skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see how that’s even remotely possible. There are so many WP competitors it’s not even funny. Being OSS, it’s very easy to export your data from WordPress. So you could easily move from one of Matt’s hosting companies to somewhere else (or self host!) if that was important.

For competitors, on the small scale side, you have Wix/Squarespaxe/Weebly. Or just Shopify for e-commerce. For enterprise, Adobe experience manager is huge. Loads of places just write their own website and have their own CMS solution.

So no, it doesn’t even come close to having a monopoly on anything. And even if WordPress did, no individual company does. There are a huge number of different companies competing in the WordPress hosting space. Automattic doesn’t even host that much (https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ho-automattic)
Clojure: Synchronous server sent events with virtual threads and channels
> never target automation of 100% of incoming workload... Iteratively approach it.

This is critical. So many people jump from "it works" to "let's automate it entirely" without understanding all the nuances, all the various conditions and intermediate states that exist in the real world. The result is a brittle system that is unreliable and requires constant manual intervention.

A better approach is to semi-automate things first. Write scripts with manual QA checkpoints and playbooks that get executed directly by devs. Do the thing yourself until it's so boring it hurts. Then automate it.
I think it’s the same as “chemical”. When something’s bad, it’s a chemical. When something’s good, it’s not.

I.e. nobody knows what “processed” means, they just know it’s bad somehow.

(Re-post of <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397900>)
That concept is so broad and generally useful it can only be broadly represented by something like Timothy Leary's statement of "think for yourself, and question authority."

Of course, knowing for sure specific facts showing that you are different in some way such that general advice doesn't apply is super useful because it saves you the effort of having to solve the problem on your own- you will always find new ones that nobody has already solved.
the only human population that is provably subsisting on a meat diet are the Inuit and they like all other artic meat eaters,dont eat a lot of the meat,its the fat that is needed most,to the point that even when starving,a creature will not
eat seal meat,if the hide and fat layer are gone
as there is a higher energy penalty in eating frozen meat than can be recoverd.
Meat was important,but all of the archiological evidence points to it bieng only a small portion of total diet,BUT,there was no replacement for hides,and the siniews used to sew them,especialy into foot wear
its a rabbit hole
I will resist
disertating now
Omnivore word does cover post people diet and is indeed more accurate, but how is it useful to know that 99.9% of Indians are omnivore? « 40% avoid eating meat most of the time buy may consume it once a month » is more informative but not very practical to repeat each time someone ask your diet.

By the way its the same for veganism : most vegans have at least once washed their hand with animal glycerin in a public bathroom soap or used a non vegan cloth washing soap while traveling. Are they less vegan? For some dictionary maybe, but most people don’t care about definition absolutism and prefer focus on the motivations and the results.
A word can be overused by marketing without distorting its meaning. I didn't expect so much pushback over saying I found it interesting!
I appreciate the detailed response. Gifted kids in my opinion waste a lot of their life on performative enthusiasm about stuff they don't care very much about.

> Parents and teachers will want kids to read books that challenge them.

You say "challenge" them but you really mean "belong to the tribe." Classical Russian Literature is a tribe. "Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone, Ibi Zoboi’s American Street, and David Bowles’s The Prince and the Coyote" are also a tribe, I will not make up a name for that tribe, but it is one. Playing in the orchestra is a tribe. LISP is Paul Graham's tribe. Fencing and crew are tribes. This is why people are so passionate about this: it's all about tribes.

The mistake the HN commenters are making here is they think their tribe means "the smart kids tribe." I don't know what their tribe means, but I can tell you now, no one group of people owns "the smart kids."
Where is that title still being used?
Could you say a bit more about that? Normally I think "have to support people stuck on old versions" is something that happens when you're selling enterprise software to insurance companies. This is the first I've heard of it in games.
While studying anthropology I briefly heard about the theory that in monarchies the support of the nobility should be conceived of as an investment. It really stuck with me.
Then you have to write legislation in multiple countries to do so, including large carveouts in DMCA and copyright law.

"Goodwill and donations" will never be robust against an entire industry that makes profit off of artificial digital scarcity.
The problem with this is exercise messes with blood pressure.

“Extremely high blood pressure elevations of up to 345/245 mmHg were observed during the lifts.”[1]

My doc even said it can get as high as 400 and it’s important to breathe correctly.

[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2632751/
So the existence of for-pay search engines would disprove the assertion that advertisements are necessary, as there are alternate ways to find information and fund businesses that fetch you that information, without relying on ads.
Obama getting the peace prize after less than a year as president. He had not done anything extraordinary related to peacse and he seemed mostly embarassed to receive it given that
I'm glad I don't live in California. How are you supposed to know if you have milk that will quickly go bad etc.? While some of this can cause waste, many food items do start to go bad after they sit on the shelves too long. That said I'm sure the people behind this would prefer that you don't buy dairy and that you pick the mold off your bread and eat the rest. Thanks, but no thanks.
Yeah but then you get headlines like 10% of children get cancer. How many children? 10 children? A million children?

When the sample sizes are small, it's better to just give the fraction IMO.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/49085
https://weirdgloop.org/feed.xml should do it
> Second of all, this software is designed for people in high stress situations where one of their main goals is to avoid detection

FTFA: `It’s intended to be a safety tool. A way for people in unstable, potentially violent, domestic situations to quickly leave the page.`

This is the craziest part of this entire article to me. The UK Government needed to invent a whole design system that included an "ejection seat" button in case you're caught looking at UK Government websites?

Or does this button exist because one website in particular needed this feature?

Over design much?
I think it can be a problem when the product owner role is strictly divided from the engineers.

But I've definitely seen it as a problem when the engineers take on product owner role. Engineers should definitely be thinking about user needs and those questions OP lists. But Engineers are too close to the code to be the actual responsible owner of deciding priorities based on user needs, or deciding what user needs take priority or are.

Product owner does need to be in the "kitchen" though -- product owner even in traditional agile scrum is supposed to be on the team every bit as much as the engineers, right? This is supposed to take care of the problem the OP mentions "make decisions in real time", "tight feedback loops, reassess, and make their next move" -- ABSOLUTELY, and agile and scrum as I understand it say the product owner is on the team to make this possible!

Things I think are true, to make things work:

* There absolutely needs to be a product owner who is not an engineer who "owns" user and business needs.

* They need to be on the team

* They should be in constant dialog with the engineers, educating them about user and business needs, and hearing their feedback and suggestions about how the engineers think they can best meet user needs. It should be a conversation engineers are included in, but Product Owner makes the call.

* the product owner (on the team) should not be the ONLY place engineers learn about user and business needs

* In addition to product ownewr responsbiel for "owning" user and business needds, there needs to be a technical lead who "owns" technical needs. (technical debt, efficiency including cost efficiency, etc; also team sanity needs!). In fact deciding what to do next can't be only up to the product owner and busniness/user needs. The time spent needs to be based on a combo of user/business needs with the product owner and technical lead in conversation -- but in this conversation the product owner (who is not an engineer) needs to "own" business/user needs, even if engineers are allowed to have an share opinions on them!

I have occasionally experienced this well oiled machine, and it works very well. As an engineer it is a huge RELIEF to have someone else responsible for human/business needs -- even though I do have an opinion about them and like to be educated about them, and think that's necessary to be a good engineer, and want that person to be interested in my opinion. But them having the responsibility (to the org) and final say over it leaves me feeling so much less stress, and able to focus on the technical problems and being the final say and authority and having accountability for those.

Getting this to work succesfully can't be done by just having the right structure on paper (although different structures can help or hurt), it takes skilled people who are about their jobs and get along and have experience that has given them some lessons on how to work together well.

A rare thing indeed.
"that is just what the owners usually decide to tell the company to do"

Because the entire system encourages it. The market rewards growth FAR more than it rewards a consistent dividend payout. (See: companies growing 40% YoY command a significfantly higher earnings multiple than those growing 10% YOY). So imo this is a like saying "people could decide to just invest money and then not seek the best returns possible." Also remember these shareholder are seldom John Smith principled human retail investor. It's firms whose entire purpose themselves is to seek maximum return.

"The owners of a privately traded company could decide to"

Meanwhile this DOES actually happen sometimes. See: Valve. We all know there's ways Valve could put up really great growth numbers for about 2-3 years while completely destroying all of the things that make Steam so god damn compelling to users that they can command the same cut as Apple, on an OPEN platform (vs Apple fighting utterly tooth and nail to keep iOS 100% airtight locked down). But they don't.

"For example, zuckerberg controls 53% of the voting stock of facebook, so whatever zuck says goes"

TBC most founders/CEOs are NOT majority voters in their companies. They answer to the board. Most company founders lose voting control. The fact that Zuck is still in control is incredibly unusual and is a testament to how fast Facebook has grown that he's been able to keep hold of the reins.
Gainesville State high school football gets the best gift of all: hope (2008)
Painting as a trade can absolutely be more complex

But what the OP said about "take this sprayer and make those walls white" is not

Don't conflate the two
This is quite key. Performing a service more than once, creates a new role, and with it a new responsibility.

Doesn't matter if my intention was just "I'm just being helpful" gesture. Doing it repeatedly becomes an expectation from others that people rely on. It will be assessed in your performance, and in the bad case, it will become a standard that your team (but not others) are held to.
I am going to go on a sarcastic rant here.

Why should I care if Product cares about my architecture proposal? They are not qualified to judge neither the quality, nor the priority of technical architecture decisions. Those are matters for engineers. Are we doing some "ask the least qualified person to make the decision for you"? Why don't we ask random people from the street, while we are at it?

I might be coming off too harsh, but the whole premise of involving people who are not technical or mildly technical, into making technical decisions, is hilarious to me. Shall I crash the sales' meeting, and tell em how to approach this important client, or expect someone from legal to wait for me to decide that contract is legally sound?
It sounds like we mostly agree on this. To be honest, I was mostly reacting to how you initially responded with a flat negation, so Im not going to steel man a simple analogy as a universal truth.

I agree that these analogies all depend on which perspective you are framed in. If you are a hiring manager, you want cheap effective candidates. If you are a worker, you want a labor shortage, at least for your role.

Public policy is a whole different mess. It is set by competing self-interested parties and may or may not bear any relation to the aggregate public benefit.
I mentioned this deeper in the comment chain, but WordPress the OSS software is used by a lot of people. But there are many WordPress hosting companies, so no single legal entity would come anywhere close to a monopoly.

By that logic, Linux has a monopoly on cloud web servers or something? But there’s no one company making that happen.
Probably the same places 'Pontifex Maximus' is still in use.
That's just par for the course for any online service these days, though. It's not like Netflix, Hulu Spotify are keeping their prices flat.
DOJ proposes breakup and other big changes to end Google search monopoly
>This idea that governments are democratic is a myth. I didn’t vote for tethered bottle caps in the EU. I didn’t vote to send money to fund wars... If we could choose to pay taxes on a line-item basis, that would be the most democratic thing ever.

The last thing we want is the common people, unaware of the intricacies of all the things a government pays for, voting on what and how government is funded. That's a great way to get some huge budgets for circuses while forgetting to allocate for bread. The most important aspects of life are not glamorous, but they need to be funded for.

There's some merit here (maybe people can choose where 5-10% of the federal budget goes), but before we can even think about that we'd need to get the national debt under control. There's negative money to allocate as is.

>In the U.S., one can vote, but the policies that actually happen are the result of what lobbyists spent the most money buying the relevant congressmen.

That's more of a lobbying issue than a democracy issue, no? Ideally a democracy would uncover a large gift and the PR would completely tank chances of re-election. But alas, the people aren't caring or well-tuned enough.

>The most democratic thing there is is the free market.

THe endgame of a free market is monopoly. So a small government would give the exact result we have here with lesser chances of an antitrust.
Midlife health in Britain and the United States: a comparison of two cohorts
An infinite loop of crashing isn't very useful though. "Let it crash" doesn't lead to a whole system being robust all by itself since you can also just say "let it throw exceptions" in just about any language. Erlang's whole-system robustness emerges when far more than just how you handle exceptions and crashes is implemented to support things that crash. It expects parallel processes and even redundant computing infrastructure to exist to handle those things that are crashing, and hopefully those redundancies behave in a way that doesn't also crash in the same way. Erlang only achieves its robustness because nobody really chooses Erlang without also knowingly buying into the entire setup that it requires to succeed. And if they don't then it won't actually achieve that robustness and succeed in that way.

The phone systems that Erlang's design emerged from naturally had these parallelism and distributed system properties that they could leverage and build on. Running Erlang on a single core SBC like to display virtual signage and limiting it to a single thread and not letting it have any redundancy in any way and then taking the approach of "let it crash" is not going to create a famously robust Erlang setup either, it's just going to create an Erlang-powered signage system that crashes and halts the same as any other runtime would. Erlang/OTP is a physical systems building and software design approach that you can't just put anywhere or bolt onto any arbitrary thing. You're not going to build an OTP-like Single Page Application because if you reliably crash the browser tab's process every time you start up, it's just going to keep crashing no matter how many times you refresh the page.
> Similarly, just because the Nobel for literature goes to a niche literary author you don't know/like doesn't demean whatever your reading preferences are.

You know how things work. The media starts to chant about how great those winners are, with only a few seriously digging into the actual works. They are quickly followed by internet trolls who derail every discussion by insisting that these are masterpieces certified by big-name committees, claiming that we, the lowly masses, must accept the decisions of the great authority as the absolute truth of our lives.

Every awards season is like this, and I now hate awards
E18e – Ecosystem Performance
Yeah, it seems like "AI" has mostly become a marketing term for generative large models. For the people doing the stuff that is often called "machine learning", I see two reactions. Those seeking hype will call it "AI" anyhow, and a bunch of those that don't are firmly sticking with "machine learning" to avoid the rising backlash.

I'm very curious to hear how others are seeing the terms used, though.
Racist cheerleaders like you who don't actually do any work are bigoted.
Why should the market care about the fate of nations?
From the first paragraph:

“must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety”
You are absolutely right, I missed a word there - edited to reflect.
It’s not about higher population. It’s about not having a lopsided demographics. Spend some time in front of a whiteboard, imaginary or actual:

- Less working age people

- More old people

- More geriatric people

This is the transition which you skip over before you get to the fewer but better-off people. (Better-off? Well I have retiring at 72 years of age or later to look forward to, compared to something like 65 for my father.)
I've been writing something similar that keeps evolving, although computable code blocks and markdown have been in there since v1. Runs locally, saves to LocalStorage and is always in a partially broken state because I add more things than those I fix: https://github.com/rberenguel/weave

And a couple recent-ish updates (sadly twitter, because I use it as throw-devlog-there):

- https://x.com/berenguel/status/1837917590804451378?s=46&t=jc...

- https://x.com/berenguel/status/1799770200310726731?s=46&t=jc...

- https://x.com/berenguel/status/1796917242791113118?s=46&t=jc...
How are you supposed to know if you have milk that will quickly go bad etc.?

From the article:

any food products with a date label — with the exception of infant formula, eggs, beer, and malt beverages — must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety.
Ok, the physics prize is given by swedes. The overall point stands though; there's a massive nationalist bias to the Nobels that is well known: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Sweden-have-so-many-Nobel-lau...

I used to think that Nobel committee was made up of researchers around the world, and the Nobel dudes would just present it for a ceremony. Nope, it's really just people from one college who are picking these prizes.
If I remember the movie, Paulie Shore presented him as "Estonia Man".
My understanding is that unwashed eggs preserve a protective layer that inhibits bacterial growth, which is why washed eggs in the US must be refrigerated instead. I think they are both valid methods.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/wh...
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(426 points, 1 day ago, 770 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784287

(84 points, 2 months ago, 98 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41240716
The balance of payments is always self-stabilizing. The trade component can only have a non-zero integral when somebody is injecting or removing money from the economy by some other means.

What really means that no, economical dead zones have no relation at all with the balance of trade. And also, the balance of trade predicts almost nothing and is controllable by policy, anybody focusing on it is just throwing a red herring and hopping people don't look at actually important things.

(What doesn't mean that currency unification doesn't cause dead zones. I know that this explanation is wrong, I don't know if it happens or not.)
I learned Blender 3D from watching Blender Guru (Andrew Price) tutorials on YouTube and then playin' around with what I had learned until I got decent at it. Also got lots of good inspiration from SketchFab (other much more talented 3D artists than I).
> it = slices.Map(it)

There is no such function as "slices.Map()".

https://pkg.go.dev/slices@go1.23.2
For most instruments, it's an interplay between resolution and consistency. There isn't a "true" reading in any sense of the word. There is just how much resolution you are measuring and how consistent the measurement is between independent readings of the same event.

The overwhelming amount of pre-existing clinical data gathered by cuff-monitors means that any novel measurement methods benefit from tying/correlating their output to the existing data for compatibility. It's a bit unfortunate in some sense as cuff-monitor data lacks resolution and sometimes can be a bit of a drag on novelty.
What was the expected value?
It's a mystery to me how the camera is mounted for the video at 7:55.

https://youtu.be/IRJIJPTUXXE?t=474

A drone ?

The camera follows the train so precisely that it seems it is mounted on the train, but it passes on the other side of some objects so it cannot be mounted on it.
Would love to read that post. Thank you for these tips. I’ll subscribe to your feed and wait for it.
Show HN: Aircraft Deck, playing cards based on Aircraft and Science of Flight
Hi guys,

I compiled the fundamentals of the entire subject of Aircraft and the Science of flight in a deck of playing cards. Currently getting it crowdfunded on Kickstarter and have got 5X the ask.

Happy to have your feedback on —

1. How to improve this project and
2. How to reach out/get into stores at Museums and Libraries in US and Europe.

Regards,
Arjit