skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's frustrating because the grand-daddy of build systems with automatic transitive dependency management -- Maven -- already had tools from day one to handle this kind of thing through excluded dependencies (a blunt instrument, but sometimes necessary). In my experience, [patch] doesn't cut it or compare.

That, and the maven repository is moderated. Unlike crates.io.

Crates.io is a real problem. No namespaces, basically unmoderated, tons of abandoned stuff. Version hell like you're talking about.

I have a hard time taking it at all seriously as a professional tool. And it's only going to get worse.

If I were starting a Rust project from scratch inside a commercial company at this point, I'd use Bazel or Buck or GN/Ninja and vendored dependencies. No Cargo, no crates.io.
I don't know why they don't fix this. Can't they reconstruct the chain of awaits somehow by addition some metadata to whatever objects they use to keep track of async stuff?
Why do you care how many lines of code the dependencies are? Compile time? Lack of disk space?
Has WP Engine actually done anything wrong? Wordpress is released under GPLv2 which allows modification and commercial use. I don't see the justification for Automattic demanding royalties.
So what is the right answer if I don't care about this HR insanity and just want a job?
The statement at Wordpress.org reads like a very emotionally charged e-mail. While I am not in the know of the situation, it seems like a bit of terrible PR.

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/
I recall that I was very surprised to hear that Go standard library has extensive cryptographic stuffs. Generally that would be very unwise because they will become much harder to change or remove in spite of security issues. Turns out that this particular portion would be maintained by other maintainers who are actually trained in cryptography and security---something almost any other languages wouldn't be able to do with their resources.
I wonder if this could be helpful for those who are sight-impaired.

Sometimes consumer devices don't have widespread appeal but are so useful for some groups

For example, my grandfather when basically completely blind in his 60s. When Alexa came out in his 90s it made such a different to his quality of life in his final few years.
Same here! Really enjoyed 12 mini.
I have never experienced wireless headphones breaking down. Im on my third pair in years - the first pair failed because the cable that joined the two buds died. The second ones, I traded in for AirPods because I got rid of my android.

Meanwhile in the 10 or so years before that I lost multiple pairs of wired headphones to flaky connections - the most common failure method being “have to wiggle it around to get sound through both ears and they intermittently fail if you move too much”
>The reason WordPress sites don’t get hacked as much anymore is we work with hosts to block vulnerabilities at the network layer

I wonder what it means.
Ask HN: Is Management This Boring?
I have had different managerial roles. From project management to project owner. Now I manage a small team and I am bored out of my mind. They to all the fun and I have to spend all my willpower not meddling.

I am the only one?
Yeah this is my take as well. This feels like a mudsling fight and it’s messy. Whatever the .coms do is theirs, but the .org should not be in this one.
Hey we would have been happy with a case insensitive but otherwise correct answer ...
Adobe, Amazon, Cisco, Google, Microsoft Sign Up to EU's AI Pact Pledge
Well, in a word, no.

In a few more words: not at all, not even slightly.

To explain briefly:

> Apple specifically wants that you cannot use non-apple displays

No. Apple does not make or sell or offer non-HD displays and has not done for over a decade. Apple mainly sells phones and laptops with built-in hiDPI screens. Desktop computers that use external screens are a small part of its range, and it sells its own very high-quality screens for those.

Because font antialiasing is pointless on a hiDPI screen, and it only offers hiDPI screens, it removed antialiasing from its OSes.

However, the kit does still support old screens and you are free to use them. The antialiasing feature is gone, but to my (not very strong) eyesight it doesn't matter and stuff looks fine.

> artificially worsening the experience for the user

No. This is paranoia.

> It's hilarious there are people that actually think this is totally okay

People think it's okay because your interpretation is paranoid.

> not just plain anti-competitive

How is REMOVING features anti-competitive? In what universe does taking something out of your products hurt your competition? That is absurd.
Except all the stuff millions of software engineers work on for billions of hours per year.
Then you use `git gui`, which is part of the git distribution itself, or `tig` if TUIs are your thing. I have a key binding for `git commit --squash=%(commit)` in my tig config, so I can interactively select lines or hunks to stage and then the target commit for the squash.
This particular incident comes after another rail-related "cyber" incident, affecting TfL who run services in London. The previous incident was perpetrated by a 17-year old, and TfL have still yet to re-enable the systems they turned off back at the end of August. This means customers can no longer check their contactless journey history or claim refunds online. My understanding is that staff were also shut off from being able to access internal systems. There is no ETA for restoration of service.

I think there's a growing problem with digital competency in some of these organisations. TfL in particular have not kept up with the times, and their once revolutionary ticketing infrastructure and software (I say "their", but it's really all just outsourced to Cubic, there's very little in-house expertise or day-to-day ownership when it comes to this stuff) feels quite dated now.
Not really.

WordPress continues to function in airplane mode with the airplane mode plugin.

And besides, you have to start somewhere. There could be a bunch of independant plugin and theme registries just like there are with Minecraft mods and resource packs. GitHub already serves this purpose for me with WordPress.
This only tanks the reputation of Mullenweg himself and his WordPress hosting company. WordPress powers about 40% of the web - it is too big to fail (as of now).
I'm currently building a skyscraper on the foundations of a bikeshed.

Anyway, a nice idea for generative AI could be to take source code and turn it into a corresponding image of a building so managers can see what they're doing wrong.
I do not know about other US states, but in mine, it is not uncommon to hear radio advertisements for lawyers who specialize in getting people out of timeshares. We have a large population of 50+ individuals who like to spend a good chunk of the year in Florida and they are absolute suckers for timeshares and other methods that promise them cheap or discounted ways to do so.

It's so bad, I bet some of you can guess which state I live in.
Shure 215 are a classic
Isn't haptic feedback supposed to mean that you feel something as feedback that an action happened? If so, then this would be more like haptic feedforward. Apple vision reacts because you feel something, and that sounds as reliable as it probably is.
This sounds like https://www.glean.com/ ?
I'm sure there is many other SaaS like that. It's just the one that came to mind first.

The problem you highlight is real in any large enough enterprise. But the issue is not just about where the info is:

- How do you know you have the latest view of a given topic, ie. the files you've ingested represent the "head" of your company's knowledge tree?

- How do you deal with that important piece of insights that never made it to a digital storage, because it's only in Joe's head and by the way he moved team so unless you know who Joe is in the first place, you don't know what you don't know?

- How do you deal with the fact that some desks really don't like sharing info with each other and a big part of a Project/Product Mgr's job will be to painfully wrestling info from other teams (very real in banking/finance)?

Workplace knowledge fragmentation is an interesting business problem, mind you. I'm just saying it's not just a software problem...

I'd really start with a market survey of the existing competitor landscape if I were you. And maybe niche-down to knowledge fragmentation for a specific role-type (QA or DevOps or Marketing, etc...). And pinging a few existing founders for insights. I don't know, just spitballing.
I think the idea behind Kotlin is that you don't have to do code browsing at 3 am, because you've already finished all your work by 5 PM.
I’ve been using WordPress since b2/cafelog, and hilariously it’s this hubbub that’s made me aware of WPEngine.
God the hubris of the Wordpress camp..

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/

> WordPress is a content management system, and the content is sacred.

Wordpress people have been rewriting content without asking for permission FOREVER, potentially breaking code embedded in content. They rewrite (or perhaps stopped by now, I've moved on) Wordpress to WordPress.
> MacOS have always had the best font rendering on HiDPI screens and also the worst on Low-DPI.

No it hasn't.

Maybe to you "always" means "since 2014" but if so that means you are very young and you should not generalise from that.

I've been using Macs since 1988 and Mac OS X since 2001 and it used to be great on SD screens. I used to use Safari on Windows XP because its font rendering was so much better than the built-in Windows Truetype renderer.

This change is new and recent.

It is absolutely not "always".
I'll accept $100 to take it off your hands.
The statement isn't at wordpress.com
I'm sure they're ecstatic...
If you show your code to unlimited public, there is plenty of sites for this like GitHub or Bitbucket, but itʼs your problem to attract enough reviewers (both in quantity and quality) to attend your project. You donʼt directly need an open license for this publication type, but interest to your project would be otherwise utterly weak.

If you donʼt show your code, this falls back to the trivial case of proprietary resource.

So I donʼt understand the very idea of the question unless it is rechecked or extended.

Some programmer forums allow posting code to discuss any aspect of it, I participate in a few. But in that case you wonʼt be able to control discussion, and you have to find out how to make your request interesting.
Are there studies that talk about its effectiveness after tinnitus caused due to ear infections? I found this[1] but it talks about exposure to loud noises.

Not that it's useful for me since I have permanent tinnitus for years now due to an infection followed by a sudden snapping inside my ear after said infection, but that any recourse exists would be useful to know for future patients.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30653365/
Linkin Park is finally back, with the most hilarious countdown teaser, a secret LIVE comeback show on Sep 5, a new album, a partnership with League of Legends, and a tour!!

Most importantly, a new vocalist Emily Armstrong. What do you think of their new songs?!!
HDMI CEC is a bliss. My tv remote manages soundbar and smart streaming box
Now run anything on a 2014 phone.
Some of us like to understand what's happening in the software we work on, and don't appreciate unnecessary complexity or unknown paths in the codebase that come through third party transitive dependencies.

Some of us have licensing restrictions we have to adhere to.

Some of us are very concerned about security and the potential problems of unaudited or unmoderated code that comes in through a long dependency chain.

Hard learned lessons through years of dealing with this kind of thing: good software projects try to minimize the size of their impact crater.
No decent wired earbuds with ANC or passthrough.
As far as I know, you can still download a plugin, install it in the plugin folder, and possibly restart WordPress, but it's a bit more risky. Installing a plugin via the admin interface is much more comfortable.

That said, as a WP admin of a tiny commercial website, I find it distressing that someone else can influence the functionalities of my Website. I already didn't install Jetpack because I dislike the intrusiveness and, frankly, the spying by Autommatic which is enabled by this plugin on our revenues and commercial transactions. All this points toward a direction that is not pleasant.
His biggest beef with WP Engine is that their code is "bastardized" (???), because it doesn't enable revisions by default for their websites. That's one of the dumbest arguments I've heard. He's trying to convince us that only WP Engine is bad - and all other WP hosting companies are supposedly good.
If you're interested in understanding the graphics algorithms and implementing them yourself, as opposed to using an engine or a library, check out https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch It guides you through writing a software rasterizer and a raytracer, and most of what you learn can be applied to GPU programming.
> Laws are generally clearer if you write them as general definitions and general rules and if those cover too much carve out exceptions in the rules rather than the definitions.

Similar motivation as exceptions for error handling
The question still stands though. Why does wp engine get to infringe on WordPress trademark AND get access to server resources for free?
WebhookX an webhooks gateway
I use se215’s for my band (probably 3 hours a week), and they’re fine. The problem isn’t the 215’s it’s that I’m tethered to something. Thankfully I bought a wireless receiver pack which negates that problem.

I use the AirPods pretty much every day as my main device. The sound quality is poorer, but not enough to make a meaningful difference when I’m listening to music that was mixed for consumers, or podcasts recorded in a closet somewhere - which let’s face it, we mostly are.
> while i understand the sentiment of wpengine not contributing back

To my understanding this isn't even particularly true - WPEngine have contributed significantly to events/sponsorships and with their own open source contributions. Matt's demand was allegedly instead for "tens of millions to his for-profit company Automattic".
Between all the threads, this video is the best for context I think. Juicy part start around 10min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnI-QcVSwMU
> I can’t remember ever having wired headphones that lasted more than one

That's... weird. What are you doing to them? I've had my Shure wired IEMs for 8 years now and they're still fine.

Meanwhile I have a set of 2-year-old Sony wireless earbuds where the battery lasts about 20 minutes. Useless.
Overbuilding nuclear and diverting the excess in liquid hydrocarbon synthesis would be a great way to do things.
Contribute to the ecosystem they’re feeding off? (If they already do, they could claim so, but as far as I know they didn’t; and there are claims from WPE employees that they are even explicitly prohibited from contributing any open source code.)

Not that Matt’s behaviour is any better, but I do see his point here.
I was hoping Ultraconductors[1,1a] would make it out of the lab, and into general use... but the crash of 2008 apparently killed them off. (OR... it was a scam all along. The patent they reference [2] is for a polymer about as conductive as the nichrome wires you use in your toaster)

The other patent they reference[3]... does claim 10^11 S/cm, which is about a million times as conductive as silver.

Imagine what you could do with power cables a million times as conductive as silver.

[1] http://www.superconductors.org/ultra.htm

[1a] https://web.archive.org/web/20090201200804/http://ultracondu...

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5777292A/en

[3] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6552883/en
> I really hate these type of questions. The open ended questions that is about myself is not something useful.

Yes, it can be helpful for a professor, who could see what is interesting for the audience and modify their lectures according to it.

But I believe you underestimate usefulness of such exercises for students. It triggers them to reflect on themselves, why they are studying and what they want to achieve. It is useful as a general lesson on reflection, on consciousness, on active learning, but even more useful for this particular course.

When you think of your goals, verbalize questions you hope to find answers for, then you direct your mind, your attention. You become more of an attentive and active learner instead of a passive one, who just listens and tries to remember as much as they can.

One of the recommendations I heard about how to read a book, was "formulate a question that the book can answer, then read the book searching for the answer". I believe it helps. I struggle to read some books if they are not particularly interesting for me, if I'm reading them in a "fishing" mode: maybe I'll find something useful or at least interesting? But if I had read the title, the introduction, maybe some reviews, to understand what book talks about, if I had then selected questions to the book, and then read the book looking for answers, I have no issues with focusing my attention on reading. If my attention wanders, it does it to think about what I had just read, which is a good sign. Such reading mode guarantees that the time wouldn't be wasted.

> They were forced to do it and they just did it for the grade. The purpose was to encourage communication and collaboration but in my experience this rarely work. People will just put bare minimum to just do this.

Yeah, I know. It is sad. I took an undergraduate course at 35, I studied with people of 18-20, and most of them just trying to fulfill the formal requirements that needed for grades, without trying hard to see what happens. I ended with a small group of students who really tried. Even when we didn't understand the purpose of some exercise we tried hard, got some results (grades, yes, but not just them), and then speculated on what was the point of the exercise. Sometimes we asked professors about the point of the exercise. Most students started with speculating about the point of the exercise and when they didn't see any, they didn't really tried to do the exercise, they just chased grades with the minimum effort.
Guaranteed tail-calls with the `become` keyword have been moving forward recently.
Need more coffee, edited!
I did a double-take at the 3.5k Euro spend per year on clothing. My own spending is probably 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller. But then I saw how many shoes they own, and the fact that they have a summer house where at least one pair resides. This person lives differently to me.
Especially if monetization becomes a priority...
Capitalism as the private ownership of the means of production wouldn’t require anarchy. Nationalization is certainly off limits, but a government that exists solely to maintain a capitalist status quo could still exist. In that case, we could imagine that advocates for a pure capitalism would want the abolition of social services, a flat (if any) tax, the smallest military necessary to prevent invasion, and so on. I’d argue this looks quite similar to the platforms of republicans furthest to the economic right, eg rand paul. The other side’s extremists, ie those who would call for centralized or public ownership of industry, have practically no mainstream political relevance. The closest you’ll get at the federal level are advocates for the nordic model. This unbalanced setup is very unsurprising if you consider that the overton window centers around normalcy, and the most normal perspective in America is a predominantly capitalist system with some labor protections, taxes, and unemployment tacked on.

All of this is unnecessary to mention, however, because you can easily find people arguing, all the time, that the invisible hand naturally prioritizes the desires of customers. This is such a default position that I’m pretty sure I was actually taught that in school (Mississippi to be fair).
It says "None of this forensic evidence matches Mr. Williams", which includes the "fingerprints, footprints, and hair".

I haven't looked at this case in great detail, but it seems a mistake to focus solely on the DNA.
I feel like I missed the entire back story to all of this. There was a cryptic post about private equity a week ago

https://ma.tt/2024/09/are-investors-bad/

and then Mullenweg's attack on WPEngine (and their PE owners) ramped up 0-60 in no time at all.

Like, is this just about support for the OSS project, and is there a conversation on the dev lists I've missed? Why now -- did WPEngine make a threat to fork the project? Is there a dispute around data access, now training data for AI is suddenly valuable? Etc.

All seems so sudden and disproportionate.
> One thing is to decide to vendor everything - that's your prerogative - but it's very likely that pulling everything in also pulls in tons of stuff that you aren't using, because recursively vendoring dependencies means you are also pulling in dev-dependencies, optional dependencies (including default-off features), and so on.

What you're describing is a problem with how Cargo does vendoring, and yes, it's awful. It should not be called vendoring, it is just "local mirroring", which is not the same thing.

But Rust can work just fine without Cargo or Crates.io.
Yep, it sounds like he is jealous/envious that they are making more off of WordPress hosting than Automattic. WordPress being open source makes this even more ridiculous, because he's complaining about modifications to open source software.
But did it upended? Ponytail expected that they can solve the problem in about five years with a dedicated team. Obviously Ponytail is not a real person, so she did not get a real team and five year budget. But real people in the real world got it, done the work, and now this problem is solved and the solution is fielded.

You might split hairs on that it wasn’t five years but three or six depending on where exactly you put the threshold, but it seems to be roughly in the right ballpark of how it went in reality. At least close enough that I wouldn’t call the expectations upended.
The original paper describing the Turing test AKA Imitation game [1]

Do chatbots regularly pass the test as described in the paper?

[1]https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf
Do you have some references to that 40% number, because if that's true, thats terrifying.
I think you’re overthinking things here.

Tests need to grow with the problem they’re trying to test.

This is as true for software engineering as it is for any other domain.

It doesn’t mean the goal posts are moving. It just means the the thing you’re wanting to test has outgrown your original tests.

This is why you don’t ask PhD students to sit the 11+.
On the charging front, I have a charger on my bedside locker that I can plop my phone and AirPods on, and they’re always charged. Job done. I’ve never thought about the battery life of my AirPods in the time I’ve had them, including multiple transatlantic flights and weekend trips where I’m away from my normal setup.
Was looking at who is the author and saw "Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]" in the LICENCE (https://github.com/RikkaApps/Shizuku/blob/master/LICENSE#L19...)

Is this still valid? If not does that mean that this app has no license?
What kind of vegetable is the first 'l' made out of? It's like tiny chicken nuggets.