skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's not that people don't trust Microsoft with their data (they obviously do if they use Windows, as you note), it's that they don't trust Microsoft to have performed basic diligence on data control within this feature.
Just to be clear, WordPress has the update servers hard coded. If they wanted you to use a different server, making it easily configurable by an end user would seem like the first step before cutting of access to a whole swath of IP addresses.
Maybe the art carved by the modern desert racers is better anyways
As an infrequent printer (a few pages every few months), their ink subscription plan (Instant Ink) is awesome for us. For $1/mo you get 10 pages (color included), and overages are 10 cents/pg.

So basically for $12 a year we can have a home printer but never have to worry about cartridges. They just show up in the mail when we need more, and the used ones can be recycled in the included mailer.
Reposting something I posted in another thread but I think it's more relevant to this comment:

Would it be a good or bad look for the Fedora project if they went after a popular and commercially ruthless hosting provider offering "Fedora Hosting" for trademark infringement, while cutting off repo and update access to that provider specifically, unless they paid up some % of revenue?

Regardless of if Fedora was justified or not, it would totally destroy trust in the ecosystem and people would start to talk about seeking alternatives, which is exactly what is happening with WordPress.
It is not clear if these implicit choices derive from the ignorance of alternatives or if they derive from developers' habits, reproducing what they are used to.

Woah there, easy tiger.

The OG literally invented editing text on computers, and since then many novels have been written on keyboards and computers. The "text" editors have fed back into the more basic code editors and we're in a mixed situation between "comfortable to edit code" and "comfortable to edit text".

I'd be interesting to explore more visual programming built into text editors, as an overview of code flow, because right now the best we have is the direct stack trace. In terms of code it would be great to have integrated tools that show a visual representation "map" of the functions usage and data flow.

As for regular prose, it would be interesting to see editors specializing in poems and other use cases. I know some editors specialize in novels by having wiki like features of linking characters to storyline and research work.

I'm not sure how much of those are used by real world authors though, I think they mostly are trying to get closer to the "typing machine" as possible, removing any kind of distraction to get the X words per day in.
Not being a security expert, this looks great at first glance and I am very happy Microsoft put in the security effort they told everyone they would. It does however raise a few discussion points:

This wasn't so hard, was it? Why wasn't it done before? To me, the fact that the new recall architecture wasn't in the initial release says that there are still huge security culture issues. But organizational culture is slow to change, and Recall has happened in parallel with the new security reforms, so you can't expect them to get rid of their old ways over night.

As others in the thread have pointed out, it seems Microsoft are promising things that are very non-Microsoft-y, like promising to never re-activate, promising an easy opt-out to never be bothered again, and promising that activating the service in the first place is an opt-in-during-install feature. Microsoft have a reputation for being a pushy company that doesn't take no for an answer, and coupled with the recent security culture issues, I have personally started recommending non-tech people to just switch to Apple now before things get worse. Can we trust that Microsoft won't backpedal on their promises? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
When you send a message, afaik it sends to all people looking at it at the time. So there is no read when in a conversation, and maybe the reads are batched when reading multiple.
Samsung originally toyed with this idea but with Nanorods. Now that is abandoned for unknown reasons. ( Likely cost ).

Blue PHOLED also has life time issues. And we will need may be another 5 years of R&D along with 3 years to market. Definitely post 2030.
The most advanced optical lithography for 6 inch wafers is I-line (365 nm wavelength). For compound semiconductor fabs, they can use e-beam lithography which allows for shorter gate lengths. Some companies are also clever about taking I line lithography and patterning tricks to make smaller features for gates.
There's ways to export the notes btw, for example https://github.com/storizzi/notes-exporter
Russian roulette is safe! I played once and didn't die!
You're asking the wrong question. Conflicts arise not just from differing views on general questions about governance, but from competing groups each fighting for their own self-interest. "Agreeing with views", for one fleeting moment in time, means little for the long-term cohesion of a country, or the prosperity and sovereignty of a people.

See for example Kashmir [1] - whether the coming immigrants agree with the natives on e.g. the tax rate, term limits for politicians, or environmental laws, don't even come up as concerns. Nor did Czechoslovakia split over gay marriage, or Yugoslavia over differing views on abortion.

This focus on "views" to the exclusion of all else is a purely American phenomenon, and a recent one at that - only six decades old.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/08/kashmirs-new...
Umm, customary, tongue-in-cheek reference to McCarthy's proposal for a 10 person research team to solve AI in 2 months (over the Summers)[1]. This was ~70 years ago :)

Not saying we're in necessarily the same situation. But it remains difficult to evaluate effort required for actual progress.

[1]: https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmo...
It's an issue tracker, with some project management/agile bolted on
Let's be honest. The mental gymnastics to avoid calling it a rescue is just a political knee jerk reaction to Elon Musk's ownership in SpaceX.

If you lose your ability to become objective based on your view no amount of philosophical discourse is going to be meaningful.
It's comments like this why "cope & seeth" has flourished in the modern lexicon
We need to build enough to make housing depreciate with age. Speculative investors are only in the market because artificial supply constraints make it a good bet that prices will go up. If the market becomes free to produce supply, they will find higher-return places to park their money.
There is only one true editor, the design is flawless and it’s not number six.
A TPM ensures the right software was run, not that the software is running right. Once the TPM unseals the key, software is free to do whatever with it. To imply that the TPM protects keys resident in the OS memory space is misguided.
NASA still gives Roscosmos money, in exchange for Roscosmos doing ISS-related stuff for NASA. NASA has a contract with Roscosmos for "joint spaceflight activities" which does not expire until the end of this year. I don't know if it can be extended past this year or not, but since the contract dates to 1993, I suspect they will continue to extend it year-by-year until the ISS program is terminated.

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_NAS1510110_8000_-...

So far this year NASA has executed 7 contract modifications (from February through September), under which it has paid Roscosmos an additional US$2.6 million. While that's not a huge amount of money, it doesn't look like there is a hard prohibition on NASA paying Roscosmos for services.
The return flight will be in February too— they'll be missing thanksgiving, and all the winter holidays oof
How We Scaled Our MongoDB Instance Gracefully (2022)
The government would be doing the exact same thing to avoid bad PR if this didn't involve him.
nothing against the language but it's a bit suspicious that the top sponsors include "buy Google reviews" and "buy Instagram followers" (if you navigate to the actual Crystal language site)
It is Open Source, right? It means everyone is free to change the source. Oh wait, but that’s hard. Much easier to just point your control panel at the original distribution and start the money printing machine while someone else is footing the bill.
This goes beyond media entertainment. All of our senses are being exploited and overstimulated for commercial gains. Food, perfumes, music, furniture. People crave for saltiest or sweetest food. They fill their noses with strong artificial fragrances, their heads with loud, distracting, catchy music, all the while butt-slouched on the comfiest couches or beds. If this continues on, there will be a point where humanity will be so desensitized and can no longer feel anything natural with their own senses.
Increasing immigration has never polled higher than 25% since 1965: https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-i.... But because republicans want cheap labor, we have gone from 5% foreign born population to 15% over that timeframe.

Cato published a survey in 2021 finding that the overwhelming majority of Americans want a low level of immigration: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobil.... If you poll people, the median ends up being under 500,000 people per year. Which is about 1/5th of what it’s been annually under Biden.
Was the title edited after the fact by mods?

The original title has the word "rescue."

The top comment is questioning the use of this word.

It seems likely that when the story originally appeared on HN, it had the accurate title reflecting the title of the article. Thus the comment from dotnet00, which I'm neutral on. But then, it would appear, the title was altered, to dampen a controversy? Is this how things are done around here? Anyone know more?
They are probably salary, not hourly.

I wonder if they astronauts are like the military where they get extra on deployment.
The i9's were quite awful. I had one for a work laptop. The fans ran constantly and it still felt like a hot plate. And ran slow due to a combination of throttling and corporate security software that added tons of overhead.
Of course, giving anyone money in a vacuum can have transformative results. However, when you apply that to the wider system of economics, it is utterly destructive. If a business knows that you are getting extra money from the government, they would be leaving money on the table by not increasing prices to get for that money. The same goes with real estate, iPhones, healthcare, and everything else. They know you have the money. I equate this with telling a car dealer exactly how much money you have to spend.
I don't think that complaint is even true. A quick glance at the Crystal stdlib source[1] shows that the mktmp implementation uses the O_EXCL mode, which will cause the open call to error out if the file already exists, and the implementation here will handle that and try again with a different filename.

I think the worst thing an attacker could do here if they could somehow predict the generated names before the file is created is DoS the mktmp call by racing ahead of it 100 times until it gives up.

[1] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/release/1.13/sr...
I'll dispute the results.

Actual study here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fdc101bc3cfda2dcf0a2...

One very obvious problem is that they had two groups: one that received $1,000 a month and another control group that received nothing.

Their results are based on surveys completed by two groups. The incentive for filling out the survey was a $50 gift card.

Unsurprisingly the control group saw significantly more attrition in terms of survey response than vs the people being given $1,000 / month.

People who were even marginally better off in the control group were less likely to respond since the hassle of meeting someone in person to fill out a survey isn't worth the $50 to them. So the control group was essentially concentrated down to the respondents who were worse off vs the broader spectrum of the experimental group they were sampling.

In a brilliant example of motivated reasoning the people conducting the study saw this difference in attrition as a sign that the payments were having a positive effect as opposed to concluding that people are more likely to show up to fill out your survey if you've given them thousands of dollars because humans have a fundamental sense of reciprocity.

The actual study design itself is extremely questionable but even if you take the results at face value they were just comparing the people who got money with people who got nothing. As opposed to for instance comparing money with no strings attached to the efficacy of existing social welfare programs.

I'm unfamiliar with the Center for Guaranteed Income but they seem like a political advocacy group more than a serious research team.
tl;dr YouTube's existing deal with SESAC (European artists union) is expired and the new one is still in negotiation.
I run a small (tiny) hosting platform for WordPress. I prioritize exceptional customer service as a value-added service.

Before they started hosting their websites with me, all my customers shared a common complaint: they were paying companies like WP Engine and EIG a significant amount of money for a subpar hosting platform. They all expressed dissatisfaction with their websites’ slow performance and the lack of customer support. They struggled to identify what to look for in a WordPress host and often ended up choosing the first result they found in a Google search for “best WordPress host” (exaggeration).

This context partly explains why I support Matt’s decision to target WP Engine. However, my overall agreement with Matt’s choice stems from my belief that open-source projects are only successful when people contribute back. While licensing doesn’t obligate contributors, it’s undeniable that successful businesses rely on the initial creators and subsequent contributors of the project.

While I don’t necessarily agree with Matt’s specific methods, I believe there are likely better ways to address predatory companies like WP Engine that harm the community and Automattic’s reputation far less. I’ve come across some excellent ideas in this thread.
The point that half this comment section is missing is this is the sort of thing we want to encourage.

The US spent extra money funding two separate vendors.

One vendor exhibited a high level of risk in their first return.

The astronauts were able to be returned on the second, already proven vendor.

That's a great place to be in!

The alternative, having to return astronauts on a high risk vehicle because it's the only option, is not a place we ever want to be in.
I thought the big thing with computers is that they are much cheaper than humans.

If we are evaluating LLM suitability for tasks typically performed by humans, we should judge them by the same standards we judge humans. That means it's OK to make mistakes sometimes.
WordPress.org blocked access for WP Engine to their developer account on the website. This means they can no longer push out plugin updates via this path.[0] This comes straight from Matt Mullenweg himself in an interview done today.

0. https://x.com/ryancduff/status/1840192524398231660
> Look at the other stories in this thread. Even 5% is enough to avoid it.

A lot of them sound like: "Ick, I saw poor people, never again will I subject myself to that. I now restrict myself to modes of transport too expensive for those poors to use."
Every time I see people struggling with this, I am so incredibly glad that I forced the issue for FreeBSD when I did the initial amd64 port. I got to set the fundamental types in the ABI and decided to look forward rather than backward.

The amd64 architecture did have some interesting features that made this much easier than it might have been for other cpu architectures. One of which was the automatic cast of 32 bit function arguments to 64 bit during the function call. In most cases, if you passed a 32 bit time integer to a function expecting a 64 bit time_t, it Just Worked(TM) during the platform bringup. This meant that a lot of the work on the loose ends could be deferred.

We did have some other 64 bit platforms at the time, but they did not have a 64 bit time_t. FreeBSD/amd64 was the first in its family, back in 2003/2004/2005. If I remember correctly, sparc64 migrated to 64 bit time_t.

The biggest problem that I faced was that (at the time) tzcode was not 64 bit safe. It used some algorithms in its 'struct tm' normalization that ended up in some rather degenerate conditions, eg: iteratively trying to calculate the day/month/year for time_t(2^62). IIRC, I cheated rather than change tzcode significantly, and made it simply fail for years before approx 1900, or after approx 10000. I am pretty sure that this has been fixed upstream in tzcode long ago.

We did have a few years of whackamole with occasional 32/64 time mixups where 3rd party code would be sloppy in its handling of int/long/time_t when handling data structures in files or on the network.

But for the most part, it was a non-issue for us. Being able to have 64 bit time_t on day 1 avoided most of the problem. Doing it from the start was easy. Linux missed a huge opportunity to do the same when it began its amd64/x86_64 port.

Aside: I did not finish 64 bit ino_t at the time. 32 bit inode numbers were heavily exposed in many, many places. Even on-disk file systems, directory structures in UFS, and many, many more. There was no practical way to handle it for FreeBSD/amd64 from the start while it was a low-tier platform without being massively disruptive to the other tier-1 architectures. I did the work - twice - but somebody else eventually finished it - and fixed a number of other unfortunately short constants as well (eg: mountpoint path lengths etc).
All this seems to be to pressure WPE to contribute back... but when the entire core and surrounding infrastructure are under the absolute control of a single petty, vindictive, and spiteful individual, it seems the proper amount to be contributing to such a project is zero.

It's high time for a hard fork of WordPress, run by grownups.
If mathgenius is to be believed, decategorization is about paying attention to the map from apples to oranges..

riffing on that, designori will try to unify the shiny and the essential.. and though John “Designor” Henrys are memorialized, nobody sane would want to be John Henry …

question: how would “the central bank” help?

L: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/456414/what-is-decategori...
I second this. I record all my work calls and meetings; Single notifier state. Primarily for my note taking and recall, but also CYA.
This is coming very close to denying the antecedent, one of the most basic formal logical fallacies.
The actual issue was that this athlete, Imane Khelif, is male. And was competing in a women's boxing match, despite having previously been deemed ineligible by the International Boxing Association for this reason, after a karyotype test revealed XY chromosomes.

The problem is that women's boxing in the Olympics doesn't verify sex other than via identity documents such as passports. Even though the other categorical attribute - weight - is directly verified during competition.

As Khelif (and another male boxer, Lin) had a female passport, this permitted competition in the tournament despite the fact that it enabled a male to pummel female boxers, to an eventual unanimous victory.

Obviously, many people are against this, for the same reason as why mixed-sex boxing tournaments aren't considered acceptable, for reasons of fairness and safety.
Discussed (a bit) at the time:

How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35048410 - March 2023 (10 comments)
That's certainly more than I expected and as much as one can likely do while keeping the feature useful. Only open-sourcing the whole thing would be a another step up from here.

Still not going to use that or windows for anything serious, but credit where credit is due.
Also, good catch! :)
> A jet liner is safer than the ISS.

Maybe not if the jet is a Boeing though?
Bone deterioration equating to decades in a matter of months, heart health impact, time away from family... it's negative.
I work with Ruby every day at work & have always been curious about Crystal. This was a very helpful dive into some overarching concepts & small details. Thanks for sharing!
Alone, it doesn't grant upvotes. What blocking does is silence anyone who would make a counterpoint. Sometimes a thoughtful response can clip the wings of a snappy but shallow comment. Blocking opposition prevents the interference of thoughtful comments.
Once you have it digitized, making copies is trivial though. Every time you listen to a cassette the quality degrades slightly. You always run the risk of a machine eating a tape as well. Maybe the cassette will last 50 years in the box, but it won’t last 50 years of active use and you’ll want to make other copies, the earlier you make those digital masters the better.
Thanks. I meant that holding a degree does not guarantee that you are smart.
They regularly tamp down on sensationalist headlines.
That’s an interesting perspective. Thanks.
That tracks. I worked at a lot of places/teams where anything but a P0 was something that would never be done.
Yea fo sho', and it was the Cray 3 supercomputer actually based on gallium arsenide at the time, meaning faaasssttt clock rates, about 6x faster than compeititors in terms of Hz. So that would be something like a 50 ghz processor today, wild
That’s just making sure the water is lukewarm, so we all feel comfortable sitting in the pot.
And that's leaving out Jevon's paradox, where increasing efficiency in the use of some scarce resource sometimes/often increases its consumption, by making the unit price of the dependent thing affordable and increasing its demand. For example, gasoline has limited demand if it requires ten liters to go one km, but very high demand at 1 L/10km, even at the same price per liter.
This is the well debunked “trickle down” theory and capitalist economic health measures don’t say shit about thriving. Look at GINI.

There’s no need for a formal
conspiracy when it’s considered just “how the system works” instead of embedded unethical incentives

In reality “work” isn’t how wealthy people grow their money. So you make the mistake of believing the wealthy telling you there’s a ladder to the moon they pay you to keep building.
jupyter-dart-kernel: https://github.com/vickumar1981/jupyter-dart-kernel :

pip install jupyter-console jupyterlab -e https://github.com/vickumar1981/jupyter-dart-kernel#egg=jupyterdartkernel
jupyter console --kernel jupyterdartkernel
jupyter kernelspec --list

IPython/extensions/autoreload.py: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/main/IPython/extensi... docs: https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config/extensions/a...
Well, that was probably Boeing's line for the MAX disasters, until the second one occurred.

Boeing is clearly undergoing systemic collapse in engineering ability, so anything Boeing has to be treated with extreme suspicion. Its like hiring a 3-time-felon to babysit, like you can do it, but there will be 0 tolerance for any deviance.
Would you volunteer to appear in these photos, for this story? Would you pose for the Wall Street Journal in your socks? I would be mortified to be featured in a piece like this. I wouldn't pick up the phone. Who wants to be the subject of, basically, "take a look at these losers?' How did this happen? Were they tricked?