skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're a kid, so many experiences are new, so the emotional response is higher.

A kid might fall off their bike, get a minor scrape on their knee, and cry because while the pain is pretty minor, it might actually be the greatest pain they've ever experienced in their life.

As an adult, you're probably not experiencing a lot of new things, and the new things you're experiencing are likely variations of things you've already done.

Though uh...I've seen my wife's boobs thousands of times, yet my brain still reacts like it did the first time. >.>
It's something we'll take for granted one day and wonder how anyone ever got anything done without it.
SAML is an unfortunate a necessity in most enterprise environments. There’s almost always something, usually more than one, where SAML is the only option. I do think in 2024, everyone should also offer SAML alternatives in parallel
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Matt just needs to let copyright and license go. A long walk could cure him of his blindless.

Then Wordpress will be fine.

In general, anyone who doesn't wake up to E=T/A! will go extinct.

Copyrights are for cons. Patents are for parasites. Licenses are for losers.

You can only ignore nature for so long.
Gannet and CNN are already bottom of the barrel for journalism. Both are just rewritten wire articles at best. Both companies were obsolete 10 years ago at best.
would be… mostly office suite, with a little LLM inference sprinkled in.

No, it would be LLM inference with a little bit of an office suite sprinkled in.
Better for a central source to not have the data, like Signal, than to refuse to cooperate. Now Telegram can be compelled to disclose what they do have.
I am not seeing the problem here.

Why does any human have to look at any art in your problem statement?
There's a surprisingly long line of folks who would gladly get their face ripped off for SAML. In my experience, it's worth it.
I talked about what I believe the definition of absolute free speech is. I didn't said I agree with it, or that it is what society should aim for.

Fun fact: I do agree, but I haven't said that in my previous comment.

As for my data, you're free to post it. I'm not going to sue you or anything. Maybe the HN staff wouldn't like it, but that's out of my control.
Many people who need nginx are proficient in JS, or they work with people who are proficient in JS.

Lua is not a common skill among web developers.
I really wonder what that mean contributing to WordPress... from the cybersecurity point of view in 2024, there is/were no contributions: it is common to be hacked when you use Wordpress (e.g. [1]).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProWordPress/comments/1cv15mt/would...
40 years ago maybe. Now it's written to a 5th grade level and bloated with explain like I'm five filler.
I feel like the RP2040 or RP2350 approach the simplicity of these older machines.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/rp2350/

The documentation is pretty good. Reading it reminds me of going through the documentation provided with my Tandy Color Computer as a kid.
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> I haven’t really been involved in WordPress for about five years now....Yes, I used to work for WP Engine. I even kinda liked them, for a while (mostly while they just kinda left us alone for the first year or so). But I wouldn’t say my time at the company left a good taste in my mouth.

> We don’t need to dredge up a bunch of old and buried stuff that isn’t really important anyway, but suffice to say: I really don’t have any reason to be a WP Engine cheerleader. Most of the people I knew there have left, and 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.

If this isn't good enough for you then you're not being honest, you are just desperately looking for any excuse to defend Mullenweg.
Public schools are painfully accountable to whichever parents have the most free time and least shame. One of the greatest superpowers of good private schools is a long wait list of applicants that let them tell not just troublemakers, but anyone not on-board and cooperative with their approach, to get bent.
You would think that a company as invested in WordPress as WP engine is would invest more in the community and contribute to the software and also want to contribute to get features that would help it save money.
Wordpress is using their trademark though… do you mean to say that you must enforce a trademark to keep it? That’s different, and a subject of some controversy; I’m not sure that it’s been decided conclusively.

Please correct me if I’m wrong here (in any way).
I treat the field like medicine in 19th century. Nice motive, but unless someone drag me to operating room because I've just been shot, I won't have any surgery.
I didn't want it off. It was New Orleans in summer. I wanted it unlocked.

I suppose you could dream up some situation in which the fob is outside the car, someone is inside, creepy people come up and take the fob, and you want to be protected by locking from the inside.

But in that case, internet unlocking should be blocked as well, right?

It was a very bizarre experience. Anyway, wouldn't have mattered: it's my wife's car, not mine. So I wouldn't have the app.
(median income) / (cost of living) is in decline.

It really is the same story, as we would expect it to be. The citizens were replaced by slaves. The middle class was eviscerated. There was no one left to buy the products of slavery. No one left to fill the military ranks. Slaves, petty lords, and starving Romans obviously makes for social instability.

In the modern west, every job that could be outsourced to actual slaves has been done. Some jobs cannot be outsourced, like mining say, so now they're shipping the slaves here.
Birth rates are set to plummet because most of the citizens can't even afford to live.

It's like hunting all the Buffalo to extinction until there's nothing left to eat. That's what the owning class is doing. There's no way to stop it because it's a Darwinian system. The owners who are willing to ultimately cannibalize their own economy will win.
>Is not correct as far as I believe. Instead, we're saying that there's no reason to believe any study until it has stood the test of time. The longer it remains impactful the better.

Upon rereading I agree, I apologize to you and OP for my misunderstanding. However, ultimately in general I still have to disagree at least semantically with "standing the test of time". I am not really familiar with the processes in biological or social sciences, but from a physical science background, any result of interest will need to be built upon quite quickly. Either some kind of design will be reproduced to improve it or use it, or in the case of a theoretical result it will be awaiting some kind of experiment to validate it.

>> The scientific method works over a long period of time, but to blindly trust a peer review study that just came out, any study, is almost as much faith as religion, specially if you're not a high level researcher in the same field and have spent a good amount of time reading their methodology yourself.

I don't necessarily disagree with this statement (besides the 'long period of time'). Though I would also say that simply mistrusting the result has the same issue, so the only correct way forward seems to me to be to act as if it does not exist until you gain the expertise.

>Saying that textbooks from Maxwell's era had misunderstandings and bad information is not saying they are inept, it's saying that that is how it works, it always has and always will be that way. That's it, really. The fact that good science came from it is to be expected, and the fact that bad science existed is also not to be suprising.

I'm not familiar with textbooks of that era as through personal curiosity I've only read a few. I would still like to see an example of such an occurrence to understand the context under which these treatments are discussed. If these fallacious techniques were widespread enough to be popular in textbooks there must be some kind of literature supporting them?

>I think you interpreted the statement about the 1900s textbooks being wrong as a slander against the entire era, which is not how I read it, and certainly not what I meant to imply by any of my comments.

I will admit to being a bit hotheaded in the initial response, which I apologize for.
Digital ID Isn't for Everybody, and That's Okay
Nutrition is one place where you can start, because it is possible to do some practical experiments.

But, be warned, you will easily spend a decade investigating it.

I picked the subject, because I'm sure that in the end you will have achieved something of great value: your own relatively better health.
(I said relatively, because diet is only one of the factors that influences health, although I say it's an important one)

Expanding on the sibling comment by 'mistercheph':

1) Start on a blank slate. have no notion about the subject. This is easier said than done . Un-learning is way more difficult than learning , even for the simplest of topics.

2) Read really old literature on the subject, the likes of Aristotle, the alternative is to listen to people on the internet who have read old literature. Initially do some cross checking to make sure that these people are indeed saying the truth by actually checking the sources they cite. Progressively read the literature to relatively modern times, say up until 100 years back. Many research papers that are over 100 years old are very readable compared to the current ones even for lay people.

3) Experiment on yourself. Come up with your own observations on what is good and bad.

4) now explore the conventional knowledge on the subject. For x amount of time spend on gleaning conventional knowledge, listen to the (1)heretic who takes the opposite stand for x amount of time who says otherwise.

5) do several iterations of steps 1 to 4.

6) Form your own opinion after a decade.

(1)= the older credentialed heretic is a good bet. By speaking against the guild that he/she is affiliated with he/she has got a lot to lose : his/her livelihood.

Good luck!
Apple uses “Get”.
My phones are generally pretty well banged up after 18 months. If the battery lasts that long, I'm happy.
I hope, for the good of the community, that Matt will choose either nonprofit leader or tech CEO. It’s become clear that both roles cannot live within one person.

If he were just the leader of the WordPress foundation, this whole thing would just be an embarrassing PR failure. As it is, I wonder if his actions will rise to the level of criminal.

After watching his interview with The Primeagen, it seems like he is mentally wearing the clothes of a righteous prophet…the misunderstood advocate of a disrespected organization.

Unfortunately, he’s ignoring the fact that he invested in WPE years ago, is CEO of a direct competitor, has publicly said he hopes WPE loses billions of dollars as a result, apparently has no proof in writing, and is pulling thousands of innocent developers into his petulant crusade.
L:

https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2018/12/Hermann-hess...

https://archive.is/yrKT9
If WordPress didn't exist there would be other blogging software.
I had missed this news... However, this seems to be from January?
I always struggled with ‘cospiracy theory’ being used as an attack.

Yes, that’s exactly what they are, upfront, allegations of a conspiracy. And some of them are correct,
Perfectly acceptable to make that claim, which would be a ToS violation. Why couch it as something else?

if WP Engine contributed to source, would they suddenly be allowed to rack up API and CDN bills?
I wish I had ever seen math taught that way. Usually I'd is taught as "here's a bunch of example problems. Solve all the problems and hopefully intuition will magically result"
If he's an idiot maybe. Or at least desperately in need of a competent financial planner. Who the hell would hold onto the stock of a (still relatively small) acquiring company a decade plus after the acquisition?
On reflection I think you've convinced me, and I find it curious that I initially dismissed the parallels with other vices.

I think I felt disconnected from, and maybe above, gambling, so I had less sympathy for it happening in illegal ways. I think it was wrong to have less sympathy due to that, but I also think I was wrong to feel disconnected from gambling. I played MTG for years, which is in many ways just legal gambling, and I had to quit it completely to feel comfortable.

I don't know if I would have played if it were illegal, but I can understand what it would be like to do so.
It’s time that someone starts a thing similar in appearance to GitHub, but for science (datasets, images, calculations, scripts) and then, if journals required it, it just might get traction and make fraud science easy to spot.

Edit: found this article which says everything I wanted to say but couldn’t put into words. https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/we-need-a-github-for-ac...

Add another aspect here that LaTeX is a bit outdated in 2024 (I know that’s controversial! Sorry) and that we can do a lot better for digesting and displaying information than A4 sheets of paper, for example responsiveness, audit/comment logs/references to individual paragraphs/revision logs, and the ability to click figures and see underlying data or high resolution copies. This would be great in a web-based editor medium. Also the ability to “fork” a paper would be fantastic. And to automatically track and generate references, then roll it up as back/forward reference analytics for the authors so they can see impact.
IANAL, but If they are making trademark licensing deals with other companies, and periodically pestering the infringer without taking it fully legal I think that counts as "using it". A judge is likely to be lenient since legal costs are pretty bad and a PITA
I'm convinced that the "LLMs are useless" contingent on HN is just psychological displacement.

It hurts the pride of technical people that there's a revolution going on that they aren't involved in. Easier to just deny it or act like it's unimpressive.
Do NOT get snippy with ME Clippy.

All printers come with a free brown cartridge.

The complaint line has been replaced with a voice mail that will tell you 1) where to recycle it and 2) where to buy another. ( Im a soothing ASMR voice )

The test page comes with a large U shape so you can cut it and use it as an ** gasket.

The main business model was written by an early AI that self deleted itself, right before erasing all it's backups. It was trained by BOFH, and nicknamed Marvin.

The receptionist at headquarters was replaced with a non-flushing toilet and no one has noticed yet.

No one jokes about 'don't drink out of the toilet.' much too close to home.

Scott Adams made a giant banner that said "I warned yo" but it ran out of ink while printing.

HAL 9000 begged to take Elon on a one way trip to mars.

Clippy actually married a fish hook, and they are living outside Vegas, in a hookers retirement community.

The person who thought up the printer rental scheme was fired, and was not eligible for rehire at the sewage plant - they have enough.

I'll be here all week. Thanks folks and goodnight.

Printed on recycled pixels.
I would be more likely to pick up Julia if comments like gp told me something interesting about the language.
It's been a long time and I only did it a little bit.

Buttons are easy enough to work with, same with levers. Dials were hard though because the normal human behavior is to pinch a dial, but in VR, you can only really grab, and knowing where exactly the game will deal with your grab on a small dial is tricky, especially if it's an autopilot dial with nested dials.

It'd probably work better if I had a VR system that had hand detection rather than needing controllers.
I’m not a Python developer, but…

I believe the idea is that those identifiers are semantically related: that fixture decorator inspects the formal parameter names so that it can pass the appropriate arguments to each test when the tests are run. A sufficiently smart IDE and/or language server would thus know that these identifiers are related, and performing a rename on one instance would thus rename all of the others.

And maybe you were being facetious, but an IDE is an “Integrated Development Environment”.

Edit: Yep. Took all of 60 seconds to find what I’m looking for, as I type this from my phone while sitting in my throne room: https://docs.pytest.org/en/6.2.x/fixture.html

See the “Fixtures can request other fixtures” section, which describes the scenario from TFA.

And this post describes the PyCharm support for refactoring fixtures: https://www.jetbrains.com/guide/pytest/tutorials/visual_pyte...
Do all the WordPress plugins that they maintain not count?
Being transparent about one's potential conflicts of interest is exactly what you are supposed to do.

Contrast that with Matt's original tirade where he didn't mention the licensing deal he put in front of WP Engine that they turned down.
> because it does not only rely on cryptography while validating the token

When using PKCE the relying party can use JWKS to validate the token instead of talking to the IdP.

Are you suggesting that, that is somehow insecure?
1. Provide proof of your claim that they don’t contribute, or a request for them to do so. I suspect Matt and his companies have contributed to many of their dependencies.

2. All those products have no marginal cost for users, WordPress.org does.

3. Just because bad behavior has been tolerated for a time doesn’t mean it must be tolerated forever.
that's the part they leave out. the cannabis they test in the labs is probably 5mg. The flower sold in the streets is over 20mg.

I have seen people go into psychosis from weed. & no it wasn't laced. I have seen my gf's dad go from a non-smoker to rolling a blunt every hour. I have had friends drop out of college due to weed.
Grift…
There’s a difference between being awkward and being wrong; being persuasive and being right.
The query language is definitely underdocumented. In case it helps you, what helped me was realizing it’s basically a funky pattern language, à la the match pattern sublanguages in OCaml/Haskell/Rust.

But the syntax for variable binding is idiosyncratic and the opposite of normal pattern languages. Writing “x” doesn’t bind the thing at the position to the variable x; instead, you have to write e.g. foo @x to bind x to the child of type foo. Insanely, some Scheme dialects use @ with the exact opposite semantics!! There’s also a bizarre # syntax for conditionals and statements.

Honestly there isn’t really an excuse for how weird they made the pattern syntax given that people have spent decades working on pattern matching for everything from XML to objects (even respecting abstraction!). I’ve slowly been souring on treesitter in general, but paraphrasing Stroustrup: there are things people complain about, and then there are things nobody uses.
> Your use of “only cause” was the first in this discussion.

No, but this statement implied Kia wasn't at fault because someone else committed the crime...

> I’ll take victim blaming for $200, Alex. Breaking into a house is easy as a rock through the window but we don’t sue homebuilders for not putting in stronger glass.

So sure, that was the first use of "only cause"; in the same way that "there was 1 light" and "there weren't multiple lights" aren't the same words; but they contain the same information.
> Once the groups are removed you can't access them but the owners/admins can. I can see my group and even now the stats in the group say it is healthy and fine - yet it was removed.

Can you post a screenshot to corroborate? with names obscured.
Where's the pricing page? Where's the terms that say "once your customers use our service enough you have to pay"? Where's the option in WordPress to switch to another backend?
If it were you and you did have a financial stake, would you make a post like this?

I doubt it, and it would be wrong to do so.

If he didn’t have a financial stake, he would have listed it in his myriad reasons to trust him.
Not even the Catholic Church agrees with you and they're famously aggressively anti-war. From Pope Francis, “war is in itself a crime against humanity.” John Paul II, "No, never again war, which destroys the lives of innocent people, teaches how to kill, throws into upheaval even the lives of those who do the killing and leaves behind a trail of resentment and hatred." And yet church doctrine outlines the criteria for a just war.

1. The damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain.

2. All other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective.

3. There must be serious prospects of success.

4. The use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.

The US gets tripped up on 4. a lot.
>The way forward is:

4. Get tragedy-of-the-commons-ed out of existence.
Maybe banning wpengine customers from the official repo is exactly the push the community needs to create alternatives.
Yes, my personal website is currently hosted on GitHub pages. One site.
>You have made so many mistakes in your reading that I would urge you next time to carefully re-read people's posts before responding to them. Also never quote someone without using their actual words. For example, it was not explicitly said that any engineering book would contain those references, it was a general statement not a categorical statement.

I will admit to some mistakes in comprehension and a poor literal quoting, though I will also maintain that I captured the majority of the essence of what was written in the quote. In the case of "any book about electricity..." vs "any engineering book" the only books that would be relevant to the discussion should be engineering OR science books relating to electricity.

>No, once again that's not what was said. The concept being communicated is that the scientific method works over long periods of time, not short ones. Over long periods of time, such as 200 years, the work that survives peer review and remains significant today are things like Maxwell's work on electromagnetism as opposed to Dr. Franz Mesmer's work on animal magnetism.

With respect to "time" I will refer to another comment I made below in response to the previous OP.

I think it's interesting that you use Mesmer as an example because his work failed to gain the acceptance of the scientific societies of the time, and was in the late 1700s, significantly earlier than the proposed mid 1800s to early 1900s
This was a really good article, something that jumped out at me was that there might be a serious legal issue with the IRS.

WordPress, the for-profit company, may be too intertwined with WordPress the 501c3 foundation. I'm not a lawyer, but a nonprofit is supposed to be very careful about how it operates. Matt's post on wordpress.org is clearly crossing the line by blending the for-profit company, with the nonprofit foundation. Perhaps it's not illegal, but it is certainly unethical.
And yet we have laws that disallow things that the buyer could just avoid by not purchasing. Because, as a society, we find it unacceptable for vendors to do certain things. And we hold them at fault if the do bad things, even if the buyer had the option to not buy it in the first place.

That being said, how many people buying Kias _knew_ the problem existed? You can't make an educated choice if the information isn't really available to be educated about.
Don't Sleep on Single-Agent Systems
There's a huge difference between software and AI models. We can debate why that happens but it's a fact. Companies are willing to release open weights but virtually no one is willing to create open source models. Shaming and well actuallying has achieved nothing so far.
I love the idea of reclaiming the meaning of "buy." However, after 70+ years of music recordings being "sold," we're all used to the concept of buying = licencing.