skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only ruled out one particularly broken model (everything revolving directly around the earth). The dominant model at the time had the sun and moon revolving around the earth and everything else revolving around the sun, with epicycles. All the information Galileo was able to present to people was equally consistent with heliocentrism and geocentrism, and Galileo's favored heliocentric model was less elegant and explained no extra data.

(Not entirely for lack of trying, though Galileo's favored rhetorical approach was 'I'm obviously right and you're all idiots', he did work with some others to try to demonstrate the rotation of the earth via displacement of dropped objects, but didn't succeed because it's quite a tricky measurement)
Interesting, I guess that takes things even further and removes the need for hand-crafted 3D assets altogether, which is probably how things will end up going in gaming, long-term.

I was suggesting a more modest approach, I guess, one where the reverse-denoising process involves picking and placing existing 3D assets, e.g., those in GTA 5, so that the process is actually building a plausible map, using those 3D assets, but on the fly...

Turn your car right and a plausible street decorated with buildings, trees and people is dreamt up by the algorithm. All the lighting and physics would still be done in-engine, with stable diffusion acting as a dynamic map creator, with an inherent knowledge of how to decorate a street with a plausible mix of assets.

I suppose it could form the basis of a procedurally generated game world where, given the same random seed, it could generate whole cities or landscapes that would be the same on each player's machine. Just an idea...
I've experienced this.

It'd be nice to hear from the counter example here, the 10x developers in meritocratic nests. Mostly so we know where they are.
Could be the reason is aging is programmed and when food is scarce the program changes to delay aging, such that the organism has a better chance to survive longer and reproduce once food is less scarce and at that point turn up the rate of aging again.
Just redrawing images drawn by an existing game engine works, and generates amazing results, although like you point out, temporal consistency is not great. It might interpret the low-res green pixels on a far-away mountain as fruit trees in one frame, and as pines in the next.

Here's a demo from 2021 doing something like that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYosbwXm1w
Although you fall sick more often in winter when using public transportation.
This is the real market for this.
You’re arguing that harassing customer service staff is totally okay provided that one can point to some external factor?

I understand that nothing happens in a vacuum, but you’re basically just defending the act of harassing service workers, which I find to be a completely objectionable position.
jwz also predates humanity.
That was my impression too, but now we learn that they have made plugins available, so they are contributing to the Wordpress community, but they're doing it wrong?

I feel like Wordpress is going down the same path as Elastic and other companies have done, make something, open source it and then make a fuss when other companies "misuse" their code? If you want that tight control over how others use your code, then maybe consider not picking an open source license?
If Typst aims for eventually competing with LaTeX, getting outside the bubble of "everyone uses English" is a very good step to take. And it's good to take it early, when your system architecture is still easy to change and not implicitly ossified around englishisms.

Things like "if you ever want to translate your document from English to XXX, you will also need to port it from Typst to LaTeX" tend to be dealbreakers.
That is like saying that with pig factory farming (aka intensive pig farming) you can produce far more meat per square foot than with organic pig farming and therefore it must be better.
Leftpad happened.
I want to point out the absurdity of this for those overly technical, legalese/intellisleaze types capable of rationalizing anything. The types that think a 200 page agreement is necessary and fair procedure before saying "good morning" to a stranger.

For the human out there, untainted by this kind of thinking, I'll put it in perspective:

'To protect you from hackers and save your account, we'll hack it before they do, with a 99.999% guarantee that our efforts to compromise your account will be second to none. Thanks for playing Security Games LLC, subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Please discard your credentials, as the game has now ended. To sign up for a new account and Play Again, please follow original steps. Good day, and rest assured, all your data is safe with us - and anyone we choose to give it to, except you... you get nothing.'

Sociopathically,

-Google Team

Your feedback matters! Please take a moment to tell us what you think of our game on a scale of [0-9] where 0 is completely ineffective and 9 is highly effective

* Portrayed an image of trust, reliability and security [7]

* Simulated real email services with gmail [9]

* Instilled a sense of continuity of services, in your case, 15 years [9]

* Genuinely surprised and caught you off guard when we terminated your account access [9]

* The level of randomness and unpredictability that ended the game [9]

* Google Z/LC's terms of service were challenging and not too easy to understand and did not spoil the fun [?] /Zero

* The losses you incurred when the game was over were very realistic, persuasively emulating or even exceeding those of real life [8]

* The game seemed very realistic [9]

* The concept of passwords and multi-factor authentication made things seem more real [9]

* Confidence that a password was actually a factor in "your" account access and security [8]

* Would recommend this game to a friend or family [0]

* Would recommend this game to an adversary [8]

* Would play this game again - if not, please explain in your own words why not [0]

[Because it wasn't made sufficiently clear that it was a game. Too realistic. No boundaries isolating in-game damage from real life. No option to export game progress. Game wasn't fun and seemed much more business and work related. And just because it's free doesn't justify going too far and causing real problems.]
> A plugin that sets each "the" to red clearly conflicts with a plugin that sets each "the" to blue: at most one of them can "win", so which is it? Does it depend on which plugin was loaded first? If so, that's no better than LaTeX, and will become an ever-growing headache as the ecosystem grows.

Just loading a package in Typst won't perform side-effects. Instead what they can do is giving you some function that will apply the styling to any content passed to it. It will be up to you to choose to wrap your whole document in such functions in order have them apply globally, which can be done conveniently with something like `#show: foo_template`, where `foo_template` is the aforementioned function.

This still has a chance of "incompatibility", like in the blue/red example, because you might do this with two functions from two different plugins. However it is up to you to do this, and it will hopefully be clear that you're modifying global styles in two different ways with a specific order between them.

To be fair though I should mention that some packages will expect you to use `#show` with their functions, so sometimes it will be difficult to avoid using it multiple times.
Just call it TextPress.
This is a common problem with HackerOne and the likes. It's absolutely awful for anything even a tiny bit more unique or rare.
Check out Michael Puett’s The Path.
I think the only reasonable course of action for Automattic would be for Mullenweg to step down and for them to make a mea culpa, but i doubt that will happen. Given that half of the web runs on WordPress, i wonder how many people will actually move away from WP as a CMS. Maybe if there is a succesful community fork.
Also: if "Reject all" isn't obviously placed, I usually think for a second whether I am curious enough to bother rejecting usages individually or whether I rather don't care. Usually I don't care and leave.
If this product ever goes mass market, I'd prefer the name you mentioned in the video, PetBird(TM).
in Paris (and pretty sure that applies to pretty much any big western city, new york for instance is worse in a few of the criterias ill reference) subway increase stress, frequent delays(if you have 2-3 train as part of your commute you will experience it daily), pollution down under is high, virus/covid transmission is high, pickpockets are everywhere if not worse, bedbug, pee smell, junkies. Id take a car any day.
Yeah, it’s a non-starter in a lot of ways. I’m working on an alternate implementation that uses fragments, enabled by ongoing updates to ParadeDB’s syntax. Gonna explore all options and see where the cards land.
Why Sherlock Holmes Ignored the Solar System: A Lesson on Focus
Instead of making it just an elisp interpreter, make it a generic platform where you can interpret any language and have them with together.

Make it Programming Language Macros, PLMACS. Kind of life a POSIXs standard. Or the Truffle framework.
I think the trademark issue is weak in this case anyway. WP Engine has been around for 14 years with that name, and has been part of the Wordpress community.

But absolutely nothing about a trademark dispute excuses the lies, unethical behavior, and just downright personal animus Mullenweg is pouring into this takedown.
The money shot: "...But other factors — including immune health, genetics and physiological indicators of resiliency — seem to better explain the link between cutting calories and increased lifespan..."
If you recognise that there are other positive impacts that you haven't allowed for, then why stating that your incomplete assessment shows that it isn't good value? Does that show bias?
I can only imagine how worse it will be if wordpress is hastily replaced with some javascript contraption
This is gonna be a hard move for some of the IT companies I've seen who have based their entire business around WordPress websites. They literally don't have the skill to use anything else as WP is all they know. Rip.
Desk space, wife/husband factor, cost, etc.
idlewords mentioned some good ones. While English doesn't have many moods, it still has relatively many verb forms (just take a look at past tenses: I ate, I've eaten, I had eaten, I was eating, I have been eating, I had been eating...). In most contexts, only one of them is idiomatic, and knowing which one takes a lot of studying. Also, English has a fixed order for adjectives [1]. AFAIK, this is unusual cross-linguistically - at least in my native language, "big red ball" and "red big ball" would both be idiomatic. If you're really curious, you can take a look at the contents of an English grammar for advanced learners. What gets a lot of chapters, probably trips up a lot of learners. [2]

[1] https://www.espressoenglish.net/order-of-adjectives-in-engli...
[2] https://assets.cambridge.org/97811076/99892/frontmatter/9781...
Butchering is a right afforded by the GPL. As long as you pass along the dog food.
do you have free parking? cities are making money out of parking spots. a lot of money. so much than one would say they have an incentive to reduce parking space to increase price and reduce expenses
Running that image through Segment Anything you get this: https://imgur.com/a/XzCanxx

Imagine if instead of generating the RGB image directly the model would generate something like that, but with richer descriptive embeddings on each segment, and then having a separate model generating the final RGB image. Then it would be easy to change the background, rotate the peach, change color, add other fruits, etc, by editing this semantic representation of the image instead of wrestling with the prompt to try to do small changes without regenerating the entire image from scratch.
Qubes OS exists, albeit it wasn't created by the intelligence community: https://qubes-os.org.
I don't think WPEngine is a fox. I think it's more like a factory farm moves in next door and sells your customers eggs at a lower price, because it keeps more hens cramped in metal cages. So eventually your family farm has to close its hen house and all your hens end up at the factory farm.
I doubt it would be faster in a typical microbiology lab. Every time I've used plasmidsaurus in the recent past I've had results next day. It is a reasonable little bit of labor to prep plasmids for sequencing and then there is a bit of technical expertise required to format the data into a readable format. It's certainly doable, of course! Most lab managers / techs have more pressing things to do than to work on sequencing plasmids. Though I suppose it depends on the scale of your sequencing needs. I found plasmidsaurus to be amazing, and the full plasmid sequencing helped identify some errors that had been propogating in my old lab that never showed up on Sanger sequencing.
Wordpress made me quit web developement and my job at one point, custom plugins in php 5 running on wordpress I think version 4 were a nightmare to maintain.
Great shout, many security companies in South Africa have drone divisions, and drone companies that work primarily in security.
There is an interview [0] with Hoeijmakers, who has championed the idea that the single root cause for both aging and cancer are faults in dna. Faults in dna prevent rna copies, aka _transcription stress_. One of his theses was that if faults in dna happen randomly, we would see aging the most in the largest genes. [1]

In his experiments [2] he was able to turn the knob of dna repair, also in humans, from "organism growth" to "organism survival".

Survival mode can be induced when confronted with food scarcity. If we can unravel the underlying mechanism, we should be able to enlarge our lifespan.

___

0. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/11/de-geneticus-die-gezond...

1. https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0168-9525%2824%2900...

2. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19329
And thus the conclusion is: It's about money. Matt is having licensor remorse. He retroactively wants to change the license and the terms.

Clearly, this isn't about OSS or PE, etc. It's about the depth of Matt's pockets. He might be drinking his own Kool Aid but few others are.

A fork of WP might not be as "productive" but at least it won't have to carry a wild monkey Matt on its back.
Talking to Customers
Hmmm, that mytime.io place doesn't seem super accurate.

It's using the wrong time zone for my location anyway, and therefore the gives the wrong local time.
It doesn't matter if the decision that this bug doesn't matter came from a Zendesk employee or Zendesk contractor (in this case H1). Zendesk authorized them to make decisions on the matter.

The audacity to say "this is out of scope" then "how dare you tell anyone else" is something else.
We did. But we have overshot a bit.
Getting your sources killed significantly setbacks intelligence collecting activities.
This might be a dumb question, but how would an off-screen cursor work in a terminal? According to my understanding of the way terminal emulators/ncurses work, the cursor must be positioned somewhere in the screen, even if it isn't visible.
My comment was about funding.
The economics of free lunch
I will join your religion as soon as you get your deserved tax exemption. Do you accept pastors working from home or coming to the office two times a week?
Buying a fridge. Plugging it into the neigbours outbouse, who also gives you free food, and you use both to run your cafe. Which is fair because the neighbour gives free food away to look the most christian and you pay for the fridge and most people don't want to run a fridge so they rely on your cafe.
There are two past tense forms in Turkish, both of which have been used since the Old Turkish period. Our suffixes for the witnessed past tense are "-dI / -dU." This suffix is explained as the witnessed past tense because the action occurred in front of the speaker's eyes in the past. Our suffixes for the inferential past tense are "-mIş / -mUş." These suffixes express that the action took place at an unseen time in the past. In today's written language, only "-mIş / -mUş" suffixes are used as the inferential past tense markers.

ref: https://turkishstudies.net/DergiTamDetay.aspx?ID=14135
You can embed attachments in PDFs. This way you could include CSV or JSON files into your PDF report. For a quick way doing it with CLI see `qpdf --help=add-attachment`
Fondly remember me and 6 other guys picking up a Mazda Miata and spinning it around in the parking space.

Japan seems to be able to make the kei cars; perhaps we could finally change the laws preventing their sale here?
The Soviets had a strong typewriter implant game[0]. They might have to revive some of their old tradecraft to either deliver implants via the card punches, or monitor what is being sent over the air gap.

0 - https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-crazy-story-of-how-soviet-russ...
Acceptable if he/she is an AI
Europe-wide energy system explorer showing alt. energy configurations
I believe you may have the story confused. Please correct me if otherwise.

WordPress was the one who injected notices into everyone's dashboard. This started because the WP dashboard shows the blogs from wordpress.org, and then they published this post: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/

The result was WP Engine removing the widget that shows wordpress.org blogs on their installs.
Who’s the other “personality”?
I've tried Node when the trend started and it was okay. But the problem was that the actual script was also the server. So if the script hanged, the whole server hanged. Went back to PHP and never looked back.
For most (or lots of cases), it's easily readable, printable, and searchable.
We are slowly learning that our immune system is the key to longevity.

Many articles these last few years on ways to renew it, ways to treat dysfunction, and the common bad guys we really need to remove from our bodies as they are directly linked to currently incurable diseases like T1D, MS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ME/CFS, Long COVID, and more.

It seems very realistic we may cure/reverse disease course for a handful of these within the next decade at this rate. Many novel clinical trials are happening to probe at the causes and if proven, we could have new drugs quickly due to the pandemic forcing supply chains to be able to meet antigen targets.
It would be hard to find an old machine in good condition. Then, if you find one, you need to figure out logistics of getting your games on the thing. Good chances it won't recognise a modern hard drive or usb flash drive.

Full on PC setup also requires a lot more space than a small laptop.
Show HN: I got tired of manual property research,so I built Z-Scraper,free trial
Tired of manual Zillow searches, I built a web-based scraper.

As a real estate investor, I found myself constantly sifting through Zillow listings, manually copying data into spreadsheets. It was mind-numbing work that ate up hours of my time. I knew there had to be a more efficient way.

I realized this wasn't just my problem. Many real estate professionals – from agents to investors to market analysts – were likely facing the same tedious task. We all needed a quick, reliable way to gather property data at scale.

Over six weeks of intense coding (and more coffee than I care to admit), I developed Zillow Scraper. The journey wasn't without its challenges – I had to navigate Zillow's data structure, ensure accurate parsing, and create a user-friendly interface. But the result was worth it.

Zillow Scraper simplifies the entire process of collecting property data. Here's what it does:

1. Just input a city or area, and it scrapes all relevant listings
2. Export data directly to Excel (.xls) or CSV formats
3. No plugin or software installation required – it's entirely web-based
4. Provides 3 free searches for new users to try before committing

The tool has streamlined my own investment research, and now 300 active users are benefiting from it too. Real estate agents are using it to quickly gather comps, investors are efficiently analyzing new markets, and analysts are effortlessly collecting data for trend reports.

I'd love for the HN community to give it a try and share your thoughts. What additional features would make this even more useful for you? Are there any other data points you'd like to see included in the exports?

You can check it out at https://zillowscraper.site

Remember, you get 3 free searches to test it out – no credit card required.

Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions!
> “The DNA indicates that Christopher Columbus’s origin lay in the western Mediterranean,” said the researcher. “If there weren’t Jews in Genoa in the 15th century, the likelihood that he was from there is minimal. Neither was there a big Jewish presence in the rest of the Italian peninsula, which makes things very tenuous.”

Does anyone else think that this is a poorly argued piece?

Being Jewish, and having some Jewish DNA: are they the same thing? Is it not possible that many many people in Genoa could have had Jewish ancestors? After all, most of Jesus's disciples were Jewish (please correct me if I'm wrong).
So, this is pretty exciting.

I can how this can already be used to generate realistic physics approximations in a game engine. You create a bunch of snippets of gameplay using a much heavier and realistic physics engine (perhaps even CGI). The model learn to approximate the physics and boom, now you have a lightweight physics engine. Perhaps you can even have several that are specialized (e.g. one for smoke dynamics, one for explosions, ...). Even if it allucinates, wouldn't be worse than the physics bugs that are so common in games.
I thought this post would recommend Batocera, which I think is probably the better option: https://batocera.org/

It's a Linux distro that turns any ancient machine into a retro emulation box that's heavily optimized for old devices and retro handhelds. It also allows you to install Flatpaks so you can add Steam to it as well. If you just want to play games and don't need to use the actual desktop, it'll be a nicer experience.
Could you share the prompt? Thanks.
In the short run, the trains are running anyway, so you might as well fill them up.

This is something that particularly frustates me in the case of buses the UK. They're ridiculously expensive (well, except for the temporary current £2 scheme), and empty. There seems to be a political consensus that we should have them, so it would make far more sense for them to be free in all instances, except when demand is so high they're full (e.g. rush hour)
Ask HN:I have a project in my mind. what should I do?
as you can see from my earlier topics, i have a food delivery app in my mind. i have been talking with people and i feel the idea got better. the tech people i talked with said me this sounds okay and feasible but i don't know anything about p2p systems. and i have been talking with a lot of tech people and i can't find a p2p guy. so im in a dead end. what should i do? should i apply to next yc batch? should i keep looking for a tech co-founder? should i try to learn it myself?
When I was 15 I was jerking off and playing Flyff, not thinking about ticket systems.
Tauri + Angular. Curious choice.
Yes, that is right. Opinion building is a thing in a democracy.

The problem with op is that he attaches a strong value statement ("isn't good value") to an incomplete assessment. Now that's doing politics! Isn't that what we want to get away from? Don't we want to have it all objective and fact based?

So here is the question: How should we make decisions? Is it possible to use $ as a neutral decision making data point? Or do we have to discuss things broadly, and include elements that haven't been broken down to the cent, to reach a consensus about how we want to organise society?
SpaceX is set to launch Starship test flight 5