skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't want to editorialise the title when I submitted, but yes, the tweet does make for a better title.
Feels like something the technical writers and copy writers should decide around the watercooler if anything.

Smells like being afraid to make a choice, even a tiny one.
> If you find yourself in a room that is on fire,

The immediacy of the danger makes things incomparable.

> "Too good to be true" is also just an aphorism, not a law of nature.

It's not "too good to be true". It's "no free lunch" (unfortunate pun), or "conservation of energy": the more one wins without apparent loss, the more one should be suspicious.

There are furthermore great reasons to be highly skeptical of pharmaceutical compagnies: consider the ongoing opioid crisis in the US, in great part caused by the sale of opioid-based medication (OxyContin) whose addictiveness was purposefully downplayed. Not to say that things will be as scandalous, merely that pharmaceutical compagnies cannot be trusted.

> We're not talking about acne or hair loss here,

Yes, and the people suffering from eating disorders are often psychologically weakened as a result (and/or cause), thus vulnerable to further abuse. Of course such people want to hear about a miracle way to solve this pesky, long-standing issue, of course.

And that's exactly what they're being sold; it's disheartening.
No, I do not. It was my decision to keep doing so, it was a bad coping mechanism I developed. My actions are nobody else fault but mine.
Stop willfully misinterpreting it. The new 60 day window was something newly added this time just to give other agencies time to complain if they wanted.

The FAA did their normal review like they’ve done for every other starship and falcon launch in a timely manner.
It’s not just age. Martin Scorsese is still making exceptional films. So is Clint Eastwood.
I'm somewhat surprised there's only one comment here asking this.
Your comment would only make make sense in a dictatorship IMO. Smoking, nor mobile phones should be banned for adults.
Look, nobody is talking about Nebraska. the density of the east coast is easily high enough to support high speed high quality rail.
From the outside, without any previous context (and admittedly I didn’t read the whole issue), I feel the maintainer’s pain. So much. You try to explain a well-reasoned policy and are bombarded by rudeness and entitlement. It’s an asymmetric relationship where the maintainer needs to be the civil one at all times or it escalates to outside the project and then they get even more abuse. It’s these types of interactions that make people burn out.

I’ve learned the hard way that sometimes you just have to lock the thread. If you’re reasonable against rudeness some people will apologise—everyone has a bad day—but if it doesn’t happen soon, don’t subject yourself to more of it.

With that in mind, I’m not sure if submitting this to HN is the best idea. It only invites more people to comment which is more stuff to wear down the maintainer. Or it invites people to be doubly rude to the submitter, perpetuating the cycle of hate.
Perhaps you should edit out "refugees welcome" then.
I appreciate the explanation. I just want to pick up on one thing:

> it would be easy to modify AES

That's "a solution exists".

I helped migrate off TLS 1.0. It was not a small project, for non-technical reasons.
I don't think you've really considered the incentives either.

The system has as much interest in curing your depression as it does curing obesity. Long term, these conditions are very costly. It takes people out of peak condition, reduces labor pool, increases number of patients taking up resources at hospitals and doctors offices, and so on. A system which encourages these things is a failing one, as taxpayer costs would only continue to balloon.

Additionally, since the thread is about psilocybin, people would still be filling up prescriptions for those.

Also, self-medicating is also very costly. Not only to the system, as people often wind up in hospitals due to laced products or incorrect doses (see marijuana in a lot of states where dealers really aren't concerned about quality), but also to the individual. People are spending absurd amounts of money on vitamins and mushroom teas and all that in hopes it helps, but rarely is that the case due to these categories not being strictly regulated.
H100s are available at increasingly affordable prices
Related: the main developer on the Fields API proposal is calling it quits on involvement with WordPress.

https://github.com/sc0ttkclark/wordpress-fields-api

I'm not entirely sure what it is but it has over 350 stars and quite a few forks so it's probably important.
I just don’t use an adblocker. Somehow life goes on.
Germany is a dense country with a developed rail network, you are never far from a train station.
Bear in mind that this includes also city transportation, which makes it a great deal.

My gripe with the ticket is that traveling with bikes in regional train became a gamble, you never know if you can get in as there is so many people inside already (and even more when the previous train got cancelled, which happens a lot...)
Sorry, I misread, disregard. I’d delete the comment but HN won’t let me.
>Your good friend most likely doesn't have the slightest idea how to handle things if your trip goes south.

Yes they can, everyone experienced can. It's part of having empathy.

>Especially when they're on their own "ride".

The trip sitter doesn't trip while sitting.
This helped those people too. There is considerably less traffic cutting commute time significantly.
> When I posted, I was under the impression that ACF was open source. But the GitHub repo doesn’t list one, so if it’s not open source…WTF.

Isn't it here?

https://github.com/AdvancedCustomFields/acf

If you mean the licence, it's in readme.txt:

https://github.com/AdvancedCustomFields/acf/blob/master/read...
Wordpress is immolating itself a lot these days, what gives? Is investor money running out?
Oh my, this is actually a dream come true for me. I was pretty worried when Advanced Custom Fields was sold from it's original developer, Elliot Condon to Delicios Brains, and then after just about a year again to WP Engine. I had a support contact with WP Engine only once and it was a pure nightmare.
I did suggest something in the comment; not glorifying, justifying and
pouring money into the development of a technology whose abuses
self-evidently vastly outweigh its societal utility. It's practically
designed to be a terrorists tool.

The "Seven Questions" [0] by Neil Postman are a great read. I think
they shhould be mandator reading on any engineering course.

[0] https://medium.com/@yogesvr/neil-postmans-seven-questions-to...
SpaceX operates on a rapid iterative cycle where they will knowingly test with deficiencies to improve later. If they get delayed for a massive chunk of time, they are definitely going to use it to make all of the known improvements they can.
A few decades ago (before Sir Tim-Berners Lee invented the WWW), I attended a fairly large public elementary school, and it seemed that most of us just walked (or rode bikes) to/from school.

Sure, a few kids got rides on most or all days, and many rode a bus (sometimes a school bus, or sometimes a church or YMCA bus that ferried kids off to supervised after-school activities). We might get a ride to school if we were running late in the morning, or get picked up if we had an appointment after school, or if the weather was awful. (And I made sure to have a good look for my grandpa's car every afternoon: Every now and then he'd show up seemingly at random, and we'd go get ice cream.)

But at 3:00PM, what broadly happened was that we filtered out onto the quiet sidestreets that bordered the school and [eventually] made our ways home.

The daily line of cars was short enough that it didn't take any particular special consideration to manage: Folks just parked on streets that weren't used for lining up school buses and it all seemed to work fine.

It worked fine. It seems a bit chaotic in retrospect, but it really was just fine. Nobody got kidnapped or murdered. If we were late getting home it was because we were just out fucking off somewhere being kids.

---

Nowadays, I do some work sometimes at much smaller public elementary schools that requires me to take a break when the hallways are flooded with kids, and that gives me opportunities to passively observe what goes on.

Every afternoon, rain or shine, a huge organized line of cars appears, on dedicated pavement that did not exist decades ago, and organized individual dismissal of kids into their requisite cars begins. It looks like madness to me. Some cars even show up an hour and a half or more before dismissal, and the drivers seem to remain in the car the entire time -- just waiting.

So what changed?

To posit a theory: In this particular school system, reorganization didn't help at all. Schools were consolidated, and on average they shrunk (the big school I went to still stands, but it is empty). Due to what I can only presume is complete mismanagement, this lead to a lot of kids needing to go a school that was very far away and required riding the bus instead of just walking home.

But also: Parents of school-aged kids these days largely grew up with the Internet, and that made the world seem like a scarier place than it actually is.
Short of the moon landings that I never got to experience, the dual landing (especially that first one!) is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in space flight. Could watch again and again.
Interesting how it took exactly the maximum limit they are alloted.

I wonder if the people in these agencies treat it like school projects where you use deadlines as a framework for how long you can screw around before it's absolutely necessary to get started. Where it's not treated as a worst case upper maximum.
If we want to avoid creating a generational gap in cognitive and social competence we should outlaw private education ad significantly boost state education.
They all are. Bugcrowd once told me that, "yes, it's not a security issue or even a bug, but we recommend providing small (100€) rewards for non-bugs to keep researchers engaged!"
However, unless you agree to the banners, you'll see the banner each and every time you visit the site. Assuming you're not using some extension that gets around that of course.
Denouncing monopoly price gauging is hardly acting entitled and the fact that you affirm so is a win for owning class propaganda.
Why do we have to pretend that routes between Montana and South Dakota have to come up when discussing ways of improving rail usage in the US? We could treat routes between Chicago, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis like Germany. We could treat high speed rail in California or the Northeast like Japan. Choosing to live in an extremely rural area shouldn't just be a "well it doesn't help" me trump card to defeat things that will help most of the population.
Is your threat model really that people whose wedding you're attending are trying to exploit your phone..?
This is definitely going a bit too crazy.

I sympathized with Wordpress a lot in the initial drama, but this is going downhill fast.

Blocking somebody's access to the plugin repository, not accepting their patches, and then 'releasing' your own 'secure' version is just abuse, period.
the stock market is just a casino, and this article is just an attempt to pump NVDA.

especially if you line up availability dates, AMD is competitive. not to mention price!

if there's any news here, it's that the recent announcements are just small tweaks of the MI300. then again, nvidia has announced nothing revolutionary either. does the market (people doing AI, not biz/stock morons) actually want something revolutionary?
> It elevates the experience.

For who? Not for the people who might want to use one, and for the people who get annoyed seeing someone else using one, that's their problem.
It doesn't matter. Matt didn't have the right to hijack ACF.
"Value engineering"?
Show HN: A simple online text to SVG converter
Hello! I made a simple online text to SVG converter, mainly for my own use (I was tired of launching Inkscape for such a simple task). It supports Google fonts, font size, color, line breaks, etc. It uses OpenType.js.

I am a big fan of really simple tools, which do one thing and do it well. Hopefully this is one of them.

I'll be happy if anyone else finds it useful.

Thanks!
They say programming languages never die, but Boo’s definitely in palliative care.

I liked it, but the better C# got, the less reason you’d have to use something with worse tooling.
Not really, not if you secure your phone adequately, which these days is easier than ever.

It's unlikely there will be state actors at this wedding or whatever ready to open up your phone and swap out a chip.
>Could you elaborate please ?

No.

I've tried explaining this to supposedly smart people in both a 15 minute pitch deck and a research paper and unless they were inclined to think it from the start no amount of proof has managed to convince them.

I figure it's just not possible to convince people, even with the proof in front of them, of how powerful the system is. The same way that we still have people arguing _right now_ that all LLMs are just auto complete on steroids.
> Anyone know if they plan to relight Starship's engines in space this time?

No. I don't know why, but their plan for second stage is the same as before, go suborbital, reenter, soft splashdown into the Indian Ocean. Hopefully now without flaps burned through.
Yes. Crawlers, security scanners, ...

Eg. Testing all vulnerable wp plugin paths on all domains. Multiple times a minute
Because waiting im Stau (traffic jam) is so much better.
You can't ask for money in exchange for not revealing a bug. That's blackmail which is illegal and ethically dubious.

White hat hackers do not require companies to pay them in exchange for not revealing a bug---the reveal of a bug only happens if a company doesn't fix that bug. Companies can be jerks and refuse to pay anything. That doesn't give you the right to blackmail them---you and other security researchers can just refuse to help them in the future.

A refusal to fix the vulnerability is what happened in the original blogpost, so it was fair game for release since the company doesn't care.

Hackers that don't care about ethics or legality won't bother blackmailing companies with vulnerabilities. They'll sell or use the vulnerability to steal more important data, and blackmail companies for millions of dollars in crypto.
I agree it's bad, but you are assuming a lot of institutional memory which may not exist
Elon has pissed me off beyond all reason these last few years but when he says “excitement guaranteed”, it’s the truth.
I love that future, but that's not right to repair. It's simply not what that means. You can want open source manufacturing, and you can want that legally mandated, but not having manufacturing steps doesn't take away your right to repair something you own.
I think this comment summarizes why this is good for HN: to get a bird's eye view of the difficulties of maintainers and contributions from upstanding members of the community.
Well, since they have no plans to take away kernel access from anyone, according to the article, nothing material is really going to change.
Voices like that must have a big impact on success, right? Both on youtube and for podcasts
> Didn’t this start as unlimited anywhere for 9 euros no strings attached?

That was a time limited earlier ticket. "The tickets were valid for June, July, or August 2022. The offer aimed at reducing energy use amid the 2021–2022 global energy crisis." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-Euro-Ticket

It influenced the idea to come up with a permanent ticket: the "Deutschlandticket". It started 1. Mai 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandticket

The Deutschlandticket costs max 49 Euros (next year it will cost 58€ per month) and is valid for one month for mostly all local&regional public transport systems (plus a few selected non-regional trains) in the whole of Germany. The subscription will renew automatically.

Companies often support employees by paying some of the costs. Then it typically costs 34.30 € per month. From next year on, employees pay 40,60 € per month max.

Here in my home city already 94% of the 213000 pupils use the Deutschlandticket for 0 € per month. Every pupil has free access to all of the country's local&regional public transport system... I find that kind of mind-blowing.

I have the ticket in my iPhone's wallet and thus also in the Apple Watch wallet. Additionally I need an ID card. Which at some point in time will also come to the smartphone. https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/german-expat-news/new-mob...
Gambling is heavily regulated, in many places most of profit going to charity. Why not this?
What could Russia do if the exclave were simply taken over or assimilated? It doesn’t seem very defensible, and I doubt Russia wants to provoke a bigger conflict at this time. Isn’t this the right moment to contain this “fear”?
"I LOVE the German transit system"

I have some experience with the public transport systems in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Belgium. In my opinion Germany's is the worst. Everything seems to be stuck in paper based processes, only occasionally and very listlessly digitized. The tariffs (apart from the Deutschlandticket) are overly complicated and suffer heavily under the common balkanization.

The DB Navigator is so terrible that I try to book the German leg of my international travels from one of the other countries apps whenever possible.

For a counter example look at the French SNCF Connect app. It is not perfect but it is a pretty workable solution.
Zooming in on CVE-2024–7965
Fair enough, but the interesting tidbit is that in Turkish you can add a verb ending that implies reportedness and that's interesting in itself and not present in English.
And how many people regularly commute across the United States? The absolute majority of the journeys people make regularly is still quite short, so why not start by optimizing for them? Then continue with building high speed intercity connections between the urban areas with <500 km distance to create valuable alternatives to being stuck in the highway traffic and dealing with the airport security nonsense.

Why do you always think that you need to reinvent a tried and true solutions that have been proven to work across the world?
Are you being needlessly pedantic just to be contrarian?

But since we're being pedantic, it actually does apply to churches, depending on their legal structure.

And if you were actually following this at the time like I was, you would know that originally it was going to include political campaigns until a bunch of politicians said they wouldn't support it unless they got a carve out.
If you're paying $1000 for every part on a $100,000 exoskeleton, there might be folks lining up, but that's terrible for the consumer.
Trust is lost forever.

These are good times for Wordpress alternatives to shine.
What if they are all wrong? (2020)
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821336
I get the impression that there’s misalignment on what “the system” is to each commenter here. One side views it as the larger society and the other as the pharmaceutical industry.
Yes, we much prefer speaking English over having to endure slow, broken Dutch.
It is as if Wordpress [1] is asserting that the original author is a danger to public safety. Their terms read: ...

To that end, we reserve the following rights: ... to make changes to a plugin, without developer consent, in the interest of public safety.

[1]: https://x.com/WordPress/status/1845179613783142426
There are a lot of other employers that won't make you lie for them.
Why don't you mention this in the post at all?
I think being only an Android developer is too narrow today. You need to have broader knowledge and skills to solve tasks outside single-platform development. AI tools push us in this direction, but at the same time, they help us gain this expertise.
Rumors say, russians are training their pilots this way
Alternatively, one or more agency may not have responded at all and so the FAA was obligated to wait the 60 days. Just speculation.
TurboTax has never saved me hundreds let alone thousands.
I simply stated two facts. There is no narrative except the one you are extrapolating. I'm sorry if you don't like reality but it's not my fault.

But hey, the post itself was flagged. I'm glad that glorification of fascists isn't openly accepted on HN.
It was broken long before the offer though so the reduction in driving being moderate probably reflects fewer shifts in daily commute and mostly more leisure usage.
> Except this only helped the folks living close to big train station hubs

Every city has public transport.

There is a large density of public transport throughout the country: trains, local trains, underground trains, busses, ferries, ...

The ticket is valid there, too.
> How do I check replica lagging? I use the prometheus exporter for postgres

> How would I monitor the replica? Same. You can also use something like HA proxy calling a postgres CLI command to connect to the instance

> How do I failover? Mostly, you probably want to do this manually because there can be data loss and you want to make sure the risk is worth it. I simply use repmgr for this.

> Do I need 2 replicas? It's usually good to have at least 3 (1 master and 2 slaves) but mostly so that if one fails, you still have 2 remaining i.e. time to get a 3rd back online

> How do I failback? Again, very easy with repmgr, you just tell the primary to be the primary again. The failed over primary gets stopped, the original primary gets fast-forwarded and promoted to primary and everything else gets told to follow.

I do agree that this space for postgres is very fragmented and some tools appear abandoned but its pretty straight-forward with just postgres + barman + repmgr, I have a series of vides on YouTube if you are interested but I am not a Postgres expert so please no hating :-) https://youtu.be/YM41mLZQxzE
Is this because of NUMA or is it L2 cache or something entirely different?

I worked on high perf around 10 years ago and at that point I would pin the OS and interrupt handling to a specific core so I’d always lose one core. Testing led me to disable hyperthreading in our particular use case, so that was “cores” (really threads) halfed.

A colleague had a nifty trick built on top of solarflare zero copy but at that time it required fairly intrusive kernel changes, which never totally sat well with me, but again I’d lose a 2nd core to some bookkeeping code that orchestrated that.

I’d then tasksel the app to the other cores.

NUMA was a thing by then so it really wasn’t straightforward to eek maximum performance. It became somewhat of a competition to see who could get highest throughout but usually those configurations were unusable due to unacceptable p99 latencies.
Thanks! The GitHub app reports it as "None" (https://imgur.com/a/5dyaTfX), but now I see it's "GPLv2 or later".
Clearly AdvancedCustomFields should have filed a trademark to prohibit Wordpress from fully stealing it.

GPL code, trademarked branding. If you want to fork then you have to actually fork.

Oh the irony.
Fun little game. Love the attention to detail when you clip the tower. Hopefully SpaceX won't need to make final-approach corrections quite as drastic as these though - could get rather expensive if so...
Calling it right now:

If WP Engine is reading, fork WordPress now. Call it FreshPress. Put $25M into it, team up with other hosts, abandon the editor everyone hates, and relicense it to GPLv3 so Matt can’t have any of it. (Note that WordPress’s license specifically says GPLv2 or later.) Maybe support Composer like sane modern PHP projects. Maybe put the most important plugins like Woo into core and make it an all-in-one Squarespace competitor.

Once it’s ahead, legal, and Matt can’t borrow; then he’ll realize his bluff has been called. Make WordPress the new B2.