk to an AI to reduce loneliness. We can extrapolate that the OP won’t kill themselves because there is no known current status quo in which the OP could not escape talking to AI to reduce loneliness. Just because suicide was mentioned doesn’t mean suicide is intended. No reason to be so dramatic or befuddled by simple hyperbole.
No, I’m talking about the first time I write something. At that point in the game, my highest priority is to minimize the coupling between that code and the rest of the system (rather than, say, performance).
Finding errors in published papers is going to "destroy" academia as much as finding errors in production software will "destroy" the profession of computer programming.
This isn't the WP.org folks. This is Matt Mullenweg. Whether this is representative of the open source project is uncertain.
No; Japan would have eventually stumbled and fell into obscurity even without any American interference. It's a running joke at this point, because Japanese cannot compromise quality to make costs reasonable.

In an environment where the world produces goods 80~90% as good as Japanese ones for 1/4th~1/8th the cost, who in their right mind buys Japanese? This is what happened to Japan's entire electronics industry, home appliance industry, and more. Japan still has a domestic computer industry by a technicality (it's all Made In China) primarily fended over by Hitachi and Panasonic, but most westerners likely won't know because they simply don't sell overseas.

I'm not going to bother getting into how Japanese are horrible with software too.