skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think ghettoization, whether you agree with the characterization or not, is driven by how much devops / security work / handholding a deployed app needs. And wordpress needs a LOT of that. When the popular solution requires a ton of work, people will naturally look for alternatives that don't involve them being a sysadmin, which they may well not even have the skills to do.
seems like a rehash of the same hit piece they tried to pull off back in 2021
So it's a file that gets backed up like dropbox
So very true. Ham radio operators, AIUI, played a critical role with emergency communications in the Western NC area in the aftermath of Helene. I believe there were some instances where local PSAP's / dispatch centers were knocked completely offline and they had local ham radio operators helping to dispatch fire/ems resources.

The great thing about ham radio, it really is an inexpensive hobby to get started. Now, once you get into it, you can spend just about as much money as you want (or have access to). But a Bao-feng handheld that costs around $40 or so can work the local repeaters on 2m or 70cm and is a fine way to get started, learn the lingo, etc.

I encourage everyone to give it a shot, and join up with a local AUXCOMM group or whatever you have locally. I have to admit, I'm not as active with our local group as I'd like to be, due to competing demands for my time, but I hope to eventually work things out to where I can get more active.
Have you tried ChatGPT’s Playgrounds feature? I don’t use it but it sounds similar.
> it's not $400

There's just no point in having this conversation, and I'd like you to understand why from my first comment. You're not having a conversation about facts. Your sources for this information have been:

1. Claiming that what the article says is wrong.
2. Tweets with no primary sources

This kind of stuff is really easy to find meaningful answers to, and you just don't and instead gainsay whatever goes against statements made by Elon. (Elon is not a reliable source for a reason).

"Starlink is providing free service for 30 days in regions affected by Hurricane Helene" <- This is meaningfully false if you have to buy the hardware to access it. $400 is $400 more than free.
That would put a crimp in any purchase plans, to be sure.
I did not take it as you saying that I did, both times I was trying to make the point that those people that you don't believe exist include me as one of them.
How to Implement Clean Architecture in ReactJS?
> Kind of like saying Lysenko was controversial at times.

This is BS. Krugman has very specific theories that made predictions validated by practice.

Remember 2008? He made a prediction that an increase in the monetary base wouldn't cause inflation. This prediction was spectacularly confirmed. He also made a case for fiscal intervention: it wouldn't cause inflation, and it would speed up the recovery. And his prediction again was confirmed.

More recently: he predicted that the inflation spike was transient, due to supply chain issues rather than fundamental changes. And he's again been vindicated.
Credential Exchange Specifications
> The axes of dimensions beyond 3-d are not orthogonal, does this change the definition of "dimension".

They are orthogonal.

> I cannot conceive a geometrical image of higher dimensions.

This is normal, and essential to the point of the article. If you could visualize 10-dimensional space, it wouldn’t be so counterintuitive.

Try looking up images and videos of 4D objects projected into 3D and 2D. That might help. Hypercubes are maybe the easiest.
That’s a strange parallel to make. It’s not Linux from Scratch. The basic can be taught in 5 minutes. Enough for the requested task.
This article is missing the forest for the trees.

The reason why the Automattic/WP Engine fight has become the tech industry's daily soap opera isn't because we're all passionate about website hosting solutions. It's because the ramifications for open source are dire.

This fight is essentially the legal version of the xz-utils supply chain attack. It's a shock to the system that rocks the fundamental assumptions of open source to its core, here, "you can build your product on top of open source and as long as you follow the license you agreed to, you'll be legally fine."

WordPress.org could self-implode tomorrow, and that doesn't matter in the slightest, because the good will of the legal community (if there is such a thing) that the open source community spent decades trying to build up is being destroyed by one unhinged man. Matt may have ended up doing to open source what Bill Gates wasn't able to do in decades at Microsoft.
My job follows this, and "rebase" isn't even in the vocabulary at work. It's just so simple- our developers spend zero time with git issues because there aren't any. The master branch history ends up being a sequence of pull requests that all have a corresponding code review. Everything stays nice and tidy.
Evolving Intercom's Database Infrastructure
But it got electrolytes?
1 in 4 adults suspect undiagnosed ADHD
The recent forking of Advanced Custom Fields is just a smoking gun for where his priorities actually lie. Matt is part of a small group of people who have made a significant amount of wealth from an open source project. The project itself, however, has stagnated over the past 10 years. The community's reliance on plugins like ACF is a complete failure of the development of core more than it is the tyranny of private investment.
You’re right.

And if you can’t understand why almost everyone will read ‘furi’ as furry and not ‘fury’, then you’ve got a phonics problem.
Music Thing Modular Workshop System
> focus on power systems

Picking what you'll do specifically without starting the degree does not sit well with me. I am in CS and not in EE, but believe a degree gives you a breath understanding of the subject to let you choose wiser.

In my days, lots of students started CS because they would "like to put up websites" or "work for this specific employers in town". Those goals were determined based on what they could see around them at the time. Then the field shifted (like AI coming) and the company's trajectory shifted. They were disappointed on either the school didn't teach them skills specific to the job or didn't graduate before the downturn. The specific type of job or the field could also be saturated with folks with years of experience on their job: Entry-level positions could be hard to come by.
You could build a larger re-usable rocket that could launch this payload and still have margin for recovery, such as the in-development SpaceX Starship.

However for this type of mission that would still leave the question of "What if we skipped re-usability and paid more to expend the launcher? Could we launch a larger payload and/or get there faster?"

The trajectory for this mission was already a slower transit time than the alternate plan of launching it on the SLS rocket. I think for some missions that are infrequent and targeting far-away destinations there will always be a desire to maximize performance at the cost of reusability on that singular launch.
It definitely answers certain questions better and languages, topics these models are less capable at are hit less. The denial at this point doesn't make any sense.
While I get most of your points, I believe some companies sometimes can or maybe even should experiment with new languages, and see what benefits it brings them.

The important part is evaluating the experiment and having the courage to say “well that didn’t work out, let’s go back to the original version”.

They should have evaluated what is “slightly faster”, how much money it saves and how much it will cost extra to maintain it.
Does India need to control the Indian Ocean in order to defend itself?

What about Mexico, should it control the Gulf of Mexico? Ireland, the Irish Sea? Etc.

And, by the way, as of 2024, you don't really need to control the entire sea (or even half of it) to prevent the enemy from landing on your shores. Any military worth its cost has a large assortment of missiles for that purpose.

Case in point: Ukraine has unambigously denied the Russians (the Russians!) control of the Black Sea while literally having no navy to speak of. By shooting at them from land. That is how it goes.

Taiwan also doesn't rely on its control of the seas to defend itself. Even the Israeli Navy is comparatively weak. Etc.
> Yes you do need to run `git rebase --update-refs` constantly but you want your commits to be meaningful enough to be preserved, you are doing the rebase anyways. If you don't want to type `--update-refs` put it in your .gitconfig.

I tried out that config for a while but it was too much of a sledgehammer in practice. It rewrote things that I didn’t want.

> And what do you mean vanilla forge PRs don't support it?

Hmm. This is what I would call support:

- Push one time and you get the option from the remote to generate X dependent PRs since the remote sees that you have some branch tip and X-1 ancestor branches which are not in `main`... etc.

I at least haven’t heard of this support in GitHub.

What does not rise to that level: having to create X PRs manually and making sure to target each of them individually.

But apparently the Git experts (or simply the ones who do not suck at it) do this with vanilla tooling. I could very well be missing something here.

> If it's GitHub you simply tell your reviewer to look at the commit diff view not the PR diff view.

You mean a five-commit PR could be a one-commit-per-PR by saying to the reviewer “look at the commit diff”? Then I have no trouble with it.
Exactly. He also ends his post with a "separate" boast about poaching one if WPE's engineers. It's so obvious that this is just a giant FU to WPE and nothing else

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/
I'm waiting for ffmpeg to implement pipewire screen grab so it could work on Wayland.
If it did that then losing your phone, deleting the app's storage or moving to a different phone without transferring the app's storage would brick the smart ring.

Oculus decides are pretty big, I assume they have buttons that allow you to recover from that. This ring doesn't.
Gosub: A browser engine written in Rust
The instant I saw that I stopped reading. Matt does not seem like a great person.
They must be pretty good if they think they can charge $20 for an API wrapper. That's how much it used to cost to get GPT-4 back when everyone else was showing off half coherent models.
I’ve been using jsonschema since forever with function calling. Does structured output just formalize things?
These free things (Wikipedia, Linux, etc.) are sustained by a high GDP that translates to high incomes and, in turn, people willing to donate time and money for them to remain free.

Let's try living in a country with a measly GDP per capita of $1,000 (Rwanda for example) and see how many free things we can get..
Not an expert in the space at all and it does seem like people are exploring new file and table formats so that is really cool!

How does this compare to Lance (https://lancedb.github.io/lance/)?

What do you think the key applied use case for Vortex is?
I think that is very, very unlikely.
I think that most of us are more interested in value created than value personally captured.
Will check it. Thanks
> One of the unique attributes of the (in-progress) Vortex file format is that it encodes the physical layout of the data within the file's footer. This allows the file format to be effectively self-describing and to evolve without breaking changes to the file format specification.

That is quite interesting. One challenge in general with parqet and arrow in the otel / observability ecosystem is that the shape of data is not quite known with spans. There are arbitrary attributes on them, and they can change. To the best of my knowledge no particularly great solution exists today for encoding this. I wonder to which degree this system could be "abused" for that.
Yeah. It wasn't planned, but was a likely outcome.

I'm not sure if they would have actually attempted to tow this one somewhere given its location in the Indian Ocean, but they might have taken the opportunity to do some inspections before sinking it.
The classic email workflow is either one patch or a patch series. Where each patch becomes a commit. And each patch can be reviewed in isolation (like a commit).

It is not anemic like the squash workflow.
If it is hosting-related, rather than WordPress-related, then are there not other structurally similar PHP CMSes and tools (Drupal, Backdrop, Magento, PrestaShop, Grav, Monica, maybe InvoiceNinja [0]) you could add plugin-based support for?

Magento is an extreme case but under the hood, most of the "hosting-related" things one wants to add intelligence for (backups, static content generation, caching, monitoring) are common to lots of PHP applications.

What about adding a library (if that's how your tool provides integration) for generic PHP (e.g. Laravel) applications?

That is, instead of pivoting to another single framework, what about pivoting to being PHP-supportive and framework-agnostic?

[0] InvoiceNinja may have licence restrictions that prevent you offering an integrated service, I've not checked recently. I guess others might too.
> Eh… they’re just a consulting firm. Nobody does really care about them from the perspective of advancing the science.

Are you referring to IBM here?
I took a side project that I built for my own needs (ArchiveBox) and just built it up as an open source project until it was useful to other people too.

At first it seemed like a trivial tool that was just a thin wrapper around wget, so I didn't think anyone else would want to use it, but as I started adding features traction grew and random contributors came out of the woodwork and started helping.

Monetized through consulting, and the consulting money is paying enough to scale the buiness a bit. Next step is releasing a "Pro" version as a SaaS with some fo the features that I cant open source anyway (e.g. CAPTCHA-solving, bot-detection avoidance, etc.).
That's how the Chinese are planning to do it:

https://youtu.be/OYWBmu6H0ik?feature=shared&t=35
I was just about to go looking for something like this!
I'll look so pro on the meeting tomorrow :)
How curious to see that the authors of this character assassination are anonymous. I wonder if it's a cabal of closed-source proprietary software authors behind this.

If this was being released 10-20 years ago, I'd suspect the involvement of Microsoft and their allies. These days, who knows. The Free Software movement has been attacked from many angles over the years, from those who want to destroy it completely to those who want to control and usurp it. There certainly are a long list of suspects for who may have authored this screed.

It would be interesting to see if a stylometric analysis could unmask those responsible. Perhaps we'd find dark skeletons in their closets, as is so often the case for those who point accusatory fingers at others using spurious evidence.
What China's Leaders Grasp About Another Trump Term
https://archive.is/PAT5K
Feels like a problem in search for a solution to me. Although I haven’t worked in an office for a while now, so it could be that I’m not understanding the importance in such setting (or whatever is this device’s target use environment) that can’t be replaced with a sticky note.
Key takeaways:

- The training compute of notable AI models is doubling roughly every six months.

- Training compute costs are doubling every nine months for the largest AI models.

- Training compute has scaled up faster for language than vision.

- The size of datasets used to train language models doubles approximately every eight months.

- The length of time spent training notable models is growing.

- The power required to train frontier AI models is doubling annually.

- Leading AI companies have hundreds of thousands of cutting-edge AI chips.

Those are the conclusions for each section with some explanation for the data in each section. The implications seem to be that production of these LLMs is getting ever more costly, especially in terms of time and energy, even as training and algorithms become more efficient and more effective.

Is this all supply-side with the assumption of demand, or is the demand curve already rising to match?
I see what you’re getting at, but I don’t think that’s more of a risk than the people who soured on proprietary platforms after people like Larry Ellison made it clear you’re insane for trusting your business to a closed solution.
This is starting to get clownish.

At this point I wonder when will Matt Mullenweg will start closing wordpress.com account owned by people that don't align with his opinions.

There already is a checkbox to check for people affiliated in any way with wpengine, i wouldn't be surprised to see a checkbox for a field like "i agree with our lord an savior Matt Mullenweg in the WordPress vs WPEngine case".
> Try it and you tell me! ;)

I have tried it and for me I can only notice that my attention has drifted after it has drifted. I've never noticed that my brain is currently trying to turn an auditory signal into a meaningful symbol (symbol is probably not the right word). I only notice that I heard a dog bark.
> Fast, performant and cheap. You wanted all 3? Now you got it!

What's the difference between fast and "performant"?
Keep in mind that PHP is way more verbose and LOC-hungry than Ruby! So, to compare apples to apples, you need to device the PHP LOCs by at least 2!
In fairness; that and the overlay is what is happening, just from C++.
Props for nice oneliner none the less. :)
Exactly. In addition, by delaying the relight as long as possible you're giving drag as much time as possible to do the work for you (assuming you're not at terminal velocity, so not applicable for the ship.)
Thanks for that. It made me wonder: who was it? Were they in the shower, did they awake from a nightmare?

Here is an HN post from 2014, "How a Swedish engineer saved a once-in-a-lifetime mission to Titan (2004)" [0]

Since the link has rotted away, here is the archive link to the IEEE story. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7472495

[1] https://archive.is/3oj6P (archive.org is still not working reliably)
Does anyone know if any of these rings' accelerometers are precise enough to detect falls? I am thinking of elderly patients who refuse to use smartwatches or any "old-person-looking" devices.
If the meatbag was a salesperson though… very believable! ;)
Worth reiterating in all these discussions:

1. All times in the future are best-understood as a set of triggering-rules, based on world-conditions that are neither constant nor wholly predictable.

2. Converting future times means guessing that one set of conditions will be met in N seconds, and then guessing that N seconds from now will be when another set of conditions triggers. (Yes, to-UTC or from-UTC.)

This mental model will help contextualize all the various timezone advice out there, and guides away from nasty deep design-bugs.

______________

A brief ramble on the spectrum of predictability.

On one extreme, International Atomic Time (TAI) [0] means "X seconds from now" is conditioned on waiting for a cesium atom to vibrate a certain number of times. So intervals are very highly predictable... unless some Star Trek engineer decides to Reverse the Polarity on something. But everyone except experimental physicists strongly hopes it won't happen.

Adjacent to it is good old UTC, which has an additional wrinkle where some United Nations folks may choose to add/remove a leap second [1], so your future event can "move" around, and the interval between "now" and the event can change over time. But we try to avoid caring about +/-1 second.

Much further away towards the other end, imagine: "Our after-work picnic for the Doomstadt office will be on June 7th at 5:30PM Latverian Standard Time." How many seconds from now until then? Well, it depends on whenever the LST officials arbitrarily decide it happens. They might even do a time-adjustment that skips an hour (4:59PM then 6:00PM) so that the picnic time never technically occurs, or do the inverse so that 5:30PM pops up twice that day. They might switch to a totally incompatible national calendar. The nation itself might vanish.

______________

Anyway, back to database columns, your design will depend a bit on "what conditional contract am I really capturing here", plus "which layer(s) of my design will need to do time logic to guess intervals or convert through intervals."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
I read half of the blog post and it's revolting.
Wtf?
Anyone tried running KDE?
That number of people experiencing ADHD, if confirmed, would lead me to start considering it a neurotype and not a disorder.

I was very happy to read the new report on attitudes toward mental health in aviation (this was brought to mind because medxpress, an FAA thing, is similar to the website's name). It was recommended that the FAA loosen its restrictions on several disorders, including treated ADHD.

I think that's a step in the right direction. They really need to either:

1) Admit that these things are a real problem and take away the light sport license, which doesn't require a third class medical

or

2) Admit that these things are not a real problem, and liberalize the third class medical

Their current policy is just confused. If people aren't worthy airmen, there's no reason to let them fly the least reliable kind of plane (the kind you can assemble in your garage...). If they are worthy airmen, there's no reason to deny them a 3rd class medical.
> Wait, did he just use lines of code as a success metric unironically?

Not only that, he also compared php code to ruby code. Totally different languages.

I'm not even arguing which one is better or worse (i dislike them both) but for example ruby is way more expressive than php... You (usually) need less lines of ruby code than php code to do most things.

Clownish, clownish.
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems...
It's clear to me now that the reason WordPress development has been stalled for so long is because Matt has been in charge this whole time and he has no idea what the development community actually wants/needs. So instead of in-housing a really basic tool like ACF he forces through garbage like Gutenberg.
Hmm. If I bought a phone for ~$600 and a laptop for ~$1000, I guess I’d pay ~$1700 for the converged device (adding a little bit because of the intangible benefit of not having to manage my files anymore).
"when wealthy people rode trains, they were accommodated"
Wouldn’t you back up your git repos by pushing them somewhere? Even if that somewhere is a different directory on the same drive. Backing up your local working copy sounds a bit odd.
There should be a word for when someone picks the most extreme situation to prove their point.

Yes, the U.S., Europe, and all well-governed democracies aren't perfect, but they're much better than China in that regard.

A litmus test: U.S. and European citizens are free to challenge their leaders, e.g., the recent glut of anti-establishment parties garnering more votes in the EU. Some of these guys are loons, yet they're free to challenge the status quo because that's part of democracy.

Remind me where Xi Jinping and Putin's political opponents end up again? In jail or dead.
Yes it does very much depend on your starting point.

For instance, coming from C Unix programming, it took me 2 hours to try OCaml 15 years ago or so, because Ocaml tooling, at that time, was the same as C. Basically, I made a generic rule for my makefiles to call ocamlopt instead of gcc and I was good to go. Installing a dependency was just the usual "./configure && make install"

This was simple for me, but not for students with no Unix background. In that context "opam install" was simpler, although it's objectively more complex as it adds a few additional layers on top of the same process.