skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We import our flour because taiwanese flour can't achieve authentic biscuit taste, at least in our hundreds of tests. But most wouldn't really notice that especially without a direct comparison - but for people that care a lot about biscuits, they can tell.

Our restaurant is almost certainly the cleanest in the neighborhood, which in Taiwan only a discerning customer would notice or care about. Other restaurants aren't filthy but they don't achieve the level of sterility we do.

We remember the names of most people who come in and call them by it when they return.

Hm what else. The fact that we let you choose between American "cheese" (what basically all taiwanese people think cheese is) and actual cheddar cheese if you order a bacon egg and cheese. We make our BEC on a pan with bacon grease and swap to the vegetarian pan sans bacon for vegetarians (non vegetarian restaurants in Taiwan wouldn't bother mostly). Etc.
I'm also very curious, given his other statements and how he seems to conflate actions of the foundation, automattic, his own person, and wordpress.org, whether these contributions are his or one of theirs. And to what causes, at that; can you give to your own foundation, I wonder?
1963 Jaguar E-Type
> Cloudflare serves the entire world — region: earth

Is that true for China though?
Has anyone tried it? I mean, I would, but as far as I can tell understand I need 4 boxes with 4 GPU's. Plus an interconnect. I mean, I could put in an order for my homelab but at around $80k per box and maybe $20k for the right switches and some other gear, my wife will probably frown at me ordering a $340,000 rig to try this code that I don't know what to do with it if it works.

Maybe some other heavy hitter out there can explain what all this whatchamacallit newfangled synergy producing matrix algebra does after you have it running?
I very specifically used the words "top qualities" - I'm not disputing they are quite important, but being overly caring about certain things or overly sensitive about certain things are not what should be number 1 or 2. In all the CEO's I've invested in over the years, I find when they get in sticky situations, it tends to be they're over expressing these two qualities in a situation, they are caring tooo much about something or being overly sensitive about something. I think right now, he is caring too much about something about being too sensitive about others, and having seen matt thru the years and dealing with Automattic at DigitalOcean, can't say I'm surprised. Like I said, I like matt, he's just not always the most.. level headed dude in my experience.
I think that was a major take away from this article. There was a right way to navigate it, but by navigating it in a harmful way you also become an actor capable of, and accountable for, the way you've chosen to respond.
https://www.quilter.ai/
> Patents already require that all information be available ...

That's not always the case. For example, patents around nuclear technology:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
The last couple of generations have had plenty of AMD options. Razer 14, Zephyrus G14, TUFbook, etc. If you get out of the performance/enthusiast segment, they're even more plentiful (Inspirons, Lenovos, Zenbooks, etc).
What is Google doing here? At best, the quality of their "computer chip design" work can be described as "controversial" https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-design-controversy . What is there to gain by just making a PR now without doing anything new?
>So, the original draft (which you saw/see?) clearly came from Matt; the reasonable version that's now on their website almost certainly came from Legal/the rest of the board.

I believe the person you're responding to was creatively summarizing Matt's sentiment, not providing a direct quote from the post.
> I think those final 8% demands we’ve heard about have been after months of stalled conversations with WP Engine.

Who gives a shit, it doesn't matter. Why would he think WP Engine would pay anything they're not contractually obligated to pay?

This has all played out similarly elsewhere, e.g. to the point that some companies have started to carve out a new types of licensing so that all of the "open source revenue" doesn't just get vacuumed up by the big clouds/hosting providers (e.g. see the "Fair Source" movement being promoted by Elastic and others).

Matt could have gone down that route. I could easily imagine a million ways he could have handled this better and gotten the community on his side. Instead he's acting like a collosal asshole.
Maybe we need to work on creating a society where we are not forced to constantly wake up super early and then spend the entire day working...
Butt whaddäbbaut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion ?
You're splitting hairs. If people didn't get vaccinated during covid they became social pariahs. People were literally calling for their deaths.
> Because I have none, I guess I'll be carefully inspecting tags while shopping (and I'm prepared for a lot of frustration)

I've been doing it for years and yes there is a lot of frustration, but I do think after some time you gain the ability to just touch a product and get it's likely not made of 100% cotton (or linen or wool or whatever else) just by touch and in some cases the style of clothes. There are certain shapes that I can't quite describe, but seem to be impossible or at least not desirable in the 100% cotton realm of clothing.
"All information be available".

Have you filed or read any software patents? Many are so vague that they do not embody any significant "idea" or contribution, and are mostly just a hindrance to actual innovation. And some are just plain stupid, like the patent to average two integers without overflow.

Like the parent said, a compromise could be "source or GTFO". But even that seems of questionable value.

The shit show gets to the point where many companies file patents defensively. They'll file a patent just in case their competition does it first, even if they have nothing to show for it. And this naturally affects smaller companies disproportionately because they do not have the funds to pay lawyers (there is a hilarious interview on Youtube of a small startup CEO that explains how his company spends more on lawyers than engineers.)

So tl;dr, we'd probably be better off without software patents altogether.
I think it probably would have been quieter, but people would be accusing him of not being transparent instead. I think it’s kind of nuts to not give Matt the benefit of the doubt while more information comes out. He is the party with a past that demonstrates good behavior and intentions.
Fission radioactivity is the bad stuff that will be radioactive for millions of years and we don't know how deal with that. It needs heavy metals like plutonium and uranium and when it goes wrong, they melt down and we all have a bad time. Fusion uses tritium and can be made from seawater and makes helium, and doesn't melt down in the same way, and the waste is relatively short lived.
Something about these CEOs becoming or at least showing in public how unhinged they are. We’ve had quite a few in the last couple years. Almost like they think it’s cool.
The contributions are legit. Despite his claim to have never spoken publicly about his contributions before, he has spoken about them (when it was convenient to make a point about his moral superiority). He donated hundreds of thousands per year to the Apache Foundation, for example. Additionally the WordPress Foundation’s financials are public, they don’t receive many donations (tens of thousands per year).
What about this situation is the undeniable force of nature?
As I was wondering which version github is using, I found the documentation that explains how you can check it by using

```mermaid
info
```

And it's v11.2.1

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor...
I’ve often heard the advice for on all to focus on triage and call in support for big problems.

But… doesn’t that mean that everybody is technically on call? There the main person answering the pager, but if the expectation is that they can pull in reinforcements as needed, that means everyone should be ready to get pulled in to action at all times.
The foundation owns it - https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=78826734&caseSearchType=U...

A claim I've heard is that the for-profit company has the exclusive commercial license (along with the right to grant sub-licenses).
Like when Google wasted its time writing publicly about Spanner?

https://research.google/pubs/spanner-googles-globally-distri...

or Bigtable?

https://research.google/pubs/bigtable-a-distributed-storage-...

or GFS?

or MapReduce?

or Borg?

or...I think you get the idea.
Your argument goes like "If they're really intelligent, they'll think like me."

For a true superhuman AI, what you or me think is irrelevant and probably wrong.

Cars are still faster than humans, besides evolution.
Those radiation liking mushrooms could be an interesting test for the next batch of plants to the moon. :)
CNN is first a chumbox marketplace.
hi folks, I'm the pm driving this work – happy to answer any questions!

we also have a thread on the ocaml forums for updates: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-dune-developer-preview-updat...
It’s more like no one outside of Google has been able to reproduce Google’s results. And not for lack of trying. So if you’re outside of Google, at this moment, it’s vapor.
> Hell, being drunk just sitting in a parked, no ignition driver seat is illegal in some places.

But those laws are controversial for exactly that deviation from the norm, so it can't be held up as an instance of a widely agreed upon law which is uncontroversial to emulate.
Agree, and once you can lithographically pattern QD in for Red/Green it'll just be one layer of Blue PHOLED underneath. Cheaper and matched wear-out so burn-in is less visible. These aren't huge changes, but the steady pace of improvements may just make the other technologies irrelevant in mobile devices. TVs and wearables still might go to microLEDs, but only if the costs can come down.
Give it some time. Probably needs updated drivers, intel and Linux have been rock solid for me too. If your hardware is really new it’s likely a kernel and time issue. 6.12 or 6.13 should have everything sorted.
It's been on my to-do list the past few months to find a bulk shampoo, body wash vendor of some kind. I got a body wash that has a bottle design that is just perfect for my shower. I want to get 2 more for shampoo and then just refill them endlessly with the bulk product.

So far in my cursory searches I have found nothing , but I'd like to think eventually I'll find some chemicals company that makes the raw products for the value brands and buy from them.
I find it funny that you speak about nuclear energy yet you validate it based on a quote from an exceptional game designer. This isn’t a knock on Carmack but more like you should probably hunt for someone in discipline, there are many.
Anyone have a textual version?
I think the quotes you choose arguably are not even the strongest, because the author also said:

>I’ve watched from the sidelines as the company has implemented a bunch of scummy policies and shady sales tactics to squeeze money from their customers and make it harder to leave.

And

>On most days, if you wanted to have a conversation about how much WP Engine sucks, frankly, I’d be a happy participant.
Apple was also first to bring multitouch and high DPI displays to consumers.

They were slow with OLED, and they have also been slow with each new generation of cell phone radio standards.
While Matt comes looking "not good" and his apparent impulsiveness and "less than optimal" communication skills are doing more damage than good, I find it "interesting" most of the people attacking him either choose to ignore of gloss over the absolute trash WPEngine management people are.

It's rich coming from people demanding a high standard for Matt but not for the WPEngine people.

In the end all of it will get "solved" because there's way too much money in this to go any other way.

As Danny Glover famously said: "I'm too old for this shit"
Radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine's drone defense
the review guide had everyone on 24H2; there were some issues with one of the updates that messed up performance for lunar lake pre-release, but appears to have been fixed in time for release.

I’d expect lunar lake’s position to improve a bit in coming months as they tweak scheduling, but AMD should be good at this point.

Edit: around 16 mark, https://youtu.be/5OGogMfH5pU?si=ILhVwWFEJlcA3HLO. The laptops came with 24H2
That's a pretty good post-mortem report. I hope they have implemented all the proposed process changes.
Your blog will be compatible with the blockchain!
Reminds me of this quote:

> "The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -and therefore never scrutinize or question."

-Stephen Jay Gould
Oh yeah, directly from the Softbank ventures playbook. Spoiler: it does not work as well as they hope.

Plus, we're talking about hyperscalers/big techs here, that would mean a commercial attrition war where OAI would be competing with actors such as Meta giving it for free from already existing platforms that have different main income sources (ig, fb, whatsapp). Good luck with that.
See discussion of dry cask storage here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601833
The utility of LLMs clearly exists (I'm building a product on this premise, so I'm not uninterested!)

But hype also exists. How closely they are matched is not yet clear.

But your comment seems to indicate that the "pro-tech" position is automatically the best. This is _not_ true, as cryptocurrency has already demonstrated.
I've only been to bulk barn on very rare occasions for certain candies that are hard to find elsewhere, but as far as I'm aware they only do food stuffs right? I don't think they sell detergents or cleaning materials? They're also more expensive that regular right? Hmm I suppose I'd be willing to pay for that tho.
Technology singularity is around the corner as soon as the chips (mostly) design themselves. There will be a few engineers, zillions of semiskilled maintenance people making a pittance, and most of the world will be underemployed or unemployed. Technical people better understand this and unionize or they will find themselves going the way of piano tuners and Russian physicists. Slow boiling frog...
The FLAC's are presumably DRM free and are yours to keep once downloaded. Storage (cloud or local backup) is your problem.

Not having re-downloads is a separate issue.

What company is this?
Huh, that's very interesting - https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/205...

I though part of Matt's point was that Automattic "gave back" to the foundation?
They're not cigarettes. Nobody is sitting down and smoking 40 joints a day. What serious dangers are there besides the fact that you might eat the entire bag of Doritos while watching Planet Earth?
I have some hopes for Drupal's Starshot Initiative. Tho it now bears the crushingly drab sobriquet of "Drupal CMS" :-P
> Fission radioactivity is the bad stuff that will be radioactive for millions of years and we don't know how deal with that.

We also don't know how to deal with lead and it will be poisonous until we figure out how to biologically re-engineer the human species. So far so good, we still use lead, you can buy the stuff by the kilo. This is a minor problem to the point where the people bringing it up aren't taking the situation seriously. The volumes are tiny and we can just dump it somewhere.
If you have to deal with radioactive materials, why not just use fission?

Fundamentally: fission fuels are limited, particularly uranium. If humans were to run current energy demands 100% on uranium-based nuclear power, we'd burn through reserves in about two decades.[1]

Breeder reactors and thorium fusion change that calculus, as might viable uranium recovery from seawater. (Uranium, unlike thorium, dissolves in seawater, though the quantities of water which would have to be processed would be absolutely immense and nontrivial on multiple grounds.)

Fusion is based on hydrogen and a few other light elements, which are vastly more prevalent, most notably as water found on Earth (and elsewhere in the solar system should we use so much hydrogen that net water prevalence is affected).

The slight hitch in the scheme is that whilst fission is so simple an untrained janitor can achieve it,[2] or even plain old dumb rocks,[3] fusion turns out to be fiendishly difficult on Earth / at terrestrial conditions.

________________________________

Notes:

1. Based on a 200 year supply at ~10% of total energy supply presently, which scales to ~20 years at 100%: <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glo...>.

2. For example: Oak Ridge prodcedures / Feyman (~1945) <https://robertlovespi.net/2014/09/07/how-richard-feynman-sav...>, Cecil Kelley (1958) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kelley_criticality_accid...>, Y-12 plant (1958) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex...>, Vinča Nuclear Institute (1958) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_Nuclear_Institute#1...>, Wood River Junction (1964) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_River_Junction,_Rhode_Isl...>, Mayak (1968) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak#1968_Criticality_Inciden...>, and Tokaimura (1997) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accidents> being just a few. Wikipedia has a more comprehensive listing: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident#Known_inc...>. My point isn't that the perpetrators were necessarily janitors, or untrained (though some effectively were), but that criticality was achieved entirely unintentionally. Accidental fusion criticality incidents are far less frequent.

3. "Natural fission reactors" are a thing: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...>. To be fair, so are natural fusion reactors, though few have yet been discovered on Earth: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star>.
Seconding this. In the realm of winter clothing, wool is king, but real wool is pricey and the next best thing is probably polyester bc wet cotton is horrific.
There's radioactive and there's radioactive.

With a neutron source we can control what the isotopes will be by choosing the appropriate metals for construction.

In fission you get, more or less, all the isotopes you can. fission doesn't split U235 into the same parts every time - its a random process and broad distribution of daughter fission isotopes are produced.

But I still agree. We should go with breeder reactors and call it a day
> the individual

The same guy running a for profit company?
I get them also in my Lunar Lake NUC. Usually in the browser, and presents as missing/choppy text oddly enough. Annoying but not really a deal breaker. Hoping it sorts out in the next couple kernel updates.
Are contracts everything? Matt created Wordpress. I think he’s more deserving of the spoils than some company whose owner is Silver Lake, one of the most evil PE firms.

Reminder: https://www.wired.com/2011/06/skype-silver-lake-evil/
This is a pretty good article.

Similarly to the "Heroism isn't…" section, I'd say: Breathe. I've been asked "how do you stay so calm when something is going wrong?" and the honest truth is I'm scared! Or at least, I have that pit, in my stomach, going "oh no it's not working, will we figure this one out?" It's just not a useful thing. Tell that fear to take a backseat, and attempt to let the more logical side of you problem solve. And like TFA says, call for help if you need it; two minds are better than one.

At the management level, you can also do a sort corollary to basically everything in TFA too: "call for help": your engineers need to be able to call for help. That means retaining experience, so that the younger engineers can learn from the older ones, and hopefully not trial-by-fire their entire career, and have someone they can fall back on for help. Same goes for the experience devs, too: it means you need two experienced devs. I've been the only experienced person on the team, and it sucks, because I don't have the answer to everything. "It is your job to see that issues get addressed." — at the management layer, you need to make sure the incentives are focused on that, not something inane, like "mean time to resolution". Time to "the incident in PagerDuty is closed" is meaningless, and will be gamed to something like "we closed the incident because the immediate instance of the problem / symptom has been dealt with". You want the actual, underlying root cause debugged and fixed, and ideally, that eng should never see that entire class of problem again. But this means understanding the root cause, and understanding the system well enough to see the problem through to conclusion, which often means things like "ok, this needs to be fixed, *and I need to prioritize someone familiar with that portion of the system to fix it" — and all too often, that follow-through just doesn't happen. And when it doesn't, your eng pays for it, in the form of getting woken up. "Don't sacrifice your health" — are your eng sacrificing their health? Is your on-call experience too often? (At the lowest, I've been oncall 100% of the time. That was too often!)
Oil is a commodity, which wouldn't bode that well for any current compute provider long term.

Nvidia's success in particular seemed to spawn a lot of new chip designs. Quite a few startups, but also AMD and Intel are some degree of serious with their training/inference offerings for datacenter.
Honest question: what am I supposed to be demanding from WPEngine? They’re not the ones out there posting unhinged rants.
So post a link about making cool hyperbolic SVG with Julia
Depends on the size of the team. Startup or small team? Yes. Everyone is on call all the time. Large number of developers? Someone on every team is on call all the time, and leads need to be almost always available for large outages.

On call pretty much just comes with the job, and always has.
The handwritten text is not legible
There’s a difference between on-call being in your job description and occasionally responding to slack messages to help out during an incident off hours.
I miss resistive touch screens. Those things were neato. Nobody could keep track of a stylus though :(
The WordPress Foundation is irrelevant to WordPress itself, it just holds events. The WordPress project is owned by Matt and that’s what Automattic donates to (in the form of Automattic employees working roughly 4k hours per week on the WordPress project). There’s also the money spent on running WordPress.org by Automattic but that’s entirely opaque (nobody knows how much it is, although it’s claimed to be millions).
>2. The author claims that Matt attempted “extortion” and refused to give WP Engine more time to address his demands. It does seem true that Matt refused to give them more time. However, Matt claims this conversation has been going on for more than a year. A deadline seems appropriate if your counterparty keeps delaying.

What would "seem appropriate" would be some form of terms and conditions, or contract, or legal authority that would warrant any of this business about imposing any deadlines or demands of any kind whatsoever, in the first instance. The time isn't Matts to give or not give to begin with.

>The point is that good members of the community shouldn’t need to be forced to contribute.

I think the author was at pains to emphasize through the beginning middle and end of the article that there was such a thing as a right way to make this case. And the problem is weaponizing certain levers at WordPress in ways that raise all kinds of conflict of interest issues, have the potential to cause all kinds of collateral damage, and undermining credibility and integrity of WordPress as a long-term project.
it was supposed to be a warning, not a proposal

:sob: