skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always ask myself, "What was a government service necessary in order to obtain this money?" Since there are no capital gains without all manners of law enforcement, the answer is yes here. A capital gain is not a tax on the original income. It's a tax on the capital gain, which would be impossible without the rest of us.
> WordPress has recently updated their terms of use to reflect this.

That’s… a very odd way of portraying this.

The policy, for like a decade, was:

“The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1foknoq/the_word...
> ... every single website in the world would be banned.

Doesn't seem to be even slightly true, as not every website in the world has that crap.
Add another dropdown so we can color code by Base salary only, Stock only, etc.
> Competition is good for everyone!

Definitely!

But see how in your project the very first paragraph explains why it exists, and what it does differently. This is what I think is missing from Dito. It doesn't have to be super in depth.

I do disagree with your argument against Caddy, though. How often do you realistically rebuild your services? If it's anytime you would upgrade, then it seems manageable. xcaddy makes this trivial, anyway. Though you don't really need to use it. There's a convenient pro-tip[1] about doing this with a static main.go file instead.

Good luck with your project!

[1]: https://github.com/caddyserver/xcaddy#warning-pro-tip
https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/04/thank-you-ubuntu-and-lin...
They openly show a possible vector. "The Internet Archive is wholly dependent on Ubuntu and the Linux communities that create a reliable, free (as in beer), free (as in speech), rapidly evolving operating system. It is hard to overestimate how important that is to creating services such as the Internet Archive." Maybe CUPS?
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There's multiple copies of a number of the items.
Are people working on fundamentals these days? It seems to be a forgotten art, where everyone is working at the edge of something.
DE?
It cost $18M. Bro. $18M. Just… no.
Breaking up AT&T lead to innovation.

GDP? Have people forgotten that a vibrant 'Free Market' requires breaking up monopolies?

When did supporting a 'Free Market' turn into, "don't touch our giant corps".
What is the connection? I don’t understand how this would help either Isreal or Palestine?
Sure, but c'mon, HAProxy is the 800lb gorilla in this case when you just need something simple.
> Gov/CIA most definitely knows who Satoshi is.

This is my assumption. It's too critical a question to leave unanswered, from a national security perspective.
It's about revision history, as Matt laid out here: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/

However, disabling revision history is a setting offered as part of WordPress: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/revisions/#revis...

I'd argue that WordPress.com, the paid hosting platform that Automattic operates, is more of a "hacked up, bastardized simulacra of WordPress’s GPL code". By default you can only load a subset of themes or plugins and only if you choose the Business plan or higher. This seems like a bigger issue than having revisions turned off with a WordPress-provided setting.

It also seems a bit rich to be offering a product using the GPL license and then being upset that people make changes to it?
one may as well complain that outlawing bribery caused everyone to attempt regulatory capture instead
How long does an average hard drive last? You'd have to spend that 700k every that many years (plus the extra bits you mentioned). Quite an operation actually
https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/04/thank-you-ubuntu-and-lin...
"The Internet Archive is wholly dependent on Ubuntu and the Linux communities that create a reliable, free (as in beer), free (as in speech), rapidly evolving operating system. It is hard to overestimate how important that is to creating services such as the Internet Archive." Maybe CUPS?
I know many SWEs at boring non-FAANG, non-unicorn companies that make around the medians shown here so it seems roughly representative, anecdotally. The competitiveness of the market for good engineers has forced every company to at least pretend to try to compete on compensation. It didn't used to be this way but it has really compressed wages upward because you simply won't be able to hire anyone vaguely qualified otherwise.
Show HN: A raw HTTP request parser for Python
I needed to parse raw HTTP request strings but couldn't find a good solution so I built it myself.
The problem though, for people who want to use WordPress, is that WP sites fundamentally rely on wordpress.org for downloading and installing plugins and themes, and critically for security updates to plugins and themes. (You can install/update manually, but the standard admin dashbord is set up to make wordpress.org integration by far the best way to do so.)

Yeah, you've got your GPL copy of all the source code. But next week's discovery of vulnerabilities in whatever random plugin gets to be this weeks news means you need to download/install the updated version. Which canonically is found at wordpress.org. We host a couple of dozen sites on WPEngine (and have done for about a decade, very happily with the price, features, and service). Our internal business continuity planning is now investigating ClassicPress, keeping an eye on comms from WPEngine to see what their path forward in terms of keeping WP sites updated without wordpress.org access, and questioning whether it's time to stop using WordPress at all. We already have a few sites that use WP as the admin/publishing tool, and generate the site as static html for hosting via S3/CloudFront - we may make that our standard deployment bit if we had to move all our WP sites off WPE, we may as well investigate other newer tools.

We are certainly having conversations right now with potential new clients warning them of the drama in the WordPress ownership/ecosystem, and advising considering alternative options or at least waiting until the dust settles on Matt's current ill advised crusade.
The research group behind the paper looks reliable, they have a publication record in the area and while it's surprising they can detect metabolites (and surprising that brains were preserved from the 1600s) they seem to have done a lot of detailed work, here's some of their other related work (they also found cannabis residues in some of their material):

"Forensic toxicological analyses reveal the use of cannabis in Milano (Italy) in the 1600's (2023)"

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Forensic-toxicological...
Wordpress is free as in owned by Matt Mullenweg. He has control of the Wordpress foundation, owns wordpress.org, etc. There aren't any adults who can put a leash on him, although I wonder WTF Automattic's board of directors is doing.
No you can't. It's not semantics. It's reality. You can't buy data on people or groups of people from google any more than you can buy data on people from NBC, ABC, CBS. From TV stations you can buy ads during specific programs. That's it. From Google you can buy ads. You can not buy data. Data is something you can do something with on your own, analyse it, etc. Google does not give you data.
> They already got a Nobel prize, one of the quickest in history.

From some aspects, it was late. Gravitation waves were predicted decades ago. It's almost unfair to predict something but then have engineering take decades to catch up to be able to prove/disprove the theory. This is just commentary on the notion of being right decades before the world is ready for it. Of course, it can go the other way where one is assumed to be right but then isn't (e.g., many components of string theory).
Where is this exception?

In the history of Constitutions, no constitution explicitly states that violent speech is protected. Because until now, they've never had to...it's always been understood. Indeed, the the First Congress of the U.S. passed the Sedition Act just a few years after America was formed and it remained law until 1920 (when it was repealed by Congress).

For more recent examples, yelling "fire" in a crowded venue is also prohibited (this example is given to law students). It is important to understand that the law separates the content of the speech from the act it represents, so saying the word "fire" is allowed; what is prohibited is the act of doing something that will inflict harm on others by causing terror and mayhem.

As most constitutions are based on the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. history is relevant to Brazil because it demonstrates that no Constitution protects unfettered speech. To apply the above to what is happening in Brazil: the words are protected, but the act of promoting violence is prohibited. Thus, the far-right extremists' accounts are censored (because they are using those words to engage in the act of inciting violence) but everyone else can say what they said because other people aren't trying to incite violence when they quote the extremists.
If ads were to benefit the customer, then they would be opt-in
I really appreciate your reply!

> In the sense that there are a variety of requirements that need to be checked

Does "requirement" in this context refer to the same thing as a particular ISO/EN/... standard? Or do you mean that there are a multitude of standards, each of which make various demands and some of those might not yet be fulfilled?

My wording was much more ambiguous than I intended. What I meant to convey was that I don't know what hurdles there are beyond conforming to the relevant certifications. I.e. in the automotive conetext, Ferrocene is ISO26262 certified, but is that sufficient to be used in a safety-critical automotive context, or are there additional steps that need to be taken before a supplier could use Ferrocene to create a qualified binary?
come back 2003, all is forgiven
> That said, I do see an issue where some of the smartest people get sucked up by big tech. Instead of working on fundamental advances in image processing they end up working on beauty filters for Instagram. That can't be right.

Can't you say the same thing if you go back 80 years and talk about the smartest minds in the world instead of working on energy for the masses they're working on the atomic bomb?
> URL just to blindly follow a policy, then they will have proven themselves an incompetent arbiter of the domain name system.

Of course I can understand if someone finds the situation stupid. However, ICANN is clear with its rules and every entrepreneur has to take possible (political) uncertainties into account when choosing a .tld, which many have simply not done. You could also accuse them of "incompetence".

When choosing a domain for .de, I explicitly decided against a podcast bro tld like .io / .ai etc. because of these reasons.
Apple Helping Police Use iPhones for Surveillance
Except that ones made up.
> I have seen pay for school bus drivers in fairly standard COL areas approach $25-$30/hr. That is what it takes to put people behind the wheel for those jobs now.

Per FRED[1], median personal income in 2023 was ~$21/hr. Per ADP's most recent survey[2], median pay for people who did not change jobs was ~$29/hr.

Given that context, it is not surprising that the pool of people who can qualify for these jobs (no criminal record, drug screen, etc.) and who want them also demand to be paid near the median income.

(You of course know this, but I want to contribute this data point for the discussion.)

> We could make better choices; we choose not to at scale.

Honestly, this is the American Way. One day our luck will run out and we will fail or be forced to make better choices.

1 - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N

2 - https://payinsights.adp.com
By the same people who guaranteed they'd see certain things at the existing energy levels but now all of the sudden need higher energy levels after they didn't find what they were looking for.
I agree, some of there examples are a little overly complicated by their quest to be hyper composable. In fact they should probably remove that example. I am currently using it with Remix, and using their @effect/platform package to produce a simple web handler (request: Request) => Response (thank remix for heavily promoting the adoption of web standards).

I fully agree parts of the ecosystem are complex, and likely not fully ready for broad adoption. But I do think things will simplify with time, patterns will emerge, and it will be seen as react-for-the-backend, the de facto first choice. effect + schema + platform + cluster will be an extremely compelling stack.
Ratan Tata dies at age 88
Reporting on security issues is always so terrible. Is it a data breach or is it a DDoS? (Or both). Those are opposite things. One is trying to release secret information one is trying to make the site inaccessible.
Various organizations are willing to release open weights but not open source weights according to this definition, so this is going to be a no-op. Open source already existed before the OSI codified it, but now they're trying to will open source AI into existence against tons of incentives not to.
They never do. I’ve heard that Amazon’s data from internal surveys showed a productivity increase from remote work compared to either hybrid or in office.
That’s a complicated chain of cause and effect to claim so casually.
Doesn't WordPress officially only support the two latest minor version release though ? I can't find an official source at the moment but a quick googling seems to confirm that.
Can you do any compile time metaprogramming in typescript?
I have never heard of “jq”. Oh my goodness. Your comment may have just changed my life. I cannot emphasize enough how many times I have needed a tool like this (and, yes, shame on me for not making a better effort to find one). Thank you!
I used to buy a magazine called "Computer Shopper", which I heard about via word of mouth.

Even now I will go out of my way to watch adverts for things like films I might be interested in.

Need to be careful with word of mouth though, many adverts are spread by word of mouth, especially on the internet where people are paid to say "hey this new $product is great". Those are worse that clearly marked ads.
I do this when it's appropriate. Where I'm not sure it applies is in the very common scenario of someone asking a question that doesn't really make a ton of sense. If I do a warm handoff, I'm implicitly endorsing their question, even if it's needlessly hostile or poorly formed or based on a misunderstanding. (I could take on the responsibility of fixing every bad question that comes to me, whether or not I'm the right person to ultimately answer it, but then I wouldn't have time to do my job.)
Respectfully, I don’t think enough has been removed.

As someone with Indian heritage it’s super disheartening to see plenty of comments negatively generalizing a diaspora of over 1B people.

Treating anyone who presents as Indian as apart of cultural monolith is absurd. I was born and raised in the US, and have no connection to the alleged cronyism or caste-based discrimination.

Many of these comments make blanket statements about Indians. I don’t think the same moderation guidelines are being applied in this case. Replace Indians with Europeans, Black people or any other ethnicity and it should become clear that this violates the site’s guidelines.

Here are a few top level examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41786112

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41786205

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41786534
>> I just do not see why people seem to use "unsafe" so much

>Because it’s impossible to implement any non-trivial data structures in safe Rust. Even Vec has unsafe code

Hmm.. wasn't memory safety the main selling point for rust? If not the only. Now mix of two languages looks even worst than one complex. Especially taking into account that it can be paired with safe language from long list. Don't know what rust fans are thinking, but from outside it doesn't look very attractive. Definitely not enough to make a switch. Julia looked better at first, but turned out to be just a graveyard of abandoned academic projects.
Not if you're willing to build the shack yourself, and the mountain is optional.

With a couple minutes of looking, here is 34 acres with a fishing pond, near a river, and it's $40k. Less than most people pay for a car. It is by some railroad tracks. I'm not sure if they are still active, but I'm sure some more looking could find something without that compromise. There were a lot of options, some in the mountains as well.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/S-Pickensville-Rd-Columbu...

Titus seems to make it work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3eJ1t13fk
I think the existing collateral damage examples were pretty actual already. By burying terrorist headquarters under civilian apartment buildings, Hezbollah guarantees collateral damage.
I adore it. `z <project I'm working on>` is my brain's hardwired shortcut to get back to what I was doing.

Pair it with dotenv to automatically set my my shell environment for that project, whatever it is I'm doing at the moment, and it's sooo ergonomic to bounce around between tasks.
What do you mean, by now? The only one who can do so is Tesla. Cybertruck is barely being sold in the US. It always took a few years before Tesla introduced an European version of a car. It's way too early to tell.
It's Haxe still been actively developed? I loved it back in the day. The blog hasn't had an update in years.
Is there any reason to think this? (Honestly asking). It seems like quite a stretch to me unless there is some reason to connect the two.
A pulled an old friends website down from Internet Archive.

He's moved on the next stage, but I was glad I was able to put his site back up.

It'll be a shame if IA goes down permanently, but we need a decentralized solution anyway.

Having a single mega organization in charge of our collective heritage isn't a good idea.
This makes absolutely no sense.
I noticed Missoula as an outlier, too. Anyone have a good explanation?

My completely uninformed guess is that a bunch of highly-paid engineers moved there during the pandemic for some reason I don't understand, rather than anything inherent to the tech jobs market in Missoula. If so, why Missoula (vs., say, Jackson Hole)? And if not, is there another plausible explanation?
Lua has some pretty neat sandbox-type features. I wonder if choosing it is related.
> Why do I care about someone being deprived of a portion of some investment his great-grandfather made?

Because they only get deprived of it if they sell it, so that gives them more incentive not to sell it, but selling it may be more economically productive, and then you lose the positive externalities of the more productive investment and the tax revenue it would have generated, which could by itself plausibly be more than the loss from the step up in basis.

In general the problem is that capital gains taxes when implemented simplistically create a lot of perverse incentives (tax on productive investment is economically undesirable in general and some of the edge cases are especially ugly), and then the tax code gets full of warts that try to reduce the bad incentives/consequences instead of rethinking the structure of the tax.

> If I get money from some relative who invested in stuff and then you get money from working really hard in a way that someone thought valuable so they gave you money for your work, why should you pay taxes on that money while I don't pay taxes on the money I got from my dead relative?

Your dead relative already paid the taxes on any money earned in the equivalent way. Capital gains are on asset appreciation, which is an industrial-sized can of worms.
It's super ironic that Google pushes this while literally under investigation in multiple jurisdictions about being a monopoly and abusing it's power.

It seems like the leadership team literally either can't help themselves by maybe just not screwing over their users, or they reckon they're too big to really suffer any consequences.

Maybe they're just content with the outcome either way, potential golden handshakes and all?
Is this compatible with covering your tracks behind 7 reverse proxies in IRC? Asking for a friend.
Elective surgery could slash ovarian cancer rates in Canada
That's a strange thing to read on Hacker news. Isn't that description the definition of hack value? As in http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack-value.html

Now, it depends what the "it" is referring to here, but so far all I've heard is about an alert() message saying the usernames will be sent to a breach alerting site. If they're doing it just for the heck of it, it's still costing a lot of people a lot of time that they could have spent doing better things, but I'd reserve special places in hell for the people who do plan this out carefully and make malicious demands
This was really cool to look at!

But I still don't understand how non-tech people afford to live in SF. Wouldn't they be priced out?
>How do EQL launches work?

>Free to enter. You only pay if you’re selected to purchase.

https://brain.runfair.com/en-US/us/brain-green-day-having-a-...
It is! It's saved me quite a bit of typing since I started using it.
Because in the main, people are vicious, blind, narcissistic brutes.
Well, it's a federation of states so you can't quite do that unless you abandon that conceit.
Both arguments are bad, in that they are both based on the best use of money that isn't yours to use.

Saying "this person's money most benefits me if I let them keep it" vs "this person's money most benefits me if it's redistributed to me" are just two frames that reveal your belief in your entitlement to others property and labor based on your belief of it's benefit to you.
I'd say that the extra moving parts are there in most cases not because someone wanted to "feel smart" (not that it doesn't happen), but to make the pre-existing moving parts do something that they weren't originally supposed to do, because nobody understands how those pre-existing parts work well enough to re-engineer them properly on the schedule that they are given. We are an industry that builds bridges out of matchsticks, duck tape, and glue, and many of our processes are basically about how to make the result of that "good enough".
What weird conspiracy is this? US interests dont involve taking down archive.org
I’ve switched over to devbox, which is a thin, easy to use wrapper around Nix on osx. Haven’t had to install brew yet. Brew was simple in theory but I always ran into so many issues like this, or just various packages polluting everything. Fingers crossed I don’t have to go back

As someone who hates tinkering with this kinda stuff, I’m surprised how well it works so far
The comment that captured my attention:

SafariBob
Meh... This is so easy to do. Anyone with moderate lego skills can put this together in an afternoon.

HN reader found in the wild?
As a computer scientist who is oppositional to AGI boom-bubble mania, it was easy to decry the Nobel in physics. But, contextually given who Murray Gell-Mann was and what field he was in (astrophysics) I feel a very strong Gell-Mann Effect here because I am happy to accept THIS use of computational systems to advance (bio)chemistry is worthy, and I find myself wondering why I am so uncritical about it?
What is a PHB? I searched online, and found that it could mean bachelor's in philosophy (PhB) or polyhydroxybutyrate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhydroxybutyrate), but neither makes much sense in this context.
ClusterOps is an enterprise-grade Python library developed and maintained by the Swarms Team to help you manage and execute agents on specific CPUs and GPUs across clusters. This tool enables advanced CPU and GPU selection, dynamic task allocation, and resource monitoring, making it ideal for high-performance distributed computing environments.

$ pip3 install -U clusterops