skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're not obligated to provide free services to people you don't have a contract with, and who are openly hostile to negotiation. This could've easily been avoid by either not mooching off free resources, or by just playing nice.

I'm not arguing that they are obligated to provide free services. What they did was suddenly pull the plug on a free, public service for one specific user, which just happens to be a competitor. Also, this was without any announcement and clearly intent on interrupting the service for mostly unrelated third parties (namely WPEngines customers), just to hurt WPEngine.

As to them being hostile to negotiation, we don't know what happened behind close doors. But from the facts that were publicly presented, Matt wanted an amount of money, has (so far) not presented any reasonable legal basis for it and has overall been pretty emotional, so I do believe WPEngine when they claim that the demand was unreasonable and in bad faith on his side.

If this would have been a calm announcement that WP will cede any free hosting services to for-profit WordPress resellers, with a reasonable timeline for migration, he would have my full support. Maybe I could even get behind singling out WPEngine, if the case was solid. But the way this happens, Matt just looks like the bad guy.

> If I build my business on scraping X.com and then X bans my IPs, that's on me. They don't have to provide me free internet access to their content, that's a privilege.

But someone allows free passage on a toll bridge for everyone and suddenly decides to just deny your transport business specifically and publicly insult you, it looks a bit different. Especially if the owner of the bridge just happens to run a competitor for your business, things do look a bit fishy. I mean, fair enough, but this move was clearly intended for maximum damage and someone doing that does not at all look like the reasonable party, sorry.
That was my point. If it were that much cheaper to in-house everything or if there were cheap SaaS alternatives that worked as well, companies would switch to them. Companies are paying for SaaS because it solves a business need, and for the most part SaaS does it pretty well.
What’s the general consensus on the state of US Navy ships?

The most recent classes seem riddled with various problems - see Zumwalt, LCS, Constellation. I suppose the Ford is relatively ok.
Tbf it's almost always applicable. Get more rest, drink more water, exercise and have a better diet, is universally good advice.
I thought this didn't affect me until tonight I had a call from a freelance client maybe 5 years ago call me.

Just spent the better part of 3 hours after work trying to help him out, what WordPress have done here is ridiculous. It feels like something more petty than a child. Mullenweg needs to grow up and realise that open source is open source. I've read through the cease and desist claims. It's Mullenweg's petty ego destroying an ecosystem of WPE users. So much for his high and mighty 'wordpress is the pinicle of user's experience'

Whatever his angle is, I just replaced Wordpress with a home rolled cms for my client. WordPress can die for all I care. The web would be safer for it.
Somewhat off-topic: WordPress has proven that there is still a market for WordPress-style CRM and managed solution even in 2024. Why hasn't a strong, open source competitor emerged over the years? Because if there is an alternative, this article would be much less relevant, and the events may not have happened in the first place. Is it because CRM, especially the dynamic kind, is no longer cool, and developers are not interested in this area any more?
Don't give this terrible business ideas.
What else would you expect from a skeevy backstabber who got kicked out of Kenya for refusing to stop scanning people's eyes in exchange for shitcoin crypto? He was building a global surveillance database with Worldcoin.

Altman was fucking with OpenAI for long before the board left in protest, since about the time Elon Musk had to leave due to Tesla's AI posing a conflict of interest. He got more and more brazen with the whole fake-altruism shit, up to and including contradicting every point in their mission statement and promise to investors in the "charity."
yes i believe so
Ah actually they’re 8mm cassette tapes and vhs-c. From 20-40 years ago
In this case it's not the privacy you need from ToR but access so it doesn't really matter if the NSA runs the exit nodes because you're not exiting.
I think they're both overhyped by sci-fi optimism but I would agree (even being mostly an AI minimalist) the impact of LLMs (and their improvement velocity) is a lot meaningful to me right now. I mean satellites are cool and all.
Useless use of printf; what's wrong with "puts(str)"?
"This means that whenever a user visits a website on Cloudflare that has ECH enabled, no one except for the user, Cloudflare, and the website owner will be able to determine which website was visited. Cloudflare is a big proponent of privacy for everyone and is excited about the prospects of bringing this technology to life.'

This isn't privacy. This is centralized snooping.

It's like Google's approach to third party cookies. Nobody other than Google can have tracking information.
What database is burdened by 200k rows? That’s tiny.
Official Minecraft Creator Channel Launched on YouTube
This isn't about the video part of the recordings
I decided on pigs as the smart threshold because they were as smart as my dogs, and I would never eat my dog. Mutton, lamb, or chicken is no problem whatsoever. You grab them by the neck, stare deep into their eyes, and you will see the back of their skull.
China blocks services all the time. I was one of the original 10 blocked by the great firewall of china.

And starlink can be traced. It’s only time before some people start getting arrested.
I don't know why people are worried about storage. You can just store it on the cloud.
GPS, weather forecasting, tv broadcasting…I’ve been using a space agency for as long as I’ve been alive.
I was under the impression that in UK law at least, (and obviously not in this case) the trustees of a non-profit would be bound to work in the best interests of that non-profit. And so allowing an asset like this to somehow slip out of their control would be the sort of negligence that would land you in very hot water. I'd be interested to know how this isn't the case here.
Also: WP Engine Must Win -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41653480

(Disclaimer: my submission and post. I am a WordPress core committer and built the REST API for it.)
Because at least in America “free speech” refers to 1st Amendment protections, which this does not violate.

“Free speech” does not mean “carte blanche protection from any repercussions from anything I say, everyone is still obligated to like me and be nice to me and do business with me.”
I don’t know if I would quote from completely distinct sections of the Bible and use the phrase “in the same breath”.

Romans 13:1-7 is a controversial section of Paul’s letters, because it implicitly contradicts the teachings of Christ if you stop in verse 1. If you look at the whole context of the passage, he seems to be placing conditions on verse 1 that would exclude pretty much every government in history.

As usual, it’s best to refer to Christ’s words in the gospels when you’re trying to understand his teachings. He preached nonviolent resistance, turning the other cheek, forbade oath-taking.

He did not say capital punishment is cool.
I don't think many realize how much libraries have via internet ("overdrive / similar") these days. You don't even have to show up in person to sign up at my local library.

Libgen and the like tend to just have more on hand though, and that's the big differentiator in usability IMO. There are things your local library just isn't going to have a copy of but libgen will. After that happens once, why bother with the library again? Outside of "it's legal" or "I find more moral" type concepts there tends not to be a strong reason.
They’re also an authoritarian state that doesn’t have to worry about various pesky things that grind Western democracies to a halt.

If the Pharoah wants a fleet of aircraft carriers, the Pharoah will have a fleet of aircraft carriers.
Also, the US commercial shipbuilding industry has always been small. WW2 was the exception where built lots of ships mostly in temporary yards. Since WW2, it has struggled. Naval shipbuilding has been the big part.

It is a lot of pain for reset of economy for protecting a small industry. If US wants more naval shipyards, then should incentivize building them. I get the impression that there has been much reason for yards to improve protected from competition.
Because we're mammals? Ohh they mean non-human milk.
> Most people who want to get rid of Jones Act are economists and other types who sole concern is "How much more money can we make from cheap shipping" while ignoring any national security concerns.

I read "economists and other types" as people who understand basic economics. People oppose the Jones Act because it has devastated the US shipping industry, which is obviously bad for national security. It's not just about cheap shipping.
Be mindful of the forum you're on, and yourself.
>even if you trust the merchant not to defraud you

I understand that your point is to do with personal choice, and being able to navigate pros and cons oneself, so I'm not exactly contradicting anything you said; but after an experience I had with Best Buy a couple of years ago, I wouldn't trust any business not to defraud me (or at least, not to put me in a position where I need to dispute a charge).

I ordered a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra for delivery from them. When I received the package, it was an S22 Plus instead. I explained the situation to their customer service, who told me to ship it back to them for a refund. Then they shipped it right back to me, with a note saying that they couldn't accept the return because it was the wrong item. (Yes, because they shipped me the wrong item! That was the point!)

I don't think Best Buy was intentionally trying to defraud me -- it was presumably just crossed wires on their end -- but a credit card dispute saved me a lot of aggravation, and perhaps money. My credit card company informed me that when they reached out to Best Buy to get their side of the story, they just repeated that I'd returned the wrong item. Since I'd already explained that to the credit card company, they understood that wasn't a satisfactory explanation, and resolved the dispute in my favor.
A theming engine went in something like 15 years ago now; the default theme looks rather dated, but there are plenty of others. See https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/List+of+ttk+Themes (though the screenshots of core themes are from 8.5/8.6 - default in particular has changed a bit in Tk 9).

The "catch" is that the theming engine has its own new widgets, and so to be themed an application has to use the new API. Code from 1995 (or 2005) still produces GUIs from 1995.
It's a lot of magic. New control structures mean dsls are as easy as thinking about them
TOR doesn't man in the middle your traffic. An exit node could snoop your traffic if it's unencrypted, but no TOR nodes can see into a encrypted TLS stream, for example.
Show HN: SwiftUI Reorderable – Pure SwiftUI Drag and Drop Components
Hey there!

I made a Swift Package containing a UI component I built for an upcoming app I'm working on. It's my first time writing something serious using SwiftUI, and I've been annoyed with many of its limitations, especially when it comes to drag and drop. The native `onDrag` or `draggable` doesn't allow you to customize the gesture it uses [0], has a really opinionated and finicky preview, and sometimes fires `onDrag` more than once in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion [1].

A common answer to SwiftUI frustrations seems to be to just write a UIKit component instead. Given that a month ago, I knew neither SwiftUI nor UIKit and decided to go with the former, I didn't really want to start learning a second framework while barely mastering the first one.

So, I got fed up and decided to write my own component instead. I was a little shocked by how few high-quality SwiftUI open-source components there are. Coming from a mainly web-development background, I expected to find components I could use, and if not, at least look at their code to figure out how it's done. It's possible components like these already exist, and I haven't found them. If that's the case, oh well.

In any case, this was a good learning experience and I hope this component can help some of y'all!

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65311379/how-to-customiz...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74087137/swiftui-ondrag-...
The Nordic economies were also characterized by low-intensity agriculture, resource extraction, and tourism, as well as a remarkably similar 28M population vs 26M Appalachians. Topographically, Appalachia isn't much different from places like Norway. Yet the Nordic situation couldn't be more different.

The issues with Appalachia aren't the result of some impossible geographic curse, they're the accumulation of countless political and economic decisions against trying to improve the region. All it would take to fix it is decades of coordinated efforts at every level of society. Obviously that's not going to happen, but recognizing that it's possible is better than pretending that we don't have the ability to change anything about the situation.
Music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery.
Mostly military simulations and training, probably
Ah yes. The amazing service where you have to wait for someone else to finish reading an ebook before you are allowed to "borrow" it ... because reasons. Because obviously reading an ebook is not thread-safe.

As opposed to freely being able to download a PDF on-demand regardless of who else is reading it.
Seems very similar to AWS and Elastic, Mongodb, etc.
Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?
Winning is winning. History is written by the victors. Important to know who you’re playing against, and whether you’re playing by the same rules, and if the rules matter. It’s not great, but it is what it is. We must operate in a way based upon how the world is, not the way that we wish it was.
Iirc the current rate is 120 CRC per month. Sign up here: https://circles.garden/welcome/onboarding

The real question is: are you willing to build a community around accepting it? Otherwise it's just numbers.
I’m not talking about China. China has well made internal alternatives to most western services.

Iran does not.
I was considering getting one but your comment worries me. Do you have an older device? I thought the device itself could do the DRM if you threw an acsm file at it?
I fully agree that users flagged it. What I would appreciate would be if you can please check the data to see if there is a small group of users who consistently flag all negative things about Sam Altman. I suspect the answer is yes.

It is not a throwaway snarky comment, it is an explanation by Yishan and Sam of how they hijacked control of a team away from Condé Nast using a similar playbook as Sam is using in recent years + now to seize control of OpenAI.

This is not about celebrities and I have zero interest in celebrity news. This is about ensuring legal and transparent governance of the nonprofit OpenAI which is among the most likely teams in the world to initiate the Singularity and thus either uplift or obliterate humanity. There aren’t any higher stakes than this.

It would be very wonderful if you could please check the data to see if there are some users who consistently flag content about Sam Altman but don’t really flag other stuff very much. Please.

While we’re on the topic of a small clique of users flagging content about Sam Altman, the fact that I’m one of the accounts who consistently posts things exposing his personality and his past has led to my posts being flagged so many times that my account is in a hellban/shadowban status where any posts I make are automatically flagged by default now but do not appear flagged when logged in as me. This doesn’t affect my comments, just my posts. I understand that I’ve had other posts flagged that weren’t about Sam Altman and that I’ve been a borderline annoying user for some time and I apologize for this.

But if you look at the chronological history of my account, you will see that the hellban/shadowban did not start until I started posting things about Sam Altman. I would deeply appreciate if you could please request a review of this status to clear this status from my account because I believe it was deliberately caused by a small group of pro-Sam users flagging things I posted, and amounts to a form of social ostracism.

I appreciate your help and you’re a good man in a crappy situation. None of this is your fault and I’m just trying to raise awareness so that we don’t end up with a potentially greed-motivated, emotionally abusive man at the helm of the Singularity. (Many people who have worked with him have said these things about him.)

Thank you for everything you do for our community and we appreciate you.
Is it 2? I'm not exactly sure though. I'm interested in hearing the logic
It seems like a lot of these government-owned space things last a lot longer than they're made for. There's Landsat, Spirit, Opportunity, Hubble, the Voyagers, et cetera. It seems to be a pretty steep curve - either they fail on launch or landing or very early, or they far outlast expectations. There seems to be little that meets expectations. I can see lots of failures - space stuff is hard - but why so many things exceeding it?
It’s the excess, unaccessed content. The indexes haven’t been well optimized in MySQL (MariaDB is better).

But still. A lot of small companies only pay $20/mo for hosting …
> But if you're making half a billion in revenue every year on top of someone else's tech, you need to stay involved and contribute back in a very significant way.

Revenue is a red herring. It is not an appropriate measure to determine if and how much one should contribute to an open source project.

Instead, we should measure the need to contribute by the burden one places on the project.

Do you request features or bug fixes? Contribute appropriately.

Do you request support? Contribute appropriately.

Do you simply copy, install, and run the existing software? No need to contribute.
You can't just lay out a supposed fact that 99% of users don't care about speed without providing some sort of citation...
I agree with the sentiment.

Also, interesting username.
Christ gave commandments that superseded the Mosaic law.

He explicitly forbade violence in all forms, with no exceptions for retaliation. And he went further to say you should respond to violence with nonviolent love and submission.

Christ would not endorse capital punishment of Bundy, soldiers in any army, or “stand your ground” style killings.
Yeah but in case they didn't try the best dishes they might not know the extent of what they are missing.
> Having the maximum number of books possible is not really something I would consider a success metric. Or do you think the endless stream of AI-generated books happening right now is a good thing? Also, publishers and copyright are not the only way to monetize your work.

Obviously I think that the combination of value and quantity of books today is much higher in the past, you don't need to nitpick my phrasing. Additionally, the book industry has been in its new peak of written work since before AI became good in 2020.

> Can they? Or does the publisher control that right? That being said, some of the best technical books/works I've read were free.

Its 2024. An author doesn't need a publisher outside of academia if they want to publish a book for free. They might not have an editor or translator, but those things cost money. But most authors like money and since most books loose publishers money its not like the author is loosing out.

> That being said, some of the best technical books/works I've read were free.

I'm glad you liked them. The best fiction works I read I paid for, and trust me I've read a lot of free fiction works.
“Renting” the content is a better description. Hopefully one day the pricing reflects that.
Can they interbreed?
You could have multiple reactors at the same site. Like 100 for example.
As a follow up, explain how Wordpress.com isn't using free software for their own profit.
Tails OS joins forces with Tor Project in merger
This article covers a lot of the history. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-cant-the-us-build-ships

Basically the US wasn’t great at shipbuilding post civil war due to high costs. WWII was an existential threat so cost was no object, and we coasted on that capacity for a long time.
Flickle – The daily movie guessing game
Or you could just copy the JPEG files to multiple devices, using... files, without any specific app. You could use any old software that can copy files from one place to another, like SyncThing, which will happily sit in the background and copy your photos to whatever devices you currently use. If SyncThing stops getting updated, switch to something else. Or copy it by hand again.

Images are files. You do not need to be a computer scientist. If you want them to last, make copies.

Let me just preempt it ahead of time:

> "But what if everything I know and love burns to the ground?"

Consider the following: if all of your computers/phones/tablets/NASes/etc. are destroyed simultaneously, you might have bigger concerns to worry about than losing some photos.
If getting off it was that easy, a lot less people would be using social media
About a year ago (I believe), Sam Altman touted his mission to promote safe AI with claims that he has no equity in OpenAI and was never interested in getting any. Look where we are now, well played Sam.
It's almost as if he's not a good faith actor.
Free public services are a finite resource. Already existing software is not.
This seems like a precursor to the Shattered attack:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13713480 - Announcing the first SHA-1 collision (2017-02-23)

Ange Albertini is listed as an author in both articles.
Not in that context per se, but in the context that a modern state (with deep-learning and cloud data) seems to now have the ability to create a near-perfect psychological profile on every citizen; the only bottleneck is compute.
Fair enough.

I didn't realise it was that bad.
Chips are the limiting factor for AI, and now we have AIs making chips better than human engineers. This feels like an infinite compute cheat code, or at least a way to get us very, very quickly to the physical optimum.
Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes
James should donate it to the UK’s version of Australia’s:
https://youtube.com/@davidthegreen
I would rather expect this kind of change came later, when there has been a huge push to make the "linux desktop" more user-friendly.

1999 sounds like the time when people were a bit more expected to mess with config file and somehow always had a root terminal around. If anything, keep in mind that in 1999 it was still a rite of passage to have to learn how to write the X11 configuration file (what used to be xorg.conf)
Did you stop at any of the fast chargers on the autoroute stops (Aires de service)?

Almost everyone one we stopped at that had a mini-mart/restaurant also had an Ionity or Total station with 8 or 16 bays.
I know this guy Chad with nice shelves.
My main safety habit is to avoid slashless paths.

Bad:

rm *

Okay:

rm ./*
rm /tmp/d/*
rm */deadmeat
rm d/*

Then again, I commonly use dangerous things like `mv somefile{,.away}` that are easy to get wrong, so maybe don't trust my advice too much.