skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh god, this gave me a minor heart attack. We are using over 20 ACF fields for 150+ sites. I thought it was completely out of the WordPress ecosystem. I am glad they have the zip download and continuing auto updates.

EDIT: I confirm our ACF plugins on sites are all switched to secure custom fields. This is so shady, it broke our snippets because we are using prepend and append texts to wrap our field values. Now they are all broken and we have to update all our sites (also our client's sites). Let's see what comes next...

EDIT2: There goes my Sunday. I received our first ticket regarding broken homepage widgets. I have to sit down and update every site one by one. Thank you Matt Mullenweg for ruining my Sunday plans.
Maybe AI can translate
This. You can lower the rocket back on the launch base, refill, and launch again within hours.
No my op includes local roads though you're right you do have to gather the data from local authorities
Would they need to be blocked completely? Maybe a much thinner shielding would still produce a significant benefit?

(Though likely not of course ;)
I agree. I can imagine a future where default internet access is highly curated by some local trusted group (at whatever scale, with whatever trust model, maybe state maybe community). While the open internet would be still accessible, access is not the default and perhaps you need some kind of approval or license to go into the wasteland of the open public internet.
Doing it the other way around would be a lot more impressive. ;-)
Nothing short of inspiring. Moving humanity forward. Well done to the SpaceX team.
CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
What's the best way to backup a managed Postgres from DO to another cloud?
I believe you meant Huntsville, Alabama?
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> If you can do orbital math, you can verify the plane-change economics. If you’ve even talked to anyone in ABM, which granted requires clearance, you understand why the actual spending in ABM—globally—goes into ground-based interceptors.

Boost phase interception using a constellation of several thousand hypersonic glide vehicles circumvents the plane-change problem; I'm sure you know that. I'm sure you also know that the reason nobody has seriously pursued such a solution before is because putting tens of thousands of interceptors into orbit is absurd.

Was absurd.
What’s amazing is that if you really start paying attention it seems like the mind is often doing the same thing when you’re awake, less noticeable with your visual field but more noticeable with attention and thoughts themselves.
I feel this is an unfair characterization. Which part of my response crossed into flamewar territory? Or is this preemptive because the discussion is trending in that direction?
I would argue that attempting to strong arm a competitor into paying for your open source product and then doing all of this when they won’t is way farther down the late stage capitalism road than most private equity companies.

That’s probably mostly because the private equity folks are just better at extracting money without causing an international scene. Matt’s ineptitude doesn’t make it categorically different, though.
There is plenty of space between black and white.

I have taste just no skill in drawing. I don't need an artist, i need a graphics designer and now i can replace a graphics designer with GenAI.

Plenty of Artists can draw very well, but what they learn in the industry is to learn to draw for someone else in an aligned art style etc. That has nothing to do with Art.

Very few people earn there living with being artists.

Its the same thing with all the other people. Look at masterpieces of woodworkers etc. They look interesting, nice but they normall just work for someone else doing their craft not their art.
> Yes, in practice more often than not, the people who respect you enough to pay you well often also respect you enough to treat you well (and the opposite).

In practice, these are not the same people. The people who have a direct impact on empowering and respecting you are your manager and their manager.

These people also have (having been one) surprisingly little say in how much you get paid. HR rules that land. We can present arguments and beg and plead, but ultimately don't really have any decision making power on the paycheck side.
No doubt it would be very useful to recover. SpaceX isn't the only one who could pluck it out of the Indian ocean though. You don't want to leave a prototype for the most advanced Spacecraft ever made just sitting around for competitors to grab (most notably China which is currently speed running SpaceX-like designs).
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That's not what he's saying at all, though.

What he's saying is that he thinks the current techniques for AI (e.g., LLMs) are near the limits of what you can achieve with such techniques and are thus a dead-end for future research; also consequently, hyperventilation about AI superintelligence and the like is extremely irresponsible. It's actually a substantial critique of AI today in its actual details, albeit one modulated by popular press reporting that's dumbing it down for popular consumption.
The capability to have mostly working, real time generation of images that represent a world model.

If that capability is possible, then it could be possible to take 100 examples of seperate world models that exist, and then combine those world models together in interesting ways.

Combining together world models is an obvious next step (IE, not showed off in this proof of concept. But it is a logical/plausible future capability).

Having multiple world models combined together in new and interesting ways, is almost like creating an entirely new world model, even though thats not exactly the same.
It’s really hard for me to believe Yann is engaging sincerely, he is downplaying LLM abilities on purpose.

He leads AI at Meta, a company with the competitive strategy to commoditize AI via Open Source models. Their biggest hinderance would be regulation putting a stop to the proliferation of capabilities. So they have to understate the power of the models. This is the only way Meta can continue sucking steam out of the leading labs.
Look here and see how everyone contribute: https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/pledges/?order=hou...

>shake down WPEngine for money into his own pocket

It's not going to Matt pocket, Matt pays that multiple folds and has done that for years. Stop making ignorant accusations.
Ads aren't the real problem though, SEO and dark patterns are.
Ads, even when mixed in with legitimate content, are labeled. A user can reasonably infer an ad website's goal when they click on it: to get you to pay for something.

The real problem is the system enables bad actors to do the same, without gaining the Ad label, by gaming the system to outrank legitimate (or free) sources of information.
I think he no longer fasts, 1. because it reduces muscles 2. because of lifestyle changes; he now spends almost all time with the family.
All woodworkers are not carpenters. Also to make furniture you need tools, expensive ones. Some coop exists (i've seen one in Ohio) to help independant carpenters do "built-in" furniture (especially planning the wood), but most of the time it's company material they use.

Also, in the US (at least west appalachia, but it might be all of north america), it seems that the logging/milling industry has incestuous relationships with the building industry, and it seems to be pretty hard to find cheap wood from clearcuts if you're an independant. The person who hosted me and my familly for two weeks in WV used wood he logged himself for his home and dependencies (he was 70 btw), but even for a contract he got he couldn't use the wood from the nearby mill and imported it from Ohio/Canada. And it was in 2018 so there weren't as many pressure on wood availability as post-covid or right now.
Efficiency and cost are the goals, reusability is just one way to do that. Moving big heavy things less is another.
Hey, at least I didn’t use the Spanish version, that would have been even worse!

I’ll restate. Restricting analysis within national borders does not make scientific sense in many cases.

The arctic/boreal region studied in the link I gave is of prime interest to US/NASA because it contains Alaska, and Alaska is exposed to climate change in compelling ways, but it also includes about half of Canada because the processes there are the same and an integrated analysis makes more sense.

Besides adjacency, there are other cases where critical regions (Greenland ice sheets come to mind, https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/jpl/nasa-greenla...) affect the US, even though they aren’t in the US.

Ditto for the climate forcing from Saharan dust (https://earth.jpl.nasa.gov/emit). That instrument is interesting bc it was originally put up to observe land composition but it has also been a pathfinder for CH4 detection!

Finally,there are analogous biomes overseas that can be studied as what-if cases to see if our models work outside their original domain of application.
Sorry... I'm boring and easily excited :p
I ended up not pursuing it, but I feel like it would be interesting to give it a whirl just to compare, given hardware and code has evolved as mentioned.
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Can the federal government override them if the launches are purely commercial. Presumably that would be the case eventually, so I think it’s something that needs to addressed sooner.
but code and prose are intrinsically very different, code has strictly defined structure and form in a way that free-form text or prose does not. code is generally tree-shaped, text is generally linear. and so on
Isn't that pretty precise advice, though? You may have thought that there was a level of alcohol consumption that was harmless or even beneficial, as was widely speculated. Now, we know that at any level short of total abstinence, your health is improver by decreasing further.
The whole thing is https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167679/advance... it's very close to functionality wise right now to ACF. Not identical, already. While I am not a lawyer it almost certainly violates the ACF trademark as the code and reviews contains a lot of reference to ACF and the Advanced Custom Fields trademark which is literally the project slug. Some suspect a request for emergency injunction might follow next week. And most certainly it also violates community trust very, very big time.

This on top of the "swear fealty" checkbox on login which caused multiple high profile contributors to leave and now shut the accessibility team down https://i.imgur.com/0jCZnlm.png
(reacting to the title alone since the article is paywalled)

AI can’t push a houseplant off a shelf, so there’s that.

Talking about intelligence as a completely disembodied concept seems meaningless. What does ”cat” even mean if comparing to something that doesn’t have a physical corporeal presence in time and space. To compare like this seems to me like making a fundamental category error.

edit: Quoting, “You’re going to have to pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.”

I guess I’m just agreeing with LeCun here.
I used it for a while but did not stick. Here's my review: https://lethallava.land/notes/9xruz2xjci
Unsong takes inspiration from this as well -

https://unsongbook.com/
Why do you think people persistently, for years, keep choosing something that harmed their bodies?

Just because you can do something, doesn't make it a "just" for everyone:

• Without any training, one day I decided to put one foot in front of the other and keep going, and managed 42 km, a literal marathon in distance — but it's obvious that, even though I was walking, most people can't do that.

• When I was at university, I gamified my diet to be the lowest cost without feeling hungry, and in retrospect that was probably 1100 kcal/day and only even safe because it was limited to term time, and it's really obvious that most people can't do that.

• Concersely, when I was on antidepressants and did graze myself into obesity, there simply wasn't a part of my mind aware of what I was doing to myself. I've lost that weight, but the strech marks are still there a decade later.
No doubt. That's probably why they haven't closed the loophole. It gives savvy users a release valve, while still allowing them to reap the rewards from the majority of users.
My Thinkpad has a tiny SDHC slot. I put a 1 terabyte SDHC card in it (~$80) and have a cron job take hourly Restic snapshots of my primary storage. It's been reliable and has bailed me out more than once.
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It's referring to the fact that cats are able to do tasks like multistage planning, which he asserts current AIs are unable to do.
HEH... reminds me of an argument Searle once made: with the right "translation" you can make a wall intelligent.
Housing prices are an economic condition…
Written in C, with clean and thorough source code and zero (or near-zero) 3rd party dependencies.

Impressive, though I wonder what kind of security review and testing have been performed. The code is beautiful but quite a lot of surface area with so many #ifdef's.

As for the PHP support, does it only support php-cgi?
Not sure what DO managed PostgreSQL supports, but PostgreSQL streaming replication would seem like the natural way to go.
Out of curiosity, would you say a person with locked-in syndrome[0] is no longer intelligent?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome
Big fan of restic! The only feature I found missing was the ability to browse historical snapshots like regular files.

I wrote and now use the rsync-based, browsable, incremental backup CLI: https://rincr.com/
Supported Trump.
POSIX is weird, but NodeJS streams are designed to be misused
"It seems like you stopped reading", for starters.
If we actually get to that point, we'll eventually be doing a lot more activity and manufacturing off the Earth where the CO2 emissions don't matter.
Bots will "snipe" hyped up releases of NFTs or tokens, using various techniques depending on the chain. On ethereum and most others the miners participate in this in exchange for a tip (usually an open market where people can bid to be first in line). Since miners produce the blocks they can order the transactions however they want and put the highest tipper first.

The goal is just the same as ticket scalping. The botters/snipers will just list the the asset on the market immediately at anywhere from 2x-10x the original sale price.

At its peak during NFT mania there were tips of millions of dollars being paid in tips to miners to buy up 75% of the supply of an extremely anticipated NFT collection for another couple of million dollars ( the sale price ) and still coming out in profit.
Most all of the studies are also receiving a majority of their funding from problematic sources: alcohol conglomerates.

The fact is if global multinational liquor mega corporations actually wanted you to "consume responsibly" their advertising budget wouldn't soar into the billions. TV shows wouldn't glamourize alcohol. Movies wouldn't feature it prominently. Pop music would abandon the ceaseless pursuit of alcohol in all its songs.
I just started paying for the $10 = unlimited searches plan. 300/mo is just not enough for me as a researcher. Quality has been far better than Google or DDG IME.
Article summarizes:

Addressing the significant gap between AI's promise and reality, and exploring strategies to overcome it.

Emphasizing the importance of integrating LLMs, RAG, and AI guardrails to build effective AI solutions, and why DIY methods may fall short.

Streamlining building with Writer Framework to achieve enterprise-grade quality.
As someone who doesn’t use it, were those features removed into the patch?

If they’re actively breaking people’s sites I’d hope they can get an emergency injunction ASAP, and maybe someone can start a CFAA investigation.
Fun article, thanks for sharing! It always blows my mind how much work people will put into this stuff without consulting/citing the thousands of years of cognitive scientists that have been working on the problem, but that’s more of a systemic problem; it’s what we get for describing the history of science as “first there was silly philosophy, and then in 1600 we finally figured out empiricism and actual/real/true science started”. I absolutely agree that cognitive science in general is about to take the world by storm as we learn more about our neurology (Google “DeWave”), and systematize philosophies.

The DOJ recently filed the first big post-Covid telehealth suit against a California ADHD treatment company (aka Adderal distribution) called Done, and it’s honestly fascinating to read the blog posts written by the founding doctor. His professional and philosophical opinion is that ADHD is a wildly underdiagnosed neurological state that can come and go over a lifetime, especially in reaction to attention-degrading “exocortices” as your article calls them. Obviously his credibility is damaged by the fact that he made ~$2.5M off that stance, but still, I think there might be something there. His favorite citation is Hippocrates, though I’ve never actually looked for the primary source he’s referring to.

The big exception to my complaint above is, in 2024, of course Stoicism, probably because it’s so damn cool (a book by an ancient general on how to be stronger? Sign me up!) and can be downright utopian when summarized in the right way, promising you eternal control. The article above clearly takes the general Stoic framework for granted in the very first paragraph, so I was more than a little surprised not to see it cited directly.
I'm not going to read or respond to most of what you wrote because frankly I don't care to because a lot of it is nonsense (a real example: I'm not going to repair my $600 washer when the part I need costs $500), but I'll respond to this:

> Companies can't stop you from taking a screwdriver to an object in your possession, the issue is that by using non-standard components they make what should be an easy repair extremely difficult if not impossible without going through them, allowing them to effectively prevent repair. Smartphones are the poster child for lack of right to repair.

This is objectively wrong. You can't repair your own phone without voiding the warranty. Which is to say, you don't have the legal right to repair your own phone, even if you sourced compatible parts.

The right to repair is the right to repair your device on your own terms, and for other companies to be able to offer compatible parts. An iPhone screen that comes with DRM makes it impossible to do that. Licensing rules that prevent companies from offering service for devices (e.g., screen repair) makes it impossible to do that. Having a tricky PCB doesn't impede your rights.

The existence of proprietary parts doesn't in any way invalidate your right to repair unless those parts are specifically designed to make it physically impossible to repair your device. Hell, even the most technically complicated parts in popular consumer devices can be replicated by third parties and have been for years, but selling those parts is often illegal and the devices are designed to detect and reject those parts.
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I think that Amazon has been deploying Graviton though.
> any level short of total abstinence

That’s just lazy. How about one drop? How about a medication that contains alcohol? Or apple juice that has alcohol too?
https://archive.ph/LBBI2
vibes
I gave up on alcohol, cannabis and basically almost every stimulant with caffeine and tobacco more than a year ago with sugar and carbs remaining as the last substance I abuse.

I really thought giving up on alcohol and caffeine would have a much bigger impact on me but the only thing I notice is the minor negative effect it has on my social life from not being able to join people in for a beer or not using coffee when needing to pull all-nighters. Maybe it's just me being in late 20s and not old enough for it all to catch up to me.
That is projections for this year only with a target closer to 10 billion revenue next year.
Lol soft underbelly, then what is Hungary and Slovakia? The politicians are russian whores themselves and fully in the open. Fico in Slovakia wants to play both sides, unlike Orban in Hungary, but that's not really feasible long term.
"For those of you who are unaware of these finer details, 0.9 was the first release of the Netscape browser (which begat Firefox) available to the general public. This beta release was an unannounced surprise. Prior to this, everyone assumed that what we were doing was going to be a standard for-sale product where you sent off your $35 and then some time later got a disc in the mail with a license key. That we just said, "Here's our FTP site, come get it, go crazy" was, at the time, shocking to people."

- Jamie Zawinski
a.k.a an Italian
The economic conditions always feels weird. Aren't birth rates higher in places with worse conditions? And weren't they higher when conditions were worse?
You're right but commercial leases for offices are usually multi year and larger companies usually sign longer leases (20, 30 years or more). They can be costly, though not impossible to wind down.

So for those large companies, the sunken cost is larger.
Then religious muslims around the world, who all fast every year, must have the highest rate of medical issues related to their kidneys. Is there any such studies showing this?
We’re getting there

The transistor based direction may be folly, but it will get close. All within 100 years passed vacuum tubes.
>an early 1200 baud modem...needed a USR()

what's a USR()?

asking cuz USRobotics was a modem company
That makes sense and you're not wrong - it's just that there's a clear tradeoff in terms of more vs. less interesting conversation. Having that simple rule is a net win for HN.
I will sound lame and boring but here is my sobriety story:

- Where I am from kids start drinking at 16 or earlier and it starts with beer. Which is bitter and "an acquired taste", one "you have to learn to enjoy". I did not want to "learn to enjoy" anything that is objectively bad for my body, the cause of all sorts of issues for people (career fuckups etc) and on top of all that expensive.

- I used to drive all the time and therefore not starting to drink made it easy to not miss it. If you never made it a habit, you won't crave it, you won't miss it.

- I grew up with family around me drinking a glass of wine or other drink on a routine: at dinner, after a long day of work... => this worked for them, no judgement, I personally will try to build routines that make me sleep better, actually bring me lasting joy.

- Time wasted by alcohol, even at moderate amounts, is none-zero. I want to reduce my time feeling shit as much as possible, because why would we want it any other way?

IDK, I am probably weird for not drinking any alcohol ever. But I enjoy parties as much as my friends. Its all a matter of being influenced by peers making drinking 'the norm', breaking the norms for your own good works out most of the time.
Wow, great piece, thanks for sharing it!
While reading it I was absolutely sure I've already heard it. For the first part I thought it's the transcript of the text they read in Vipassana retreat, and for the second I thought it must be from Alan Watts. But from the rest of the blog and from the comments here I understand that it's neither, and that it's just your thoughts. It reads really nicely, like a river.

I also noticed that your previous blog's name (stormrider) is somehow similar to mine (cyclinginthewind) haha.
It's the standard antithesis of instant gratification culture. We had to actually wait for things to happen, to download, to render, to dial.

Finding something online was a journey and it's often the journey that teaches you more than the destination.
Sadly, even at its most permissive, the site is still ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE (which to me implies it's lower down Chrome's network stack).