skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly (e.g. here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41586950, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41586926. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we've had to ask you this before.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

(p.s. this is not an objection to your views. Plenty of other HN commenters express similar views while respecting the site guidelines. If you'd do that as well, that would be good.)
Thankfully it’s just mushrooms. It must be one of the easiest drugs to grow yourself after just dropping a cannabis seed in the ground. As long as spores are accessible it’ll be “democratized” and even in places like California where they’re illegal to ship, they’re still easy to get.

It’s a lot harder to accurately dose in its natural form though.
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>What I wonder about is why they never tested catching boosters with the ones they've been using all along. They know these boosters inside out, so it would be a good platform to gain experience with.

The Falcon 9 is incapable of hovering, because given the number of Merlins and their limited ability to throttle it cannot achieve a thrust/weight ratio (TWR) of 1 even on a single engine throttled to the lowest it can go. Rockets are almost entirely fuel by weight at launch, when empty they are very light. Since it has a TWR >1 when near-empty, lighting up an engine means F9 will want to go up again. So with F9 SpaceX must do a "hoverslam" to land, wherein the computer lights the engine at just the right point such that it hits relative velocity of zero right at the altitude of the landing pad (be it on ship or on land). That won't do for catching one however.

With Starship all of this was considered from the start. Raptor has better throttling capability (itself an amazing technical achievement), and of course on Super Heavy there are lots of them which is another advantage of the "many, smaller engines" approach. It means that they can effectively throttle it to just 1/33*min-throttle of max thrust. And SH is also just plain heavier construction, for good reason in an economics designed big rocket but also helpful here. Combined it is actually capable of hovering when near empty.
Do you find retail store sales to be unethical too?
SpaceX already provided all the required information. FAA was not waiting for anything from SpaceX. They had inexplicably decided a new environmental review was required for trivial changes to the launch license, and today they reversed that decision in a "written re-evaluation" which as far as I can tell is not based on any new information.
> Every launch pad in the US is a de jure or de facto wildlife sanctuary. Launch pads need a large human keep-out zone. Keeping out humans is great for wildlife.

Would note that ULA's Vulcan 4 October launch test at Cape Canaveral sprayed debris and presumably propellant around the same area [1]. Vulcan's GEM SRB burns a perchlorate fuel [2]. Perchlorates are toxic [3].

SpaceX isn't taking any crazy risks, particularly relative to the technology risk and potential pay-off, with its IFTs.

[1] https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/10/04/ula-launches-second-vu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite-Epoxy_Motor

[3] https://wwwn.cdc.gov/tsp/ToxFAQs/ToxFAQsDetails.aspx?faqid=8...
What you say about Lisp compilers in general is correct; probably the uLisp author would learn some things from it.

With respect to uLisp itself, however, maybe you should read the code too.
Wordpress banned forks from the plugin directory a while ago, so they're doing what they ban everyone else from doing. https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2021/02/16/reminder-forke...
> Scoble made a follow-up tweet saying he talked with a Tesla engineer to get clarity.
One of the best commencement speeches I’ve seen.
As someone that has lived in French and German speaking countries and nowadays speaks both fluently, I would assert usually in French speaking countries there is the cultural issue of speaking directly in English versus trying a very basic "Parlez vous Anglais?" as initial question.

Whereas in German speaking countries I only had any issues in reaching out to technicians for house repairs.

However if we insist learning French and German, regardless how bad it might feel like during initial efforts, eventually it will improve good enough to work on those languages.
Yes, this is sort of my perspective to. Well, I switched around 2010, maybe a bit earlier, so I wasn’t on Linux during the real heyday of Windows villainy. But there were lingering sentiments. It is and odd sort of sentimentality to look at them and say “wow, how did they go from competently evil to just embarrassing.” Time makes IBMs of us all I guess.
1st stage reusability matters more so they can reach a cost model similar to F9, second stage is really just bonus.

If they never get the second stage working with reusability they could strip the design down to a simple S2
We no longer do custom WordPress work --- it turned out to never be worth the hassle --- but when we did, our company used ACF extensively. High quality plugin with responsive support and very fair licensing terms.

This --- to me --- smacks of complete bullshit.
> Multiple people I knew and respected wished me a horrific death for expressing my opinions

Someone here took exception to me saying that I have never had any trouble with wearing masks, went and left a generically threatening comment on my blog.

> I mean god forbid anybody express any disagreement with perhaps the most authoritarian, unscientific power grab in human history. The shit that went down was pure evil.

Are you still talking about the wearing masks during a global pandemic that lowered global life expectancy by about 2 years, or to put it differently "killed between 1 and 3 times as many as the literal Holocaust"?

Because that's way out of touch if so.

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
You could say the same about emails between friends or emails from churches - they don’t cover things that aren’t within the intended scope of the bill.
Being fair, that’s about Optimus. The parent post is asking about Cybercab’s use of human-in-the-loop feedback, not Optimus.
Oh I've found some areas. I'm particularly fond of explicit density models and normalizing flows. I do like RL too and was very surprised to hear that the math was "confusing" when it just seemed like weird notation. But it's hard to get works through review because even if you get SOTA for your architecture some asshat will ask you why you aren't better than the architectures being worked on by tens of thousands of people and with compute budgets 1000x yours. Though it's better if you find a very small niche so the reviews you get are more likely to actually know the bare basics of the topic.
The pro version of the plugin is a separate install, this just rips out the upgrade notices.
I didn't expand on that but actually that system was part of a global network; entirely separate from the Internet. There was MS Outlook installed on the terminal nodes. One can see how somebody could become nervous about not having AV on the nodes and come up with a "protection" scheme like the one I described.
Project Treble, Rust in the kernel, for example.
Home Libraries Will Save Civilization
This is one of the sleaziest things I've ever seen. I fear a hard fork of WordPress is now inevitable and unfortunately, it's possibly going to kill the platform, all over one man's ego. How can I now sell my clients on using WordPress for mission critical things if on a whim the owner of WordPress can break my site or lock out my security updates, just because I chose the "wrong" host or plugin? I don't see how the Board can sit by and let this all unfold like this, it's practically business suicide.
its worse than that; for instance in w10 the registry will have a whole slew of SYSTEM owned items, but only the TrustedInstaller (still SYSTEM) has permissions to traverse the registry tree; sadly the specfics escape me at the moment (im pretty sure the last ASUS laptop i'll ever own corrupted the nvme drive; so replicating that project that produced the results i was seeking is on the backburner)
i was using NSudo for elevation to that scope when needed (wow looks deprecated now in favor of new tooling, neato)
If God didn't mean for people to eat people, they wouldn't be made of meat.
> Honestly having 20 tele-operated robots…

I think it’s interesting because it reveals their development strategy:
• Build a hardware kit that can well avatar human motion from motion capture suits. This gives hardware a validation model to guide development.
• Then use the motion capture datasets to train the neural net which will auto operate the kit.
A colleague asked me for advice on being a manager. Amongst other advice, I suggested he read High Output Management.

He came back a few days later and said that chatGPT knew what was in the book - was it okay if he just read the summary?

I wasn’t sure what to say. It’s probably true that chatGPT can summarize all the main points from the book. But it has always been easy to find the key points from books on line. The hard part of being a manager is figuring out how to take the obvious instructions and act on them consistently.

Maybe some people can do that just be reading the summary. For me though, reading the whole book is important. I find myself thinking back to the examples used to illustrate the points. And I find that repeating ideas in different ways as I read the book helps make them part of my mental framework. I read lots of interesting ideas in quick articles, but they rarely stick with me unless there is a specific translation to action.

I ended up telling my colleague that it was up to him to decide how to learn best. If it was me, I need the book. But he needs to know his own learning system.
This reminds me of Clerk, but I believe it's a tad more powerful: https://clerk.vision
https://github.com/tenox7/BloKi/
What a choice, and what poor timing.

Companies that make breaking changes on holiday weekends aren’t going to earn much goodwill from developers.
Why bother, they already use Rust, compile with clang, and have a stable driver ABI without drama.
Some things don’t need data for us to take action. This is one of them. You can ignore the problem if it isn’t a big thing for you, but to many adults the reality of the anxious generation is right in front of them. Waiting for drawn out debates is not acceptable to them, and these actions have almost no downsides.
Yes, but only the transformers will provide the galvanic isolation. And if the windings are not physically separated then you are basically in the same situation.
Regardless of how it was preserved it is still a valuable habitat for some vulnerable species. And a recreational amenity for people. Nor would the absence of a sanctuary make it automatically ok to kill wildlife or cause pollution.
I've never converted a project to Elixir and not had the associated costs decrease dramatically.

It's useful to remind that any full rewrite without notable changes in feature scope will probably wind up performing better than the original organically developed solution, even if you never change tech stacks. That's just the nature of going in with a total picture of the problem space and knowledge of the warts already encountered.
HackerOne’s mediator dropped the ball here

They should absolutely inform a client company of a perceived threat, when they agree on the threat

Most of the person’s post and responses here are about Zendesk’s issue, but Zendesk was never informed

for a better PR response, I think now Zendesk could reward this after realizing it wouldnt have been disclosed first, and admonish HackerOne for not informing them and the current policies there
You can also create a non-email Google account as Bob+external@example.com, as long as you can get email sent to bob@example.com (ie, while you are employed by Example, Inc). Then, you leave your job, but still have a google account associated with an example.com email. Depending on how the app checks the login response, they might mistakenly assume you are part of the example.com org.
> How comes hurricanes aren’t a problem?

They're slow and unsurprising. You don't launch in a hurricane.
Elon’s highly individualistic. I feel like his communal car-sharing society vision is at odds with that. How will that dialectic resolve?
So in your opinion, as soon as SpaceX uploads a PDF, the launch license should be issued immediately?

P.S.: I wish SpaceX succeeds in bringing down the cost of access to space.
> There is separate, but not directly related news that Jason Bahl has left WP Engine to work for Automattic and will be making WPGraphQL a canonical community plugin. We expect others will follow as well.

Anything to prop up their position and throw the company they are attacking under the bus. What a jerk.
Many algorithms are limited by memory bandwidth. On my 16-core workstation I’ve run several workloads that have peak performance with less than 16 threads.

It’s common practice to test algorithms with different numbers of threads and then use the optimal number of threads. For memory-intensive algorithms the peak performance frequently comes in at a relatively small number of cores.
Good lord, why?? That’s such a petty move and is just doing further damage to the WordPress ecosystem.
People are paranoid for a variety of reasons about their kids.

Also, culturally, parents don’t let kids walk home. When I was a kid in NYC only the kids bussed in from the hood had busses, the rest of us from the local neighborhood walked. State aid only reimburses for trips beyond a certain radius.
JXL Art is the practice of using JPEG XL's prediction tree to generate art
> CSRF protection must be implemented when using cookies, and using the SameSite flag is not sufficient.

Also when it's set to strict? Or if it requires a PUT or other method that doesn't work with top-level navigation? Is it about ancient or obscure browsers that didn't/don't implement it (https://caniuse.com/same-site-cookie-attribute)?
They should call it Spruce Goose II.
That's the difference between two individuals, not necessarily the difference between having ADHD and not having ADHD.

Being tired after drinking caffeine is common.
> What the Covid “side” did was abhorrent and history will not look fondly on them at all.

History will look on this the same way as it did on Spanish Flu:

Barely at all, even when it has valuable lessons for the next pandemic.

The former told me that people would stop wearing masks very very quickly.
> It is very simple: you need best people

Would that it were so simple! But are you saying this from your experience hiring for teams that execute well?

> you statistically increase your chances of finding the best people

Do you have statistics proving this? Please share data.

> they rarely believe in "company values" bullshit

Are you honestly saying that in all the interviews you've attended, you never ask and you've never been asked "why do you want to work here?" And if the question was asked the answer had nothing to do with the company's mission? That's amazing.
Online generator: https://jxl-art.surma.technology
Modern PATH environment variable
As José answered more gracefully, you don't need to learn the syntax but you do need to learn the semantics, the performance gotchas, and for most projects I'd say you'll probably need to consume Erlang documentation which is certainly a learned skill.
What wouldn't matter? LLMs feed on content and data scraped from web pages, and writers don't want their work stolen. That's it. It doesn't matter if AI made search engines obsolete and changed the market or whatever. It will still need to scrap content in some other way and the comment above is exploring counter-measures.

They don't need to fight "AI" and prevent it, they only need to make sure their work isn't stolen at individual level, and there are tons of options they can adapt.
You can also exaggrate/repeat it to convey that you don't actually believe it.

"O gelmiş" - "He/she (allegedly) came.
"O gelmişmiş" " He/she (allegedly) came(but its bs).
What are the more preferred plants/substances for personal growth and mental health?
Yeah sorry but no. This is definitely a case of “you’re holding your phone wrong” in your comment.

The tools in this case is consistently giving wrong results and measurably not living up to claimed efficiency. This is literally your business paying Microsoft to reduce efficiency and output a worse product than had you not done that.

Maybe AI will be there some day, but as of right now, using deterministic tooling is still unquestionably the king of productivity helping.
The FBI warnings are about public playback and illegal copying, both of which are explicitly outlawed by copyright law itself.

Mere execution and usage of software is simply not something copyright law cares about, which is why your assertion that

> Running software without a license is literally illegal (at least in the US).

is wrong. There is nothing in the law that gives copyright owners an exclusive right to "usage", only to the making of new copies, their distribution, derivative works, public performance, etc.
Moral decline is mediated epigeetically through 5ht3 receptors. It takes vile, bigoted, disgusting rulemakers to ignore people with different 5ht3 receptor activity..
OK so:

1) WordPress clearly lacks functionality like ACF that belongs in core

2) Many developers clearly like ACF

3) Many do not (it's messy in the DB, if you ask me)

4) Core functionality that was if not API-compatible, at least API-familiar with ACF would be welcomed by many

5) Creating a new plugin that did this, that was transitioned into core (like other functionality has been), would be a good plan

6) Commandeering the slug for a decade-old commercial plugin like this, to replace it with a fork, is so obviously fucking bad form that it's still hard to believe it is happening even given all the other whatthefuckery that has been happening.

ETA: 7) "Secure Custom Fields"? Really? The difference is what?

What the fuck, Matt?

ETA: personally I understand many of the frustrations with WP Engine's positioning. I have experienced exactly the trademark confusion issues that the lawsuit has been about, where clients have assumed WP Engine is WordPress itself. I don't use them after some iffy customer service and technical issues early on. But this is absurd behaviour.
I just tried it the other day with Counter-Strike 2. Worked with no bugs using Whisky: https://getwhisky.app/
Personal attacks will get you banned on HN. No more of this, please, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

If you'd please avoid tit-for-tat spats here generally, we'd appreciate it. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Use Common Lisp instead of Emacs Lisp.

- Design a more modular architecture to make it easier to extend and maintain different components.

- Design a more robust plugin system for development and distribution of extensions.

- Implement better sandboxing and security measures for extensions.

- Better APIs for extension developers.

- better multi-threading support baked into the editor.
This is a rare and unusual situation brought on by WP Engine’s legal attacks, we do not anticipate this happening for other plugins.

Yeah, that is not how trust works.
Actually, I love Emacs for its Lisp! Yes, Emacs Lisp is not the best Lisp out there, however, IMHO, it's miles ahead of VimScript. If I were really to rewrite Emacs, I'd use some modern Scheme.
You’re underestimating how much this stuff matters. There’s an old George Carlin bit about “soft language” that is very relevant here:

“Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent a kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it.”

There’s a reason why clickbait is a thing, it’s because if you don’t find a way to punctuate the noise then people don’t pay attention, and people’s brains are affected by the things that grab their attention.
I agree. An adult can ask themselves what they're doing and why and how it aligns with their interests so on (aka have that midlife crisis, haha), a kid probably doesn't yet have enough self-reflection capacity yet.

In my perception, distractions are ideally managed through interest management. Make the desired task actually truly desired - and you're guaranteed to not get distracted. And in an ideal environment, there should be an educator overseeing a kid and asking what went wrong if kid decides they wanna play with their phone instead of working.

When you don't have someone to help with "why am I doing this and not that?", I guess it's true that next best option is to eliminate potential of distraction. It's not great, but is probably better than not doing anything about it.

So, as always, there is an ideal approach (that doesn't work because it requires ideal environment), and a working approach that's very contrary to the ideal way of doing things.

Hm... Maybe teaching kids (and adults) about the modern attention/spam economy actually works can help to lower the distractions. After you see through attention-grabbing tricks, scrolling through online feed wastewaters (or watching junk on streaming platforms, or playing "games" whose entire raison d'être is to make money on players) becomes much less interesting or rewarding. Just a thought.
People do not protest when the government is already doing what they think is right.

What should people do, meet up just to chant "thanks for doing the thing, keep doing it" ?
I find it especially ridiculous when the site insists on displaying the banner to me, when my browser is configured to reject all cookies...
We’re talking about people who are able but unwilling to make the effort.
> This update is as minimal as possible to fix the security issue.

What is the actual issue? CVE number?
being ready to launch is one thing, being ready to catch/land is another. so technically, they weren't wrong
Yes, exactly right. And there are many students less likely than that to zone out, and many more likely to zone out.

But if you give them a tool to aid in being distracted, it will encourage all of them to not pay attention. It really is a question of likelihood
There’s a lot of reasons where possessing a phone in school is legit. In cities, transit passes are commonly phone bases. Some apartments require smartphones for gate entry.

In class, different story of course.
Can You Roast My Group's Landing Page?
I don't think there's anything odd about that given dental methods of the time. After teeth are extracted bone begins to fill in the holes and/or wither back if there are insufficient teeth.
In my experience, as someone who has gone on a small weight loss journey, you can eat things that taste good, you just have to eat less of them and more rarely.
Suspending desktop systems is unusual, but these days traditional ACPI S3 (and S4) suspend is missing from more and more systems in favor of the far less efficient modern suspend just so your notification terror continues around the clock.
As a builder of a small specialized CMS for which WordPress is a large generalized competitor, thanks Matt. Refugees welcome.
Also many Iranians speak 'Turk' and understand Turkish from watching Turkish telenovelas on satellite TV.
I think they mean that it's developed by WP Engine and that's the security issue.
I understand the US and Europe work differently. Although I am European, I also have a strong dislike of bureaucracy and am sympathetic to advancing society through technological progress.

But there should be some oversight. You cannot just let a private company do whatever industrial processes wherever they want in the name of progress.