skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, retaliation for using web resources without paying.

> wordpress.org update servers. Nothing about "practically DDOS" of the server

Yes, when you have hundreds of thousands of users this is expensive. What you're describing is expensive.

WPE doesn't maintain these servers, presumably because it's hard and expensive. You can't expect to hit someone's servers with, I'm guessing, hundreds of thousands of requests a day and not pay a dime. If you did that, you would be banned. From just about any free service.
It was being reported that he is now sharing a space with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
> slow consolidation

Move slow, break countries.
For me, I built something I needed, released it as MIT, and then the community improved it beyond my ability to do so. That's pretty amazing, and for me it was well worth the effort. I also got a huge career boost out of it. My experience isn't everyone's, but I'm at least one data point in how FOSS can benefit authors.
Later they might get a fine, which is just the cost of doing business for them.
That happens everywhere.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*OVEEYB4H...
Do tech giants really want to give Sam that much money and power - it looks like the answer is yes.

What will he spend it on?
Inkscape and Krita users are not exploited by Adobe, LibreOffice users are not exploited by Microsoft, and so on.

There are plenty of regular users who use open source software to avoid monopolies and abuse.
> drone is an incredibly broad category and military ones have really good reasons for sometimes costing a ton more.

After following the development of drones in Ukraine since 2022 and also listening to people familiar with the US army, I also think there are some not so good ones, one particular nasty one being scope creep.

Recently heard about a US effort to create home built expendable drones for use at the squad level like the ones Ukrainians use and the result was too heavy and a lot more expensive (some of it thanks to the demand that everything be produced in a US controlled supply chain) but also as a result of good old fashioned scope creep.

And this is nothing new: AFAIK there is an old British military saying something like "an elephant is what a mouse would be if specified by a military procurement committee".
> Shall we just consult you on a case by case basis to determine when and where a putative power differential exists, and exactly when such a differnetial becomes large enough to verge into "unfair"?

Yes exactly. Well not "me" or "you" but case by case yes.

It's not necessary that someone be able to articulate and defend a universal moral philosophy consistent with a given policy in order to enact it. Having systems in place to evaluate specific cases as they come up is sufficient.
The free money up front is bad too. They are acting like drug dealers… the first hit is free. He never would have tried it without that “free” money.
no - this assumes the absolute existence of an unspecified crime, so the question has incomplete context and poisonous assumptions. There are rights of privacy for individuals and groups in mature systems of law. The extremes of "everything I do is my own information" and the opposite "we enforcers have a right to all information at any time" are both explicitly not allowed, for real reasons.
Well, it's not really their choice. If you're really good at picking your bets the sites will all limit or kick you off.

Sports betters really only allow losers to do it. There's a bit of a different ring to "We only let losers choose to play".
I'm going to vote, as I always do. I don't need manufactured outrage as a motivator. Unfortunately that is what ad-driven social media and news needs to get eyeballs, so it's all we've got.
Honestly surprised that they'd remove ads from a printout rather than replace them with their own sponsored content.
If they like sports at all you absolutely know they will.
If Martin Kleppmann is the author I know this stuff will be worth watching out for.
I am seeing questions about why this is a big deal?

The issue is that CNN is using their domain authority to boost this drivel affiliate Money content, and hiding the fact that they are doing it by using layer 7 routing to cloak the site. If CNN used a subdomain, e.g. money.cnn.com, Google could learn that this content should be judged independently from the rest of the site.

This money content isn’t competing fairly. Google is being tricked to think these Money articles should have the same inherent authority as other CNN articles.

Where this impacts the consumer is that the first articles for popular search terms aren’t the best, but instead written by content marketers chasing the highest affiliate. This crowds out legitimate sites (e.g. in depth reviews of the best mortgage lenders) because they can’t hope to rank higher than CNN for the same term.

At the very least, this “path based” cloaking of content authorship should be detectable by Google, but it’s a game of whack a mole, unfortunately.

I think if you had a human curate the best content written for these popular SEO’d search terms, they’d be able to find the diamonds from the rough. That gives some hope that algorithms can improve to rank the most useful content for readers.

It’s also why Reddit is so popular as a source of content in Google.
Journalist: "What are you going to do next??"

CZ: "I'm buying Disney World!"
Why Businesses Are Rushing to Connect Their Digital Ecosystems
I also used the wrong path for /usr/bin/env ;)
> In fact, you know what confuses regular users ? wordpress.org vs wordpress.com.

Yup, it's mentioned by others in this thread but I was also confused by this for a small period before doing further research early in the .COM beginning.
Ben's visualization here is great.

The other biggest help to me aside from the paper and the thesis was Ongaro's TLA+ spec: https://github.com/ongardie/raft.tla/blob/master/raft.tla. It's the only super concise "implementation" I found that is free of production-grade tricks, optimizations, and abstractions.

And for building an intuition, TigerBeetle's sim.tigerbeetle.com is great. What happens to consensus when there's high latency to disk or network? Or as processes crash more frequently? It demonstrates.
> Sam was 20 when his YC batch started, and also would have already been 20 for the YC interview.

PG:

"Sam Altman, the co-founder of Loopt, had just finished his sophomore year when we funded them, and Loopt is probably the most promising of all the startups we've funded so far. But Sam Altman is a very unusual guy. Within about three minutes of meeting him, I remember thinking 'Ah, so this is what Bill Gates must have been like when he was 19.'"

Are you being sarcastic by comparing sam with olympians?

What exactly did Sam accomplish when he met PG to declared as "bill gates" or to get 50 million for his startup within 15 minutes of meeting PG ?

He was practicing being "Michael jordan of listening" ( another PG quote) since he was 5 like olympians ?
> If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. You're out.

Only if you're competing on volume.
This argument has been stated and re-stated multiple times, this notion that use of information should always be free, but it fails to account for the fact that OpenAI is not consuming this written resource as a source of information but rather as a tool for training LLMs, which it has been open about from the beginning is a thing it wishes to sell access to as a subscription service. These are fundamentally not the same. ChatGPT/Copilot do not understand Python, they are not minds that read a bunch of python books and learned python skills they can now utilize: they are language models, that internalized metric tons of weighted averages of python code and can now (kind of) write their own, based on minimizing "error" relative to the code samples they ingest. Because of this, Copilot has never and will never write code it hasn't seen before, and by extension of that, it must see a whole lot of code in order to function as well as it does.

If you as a developer look at how one would declare a function in python, review a few examples, you now know how to do that. Copilot can't say the same. It needs to see dozens, hundreds, perhaps thousands of them to reasonably accurately be counted on to accomplish that task, it's just how the tech works. Ergo, scaled data sets that can accomplish this teaching task now have value, if the people doing that training are working for high-valuation startups with the objective of selling access to code generating robots.
Yeah I've super enjoyed talking with people about various topics around my project. That's a big benefit that maybe doesn't get enough play: you'll probably attract people with similar interests as you, if not also similar values.
>In the past, automation meant that workers could move into non-automated jobs, if they were skilled enough

This was never the case in the past.

The displaced workers of yesteryear were never at all considered, and were in fact dismissed outright as "Luddites", even up until the present day, all for daring to express the social and financial losses they experienced as a result of automation. There was never any "it's going to be okay, they can just go work in a factory, lol". The difference between then and now is that back then, it was lower class workers who suffered.

Today, now it's middle class workers who are threatened by automation. The middle is sighing loudly because it fears it will cease to be the middle. Middles fear they'll soon have to join the ranks of the untouchables - the bricklayers, gravediggers, and meatpackers. And they can't stomach the notion. They like to believe they're above all that.
Solving corporate TLS certificates for Nix on macOS
Maggie Smith's character in both Abbey and HP brooked no BS. We're reaching the time now when more of the Harry Potter teachers are leaving this world, I am not looking forward to the students.
> Instead, they should let people structure their feeds by news organization

Doesn't this immediately turn into the kind of problem TFA is bemoaning? Once a news organization gets traction (opt-ins in this case) on a platform, they'll inevitably start selling space in their feed to one or more crappy aggregators. To the C-suite this looks like free money, since somehow they always manage to convince themselves that the brand damage from it will be minimal or at least manageable.

It sucks.
I think we need to stop using "engagement" as a measurement of anything related to quality and usefulness.
Even attributing the credit to WordPress.org seems hairy. On another thread, someone (claiming to be an Automattic employee) said that the WordPress.org website is personally owned and operated by Mullenweg, and that it has no formal affiliation with the WordPress Foundation [0]. (Even though DNS records place its IP address with the Foundation.) So really, I think the blurring here might run even deeper than it may appear at first.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41656670
I think the most interesting aspect about this is that improvements in robotics could help us eliminate some truly gruesome jobs we currently rely on something bordering on slave labour for. Pricking fruits and vegetables for example is AFAIK for the most part still manual labour. And food is, as opposed to, say, ad targeting, a pretty fundamental requirement for us.

But that's not really growth, it's optimisation. That is exactly the kind of thing that a company that stopped growing does. That wouldn't necessarily make it "the next big thing" though, in the "new frontier" ways we've seen in the past.
At least the broader crypto ecosystem mostly moved over to proof-of-stake, even if Bitcoin will probably always be proof-of-work, so at least most of their Ponzi schemes aren't boiling the oceans in the process anymore. Small victories.
Weirdly it's also kinda worse is better: raft is non-deterministic and has an unboundedly long election cycle time. IIRC:

- it assumes no hysteresis in network latencies and if there is a hysteresis it's possible that elections can be deterministically infinite.

- this fact and the use of raft in production has caused real, large scale network outages.

Paxos is of course a beast and hard to understand. There is an alternative, VSR (which was developed ~time of paxos) which is easy to understand and does not have the issues caused by election nondeterminism in raft.

Of course everyone uses raft so raft dominates.
Security isn't an enterprise only feature.
One time long ago there were people living on an island who had never had contact with anybody else. They marveled at the nature around them and dreamed of harnessing it. They looked up at the moon at night and said "Some day we will go there."

But they lived in grass huts and the highest they had ever been off the ground was when they climbed a tree.

One day a genius was born on the island. She built a structure taller than the tallest tree. "I call it a stepladder," she said. The people were amazed. They climbed the stepladder and looked down upon the treetops.

The people proclaimed "All we have to do now is make this a little higher and we can reach the moon!"
Hey actually there is good news! I follow this topic and the broken dragnet of AML/KYC a lot

The US federal law of Money laundering relies on there being an illicit origin, which means it is impossible to be charged with just money laundering and it can only be a tacked on charge (but it may be the only charge that sticks). Merely obfuscating the origin is not a crime, it’s just stigmatized.

Ironically, if you are successful with money laundering, the origin looks licit.

The government acts like that never happens, DOJ always issues these pompous press releases about how nobody can hide in our financial system, but they dont know anything.
Haha that's my line! I would guess that those people who are already on the seafood website know other technical people in their day-to-day workspaces like silicon valley or Palo Alto or wherever, so it's easy for them to get a link. Meanwhile for those of us on the opposite side of the US or, barely in the Anglo-Sphere at all, we are on the outside looking in and are not likely to get a link just by being mostly lurkers and occasional contributors.

At least for me, I'm the only HN user I know except my dad who doesn't even post, he just got lurk links from his knee if the woods like hackaday.
Probably not, but I'm of the opinion you don't need to publicly post what "acceptable usage" is.

It's obvious and up to the maintainer's discretion. If you're nice to them and contribute that's no problem. If you're not, then your hundreds of thousands of requests a day are no good.

Software engineers are often overly analytically minded, but this is not just a technical problem, but a social one. Naturally if I walk into starbucks and order 500 iced coffees they'll turn me away.

But they don't have a sign saying what their coffee limit is, do they? No. It's a matter of courtesy and discretion. Now if I was, say, a shareholder of starbucks, they could very well make me my 500 iced coffees.
> "As Brazil intensifies its crackdown on companies tied to illegal deforestation, this ruling could help pave the way for future legal action, including against JBS, the world’s largest meat-processing company."

This will never happen. JBS is a big financer and friends with the ruling mafia (government).

Just to give you an idea. The owner of JBS bought a bankrupt energy distributor for a bargain and soon after, the government announced a recovery plan for this distributor through a fee that is being paid on the electricity bill by consumers across the country. Also JBS became big as it is today due to generous over-the-counter loans with negative rates by a state bank (BNDES) during the Worker's Party (PT) previous governments.
I don’t get your response, did I say anything else? I never said that HN has a restriction on being cynical about companies.
Gambling is terrible, and I'll never do it, but unless casinos are holding people at gunpoint and coercing them to play, they aren't depriving anyone of anything against their will. Marketing needs to be truthful of course, and sane regulation is OK, but anything pleasurable can be addictive.

The whole puritanical notion that anything pleasurable is dangerous and needs to be strictly regulated/outlawed is not a good reality, doesn't really do anything except make people lie about what they really want to do (which causes obssession and addiction), and honestly needs to be buried with all the other outmoded concepts.

I'm getting tired of "addiction" being used as a justification to reduce freedoms. If you want to fix addiction, fix the underlying causes instead of banning shit. This involves designing societies where everyone's basic needs are easily met, where people who run into problems can get help easily, where people are encouraged to treat each other equitably, and lowering anxiety and panic. It's hard and doesn't make anyone any money which is why it's not the default state in many societies, but it does prevent these societies from collapsing

But all this howling in this whole topic about how gambling hurts the poor, yet no one is actually talking about how to stop creating poor in the first place - is just sanctimonious virtue signaling. Even if you have a poor friend or relative who got bit by a gambling loss - why is he/she addicted - what did you or society do to address that?
^ THIS! Just...be careful when you get those solutions during shower time; in my attempt to rush out the shower to go get action, I've met the floor a couple of times LOL, so...BE CAREFUL!
No, it very much should not be. We have an existing sort of crime for knowing participation in that kind of thing, it's called being an accessory.

If someone buys, let's say a bike, off an online marketplace, and it turns out to be stolen, they're out the price of the bike. It never belonged to them and gets returned to the owner. But it must be proven that they knew it was stolen for that to qualify as accessory to theft.

If you make any action which has the effect of obscuring evidence of crime, regardless of mens rea, into a crime, you will end up prosecuting innocent people. That's why this legal doctrine works the way it does.
The purpose of cups-browsed is to listen on a UDP port which allows it to receive broadcasts from legacy cups servers on the local network, whereupon it will talk to cups and configure a local print queue for the printers on the discovered server.

A modern setup doesn't need it and doesn't use it.
"The problem with a non-replicable study is that the rest of science can't build on it."

This isn't true at all. You could have future experiments set out to prove the opposite, or to dig into what novel and confounding variables are at play causing conflicting results. The fact that you have studies that inconsistently replicate is actually a sign of possible new knowledge if you can find out which undiscovered variable is causing the conflicts. Especially in medicine, you can have a case study that leads to future studies even though that specific case may not be able to be consistently replicated in other n=1 populations.

"e.g., if someone studies whether or not substance X kills bacteria Y, and it turns out not to reproduce very well, the lack of reproducibility does fairly strongly establish it can't be that lethal"

Or there's another factor that hasn't been discovered, such as back in the day before understanding gram positive and negative bacteria was even a thing. If you don't know the subtypes exist, you would see inconsistent results as that is an undiscovered variable that you can't possible account for until it's discovered. Once discovered and controlled for, the substance could be very lethal.
Ok so with $2B revenue is a 75x sales multiplier, which means a 54% CAGR for 10 years. They estimates $150B/y revenue within 10 years. Google is at $300B/y revenue.
Well banning it would also remove the marketing. Just because some illegal gambling will still happen doesn't mean banning it wouldn't help a lot of people.
Sticking to facts ruffles less feathers than adding a charged interpretation to the facts, it's not very surprising.

("X is more likely to correct you" can obviously also have a negatively charged interpretation, which I'm leaving as an exercise to the reader)
VRAM isn't free, you just put it in the capex pile instead of opex
This is a civil suit, so only a >50% likelihood of guilt is required. The circumstantial evidence is pretty convincing IMO unfortunately.

1. The name, Anna's - Anasztasia.

2. That Anasztasia has the nickname Anarchivist and is a self-described archivist.

3. That Anasztasia had a GitHub WorldCat scraping project.

Perhaps there were more things I forgot. Her personal blog writing reads very similar to the AA blog to me too. I unfortunately think they've found the AA owner.

Thankfully Anna's Archive is fully open-source, so it'll likely live past this civil case in some way.
The reality and the lines are far less clear than you describe it.

Your response ignores many things:

1. WP.org is supposedly NOT part of the foundation, but something of Matt/Automattic's generosity.

2. Despite this, solicits donations that seemingly go to the foundation.

3. Despite this, is hosted on the foundation's AS number.

4. WP.org may not be under obligation to provide services, but when it chooses to discontinue services to one independent for profit user of the open source software, but not to another ostensibly independent for profit user of the open source software that just so happens to be owned by the person donating the services, then there is a conflict.

5. When the open source software, which has a hard coded news feed source that is mostly written by said owner, and this is used to post articles disparaging that other company, directly to their customers, this is also a conflict.
everything worth doing in life is addicting. you cant just ban/regulate dopamine producing activities
It's RCE (as the lp user, if I'm not mistaken) with user action, and only if the firewall isn't blocking required ports. Most systems, even most systems with CUPS installed, never print anything. The number of systems with no firewall (where "firewall" here could just be NAT) that actually print something is even smaller.
This ignores the massive conflict of interest going on. Matt has two competing commercial hosting projects that WPE is directly on the way of.

Whatever perceived sins WPE is accused of, that trumps them all. Extremely fishy and unprofessional.
You can also use this to get a rough idea of who the most insecure people in the room are and work from there.
It's not like WP-Engine isn't trying to explain things in their favour.

I once had someone strategically edit and delete some of their GitHub comments to make me look like an asshole (before GitHub showed you this). Their only motivation was "revenge" for denying a feature request (after which they got all pissy, I told him off, and then a few months later he edited things to make it look like I was being highly abrasive to random people).

What I'm trying to say is: I wouldn't be so quick to trust a one-sided limited set of screenshots from various conversations. Maybe Mullenweg is the "bad guy" here, I don't know, but even if he is that doesn't automatically mean WP Engine are the good guys, or that everything they say is spinless truth.

I'll also add that Mullenweg's communications and actions mostly come across as rash and without much thought. Certainly not polished spin.
> Which I believe was their legal response

Really? I see extortion in those texts, not a legal lawsuit to enforce a trademark.

I mean, is this a legal and well crafted lawsuit? Or just extortion.

> Just called. Should I run these slides or not?

> Is next week a negotiation on the % or it happening at all? I am not going to be able to walk it back

> I know that this is the nuclear option, it sets us down a specific path