skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
B2/Cafelog is the software that WordPress started as a fork of.

WordPress is a fork that basically killed the original project. No reason that history can’t repeat itself.
> If you’re a tourist, you must cancel before the 10th of the month or you get auto rebilled.

Just in case this is helpful to someone, you can buy the ticket from one of those different transport organizations you mentioned and avoid that time limit to cancel. The one to use for that is https://www.mopla.solutions/, it's a simple app (alternatively web site) that worked really well for me (no affiliation).
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but isn't that standard for pretty much every C-style language? Define a variable outside a function, parallel to the function, and even though that variable is outside the scope of the function it's still accessible inside the function. Or did you mean something else?
> If all you do is use a web browser, you might as well just use a chromebook.

Which is Linux.
No, it's not.

Matt is causing damage to the OSS ecosystem far beyond WordPress.
Easily untrue when you have posts like this at 1400 points and comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245

On the front page for 13 hours: https://hnrankings.info/39918245/
My take in a nutshell: when raw performance and micro-optimisation are the core value proposition, portability and alternative equivalent technologies stop being viable competitive levers. There is just too much sunk into micro-optimisation around nVidia's architecture at every layer up and down the stack.

The only thing that will save us I think is when competition authorities finally wake up on this and force nVidia to share it's tech at some level. The equivalent of the cross licensing deals b/w Intel and AMD that kept the x86 architecture from being a monopoly (sort of).
Is it overused or does it apply to many things?
The point is there's a price where you could get the parts made, and that price is much much lower than a new model. A thousand dollars every few years is something that could go in a budget.

Don't focus too much on the exact number I used, I went on the high end just to make a point, also it's supposed to be a per-major-fix price not a per-part price.
Wow, /r/anime_titties/ is serious doomscrolling. Not recommended.
Really now. It's obviously veg.+ns: vegans and vegetarians.
Why on earth is Matt’s nosebleed on this? Making fun of peoples medical issues is tasteless, and makes me wonder about the motivation behind the rest of the page.
What a 5 year old kid you are Matt. Good that the community can now see through it.
I'm not on Matt's side, but anyone has the right to fork a GPL project and call it something else.
Lol, I opened this in a tab in background and until I foregrounded the tab it reloaded every 2 seconds or so. I hate the modern web... :)
Synth music is awesome. From the big boards to the keytar, I'm all for it.
Ask HN: What is it with this hate and disdain for interns/junior engineers?
Some examples of this that I have seen so often:

No openings for interns or junior engineers, yet the companies and people I talk with, the senior engineers get sick often, lack drive and take longer PTO and their work isn't really that adequate.

Blaming interns or junior engineers for simple mistakes, which the senior which also should have seen.

Not training interns or junior engineers to become senior and be given more responsibility, I'm assuming we are all aware of the bus factor here.

All the while where some really smart interns or junior engineers come out of prestigious institutions (Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc), with a stunning body of work and can absolutely run rings around engineers that are called 'senior' in title only and don't have a body of work to show when they leave.

It is no wonder senior engineers are finding the job market tough now, but it is obviously even worse for juniors, and all the above doesn't help.

Of course, everyone is different, but I don't get the obsession with not giving very bright and talented juniors a chance even though they are more likely to be cheaper than seniors.

Background: I am a senior engineering manager looking to take on interns.
Since you asked, I find the terse version to be completely unreadable*. If I wanted to understand it, I’d end up writing out all the steps for myself anyway.

There’s an asterisk here because you cherrypicked a function that is already widely known and understood. All we really need to understand that function is its name. If you chose complex niche business logic, or The Wave Function, it would have made for a more fair and instructive example.
One fun experience, arriving in München and trying to buy ticket for the airport train online. The app requires your birthdate. The date selector starts from present and only allows to go back one month at a time. So if you're 40 years old, you would need to click 480 times... We bought paper tickets from a machine . Machines work well compared to other countries though.
Yes we do, but there's a bit of nuance to it. Most Dutch people will happily oblige to speak slowly (within reason) if you preface any conversation with a quick "I'm trying to learn Dutch properly", and will appreciate the effort.

Knowing the language will definitely help people fit in better as many conversations amongst the Dutch will still be in Dutch and also most signage and other written texts will obviously also be in Dutch.
Hardly a shallow dismissal dang, as the replies show. It’s a very valid critique of where it has ended up, and goes right to the heart of the underlying problem.

The challenge is if it’s intentional from the start, or merely ended up being intentional at the end eh?

And the folks arguing that the underlying critique are false, as shown in the follow-ups, are wrong.

If anything, it’s just getting downvotes because people don’t realize how on the nose it actually is, near as I can tell.
You can also view all submissions in h1 pre triage.
This was incompetence on both h1 and zendesk as gp stated not a limitation of the platform per se.
among intercity trains run by Deutsche Bahn, the on-time rate hovers around 2/3. it's technically true that "most were on time", but one third being late is really terrible, especially since you often need to make a tight connection.

even if your family has no justifiable basis for believing what they do about DB, they happen to be correct by luck.

https://ibir.deutschebahn.com/2023/en/combined-management-re...
If you copy and paste that triangle you will get "|>".
> the US is a MUCH larger country

with much of the population in a few denser areas, where public transport would make a lot of sense.
> So.. is this fixing a security issue.. or is this because of WP Engine?

AFAIK, here's the timeline.

1. Automattic announced that there was a security issue in ACF.

2. WP Engine fixes it immediately.

3. Automattic bans the WP Engine developers from Wordpress.org, so they can't deploy the fix. This places millions of users at risk, but that's how they roll.

4. Automattic forks ACF, removes the commercial upgrade, and renames it.
What? Creative Commons is good, but [it wasn't meant for code](https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...), and the No-Derivative and/or Non-Commercial Licenses are specifically incompatible with free and/or open source software.

Specifically, it violates freedom 3 of the FSF definition (redistribute changes), and section 3 of the OSI definition (Derived Works). This freedom is at the core of what FOSS is.

And that's before the violation of freedom 0, "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" of the non commercial licenses.
I migrated our company site from Wordpress to PayloadCMS and the difference is night and day. Payload is sooo good.
I suggest you take a look at https://malcontentment.com/.

They have a Patreon and a podcast with daily news (pdf) from Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This is the best source of news. X(Shutter) is filled with propaganda from both sides. The usual news sources are sensational and clickbaity.

Is this something you would like to read?

While the video is probably a bit much the Russians are hunting civilians with drones and has been doing this for some time according to my sources.

Also you can probably find a source with statistics about the number of hospitals and schools destroyed by Russia. Perhaps this will open your eyes?
> It might make you nervous, but this is our purpose.

I love the self report :^)
What about power consumption? edit: My understanding from about a year ago is that AMD and NVDA's chips were priced similarly in terms of performance per watt.
He did say "sometimes Einstein is on the other end, and sometimes it's a drunken child. You have no idea when you pick up the phone which way its going to go.", so I think that's still a valid thing for him to complain about.

LLMs totally violate our expectations for computers, by being a bit forgetful and bad at maths.
Centuries-old mystery over Christopher Columbus to be revealed
Ce quoi on dirait n'est pas vrai du tout.
That isn't what happened here.
Ask HN: Who is working on AR for blind people
After watching the video on facial recognition using ML + Meta glasses I started wondering if we could use LLMs + Vision models to help blind people augment their surroundings.

While I admittedly have no experience with the blind or the methods taught to them that assist them in navigating the world, I have a hunch there's potential to leverage the current LLM/ AI stack to improve upon those methods.

Are their any cool companies or open source projects experimenting with this?
At the bottom of the Wikipedia article I'd linked are references to similar scandals in France as you note, Arkansas, Libya, Italy, and Scotland.
I agree. This is the best move right now. WordPress needed modernization anyway
Well, on mobile they make you think you need the app, but it's region locked. I happened to email them about how this is annoying for tourists yesterday and got a very German response,

"Downloading the Deutschlandticket.de app from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store is only possible in certain countries." (ikr, it's THE problem)
Everything is bad sounds like a defeatist stance.
Fact is they are better than triaging everything yourself and also better than outright ignoring all vuln reports.

It’s an imperfect system I agree - but it’s the best we have
Related threads recently:

Identification of officer from Sir John franklin's Northwest Passage expedition
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41723315

Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41706216
Does GOG games have built-in way to launch a windows game via proton?

Because currently my main reason for using steam is the easy linux installation
So I was, also, a firm believer of the "gotta fix your lifestyle" school of thought regarding weight management until I was introduced to the Maintenance Phase podcast (hosted by Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes).

This podcast, and Aubrey's book "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat," opened my eyes to the fact that many people are just _born_ hungrier than others.

The body will weigh what the body wants to weigh, no matter how many fad diets or drugs you throw at it.

Unfortunately, those whose bodies that don't conform to our modern, eugenicized definition of "healthy" and don't particularly care for working out at all times are dealt a lifelong sentence of social ostracizing, "have you tried this diet" and "calories in, calories out," mostly against their will.

To wit: I can easily scarf down 3000+ calories per day. EASILY. I also know people who struggle to eat 2000 calories per day. I've seen this dynamic with kids in the same family as well.

I'm not saying that it's impossible to make healthier choices. Everyone can benefit from a balanced diet and more exercise. I'm saying that some people will naturally be heavier than others, and that should be okay.
People can be much more annoying than drones, yet they are legal..

But if you want to embrace your inner Karen, get a Remote ID scanner app for your phone - it shows operator position so you can go confront the person flying..
Oh aha thanks for pointing that out. Now that you mention it that does seem obvious. I definitely didn't catch that from the first use though. There should be a better word to capture both those meanings that doesn't confuse my poor regex sensibilities like that. :|
Or, to flip it, what is your reason for being biased against solitude?

Isn't the pressure to be in a relationship just a form of "expectation" and/or "entitlement"?
I have no stake in any of this but some people have nosebleeds without anything nefarious or bad going on. This guy doesn’t need any help looking bad, suggesting that his nosebleed is important is stupid.
Context. Or even the lack thereof. In this case the use of the conditional implies an unstated condition, the "if I'm right about it" condition.

This is more idiomatic than grammatical. It's the same in Spanish. In English we don't have this sort of idiom, so that phrase doesn't translate very well.
To add some data about the situation in Middle East, just two days ago Israeli forces fired against the UNIFIL (UN) peacekeeping forces in Lebanon.

Hopefully the following (UN, BBC) are considered reliable enough sources.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155551

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0g2ge1k81o
Continuations: The magic behind virtual threads in Java [video]
Sure, phreakers could attack the central office equipment, and get free calls, disrupt the network some, but they couldn't make some other customer's phone explode, or melt into slag, or ring 1,000,000 numbers at once, from 5,000 miles away.
You can look at studies done using psylocybin for a start, but also, adjust based on your own experience. Most people use between one and two grams of mushrooms, with two grams being quite strong strong for many people.

Some people are tempted to push the dosage so far as they can take it to experience "ego death", and I don't think that's necessary for therapeutic effects. Not quite sure how safe it is to push the dosage as high as you can either. There's some kind of esoteric belief in some circles that you'll get some magic enlightenment, connecting with another realm if you trip hard enough, but imo that mostly attracts people who already have fragile mental health.
Surprised how positive you're writivg about the German public transport. The Deutsche Bahn doesn't have a good reputation in central Europe.

I guess my frame of reference isn't average, given I live in Switzerland.

Edit: the 49-euro ticket is great though!
I really really would like to see Labour in the UK to use their sizeable majority + Parliamentary sovereignty to upgrade the UK’s infrastructure, including more train subsidies, but they seem very cautious and also terrified of raising taxes. Such a waste that the UK is one of the few places where Parliament could just ram shit through and yet building anything in the UK is so hampered by self-imposed red tape.
Providing these €49 tickets requires an annual subsidy of around €3bn, on top of already substantial subsidies for the rail industry. If we accept that it reduces carbon emissions by 6.7 million tonnes per year, then that works out to €447 per tonne. That really isn't good value - most carbon abatement methods cost well under $100 per tonne.

I do recognise that modal shift towards rail may have other positive externalities, but I don't know how to price any of them.

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/ghg-abatement...
He's correct and you referencing a single article that is 6 months old, 1 of thousands that survived the flagging by brigading zionists, is not any sufficient evidence to the contrary.

One can easily see how many Gaza related articles get immediately flagged and removed here https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals
I use my own agent all day, every day. Here is one example:
https://x.com/xundecidability/status/1835085853506650269

I've been using the general agent to build specialised sub-agents. Here's an example search agent beating perplexity:
https://x.com/xundecidability/status/1835059091506450493
Matt you propably don't remember me but we met briefly on WordCamp Vienna 8 years ago. I was hugely inspired by you for many years and still was until few weeks ago.

It's not too late to stop this madness.
4 years ago it was still great. I had one contact with WPE support since they bought the plugin last year or so and it was the most frustrating support interaction I ever had. It felt like I was writing with an AI that was prompted to drive me crazy so that I would leave them alone.
Tire and brake particulate is actually a big component of pollution and EVs will cause more pollution from tire and brake debris, which is already a larger portion of pollution than tail pipe emitions. We're increasing one type of pollution and decreasing another type, we'll see if long term it's a net benefit.

Also, they could ban those things in places like SF or more liberal places, however I believe those are politically losing policies and wouldn't pass in places that are actually experiencing obesity.
Framed differently, it sounds like the youtuber opportunisticially divulged some of their true thoughts on topics slowly over time that would have alienated members of their audience had they known who and what they were initially supporting. Pretty cowardly, but not an uncommon tactic amongst his similar peers.

In light of receiving new information that goes against your own tenants against poorly researched misinformation, changing your opinion isn't really a noteworthy response.
There simply has to be a web page about this somewhere...
> Why not just get rid of outsourcing then?

The problem is corruption. I don't see why you think that wouldn't plague internal operations.
Python has nested functions which does allow access to the nest...er function's variables. The rest does conform to expectations, you get to use parameters, locally declared variables and globals.
So they forked some open source software and "hacked it up" to remove notices from the original creators? Fascinating.
I’d say the main difference, then, is that the booster will be supported by those pins resting on top of the arms. Chopsticks use friction to hold up their load.
Here is a gift, let's make your brand less searchable.
what's the reason it doesn't work??
Could you give an example of how it could be more similar to Markdown? I recently used Typst for my bachelor's project and never really thought that it needed to be simpler
This is not a fork. He stole the original project plugin space, its reviews, download statistics, SEO traffic, etc. It has nothing to do with GPL.
> Compromise of a device can destroy someone’s life.

So in order to prevent a hypothetical hacker bogeyman from getting our data we gladly entrust it to corporations that actively squeeze every possible cent out of it by, among other things, giving access to it to other corporations and uncountable "partners" that will feed us content with the goal of psychologically manipulating us into buying things we don't need, or thinking things someone else wants us to think, destroying the very fabric of society in the process.

I somehow find all of that delusional, our acceptance and support of it nightmarish, and trust hackers to be less diabolical in their schemes.

Computers should serve us, not the other way around. The solution to these problems is tech education, not tech babysitters.
The ticket is available by other apps, too.
Thanks! Twenty three skidoo!
Oh, I know - I live in Oakland. I think even here the population density is lower than in European cities. (It's definitely lower than in Asian mega-cities.)

But yes, I do wish California did better. People are used to bad transit, and have never visited Tokyo or even NYC, so expectations are low.
> There’s a reason we teach things the way we do

Is it that nobody kwen how to make good videos before? Or do you mean that teaching cannot be improved?
HN is relatively tiny and HN's allergy to video is not representative of the internet.

Just create clips from your video and post them on insta, tiktok, twitter, FB, etc. That's the internet at large. If people are interested, they'll watch the full video.
I thought the same thing first, but if you click on the year you can choose from a list.
This isn’t new for Sequioa. OS X has been certified by the Open Group for decades now.
Just logging in now, for the first time in years, I found two options that seem relevant.

For the first one: it presented that I had given permission to "paypal shopping" to share my identity. I removed that permission. This may be the automatically added permission that I had to opt out of. This was in a list of discrete permissions, or apparently so, since there was only one entry, but it could be removed by clicking on a trashcan icon.

For the second one, it was explicitly described with words like "share your info". This was a checkbox-slider, and it was already set to "off".
Secret plan of car driving politicians to decrease the traffic for themselves
Are there any measurements on how much it will slow things down by? Perhaps they plan to add an easy GUI tool to look at crashes, or even add automated reporting to the existing telemetry.

I'm all for it, if only because I don't want them wasting time maintaining two different configurations, if they can unify them, they have more time to improve the important stuff.
Any indication on _which_ setting under "Data and Privacy"?
Agreed. For context, Matt posted the following on the original video:

> Around 20 minutes in, my nose started bleeding, which sometimes happens when I travel too much. Prior to this interview, I was on 30+ hour flights returning from Durban, where I was on safari, to Houston. I'm sorry for not noticing it happening; it's very embarrassing.
That's why they call it "flyover country". Not "railover country".
> If text in Emacs looked as pretty as text on the web does

Do you have an example of this? I can't tell any difference for the fonts that I use (with emacs-pgtk). I believe Emacs uses Harfbuzz (same as Chrom{e|ium}).
AMD had 12 years to become competitive. Deep learning revolution started in 2012.
> In most imperative languages, writing .Map().Map().Filter().Map() is another full copy for each call anyhow

This is incorrect. In fact, the only such mainstream language that I can think of is JavaScript. Python, Java, C#, even C++ all have proper abstractions for lazy sequences, which would get used in such circumstances - and their whole point is that they are composable.

> Plus, in a for loop approach, it is not true that the caller may need another loop with a copy. They may just loop over the result and skip over the things they don't need. They only need a copy if they are going to pass that on to something else.

The point is that your function doesn't know what the caller needs. Yet by making it an eager loop with a copy, you are making that decision for the caller.
Interview with Terence Tao in Barcelona
According to cursory search:

TL,DR: They've confirmed the discovery of his remains, based on DNA.

"DNA evidence has confirmed that the remains buried in Seville's Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See really are Christopher Columbus"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ek271jxpvo
Well maybe it’s good to make it clear that it isn’t markdown to avoid confusion? Also Typst has less syntactic sugar which also has benefits.

More generally, I am really impressed by Typst’s abstractions. I have typset my whole PhD thesis in it without needing any external packages. It was so easy to use the basic building blocks and write a few extra functions for the rest.
I wonder what's the reason for Apple to do this though? Convincing more people to run a macOS server instead of a Linux/BSD one is unlikely the reason (in my mind), but it doesn't make any other sense either...
> What the heck happened?

They talk directly to CEOs who have no idea about SW. The CEOs buy their crap and the employee must use it.