skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long time WordPress agency owner here.

At the heart of this - if you consider it generously - is a principle that we can possibly all sign up to, namely that "large commercial entities" should (should from a moral, not legal standpoint) "pay back" to the open source software that makes them money.

The principle however has been totally undermined by MM's actions, which have been completely out of line. His behaviour has been abhorrent. I've been shocked (possibly naively) that a single individual could have such huge power over an open source project that they could literally turn it off (referring here to the update mechanism that WPEngine was using).

I've been even more shocked and appalled by this plugin takeover. ACF is a central piece of pretty much all WP developers' / agencies toolkit. Those of us who have been in this game a long time remember WP before it, and the breath of fresh air that it was to finally be able to define complex relationships between posts and provide our users with a GUI that actually worked well for complicated sites. ACF have pushed and supported this technology for years and years - firstly under the expertise of Elliot Condon, now under the aegis of WPEngine. I know some of the developer team at ACF personally - they're excellent people, making brilliant code, and most of them are putting huge efforts into WP as an open source project even aside from their efforts in maintaining and extending ACF.

The forking of a plugin is one thing. A fair way to do this would be to fork it, and start from zero installs. Automattic could have done that, promoted the hell out of "SCF" and got users in a way that was at least slightly (?) fair.

Simply switching the name and keeping the slug - and thus the 2+million sites - should be thought of as theft. It's outrageous, it's totally petty, and I so far haven't seen a single person being supportive of this (probably?) unilateral action by one - apparently increasingly unhinged - individual.

The wider problem of course is the effect this has on the vibrant WP ecosystem which as someone else in this thread has pointed out is a critical (erstwhile) open cornerstone of the web.

I am still hoping that this will subside into history and it'll all sort but it has left me and many WP devs I know with a pretty bitter taste.
They don't actually have any jurisdiction in this case. Launches from Vandendberg are from a military base and while they do try to work with the California commission they ultimately are the ones that decide what does and does not get launched.
Laws are also just some ink on paper (and are routinely overruled, circumvented or unenforced in certain jurisdictions), so using this kind of logic in order to encourage standard violations is unsound.

There is a method to this madness, and that's revising the standards.
Had no idea that founders of Space X were also Heritage Foundation.
Did he get a chance to see any of the recent SpaceX accomplishments?
The Borg site says Windows support is "experimental, no binaries yet". Is that still true?
grep -C 5 does the trick quite nicely I find. rg accepts the same flag.
Because people are reflexively averse to government spending unless there's a billionaire making profits on the way through thanks to 100 years of academic capture by Austro-libertarian economists.
Ask HN: Fact based books on people skills
I'm trying to improve my people skills so I'm submitting to the community a request for good books, blog posts, videos, etc on the subject of people skills.

Bonus for resources created by someone who has demonstrated such skills in real life (I'm trying to avoid "theory" books :)

One such example - at least I found it useful - is Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss which is based on his real life experience as a hostage negotiator.

Thanks in advance for your help!
Um, no: WP Engine changed a variable in wp-config
They could very well literally be.

That's the real AI revolution. Not in manufacturing content for the masses, but how to sell ads when the vast majority of consumers could be suspected to be bots.
> Average Joe concerned with commute isn't buying them.

Eh? Costs me 3p/mile compared to 12p/mile on my old diesel. Pre-heated/defrosted automatically every morning. Fully charged and ready to go, and I don’t have to waste 15 minutes a week driving to the petrol station and refuelling. Best commuter car I’ve ever had.
This seems to be similar to a microwave circulator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulator
There's been nothing "bumpy" about ACF. It has been solidly supported, developed and documented for years.
I agree with what you've said. Personally, I have no doubt that, like any powerful new technology, AI will be used for all kinds of negative and annoying things as well as beneficial things. This is what I meant by "disruptive" in my GP. However, I also think that society will adapt to address these disruptions just like we have in the past.
> Where is Anduril getting that money?

A mix of VC funding, foreign defense sales, and private sector deals, because their products are dual use. Also, as a private company, they don't have the same kinds of expenditures that a service has (pensions, capex on infra, etc)

> I think that it's complicated

Yep! Esprit de corps does play a role in retention to a limited extent.

Also, after this hearing happening in 2018, all the branches began pushing heavily for Cyber Reserves branches because it's the easiest way for them to remediate the skill and pay gap.
Sign me up for the Dyson swarm.
because the military can't retain talent, they pay through the nose for contractors who don't enforce their "standards"...
wondering if you all with your fresh accounts and this silly smear campaign are bots or actual people
My post was a little badly worded. What I meant was that saying "economic conditions" is not specific enough. It is mostly housing prices.

High costs for college, health care, and child care are also factors but housing prices are the big one and the hardest to work around.
I believe my cats sometimes get frustrated with the limitations of their own vocalizations and try to work around them when communicating with me. If, say, they want a treat, they are only able to meow and perform "whiny" body motions, and maybe I'll give them pets or throw a ball instead. So they have adapted a bit:

- both of them will spit regular kibble out in front of me when they want a fancier treat (cats are hilarious)

- the boy cat has developed very specific "sweet meows" (soft, high-pitched) for affection and "needy meows" (loud, full-chested) for toys or food; for the first few years he would simply amp up the volume and then give a frustrated growl when I did the wrong thing

- the lady cat (who only has two volumes, "yell" and "scream"), instead stands near what she wants before meowing; bedroom for cuddles, water bowl for treats, hallway or office for toys

- the lady cat was sick a while back and had painful poops; for weeks afterwards if she wanted attention and I was busy she would pretend to poop and pretend to be in pain, manipulating me into dropping my work and checking on her

It goes both ways, I've developed ways of communicating with them over the years:

- the lady is skittish but loves laying in bed with me, so I sing "gotta get up, little pup" in a particular way; she will then get up and give me space to leave the bed, without me scaring her with a sudden movement

- I don't lose my patience with them often, but they understand my anxious/exasperated tone of voice and don't push their luck too much (note that some of this is probably shared mammalian instinct)

- the boy sometimes bullies the lady, and I'll raise my voice at him; despite being otherwise skittish and scared of loud noises, the lady seems to understand that I am mad at the boy because of his actions and there's nothing to be alarmed by

Sometimes I think the focus on "context-free" (or at least context-lite) symbolic language, essentially unique to humans, makes us lose focus on the fact that communication is far older than the dinosaurs, and that maybe further progress on language AI should focus on communication itself, rather than symbol processing with communication as a side effect.
Nobody is denying that many people find military service fulfilling. But certain roles have extremely limited talent pools. The odds that you'll find someone willing to take a position primarily for fulfillment when the starting salary for a contractor is double/triple/quadruple/quintuple what government offers, the public service role is immediately starting at a significant disadvantage.

Besides hiring talent, it carries through to career advancement and development (which plays heavily into personal fulfillment!) which on turn affects retention. If you're thinking of starting a family and settling down, being able to have more flexibility and significantly more money is a highly attractive option.
Ignoring established protocols doesn't make things simpler. It makes things vastly more complicated.

Let's absolutely fix new protocols (or new versions of existing protocols). But intentionally breaking existing protocols doesn't simplify anything.
the only vowel is AH ?
I would suspect any possible future AGI-like progress would be some sort of ensemble. LLMs may be a piece of the puzzle, but they aren't a single model to AGI solution.
I have a hard time normalizing existing codebases where coders insist on using
`catch (Exception e)` instead of the default `catch (Exception ex)` and then there are clashes in event handlers with try/catch due to the same variable name...
I believe he’s asking if it’s available via QuickLisp. It’s a sort of package manager for Common Lisp, but it seems to no longer be maintained.
Yep. And the string 'acf' is used throughout the plugin and the plugin download page (in reviews, etc). And 'acf' is indeed a pending trademark registration.

Not good.
Getting buzzed is fun and relaxing.

The issue with the original framing is people that go sober are almost certainly doing it because of the negatives of alcohol.

The other reason you don't hear the opposite is because most people realize alcoholism is a thing. Nobody is going to advocate someone needs to drink to be happy.

Drinking is not for everyone. These not shame in sobriety.
I hope not. Watching the Emacs ecosystem evolving over the years, I'd wish that most things were not default or built-in but came in packages, and Emacs was a tiny, extremely small core. Packages outside of the Emacs core develop faster, evolve better, foster communities around them, have greater flexibility of choice - where to host them, how to license them, how to structure them, etc. Evil-mode, Magit, Projectile, CIDER, etc., they are all great because they were developed outside of the Emacs' core. I can only imagine how Evil+plugins would've slowly decayed with endless email threads on the Emacs-devel mailing list, where RMS would've annoyed everyone asking "why are we trying to build Vim in Emacs instead of Microsoft Word, I've dreamed about WYSIWYG, and you guys are ruining it...".
The minimal print function on Win32 is WriteFile, using GetStdHandle to get the file handle for STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE.
It used to be different, but these days that one is paid to everybody who commutes, no matter by which mode. And people who commute by public transport are actually slightly privileged, in that they can claim their actual ticket costs if that works out more advantageous, whereas everybody else is limited to the basic km-dependent allowance, even if their car commutes maybe actually costs more.

And while there are arguments to be had about negative incentives posed by it with regards to incentivising people to commute farther than necessary, the original basic principle is quite simple: Just as companies are mostly only taxed on their profits, so workers ought to pay their income tax only on the money made after deducting any work-related expenses.

And Germany hasn't solved the cost-of-housing problem, either, so a certain degree of commuting is unavoidable. In fact, recently the housing minister basically declared her defeat by announcing that her latest plan for dealing with that problem wasn't building more where people want to live and can make a living, it was subsidising people to move back to the countryside.
How is it much greater?

Greater, maybe yes, since more decades passed since the Palestinians expulsion.

Or maybe not, because Tibetans at least can still live there?

Either way, I don't see how can it be much greater
I don't see standard Forth going anywhere; same for Common Lisp, Scheme & Smalltalk.

They had a good run, and they're still fun to play around with and useful for teaching and stealing ideas from. But the world has moved on in too many ways.

There's still a lot of ground to explore between Forth and Lisp though, and plenty of modern ideas to steal from scripting languages.
You're right that I didn't mention the supposed benefits in my response. But let's incorporate those benefits into new protocols rather than break existing protocols. I just don't see the benefit in intentionally breaking existing protocols.
one mentioned elsewhere in thread: https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI
What good would using other repository services do in this case when someone can still just rip the repo?
It's hard to understand why people care so much about someone's personal political opinions.

This is especially prevalent when working in places like Seattle and SF. People ostracizing their coworkers because of wrongthink.

MDS like TDS is real. It's extremely toxic and it needs to stop. People's political beliefs are their own and connecting that to work is a recipe for disaster.
Agreed! I left the Air Force with 12 years of service, 4 SANS certs, certification as a federal law enforcement officer, and experience working against APTs. At the time I left, I was getting less than $80k in compensation (excluding healthcare, cause I don’t know how to account for that), and accepted the first job offered ($103k). Left that less than a year later for a job paying $140k plus bonuses, and now I’m in an even better spot 2 years later. The military can’t compete unless they change how they pay their service members.
So the part where if you don't make an offer to the (priest) of some god it will strike you with thunder was correct, and I am not understanding the hidden meaning? Maybe I was too optimistic with the 2000 years.

I never claimed religion did not fulfill sometimes good purposes. But it perpetuated many bad, incorrect beliefs based on fear that slowed progress. For example not doing to your peer something that you don't like yourself seems something positive for society. Going to hell if you try to understand astronomy seems quite negative for society.
> Simply switching the name and keeping the slug - and thus the 2+million sites - should be thought of as theft.

He probably is trying to make a point what WPEngine is doing (based on his own perspective)
The promise and perils of synthetic data
Not so clear. Should cultures who beliefs include jihad and war be persecuted in the name of safety or should we allow freedom of religion including those that involve cannibalism?
>even moreso than Lisp

How exactly?
>even places like Amsterdam

Especially places like Amsterdam.

That's why they built a giant Synagogue there.
> This should be higher up.

As of right now, it's as high as could possibly be. Please don't suppose comments stay wherever they were when you wrote your comment. It looks silly.

(Other than that, reasonable observations - thank you!)
Hmm, it's weird you forgot to tell everyone that you're also vegan and always recycle, and meditate daily. Guess what? Nobody cares...
I love my HHKB, but I'd never recommend it for gaming, that's just silly.
I think having deep work to do is the biggest sign that a team has found a good use for me. It's how tech companies build competitive products. Commodity work should be automated; Moore's Law already paid for doing that.
It's not that I do not trust the shop to scam/fraud me (well, sometimes I do), but I do not trust their IT processes.

There are a surprising number of online shops that rolled their own payment processing (or at least seem to be). So it's more akin to entrusting a shop with a photo of both sides of your credit card and hoping that this photo does not get into the wrong hands.

Here's an example of this happening where drivers licenses were exposed via an open AWS S3 bucket:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/over-54000-scanned-nsw-driver...
> You come to SO for answers, why would you care that someone is teaching some LLM on them later?

This doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. The people who would be concerned are the ones who are providing answers. They are not coming to SO solely to get answers.
Fingers are not meant to have good strength or dexterity that direction. It would be very tiring, difficult and I'd assume would be easy to end up with RSI issues. Not to mention it's a bit hard to imagine what the device would look like.
The one new feature in 1.4 that I appreciated the most is the ability to disable anti-aliasing when exporting from the command line:

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5167

Before this option appeared in Inkscape nightly builds, I had no way of automating a pipeline to rasterize SVGs into black&white PNGs in a pixel perfect way.
You seem to be unable to separate the concept of "hype" from "value".

Until you succeed in doing that, you're going to be terminally confused by a lot of things.
Anduril fires people. That’s why the government can give Anduril money. The government can’t do things that Anduril can.
https://dorve.com/blog/ux-news-articles-archive/wp-forks-acf...
It’s definitely harder to find the indy tradespeople now. My tactic has been to spend a bunch of time reading reviews. When the same first name of the tradesperson keeps showing up in the review then it becomes clear it’s a one person company and I’m much more likely to hire them.

If you are the business then you have incentive to do a good job. I have more faith in getting a quality job done by someone like that.

I used to have an HVAC guy like this. I currently have a plumber and a car repair shop like this. I can DIY the smaller things but I know my limits so it’s frustrating when finding good help is difficult.
okay boomer.
I'm chinese. And part tibetan.

>Tibetan culture does not.

This is not true. The Chinese view tibetan culture as if it was scientology. There is a lot of evidence of injustices and really cult like backwards practices arising from the culture.
You already posted this one a few weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643946
Eh, maybe. There’s a lot of computing and telemetry going on that benefits from the last twenty years of miniaturization and performance. The iPhone seemed impossible when announced to BlackBerry; tech has gone crazy fast.
I'm not sure I follow. Perhaps your house has bends in it because rough framing is entry-level work.
Naively asking it for code for anything remotely complex is foolish, but if you do know what you're doing and understand how to manage context, it's a ridiculously potent force multiplier. I rarely ask it for anything without specifying which libraries I want to use, and if I'm not sure which library I want, I'll ask it about options and review before proceeding.
I know this is mostly for Haskell, but I would add (used in various languages):

e: event
k: key in hash map, dictionary, etc.
o: object or reflected object types
v: value in hash map, dictionary, etc.
t, u, v, w: vectors (borrowed from math)

Would be fun to think about this for a while and come up with a more serious dictionary with examples and links to code.
Catastrophically warm predictions are more plausible than we thought
I'm thinking we will eventually end up with "active fuel management" techniques like this for in space vehicles.

Bug tanks make sense there & they might not be always full. So I can imagine all kind of interesting ways you can work with the fuel in zero go to avoid not only slosh but also the need for ullage thrusters. Eq. some programmable nozzles using in-tank gas to nudge liquid fuel blobs to move in the right direction. Or even some nets or bags that herd in the fuel in the middle of the tank + prevent it from directly touching the side, reducing boil-off or refrigeration requirements. :)
The HHKB variants can be nice keyboards, but they're definitely not for everyone. I have a Leopold FC660C that has the same silenced Topre switches as some of the HHKB variants and they're really nice, but the boards that come with them quite expensive for what they provide. The HHKB layout can also be a bit annoying to get used to too, which is why I use the FC660C, since it has arrow keys.

In practice I find modern custom keyboards to have higher upside than Topre keyboards, since you can build one with your preferred layout and switches. If you get a QMK enabled board you can also fully customize the functionality of the keyboard, which I find immensely useful. Unless you specifically want a 60% keyboard with light tactile switches I wouldn't recommend an HHKB, but if that's what you want it's hard to do better.
I worked with a flash developer at its height and he used to say "it's ALL about the easing"
Yes, I would disagree with that. Unless someone has a treatable medical condition such as HIV infection, modern medical care can't improve the effectiveness of your immune system. It's mainly down to lifestyle and age.

There's no cure for the common cold. Some OTC remedies can slightly reduce symptom severity but they're nearly useless. Zinc supplements might marginally reduce duration of symptoms for some patients.

Frequent hard exercise, sunlight exposure, and limiting body fat content are far more effective interventions for immune system function than anything a physician can give you.
The universally accepted ADHD community’s technique seems to be called Adderall. It is difficult to pinpoint another universally accepted technique. Breathwork is not always good for ADHD from my personal experience and is not universally accepted. So really wonder what this trailblazer thing is about.

Another very apparent shortcut to ADHD treatment, also not universally accepted, is called endogenous adrenaline - the simplest drug molecule as somebody (Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash if memory serves right) designated it, and extreme sports provide a lot of it for free. This article though, does not seem to be about any of these - adrenaline or sports. Extreme sports such as snowboarding, downhill biking, paragliding (not really a sport), motorbiking, etc… are all about said state of flow and attention. No other activities I can think of that impact ADHD so quick and profound. Cause you loose your attention only once with these things.
Yeah, I have no idea what the author is smoking. Deliberately breaking standards is simply not an acceptable solution to the problem, even if it were a serious problem (it's not).
js land:

$: jQuery
_: lodash, underscore libraries
e: usually events like keyboard, button clicks, form submits, when preventing form actions...

any other js quirks?
You can call anything whatever you want, that doesn't make it correct.
I love how they subjected me to a proof of work challenge to view their paywall.
After all this drama, it feels like WordPress has reached its peak and is now starting its decline. Of course, it will take years, and the process may be volatile, but the overall trend will likely be downward.
CyberCom is a command, not a branch. Individual branches have leeway to make those compensation changes. A unified command can only provide some additional monies.

That said, individual branches absolutely are doing that, and have started doing that after the 2018 hearing referenced in the article above.
Install the official free plugin from the advanced custom fields website and remove the SCF version. You won’t need to change any existing code then, and future updates will come from the plugin dev for ACF.