skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a WordPress (WP) developer and avid user of WP Engine. I just tested some of my WordPress sites hosted on WP Engine and can confirm that it's currently not possible to take some actions that pull data from https://wordpress.org/, such as not updating WP plugins or installing new WP plugins.

I'm furious at Matt Mullenweg and Auttomatic, as they control wordpress.org as Auttomatic hosts wordpress.org and one or both of them probably decided to block some important WordPress features on WP Engine servers. Also below is text from the https://wordpressfoundation.org/ homepage:

[quote]

The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open-source project: to democratize publishing through Open-Source GPL software.

...

People and businesses may come and go, so it is important to ensure that the source code for these projects will survive beyond the current contributor base so that we may create a stable platform for web publishing for generations to come.

[/quote]

After this event, Matt Mullenweg needs to be blocked from being involved with WordPress.org and the development of WordPress open-source software.

Since this probably won't happen, WP Engine (and other WordPress web hosts and developers) need to create their own mirrored https://wordpress.org/ source to download plugins and update the WordPress core.

I know this is a big job, but Matt Mullenweg and Auttomatic can't be trusted anymore not to block the WordPress functionality of another company, not just WP Engine.
Throw them away!
Rust isn't literally the only option but it seems to be the only mainstream option.
lmao at least the should have finetuned gpt4
Colocating batteries with panels should be more cost effective as they can avoid the DC-AC-DC conversion while using half as many inverters as 2 separate installations.
Try stories, decide what you want to memorize and make up a very silly story that incorporates the items you want to memorize. The more ridiculous the better. Replay the story in your mind until it sticks. It's much easier than lists and it has the added advantage that you can pick an item and see how it relates to the other items by following the story from the item forward.
They are adding a walk around mode which is external to aircraft. Also while flying, you can adjust the simulation rate dramatically to decrease time to destination’s (supported in 2020 as well).
Well, tons of ways. I can't imagine what an "autocomplete only" human would look like, but it'd be pretty dire - maybe like an idiot savant with a brain injury who could recite whole books given the opening sentence, but never learn anything new.
megacorp I work for solves this by automatically escalating pages up the org chart every 30 minutes using LDAP when a page isn't acknowledged. while this seems scary, it makes the managers have a pager (and feel the pain, many actually get paged when the engineers get paged just so they know things are breaking and how bad the tech debt is). It also means you don't need to have a secondary, the manager just doles it out if it gets lost.

It has other big benefits, it lets N+1 tier know when tier N doesn't have a pager setup. Sometimes this is the engineers, but it gets real fun when a Director or VP gets paged, ops culture sharpens up very quickly. It also forces the managers to buy in to oncall as I said, which is a good thing imho.
> The West plays nice as much as possible.

Please, tell us how you came to this conclusion
If the non-profit is doing something for the benefit of the for-profit it’s the reverse of a donation - unless you really meant a “donation” from the foundation to the company.
Great article thanks, not sure why you're downvoted. HN can be overprotective of Elon.
With the cloud based rendering, I wonder if they will change this to a subscription.

I hope not, as a greatly prefer the one time cost model with games.
This is why Ukraine shouldn’t have access to starlink either. A truly global system should either be open to everyone or disabled in all countries at war.
> “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock
That's because hackers became too comfortable, nobody creates nothing anymore.
If you mess with the bull, you get the horns!
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-newest-nuclear-submar... - The original article (gift link)
That used to exist as a product called Microsoft ESP. It got sold off to Lockheed Martin when the Flight Simulator project was shut down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Loc...
I remember a time when promises meant something. Lots of epics in human time (Greek, Hindu), people would stick to their word and commitment was respected. Written word was much more powerful than spoken. People appreciated depth. Wish we could teach and learn from those times.
I grew up being taught that cotton was best and for decades wore it almost exclusively. But something I have realized over the years is that it is also much, much heavier than polyester or nylon blends, especially when it's wet.

If your shirt can't dry overnight then you're forced to buy more shirts just to handle the washing/drying overlap, which is wasteful. Not to mention only owning cotton makes doing anything outside in the rain require more calculus around how many days you will need to dry the clothes that got wet, so now you need to own overlap clothes for still-wearably-clean clothes too. Even worse, if you're in a cold environment then you likely can't keep wearing your wet clothes as they dry, because wet cotton loses insulation, making you feel much colder, so there's more incentive to change even before the end of the day.

Wool is a better option than cotton if you want "natural" fiber that is still wearable when wet, but that comes with the moral guilt and ecological impact of animal husbandry, so I'm not sure if it's better or worse than plastic, which at least is only made from animals and plants that died millions of years ago.

Personally I have chosen to keep cotton for underwear and tank tops for comfort, and also because I anyway own 7 of those so there is enough overlap for them to dry over the weekend when they get wet and I'm in a cold and/or humid climate. But for pants and shorts where I only own two of each (and only bring one of each when traveling) then polyester/nylon that can dry overnight in most any climate is more practical. Socks and long sleeves I've decided to go with wool despite the animal cruelty because it's the most practical. I only need a couple pairs of socks and a single long sleeve to get by in a warmer climate, and I have a polyester coat for colder climates.

It still feels a bit high impact, but as you say, most stuff lasts many years so I don't feel too bad about it when I see people buying more stuff than I have in my entire wardrobe on a single casual shopping trip.
Hi OP, the typeface on your site is one of the most aesthetically pleasing I’ve encountered. Would you be open to sharing its name?
AI has given us an infinitely patient mentor, teacher, and conversation partner. AI has freed us from of many areas of rote work requiring basic reasoning capacity. AI has allowed people with little to no coding abilities to realize their ideas as working prototypes. AI has lowered the communication barrier between parties with different primary languages.
That image is from 15 June, after the sinking (assuming this all happened) which is supposed to have happened in late May, and is given as part of the evidence of the sinking with those crane ships being part of the recovery effort.
Sure, go to Saudi Arabia and arrest people in power under US law. Hahahaha
Norway isn't really comparable. Their population is concentrated along the coastline and can use the sea to cheaply transport goods.

Certainly the situation in Appalachia could be improved. The point is that their geography is a handicap which makes almost everything a little harder.
>Intelligence is just one thing we can consider when deciding what's morally acceptable to kill and consume. Genetic proximity to humans clearly matters to many people as well: lots of people stick to seafood and/or poultry despite the fact that octopuses and some birds can be quite intelligent.

Sure, but it's pretty obvious that fish and chicken are very stupid animals, and those mammals are much smarter, so I'm not sure that genetic proximity is as important as you think it is. Octopuses are the only real standout here: they really are quite intelligent, which is even more remarkable because they're invertebrates. And yes, some birds are quite intelligent (like crows), but we don't eat those types of birds (probably because they're just not very good as food).

>cows are smarter than horses, but we choose not to eat dogs and horses because they more readily comprehend and obey our commands

Who's "we"? Horsemeat is very easy to find in restaurants here in Japan. It's not bad if cooked properly, but it's a lot like deer meat. Deer are pretty stupid too (probably about as smart as cows), but they aren't normally eaten either, and it's because most people just don't like the taste that much (it's "gamey"), and it's difficult to cook. Cows taste better than horses because they have a lot more fat.

Also, octopuses have been mentioned here many times, but in the US they aren't a terribly popular food item, whereas here in Japan they're very common (along with squid). So differing cultures and culinary traditions I think have a lot to do with it too, just as with horses above.
That's just it. WPEngine are not being asked to pay WordPress.org. They are being asked to pay Automattic.
Well...it's reasonable for the shipyard to still employ folks with hands on experience 20 years later. I occasionally get tapped to pitch in on things I did 20 years ago (even if it's just "why the hell did you do this?"), and shipbuilding changes vastly slower than my gig. That's much less likely 40 years on.
You are free to attempt to take it, but I recommend you first become a farmer if you want to have any success in fighting them.
With the same long-term health benefits.
Musk should ban Ukraine from using starlink, same for any country at war.
How New Cars Are Spying on Drivers [video]
We have a phrase for that, "security by obscurity" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
I realize ads are Facebook’s primary revenue source, but ad support isn’t the only business model, especially when selling hardware.
> 2. Whether the people in charge of this deal can be trusted to propose a fair outcome for the charity other than “their mission ineffably lives on in us” (and as a corollary, whether a fair outcome is likely).

Since Sam Altman is on the board of OpenAI Inc, I expect this deal will be under extreme scrutiny for self dealing. He has flown under the radar so far by not taking any equity but this changes the second he does (IANAL). California, Delaware, and the feds will be looking closely at the deal.

I don't think the danger for OpenAI the charity is as great as people make it out to be. They'll be able to do a lot more than hand out grants with an 11 figure endowment.
Instead we got people like VW rigging their firmware to report emissions falsely so they could look better.
As amazing as it is long
you can also see a massive solar plant in red in the bottom right

(and maybe also wind - although why they would both be red is beyond me)
Telegram restricts a lot of stuff on the play store version, be it piracy related or just basic news from eg. russian sources or any other country that the EU/US/google doesn't like. App downloaded directly from telegram.org doesn't have such limitations. Considering the pressures from EU, I guess they'll have to censor that too relatively soon... maybe even everything pro-trump. Sometimes you want other news sources than the bbc/cnn.
this comment explains: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41662676#41664592
I read the article more as trying to save face over this outlet or reporter previously being credulous about the metaverse, but perhaps I misread it. I'm not familiar with this reporter or outlet, so I could very well be wrong.
The decline in quality of out Boeing has coincided with a collapse of the regulatory framework that kept profit extraction limited since the 70's and 80's. Now you've got the worst of both worlds, where the industry is protected and subsidized, production gets off-shored and outsourced anyway while massive profits flow into shareholders pockets in the form of stock buybacks. It's funny that you look at this and blame the protectionist aspect when "protectionism" literally built the industry in the first place.

Every country who isn't just getting exploited for their natural resources or labor has built their industry by protecting it.
Looks awesome, shame it streams from the Cloud instead of running locally.
I don’t know. This certainly isn’t provable. What’s the difference between a something being intrinsically difficult and something for which adequate UI just hasn’t been figured out yet?

I don’t know anything that hasn’t been made simpler and easier over time.
Hey fellow productivity hackers,

I noticed a couple of standouts about my daily interactions with LLMs.

1) Bulk of interactions use a few frequently used prompts.

Eg: Simplify a text, make a post more interesting, emoji makeover etc. Imagine if such LLM primitives were available directly in your context-menu, a post-LLM world re-thinking of what "quick actions" mean.
And you can get quite creative: Say you are a student. How about a "right-click to give solution hints", or for a programmer: "explain the code selected".

2) For a lot of work (eg: content creation, coding etc.) an iterative, collaborate with AI sort of style fits better than conversational

Usually, my interactions are like so:
- give input and prompt
- it returns a modified copy, which isnt exactly what I want
- copy to sublime, do edits
- give the new copy and a new prompt
- rinse and repeat

This leads to a lot of copying back and forth, and also, becomes hard to track the different versions (say you wanna go back a couple of versions and re-prompt).

So I made a chrome extension to ease this up. Basically, it enables adding custom LLM prompts as shortcuts to the context menu. The results are loaded in a text area that allows iterating along with the AI, with versions automatically tracked.

Check it out here: https://rewrite.ly
Ships are useful for more than combat. Even icebreakers.
My personal blog is over 23 years old now. I am sure I wouldn't do it this long for anybody but myself. I haven't checked the readership figures for years, though I know some people read it, because they comment. I think it's nice, though I think if nobody read it at all, I'd still be doing it.
Should we? Or should we put those dollars where they would help the most people, in urban areas that are also chronically underserved.
Sure, but that won't make the problem go away. The (most recent) issue is that WP is blocking downloading of extensions, so WPEngine would have to find a way to mirror every extension (and that might not be permissible by licensing?)
> Two levels of interpretation seems baroque, but somehow it was fast enough for 68k workstations.

Well today we have x86 that gets translate into micro ops, and I doubt those micro-ops directly activate control lines? Not to mention all the magic that happens with reordering, register renaming, speculative execution etc. The amount of complexity inside a modern x86 chip is insane, I don't think it makes two levels of microcode seem all that baroque in comparison.
The amount of money you actually need to live if you're willing to live a spartan lifestyle is quite modest, e.g. sleep four to a room, eat a lot of rice and beans, exist in the absence of luxury.

Most people want more than this and will work for it. But accepting it as a form of sacrifice to achieve your other goals is hardly a problem -- and then people can create their art or start their own business with sweat equity before it generates any revenue etc.

Artists would then get the UBI and whatever they get in terms of patronage, donations, art sales, etc. Neither of which might be enough to live a middle class life on its own, but both together makes it happen. And then the people who make a go of it but never manage to produce "art" anybody cares enough to support at all never make it out of the tenement and retain that incentive to do better or find a different path in life.
Languages using pure versions of the pi calculus support concurrency without any of the usual headaches.

Async is a great example of this problem. It is way more cumbersome in Rust then it could be, in a different universe where Rust concurrency made different choices.
It's worth noting that of OpenAI's 13 original founders, 10 have now left the company and 1 more is on leave, leaving only Sam and Wojciech.

Safe AI, altruistic AI, human-centric AI, are all dead. There is only money-generating AI. Fuck.
Cityfurnish (YC W19) Is Hiring
Read the room and maybe don't do it to that unhinged looking guy from the subway.

Personally I enjoy a bit of excitement, but most people don't want confrontation, which is why appearing confrontational before they're committed works for making them do a u-turn quickly.
>> complied

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Only if you absolutely insist on creating your own special snowflake file picker UI instead of using the OS file picker
LLMs are predictors not imitators. They don't "mimick". They predict and that's a pretty big difference.
It just sounds upsetting to me. A glimpse of the built world we used to have and could have still had if not for one extraordinary psychopath.
Yeah, I'm not gonna click around in a GUI to provision infrastructure. Not groping around a console was the whole point of Cloudformation and Terraform. While the UI looks cool and impressive it's a massive step backwards. I can't codegen and document a GUI. Based on the Tutorials it doesn't really solve the 200% problem because very little of
this seems intuitive. Which is fine, it's a tool for professionals, investment is an expected exchange for power but I don't think it reaches the bar of "don't have to learn another thing."

The simulator, if it works as described, is huge. Would be worth 5 figures/year/engineer in time saved alone. If I can deploy to a simulator and it's close enough to the real thing that passing means g2g to prod the you have a gold mine. Oh lord, if you could write tests against the simulator and bring first-class unit testing to devops I might cry.
Tk was pretty usable for tcl/tk use cases on Mac by later 7.x releases, say 1996 or so. Still hard to get a really native UX on Windows or Mac though. HyperCard was already on its way out. 30 years ago is maybe closer than you think?
Don't trust cloudflare with standards control.

They do not have anybody else's best interests at heart and are actively centralizing that which was explicitly intended to not be centralized.
Anywhere that icing is possible during the winter, the static weight of the conductors is not generally the dominant design constraint; it is the diameter of the cable and the resulting additional load when icing occurs. Weight really only increases sag, which constrains attachment height, but wind gusts with increased wind resistance increase horizontal load. In areas that don't get ice, diameter drives wind loading, again making wind gusts the dominant failure mode for pole lines. This comes about as most poles and/or other support structures for overhead conductors have far greater strength vertically than horizontally.

I've spent far too much time over the last couple of years learning pole line design using QuickPole. The other factor that keeps cropping up in my designs are grading and/or positioning issues. Putting a pole even 50cm out of line with other poles can result in it failing loading due to the added horizontal load on the pole. On a recent design I had to add downguys and anchors to 2 poles because they were out of line, a mistake during installation that nobody paid attention to. The same thing happens when a pole that is too tall is installed in an existing pole line. The wires to adjacent poles add horizontal force to the top of the pole. On one design I had a pole failing because of that, but it was fine if all the conductors were lowered 5 feet.

All I wanted to do was put fibre optic cables on poles to serve my home...

Oh, rabbit holes....
The reason why LibGen no longer loads at all since yesterday, suddenly solved.
I think of the 20B+ the shambling humonculus AT&T has pocketed for fiber deployment and think the process is captured.
From DT's response:

> the company feeds a gigantic 3.5 terabytes into Deutsche Telekom's network [...] Deutsche Telekom has done everything in its power to ensure smooth data traffic. [...] The start of the rerouting of data traffic in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday went smoothly.

It sounds to me like DT was not prepared to handle the volume of this traffic along the alternate paths it would have taken if Meta's paid transit sessions were removed, so in the interest of avoiding disruption of their network, kept them running temporarily, settlement-free, until mitigation was completed. Great deal for Meta while it lasted!
We should be using index controllers to build “grabby” UIs. I’m curious what this could turn into. It opens up a whole new human computer interface medium for intrinsically spatial applications, just like a good stylus on a tablet opened up creative use cases.
I’ve recently discovered Tcl and absolutely love it! It’s such a fun language.

The starpacks/starkits for packaging apps together are really nice.

For anyone interested there’s a fork of the Tcl Dev Kit at: https://github.com/bandoti/tdk

This allows one to package applications with shared libraries and all bundled together.
How did you determine you have aphantasia? I definitely feel as if I cannot visualize things the same way as others, if at all.
>That charter is the problem Altman is solving

We worry about the existential threat of AI becoming a paperclip factory while many humans are already.
It would be cool if instead of killing the product, they give it to the current developers to keep it alive as a small independent business.
Yes, I empirically found the hunk-based approach of git autofixup to work more reliably. I use it via magit.
Paired with rebase --update-refs, it's particularly helpful to automatically fixup stacked branches.
> And plumbing codes in America require an entire network of ventilation piping that has been deemed largely unnecessary in much of the world.

There’s a lot of surprising info in that article. This one section that I actually have passing knowledge of is just blatantly false. The majority of US states use and heavily contribute to the international plumbing code which allows for single stack ventilation as described in their linked article. My house from 1958 has single stack ventilation…

Sections like that with easily verifiable falsehoods bring the rest of the facts presented by the article into question for me.
Tesla figured out how to tune the skin effect so that he could run high wattage across but not through his body by jacking the frequency way up.
I wanted to make sure I understood which side of the equation I fell on. And I must say, it looks to me like a lot of people in the "weak" camp aren't helpless martyrs though, myself included. People are excited and enthusiastic about AI and are actively reaping the benefits of progress. I don't think your analogy is quite apt.