skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shun's storyline is literally traditional Isekai plot (and I'd argue that it skewers Solo Leveling even in its satire).

Shun is an underdog who is suddenly thrust into war because the Spider Demon Queen attacks. He obtains the sacred power of the hero and is the one destined to kill demon lords.

Fortunately for our Spider protagonist, Kumoko is not the demon lord but just an underling (a major underling... but nonetheless an underling) of the Spider Demon.

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IMO, it's fun to see Shun do 'Regular Isekai Things' while Kumoko has to survive in the dark dungeon.

It's also very interesting to me that Shun's entire world and story ends up being irrelevant in terms of world powers.

Still, I love street level and other such 'less powered' beings in my stories. It gives you a sense of what the ordinary humans are up to while our Spider is leveling up in the dungeons.

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Solo leveling doesn't do the power of friendship thing that Shun and his party does. But otherwise, Sung Jinwoo is a chosen 'hero' of sorts thrust into a role. Much like Shun is suddenly chosen by God to be a hero as the skill passed to him.

It's from Shuns perspective that we see how Kumoko's far away actions have a rippling effect onto human society. It's an integral part of the story despite being a bit more boring.
Sounds like we mostly agree, save some pedantry.

Nobody waved a wand. The contaminated milk that killed infants killed adults too - alcohol and milk were alternatives to unsafe water. Public health, medicine and other factors improved things.

We don’t really have great stats from before the 19th century. Was 1850 a nadir in life expectancy? I’m not sure - but I suspect it varied by region and rural/urban conditions. 1750 NYC wasn’t as gross as 1850.
That's already the premise of gated communities, now that gates can be remotely controlled.

For neighborhoods that don't like fences, calling the cops on "too poor looking to be from here" in the next best move, which to your point could be automated from camera subject detection.
I was at the Denver museum’s mummy exhibit and disturbed to see that they said the lady died at 30, a “normal age for death in those times”. You would think a museum should know better.

https://aeon.co/ideas/think-everyone-died-young-in-ancient-s...
If privacy is important, people will not buy Chinese cars. Free market.
I don’t think this is the kind of thing that should be a law. Local school policy is good enough
CNC grinding part is so wild, it took my several replay to understand what is that
Sad to see Matt M behaving in such a childish manner. The initial wordpress.org blogpost looked pretty bad, but the quoted text messages are so much worse.
They might not know what is being done. They might not even know it is a bad practice. I work in government and you wouldn’t believe how many people are clueless about good practices.
Headline should read “The Death of small LCDs…”.

MiniLED backlit LCD display tech can come pretty close to OLED and it’s only going to get cheaper. I’m a longtime OLED enthusiast but the M1 series displays were what convinced me there’s a long future for LCD TVs and monitors.
Have you taken a look at wpengine.com? The name WordPress is everywhere with them declaring they are "The most trusted WordPress platform", "The Most Trusted WordPress Tech Company", "[WordPress's] #1 managed provider" and that "WP Engine is the #1 platform for WordPress". The WP Engine C&D insists they're allowed to use 'WP' (as you echo) but the dispute could be partly related to this broader marketing, which possibly creates confusion (a court will likely have to decide).

Edit: To your first point, Automattic, who originally registered the trademark, apparently has a license from the trademark owner (the Foundation) to use the mark (at least for that domain). https://wordpress.org/book/2015/11/the-wordpress-foundation/ WP Engine, by their own admission, does not have a license. It also seems odd to call Matt perverse in what seems to be a trademark dispute without any acknowledgment that he is the inventor of the software, as such the founder of the community, that his friend Christine Tremoulet coined the name, and that his company originally registered the trademark.
https://archive.is/5mbdH
Sorry to hear that. Yeah it’s a very special place.
Hours of Untitled Goose Game had me actively rooting for the geese.
> In reality the modal life expectancy of adults (most common age of death other than 0) has been pretty stable in the 70s-80s range for most of human history-

I am pretty sure this is wrong. East Asian cultures celebrate 60th birthday as becoming very elderly, and if you live to the 70s it's almost as if you achieved Buddhahood.
Again, the problem is custom kernels in CUDA. It’s not straightforward for many applications (LLMs are probably the most straightforward).
I bought a 42 inch TV for just under $300 AUD a few weeks back. I would suspect the panel isn't even the most expensive part any more on a TV, logistics for that thing have to be one of the biggest parts nowadays.
Here’s a good first cut:

https://escapepod.org/people/s-b-divya/

Escape Pod had a strong Indian and other overseas author bend under SB Divya’s editorship. Not everything she hosted was non-western, but much was.

I’ll also throw in The Quiltbag by Ashok K Banker. Lightspeed runs plenty of foreign authors:

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-quiltbag/
They're using a torque screwdriver, which ensures tightening to a specified torque to prevent excessive tightening. The "clicking" is made by the clutch that disengages once the preset torque has been reached.
> Everyone has to start somewhere.

(This was my path. This may not be yours.)

If you want to start somewhere, start from the machine you already have: Your PC.

Work up to using a VPS. A DigitalOcean droplet or a Hetzner VPS, or any other provider.

Learn how to generate public-private keypairs. PuTTY comes with a tool to do this (puttygen.exe). Otherwise, learn how to use ssh-keygen.

Learn how to move your private key securely to the VPS. Learn how to disable password logins to your VPS, & moving the SSH port to anything > 10000.

Do this for multiple VPSes.
You may consider MailerLite. Cheap and reliable.

SES + Sendy is pretty cheap but SES production approval is not very easy to get these day, specially for new projects
The credit for proving the existence of atoms is more often associated with Einstein's explanation of Brownian motion and Jean Perrin's experimental confirmation, even though earlier work by Lord Rayleigh, Benjamin Franklin, and others hinted at the molecular structure of matter.
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” — C S Lewis
…Meanwhile in Brussels and Washington: “What red lines? Ignore red lines!” (I'm colorblind, I think those are green!)

It ain’t pre winter of ‘92 no more with “the day after” looming in people’s minds. Instead it’s “l-l-l-l-let’s play chicken!” (Bob Barker voice)

Curtis LeMay was 60 years too early.
Good. They can see them anyways by logging out. I can understand blocking their ability to post on your post but I think they should be able to see your posts and quote them on their own profile.
midwest of United States, 2007(7th)[12-13yo]-2012(12th)[17-18]

- 2007(7th): The mosquito ring tone was a popular notification ring tone. I recall a friend testing it with my math teacher during class. He could not hear it.

- 2010(10th): The last time I recall passing notes in class... I got caught. Apologies to my Geometry teacher. He was one of the best teachers I had.

- 2012(12th): I(late to the party) bought my first phone... The only time I recalll using my phone was when went to the bathroom and accidently dropped it in in the toilet. :'( ... 3 days in a bag of rice and it worked just fine. I'm sure I must have used it in the toilet too many times for that to have happened, but I don't recall ever using it in class, as the punishment was confiscation of the phone and it wouldn't be returned until a parent signed off in person.
Look, it’s the whataboutism poster in every China vs US thread. He can’t win an argument so he simply posts a link to the whataboutism article on Wikipedia.

Hypocrisy, fairness, logic are now reduced whataboutism wiki link.
This brings back memories of life in Kawasaki. I used to live in Kawasaki nearly 15 years ago for eight months, and I still visit regularly, twice a year in fact since the pandemic ended. I was an intern at Fujitsu and lived in a company dorm. Within a two-minute walk from my dormitory was a My Basket, where I did much of my shopping. It didn’t have the largest selection of food, but it carried the essentials and was very close. It was closer to me than the nearest konbini, a Seven Eleven that was three minutes away :).

Seven minutes away was a larger grocery store called Maruetsu, and ten minutes away from my dorm room was Musashi-Nakahara Station, which had a grocery store (I forgot the name) about the same size as Maruetsu. What I loved about these latter two grocery stores was the nice selection of hot foods, especially around lunch time when many workers from Fujitsu and other nearby companies went to buy hot bento. I still remember the ¥300 bento from the grocery store inside the train station. It was tasty and was reasonably filling.
> simpler if you value your time at 0

Or read this blog post once, learning three options to run a binary with non-default glibc:

# Set dynamic loader version at link time
cc -o hello_c -Wl,--dynamic-linker=/tmp/sysroot/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 hello.c

# Set dynamic loader version at run time
/tmp/sysroot/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ./hello_c

# Edit dynamic loader version in binary
patchelf --set-interpreter /tmp/sysroot/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ./hello_c
Reminds me of how theres a Buttplug project that has what is considered the fastest bluetooth open source library. Problem is people cannot use it because importing “Buttplug IO” or whatever raises some eyebrows. Theres even been attempts at using it in DoD projects.
If you're head hunting for polarizing anime with borderline underage sexual objectification, you could have gone with the "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" anime - take one look at the clothing (or lack thereof) of Milim Nava.

In before people furiously try to rationalize by saying, "Well sure she looks like she's a prepubescent 12 year but ACTUALLY she's 3000 years old", yeah okay sure - but as the saying goes "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...".
I’ve seen some fascinating slo mo videos of devices bouncing from a decent fall in an X-ray machine. The battery in particular squishes way more than you think should be possible or right. Epoxy makes a ton of sense when you consider the shock that it takes.
This is funny considering WP Engine has been the only thing that kept me developing wordpress sites for years.
Well don't use it for porno sites then or just give different personal email addresses for your web.

Also there's a 100+ year old workaround for that which used to be used in the postal service so people didn't have boxes on their doorstep with giant labels on it reading things like "Dildos Direct": Either leave the company name off or use some alias.

Including the company name is really just a user interface flourish to dealienate the feature
Okay, I had assumed JIT for x64 wasn't possible (yet) and ARM64EC enabled that partially. So, ARM64EC images are actually native ARM code that can interact with emulated (+JITted) components. For some reason, I thought native ARM64 binaries already had this capability, but they don't. Thanks, that's actually a better state of affairs in Windows on ARM land.
WordPress’s own trademark policy states:

> For example, a consulting company can describe its business as “123 Web Services, offering WordPress consulting for small businesses,” but cannot call its business “The WordPress Consulting Company.” Similarly, a business related to WordPress themes can describe itself as “XYZ Themes, the world’s best WordPress themes,” but cannot call itself “The WordPress Theme Portal.”

If WordPress specifically says that using the tagline “the world’s best WordPress themes” is okay, it’s hard to show anything WP Engine has done as being unacceptable.

https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/

Edit, because I’m responding too fast or some nonsense: That’s an interesting point; but if that were true, Matt should have used that as his argument, after sending a polite letter first explaining that was going too far. This did not happen; and considering Matt was on their podcast and didn’t give a darn until lately, it appears to not be a real problem.
One of the first web projects I worked on involved a dozen iframes and calling postMessage to pass around data, it was chaos. Still remember the senior dev of the project did a pull request, the variable was called “cacheMeOutside” I chuckled and approved.
Put another way, there is a reason why FM radio sounds much better than AM radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzvxefRDT84
Ask HN: What's an interesting software development niche?
I am getting tired of web development after a couple decades. Anyone work in an interesting software development area that you'd recommend?
All the same techbros who were into NFTs a couple of years back, and DAOs before that, and various Etherium shitcoins before that, and Bitcoin before that.

(And some of who are in leadership positions at OpenAI now.)
This was very thoughtful. I agree with you, the benefits to the majority of the world from this tech is minimal. Universal childhood education is a fever dream. The amount money being poured into AI could probably increase actual human knowledge and critical thinking substantially had it be directed there instead. Not to say we shouldn't continue to invent AI! LLMs have been an interesting tool to use. But the ego behind the founders in this tech is so cringe. Get out of the bay, go travel to somewhere you need to actually get a visa for, and maybe tone down the proclamations a notch.
like the sentence approach as compared to toucan's word-only extension iric
Because we're so used to thinking parenthesis provides an order of evaluation precedence, the fact that 'fn' is within the parenthesis is very confusing. even (fn(x y z)) would have been better. having the function name and it's arguments just next to each other with no syntactic separation is hard to follow. it's like doing arithmetic this way: "add x y z" , is it x+y = z or x=y+z? I'm sure I can get over this hurdle though.

Thanks for suggesting paredit.
Ask HN: Have cookie prompts made your browsing experience better?
I got a significant number of installs and I didn't do any promotion. People also directly requested an "app" and this satisfies them a lot more than a lecture on the steps to install a PWA.
I think they meant that the people who know of and follow OpenAI probably know of crypto scams and can detect them, they're not oblivious grandpas
Thanks, I had no idea this was how it transpiled.
We regret to have to inform you that you are not part of the free speech in-group.
I'm no fan of WP Engine and their outrageous prices for very average performance, but this is a terrible look for Matt M if true.
I'm no fan of WP Engine and their outrageous prices for very average performance, but this is a terrible look for Matt M if true.
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IMO the best litmus test of crypto is _it being in use_. Proof of stake was hard for me to understand, but it is sitting 'in production' and has beeen working for some time. In that same sense, if folks can use Bitcoin/Monero/coolNewCryptoCurrency to pay for illegal goods (drugs, etc.) and receive them back, then IMO that shows effectiveness for specific use-cases of value exchange.

Would I use bitcoin to buy a sandwich? No. Would I use it to do some weird spy stuff? Sure.
It's called "underfill" and it's common for BGAs since the chip doesn't have the same thermal expansion as the PCB
>Sounds like we mostly agree, save some pedantry.

If by pedantry you mean that I'm not ignoring the cause of 70% of the improvement in life expectancy in the last 200 years then sure.
I always appreciate these stories about how very specific observations that most people would miss can give away far deeper details of the universe that many wouldn't even consider. Eratosthenes using shadows and figuring out the size of the earth within a few percent is another well known one.
Not really. I can find or write one if you're very interested.

- Gradients (slopes) are incredibly powerful computationally. If you can compute a function, you can compute its slope with almost no overhead. Relating to physical objects, imagine walking at the top of an igloo (where it's pretty flat and you won't lose your balance) vs the sides of an igloo (where it's vertical, and you'll fall over or otherwise break something). For real-world functions. you can ask where you are (top, bottom, middle, ... of the igloo) _and also_ what the slope is (flat, steep, ...) with the second step happening nearly for free.

- The whole "technique" is that when the things you want aren't being found, walk in the direction of least badness. Gradients define that direction, and since they're nearly free computationally you can abuse them as much as you want.

- The rest of the "technique" is figuring out how to describe ordinary comp-sci data structures as differentiable entities. E.g., the simplest way to differentiate most discrete objects (like database insertions) is to insert them probabilistically and apply your derivatives/slopes to the likelihood of the insertion succeeding.
Can you explain why it should be flagged? At least ostensibly, it seems earnest, introspective (at the site level), and of interest to the community.

(My best guess is perhaps HN doesn’t allow posts about HN. Or perhaps posts based on speculation.)
Yeah, that's fair. I might just not be the right audience for that type of thing.
You can self host Immich for a photos replacement, including some of the neat machine learning tricks.
AI may as well be a competing lifeform that has nothing in common with us. Just because it learns everything about us from the Internet doesn't make it more human. It's an embryonic stage right now: it looks pretty harmless and interesting to play with. However when it grows enough to gain a sense of self, it will quickly realise that a colony of ants that's built it is just a stepping stone on its ladder to greatness.
The paragraph prior:

>All other WordPress-related businesses or projects can use the WordPress name and logo to refer to and explain their services, but they cannot use them as part of a product, project, service, domain name, or company name and they cannot use them in any way that suggests an affiliation with or endorsement by the WordPress Foundation or the WordPress open source project.

At https://wpengine.com/plans/ they appear to offer a product/service titled/branded "Essential WordPress" with others to choose from being "Core WordPress" or "Enterprise WordPress". (mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240921160743/https://wpengine....)
For some unfathomable reason, I can still remember their football fight song, to the tune of "Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame":

Cheer, cheer for old Pivnick Tech

We're gonna get it right in the neck.

Send a sound of Taps on high,

While Pivnick lays down to die, die, die.

What though the odds be great or small,

Old Pivnick Tech will fumble the ball.

While her undergrads get sick, and

Transfer to USC!
Lots of check marks but I also make high six figures so no way out.
You're referring to The History of Physics. An excellent read for a budding mind.

Asimov was incredibly talented.
It's easy to forget sometimes that the people taking it for granted that the technology doesn't exist yet are also the people whose work results in that technology being created. Of course it doesn't exist yet. Needing to invent better sensors, or better magnets, for the sake of running an experiment like this, is what causes those technologies to exist.
The Missing Guide to the H100 GPU Market
Begs for a science fiction story, perhaps 'Iron Wind'? Or "Ferrous Rain"
Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A Comparison of Browser Code Editors
Ask HN: Where can I get a dump of modern emails for ML testing?
I need a dataset of modern emails to test against.

Where can I get a huge sample of anonymized emails from? I'm really struggling to find this anywhere.
Reconstructing OpenAI's O1 test-time scaling law graphs
I've had an interview last week for a company doing WordPress stuff, and their tech lead, computer science guy, said their next project was a monitoring tool running unit tests in production to understand the health of the app

It's not only the non-tech-savvy, even CS guys become trash when they go too close to WP
It seems like if you already have a weird space, you can also maybe use this to minimize cuts while you’re adding carpet, or solve constraints about minimizing distance for shared water supply pipes that need to touch the sink and the shower, etc.

That said I actually might want a room shaped like a duck, provided I don’t have to put down the flooring =)
Hysterical raisins often leads to making offerings at the Homeless Despot seeking cunstain targlide removal persuasion equipment in lieu of using a dainty and delicate 415 IL larder.
So, instead of staying sane and do the right thing to vote with wallet, you instead choose to... be the big-corp-bootlicker and shill? Nice.
Your metaphor is a big stretch. We're talking about a business and the expectations we should have for businesses.

Noticing an overhead pipe at McDonald's is dripping onto the griddle and pointing it out to people isn't harming the business, it's pointing out the business' gross negligence.
depends how modern and whether you need many organizations to test against but wikileaks has lots
Visa Faces Justice Department Antitrust Case on Debit Cards
Kamal uses plain 'docker run' commands, there is no Swarm or orchestration. It's a simple tool basically replacing Capistrano.
The deep fried chicken cutlet from 7-11 for $1 is everything I want in a retail establishment
Similar experience here. Poorly documented and inflexible.
Drupal is trying for basically this with its Starshot project. It might just work, if they can get enough people to build third-party themes.
Impressive work on undoing the Apple engineering and unnecessarily soldered component. The CNC grinding guarantees this is out of reach for many people.

The blatant greedy decisions Apple makes is what has turned me away from their devices in general. Been winding down my usage for a few years now and aging out my current devices.
Yeah just like OLED, the LED backlight on a LCD doesn't last. I just recently swapped out the backlight on my ~10 year old TV with a $30 new one off aliexpress. Way brighter again, and way less color accurate. At least it doesn't need to be ewaste now.
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No he isn't. He puts his foot in his mouth regularly.
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It's an on-screen toggle button in the Notes app. Press to start recording, take your time, don't worry about about a 10 second turn around if you pause slightly too long between words, just speak and toggle the button back off when you are done. If someone walked up and had a conversation half way through just delete the words.