skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was eating vegan burgers every so often. That should've covered the psychology aspect, but it didn't.

My energy level was steadily declining, as you might expect for an iron deficiency. When I gave in and started eating burgers, they were profoundly tasty, and my energy levels recovered.

I've had dietary shifts in the past (from one omnivore diet to another) and nothing like this happened.

I'm on board with the ethical aspect of veganism. I'm annoyed by what I perceive as the ideological aspect, which pretends a vegan diet can easily be perfectly nutritious.

[I'm complaining about this because I'm hoping vegans will take a hard look in the mirror, and start taking nutrition seriously, so I won't suffer from an iron deficiency (or whatever it was!) if I try again in the future.]
A Plan to Win Your Next Interviewing Battle (2019)
they renamed to "secure custom fields"
I think this is for domestic consumption, to keep the project in the minds of voters and elected representatives so the project is less likely to be defunded.

X-37 is in a higher energy trajectory than its Chinese cousin so it stands to reason it would need to do a energy reduction maneuver before returning to Earth.
You don't need these criteria when you can see in advance that something is impossible.

I think something that only learns to reproduce text, can not become an intelligent actor.

It's necessary to act in an environment with Feedback.

And while it of course depends on the definition of intelligence, the article is about the Gödel machine, which is a fancy word for AGI
And we get yet another case study in how ego destroys value
>* disallow anything other than input devices for USB

I think that will greatly reduce the ability to get work done. It's my understanding that the workflow for using these specific airgapped computers involved moving USB thumb drives between computers.
Yeah, it was great ...and he's already prepping for a 'Cascade Volcanos A-Z' series starting this November 6 to Feb 15 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SVMH4ZA7cU
And don't forget audio books. There has been a reading renaissance due to audio books.

One thing about books (online or physical), is that a lot more work has gone into a some of them, so the quality can be higher.
The quote escaping seems to be identical to that of Visual Basic 6 (and likely QBASIC as well, although I haven’t tested that.)
- Air Pollution and related deaths / morbidities
- Road tear and wear
- Congestion related loss of business and time
- Can actually work on train or rest

Many of these can be calculated and measured.

Rail doesn’t significantly pollute more or deprecate faster on the infrastructure side empty or full.
> I disagree.

Of course you do, you've followed that with

Yet Another Hand Waving Away Challenges Of Self Sustaining Off Earth Colonies.

Even if there was a self sufficient colony on Mars, it's tiny and all the other problems remain; non European colonies on Earth didn't eliminate issues at home and they were vastly simpler to establish than off planet colonies for a host of reasons you've skimmed over.
Funding road repairs, construction, and expansion from general tax revenues is similarly subsidizing a different mode of transit, and it's likely a much higher value than the 3b€ you mention (and likely more than overall railway sector subsidizing, tho I'm not familiar with Germany's budget). Also recognizing that other positive externalities exist, but pricing them at $0, seems silly.
The fraud we deal with is a lot more than $10.
Zendesk was informed. OP specifically said they asked h1 to escalate to the company itself and the second email they present way from someone from Zendesk, who still rejected them, adding that this decision was made “after consulting with the team”.
California officials cite Elon Musk's politics in rejecting SpaceX launches
> The California Coastal Commission on Thursday rejected the Air Force’s plan to give SpaceX permission to launch up to 50 rockets a year from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

> “Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet,” Commissioner Gretchen Newsom said at the meeting in San Diego.

> “I really appreciate the work of the Space Force,” said Commission Chair Caryl Hart. “But here we’re dealing with a company, the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race and he’s managed a company in a way that was just described by Commissioner Newsom that I find to be very disturbing.”
I actually do stand by my assertion in this case. The reason is because unfortunately, after a certain scale, cars are actually actively harmful to growth.

That's why I brought up Texas in particular. Interstate 45 as an example is effectively at saturation. Even if you add new lanes to it, you only get marginal throughput benefits when you actually try to get between Dallas and Houston or commute to either city from the region between them. The same goes for I-10 out of Houston.

Texas has reached the point where car ownership is actually costing the state and local governments astronomical amounts of money for marginal amounts of congestion relief (that is then immediately saturated).

I don't deny that cars have a place in low density regions and I think they are great for specific uses or areas but generally I believe that cars hinder growth in any metro environment in the long term. Doubly so because car centric infrastructure is extremely hostile to anyone who doesn't use a car which makes transition at that density threshold extremely painful for everyone involved.
No, stone tablets have a history of breaking and going missing, becoming a legend in the process.

We need gold plated tungsten carbide tablets.
yeah. Me, for one.

WordPress is kinda awful in a lot of ways.

BUT

You can hand a thoughtfully build WP site over to a non technical client, and they can work out or learn how to do 90% of the publishing and updating they need to do, or easily find staff or contractors with lots of WordPress experience to do it for them.

The "43% of the entire web" statistic is a really really good reason to recommend WP for that reason.

There is obviously not a single competing CMS/blog-platform that has anything like as many experiences users. Where by "users" I mean people who are familiar with or even experts on publishing content using it.

That's the real "WordPress Community", the people using it on a day to day basis to get their jobs/hobbies/responsibilities done. That's the "WordPress Community" that makes it "the right thing" for agencies and contractors and IT departments to recommend WordPress.

Up until 2 weeks ago, I regularly recommended WordPress. In spite of it's flaws.
I was heavily involved with Wordpress from about 2006 to 2012. I made it do things it was never designed to do before a lot of plugins like this existed. It was garbage then and it’s still garbage now. I stopped using it primarily because I saw what a cluster fuck the internals were and how out of control the plugin upsell ecosystem became. There were inklings of this behavior from the supreme leader too, like believing theme sales were antithetical to the entire point of WP. So I jumped ship with a real bad taste in my mouth and never looked back. I’ve tried it a handful of times over the year and it still looks like the same turd with a few more layers of polish. Still won’t scale out of the box without caching plugins.

The irony of this entire situation is Matt didn’t even make Wordpress. It was forked from a blogging engine called b2. How’s that expression go? You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
bruh i mean make them mandatory
That's really not my point.

Okay, now the village has no train service, so they are required to use cars or buses to get around.

Then the UK introduces a "UK ticket", £50/month for local train service anywhere in the UK.

If those villagers protest against the ticket, because it's funded by their taxes while they can't use it, how should we understand that complaint?

One way is to use their anger to justify shutting down the new ticket scheme. This is typical us-vs-them politics.

A second is to say "suck it you car-addicted freaks", as if they had a choice in the matter and were not stuck with the results of decisions made during their grandparents' time.

A third is to re-connect train services, an option made much more expensive by the decision to not bank the rail lines for possible future expansion; a hidden debt which must now be paid.

But then who will pay those costs?

Simply saying 'only helped the folks living close to big train station hubs, across the country there are plenty of places where the car is the only viable option' is entirely too simplistic to be meaningful.
I don't think that would have protected against this attack. I think it was the users' workflow to plug USB drives into non airgapped computers, then into the airgapped computers. So those USB drives would be put on the approved list, and also be used by the attackers.
I made the switch 3 years ago and haven't looked back. Fuck Chrome.
And another one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821336 ("Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org (wordpress.org)"; 11 hours ago, 153 comments)
From WordPress to what?
There’s just not a single one-size-fits-all model/pipeline. You choose the right one for the job, depending on whether you need streaming (i.e., low latency; words output right when they’re spoken), run on device (e.g. phone) or server, what languages/dialects, conversational or more “produced” like a news broadcast or podcast, etc. Best way is to benchmark with data in your target domain.
It's confusing how "I'm down for that" has an opposite meaning from "I'm down on that".
[dupe]

Lots more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821400

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821336
> Easy to script—Okay, I did write some Typst the other day. I migrated my LaTeX-based invoicing system to Typst. I created a list of objects with pricing and count and was able to throw it into a table easily.

Interesting! Would you share your solution and/or tell us a little more about it? Thanks!
I don't understand, many people built software on top of Linux, and Torvalds doesn't do crusades against organisations that build on top of it, make money from it and don't contribute anything back to Linux. How is this situation different?
Ask HN: Why aren't drones doing more (seems easier than self driving cars)
Like why doesn’t Amazon put like 10 drones on their van’s roof and the van could park on a street and deliver to every customer on the street or community. Sending a dude out one by one is dumb.

Or, get my groceries delivered right to my building or home.

I live in SF and would be cool if all the tall buildings acted as relay stations for the drones. I’m sure the range on those drones sucks, so they probably need to charge and also pass it off to the next drone to complete delivery especially if it’s coming from a distant place.

What are the downsides? Noise? I’m already used to people screeching and wailing, assholes who rev their bikes at 2am, and of course the July 4 fireworks in (checks watch) October. Drone noise is negligible if I’m getting my stuff quicker.

Idk. Isn’t 3d space more freeing to do more stuff in? Especially if it’s in the range below FAA level. Programming autonomous drone swarms sounds so damn cool I’d love to work on that lol.

I just think it would be more revolutionary and interesting than some wack car without a steering wheel. It would only honestly be good in SF and I personally like driving and wouldn’t ever support giving up my autonomy to go where I want when I want without waiting 5-10 minutes and then paying $.80 per minute or whatever bs pricing these companies will come up with.
I like it. Seems like it might be useful for mice and keyboards as well.

Have a few ports on it:
This device can only be a mouse -> USB
This device can only be a keyboard -> USB

Then it filters everything coming in to ensure that it matches the desired type of activity.

For USB drives, I'm tempted to say it should read the USB drive once, and copy all information to internal storage in order to prevent data being sent to the usb via timed or coordinated reads. This would allow a truly read only thumbdrive.
I didn't read past the abstract, but it sounds like they are just transforming logic-based programs into function-based programs. But: if I wanted functional programming, I wouldn't be writing in Prolog.

What would be interesting, would be to replace depth-first search while remaining in the world of predicates and Horn clauses.
I'm not sure you've fully accounted for the full carbon reduction here, which is not just the replacement of cars from the road but also the transition to a car-free lifestyle.

It gets people out of their cars because it's cheaper than petrol. When train tickets (in other countries) cost more than the cost of petrol for the journey, commuters who already sank the cost of buying a car + insurance ask why they should bother paying a premium for the train ticket when the cost of petrol will be cheaper.

Only after people transition to taking the train in the morning, do they then start to ask questions like "do I get value out of paying for insurance on a car I don't drive?" and start to make decisions like selling their cars. In this case the carbon reduction is not only the carbon reduction of the trips that would have been taken by train, but the carbon reduction from the use of the car altogether, and future car maintenance and replacement.
Here's level 20 https://imgur.com/a/xqbjwPt

Godspeed IFT-5
Multiple submissions seen by many and lots of discussion. Stuff moves fast.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821400

And that's just on this development. Each stage of this crazy story has had plenty of views and discussion here.
You can create a google account with an existing email

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/176347?hl=en&co=G...
No, they're talking about the local connections that are covered by the ticket. They're that bad.

I've had similar experiences commuting into Cologne where it's 40 minutes by car or 2 hours by train, and that's without delays. In the rush hours it's 60 minutes by car. A missed train connection adds another half hour.
One problem; ePub and HTML are at the mercy of its viewer program. What you might see on one device may not be what you see on another.

PDF, on the other hand, can be made to be consistent with every device it's viewed on.
"But, if a composite is full of a measure that’s biased, how accurate is it going to be?"

Does it matter if the measure is biased, if you're measuring over time and looking for comparative differences?
I couldn’t find an average thickness of books, so I quickly measured the 2nd from top shelf of my closest bookcase. (The top seemed unfair as it has a collection of “the world’s famous orations” which seem abnormally thin ).
Shelf in question:
https://ibb.co/CznTZ5m

(Googling I just seemed to get spine thickness and format sizes but not an average of actual printed thickness )

It has 21 books in 28 inches.

1.34 inches per book.

I get 279 linear feet for 2,500 books.

Checking Amazon, Walmart, the book cases they sell seem to be 5-6 tier with 24 inch width.
(Though checking my non built in ones, all of the ones I own are around 4 feet).

Using the Amazon average, you’d need 24 book cases to fit all of them… which does seem like a lot. Wonderful but a lot.

I do have a kindle, and I love it. But something about physical books is great.

I have 5 built in book cases of various sizes, and 6, four feet
Wide book cases that are 5 or 6 tiers… and yet I still have bins and bins of books in my attic.

Initially I had thought “that’s manageable” but upon some self reflection you make an excellent point.
There's another thing WPEngine would do with that decision though, and that's ruin Matt/Automattic/wordpress.org in the court case (look at who WPE retained as councel, this is not going to be a quick/cheap litigation), and then crush them in the WP hosting market (which arguably they're already doing, which is why Matt's losing his mind).

Matt's extortion attempt is because WPEngine is generating a lot of revenue and is valuable enough for PE to notice. He figured he had a decent chance of blackmailing them out of 8% of their revenue to the tune of around 10mil a year. Matt's a deluded and entitled tech nerd cosplaying a mafia mobster. And WPEngine did not blink.
Doesn’t Chicago keep a lot of cars in tunnels already, by using a separate system of underground roads and highways for commercial traffic?
Yep, I was looking at the Liberty and also the tablet; I don't really care about the pricing (which is pretty mental, but for the good cause), however the specs are, well, not great for a linux machine that can actually do something. Especially the memory. It would be my daily driver (plugin to a monitor or xreal glasses) if it had 12 gb, but 4gb... that's not really a thing. I use my s24 for mostly everything and would love to move to something like this as I don't really like samsung (or android) that much, but let's up the memory eh.

Like everywhere, memory is still what holds things back; I would pay $3k for the Liberty if it had 12-24gb, but he.
Assuming that other plugins depend on ACF (which I get the impression is a thing?), automattic can probably argue that the use throughout the code is for compatibility reasons. There's also probably interactions with the GPL licenses (if it's GPL v2 or later).
Does it support .mdx?
To be honest, the reason I mentioned it at all was because I do the same thing with the same word so it was as much of a comment for your benefit as it was for my benefit haha.
Users of the plugin already have a trust and consumption relationship with Automattic for the core.

It's more like mcdonalds replacing Coke with McCola with your mcdonalds meal - you were already trusting mcdonalds for the food. But even that is a stretch since both are GPL2 and there's no current sign the plugin Automattic provide differs from the WP Engine one.

GPL is on both sides, nothing stops WP Engine doing the same and providing their own flavour of core with their plugin, if that's what people want. Of course that costs more than private equity just using Automattic's core for free.
Additionally the ticket has not only shifted traffic but also led to an increase of trips in total.
It really is not poorly addressed, as it's a reasonable solution to the issue which also brings about it's own benefits. If you have your system configured such that the Emacs server starts up when you log in, by the time you actually start Emacs it will long have already loaded completely. If you actually use your Emacs for several things throughout the day, including but not limited to reading and editing text and documents, then it is likely you will have it always running during that time with several files open, and will find it useful to be using Emacs in the same state it was in the last time you opened it.

As an aside, having it running in the background was actually the way the original EMACS that ran on ITS was intended to be used: When you C-x C-c out of it, it does not kill the program, it simply puts it in the background, and the next time you invoke EMACS it brings it back up. This is similar in effect to hitting C-z, then using 'fg' to bring it up again, but this only really works in a terminal. The Emacs server achieves the intended effect better, especially on a graphical display.
I tried FreeBSD for a few months about 15 years ago. I liked it. Clean filesystem and just "felt" better on a few levels. But the reason I started using Linux 25 years ago was 100% for the philosophy of the GPL and because of that, I never felt comfortable with myself using FreeBSD. I have suggested it to many people over the years, I think it's a great OS, just not for me.
As a side note, TeX engine could support Markdown or HTML or many other syntaxes too: it's easy to redefine control character in TeX to be anything instead or in addition to "\" (I've actually done that with Plain TeX a couple decades earlier to allow two-byte UTF-8 input by making all first-bytes of valid 2-byte UTF-8 sequences into control characters).

So, LaTeX being "unergonomic" is only relative — it's pretty ergonomic compared to things like HTML but especially DocBook or TEI SGML/XML schemas, but less ergonomic than Markdown or even Plain TeX. However, it inherits the most complex part where it is extremely ergonomic from Plain TeX (for the most part): editing math formulae.

But it's also much richer in expressing intent than any of those, and from what I can see, compared to Typst as well — LaTeX is basically semantic markup for excellent printed output (where Plain TeX is excellent printed output with no semantics, DocBook/TEI are pure semantic markup, and HTML/Markdown/Typst are somewhere in the middle too).
not trying to be controversial, and I know some private investment firms are understandably not well regarded, but there are plenty you don’t hear about that are quite pleasant to work with
Only a week in, but at the moment I'm building out things with HUGO and experiments are going very well.

Decided to seek out the absolute antithesis of WordPress after this experience, and don't wish to be dependent on peoples whims so much anymore.

I recognise the limitations of SSGs, but I think these are overcomeable, and the benefits (Speed, CI) seem massive.

I am open to hearing other suggestions people may have though.
ARCnet is interesting. Deterministic performance, robustness/automatic ACKs, cables up to 2000 feet, still used in industrial settings. Biggest downsides seem to be lower speed and the limit of 255 nodes per LAN, but this addressing works better than Ethernet for IPv4 since the lower 8 bits of the IP address can be the LAN address, eliminating the need for complicated ARP exchanges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET
Nice web page but after reading through the landing page I could not say for certain what the actual product is.
There is no text that describes it, it just reads

>GTD for professionals

What does this mean?
GPL does not make any representations about private equity being able to extract value from the work.
If you give me your email I can send you an email at the end of next year, confirming that there will not be any significant battery improvements in any car sold by that year

These kinds of announcements/articles have been published every few months, and pretty much never end up in any products because theyre pretty much never economically viable after scaling it up

I'm even willing to put money on that, if you actually believe your own words to be true, I'd easily bet pretty much any amount that we will not have a 50% upgrade in battery capacity in any car as compared to the previous model that's been published 1-3 years prior to that. To keep it simple, say $10 000? It'd be easy money if you yourself think you weren't just talking none sense ( ◕ ᴗ ◕ )
lol I just made a ask hn post asking why we don’t see more stuff in the drone space.

Are you a software engineer? What’s your background? Cool demo
veg(etari)?ans
Found something, a drop-in replacement.

AdGuard AdBlocker (MV3 Beta): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adguard-adblocker-m...

Copy and pasting the ublock custom filters into AdGuard seems to work.
In fact, reading into it more - they simply say "apple used our source code" this sounds almost explicitly like they are not paying, at all.

On top of that, Apple's DX to Metal code is not re-distributable. So yes, this sounds like more of the same from Apple.
The UK offers aggressive discounts for advance purchasing tickets on long distance routes at quiet times, which works well.
When the comment to upvote ratio is too high, posts are down weighted to prevent flamewars, apparently.