skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol 10 years ago I worked with a shop that used expression engine for everything. It was certainly more flexible, more pleasant to write plugins for, and less of a security nightmare at the time.

The community was significantly smaller, but many of the plugins that existed were very well maintained, there was a small but healthy set of developers with paid plugins.

I don't want anything to do with that industry anymore, whenever I want to put up a little site I just use a static site generator (hugo). I think there is an interesting potential market for a wp admin like UI that could be used to create hugo posts/etc and manage the theming configuration. Then you click publish, it fires off a hugo container that generates the static site and updates the host... maybe such a thing exists.
There are a lot of problems. A key one I saw repeatedly:

No one in program offices (the offices responsible for these system developments) has the proper expertise to judge IT/software contracts or the IT/software portion of contracts. And, they won't listen to you because they've got a contractor or two sitting on their shoulder whispering into their ear things that are very wrong (this got a Colonel I worked with in trouble once) and leads to very biased decision making, away from reality and in favor of the grifters.

This is a reliable thing. There are some really good people in gov't, but they don't seem to make their way to the program offices. So without expertise and good judgement, you get these 8-10 figure (or maybe worse) boondoggles.
Indentured servitude is like voluntarily assuming an income tax obligation in a society without an income tax, in exchange for an upfront payment.
I've never worked at a megacorp, but if megacorp employees believe that it is more acceptable for them to cause issues for customers than a 3-dev company, that really seems like a skill issue for the megacorp.

If it is unacceptable to cause that downtime, you write code that makes the downtime much less likely
Not living up to your word because you lack the moral fortitude, rather than having ill intent from the beginning, is still lying. You said you would do something, then ended up doing effectively the opposite. "I didn't lie, circumstances changed" is a bullshit cop-out, especially when it's a billionaire saying it.
because there's no law against it
Oh yes, Matt's all about how evil Private Equity is and how they leech from communities and add zero value...

It's an interesting take, given that the three board members of the WordPress Foundation are Matt and a ... managing partner of a PE firm (the third is a retired coder, I believe).
You mentioned what is or isn’t an ad, my point is the distinction is a lot less clear than you think, and it always has been.

While it’s good more people understand the business of news, this is all out in the open and has been for years.
> you need to have a lot of disposable income just to keep up (remember the first over 1000 usd iPhone and people saying it was too much?)

You may have meant this facetiously, but just to be clear—there is no "need to" "keep up". I'm a software engineer making more than enough money and I still use budget Android phones for years at a time. We live in a world where corporations have persuaded people that they "need to" live beyond their means, but most things are still optional or doable with a budget version.
First of all, thank you, thank you for being sympathetic and understanding. That is more than what most of the general population provides.

For the second paragraph, I agree with you personally. While I can think of the nudism counterargument ("nudity should not be sexual"), it is true that in current society, nudity is unfortunately sexual, and the collection part of it makes it suspicious that it is a sexual endeavor (e.g. even in the nudism community, a "collection of nudist pictures" is often suspected to be porn [and thus not genuinely nudist], especially if it is sold, even if the pictures were non-sexual). Therefore, I agree with you that I believe this was likely a sexual act by the author, even though the pictures themselves may not actually be sexual (as the nudist community has experienced).

If we assume that it was sexual, then to make the jump to conclude that it was intolerable, we can actually depend on what the anti-contact (a stronger version of non-contact) minor attraction community says. They are, of course, strongly against it as well, on the grounds that the production (and therefore the encouragement of production) of CSAM harms children. [1] Therefore, please know that I agree with you, and in fact, anti-contact MAPs and anti-contact pedophiles agree with you too. None of these groups want to harm children, and in fact, resources are provided in the groups to report and prevent child abuse and CSAM.

Note that there are of course some counterarguments. For instance, Aaron Swartz said: "This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won't make the abuse go away. We don't arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed." [2]. But that's a separate argument, not related to anti-contact or non-contact MAPs, which was what I was focusing on in my original comment.

[1] https://www.mapresources.info/guides/csam

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20031229025933/http:/bits.are.no...

TLDR: Thank you, and I agree with you (though I had to explain why I agree), and anti-contact MAPs agree with you too.
How does this interact with DRM? Does ACR still work if HDCP is being used?
Yes! We had the same experience! Mining for diamonds was real work, and we never found a trace.

The crystals were beautiful, and the kids could find them with ease. Tons of fun.

They each got their own pickaxe, which they loved.

They claimed they were already expert diggers because of all the hours they spent playing Minecraft. "We know how to dig, Dad."
You’re right, they are just 90% white rice with some flavouring. No more “healthy” than a white bread sandwich.

If you’re looking for a healthier lunch option, try a 7 ingredient chopped salad including almonds and cashews and feta, topped with a simple vinaigrette. These take less than 10 minutes to make the night before, and will fill you up all afternoon.
> why I should think of components as conveyer belts

thanks for the chuckle!
It's hard, I agree. You'll need to be a good engineer to set it up and host it. But it's very doable. I guess we'll see how good their engineers are.
Shampoo is harder, but making your own soap is easy and satisfying and it works better than store-bought.
Ummm.. Have you played with ChatGPT's new voice mode? ;)
No, I will continue to serve in all of those roles.
Scene: https://youtu.be/QjYvdURv3Zw?t=219
CA law inspired by Ubisoft, Sony requires warning that games can be taken away
Companies are different from people. Very poor analogy.

A better one would be a cities or provinces. And, yes, I believe every city should be given the chance to develop at the risk of short term harm to the environment.

People from City B don't deserve to remain poor just because City A had a head-start and polluted the river first.

Ideal scenario would be City/State A getting heavily taxed to subsidize City/State B's investment in renewables, people's education and healthcare, rehabilitation of people to other sectors, etc.

Would you agree to taxing US and UK each 500-700 billion dollars each year and the money flow to India so that India closes all coal plants and citizens get 90% subsidy in electric cars, or to develop environment friendly steel processing? You wouldn’t agree to it.

Why would US/UK taxpayer pay for India's infra and people? Right?

So, stop virtue and moral signalling from the high tower you are on. Let India and China develop themselves.

It's also very poor looking when it comes from UK. They got rich by exploiting India. And now they just can't say- "remain undeveloped because environment".
LeCun already worked on essentially convnets in the late 80s, early 90s. And arguably Fukushima's Neocognitron in the 70s was a CNN, it just didnt use backprop. Btw Fukushima invented ReLU in the 60s.

I won't go full Schmidhuber, but the field didn't suddenly spring into existence with LeCun.

And in a broader way, it seems that people don't realize that the very inception of computing was intertwined with the goals of AI. It wasn't like people invented computers to plan rocket ballistic paths and manage bank transactions and make spreadsheets and then decades later someone realized that this thing could also do AI stuff.

In the first half of the 20th century, computing pioneers were all about trying to imitate/model human reasoning. Which is an endeavor grown out of computing theory and logic, Turing's story is entangled with Gödel and Hilbert. And centuries before, Leibniz equated rational human reasoning with computation.

And the complicated logic circuits built with electronics resembled nerve cell activity, most prominently realized by McCulloch and Pitts in the 1940s.
Gah! Too late to edit, but thanks.
i can’t imagine being a a trillion dollar company doing any serious business with a company where the entire executive suite has vacated except the ceo that’s clearly doing things.

at this phase, it would be disastrous for apple to bank their reputation on sam.
Related and easily explained: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
In Michigan anyone can do a in-person plate lookup for about $15 and it comes back with complete registration information including name and address. VIN and car details as well.
…and to still believe that IQ levels measure something meaningful is pretty average Joe anyway. Could be the rise of videogames for all we know.
"next few thousand days"

can we stick to years as a unit of measure and not spread Sam Altman's phrase :)
This actually may be true although somewhat indirectly with respect to at least one well-known conspiracy belief.

If I recall correctly, the Flat Earth Society was originally concieved as a prank intended to lampoon actual conspiratorial groups (I.e. Nasa faked the moon landing, JFK was a mob hit etc)

But through some combination of timing, convimcing execution, and media interest coincidentally developing in the same direction resulted in the supreme irony of an unserious sham cult spawning an unironic counterpart community which rapidly outgrew and ultimately succeeded it.
You can't really run the Worker code without modifications somewhere else afaik (unless you're using something like Hono with an adapter). And for most use cases, you're not going to be using Workers without KV, DO, etc.

I've hit a bunch of issues and limitations with Wrangler and Workers locally over the years.

Eg:

https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/2964

https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/issues/1897
Lunar Lake is very clearly a response to the M1, not its larger siblings: the core counts, packaging, and power delivery changes all line up with the M1 and successors. Lunar Lake isn't intended to scale up to the power (or price) ranges of Apple's Pro/Max chips. So this is definitely not the product where you could expect Intel to start using a wider memory bus.

And there's very little benefit to widening the memory bus past 128-bit unless you have a powerful GPU to make good use of that bandwidth. There are comparatively few consumer workloads for CPUs that are sufficiently bandwidth-hungry.
Yes. Much of US's production has shifted to China and other Asian countries.

So, if you factor in consumption as well as production, the Western world does even worse in terms of responsibility for CO2 production.
It’s just a polarizing and divisive topic, because it touches politics and religion and war. If we wanted polarizing and divisive content we can just watch cable news. We don’t have to interrupt peoples work day with annoying content.

It deserved to be flagged into oblivion and it was.
If you want to speculate wildly on maybes then it’s also hard to argue that hydrogen is fundamentally one of the most common elements in the entire universe and it’s not particularly controversial to say that a high tech future society would probably want to use that rather than the vastly less abundant heavier elements.

> It sounds like realistically we could find the material for powering all of our energy using fission

For a while

> if we had the demand to do so.

Maybe two decades isn’t spot on, but come on, you’re really grasping at straws.

It’s fundamentally less abundant.

20 years? 50 years? 100 years.

Sooner or later you’re going to run out, and not on geological timescales.

Tell me it ain’t so?

There are reasons to prefer fission, but “we have plenty of uranium” isn’t one of them.
Because the war is only partially about engaging with Hamas. It is also about cementing is stranglehold on the West Bank, and in creating conditions in Gaza favorable to what its current regime coldly refers to as "voluntary transfer":

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-in-talks-with-congo-and...
If you need any help, you can reach out to me at pravanjan@palette69.design
I'm high on life.
Wordpress.org temporarily lifts its ban on WP Engine
First, I assume the script was more complex than shown, and "jq" was not sufficient for some reason - because "jq" on such small document would likely be comparable speed to C++ or even faster, while requiring no development effort at all.

The benchmark measures startup time, and Python is notoriously bad with it.
Why is the system requires a python app to be started many times per second? Can the system do localhost socket connection? Then we can have persistent Python daemon, and the speed would be many orders of magnitude faster than 22/second.

If for some reason it has to be process (3rd party system?), then a small C wrapper which does a socket connection to Python process would do the trick. This can potentially help with process management too, as it can launch python backend on demand, kinda like bazel does.

(This is all predicated on the fact that task is complex enough that it's worth setting up a dual-language system like this. I have no way to tell if that's true or not from the blog post)
I do not consider Youtube bad because I never look at it. It is my source of listening long videos, like 7 hours of programming lesson of my favorite programming teacher, you know that it contains some really sophisticated talks.

What about living with no smartphone, I do not need to put anything instead of it because I have recognized the malice of this technology really early, because when I see a human with smartphone, the most similar situation I can name is the relations between a human and a dog, and this never cease to amuze me that the dog in this relation is the smartphonee, not the smartphone. Android 2 was beautiful and never tried to enslave me, Android 4 was beautiful technically but its UX started to rot in the meaning of something not exactly for its users.

"Use it or lose it" is a motto of my brain exercises, my focus is not to lose learning abilities. Innocent things like brushing your teeth with not a regular arm but with another (left for most of people) gives surprising results in the long run but the best brain exercise by far is trying to teach someone at something complicated (Math, Programming, Martial arts, Music).
Nah. Opiates and amphetamines don’t kill 50% of their users. Nicotine does.
I recently got 12.5.4, but haven't put it through the paces yet. My personal experience has been that I don't see very many (any?), critical interventions now. It seems to be handling the more complicated situations like unprotected left turns, roundabouts, etc smoothly.

However, it still doesn't serve a valuable purpose for me yet. I can't take my eyes off the road or my hands off the wheel. Instead, it's the opposite - I must still be hyper vigilante. In fact, it's even worse than that. Because it doesn't drive how I would, I find myself constantly intervening. E.G. I take over when I know there's a good spot to merge for an upcoming turn, but it's delaying the merge. You can force fsd to merge by signaling, but the navigable gaps between vehicles in heavy traffic can disappear faster than fsd will perform the merge. Then the maneuver shifts from reasonable to rude.

If I were just a passenger in the vehicle, I would probably care much less. But right now I'm the operator.

I don't know that anyone will ever train vehicles to behave how you would prefer to drive. I think the gold standard will rather be to behave as you find acceptable as a passenger.

For now, I'm appreciating the much improved summons. Having your vehicle pick you up in the rain is super nice.
>These philosophical questions quickly approach unanswerable.

With the current trendline of AI progress in the last decade the question has a high possibility of being answered by being actualized in reality.

It's not a random question either. With AI quickly entrenching itself into every aspect of human creation from art, music, to chip design, this is all I can think about.
Why would I build that? The built-in source works great, for tens of millions of servers.
Sad part is that devops was never meant to be a title, just a way to work together effectively as a team that included developers, qa, ops, pm, etc. Devops was much like agile, they were great ideas and ways to work, but then got cargo culted to death and today managers have taken them as buzzwords and thrown away all the stuff you actually needed to do to get good results.

Management always takes good ideas and extracts the absolute worst stuff from them, if they don’t just make up shit on the fly that wasn’t even a part of the original good ideas.
CUPS predates iOS by a decade and wasn't developed by Apple.

Apple CUPS is a distinct distribution of CUPS.
Who will pay for it?

Will countries with a head start, who got rich by harming the environment- subsidize, say, infrastructure for environment friendly steel processing in Indian plants?

Or will US/UK taxpayer pay for EV subsidies for Indian people? No, Right?
Yes and in addition malice is enough times predictable while incompetence is just a quantum void where the probabilities are inverted and your hard earned intuition doesn't help you...
A Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (Ca. 1869)
If a specific time promise was the main motivation to stick with lightning, they could have easily said that. I've never seen anyone bring up that mention of ten years before.
It's salaried unfortunately
Today, I offered them a reprieve: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-reprieve/
We definitely need to pump the brakes on this...

Sports gambling ads have become so pervasive that it’s hard to watch a game without being bombarded by manipulative promotions that say stuff like "BET $5, GET $200 INSTANTLY"...

I became a recreational sports bettor in college through offshore books. I always felt like I was doing something extremely dangerous and so was very careful - probably in large part because of the societal stigma surrounding sports betting. I feel like I benefited from having instilled in me a greater fear of gambling dangers that I wouldn't have now if I just started gambling after seeing all these prominent sports talking heads discussions, social media influencer promotions, and constant TV advertisements.

Trying stricter regulations feels like a no-brainer before totally reverting to a federal ban.

At a minimum, we should match the intensity of regulations for other legal vices:
- National min. age of 21 for any state that legalizes sports betting, matching drinking regulations that were set 40 years ago.
- Restrict advertising to audiences where you can confidently report that >70% of which are adults >= 21 years old, similar to recreational marijuana advertisement regulations in states like CA.
- More intense warnings should follow each ad, clearly emphasizing the risks of addiction and the likelihood of financial loss, similar to the mandatory disclosures in prescription drug ads.

Additionally, for the unique vice of sports gambling and it's associated societal dangers, there should be:
1. More intense restrictions on ads:
a. Clearly disclose all stipulations. For example, language like ‘BET $5, GET $200’ should be accompanied by fine print explaining that the bonus bet can’t be withdrawn, and any winnings must be wagered multiple times before withdrawal.
b. Transparent statistics of users' outcomes at specific sports book. Something like: "Y% of our customers who have accepted a bonus bet have successfully turned it into real cash in their bank account. The remaining (100-Y)% lose it all."
2. Regulations on sports book's social media accounts promoting individual bettors' winnings - i.e. Sports books shouldn't be able to promote a story about someone winning $100k on a $1 20-team parlay.
3. Roadblocks, at a minimum, on betting losses for vulnerable groups -- e.g. after a bettor has lost X% of their initial deposit/yearly salary/net worth/etc, the bettor's account should be restricted in some way unless they say to a real person on the phone: "YES, I AM AWARE OF HOW MUCH MONEY I'VE LOST. I WISH TO RISK LOSING MORE MONEY."
4. A requirement that all bets be placed with money deposited via debit card/check/cash. A ban on taking on any kind of debt (like using a credit card to deposit funds into betting account) to place a bet seems reasonable.
Show HN: Craigslist Car Shopping Chrome Extension with KBB and AI Insights
During my exchange in Berkeley, my friends and I decided to share a few cars amongst ourselves. Car shopping was fun at first, until you realize how tedious it is to have to constantly look up the fair valuation with a price advisor like Kelley Blue Books (KBB) for every single car (easily >30% of the time spent shopping).

We were also novices when it came to cars and didn’t know what to look out for. As a result, after less than a month of use, one of our car’s engines completely stopped while I was on the way home from school on the highway. Thankfully there were no accidents or injuries, but it was a harrowing experience nonetheless and the administrative headaches that followed were a huge pain.

These experiences and pains is what led me to create Car Buddy, an AI-powered chrome extension that gives you the fair value of the car in-page on the car listing itself, but also lets you “talk to the car”. It gives you insights and warnings of common issues faced and acts as a personalized chatbot where you can ask questions about the specific car, not just based on its model/make but its mileage, condition and more. It is contextualized with data from the specific car listing fed to an LLM, Gemini 1.5. I hope this tool will help make the experience of used car shopping better than it was for me.

There are some improvements I hope to make, and perhaps some bugs I have yet to catch. But I hope you’ll check it out and appreciate any and all feedback and suggestions on how to make it better!

You can read more about it on my site: https://www.matthiaslee.dev/
Github: https://github.com/matteolee72/carbuddy

P.S. searching for summer 2025 internships :) or work I can do as a final year student
I forgot to add they don't pay us anything extra for time outside of business hours. It's a salaried position
Same but why deal with anything reactive at all? The largest thing in our solar system is an already running fusion reactor that is already beaming 1.361 KW/m^2 to the planet.
Do folks here know how expensive it is to develop a drug? How much work it takes to get it through the pipeline? How much time, heartache, effort, has gone wasted? How many patients given false hope? This is tragic on so many levels