skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it does not take into consideration how much thought and expertise goes into design work. Have a look at the recent controversy about the live-action shooter "concord" that failed spectacularly mainly due to bad character design.

Here are two videos that explain that well. I don't think I would ever be capable of designing with that degree of purpose given a generative AI tool.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVyXUMJLzE0
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eymH15AfAU
Perhaps the issue author thought the member was given this name because only privileged/blessed developers get to use the “cool stuff” of React. They likely don’t understand the reason why the concept of access modifiers exist in many programming languages.

Namely that (good) library authors will do everything possible to avoid breaking the public API, which can be seen as a “promise” from them in what can be relied upon, while internal/private members offer no such promises and the library author can feel free to change/remove them as desired with no prior notice.
I say “latest” in relation to years of issues. I’d probably get around other smaller stuff at the moment. But the fractional scaling simply blocks me from using desktop linux at the moment.
A founders voicemail from his grandma after moving to SF
> simulate a USB hub with an input device and a usb drive

Yea but that has to be a custom or specific kind of programmable USB device. Or one that somehow unintentionally allows you to reflash its firmware to something else.

And also if anyone ever plugs your malicious USB device into a Mac, they will get a pop-up from macOS that asks you to identify the keyboard. Although maybe if it fakes a specific USB keyboard that macOS knows out of the box, you could avoid that?
In the early 2020s, studies have shown everything and their opposite, so you can cherry pick anything that supports your view. I find it was a particularly interesting time because it showed how "messy" science really is. In normal times, you typically don't see scientific results before you have at least some amount of certainty. Some research get through the cracks (ex: LK-99), but not to the extent of what happened in the early days of the pandemic.

Also covid and other diseases spread well in open air summer festivals where UV is at its peak. And for covid specifically, we had peaks in the summer, where, again, people tend to get out and UV is high.
> "him"

¡Ay, ay, ay!, that's bad use.
Sure, if you're the one who created the USB drive then you could make it not actually a USB drive. But this sounds like an infected machine infecting previously safe USB drives and turn them into malicious ones. And I'm not sure I get how a USB drive can be turned malicious. I vaguely remember there was a bit you could flip in older USB drives to make them appear as disk drives and enable autorun, but I doubt that's how this is done.
In 2024, wtf. How can anyone especially on software with this kind of reach still do such absolute amateur things?
I think Matt would be quite happy with that. His issue is WP Engine not contributing to WordPress. If they decide to maintain a fork and infrastructure, they won't be freeloading anymore.

Edit: That attracted a lot of downvotes. I was giving my option in response to the parent comment. In my option Automattic would be happy if they forked it.
How do you submit your research papers written in Typst?
My advice would be to make plans to move away from WordPress entirely. While I think that the “supply chain attack” is hyperbolic, if technically true, it’s indicative of an organization that cares about winning more than ensuring any form of stability whatsoever to their users and clients. Beware.
How did the address-length hinder adoption?
This looks like a strawman. Nobody advocates for replacing roads with rail, it's about complementing.

> Rail provide cheap point-to-point transport, but only make sense between heavily populated centers

Yes, so the idea is to build rail for those use cases (which is somewhat the case in Europe, but not in US).
A law could ban those SUVs.

It's currently being discussed in Europe, since the "independent import" route to import a special vehicle has started to be exploited to import unsafe American vehicles. (The Cybertruck is one example.)
I certainly wouldn't, true.
Most people who are only vaguely familiar with networking seem to be able to remember 10/8 and 192.168/16, but the 172.16/12 range is for some reason rather elusive --- I suspect it's not as commonly used as the other two.
Good stuff. Fingers crossed this will help a bit.
Does it work with chorus?
Otto von Bismarck introduced much of the social safety net in Germany, incl. health insurance (in 1883). He definitely was not a communist. He once called it "practical christianity" ("praktisches Christentum").
If the new project offers a more stable platform, one that cannot be controlled by a single person, the community might like that more and might move; then there will be little left to freeload.

Is that an option btw? I.e. is it possible to offer hosting with seamless migration from wordpress.org?
Injecting code that creates misleading or malicious dashboard warnings is a supply chain attack, even if it’s the intent of the supplier and not a malicious third party interfering with the supply chain.
> articles in English (the, a) are subtle as hell and extremely difficult to use correctly if you're not a native speaker.

Found the Slavic speaker ;)

The/A construction is similar in most Latin languages.

Absolutely agree on the other two features though. It’s kinda crazy and I have no idea how I actually learned those things… they just “happened” into my head. (I’m not a native speaker)
Really? IMO capabilities can be enumerated as a set of challenges in the category of things you want done. We don't need to discuss if an IC is "intelligent" to agree that the original $5 Pi Zero is "more capable" at that than all of humanity combined.

Sure, you can also say that GPT-4's passing the Bar tells you it can pass the kind of questions in the Bar exam without that extending to the kind of questions actual lawyers need to do, Goodhart's law remains if that was your point?
It's more like gaining backdoor access to the bank's server.

At this stage no attack has happened(but can happen)
They’ve always been like this. People who lived through 90s Microsoft will remember this kind of thing well.

But I will say, this isn’t just a Microsoft phenomenon. Apple, Google, pretty much any company will pull sleazy tactics if it improves their bottom line.

It’s just more painful with Microsoft because their products suck. So you don’t even get a consolidation of buying into a great but flawed product. You just get crap piled on top of more crap.

The fact that Microsoft are even remotely successful is a testament to how you need a good businessman (Gates) and a lot of luck (IBM vs Kildall) rather than the best tech on the market.
As a DoF "hater", my problem with it is that DoF is just the result of a sensor limitation (when not used artistically etc.), not some requirement of generating images. If I can get around that limitation, there's very little motivation to maintain that flaw.

In the real world, if I see a person at the beach, I can look at the person and see them in perfect focus, I can then look at the ocean behind them and it is also in perfect focus. If you are an AI generating an image for me, I certainly don't need you to tell me on which parts of that image I'm allowed to focus, just let me see both the person and the ocean (unless I tell you to give me something artsy :)).
Sure, but women have the "biological clock", and many of them realize they have set their expectations too high when the clock is actually running out, which then turns into a disaster/depression for them. Men don't care when they start a family. If women miss the window, and thats also why the statistic was looking at women between 20-44, they are basically done with the dream of having a child. And yeah, I am fully on your side, voluntary singles should just be left alone and allowed to be happy. However, the "I am happy as a single" is more like a coping mechanism then a real stance, at least several stories confirm that...
One of Automattic’s statements was issued by Neal Katyal, who was Acting Solicitor General of the United States. I would tend towards thinking the client himself may be the problem.
They didn't gain access anywhere, it's their platform.
Before the road building binge there was the rail building binge, though limited to the largest cities.

As an example, see the history of the Metropolitan Line in London.
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You would need to have quite a sexist perspective on how women and men differ to believe the author is a woman.
But if the train is that busy it likely couldn’t be replaced by people travelling in personal cars anyway as they would take up to much road space and cause a huge traffic jam and there would be nowhere to park at the end of the journey in a presumably dense city centre.
If Meta/FAANG can make it work for them, it's not unreasonable to assume those improvements will trickle down to consumers/smaller companies.
It's a dynamic problem. The correct choice depends on the dynamics of the system itself.

Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma is studied and simulated in computational biology. The correct strategy depends on the environment.
Yeah, Musk and others come to mind. But WP is supposed to OSS. Musk didn't build his empire on the backs of volunteers. Musk has built multiple successful ventures. Matt has step in it once.

In the context OSS Matt's behaviour is deplorable. His insistence on digging a deeper and deeper hole is freightening.

It's digital self-emmolation. It's professional suicide.
The thing is, it is never enough and ends up usually in a disaster and people lose their life, because their opinions get in the way.

Subsidy kills innovation. There is no incentive anymore to make things better. You always must know someone, you can bribe, so that something gets done.

I get it, hackernews is flooded with well meaning people making way more money than normal people do. They see, how 'unfair' the world is: why am i making so much more and they so little. It is the ground, where this despicable left mind virus can grow, and then they start to steal people's money for their grandiose ideas.
Wieldy enough, that line likely came from the original developer (ACF/WP Engine) [0].

I believe WordPress.org backported the change and named it v6.3.6.1 at that time [1], before rebranding ACF in a later version (v6.3.6.2).

[0]: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/changelog/

[1]: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?new=3164480%40a...
My mom used to always say: Why bother wiping your ass, if your going to take another shit tomorrow.
It is not gossip tense. There is no such name in Turkish grammar.
So, ACF injected notices into everyone's dashboards to push their own legal agenda. It’s a move that reeks of self-interest more than community benefit.

While everyone’s ready to grab their pitchforks at Matt, this actually sounds somewhat reasonable. Still, given its impact, this could easily be seen as a breach of trust. Definitely a move that's going to stir the pot.
For better or worse, I would optimistically say that that might be a good thing. WordPress has given a lot to the internet over the years, but a very large portion of its giving has been pwned sites and security issues. If this leads to either the birth or popularization of a tool that's modern and secure, that would be a net win for everyone involved.
OK, yeah, that makes sense. I guess that it shouldn’t really be surprising that there are a lot of hidden factors to these things than can be immediately intuited by the outside observer, therefore making logic and reasoning less than useful.
Where is it in the license that you need to contribute to the project if you make big bucks? We have open source licenses for a reason, contributing back is never a requirement. If you believe that is his issue, I have a bridge to sell you.
Now who's the heel and who the face?
Open source usually means that you are able to modify and redistribute the software in question freely. However between open and closed, there is another class - source-available software. From its wikipedia page:

> Any software is source-available in the broad sense as long its source code is distributed along with it, even if the user has no legal rights to use, share, modify or even compile it.
> you are never far from a train station

What exactly do you mean by that? "never far" as in "always within walking distance"? That would be very wrong.

The other factor is that frequency of service is low outside of major cities. At the need to change and a small-distance trip can take a couple of hours.
I do see various security fixes in that patch, but most of the changes are removing references and code for a "pro" version of the plugin.

I'm guessing the WP security team has been pentesting any WPEngine code they could get their hands on to find an excuse to make all of these changes. The security issues do look bad (once again proving that WordPress' worst vulnerabilities come from the plugins they install) but I think the branding removal is pretty wild.

A quick skim through the plugin development guidelines does seem to indicate that trialware isn't allowed, and the plugin seems to be doing all kinds of other stuff that isn't really permitted by the guidelines. I don't know if WordPress is as strict in enforcing those as they are with this plugin, but the changes do seem to be based on them.

With WPEngine recommending people to install their (vulnerable) version, I once again feel like there's no right side in this conflict. What a mess.
We have to blame fat people for their actions. Pretending they are not responsible for their own choice is a really bad road to go down. These are adults, and we need to treat them as such. The victim mentality really has to stop, its nonesense beyond repair!
I thought I was reading a tweet from Wendy’s.
imagine a Beowulf cluster of those
It may be marketed as bespoke, but it does seem to take USI stylus (styli?), at least for basic inking purposes, https://youtu.be/4peCXY7duxI?t=486

and USI seems to be about interoperability https://universalstylus.org/ , at least within that ecosystem.
> misleading or malicious dashboard warnings

Who did that? WP Engine was the one making these before the change
I don’t know why I phrased that so aggressively. Sorry.
You have invented this.

Rail can absolutely be made to different standards. High speed rail vs a tramway, and everything in between.

Exactly as with roads, the more you pay the faster the vehicles can go. Except with close to zero accidents.
What about "Press"?
I think it's not so much a policy position as an attempt at clarifying the scope, so that people don't get the wrong idea and expect the impossible (banning it entirely, which is unenforceable).
This is the most under appreciated principle for building a business, the one that’s most easy to relax and the one that requires most amount of self discipline and self control for CEOs and founders.
Idk how many people trying psychedelics for the first time are that interested in the shamanic gods or whatever as much as they want life altered in a fun weird way. In college when people did LSD or mushrooms, they were usually most interested in the visuals.
Naïvely, writing only one logic relation of n parameters is about equivalent to writing n^2 functions (just decide for each parameter whether you give it or not as input). So there clearly is value there.

I say naïvely because on one hand you might not need all versions of the function, but on the other one you can also provide partial values, so it’s not either input or output.
This uses SenseVoice under the hood, which claims to have better accuracy than Whisper. Not sure how accurate that statement is though, since I haven't seen a third party comparison, in this space it's very easy to toot your own horn.

[0] https://github.com/FunAudioLLM/SenseVoice
> This results in fear: we don't know if the original is safe to use.

The exact result intended by Matt, I presume. He wants to scare WPEngine's customers away from their services.

At this point, this looks more like a war between personalities.
You hire juniors on potential, seniors to fix a gap. Right now, 90% of hiring is focused on plugging gaps in the next 6 months - that's just where we are in the cycle.

As to why we're here, I think it's obvious at this point that tech massively overhired between 2016 and 2022.

Finally, the growth areas haven't completely disappeared, they've just shifted. If you're a junior right now, you should be getting into ML or something, not webdev. Plenty of entry level roles in ML.
> It statistically evaluated mobile phone and car movement data for Germany

How do you obtain car movement data if not by tracking cell phones?
They point to their comparison page to claim similar quality. First off it's very clear that the details are way less, but worse, look at the example "Three-quarters front view of a yellow 2017 Corvette coming around a curve in a mountain road and looking over a green valley on a cloudy day."

The Original model shows the FRONT, the speed version shows the BACK of the corvette. It's a completely different picture. This is not similar but strikingly different.

https://flux-quality-comparison.vercel.app/
What notices were these?
I find the comparis estimate an overestimate. Take their VW Polo example. You would definitely not insure it for 1207 Fr a year and an annual service is not 3000 Fr a year. You take their estimate for VW Polo, put numbers a layman folk pays for, and you will get a number around 5000 a year. If you buy a second hand car, then you get a very competitive price to the GA, but also get more flexibility.

I am not saying anyone should by a car, quite the contrary, just stating the fact that 4000 Fr/yr is not competitive enough to car.
If Germany wants to be a militarized state again, the infrastructure will be fixed again. You have to transport things around.

Tbh, i think, germany has too much not needed but costly infrastructure maintained only for a few people.
You are right and I am simply putting myself in the shoes of the late stage investors. Perhaps they have been sold a story the drives confidence in a 2X return. When the story doesn’t hold up, there isn’t much of a multiples buffer to prevent losing money.
Where does this claim come from? The article doesn't include it. Matt hasn't made this claim either.
I don't think it is. Getting arbitrary access to corporate support ticket chains seems pretty high impact to me? Isn't that a gigantic data breach (also probably a GDPR breach) already, before you get to the Slack takeover?
Do it anyway. Yes it sucks, but push through the suck.
A persistent phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighter_arson
Is this about the problem that Prolog tends to ping pong infinitely between leafs? I wrote a fully declarative solitaire game solver and remember this being a big issue forcing me to memorize past states of the backtracking and basically exclude them by another predicate. This is obviously slow. I thought, why not at least have a plugin to avoid trivial cases where backtracking gets stuck switching between A and B. Or a plugin for a stochastic traversal of the solution tree.
Good for him?

He's just ruined that possibility for just about anyone else going forward.

Praise him? No way.

Ironic isn't it? He cries about the scourge known as PE, and he's single handedly f*ked every investor-seeking founder everywhere going forward.
Stargazing photographers capture 'comet of the century'
> "Pissing off the hackers" is not a way to keep people reporting credible bugs to your service.

That doesn’t matter if your goal with a bug bounty program is not to have people reporting bugs, but instead to have the company appear to care about security. If your only aim is to appear serious about security, it doesn’t matter what you actually do with any bug reports. Until the bugs are made public, of course, which is why companies so often try to stop this by any means.
Considering how many people stayed, it's clear that they've been brainwashed to think what he's doing is ok.
> To take the time to study the root causes of obesity more closely, and treat the genuine causes, instead of slapping medicine on top of it, for an undetermined period of time to millions of people. It's insane.

What if medication is treating the genuine causes? What if we find out that there are genetic or biological reasons that increase your likelihood of being obese and decrease your ability to take action to resolve it? Medication still no go there?

But either way, your solution is effectively "Leave millions of people in a state that makes them significantly more likely to die until we find a nebulous ~right~ way to treat it."

> Think about it: as far as we know, the human body has evolved slowly over many thousands of years; how can drafty-patching it at scale over a few decades works?

I listed multiple examples of us draft patching the human body in ways that have been overwhelmingly positive in the prior response. Humans did not get iodine supplementation at the levels iodine salt provided until modern history. Regular and consistent access to caffeine for any significant portion of the population is something that we measure by centuries, not millennia. Even if we look at the populations that started getting more irregular access in 1000 BC or so, they don't have statistically significant outcomes than the rest.

> When something as inconspicuous as switching from stale bread to softer bread has had a drastic impact on dental issues

That's an interesting example. Do you think we should make everyone switch back to stale bread and refuse giving them dental and orthopedic work if their issues are caused by not eating soft bread now that we know the cause?
Confirmed! We Live in a Simulation (2021)
The current government in Queensland Australia announced 50c fares for 6 months trial. There is an election this month, the gov declared it will be made permanent, the opposition which is tipped to win has so far maintained they will also keep it. It has boosted PT travel significantly.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/11/the-b...
WP Engine fixed the vulnerability about a week ago [0].

The WP security team may have just backported the fix, even using the same line in their changelog [1].

[0]: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/changelog/

[1]: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?new=3164480%40a...
The concept is called "measurability bias"

These incentive is not permanent or has to be.

You try it, if thing gets better you keep it or you stop it.
It sure would be convenient if retailers like GoG had awesome controlled support for various and sundry Linux distros, and for MacOS, and for the TRS-80 Model III and the Amiga 500, but:

What does a person buy when they buy a game from GoG?

In my own experience with buying from GoG: What I buy is a copy of a Windows installer, and [often] a Steam code.

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If I then want to do something on my Linux box (or my Amiga 500) with that Windows installer, then: That's on me.

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I don't think that they owe me anything else here. YMMV.
A third can't be right. 15 billion from petrol and 18.2 billion from diesel alone make up almost half of that. 48.76 million vehicles times €100 (back of the envelope calculation) for vehicle tax puts that number above half.

https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Government/Taxes/Excise-Du...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/810662/passenger-cars-st...

https://www.zoll.de/DE/Unternehmen/Kraftfahrzeugsteuer/Steue...
I was more concerned about the vens
I'm not a founder but this seems like a super fun idea!
The center that created Dolly designs epidemic-resistant animals
Then let's stop subsidizing cars and fossil fuels.