skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it's retaliation. Wordpress.org said as much in the announcement - they don't like WP Engine's business model, don't think they contribute enough upstream, etc. And therefore they cut off access to the wordpress.org update servers. Nothing about "practically DDOS" of the server.
yeah but Wordpress.org explicitly said "using WP is okay". if they turn around and say "no it's not" that's promissory estoppel
I would imagine that the Archive Team would be interested in these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_Team
“He’s smart, like for a flyover-state community college,” said a Bay Area VC. “Do you watch Succession? You could make a Tom analogy.”

Wow.
transpiling to JS that has if, if else structures instead of just early return if makes me not trust it (based on first "pattern matching" example on civet.dev site). I guess I have my prejudices.
Plus one for eleventy. Love its minimalism and flexibility, although it means that there isn't a clear guidance on assets management. It's a shame that the web still doesn't have a standard way of authoring components, and different frameworks and static-site generators, including eleventy, have to invent their own.
But how many services in prisons, like being able to be in a call with loved ones, are private?
Doesn't z-lib have a kind of hybrid approach where some things are available on clearnet but for certain account-based features it's TOR?
I think the chance of financial success can incentivize the author to make a better work. Let the authors who are willing to write for free release their work for free.
I think Nardwuar's approach is beautifully disarming in a way the reveals an artist's lack of awareness or humility. Surely that's not always the case, and a person can have their own reasons for not liking the vibe, such as maybe not getting the humour in it all, but that's the impression I get, particularly when they try to keep their front up.
Cloudflare is happy to make it harder for anyone other than Cloudflare to see everything that you're doing on the internet.
Only because they're not used. If you're not going to implement the spec then is it really a spec?
Just recently I used '~' in the remote target path in the scp command, and, somewhat unexpectedly, it created the directory with that name and put the files there.
Read the wiki link. [1]

The goal was to have a globally competitive merchant marine based on a home grown ship building industry to call on in case of war. Trying to balance both sides.

The end result is that that home grown ship building industry has all but disappeared together with the educated population required to crew it.

[1]; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920
I think the problem isn't just that WP Engine doesn't contribute. I read that they pledged to, then had an internal policy not to contribute, and fired an employee for telling this to Matt on Twitter.

If that is really the case, WP Engine had to be exceptionally antagonistic against WP dot org for things to end up like this, but most people are treating it as if it is a simple conflict of interest between WP dot com and WP Engine.

>Last week, in a blog post, Mullenweg said WP Engine was contributing 47 hours per week to the “Five for the Future” investment pledge to contribute resources toward the sustained growth of WordPress. Comparatively, he said Automattic was contributing 3,786 hours per week. He acknowledged that while these figures are just a “proxy,” there is a large gap in contribution despite both companies being a similar size and generating around a half billion dollars in revenue.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/23/wp-engine-sends-cease-and-...

I really think they could have handled the PR better by providing more information about the decision on the official announcement. "Uses WP but doesn't contribute back" is something that applies to too many. "Built whole business on WP, pledged to contribute, but then didn't" is something that applies to very few.
Wow, TIL! Thank you for sharing!
Yeah, he updated the ToS when he took over to allow the Hunter Biden material.
> Books should be free for all

Most books that are in the public domain today (hence with no legal hindrances whatsoever) are still not meaningfully free or available to all. Copyright turns out to be simply a minor issue when viewed in a larger perspective; actually making works meaningfully available whenever this can be done free of legal issues is actually a lot more important. Note that this encompasses discovery and findability (e.g. through detailed cataloging) as well as practical access (e.g. through availability in a variety of open formats). It's a hard problem and one that's far from being comprehensively addressed.
GitHub won't let me turn off 2FA
"Whining about other people having different views" accounts for pretty much all political speech, and I don't understand why you're saying it shouldn't happen on this topic.
Kanban as mentioned by this commenter and others are great processes that do maximize productivity, flexibility, and often developer happiness. I love Kanban for the initial cycles of a project and as long as you can keep it going. The weakness of Kanban tends to be in predictability of future delivery, which becomes a problem when external commitments or obligations pile up, or as orgs grow and lot of cross-team dependencies emerge. So you start to lay on more structured agile process so you can better forecast future delivery and protect your team from tendencies to miss-set expectations on scope or deadlines, which can have big impacts on customer relationships or in high level company strategy decisions. So you might consciously start to trade-off in your process design, some efficiency and bureaucracy costs at the team level in favor of making better choices and efficiency at the org level.
Just think of the "case" statements like any other label, despite the misleading indentation. Then it becomes perfectly natural to jump in the middle of a loop.
Same.

There's plenty of spectrum available. For purchase. Contact T-Mobile or Verizon.
This is the first I'm even hearing of MSFS 2024, I figured 2020 would just be a continuous WIP for a long time to come. I used it for practice but haven't dusted the equipment off in awhile, but this sounds like some nice improvements. 2020 was already pretty astounding in its quality and the leap from the existing flight sims.
An executive quietly stepping away, praising the emperor and taking their many millions is not what I'd frame as "realizing... bullshit not worth it". Quite the opposite.
Have you met people who use Rust? They're the crossfitters of the programming profession :D
OP isn't talking about large businesses, they're talking about the hundreds of thousands of small businesses using WP Engine as a host.
I imagine a team like The Innocence Project expects to lose most of their cases, but they try anyway because every life is worth saving.
Psy* (psychology, psychiatry etc) is neither a science nor a medicine. If your only issue with Soviet regiment is intential usage of psy* pseudoscience then try to search about the Rosenhan experiment.
And also that 1 copy is (eventually) 0 copies.
I think that's the sentiment that think-tanks have been pushing recently. But outside a very "us-vs-them" viewpoint with China, I don't think it holds true. America's Navy does it's job pretty much perfectly for defending US interests at home and abroad. We have the tactical elements that we want to field, and we maintain them in a condition so they can provide the desired effect at any time. Building more ships isn't a panacea, and in many cases it's a great way to end up having billions of dollars in rusting assets sitting in dry-dock.

It's worth flipping the question on it's head. China's ambitions are very clearly best carried-out by a Navy that can harass Taiwan and expand their territorial claims in the waters surrounding Japan and eventually even threatening Australia. This is a smart move on their behalf, but they will be contending with unfriendly airspace and ground-based anti-shipping weapons. If you want to look at it from a purely military materiel perspective, I would argue the US has weighed their options and taken a less Naval-dependent route.
People respond to incentives. If gas was mandated at 25 cents a gallon every station would be empty.
That's what it was created for, believe it or not. And it's been used there since the early '90s; there were very few other embeddable scripting languages at the time, so it caught on quickly.
Mainstream compilers agree on multicharacter literals being big endian; that is, 'AB' is usually 'A' << CHAR_BIT | 'B'. The exception is MSVC, which also works like that as long as you don't use character escapes, but if you do it emits some sort of illogical, undocumented mess that looks like an ancient implementation bug fossilized into a compatibility constraint.
A robotic head that you can build by your own
Yeah something like 10-15 years ago I thought for just the simple action of printing a file, it was way easier in Ubuntu than Windows, simply because they included a lot of drivers in the distro by default, while in Windows land I still had to visit the printer manufacturer's website for drivers -- or use the included CD! I try to avoid needing to do anything more complex than that. (Scanning I've always done with a USB stick plugged directly into the printer.) Things kind of got worse again in recent years with the removal of the standalone GUI for administration in favor of a web interface, and various ongoing modularization efforts, in theory cups3 will work even better and only support IPP/AirPrint: https://openprinting.github.io/current/#the-new-architecture...
This is a bit misleading. You are only prevented from using UI libs that use a Provider/Context (like Mantine does) since Astro does not support Context.

Things like shadcn/ui work fine, even when statically rendered.
That point was specifically in response to the suggestion that we need publishers and copyright for books to exist - which is obviously false. Not sure how the size of the current industry relates to that point.
> You may think your work is super unique/original/awesome, but the reality is 99% of the content of 99% of books is not unique or original, and those works wouldn't exist without massively relying on and borrowing from other works.

Cool so you won't miss it when libgen is gone then? I mean if there's nothing unique or original there then what's to miss right?

> Books existed long before publishers and copyright, and seem to have survived quite well.

I don't know how else to measure the health of books other than measuring the health of publishing, and it doesn't seem like it's doing so great:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/p...

I'm not saying the publishing industry is sane or just, but how does belittling the work of the authors help anything?
If the user can control the formatting string, they can write to pointers stored on the stack. It's important to use printf("%s", str) instead of printf(str).
It's not a stupid question, but ice is remarkably durable and has 'self healing properties', to describe ice-cubes sticking together in the most pretentious way possible. There have been projects to make battleships out of ice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

Bonus answer: melting it with a flamethrower would be incredibly expensive because of enthalpy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy
And herein lies the conflict of interest. WordPress.org is acting in the interests of Automattic at the expense of the community.
> wouldn't there be a huge competitive advantage to being the CEO who said, "hey, we can get rid of all our expensive SaaS, free up a bunch of cash for productive investments, and make a bunch more money"?

Unfortunately, this isn't how large org CEO compensation works. CEOs of large publicly traded companies are mostly compensated by the stock price. Either directly as it increases the value of their significant stock grants, or indirectly as their cash bonuses are tied to stock performance. Stock performance is mostly a result of quarterly financial performance. Therefore, directives that take a long period of investment are much less attractive.

Say you were the CEO of a multi-thousand person organisation. Your SaaS bill is through the roof, and so you want to in-house everything. Not only do you need to disrupt nearly every employee by changing the way they work (depending on what you're replacing), you need to enter into co-location contracts, buy hardware, and hire staff to mange that hardware. It's a very large up-front cost (likely in the tens of millions on hardware alone) that in theory will pay off in the long term, but investors and the market will see a spike in your assets on your P&L, and will question why you're tying up capital in hardware instead of building the stuff that you sell. That's assuming you have the cashflow to buy all that hardware in the first place.
While in this case distros include cups-browsed maybe as a feature, I always feel it's a bad thing Ubuntu/Debian (and maybe all deb-based distros?) automatically bring up almost all services upon installation. This means you can install a package and accidentially open another network service that's installed as a dependency.

You probably already know exim4 (to be fair it listens to only localhost by default, so maybe not a big deal). I just tried to install cups-browsed on one of my Debian machine, and it brought up two services that listens to 0.0.0.0 (cups-browsed and avahi).

This is not the case for Arch/Gentoo and CentOS-like distros.
Have you read this? https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/23/wp-engine-sends-cease-and-...

>Last week, in a blog post, Mullenweg said WP Engine was contributing 47 hours per week to the “Five for the Future” investment pledge to contribute resources toward the sustained growth of WordPress. Comparatively, he said Automattic was contributing 3,786 hours per week. He acknowledged that while these figures are just a “proxy,” there is a large gap in contribution despite both companies being a similar size and generating around a half billion dollars in revenue.

It seems to me that it isn't a simple "dispute." Automattic is contributing to WP org, but WP Engine isn't. If WP org was completely neutral, they still would have reasons to side with Automattic over WP Engine on this.
You're welcome to believe this, but that makes him above criticism? All hail the Cult of Jobs v2
Thanks, I just wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing something.
I don't think there's any confusion of how it works, it's the deep horror in discovering that it's possible in the first place, and a morbid curiosity of the chaos it could cause if abused.
Co-Pilot is, surprisingly, a great competitor [in certain situations]. Imo
Show HN: Is Fair Source Cool Yet?
Kid Rock did it first, but a golden toilet would be my answer.
> In fact, no existing U.S. shipyard has built a heavy
> polar icebreaker since before 1970.

What does since before mean?
Anyone who may have had sympathies for his arguments are all turned off now that he's gone on a "scorched earth" path. He dragged the non-profit foundation into a business spat involving Automattic and WP Engine, or maybe even between two rich guys, Matt Mullenweg and Lee Wittlinger at Silver Lake, who owns WPE.

Using the org website to make a nasty post slandering WPE. Spreading it via the built-in news metabox on every WordPress dashboard. The org's plugin repository to block WPE's domains/IPs specifically.

That's a single person wielding power in his domain, maybe all legal, but the org should be making decisions as a group and community.
What do you think globalizing means?
Ships are too expensive to be built to a given level of quality in the US. This means we outsource the expertise, and in this case, even the expertise necessary to tell what a good deal is.

They've created a market in which a US based company cannot compete economically, because the cost of production elsewhere will be less. There is no margin by which any competition can take place, whether or not the government throws a ton of money and stopgap incentives into the mix.

You can't manufacture chips, small household goods, general purpose clothing, electronics, or a whole slew of other things in the US because our legal regime fundamentally disallows any American participation in those markets through economic disincentivization. If you can't make any profit because you have to pay higher wages or taxes if you manufacture in the US, then you're not going to manufacture in the US, even if you're a patriot.

The US doesn't have a rational system designed to maximize value to citizens, it's a hodgepodge of conflicting regulatory grifts designed to maximally benefit the corporations who paid for the lobby.

> they're crap compared to ships from other countries.

That's exactly what "globalizing" is. You literally cannot, under the current regulatory regime, create a ship building company that can compete with other established interests and competition from other countries. You'd have to relax the arbitrary labor and wage constraints, fix taxes and tariffs for sufficiently long term outlooks that anyone would bother investing. To achieve that, you'd need good faith operators throughout the government willing to rock the boat, and if you think that will ever happen, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn for ya - I'll sell it cheap.
I have a hard time being sympathetic for Matt given what I've read so far. The C&D WPR sent shows plenty of quotes about Matt threatening to talk poorly about WPE unless they pay up.

If WPE is abusing WordPress infrastructure then sure, block them. It seems like corporate politics with WordPress.com are deeply entwined here.

As other commenters have pointed out, it's very unclear what the relationship between Automattic, WordPress.com, WordPress.org, and the WordPress Foundation are. In the very least, it seems a conflict of interest to have the same person running all of them.

From Matt, they were asking for 8% of revenue to license the WordPress trademark and donations to Automattic. https://www.reddit.com/user/photomatt/

Why not ask for donations to the WordPress Foundation or donate infrastructure/mirrors if that were the actual point of contention...
Same. I learned Tcl recently for /usr/bin/expect. I wasn't happy to be forced into using yet another esoteric language, but Tcl itself is strangely fun: it's like a more expressive and functional Lua.
You would expect a printf call with a user-controlled format string to be, at worst, an arbitrary read. Thanks to %n, it can be a write as well.
You could still buy it from a guy with a 40 gallon drum on a flatbed though. Cash only of course.
WP Engine could file a complaint with the IRS about tax exempt status abuse. But that would be a heck of an escalation, and even more damaging to the WordPress ecosystem than Matt’s ridiculous actions so far.

But it wouldn’t have to be them. Any U.S. citizen can file such a complaint, even anonymously. That said, it would likely not be pursued by the IRS unless it was written based on detailed accurate knowledge of tax exempt regulations, and clear proof of abuse.
> No you don't. Your card just gets declined.

Credit cards work how your agreement says they work. If you exceed your credit limit they can offer to extend you more credit but charge you a fee/penalty for doing that. Conversely, you can have a bank that will decline debit transactions instead of extending overdraft protection.

Credit card companies are less likely to extend overdraft protection, because if you're already at your credit limit they may not want to risk lending you even more money, but that's why there's typically a fee to offset the risk when they do offer it.

> If we're talking about debit card fraud, every single time that happens, the money will be gone while you're waiting for the dispute to be resolved.

The amount of money you have available to you is the sum of your positive balance and your available credit. If you have $1000 in available credit and $1000 in your bank account, you can spend up to $2000. If you have to dispute a new $100 transaction, you can now only spend $1900 more dollars until the dispute resolves, regardless of whether the dispute was on your credit card or your debit card.
I think it’s funny people never use his real name. Why is that?
That's nearly as many as Code Red and roughly 100K more than SQL Slammer.
Publishing someone's social security number is "free speech"?
An NBA sixth man built a $600M empire
That xkcd is relevant again: https://xkcd.com/1150
Higher res and earlier shot where the slot machines are focused on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcYbYhjdUb4&t=69s&ab_channel...

Bonus for phrases on them like "Play while you wait" and "Win free medical care"
> It doesn’t have to be that way, and phrased a little more benevolent, economic sovereignty is a good thing. It’s for that reason the EU has invested a lot of money into Galileo instead of just using GPS. Or look at the Ariane rocket program.

You haven't established that it's a 'good thing', but it does exist. I don't suppose Galileo is about economic sovereignty as much as strategic military independence. Modern militaries require satellite PNT systems - they are necessary to precision munitions, without which your military operates on a 1980s level. As close as the EU-US military relationship is, they perhaps don't want to give the POTUS a button to shut down, e.g., a French military operation. The POTUS might like Galileo too - they might not want the pressure to use that power. (I'll skip having another HN SpaceX discussion!)

> it creates a lot of jobs and distributes wealth throughout the union

Or it just shifts money and jobs from all people - the taxpayers (including businesses) - to a few, the ones that get those jobs and especially the business owners. It's arguably better to just give people the money and have them do something they can do efficiently. It's make-work welfare, in a way.
The problem is that OpenAI calls itself OpenAI when it's completely sealed off, and calls itself a non-profit when, as you say, almost everything about is for profit. Basically they're whitewashing their image as an organization with noble goals when it's simply yet another profit motivated company. It's fine if that's what they are and want to be, but the lies are bothersome.
From my understanding immobilizer bypass tools are cheap and plenty.
> Don't be an asshole and you won't have problems.

Unless you accidentally end up doing business with an asshole. Matt is definitely making himself look like a danger to do business with—maybe WP Engine just successfully baited him into acting against his community and killing trust and he's not actually as unhinged as he sounds here... but few people would be willing to bet money on that.
Same for me, also highly related to stress, which often affects the neck.
I'm sure Uncle Musk is scrolling through this thread yelling at his people asking "Why aren't we doing this!? Can we do this?"
> For me to be wrong, there will have to be sudden, remarkable changes in either enterprise software spend, or the capabilities and costs of generative AI itself.

The former could but wouldn’t necessarily follow from the latter. And why bet against the latter yet? Sure we’re probably on a sigmoid, maybe even near the top, but are you ready to put on your big short today?

Another possibility is capability & cost DO improve, somewhere between substantially & seismically, and this cooks a lot of SaaS worse than if it didn’t.