skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly this seems like Matt just wants WP Engine to give him a ton of money, and when they refused his extortion he threw a temper tantrum and abused his dual lead as head of Wordpress.com (the commercial wordpress) and Wordpress.org (the supposedly independent foundation). The lawsuit that WPEngine filed against Automatic and Matt specifically is a hell of a read.

https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Complaint-WP...
They seem to roll out the we're being DDOS'd every time there's some other thing happening.
Isn't that essentially what caused this kerfuffle? Someone forked it and the original guy got upset about the how/why of the fork?
https://x.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844080692772401399?t=j3xDz...

Annoying
I've seen a case where the rust panic handler is used in FFI and this creates a memory leak.
It was better search than other search options at the time, but was quickly an advertising company. It's also too bad that that it was so dominant early, because there used to be 4-5 search Enginess and their results were very different and you could find things in non-google results that you couldn't get from google (and vice versa).

You're not wrong, but it didn't last. Google jumped the shark in its first decade. I remember giving an internal presentation in 2010 or 2012 about how little of the screen real estate in a Google search result was actually search results.
Why would capital gains be taxed in the first place? It's simply double taxation on the income
A tree of Rc/Arc<T> is a tree of references, and is really no different than a Java or Python reference value, except that you'll have to do explicit .clone()s

Is it mutability that's tripping you up? Because that's the only gotcha I can think of. Yes, you won't get mutability of the content of those references unless you stick a RefCell or a Mutex inside them.
I just want a real looking avatar that can mimic my perfect hair cut and perfect trim and perfect clothing and cover my live self and replace it up with this perfect avatar, in a real time meeting.

Is that too much to ask?
That blog is simply saying the same thing as GP—that it’s a term from gov agencies, and musing about applying the same ideas in their work.
I wish the article would communicate more about how WaHo does this. I see they tend to stock their stores with generators, but is that the only thing? Does WaHo have longer shifts, reducing the need for staff missing shifts? Why is WaHo a better indicator than other services, like public transit?
I was asked to solve a CAPTCHA on a hospital registration kiosk to visit a friend.
don't write off those that setup a WAMP and then make it public facing. the time to get a LAMP setup running is pretty close to <1min after a simple double-click on an installer. getting a sane/secure LAMP setup running is an entirely different story that you did not specify as being a qualification.
Doesn’t mention how much smoking is worse.
The first author of the preprint [0] discussed by Scott Aaronson (Stephen Jordan) is also the maintainer of the quantum algorithms zoo [1], which tracks all of the quantum algorithms that have any kind of advantage over classical ones. It's still pretty bleak, not a lot of big wins for quantum algorithms, even assuming we had working hardware. As far as I know, Shor's algorithm is still the best one, after all these years.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08292
[1] https://quantumalgorithmzoo.org/
Me too. It's called mixed-handedness.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance
That was after he made a personal post hating on WPEngine show up on all dashboard of all WPEngine customers.

I read the revisions are often turned off as they cause major issues with database performance. It is a standard feature of wordpress too but them turning it off by default triggered matt
“According to their twitter, they’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.”

A special place in Hell…
They're not punishing success, they're punishing illegal behavior.

Breaking up monopolies has a long, successful track record.
> well known

Did we at some point redefine this to mean "good" or "appropriate" or "acceptable"? If not then, in context, I have no idea what your point is.
Hosting GitHub Actions runners in your GCP, AWS VPC
Your website recommends using `nix-env` to install tools. This hasn’t been the recommended way for a while. It should either be installed declaratively, used in a shell without installing, or be installed using `nix profile`.
Citizens are taxed as individuals, not families. A person did not have assets, and now they do. I don't care that the land was "in their family." If they are even decent at managing their assets, then they will have more assets when they die than when their parents did. And if they don't, then it's not my concern. I don't believe in government policies to perpetuate generational capital wealth, and I will vote against them as long as we have a system where money can be used to influence the government.
WebAuthn Ruby Server Library
https://checkfordomains.com/blog/could-io-become-generic-top...
I'm accepting scripts for this unscripted series now. We're still trying to get someone credible attached so we can get it green lit.
> Software Engineer, Archiving & Data Services (Remote) [...] Preliminary duties of the role will primarily focus on developing Archive-It

That is. Paying over 100k at the lower end of the range for 3y experience as software engineer
Decades ago Automattic was shopping around for webhosting space and talked to the company I worked at. I feel like I dodged a bullet long ago with this.
We're working on improving our taxonomy right now and would love some more detailed feedback. Do you mind emailing me at <my hn username> @levels.fyi?
A lot of fun stuff in this post.

> then my blogging about it led to a group of ten computer scientists killing the claim by finding a classical algorithm that got an even better approximation.

And its callback,

> Regardless, though, as of this week, the hope of using quantum computers to get better approximation ratios for NP-hard optimization problems is back in business! Will that remain so? Or will my blogging about such an attempt yet again lead to its dequantization? Either way I’m happy.

The idea of working on nphard problems that have “algebraic structure” is clever.

I wonder if the team behind this preprint chose the problem with that intent in mind or if it’s just an observation by Aaronson.
Sometimes one is really just a shibboleth for the other. I grew up in Russia, and my native Southern Russian dialect was similarly derided as "uneducated peasant speech" by some schoolteachers, with a similar subtext - that, ironically, in an area where that dialect is predominant. But then you see the same argument applied to Ukrainian and Belarusian (that share some of the distinctive features) and realize that it's not just about being a "roadblock in pursuit of knowledge", even if that is used as a convenient justification that people might even genuinely believe in themselves when they use it - because they, in turn, were culturally conditioned to accept it as valid. It doesn't really make much sense as a reason when you think about it objectively, though.
50 PB * $0.014/GB = $0.7M. $0.014/GB is from[1], bare drive cost without chassis, power, or redundancy.

1: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
it seems PEBKAC all the way down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784705
Hi, everyone!

I am a politics enthusiast and cs student in college. I created a website that tells you if Kamala has proposed a policy. It will resolve to "Yes" if she actually has done so.

US elections are 27 days away and, technically, she has put out a paper with some economics policies. However, when asked during all those interview rounds, she just fails to recall them live. For example, the way she dodged Stephen Colbert's question about what she's going to improve, was especially comical. Thus, I got tired of listening to all her interviews and build this to save everyone's time.

Just a hobby project, let me know what you think.
> Wasn't the Noble prize last year for eliminating local hidden variables? That spooky action at a distance does occur?

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was for experimental verification of Bell's theorem. The experiment did not rule out superdeterministic local hidden variables; superdeterministic local hidden variables does not violate Bell's theorem, since Bell's theorem assumes "free will" (that there is no correlation between arbitrary choices made by an experimenter and the state of the system being measured), but superdeterminism is the denial of that assumption.
Capital markets don't perfectly account for all positive and negative externalities in the world, not even close. For example think of a company that invents a miracle drug that only costs $1 to produce. The net benefit to humanity would be to open up production and sell it to everyone who needs it for a few bucks, but of course the company will do everything it can to maintain a monopoly and sell the drug for $X0000/dose, even if relatively few people can obtain it. Lawyers and lobbyists will get paid a lot of money to get the second outcome, even though they're producing negative value overall.
What are they looking for here? Negative karma?
As you would expect, this is covered in the actual paper [0]:

> Therefore, the 3rd molecule detected in the brain tissues of our subjects, hygrine (an alkaloid present in the leaves of Erythroxylum spp. only), was essential to determine that the molecules detected in these human remains derived from the chewing of coca leaves or from leaves brewed as a tea, consistent with the historical period.

If I'm reading this right, they checked for a number of markers and one of those is found only in coca leaves.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544032...
It's likely maple-flavoured corn syrup, so rest easy :)
Good point and thank you for the reminder. Time to go check my email archives...
I'll also link something i have in my pockets, because _I want_ people to understand how brilliant and ahead of their time Lyotard and Baudrillard were (and talking about them as if they "injured" anything is nonsense). It's a 5-10 minute read, in english, and probably the best, shortest resource ever to understand postmodernism (it's kind of inaccurate though, but i don't want to nitpick when it's a 100 times better than what you read elsewhere):

https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/KlagesPostmodernism...
> It's not a weird coincidence that helps ML; it's inherent in the problem.

This depends on the application. If you are trying to design new proteins for something, unconstrained by evolution, you may want a method that does well on novel inputs.

> Same with drug design

Not by a long shot. There are maybe on the order of 10,000 known 3D protein-ligand structures. Meanwhile, when doing drug discovery, people scan drug libraries with millions to billions of molecules (using my software, oftentimes). These molecules will be very poorly represented in the training data.

The theoretical chemical space of interest to drug discovery is bigger still, with on the order of 1e60 molecules in it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_space
we don't know if it's EU, likely it's one member state.
A very enlightening history. As a non-frontend-dev, this is the context I've been missing - I finally get why Web Components have been such a confusing mess every time I've tried to learn them.

(as a bonus I very much appreciate the takedown of React's claims to "unidirectional flow" and "functional programming")
Yeah, I can't understand why anyone would attack IA. The service is a gift to the whole internet.
I'm exactly the same on all those (and add kicking to the right-sided list). Cross-dominant [1] is the usual term I use for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance
How do you think it should be treated? I think at the individual granular data point level adding a tag or note about the equity not being immediately liquid is a good start. But I don't think it'd be a good idea to weigh the stock differently since that can depend on so many things. For example SpaceX and some other private companies do offer regular liquidity and I would consider their equity close to liquid.

Appreciate the feedback though, and definitely agree we can work on how we display the data and make it more clear.
I wonder if this is where the whole left handedness being associated with the hand of the devil (or any evil) came from historically. Our ancestors probably weren't doing studies like this but like many religious/spiritual restrictions that seem like they are backed by "nothing" at first turn out to have a fair application to life behind them it's probably not too much of a stretch that someone at some point or other noticed something like hey, that village/tribe/whatever near us has a LOT of left handers and they have an awfully suspicious amount of violent incidents happening.
I think they already had a company for each letter when they became alphabet
Why is everyone being pulled into this gossip fest around particular CEOS? This is pure yellow journalism inspired hate mongering. Its not even politics which would make sense
so i've now added a page that will route you to view the itinerary you clicked on from the main page without requiring you to sign up. Hopefully this helps. Sorry for the delay in getting this up and running - was working a 12 hour shift, so had to wait until after work
This is the biggest issue I have with Slack. Often I'll have like 5 different conversations involving different people all around the same thing, and the only way to bring them all together is to start a channel which then either sits around forever or eventually gets archived and disappears. There's no way to move messages from one channel to the other to collect a history of comments, so it's not terribly useful for advancing a concern from one group to another as it collects receipts. Instead, the old thread with the old receipt dies completely and the context has to be rebuilt for every new group of people you are talking to.
Yeah, panic/assert is only for Things That Really Shouldn’t Ever Fail, If They Do Our Base Assumptions Have Broken.

whereas Error is for things that are unlikely to fail, like network/filesystem requests and recoverable logic bugs.
Brokers have been required to track costs basis information since 2011. That doesnt really help for assets purchased before then, so estate executors would need to find records for transactions before then. The IRS will generally assume a costs basis of zero until proven otherwise.
Counting the Kids
I should have been clearer.

It doesn't matter that the 9-year-old comes home on a bus vs walking. They still are not allowed to stay at home by themselves for hours after school every day, even if they take the bus.

It's not the conveyance, it's that the parent is no longer on the premises at all.

I simply chose walking because most of the kids in our neighborhood walk to school.
Sleep long every day
They didn’t deny that. They only questioned the broad definition of "Election Skeptics" as “people whose candidate didn't win”
Oh! So it was. If I ever remembered that those were separate PEPs, I'd forgotten it.
Fail: Schedule Push Notifications for your Apps
The market is shit at making long term risky bets that require a lot of R&D.

That's the reason why quantum computing and projects of this type would not exist if you didn't have behemoth companies with extra cash lying around.
Hackers Exploit Weak Passwords and How to Prevent It – Securityxperts.ca
The thing with scissors is, as a left handed person, you'll never find the "reversed" type so you learn to just use "regular" scissors pretty early on. This is probably true with a lot of things, honestly. Yeah I might theoretically be able to cut better with a left handed pair of scissors but since I've never come across a pair I never bothered.

Things get much more interesting with more complex things like golf, snowboarding & skateboarding, shooting, etc. These things all have left-hand optimized equivalants (eg: left handed clubs, snowboards with the bindings set top "goofy", guns with the safety on the opposite side, etc). In all cases its a tradeoff -- you can learn and get good on the equipment designed just for you and then wind up sucking when you are handed equipment that is used by most everybody else or you can just learn to use the "normal" equipment even if slightly suboptimal. Guns, for example, eject their used shells off the right side of the weapon--good luck getting one that ejects off the left side so you can old it opposite of everybody and not have hot metal land on your face.

Computer mice are the same deal... some of those bastards are even molded explicitly for right hand use and are pretty uncomfortable in the left hand.

Being left handed gets weird quick because you are in a minority that most product designers simply don't consider.
Rockefeller had $1.4 billion in 1937, which works out to $31 billion in 2024 dollars after adjusting for inflation. Ranking wealth by percentage of GDP doesn't really make sense. Otherwise, I could move to a small island like Tuvalu and become richer than Bill Gates by fraction of GDP.
The "outliers" employ a quarter million software engineers. You are asking for reality to be warped and censored to suit your weird vibes.
Direct election of the US president would be an improvement. Expanding the House of Representatives as originally formulated, or similarly, would help. Making the Senate reflect the population better by dividing populous states, and/or a statehood option for Puerto Rico and DC would help. Striking down gerrymanders would help.

More contested down-ballot races would help. No excuse for the parties to not have strong organization and candidate recruitment at that level. No changes to laws needed for this.
There's a slight pressure you put on the hinge when closing them. The handedness aligns the pressure to a closing motion laterally (keeping the blades together) as opposed to opening (pushing the cutting edges apart).

They do in fact make a difference. Trimming my beard with beard scissors requires a bit of a strange grip in my left hand to actually cut well when I switch sides.
100%.
https://x.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844080692772401399?t=j3xDz...

This Twitter account is suspicious and odd. I don't think anyone doing this is stupid enough to actually believe that they're doing it to "help Palestine." Seems like a job by Israel or supporting countries pretending to be supporters of Palestine.
I like my hp spectre. Not sure if they still make them, but I had no issues with it. Use lenovo carbon for work and can recommend them too.

Framework is most configurable, but I have no personal experience.
How to Guarantee a Life of Misery
There is no logical way to objectively judge which billionaire is deserving or not of wealth. Any tactic you take will be gamed. I’d rather not pick winners and losers. I disagree that you “win the lottery” by becoming rich.
It's been a while since I've been to a Waffle House, but IIRC they offer both a classic and a maple syrup.
Is levels.fyi biased towards high pay jobs?
Some people have taken the extra time and not gotten it in return, or otherwise been met with negative consequences for helping people.

Bad experiences when trying to be benevolent really take a tole on some people.
Yes, everyone is ignoring the preface to that part:

> Indians being friendly with each other and stone cold with the rest.
Perfect example of whataboutism. Even if what you say is true, did she refuse to concede? did she then incite her followers to attack the seat of government to stop the certification of his victory? did she pressure election officials to « find enough votes » for her to win a state she had lost? did she continue to tell this lie for years and continually attack the integrity of the electoral system, to the point that now the majority of her followers believe the election was rigged?

I stand by my initial statement, you are repeating propaganda, no matter what your motives are. She didn’t open a door that he then followed into, as if his actions were because of her. He even announced in 2016 that he would never accept the election results unless he won. It’s all a big lie.
that's a good point. I've just changed it so you don't need to sign up to view a publicly shared itinerary. so you can browse through itineraries on the homepage without requiring sign up.
In some parts of the country, parents are arrested for child abandonment for leaving children unattended (that's the situation outside at the school before the doors are open).

Depending on when you have to leave for your commute, the doors may well be locked. And doors being unlocked does not mean you are allowed to leave your child there without ramifications. Again -- leaving a child in a school building without agreed-upon supervision is still a clear display of negligence.

Anyway, these are not serious solutions.
More like the library of Baghdad.
It’s suspicious that long term growth into an independent business isn’t realistically discussed as an option.
so do you look at the users data?
Thank you! I should have thought of checking the paper first
Lots of PMs work without a data team and pull their own data. It is a huge time sink. However, it's also a time sink talking to a data team, waiting, and getting back less than what you were hoping for.

I assume you're solo or small - my question for you is whether you need that much data. Heavy data analytics is less important the smaller you are.
If an attractive story takes precedence over fact, then we will repeat the story of a James Bond film. Maybe the one with that bikini scene, bikinis are attractive after all.
They have a Telegram channel and there's some blurb about it being pushback on US support of Israel, but it reads as bullshit. Probably a script kiddie.
After 4 months of development I finally launched CNotify. A notifications scheduling tool with a Calendar view, which I thought it was going to be game changer, but it failed miserably. Not even one sign-up. What am I doing wrong?
#1. Would I have used the computer at the same time/place/duration? Then yes it is free. It literally cost me nothing.

#2. You can pay? Also is the argument somehow that the free thing isn’t free because the ad in it makes the UX worse?

Also curious to know how many ads exactly do you get while using google workspace? drive? android? maps?

Finally: You can literally use Chrome, Workspace, Drive, Android and Maps without seeing a single ad, without an ad blocker, without EVER using google search, for free.
“I went to the site to jerk off (to an adult scenario, to be clear) and noticed that it looked like it [the Muah.ai website] was put together pretty poorly,” the hacker told 404 Media. “It's basically a handful of open-source projects duct-taped together. I started poking around and found some vulnerabilities relatively quickly. At the start it was mostly just curiosity but I decided to contact you once I saw what was in the database.”

What a nice guy.
If you actually read the discussion of this PEP, you can see many Python maintainers strong opposing it on backwards compatibility grounds: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-760-no-more-bare-excepts/67...

In fact, the consensus was so strongly against it that it has already been withdrawn.
A demonstration of what collateral damage actually means.

The bracker was a terrorist so we killed the candle stick makers family.
Yes. Not the hacker but as a hacker, that's what hibp refers to
rustc is a good smart linter